On your first point I agree, though that's pretty much in line with the AAA industry: all proprietary, mostly console, high system requirements when on pc.
C++ vs c# is a trivial amount of difference, mostly in the libraries. The syntax is similar enough it will take all of a day or two to make the transition. The real learning is all about how graphics and algorithms get done, and that's identical.
There's a ton of documentation around Microsofts xbox live arcade dev kit. There's no substantial difference between how those games are made and AAA titles are made beyond manpower.
11 hours? Lazy. When we were in crunch mode for Diablo II, 15 hours was a typical day, and much of the staff slept under their desks. It was not uncommon to see people get in 120 office hours in a week.
You can make better money in games than in insurance software, and yes, I've done both professionally. To make better money in games, though, you have to work for one of the big studios, or get really really lucky.
So if you want your family to eat well, and never to have to see them, go work for a big game studio.
This is exactly why we need a corporate death penalty, one that includes the top management of the company in question. That will stop this sort of misbehavior in its tracks, because unlike crimes of passion where the death penalty is stupid, these people are actually looking ahead as they consider their long term best interests.
That's why I'm posting from an x86 system with no ibm parts, that pays no ibm licenses, and have never bought an ibm product or service. IBM can have my business when they send all the profit they made as a result of those actions to a jewish charity. And at this point that means tens of billions of dollars.
Well, I already stopped using google services. They can have me back when they outline their concrete plan to end censorship in China. Until then, their just another evil company doing business with an evil regime. Yes, it is a valid strategy to work with the Chinese regime while endeavoring to effect change. But you have to tell me exactly how you're doing that, to prove that you're not just profiting from the party's exploitation of the Chinese people.
Also, why does Opera need employees in China at all? That's just an excuse to pour even more money into the hands of a repressive regime.
Or, since both articles clearly agree that he was not fired, but rather resigned, it should be looked at as the actions of an individual who was the freedom to quit his job if he wants to.
He wasn't fired at all (both articles agree on this). So it's going to be hard for him to bring a suit for wrongful dismissal, as he was not dismissed. The slashdot summary has it wrong.
Not much chance of him failing at this point. Unless we hit a second dip in this recession, Obama will successfully claim his policies are what turned things around during the 2012 campaign, and there will be no gainsaying it.
That's a bit low. When I last did work in the field, low accuracy neuron simulations were using about a 486 (1 megaflop) to simulate one neuron in 1:100 of real time. The brain has about 10^11 neurons, and mega to pet is 10^9, so that's 10000 petaflop for low accuracy. High accuracy (probably necessary for something that is going to simulate a brain) will need 10x as much or more. This is all assuming that none of the interactions scales poorly.
A 100 million cores supercomputer will solve a 26 city traveling salesman problem. Frankly, if your salesman needs to visit more cities than that, you could probably gain more by re-targeting your sales to larger markets.
You can only bet the next lottery number for $1, and you might have to share the prize. Knowing the next president you can place bets with larger payoffs.
The history of science is one giant refutation of Occam's razor. Yes, based on scientific history, we should favor the more complicated explanations, they have turned out to be true more often than the simpler ones.
The problem is that IT is in its infancy. There's no widespread agreement about the correct way to do software design, it's not like bridge building where the right way to do things is well known (and note that bridges STILL fail!).
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On your first point I agree, though that's pretty much in line with the AAA industry: all proprietary, mostly console, high system requirements when on pc.
C++ vs c# is a trivial amount of difference, mostly in the libraries. The syntax is similar enough it will take all of a day or two to make the transition. The real learning is all about how graphics and algorithms get done, and that's identical.
The average in game development is higher. It's not hard to look that up in a salary survey.
There's a ton of documentation around Microsofts xbox live arcade dev kit. There's no substantial difference between how those games are made and AAA titles are made beyond manpower.
http://creators.xna.com/en-US/faq
11 hours? Lazy. When we were in crunch mode for Diablo II, 15 hours was a typical day, and much of the staff slept under their desks. It was not uncommon to see people get in 120 office hours in a week.
You can make better money in games than in insurance software, and yes, I've done both professionally. To make better money in games, though, you have to work for one of the big studios, or get really really lucky.
So if you want your family to eat well, and never to have to see them, go work for a big game studio.
My point was simple. Either google can not involve the local employees or not employ them.
Having the employees in china involved at all would be amazingly naive.
This is exactly why we need a corporate death penalty, one that includes the top management of the company in question. That will stop this sort of misbehavior in its tracks, because unlike crimes of passion where the death penalty is stupid, these people are actually looking ahead as they consider their long term best interests.
Thank god someone else gets it. Why are we letting Google help build the chinese economy that is destroying jobs in the US at a time like this anyway!
Which they arranged uninterceptibly how?
That's why I'm posting from an x86 system with no ibm parts, that pays no ibm licenses, and have never bought an ibm product or service. IBM can have my business when they send all the profit they made as a result of those actions to a jewish charity. And at this point that means tens of billions of dollars.
No google = grossly less efficient economy = eventual failure of the state = freedom from the party.
It's exactly what brought down the USSR, but won't happen in China if every western firm chooses to do business there.
Well, I already stopped using google services. They can have me back when they outline their concrete plan to end censorship in China. Until then, their just another evil company doing business with an evil regime. Yes, it is a valid strategy to work with the Chinese regime while endeavoring to effect change. But you have to tell me exactly how you're doing that, to prove that you're not just profiting from the party's exploitation of the Chinese people.
Also, why does Opera need employees in China at all? That's just an excuse to pour even more money into the hands of a repressive regime.
Whistleblowing has special legal protections that void the usual contract relationships defined by employment.
Or, since both articles clearly agree that he was not fired, but rather resigned, it should be looked at as the actions of an individual who was the freedom to quit his job if he wants to.
He wasn't fired at all (both articles agree on this). So it's going to be hard for him to bring a suit for wrongful dismissal, as he was not dismissed. The slashdot summary has it wrong.
It's hard to sue for unjustified dismissal when you resign. If he had been fired, there would be more of a case.
Not much chance of him failing at this point. Unless we hit a second dip in this recession, Obama will successfully claim his policies are what turned things around during the 2012 campaign, and there will be no gainsaying it.
That's a bit low. When I last did work in the field, low accuracy neuron simulations were using about a 486 (1 megaflop) to simulate one neuron in 1:100 of real time. The brain has about 10^11 neurons, and mega to pet is 10^9, so that's 10000 petaflop for low accuracy. High accuracy (probably necessary for something that is going to simulate a brain) will need 10x as much or more. This is all assuming that none of the interactions scales poorly.
A 100 million cores supercomputer will solve a 26 city traveling salesman problem. Frankly, if your salesman needs to visit more cities than that, you could probably gain more by re-targeting your sales to larger markets.
You only think it was instantly due to your low resolution windows timer.
You can only bet the next lottery number for $1, and you might have to share the prize. Knowing the next president you can place bets with larger payoffs.
So SI is about being lazy with math? How about we just stick with the lazy 1024 bytes to the kilobyte then.
The history of science is one giant refutation of Occam's razor. Yes, based on scientific history, we should favor the more complicated explanations, they have turned out to be true more often than the simpler ones.
The problem is that IT is in its infancy. There's no widespread agreement about the correct way to do software design, it's not like bridge building where the right way to do things is well known (and note that bridges STILL fail!).