Well whether you like to think of your "Rockstar" gaming gods as people who make a living off thier games or not is your problem. I am telling you this based on 3 years of working with the API.
How many people do you really think run out to spend $300 on the latest Nvidia chipset?
not many compared to the number of people who own PC's and play games on them.
Add to that the number of people who read the minimum system requirements before they buy a piece of software.
You combine those two factors together and you quickly surmise that most people don't run gigahertz processors and most people don't have Geforce vid cards.
He man that's not true at all. The bottom line is games is that your app works and the people who buy it don't call tech support to complain about why it doesn't work.
This is the reason people use DX, because it provides an emulation layer for any feature that is not supported or accelerated on any one user's card. Given that there is an nearly infinite number of people with completely different hardware configs, I would say this is a good thing.
A typical developer loses all the profit that the dev house earns in royalties when someone calls tech support. Notice I said dev house, not Publisher. That comes out to about $1.50-$3.00 per copy of game sold. Those guys don't get squat! But they surely want to know that they can cut ouot alot of the lamers by using an API that will allow them not to worry over an individual config.
Part of your extension argument is true, but the biggest benefit I see to using OpenGL is that I can write my own extensions and I don't have to wait for M$ to add them into the D3D API. I think that directX is great, and I can use All the good stuff of DX with OpenGL for my 3D code easily. The reason is that people are just lazy.
So let me understand this correctly.
You are actively using a non commercial, free OS. You are willing to go get the OS for free and refute the mighty M$, but you wouldn't just leave Dell at the door when they wouldn't fill your order?
Why didn't you go to another reputable vendor who doesn't descriminate about a customer's needs?
As for the low demand. I don't see a strong demand for Linux on laptops. Don't get me wrong, Linux is a good system, but compared to Windoze, it's a little high brow for the average guy. Until the "Militant Penguins" get over themselves and try to make the system easy to use for Armchair Joe, Linux will continue to be a commercial failure on average end user systems. Unfortunately, that's where the bulk of the cash is. As long as the people who proffess to love Linux give people who don't understand the OS the.. "Go back to windows you chump" perpsective, Linux will be in the dumps.
I really was looking forward to POTA. However, I did have a knot in my gut that it was going to suck out loud and it did. I was not really amused by the revamps of the old standard lines. Just goes to show that Heston will whore out to anyone that will show him and a weapon in the same frame and context. The line about superiority being derived from a gun was just too much.
Heston is a whore for doing this film!
After trying to cripple Java as a new technology and continuing on to develop C#, why would they want to support another rival technology they stole? While Java is not completely where we want it to be in order to see a wholesale move, it's getting there. I have seen some very impressive things of late and I am moving more of my work over. all Java will need is a killer app to adjust this issue
I am going to initially assum that this topic os not flaimbait against a C++/Java religious war. One of the most interesting trends college study of CS is the tendency of graduates to run out after their B.S. and go into the industry to become software developers. While there is nothing wrong with this, it does leave us to wonder who is really doing the important research in the field of CS. I am not trying to insult or harm anyone here so don't jump me.:)
If the purpose of the school is to turn out a majority of developers and generate additional income for the university then I can see Java becoming the prime system for CS Programs to work. While it is important to understand all the low level business of caching data and how the computer really works, what becomes even more important is results. Since Java is a modern language and comes complete with a large number of development tool that complete it's platform definition, the teachers also gain a strong level of consistency in teaching methods. While I had it the hard way in CS, I know that things must change as technology grows.
What I really want to know is what's next?
I am going to initially assum that this topic os not flaimbait against a C++/Java religious war. One of the most interesting trends college study of CS is the tendency of graduates to run out after their B.S. and go into the industry to become software developers. While there is nothing wrong with this, it does leave us to wonder who is really doing the important research in the field of CS. I am not trying to insult or harm anyone here so don't jump me.:)
If the purpose of the school is to turn out a majority of developers and generate additional income for the university then I can see Java becoming the prime system for CS Programs to work. While it is important to understand all the low level business of caching data and how the computer really works, what becomes even more important is results. Since Java is a modern language and comes complete with a large number of development tool that complete it's platform definition, the teachers also gain a strong level of consistency in teaching methods. While I had it the hard way in CS, I know that things must change as technology grows.
What I really want to know is what's next?
Ok so let's first look at why Apple is not where it needs to be. Simple put.. Elitist attitudes about people who use computers. Had Apple and other companys not held that attitude, things could be very different now. Microsoft had the attitude that the majority of people would not be competent computer literate users from early on in the GUI game. They focused on the mass market whereas Apple consistently refused to liscence out their technology unitl it was far too late to profer from it.
If your product will work for the guy who looks at his printer and says "Hey, that's a printer, not a file..." You are going to make money..
Otherwise, just keep on keeping on. Make software that average people cannot use.... but don't complain when another company is filling that service.
It a simple tactic really... Come out first with easy to use software and then build on it till you get where they are today. I don't think M$ is the best company there is, but when I look at how the average guys has trouble installing Red Hat, supposedly the easiest distro to get working, I know exactly why they are as dominating as we see them to be.
Average people want their hands held. Average people are still afraid of computers, even with Windows. Average people don't even own PC's on the whole. M$ holds their hand and let's them think they are being productive. In some cases they actually are.
Most Slashdotters don't fit that category which is also why the Open Source movement suffers. If you want to make software solutions for software developers, cool. However, don't get mad when the company the makes stuff for the user make more money than you. It's simple math, there are more computer illiterate people than there are l33t hackers.
I think you are wrong with that mindset. We are already seeing companies like M$ working with distributed applications. How long till we are on completely distributed systems?
People often forget the Ross Perot got rich off selling all these cycles.:)
Well bear in mind that they had to appear aggressive in order to keep the faith on Wall Street. I personally think that the Amazon model is a solid one, but with no capital they are gone. If they can turn a profit even in this "changing" economy, they can prove to Wall Street they are here to stay and that they deserve the investment. Otherwise they are toast like all the legendary Dot Coms who weasled away the venture capital I would have received for sending a Chipmunk to Mars in a milk carton. But I'm not bitter.
All the effort spent on development of the next big thing. All the time we spend trying to make something profitable and get cushy offices and drive the fancy cars. For all the venture capital and stock options in Silicon Valley, we need to see just one thing: That generation behind us need our help. I for one will use this tragedy to make a change for the better. I will teach. I will try to educate those in my public school district about the reality of the impact of hacking.
I am not suggesting blame towatds anyone. I do know however, that I was once a kid like that, although I don't quite match up to what I read of him. I was depressed. I was alone. I was a computer geek. I could have benefited greatly if someone had taken the time to encourage me and console me that being different was okay. I didn't need my lame counselor, I needed someone who was like me. Who cared about the things I did.Someone who understood at least as much as I did about programming and computing.
I didn't have anyone like that, but maybe I can help someone who was once like me.
I don't want to be a hero, I just want to help.
Yes I do beleive that there will be no way to stop piracy and theft in the coming years. Note that by even using the term piracy and theft I am supporting individuals right. If you think there is not commercial software that was once under the GNU or GPL you are crazy. The laws of this country have no way to concptualize and make distinctions between code segments. A little find and replace on the variables and it's no longer the "same". I am not saying I suport this, but I feel that in order to maximize benefits in terms of income, you have to expect people to steal from you and get them into a concept of the information not being valuable after a certain period fo time. Hasn't it all just been a matter of time with the securuty? SDMI....who's next?
We need to remember what a small percentage of Americans actually own a computer. Without hard numbers, the last study I saw showed there were about 50 million Americans online. This compared to the 250 million citizens in the country. This is why we have been trying to get the sub $500 PC for years. Once the masses get online, it will be completely free. There will not be any bueracracy that will be able to control the piracy or theft of any digital medium. It will be time sensitivity that will prove a piece of information to be valuable, not copyright.
I have to disagree with these comments because the/. types will not allow this to happen. Whenever a new technology comes along, we will always make it our own by whatever means necessary. Eventually I beleive we will have a situation where patent laws and inforamtion are valued only due to their timeliness. Meaning that the information will only be worht something if it is known and implemented within a certain period of time. Then anyting beyond will not be controlled because to do so would be a waste of money.
I too have heard that VC++ 7.0 is much better. I wonder why people still have time to generally bash things without specifying the scope of their problems set. If someone was saying that for "generic" usage that VC++ sucks, I refuse to listen. I need to know when it sucks and why. I am not saying that VC++ is a holy grail by any means, but let me know where it gives you beef. These comments are like saying Java is only 5% slower than native code. Ok, maybe this is true, but the important question stands: Is it only 5% slower in applications I might use. Anything else is just generic and useless.
This is only a suprise to me becuase of the timing. Since money controls the country and the world, we use it punish and reward people. There will come a time when people won't do anything at all unless they get a reward. Does that sound anything like the fat rat experiments to anyone? We cannot blame our problems on others and expect money to magically mend the broken lives. Those kids were driven to violence by their parent's lack of interest in their lives and the general chemically induced lack of despair that all teenagers go through. Incidents like Columbine will not go away even if video games do.
I agree that PBS is a vital part of our broadcasting in the U.S. There has been considerable butbacks in the budgets on the side of the govenrment each year. It would be nice if there was enough organization to increase and help this transition through.
The emphasis here is on the built-in audio recoders. Packages like Sound Forge and others that will allow you to legally record and save your music as mp3's can't be touched here. Even if there was a possbility of this working acrossed the board on all mp3's, we have a lot of young energetic programmers who would just love to lay claim to that hack.:)
Yawn....more pathetic incorrect political coverage on/.
It's really a shame that the goal is to be first rather than to be right.
What's even funnier is the link is just as wrong.
Slashdot Mirror
He can't lose.... Unless it's the America's Cup.
:)
I saw him with his boat on CNN today. He is going to be the driver.
Well whether you like to think of your "Rockstar" gaming gods as people who make a living off thier games or not is your problem. I am telling you this based on 3 years of working with the API.
How many people do you really think run out to spend $300 on the latest Nvidia chipset?
not many compared to the number of people who own PC's and play games on them.
Add to that the number of people who read the minimum system requirements before they buy a piece of software.
You combine those two factors together and you quickly surmise that most people don't run gigahertz processors and most people don't have Geforce vid cards.
We still want thier money two....
For that reason DX is the preffered API.
He man that's not true at all. The bottom line is games is that your app works and the people who buy it don't call tech support to complain about why it doesn't work.
This is the reason people use DX, because it provides an emulation layer for any feature that is not supported or accelerated on any one user's card. Given that there is an nearly infinite number of people with completely different hardware configs, I would say this is a good thing.
A typical developer loses all the profit that the dev house earns in royalties when someone calls tech support. Notice I said dev house, not Publisher. That comes out to about $1.50-$3.00 per copy of game sold. Those guys don't get squat! But they surely want to know that they can cut ouot alot of the lamers by using an API that will allow them not to worry over an individual config.
Part of your extension argument is true, but the biggest benefit I see to using OpenGL is that I can write my own extensions and I don't have to wait for M$ to add them into the D3D API. I think that directX is great, and I can use All the good stuff of DX with OpenGL for my 3D code easily. The reason is that people are just lazy.
So let me understand this correctly. You are actively using a non commercial, free OS. You are willing to go get the OS for free and refute the mighty M$, but you wouldn't just leave Dell at the door when they wouldn't fill your order? Why didn't you go to another reputable vendor who doesn't descriminate about a customer's needs? As for the low demand. I don't see a strong demand for Linux on laptops. Don't get me wrong, Linux is a good system, but compared to Windoze, it's a little high brow for the average guy. Until the "Militant Penguins" get over themselves and try to make the system easy to use for Armchair Joe, Linux will continue to be a commercial failure on average end user systems. Unfortunately, that's where the bulk of the cash is. As long as the people who proffess to love Linux give people who don't understand the OS the.. "Go back to windows you chump" perpsective, Linux will be in the dumps.
I really was looking forward to POTA. However, I did have a knot in my gut that it was going to suck out loud and it did. I was not really amused by the revamps of the old standard lines. Just goes to show that Heston will whore out to anyone that will show him and a weapon in the same frame and context. The line about superiority being derived from a gun was just too much. Heston is a whore for doing this film!
After trying to cripple Java as a new technology and continuing on to develop C#, why would they want to support another rival technology they stole? While Java is not completely where we want it to be in order to see a wholesale move, it's getting there. I have seen some very impressive things of late and I am moving more of my work over. all Java will need is a killer app to adjust this issue
I am going to initially assum that this topic os not flaimbait against a C++/Java religious war. One of the most interesting trends college study of CS is the tendency of graduates to run out after their B.S. and go into the industry to become software developers. While there is nothing wrong with this, it does leave us to wonder who is really doing the important research in the field of CS. I am not trying to insult or harm anyone here so don't jump me. :)
If the purpose of the school is to turn out a majority of developers and generate additional income for the university then I can see Java becoming the prime system for CS Programs to work. While it is important to understand all the low level business of caching data and how the computer really works, what becomes even more important is results. Since Java is a modern language and comes complete with a large number of development tool that complete it's platform definition, the teachers also gain a strong level of consistency in teaching methods. While I had it the hard way in CS, I know that things must change as technology grows.
What I really want to know is what's next?
I am going to initially assum that this topic os not flaimbait against a C++/Java religious war. One of the most interesting trends college study of CS is the tendency of graduates to run out after their B.S. and go into the industry to become software developers. While there is nothing wrong with this, it does leave us to wonder who is really doing the important research in the field of CS. I am not trying to insult or harm anyone here so don't jump me. :)
If the purpose of the school is to turn out a majority of developers and generate additional income for the university then I can see Java becoming the prime system for CS Programs to work. While it is important to understand all the low level business of caching data and how the computer really works, what becomes even more important is results. Since Java is a modern language and comes complete with a large number of development tool that complete it's platform definition, the teachers also gain a strong level of consistency in teaching methods. While I had it the hard way in CS, I know that things must change as technology grows.
What I really want to know is what's next?
Ok so let's first look at why Apple is not where it needs to be. Simple put.. Elitist attitudes about people who use computers. Had Apple and other companys not held that attitude, things could be very different now. Microsoft had the attitude that the majority of people would not be competent computer literate users from early on in the GUI game. They focused on the mass market whereas Apple consistently refused to liscence out their technology unitl it was far too late to profer from it. If your product will work for the guy who looks at his printer and says "Hey, that's a printer, not a file..." You are going to make money.. Otherwise, just keep on keeping on. Make software that average people cannot use.... but don't complain when another company is filling that service.
It a simple tactic really... Come out first with easy to use software and then build on it till you get where they are today. I don't think M$ is the best company there is, but when I look at how the average guys has trouble installing Red Hat, supposedly the easiest distro to get working, I know exactly why they are as dominating as we see them to be. Average people want their hands held. Average people are still afraid of computers, even with Windows. Average people don't even own PC's on the whole. M$ holds their hand and let's them think they are being productive. In some cases they actually are. Most Slashdotters don't fit that category which is also why the Open Source movement suffers. If you want to make software solutions for software developers, cool. However, don't get mad when the company the makes stuff for the user make more money than you. It's simple math, there are more computer illiterate people than there are l33t hackers.
I think you are wrong with that mindset. We are already seeing companies like M$ working with distributed applications. How long till we are on completely distributed systems? People often forget the Ross Perot got rich off selling all these cycles. :)
Ok it's cheese but I couldn't resist.
Well bear in mind that they had to appear aggressive in order to keep the faith on Wall Street. I personally think that the Amazon model is a solid one, but with no capital they are gone. If they can turn a profit even in this "changing" economy, they can prove to Wall Street they are here to stay and that they deserve the investment. Otherwise they are toast like all the legendary Dot Coms who weasled away the venture capital I would have received for sending a Chipmunk to Mars in a milk carton. But I'm not bitter.
All the effort spent on development of the next big thing. All the time we spend trying to make something profitable and get cushy offices and drive the fancy cars. For all the venture capital and stock options in Silicon Valley, we need to see just one thing: That generation behind us need our help. I for one will use this tragedy to make a change for the better. I will teach. I will try to educate those in my public school district about the reality of the impact of hacking. I am not suggesting blame towatds anyone. I do know however, that I was once a kid like that, although I don't quite match up to what I read of him. I was depressed. I was alone. I was a computer geek. I could have benefited greatly if someone had taken the time to encourage me and console me that being different was okay. I didn't need my lame counselor, I needed someone who was like me. Who cared about the things I did.Someone who understood at least as much as I did about programming and computing. I didn't have anyone like that, but maybe I can help someone who was once like me. I don't want to be a hero, I just want to help.
Yes I do beleive that there will be no way to stop piracy and theft in the coming years. Note that by even using the term piracy and theft I am supporting individuals right. If you think there is not commercial software that was once under the GNU or GPL you are crazy. The laws of this country have no way to concptualize and make distinctions between code segments. A little find and replace on the variables and it's no longer the "same". I am not saying I suport this, but I feel that in order to maximize benefits in terms of income, you have to expect people to steal from you and get them into a concept of the information not being valuable after a certain period fo time. Hasn't it all just been a matter of time with the securuty? SDMI....who's next?
We need to remember what a small percentage of Americans actually own a computer. Without hard numbers, the last study I saw showed there were about 50 million Americans online. This compared to the 250 million citizens in the country. This is why we have been trying to get the sub $500 PC for years. Once the masses get online, it will be completely free. There will not be any bueracracy that will be able to control the piracy or theft of any digital medium. It will be time sensitivity that will prove a piece of information to be valuable, not copyright.
I have to disagree with these comments because the /. types will not allow this to happen. Whenever a new technology comes along, we will always make it our own by whatever means necessary. Eventually I beleive we will have a situation where patent laws and inforamtion are valued only due to their timeliness. Meaning that the information will only be worht something if it is known and implemented within a certain period of time. Then anyting beyond will not be controlled because to do so would be a waste of money.
Science is Fair huh? Ask Telsa about that one!
I too have heard that VC++ 7.0 is much better. I wonder why people still have time to generally bash things without specifying the scope of their problems set. If someone was saying that for "generic" usage that VC++ sucks, I refuse to listen. I need to know when it sucks and why. I am not saying that VC++ is a holy grail by any means, but let me know where it gives you beef. These comments are like saying Java is only 5% slower than native code. Ok, maybe this is true, but the important question stands: Is it only 5% slower in applications I might use. Anything else is just generic and useless.
This is only a suprise to me becuase of the timing. Since money controls the country and the world, we use it punish and reward people. There will come a time when people won't do anything at all unless they get a reward. Does that sound anything like the fat rat experiments to anyone? We cannot blame our problems on others and expect money to magically mend the broken lives. Those kids were driven to violence by their parent's lack of interest in their lives and the general chemically induced lack of despair that all teenagers go through. Incidents like Columbine will not go away even if video games do.
I agree that PBS is a vital part of our broadcasting in the U.S. There has been considerable butbacks in the budgets on the side of the govenrment each year. It would be nice if there was enough organization to increase and help this transition through.
The emphasis here is on the built-in audio recoders. Packages like Sound Forge and others that will allow you to legally record and save your music as mp3's can't be touched here. Even if there was a possbility of this working acrossed the board on all mp3's, we have a lot of young energetic programmers who would just love to lay claim to that hack. :)
Yawn....more pathetic incorrect political coverage on /.
It's really a shame that the goal is to be first rather than to be right.
What's even funnier is the link is just as wrong.