Moreover, I do not see game schools as providing coders with the education they need to be game programmers. We're talking about strictly intermediate, cursory knolwedge of C++, little to no education in algorithms & data structures... These guys are the VB programmers of the industry, their education covered none of the CS basics that are wholly necessary in apps as optimized and low-level as performance 3D apps.
I don't know about that. I go to a school with an accredited CS program, and somehow we have time for five classes that aren't strictly necessary, but exist to give general background in specific areas. My user interface design and artificial intelligence classes would have been helpful for games programming, but machine learning, image processing, and quantum computing could have been substituted for 3D graphics, networking, and a specific games programming class. Some extra focus on optimization in the class I learned assembly language in (or would have if I hadn't known it) would have been good.
Yes, I did get the core stuff (discrete math, programming language design, operating systems, file systems, multithreading, very low-level hardware, etc.), but that was all 300-level and below.
I'm not saying you're not correct, just that you're not necessarily correct. My school could offer a games programming emphasis in our CS major without losing accreditation.
Undisclaimer: I've written various 3D applications (couple of simple games, volumetric terrain generator) and a couple of Quake 3 mods (Alternate Fire, Unlagged). I almost broke into the industry once, but backed out when I saw the working conditions. All that said, I may or may not know what I'm talking about.:D
Just as one finds people with a hard-core capacity for drinking at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting (which is all about NOT drinking), it's not at all illogical to expect to find people with a tendency towards immoral behavior attracted to a very strict religious organization.
Oh, those poor, broken people who need such a crutch. That's a great theory, except that born-again organizations are some of the least strict of all Christian religions.
Gah! Another popular anti-religious theory falls flat on its face!
My biggest concern is that ICANN knows that Google et al are going to buy the google name for every TLD simply to prevent confusion and domain squatting, so what is to stop ICANN just making a new TLD every couple of years and then charging through the nose for the right to take a name on that TLD?
If it helps, the amount they can charge will be limited to Google's expected legal expenses for going after domain squatters for trademark infringement. Most of the time, that just means having the legal team (which is probably already paid for) send Cease and Desist letters.
It's just like amusement park tokens and other funny money, but in this case, people will eventually catch on.
Most Americans go blank when they hear outside temperature quoted in degrees Celsius because they're not used to it. (Here's a handy scale: 0 = freezing, 10 = cold, 20 = cool/nice (just below standard office temp), 30 = warm, 40 = hot.) However, if you spend any decent amount of time in the new system and get feedback from it ("oooh, it seems hot today - wonder what the temperature is... oh, it's 34"), you start to get a feel for it.
If Microsoft actually does this money-to-points thing to keep things decoupled, it'll only last so long for new users.
So if all these nifty free tools exist, why do people pirate? It's either 1) they don't know, or 2) the tools don't measure up - or both.
I'd say a C compiler isn't what people are looking for when they buy pirated software. It's Windows, Office and Photoshop. When the OSS offerings compete with those in every way, will we see a drop in piracy?
I especially don't feel sorry for him if he's the type that sends out those !!!DISCOUNT SOFFTWARE!!! spams. Those alone ought to be worth a couple of years.
Despite being banned in the USA, Herion (diamorphine) is used in palliative care here in the UK where addiction is not a problem.
Morphine is also used, and again, addiction is not a problem, but for different reasons. If the right dose is used, so it goes, the physiological changes in the brain that cause addiction do not happen (mind you, the New Scientist is hardly a reputable source of knowlege).
So, the war on opiates continues...
I'd love it if you had a chat with a nice woman I met in Scotland who transferred her morphine addiction to a street heroin addiction when her prescription ran out. She'd be intrigued by your ideas, and would probably want to subscribe to your newsletter.
For those who don't know, Freud used cocaine from time to time but never got addicted. However, he gave it to one of his friends to try who later died from his addiction to the substance.
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I can't wait for the "Netcraft confirms it" trolls.
Hang on, there's another angle, here.
It is now official. Netcraft confirms: "NetBSD is dying" trolls are dying.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered "NetBSD is dying" troll community when Slashdot confirmed that NetBSD is actually dying...
So is he unemployable now? You know, he's not a team player.
Well, lookie here! Some moderator didn't like what I had to say!
Care to respond, Mr. High and Mighty? Post as AC - we'll actually discuss rather than suppress, okay?
I like him because he's an Xbox fanboi. Or wait - he's a Nintedo fanboi. Can somebody remind me which it is today?
Oh, well. Regardless, he's always got plenty of trash to talk about the PS3, so I suppose that's good.
You're allowed to make jokes about senators' computer knowledge (or lack thereof) when you can tell us what "cloture" is - without Googling for it.
And no, it has nothing to do with coagulation or female body parts.
Yeah, but mauve doesn't journal. You'd want to go for magenta, though you'd take a hit on write-only memory latency.
I don't know about that. I go to a school with an accredited CS program, and somehow we have time for five classes that aren't strictly necessary, but exist to give general background in specific areas. My user interface design and artificial intelligence classes would have been helpful for games programming, but machine learning, image processing, and quantum computing could have been substituted for 3D graphics, networking, and a specific games programming class. Some extra focus on optimization in the class I learned assembly language in (or would have if I hadn't known it) would have been good.
Yes, I did get the core stuff (discrete math, programming language design, operating systems, file systems, multithreading, very low-level hardware, etc.), but that was all 300-level and below.
I'm not saying you're not correct, just that you're not necessarily correct. My school could offer a games programming emphasis in our CS major without losing accreditation.
Undisclaimer: I've written various 3D applications (couple of simple games, volumetric terrain generator) and a couple of Quake 3 mods (Alternate Fire, Unlagged). I almost broke into the industry once, but backed out when I saw the working conditions. All that said, I may or may not know what I'm talking about.
Oh, those poor, broken people who need such a crutch. That's a great theory, except that born-again organizations are some of the least strict of all Christian religions.
Gah! Another popular anti-religious theory falls flat on its face!
What I'm wondering is what "10 to 30 times lower than normal" means. Is it -9 times normal to -29 times normal?
That's, like, anti-oxygen. Better be careful out there.
And to think he got modded funny, when it's really just sad.
If it helps, the amount they can charge will be limited to Google's expected legal expenses for going after domain squatters for trademark infringement. Most of the time, that just means having the legal team (which is probably already paid for) send Cease and Desist letters.
It's just like amusement park tokens and other funny money, but in this case, people will eventually catch on.
Most Americans go blank when they hear outside temperature quoted in degrees Celsius because they're not used to it. (Here's a handy scale: 0 = freezing, 10 = cold, 20 = cool/nice (just below standard office temp), 30 = warm, 40 = hot.) However, if you spend any decent amount of time in the new system and get feedback from it ("oooh, it seems hot today - wonder what the temperature is... oh, it's 34"), you start to get a feel for it.
If Microsoft actually does this money-to-points thing to keep things decoupled, it'll only last so long for new users.
So if all these nifty free tools exist, why do people pirate? It's either 1) they don't know, or 2) the tools don't measure up - or both.
I'd say a C compiler isn't what people are looking for when they buy pirated software. It's Windows, Office and Photoshop. When the OSS offerings compete with those in every way, will we see a drop in piracy?
I especially don't feel sorry for him if he's the type that sends out those !!!DISCOUNT SOFFTWARE!!! spams. Those alone ought to be worth a couple of years.
Can they prove it was you rather than malware?
In Britain, would you have to prove it was malware?
Probably more like "First Monday After Christmas and Its Girlfriend Dumped It and Stole Its Car That Morning"s.
As a follow-up to this long ago posting, the National Highway Traffic Safety Asministration has passed a resolution...
Somebody almost made a Freudian slip.
I'd love it if you had a chat with a nice woman I met in Scotland who transferred her morphine addiction to a street heroin addiction when her prescription ran out. She'd be intrigued by your ideas, and would probably want to subscribe to your newsletter.
Fascinating. I wonder if Freud was ADD or ADHD?
Or a very small rock?
It's all good, as long as you get better.
I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that the first tag that shows up on this non-story is "duh."
I read that first as "historical document."
Heh.
I haven't got a clue what you're talking about.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a chicken to sacrifice.
And then hit them. BAM!
You know, I've always hated that whenever I try to push a robot out of the way, I fall over.
This feature will be a boon to senior citizens especially.