I saw a documentary on them a couple of nights ago, and this shipyard is averaging a super-tanker every 3.5 days if you divide the number of super-tankers they will build this year. Absolutely stunning the technology, skills, planning and productivity that they are managing there.
This wouldn't be achievable in a western country thanks to unions and the terrible productivity and project overruns that come with western societies.
lol, how do you get the 3D to work on a PC and whats it like when playing on a train or bus? Do you need to strap LCD panels to your head?
3DS emulation will never be flawless.
"Beeing an adult there are far more good games for the Vita then for the 3DS."
Ah, no there isn't, not even by far. Thats the statement of someone who doesn't know what they are talking about with regards to the 3DS software library. Given your horrendous spelling, I'm assuming you aren't actually an adult.
don't you realise that you can't tell the difference between a 1080p mobile phone screen and a 720p one? The human eye cannot make out that sort of difference.
You need to be within 6 feet of a 50 inch screen running at 1080p to be able to discern it from a 720p feed, so the chances of you being able to tell the difference between a 1080p and a 720p phone screen are zero.
I don't believe that. I learnt from self-taught BASIC around 1990 when I was 11, and by the time I was at College, had also done self-taught C, Pascal and x86 assembler. When I started object-oriented programming first year of college, I didn't need to be untaught structured programming or GOTOs. My other friends at College were similar - the fact that we had programmed extensively prior to going to College was a massive boost for us over other students who were getting their first tastes of it then.
No, its just the realisation that if Java was a terrible language it would have died a long time ago.
The financial services and banking industry that I work in - the only other services we have ever had to interop with in the last 12 years are Java or.Net based.
If Java was such a rubbish language that would not be the case, although I suspect that due to you not really knowing any better you don't have a clue about the real world.
Java is a real language, and a lot of real programs have been written with it. It's not a good language, but that doesn't make it trivial.
-jcr
Its no better or worse than any other languages out there. If you think it is, then you probably need to get out of your mom's basement and into the real business world more.
Second this - I have been using iBatis+iBator for over 10 years, as well as JPA and Hibernate on a couple of projects, and iBatis, hands down is the easiest and the best performance. Its slightly more work, but I love having the control it gives.
Theres also research out there showing that GCed Java can often significantly outperform C/C++ during memory management. I find it hard to believe that you require 6 times the space to run a GC though - it probably depends on what algorithm you are forcing it to use.
Very relevant post to me - massive Def Leppard fan (35 years old) and have mild tinnitus in one ear from getting headbutted in a soccer game which also burst my ear drum.
It would be awesome if there was something they could do to fix my hearing - the ringing is very high pitched, so gets lost amongst ambient sounds, but the real annoying thing is that semi-loud music now distorts in that ear for some reason.
I still remember going to concerts in the early 90s like White Zombie where they had posters up all over the walls warning that they weren't responsible for any hearing damage concert goers may suffer. There were concerts where your ears had loud ringing noises in them for 3-4 days after the concert.
I always wear ear plugs these days.
I still play my N64 now, and the original controller which has been thrashed to death on Goldeneye, Mario 64 etc is still working perfectly. Nintendo are known for designing robust controllers and consoles.
Comparing what SONY copied from the controller more than a year after Nintendo had released their version is just a strawman - Nintendo subsequently released N64 controllers with built-in rumble that didn't require extra battery. All SONY did was look at what Nintendo did, and copy them. The original PS1 controllers didn't even have analogue in them - so saying SONY had better controllers is laughable at best.
Inadequate cooling system - again my N64 has never hung, after tens of thousands of hours of play. Compare this to my PS1 that after a while I had to have the PS1 upside down just so it would read disks, and it ended up scratching games. My brothers PS1 just stopped working fullstop and had to be replaced with a PS-X.
Cartridges are far more robust than CD's. What would happen to a CD if your children kept taking it out of the console while the console was going?
Given that Nintendo are renowned for creating sturdy hardware that rarely fails, it seems like you have a massive chip on your shoulder. N64 magazine UK got a bus to drive over an N64, as well as dropping it out a hotel window, and it still worked perfectly afterwards.
Nope - id software released a 3D shooter well before Ultima Underworlds - Catacombs 3D, on the same engine that Wolf 3D used.
Granted, the initial idea was from Ultima Underworld, but they did it faster, first and better than the Ultima Underworlds team.
Hold on - got a link on Nintendo suing over Karnov? I've never heard of this, and can't find anything in google about it. Sounds highly suspicious given how different the games are and the fact that Nintendo granted a license for it to be released on their own console.
Wheres your precedent?
The Wii has dominated games wise also - you probably need to research a bit better before making unfounded assumptions - it has 17 games that have sold over 6 million units, 7 of which sold over 20 million units and 3 which shifted 30 million+ units. No console has ever done these sorts of numbers over its top selling games. It also has 140 titles which are million plus sellers.
The PS2 in fact had one game that just topped 20 million units (GTA San Andreas), and only 10 games that topped 6 million sales.
Another unknown fact that most X360/PS3 fanboys miss is that the Wii has roughly the same attach rate as the PS2 and PS3. 150 million more game units have been shifted for the Wii than the X360, and quarter of a billion more units have been shifted on the Wii than the PS3.
How do you get from that the Wii has no momentum sales wise?
Attach rates (sourced from vgchartz):
X360 - 9.46 games per console sold
PS3 - 8.40 games per console sold
Wii - 8.28 games per console sold
PS2 - 8.17 games per console sold
So...how do you explain them not having $5 for food, but they have a mobile phone worth hundreds of USD, and a mobile account with a data plan?
Sounds like a cherry picked story that is nothing close to reality.
He was the founder of Ion Storm. Ergo you can say that. Its like saying the founder of IBM had nothing to do with IBM Hong Kong, because he was based in the States. Your argument is horrible.
Hold on, wasn't his company responsible for Deus Ex? And didn't Daikatana covers its costs and sell close to a million copies?
Yep, you don't know what you're talking about, and yes YOU ARE A DOUCHE.
You don't seem to realize that well written garbage collected programs have the potential to significantly outperform non-garbage collected ones - you should probably read up on garbage collection as your viewpoint is whacked.
Weird how eBay threw out Microsoft technologies to use Java then isn't it?
Could be, that you don't actually know what you're talking about and most likely that you don't work on enterprise scale projects.
Weird how sites like ebay run off Java technologies (like WS02) isn't then?
Seriously, you sound like you don't really use Java seriously - you are complaining about some obscure memory-leak that probably doesn't exist and is more likely to reflect some poor code in your system.
I write financial transaction processing systems that run in an array of Tomcats, and run around a million transactions every half hour per tomcat - and we restart our tomcat's on order every 3 months just for maintenance or deployment. The memory stays static otherwise.
On the same note, you sound like the kind of programmer who has an ego - the worst kind you can deal with. The kind who will reimplement the wheel, because they think they can do better than a HashMap or a binary search, and cause massive budget overruns on projects. The kind who throws every design pattern possible at a problem so their code confuses others, and makes it extremely hard to maintain or change.
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I saw a documentary on them a couple of nights ago, and this shipyard is averaging a super-tanker every 3.5 days if you divide the number of super-tankers they will build this year. Absolutely stunning the technology, skills, planning and productivity that they are managing there. This wouldn't be achievable in a western country thanks to unions and the terrible productivity and project overruns that come with western societies.
lol, how do you get the 3D to work on a PC and whats it like when playing on a train or bus? Do you need to strap LCD panels to your head? 3DS emulation will never be flawless.
"Beeing an adult there are far more good games for the Vita then for the 3DS." Ah, no there isn't, not even by far. Thats the statement of someone who doesn't know what they are talking about with regards to the 3DS software library. Given your horrendous spelling, I'm assuming you aren't actually an adult.
How do you know he's not only applying for jobs that allow people to work remotely?
don't you realise that you can't tell the difference between a 1080p mobile phone screen and a 720p one? The human eye cannot make out that sort of difference. You need to be within 6 feet of a 50 inch screen running at 1080p to be able to discern it from a 720p feed, so the chances of you being able to tell the difference between a 1080p and a 720p phone screen are zero.
I don't believe that. I learnt from self-taught BASIC around 1990 when I was 11, and by the time I was at College, had also done self-taught C, Pascal and x86 assembler. When I started object-oriented programming first year of college, I didn't need to be untaught structured programming or GOTOs. My other friends at College were similar - the fact that we had programmed extensively prior to going to College was a massive boost for us over other students who were getting their first tastes of it then.
No, its just the realisation that if Java was a terrible language it would have died a long time ago. The financial services and banking industry that I work in - the only other services we have ever had to interop with in the last 12 years are Java or .Net based.
If Java was such a rubbish language that would not be the case, although I suspect that due to you not really knowing any better you don't have a clue about the real world.
Java is a real language, and a lot of real programs have been written with it. It's not a good language, but that doesn't make it trivial.
-jcr
Its no better or worse than any other languages out there. If you think it is, then you probably need to get out of your mom's basement and into the real business world more.
Second this - I have been using iBatis+iBator for over 10 years, as well as JPA and Hibernate on a couple of projects, and iBatis, hands down is the easiest and the best performance. Its slightly more work, but I love having the control it gives.
Theres also research out there showing that GCed Java can often significantly outperform C/C++ during memory management. I find it hard to believe that you require 6 times the space to run a GC though - it probably depends on what algorithm you are forcing it to use.
Very relevant post to me - massive Def Leppard fan (35 years old) and have mild tinnitus in one ear from getting headbutted in a soccer game which also burst my ear drum. It would be awesome if there was something they could do to fix my hearing - the ringing is very high pitched, so gets lost amongst ambient sounds, but the real annoying thing is that semi-loud music now distorts in that ear for some reason. I still remember going to concerts in the early 90s like White Zombie where they had posters up all over the walls warning that they weren't responsible for any hearing damage concert goers may suffer. There were concerts where your ears had loud ringing noises in them for 3-4 days after the concert. I always wear ear plugs these days.
You're kidding right?
I still play my N64 now, and the original controller which has been thrashed to death on Goldeneye, Mario 64 etc is still working perfectly. Nintendo are known for designing robust controllers and consoles.
Comparing what SONY copied from the controller more than a year after Nintendo had released their version is just a strawman - Nintendo subsequently released N64 controllers with built-in rumble that didn't require extra battery. All SONY did was look at what Nintendo did, and copy them. The original PS1 controllers didn't even have analogue in them - so saying SONY had better controllers is laughable at best.
Inadequate cooling system - again my N64 has never hung, after tens of thousands of hours of play. Compare this to my PS1 that after a while I had to have the PS1 upside down just so it would read disks, and it ended up scratching games. My brothers PS1 just stopped working fullstop and had to be replaced with a PS-X.
Cartridges are far more robust than CD's. What would happen to a CD if your children kept taking it out of the console while the console was going?
Given that Nintendo are renowned for creating sturdy hardware that rarely fails, it seems like you have a massive chip on your shoulder. N64 magazine UK got a bus to drive over an N64, as well as dropping it out a hotel window, and it still worked perfectly afterwards.
Hold on a minute - are other countries involved with this prosecution too? If not, what you have just said is irrelevant.
Really? I didn't realize that you had seen it? Reviewing a film before you've even seen it is a touch douchey don't you think?
Nope - id software released a 3D shooter well before Ultima Underworlds - Catacombs 3D, on the same engine that Wolf 3D used. Granted, the initial idea was from Ultima Underworld, but they did it faster, first and better than the Ultima Underworlds team.
Hold on - got a link on Nintendo suing over Karnov? I've never heard of this, and can't find anything in google about it. Sounds highly suspicious given how different the games are and the fact that Nintendo granted a license for it to be released on their own console. Wheres your precedent?
The Wii has dominated games wise also - you probably need to research a bit better before making unfounded assumptions - it has 17 games that have sold over 6 million units, 7 of which sold over 20 million units and 3 which shifted 30 million+ units. No console has ever done these sorts of numbers over its top selling games. It also has 140 titles which are million plus sellers. The PS2 in fact had one game that just topped 20 million units (GTA San Andreas), and only 10 games that topped 6 million sales. Another unknown fact that most X360/PS3 fanboys miss is that the Wii has roughly the same attach rate as the PS2 and PS3. 150 million more game units have been shifted for the Wii than the X360, and quarter of a billion more units have been shifted on the Wii than the PS3. How do you get from that the Wii has no momentum sales wise? Attach rates (sourced from vgchartz): X360 - 9.46 games per console sold PS3 - 8.40 games per console sold Wii - 8.28 games per console sold PS2 - 8.17 games per console sold
So...how do you explain them not having $5 for food, but they have a mobile phone worth hundreds of USD, and a mobile account with a data plan? Sounds like a cherry picked story that is nothing close to reality.
He was the founder of Ion Storm. Ergo you can say that. Its like saying the founder of IBM had nothing to do with IBM Hong Kong, because he was based in the States. Your argument is horrible.
Doom was released as shareware you muppet. You can't pirate shareware, they WANT you to copy it.
Hold on, wasn't his company responsible for Deus Ex? And didn't Daikatana covers its costs and sell close to a million copies? Yep, you don't know what you're talking about, and yes YOU ARE A DOUCHE.
You don't seem to realize that well written garbage collected programs have the potential to significantly outperform non-garbage collected ones - you should probably read up on garbage collection as your viewpoint is whacked.
Weird how eBay threw out Microsoft technologies to use Java then isn't it? Could be, that you don't actually know what you're talking about and most likely that you don't work on enterprise scale projects.
Weird how sites like ebay run off Java technologies (like WS02) isn't then? Seriously, you sound like you don't really use Java seriously - you are complaining about some obscure memory-leak that probably doesn't exist and is more likely to reflect some poor code in your system. I write financial transaction processing systems that run in an array of Tomcats, and run around a million transactions every half hour per tomcat - and we restart our tomcat's on order every 3 months just for maintenance or deployment. The memory stays static otherwise.
On the same note, you sound like the kind of programmer who has an ego - the worst kind you can deal with. The kind who will reimplement the wheel, because they think they can do better than a HashMap or a binary search, and cause massive budget overruns on projects. The kind who throws every design pattern possible at a problem so their code confuses others, and makes it extremely hard to maintain or change.