This hoax worked because the people wanted to believe. So here we go again. The usual "The Internet is evil"-fodder for the water cooler on friday, a.k.a. nothing new here, moving on.
Based on my experience on the subject, people who were able to make a VIC-20 dance, are the best to iron out slow stuff which crept in the engine-design. (Sometimes placed there by the 'let's make a super-class and derive from there'-faction of programmers, but that's IMHO, of course.)
That was my first thought too. I never could get rid of the feeling that the author of the article deliberately exchanged the delivery- / writing-mechanism with the content to be written. He seems to be saying: "If your content is excellent, then it cannot be written in a blogging-system."
To get some perspective here, this is the same as stating: "You wrote this book in Emacs, it can't be good. You should have used Word instead." But if the author would have given this idea some thought, then he might have come to the conclusion that he was talking about two different things here.
OTHO: Maybe it's just a linkbait. Given that the post, sorry, article showed up on slashdot, it worked out well; with the added bonus that no-one can leave a comment to tell him.;-)
My friends and I actually left pubs because of the music being played so loud, that a decent conversation was impossible. BTW: All the songs played before we left went on the "black list of CDs we would not accept even as a gift and coated in chocolate.";-)
AFAIK this is explicitly against the WTO agreements on price differentiation in different markets and the prevention of people from taking advantage of this.
This WTO agreement applies to $BIG_MEGACORP only. Are you $BIG_MEGACORP? No? Forget it and pay up. Sad but true.
I wouldn't be surprised to see these same people posting equally absurd demands that new cars be manufactured without SOM (Speed Obedience Management). Could you imagine a society where GM, Honda or BMW sold cars that could be driven above the posted speed limit? That will never happen.
[imagine "Twilight-Zone" theme music]
Are you sure? Maybe you just planted an idea.;-)
In other words: It could be your fault that it happened.
[music slowly fades, camera tilts to the starry sky]
could be my browser (Safari), but clicking on your link leads to a 404, going through the main page and clicking my way through works, though. Just in case it happens to other users. Thanks for the link, now my friday evening is officially ruined, I got to read this right away.;-)
I was about to write something in the same tune (no, I do not work for IBM, I just administered big IBM boxes running AIX for a while), then I saw your post. Nothing to add but one remark (which should be in your post, IMHO, of course): If Linux is not the right tool for the job at hand, then everyone involved is free to figure out why and, if it's in the interest of the Linux-community, should do something about it. That's the beauty of OSS, isn't it?
Flaming people for using another OS without listening to their reasons for doing so is not helpful at all.
I see the need for levels as well, but I want to be able to save my game whenever I want to and not just a the end of a level or some other artificial "savepoint." It does not necessarily have to be a "real save," though; I just want to hibernate the game in a way, that I'm able to shut down the console and return to it when I find the time.
Your flipside seems to look like mine. A lot of "games in roation" on the shelf,
... because I simply don't have time to waste on a game that only makes me miserable.
I'm with you one hundred percent, but, IMHO of course, I don't think the "creators vision" is the culprit here. My best guess would be, that it's the institutionalized idea what a game has to look and / or feel like; a.k.a. "too many cooks..."
There is nothing wrong with a game sporting the "creators vision," it just depends on the number of [simultaneous] creators if it works for the gamers.
Regarding "When I start a game...", take a look at "Puritan Work-Ethic, How I Loathe Thee" (http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/24946) on the same website, it definitely spoke my mind.
real businesses buy real hardware with real service contracts, because their data is worth more than the marginal cost of the cheapest machine they can find at NewEgg.
You are absolutely right, in a perfect world, that is. A friend of mine constantly fights with his customers for this very reason. They buy cheap hardware and expect him to make it work, he could simply refuse to do so, but he has to eat, you know. The latest case had even me wondering, though. A medium-sized business wasn't willing to pay for an Xserve, but went with a Mac Pro instead. They are located in an area with exceptionally bad powerlines (If I would work there, I would refuse from connecting a desklamp without an UPS, that bad, really), the didn't want buy another UPS, so the Mac Pro runs unprotected, dies from time to time or mangles up the cyrus database. Guess who gets blamed?
Again, you are perfectly right, in theory. Educating customers shopping at NewEgg and the like for hardware to be used professionally puts a heavy burden on every consultant.
If I could, I'd give you an "interesting" (out of mod-points, sorry). I agree one hundred percent. I spent insane amounts of money in the old Napster-Days, because I found so many artists I never heard of before. Fast forward to now. I'm not interested if people trying to sell me crippled stuff and I couldn't care less if they try to do so online or on CD, their bad, not mine. I happily ignore those artists, means I don't buy, I don't download (legally or otherwise), ignorance is bliss.;-)
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I agree one hundred percent. It seems, that using Collada from end to end for development, is ideally suited for your kind of setup.
I wish you guys the best of luck for your project. Maybe you should think about writing an article how you made use of Collada. Would be the kind of "How we did it" stuff everybody loves to read.;-)
best, Erik
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Don't get me wrong here, but (having worked in the game-industry myself) I was always under the impression, that COLLADA is meant for exchange and use in workflow-pipelines in general. Who prevents you to convert the final result into something that loads faster?
Or to put it more bluntly, batch-convert the stuff you are working on, to work on it and convert it back to COLLADA when it's going back into the pipeline.
I might be mistaken here, but that's how we saw the format and its best use.
Seriously, of all the villains, he is the one I really like. OK, doesn't have to be the early years, I want to see Cliff Simon playing the character. But showing the other side of the fence could be interesting.
I was just pointing out, that there is a lot of scapegoating (not sure if this is a word) going on.
Regarding the entry in your blog, you are referring to: It is not as simple as that, IMHO, of course. I watched the cycle
investment group (shareholders) demands higher profits
board of directors tries to cut costs
goes with the cheapest outsourcing offer
quality of product dwindles
company revenue goes down
blame is laid on customers for not spending enough money on products
customers aren't satisfied with quality and stop buying
lather, rinse, repeat; a.k.a. go to 1.
at various companies.
Granted, the process is a little simplified, but you see where I'm aiming at, the shareholders are to blame as well in said scenario. I'm not saying that this is the explanation for everything, but, again, I think blaming the customer means, that the board of directors either, didn't do their job right (means initiating the creation of a sellable product) or has been forced to sacrifice quality for the sake of making profits (works like a charm, but not for long).
As long as the board is judged by the next quarterly report and not for planning with foresight, avoiding brain-drain in the company, etc., things will stay complicated. If said board is rewarded with big bonuses for not looking further than the next three months, things will get really complicated for the company, because there is no incentive for the board to plan for a future of the company.
I don't blame the members of the board, though, they do what they are told and get rewarded, why should they risk to get punished, the shareholders own the company, the board does as told by the owners.
So we're basically explaining everything with these two colliding points:
Bad, bad customers, if you'd spend more money on domestically manufactured goods, we wouldn't outsource in the first place.
Bad, bad companies/state/whatever if you'd pay us accordingly / wouldn't tax us the last dollar away, we would have the money to buy the [more expensive] domestically produced goods.
Truth to be told, point one is a lie, people advocating point two don't tell the truth.;-)
I think what you describe is the way to go. I understand that websites need to make money, but they need to do so in a decent way. I don't care about ads, as long as they are done in a non-intrusive way. I actually bought a game because of an ad. But if an ad blurts some horrible tune, takes to long to load, covers parts or all of the website, then the server serving said ad goes to 127.0.0.1. Thus, chances of convincing me that the "new and improved and unobtrusive ads" are OK with me, none. Every ad-server gets one shot, period. Same goes for TV, increase the volume of the ads and it is skipping time.
I don't want to nitpick, but there were people in 'Diamond Age' successfully circumventing the requirement of being networked and getting the 'Source' from a sanctioned outlet. They provided their own - in that case illegal - 'Source' to manufacture things; and that is exactly what is going to happen, sooner or later. Let's assume that DRM is the sanctioned way to access the 'Source'...;-) Neil is kind of a prophet, isn't he?
That was not my point. Besides, a friend of mine runs a blog with news about recruiting employees online, he does his research for the news the same way full-time journalists do (or should do) their job, meaning his way of getting the news is by talking to the CEOs of the more interesting companies and their employees; wading through their press-material; etc.
Back to my point, or the point I was trying to make, that is: A blog does not differ from any other online-publication, there are gems and there is trash - and a wide range in between. I think there are blogs out there, not only capable of reporting "world news," but doing so as I write these words. Just because Joe Public doesn't know about them, and he and his wife Jane Doe head to a well-known news source to stay informed, does not mean that there are no blogs out there, reporting world news (which, by the way, means a lot of different things to a lot of different people) first. It's about getting the reputation of being a credible news-source and people will go there as well. When Ted Turner started CNN, everybody laughed. Some of said amused people aren't in the news-business any more.
The "public wisdom" that bloggers aren't journalists, stomps a wide range of people gathering and reporting news, it's not justified, IMHO, of course.;-)
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Children, try to remember that history repeats itself here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothing
This hoax worked because the people wanted to believe. So here we go again. The usual "The Internet is evil"-fodder for the water cooler on friday, a.k.a. nothing new here, moving on.
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I second your thought, just have to figure out a way to read in those damned floppies again, to get the dates of the prior art on them.
Based on my experience on the subject, people who were able to make a VIC-20 dance, are the best to iron out slow stuff which crept in the engine-design. (Sometimes placed there by the 'let's make a super-class and derive from there'-faction of programmers, but that's IMHO, of course.)
That was my first thought too. I never could get rid of the feeling that the author of the article deliberately exchanged the delivery- / writing-mechanism with the content to be written. He seems to be saying: "If your content is excellent, then it cannot be written in a blogging-system."
;-)
To get some perspective here, this is the same as stating: "You wrote this book in Emacs, it can't be good. You should have used Word instead." But if the author would have given this idea some thought, then he might have come to the conclusion that he was talking about two different things here.
OTHO: Maybe it's just a linkbait. Given that the post, sorry, article showed up on slashdot, it worked out well; with the added bonus that no-one can leave a comment to tell him.
My friends and I actually left pubs because of the music being played so loud, that a decent conversation was impossible. BTW: All the songs played before we left went on the "black list of CDs we would not accept even as a gift and coated in chocolate." ;-)
This WTO agreement applies to $BIG_MEGACORP only. Are you $BIG_MEGACORP? No? Forget it and pay up. Sad but true.
[imagine "Twilight-Zone" theme music]
Are you sure? Maybe you just planted an idea.
In other words: It could be your fault that it happened.
[music slowly fades, camera tilts to the starry sky]
Wow. To be honest, I'd rather see this as a movie.
This is how I got the PDF:
;-)
go to www.deri.ie
click on "World Record 7 Billion Triples"
scroll down on the resulting page click on the word "here" in the last sentence.
get busy reading
I suspect that this is not a browser-related problem but a server-problem. The link in the OP and the one mentioned here is the same.
could be my browser (Safari), but clicking on your link leads to a 404, going through the main page and clicking my way through works, though. Just in case it happens to other users. Thanks for the link, now my friday evening is officially ruined, I got to read this right away. ;-)
I was about to write something in the same tune (no, I do not work for IBM, I just administered big IBM boxes running AIX for a while), then I saw your post. Nothing to add but one remark (which should be in your post, IMHO, of course): If Linux is not the right tool for the job at hand, then everyone involved is free to figure out why and, if it's in the interest of the Linux-community, should do something about it. That's the beauty of OSS, isn't it?
Flaming people for using another OS without listening to their reasons for doing so is not helpful at all.
Your flipside seems to look like mine. A lot of "games in roation" on the shelf,
for exactly the same reason.
I'm with you one hundred percent, but, IMHO of course, I don't think the "creators vision" is the culprit here. My best guess would be, that it's the institutionalized idea what a game has to look and / or feel like; a.k.a. "too many cooks ..."
...", take a look at "Puritan Work-Ethic, How I Loathe Thee" (http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/24946) on the same website, it definitely spoke my mind.
There is nothing wrong with a game sporting the "creators vision," it just depends on the number of [simultaneous] creators if it works for the gamers.
Regarding "When I start a game
my 2 cents
That's what I thought, too. Sad, isn't it?
You are absolutely right, in a perfect world, that is. A friend of mine constantly fights with his customers for this very reason. They buy cheap hardware and expect him to make it work, he could simply refuse to do so, but he has to eat, you know. The latest case had even me wondering, though. A medium-sized business wasn't willing to pay for an Xserve, but went with a Mac Pro instead. They are located in an area with exceptionally bad powerlines (If I would work there, I would refuse from connecting a desklamp without an UPS, that bad, really), the didn't want buy another UPS, so the Mac Pro runs unprotected, dies from time to time or mangles up the cyrus database. Guess who gets blamed?
Again, you are perfectly right, in theory. Educating customers shopping at NewEgg and the like for hardware to be used professionally puts a heavy burden on every consultant.
my 2 cents
If I could, I'd give you an "interesting" (out of mod-points, sorry). I agree one hundred percent. I spent insane amounts of money in the old Napster-Days, because I found so many artists I never heard of before. Fast forward to now. I'm not interested if people trying to sell me crippled stuff and I couldn't care less if they try to do so online or on CD, their bad, not mine. I happily ignore those artists, means I don't buy, I don't download (legally or otherwise), ignorance is bliss. ;-)
I agree one hundred percent. It seems, that using Collada from end to end for development, is ideally suited for your kind of setup.
;-)
I wish you guys the best of luck for your project. Maybe you should think about writing an article how you made use of Collada. Would be the kind of "How we did it" stuff everybody loves to read.
best,
Erik
Don't get me wrong here, but (having worked in the game-industry myself) I was always under the impression, that COLLADA is meant for exchange and use in workflow-pipelines in general. Who prevents you to convert the final result into something that loads faster?
Or to put it more bluntly, batch-convert the stuff you are working on, to work on it and convert it back to COLLADA when it's going back into the pipeline.
I might be mistaken here, but that's how we saw the format and its best use.
my 2 cents and a disclaimer: no coffee yet
Seriously, of all the villains, he is the one I really like. OK, doesn't have to be the early years, I want to see Cliff Simon playing the character. But showing the other side of the fence could be interesting.
IMHO, of course.
Regarding the entry in your blog, you are referring to: It is not as simple as that, IMHO, of course. I watched the cycle
at various companies.
Granted, the process is a little simplified, but you see where I'm aiming at, the shareholders are to blame as well in said scenario. I'm not saying that this is the explanation for everything, but, again, I think blaming the customer means, that the board of directors either, didn't do their job right (means initiating the creation of a sellable product) or has been forced to sacrifice quality for the sake of making profits (works like a charm, but not for long).
As long as the board is judged by the next quarterly report and not for planning with foresight, avoiding brain-drain in the company, etc., things will stay complicated. If said board is rewarded with big bonuses for not looking further than the next three months, things will get really complicated for the company, because there is no incentive for the board to plan for a future of the company.
I don't blame the members of the board, though, they do what they are told and get rewarded, why should they risk to get punished, the shareholders own the company, the board does as told by the owners.
my 2 cents
Truth to be told, point one is a lie, people advocating point two don't tell the truth.
IMHO, of course.
I think what you describe is the way to go. I understand that websites need to make money, but they need to do so in a decent way. I don't care about ads, as long as they are done in a non-intrusive way. I actually bought a game because of an ad. But if an ad blurts some horrible tune, takes to long to load, covers parts or all of the website, then the server serving said ad goes to 127.0.0.1. Thus, chances of convincing me that the "new and improved and unobtrusive ads" are OK with me, none. Every ad-server gets one shot, period.
Same goes for TV, increase the volume of the ads and it is skipping time.
my 2 cents
I don't want to nitpick, but there were people in 'Diamond Age' successfully circumventing the requirement of being networked and getting the 'Source' from a sanctioned outlet. They provided their own - in that case illegal - 'Source' to manufacture things; and that is exactly what is going to happen, sooner or later. ... ;-)
Let's assume that DRM is the sanctioned way to access the 'Source'
Neil is kind of a prophet, isn't he?
my 2 cents
That was not my point. Besides, a friend of mine runs a blog with news about recruiting employees online, he does his research for the news the same way full-time journalists do (or should do) their job, meaning his way of getting the news is by talking to the CEOs of the more interesting companies and their employees; wading through their press-material; etc.
;-)
Back to my point, or the point I was trying to make, that is: A blog does not differ from any other online-publication, there are gems and there is trash - and a wide range in between. I think there are blogs out there, not only capable of reporting "world news," but doing so as I write these words. Just because Joe Public doesn't know about them, and he and his wife Jane Doe head to a well-known news source to stay informed, does not mean that there are no blogs out there, reporting world news (which, by the way, means a lot of different things to a lot of different people) first. It's about getting the reputation of being a credible news-source and people will go there as well. When Ted Turner started CNN, everybody laughed. Some of said amused people aren't in the news-business any more.
The "public wisdom" that bloggers aren't journalists, stomps a wide range of people gathering and reporting news, it's not justified, IMHO, of course.