You have to wonder what he is going to do. But he got stuck doing VR and seems to have done reasonably well for himself since then.
Have you seen him speak though? He actually has some interesting things to say.
He spoke at MMVR once and basically came out and poured cold water on everyone's dreams of producing useful simulators for nothing in the next 6 months. It was pretty brave and well worth saying.
Mod the parent up. Surely this is the main point. Certainly these days as yet another desk jockey getting some real exercise when doing something is much appreciated.
Then again, I wouldn't mind playing soccer, a sport which I can read tactically way beyond my ability in a virtual game with other players. When playing games with other sports fans we've often played soccer games together.
Seriously, where did you meet? In the dating section or just by posting to the forums. Craigslist always looked like the worst place to meet as the posts are free and the quality seemed, well, appalling.
There is hope for the world yet!
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Surely he will make one for us, a true haven of fanboy culture and yes men.
Really? Napster was crap if you were searching for things that weren't particularly popular. Or trying to get an entire album. Your time had to be available and fairly cheap.
I predict that sales will grow 5.4 fold. Really, how solid are their figures?
For anyone who is excited or dismayed about this it's worth recalling that McKinsey, who are about the smartest and best consultants in the world made a prediction for the number of cell phones that would be in the world by 2000 in 1990. They were out by a few orders of magnitude. Motorola built the Iridium network on the basis of these figures and similar predictions and took a bath.
Don't get too excited. This is just some press release with a few ads.
Juan Cole's blog is great, as is his friend Laura Rozen's blog War and Piece . Laura Rozen was a journo in the Balkan's in the nineties and has really seen ethnic conflict. She's great on the Middle East and security issues.
I subscribe to both factcheck and spinsanity's email lists. Spinsanity puts out fewer emails but they are of slightly higher quality. But both are excellent.
Really. So what if gamers haven't succeeded in making games regarded as high art? Really. These things entertain millions of people. They are also mathematically and technologically very impressive. They are amazing creations.
Games have changed the way people see the world.
Do you criticize Lego because it's designers are rarely accepted to the Tate and get away with being arrogant wankers?
Good to hear you're going off to gamasutra. The slashdot games section has been great, maybe excepting the color scheme. If only there were as many posts in the other sections.
Elsewhere in this thread there are points made about wifi articles and a few other recent links that have people wondering. The Nokia phone review the other day was another article that almost looked paid.
Could a policy be placed somewhere to completely clarify the issue? Also to stop a change to the policy being made in the future.
Hey, it's fine if there are paid articles, as long as they are market. A slashdot section 'paid' would be totally cool.
This attitude is amazing. Communism killed more people than the Nazis. Ever hear of the Ukranian famine of the 1920's, ever look at what collectivisation did in the USSR, ever look at the cultural revolution, ever seen 'The Killing Fields', ever heard of the Katyn massacre?
My grandfather escape death by communism by luck and courage. What you're saying sounds to me like what someone whose parents escapes the death camps must feel when told that the Nazis were not that bad.
This attitude that Communism was a quaint little belief that was not implemented correctly is abhorrent. The MILLIONs killed by Communists around the world deserve more respect than that.
It's just the same as saying that the Nazis were nice guys, it's just that they didn't implement their ideas correctly.
I used to work with a guy with about 15 years of experience in the games industry.
He was a very, very wise programmer. We got into this kind of discussion and he pointed out that some things have gotten better. He said that for a typical game around 1990 it would take 4-5 programmers 1 year to write say, 10 000 lines of C and you'd get whatever.
These days, the same number of coders would produce 100 000 lines of CPP, there would also be more people involved and the product would have a much larger scope and capabalities, and when done well, even quality.
Good coding tools (these guys talked about how version control only came in in the 90s!), faster machines and people understanding the coding process have improved our ability to write software.
The problem is, the specs have changed. People don't want what was state of the art in 1990. They want a GUI, help files and some visual stuff on almost every tool, a better backend and whatnot. And in 1990 people didn't want Visicalc either, they wanted stuff that could be used under Windows 3.1 So, nom ce change, plus ce change.
The software factory thing goes back to the debate about whether coding is like engineering and design or merely cranking the handle.
Management also has a tendency to want to eliminate engineers. In some industries you can see what has happened. In the US car industry engineering has become second to marketing. And the innovations of the US car industry have been cupholders and SUVs. In Germany, you don't get anywhere unless car engineers have far more input. You then get ABS brakes, fuel injection, Porsches, BMWs and Audis.
Every consultancy that is making up figures about how efficient it is to move all your development miles and miles away from your customers is set to benifit enourmously. No consideration is given to losing expertise or the difficulties of people not being able to meet face to face or the difficulties of possible legal challenges in countries that do no operate on the same legal system.
An old manager of mine had a story on outsourcing, he met a guy who said he could do a project for about 1/3 of what he was expecting. He described how he'd do it with outsourcing. My old manager asked him if he'd done it before, he said yes. My old manager asked how it went, he described it as a disaster with nothing delivered...... But he could deliver nothing really cheaply!
Only run the stat gathering for short times at randomly spaced intervals. With the hits slashdot gets you should still be able to get a reasonable sample.
Exactly. Have the slashdot editors revealed the percentage of OS's that hit this site?
When Gartner makes up anti-Linux stats the slashdot crowd screams to high heaven, now that they have made up some pro-Linux stats everyone is celebrating.
The company looks totally dodgy, the product looks weak BUT the idea is really pretty good and deserves some thought.
Have you seen teenages with their cell phones, some of these kids can enter text like mad people. Entering text by moving a joypad or something simple in simple patterns is an idea that works really well. Ken Perlin (of Perlin noise) had a great idea based on this a few years back, it deserves to be brought back to life.
A good product based on this could work really well. Indeed, you could set up an N-Gage to do this and you might wind up with something that you can enter text into FASTER than with a normal PDA.
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You have to wonder what he is going to do. But he got stuck doing VR and seems to have done reasonably well for himself since then.
Have you seen him speak though? He actually has some interesting things to say.
He spoke at MMVR once and basically came out and poured cold water on everyone's dreams of producing useful simulators for nothing in the next 6 months. It was pretty brave and well worth saying.
He does some stuff with UNC-CH too.
Mod the parent up. Surely this is the main point. Certainly these days as yet another desk jockey getting some real exercise when doing something is much appreciated.
Then again, I wouldn't mind playing soccer, a sport which I can read tactically way beyond my ability in a virtual game with other players. When playing games with other sports fans we've often played soccer games together.
There was another system that made CDs like that in the early 90s. I met a guy who worked at one of the shops where they were running the trial.
He alleges that the trial failed as there was rampant abuse and piracy committed by the employees including himself.
They would have paid the price regardless. They just wanted to slow down the effects.
Yes, however all these features are planned for Madden 2005.
There is hope for the world yet!
Surely he will make one for us, a true haven of fanboy culture and yes men.
Really? Napster was crap if you were searching for things that weren't particularly popular. Or trying to get an entire album. Your time had to be available and fairly cheap.
I predict that sales will grow 5.4 fold. Really, how solid are their figures?
For anyone who is excited or dismayed about this it's worth recalling that McKinsey, who are about the smartest and best consultants in the world made a prediction for the number of cell phones that would be in the world by 2000 in 1990. They were out by a few orders of magnitude. Motorola built the Iridium network on the basis of these figures and similar predictions and took a bath.
Don't get too excited. This is just some press release with a few ads.
Juan Cole's blog is great, as is his friend Laura Rozen's blog War and Piece . Laura Rozen was a journo in the Balkan's in the nineties and has really seen ethnic conflict. She's great on the Middle East and security issues.
I subscribe to both factcheck and spinsanity's email lists. Spinsanity puts out fewer emails but they are of slightly higher quality. But both are excellent.
Really. So what if gamers haven't succeeded in making games regarded as high art? Really. These things entertain millions of people. They are also mathematically and technologically very impressive. They are amazing creations.
Games have changed the way people see the world.
Do you criticize Lego because it's designers are rarely accepted to the Tate and get away with being arrogant wankers?
Good to hear you're going off to gamasutra. The slashdot games section has been great, maybe excepting the color scheme. If only there were as many posts in the other sections.
Elsewhere in this thread there are points made about wifi articles and a few other recent links that have people wondering. The Nokia phone review the other day was another article that almost looked paid.
Could a policy be placed somewhere to completely clarify the issue? Also to stop a change to the policy being made in the future.
Hey, it's fine if there are paid articles, as long as they are market. A slashdot section 'paid' would be totally cool.
So the Nazis were also good too then?
It's about how many people were killed and what else was done. I apologize if the deaths of millions of people don't matter to you.
This attitude is amazing. Communism killed more people than the Nazis. Ever hear of the Ukranian famine of the 1920's, ever look at what collectivisation did in the USSR, ever look at the cultural revolution, ever seen 'The Killing Fields', ever heard of the Katyn massacre?
My grandfather escape death by communism by luck and courage. What you're saying sounds to me like what someone whose parents escapes the death camps must feel when told that the Nazis were not that bad.
This attitude that Communism was a quaint little belief that was not implemented correctly is abhorrent. The MILLIONs killed by Communists around the world deserve more respect than that.
It's just the same as saying that the Nazis were nice guys, it's just that they didn't implement their ideas correctly.
Napster - the copyright crusading ferret.
I used to work with a guy with about 15 years of experience in the games industry.
He was a very, very wise programmer. We got into this kind of discussion and he pointed out that some things have gotten better. He said that for a typical game around 1990 it would take 4-5 programmers 1 year to write say, 10 000 lines of C and you'd get whatever.
These days, the same number of coders would produce 100 000 lines of CPP, there would also be more people involved and the product would have a much larger scope and capabalities, and when done well, even quality.
Good coding tools (these guys talked about how version control only came in in the 90s!), faster machines and people understanding the coding process have improved our ability to write software.
The problem is, the specs have changed. People don't want what was state of the art in 1990. They want a GUI, help files and some visual stuff on almost every tool, a better backend and whatnot. And in 1990 people didn't want Visicalc either, they wanted stuff that could be used under Windows 3.1 So, nom ce change, plus ce change.
The software factory thing goes back to the debate about whether coding is like engineering and design or merely cranking the handle.
Management also has a tendency to want to eliminate engineers. In some industries you can see what has happened. In the US car industry engineering has become second to marketing. And the innovations of the US car industry have been cupholders and SUVs. In Germany, you don't get anywhere unless car engineers have far more input. You then get ABS brakes, fuel injection, Porsches, BMWs and Audis.
Take your pick.
To obsolete grammar!
Good IDE's with good integration rock. Variable completion is like crack. When it works it's fantastic.
.NET with Whole Tomato's Visual Assist are impressive. For many applications they speed things up considerably.
Really, Eclipse and Visual Studio
Don't point what you're describing at MTV, it'd think all it was was a giant commercial. Hang on....
Mod the man up. This issue is really important.
Every consultancy that is making up figures about how efficient it is to move all your development miles and miles away from your customers is set to benifit enourmously. No consideration is given to losing expertise or the difficulties of people not being able to meet face to face or the difficulties of possible legal challenges in countries that do no operate on the same legal system.
An old manager of mine had a story on outsourcing, he met a guy who said he could do a project for about 1/3 of what he was expecting. He described how he'd do it with outsourcing. My old manager asked him if he'd done it before, he said yes. My old manager asked how it went, he described it as a disaster with nothing delivered...... But he could deliver nothing really cheaply!
Only run the stat gathering for short times at randomly spaced intervals. With the hits slashdot gets you should still be able to get a reasonable sample.
When Gartner makes up anti-Linux stats the slashdot crowd screams to high heaven, now that they have made up some pro-Linux stats everyone is celebrating.
You have to wonder if NVIDIA and ATI didn't get together and just pay ID to write a game to get everyone to upgrade their video cards.
Have you seen teenages with their cell phones, some of these kids can enter text like mad people. Entering text by moving a joypad or something simple in simple patterns is an idea that works really well. Ken Perlin (of Perlin noise) had a great idea based on this a few years back, it deserves to be brought back to life.
A good product based on this could work really well. Indeed, you could set up an N-Gage to do this and you might wind up with something that you can enter text into FASTER than with a normal PDA.