1. MS was never amongst the top payers. Their policy has been to underpay and let the stock pick up the rest. Back in the day the understanding was if you stuck around for 6-7 years at MS you'd clean up. As in retire early. Now the stock is shit and the option situation is changing across the industry.
2. The problem at MS isn't some big corp mumbo-jumbo where folks don't want to see other people get ahead. It's the stack ranking combined with the requirement that the individual needs to demonstrate their successes. So as an engineer you need to sell what you've personally done to your boss so he can sell it to the the other bosses when your rank is being decided. Which is a shit ass system. Go read mini-msft for a bit.
3. Generally speaking that 9-5er who is consistently working on the crap code that you're too good to write is the guy that pays the bills. The genius who's always spazzing out and showing up at noon because he was up all night checking in broken ass shit, fuck that guy.
Umm, he was joking. The Pacific Northwest is a beer mecca. And I'm not talking Labatt's or Molson, although you can get Rainier which pretty much equivalent. A bunch of brew pubs as well as great bottled microbrews. Plus international beers from all over because folks like good beer. Shit, you can get La Fin Du Monde in California.
Wow, you are out to lunch. I think LGF is missing someone and their name is jmorris. Nice work cutting down on the over-politicization by just telling half the country to STFU.
Thankfully, I still live in the U.S. and I can both carry a gun and say whatever the fuck I want.
Anybody who has taken a genetics course should know Richard Lewontin. He is and was a big figure in population genetics and did some heavy research using fruit flys in the 60's and 70's. Just check google scholar for Lewontin. That is his non-controversial work and why he has tenure at Harvard.
The OP might be talking about Biology as Ideology. Lewontin has written and spoken extensively about the dangers of easy explanations being made using genetics. Basically, people like simple explanations. Genetics and evolution are complicated. People boil it down to simple explanations (it's all in the genes) ignoring the complexity of development. Lewontin was a lone figure for a while arguing for some sanity in the face of the overwhelming "it's all in the genes" crowd.
But Sony will do everything they can to make it possible for the average game to have better graphics and use the new hardware well, just like MS will.
There's the problem though. Sony, from a developers standpoint, sucks ass. They have done nothing to make the PS3 easier to program. MS has a decent amount of experience actually supporting developers so their documentation and APIs pretty much make sense. As an example Sony's network strategy is non-existent, as in, the developers aren't getting any info about what, if any, Live-like support there will be. As anyone who is a developer knows trickling info this late in the game isn't a winning strategy. Hopefully those final dev kits will start showing up and the documentation will sally forth (and unlike PS2 it should be in English).
Wow, faith is a wonderful thing, isn't it. "...time tested and proven" eh. I'm not sure I've seen those studies, can you refer me to the peer reviewed documents that demonstrate what you're talking about? Or is the religion of pot, porn and guns too strong for that kind of nonsense?
Ummm, no MS isn't making the same mistake this time. I'm not saying they're going to be the champs (in fact analysts for the most part doubt it) but they've done a killer job with this launch and the product overall.
The 360 doesn't use the cell processor and neither does the revolution. So in the "Everybody Loses" section of the article it states that the cell processor will drop in price at a slower rate (compared to the tri-core powerpc that the 360 uses).
The hard drive is not integral to the 360. The TCR requirements specifically state that no game can depend on the hard drive. For all intents and purposes MS is trying to make games identical between HD and no-HD systems.
Not only that but the estimated BOM for the PS3 is $600. Sony has also decided to not manufacture their own graphics chip which was a huge win on the PS2. Now either Kutaragi is lying when he says that folks are going to be paying through the nose for the PS3 or Sony is losing some serious bread per-unit at launch.
Yeah, the conservatives are great at supporting those they disagree with. Look at Clinton, when he was fighting terrorism the thugs in congress were 100% behind him. Or Howard Stern. Michael Powell did a great job of supporting someone he disagreed with. Or The Dixie Chicks. You guys did a great job of supporting their right to speak.
The "tolerance" of the right is just another myth like their support of states rights, their love of small government, their ability to be fiscally capable, the left wing bias of the media and the victimization of righties in academia. All bullshit.
As for Orson Scott Card. I kind of like the last Enders Game book about the other kid. But overall I don't think he's a very good writer and his opinions suck.
Since they currently have the upper hand, they are determined not to give any ground, the mere mention that evolution has some competing theories is completely unacceptable, it must be taught as absolute fact with no questioning allowed
There aren't any competing scientific theories outside of evolution so I'm not sure what else a biology class could teach. Obviously, evolution is not cut dried, it's science, its a living thing that is being updated constantly. That's why we have journals.
Maybe you're thinking of Creationism/ID? I guess you could hold it up as pseudo science (what not to do) but that's more pertinent to a philosophy class.
People don't want to believe in a god. Once you believe in a god their is someone who is above you and to whom you are held accountable. This is aweful news. Anything we can do to rule this out must be done so that we can be in complete control of our lives.
You are wrong. Life is easier with someone above. God gives you something to look to for forgiveness when you "sin," to console you when you are lonely, to lift you up when you fail. Simone De Beauvoir said something like "There are two deaths of god, the death of god after which everything is permitted and the death of god after which nothing is forgiven."
Isn't that why most places have 5-6 hour interviews? But I agree, programmer interviews are black magic bullshit for the most part. I say, give a hard ass written test pre-interview and during the interview focus on the non-techinical aspects.
He was right at the time. He didn't have to eat shit. The IETF developed CIDR, IPv6 and everyone stopped allocating stupid blocks to folks. In addition there was lots of reclamation of non-contiguous address space. There was definitely a painful time. But if you go back and look at what the IETF working groups were facing in terms of DNS root overload, things were bad. Prior to CIDR the only thing saving the root DNS entries was the increase in memory size (every 6 months or so) and the decrease in price (and Cisco pumping out IOS updates to deal with larger memory sizes).
The only thing you should be convinced of is that this generation is completely about Marketing and Games. Tech will have little or nothing to do with it (unless the PS3 is a complete nightmare to develop for). Both consoles will be awesome. It'll be up to MS and Sony to line up the devs with the killer titles.
That list is useless. None of this stuff means anything as far as the development SDK. Here's what I'm hearing from IBM. Development using gcc and linux or cygwin. That's not game developer friendly.
Having to fuck around with DMAing data + code to the cell processor, dealing with management overhead (signalling when work has completed, when DMA transfers have completed, etc), partitioning workloads in cellable chunks, that's the stuff that Sony needs to make easy. The shitty thing about the PS2 is dealing with keeping the vector units fully active, the IOP which is a massive bottleneck, and DMA. Plus sony's libraries are complete and utter shit. The documentation is crap and their networking support is bad. So, if you'd bothered actually developing for the PS2 and talked to a variety of devs out there you'd know that the odds are the Sony won't produce anything that's dev friendly.
Actually you mean Milton and Paradise Lost. More people are familiar with Milton's version of the old testament than the actual old testament (two stories of the creation? Couldn't be!)
You and maybe 50k other people bought that game. Doom3,which is usually used by retro-grouch curmudgeons such as yourself as an example for flash without substance, will sell a million+. Splinter Cell 3, million +, GTA:San Andreas, 10 million +, HL2, million +. See a pattern? Sequels sell lots. Publishers and studios choosing between having a money in the bank franchise or throwing money at a speculative IP that might not take... Why bother? People don't want original game play, they want what they already know. Real world settings, characters they can relate to, controls that are the same as other games, that's money.
Ummm game makers spend a lot of time thinking about 1) what will sell a bazillion copies and 2) what will be fun. Playing a photorealistic version of the Passion of Christ, or having photorealistic models of people being tortured isn't fun. I think the "watch real live people get their heads blown off" segment of the population is actually pretty small (although ogrish might prove me wrong).
I work in the game industry. Pretty much everyone I know works in the game industry. I have people all over the place who I talk to. There are places like what you're describing. But they are by no means the norm. Your experience is either way out of data, not in the U.S. or you're using a very small sampling to categorize the whole industry. It's not all sunshine and blowjobs. Sometime shit sucks. But it's also not all doom and gloom. The royalty checks for instance kick complete ass.
You're an idiot. Are you saying that Splinter Cell, GTA:SA, Halo 2, Jak and Daxter, Doom3, THPS1-4 and every other multi-million seller out there are Britney Spears? While the "indies" are Iron and Wine or something? So Snood, Alien Hominid, Katamari Damacy, the oil blob physics platformer that's hot right now are the deep titles that sensitive souls such as yourself long for? Jesus man, get some perspective. You don't like Doom3. Great. I don't like HL2. Whoopty fucking doo. There are great games being made with massive budgets. There are great games being made with tiny budgets. There are shit games being made with both massive and tiny budgets. The world moves on.
What complete and utter bullshit. Dear god, how can you actually write that crap. I think you're confusing "scientifically proven" with "wishful thinking."
Fable was kick ass and it sold well. And while he only executive produced Molyneux has been associated with some of the best, most original titles for more than 15 years. To compare him to a developer that produced one poorly produced game after another is just wrong.
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1. MS was never amongst the top payers. Their policy has been to underpay and let the stock pick up the rest. Back in the day the understanding was if you stuck around for 6-7 years at MS you'd clean up. As in retire early. Now the stock is shit and the option situation is changing across the industry.
2. The problem at MS isn't some big corp mumbo-jumbo where folks don't want to see other people get ahead. It's the stack ranking combined with the requirement that the individual needs to demonstrate their successes. So as an engineer you need to sell what you've personally done to your boss so he can sell it to the the other bosses when your rank is being decided. Which is a shit ass system. Go read mini-msft for a bit.
3. Generally speaking that 9-5er who is consistently working on the crap code that you're too good to write is the guy that pays the bills. The genius who's always spazzing out and showing up at noon because he was up all night checking in broken ass shit, fuck that guy.
Umm, he was joking. The Pacific Northwest is a beer mecca. And I'm not talking Labatt's or Molson, although you can get Rainier which pretty much equivalent.
A bunch of brew pubs as well as great bottled microbrews. Plus international beers from all over because folks like good beer.
Shit, you can get La Fin Du Monde in California.
Wow, you are out to lunch. I think LGF is missing someone and their name is jmorris. Nice work cutting down on the over-politicization by just telling half the country to STFU.
Thankfully, I still live in the U.S. and I can both carry a gun and say whatever the fuck I want.
Anybody who has taken a genetics course should know Richard Lewontin. He is and was a big figure in population genetics and did some heavy research using fruit flys in the 60's and 70's. Just check google scholar for Lewontin. That is his non-controversial work and why he has tenure at Harvard.
The OP might be talking about Biology as Ideology. Lewontin has written and spoken extensively about the dangers of easy explanations being made using genetics. Basically, people like simple explanations. Genetics and evolution are complicated. People boil it down to simple explanations (it's all in the genes) ignoring the complexity of development. Lewontin was a lone figure for a while arguing for some sanity in the face of the overwhelming "it's all in the genes" crowd.
But only if she's petrified.
Wow, faith is a wonderful thing, isn't it. "...time tested and proven" eh. I'm not sure I've seen those studies, can you refer me to the peer reviewed documents that demonstrate what you're talking about? Or is the religion of pot, porn and guns too strong for that kind of nonsense?
Ummm, no MS isn't making the same mistake this time. I'm not saying they're going to be the champs (in fact analysts for the most part doubt it) but they've done a killer job with this launch and the product overall.
The 360 doesn't use the cell processor and neither does the revolution. So in the "Everybody Loses" section of the article it states that the cell processor will drop in price at a slower rate (compared to the tri-core powerpc that the 360 uses).
The hard drive is not integral to the 360. The TCR requirements specifically state that no game can depend on the hard drive. For all intents and purposes MS is trying to make games identical between HD and no-HD systems.
Not only that but the estimated BOM for the PS3 is $600. Sony has also decided to not manufacture their own graphics chip which was a huge win on the PS2. Now either Kutaragi is lying when he says that folks are going to be paying through the nose for the PS3 or Sony is losing some serious bread per-unit at launch.
Yeah, the conservatives are great at supporting those they disagree with. Look at Clinton, when he was fighting terrorism the thugs in congress were 100% behind him. Or Howard Stern. Michael Powell did a great job of supporting someone he disagreed with. Or The Dixie Chicks. You guys did a great job of supporting their right to speak.
The "tolerance" of the right is just another myth like their support of states rights, their love of small government, their ability to be fiscally capable, the left wing bias of the media and the victimization of righties in academia. All bullshit.
As for Orson Scott Card. I kind of like the last Enders Game book about the other kid. But overall I don't think he's a very good writer and his opinions suck.
There aren't any competing scientific theories outside of evolution so I'm not sure what else a biology class could teach. Obviously, evolution is not cut dried, it's science, its a living thing that is being updated constantly. That's why we have journals.
Maybe you're thinking of Creationism/ID? I guess you could hold it up as pseudo science (what not to do) but that's more pertinent to a philosophy class.
You are wrong. Life is easier with someone above. God gives you something to look to for forgiveness when you "sin," to console you when you are lonely, to lift you up when you fail. Simone De Beauvoir said something like "There are two deaths of god, the death of god after which everything is permitted and the death of god after which nothing is forgiven."
Isn't that why most places have 5-6 hour interviews? But I agree, programmer interviews are black magic bullshit for the most part. I say, give a hard ass written test pre-interview and during the interview focus on the non-techinical aspects.
You left out Carnegie-Mellon. Easily in the top 5 comp-sci programs in the country.
He was right at the time. He didn't have to eat shit. The IETF developed CIDR, IPv6 and everyone stopped allocating stupid blocks to folks. In addition there was lots of reclamation of non-contiguous address space. There was definitely a painful time. But if you go back and look at what the IETF working groups were facing in terms of DNS root overload, things were bad. Prior to CIDR the only thing saving the root DNS entries was the increase in memory size (every 6 months or so) and the decrease in price (and Cisco pumping out IOS updates to deal with larger memory sizes).
The only thing you should be convinced of is that this generation is completely about Marketing and Games. Tech will have little or nothing to do with it (unless the PS3 is a complete nightmare to develop for). Both consoles will be awesome. It'll be up to MS and Sony to line up the devs with the killer titles.
And the turks complaining about racism is pretty rich considering the Armenian genocide which they won't even fess up about.
That list is useless. None of this stuff means anything as far as the development SDK. Here's what I'm hearing from IBM. Development using gcc and linux or cygwin. That's not game developer friendly.
Having to fuck around with DMAing data + code to the cell processor, dealing with management overhead (signalling when work has completed, when DMA transfers have completed, etc), partitioning workloads in cellable chunks, that's the stuff that Sony needs to make easy. The shitty thing about the PS2 is dealing with keeping the vector units fully active, the IOP which is a massive bottleneck, and DMA. Plus sony's libraries are complete and utter shit. The documentation is crap and their networking support is bad. So, if you'd bothered actually developing for the PS2 and talked to a variety of devs out there you'd know that the odds are the Sony won't produce anything that's dev friendly.
Actually you mean Milton and Paradise Lost. More people are familiar with Milton's version of the old testament than the actual old testament (two stories of the creation? Couldn't be!)
There are two deaths of god: the death of god after which everything is permitted, and the death of god after which nothing is forgiven.
You and maybe 50k other people bought that game. Doom3 ,which is usually used by retro-grouch curmudgeons such as yourself as an example for flash without substance, will sell a million+. Splinter Cell 3, million +, GTA:San Andreas, 10 million +, HL2, million +. See a pattern? Sequels sell lots. Publishers and studios choosing between having a money in the bank franchise or throwing money at a speculative IP that might not take... Why bother? People don't want original game play, they want what they already know. Real world settings, characters they can relate to, controls that are the same as other games, that's money.
Ummm game makers spend a lot of time thinking about 1) what will sell a bazillion copies and 2) what will be fun. Playing a photorealistic version of the Passion of Christ, or having photorealistic models of people being tortured isn't fun. I think the "watch real live people get their heads blown off" segment of the population is actually pretty small (although ogrish might prove me wrong).
I work in the game industry. Pretty much everyone I know works in the game industry. I have people all over the place who I talk to. There are places like what you're describing. But they are by no means the norm. Your experience is either way out of data, not in the U.S. or you're using a very small sampling to categorize the whole industry. It's not all sunshine and blowjobs. Sometime shit sucks. But it's also not all doom and gloom. The royalty checks for instance kick complete ass.
You're an idiot. Are you saying that Splinter Cell, GTA:SA, Halo 2, Jak and Daxter, Doom3, THPS1-4 and every other multi-million seller out there are Britney Spears? While the "indies" are Iron and Wine or something? So Snood, Alien Hominid, Katamari Damacy, the oil blob physics platformer that's hot right now are the deep titles that sensitive souls such as yourself long for? Jesus man, get some perspective. You don't like Doom3. Great. I don't like HL2. Whoopty fucking doo. There are great games being made with massive budgets. There are great games being made with tiny budgets. There are shit games being made with both massive and tiny budgets. The world moves on.
What complete and utter bullshit. Dear god, how can you actually write that crap. I think you're confusing "scientifically proven" with "wishful thinking."
Fable was kick ass and it sold well. And while he only executive produced Molyneux has been associated with some of the best, most original titles for more than 15 years. To compare him to a developer that produced one poorly produced game after another is just wrong.