Corporations compile information on us to make money. We're all numbers to the corporations, and the government. Who here actually believes that only one bullet killed Kennedy? The government can do whatever it wants, so long as they have some means of denial. If you haven't realized this already, wake up and smell reality. Kevin Mitnick anyone? Talk about our rights being trampled on, it's gonna happen if they want it to. Any whining you do about petty "privacy" issues won't amount to anything. If you wan't privacy, too late. If you were born here, there's no doubt you have a social security card, along with all the other necessary evils of insurance in the many forms it takes. If you want to be completely unknown, go back in time, convince your parents to move to the himalayas before youre born. Aside from that, stop acting as if any cameras or emails are going to do any extra damage.
I furthermore agree with the post Elitist R Us, you claim youre somewhat more knowledgable than me and so the only reason these "privacy" issues don't bother me is because Im an ignoramus. How bout you guys grow up and realize you're not the center of the universe and people are doing this to make money, you're a number, or a type of pie, you're nothing, just like you apparently yearn to be.
Time and time again I see a good many of the people on this site show their paranoia. As if big brother is watching them specifically. News flash: you're not that important. Randalls tracks my purchases and I end up getting a free razor, many of the people who post here act like that's horrible. You talk about how Microsoft can monitor what you're doing and how certain other programs can spy on you, as if you're someone to be spied on. I would love a camera in every entrance of my neighborhood because I bet you anything there would be less crime around here. And if im not doing anything wrong I dont have anything to worry about. God forbid some government agency or faceless corporation knows my eating habits, lets see what it ever does except get me free samples of the things I like.
future of gaming? maybe future of graphics yes but opengl has nothing to do with the rest of a game. And directX is widely acclaimed of having great response to developer needs in every new version
First off, I am just trying to get my 2 cents in, I am a sophomore computer science student at the university of houston and just going on what I know. And trying to summarize the concept that almost everyone has brought up so far in some way.
Programming languages are created for a purpose, to achieve a certain amount of ease in using key programming concepts. I'll just assume you know what the goals of Java and C++ are, and no surprise, neither was made with the core intent of creating video games. Video games are very complex; thanks to all the math involved in computer graphics, I would imagine that rocket science isnt far off. Java has advantages and C++ has its advantages as well. Theres no reason not to use both. For one thing in many projects most low level code that developers work with are the graphics/physics engines, or any other licensed technologies that they got from a different company. They can usually edit that code as they see fit, and work off of that. The question doesnt seem to be whether or not to use one over the other, but when to use each, and developers already ask themselves that question as it is. On a side note, the comment from John Carmack isnt entirely fair to the debate: I love his work but the guy is plan and simple a hermit and extremely intelligent, he would probably do an engine entirely java just for the challenge. I have no doubts it would be just as good as or better then the same work he would have done in C++.
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Corporations compile information on us to make money. We're all numbers to the corporations, and the government. Who here actually believes that only one bullet killed Kennedy? The government can do whatever it wants, so long as they have some means of denial. If you haven't realized this already, wake up and smell reality. Kevin Mitnick anyone? Talk about our rights being trampled on, it's gonna happen if they want it to. Any whining you do about petty "privacy" issues won't amount to anything. If you wan't privacy, too late. If you were born here, there's no doubt you have a social security card, along with all the other necessary evils of insurance in the many forms it takes. If you want to be completely unknown, go back in time, convince your parents to move to the himalayas before youre born. Aside from that, stop acting as if any cameras or emails are going to do any extra damage.
I furthermore agree with the post Elitist R Us, you claim youre somewhat more knowledgable than me and so the only reason these "privacy" issues don't bother me is because Im an ignoramus. How bout you guys grow up and realize you're not the center of the universe and people are doing this to make money, you're a number, or a type of pie, you're nothing, just like you apparently yearn to be.
Time and time again I see a good many of the people on this site show their paranoia. As if big brother is watching them specifically. News flash: you're not that important. Randalls tracks my purchases and I end up getting a free razor, many of the people who post here act like that's horrible. You talk about how Microsoft can monitor what you're doing and how certain other programs can spy on you, as if you're someone to be spied on. I would love a camera in every entrance of my neighborhood because I bet you anything there would be less crime around here. And if im not doing anything wrong I dont have anything to worry about. God forbid some government agency or faceless corporation knows my eating habits, lets see what it ever does except get me free samples of the things I like.
future of gaming? maybe future of graphics yes but opengl has nothing to do with the rest of a game. And directX is widely acclaimed of having great response to developer needs in every new version
First off, I am just trying to get my 2 cents in, I am a sophomore computer science student at the university of houston and just going on what I know. And trying to summarize the concept that almost everyone has brought up so far in some way.
Programming languages are created for a purpose, to achieve a certain amount of ease in using key programming concepts. I'll just assume you know what the goals of Java and C++ are, and no surprise, neither was made with the core intent of creating video games. Video games are very complex; thanks to all the math involved in computer graphics, I would imagine that rocket science isnt far off. Java has advantages and C++ has its advantages as well. Theres no reason not to use both. For one thing in many projects most low level code that developers work with are the graphics/physics engines, or any other licensed technologies that they got from a different company. They can usually edit that code as they see fit, and work off of that. The question doesnt seem to be whether or not to use one over the other, but when to use each, and developers already ask themselves that question as it is. On a side note, the comment from John Carmack isnt entirely fair to the debate: I love his work but the guy is plan and simple a hermit and extremely intelligent, he would probably do an engine entirely java just for the challenge. I have no doubts it would be just as good as or better then the same work he would have done in C++.