"I've looked quite a bit for some stable work, but plumbers make more hourly then Sys Admins in South Florida. Either I move to California (never!) or move on."
Move on then. Better still, take up plumbing.
Am I the only person here who is getting tired of all the network types who were too short sighted to realise they were in a boom in around 2000? Why didn't you use some of that boom-money on preparing for the (blindingly obvious) normality that followed.
Hey, don't blame developers for being unoriginal! We're just creating what sells.
It's the buying public who are being unoriginal. Games like Jet Grind (and then Set) Radio were original, but sold far less than the likes of Splinter Cell, Halo, GT3, etc.
There are hundreds of original ideas kicked around development studios every day, but none of them are worth looking at while the public just want to shoot bad guys.
"This has to be the story which will never end. Back in 1996, Steven Cohen "stole" sex.com from it is original owner (Gary Kremen) by forging a letter to Network Solutions asking for the domain to be transferred to him."
That doesn't make any sense. You might want to click here
... whether artifacts in the screenshots are down to the video codec, or down to the fact that the author has jpeg compressed them? This is one of the few places where it really would have been a good idea to use a non-lossy format.
There's a typo in the report. You spelt "completely shit" as "Way cool".
He's responsible for all that?
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"one of the inventors of Smalltalk, one of the fathers of object oriented programming, conceiver of the laptop computer, inventor of much of the modern windowing GUI."
Holy shit, he must be the most hated man in the whole of computing! If I was him I'd be laying low.
What a coincidence, the game I'm working on (MotoGP2, Xbox) is days away from completion, so the subject of testers is one that's very close to my heart at the moment.
Most games testers are idiots.
There's a strange idea in the industry that you go from testing to design to producing. This is a very unhealthy thing to happen. It means that testers that are any good get snapped up as designers real quick. This is bad for two reasons. The first reason is that good testers often don't make good designers. The second is that taking away the good testers leaves you just with bad testers.
It's not uncommon to get bug reports as precise as "I was playing, and it crashed" back from testers. If you ask them what level/track the crash happened on, it takes them another two days to remember.
I would list some more, but I'm tired; it's 1:45am and I'm just about done working for today:)
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Perhaps they were placing bets on how long FreeBSD would take to die.
Move on then. Better still, take up plumbing.
Am I the only person here who is getting tired of all the network types who were too short sighted to realise they were in a boom in around 2000? Why didn't you use some of that boom-money on preparing for the (blindingly obvious) normality that followed.
Play games on it?
Sell it on eBay?
Just wondering.
We reinvent the wheel because new wheels look sexy, not because they roll any better.
I have absolutely no idea whether there's a point to be proved with that, but it's kinda interesting.
Isn't it just moving data to and from the network device? And wouldn't the network bandwith be the limiting factor?
I also went to Sussex University (COGS 98-01, CompSci). I might know you, but then again I probably don't.
I also work in Hove actually, but I work in Brighton.
Isn't it a nice day in Hove actually today? I'm going to the beach after work (near the Meeting Place cafe).
It's the buying public who are being unoriginal. Games like Jet Grind (and then Set) Radio were original, but sold far less than the likes of Splinter Cell, Halo, GT3, etc.
There are hundreds of original ideas kicked around development studios every day, but none of them are worth looking at while the public just want to shoot bad guys.
oh, thanks. :\
I was expecting more
Could somebody point me to the bit where he talks about game programming? I can't find it.
That doesn't make any sense. You might want to click here
... whether artifacts in the screenshots are down to the video codec, or down to the fact that the author has jpeg compressed them? This is one of the few places where it really would have been a good idea to use a non-lossy format.
Anybody who works with graphics.
There's a typo in the report. You spelt "completely shit" as "Way cool".
Holy shit, he must be the most hated man in the whole of computing! If I was him I'd be laying low.
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I doubt a 30-minute scoop by $other_site would change that.
I meant just for the newly created thread. :)
Oh, hang on.... that doesn't work.
Oops
Perhaps it would be a good idea to disallow A/C posting during the subscriber-only period?
What a coincidence, the game I'm working on (MotoGP2, Xbox) is days away from completion, so the subject of testers is one that's very close to my heart at the moment.
Most games testers are idiots.
There's a strange idea in the industry that you go from testing to design to producing. This is a very unhealthy thing to happen. It means that testers that are any good get snapped up as designers real quick. This is bad for two reasons. The first reason is that good testers often don't make good designers. The second is that taking away the good testers leaves you just with bad testers.
It's not uncommon to get bug reports as precise as "I was playing, and it crashed" back from testers. If you ask them what level/track the crash happened on, it takes them another two days to remember.
I would list some more, but I'm tired; it's 1:45am and I'm just about done working for today :)
Believe it or not, the Xbox doesn't have a SOD at all.
... and that is why it will fail.
I love OpenGL; it's really nice to do quite straightforward stuff. But given that:
- No console development environments come with OpenGL implementations.
- Nobody buys games for Linux.
- Hardly anyone buys game for the Mac
Why would you choose to write your game using GL?