This doesn't look like much of a game to me. It is more like an exercise with a random element. It is 'chutes and ladders', which also is not really a game. The players never have to make a decision. 'Chutes and Ladders' is fun when you are 6, but not 11. I think the kids are going to figure out that the outcome is basicly random, and they have been tricked into doing math. Why the HELL did it take this guy 6 years to come up with this game anyway. A real programming game would allow players to invent their own syntax. Heck, a game like Drakon teaches better programming skills, even though it has nothing to do with programming.
Since the book is written and published by the OpenGL Review Board, yeah, it should contain every feature in the API. The 'Red Book' is not just an introductory book on OpenGL. The purpose of the Specification is to show someone how to write an implementation of OpenGL. The purpose of the Red Book is to show someone how to use any conforming implementation of OpenGL. IMO the parrent is correct, since the book is produced by OpenGLs governing body, it should cover everything. I'm not going to dispute with you about OpenGL being an API though, because it is an API, not a language.
What is it with these MMORPG's and their thirst for cash?
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that they are a business, and a CCG will bring in a lot of money. If everyone buys it, then, from a business standpoint, it was a success. I 'feel' you in that I don't feel like shelling out anymore cash, but it's not like it doesn't make sense.
That is a good point. I have actually heard people from Intel say that the switch was more to couple Apples PC market with those of the other PC manufacturers. You would think that the separation of markets would be an advantage because Apple could take advantage of the price variation in x86 processors and maybe sell more computers when x86 prices were high. Because Apple computers tend to cost so much more though, it didn't really move more people over when the x86 PC prices were high, but it did move people away when x86 PC prices were low. This move will basically just create an even slate for PC manufacturers.
Overall I think this article was way off. If Intel is going to innovate like this article suggests, it is still at least 10 years off (speaking from experience), and I don't think that a chip which is 10 years off would have enticed Apple to change platforms now.
The adds before a movie bother me a little, but if they tried to insert an add in the middle it would really upset me. It seems like this is what they are trying to do with video games. What they could do though is use more product placement. There are plenty of fake branded soda machines in Doom 3 and Halflife that could certainly have been Coke or Pepsi machines. I wouldn't have minded, really. If done correctly I think we can find a happy medium.
Motherboards are already one of the cheapest components, this move COULD reduce the price more, but it's probably not going to save anybody a whole lot. Unless you go into the server side of things, high end motherboards usually cost less than $200, and most pretty good motherboards cost right about $100. Where as chip prices range anywhere from ~$100 - $1000+. I just built a new computer with a motherboard that I won at an event. I'm happy with my new computer, but I quickly found out that a free motherboard really wasn't a good justification. Almost every component cost more than the motherboard I had won.
The organization of data using a tree metaphor is not a function of the amount of storage, its a function of the work required to do the search. What an abundance of space does do is alleviate the need to delete anything. Processors are getting faster every day, but I don't think that anybody is really looking to throw data organization schemes out the window just yet. Gmail works because all of the data is the same type (emails), and the advantage is that you never delete anything, reducing the amount of time you spend organizing data. For most types of data the user spends considerably less time organizing the data anyway, so the advantages of a search based system aren't there.
The company that makes these pistol mice sponsored PDXLAN 5.05 in March, which I attended. At first they seemed kind of neat, but everyone pretty much figured out that they they were only nice to look at after only a few minutes. For starters the lever arm on the trigger to 'click' the mouse is big, every time you want to 'click' you are moving your index finger nearly 1 cm. 1 cm doesn't seem like much, untill you figure that a regular mouse only takes about 1mm (or less). Also your wrist rests on the table in a strange position and you end up rubbing the bone on your wrist against the table, and it becomes very uncomfortable. Third, you can elevate your arm above the table so as not to rub your wrist, but then you are actually putting quite a bit of work into your arm, which is definitely not ergonomic. Lastly, most of the fine control that you do with your mouse is via your finger tips, with this mouse all of the control is done via your whole arm. Needless to say, by the end of PDXLAN they were giving these away as raffle prizes, and some of the winners wouldn't even come up to claim their prize!
Oh, and remember what I said about them being nice to look at, that is only the first time you see it, after about a minute the novelty wears off and you realize how dumb looking it really is.
I wouldn't use RS-232 if you don't want it to be obsolete in 5 years. For a good alternative to RS-232 check out Devasys, they have development kits for EZ-USB chips (8051 with USB interface hardware built in). Its pretty nifty.
As for RS-232 sticking around, I wouldn't worry too much, way down at the bottom of the ICH there is a LPC (low pin count) bus which interfaces with a superIO chip that contains the PS/2, RS-232 and other stuff. So while some manufacturers may choose not to include those features, you will probably be able to at least find boards with those ports for quite a while.
Its true, I work for a major chipset manufacturer and all of the integrated features are on the ICH, with the exception of video which is on the MCH. They don't really sell dumbed down chipsets because the interest is in getting the highest $$/area of Si. Just get one with lots of features and disable them if you don't need them.
Seriously though, up to that point he made a lot of sense. The school you go to mostly has to do with things you did before you applied there. My advice: Work Hard! People say "Work smarter not harder". If you are smart you will do both and really get a leg up.
Why or how does it cheapen the franchise. Does it somehow make the old ones less credible. I guess I just don't see it. It's akin to liking some little local band that suddenly gets big. This small band that you once liked is now popular, and you resent them and their new fans. The music didn't change though, and the percieved cheapening comes from you, not the "franchise". Its not a perfect analogy, but I there is some logic to it.
I don't see how remaking a movie ruins the origional. I like Evil Dead 1, Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness. Even if this remake turns out crappy, its not like they plan on taking away the origionals (see: George Lucas).
F = ma -> Force = Mass x Acceleration, I don't see where velocity comes into the equation? If it went from 0 ft/s to 10,266.25 ft/s in 1s, then it would be 318 Gs
I have read, and enjoy the economist. As I stated in another post, similar != same. I was refering to my opinion that/. generally leans a little libritarian AND that more generally translates to fiscally conservative and socally liberal. Perhaps I should not have used the word demographic. I did not mean that both publications (is/. a publication?) had the same readership, but that they politically may have similar ideas.
Now if you will excuse me, I have a huge pile of shit that I have to get through smearing on my walls before O'Reilly come on, especially if I want to get a good nights sleep so I can take the MSCE exam tomorrow.
You might have found it, too, shockingly void of statistics and other lies on which to rest your wearied intellect.
I don't need statistics, I just need facts. I realize that The Economist requires a paid subscription for online reading, but this op-ed is pretty worthless without an accompanying article. IMHO it shouldn't have made it to the front page of/., and the only reason that it did was because of the title and the perceived respectability of the publication.
The Economist does not list their Authors BECAUSE it does not require them to validify facts based upon the writers qualifications. I listened to an interview with an editor from the Economist on NPR, and that is basically what he said.
I suppose that works if you are a young writer and you back up your statements with facts (as opposed to ethos), but this article doesn't even contain facts. Its some vague suggestions and a lot of fluff. I could have written it right here and now, off the top of my head, without any research. Really, a peace of crap article that happened to have the words "Patent" and "Reform" in the title, ensuring its posting on the front page of/..
I believe the Economist politically has a similar readership demographic to./ as well.
I know that this is supposed to be funny (it is funny). But I just have to point out that 2k13 takes the same number of characters as 2013, and is more ambiguous. Its kind of like saying WWII instead of World War II (double-ewe has more sylables than either world or war, so actually saying the abbreviation is less efficent than saying the actual name).
I have heard people argue about this a lot and I have never heard anybody bring up the fact that at relativistic speeds space itself dialates. You could calculate how fast the ship was moving if you knew how far the Kessel Run was from the viewpoint of an Observer who was not in motion with respect to the Kessel Run. This is assuming that 12 parsecs is the length of the Kessel run from the viewpoint of an observer moving with the Millenium Falcon.
If you bring relativity into it though you have to bring it all the way in, and that causes all sorts of problems. Even if Han was traveling close to the speed of light it would have taken him almost 40 years from his own point of view to make the run. Observers who are not moving relative to the Kessel Run would probably see a much greater amount of time pass. With all of the space travel that is done in this movie its not even worth discussing... Nothing works out.
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This doesn't look like much of a game to me. It is more like an exercise with a random element. It is 'chutes and ladders', which also is not really a game. The players never have to make a decision. 'Chutes and Ladders' is fun when you are 6, but not 11. I think the kids are going to figure out that the outcome is basicly random, and they have been tricked into doing math. Why the HELL did it take this guy 6 years to come up with this game anyway. A real programming game would allow players to invent their own syntax. Heck, a game like Drakon teaches better programming skills, even though it has nothing to do with programming.
see mono, it's .NET for Linux. There is always java too.
Since the book is written and published by the OpenGL Review Board, yeah, it should contain every feature in the API. The 'Red Book' is not just an introductory book on OpenGL. The purpose of the Specification is to show someone how to write an implementation of OpenGL. The purpose of the Red Book is to show someone how to use any conforming implementation of OpenGL. IMO the parrent is correct, since the book is produced by OpenGLs governing body, it should cover everything. I'm not going to dispute with you about OpenGL being an API though, because it is an API, not a language.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that they are a business, and a CCG will bring in a lot of money. If everyone buys it, then, from a business standpoint, it was a success. I 'feel' you in that I don't feel like shelling out anymore cash, but it's not like it doesn't make sense.
Overall I think this article was way off. If Intel is going to innovate like this article suggests, it is still at least 10 years off (speaking from experience), and I don't think that a chip which is 10 years off would have enticed Apple to change platforms now.
... for making them learn a new language? You are dreaming! (even if I do agree that Ruby is 100x easier to read)
The adds before a movie bother me a little, but if they tried to insert an add in the middle it would really upset me. It seems like this is what they are trying to do with video games. What they could do though is use more product placement. There are plenty of fake branded soda machines in Doom 3 and Halflife that could certainly have been Coke or Pepsi machines. I wouldn't have minded, really. If done correctly I think we can find a happy medium.
Motherboards are already one of the cheapest components, this move COULD reduce the price more, but it's probably not going to save anybody a whole lot. Unless you go into the server side of things, high end motherboards usually cost less than $200, and most pretty good motherboards cost right about $100. Where as chip prices range anywhere from ~$100 - $1000+. I just built a new computer with a motherboard that I won at an event. I'm happy with my new computer, but I quickly found out that a free motherboard really wasn't a good justification. Almost every component cost more than the motherboard I had won.
The organization of data using a tree metaphor is not a function of the amount of storage, its a function of the work required to do the search. What an abundance of space does do is alleviate the need to delete anything. Processors are getting faster every day, but I don't think that anybody is really looking to throw data organization schemes out the window just yet. Gmail works because all of the data is the same type (emails), and the advantage is that you never delete anything, reducing the amount of time you spend organizing data. For most types of data the user spends considerably less time organizing the data anyway, so the advantages of a search based system aren't there.
Oh, and remember what I said about them being nice to look at, that is only the first time you see it, after about a minute the novelty wears off and you realize how dumb looking it really is.
I wouldn't use RS-232 if you don't want it to be obsolete in 5 years. For a good alternative to RS-232 check out Devasys, they have development kits for EZ-USB chips (8051 with USB interface hardware built in). Its pretty nifty.
As for RS-232 sticking around, I wouldn't worry too much, way down at the bottom of the ICH there is a LPC (low pin count) bus which interfaces with a superIO chip that contains the PS/2, RS-232 and other stuff. So while some manufacturers may choose not to include those features, you will probably be able to at least find boards with those ports for quite a while.
Its true, I work for a major chipset manufacturer and all of the integrated features are on the ICH, with the exception of video which is on the MCH. They don't really sell dumbed down chipsets because the interest is in getting the highest $$/area of Si. Just get one with lots of features and disable them if you don't need them.
In my mind that sounds compleatly resonable, but I doubt it will ever happen.
Don't listen to this guy, he is obviously insane.
Seriously though, up to that point he made a lot of sense. The school you go to mostly has to do with things you did before you applied there. My advice: Work Hard! People say "Work smarter not harder". If you are smart you will do both and really get a leg up.
anybody have a torrent we could use? I would like to check out these games before tomorrow.
"Shop smart, shop 'S-Mart'."
Why or how does it cheapen the franchise. Does it somehow make the old ones less credible. I guess I just don't see it. It's akin to liking some little local band that suddenly gets big. This small band that you once liked is now popular, and you resent them and their new fans. The music didn't change though, and the percieved cheapening comes from you, not the "franchise". Its not a perfect analogy, but I there is some logic to it.
I don't see how remaking a movie ruins the origional. I like Evil Dead 1, Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness. Even if this remake turns out crappy, its not like they plan on taking away the origionals (see: George Lucas).
F = ma -> Force = Mass x Acceleration, I don't see where velocity comes into the equation? If it went from 0 ft/s to 10,266.25 ft/s in 1s, then it would be 318 Gs
Now if you will excuse me, I have a huge pile of shit that I have to get through smearing on my walls before O'Reilly come on, especially if I want to get a good nights sleep so I can take the MSCE exam tomorrow.
I don't need statistics, I just need facts. I realize that The Economist requires a paid subscription for online reading, but this op-ed is pretty worthless without an accompanying article. IMHO it shouldn't have made it to the front page of /., and the only reason that it did was because of the title and the perceived respectability of the publication.
I was simply refering generally to what might be described as a fiscally conservative, socially liberal viewpoint. Similar != Same.
I suppose that works if you are a young writer and you back up your statements with facts (as opposed to ethos), but this article doesn't even contain facts. Its some vague suggestions and a lot of fluff. I could have written it right here and now, off the top of my head, without any research. Really, a peace of crap article that happened to have the words "Patent" and "Reform" in the title, ensuring its posting on the front page of /..
I believe the Economist politically has a similar readership demographic to ./ as well.
I know that this is supposed to be funny (it is funny). But I just have to point out that 2k13 takes the same number of characters as 2013, and is more ambiguous. Its kind of like saying WWII instead of World War II (double-ewe has more sylables than either world or war, so actually saying the abbreviation is less efficent than saying the actual name).
If you bring relativity into it though you have to bring it all the way in, and that causes all sorts of problems. Even if Han was traveling close to the speed of light it would have taken him almost 40 years from his own point of view to make the run. Observers who are not moving relative to the Kessel Run would probably see a much greater amount of time pass. With all of the space travel that is done in this movie its not even worth discussing... Nothing works out.