consoles...no framerate issues... riiight 1. classic 8/16 bit consoles had serious sprites/line issues causing flickering and slowdown. Every frame is still drawn, just not at 60hz, and/or sprites would fail to be drawn in time for every frame, causing them to flicker. controller input lag is also a problem. 2. the 32 bit era suffered from lots of low framerate 'full motion' video, and choppy 20-30fps 3D with all sorts of texture popping and distortion thanks to bad (or nonexistent) perspective correction. Even the fast games of that era (eg wipeout on psx, which were fun as hell) suffered from this. Very few titles ran at 60fps. 3. today's consoles still cannot hold 60fps in a number of popular titles, with many developers opting for a 30hz lock instead of toning down the graphics. Unlike the slowdown of the 16bit era, they just drop frames instead. Just like in the 80s/90s, they think graphics sell more titles than fluid gameplay. Too bad.
Most of the developers I've met are clueless about systems and security..and the systems people I've met know very little about software design. The ones who have at least some experience in both tend to be the brightest at learning more about either.
You used a swear three times and implied usage of condemned characters.. I have reported you to the slashdot Conduct Response Team for processing. Perhaps you should've taken your prozium more regularly, for giving offense is the capital sin of the New Age.
Lets talk about how a lot of insecure/jealous lamers want their betters to pay for their sloth-driven indigence. Their utterly massive insecurity complex perfectly explains their pathological need to celebrate this mental illness as 'diversity', often to the point where they act no differently than the neo-nazis they claim to fight.
Standards are not being lowered for diversity hires.
They are because 'equal opportunity' is being replaced by 'equal outcome.' When this kind of thinking becomes law, industries with unequal representation in race and sex now have to hire people based on these supposedly irrelevant attributes to hit the minimum quotas. To further the irony, the current trend is to make racial and sexual 'diversity' some form of automatic productivity boost when, again, the stated goal was to reenforce the idea that these 'diverse' attributes don't affect merit.
I still count as a diversity hire though and guess what, I always run into some asshole like you who thinks that I'm there just because I fill some Affirmative Action quota.
..and why do think people assume this? You're right. It's racism, just on the part of those who assumed you needed such preferential treatment in the first place. No one likes working with the boss' incompetent son who's there because of his bloodline and little else. Same thing here. No one wants to work with someone who was hired because of his race or sex. If you were hiring for a company, wouldn't you pick the interviewee you thought had the highest chance of having had to bust his ass to get where he is..or would you hire a less capable person who met some racist or sexist 'diversity' quota? This is no less bigoted than a company only hiring women or only men, or only whites, etc. You call it a cherry, but it is in fact the very kind of systemic bigotry 'social justice' claims to fight. If your race was merely 'secondary' to your hiring, then you were still given a buff for it. Would you tolerate it if a white was hired in this manner? Somehow, I doubt it.
For every white supremacist there are thousands of "black lives matter" and feminist sorts who routinely generalize, stereotype, and deconstruct in the same manner as the former. The only difference is in the targets. They've become (or always were) what they claim to fight. It's an ideological power grab, nothing more. They lack any moral high ground over the neo-nazi sorts.
No, it empowers witchhunts and dogpiling. It's the modern day lynch mob, using public shaming in place of sticks.
How about if you're wronged by someone criminally, you file a police report instead and let them do the work they're supposed to? Then, if there's sufficient evidence, they get a warrant and arrest the suspect. Finally, if he's convicted, fire him. If not, he should return to work unscathed.
I know, what a concept in today's age of idiocracy.
Actually, it is, at least that's what it's become today. The real lesson to learn from the social justice pantheon is that bigotry is perfectly ok as long as you target the right group at the right time. There's plenty of infighting among the different subgenres to prove this.
I strongly suspect you would not tolerate typical feminist behavior and attitudes if they were coming from men directed at women.
It's not about elitism. It's about talent and interest, which often go hand in hand. If anything, pro athetics are even more exclusive and discriminating than most tech fields. Just like no one wants players joining soccer teams who don't commit to practice, tech people don't want lamers filling their workplaces with cruft (and nowadays, destructive politics) and very little productive talent. There's nothing elitist about this because such people detract from the process.
These days, educational institutions supposedly still offering these 'well rounded' environments are too busy with political indoctrination to care much for disciplines that rely on facts, logic, and reason.
no.. laws let the state selectively come down hard on the hands of political enemies (or littlepeople) they find in the cookie jar. Their friends will be exempt.
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well when the choices are hillary and trump, what other outcome did you really expect?
Name an OS that isn't a festering pile of shit..
No, but the trend of locked down hardware DOES force your hand.
So being able to run whatever you want on your own hardware is lame?
Apparently, you can't make apostrophes with IOS either.
consoles...no framerate issues... riiight
1. classic 8/16 bit consoles had serious sprites/line issues causing flickering and slowdown. Every frame is still drawn, just not at 60hz, and/or sprites would fail to be drawn in time for every frame, causing them to flicker. controller input lag is also a problem.
2. the 32 bit era suffered from lots of low framerate 'full motion' video, and choppy 20-30fps 3D with all sorts of texture popping and distortion thanks to bad (or nonexistent) perspective correction. Even the fast games of that era (eg wipeout on psx, which were fun as hell) suffered from this. Very few titles ran at 60fps.
3. today's consoles still cannot hold 60fps in a number of popular titles, with many developers opting for a 30hz lock instead of toning down the graphics. Unlike the slowdown of the 16bit era, they just drop frames instead. Just like in the 80s/90s, they think graphics sell more titles than fluid gameplay. Too bad.
Most of the developers I've met are clueless about systems and security..and the systems people I've met know very little about software design. The ones who have at least some experience in both tend to be the brightest at learning more about either.
totalitarians equate speech with action because it can punch holes in their broken ideologies.
You're not really a man if you let insecure people decide for you what it means to be an asshole.
You used a swear three times and implied usage of condemned characters.. I have reported you to the slashdot Conduct Response Team for processing. Perhaps you should've taken your prozium more regularly, for giving offense is the capital sin of the New Age.
Lets talk about how a lot of insecure/jealous lamers want their betters to pay for their sloth-driven indigence. Their utterly massive insecurity complex perfectly explains their pathological need to celebrate this mental illness as 'diversity', often to the point where they act no differently than the neo-nazis they claim to fight.
Your post equally applies to the social justice crowd.
Standards are not being lowered for diversity hires.
They are because 'equal opportunity' is being replaced by 'equal outcome.' When this kind of thinking becomes law, industries with unequal representation in race and sex now have to hire people based on these supposedly irrelevant attributes to hit the minimum quotas. To further the irony, the current trend is to make racial and sexual 'diversity' some form of automatic productivity boost when, again, the stated goal was to reenforce the idea that these 'diverse' attributes don't affect merit.
I still count as a diversity hire though and guess what, I always run into some asshole like you who thinks that I'm there just because I fill some Affirmative Action quota.
..and why do think people assume this? You're right. It's racism, just on the part of those who assumed you needed such preferential treatment in the first place. No one likes working with the boss' incompetent son who's there because of his bloodline and little else. Same thing here. No one wants to work with someone who was hired because of his race or sex. If you were hiring for a company, wouldn't you pick the interviewee you thought had the highest chance of having had to bust his ass to get where he is..or would you hire a less capable person who met some racist or sexist 'diversity' quota? This is no less bigoted than a company only hiring women or only men, or only whites, etc. You call it a cherry, but it is in fact the very kind of systemic bigotry 'social justice' claims to fight. If your race was merely 'secondary' to your hiring, then you were still given a buff for it. Would you tolerate it if a white was hired in this manner? Somehow, I doubt it.
For every white supremacist there are thousands of "black lives matter" and feminist sorts who routinely generalize, stereotype, and deconstruct in the same manner as the former. The only difference is in the targets. They've become (or always were) what they claim to fight. It's an ideological power grab, nothing more. They lack any moral high ground over the neo-nazi sorts.
No, it empowers witchhunts and dogpiling. It's the modern day lynch mob, using public shaming in place of sticks.
That creates a vindictive and destructive environment for everyone. that is bad for productivity and therefore profits.
How about if you're wronged by someone criminally, you file a police report instead and let them do the work they're supposed to? Then, if there's sufficient evidence, they get a warrant and arrest the suspect. Finally, if he's convicted, fire him. If not, he should return to work unscathed.
I know, what a concept in today's age of idiocracy.
Actually, it is, at least that's what it's become today. The real lesson to learn from the social justice pantheon is that bigotry is perfectly ok as long as you target the right group at the right time. There's plenty of infighting among the different subgenres to prove this.
I strongly suspect you would not tolerate typical feminist behavior and attitudes if they were coming from men directed at women.
Yeah, unless of course you're hating on the right people, then suddenly the deplatform attempt becomes 'oppression.'
lol.. bubble sorts ARE remedial logic.
It's not about elitism. It's about talent and interest, which often go hand in hand. If anything, pro athetics are even more exclusive and discriminating than most tech fields. Just like no one wants players joining soccer teams who don't commit to practice, tech people don't want lamers filling their workplaces with cruft (and nowadays, destructive politics) and very little productive talent. There's nothing elitist about this because such people detract from the process.
These days, educational institutions supposedly still offering these 'well rounded' environments are too busy with political indoctrination to care much for disciplines that rely on facts, logic, and reason.
Asking me about the weather when it is not relevant (or worse, when he knows the information) isn't learning anything.
Good luck finding one that isn't in bed with TLAs and/or said ad companies.
no.. laws let the state selectively come down hard on the hands of political enemies (or littlepeople) they find in the cookie jar. Their friends will be exempt.
No. it's up to the speaker to justify why it's important to tell me redundant or irrelevant information.