non0score has already replied, but I can confirm as well (though I work with the Wii, not the PS3). I'm not that much of a graphics programmer but I'll give another example - memory usage. On the PC, nobody cares about memory. They have plenty of it, and they have it in one big easy-to-use heap. Not so on the Wii, here you have two different memory areas, which work completely different, so you have to decide how you use which. Or, you override the regular allocator and make guesses where the memory could be best placed. We're doing that for a big third-party library originally developed on the PC, and there really is a nearly 50% difference.
Xbox 360 runs big endian as well. The PowerPC processor can run in either big or little endian modes, but on all current consoles (XBox 360, PS3, Wii), they are configured in big endian mode.
And people seem to have a talent for making their computers slow in a way I cannot comprehend. My Athlonn 64 3700+ with 2GB RAM and a mediocre ATI X1600 has no problems running Vista fluidly, and no I didn't go in and disable half the services.
Seriously, people, what the FUCK do you do to your computers?
... try getting a job in the computer game industry. Seriously.
You'll be stressed alot, you'll do alot of overtime, but you cannot beat the job of a game programmer when it comes to (1) having fun (2) learning ALOT.
Been doing it for a year, and I don't regret it at all.
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Three Interwebs for the AT&T-kings under Bell Labs,
Seven for the GNU-lords in their halls of source,
Nine for Mortal n00bs doomed to pwnage,
One for the Borg on his dark throne
In the Land of Internet where the/b/tards lie.
One Web to connect() them all, One Web to gethostbyname() them,
One Web to bring them all and in the darkness bind() them
In the Land of Internet where the/b/tards lie.
You know, Microsoft has been doing this for a while now with it's Academic Alliance. It's how I got Visual Studio 2008 Professional without buying it.:) (Honestly, it would have been worth the money regardless)
One that happened to me was one of the IT staff at my high school was not really fond of me (because I was smarter than him, hehe). In 9th grade, we did have a linux box at school and on my student share I had TeraTerm (basically Putty except not as good) and some FTP Client, so I could interact with it from one of the Windows machines. Come 10th grade, we're in the computer lab during English (some kind of research assignment), I finish, and I have my student share folder window open in the background. The guy calls me and the teacher into the back room, then asks me for my share password. I tell him, and he looks at it, and tells my teacher that I had programs designed to bypass the school's security system. Wtf?:)
It's a tradeoff. Most people here in Germany understand English pretty well - in fact, good enough to play an English video game. So they're banning violent video games, and all it will do is increase piracy. Nice people in the states that have the violent video games will put them on bittorrent, the people here will download. It's a tradeoff - should we try to crack down on copyright infringement and stealing and piracy, or should we try to restrict an activity which has yet to be conclusively proven to actually cause violence? They can't just ban the internet, can they?
My mom never let me play anything violent until I was 16. Once I did, I found fun in them but I was partially horrified at what I saw. This was a good experience. I was old enough to be mature enough to realize that I can't do in real life what I can do in these games, yet I was young enough for my mind to wrap around the idea of "I don't want this to happen to me in real life, do I?". So I can play all the violent games. It doesn't fase me a bit, in fact I think its pretty damn fun. But anybody that knows me in person knows exactly that I won't hurt a fly. I let out my anger in the game, and am a calm person when it matters.
I'd like to see Microsoft release the NT kernel by itself. No, not the source code, but a binary of the kernel itself that you can license and build shit on top.:)
Several years ago, I started using Emacs because a friend was using it. I was just being introduced to Linux, and Emacs was the editor he showed me. I got quite good with it, except that I would often find myself with wrist pain, mostly because of things like saving and quitting. I then found myself on another friend's Linux box who didn't have Emacs, and I asked what to use for editing, and he said vi. So, when I got home, I loaded up vimtutorial and went through to learn it. This has had me hooked. For one, I don't get any wrist pain anymore even after hours of typing away. Also, I found its faster for me. For example, save and quit in vi is:wq which is four keys - esc, shift+:, w, q, which are done with alternate fingers! Thanks vi!
For those of you that can't read german, a quick summary of above article: The animal rights activist cited did not actually say that - in fact, she thinks thats perfectly alright. Also, the guy that supposedly invented it did not actually do so, and is suing Bild for libel (as stated on his company's website).
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non0score has already replied, but I can confirm as well (though I work with the Wii, not the PS3). I'm not that much of a graphics programmer but I'll give another example - memory usage. On the PC, nobody cares about memory. They have plenty of it, and they have it in one big easy-to-use heap. Not so on the Wii, here you have two different memory areas, which work completely different, so you have to decide how you use which. Or, you override the regular allocator and make guesses where the memory could be best placed. We're doing that for a big third-party library originally developed on the PC, and there really is a nearly 50% difference.
Xbox 360 runs big endian as well. The PowerPC processor can run in either big or little endian modes, but on all current consoles (XBox 360, PS3, Wii), they are configured in big endian mode.
And people seem to have a talent for making their computers slow in a way I cannot comprehend. My Athlonn 64 3700+ with 2GB RAM and a mediocre ATI X1600 has no problems running Vista fluidly, and no I didn't go in and disable half the services. Seriously, people, what the FUCK do you do to your computers?
... try getting a job in the computer game industry. Seriously. You'll be stressed alot, you'll do alot of overtime, but you cannot beat the job of a game programmer when it comes to (1) having fun (2) learning ALOT. Been doing it for a year, and I don't regret it at all.
Due to an interim decision by the Court of Lübeck on November 13 2008, initiated by Lutz Heilmann, MdB (Die Linke), is the Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. forbidden from "redirecting the Internet address wikipedia.de to de.wikipedia.org", as long as there are certain statements about Lutz Heilmann on de.wikipedia.org. Therefore, until further notice the offering of wikipedia.de must be discontinued. Wikipedia Deutschland e.V. has filed for an appeal.
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. is not the provider of the Wikipedia residing under de.wikipedia.org, and has no influence upon the content in the online encyclopedia. Rather, Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. is a non-profit association for the advancement of free knowledge, which merely advances the use of Wikipedia. The operator of Wikipedia is the therein identified Wikipedia Foundation, an incorporated foundation in Florida, USA, with its seat in San Francisco.
Bastard, ya beat me to it!
Three Interwebs for the AT&T-kings under Bell Labs, /b/tards lie. /b/tards lie.
Seven for the GNU-lords in their halls of source,
Nine for Mortal n00bs doomed to pwnage,
One for the Borg on his dark throne
In the Land of Internet where the
One Web to connect() them all, One Web to gethostbyname() them,
One Web to bring them all and in the darkness bind() them
In the Land of Internet where the
Even when ignoring Quality, the speed of Theora's decoder is really laughable.
You know, Microsoft has been doing this for a while now with it's Academic Alliance. It's how I got Visual Studio 2008 Professional without buying it. :) (Honestly, it would have been worth the money regardless)
Yeah, sounds familiar. ;)
:)
One that happened to me was one of the IT staff at my high school was not really fond of me (because I was smarter than him, hehe). In 9th grade, we did have a linux box at school and on my student share I had TeraTerm (basically Putty except not as good) and some FTP Client, so I could interact with it from one of the Windows machines. Come 10th grade, we're in the computer lab during English (some kind of research assignment), I finish, and I have my student share folder window open in the background. The guy calls me and the teacher into the back room, then asks me for my share password. I tell him, and he looks at it, and tells my teacher that I had programs designed to bypass the school's security system. Wtf?
Almost as hard as the dupe thats about to appear in ... 7 minutes
Or start it in safe mode. Unfortunately, that means you're stuck in first gear and can't go above 3000rpm.
Of course, others have said Microsoft put the browser into the OS in order to kill Netscape.
And, with the uprising of Firefox, thats exactly why they're keeping it that way too.
Hey, at least he's pretty much always on time with his comics, unlike a certain other webcomic artist....
Unleash Daemons? I'm sorry, but I've already got plenty of those running on my Linux box, and they're not killing me or anything ...
It's a tradeoff. Most people here in Germany understand English pretty well - in fact, good enough to play an English video game. So they're banning violent video games, and all it will do is increase piracy. Nice people in the states that have the violent video games will put them on bittorrent, the people here will download. It's a tradeoff - should we try to crack down on copyright infringement and stealing and piracy, or should we try to restrict an activity which has yet to be conclusively proven to actually cause violence? They can't just ban the internet, can they?
My mom never let me play anything violent until I was 16. Once I did, I found fun in them but I was partially horrified at what I saw. This was a good experience. I was old enough to be mature enough to realize that I can't do in real life what I can do in these games, yet I was young enough for my mind to wrap around the idea of "I don't want this to happen to me in real life, do I?". So I can play all the violent games. It doesn't fase me a bit, in fact I think its pretty damn fun. But anybody that knows me in person knows exactly that I won't hurt a fly. I let out my anger in the game, and am a calm person when it matters.
I'd like to see Microsoft release the NT kernel by itself. No, not the source code, but a binary of the kernel itself that you can license and build shit on top. :)
This is not funny, but true...
Several years ago, I started using Emacs because a friend was using it. I was just being introduced to Linux, and Emacs was the editor he showed me. I got quite good with it, except that I would often find myself with wrist pain, mostly because of things like saving and quitting. I then found myself on another friend's Linux box who didn't have Emacs, and I asked what to use for editing, and he said vi. So, when I got home, I loaded up vimtutorial and went through to learn it. This has had me hooked. For one, I don't get any wrist pain anymore even after hours of typing away. Also, I found its faster for me. For example, save and quit in vi is :wq which is four keys - esc, shift+:, w, q, which are done with alternate fingers! Thanks vi!
For those of you that didn't get the joke - ubersoft.net
Easy enough, about 3 or 4 japanese school girls should be able to send a sustained rate of 180 messages a second.
WTF, the story's been out 30 seconds and TripMasterMonkey hasn't posted yet?
Funnily enough, it's valid. Dontcha love C?
..and there's also the odd user that switches _away_ from Firefox. Been using Opera for 6 months, 100% happy.
I thought it was funny but most of the slashdot crowd wont since they dont know Forth :)
For those of you that can't read german, a quick summary of above article: The animal rights activist cited did not actually say that - in fact, she thinks thats perfectly alright. Also, the guy that supposedly invented it did not actually do so, and is suing Bild for libel (as stated on his company's website).