Yeah, I totally agree. The games business is really a trade. I'm a qualified Software Engineer but I know that means nothing in the games business. The amount of exposure you get to games creation as a whoole in college for me is minimal.
I work for a games company, and I have been exposed to the madness of build fever etc.
Its organised chaos. The article is excellent and its actually very nice for me to read as I would have to concider myself as a pawn on the chessboard of the games creation business.
The best thing is it's honest. Games creation for modern MMG's is a miraculous thing. Notice the graphs that this guy - an expert - has put together. Along way from UML aren't they??. And in their heart, the really top-level engineers / designers will all admit that they could not put a logical coherant uml spec for an mmg at the initial stage, that will end up looking anything like the final one. What was best, was he pointed out the problems with the business. In particular, I liked this quote:
We would much rather have that manpower spent to make the system compile programs quickly, or generate efficient code,
Bingo, I think the future of mmg's depends on this. People increasingly will want more variation in gameplay. Concepts like an Architecture Generation Engine (AGE) would benefit greatly from this. An AGE makes a multiplayer map/scenario different every time you play it, so you have to adapt all the time. The ability to randomly generate and compile the new map very quickly, is very important. This for me is the neatest thing in gaming going on right now. Great article!
The survival of Java is important not because it's an alternative to C++. You could not compare them in the beginning and this is even more so now. Java is best compared with M$.NET at the moment if you read up on the issues at all. It's domain more an enterprise framework now - not just a program language, so you should really all have been moderated as offtopic.
Why open source it?
Because, inevitably (almost certainly) if Sun don't do this M$ will coax every enterprise and small business into using.NET. So you'll all end up giving more cash to MS because of the stupid java vs. c++ fantasy. No, this is much more about J2EE vs..NET - thats where the cash is.
So, if Sun makes Java open source this trend can be bucked because no matter ho cheap M$ go with.NET - they cannot compete with free software that is fully controlable - open source, and a lower over all total cost of ownership. Essentially, we could see a new dominant force in the web domain - Linux and J2EE dominating over M$ and.NET
And also, I'm tired of hearing that you think Java is inefficent. Java uses far more native code nowadays, so actually when it comes down to it, thats c code being executed in the end when your app runs. It's very good c code too. For example, the the CDC (Connected Device Config) used in mobile devices uses the CVM I believe, a very fast and efficient VM programmed in C.
My grandmother in the last 5 years has had an average speed of 0.000004mph. This is because she moves only every now and then.
The Spirit rover does 0.00000000001mph on average since it landed on Mars because most of the time it does nothing.
They need to give the remote controls to some punk kids that dont know its importance.
If they did that they would have found beagle, discovered that Mars is just a shitty desert, overloaded Nasa's database of names for every shitty litte rock they find, and eventually drove off a cliff giving us spectacular images of Mars!
I once had the misfortune of working in tech support,
One of my workmates told me how he hada customer on the line that thought a box shipped as "internet ready" did not need modem/fiber/wifi connections. It was just magically internet ready.
Still though, it makes sense that M$ would put that on the box - dumba$$$
but I just don't find manned missions very inspiring if it's to Mars - it's basically just one big desert. The ESA missions are largely uninspired also.
The only really interesting missions for me were Nasa's Galileo at Jupiter and the forthcomming ESA mission to Titan - Cassini Heugens (if it doesn't crash as a result of it's shoestring budget)
Also, Nasa long distance unmanned mission to Europa is very interesting to me..
I think the developed countries of the world could set an exxample by comming uop with a good common health/social system - one that everyone could benefit from.
If the E.U., Japan and the U.S (biggesst blocks) all came up with something positive that wouldn't be flung out (like Kyoto) that would be great. Of course it will mean large costs, but it would be worth it, and it might heal some of the differences over Iraq.
I agree 100% As far as I'm concerned Firefox is the new Opera and Opera, well, it used to be the best but now- its slipping towards the Netscape abyss!
Firefox, preferred the old name but it's the quality that counts. It's a fab breowser.
Port scanning can get you in once you find an open port. With this, even ehen you find an open port you cannot use it unless you have the magic "knock"! So in effect all ports would be closed, you give the magic knock - it's accepted, the port is open to you..!
This kind of thing should have been introduced along time ago and should already be highly advanced but alas..
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Yeah, I'd use my ghost to conduct an experiment on womens response to:
"Wanna f***"
If the ghost is not slapped, then cool
If slapped, then,...so what..knowledge would've
been gainef, eh?
Nice
We would much rather have that manpower spent to make the system compile programs quickly, or generate efficient code,
Bingo, I think the future of mmg's depends on this. People increasingly will want more variation in gameplay. Concepts like an Architecture Generation Engine (AGE) would benefit greatly from this. An AGE makes a multiplayer map/scenario different every time you play it, so you have to adapt all the time. The ability to randomly generate and compile the new map very quickly, is very important. This for me is the neatest thing in gaming going on right now. Great article!
Do any of you know the real issues:
.NET at the moment if you read up on the issues at all. It's domain more an enterprise framework now - not just a program language, so you should really all have been moderated as offtopic.
.NET. So you'll all end up giving more cash to MS because of the stupid java vs. c++ fantasy. .NET - thats where the cash is.
.NET - they cannot compete with free software that is fully controlable - open source, and a lower over all total cost of ownership. Essentially, we could see a new dominant force in the web domain - Linux and J2EE dominating over M$ and .NET
The survival of Java is important not because it's an alternative to C++. You could not compare them in the beginning and this is even more so now.
Java is best compared with M$
Why open source it?
Because, inevitably (almost certainly) if Sun don't do this M$ will coax every enterprise and small business into using
No, this is much more about J2EE vs.
So, if Sun makes Java open source this trend can be bucked because no matter ho cheap M$ go with
And also, I'm tired of hearing that you think Java is inefficent. Java uses far more native code nowadays, so actually when it comes down to it, thats c code being executed in the end when your app runs. It's very good c code too. For example, the the CDC (Connected Device Config) used in mobile devices uses the CVM I believe, a very fast and efficient VM programmed in C.
In summary, you should read the article..
Well said,
If the lame Outlook ws really a friend of the likes of Sendmail, this could have been implemented years ago,
the technology has been there
..we will be able to see if monkeys can be trained
to sort small screws in space..
You know what it's really about:
..years later PS2, GC, XBox, and of course
This really all started with the Atari.
Go Atari.
The brainwave to develop a home version of an arcade game and voila..
far better PC games.
Who really needs to blow money in an arcade these
days unless ur a ******* idiot.
Besides, have people forgotten, arcade machines - especially the old horizontal tables, are collectors items now - ornaments!
The day of the arcade is temporarily gone
It will re-emerge with holographic arcade games.
That technology is moving along, together with antigravity, and u got a sweet arcade game...
I think not
Im sure all the township dwellers are excited about this. They of course know about it.
My grandmother in the last 5 years has had an average speed of 0.000004mph. This is because she moves only every now and then.
The Spirit rover does 0.00000000001mph on average since it landed on Mars because most of the time
it does nothing.
They need to give the remote controls to some punk kids that dont know its importance.
If they did that they would have found beagle,
discovered that Mars is just a shitty desert, overloaded Nasa's database of names for every shitty litte rock they find, and eventually drove
off a cliff giving us spectacular images of Mars!
2000 is for me the only decent windows OS in many ways. ..And it is also partly crappy!! ;)
Yeah,
Accept, if it was open source in the first place,
bugs like this would have been found before Win2K was even released!!!
Yes, Essex people would be smart enuf to have found it already... ..NOT
Yes, as seen with their globe icon complete with blood coloured sea!!
Yes, feed the little trolls and gobblins!
preciousssss
Ban Jones Russell - or whatever ur name is!
Yes - I see their twisted logic.
..yes, it's me that's foul - I see! ;)
Again another article I refuse to read!
And if I told W. Russell Jones how to kill me and he did..
Good reply. ;)
But you must not confuse ones willingness to sieve through text with one's ability to do so, my apprentice
Yeah,
I wonder how much the NY times pays people to blog over them...
No..,
It will lead to future mineral deposits!
Yeahh, I was about to read it all and then...
;)
it was too long!
But animals do not have culture - no,
actually not all humans are advanced enough to claim it in my opinion but thats another matter!
I once had the misfortune of working in tech support,
One of my workmates told me how he hada customer on the line that thought a box shipped as "internet ready" did not need modem/fiber/wifi connections. It was just magically internet ready.
Still though, it makes sense that M$ would put that on the box - dumba$$$
I'm sorry,
but I just don't find manned missions very inspiring if it's to Mars - it's basically just one big desert.
The ESA missions are largely uninspired also.
The only really interesting missions for me were Nasa's Galileo at Jupiter and the forthcomming ESA mission to Titan - Cassini Heugens (if it doesn't crash as a result of it's shoestring budget)
Also, Nasa long distance unmanned mission to Europa is very interesting to me..
I think the developed countries of the world could set an exxample by comming uop with a good common health/social system - one that everyone could benefit from.
If the E.U., Japan and the U.S (biggesst blocks) all came up with something positive that wouldn't be flung out (like Kyoto) that would be great. Of course it will mean large costs, but it would be worth it, and it might heal some of the differences over Iraq.
This would be tough for the U.S, but doable!
Tell that to someone who is flat broke in your country.
You never know, they might hunt you down with an AK, columbine style..
Thankyou for your insightdulness, George W. ; )
Is it a bird?
Is it a plane?
No its a fox!
I agree 100%
As far as I'm concerned Firefox is the new Opera
and Opera, well, it used to be the best but now- its slipping towards the Netscape abyss!
Firefox, preferred the old name but it's the quality that counts.
It's a fab breowser.
I'm not sure that's the intention
Port scanning can get you in once you find an open port.
With this, even ehen you find an open port you cannot use it unless you have the magic "knock"!
So in effect all ports would be closed, you give the magic knock - it's accepted, the port is open to you..!
This kind of thing should have been introduced along time ago and should already be highly advanced but alas..