Yeah... cuz... like data was totally android-ish by the end of TNG, and Picard still hated kids, and Wesley was still annoying and Tasha was still around and... hmm...
Believe it or not, some people are willing to change. I have a meeting later this week with the CTO to discuss the removal of the standard "We own all thoughts in your head" clause that seems to be all the rage nowadays.
I do like gaming, its just most titles nowadays tend to market themselves to the population at large and attempt to get all of the revenue they can. I mean, publishers before did this too - but they had a much smaller niche market to target. Yeah, I know it sounds like I am whining - and I am - but I find the reasons behind it valid.
One of my favourites is the bug in Bomberman. If you planted a bomb on your square, and held down the button without moving, it would turn your character into a continuously exploding square. Of course, the minute you let go of the button you would die... but it was still fun to walk around as a blazing inferno.
I dont know... generally I think of games having a negative effect for death as being pretty standard. Admittedly, experiencing death over and over again gets very annoying... but its a Mario game - that really shouldn't happen to you unless you start siezuring during a boss fight or something.
In theory, the new XBOX is designed to take games in a slightly different direction - via programmatically generated art. If you read some of their design articles and such, you see that the reason they went with a triple core processor (besides the shinyness) is so that a parallel thread can run alongside the main game, and programmatically generate scenery and such. So, instead of having roughly a 2:1 ratio of artists to programmers, this would (in theory) allow the programmers to take some base art model and mutate it based on a given algorithm, and thereby cut down the number of artists required to make a game.
Try some of the indie games that were posted here from GameTunnel's Best of 2006. Games made by gamers, and it shows. Oasis and Democracy are awesome - I have purchased both.
I concur. Not necessarily in the classification, but at least the spirit of the statement. When I was waiting in line for Halo 2, the people there... they weren't geeks, or nerds, or anything else I was used to seeing. Gaming has become too popular, and has become dilluted because of that.
From what I recall, Microsoft doesn't really have that big a foothold in the handheld browser area. So unlike in the PC world, where MS is the defacto standard, they cant just muscle in and make everyone use their browser. I would liken it more to their recent attempts at getting into the console business via the XBOX. They actually have competition, and can't just win by making the thing cheap.
I own one. It rests in one of three places. My desk at home, my shirt pocket, and my desk at work. It is scratched. Trust me when I say that the complaint is not without merit. Cotton scratches these things.
Possibly because you still have to test it and setup an image for hard disk. Once you get your image set up to work with model X, it doesn't really matter what OS you put on there - its still the same cost to set it up.
Indeed. What I find most enjoyable about a job is if the people there actually enjoy there jobs, and are genuinely fun people. I have had more than enough of managers putting on the phoney fun act.
C/C++ is all static type checking.
Java is also static type checking (mostly).
Ruby/Perl/etc are dyanamically typed. This == slow(er).
In addition, Java/Ruby/Perl like to sandbox your program in (with good reason) so you cant go and fly off the end of the stack (or any other low level data structure) and explode into a million pieces. This also makes it slower.
Optimization can only do so much when you dont know what it is you are going to be getting.
Yeah, but if you have ever noticed just how many flags visual studio puts on there to make the code generate properly, you will know that the command line compiler isn't really an option for larger projects.
Eclipse comes with no restrictions, and is the better IDE IMO. If you use source control on large projects, Visual Studio gets way too chunky. It takes 15 minutes to open one of the apps I maintain.
Yes, its still good, but its kind of like when you see a kid stomping around in your nice flower garden. Sure, when he is done, you still have the other flowers in the garden, but you kind of like it better the old way, eh?
We try, at least some of us. The problem is the people need to get woken up first. Most people don't care about such things - or much beyond the walls of their own home (and the taxes thereon) really.
The patriot act is far worse, and very few seem to care about that. I'm just glad I came from the only state to vote against its inception in the Senate.
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Yeah ... cuz ... like data was totally android-ish by the end of TNG, and Picard still hated kids, and Wesley was still annoying and Tasha was still around and ... hmm ...
Believe it or not, some people are willing to change. I have a meeting later this week with the CTO to discuss the removal of the standard "We own all thoughts in your head" clause that seems to be all the rage nowadays.
I'm in college and I still find plenty of people like that.
Dont forget Oregon trail. That thing rocked.
I do like gaming, its just most titles nowadays tend to market themselves to the population at large and attempt to get all of the revenue they can. I mean, publishers before did this too - but they had a much smaller niche market to target. Yeah, I know it sounds like I am whining - and I am - but I find the reasons behind it valid.
One of my favourites is the bug in Bomberman. If you planted a bomb on your square, and held down the button without moving, it would turn your character into a continuously exploding square. Of course, the minute you let go of the button you would die ... but it was still fun to walk around as a blazing inferno.
I dont know ... generally I think of games having a negative effect for death as being pretty standard. Admittedly, experiencing death over and over again gets very annoying ... but its a Mario game - that really shouldn't happen to you unless you start siezuring during a boss fight or something.
In theory, the new XBOX is designed to take games in a slightly different direction - via programmatically generated art. If you read some of their design articles and such, you see that the reason they went with a triple core processor (besides the shinyness) is so that a parallel thread can run alongside the main game, and programmatically generate scenery and such. So, instead of having roughly a 2:1 ratio of artists to programmers, this would (in theory) allow the programmers to take some base art model and mutate it based on a given algorithm, and thereby cut down the number of artists required to make a game.
Not that I really think its going to take off...
Try some of the indie games that were posted here from GameTunnel's Best of 2006. Games made by gamers, and it shows. Oasis and Democracy are awesome - I have purchased both.
I concur. Not necessarily in the classification, but at least the spirit of the statement. When I was waiting in line for Halo 2, the people there ... they weren't geeks, or nerds, or anything else I was used to seeing. Gaming has become too popular, and has become dilluted because of that.
From what I recall, Microsoft doesn't really have that big a foothold in the handheld browser area. So unlike in the PC world, where MS is the defacto standard, they cant just muscle in and make everyone use their browser. I would liken it more to their recent attempts at getting into the console business via the XBOX. They actually have competition, and can't just win by making the thing cheap.
I own one. It rests in one of three places. My desk at home, my shirt pocket, and my desk at work. It is scratched. Trust me when I say that the complaint is not without merit. Cotton scratches these things.
Possibly because you still have to test it and setup an image for hard disk. Once you get your image set up to work with model X, it doesn't really matter what OS you put on there - its still the same cost to set it up.
Indeed. What I find most enjoyable about a job is if the people there actually enjoy there jobs, and are genuinely fun people. I have had more than enough of managers putting on the phoney fun act.
True, although thats only on startup. Once its parsed the whole program its all binary anyway.
Dyanamic type checking.
C/C++ is all static type checking.
Java is also static type checking (mostly).
Ruby/Perl/etc are dyanamically typed. This == slow(er).
In addition, Java/Ruby/Perl like to sandbox your program in (with good reason) so you cant go and fly off the end of the stack (or any other low level data structure) and explode into a million pieces. This also makes it slower.
Optimization can only do so much when you dont know what it is you are going to be getting.
Ack ... he meant java. Eh well.
Define 'most popular'. I currently know no ruby developers, only those who play with it on the side.
I would choose Perl. It would be OO and run, but they wouldn't understand how :)
Yeah, but if you have ever noticed just how many flags visual studio puts on there to make the code generate properly, you will know that the command line compiler isn't really an option for larger projects.
Perl's OO is also different. I like it, but I seem to be in the minority.
Temporarily free.
Eclipse comes with no restrictions, and is the better IDE IMO. If you use source control on large projects, Visual Studio gets way too chunky. It takes 15 minutes to open one of the apps I maintain.
Yeah ... cuz using Wine means you dont have to pay for office ...
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Yes, its still good, but its kind of like when you see a kid stomping around in your nice flower garden. Sure, when he is done, you still have the other flowers in the garden, but you kind of like it better the old way, eh?
We try, at least some of us. The problem is the people need to get woken up first. Most people don't care about such things - or much beyond the walls of their own home (and the taxes thereon) really.
The patriot act is far worse, and very few seem to care about that. I'm just glad I came from the only state to vote against its inception in the Senate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_act
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