There was a time when Sid Meier was known for coming up with new games in a serial fashion. I mean you had Shogun, Pirates!, Civilization, Silent Service, F-15 Strike Eagle, Railroad Tycoon, etc. But that time is long gone. His name is put into endless recycles of Civilization and old Microprose game while the actual development teams of the sequels range from good, to crap. His last really new game was SimGolf which most people did not even bother playing at all.
Then again he did so many good game concepts while he was at Microprose that he can probably work on sequels of those until he dies.
I thought Civ5 was a lot better than either Civ3 or Civ4. At least it tried to be different in terms of the rules and for the most part it actually worked. Beyond Earth seemed like a rushed job and was poorly put together. The 'random' tech tree was pointless and sterile. Ascendancy did that a lot better.
I think his last really good strategy game was Alpha Centauri and it was Brian Reynolds who did most of the work.
Beyond Earth is one of the worst he did. Trash. I thought it was even worse than the much maligned Pandora: First Contact that came out shorty before BE.
Firaxis has done some good games though. Like XCOM. But once again its another rehash of an old game. Can't they think of anything new?
Whole teams had been working on it for 3-4 decades with no real advances. The materials he used to make his LEDs work had been considered decades back but no one could get them to work and all research on it had basically stopped. He got it to work because he did all the research by himself and produced the materials himself as well so he could see the complete picture. The research teams in the US were so specialized they couldn't solve it.
This guy basically invented the first high power dark green LED, the blue LED, and his team invented the violet LED partly under his watch as well. After he left both his team and himself continued working on white LEDs.
Do you think he would have got the Nobel Prize if it was just a small step over the state of the art? The work he did enabled a lot of applications which simply could not have been done before from LED lighting, to Bluray, etc.
Also from what I heard he worked for himself for a long time and only after he produced some results did he get a team to work on it. From what I understand he only expected a promotion and a better salary out of it. But the thing is they increased his responsibilities a lot made him head of a research team and while his company earned billions his career did not advance in any meaningful way neither in terms of salary nor rank. So he got tired and left.
You don't get it. He worked for a company which did fluorescent light coatings. He decided to do advanced LED research on his own, against his superiors advice, who told him he could only do it in his own time and not using any company working time. They did allow him to use company equipment to conduct his research but he had to do it on his own time.
So yes he used company equipment but he did it outside regular working hours.
AMD got the $6 billion to buy ATI by spending the cash reserves they had to build their next generation fab. The result is that after they bought ATI they had to sell their manufacturing operations sliding even further into irrelevance as their costs are much higher than Intel.
I think their publication was in poor taste and they offended all Abrahamic religions. Still it does not justify them killing anyone. The way to reply against speech is with speech not violence.
They don't believe in the Holy Trinity either. Then again neither do Jews. Plus for Jews Christ is not even considered as a real prophet just some charlatan.
Well to us on the outside there is plenty of absurdity. I mean the talk that the Garden of Eden was in North America and that, I forget what was the place, was God's Promised Land to the Mormons in NA. Or believing that a guy with prior convictions for fraud found some scriptures written by God himself inside a cave. Not that there isn't a lot of absurdity in the Bible either but still...
I'm Catholic BTW. The Catholic Church also says a lot of absurdities as well like claiming that St. Peter is the founder of the Church when the *real* founder was the Emperor Constantine for one.
You're wrong if you think they cannot get jobs because of some ethnic connotation. Much like the blacks in America a lot of them do not have an education and do not want an education. For whatever reason none of these problems happen with Asians even though they aren't Europeans either. Guess why.
This is more complicated than you think. A lot of them either are French citizens natural from Algeria, or some other former French colony in Africa, or even 2nd generation immigrants who were born in France from Muslim parents. Some probably are having a hard time finding work and then they join these fundamentalist mosques and get convinced to go fight in Syria for ISIS. Then they come back and do terrorist acts in France or whatever.
The French feel they have a kind of debt to these people since they left their colony in Algeria. A lot of them originally worked for the French government and couldn't stay back at home when it became independent. Of course that doesn't give them a right to kill people off but that's the background on this.
To the guy who downmodded me. Sorry for insulting your envirowacko perspective but not surprisingly Japan's GDP goes down after they have large earthquakes and when they need to spend more money importing fuel like coal.
Don't believe me? Look at the GDP/capita chart for Japan fall down a cliff in 1995 and 2011.
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Sorry I meant Sword of the Samurai. Shogun was by someone else.
There was a time when Sid Meier was known for coming up with new games in a serial fashion. I mean you had Shogun, Pirates!, Civilization, Silent Service, F-15 Strike Eagle, Railroad Tycoon, etc. But that time is long gone. His name is put into endless recycles of Civilization and old Microprose game while the actual development teams of the sequels range from good, to crap. His last really new game was SimGolf which most people did not even bother playing at all.
Then again he did so many good game concepts while he was at Microprose that he can probably work on sequels of those until he dies.
I thought Civ5 was a lot better than either Civ3 or Civ4. At least it tried to be different in terms of the rules and for the most part it actually worked. Beyond Earth seemed like a rushed job and was poorly put together. The 'random' tech tree was pointless and sterile. Ascendancy did that a lot better.
I think his last really good strategy game was Alpha Centauri and it was Brian Reynolds who did most of the work.
Beyond Earth is one of the worst he did. Trash. I thought it was even worse than the much maligned Pandora: First Contact that came out shorty before BE.
Firaxis has done some good games though. Like XCOM. But once again its another rehash of an old game. Can't they think of anything new?
In other words it is like Star Control or Homeworld.
Whole teams had been working on it for 3-4 decades with no real advances. The materials he used to make his LEDs work had been considered decades back but no one could get them to work and all research on it had basically stopped. He got it to work because he did all the research by himself and produced the materials himself as well so he could see the complete picture. The research teams in the US were so specialized they couldn't solve it.
This guy basically invented the first high power dark green LED, the blue LED, and his team invented the violet LED partly under his watch as well. After he left both his team and himself continued working on white LEDs.
Do you think he would have got the Nobel Prize if it was just a small step over the state of the art? The work he did enabled a lot of applications which simply could not have been done before from LED lighting, to Bluray, etc.
Also from what I heard he worked for himself for a long time and only after he produced some results did he get a team to work on it. From what I understand he only expected a promotion and a better salary out of it. But the thing is they increased his responsibilities a lot made him head of a research team and while his company earned billions his career did not advance in any meaningful way neither in terms of salary nor rank. So he got tired and left.
You don't get it. He worked for a company which did fluorescent light coatings. He decided to do advanced LED research on his own, against his superiors advice, who told him he could only do it in his own time and not using any company working time. They did allow him to use company equipment to conduct his research but he had to do it on his own time.
So yes he used company equipment but he did it outside regular working hours.
They have oil and tourism is still around.
Nah those will be the "mighty midget" planets.
Yeah the XBOX One which also uses AMD chips. As will the next Nintendo console if the rumours are true..
NVIDIA's latest Windows drivers have been shit. I stopped counting the amount of graphics driver restarts I've had.
AMD generally relies more on open standards because they simply don't have the resources to reinvent the wheel all the time like the incumbents do.
AMD got the $6 billion to buy ATI by spending the cash reserves they had to build their next generation fab. The result is that after they bought ATI they had to sell their manufacturing operations sliding even further into irrelevance as their costs are much higher than Intel.
I think their publication was in poor taste and they offended all Abrahamic religions. Still it does not justify them killing anyone. The way to reply against speech is with speech not violence.
Jews are not supposed to eat shellfish either.
They don't believe in the Holy Trinity either. Then again neither do Jews. Plus for Jews Christ is not even considered as a real prophet just some charlatan.
i.e. like Moses or whatever.
No IIRC for them Jesus is 'just' another prophet.
Well to us on the outside there is plenty of absurdity. I mean the talk that the Garden of Eden was in North America and that, I forget what was the place, was God's Promised Land to the Mormons in NA. Or believing that a guy with prior convictions for fraud found some scriptures written by God himself inside a cave. Not that there isn't a lot of absurdity in the Bible either but still...
I'm Catholic BTW. The Catholic Church also says a lot of absurdities as well like claiming that St. Peter is the founder of the Church when the *real* founder was the Emperor Constantine for one.
You're wrong if you think they cannot get jobs because of some ethnic connotation. Much like the blacks in America a lot of them do not have an education and do not want an education. For whatever reason none of these problems happen with Asians even though they aren't Europeans either. Guess why.
This is more complicated than you think. A lot of them either are French citizens natural from Algeria, or some other former French colony in Africa, or even 2nd generation immigrants who were born in France from Muslim parents. Some probably are having a hard time finding work and then they join these fundamentalist mosques and get convinced to go fight in Syria for ISIS. Then they come back and do terrorist acts in France or whatever.
The French feel they have a kind of debt to these people since they left their colony in Algeria. A lot of them originally worked for the French government and couldn't stay back at home when it became independent. Of course that doesn't give them a right to kill people off but that's the background on this.
Islamic terrorists in Belgium? Surely it cannot be:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...
I guess you also missed the part where they fired back at the Belgian police using automatic weapons.
'"make menuconfig" is a lot better. No need to run that X bloatware to configure your kernel.
To the guy who downmodded me. Sorry for insulting your envirowacko perspective but not surprisingly Japan's GDP goes down after they have large earthquakes and when they need to spend more money importing fuel like coal.
Don't believe me? Look at the GDP/capita chart for Japan fall down a cliff in 1995 and 2011.