Indeed. Low level knowledge was true mastery of the hardware. Pure arcane "magic" and bliss.
Back then there was a cool disk util 2M that extended the format of a 1.44 MB floppy from 18 sectors/track up to a non-standard 21 sectors/track for ~1804KB! (It still used 80 tracks.) Even Microsoft embraced it with DMF Distribution Media Format for a total of 1,720,320 bytes!
On the Apple ][ there were 18-sectors/track copy-protection games & programs written by the young and brilliant Roland Gustafsson that Broderbund used. It had the advantage of speeding up loading too in addition to stopping people from copying it!
Prince of Persia used it and took a while for pirates to figure out how to get their "kracked" 3-disk version back down to the original 2-disk version!
> "Digital Native" means you're obsessed with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Opentable, selfies, etc.
Nice summary!
FTFY, Digital Native, noun: A person who cares more about consuming content and other stupid vanity shit then actually learning how to _write_ apps in the first place.
> yet it's hard for me to get a job because I'm old, don't use FB, don't twit, don't insta, don't have a phone full of selfies, etc.
That's sad that companies value people who are more focused on _looking_ good, then actually _creating_ good.:-(
Get off your high horse. I've been on/. for 15 years, and Reddit for 7 years. I've been helping people there for years. While reddit tends to be (more) immature, you don't know what the hell you are talking about WRT to/r/gamedev.
Instead of complaining about the community what are _you_ doing to improve it?
The problem is AT&T would rather bill the person then actually look into an anomaly. The average person spends what, max $100 / month on long distance? And $15K _didn't_ set off any alarms that _maybe_ something was wrong?!?! Nope, they just billed the person with the attitude "Not our problem"
It's called "Having respect for your customers",
not
"Let's fuck them over any chance we get -- not our problem until it is our problem"
Mike Acton is a respected programmer in the video game industry, and he's right. In fact, if you were paying attention I listed his famous Typicall C++ Bullshit as reference in my Ogre 2.0 proposal.
OgreNode.cpp was written 13 years ago when OO programming was all the rave (still is?) everyone had a single core, caches didn't matter and most efficient way to cull the world was to use an Octree or a BSP. The world believed that "if( dirty )" was a magical, no-cost expression that is immediately a performance improvement wherever used to avoid the execution of more than 3 instructions.
13 years later, Moore's law kicked us in the butt and everyone is multicore. You probably know that story already.
Mike Acton reviewed the 1.9 version. Perhaps it would've been more interesting to see a review of the 2.0 file which has been refactored to better fit Data Oriented Design principles (and I'm sure there are things I wrote to criticize). Many of the things he criticizes of 1.9 have been fixed. Nevertheless there are things we can learn. Note that if he weren't right, then it would be hard to explain why there was a 5x performance increase between 1.9 and 2.0.
There are still 2 reasons to "roll your own" game engine:
- To learn. i.e. See this uber diagram of all the components of a modern game engine!
and
- The popular engines still do a terrible job of dynamic terrain management, instancing, meshing, etc. Rolling your own such as Proc World, say using dual contouring, etc., means it is easier to fit into your rendering pipeline instead of trying to figure out someone else's architecture.
The holographic universe theory has been around for at least25+ years
When you have famous astronomers and people such as
* "The stuff of the universe is mind-stuff" - Astronomer Arthur Eddington
* "... our brains mathematically construct hard reality by interpreting frequencies from a dimension transcending time and space. The brain is a hologram, interpreting a holographic universe." - Cyberneticist David Foster
* "Today there is a wide measure of agreement... that the stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine" - Astronomer James Jeans
saying the universe appears to function like a holographic mind then I find ANY sort of calculations that can give credence to this theory is definitely interesting.
Sounds like a fantastic trip! You need to blog about this!
Ignore that other Arrogant Cunt that has no respect for seeing or learning about other people's culture. He's a twat probably still living in mommy's basement. Some people are so myopic and insecure that they feel the need to shit on other people's experiences.
> Life is about experiences. At least it is for me.
Absolutely!
Charles R. Swindoll wrote:
"The longer I love, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company...a church....a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes."
A McKinsey survey of the worldâ(TM)s best schoolsâ"in Finland, South Korea, Singaporeâ"found that they consistently draw 100% of their teachers from the top third of graduates; in the U.S., almost half come from the bottom third. That may explain why our kidsâ(TM) performance falls below that of students in Estonia and why one-third of those who make it to college in the U.S. need remedial education.
Once people get into a teaching position, getting a bad teacher out is almost impossible.
> they were concerned that too many students would be forced into home schooling.
With the piss poor job schools have been doing lately, that might not be a bad thing for parents to bond and spend more time with their chilldren's investment success for their future.
Nah, it's easier to pass the job off to someone else who doesn't give a crap about your child's future and is only doing it for the money.
* Insert Blu Ray * Ads / Trailers come up * Can't skip the ads so I press *mute* on my AVR * Can't skip the ads so I go to the bathroom until they are done * 5 minutes later, finally at the main menu. Unmute, and I can do what I originally set out to do. Watch the freaking movie.
There is NO legal obligation that I _must_ watch the ads.
What, are you going to ban closing your eyes next???/Oblg. DVD pirate experience
> try getting the government to actually move against the giant cable companies. They donate large sums of money to political officials and, in return, have laws written which favor them
You the hit the nail right on the head. This is the fundamental problem with politics. Politics will stay corrupt until the people demand:
Slashdot Mirror
That's common knowledge.
Bit Twiddling Hacks
C version, 67 lines of code ...
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Su...
Only cowards censor.
If you feel facts are judgements then ... good luck with Real Life TM
Indeed. Low level knowledge was true mastery of the hardware. Pure arcane "magic" and bliss.
Back then there was a cool disk util 2M that extended the format of a 1.44 MB floppy from 18 sectors/track up to a non-standard 21 sectors/track for ~1804KB! (It still used 80 tracks.) Even Microsoft embraced it with DMF Distribution Media Format for a total of 1,720,320 bytes!
On the Apple ][ there were 18-sectors/track copy-protection games & programs written by the young and brilliant Roland Gustafsson that Broderbund used. It had the advantage of speeding up loading too in addition to stopping people from copying it!
Prince of Persia used it and took a while for pirates to figure out how to get their "kracked" 3-disk version back down to the original 2-disk version!
> "Digital Native" means you're obsessed with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Opentable, selfies, etc.
Nice summary!
FTFY, Digital Native, noun: A person who cares more about consuming content and other stupid vanity shit then actually learning how to _write_ apps in the first place.
> yet it's hard for me to get a job because I'm old, don't use FB, don't twit, don't insta, don't have a phone full of selfies, etc.
That's sad that companies value people who are more focused on _looking_ good, then actually _creating_ good. :-(
You mis-spelt Pleiadians and forgot to mention First Contact in ~2024.
Get off your high horse. I've been on /. for 15 years, and Reddit for 7 years. I've been helping people there for years. While reddit tends to be (more) immature, you don't know what the hell you are talking about WRT to /r/gamedev.
Instead of complaining about the community what are _you_ doing to improve it?
The problem is AT&T would rather bill the person then actually look into an anomaly. The average person spends what, max $100 / month on long distance? And $15K _didn't_ set off any alarms that _maybe_ something was wrong?!?! Nope, they just billed the person with the attitude "Not our problem"
It's called "Having respect for your customers",
not
"Let's fuck them over any chance we get -- not our problem until it is our problem"
I concur. Visually it is mildly interesting but it ignores the elephant in the room:
* Modern game design spends more time focusing on form then function
Grind-Grind-Grind! /glares at Warframe, Path of Exile, Diablo, etc.
When your refer to your customers as whales attempting to suck as much money out of them as possible, the industry of shovelware is fucked
While there is some truth to that, you haven't been keeping up to date with Orgre's design and architecture changes:
Orgre 2.0 Pitfalls and Design Proposal
* http://www.mediafire.com/downl...
They ditched OOP and incorporated DOD (Data-Orientated-Design) for a 5x performance increase!
* http://www.yosoygames.com.ar/w...
Mike Acton's DOD comments
* http://bounceapp.com/116414
... over on Reddit. It keeps getting rehashed:
* Game Engine Design
* UE4 is now completely free
* wishlist game engine from scratch
* differences between Unity and Unreal
* UE4 vs Unity Faceoff
* More AAA games using unity?
* AAA are all free
There are still 2 reasons to "roll your own" game engine:
- To learn. i.e. See this uber diagram of all the components of a modern game engine!
and
- The popular engines still do a terrible job of dynamic terrain management, instancing, meshing, etc. Rolling your own such as Proc World, say using dual contouring, etc., means it is easier to fit into your rendering pipeline instead of trying to figure out someone else's architecture.
Yup, Vim FTW! I particularly like this VIM Cheat Sheet
MS forgot the first rule of programs:
"Those who forget the past are condemned to re-implement it, badly."
Which MMO was this?
That's a good point about USB. The FAT32 4GB file size limit is probably the technical reason why the files are spilt into 3 archives.
That's good question. Looks like they were too lazy to optimize it for the ~4.5 GB DVD / layer ...
The "typical" excuse would be to help with downloads but seriously who is using a downloader that can't resume in this day and age?
Since the total is 5.2GB I wonder if they could re-compress the files down to 4.5 GB to fit on one DVD with say something like LZMA
At the risk of being down-modded: ... it is the people that allow them to get away with this stupid shit in the first place.
Indeed.
Nothing of value was "lost."
> I for one don't want to give Physics research a blank check to investigate some unobservable math fantasy.
You mean like String Theory, and Dark Energy ?
The holographic universe theory has been around for at least 25+ years
When you have famous astronomers and people such as
* "The stuff of the universe is mind-stuff" - Astronomer Arthur Eddington
* "... our brains mathematically construct hard reality by interpreting frequencies from a dimension transcending time and space. The brain is a hologram, interpreting a holographic universe." - Cyberneticist David Foster
* "Today there is a wide measure of agreement... that the stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine" - Astronomer James Jeans
saying the universe appears to function like a holographic mind then I find ANY sort of calculations that can give credence to this theory is definitely interesting.
... that more people care about the unreality show crap such as Kartrashians then the spiritually minded Oprah ...
NSFW reference
Sounds like a fantastic trip! You need to blog about this!
Ignore that other Arrogant Cunt that has no respect for seeing or learning about other people's culture. He's a twat probably still living in mommy's basement. Some people are so myopic and insecure that they feel the need to shit on other people's experiences.
> Life is about experiences. At least it is for me.
Absolutely!
Charles R. Swindoll wrote:
You've _completely_ missed the point about money:
* War on Teacher Tenure
While the number of bad teachers has dropped you still have 50%people in the system that come from the bottom of academic performance.
Once people get into a teaching position, getting a bad teacher out is almost impossible.
> they were concerned that too many students would be forced into home schooling.
With the piss poor job schools have been doing lately, that might not be a bad thing for parents to bond and spend more time with their chilldren's investment success for their future.
Nah, it's easier to pass the job off to someone else who doesn't give a crap about your child's future and is only doing it for the money.
How about some common sense?
* Insert Blu Ray
* Ads / Trailers come up
* Can't skip the ads so I press *mute* on my AVR
* Can't skip the ads so I go to the bathroom until they are done
* 5 minutes later, finally at the main menu. Unmute, and I can do what I originally set out to do. Watch the freaking movie.
There is NO legal obligation that I _must_ watch the ads.
What, are you going to ban closing your eyes next??? /Oblg. DVD pirate experience
* http://farm5.static.flickr.com...
> try getting the government to actually move against the giant cable companies. They donate large sums of money to political officials and, in return, have laws written which favor them
You the hit the nail right on the head. This is the fundamental problem with politics. Politics will stay corrupt until the people demand:
* Remove money from politics