Facebook started this crap of only allowing up votes. Parts of Reddit are now following the "Herp. Derp. Upvote only" mentality not thinking about what this really means.
Down-votes are important so that when something has incorrectly been up voted, the community can self police and auto-correct itself.
The exact same thing of over engineering is happening in the C++ community.:-(
At the risk of being down-voted, Scott Meyers, a C++ guru, has an absolutely beautiful talk on _why_ C++ has become a complete clusterfuck of complexity, and bad ad hoc design at a D conference of all things!
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 "Typical 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.
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Absolutely agree! How Rock Band jumped the shark...
1. In Rock Band 1 you could slow the practice speed down to 50% speed. In Rock Band 3 some idiot designer raised this to 70%!? WTF? I'm trying to _learn_ the song. Allow me to slow this down to _25%_ for some of those songs.
2. Give me an option to show me the notes in _actual_ music notation so I can **learn to read music**. I _want_ to see the notes in Treble Cleff and/or Bass Clef.
3. For the love of god use a _standard_ USB connection.
Stop locking me into your shitty proprietary vendor lock-in peripherals. If I buy a guitar, drums, or keyboard it should work across ALL games and ALL platforms: Xbox360, Xbone, PS3, PS4.
4. Stop the bullshit "No Export" option. WTF can't I export it from Rock Band 2 and import it into Rock Band 3 if I own *both* ??
> Nintendo still made money. They made back all the R&D and some.
Yup. I shipped 2 Wii games. The Wii was _literally_ a Gamecube twice as fast. They didn't even fix _any_ of the GPU bugs!
Going forward I don't know understand what Nintendo is going to do, but bumping old hardware and focusing on making fun games seemed to worked extremely well for them in the past.
I, the GP, never said nor suggested "they keep pouring money into a failing TV business."
Learn to read. (It might help with your spelling at the very least.)
If Sony was smart they would *exit* the TV business after *failing* for 10. Straight. Years.
Sony is perfectly capable of fucking up the company all by themselves. Let's see, Mobile had a loss of -1578, more then 3.5 times what the Financial Services makes.
/sarcasm, Oh I'm sorry, I forgot Sony already has an economic genius right there! How else could they continue to constantly lose money on the PlayStation! *snicker*
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Brilliant analysis.
Facebook started this crap of only allowing up votes. Parts of Reddit are now following the "Herp. Derp. Upvote only" mentality not thinking about what this really means.
Down-votes are important so that when something has incorrectly been up voted, the community can self police and auto-correct itself.
As another /. poster said:
"How did we end up in the situation where the sham of Political Correctness became more important then Technical Correctness??
One of the reasons /. has been around so long is that it provides a _context_ for WHY something was up/down voted.
The exact same thing of over engineering is happening in the C++ community. :-(
At the risk of being down-voted, Scott Meyers, a C++ guru, has an absolutely beautiful talk on _why_ C++ has become a complete clusterfuck of complexity, and bad ad hoc design at a D conference of all things!
DConf 2014: The Last Thing D Needs (Scott Meyers)
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?....
Yeah that was a complete step backwards.
It is almost as if they DON'T want the Mac Mini to succeed !
Back in the day Apple was about bringing computers to the masses, and simplifying them to make them accessible.
Selling a $10K watch just proves Apple only cares about profits now.
Apple has become the ultimate iHipster.
> you can write blazing fast code in C++ and still provide a sensible code architecture.
Not if it is OOP based.
Pitfalls of Object Ooriented Programming
Mirror:
*http://www.slideshare.net/roycelu/pitfalls-of-objectorientedprogramminggcap09
* http://www.google.com/url?q=ht...">
Us console game devs use DOD (Data Orientated Design) for highest performance.
* http://www.yosoygames.com.ar/w...
* http://www.bounceapp.com/11641...
Indeed. Stupid ways to spend $5K ...
* Laser Blue Eye Surgery
* Watches
Hey India: "Sticking your head in the sand ignoring the issue doesn't make it go away!"
Deal with it.
Firefox jumped the shark after version 4.
Denials of memory leaks, removing the menu bar because they wanted to copy Chrome, no built-in support for Flash and/or PDFs, etc.
He's just being cheeky.
i.e. Windows 8 vs Windows 1
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Yeah, pretty much.
i.e.
Chuck Wild Liquid Mind amazing relaxing series.
Another interesting musician is Karunesh
/Oblg. "Its a trap!"
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That reminds me of Jimmy Carr's most Offensive jokes:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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> Good business people don't re-invent the wheel, they improve upon it.
That's why Notch wrote his own engine for Minecraft and sold Mojang for $2.5 billion.
Oh wait ... maybe success is not only a factor of the engine, but _gameplay_.
The _excellent_ Vanishing of Ethan Carter uses the older Unreal Engine 3.
I can't wait to see what other indies are going to do with it !
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4 Chords
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Absolutely agree! How Rock Band jumped the shark ...
1. In Rock Band 1 you could slow the practice speed down to 50% speed. In Rock Band 3 some idiot designer raised this to 70%!? WTF? I'm trying to _learn_ the song. Allow me to slow this down to _25%_ for some of those songs.
2. Give me an option to show me the notes in _actual_ music notation so I can **learn to read music**. I _want_ to see the notes in Treble Cleff and/or Bass Clef.
Color-coding the music was brilliant. Teachers even used it to _actually_ teach students!
3. For the love of god use a _standard_ USB connection.
Stop locking me into your shitty proprietary vendor lock-in peripherals. If I buy a guitar, drums, or keyboard it should work across ALL games and ALL platforms: Xbox360, Xbone, PS3, PS4.
4. Stop the bullshit "No Export" option. WTF can't I export it from Rock Band 2 and import it into Rock Band 3 if I own *both* ??
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
5. Provide the band's famous song(s) not their shitty unknown songs of bands we love.
Why can't we buy Journey's "Any Way You Want It"?? We're stuck with the crappy: "Don't Stop Believing"
And now we can't even buy that??
* http://www.rockbandaide.com/20...
Greed ruined the music games.
> Nintendo still made money. They made back all the R&D and some.
Yup. I shipped 2 Wii games. The Wii was _literally_ a Gamecube twice as fast. They didn't even fix _any_ of the GPU bugs!
Going forward I don't know understand what Nintendo is going to do, but bumping old hardware and focusing on making fun games seemed to worked extremely well for them in the past.
I wouldn't be so quick to write Nintendo off just yet.
If we look at the 1998 .. 2010 year data from this console profit table
While everyone else was losing money HARD (especially Microsoft), Nintendo was laughing all the way to the bank.
$24,072,504,822
Nintendo doesn't have to worry about the short term for quite a while.
Who was claiming that?
I, the GP, never said nor suggested "they keep pouring money into a failing TV business."
Learn to read. (It might help with your spelling at the very least.)
If Sony was smart they would *exit* the TV business after *failing* for 10. Straight. Years.
Sony is perfectly capable of fucking up the company all by themselves. Let's see, Mobile had a loss of -1578, more then 3.5 times what the Financial Services makes.
From 2006 until 2009 the PlayStation division lost 4.6 Billion
In 2012 they lost 2.8 Billion
In 2014 they lost 78 million
Maybe they should take lessons from Nintendo on how to be profitable.
But keep drinking the Sony Kool-Aid there buddy.
/Oblg.
Reality. Worst. Game. Ever
What claims?
Thanks for the info. about the TV plants and Samsung LCD screens.
Any idea how much profit (or loss) their OLED division is making? And which division it is under?
Read you even *look* at the graph??
437 Financial Services (i.e. Insurance) ...
271 Image Sensors
200 PlayStation <-- ooh, look in third place
-1 Clueless poster who can't:
a) read -- https://infogr.am/sony_profits...
b) spell -- Cluseless (sic.)