I personally dislike OS or software which forces you to do thing in a different way than you used to, although it is a matter of being lazy for myself.
One problem with this kind of series is that it was so successful that an average sequel will not cut it.
Whatever comes out better be excellent or it will trashed by the gaming community. They cannot afford to have the kind of game which would be labelled as 'quite good' if it was made by an indie developer.
Another issue is caused by the time that went past after the second instalment: times change and what was ok as a FPS may be not appeal to the new gamers or may be considered as archaic when comparing to the new games. Now people expect better AI, destructible environments, the focus of FPS is shifting more towards multiplayer including coop mode. Since changing the game concepts is likely to attract the ire of the hardcore fans, the more you wait the more you are stuck between a rock and a hard place: it becomes increasingly difficult to please fans of the previous game and newer players since the first category wants probably the same game with minor improvements and the latter just want an AAA game which could best titles such as BF or CoD.
Befor you correct me: this can happen in any language but for some reason it seems that C++ was the first language of many sub par programmers and I see bad and costly to maintain C++ code at work than in any other language.
I just do not want to join this flamefest. If I knew you, I would not mind discussing it but just read the comments here: I do not want to be flamed.
The short version of my opinion is that C++ has a lot of libraries and I see many people who do not understand how the STL is implemented or even read any kind of documentation. Because in some places you can get by, if you are not curious by nature you might end up writing poor code. Also, in some places, for some reason people use C++ even though they shouldn't: this is very common in the Finance industry for example and many of these programmers cannot be bothered learn more than the basics of syntax and learn using he code base which was itself written by some people who were new to C++. This ends up creating teams of people who write bad code. For some reason, newcomers to C++ are prone to over engineering and complex classes hierarchy with multiple inheritance.
I have been working on some horrible code base with massive god objects with horrible state mechanism and objects containing a mix of raw and safe pointers on anything that is related without any kind of logic written by random people who probably learned C++ while writing their code 7 to 10 years ago... Etc
I also believe that some languages filter a bit more subpar programmers as they are not as mainstream.
However, I enjoy reading opinions of people who have much more experience than myself and discuss them with some colleagues and friends.
That seems an awful system. You mean that even if you are innocent you will end up losing the interest on the bail ? That probably lead to all kind of bullying from the police and law officers.
I did form my own opinion, this rant from Linus is fairly old and I discussed it many times with colleagues and friends. When I discuss it with friends, opinions varies alot about STL, some are pro-STL and some others are anti-STL. Some mention boost and how C++11 improves or not things,... etc.
I agree with you that the article has many valid points, I just want to see a reply to this article.
Tax issues aren't minor. As an American citizen you will have I pay taxes to the U.S. government even if you never work or live in the US if he tax rate is superior to the tax of the country you are living in depending of the country you live in and the amount of income you earn.
I do not think that there are many developed countries who require you to pay tax on income earned in a foreign country when you are as well living in a foreign country.
No you misunderstand actually other people, if you have a locally convex utility function it can make sense to play lottery. For some people it will be the only chance to have a shot at having a few millions, so if having this money has exponentially more utility, it makes sense.
End of rant about people thinking logically instead of showing common sense.
I am 34 but I would not be able to explain even roughly every bit of hardware. I know bits of system programming and could find my way inside a BSD or Linux kernel to write drivers and also know some higher level languages but I have to admit that there are many bits I have only a very rough idea about and could not explain to anybody.
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I personally dislike OS or software which forces you to do thing in a different way than you used to, although it is a matter of being lazy for myself.
One problem with this kind of series is that it was so successful that an average sequel will not cut it.
Whatever comes out better be excellent or it will trashed by the gaming community. They cannot afford to have the kind of game which would be labelled as 'quite good' if it was made by an indie developer.
Another issue is caused by the time that went past after the second instalment: times change and what was ok as a FPS may be not appeal to the new gamers or may be considered as archaic when comparing to the new games. Now people expect better AI, destructible environments, the focus of FPS is shifting more towards multiplayer including coop mode. Since changing the game concepts is likely to attract the ire of the hardcore fans, the more you wait the more you are stuck between a rock and a hard place: it becomes increasingly difficult to please fans of the previous game and newer players since the first category wants probably the same game with minor improvements and the latter just want an AAA game which could best titles such as BF or CoD.
Quick I have to check if coat hangers usage as audio cables has been already patented.
The Cochrane foundation has a good collection of meta studies which seems to not contradict that acupuncture isn't more effective than placebo.
If you are not trolling here is one of them
I do not know if you can be accused of stealing if you came independently with a similar sound but not exactly the same. Any examples ?
Befor you correct me: this can happen in any language but for some reason it seems that C++ was the first language of many sub par programmers and I see bad and costly to maintain C++ code at work than in any other language.
I just do not want to join this flamefest. If I knew you, I would not mind discussing it but just read the comments here: I do not want to be flamed.
The short version of my opinion is that C++ has a lot of libraries and I see many people who do not understand how the STL is implemented or even read any kind of documentation. Because in some places you can get by, if you are not curious by nature you might end up writing poor code. Also, in some places, for some reason people use C++ even though they shouldn't: this is very common in the Finance industry for example and many of these programmers cannot be bothered learn more than the basics of syntax and learn using he code base which was itself written by some people who were new to C++. This ends up creating teams of people who write bad code. For some reason, newcomers to C++ are prone to over engineering and complex classes hierarchy with multiple inheritance.
I have been working on some horrible code base with massive god objects with horrible state mechanism and objects containing a mix of raw and safe pointers on anything that is related without any kind of logic written by random people who probably learned C++ while writing their code 7 to 10 years ago ... Etc
I also believe that some languages filter a bit more subpar programmers as they are not as mainstream.
However, I enjoy reading opinions of people who have much more experience than myself and discuss them with some colleagues and friends.
I think that if it is not written, it does not exist and so should you.
That seems an awful system. You mean that even if you are innocent you will end up losing the interest on the bail ? That probably lead to all kind of bullying from the police and law officers.
I did form my own opinion, this rant from Linus is fairly old and I discussed it many times with colleagues and friends. When I discuss it with friends, opinions varies alot about STL, some are pro-STL and some others are anti-STL. Some mention boost and how C++11 improves or not things, ... etc.
I agree with you that the article has many valid points, I just want to see a reply to this article.
Although I use C++ myself, I would like to see someone reply to the debunk link you posted.
Only when there has been a thorough exchange going both ways, we can affirmed that each of his point has been debunked properly
But mot of people will not be the C style cast and other casts such as dynamic_cast are a bit safer.
This is why I was wondering why they didn't steal the idea of making a flat connector double sided from Apple.
In the Muslim banlieues in Paris, you're no more likely to face violence than anywhere else.
If you don't know, don't make up stories, ok ?
Thanks, I did not know what to buy to have finally some success.
It was an interesting read but this was between the 70s and 80s, I wonder if the trend continued. Thank you for the reference.
Do you have any links or information to back your facts ?
Eat your humble pie, ignorant idiot, don't come back unless it is to correct your post
http://www.edfenergy.com/energ...
I think you misunderstand liberalism, pollution has a cost to other people, ignoring them is not libertarian.
Tax issues aren't minor. As an American citizen you will have I pay taxes to the U.S. government even if you never work or live in the US if he tax rate is superior to the tax of the country you are living in depending of the country you live in and the amount of income you earn.
I do not think that there are many developed countries who require you to pay tax on income earned in a foreign country when you are as well living in a foreign country.
More like you will see again and again ... And again until the end of SlashdotTimes
No you misunderstand actually other people, if you have a locally convex utility function it can make sense to play lottery. For some people it will be the only chance to have a shot at having a few millions, so if having this money has exponentially more utility, it makes sense.
End of rant about people thinking logically instead of showing common sense.
You forgot to add "A song from JIT Berlake"
I am 34 but I would not be able to explain even roughly every bit of hardware. I know bits of system programming and could find my way inside a BSD or Linux kernel to write drivers and also know some higher level languages but I have to admit that there are many bits I have only a very rough idea about and could not explain to anybody.
You are indeed very knowledgeable, may I ask you how old you are ? I don't think I will have ever amassed as much knowledge as you on computing.