> It doesn't matter what the games companies think, it's what people are willing to buy that matters
I will bet you that most people (especially most console gamers) desperate to get their hands on the next release in their favorite series of "Total Death War XXIIIIIII" will still buy it even if it is only streaming. Sure many might moan but they'll still hand over their money especially if the graphics they are streaming have more complexity than their (local) console hardware could render. You know their on-line community will make up their own lame excuses on behalf of the company to forgive the inconvenience of streaming, and no doubt there will be the usual cleuless but vocal religious pro-streaming converts that will also emerge to further muddy the water,
On top of that you can bet all the gaming review websites will be paid-off to review streaming games as "excellent!!! MUST have!!!" and "Disks are now Dead!!!". At that point streaming is a no-brainer in most connedsumers minds.
>> All of those are audibly transparent, ie. indistinguishable from CD-quality audio (or "hi-res" snake oil).
Even if you believe that high-rate lossy compression sounds as good as CD, most true audiophiles laugh at CD. I know of at least 3 people that buy vinyl and swear its significantly better-sounding than CD.
>> I didnt need so may words to say it. 3 fucking words. "Know your architecture." The way such stuff generally works is not architecture specific.
>> Are you sure that they ever did? Computer Science isnt a programming course. Well they very much taught programming, good algorithm design etc and stuff like MMU internals, DMA etc when I did mine.
Just like already happened with streaming audio, the people that actually give a shit about stuff like audio/visual quality and lag will be in the definite minority, and they will be increasingly marginalized until there are so few of us left, they can just stop supporting us without any impact to their profits.
The sheeple consumers that will buy into streaming games are probably not the people that ever had a top-end PC so won't even know or care what they are missing, and will just appreciate the convenience of not needing a PC/console at all. Then the next generation will grow up just thinking that the low-res lossy graphics and lag are as good as it can ever get, and no doubt nVidia/AMD will come out with a whole new range of products just to improve the graphics and lag of streaming games, probably by defining/using a whole new protocol that will still run the game remotely (so games companies can avoid giving consumers any opportunity to pirate the games) but the graphics will be rendered locally. And here we go round the equivalent of the console loop again with more opportunity for the companies to sell new hardware.
I totally agree with you but I strongly suspect that most games companies see this as the future, and that the days of actually having your own copy of anything are numbered. We're already seeing the same thing happening with the popularity of streaming audio vs. locally stored music, despite all the obvious downsides.
Would it be reasonable to assume they actually don't have racks of PS4s and robots running around plugging in DVDs everytime someone requests a different game? I'm guessing they are running a (very good) PS4 emulator on server-grade (say Intel/nVidia/Linux) platforms. If so, it makes me wonder what it would take to get our hands on said emulator.
> The health issues of space travel are well documented.
So are those from being sent into a warzone while in the forces, yet for whatever reason the government cover the costs of any injury incurred while doing one, but not the other. It seems like an odd double-standard to me.
>> We're entering a point where the state will have to start prosecuting the media directly for the content of their speech
Since the media continually demonstrate their utter incompetence at professional reporting and self-regulation, I totally agree. However any legislation needs to be designed/applied VERY carefully. We need accurate reporting but we also need to eliminate any chance of the media becoming just another pro-government propaganda mouthpiece, otherwise then what we have is a totally conformist media that looks like N Korea's.
Religions get nearly all their followers from the most ignorant/impressionable. Both Christianity and Islam have both have spent centuries actively suppressing the threat of their followers getting informed/educated. We can see this in the existence of things like the secret Vatican library, and Sharia Law that denies women the right to attend school. I mean it was only since 1992 that the vatican formally accepted the earth goes around the sun. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10...
The church are now under significant threat from technology as things like the internet have enabled information, knowledge and scientific research to flow far more freely then they can control. The bottom line is that people are leaving the catholic church in droves as they realise there's less and less credibility and need to explain things with "magic", so the Vatican realises they need to do something if they want to hold onto their gold palaces paid for by donations they continue to con out of of the poor.
It seems like this Vatican representative is filling exactly the same sort of role that Microsoft do at Linux conferences. i.e. trying desperately to figure out any small way that they can still appear to be relevant and to maintain their parasitic chokehold on a society that is increasingly aware of the fact that they add no value and their product is both expensive and crap compared to far better alternatives out there for free.
Is anything mechanical actually made in the US anymore? I'd guess that 99% of engineering in the west just means software now. I'm sure if he had a CS degree he wouldn't have had any problem.
Yeah you're right I haven't had anything to do with the Microsoft/Windows culture for decades (by choice), so I guess I'm just not gonna be able to mentally put myself in their shoes.
Thanks for the info about VSCode though. I'll check it out.
>> An assembly language was either the 1st or 2nd language for most of the best coders in the world today
The real reasons for those/us guys being good are nothing to do with what you said. Its simply because most of us that started that way are old enough that we have also picked up lots of other experience along the way, such as already having learnt a lot of what newbie engineers think is the hot new idea, because a functionally identical idea actually came round decades ago but just called something else.
Also, as an assembly programmer, you actually know a LOT more about how computers work at the lowest level such as register types, MMUs and DMA etc. I don't think they teach that stuff even in CS degrees any more. Most junior programmers have been brainwashed to program as if computer resources are effectively infinite, and to also drag in whole libraries of crap just to do some simple task. Haven't you ever wondered why even though computer power/size has scaled in factors in the last 30 years, many OS's and apps are still laggier than their functional equivalents of 20+ years ago?
>> Those guys that know assembler are infinity-trick pony's.
Not really true at all because as you pointed out yourself, the downside of assembler vs even compiled C is that you are very much locked to a single specific hardware/CPU architecture and even model.
>> Education is overrated..... Intelligence and a willingness to work hard are all you need.
So NOT true. Sorry, but with engineering you actually do need to know what your're doing. You can hire smart monkeys and enthusiastic monkeys, but at the end of the day they're still monkeys.
>> The problem is usually that the person doing the hiring is stupid themselves and hires the worst candidates based on traditional metrics like...
"Education is overrated..... Intelligence and a willingness to work hard are all you need"
>> but none of the available options comes even close to Visual Studio
Of course they do. What you're really saying is that you personally don't want to spend the time/effort to learn something new.
At least in my opinion both Eclipse and Netbeans are better than Visual Studio, especially since it still wont run natively on linux, To develop linux code with Visual Studio, you need a windows PC (running Visuaul studio) linked to a Linux PC that does the compiling/running/debugging remotely. You'd have to be a moron to think that was in any way as convenient as just developing directly on the actual target OS.
Send them on a Computer Science degree course. Its clueless to think that programming to a professional level is something you can learn in a few hours.... or maybe you're one of those people that would be happy if your surgeon turns out to actually be a plumber that just felt like having a go at surgery after watching a youtube video.
>> Visual Studio was always a MAJOR advantage of Windows.... In your opinion.... In mine, there are already just as good if not better equivalents under Linux for free.
>> No. The IDE still runs under Windows. This extension uses SSH to run the compiler on a remote Linux system.
OK well that just makes my point even more, especially given the compiler isn't even Microsoft's its g++. I feel like I'm totally missing something here. Or maybe there's nothing to miss?
Every time I plug my (android) phone into the USB on my PC now, it says its drawing too much current from the USB socket and gives me the option to either retry or cancel (which disables the USB socket). It didn't ever do this before said update.
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> It doesn't matter what the games companies think, it's what people are willing to buy that matters
I will bet you that most people (especially most console gamers) desperate to get their hands on the next release in their favorite series of "Total Death War XXIIIIIII" will still buy it even if it is only streaming. Sure many might moan but they'll still hand over their money especially if the graphics they are streaming have more complexity than their (local) console hardware could render. You know their on-line community will make up their own lame excuses on behalf of the company to forgive the inconvenience of streaming, and no doubt there will be the usual cleuless but vocal religious pro-streaming converts that will also emerge to further muddy the water,
On top of that you can bet all the gaming review websites will be paid-off to review streaming games as "excellent!!! MUST have!!!" and "Disks are now Dead!!!".
At that point streaming is a no-brainer in most connedsumers minds.
>> All of those are audibly transparent, ie. indistinguishable from CD-quality audio (or "hi-res" snake oil).
Even if you believe that high-rate lossy compression sounds as good as CD, most true audiophiles laugh at CD. I know of at least 3 people that buy vinyl and swear its significantly better-sounding than CD.
true, but as someone with a Vive and a high-spec PC to run it, I'm already aware that I'm vulnerable because I'm in the absolute minority of gamers.
>> I didnt need so may words to say it. 3 fucking words. "Know your architecture."
The way such stuff generally works is not architecture specific.
>> Are you sure that they ever did? Computer Science isnt a programming course.
Well they very much taught programming, good algorithm design etc and stuff like MMU internals, DMA etc when I did mine.
Just like already happened with streaming audio, the people that actually give a shit about stuff like audio/visual quality and lag will be in the definite minority, and they will be increasingly marginalized until there are so few of us left, they can just stop supporting us without any impact to their profits.
The sheeple consumers that will buy into streaming games are probably not the people that ever had a top-end PC so won't even know or care what they are missing, and will just appreciate the convenience of not needing a PC/console at all.
Then the next generation will grow up just thinking that the low-res lossy graphics and lag are as good as it can ever get, and no doubt nVidia/AMD will come out with a whole new range of products just to improve the graphics and lag of streaming games, probably by defining/using a whole new protocol that will still run the game remotely (so games companies can avoid giving consumers any opportunity to pirate the games) but the graphics will be rendered locally. And here we go round the equivalent of the console loop again with more opportunity for the companies to sell new hardware.
I totally agree with you but I strongly suspect that most games companies see this as the future, and that the days of actually having your own copy of anything are numbered.
We're already seeing the same thing happening with the popularity of streaming audio vs. locally stored music, despite all the obvious downsides.
Would it be reasonable to assume they actually don't have racks of PS4s and robots running around plugging in DVDs everytime someone requests a different game? I'm guessing they are running a (very good) PS4 emulator on server-grade (say Intel/nVidia/Linux) platforms.
If so, it makes me wonder what it would take to get our hands on said emulator.
> The health issues of space travel are well documented.
So are those from being sent into a warzone while in the forces, yet for whatever reason the government cover the costs of any injury incurred while doing one, but not the other.
It seems like an odd double-standard to me.
> However, he still travels to Houston, Texas once per year to allow the agency to gather data about his health,
If it was me, I'd stop doing that and offer to resume on the condition that NASA also pay for the necessary health care.
>> We're entering a point where the state will have to start prosecuting the media directly for the content of their speech
Since the media continually demonstrate their utter incompetence at professional reporting and self-regulation, I totally agree. However any legislation needs to be designed/applied VERY carefully.
We need accurate reporting but we also need to eliminate any chance of the media becoming just another pro-government propaganda mouthpiece, otherwise then what we have is a totally conformist media that looks like N Korea's.
Religions get nearly all their followers from the most ignorant/impressionable. Both Christianity and Islam have both have spent centuries actively suppressing the threat of their followers getting informed/educated. We can see this in the existence of things like the secret Vatican library, and Sharia Law that denies women the right to attend school. I mean it was only since 1992 that the vatican formally accepted the earth goes around the sun.
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10...
The church are now under significant threat from technology as things like the internet have enabled information, knowledge and scientific research to flow far more freely then they can control. The bottom line is that people are leaving the catholic church in droves as they realise there's less and less credibility and need to explain things with "magic", so the Vatican realises they need to do something if they want to hold onto their gold palaces paid for by donations they continue to con out of of the poor.
>>https://cruxnow.com/church/2015/05/12/pew-survey-percentage-of-us-catholics-drops-and-catholicism-is-losing-members-faster-than-any-denomination/
It seems like this Vatican representative is filling exactly the same sort of role that Microsoft do at Linux conferences. i.e. trying desperately to figure out any small way that they can still appear to be relevant and to maintain their parasitic chokehold on a society that is increasingly aware of the fact that they add no value and their product is both expensive and crap compared to far better alternatives out there for free.
I meant "In the US or Canada"
Is anything mechanical actually made in the US anymore? I'd guess that 99% of engineering in the west just means software now. I'm sure if he had a CS degree he wouldn't have had any problem.
Yeah you're right I haven't had anything to do with the Microsoft/Windows culture for decades (by choice), so I guess I'm just not gonna be able to mentally put myself in their shoes.
Thanks for the info about VSCode though. I'll check it out.
>> An assembly language was either the 1st or 2nd
language for most of the best coders in the world today
The real reasons for those/us guys being good are nothing to do with what you said. Its simply because most of us that started that way are old enough that we have also picked up lots of other experience along the way, such as already having learnt a lot of what newbie engineers think is the hot new idea, because a functionally identical idea actually came round decades ago but just called something else.
Also, as an assembly programmer, you actually know a LOT more about how computers work at the lowest level such as register types, MMUs and DMA etc. I don't think they teach that stuff even in CS degrees any more. Most junior programmers have been brainwashed to program as if computer resources are effectively infinite, and to also drag in whole libraries of crap just to do some simple task. Haven't you ever wondered why even though computer power/size has scaled in factors in the last 30 years, many OS's and apps are still laggier than their functional equivalents of 20+ years ago?
>> Those guys that know assembler are infinity-trick pony's.
Not really true at all because as you pointed out yourself, the downside of assembler vs even compiled C is that you are very much locked to a single specific hardware/CPU architecture and even model.
>> Education is overrated..... Intelligence and a willingness to work hard are all you need.
So NOT true. Sorry, but with engineering you actually do need to know what your're doing. You can hire smart monkeys and enthusiastic monkeys, but at the end of the day they're still monkeys.
>> The problem is usually that the person doing the hiring is stupid themselves and hires the worst candidates based on traditional metrics like...
"Education is overrated..... Intelligence and a willingness to work hard are all you need"
...and cause your Sr Developer to wanna bang his head on the desk all day..and ultimately quit.
>> but none of the available options comes even close to Visual Studio
Of course they do. What you're really saying is that you personally don't want to spend the time/effort to learn something new.
At least in my opinion both Eclipse and Netbeans are better than Visual Studio, especially since it still wont run natively on linux, To develop linux code with Visual Studio, you need a windows PC (running Visuaul studio) linked to a Linux PC that does the compiling/running/debugging remotely. You'd have to be a moron to think that was in any way as convenient as just developing directly on the actual target OS.
Send them on a Computer Science degree course. ... or maybe you're one of those people that would be happy if your surgeon turns out to actually be a plumber that just felt like having a go at surgery after watching a youtube video.
Its clueless to think that programming to a professional level is something you can learn in a few hours.
>> Visual Studio was always a MAJOR advantage of Windows. ... In your opinion....
In mine, there are already just as good if not better equivalents under Linux for free.
We can only hope.
>> It's still just development on a Windows desktop, not development on a Linux desktop.
But whats the point then? I mean Linux already has several better IDEs than Visual Studio.
>> No. The IDE still runs under Windows. This extension uses SSH to run the compiler on a remote Linux system.
OK well that just makes my point even more, especially given the compiler isn't even Microsoft's its g++. I feel like I'm totally missing something here. Or maybe there's nothing to miss?
So basically they're just porting the IDE.
Remind me again why I'd spend money on this instead of just freely using eclipse or netbeans or something?
Every time I plug my (android) phone into the USB on my PC now, it says its drawing too much current from the USB socket and gives me the option to either retry or cancel (which disables the USB socket).
It didn't ever do this before said update.