if majority ruled all the time then we have "tyranny of the majority"
if we went with that than blacks will would still be segregated in the south. How would u like to be told that you're a second class citizen and you have to sit in the back of the bus? Or go to a different school?
We need to do what is right, not what 51% of the people think is right.
that when microsoft was found guilty, the nation was shocked. "they're a monopoly?" the average joe cried as his blinked his drunk eyes that were bloodshot from watching too much "greed" and "wwf"
bender(sleeping) - "ZZZZZZZ...kill the humans.. kill all the humans..." fry - Bender wake up! bender- "oh.. wha?? I was having the best dream! I think u were in it!"
(goes back to sleep) bender - "Hey, you're pretty cute. Want to kill all the humans with me?"
Being from a town where the drunk driving rate is through the roof, and more people get killed on my main road than any other in the state, what good is a speed limiter? It won't keep that drunk truck driver from rear ending you when you're at a red light.
All of the people who have been in accidents here at work is all from idiots that rear end them. Speed limiter?? bah!! i can't break 65 on that road! you can't go long enough until u hit a red light! what's with the brits trying to outlaw everything? guns , then swords, now cars, what next? we got our constitution from your example! We just didn't like being a colony.
You guys made some good points. I'd like to also add that the Colombine Killers were both on ridalin. Yes, overmedication scares me for 2 reasons:
1) We'd rather overmedicate our kids than raise them propery (its easier to drug than to sit down and talk to)
2) Do we REALLY understand the brain all that well? The body is highy complicated, especially the brain. By the way, ridaline destroys your liver. Irrevocably.
Oh god, I have stuff due tommorrow and this is TOO tempting to i'll keep this short:
Let's assume jerry's right about what he said.
HOWEVER
Microsoft is a HUGE company with a hand in EVERYTHING. Yes, there are plenty of clean and legal success stories for them. Reguardless of what happened in the past:
They dumped opengl support becuase they couldnt control opengl. They made d3d
they killed java with their new updates so now u need to make two webpages.
That alone is enough. Sorry, but if JESUS kills someone, he goes to jail. Doesnt matter how much good he did before.
being from pennsylvania, i didn't know that we weren't considered a state technically(i've heard the term all the time but just never paid attention to it), but we are for all purposes of the constituion. Our government just runs differently than the other states, as all states have different regulations. For one, we get to elect out judges, da's, coroners, whereas other states do not.
As far as the techincal term, i am also interested in what technically makes us a commonwealth.
dude, it's a lot easier when you wrote the engine rather than build from it. q2 was made and optimized for q2, it's hard to make the quake engine into a non quake game becuase of it. Value modified 90% of the code to do it.
Be happy they at least tried the port. Not too many publishers or devlopers are interested in mac games becuase they don't beleive they will profit from them. Sometimes they don't even beak even for pc games.
D3d is crap. Plain and simple. This is fact not opinion. Here's why:
First let me tell you who I am. I'm a game developer at dreamforge. One of our guys did the gl support for unreal. I've used both api's. here's the facts:
D3d is not getting better, its getting more convoluted. It is becoming more difficult to code in due to the fact that you have to initialize more objects to due the same thing u did with the last release.
Opengl can do everything that d3d can and in some cases did it first. We have extensions for all that good stuff, it's just a matter of video card support.
have u seen the new d3d code? My god is it a mess!
There is only one reason why a devloper would use d3d: Afraid of microsoft. That's it.
We've dealt with both apis, and also talk to driver writers. It's more difficult to write opengl drivers because there's so much you need to do to be considered opengl complient.
This is what you gain out of d3d: ulcers, crashs, support headaches, and code that's useless next year.
Opengl: code that is multiplatform(for the most part),code you can reuse again and again, and the feeling that if I draw this polygon wrong I wont be rebooting or perhaps re-installing.
sigh... enough rambling i could go on for hours... Please just do yourself a favor and trust me on this one. It breaks my heart to hear someone say "yeah i'm using d3d".
I immediatly send the dude sympathy cards and a bottle of scotch.
planning on paper? that's a little over simplification. I've been in the biz 2 years (by the way, my project has 300,000 lines of code, not "several million"
bugs happen when programmer a's "perfect plan" is put together with programmer b's and programmer c's plans, and everything doesn't go well. And this is after all three had debugged their parts of the program. Human error has a lot to do to.
And if u could predict everything that can happen on paper, u wouldn't have bugs.
Poor managment and over ambitious designs lead to crappy software, not counting the ocasional company that just sucks.
I started reading the article and couldn't stomach it after it explained to my what "control alt delete" did. Why is everything written for four graders? We dont need that crap on slashdot! half of us write software here!
Actually, not everyone agrees that there was a big bang. I find the theory quite insane myself. I'm not a creationist, but I think steven hawkings doesn't buy into the theory either.
I don't beleive there's enough gravatational force in the universe to cause it to collapse onto itself, and I don't buy the "dark matter" hack of a theory to explain that away.
But hey, what we believe today will be laughed at next century.
Slashdot Mirror
if majority ruled all the time then we have "tyranny of the majority"
if we went with that than blacks will would still be segregated in the south. How would u like to be told that you're a second class citizen and you have to sit in the back of the bus? Or go to a different school?
We need to do what is right, not what 51% of the people think is right.
that when microsoft was found guilty, the nation
was shocked. "they're a monopoly?" the average joe cried as his blinked his drunk eyes that were bloodshot from watching too much "greed" and "wwf"
bender(sleeping) - "ZZZZZZZ...kill the humans.. kill all the humans..."
fry - Bender wake up!
bender- "oh.. wha?? I was having the best dream! I think u were in it!"
(goes back to sleep)
bender - "Hey, you're pretty cute. Want to kill all the humans with me?"
Being from a town where the drunk driving rate
is through the roof, and more people get killed
on my main road than any other in the state, what good is a speed limiter? It won't keep that drunk truck driver from rear ending you when you're at a red light.
All of the people who have been in accidents here at work is all from idiots that rear end them.
Speed limiter?? bah!! i can't break 65 on that road! you can't go long enough until u hit a red light!
what's with the brits trying to outlaw everything? guns , then swords, now cars, what next? we got our constitution from your example!
We just didn't like being a colony.
no wonder all the rock stars went over here.
You guys made some good points. I'd like to also add that the Colombine Killers were both on ridalin. Yes, overmedication scares me for 2 reasons:
1) We'd rather overmedicate our kids than raise them propery (its easier to drug than to sit down and talk to)
2) Do we REALLY understand the brain all that well? The body is highy complicated, especially the brain. By the way, ridaline destroys your liver. Irrevocably.
Oh god, I have stuff due tommorrow and this is TOO tempting to i'll keep this short:
Let's assume jerry's right about what he said.
HOWEVER
Microsoft is a HUGE company with a hand in EVERYTHING. Yes, there are plenty of clean and legal success stories for them. Reguardless of what happened in the past:
They dumped opengl support becuase they couldnt control opengl. They made d3d
they killed java with their new updates so now u need to make two webpages.
That alone is enough. Sorry, but if JESUS kills someone, he goes to jail. Doesnt matter how much good he did before.
just one cell phone and just one razor and yadda yadd all adds up.
We need a new landfill, so how's your house sound? Lets put one in your backyard.
and what standard of living does throw away items give you? I want stuff to LAST. I want quality, I'll pay 300+ dollars for a good camera.
being from pennsylvania, i didn't know that we weren't considered a state technically(i've heard the term all the time but just never paid attention to it), but we are for all purposes of the constituion. Our government just runs differently than the other states, as all states have different regulations. For one, we get to elect out judges, da's, coroners, whereas other states do not.
As far as the techincal term, i am also interested in what technically makes us a commonwealth.
No, nobody here's a commonweath of britan.
modified or not, they have no right to publically release the code if even ONE LINE was written by john carmac
dude, it's a lot easier when you wrote the engine rather than build from it. q2 was made and optimized for q2, it's hard to make the quake engine into a non quake game becuase of it. Value modified 90% of the code to do it.
Be happy they at least tried the port. Not too many publishers or devlopers are interested in mac games becuase they don't beleive they will profit from them. Sometimes they don't even beak even for pc games.
rob seres
dreamforge intertainment
dear sir, were u brainwashed by alex saint john!
I must save your mind right now!
D3d is crap. Plain and simple. This is fact not opinion. Here's why:
First let me tell you who I am. I'm a game developer at dreamforge. One of our guys did the gl support for unreal. I've used both api's. here's the facts:
D3d is not getting better, its getting more convoluted. It is becoming more difficult to code in due to the fact that you have to initialize more objects to due the same thing u did with the last release.
Opengl can do everything that d3d can and in some cases did it first. We have extensions for all that good stuff, it's just a matter of video card support.
have u seen the new d3d code? My god is it a mess!
There is only one reason why a devloper would use d3d: Afraid of microsoft. That's it.
We've dealt with both apis, and also talk to driver writers. It's more difficult to write opengl drivers because there's so much you need to do to be considered opengl complient.
This is what you gain out of d3d:
ulcers, crashs, support headaches, and code that's useless next year.
Opengl:
code that is multiplatform(for the most part),code you can reuse again and again, and the feeling that if I draw this polygon wrong I wont be rebooting or perhaps re-installing.
Oh yeah, d3d destroyed our senior programmer's machine. Literally.
sigh... enough rambling i could go on for hours...
Please just do yourself a favor and trust me on this one. It breaks my heart to hear someone say "yeah i'm using d3d".
I immediatly send the dude sympathy cards and a bottle of scotch.
planning on paper? that's a little over simplification.
I've been in the biz 2 years (by the way, my project has 300,000 lines of code, not "several million"
bugs happen when programmer a's "perfect plan"
is put together with programmer b's and programmer c's plans, and everything doesn't go well. And this is after all three had debugged their parts of the program. Human error has a lot to do to.
And if u could predict everything that can happen on paper, u wouldn't have bugs.
Poor managment and over ambitious designs lead to crappy software, not counting the ocasional company that just sucks.
I started reading the article and couldn't stomach it after it explained to my what "control alt delete" did. Why is everything written for four graders? We dont need that crap on slashdot!
half of us write software here!
glend(GL_RANT);
Actually, not everyone agrees that there was a big bang.
I find the theory quite insane myself.
I'm not a creationist, but I think steven hawkings doesn't buy into the theory either.
I don't beleive there's enough gravatational force in the universe to cause it to collapse onto itself, and I don't buy the "dark matter" hack of a theory to explain that away.
But hey, what we believe today will be laughed at next century.
Robs@dreamforge.com