Having travelled to both the UK and the US, my border experiences at the UK were much worse. That said I was living in the UK on a working holiday visa (and travelling a lot) and only one of my US trips was post September 11.
A sat nav, on the other hand, is designed so that you don't have to touch it once it's set up. Its voice instructions are designed so you don't usually have to even look at it. If you do have to look at it, it's designed so that a glance is sufficient.
Just because you don't have to look at it doesn't mean people don't. I was in a car accident where the taxi driver was so preoccupied with looking at his sat nav he failed to check for traffic at an intersection. Fortunately no one was seriously injured but the other persons car was probably a write off.
They've also disabled strict aliasing which is a significant optimisation in GCC.
Strict aliasing and type punning don't play nice together. You can get away with type punning on MSVC builds but it can cause problems with strict aliasing enabled in GCC. A better solution would be to not do any type punning and re-enable strict aliasing. Well, it would help Linux anyway:)
The reason that developers/publishers don't port to Linux isn't technical, it's financial. If publishers thought they could make a profit on Linux then they'd probably go for it, they are interested in making money after all. The problem is more about Linux's small desktop market share than the ease of porting.
Give me a government system where literally anyone who is competent has a real chance to get elected, and I'll agree that my vote matters.
There are more representative systems available - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_member_proportional_representation. Australia's nearby neighbour New Zealand uses MMP. It does give you more choice if you aren't satisfied with the two main parties. I don't think it necessarily means the quality of the politicians is any better though:)
But that's because... I've barely seen any. This is my experience also. I feel like discrimination in the work place being the reason there are few women in IT is a bit of a red herring. In over 10 years working as a programmer, I could count the number of female programmers I've met on one hand. Looking back to University, in my final year my class was about 10% women, I can't remember the gender ratio in first year classes. Why is this so low? If there is discrimination in IT putting people off women from working in the field how would school leavers, starting University even be aware of it when choosing first year papers? There's been a lot of money spent trying to encourage women into engineering fields. Surely someone has done some research into this phenomenon.
On the flip side, there are fields that are dominated by women (at least in New Zealand), like teaching, nursing, librarianship. Why do so few men choose these career paths. I doubt very much that they are concerned about discrimination from their female co-workers.
I dunno why this post is considered a troll. I'll never forget the shoddy reporting the Inquirer did PlayStation 3 video memory bandwidth. They didn't actually understand the content of a developer presentation and then reported to the world their incorrect view of the hardware.
That is of course, GTA: San Andreas Hot Coffee Mod!
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David Jaffe makes a few good points on whole are games art discussion.
Here's a couple of relevant quotes on The Sims:
At a conference I went to, Will Wright talked about how the SIMS was designed to be read as a metaphor for greed and how as you got more and more and more stuff, it became more of a hassle to take care of it all and eventually things began to break down.
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games can- by USING THE INTERACTIVE MEDIUM (not using film technique) SAY something via play/interactive mechanics...
Now this Ebert guy may know about story telling, but by his own admission he has no experience of the very thing that makes a game not a film. A linear narrative isn't even necessary in gaming, Ebert doesn't understand that and will never be able to give meaningful criticism unless he bothers to spend some time playing.
He doesn't say anything about coding games as a hobby. He does quote a number of articles on the phenomena of casual games, so I think in the long run perhaps he is interested in making a commercial game.
If you are intersted in finishing a game either as a hobby or as a commercial product, it's a good idea to have a plan
Programming a game and designing a game are two quite seperate disciplines. If you are interested in making a small game you'll probably be doing both.
Typically a game is designed on paper before any coding starts. Once the game design document is fairly complete a technical design document outlining the games implementation is written. Even for a small game, defining what your game is before you try to code it is an important step. That said there is nothing wrong with doing quick prototypes of gameplay ideas before you commit to something.
You game design document might list what platforms you intened to target and your technolgy choice should be influenced by that.
DirectX limits you to Windows only, SDL is great but not hardware accelerated (I think there are work arounds) but that might not matter for your target audience and platforms.
I unlocked my MSI AGP 6800 last night and tested it by playing Counter Strike Source for a few hours. I didn't experience any visual artifacts whatsoever. I didn't do any before and after benchmarking so I'm not sure how much of a performance gain I got.
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Having travelled to both the UK and the US, my border experiences at the UK were much worse. That said I was living in the UK on a working holiday visa (and travelling a lot) and only one of my US trips was post September 11.
A sat nav, on the other hand, is designed so that you don't have to touch it once it's set up. Its voice instructions are designed so you don't usually have to even look at it. If you do have to look at it, it's designed so that a glance is sufficient.
Just because you don't have to look at it doesn't mean people don't. I was in a car accident where the taxi driver was so preoccupied with looking at his sat nav he failed to check for traffic at an intersection. Fortunately no one was seriously injured but the other persons car was probably a write off.
That's really an endorsement for porting Linux apps to Windows.
They've also disabled strict aliasing which is a significant optimisation in GCC.
Strict aliasing and type punning don't play nice together. You can get away with type punning on MSVC builds but it can cause problems with strict aliasing enabled in GCC. A better solution would be to not do any type punning and re-enable strict aliasing. Well, it would help Linux anyway :)
A great write up can be found here: http://www.cellperformance.com/mike_acton/2006/06/understanding_strict_aliasing.html
The site is safe despite what Google says.
That would explain it. If this is true then WTF.
The reason that developers/publishers don't port to Linux isn't technical, it's financial. If publishers thought they could make a profit on Linux then they'd probably go for it, they are interested in making money after all. The problem is more about Linux's small desktop market share than the ease of porting.
Give me a government system where literally anyone who is competent has a real chance to get elected, and I'll agree that my vote matters.
There are more representative systems available - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_member_proportional_representation. Australia's nearby neighbour New Zealand uses MMP. It does give you more choice if you aren't satisfied with the two main parties. I don't think it necessarily means the quality of the politicians is any better though :)
The practices may be uncommon at this time, but I assure you that all of the vegetarians I know are completely normal humans.
Normal humans... with a vitamin B12 deficiency, unless they really know what they're doing.
Actually, because vegetarians eat diary products which contain B12 this isn't a problem. If you are vegan however some care is required.
I hadn't heard of this site before, it looks pretty useful. Thanks for bringing it to my attention Warner :)
I dunno why this post is considered a troll. I'll never forget the shoddy reporting the Inquirer did PlayStation 3 video memory bandwidth. They didn't actually understand the content of a developer presentation and then reported to the world their incorrect view of the hardware.
When countries stop going to war it's a good sign that humanity is maturing.
That is of course, GTA: San Andreas Hot Coffee Mod!
David Jaffe makes a few good points on whole are games art discussion.
Here's a couple of relevant quotes on The Sims:
Now this Ebert guy may know about story telling, but by his own admission he has no experience of the very thing that makes a game not a film. A linear narrative isn't even necessary in gaming, Ebert doesn't understand that and will never be able to give meaningful criticism unless he bothers to spend some time playing.
The thing about the NBR is, well to be blunt, they're all clueless rich wankers.
But that's all they have in common.
I'm sorry, I couldn't resist!
He doesn't say anything about coding games as a hobby. He does quote a number of articles on the phenomena of casual games, so I think in the long run perhaps he is interested in making a commercial game.
If you are intersted in finishing a game either as a hobby or as a commercial product, it's a good idea to have a plan
Programming a game and designing a game are two quite seperate disciplines. If you are interested in making a small game you'll probably be doing both.
Typically a game is designed on paper before any coding starts. Once the game design document is fairly complete a technical design document outlining the games implementation is written. Even for a small game, defining what your game is before you try to code it is an important step. That said there is nothing wrong with doing quick prototypes of gameplay ideas before you commit to something.
You game design document might list what platforms you intened to target and your technolgy choice should be influenced by that.
DirectX limits you to Windows only, SDL is great but not hardware accelerated (I think there are work arounds) but that might not matter for your target audience and platforms.
For some sample game design documents and a list of good books on the subject try http://www.ihfsoft.com/index.htm
Out of the books listed there I highly recommend Game Architecture & Design.
I unlocked my MSI AGP 6800 last night and tested it by playing Counter Strike Source for a few hours. I didn't experience any visual artifacts whatsoever. I didn't do any before and after benchmarking so I'm not sure how much of a performance gain I got.
I also get the texas holdem spam. It annoyed me enough to just turn comments off altogether.