This is not meant to be a flame or troll activity, but surely if they wanted to keep the costs down they would not be using windows? Seems simple enough.
I'm also feeling quite odd about the pentium 4 ad statement there. It is connected to a computer, they can all do graphics manipulation these days. Seems we are still in the 'omgwtf pentium' age. Using another cpu would bring the price down yet further!
But not because of security concenns, it is mostly because I have got into a nervous habit of clearing my cache and cookies every day.
A few months ago this was a different story, seeing about 400MB of cache/cookies taking up around a gig on the hdd because the files were so small changed it; and I dont mind having to re-login to sites every time, it means I am less likely to forget my various passwords!
Motion blur can be added quite easily now with todays graphics cards, before they were seen as too costly in terms for what they gave, which was just a bit of eye candy.
Project offset have really nice motion blur in. There is a techdemo video of it in action too.
Carmack was commenting on hardware vendors believing that more cores, more cpus, more hardware is good. But for the DEVELOPMENT OF A GAME in a GOOD AND REASONABLE TIME using a SIMPLE, ELEGANT, AND FAST METHODOLOGY, adding more cores and more cpus and more accelerators intruduces more places where bugs and glitches can occur, and thats only after you figure out a nice design, which will take longer to do and therefore cost more to make. It complicates things which shouldn't need to be. Not all companies want to introduce 3rd party code into their games for various reasons and you should not assume that everyone wants to.
The problem being, that in that case the non-realistic image of a monster stuttering on screen then moving 2x its speed the next frame really does make it harder to sync up.
when has carmack said anything in that speech about next gen being too difficult.
He explains his view on why he thinks dedicated 'physics cards' would proove a non starter with him - and made some pretty good points, and any game programmer would understand him. I seriously just think your trying to advertise every physics engine out there.
There were a few major win2k updates last month, and as Windows update is IE only, surely most will have had to get it from there. may account for a *tiny* amount of deviation. But hell, there is deviation in every statistic. We will jsut have to wait till next month - if it was a blip, hey, it may shoot up to 10% for August;)
Excellent reply, and you have brought up a few issues I didnt think of;
The second problem is that Ada is both strongly-typed AND allows generics. That mix doesn't work well. Either have something that is strongly-typed and enforce that decision, OR use weak-typing and strong constructional rules. Mix-and-match leads to programs that are hard to read and harder to debug.
The third problem with Ada is the ability to override in ways that are transparent to the coder. A * operation may or may not do what you expect - and you have no way of knowing by looking at the source. It depends on what could override the operator.
These two things have definately brought back the horror of ada to me. I was one of the students who stood firmly against it until all the lecturerers claimed what I recited in my reply. It sounded good to me; but i have not finished my course - and so not as experienced (and no doubt easily swayed;)). I've learned a good bit from your reply, and you obviously know your stuff!
? when did i say anything about that. If a report does not get to the fiscal on time because it is not in the right format, not only does it cost money in 1)police time, 2) legal charges, 3) detainee fees but it makes you look really quite incompetent.
What one time expense? if your main centre is operating different systems and formats to the branches, its going to be slow to get data. My god man read the story.
In this sort of situation, the extra time it takes to convert documents to different formats, and keep those formats updated, totally outweighs the point of moving systems in the first place.
This should be a lesson to organisations, if you want to go open source; do it right - and change all systems at once.
I don't mind phone tapping at all - as long is there is cause for it's need. However as stated in another posting it is kinda stupid, as if people want to communicate over the net for dodgy dealings, they are certainly not going to use one of the mainstream (or indeed, any) VOIP provider.
If only the UK was able to procecute criminals based on phone tapping, currently it's not allowed (hears gasps of shock).
Java a good language for the beginner? I really do not understand this statement - because the one thing that really hits beginners hard, is syntax.
At Glasgow University (Scotland), the first and second years of the programming course(s) are only in ADA95. Why? Because ADA95 has all the programming features a beginner needs, in clear english. A beginner should not be taught a language, at the end of a computing course they should be able to quickly learn and program any another language. Take the following example:
with ADA.TEXT_IO; use ADA.TEXT_IO;
procedure PrintHelloWorld is begin put_line("Hello World!"); end PrintHelloWorld;
or
public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String args[]) { System.out.println("Hello World!"); } }
What is easier? From the ada source you know that this code is defining some sort of procedure of actions - the first thing you are taught in programming - it is telling the computer to perform a series of steps. The with and use easily make you see you are taking input and output and using them. And I have serious issues as to saying ada is unstructured, as it is one of the most typesafe-enforcing bugger on this earth, and has all the usual data structures - even pointers and packages.
All i can assume from your post that you are some sort of OO fanboy. OO is not everything, it certainly is not the answer to world poverty, and if every graduate came out of university not knowing non-oo concepts the industry would be in a very grave position indeed.
I shall make myself more clear: This will be excellent for use in emergencies which would normally cripple the communications system. It gives that extra peace of mind to people that know there is a backup to get in touch with family if there ever is a need to.
The article states The satellite will be able to receive weak signals
Which I am led to believe means it will be able to send and receive data. Wouldnt be much use on the train otherwise if thye would still nead a wireless ground network to send.
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This is not meant to be a flame or troll activity, but surely if they wanted to keep the costs down they would not be using windows? Seems simple enough.
I'm also feeling quite odd about the pentium 4 ad statement there. It is connected to a computer, they can all do graphics manipulation these days. Seems we are still in the 'omgwtf pentium' age. Using another cpu would bring the price down yet further!
I am failing to see how a browser is eliminated with this, anyone care to enlighten me?
.. into the open condiment industry. After open source beer it one of many a possibility ;)
Exactly, it also complicates licencing out the engine when a major part of your product, well, is not yours.
But not because of security concenns, it is mostly because I have got into a nervous habit of clearing my cache and cookies every day.
A few months ago this was a different story, seeing about 400MB of cache/cookies taking up around a gig on the hdd because the files were so small changed it; and I dont mind having to re-login to sites every time, it means I am less likely to forget my various passwords!
This is the game source, not the engine source - which is what we are waiting for.
Motion blur can be added quite easily now with todays graphics cards, before they were seen as too costly in terms for what they gave, which was just a bit of eye candy.
Project offset have really nice motion blur in. There is a techdemo video of it in action too.
Carmack was commenting on hardware vendors believing that more cores, more cpus, more hardware is good. But for the DEVELOPMENT OF A GAME in a GOOD AND REASONABLE TIME using a SIMPLE, ELEGANT, AND FAST METHODOLOGY, adding more cores and more cpus and more accelerators intruduces more places where bugs and glitches can occur, and thats only after you figure out a nice design, which will take longer to do and therefore cost more to make. It complicates things which shouldn't need to be. Not all companies want to introduce 3rd party code into their games for various reasons and you should not assume that everyone wants to.
Personally I think you are a moron, because if you paid £1000 to get 30fps in 800x600, you obviously went to PC world.
Which is great since you advertise 3 commercial engines in another post...
The problem being, that in that case the non-realistic image of a monster stuttering on screen then moving 2x its speed the next frame really does make it harder to sync up.
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when has carmack said anything in that speech about next gen being too difficult.
He explains his view on why he thinks dedicated 'physics cards' would proove a non starter with him - and made some pretty good points, and any game programmer would understand him. I seriously just think your trying to advertise every physics engine out there.
I'd quite like to know what you are trying to say with this post other than get a few hits to that site.
There were a few major win2k updates last month, and as Windows update is IE only, surely most will have had to get it from there. may account for a *tiny* amount of deviation. But hell, there is deviation in every statistic. We will jsut have to wait till next month - if it was a blip, hey, it may shoot up to 10% for August ;)
The thing I am most worried about is the post being supposedly insightful...
Excellent reply, and you have brought up a few issues I didnt think of;
;)). I've learned a good bit from your reply, and you obviously know your stuff!
;)
The second problem is that Ada is both strongly-typed AND allows generics. That mix doesn't work well. Either have something that is strongly-typed and enforce that decision, OR use weak-typing and strong constructional rules. Mix-and-match leads to programs that are hard to read and harder to debug.
The third problem with Ada is the ability to override in ways that are transparent to the coder. A * operation may or may not do what you expect - and you have no way of knowing by looking at the source. It depends on what could override the operator.
These two things have definately brought back the horror of ada to me. I was one of the students who stood firmly against it until all the lecturerers claimed what I recited in my reply. It sounded good to me; but i have not finished my course - and so not as experienced (and no doubt easily swayed
p.s. Sorry forthe fanboy remark!
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/08/ 2013251&tid=211&tid=156
and, i tried to email the on duty editor, but it was only 'from the future' for 5 mins
? when did i say anything about that. If a report does not get to the fiscal on time because it is not in the right format, not only does it cost money in 1)police time, 2) legal charges, 3) detainee fees but it makes you look really quite incompetent.
What one time expense? if your main centre is operating different systems and formats to the branches, its going to be slow to get data. My god man read the story.
This is not the corporate world , it is a police force, where time costs a hell of a lot more.
.. this costs less, is well be cause of this:
TIME = MONEY * 3
In this sort of situation, the extra time it takes to convert documents to different formats, and keep those formats updated, totally outweighs the point of moving systems in the first place.
This should be a lesson to organisations, if you want to go open source; do it right - and change all systems at once.
Thats exactly what I meant, thanks for clearing it up :)
I don't mind phone tapping at all - as long is there is cause for it's need. However as stated in another posting it is kinda stupid, as if people want to communicate over the net for dodgy dealings, they are certainly not going to use one of the mainstream (or indeed, any) VOIP provider.
If only the UK was able to procecute criminals based on phone tapping, currently it's not allowed (hears gasps of shock).
Java a good language for the beginner? I really do not understand this statement - because the one thing that really hits beginners hard, is syntax.
At Glasgow University (Scotland), the first and second years of the programming course(s) are only in ADA95. Why? Because ADA95 has all the programming features a beginner needs, in clear english. A beginner should not be taught a language, at the end of a computing course they should be able to quickly learn and program any another language. Take the following example:
with ADA.TEXT_IO;
use ADA.TEXT_IO;
procedure PrintHelloWorld is
begin
put_line("Hello World!");
end PrintHelloWorld;
or
public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String args[]) {
System.out.println("Hello World!");
}
}
What is easier? From the ada source you know that this code is defining some sort of procedure of actions - the first thing you are taught in programming - it is telling the computer to perform a series of steps. The with and use easily make you see you are taking input and output and using them. And I have serious issues as to saying ada is unstructured, as it is one of the most typesafe-enforcing bugger on this earth, and has all the usual data structures - even pointers and packages.
All i can assume from your post that you are some sort of OO fanboy. OO is not everything, it certainly is not the answer to world poverty, and if every graduate came out of university not knowing non-oo concepts the industry would be in a very grave position indeed.
Excuse me for expressing my views, mr coward.
I shall make myself more clear: This will be excellent for use in emergencies which would normally cripple the communications system. It gives that extra peace of mind to people that know there is a backup to get in touch with family if there ever is a need to.
The article states
The satellite will be able to receive weak signals
Which I am led to believe means it will be able to send and receive data. Wouldnt be much use on the train otherwise if thye would still nead a wireless ground network to send.