I think valve is ahead of this one, given that their commentary bubbles are essentially that in action. However this gamer/designer distinction is becoming way too polarizing. Sure it's a hard industry to get into that involves skills that aren't developed solely by playing games, but the idea that gamers are somehow innately not designers or have some alternate mindset that must be completely reengineered in order to become effective designers is patronizing.
I think a better way to get at this playing games != making games thing is more of a coming of age thing. Filmmakers have a saying that once you become a filmmaker you never look at films the same way again. That's more the issue. The different way of looking at games is more a side effect of having designed them, not a catalyst for learning designing techniques.
Bottom line, playing them to death would prolly work, but be less effective than looking at the source code/models/behind-the-scenes
You stayed tuned? I had forgotten about it until this article. I mean I get the idea that games get pushed back so the developers can fine tune and polish away, but it really starts making me ask questions when a game fails to keep me interested before it's even released. Doesn't bode well for the final product.
I am a student at CMU and so far from what I can tell, there are no signs of it changing. Most of the professors have the view on OS that there is no "perfect" OS. They all get in your way in different fashions. Our first programming course is primarily taught on macs, and later we will probably use unix.
Also, making all of the software that we use compatible with every system was a painstaking process that the will not likely undo.
I suggest finding a microwave you don't particularly value and put your motherboard in it. If that doesn't entertain you enough, a light bulb can have an entertaining reaction.
Absolutely arrangement is important. If it wasn't, nobody would ever die. But it being important doesn't mean it's the sole distinction between living and non living matter.
The odds of drawing a Royal Straight Flush in poker is one in 2,598,960.
But one in 2,598,960 also happens to be the odds of drawing any configuration of five cards
Sorry to be picky, but royal straight flushes come in four suits do they not? Therefore they represent four possible combinations of five cards and not just one. Speaking of which, who's to say that life has to develop differently elsewhere than it did for us?
It probably wouldn't be that practical, but it could be effective to dehydrate certain parts of someone's body by moving the water around inside. Maybe the military could find use for that.
Satire has a near and dear place in many people's hearts just as a coping mechanism with all of the crazy stuff happening in the news. Take it away, and we go back to rioting. That's how it works
I'm waiting until we can combine a PDA, laptop, cell phone, wrist watch, T.V. remote, car keys, wallet all down into one compact device. I call them the other personal unit.
Wow...A 4 digit/. account....
That aside, ending government spaceflight would send tons of engineers and scientists into the back into the job market and that wouldn't be good for the rest of the technology industry.
My reasoning here is the classic "If they were out there, we would know it." If they were out there, in a few thousand years the galaxy would be filled with colonies.
Wouldn't this assume that they were more advanced than humans? We haven't even colonized our own solar system, and we have way more than just a few steps of evolution below our belt. It takes advanced technology to travel those distances.
Not only is water uncommon, the liquid phase is uncommon. Also, the reason it's so important is because it is less dense in the solid phase than the liquid phase, which allows it to freeze on top instead of on bottom, which in turn allows organisms to sustain life even when the body of water begins to freeze.
Indeed. I was imitating an English teacher I had, and how he would most likely react to an article like this. I'm still working on getting a video of this guy online.
It's funny how in all of these futuristic shows we show people playing games and controlling cars with our minds. Now it's becoming a reality on a much quicker timescale than we imagined.
It's just like how the book 2001 predicted we'd have space travel, and land on the moon, then we did, way before 2001. It's nice when technology moves faster than fiction.
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Nintendo plans to continue producing mario titles. Shocking.
Damn straight! I got doom rpg for my cell phone, now I miss more calls than when my samsung was dying.
I think valve is ahead of this one, given that their commentary bubbles are essentially that in action. However this gamer/designer distinction is becoming way too polarizing. Sure it's a hard industry to get into that involves skills that aren't developed solely by playing games, but the idea that gamers are somehow innately not designers or have some alternate mindset that must be completely reengineered in order to become effective designers is patronizing. I think a better way to get at this playing games != making games thing is more of a coming of age thing. Filmmakers have a saying that once you become a filmmaker you never look at films the same way again. That's more the issue. The different way of looking at games is more a side effect of having designed them, not a catalyst for learning designing techniques. Bottom line, playing them to death would prolly work, but be less effective than looking at the source code/models/behind-the-scenes
You stayed tuned? I had forgotten about it until this article. I mean I get the idea that games get pushed back so the developers can fine tune and polish away, but it really starts making me ask questions when a game fails to keep me interested before it's even released. Doesn't bode well for the final product.
And It totally inspired me to build a fly-wheel powered scooter.
I am a student at CMU and so far from what I can tell, there are no signs of it changing. Most of the professors have the view on OS that there is no "perfect" OS. They all get in your way in different fashions. Our first programming course is primarily taught on macs, and later we will probably use unix. Also, making all of the software that we use compatible with every system was a painstaking process that the will not likely undo.
Why not see if you can do something more advanced...like an N64 emulator. I might consider getting this if you could do that.
That is, in the ideal world where criminals could in no way pay off the court system with tons of stolen money
I suggest finding a microwave you don't particularly value and put your motherboard in it. If that doesn't entertain you enough, a light bulb can have an entertaining reaction.
I would definitely write bad code on purpose with this set up just to watch the lava.
Absolutely arrangement is important. If it wasn't, nobody would ever die. But it being important doesn't mean it's the sole distinction between living and non living matter.
So then the phenomenon of life is merely a complex arrangement of atoms and nothing more?
If that did happen, would you live through it?
The odds of drawing a Royal Straight Flush in poker is one in 2,598,960.
But one in 2,598,960 also happens to be the odds of drawing any configuration of five cards
Sorry to be picky, but royal straight flushes come in four suits do they not? Therefore they represent four possible combinations of five cards and not just one. Speaking of which, who's to say that life has to develop differently elsewhere than it did for us?
What species in their right minds is going to come to a planet who's inhabitants immediately imprison and disect anything remotely extra terrestrial?
Not to mention that they would have to travel hundreds of lightyears to doso. That trip was worth it, eh?
It probably wouldn't be that practical, but it could be effective to dehydrate certain parts of someone's body by moving the water around inside. Maybe the military could find use for that.
Satire has a near and dear place in many people's hearts just as a coping mechanism with all of the crazy stuff happening in the news. Take it away, and we go back to rioting. That's how it works
WHat's the point of sending people 62.5 miles by spaceship? WHat's wrong with airplanes?
I'm waiting until we can combine a PDA, laptop, cell phone, wrist watch, T.V. remote, car keys, wallet all down into one compact device. I call them the other personal unit.
Wow...A 4 digit /. account....
That aside, ending government spaceflight would send tons of engineers and scientists into the back into the job market and that wouldn't be good for the rest of the technology industry.
My reasoning here is the classic "If they were out there, we would know it." If they were out there, in a few thousand years the galaxy would be filled with colonies.
Wouldn't this assume that they were more advanced than humans? We haven't even colonized our own solar system, and we have way more than just a few steps of evolution below our belt. It takes advanced technology to travel those distances.
To me, that's the only concrete proof of life on Mars. Life is complex--there's more to it than water.
Is water all that common?
Not only is water uncommon, the liquid phase is uncommon. Also, the reason it's so important is because it is less dense in the solid phase than the liquid phase, which allows it to freeze on top instead of on bottom, which in turn allows organisms to sustain life even when the body of water begins to freeze.
Indeed. I was imitating an English teacher I had, and how he would most likely react to an article like this. I'm still working on getting a video of this guy online.
It's funny how in all of these futuristic shows we show people playing games and controlling cars with our minds. Now it's becoming a reality on a much quicker timescale than we imagined.
It's just like how the book 2001 predicted we'd have space travel, and land on the moon, then we did, way before 2001. It's nice when technology moves faster than fiction.