Why is this a problem that only the biggest publishers in the game/movie/music industry seem to be concerned about?
"Piracy is hurting out sales, we need to monetise all our content in every way possible"
Is this not a problem of mentality?
A person can blame a nameless group for all their problems; the government, immigrants, pirates
But ultimately if these factors are outside of your control, is it not more productive to focus on the things that you CAN control instead?
There will always be pirates, regardless of how much you legislate, technology always adapts to a changing environment faster than the law
Accept this and find inner peace Mr Yerli
I agree with Smidge, that we could potentially create new intelligent artificial life and would like to add something further
The reason why it's so difficult to quantify what a soul is and what it does, is because it's a wishy-washy concept that blurs the line between personal ego and consciousness (self-awareness)
The more and more I delve into mysticism, Hinduism, Buddhism and the concept of enlightenment in general, the more I realise what Einstein did
Pure consciousness may be the immortal aspect of human life, but there's absolutely nothing personal about it
An artificial life form could be created without the need to burden it with emotions or an ego
Why create an AI with an ego when machines by default don't have one to begin with?
Yeah except if you've got lots of money and not much skill you'll still get repeatedly pwned by creative and skilled players with relatively cheap decks
It's usually the homegrown decks that utilise some strange quirk or combo that catch EVERYONE off-guard, you don't understand what they're doing till they've killed you
Even the most unfair expensive decks can get squashed by something that side-steps their whole strategy
I graduated from the University of Essex in 2004, it was ranked 44th out all the 127 universities in the UK, so a very middle of the road uni, nothing like the Redbrick or Ivy League unis The Computer Science course was heavily Java oriented, there was a bit of C, SQL and *shudders* Prolog too
It taught us everything mentioned in Bjarne's article with the exception of direct memory access, because it's not needed except in some very specific situations (e.g. when Accenture were re-writing the trading platform for the London Stock Exchange and speed was of the utmost importance)
Bjarne spends much of the article plugging his book and talking about the impressions of employers, but when was the last time he spoke to a developer in the trenches? Starting salaries for graduate developers in the UK are appalling (outside of London), the pay is about the same as that for a data entry clerk (I've done both and the latter only involves 2-3 hours work per day with the rest spent looking busy)
Being a good developer demands much more than a 9-5 commitment ESPECIALLY during you first job, if there is no incentive then why bother? Why not just find another career which isn't so demanding and has better rewards?
That's why there's a shortage of good grad developers these days, because the smart ones have already figured out that the game is rigged and it's not even worth playing
Sorry to burst your bubble but there are PLENTY of non-technical managers that don't have the emotional makeup required to successfully manage
The two aren't mutually exclusive y'know
I am a pretty dedicated gamer, I'm 23 and spend a fair portion of my income making sure I have a beefed enough PC to play games and have bought consoles/machines purely to play a single game
While I agree gameplay has definitely suffered over the years this is mostly because gaming has become so mainstream and there are just a lot more crap games being produced while the number of good games being produced per year is still the same as it was years ago
Any blockbuster movie that comes out has a game to go with it (usually a crap one) which sells like a cash cow because of the publicity, whereas truly quality games can flop and fade into obscurity, is it even worth putting the effort into making something good any more?
There are still quality games (Metal Gear Solid, Devil May Cry, Tekken, Resident Evil, Halo, Metroid Prime, etc.) being produced and whichever platform has the most will prosper
Sony may have shot themselves in the foot this time though, the PS3 is going to cost so much even hardcore fans like myself (I have both a PS1 & 2) will think twice about buying it, regardless how much we love Tekken or whatever....
Imagine having a band of chaos space marines, marauding local villages until you get into a bloody enough battle that your most brutal fighter becomes shrouded in red mist and stomps his way out as a huge Bloodthirster demon! He'd be like Sauron in the lord of rings movie times 10, people'd go flying in pieces with every swing of his axe!
Then picture gathering enough resources to fight your way aboard a space marine ship, wipe out or corrupt the crew and fly your ship out to ravage new worlds and build an empire...
It'd be a hellva challenge to make but it'd introduce a fully formed, intricately detailed bloodthirsty universe to play in
Ack, to have a few more years experience as developer and a team of likeminded geezas behind me.....
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Why is this a problem that only the biggest publishers in the game/movie/music industry seem to be concerned about?
"Piracy is hurting out sales, we need to monetise all our content in every way possible"
Is this not a problem of mentality?
A person can blame a nameless group for all their problems; the government, immigrants, pirates
But ultimately if these factors are outside of your control, is it not more productive to focus on the things that you CAN control instead? There will always be pirates, regardless of how much you legislate, technology always adapts to a changing environment faster than the law Accept this and find inner peace Mr Yerli
I agree with Smidge, that we could potentially create new intelligent artificial life and would like to add something further
The reason why it's so difficult to quantify what a soul is and what it does, is because it's a wishy-washy concept that blurs the line between personal ego and consciousness (self-awareness)
The more and more I delve into mysticism, Hinduism, Buddhism and the concept of enlightenment in general, the more I realise what Einstein did
Pure consciousness may be the immortal aspect of human life, but there's absolutely nothing personal about it
An artificial life form could be created without the need to burden it with emotions or an ego
Why create an AI with an ego when machines by default don't have one to begin with?
Yeah except if you've got lots of money and not much skill you'll still get repeatedly pwned by creative and skilled players with relatively cheap decks It's usually the homegrown decks that utilise some strange quirk or combo that catch EVERYONE off-guard, you don't understand what they're doing till they've killed you Even the most unfair expensive decks can get squashed by something that side-steps their whole strategy
I graduated from the University of Essex in 2004, it was ranked 44th out all the 127 universities in the UK, so a very middle of the road uni, nothing like the Redbrick or Ivy League unis
The Computer Science course was heavily Java oriented, there was a bit of C, SQL and *shudders* Prolog too
It taught us everything mentioned in Bjarne's article with the exception of direct memory access, because it's not needed except in some very specific situations (e.g. when Accenture were re-writing the trading platform for the London Stock Exchange and speed was of the utmost importance)
Bjarne spends much of the article plugging his book and talking about the impressions of employers, but when was the last time he spoke to a developer in the trenches? Starting salaries for graduate developers in the UK are appalling (outside of London), the pay is about the same as that for a data entry clerk (I've done both and the latter only involves 2-3 hours work per day with the rest spent looking busy)
Being a good developer demands much more than a 9-5 commitment ESPECIALLY during you first job, if there is no incentive then why bother? Why not just find another career which isn't so demanding and has better rewards?
That's why there's a shortage of good grad developers these days, because the smart ones have already figured out that the game is rigged and it's not even worth playing
Sorry to burst your bubble but there are PLENTY of non-technical managers that don't have the emotional makeup required to successfully manage The two aren't mutually exclusive y'know
I am a pretty dedicated gamer, I'm 23 and spend a fair portion of my income making sure I have a beefed enough PC to play games and have bought consoles/machines purely to play a single game While I agree gameplay has definitely suffered over the years this is mostly because gaming has become so mainstream and there are just a lot more crap games being produced while the number of good games being produced per year is still the same as it was years ago Any blockbuster movie that comes out has a game to go with it (usually a crap one) which sells like a cash cow because of the publicity, whereas truly quality games can flop and fade into obscurity, is it even worth putting the effort into making something good any more? There are still quality games (Metal Gear Solid, Devil May Cry, Tekken, Resident Evil, Halo, Metroid Prime, etc.) being produced and whichever platform has the most will prosper Sony may have shot themselves in the foot this time though, the PS3 is going to cost so much even hardcore fans like myself (I have both a PS1 & 2) will think twice about buying it, regardless how much we love Tekken or whatever....
Imagine having a band of chaos space marines, marauding local villages until you get into a bloody enough battle that your most brutal fighter becomes shrouded in red mist and stomps his way out as a huge Bloodthirster demon! He'd be like Sauron in the lord of rings movie times 10, people'd go flying in pieces with every swing of his axe!
Then picture gathering enough resources to fight your way aboard a space marine ship, wipe out or corrupt the crew and fly your ship out to ravage new worlds and build an empire...
It'd be a hellva challenge to make but it'd introduce a fully formed, intricately detailed bloodthirsty universe to play in
Ack, to have a few more years experience as developer and a team of likeminded geezas behind me.....