This article sucks. First, he's evidently ignorant about some platforms and yet he still dares to judge one best. Second, he missed what's probably the best option - a PSP, which is cheap, has lots of tools, a good piece of hardware, and high-level languages such as Python available. Third, he goes with Windows Mobile. What the heck. Windows can never be good for development, because its APIs are insane. Or rather, GetWindowsAPIInsaneRatioForMultipleObjectsEx(&dwIRatio, &saSecurityAttributes, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL).
All are application logic. What they really are is a more important requirement, and less important requirement. Business logic is just enterprise fappage from pointy haired moronic managers who want to hear the "business" word. The more times they hear the "business" word, the more interested they are, even though they wouldn't be able to tell a computer from an elephant in 100 million years.
Intel does a lot of research. They've researched video codecs, face recognition, complex optimizers, and similar technologies in the past. Their goal is to generate demand for faster processors, though it's more honourably done (research of useful technologies) than the usual (fill the next version of Windows with shit).
True. The web is getting filled with crap from these "web 2.0 designers". Webcast, podcast, webinar, blog, blogosphere, and now mashup. Will the stupidity end?
The least bad thing about it is that I can safely skip all the stupid crap I don't understand -- it's going to be web 2.0 wankery anyways, so it's not a problem if I don't give a damn and stick to getting things done.
First off, he seems to think "Rails" is some kind of programming language. He failed to see it's merely a framework for Ruby, and that if the framework was getting in his way, he could just use bare Ruby. Ruby has a few questionable spots, such as the terrible Perlish syntax, half-assed first-class functions (different namespaces for functions and other values, as in Common Lisp, unlike Scheme), and difference between blocks, methods, and such, but it's undoubtedl superior to PHP, so provided you don't depend on some PHP library or extension that's not available on Ruby, it's going to be a more productive language to work in than PHP, as long as you hire the right person.
Second, he's a buzzword bingo. "Business-logic"? Only clueless people talk like that. He probably wanted Rails because of the hype, too.
Third, he was probably thinking things the wrong way; trying to make Rails work like PHP. You can't just rewrite programs for a completely different platform; you have to redesign them as well. He fails to understand this basic principle.
Fourth, "Is there anything Rails can do, that PHP CAN'T do?" Well, and I ask, is there anything PHP can do that 6502 assembly CAN'T do?
Fifth, "I realized the language didn't matter that much." At this point I stopped reading. This guy is really clueless. If language didn't matter much, we'd all be using FORTRAN. If this guy thinks it doesn't matter whether you do C or you do Python, then he better do something else but stop programming, much less managing programmers.
First of all, we all know there are no women on the Internet, so this article is pointless.
Second, and in a more serious stance, geeks are systematically discriminated against by most women, who are always after stupid, loud gang trash that treat them like dirt (which they call "confidence") and beat random people up and use drugs (which they call "funney"). They only care for this, as well as money, looks, and trendy fashion social crap. They isolate us because we are not social monkeys who care for who were Mary with the other day as she passed by a fashion store, and we treat them as people (most women hate this). They discriminate us from life and don't give sex, so in return we don't want any of their stupid fashion faggotry in this business. I think it's a pretty modest retaliation, and the typical shallow women who care for looks and are after idiots that beat them wouldn't make good engineers anyways.
That's because he has a long term ass rimming contract with Microsoft. For years, everything he did sucked hard and hurt the community. Mono, Silverlight and everything he does give Microsoft legitimacy to say they're open and portable, for almost free (whatever it took to buy him). Now he's also a patents and OOXML bully.
I wonder why the community keeps listening to the sold out crap he has to say. If we treted him like what he is -- a troll and a sell out -- and ignored him like we ignore the retarded Windows Vista using Microsoft trusting neighbour, he wouldn't have the power he has and he couldn't hurt the libre software community as he's doing.
Because they have been cracked and now you can restore the rights the mafiaa took from you. Every time I have a DVD I watch it through a player that does DeCSS, even if only for the moral value of the act.
Of course, that's the reason why there are new formats in the first place. The mafiaa corporations (Hollywood, Sony, etc.) want to spike every human life with AIDS, installing supposedly-illegal surveillance units at every home, and turning everyone into the perfect consumer: only buy the crap they make, at your local most expensive price, buy it several times if possible, and don't share anything with the next consumer.
Now I have to admit I'm surprised and disappointed about the Chinese format; I had a bit of hope that it'd be DRM-free. I guess the days when China was any good regarding this matter are long gone; they are now another America. Nobody outside the dictatorship will want their "television watches you" format.
And the problem is people is too stupid to actually buy their crap. Snobs, "early adopters", and other sufferers of human stupidity make this attack on your freedom successful. If Hollywood didn't have any AIDS-ridden format to publish their crap in, and Sony didn't sell any of their obnoxious, overpriced and premature technology, they'd be forced to use fair use formats. Or they would fold, which would be even sweeter.
There are many better alternatives to all of this crap; we can use it ourselves for any of our content. A solid state memory with a Matroska video, using Theora or H.264 for video encoding and Vorbis or MP3 for audio encoding.
Anything that's against popular leftard proteges is "racist". Race doesn't really matter.
You can only insult and bash whites, especially if male, rich, and non-immigrant. They can be continuously blamed for everything, such as slavery, even though they did nothing themselves, but others who kill and murder are just poor people following their beautiful religion of peace.
I love Japanese RPGs, and I have played about two dozens of them since the SNES era, including the rarer, fan-translated ones. And I can say Eternal Sonata is awesome to my personal standards.
The 4-CD OST by Motoi Sakuraba is easily one of the best in the genre, all orchestral, inspired and complete with 40 minutes of Chopin performance by Russian pianist Stanislav Bunin, a Chopin specialist.
The gameplay, as far as I could see in the demo, is simple and addictive, and the story sounds good enough to keep it interesting, but I haven't played it. The combat system is also interesting, as it evolves from mostly-strategy to mostly-action as you play.
"Seems to me the audience of XB360 treats every genre (apart from racers) like they should be shooters." --- In fact one of the things I don't like from the Xbox 360 game catalogue is that 9 out of 10 games are boring Quake clones about ugly monsters and dark rooms made of black and obscure. Eternal Sonata is exactly what the Xbox 360 needs: a colourful fantasy game.
As for RPGs not getting released in Europe, what I wonder is why they still region-lock the American versions. At least we could play and buy the product. Sure, English is not my native language, but I'd rather play a decent English translation than a crappy Spanish one, and I can do just fine, so if there's not enough budget to properly localize it (subtitling shouldn't cost more than $3000 per language though, which is pretty cheap), they should at least let us play in English-only. As for the voices, more retardation from Japanese companies: they think they suck and very rarely do, and replace them by English voices which usually suck. Why not release the games with Japanese voices anyways? In a game like Eternal Sonata, which features anime-style characters, some even prefer the original Japanese voices, not only because of the better voice actors, but because of the better, genuine anime atmosphere.
English as well. Games getting released in America don't always get released in Europe and Oceania, and they have AIDS to region-lock them in order to discriminate against and piss on Europeans.
Not releasing a game because it won't be profitable, ok. But then why the heck do they region-lock it so that others can't even import it? Is it some kind of penis size complex?
Sony has a reputation of pushing whatever it develops disregarding everything else, and having additional support on this is merely circumstantial. Moreover, they have a reputation of licking media corporations' asses longer and deeper than Microsoft, so even though I hold no love for Microsoft and both formats are full of AIDS, I'd rather be raped by media corporations with HD-DVD than Blu-ray.
Another reason to prefer HD-DVD to Blu-ray (prefer, as in I prefer the guillotine over being burnt alive) is that it has a more affordable price. Sony's style is to push immature, hard to produce, unreliable technologies that cost a lot of money and give lots of headaches to everyone, "just cuz".
I enjoy seeing Blu-ray fail because it's Sony's, and at least to my limited and uninterested knowledge, it's even more full of AIDS (digital restrictions malware) than HD-DVD, but ultimately, both are AIDS-ridden media corporation formats, and we're in a case of cat shit vs. dog shit.
Quirky? Eternal Sonata is awesome. Awesome music, awesome visuals, awesome setting, and for what I could see, awesome gameplay. On the other hand, the Blue Dragon demo confirmed why I'm not so interested in the game: nothing's really bad about it, but it doesn't fascinate me like Eternal Sonata does. The later looks and feels like a mix between a fairy tale and a Thomas Kinkade painting, and few settings can be more interesting than the dreams of a genius. The Chopin theme works wonderfully, and the 4 CD soundtrack is one of the best I've ever seen or heard. The visuals are beyond comparison, at least if you like this style, and the gameplay is simple, fast and addictive, so how could this game be considered "quirky"? It's a damn blessing they even decided to release it in Europe; games this good tend to be Japan-exclusive, who knows or dares to guess why.
You just can't say anything bad about Apple here, or you'll be modded troll/flamebait by hordes of trendy Apple snobs wearing fashionable clothes who wasted $5000 on their last stylish Mac because of its slick exterior design, being the perfect complement for their iPods and the central hub of their digital lifestyle. Being important members of the blogosphere, they need to surf the cyberspace with class as they update their MySpace. They are complete iDolts.
American patents are ridiculous. You can go as far as patenting a live being. I'll eventually find myself patented in America and sued over the usage of me. onlyinamerica.
Anybody starting a trial because something gave him "great pain and mental anguish" needs to be beaten. Hardly.
Meh. Why is America so ridiculously obsessed with trials, laws, and all that crap they love such as patents or imaginary property, to the point of turning so-called justice into an industry of fat, vicious thugs who make up anything to sue for a living, exploit ludicrous legal loopholes, or live on patents? They have degraded and degenerated the concept of "justice" to the point I can no longer speak out loud the word "justice" without feeling I have to wash my mouth. I'm glad I'm not American, and I'll avoid setting a foot on it, lest I get sued for making a bad face to a pickpocket, causing him great mental injury. At this rate, America's so-called justice system will be worse than third world dictatorships', if it already isn't.
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Ha ha ha, who gives a damn. I got mine when I knew I could fair-use it.
This article sucks. First, he's evidently ignorant about some platforms and yet he still dares to judge one best. Second, he missed what's probably the best option - a PSP, which is cheap, has lots of tools, a good piece of hardware, and high-level languages such as Python available. Third, he goes with Windows Mobile. What the heck. Windows can never be good for development, because its APIs are insane. Or rather, GetWindowsAPIInsaneRatioForMultipleObjectsEx(&dwIRatio, &saSecurityAttributes, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL).
All are application logic. What they really are is a more important requirement, and less important requirement. Business logic is just enterprise fappage from pointy haired moronic managers who want to hear the "business" word. The more times they hear the "business" word, the more interested they are, even though they wouldn't be able to tell a computer from an elephant in 100 million years.
Intel does a lot of research. They've researched video codecs, face recognition, complex optimizers, and similar technologies in the past. Their goal is to generate demand for faster processors, though it's more honourably done (research of useful technologies) than the usual (fill the next version of Windows with shit).
True. The web is getting filled with crap from these "web 2.0 designers". Webcast, podcast, webinar, blog, blogosphere, and now mashup. Will the stupidity end?
The least bad thing about it is that I can safely skip all the stupid crap I don't understand -- it's going to be web 2.0 wankery anyways, so it's not a problem if I don't give a damn and stick to getting things done.
First off, he seems to think "Rails" is some kind of programming language. He failed to see it's merely a framework for Ruby, and that if the framework was getting in his way, he could just use bare Ruby. Ruby has a few questionable spots, such as the terrible Perlish syntax, half-assed first-class functions (different namespaces for functions and other values, as in Common Lisp, unlike Scheme), and difference between blocks, methods, and such, but it's undoubtedl superior to PHP, so provided you don't depend on some PHP library or extension that's not available on Ruby, it's going to be a more productive language to work in than PHP, as long as you hire the right person.
Second, he's a buzzword bingo. "Business-logic"? Only clueless people talk like that. He probably wanted Rails because of the hype, too.
Third, he was probably thinking things the wrong way; trying to make Rails work like PHP. You can't just rewrite programs for a completely different platform; you have to redesign them as well. He fails to understand this basic principle.
Fourth, "Is there anything Rails can do, that PHP CAN'T do?" Well, and I ask, is there anything PHP can do that 6502 assembly CAN'T do?
Fifth, "I realized the language didn't matter that much." At this point I stopped reading. This guy is really clueless. If language didn't matter much, we'd all be using FORTRAN. If this guy thinks it doesn't matter whether you do C or you do Python, then he better do something else but stop programming, much less managing programmers.
First of all, we all know there are no women on the Internet, so this article is pointless.
Second, and in a more serious stance, geeks are systematically discriminated against by most women, who are always after stupid, loud gang trash that treat them like dirt (which they call "confidence") and beat random people up and use drugs (which they call "funney"). They only care for this, as well as money, looks, and trendy fashion social crap. They isolate us because we are not social monkeys who care for who were Mary with the other day as she passed by a fashion store, and we treat them as people (most women hate this). They discriminate us from life and don't give sex, so in return we don't want any of their stupid fashion faggotry in this business. I think it's a pretty modest retaliation, and the typical shallow women who care for looks and are after idiots that beat them wouldn't make good engineers anyways.
Okay, so how do I install Quake 3?
Moore's law will end the year of the Linux desktop; the same year Duke Nukem Forever, Parrot, Perl 6 and bytecode compiled Ruby will be released.
"This should make USB hard drives easier and faster to use."
And exactly how is more bandwidth making things easier to use? This statement is like crap straight out of a business magazine.
That's because he has a long term ass rimming contract with Microsoft. For years, everything he did sucked hard and hurt the community. Mono, Silverlight and everything he does give Microsoft legitimacy to say they're open and portable, for almost free (whatever it took to buy him). Now he's also a patents and OOXML bully.
I wonder why the community keeps listening to the sold out crap he has to say. If we treted him like what he is -- a troll and a sell out -- and ignored him like we ignore the retarded Windows Vista using Microsoft trusting neighbour, he wouldn't have the power he has and he couldn't hurt the libre software community as he's doing.
Because they have been cracked and now you can restore the rights the mafiaa took from you. Every time I have a DVD I watch it through a player that does DeCSS, even if only for the moral value of the act.
Of course, that's the reason why there are new formats in the first place. The mafiaa corporations (Hollywood, Sony, etc.) want to spike every human life with AIDS, installing supposedly-illegal surveillance units at every home, and turning everyone into the perfect consumer: only buy the crap they make, at your local most expensive price, buy it several times if possible, and don't share anything with the next consumer.
Now I have to admit I'm surprised and disappointed about the Chinese format; I had a bit of hope that it'd be DRM-free. I guess the days when China was any good regarding this matter are long gone; they are now another America. Nobody outside the dictatorship will want their "television watches you" format.
And the problem is people is too stupid to actually buy their crap. Snobs, "early adopters", and other sufferers of human stupidity make this attack on your freedom successful. If Hollywood didn't have any AIDS-ridden format to publish their crap in, and Sony didn't sell any of their obnoxious, overpriced and premature technology, they'd be forced to use fair use formats. Or they would fold, which would be even sweeter.
There are many better alternatives to all of this crap; we can use it ourselves for any of our content. A solid state memory with a Matroska video, using Theora or H.264 for video encoding and Vorbis or MP3 for audio encoding.
This is a redundant array of telescopes
Anything that's against popular leftard proteges is "racist". Race doesn't really matter.
You can only insult and bash whites, especially if male, rich, and non-immigrant. They can be continuously blamed for everything, such as slavery, even though they did nothing themselves, but others who kill and murder are just poor people following their beautiful religion of peace.
I love Japanese RPGs, and I have played about two dozens of them since the SNES era, including the rarer, fan-translated ones. And I can say Eternal Sonata is awesome to my personal standards.
The 4-CD OST by Motoi Sakuraba is easily one of the best in the genre, all orchestral, inspired and complete with 40 minutes of Chopin performance by Russian pianist Stanislav Bunin, a Chopin specialist.
The gameplay, as far as I could see in the demo, is simple and addictive, and the story sounds good enough to keep it interesting, but I haven't played it. The combat system is also interesting, as it evolves from mostly-strategy to mostly-action as you play.
"Seems to me the audience of XB360 treats every genre (apart from racers) like they should be shooters." --- In fact one of the things I don't like from the Xbox 360 game catalogue is that 9 out of 10 games are boring Quake clones about ugly monsters and dark rooms made of black and obscure. Eternal Sonata is exactly what the Xbox 360 needs: a colourful fantasy game.
As for RPGs not getting released in Europe, what I wonder is why they still region-lock the American versions. At least we could play and buy the product. Sure, English is not my native language, but I'd rather play a decent English translation than a crappy Spanish one, and I can do just fine, so if there's not enough budget to properly localize it (subtitling shouldn't cost more than $3000 per language though, which is pretty cheap), they should at least let us play in English-only. As for the voices, more retardation from Japanese companies: they think they suck and very rarely do, and replace them by English voices which usually suck. Why not release the games with Japanese voices anyways? In a game like Eternal Sonata, which features anime-style characters, some even prefer the original Japanese voices, not only because of the better voice actors, but because of the better, genuine anime atmosphere.
English as well. Games getting released in America don't always get released in Europe and Oceania, and they have AIDS to region-lock them in order to discriminate against and piss on Europeans.
Not releasing a game because it won't be profitable, ok. But then why the heck do they region-lock it so that others can't even import it? Is it some kind of penis size complex?
XML is the enterprise way. Which means bad, but gets the job done. INI files are just as good, only simpler.
Sony has a reputation of pushing whatever it develops disregarding everything else, and having additional support on this is merely circumstantial. Moreover, they have a reputation of licking media corporations' asses longer and deeper than Microsoft, so even though I hold no love for Microsoft and both formats are full of AIDS, I'd rather be raped by media corporations with HD-DVD than Blu-ray.
Another reason to prefer HD-DVD to Blu-ray (prefer, as in I prefer the guillotine over being burnt alive) is that it has a more affordable price. Sony's style is to push immature, hard to produce, unreliable technologies that cost a lot of money and give lots of headaches to everyone, "just cuz".
I enjoy seeing Blu-ray fail because it's Sony's, and at least to my limited and uninterested knowledge, it's even more full of AIDS (digital restrictions malware) than HD-DVD, but ultimately, both are AIDS-ridden media corporation formats, and we're in a case of cat shit vs. dog shit.
Quirky? Eternal Sonata is awesome. Awesome music, awesome visuals, awesome setting, and for what I could see, awesome gameplay. On the other hand, the Blue Dragon demo confirmed why I'm not so interested in the game: nothing's really bad about it, but it doesn't fascinate me like Eternal Sonata does. The later looks and feels like a mix between a fairy tale and a Thomas Kinkade painting, and few settings can be more interesting than the dreams of a genius. The Chopin theme works wonderfully, and the 4 CD soundtrack is one of the best I've ever seen or heard. The visuals are beyond comparison, at least if you like this style, and the gameplay is simple, fast and addictive, so how could this game be considered "quirky"? It's a damn blessing they even decided to release it in Europe; games this good tend to be Japan-exclusive, who knows or dares to guess why.
Not really; my whole post was about trolling Apple fanboys by using the words they use and pointing out how big snobs they are.
You just can't say anything bad about Apple here, or you'll be modded troll/flamebait by hordes of trendy Apple snobs wearing fashionable clothes who wasted $5000 on their last stylish Mac because of its slick exterior design, being the perfect complement for their iPods and the central hub of their digital lifestyle. Being important members of the blogosphere, they need to surf the cyberspace with class as they update their MySpace. They are complete iDolts.
American patents are ridiculous. You can go as far as patenting a live being. I'll eventually find myself patented in America and sued over the usage of me. onlyinamerica.
Anybody starting a trial because something gave him "great pain and mental anguish" needs to be beaten. Hardly.
Meh. Why is America so ridiculously obsessed with trials, laws, and all that crap they love such as patents or imaginary property, to the point of turning so-called justice into an industry of fat, vicious thugs who make up anything to sue for a living, exploit ludicrous legal loopholes, or live on patents? They have degraded and degenerated the concept of "justice" to the point I can no longer speak out loud the word "justice" without feeling I have to wash my mouth. I'm glad I'm not American, and I'll avoid setting a foot on it, lest I get sued for making a bad face to a pickpocket, causing him great mental injury. At this rate, America's so-called justice system will be worse than third world dictatorships', if it already isn't.