Video game industry history and my own experiences trying to find information. I thought I was clear enough on the latter.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but GDC is for professionals (and the press), right? It's not like I'm going to get trained there even if I'm allowed to attend.
Unfortunately, game programmers are very secretive of their craft and won't help you much, if at all. I'm trying to develop a game myself but I'm mostly on my own.
Books are either for beginners or professionals. Anything in-between isn't discussed. It doesn't help that most of these books are "learn C++" or "learn DirectX/OpenGL" books in disguise.
Asking intermediate level questions on message boards will get you answers like "It depends." and "Try a couple things and see what works."
Googling information will net you a lot of tutorials that are either about really basic stuff or very advanced 3D techniques.
Now, I'm not saying that others should do everything for me. What I'm saying is I'd like to see how other programmers have solved certain problems, learn from them, and then make my own implementation. I know there are source code repositories for open-source games out there, but they're an exercise in frustration because there's no documentation of any kind for these complex beasts. Some repositories don't even have indentation while browsing them.
So, yeah, we're all stuck reinventing the wheel. What a waste of time.
Plus a little into research on getting a camel through the eye of a needle, so far they're successful, excepting the camel is quite dead after the process.
I think you'll find that you're being a bit judgmental. What if her husband was killed in a car accident or something?
While I'm sure those exist, considering the amounts of divorces, the age, and the sheer amount of these single moms I don't think they make up a large percentage of that group.
Talk to single moms. These sites bread-and-butter is single parents who don't have time to go out. Deal with it. If you want to go to a free site you should at least entertain the idea that the people on it will have children.
I don't think this is a good idea, and many won't like it. These women come with baggage and you could end up being responsible for someone else's kid that you might not care about.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather not hook up with someone who was stupid enough to end up single with one or more kids.
And then people did some stuff and things got better.
Things got better after the economical collapse because Europe got destroyed and then rebuilt. We pretty much started back from zero. I don't think this is an option now.
PCs never become obsolete, you can always get a new an better PC. It's not like a console where you find yourself screwed into buying a new obsolete console when your old one dies to play old games.
Newer PCs aren't always compatible with older PC games, and then you have to rely on emulators and fiddle with them to get them to run. No such problem with consoles.
It's just a variant of the long-running practice of newspapers, of putting pieces of a story on several different pages, each piece surrounded by ads that you try not to glance at. It's how news distribution has always worked, and moving to the internet didn't change much of anything.
Irony: Firefox fan supporting XPCOM... who probably rants about ActiveX.
I'm not a Firefox fan; I use SeaMonkey. I haven't ranted about ActiveX either. You can stop your stereotyping now.
The fact that their entire browser and extension system are based on it is due to bad design, not something they want to keep around.
You're wrong. They exist to make cross-platform development easier. It's much better than maintaining a different version of the GUI for every platform. Just write XUL and use XPCOM to make it run.
Plus, due to its nature, it's easy to overlay and hook into, which is what allows the extensions to be as useful as they are. That's the reason why XUL-based web browsers, after all these years, still outmatch every other web browser in terms of extensibility and customisability.
These two 'features' are in fact some of Gecko's biggest performance problems, that coupled with the idea that it was smart to write most everything in JavaScript.
That said, I wish that Mozilla foundation would take, say, one of those $300 millions and spend it on replacing Gecko by webkit, putting its own fork of webkit under GPL.
You want them to throw away all the work they did on Gecko for more than a decade? That's insane.
Not only would it be a waste of work, but it'd mean Mozilla would lose its most powerful technologies: XUL and XPCOM. Their web browser and the entire extension system are based on it.
You must have been living under a rock if you still believe that free markets work. They've repeatedly proven that they need to be regulated or they'll take advantage of their position. Go study your history.
How coincidental that your nickname is 'the biologist', because a biologist I know explained to me why it actually does kill brain cells as well as cause other damage. Read my other comment if you're interested.
Any scientific paper that was not bought by alcoholic drink companies proves by a+b that any quantities of alcohol will cause permanent damage to brain cells, in larger or smaller dimensions. Ethanol acts as a neurodepressant that retards the connection between neurons. The toxicity of it will force the neurons to spontaneously die, closing the link between them. And God knows which link will be closed at every drop of alcohol you swallow.
Just like a cigarette will cause damage to the cells of your lung increasing the chances of developing cancer and any kind of drugs will cause damage to brain/liver cells at higher or lower levels.
I could not prove that wrong if I wanted to.
Not to mention the work the liver has to do to clean this mess from your blood, creating unpleasing molecules called cetonic bodies that are responsible for headaches and, in bad cases, hungovers. This work is not really natural for this organ, as we didn't evolve to assimilate alcohol as part of our diet, overcharging it. Continuous use of alcohol in "moderation" will cause such a damage to the liver that, later, a person may develop cyrrhosis, or however you spell it.
Nothing harmful will become good in moderation. Unless you judge the damage it causes as something good enough for you.
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Which will create more incompatibility, the very thing you're arguing against.
Fuck this transition. 64-bit just means even more wasted RAM and will enable applications to bloat their RAM use even more.
Video game industry history and my own experiences trying to find information. I thought I was clear enough on the latter.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but GDC is for professionals (and the press), right? It's not like I'm going to get trained there even if I'm allowed to attend.
Unfortunately, game programmers are very secretive of their craft and won't help you much, if at all. I'm trying to develop a game myself but I'm mostly on my own.
Now, I'm not saying that others should do everything for me. What I'm saying is I'd like to see how other programmers have solved certain problems, learn from them, and then make my own implementation. I know there are source code repositories for open-source games out there, but they're an exercise in frustration because there's no documentation of any kind for these complex beasts. Some repositories don't even have indentation while browsing them.
So, yeah, we're all stuck reinventing the wheel. What a waste of time.
I laughed out loud at this. Thank you!
Poor Lillith is forgotten. :(
You do realise that not all Flash content will migrate, right? A lot of it isn't being looked after by their authors any more.
Elephant-killing thing? That's a first. Got a link?
While I'm sure those exist, considering the amounts of divorces, the age, and the sheer amount of these single moms I don't think they make up a large percentage of that group.
I don't think this is a good idea, and many won't like it. These women come with baggage and you could end up being responsible for someone else's kid that you might not care about.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather not hook up with someone who was stupid enough to end up single with one or more kids.
4chan is showing.
I don't agree. There are limited opportunities to meet new people and actually get to know them. And there's so many people out there.
There are also some of us who aren't into going to bars or discos. But I guess you wouldn't consider them to be 'normal'.
This seems like a contradiction.
Things got better after the economical collapse because Europe got destroyed and then rebuilt. We pretty much started back from zero. I don't think this is an option now.
I don't understand what you're trying to say. Please reword your phrase.
Newer PCs aren't always compatible with older PC games, and then you have to rely on emulators and fiddle with them to get them to run. No such problem with consoles.
There's always a trade-off.
Odd. The newspapers I read have never done this.
I'm not saying it's impossible to implement XUL and XPCOM on top of Webkit, but if you're throwing out Gecko you're almost starting over from scratch.
I'm not a Firefox fan; I use SeaMonkey. I haven't ranted about ActiveX either. You can stop your stereotyping now.
You're wrong. They exist to make cross-platform development easier. It's much better than maintaining a different version of the GUI for every platform. Just write XUL and use XPCOM to make it run.
Plus, due to its nature, it's easy to overlay and hook into, which is what allows the extensions to be as useful as they are. That's the reason why XUL-based web browsers, after all these years, still outmatch every other web browser in terms of extensibility and customisability.
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You want them to throw away all the work they did on Gecko for more than a decade? That's insane.
Not only would it be a waste of work, but it'd mean Mozilla would lose its most powerful technologies: XUL and XPCOM. Their web browser and the entire extension system are based on it.
You must have been living under a rock if you still believe that free markets work. They've repeatedly proven that they need to be regulated or they'll take advantage of their position. Go study your history.
I don't understand why a medic gets drunk. You should know better.
*WHOOSH*
We know that. The common (wo)man doesn't know they can type web addresses in the location bar. They go everywhere using Google's search box.
I was talking about Firefox; don't know much about Google Chrome. SeaMonkey user here, by the way. :)
How coincidental that your nickname is 'the biologist', because a biologist I know explained to me why it actually does kill brain cells as well as cause other damage. Read my other comment if you're interested.
To quote a biologist acquaintance of mine: