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Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
Someone struck gold there.
Comment · 9 years ago
The previous CEO was so sunk by the credentials he couldn't met.
I don't know if you share my vision, but for me in that moment it felt like the house was on fire, the firetruck was on fire and the fire was on fire.
I don't know if a better job could be made, but at least some public face was saved, and the shareholders bought it until the last day.
Comment · 9 years ago
You mean like in IA64?
Comment · 10 years ago
Depends, depends.
Sometime certain programs have a particular configuration that you might want, but most of the users won't. In those cases the developer can simply omit those when they build the distribution binaries and then you as a POWER USER make your own changes and configuration. It happened me multiple times (want some experimental features?).
Some time ago I used to rebuild my Linux kernel to fix problems in my distribution, or to gain some edge in performance, but as the development had advanced that edge won't make up for my effort so I don't do it anymore.
I'm a linux user, and most of the time I hate to compile software if I don't have to, so I don't but when I do I'm happy that I can.
Comment · 10 years ago
Nothing beats my lxpanel over mutter, just because I can.
Comment · 10 years ago
Alt-F4 to accept the upgrade to windows 10, sounds in my ears.
Comment · 10 years ago
I wouldn't download a unknown binary, and sign up with my steam account.
Just saying.
But yeah, it's exciting nevertheless.
Comment · 10 years ago
I have seen his work and he is amazing. I'm almost sure that this is a fair use case and this is just bullying.
Too bad for him, I hope the best.
Comment · 10 years ago
I was reading and thinking nonsense but yeah I had the same insight.
This one was awesome though.
Comment · 10 years ago
Well, I won't recommend it to you unless you have a specific reason to do it (but just for fun... counts).
As a haswell user the only thing I have to say is, before Linux 4.4, the new P-state driver was awful specially for the powersave preset.
Other than that, probably won't worth it. Sure you can make it boot fast and use less memory, but in general is marginal. I used to have a linux-ck kernel and for some reason it stabilized my gaming in wine. Skyrim didn't crash/freeze as often, other than that... with my i3 I only squeezed 1-2 fps in my bad 20 something fps. But now wine got better, and I didn't rebuild the linux-ck anymore.
Comment · 10 years ago
I was reading the article and I consider it interesting.As a fan of Paradox myself I might love some of it but some parts seem very unlikely.
First let me address the part of education platform. We all know what are/were educational games and for most part they are bad. The most difficult problem is Game Literacy, basically to achieve the best effect the game should be fun and the mechanics adequate to the problem and yet make the players understand it. Sadly most of the people have a limited level of knowledge of game "languages" (probably the most easy are side scrollers, puzzle games, maybe sports). So you have or a "foul proof mechanics" aka (boring point and click interactive movie) or do you teach them how to play (and that takes time!).
Think that know how to play a game is essentially a skill, and gamers will fly way ahead of non-gamers. To know common mechanics (for example sport rules) can give huge advantages to some people, and will crush the expectations of people that is not interested or slow to learn games. There are gamers that have the equivalent literacy of a pro, and people with the level of kinder garden kids (across all the school years!!) and you have to leverage that. Later the platform, you can't assume a platform unless you provide it!!!.
I recommend This video about game literacy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8np2I_gQgcY
In second place, the AI is mod-able enough to make me think unthinkable it will be open sourced. It would be great if the configuration is open sourced. Imagine have a version controlled configuration, it could be flavoured and a fine tuned by the best of the players/modders in a centralized way (openTTD has something like that!!!!) and I'm not talking about Steamworkshop, I mean something better, internally reviewed. As example one thing that the Paradox AI in EU4 does bad is the economy, there are plenty of buildings that are built in a nonsensical way, like markets in provinces with bad trade values, or optimizing the slots available wrong, but that can be MODDED.
Now imagine to have an IN GAME AI configuration "market", all reviewed (and properly signed/checksumed for Ironman-achievements enabled games), and other just to play, with scores and all. Even they could release an AI development kit or something, if the configuration thing it's not enough.
For the last part, I don't buy it. Doesn't appeal to me.
Comment · 10 years ago
I had seen then growing for a wile and I really like their philosophy.
Their designs are so good and I like their applications.
In the other hand their software needs to grow and need some polish. There are many bugs around there, nothing that prevents the daily usage but still. For me it's a great distribution, but not my flagship yet...
Great article, it's good to see the other side.
There is a clean room implementation, made open source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperH#J_Core