From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c9d5fc258548b22a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!noris.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: <67063a5b-f588-45ea-bf22-ca4ba0196ee6@l11g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <4d4c232a$0$28967$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <4D4D6506.50909@obry.net> <4d50095f$0$22393$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <4d6d56c4$0$11509$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <16u9ka51wbukr$.1fj2sb73j9rv6.dlg@40tude.net> <4d6d627b$0$11509$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <74986d0a-0d5b-4396-8c77-adff72e870a2@d26g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <4d6eafc7$0$17913$a8266bb1@postbox2.readnews.com> <4d6eb309$0$17913$a8266bb1@postbox2.readnews.com> <4d6ed212$0$17960$a8266bb1@postbox2.readnews.com> <8985b302-96b8-4f22-aa4d-d64945047f90@r4g2000prm.googlegroups.com> <4d6ee8e2$0$14912$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <4d6f2fcb$0$14547$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <13gwfl525mu1u.12yk6sh24m6ug.dlg@40tude.net> <4d6fd539$0$17927$a8266bb1@postbox2.readnews.com> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 19:32:28 +0100 Message-ID: <105nd71xwbeue$.w1crnwerweta.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 03 Mar 2011 19:32:24 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: 1c5d91fb.newsspool1.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=baU:_CcD6M:=FQB?mjjV50ic==]BZ:af>4Fo<]lROoR1<`=YMgDjhg2[OgT3@U=9b>[6LHn;2LCV>[ On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:51:52 -0500, Hyman Rosen wrote: > On 3/3/2011 3:52 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >> On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:05:53 -0500, Hyman Rosen wrote: >> >>> Do those "better" methods buy you all that? >> >> No, because of the present economical model of software developing. > > Nonsense and unresponsive both. You have no evidence to support > your thesis that using relational databases to store data is bad. Now I wonder if you ever used DB, because I am using them on daily basis. >> Quality does not have any significant value. Actually it has a negative >> value. Software vendors sell upgrades. Software houses do man-hours. Bug is >> a little helper to justify growing costs. > > This is certainly not universally true. Consumer applications such > as games are reviewed upon release and the presence of errors can > destroy sales and ruin a company When you bought a game last time? Was it Angry Birds? (:-)) No game is usable before the patch 1.2. The game must be rolled out to a certain event, e.g. Christmas and nobody would mind if it crashes. Vendors cut games into pieces in order to sell them as DLCs. For more than 10 years I saw no game with a usable UI. The most exciting is the saga of 3rd mouse button. Mouses have no 2 button for about 20 years. Nevertheless each game maps something vital to the non-existent button. Less than a half of games can survive Alt-tab. None have normal saving. 20 years ago Doom I had saving, behold 20 years of steady progress. Graphics is way worse than a cheap PC accelerator can deliver. That is because games are developed for consoles and nobody cares for a fair PC port. Original new games are non-existent. There are endless remakes of endless sequels of corridor shooters like CoD, so-called "RPG" where there is neither roles nor playing, boring never changing simulators like ANNO and car races. Don't even try to search for a good quest, there is none. Of course you will tell me that this is what customers wanted... > When upgrades are sold, they are sold by claiming new features, > not by claiming fixed errors. Sure, Windows, Visual Studio, MS-Office are all bought because their excellent new features... -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de