The money's there, but the devs have to start with cross platform in mind. Porting an old MS/Windows game to GNU/Windows+Linux was a PITA. When I started the new project, I started out with cross platform support in mind, and it's easy to support multiple OSs now. Takes exactly 2 commands to build on Windows or Linux: git pull && make
Just like with the console market, devs are realising there's really no reason to ignore market-share on a new project -- Exclusivity typically is paid for. Nintendo tried to be uber unique with the Wii and its vastly underpowered hardware and that worked to a degree to give them a different set of games, but even it has games with PC and mobile ports now. Publishers are realising that most players don't really care about the platform so much -- They just want to play the game, regardless of hardware it's for.
IMHO, cross platform is the future and the future is bright. Players pay for indie games on Linux already. Smaller groups of devs are more agile. Expect bigger brands to follow, it's just taking them some time to get their code up to speed. Hopefully they can also twist the GPU market's arm to get some better drivers out there.
Sure you'll have Penguin of Duty, but you've got that already today; Even on Windows there are freeware games following in the footsteps of bigger name games.
Well, you don't want to use it bad enough... All of my machines run GNU/Linux just fine. I have no hardware problems whatsoever. Know why? I made sure the hardware I purchased would work with the software I planed to use on it before I bought it. I wouldn't install a new Microsoft or Apple OS on hardware that couldn't support it... The fact of the matter is that many hardware vendors don't give out sources for their drivers, or attempt to make sure the devices work on GNU/Linux. So, it's down to the users to do the leg work and buy stuff that works with their software of choice. In the mean-time we try to support the hardware ourselves, but it's much more difficult to create drivers when you're not the manufacturer if you have to reverse engineer things.
I see people complaining all the time that their hardware doesn't work -- Yes, typically they're a victim of vendor lock in. I feel bad about that. IMO, hardware should come with driver sources (you don't buy drivers, you buy hardware), otherwise it's just furthering a planned obsolescence racket.
I tried installing Debian on a new Toshiba laptop -- The wireless DIDN'T WORK OUT OF THE BOX! OMFG! Ah, but that's fine, I knew Toshiba support had the source code for the driver, so I downloaded it, compiled it, and it worked. I had to recompile the driver each time the kernel was updated (4 times). After 3 months, I didn't need to compile my driver anymore, it was in the Kernel. The MFG made sure the stuff would work with Windows on day one, but they didn't hold back on the product until it had FOSS support too, sometimes I have to wait for the MFG to post sources before buying new hardware. I call them, send them email "I'd like to buy $HW, when will your driver sources be available?" They won't grease a wheel that's not squeaky.
I'm not a zealot that thinks everyone must run the same OS as I do -- I'm a software developer who thinks OS's and Kernels shouldn't have to be important to end users (it's fine if they are though). What's most important to me is end user freedoms. If I was developing OSs then I'd work on free software OSs since they give users the most freedom, IMO. Since I make applications I make sure they're cross platform so that the user has the freedom to choose what OS to use. I would feel bad if a user made an OS decision based on the availability of my software.
It's really not hard to make things cross platform when you start with it as a goal. There can be platform issues the closer you get to the metal, but even the Games industry is seeing a lot less of the exclusive titles -- You'd have to pay me big money to ignore a market segment for no good reason. Since I have no compatibility issues, I get to choose the OS I primarily use based only on its merits -- I have all the major OS's available for me to produce my software, but I choose to develop on GNU/Linux because I feel it's a superior experience.
I'm not sure there's an answer to the "Year of Linux on the Desktop" right now. There's a bunch of issues to consider all at once, but the future looks bright. I'm seeing ads for hardware with pre-installed Ubuntu around... Hardware vendors don't want to give up the planned obsolescence that proprietary drivers allow them to enforce. As the smaller hardware vendors realise it can be a differentiating factor I think the issues will get better (I see Tux on some HW packaging now). For now, if you have hardware that won't work, you might be able to hire someone to work on the driver -- I did just this for a flat-bed scanner driver. It was cheaper than buying another license for MS/Windows7, and I get to use the device with the OS I prefer. If you don't want to run GNU/Linux bad enough to spend money, that's fine. I understand -- I mean, you already paid for an OS that your hardware MFG does support...
(Yes, I do call it GNU/Linux. I'm a heavy GNU user. I also call it GNU/Windows or GNU/OSX when I use the GNU toolchain on those platforms. Some of my code can't be compiled with MS/Windows (even if it runs on Windows) -- I haven't found a MS utility that supports C99.)
The Sun only provides so much energy and that energy is what make the Earth run.
Well, the Sun as well as the Moon's tidal forces which cause the Earth to flex by approx 30cm daily causing friction in the Earth while also massaging the crust to help relieve pressure.
Well, that and the previous star(s) that blew up and who's energy is present in the matter and angular momentum preserved in the forming of our solar system.
You could very well also argue that if we continue using energy at this rate, we'll also accelerate the Heat Death of the Universe.
You've never heard of the spirit of the constitution, have you?...
The first amendment is not interpreted literally. Otherwise, we wouldn't have laws on slander, libel, or any speech whatsoever. Why should the rest of it be interpreted literally?
Why? Well, since you asked: It's due to the one party system. You see, the Federalist party supported the spirit of the law, while the Democratic-Republican part (yes singular, "party") wanted the laws interpreted quite literally. Since the only major opposition to the Democratic-Republican party is gone, only the the literal interpretation party remains, and it happens to have a virtual monopoly on votes, so there's no way to vote them out. (They removed the hyphen so it wouldn't seem like a 1 party system).
The current division in American trust is split along party lines and even when both "sides" agree they refuse to come to terms because they see it as taking on the banner of the enemy.
I see. So, it's quite clear... What we need is a common enemy. One who will unite the nation as one against the undefeatable diabolical foe....
-- Don't you see the Terrorists are TRYING to help?!
Teachers & Professors could easily be replaced by Youtube... Online discussion forums could replace classrooms -- We have the technology. Sadly, the bottom line is: People that want to learn will. People that don't won't... (...shouldn't have to?) It's kind of strange to me -- Do kids in other countries make fun of you for making good grades? I mean, making bad grades and being feared as a "hardcore thug", having a "fat roll" of money and many "bitches and hoes" for sexual parters was actually preferable to the kids in my neighborhood -- Those that scored good grades everyone made a point to pick on, even if they had a sex life and knocked a few skulls when needed (or if those poking fun made good grades themselves). I think it was part envy, but it was also part something else...
Perhaps we could start with the media industry -- I mean, I'm not using this as a cop out, truthfully -- The kids in my "hood" were certainly influenced by the glamorisation of an uneducated and morally corrupt criminal lifestyle by the celebrities in the media they consumed -- They literally idolized such figures even if they saw 1st hand what it meant to live in such a way. Identifying with the culture is one thing, but to a large degree I do believe it's the GIGO phenomena. I tried to understand why a thug's life was so glamorous that some of my friends wouldn't ever get tutoring, study, or even try to participate in class. There was plenty of poverty, hopelessness, and hardships, and everyone's done things they're not proud of, but there were also opportunities left untaken. It would be interesting to re-live that part of my life without the negative social pressures associated with education...
These same people who idolized thugs also frequently had a deep respect (or at least fear) of their parents. I wonder if their parent's were more directly involved with their education (with the backing of online resources) if they could have a greater influence than peer pressure? Perhaps if it were easier for the parent to administer the education at home? I mean: Some knowledge is better than none.
Then again -- Aside from reading and basic mathematics, most people I knew didn't learn much from high school -- Education beyond grade 9 was essentially worthless to even the successful of my peers. We rarely finished 1/2 a course's book by the end of the year, and I taught myself nearly everything I know without instruction (including programming and calculus). I wanted to learn.
Whoah, cowboy! "falsifying documents" is fraud. Fraud is a crime. Making a false accusation a crime in writing is libel.
I know several people in the compliance area of the Mortgage industry that document everything they do to cover their asses because they seriously suspect that the way the companies they work for are doing things is fraudulent. Of primary concern is having unlicensed loan origination AND processing illegally outsourced to India. The compliance managers tell their higher ups that what they're doing is probably wrong, but they don't care; They're yes men. The bosses are business men making deals trying to make things happen and they don't ACTUALLY know what's legally required. In fact, one of their bosses is a here on a visa, from India, and doesn't care if they get shut down -- He's working another more lucrative project for their parent company -- If it all goes south, he doesn't care, he still has his cushy job back in his homeland's main offices.
I'm seriously not trying to diss Indians: Nationality has nothing to do with it at all. This may not be representative of the whole industry, but I can't prove that -- I'm just telling you like I hear it is for the people that I know -- And letting you know that fraud IS STILL HAPPENING, and the accusations are not libel unless you name names and it happens to be a false accusation (in my case it's certainly NOT libel).
My friend's bosses won't take the advice to seek attorneys' legal opinions before making the crazy deals or restructuring agreements because that would likely prove they knew full well they were wrong (and it also costs money). They believe they're cunning business men who can find a way to cut corners and beat a system which the government has done its best to remove corners from. The larger companies that buy and sell and do business contracts with such smaller companies are some of the biggest international banks in the world. In the past five years, one of my friend's companies has been bought four times. The regulations require that the new corporate owners disclose their identities, so they instead play games with their corporate structures instead of doing things the right way -- The investment group doesn't want to be fingerprinted and have their names associated with the mortgage companies under their actual control -- That should tell you something right there...
Furthermore, when a state orders an exam, their document repositories hardly ever have all the correct info because the over seas people completing the loans and filing the forms try to manipulate closing dates and so they can get bigger bonuses in a given window -- Except they're sloppy and don't go back and update the info in the Calyx point system they use. As a programmer I've offered many times that the computer system should prevent them from closing the loans unless all the pertinent details are in the system -- But a large part of the industry still relies heavily on Faxes! Electronic signatures would be preferable, but even those are frequently used incorrectly.
One of my friends said that frequently, Upon pulling a set of docs for a loan, the lender's name won't even be on the form! It's not that it never was, or that the loan has no lender -- Just that someone (in India) didn't care enough about their job to go back and scan in the form and add it to the file before closing it. My friend has been complaining to me about incomplete forms for over three years -- Apparently the manager can't get their employees to do the job correctly -- They do all sorts of other document processing as well since it's a sister company that operates primarily as an outsourcing business, and what's a few incorrect forms here and there?
Each of my friends has worked for several other companies, and their past businesses have all eventually gone under due to regulatory fines for non compliance and inability to create new loans for want of valid state licenses as their only legal loan origi
So, what you're saying is that God doesn't want to be one? Or else He's wicked? Or instead that somehow he really messed up when he made man in his image? I mean, in your view, that man wants to be God like didn't come from no-where right? It came from somewhere... Everything has a purpose. Egro: God made man to be wicked like He is -- Otherwise, There exists the possibility that I may attain god like power and yet be as gentle and benevolent as his own son...
Just saying -- Your belief that you are already on the short end of the moral stick just by being born is a fear tactic to keep you subjugated and paying a religion tax.
The blame lies with those who let them run free in the first place by deregulating the financial sector, not on animals following their instincts.
The deregulators absolutely deserve blame, but so do the predators here. They aren't animals, they are people who have free will and the ability to make moral decisions and thus they have culpability unlike an actual wolf.
Not "Are","Were".
You really can't blame them for their actions; They have no proper reasoning, and you know what must be done.
You can't just act like they're still your friends once they've lost all cognitive capability except the irresistible craving profit.
As the saying goes: Zombies Were People Too!
What about the DLC that's created after the game has gone gold because the asset creators are just sitting there twiddling our thumbs waiting for Metacritic scores to keep us from getting fired while the pre-production guys finish ironing out the details of the next game? That's a LOT of your day 1 DLC. There's a lag between when we can't put anything else on the disc, and when the game ships...
Sure, EA is the devil and people may relish in publishers going bankrupt, but without developers we don't have games. I'd rather not see all my favorite developers out of work.
OH CRAP! I sure hope all the Money Leeching Publishers who abuse the Game Devs that work for them don't go out of BUSINESS! Whatever will Unfunded Indie Devs Like Me DO?! Why, I suppose I'd just have to keep making games! It'll be HORRIBLE! Many of us can't even afford to license an existing Engine! If we make our own engines then How will we ever meet the sameness Quotas the current Industry is used to?!
I think this is evolutions way of saying "Don't have children, dudes."
I'm in that category for other reasons. (Autoimmune. Besides I'd rather build a robot with my own AI)
So you think he shouldn't reproduce just because he's unable to watch certain types of television? WTF? That's one of the lamest criteria for deciding whether to reproduce. Hell, I bet some people would say that's a sign he should reproduce like crazy and create a bunch of kids who are physiologically forced to go outside and play.
No, you forget one key factor. He's posting on Slashdot too.
What would be the incentive to organize such an expedition? Even if they are way ahead of us, it will be an enormous enterprise. I'm sure if they are so advanced, they would have to compare it with much better alternatives.
A spot of tea? We'd make great pets? I could think of a million reasons why or why not to visit. Nearly all of the good reasons are non-malicious -- Greed would be a huge limiting factor for the malicious motives... Unless their planet is dying or something.
Think of it this way: Let's say we discovered a TV Signal from an alien race that was less advanced than us? What would we do? Bet your bottom dollar the first (US gov) instinct would be: "Don't tell the public! They'll want to send a message, and that could mean war or our eventual demise." Regardless of the distance, as soon as word gets out to the public, every nerd's mom's sat dish is re-purposed and aimed at the distant planet and beaming them everything from GNU/Linux source code to Otherworldly Erotica. (Heh, here's one now!)
Public support for NASA to launch a small satellite carrying a message of peace would be huge, regardless of the time it would take it to get there, and the near hopeless chance of it reaching anyone... Were we very much more advanced than we are now, it would be a huge scientific find and you can be sure that some of us would be making plans to stop by and say "hi".
(You've obviously never met an Explorer or Mountain Climber.)
The B.O.L.D. program hinges on detecting oxygen exchange
What if the life form on Mars uses N2 instead?
Nitrogen is a bit on the inert side to be useful as life's energy source.
Well, what if they just breathe iron? You know, like some of the creatures here on Earth. Mars has lot's of iron... it has sulfer, and even some water. I suppose the life on Earth currently uses oxygen, so that's what we're looking for? I mean, what about The Great Oxidation Catastrophe? During which lots of this planet's anaerobic life was likely killed off (oxygen was poisonous to them, they didn't use it). Point being: We don't even know what to look for -- we have hardly any idea what the parameters of life are on our own planet. Until recently we thought nothing could survive at the bottom of the ocean, boy was that wrong.
I guess you've got to begin looking somewhere, and looking for the presence of life as we know it is a good start. However, all evidence will be inconclusive as to the existence of life unless they actually find life, or we do a whole lot more exploration of Mars than we've done of our own planet.
It's like saying you love your car and remarking how no other car can even come close, but you go on several test drives periodically, and you're not fooling anyone.
What if we then put a massive computer at the middle of this Internet of things
You're doing it wrong.
You don't put a massive ANYTHING in the middle of a huge flow of data. Instead, you come up with ways to route the flow around the network to where the data needs to go, and you limit risk by isolating systems from each other, and creating APIs, Protocols, and Redundancy. There's a reason we're still able to use the Internet -- It was specifically designed to avoid such single points of failures.
Now, a distributed system? Yeah, maybe. Where you can hot swap out a chunk and the rest of the network keeps on trucking with little to no effect on the whole... yes. Where there's a big "Master Control Program" -- NO. That's not scalable. Individual specialised overseers, maybe.
This whole article says more about the author's lack of knowledge about Cybernetic Systems than anything else.
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The money's there, but the devs have to start with cross platform in mind. Porting an old MS/Windows game to GNU/Windows+Linux was a PITA. When I started the new project, I started out with cross platform support in mind, and it's easy to support multiple OSs now. Takes exactly 2 commands to build on Windows or Linux: git pull && make
Just like with the console market, devs are realising there's really no reason to ignore market-share on a new project -- Exclusivity typically is paid for. Nintendo tried to be uber unique with the Wii and its vastly underpowered hardware and that worked to a degree to give them a different set of games, but even it has games with PC and mobile ports now. Publishers are realising that most players don't really care about the platform so much -- They just want to play the game, regardless of hardware it's for.
IMHO, cross platform is the future and the future is bright. Players pay for indie games on Linux already. Smaller groups of devs are more agile. Expect bigger brands to follow, it's just taking them some time to get their code up to speed. Hopefully they can also twist the GPU market's arm to get some better drivers out there.
Sure you'll have Penguin of Duty, but you've got that already today; Even on Windows there are freeware games following in the footsteps of bigger name games.
That's my experience too. I want to use Linux
Well, you don't want to use it bad enough... All of my machines run GNU/Linux just fine. I have no hardware problems whatsoever. Know why? I made sure the hardware I purchased would work with the software I planed to use on it before I bought it. I wouldn't install a new Microsoft or Apple OS on hardware that couldn't support it... The fact of the matter is that many hardware vendors don't give out sources for their drivers, or attempt to make sure the devices work on GNU/Linux. So, it's down to the users to do the leg work and buy stuff that works with their software of choice. In the mean-time we try to support the hardware ourselves, but it's much more difficult to create drivers when you're not the manufacturer if you have to reverse engineer things.
I see people complaining all the time that their hardware doesn't work -- Yes, typically they're a victim of vendor lock in. I feel bad about that. IMO, hardware should come with driver sources (you don't buy drivers, you buy hardware), otherwise it's just furthering a planned obsolescence racket.
I tried installing Debian on a new Toshiba laptop -- The wireless DIDN'T WORK OUT OF THE BOX! OMFG! Ah, but that's fine, I knew Toshiba support had the source code for the driver, so I downloaded it, compiled it, and it worked. I had to recompile the driver each time the kernel was updated (4 times). After 3 months, I didn't need to compile my driver anymore, it was in the Kernel. The MFG made sure the stuff would work with Windows on day one, but they didn't hold back on the product until it had FOSS support too, sometimes I have to wait for the MFG to post sources before buying new hardware. I call them, send them email "I'd like to buy $HW, when will your driver sources be available?" They won't grease a wheel that's not squeaky.
I'm not a zealot that thinks everyone must run the same OS as I do -- I'm a software developer who thinks OS's and Kernels shouldn't have to be important to end users (it's fine if they are though). What's most important to me is end user freedoms. If I was developing OSs then I'd work on free software OSs since they give users the most freedom, IMO. Since I make applications I make sure they're cross platform so that the user has the freedom to choose what OS to use. I would feel bad if a user made an OS decision based on the availability of my software.
It's really not hard to make things cross platform when you start with it as a goal. There can be platform issues the closer you get to the metal, but even the Games industry is seeing a lot less of the exclusive titles -- You'd have to pay me big money to ignore a market segment for no good reason. Since I have no compatibility issues, I get to choose the OS I primarily use based only on its merits -- I have all the major OS's available for me to produce my software, but I choose to develop on GNU/Linux because I feel it's a superior experience.
I'm not sure there's an answer to the "Year of Linux on the Desktop" right now. There's a bunch of issues to consider all at once, but the future looks bright. I'm seeing ads for hardware with pre-installed Ubuntu around... Hardware vendors don't want to give up the planned obsolescence that proprietary drivers allow them to enforce. As the smaller hardware vendors realise it can be a differentiating factor I think the issues will get better (I see Tux on some HW packaging now). For now, if you have hardware that won't work, you might be able to hire someone to work on the driver -- I did just this for a flat-bed scanner driver. It was cheaper than buying another license for MS/Windows7, and I get to use the device with the OS I prefer. If you don't want to run GNU/Linux bad enough to spend money, that's fine. I understand -- I mean, you already paid for an OS that your hardware MFG does support...
(Yes, I do call it GNU/Linux. I'm a heavy GNU user. I also call it GNU/Windows or GNU/OSX when I use the GNU toolchain on those platforms. Some of my code can't be compiled with MS/Windows (even if it runs on Windows) -- I haven't found a MS utility that supports C99.)
The Sun only provides so much energy and that energy is what make the Earth run.
Well, the Sun as well as the Moon's tidal forces which cause the Earth to flex by approx 30cm daily causing friction in the Earth while also massaging the crust to help relieve pressure.
Well, that and the previous star(s) that blew up and who's energy is present in the matter and angular momentum preserved in the forming of our solar system.
You could very well also argue that if we continue using energy at this rate, we'll also accelerate the Heat Death of the Universe.
I also have nightmares about the valley of the living windmills.
And if you do anything about it -- You're a terrorist.
*sigh*
You've never heard of the spirit of the constitution, have you? ...
The first amendment is not interpreted literally. Otherwise, we wouldn't have laws on slander, libel, or any speech whatsoever. Why should the rest of it be interpreted literally?
Why? Well, since you asked: It's due to the one party system. You see, the Federalist party supported the spirit of the law, while the Democratic-Republican part (yes singular, "party") wanted the laws interpreted quite literally. Since the only major opposition to the Democratic-Republican party is gone, only the the literal interpretation party remains, and it happens to have a virtual monopoly on votes, so there's no way to vote them out. (They removed the hyphen so it wouldn't seem like a 1 party system).
The current division in American trust is split along party lines and even when both "sides" agree they refuse to come to terms because they see it as taking on the banner of the enemy.
I see. So, it's quite clear... What we need is a common enemy. One who will unite the nation as one against the undefeatable diabolical foe....
-- Don't you see the Terrorists are TRYING to help?!
Teachers & Professors could easily be replaced by Youtube... Online discussion forums could replace classrooms -- We have the technology. Sadly, the bottom line is: People that want to learn will. People that don't won't... (...shouldn't have to?) It's kind of strange to me -- Do kids in other countries make fun of you for making good grades? I mean, making bad grades and being feared as a "hardcore thug", having a "fat roll" of money and many "bitches and hoes" for sexual parters was actually preferable to the kids in my neighborhood -- Those that scored good grades everyone made a point to pick on, even if they had a sex life and knocked a few skulls when needed (or if those poking fun made good grades themselves). I think it was part envy, but it was also part something else...
Perhaps we could start with the media industry -- I mean, I'm not using this as a cop out, truthfully -- The kids in my "hood" were certainly influenced by the glamorisation of an uneducated and morally corrupt criminal lifestyle by the celebrities in the media they consumed -- They literally idolized such figures even if they saw 1st hand what it meant to live in such a way. Identifying with the culture is one thing, but to a large degree I do believe it's the GIGO phenomena. I tried to understand why a thug's life was so glamorous that some of my friends wouldn't ever get tutoring, study, or even try to participate in class. There was plenty of poverty, hopelessness, and hardships, and everyone's done things they're not proud of, but there were also opportunities left untaken. It would be interesting to re-live that part of my life without the negative social pressures associated with education...
These same people who idolized thugs also frequently had a deep respect (or at least fear) of their parents. I wonder if their parent's were more directly involved with their education (with the backing of online resources) if they could have a greater influence than peer pressure? Perhaps if it were easier for the parent to administer the education at home? I mean: Some knowledge is better than none.
Then again -- Aside from reading and basic mathematics, most people I knew didn't learn much from high school -- Education beyond grade 9 was essentially worthless to even the successful of my peers. We rarely finished 1/2 a course's book by the end of the year, and I taught myself nearly everything I know without instruction (including programming and calculus). I wanted to learn.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time.
With Brawndo! - It's what Plants Crave!
(It's got Electro-lights)
Whoah, cowboy! "falsifying documents" is fraud. Fraud is a crime. Making a false accusation a crime in writing is libel.
I know several people in the compliance area of the Mortgage industry that document everything they do to cover their asses because they seriously suspect that the way the companies they work for are doing things is fraudulent. Of primary concern is having unlicensed loan origination AND processing illegally outsourced to India. The compliance managers tell their higher ups that what they're doing is probably wrong, but they don't care; They're yes men. The bosses are business men making deals trying to make things happen and they don't ACTUALLY know what's legally required. In fact, one of their bosses is a here on a visa, from India, and doesn't care if they get shut down -- He's working another more lucrative project for their parent company -- If it all goes south, he doesn't care, he still has his cushy job back in his homeland's main offices.
I'm seriously not trying to diss Indians: Nationality has nothing to do with it at all. This may not be representative of the whole industry, but I can't prove that -- I'm just telling you like I hear it is for the people that I know -- And letting you know that fraud IS STILL HAPPENING, and the accusations are not libel unless you name names and it happens to be a false accusation (in my case it's certainly NOT libel).
My friend's bosses won't take the advice to seek attorneys' legal opinions before making the crazy deals or restructuring agreements because that would likely prove they knew full well they were wrong (and it also costs money). They believe they're cunning business men who can find a way to cut corners and beat a system which the government has done its best to remove corners from. The larger companies that buy and sell and do business contracts with such smaller companies are some of the biggest international banks in the world. In the past five years, one of my friend's companies has been bought four times. The regulations require that the new corporate owners disclose their identities, so they instead play games with their corporate structures instead of doing things the right way -- The investment group doesn't want to be fingerprinted and have their names associated with the mortgage companies under their actual control -- That should tell you something right there...
Furthermore, when a state orders an exam, their document repositories hardly ever have all the correct info because the over seas people completing the loans and filing the forms try to manipulate closing dates and so they can get bigger bonuses in a given window -- Except they're sloppy and don't go back and update the info in the Calyx point system they use. As a programmer I've offered many times that the computer system should prevent them from closing the loans unless all the pertinent details are in the system -- But a large part of the industry still relies heavily on Faxes! Electronic signatures would be preferable, but even those are frequently used incorrectly.
One of my friends said that frequently, Upon pulling a set of docs for a loan, the lender's name won't even be on the form! It's not that it never was, or that the loan has no lender -- Just that someone (in India) didn't care enough about their job to go back and scan in the form and add it to the file before closing it. My friend has been complaining to me about incomplete forms for over three years -- Apparently the manager can't get their employees to do the job correctly -- They do all sorts of other document processing as well since it's a sister company that operates primarily as an outsourcing business, and what's a few incorrect forms here and there?
Each of my friends has worked for several other companies, and their past businesses have all eventually gone under due to regulatory fines for non compliance and inability to create new loans for want of valid state licenses as their only legal loan origi
So, what you're saying is that God doesn't want to be one? Or else He's wicked? Or instead that somehow he really messed up when he made man in his image? I mean, in your view, that man wants to be God like didn't come from no-where right? It came from somewhere... Everything has a purpose. Egro: God made man to be wicked like He is -- Otherwise, There exists the possibility that I may attain god like power and yet be as gentle and benevolent as his own son...
Just saying -- Your belief that you are already on the short end of the moral stick just by being born is a fear tactic to keep you subjugated and paying a religion tax.
Your mistake is in thinking the headline is past tense.
The blame lies with those who let them run free in the first place by deregulating the financial sector, not on animals following their instincts.
The deregulators absolutely deserve blame, but so do the predators here. They aren't animals, they are people who have free will and the ability to make moral decisions and thus they have culpability unlike an actual wolf.
Not "Are","Were".
You really can't blame them for their actions; They have no proper reasoning, and you know what must be done.
You can't just act like they're still your friends once they've lost all cognitive capability except the irresistible craving profit.
As the saying goes: Zombies Were People Too!
>_<
What about the DLC that's created after the game has gone gold because the asset creators are just sitting there twiddling our thumbs waiting for Metacritic scores to keep us from getting fired while the pre-production guys finish ironing out the details of the next game? That's a LOT of your day 1 DLC. There's a lag between when we can't put anything else on the disc, and when the game ships...
The problem is that developers don't work unless a publisher funds it.
I just love how my very existance refutes your claim.
"Will work for love of games."
-Me
Sure, EA is the devil and people may relish in publishers going bankrupt, but without developers we don't have games. I'd rather not see all my favorite developers out of work.
OH CRAP! I sure hope all the Money Leeching Publishers who abuse the Game Devs that work for them don't go out of BUSINESS! Whatever will Unfunded Indie Devs Like Me DO?! Why, I suppose I'd just have to keep making games! It'll be HORRIBLE! Many of us can't even afford to license an existing Engine! If we make our own engines then How will we ever meet the sameness Quotas the current Industry is used to?!
I think this is evolutions way of saying "Don't have children, dudes."
I'm in that category for other reasons. (Autoimmune. Besides I'd rather build a robot with my own AI)
So you think he shouldn't reproduce just because he's unable to watch certain types of television? WTF? That's one of the lamest criteria for deciding whether to reproduce. Hell, I bet some people would say that's a sign he should reproduce like crazy and create a bunch of kids who are physiologically forced to go outside and play.
No, you forget one key factor. He's posting on Slashdot too.
What would be the incentive to organize such an expedition? Even if they are way ahead of us, it will be an enormous enterprise. I'm sure if they are so advanced, they would have to compare it with much better alternatives.
A spot of tea? We'd make great pets? I could think of a million reasons why or why not to visit. Nearly all of the good reasons are non-malicious -- Greed would be a huge limiting factor for the malicious motives... Unless their planet is dying or something.
Think of it this way: Let's say we discovered a TV Signal from an alien race that was less advanced than us? What would we do? Bet your bottom dollar the first (US gov) instinct would be: "Don't tell the public! They'll want to send a message, and that could mean war or our eventual demise." Regardless of the distance, as soon as word gets out to the public, every nerd's mom's sat dish is re-purposed and aimed at the distant planet and beaming them everything from GNU/Linux source code to Otherworldly Erotica. (Heh, here's one now!)
Public support for NASA to launch a small satellite carrying a message of peace would be huge, regardless of the time it would take it to get there, and the near hopeless chance of it reaching anyone... Were we very much more advanced than we are now, it would be a huge scientific find and you can be sure that some of us would be making plans to stop by and say "hi".
(You've obviously never met an Explorer or Mountain Climber.)
The B.O.L.D. program hinges on detecting oxygen exchange
What if the life form on Mars uses N2 instead?
Nitrogen is a bit on the inert side to be useful as life's energy source.
Well, what if they just breathe iron? You know, like some of the creatures here on Earth. Mars has lot's of iron... it has sulfer, and even some water. I suppose the life on Earth currently uses oxygen, so that's what we're looking for? I mean, what about The Great Oxidation Catastrophe? During which lots of this planet's anaerobic life was likely killed off (oxygen was poisonous to them, they didn't use it). Point being: We don't even know what to look for -- we have hardly any idea what the parameters of life are on our own planet. Until recently we thought nothing could survive at the bottom of the ocean, boy was that wrong.
I guess you've got to begin looking somewhere, and looking for the presence of life as we know it is a good start. However, all evidence will be inconclusive as to the existence of life unless they actually find life, or we do a whole lot more exploration of Mars than we've done of our own planet.
Godwins. Erry time.
It's like saying you love your car and remarking how no other car can even come close, but you go on several test drives periodically, and you're not fooling anyone.
What if we then put a massive computer at the middle of this Internet of things
You're doing it wrong.
You don't put a massive ANYTHING in the middle of a huge flow of data. Instead, you come up with ways to route the flow around the network to where the data needs to go, and you limit risk by isolating systems from each other, and creating APIs, Protocols, and Redundancy. There's a reason we're still able to use the Internet -- It was specifically designed to avoid such single points of failures.
Now, a distributed system? Yeah, maybe. Where you can hot swap out a chunk and the rest of the network keeps on trucking with little to no effect on the whole... yes. Where there's a big "Master Control Program" -- NO. That's not scalable. Individual specialised overseers, maybe.
This whole article says more about the author's lack of knowledge about Cybernetic Systems than anything else.
If you assume that life isn't everywhere, then you have to assume that the odds are not very good.
No, if you assume life isn't everywhere, then you have no idea of just how big the Universe is.
I hear prisons have cafeterias too, and the building is "secured" too boot!
Sounds like those visits to Foxcon taught them a thing or two.