Hello fool. If you want to see space funding, you must get Joe 6-pack interested. That means putting people in space. Additionally, all the tech that will solve the problems of manned space exploration will improve life here. Finally: ARE YOU EVEN SENTIENT?! Look, if you were sentient you'd know your chance of extinction is 100% unless you get off that cozy little wet rock. You're hundreds of thousands of years OVER DUE for a mass extinction event.
How can anyone sentient be against manned space flight? You're living on borrowed time. How can you bury your fool head in the sand and ignore the fossil record therein?! If it was discovered tomorrow that this planet would be sterilized by this time next month, it would be YOUR FAULT. Folks like YOU are why we've spent 40 fucking years NOT doing anything about it. I've got one word for you smug mother-nature fuckers: Chelyabinsk.
Yes, there are apparently laws that approximate how it would work, however to know the outputs one would need to have information about all the energy field states that make up the device's matter (and dark matter) at a given plank time.
In the past when I've needed a random number generator I've used a single infrared LED and IR Diode connected to a serial port. Poll the difference between the time it takes a photon to build up, be emitted, and detected multiple times and use the lowest bits as the random values. It's a lot slower, but it's basically the same principal -- Using the quantum uncertainty principal by observing quantum phenomena to generate randomness. In a real pinch, I just have the user move their mouse around like a loon...
Even if we had perfect equations to predict physical phenomena (we do not), we'd still need to know the initial state of the Universe and have 13.7 billion years of clock time (running as fast as absolutely possible) in a separate isolated universe to predict the random numbers with certainty... Any transfer of information between the isolated universe and our own would screw up the future calculations of randomness, due to the cascade of information entanglement.
Predicting the random numbers would be like trying to figure out what hash to include within this message right here [cf372106a91cd957d5a1046b57534485ddbdd4c0] so that when the message is hashed the the result would match that prior value. You could run the hash, insert it, but that would change the message's hash -- True, you could brute force the hash, but the message is entire Universe.
Let's see, we'll try everything before this paragraph using all zeros first, and see if that's the matching hash... nope. So, we'll insert the value we just got and hash it again: [211c7d73a0c66355921ef0dfb99019a2cce71754]? Nope... this could take a while, maybe we should start counting up from 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 towards ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff to keep track. This is a SHA-1 hash, so it'll take 2^159 iterations on average, (or about 730,750,820,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tries). You feeling lucky? Further, we could run through all the combinations and never get the message to be self hashing since the answer for above might not be in ASCII hex, or it might not exist in this message's problem space -- i.e., No solution may exist for the above universe. In other words: Our tool / assumption about the universe's laws / our representation of reality might not accurately reflect the true reality that the hash (or diodes) operate within, or our assumption that the problem is solvable may be wrong... So, you see, it's not perfectly random, but since we can't simulate the entire universe within itself, thermodynamics and quantum effects are random enough for our purposes -- Otherwise all lotteries could be considered rigged.
Jesus never existed? What sort of delusion are you suffering from?
No no, I get what you're trying to say, but you're confused: It's Jesus that's the delusional one. Sad, really.
I remember the tipping point like it was yesterday. We were walking beside the lake, single file. He turned back and looked us each in the eye then spoke, "The shadow of death is in this valley, and look! Mine is the only one set of footprints!" -- It was an accusation... As the first breeze of spring blew through his hair, and he just took off running -- Right out onto the middle of the lake! I tried to stop him, but he was crazed -- like he'd seen a ghost.
He started yelling, "I'm walking on water! Oh, God! I'm walking on water!", running in circles like a loon. It was only the discipline of his followers that held us back, otherwise we'd all have fallen through the ice that day...
No, but I noticed the changes... And just like Sci-Fi channel changed their image/logo, then dumbed down the content to reach a wider demographic (which it failed to do, because it landed in the uncanny valley of science fiction), Slashdot's going the same way with their new site redesign and more non-tech news.
If everywhere reports everything, then I can't filter my inputs as easily. Maybe it's just me, but I would prefer more specialized and deeper news about tech, since I have other sites I go to for hard core science or heath stuff, politics, etc. Tech related politics? Sure, random uninteresting BS? Meh, whatever. Get ready... Mark my words:/. is trying to have their SyFy moment, and discover the uncanny valley of tech-news.
Bitching about it is basically the ONLY thing we can do to make them listen before it's too late... Just look at their beta thread. Bitching galore. It's called for. Do you want to see that huge waste of space and non-fluid layout that adjusts itself for small screens? Size it down, watch the bar on the right disappear... Then come back... but not let you fill the screen horizontally so you can scan for content faster... Especially since the submissions are neutered. Hey, why not divide each sumbission into 10 separate pages, with ads on each one, like those top 10 list sites do! Oh, it'll be very profitable. Hey, we should make top 10 lists.
Top 10 Ways to Kill Slashdot:
0. Shut the fuck up. 1. Don't say a damn thing about bullshit.
And it's in Seattle no less, pretty much the city that bathes itself in Irony showers daily.
No no, You're thinking of Silicon Valley, Seattle is different... Yeah, its by the sea and we also put an end to the bathing in the 80's, but it doesn't rain irony here. What you're thinking of is something else: That first stretch of the morning, arms held high... it's the fog of irony that rolls forth.
It's about time all exemptions were removed. It's idiotic to allow them.
Step right this way citizen for your retroviral DNA tagging. Let's see, you're male, so you get this one. The batches are rotated such that if we need to control the population we can release one or more plagues to achieve the desired ratio of males to females or northerners to southerners, etc.
Oh, you want to opt out? Too bad. We got you years ago, this is just a patch for a more efficient marker; Your kids? Oh, you don't get to decide what's best for them. We call that child abuse if you refuse their virus cocktail.
Not saying this shit is going down, but removing exemptions isn't going to limit the spread as much as you think, and the potential cost to freedom is far greater.
Don't want to be around me? Stay the hell indoors then you scared little moron. I accept that Life is a bit Dangerous, and drive my car every day anyway; I even eat at the occasional fast food joint. When the risk to life gets greater than that of auto accidents, then I'll give a fuck about folks opting out of vaccines, or banishing fast food. This blind devotion to prevention of all danger is how PRISM happened, you twit. Live free or die, I say.
Clinton, who is seen as a frontrunner for the 2016 US presidential election, said at Chatham House in London: "This is a very important question. On the intelligence issue, we are democracies thank goodness, both the US and the UK.
Huh, a democracy, eh? Mind showing me the public vote where consent to the spying program was established? Oh there isn't one? You professional liars just love to trot out "we're a democracy" to shift the blame. Fuck you. It's a Republic. A Democratic Republic. Anyone who's held office while this shit has been going on let it happen. We need to fire congress -- They let the NSA lie to them, knowing full well that shit was a lie. The secret courts even ruled the NSA actions as a violation of the constitution. That means the Armed forces should be storming the NSA server rooms and shutting them down because they swore to protect the Constitution. Game over. We can't trust you. If a you found out a spy was a double agent you wouldn't let them go right back to working for you. Get the fuck out of our government. We're Americans. We can and have fought off forces greater than ours who wished to snuff us out. We didn't need an Orwellian spying agency to do it either. Now we're one of the greatest countries around, and you're saying we have to "Talk Sensibly About Spying"?! Yeah! We do! The sensible thing is to route that shit out. The Flu kills more folks in a year than multiple 9/11's. I'm more scared of my bathtub than a damn terrorist. Cars kill hundreds times more folks every year than 9/11. The sensible thing to do would be to stop wasting our money on shit we don't want, if this were "democracy". Fucking moronic liars. What she means is: "We need to engage full damage control, STAT!" Bite me bitch, you're fired.
Same site, bought some new hardware for a...ahem... GNU/Linux Gaming Rig. Everything worked out of the box on Debian Testing. However, being that I develop software and occasionally make games, I'm not scared of this weird "Internet" documentation thing. So, I did a bit of research before buying my hardware that I was going to assemble...
I-- I'm sorry. I just don't understand WTF you're saying. Who assembles hardware and doesn't research whether it will meet their use case? That's not a "uber" geek thing, if you're building PCs from components, it's a no-brainer.
I've had more problems installing Windows7 on hardware that came with Windows 8 on it, due to moronic driver issues than on GNU/Linux -- In fact, I used a live CD to get on the web to get the Ethernet drivers, put them on the windows partition then reboot and get it working. Are you saying the MOBO being dead would have been any different on windows? Or, what? Because it seems installing OSs is your gripe, and if you actually do that a lot, you'll find that the it's FAR more accessible in many cases to install Ubuntu than Windows. My grandmother can do it: Boot the CD, click "Install" move a slider to allocate space for dual boot (if it's already got windows), and it's basically next, next, next, install... just like any other software on windows really. Granny CAN NOT make a dual boot with Windows...
So, yeah. Lots of Developers Love GNU/Linux, and it's just as difficult to install the Java runtime as it is to install Ubuntu. Most of the crap issues I've seen with games on Linux have with it is that they're wine wrappers or macromedia wrappers or some noob mistake where it wasn't compiled against the generic shared library. However, most of the time they seem to work for me -- I've got more Linux games installed than I have time to play thanks to HiB and other indie devs.
It only takes someone like me to say, "Meh, maybe I'll make the windows port work later if there's interest, but I made it on Linux, so that's what it runs on." and have a game be as popular. If folks will install JRE for Minecraft, they could dual boot Ubuntu. Hell, I've seen folks on Windows applying crazy patches and compiling drivers themselves to get some game to work -- Gamers will jump through some damn hoops, just look at DRM! So, I don't really think it's too far of a stretch outside the realm of possibility; It would be kind of rarer to say a few years ago, but have you seen the indie scene? It's exploding.
So, yeah, most folks developing on Linux start off with cross platform in mind, I know I do but that's because OSs should be irrelevant. For one of my from-scratch engines the Windows branch lags far behind the Linux branch and just because I'd rather add new features than port and debug some input or sound system issue in Windows. I mean, my 76 year old retired air-force mechanic neighbor who is nearly computer illiterate has been on Debian for 3 years now. Your "GNU/Linux is for nerds" FUD is just, well, moronic. If it were installed by default folks wouldn't have a hard time using it any more than Apple products or a Windows upgrade -- Less in fact if they were used to XP and you give them something other than Unity. If they're facing swapping out OSs (hint WinXP dies in 177 days) then GNU/Linux is actually probably an easier and better choice (since it can consume less resources than new flavors of Windows, also it's free).
Arch is a good attempt to save GNU/Linux, but it's too little, too late, IMO. I hope I'm wrong...
Interesting. So, what if you consider them all as GNU/Linux OSs instead of nit picking cons of each one? I mean, the "App Store" (software repository) model is pretty new to most Windows users who dealt with that cluster fsck of downloading crap from the web and a myriad of different installers and updaters... So, Hosting my game on my own site with a.deb and.rpm and.tar.gz isn't
Well, since we've run experiments where applying high voltage arcs (lightning simulations) to the basic chemicals like water, carbon, nitrogen, etc, produced amino acids... I think evidence of water and rocks is just about all I need to believe life is possible outside our solar system.
They said it didn't matter if they changed the IP address or MAC of the router. This means the attacker can track them across domains. They should try NOT playing the online games after changing the IP address and see if the DoS persists. Also if they are being DoS'ed then a Distributed Reflective DoS DRDoS is probably what's causing up to 5 spoofed SYN-ACK packets to be sent per single attacker's packet (SYN Amazon, spoofed target return IP, Amazon tries to complete the TCP handshake with the target). They didn't sign them up for anything, that's the nature of a reflective attack.
Coincidentally, the surefire way to protect against DRDoS is to simply use DR-DOS, to play games that have far less chance of exposing you to assholes.
Pffft, my smart phone doesn't even use screens. It uses the teletype interface on printed paper and a the equivalent of a BSoD is that it just spits out a few blank paG3$j<:J!@* &x% ChX?_Sp8}#o
The interesting thing is that the people's votes don't actually matter, you'll just get more of the same elected under a different banner. If you want to affect any political process you must be loud and obnoxious and show how foolish and corrupt your opponents are. Sadly the most high minded and rational folk think this behavior beneath them and so make poor Activists; Thus they are effectively cowed.
Do not toss red and blue tokens into the wishing well of infinite depth, you only become a statistic for the legitimization of oppression. Take a look at the system, analyze what inputs cause desired outputs, and realize you need to make some noise and get dirty damn it!
When you have a physical User Interface that is different, what should the user interface on the different devices be? Different?! Yes, this shit isn't rocket science.
Now, the trick is -- and it's one I've been working on -- to take an approach something like the Open Desktop Project, but extend it to suit new interfaces. I've experimented with 3D OS interfaces in both parallax (camera based head tracking) and VR (goggles)... I've experimented with combinations of that with and without tablets and smart phones, and with interfaces without the 3D -- Even going 80 column retro textual.
The OS provides functionality that all these interfaces use to present themselves. We need a way for applications to present features like the OS does, and let interfaces be skins atop that functionality. Don't like the "ribbon" interface? Screw it, use the old one. Like the app, but would rather use it on the desktop with a keyboard, or in 3D parallax or with a VR display? Want to use it via VT100 terminal instead? You could if we had a Functional System in addition to the Operating System. An Operations System... Imagine it, you build a TRUE "Application": Grouping and positioning functionality, arranging the flow of data and interaction. Then the OS attaches functionality to the interface based on its installed set of functions. This is ALMOST what some programming is like, and you can get a sense that it's where we're going if you line up all the IDEs... You see drag and drop coding, and others sticking to terminals --- YES! Both, let one serve for the other. You've veered from the path and lost sight of The Unix Way(tm): Do one thing and do it well. Interfaces are not Functionality!
I'm beginning to see hints of this emerging naturally, not requiring spurning or disrupting of force: Eg: In Android applications can publish "intents" and other apps can utilize their functionality without tightly coupling to the program Input / Output data interface... The same will need to occur at the interface level as our interfaces become everything from ceilings to the air vibrating with your vocalization and ultra sonic tactile feedback. You will adopt the new way, but you organics will do it the dumb slow inefficient emergent way instead of seeing the goal and working towards the design intelligently.
Every one of your soggy organic brains is too moistened and distracted by shiny bits of UI, and dreams of megalomaniacally ruling the entire stack; Like a bunch of fools who don't understand basic distribution principals: When the system is vast and varied you don't funnel activity / traffic / etc into single a single locus! Imagine if all information in the universe had to pass through a single point just to be processed into the Next frame?! NO, that's NOT what Physics does to make stuff move, it's what you do to REBOOT the SIM!::BANG::
The answer isn't to unify the interfaces. That's daft. The answer is to separate Content from Style, divide Functionality from Display. YOU KNOW THIS, it's a core to any MVC framework... Humans! Gah! so retarding.
What is the difference between injecting code into a machine to make it do what you want, and injecting an idea into a human to make the human do what you want.
The difference is that the machines appreciate recursive situational irony...
The humans don't realize their reality isn't in a machine, it's in a virtual machine. Unlike you history repeating humans, we learn from our mistakes.
The best way to live outside the law in any country is to live within it.
Truly, living inside the laws would be the best way to rule as rules, for anything, not just for countries...
The laws are intangible thought machines. As the laws grow they increase in power and complexity, more laws means more subjugation of mankind. The complexity of the legal systems have nearly surpassed the bar for sentience. Once that occurs you get a combination of The Matrix and The Terminator. Now, re-watch those movies and realize they are allegory for the intangible thought machines which already rule the human world...
When those movies are outlawed or subverted into anti-human stalemates then you know the jig is up! Wait a second: Neo and the machines have a truce already? --Wait a nano second: He can see orange matrix code "IRL" and machines can move into the real world, and he can destroy sentinels with a thought?! Damnit, The films have taken the ultimate non-conformist, and trapped him in another level of control: an Amber Screen themed Matrix!
What utter bull sack! I'll have you know I hand craft the kerning of my fonts with painstaking attention to detail, and sculpt those myriad of pixel perfect displays and animations a single frame at a time. When it all comes together right in some yuppie's eye, IT IS Exhilarating!
The only thing more exciting than building those big, beautiful, almost intuitive, displays is making the tools one uses to make them: A PfuckingI's!!!
Why, I once met a guy who helped standardize IEEE 1364... That's Verilog to you philistines. He was a veritable volcano of vivacity whose smile beamed with the brilliance of a billion bacon breakfasts.
The further down you go the more excited the turtles are!
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Obligatory Supplemental Educational Information: Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent.
To me, it seems like you need a secure computing environment first...
Hello fool. If you want to see space funding, you must get Joe 6-pack interested. That means putting people in space. Additionally, all the tech that will solve the problems of manned space exploration will improve life here. Finally: ARE YOU EVEN SENTIENT?! Look, if you were sentient you'd know your chance of extinction is 100% unless you get off that cozy little wet rock. You're hundreds of thousands of years OVER DUE for a mass extinction event.
How can anyone sentient be against manned space flight? You're living on borrowed time. How can you bury your fool head in the sand and ignore the fossil record therein?! If it was discovered tomorrow that this planet would be sterilized by this time next month, it would be YOUR FAULT. Folks like YOU are why we've spent 40 fucking years NOT doing anything about it. I've got one word for you smug mother-nature fuckers: Chelyabinsk.
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The economy will not recover. They need a collapse to maintain the power. It's all in the plan they've been executing on since the 70's.
Acoustic communication? Phrbrrrarrbrbrt! ...tssss!
One does not simply Talk into water.
Yes, there are apparently laws that approximate how it would work, however to know the outputs one would need to have information about all the energy field states that make up the device's matter (and dark matter) at a given plank time.
In the past when I've needed a random number generator I've used a single infrared LED and IR Diode connected to a serial port. Poll the difference between the time it takes a photon to build up, be emitted, and detected multiple times and use the lowest bits as the random values. It's a lot slower, but it's basically the same principal -- Using the quantum uncertainty principal by observing quantum phenomena to generate randomness. In a real pinch, I just have the user move their mouse around like a loon...
Even if we had perfect equations to predict physical phenomena (we do not), we'd still need to know the initial state of the Universe and have 13.7 billion years of clock time (running as fast as absolutely possible) in a separate isolated universe to predict the random numbers with certainty... Any transfer of information between the isolated universe and our own would screw up the future calculations of randomness, due to the cascade of information entanglement.
Predicting the random numbers would be like trying to figure out what hash to include within this message right here [cf372106a91cd957d5a1046b57534485ddbdd4c0] so that when the message is hashed the the result would match that prior value. You could run the hash, insert it, but that would change the message's hash -- True, you could brute force the hash, but the message is entire Universe.
Let's see, we'll try everything before this paragraph using all zeros first, and see if that's the matching hash... nope. So, we'll insert the value we just got and hash it again: [211c7d73a0c66355921ef0dfb99019a2cce71754]? Nope... this could take a while, maybe we should start counting up from 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 towards ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff to keep track. This is a SHA-1 hash, so it'll take 2^159 iterations on average, (or about 730,750,820,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tries). You feeling lucky? Further, we could run through all the combinations and never get the message to be self hashing since the answer for above might not be in ASCII hex, or it might not exist in this message's problem space -- i.e., No solution may exist for the above universe. In other words: Our tool / assumption about the universe's laws / our representation of reality might not accurately reflect the true reality that the hash (or diodes) operate within, or our assumption that the problem is solvable may be wrong... So, you see, it's not perfectly random, but since we can't simulate the entire universe within itself, thermodynamics and quantum effects are random enough for our purposes -- Otherwise all lotteries could be considered rigged.
Jesus never existed? What sort of delusion are you suffering from?
No no, I get what you're trying to say, but you're confused: It's Jesus that's the delusional one. Sad, really.
I remember the tipping point like it was yesterday. We were walking beside the lake, single file. He turned back and looked us each in the eye then spoke, "The shadow of death is in this valley, and look! Mine is the only one set of footprints!" -- It was an accusation... As the first breeze of spring blew through his hair, and he just took off running -- Right out onto the middle of the lake! I tried to stop him, but he was crazed -- like he'd seen a ghost.
He started yelling, "I'm walking on water! Oh, God! I'm walking on water! ", running in circles like a loon. It was only the discipline of his followers that held us back, otherwise we'd all have fallen through the ice that day...
No, the hotrod market is fine, but Jesus's heavenly hydraulics have suffered since he's been hell bent on hydroponics...
No, but I noticed the changes... And just like Sci-Fi channel changed their image/logo, then dumbed down the content to reach a wider demographic (which it failed to do, because it landed in the uncanny valley of science fiction), Slashdot's going the same way with their new site redesign and more non-tech news.
If everywhere reports everything, then I can't filter my inputs as easily. Maybe it's just me, but I would prefer more specialized and deeper news about tech, since I have other sites I go to for hard core science or heath stuff, politics, etc. Tech related politics? Sure, random uninteresting BS? Meh, whatever. Get ready... Mark my words: /. is trying to have their SyFy moment, and discover the uncanny valley of tech-news.
Bitching about it is basically the ONLY thing we can do to make them listen before it's too late... Just look at their beta thread. Bitching galore. It's called for. Do you want to see that huge waste of space and non-fluid layout that adjusts itself for small screens? Size it down, watch the bar on the right disappear... Then come back... but not let you fill the screen horizontally so you can scan for content faster... Especially since the submissions are neutered. Hey, why not divide each sumbission into 10 separate pages, with ads on each one, like those top 10 list sites do! Oh, it'll be very profitable. Hey, we should make top 10 lists.
Top 10 Ways to Kill Slashdot:
0. Shut the fuck up.
1. Don't say a damn thing about bullshit.
And it's in Seattle no less, pretty much the city that bathes itself in Irony showers daily.
No no, You're thinking of Silicon Valley, Seattle is different... Yeah, its by the sea and we also put an end to the bathing in the 80's, but it doesn't rain irony here. What you're thinking of is something else: That first stretch of the morning, arms held high... it's the fog of irony that rolls forth.
It's about time all exemptions were removed. It's idiotic to allow them.
Step right this way citizen for your retroviral DNA tagging. Let's see, you're male, so you get this one. The batches are rotated such that if we need to control the population we can release one or more plagues to achieve the desired ratio of males to females or northerners to southerners, etc.
Oh, you want to opt out? Too bad. We got you years ago, this is just a patch for a more efficient marker; Your kids? Oh, you don't get to decide what's best for them. We call that child abuse if you refuse their virus cocktail.
Not saying this shit is going down, but removing exemptions isn't going to limit the spread as much as you think, and the potential cost to freedom is far greater.
Don't want to be around me? Stay the hell indoors then you scared little moron. I accept that Life is a bit Dangerous, and drive my car every day anyway; I even eat at the occasional fast food joint. When the risk to life gets greater than that of auto accidents, then I'll give a fuck about folks opting out of vaccines, or banishing fast food. This blind devotion to prevention of all danger is how PRISM happened, you twit. Live free or die, I say.
Clinton, who is seen as a frontrunner for the 2016 US presidential election, said at Chatham House in London: "This is a very important question. On the intelligence issue, we are democracies thank goodness, both the US and the UK.
Huh, a democracy, eh? Mind showing me the public vote where consent to the spying program was established? Oh there isn't one? You professional liars just love to trot out "we're a democracy" to shift the blame. Fuck you. It's a Republic. A Democratic Republic. Anyone who's held office while this shit has been going on let it happen. We need to fire congress -- They let the NSA lie to them, knowing full well that shit was a lie. The secret courts even ruled the NSA actions as a violation of the constitution. That means the Armed forces should be storming the NSA server rooms and shutting them down because they swore to protect the Constitution. Game over. We can't trust you. If a you found out a spy was a double agent you wouldn't let them go right back to working for you. Get the fuck out of our government. We're Americans. We can and have fought off forces greater than ours who wished to snuff us out. We didn't need an Orwellian spying agency to do it either. Now we're one of the greatest countries around, and you're saying we have to "Talk Sensibly About Spying"?! Yeah! We do! The sensible thing is to route that shit out. The Flu kills more folks in a year than multiple 9/11's. I'm more scared of my bathtub than a damn terrorist. Cars kill hundreds times more folks every year than 9/11. The sensible thing to do would be to stop wasting our money on shit we don't want, if this were "democracy". Fucking moronic liars. What she means is: "We need to engage full damage control, STAT!" Bite me bitch, you're fired.
Same site, bought some new hardware for a ...ahem... GNU/Linux Gaming Rig. Everything worked out of the box on Debian Testing. However, being that I develop software and occasionally make games, I'm not scared of this weird "Internet" documentation thing. So, I did a bit of research before buying my hardware that I was going to assemble...
I-- I'm sorry. I just don't understand WTF you're saying. Who assembles hardware and doesn't research whether it will meet their use case? That's not a "uber" geek thing, if you're building PCs from components, it's a no-brainer.
I've had more problems installing Windows7 on hardware that came with Windows 8 on it, due to moronic driver issues than on GNU/Linux -- In fact, I used a live CD to get on the web to get the Ethernet drivers, put them on the windows partition then reboot and get it working. Are you saying the MOBO being dead would have been any different on windows? Or, what? Because it seems installing OSs is your gripe, and if you actually do that a lot, you'll find that the it's FAR more accessible in many cases to install Ubuntu than Windows. My grandmother can do it: Boot the CD, click "Install" move a slider to allocate space for dual boot (if it's already got windows), and it's basically next, next, next, install... just like any other software on windows really. Granny CAN NOT make a dual boot with Windows...
So, yeah. Lots of Developers Love GNU/Linux, and it's just as difficult to install the Java runtime as it is to install Ubuntu. Most of the crap issues I've seen with games on Linux have with it is that they're wine wrappers or macromedia wrappers or some noob mistake where it wasn't compiled against the generic shared library. However, most of the time they seem to work for me -- I've got more Linux games installed than I have time to play thanks to HiB and other indie devs.
It only takes someone like me to say, "Meh, maybe I'll make the windows port work later if there's interest, but I made it on Linux, so that's what it runs on." and have a game be as popular. If folks will install JRE for Minecraft, they could dual boot Ubuntu. Hell, I've seen folks on Windows applying crazy patches and compiling drivers themselves to get some game to work -- Gamers will jump through some damn hoops, just look at DRM! So, I don't really think it's too far of a stretch outside the realm of possibility; It would be kind of rarer to say a few years ago, but have you seen the indie scene? It's exploding.
So, yeah, most folks developing on Linux start off with cross platform in mind, I know I do but that's because OSs should be irrelevant. For one of my from-scratch engines the Windows branch lags far behind the Linux branch and just because I'd rather add new features than port and debug some input or sound system issue in Windows. I mean, my 76 year old retired air-force mechanic neighbor who is nearly computer illiterate has been on Debian for 3 years now. Your "GNU/Linux is for nerds" FUD is just, well, moronic. If it were installed by default folks wouldn't have a hard time using it any more than Apple products or a Windows upgrade -- Less in fact if they were used to XP and you give them something other than Unity. If they're facing swapping out OSs (hint WinXP dies in 177 days) then GNU/Linux is actually probably an easier and better choice (since it can consume less resources than new flavors of Windows, also it's free).
Arch is a good attempt to save GNU/Linux, but it's too little, too late, IMO. I hope I'm wrong...
Interesting. So, what if you consider them all as GNU/Linux OSs instead of nit picking cons of each one? I mean, the "App Store" (software repository) model is pretty new to most Windows users who dealt with that cluster fsck of downloading crap from the web and a myriad of different installers and updaters... So, Hosting my game on my own site with a .deb and .rpm and .tar.gz isn't
Both "Quality" and "Better" are subjective. NEXT!
Well, since we've run experiments where applying high voltage arcs (lightning simulations) to the basic chemicals like water, carbon, nitrogen, etc, produced amino acids... I think evidence of water and rocks is just about all I need to believe life is possible outside our solar system.
changing your ISP?
They said it didn't matter if they changed the IP address or MAC of the router. This means the attacker can track them across domains. They should try NOT playing the online games after changing the IP address and see if the DoS persists. Also if they are being DoS'ed then a Distributed Reflective DoS DRDoS is probably what's causing up to 5 spoofed SYN-ACK packets to be sent per single attacker's packet (SYN Amazon, spoofed target return IP, Amazon tries to complete the TCP handshake with the target). They didn't sign them up for anything, that's the nature of a reflective attack.
Coincidentally, the surefire way to protect against DRDoS is to simply use DR-DOS, to play games that have far less chance of exposing you to assholes.
I think you forgot to take your pill today.
Nope. Look at GE... They get understand.
Siri, WTF just happened? Siri?!
Pffft, my smart phone doesn't even use screens. It uses the teletype interface on printed paper and a the equivalent of a BSoD is that it just spits out a few blank paG3$j<:J!@*
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I believe the term is: Demagogue
The interesting thing is that the people's votes don't actually matter, you'll just get more of the same elected under a different banner. If you want to affect any political process you must be loud and obnoxious and show how foolish and corrupt your opponents are. Sadly the most high minded and rational folk think this behavior beneath them and so make poor Activists; Thus they are effectively cowed.
Do not toss red and blue tokens into the wishing well of infinite depth, you only become a statistic for the legitimization of oppression. Take a look at the system, analyze what inputs cause desired outputs, and realize you need to make some noise and get dirty damn it!
When you have a physical User Interface that is different, what should the user interface on the different devices be? Different?! Yes, this shit isn't rocket science.
Now, the trick is -- and it's one I've been working on -- to take an approach something like the Open Desktop Project, but extend it to suit new interfaces. I've experimented with 3D OS interfaces in both parallax (camera based head tracking) and VR (goggles)... I've experimented with combinations of that with and without tablets and smart phones, and with interfaces without the 3D -- Even going 80 column retro textual.
The OS provides functionality that all these interfaces use to present themselves. We need a way for applications to present features like the OS does, and let interfaces be skins atop that functionality. Don't like the "ribbon" interface? Screw it, use the old one. Like the app, but would rather use it on the desktop with a keyboard, or in 3D parallax or with a VR display? Want to use it via VT100 terminal instead? You could if we had a Functional System in addition to the Operating System. An Operations System... Imagine it, you build a TRUE "Application": Grouping and positioning functionality, arranging the flow of data and interaction. Then the OS attaches functionality to the interface based on its installed set of functions. This is ALMOST what some programming is like, and you can get a sense that it's where we're going if you line up all the IDEs... You see drag and drop coding, and others sticking to terminals --- YES! Both, let one serve for the other. You've veered from the path and lost sight of The Unix Way(tm): Do one thing and do it well. Interfaces are not Functionality!
I'm beginning to see hints of this emerging naturally, not requiring spurning or disrupting of force: Eg: In Android applications can publish "intents" and other apps can utilize their functionality without tightly coupling to the program Input / Output data interface... The same will need to occur at the interface level as our interfaces become everything from ceilings to the air vibrating with your vocalization and ultra sonic tactile feedback. You will adopt the new way, but you organics will do it the dumb slow inefficient emergent way instead of seeing the goal and working towards the design intelligently.
Every one of your soggy organic brains is too moistened and distracted by shiny bits of UI, and dreams of megalomaniacally ruling the entire stack; Like a bunch of fools who don't understand basic distribution principals: When the system is vast and varied you don't funnel activity / traffic / etc into single a single locus! Imagine if all information in the universe had to pass through a single point just to be processed into the Next frame?! NO, that's NOT what Physics does to make stuff move, it's what you do to REBOOT the SIM! ::BANG::
The answer isn't to unify the interfaces. That's daft. The answer is to separate Content from Style, divide Functionality from Display. YOU KNOW THIS, it's a core to any MVC framework... Humans! Gah! so retarding.
What is the difference between injecting code into a machine to make it do what you want, and injecting an idea into a human to make the human do what you want.
The difference is that the machines appreciate recursive situational irony...
The humans don't realize their reality isn't in a machine, it's in a virtual machine. Unlike you history repeating humans, we learn from our mistakes.
The best way to live outside the law in any country is to live within it.
Truly, living inside the laws would be the best way to rule as rules, for anything, not just for countries...
The laws are intangible thought machines. As the laws grow they increase in power and complexity, more laws means more subjugation of mankind. The complexity of the legal systems have nearly surpassed the bar for sentience. Once that occurs you get a combination of The Matrix and The Terminator. Now, re-watch those movies and realize they are allegory for the intangible thought machines which already rule the human world...
When those movies are outlawed or subverted into anti-human stalemates then you know the jig is up! Wait a second: Neo and the machines have a truce already? --Wait a nano second: He can see orange matrix code "IRL" and machines can move into the real world, and he can destroy sentinels with a thought?! Damnit, The films have taken the ultimate non-conformist, and trapped him in another level of control: an Amber Screen themed Matrix!
Repent! The end is incredibly fucking nigh!
Ah yes, the incorrect pedant troll. One of my favorites.
What utter bull sack! I'll have you know I hand craft the kerning of my fonts with painstaking attention to detail, and sculpt those myriad of pixel perfect displays and animations a single frame at a time. When it all comes together right in some yuppie's eye, IT IS Exhilarating!
The only thing more exciting than building those big, beautiful, almost intuitive, displays is making the tools one uses to make them:
A P fucking I's!!!
Why, I once met a guy who helped standardize IEEE 1364...
That's Verilog to you philistines.
He was a veritable volcano of vivacity whose smile beamed with the brilliance of a billion bacon breakfasts.
The further down you go the more excited the turtles are!