but it will probably lose the political edge that was put in by Valentine and Peter
I skipped that chapter and still loved the book to read it 5 times! Personaly I don't belive that chapter is nessiccary.
I do not like the mix of Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. Have them seperate movies. that's would be sooo cool. Film both at the same time like Lord Of the Ring. It waould be the best ever. I'd gladly pay 50 bucks per ticket for that! but I'm broke.
This is great! Another fan of Ender's Game. I find them so rare and scattered. I try to convice Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow are the best books ever. But many people just stare at me blankly a few have even smacked me. Sad.
How typical. You finally see a preview for a game with everything you have ever wanted in a game. (realism. plot. terror. total-immersion. realism) and then you realize only Bill Gates's next of kin can afford the support hardware and software required.
So, what, a quadruple procesor 1THz computer? DirectX 5000? Man, I hope Linux, BSD, BeOS, Mac OS X can play this game. Just please don't make it another Windows slave!!!
Here's and good question. The artical quoted that by the time the game is released we will have machines that run it. I wonder how they are developing right now? how are they compiling and testing on a non existent machine. I mean thay have to be developing now. They can't make the whole thing in less then a month. In fact I bet thay started like 5 years ago. it takes at least that long maybe longer (see Never Winter Nights).
Good luck ID. if you pull this off and I play it on my TiBook or PS2 I'll personally make a religion around you!
My father is a big Radio Shack Remote lighting finatic. (X10) Every Light is hooked up with a remote switch. All his laps have the plugin appliance system. Even his Cristmas lights are X10 enabled.
Well I needed to toss a cablle modem to me LAN which BTW was Wireless. And the only spot I had was down in the basement. Infact exactly 4 inches (yes I just mesured) away from the X10 modual controling the christmass lights.
My laptop is now on the third floor on the other side of the house. Almost the furthest point without going outside. Well on avarage I get about an 80% signal strength considering the amount of plaster and copper pipes between me and the basement. (For some reason tonight I have a 60% strength).
So, that being the case I'll go check the x-mass lights
. ..
Yup it worked... I'll place my bet that the interferance if any is not that big a deal!!!
I have to admit I've mulled over this thought for some time now. The difference between success and non. My former job is a good example of the paradox of employment.
At my former job there was very nice man. He had just graduated from one of those IT training jobs where he <quote>learned</quote> Java. The class was a 3 year adult learning program. Prior to that he was a pharmacists I belive. Anyway he was responseable for making the database queries. All his code was all packed into ONE object totaling over 1000 lines of code. Each distinct object in it's own method. It couild be worse but this type of codeing is a big no no in Java. You should split your logic into real objects for maintanability, readability, and scalability.
Looking at it from the other end. He has a job and I don't. I may program more elegantly. I may have a true love for computers and would be happy to work for peanuts just to play with a new PERL module. However there are many things I don't have. A degree in pharmacuticals, experience running my own pharmacy, 40 years under my belt, a wife and kids. Yeah, these are what matters to quality software.
You see knowledge, quality, intellegance, interest, code fu mean nothing to a house, wife, and two kids. The fact that you can whip up a 50 node network with 10 print servers in a day, or fix any problem ever interduced from a computer, or design an n-teir application to take over the world means nothing to burocratic inefficiency.
Age is a huge huge factor. A 37 year old with no degree can acutally beat out a 27 year old with a PH.D.
Another huge difference in a managers eye is brand name. A perfect example I had was how those in charge reacted compared to those programmers doing the work when I mantioned CVS instead of VSS. (CVS: Concurrent Versions System, VSS: Visual Source Safe) In a programmers eyes I mentioned CVS and the usuall response was "That would be cool. I wouldn't mind" however those in charge (and those Microsoft Visual Basic only programmers who couldn't comprehend Perl if it killed them) responded with "Um, we use VSS, what is wrong with you?" or "Do what your told."
I've had interviews for Java where the first question is how many years of Visual J++ do you have. My obvious answer is none because VJ++ defeats the whole concept of Java. Or they ask if you can edit in Visual Studio. And I reply "What's the difference between Notepad and 'cat foo.txt' it's all ASCII text!! I could enter in Hex code for all you care it is all the same thing."
Needless to say I never got those jobs. But the point is clear. Employers and even some professional programmers who are in the nitty gritty like name brand software. So symlink your Emacs and VIM to Word and VC++ or else!
Another hold back is 'hackdom' employers don't like code slingers. If you have enough knowledge and skill to be a jack-of-all-trades and a serious code fu then you're better off at a small under-employed bussiness because big companies want code monkeys who do nothing but type like data entry for there code. It's job security and also the very concept behind "Ferinhight 451": keep them dumb and stupid and they won't see how bad it is. So geeks need to walk a very fine line between brand name skills and l33t skills.
I would greatly appreciate any feed back. This is realy an over generalization and partly a rant. I personaly have felt bellittled because I valued my Unix skills and hacking ability over my memorization of where the VB buttons and menus are. I valued my code elegancy over IDE integration. I valued command-line interfaces over dumbed up and usually crippled GUI interfaces. And in the long run it hasn't payed off.
Where's the good viruses? Every example I see exploits some sexual content or erases your hard disk or trashed your windows DLL's. How boring is that?!
I want to see viruses I'd be proud to infect myself with. Like a networked syphony virus. Infect a subnet (Typical at most computer labs or offices) and have them syncronize behind the scene then each computer takes the task of an interment and bingo: Mozart's 5th all through out the Computer Lab!
Second of all why not smart viruses. Say ones that can learn and adapt. Automatically update via the web. Ones that can attack Anti-virus software so it doesn't detect viruses (Like HIV) and infect your MFC libs so InstallSheild windows don't work. Basicaly why go for the whole hard disk. Where's the spice and fame in that?
A good example of a creative virus was an old Mac one I heard about. Every time you rebooted it would shrink the screen resolution by one pixel. So a year from the infection you'd be looking through a mini window just like back in the old Quake on 486 days.
My theory is viruses are designed to be molitios to continue the fear. So silly Magazine certified hill billies will panic and buy some anti-virus software. Ahhh see the connection? If I were a anti-virus company I bet I'd pay off some hacker accross seas under the table to write some mulitios virus and send over the vacine so I'd be the first to come up with an anti-virus.
I'm quite the bit curious, Has anyone actually attempted to see what the appocolypse might look like from a computers perspective?
Perhaps when I have a play machine hanging around I'll `date -s 'Tue Jan 19 03:14:00 GMT 2038'` to watch the rollover or possably Jan 20 2038 to see what breaks after that date?
It would be interesting to experiment such a disaster. Who knows maybe the rollover of one machine will causes a catalistic affect over a net (That would be cool eh? An Epoch worm? Or virus that does nothing but set your time past 2038?)
Possably a site archiving success or fail of such programs or systems would be an intersting addition to the ever-growing-yet-needlessly-viewed bookmark folder.
"Remember, who is the boss of you!"... "Me! I am the boss of you!"
I don't get it. Why is everyone complaining it's Linux's fault. How is a rouge program writen god knows when the OS's fault. If I install BackOrafice on a windows machine you don't see people running around yelling "It's Window's Fault!" No, it's the fact that a program runing with admin privliges opened a hole. So what?
Blame it on the original writer of BIND. Or patch it! Heck you'd be the first one to toss on a service pack at moments release. But you expect open source to be perfect at version 1.0?
An exploit in BIND does not make BIND nor the OS responsible for who or what goes through that hole. Yes, the hole needs a patch. And yes, maybe a watchdog like program that monitors privilaged proccesses like a babysitter might be nice. But get a grip. It's not Linus's, Eric's, Larry's, or Linux or GNU or..... Go to the source and fix it. heck you'd run make bind if a new version of it cam out what's so hard about a patch -p0 <../bind.patch?
And whats with everyone knocking X? It seems to work fine for me and aside from quake (Which should be ran in the console without X anyway) I run that sucker pretty ragged. Never had a software issue. (Well, except for me being stupid and not RTFM'ing)
Ok. FlameBait 0.02 complete.
"Remember, who is the boss of you!"... "Me! I am the boss of you!"
Think of it. The shere idea of it rings in money! I bet 98% of the virus writers out there work for a anti-virus company. Think of the market share
No doubt Microsoft would cash in on the deal and build a mass email system with a built-in virus transfer protocal.
No doubt they made AxtiveX insecure. Where does everyone go? That's right Windows Update a web based ActiveX control. Now when ever you update Microsoft get privlaged access to your machine.
It's all part of the big picture. The appocalypse
"Oh my, what is that?" "Is it a bird?" "Is it a plane?" "No, It's a flamming gerbal!?" "Oh My Gods! It's Amageddon!"
"Remember, who is the boss of you!"... "Me! I am the boss of you!"
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What if you were destracted in the middle of reading the message?
Nucular Launch Codes: 12XH76.......
"Honey, Have you seen the cat today?"
"What? Hold on I'll be right there once I finish reading this message."
"AGHHHH!!!! Nooo I missed the message!!!!! Quick where's the recycle bin?????"
"Remember, who is the boss of you!"... "Me! I am the boss of you!"
Oh NO Please no! this means KNAC.com might go out of business. So sad.
I listen to them all the time. I was always afraid They would disappear leaving me with my overplayed MP3's and dead silence but now it might be true.
I am very against steaming companies because they appear to have retards in control. I used to listen to a station (who will remain nameless, WAAF!) that was awesome till one stupid day there retards in charge said "Gee I have a great idea lets change our streaming provider to a Microsoft only company. That way we'll loose 50% of out listeners and piss off anybody who do not have media player. Sales will drop! what a great plan!" Well F* them >:-|
"Remember, who is the boss of you!"... "Me! I am the boss of you!"
Whats the deal here? Not every Linux user is a dedicated hacker. I do dive into code every once and a while but I sure like having step-by-step instructions or an install program.
So how come Netscape (and the mozilla project) both ship a tar.gz which unpacks a directory called "package"?? what a wierd name for a program directory. So now what? Ok so one has to unpack it in an already made directory say/usr/mozilla then read the README on how to run. like you can't run the thing with the current directory anywhere except the directory where you unpacked it. So the real deal here is there should be a README availiable on-line or in Netscape's FAQ on what steps and causions someone should be aware of before downloading and installing.
This really comes down to, Companies should adhear to either of the two de-facto standards:
GNU configure (autoconf/automake) Most unix users understand how to use this install utility and find that packages built with this a far eaisier to understand and build.
One executable install shield Wana ship binaries? well toss them in a self extracting executable (shar?) and have the install program ask proper questions like where to install and what compenants to install. This method is very poular on window based machines. Why not use it for other platforms?
So wheres the hold up? why is it always so different for any other operating system except the ones Billy boy authorizes?
The real reason is called "Fair Game." We (The OSS comunitee) can't be so self centered to deny access to those that we dislike. Like the Linux advocacy-HOWTO says we shouldn't bad mouth Microsoft, that only lessens our side of the argument.
The moment we start playing silly little games we look very childish and become exactly like the those we oppose.
The real way to battle anyone is make yourself look better. (The 3 B's Bigger, Badder, Better) thats all anyone cares about.
Look how embraced XML is by commercial bussiness and it's an open standard. Or GNU for that matter.
So lets show this world what we are cappable of by continuing the awesome OSS programs/standards. Make these corporate dogs quivering in their boots from compatition!
I'm realy confused why a company which makes that much money (ok a signifigant amount) would even have a problem with fudged webpages like that.
Haven't there employees heard about checksums, backups and crontabs? I'm mean have a cron job check the checksums of the web site files every 20 minutes and if there off page the sysadmin or automatically restore from backup and recycle the webserver/servlet engine. This way the company would lose 40 minuts of business at the most.
Am I off here? anyone care to point out my oversights?
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I don't know, how do I tell? I'm using an Apple Airport card. and a Linksys Wireless 4 port switch router (The second model version)
I skipped that chapter and still loved the book to read it 5 times! Personaly I don't belive that chapter is nessiccary.
I do not like the mix of Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. Have them seperate movies. that's would be sooo cool. Film both at the same time like Lord Of the Ring. It waould be the best ever. I'd gladly pay 50 bucks per ticket for that! but I'm broke.
This is great! Another fan of Ender's Game. I find them so rare and scattered. I try to convice Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow are the best books ever. But many people just stare at me blankly a few have even smacked me. Sad.
How typical. You finally see a preview for a game with everything you have ever wanted in a game. (realism. plot. terror. total-immersion. realism) and then you realize only Bill Gates's next of kin can afford the support hardware and software required.
So, what, a quadruple procesor 1THz computer? DirectX 5000? Man, I hope Linux, BSD, BeOS, Mac OS X can play this game. Just please don't make it another Windows slave!!!
Here's and good question. The artical quoted that by the time the game is released we will have machines that run it. I wonder how they are developing right now? how are they compiling and testing on a non existent machine. I mean thay have to be developing now. They can't make the whole thing in less then a month. In fact I bet thay started like 5 years ago. it takes at least that long maybe longer (see Never Winter Nights).
Good luck ID. if you pull this off and I play it on my TiBook or PS2 I'll personally make a religion around you!
My father is a big Radio Shack Remote lighting finatic. (X10) Every Light is hooked up with a remote switch. All his laps have the plugin appliance system. Even his Cristmas lights are X10 enabled.
Well I needed to toss a cablle modem to me LAN which BTW was Wireless. And the only spot I had was down in the basement. Infact exactly 4 inches (yes I just mesured) away from the X10 modual controling the christmass lights.
My laptop is now on the third floor on the other side of the house. Almost the furthest point without going outside. Well on avarage I get about an 80% signal strength considering the amount of plaster and copper pipes between me and the basement. (For some reason tonight I have a 60% strength).
So, that being the case I'll go check the x-mass lights
. . .
Yup it worked... I'll place my bet that the interferance if any is not that big a deal!!!
I have to admit I've mulled over this thought for some time now. The difference between success and non. My former job is a good example of the paradox of employment.
At my former job there was very nice man. He had just graduated from one of those IT training jobs where he <quote>learned</quote> Java. The class was a 3 year adult learning program. Prior to that he was a pharmacists I belive. Anyway he was responseable for making the database queries. All his code was all packed into ONE object totaling over 1000 lines of code. Each distinct object in it's own method. It couild be worse but this type of codeing is a big no no in Java. You should split your logic into real objects for maintanability, readability, and scalability.
Looking at it from the other end. He has a job and I don't. I may program more elegantly. I may have a true love for computers and would be happy to work for peanuts just to play with a new PERL module. However there are many things I don't have. A degree in pharmacuticals, experience running my own pharmacy, 40 years under my belt, a wife and kids. Yeah, these are what matters to quality software.
You see knowledge, quality, intellegance, interest, code fu mean nothing to a house, wife, and two kids. The fact that you can whip up a 50 node network with 10 print servers in a day, or fix any problem ever interduced from a computer, or design an n-teir application to take over the world means nothing to burocratic inefficiency.
Age is a huge huge factor. A 37 year old with no degree can acutally beat out a 27 year old with a PH.D.
Another huge difference in a managers eye is brand name. A perfect example I had was how those in charge reacted compared to those programmers doing the work when I mantioned CVS instead of VSS. (CVS: Concurrent Versions System, VSS: Visual Source Safe) In a programmers eyes I mentioned CVS and the usuall response was "That would be cool. I wouldn't mind" however those in charge (and those Microsoft Visual Basic only programmers who couldn't comprehend Perl if it killed them) responded with "Um, we use VSS, what is wrong with you?" or "Do what your told."
I've had interviews for Java where the first question is how many years of Visual J++ do you have. My obvious answer is none because VJ++ defeats the whole concept of Java. Or they ask if you can edit in Visual Studio. And I reply "What's the difference between Notepad and 'cat foo.txt' it's all ASCII text!! I could enter in Hex code for all you care it is all the same thing."
Needless to say I never got those jobs. But the point is clear. Employers and even some professional programmers who are in the nitty gritty like name brand software. So symlink your Emacs and VIM to Word and VC++ or else!
Another hold back is 'hackdom' employers don't like code slingers. If you have enough knowledge and skill to be a jack-of-all-trades and a serious code fu then you're better off at a small under-employed bussiness because big companies want code monkeys who do nothing but type like data entry for there code. It's job security and also the very concept behind "Ferinhight 451": keep them dumb and stupid and they won't see how bad it is. So geeks need to walk a very fine line between brand name skills and l33t skills.
I would greatly appreciate any feed back. This is realy an over generalization and partly a rant. I personaly have felt bellittled because I valued my Unix skills and hacking ability over my memorization of where the VB buttons and menus are. I valued my code elegancy over IDE integration. I valued command-line interfaces over dumbed up and usually crippled GUI interfaces. And in the long run it hasn't payed off.
Have other had simular situations?
Where's the good viruses? Every example I see exploits some sexual content or erases your hard disk or trashed your windows DLL's. How boring is that?!
I want to see viruses I'd be proud to infect myself with. Like a networked syphony virus. Infect a subnet (Typical at most computer labs or offices) and have them syncronize behind the scene then each computer takes the task of an interment and bingo: Mozart's 5th all through out the Computer Lab!
Second of all why not smart viruses. Say ones that can learn and adapt. Automatically update via the web. Ones that can attack Anti-virus software so it doesn't detect viruses (Like HIV) and infect your MFC libs so InstallSheild windows don't work. Basicaly why go for the whole hard disk. Where's the spice and fame in that?
A good example of a creative virus was an old Mac one I heard about. Every time you rebooted it would shrink the screen resolution by one pixel. So a year from the infection you'd be looking through a mini window just like back in the old Quake on 486 days.
My theory is viruses are designed to be molitios to continue the fear. So silly Magazine certified hill billies will panic and buy some anti-virus software. Ahhh see the connection? If I were a anti-virus company I bet I'd pay off some hacker accross seas under the table to write some mulitios virus and send over the vacine so I'd be the first to come up with an anti-virus.
Ahh the consperiousy reviels itself...
I'm quite the bit curious, Has anyone actually attempted to see what the appocolypse might look like from a computers perspective?
Perhaps when I have a play machine hanging around I'll `date -s 'Tue Jan 19 03:14:00 GMT 2038'` to watch the rollover or possably Jan 20 2038 to see what breaks after that date?
It would be interesting to experiment such a disaster. Who knows maybe the rollover of one machine will causes a catalistic affect over a net (That would be cool eh? An Epoch worm? Or virus that does nothing but set your time past 2038?)
Possably a site archiving success or fail of such programs or systems would be an intersting addition to the ever-growing-yet-needlessly-viewed bookmark folder.
"Remember, who is the boss of you!"
I don't get it. Why is everyone complaining it's Linux's fault. How is a rouge program writen god knows when the OS's fault. If I install BackOrafice on a windows machine you don't see people running around yelling "It's Window's Fault!" No, it's the fact that a program runing with admin privliges opened a hole. So what?
Blame it on the original writer of BIND. Or patch it! Heck you'd be the first one to toss on a service pack at moments release. But you expect open source to be perfect at version 1.0?
An exploit in BIND does not make BIND nor the OS responsible for who or what goes through that hole. Yes, the hole needs a patch. And yes, maybe a watchdog like program that monitors privilaged proccesses like a babysitter might be nice. But get a grip. It's not Linus's, Eric's, Larry's, or Linux or GNU or..... Go to the source and fix it. heck you'd run make bind if a new version of it cam out what's so hard about a patch -p0 < ../bind.patch?
And whats with everyone knocking X? It seems to work fine for me and aside from quake (Which should be ran in the console without X anyway) I run that sucker pretty ragged. Never had a software issue. (Well, except for me being stupid and not RTFM'ing)
Ok. FlameBait 0.02 complete.
"Remember, who is the boss of you!"
Think of it. The shere idea of it rings in money! I bet 98% of the virus writers out there work for a anti-virus company. Think of the market share
No doubt Microsoft would cash in on the deal and build a mass email system with a built-in virus transfer protocal.
No doubt they made AxtiveX insecure. Where does everyone go? That's right Windows Update a web based ActiveX control. Now when ever you update Microsoft get privlaged access to your machine.
It's all part of the big picture. The appocalypse
"Oh my, what is that?"
"Is it a bird?"
"Is it a plane?"
"No, It's a flamming gerbal!?"
"Oh My Gods! It's Amageddon!"
"Remember, who is the boss of you!"
What if you were destracted in the middle of reading the message?
Nucular Launch Codes: 12XH76.......
"Honey, Have you seen the cat today?"
"What? Hold on I'll be right there once I finish reading this message."
"AGHHHH!!!! Nooo I missed the message!!!!! Quick where's the recycle bin?????"
"Remember, who is the boss of you!"
Oh NO Please no! this means KNAC.com might go out of business. So sad.
I listen to them all the time. I was always afraid They would disappear leaving me with my overplayed MP3's and dead silence but now it might be true.
I am very against steaming companies because they appear to have retards in control. I used to listen to a station (who will remain nameless, WAAF!) that was awesome till one stupid day there retards in charge said "Gee I have a great idea lets change our streaming provider to a Microsoft only company. That way we'll loose 50% of out listeners and piss off anybody who do not have media player. Sales will drop! what a great plan!" Well F* them >:-|
"Remember, who is the boss of you!"
Isn't The GIMP GPLed? But its success never got mentioned. I personally find the GIMP to be 100% better and easier than any PhotoShop.
Many former photoshop advocats agreed that The GIMP is better after I showed it to them.
Isn't this a perfect example of the pluses of GPL Software?
Whats the deal here? Not every Linux user is a dedicated hacker. I do dive into code every once and a while but I sure like having step-by-step instructions or an install program.
So how come Netscape (and the mozilla project) both ship a tar.gz which unpacks a directory called "package"?? what a wierd name for a program directory. So now what? Ok so one has to unpack it in an already made directory say /usr/mozilla then read the README on how to run. like you can't run the thing with the current directory anywhere except the directory where you unpacked it. So the real deal here is there should be a README availiable on-line or in Netscape's FAQ on what steps and causions someone should be aware of before downloading and installing.
This really comes down to, Companies should adhear to either of the two de-facto standards:
- GNU configure (autoconf/automake) Most unix users understand how to use this install utility and find that packages built with this a far eaisier to understand and build.
- One executable install shield Wana ship binaries? well toss them in a self extracting executable (shar?) and have the install program ask proper questions like where to install and what compenants to install. This method is very poular on window based machines. Why not use it for other platforms?
So wheres the hold up? why is it always so different for any other operating system except the ones Billy boy authorizes?The real reason is called "Fair Game." We (The OSS comunitee) can't be so self centered to deny access to those that we dislike. Like the Linux advocacy-HOWTO says we shouldn't bad mouth Microsoft, that only lessens our side of the argument.
The moment we start playing silly little games we look very childish and become exactly like the those we oppose.
The real way to battle anyone is make yourself look better. (The 3 B's Bigger, Badder, Better) thats all anyone cares about.
Look how embraced XML is by commercial bussiness and it's an open standard. Or GNU for that matter.
So lets show this world what we are cappable of by continuing the awesome OSS programs/standards. Make these corporate dogs quivering in their boots from compatition!
I'm realy confused why a company which makes that much money (ok a signifigant amount) would even have a problem with fudged webpages like that.
Haven't there employees heard about checksums, backups and crontabs? I'm mean have a cron job check the checksums of the web site files every 20 minutes and if there off page the sysadmin or automatically restore from backup and recycle the webserver/servlet engine. This way the company would lose 40 minuts of business at the most.
Am I off here? anyone care to point out my oversights?