I think it would also be hard for civs to even find each other.
Now let us presume that each civ is also actively trying to find other civs over a longer period of time. We have been searching for what, 30 years and we already want to give up? If the others have such short attention spans as we do, we might as well stop now.
Also the closest star is 4,5 ly away. Our radio messages have just reached them. If there are really just 2.6 civs in a 400 ly area, it might take a while to find the right ones.
It is like doing a portscan over thousands of ips with a ping of 800 years, searching for only 3 open ports.
Not to mention if I think about us being neighbors, they might have all moved away into gated communities.
So we barely blasted a few waves at some systems we think might have life and the signal barely has gone out 30+ly.
About flying saucers, someone (Drake?) compared the density between two solar systems to two bees over Europe. Imagine that in a 3d space.
People think some space civ will take a really wild adventure and build a ship, pack people into it and ship them out to some planet that *might* have someone on it. Now ships are not quite as fast as radio waves and by the time the ship reaches them there might not be a system left over. Or if they do reach them and no-one is home, they have to fly back. If there is someone home they would have better luck because you never know if the place you left will be there when you get back.
Just like with the portscan it would be a lot more logical for them to send out probes. Maybe *we* should do that? Ach we can ship out multiple to each system, because I can only imagine getting across the void might be a little harder and dangerous then getting across downtown traffic.
I hope no one starts off with the paranoid 'the aliens are out to get us' stuff. Let's leave that to the republicans.
You need not maintain it because it has a 'self-fixing feature'. Bad enough it has the nag dialog ('does this column make my table look big' is my fav) but no matter how often it tries to fix itself, it is never happy. Plus the costs just keep on comming in.
Trust me, the initial cost of the trial key and the license was just like a freebase. Lure them in and before they know what's happening, whammo, you got them. No penis enlargement spam could suck money out of these suckers as fast as woman-ware.
Everytime I read 'Large Hadron Collider' I am confronted with what the Internets has done to me.
Or am I the only one who's mind automatically flips the d & r?
If someone sends you such messages it might appear strange (unless masked well).
If, pre attack, the amount of messages goes up this would become very strange.
Now combine this with a seemingly spam mail and they will have no clue.
You get tons of them anyway.
Heck it would not surprise me if the botnets were being used by the governments around the world to transport such information.
So if the Gestapo had not killed anyone that would have made them better?
If they had just concentrated on shipping them off to the concentration camps it would have been ok?
Not to mention the argument you are missing: The Britain's do not speak german, so they could never be like the Gestapo.
Is there a line you must cross or a form you have to fill out? If I just torture people, am I better then a murderer?
Is shipping people off to Guantanamo any better then shipping people off to a concentration camp?
Not to mention the Gestapo is the wrong group. The former East-German StaSi is better. Compared to the StaSi, what the Britans and US are doing is worse by a couple of factors.
Oh, fear not, the Germans are quickly catching up. Heck the Bavarian government even wants to install trojans on PCs. Actually the German PirateParty was dropped a document that the Bavarian Government is illegally building a software to record Skype communications.
Like the US and UK Germany has all these rights and regulations the government will just ignore.
The worst one of them even supports altering the german bill of rights and 'testing the limits'.
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I think it can go both ways. What makes a manager (or anyone for that matter) good or not is if they know where they stand.
The worst thing is a manager that thinks they know as much as you and tries to tell you how to code. I had one of them and they are terrible. (he was totally against all this 'modularization and object oriented stuff'. You can imagine how long I stayed.
Others did not know anything but feared losing control and thus tried to manage everything you do. Really everything.
The best bosses I have had so far were of two types. A) knew programming but was a manager, period. He never tried to tell us how to design the software. He wanted results and we were there to deliver them. If we said we need to go this way, he only asked how much it would cost and asked for help how to sell it to his boss. B) knew programming, was a manager and wanted to help, but not dictate.
I think a manager need not know the details of what those below him are doing.
But the Taliban were haggling with the US at the time over a pipeline through Afghanistan and were discussing how they could drop Bin Laden. The US knew Bin Laden was there because the Taliban told them he was there and were asking the US for assistance to get Bin Laden out so they could close the deal.
Remember the US never had a quarrel with the Taliban before 9/11 and the Taliban were even invited to the US by Bush. I remember Ms Bush *defending* the Burkah (sp?) on TV.
Remember these were the people that told you how evil the Taliban had seemingly became after 9/11.
Same game with their old pal Saddam or countless others before him. Every time the same deal. First we like him and support him ('what, he oppresses his own people? Why do you hate America?') and then when opportunity strikes all the bad things he did under our guarding had is used by us to attack him. ('what, our actions are hypocritical because we supported him? Why do you hate America?')
After 8 years of Bush, how can anyone still believe in a benevolent and honest government?
We get lied to time and time again and with every new story people still take it at face value.
Oh our government would never lie to us.
Offer them to give it to them if they donate n amount of money to a charity (or one of your choice) and they must also forward your email for 1/2 year.
The charity will profit from it.
The company can write it off as a charity and get good promotion for it.
And you can have that nice warm feeling inside.
Like it or not, Java is the no.1 language, at least claimed by an article referenced here: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/29/163253
The last line of the article pretty much gives an indication of the quality of the authors knowledge.
This game will be a linux port of a windows game and thus not helping linux gaming one bit.
How do you think paying some 3rd party comp to port a windows game to linux will help linux gaming at all?
The original developers can simply continue not supporting linux and the 3rd party comp will just port it (with a nice fee on top of the original price).
While I would love to play games on linux, I will only buy linux games if they come directly supported by the original developers.
This is nothing more then sucking extra money off of a few people who, by thinking they will somehow support linux gaming, will pay about 4/3 of the original price for a game.
And the extra effort seems questionable if we look at the ID games or at NWN by Bioware (to name two). Somehow those comps were able to make their games directly support linux and you got both versions in one box.
But with comps like LGP and buyers like yourself, why should the original developers even hassle with supporting linux. This way they can only support the win market and if LGP thinks there are enough people like yourself, then they might think of porting the game. Maybe.
Nothing personal dude but do you not see why this is not really helping linux?
In coder speak: If you buy into this workaround instead of demanding a fix, the code is still broken.
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I think it would also be hard for civs to even find each other.
Now let us presume that each civ is also actively trying to find other civs over a longer period of time. We have been searching for what, 30 years and we already want to give up?
If the others have such short attention spans as we do, we might as well stop now.
Also the closest star is 4,5 ly away. Our radio messages have just reached them.
If there are really just 2.6 civs in a 400 ly area, it might take a while to find the right ones.
It is like doing a portscan over thousands of ips with a ping of 800 years, searching for only 3 open ports.
Not to mention if I think about us being neighbors, they might have all moved away into gated communities.
So we barely blasted a few waves at some systems we think might have life and the signal barely has gone out 30+ly.
About flying saucers, someone (Drake?) compared the density between two solar systems to two bees over Europe.
Imagine that in a 3d space.
People think some space civ will take a really wild adventure and build a ship, pack people into it and ship them out to some planet that *might* have someone on it.
Now ships are not quite as fast as radio waves and by the time the ship reaches them there might not be a system left over. Or if they do reach them and no-one is home, they have to fly back.
If there is someone home they would have better luck because you never know if the place you left will be there when you get back.
Just like with the portscan it would be a lot more logical for them to send out probes.
Maybe *we* should do that? Ach we can ship out multiple to each system, because I can only imagine getting across the void might be a little harder and dangerous then getting across downtown traffic.
I hope no one starts off with the paranoid 'the aliens are out to get us' stuff.
Let's leave that to the republicans.
You need not maintain it because it has a 'self-fixing feature'. Bad enough it has the nag dialog ('does this column make my table look big' is my fav) but no matter how often it tries to fix itself, it is never happy. Plus the costs just keep on comming in. Trust me, the initial cost of the trial key and the license was just like a freebase. Lure them in and before they know what's happening, whammo, you got them. No penis enlargement spam could suck money out of these suckers as fast as woman-ware.
Everytime I read 'Large Hadron Collider' I am confronted with what the Internets has done to me. Or am I the only one who's mind automatically flips the d & r?
If someone sends you such messages it might appear strange (unless masked well). If, pre attack, the amount of messages goes up this would become very strange. Now combine this with a seemingly spam mail and they will have no clue. You get tons of them anyway. Heck it would not surprise me if the botnets were being used by the governments around the world to transport such information.
So if the Gestapo had not killed anyone that would have made them better? If they had just concentrated on shipping them off to the concentration camps it would have been ok? Not to mention the argument you are missing: The Britain's do not speak german, so they could never be like the Gestapo. Is there a line you must cross or a form you have to fill out? If I just torture people, am I better then a murderer? Is shipping people off to Guantanamo any better then shipping people off to a concentration camp? Not to mention the Gestapo is the wrong group. The former East-German StaSi is better. Compared to the StaSi, what the Britans and US are doing is worse by a couple of factors.
Oh, fear not, the Germans are quickly catching up. Heck the Bavarian government even wants to install trojans on PCs. Actually the German PirateParty was dropped a document that the Bavarian Government is illegally building a software to record Skype communications. Like the US and UK Germany has all these rights and regulations the government will just ignore. The worst one of them even supports altering the german bill of rights and 'testing the limits'.
I think it can go both ways. What makes a manager (or anyone for that matter) good or not is if they know where they stand. The worst thing is a manager that thinks they know as much as you and tries to tell you how to code. I had one of them and they are terrible. (he was totally against all this 'modularization and object oriented stuff'. You can imagine how long I stayed. Others did not know anything but feared losing control and thus tried to manage everything you do. Really everything. The best bosses I have had so far were of two types. A) knew programming but was a manager, period. He never tried to tell us how to design the software. He wanted results and we were there to deliver them. If we said we need to go this way, he only asked how much it would cost and asked for help how to sell it to his boss. B) knew programming, was a manager and wanted to help, but not dictate. I think a manager need not know the details of what those below him are doing.
But the Taliban were haggling with the US at the time over a pipeline through Afghanistan and were discussing how they could drop Bin Laden. The US knew Bin Laden was there because the Taliban told them he was there and were asking the US for assistance to get Bin Laden out so they could close the deal. Remember the US never had a quarrel with the Taliban before 9/11 and the Taliban were even invited to the US by Bush. I remember Ms Bush *defending* the Burkah (sp?) on TV. Remember these were the people that told you how evil the Taliban had seemingly became after 9/11. Same game with their old pal Saddam or countless others before him. Every time the same deal. First we like him and support him ('what, he oppresses his own people? Why do you hate America?') and then when opportunity strikes all the bad things he did under our guarding had is used by us to attack him. ('what, our actions are hypocritical because we supported him? Why do you hate America?') After 8 years of Bush, how can anyone still believe in a benevolent and honest government? We get lied to time and time again and with every new story people still take it at face value. Oh our government would never lie to us.
Offer them to give it to them if they donate n amount of money to a charity (or one of your choice) and they must also forward your email for 1/2 year. The charity will profit from it. The company can write it off as a charity and get good promotion for it. And you can have that nice warm feeling inside.
Like it or not, Java is the no.1 language, at least claimed by an article referenced here: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/29/163253 The last line of the article pretty much gives an indication of the quality of the authors knowledge.
This game will be a linux port of a windows game and thus not helping linux gaming one bit. How do you think paying some 3rd party comp to port a windows game to linux will help linux gaming at all? The original developers can simply continue not supporting linux and the 3rd party comp will just port it (with a nice fee on top of the original price). While I would love to play games on linux, I will only buy linux games if they come directly supported by the original developers. This is nothing more then sucking extra money off of a few people who, by thinking they will somehow support linux gaming, will pay about 4/3 of the original price for a game. And the extra effort seems questionable if we look at the ID games or at NWN by Bioware (to name two). Somehow those comps were able to make their games directly support linux and you got both versions in one box. But with comps like LGP and buyers like yourself, why should the original developers even hassle with supporting linux. This way they can only support the win market and if LGP thinks there are enough people like yourself, then they might think of porting the game. Maybe. Nothing personal dude but do you not see why this is not really helping linux? In coder speak: If you buy into this workaround instead of demanding a fix, the code is still broken.