i would monetize the hell out of it. right now i can barely pay my bills with my day job, the open source thing is just kind of an interesting diversion that i spend way too much time on.
people make fun of 'marketing' all the time but people who can market things are actually kind of geniuses. if i knew how to properly 'market' this stuff, i could quit my day job and hack open source 40 hours a week instead of pushing paper around a desk that nobody cares about and will probably be automated within 5 years.
and im sorry but im guessing someone had a patent on 'selection of high quality linkage indicators in a computer network' if they looked hard enough.
if yahoo has anything, it is a right to join the corrupt backstabbing club of big tech giants who are all shaking each other down with lawyers playing the role of 'knee-cap breaker'. its very similar to how the mafia controls a neighborhood. each 'family' has 'turf' and 'agreements' to get cuts of various businesses. and they are always fighting amongst each other and threatening to wipe each other out.
meanwhile, ordinary people are just trying to build stuff, make a small profit, and live a normal life. not die with a mountain of cocaine piled on top of our desk.
Sabu was essentially an FBI agent. all the hacks that happened within the past 6 months under the guise of anonymous were, essentially, controlled and directed by the FBI. the FBI even hosted servers for them to use in their operation.
the first rule of hacking would seem to be - if someone asks you to do something illegal and stupid, it's probably an FBI sting operation.
just like we tried to prevent war with Spain, with Vietnam, and with Iraq.
i do not see how that falls into the same category as "9/11 truthers". the Maine explosion was a lie, the Tonkin Gulf was a lie, and the WMDs were lies. The government has a history of lying. Here are some examples, written by non-conspiracy-theorist journalists
Puzzle Palace, by James Bamford Body of Secrets, by James Bamford The Shadow Factory, by James Bamford State of War, James Risen Burn Before Reading, Stansfield Turner The Black Banners, Ali Soufan The Asylum, Leah McGrath Goodman The Pentagon Papers, by the Department of Defense
the mortgage bubble affected real estate in california so that prices were artificially inflated to the point that average people could not afford to find a house. they left for places east, even South Dakota's Black Hills saw an influx of california mortgage-bubble refugees.
be able to go on the floor and see how long he would last. i'd give that fucker two weeks, then i would throw him on the 'low skill' pile and tell him to get a job more suited to his capabilities, like being a janitor. at least there are no queue stats when you are scrubbing a shit stain out of a toilet.
"Given the overpriviledged spoiled attitude of most young folks today,"
right. because anyone who wants to say, get treated for leukemia, is 'overpriviledged' and 'spoiled'. a woman who wants to get counseling after being raped, well, thats 'spoiled'.
of course, if you get a hundred million dollar bullshit IT-"security" contract/grant from the military industrial complex, thats not 'spoiled', thats 'working hard'.
apple deserves everything they are getting, because they tried to market themselves as 'different' all these years, appealing to the hipster intellectual urban middle-upper creative class. its their own goddamned fault, since this is the same class that tends to get jobs at human rights foundations, media organizations, and push for labor rights.
the 'audits' are a fucking joke. unions are still illegal in china, and there are still no environmental laws or worker safety laws. (laws, being, the law itself, and then a bureaucracy capable and willing to enforce the law... the latter always seems to fall down in top-down communist systems)
dude, anyone who actually wrote java understands 'write once run anywhere' is a fairy story told to freshman CS students to make them think about the concept of 'portability'.
anytime you move into graphics, audio, etc, java 'doesnt work'.
where one company has to pay huge percentage of its profit to another company 'shaking them down' through illegal monopoly measures enforced by a corrupt government system.
you have one system where there is a lot of diversity (Wintel 80s/90s), and things break, and another system where there is less diversity (Mac), and things work.
the big difference is that Wintel on PCs in the 80s + 90s had a huge price advantage over mac, which was why a lot of people bought them.
does android have a huge price advantage over iphone?
because then we get into the third analogy.
linux desktop has a huge price advantage over windows and OSX. but its diversity level is so high that things frequently 'dont work' (queue screaming fanboys who have never tried to distribute a complicated linux program to actual users)
Doom used 320x200x256 mode on the standard VGA graphics hardware. All the rendering was done in software. There was nothing complicated, whatsoever, about their interface with the graphics hardware itself. It took about 3 lines of code to set up that video mode, and a few pages more to do the double-buffering properly.
a more accurate analogy would be the situation that high resolution programs had in the late 80s and early 90s on DOS, where every program came with it's own set of graphics drivers because there wasn't any standard beyond the standard BIOS modes (320x200x256, 640x480x16, etc), and every manufacturer was putting out its own special system.
every time you hear about 'shortage in industry x', what it really means is that 'industry is trying to lower wages".
why would they want to lower wages? so that they can return more profit to their shareholders, which are big funds and investment banks. it has nothing, whatsoever, to do with a 'labor shortage'. remember the invisible hand of the market? it should take care of 'shortages' just fine. it is funny to see the capitalists decide that capitalistic theory is not 'good enough' for their profit margin, and they need to grease the wheels with massive media campaigns and PR initiatives.
by 'simulated rape and murder' i am referring to GTA 3, and by 'remotely piloted vehicle' im talking about what the US is doing in Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan, and several other countries right now
by using extensive training and de-sensitization techniques, such as introducing young children to the concept of simulated rape and murder for entertainment, we can train a generation of children who will have no problem flying a remotely piloted vehicle and killing random strangers about whom they know nothing other than that the computer indicates the person is a 'target'.
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i would monetize the hell out of it. right now i can barely pay my bills with my day job, the open source thing is just kind of an interesting diversion that i spend way too much time on.
people make fun of 'marketing' all the time but people who can market things are actually kind of geniuses. if i knew how to properly 'market' this stuff, i could quit my day job and hack open source 40 hours a week instead of pushing paper around a desk that nobody cares about and will probably be automated within 5 years.
and im sorry but im guessing someone had a patent on 'selection of high quality linkage indicators in a computer network' if they looked hard enough.
if yahoo has anything, it is a right to join the corrupt backstabbing club of big tech giants who are all shaking each other down with lawyers playing the role of 'knee-cap breaker'. its very similar to how the mafia controls a neighborhood. each 'family' has 'turf' and 'agreements' to get cuts of various businesses. and they are always fighting amongst each other and threatening to wipe each other out.
meanwhile, ordinary people are just trying to build stuff, make a small profit, and live a normal life. not die with a mountain of cocaine piled on top of our desk.
Sabu was an FBI agent, the FBI helped him find servers for the stratfor leak. all over the news in the past few days.
Sabu was essentially an FBI agent. all the hacks that happened within the past 6 months under the guise of anonymous were, essentially, controlled and directed by the FBI. the FBI even hosted servers for them to use in their operation.
the first rule of hacking would seem to be - if someone asks you to do something illegal and stupid, it's probably an FBI sting operation.
yeah, fracking shale gas is wonderful way to get rid of 'terrorist oil'.
the time spent writing / compiling / etc is not just about getting the thing to work.
its about organizing it in some half-way logical and elegant manner so that other people can understand it and work on it later.
its like composing a poem (minus the emotional considerations or the search for truthful depictions of the human condition).
on a beach where they say 'another day, another death'.
but hey, at least none of those 'liberal environmental nazis' or 'commie labor unions' are there to complain about the free market, am i right?
last i heard, we had outsourced all of that stuff to China. you know, capitalism and all that.
just like we tried to prevent war with Spain, with Vietnam, and with Iraq.
i do not see how that falls into the same category as "9/11 truthers". the Maine explosion was a lie, the Tonkin Gulf was a lie, and the WMDs were lies. The government has a history of lying. Here are some examples, written by non-conspiracy-theorist journalists
Puzzle Palace, by James Bamford
Body of Secrets, by James Bamford
The Shadow Factory, by James Bamford
State of War, James Risen
Burn Before Reading, Stansfield Turner
The Black Banners, Ali Soufan
The Asylum, Leah McGrath Goodman
The Pentagon Papers, by the Department of Defense
Also visit the FOIA sites at the CIA and the FBI.
thank god we stopped the Spanish Crown from invading South Vietnam with Nuclear Weapons.
the mortgage bubble affected real estate in california so that prices were artificially inflated to the point that average people could not afford to find a house. they left for places east, even South Dakota's Black Hills saw an influx of california mortgage-bubble refugees.
be able to go on the floor and see how long he would last. i'd give that fucker two weeks, then i would throw him on the 'low skill' pile and tell him to get a job more suited to his capabilities, like being a janitor. at least there are no queue stats when you are scrubbing a shit stain out of a toilet.
"Given the overpriviledged spoiled attitude of most young folks today,"
right. because anyone who wants to say, get treated for leukemia, is 'overpriviledged' and 'spoiled'. a woman who wants to get counseling after being raped, well, thats 'spoiled'.
of course, if you get a hundred million dollar bullshit IT-"security" contract/grant from the military industrial complex, thats not 'spoiled', thats 'working hard'.
apple deserves everything they are getting, because they tried to market themselves as 'different' all these years, appealing to the hipster intellectual urban middle-upper creative class. its their own goddamned fault, since this is the same class that tends to get jobs at human rights foundations, media organizations, and push for labor rights.
the 'audits' are a fucking joke. unions are still illegal in china, and there are still no environmental laws or worker safety laws. (laws, being, the law itself, and then a bureaucracy capable and willing to enforce the law... the latter always seems to fall down in top-down communist systems)
dude, anyone who actually wrote java understands 'write once run anywhere' is a fairy story told to freshman CS students to make them think about the concept of 'portability'.
anytime you move into graphics, audio, etc, java 'doesnt work'.
where one company has to pay huge percentage of its profit to another company 'shaking them down' through illegal monopoly measures enforced by a corrupt government system.
the analogy is a good one.
you have one system where there is a lot of diversity (Wintel 80s/90s), and things break, and another system where there is less diversity (Mac), and things work.
the big difference is that Wintel on PCs in the 80s + 90s had a huge price advantage over mac, which was why a lot of people bought them.
does android have a huge price advantage over iphone?
because then we get into the third analogy.
linux desktop has a huge price advantage over windows and OSX. but its diversity level is so high that things frequently 'dont work' (queue screaming fanboys who have never tried to distribute a complicated linux program to actual users)
Doom used 320x200x256 mode on the standard VGA graphics hardware. All the rendering was done in software. There was nothing complicated, whatsoever, about their interface with the graphics hardware itself. It took about 3 lines of code to set up that video mode, and a few pages more to do the double-buffering properly.
a more accurate analogy would be the situation that high resolution programs had in the late 80s and early 90s on DOS, where every program came with it's own set of graphics drivers because there wasn't any standard beyond the standard BIOS modes (320x200x256, 640x480x16, etc), and every manufacturer was putting out its own special system.
where the actual 'fighting' is 'happening' in 'the real world'.
every time you hear about 'shortage in industry x', what it really means is that 'industry is trying to lower wages".
why would they want to lower wages? so that they can return more profit to their shareholders, which are big funds and investment banks. it has nothing, whatsoever, to do with a 'labor shortage'. remember the invisible hand of the market? it should take care of 'shortages' just fine. it is funny to see the capitalists decide that capitalistic theory is not 'good enough' for their profit margin, and they need to grease the wheels with massive media campaigns and PR initiatives.
i was not aware that there was any sort of feedback mechanism.
mass2 = planetmass
mass1 = bodymass
repeat:
xpos += xvel
ypos += yvel
xaccel += xforce
yaccel += yforce
xdist = planetx-bodyx
ydist = planety-bodyy
mass2 = bodymass
xforce = g*mass1*mass2 / xdist*xdist
yforce = g*mass1*mass2 / ydist*ydist
----
if you have more than one object, do a loop through the 'force = ' stuff and use += to aggregate it.
by 'simulated rape and murder' i am referring to GTA 3, and by 'remotely piloted vehicle' im talking about what the US is doing in Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan, and several other countries right now
by using extensive training and de-sensitization techniques, such as introducing young children to the concept of simulated rape and murder for entertainment, we can train a generation of children who will have no problem flying a remotely piloted vehicle and killing random strangers about whom they know nothing other than that the computer indicates the person is a 'target'.