I think if Windows ran everything in something like a sandbox, where programs couldn't communicate with programs outside itself, and saw its own version of a disk system which only had itself on it, things wouldn't be bad for starters. A virus then couldn't then spread to other files on your filesystems because each program couldn't access programs outside itself.
It doesn't help much for legacy software, but a special memory section could be used for shared memory, and a special disk location could be used for shared files.
A system prompt would be needed before installing driver files or changing things on startup.
This doesn't stop a keylogger from getting you though. There are ways of stopping keyloggers, but no need to get to complex stuff when people will want to shoot holes through my theory "Windows as a filesystem sandbox mode". I think about this a lot since it doesn't seem like several OSes are designed to operate in the Internet environment without getting hosed by running the wrong file. If Windows could be secure from running an occasional malware.exe, I would try out a lot more software.
DOTA 2 once had a 10$ million tournament. Are you telling me one of the richest corporations on the planet couldn't even pony up that much?
Professional sports teams pay single players 10$ million salary just to compete. Add up all the players in a league and you're looking in the billions.
Halo has a small skill curve/ceiling compared to something like Starcraft or League of Legends. In Halo, the difference between getting killed or scoring a kill isn't much. So if someone wanted to go pro with Halo, they'd have to take a lot of risk with them instead of being a lock to win. When skill ceilings are low, there's more random luck involved in who wins. I believe even the best Halo player isn't that much better than the top 100 world wide. So for someone to dedicate a thousand+ hours of practice to become the best Halo 5 player means they're willing to take the risk of not winning in your piddly 1 million dollar tournament. It sounds like a whole lot of investment for a big gamble. Now say you made a 5-10 million dollar tournament, and promised to do this for 4 years straight, then it sounds like something almost worth pursuing. But 1 meelion *finger to lip* is a joke. All it does is attract little kids who can't do math think they're going to be the next pro gamer. If they have an on site tournament like MLG, the travel expenses and hotels of everyone participating is more expensive than the prize pool.
I once had a hiesenbug, which was a simple dereferrenced pointer. The problem is that I had a couple thousand lines of code, and the bug wasn't where I was recently coding. Every coder knows to check for bugs in their most recent code, but a derefferenced pointer can be anywhere in the code. Anyway, I decided to break down and pray for help. Then within moments I read through a random line of code in some random file and debugged the problem. Since then, I often pray I do well in general, then I don't get stuck on a brick wall of tech, that God helps me while I code, and a host of other cool stuff. I find things flow more smoothly since then and I don't fight with code. I know God is real, and I've come to discover prayer does help too. In addition to that, I've been more careful with pointer math, biasing array memory structures more.
Remember a few days ago, The UK proposed a 10 year copyright violation imprisonment? Next up, what if the "rights" holders for "Happy Birthday" decide to go all RIAA and sue everyone they can. All you have to do is open up Facebook or Instagram, and bam, thousands of families can be taken straight to prison for ten years. That'll teach them.
From what it seems, electricity costs less to travel, especially if you have cheap solar panels. However, you can get 100,000 miles of gasoline buying a 10,000$ car over a $20,000 electric plugin hybrid. $10,000/(3$gallon)=3,333 gallons of gasoline * 32 miles to a gallon = 100,000 miles of travel. If an electric plugin hybrid car can get around $15,000 or less, then it will be a game changer for people who care about economy.
Which is the funny part, that I don't use a data plan or that I think it will protect against MMS?
I don't even get images sent via texts, so I was wondering if I don't download any data if the payload can still hit.
I have my data plan turned off. When I receive multimedia texts, it receives nothing but a message prompting me to download it, but it doesn't actually download anything.
Hey, Snapchat makes no sense at all, since anyone can screenshot/hack their own device. Even though Snapchat doesn't do what it claims, its a phenomena which has made lots of money. I think Google just wants to jump on the money train of making impossible claims to technology.
Not to mention beating the odds in the long haul is much more suspicious to me at least. The odds of hitting the lottery for one big payout is nothing compared with consistently winning the 3 digit lottery over the long run.
If I had a 100,000 line of code video game that took me years to make, and I want to use some 10x10 pixel piece of GPLed art that took someone a few minutes to make, does that mean I have to release my 100,000 lines of code open source? I think it does and people have suggested it to me in the past.
This is why I think artists get lulled into thinking they can license under GPL and people can use their art as long as they put their name in the credits, but that isn't the result at all. Artists who want their art to be used freely in video games probably want to use Creative Commons license, and not CC-BY.
I thought you couldn't sell the software unless you provided your own code with GPL and open sourced your code? Admittedly my grammar failed, but I was trying to say,"Unless I provided all my code open sourced and available, I could not sell my game."
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Some people think GPL means you can use my stuff as long as you put my name in the credits and keep my stuff free. But GPL means,"If you use my stuff, you can't charge for your stuff and have to make all your code public." So if I write a 100,000 line of code game, and I am on opengameart.org and want to use someone's pretty butterfly picture under GPL, I can't use that picture unless I release years worth of source code. Thankfully there is a work around of contacting artists directly and asking for a different license. Some get surprised they didn't pick a friendly license to begin with since GPL gets pushed so much as the correct for sharing license.
Everyone talks about how bad Command and Conquer 3 was balanced. In that game there is no financial decisions or tiberium farming strategies like C&C1. You build 95% medium tanks and so does your opponent, and win or lose. Next game? Build all medium tanks.
But I'm curious about C&C1. I was really good at it with my people at my university, but I'd be curious to see how it holds up if it was laddered. Its probably imbalanced really badly, but it is hard to be more imbalanced than C&C3 where you can build a single unit all game and be top 100 world wide in ladder.
It took working with the self driving car to finally get to the realm of AI. AI in essence is one part complicated sensors, and one part video game AI. If you can know where stuff is in your environment, then the other part is just acting on that stuff with your current robot's body/abilities. AI is way simpler than anyone thought it was back in the days of Tron or simulating animal brains. All you need is the ability to know and map your environment then act on it. Everything in between like natural language kinda is coded along side it. I have a webpage www.botcraft.biz which really simplifies stuff. Now don't get me wrong, some of the software that is needed to be coded is big and complex, but none of it is out of the realm of human understanding. If a corporation really wanted AI,they could have it in 7 years or so, but most corporations don't look that far out. I think the race to make a self driving car will naturally lead into AI. And what is funny is that you could have robot delivery service for lawn care, parties, law enforcement backup, etc, because they could use the self driving car to get to the locations.
I'd go so far as to predict the self driving car will turn into AI because I posted it on another forum, but I post so much on forums, its hard to back track and point at references.
Everyone deserves sympathy because they're people. Everyone matters.
I'll tell a story about helping people related to Katrina. There were two types of people who went down to help. One person jumped in their car and came down immediately and said,"What can I do to help." The other person loaded their car with bottled water, chainsaws, gasoline and canned food then came down. The person who came loaded used their own supplies and just started chainsawing trees in the road. If they saw someone who could use help, they donated supplies. They helped. The other person used the local gasoline jacking the prices higher, and used supplies needed for the people. The unprepared helper was a net negative to helping out.
The lesson in this is that helping others is a lifetime job. We educate ourselves always, work a moral job, live a frugal life so we can help others maximally. If we simply gave away all our money and capital all at once, we become part of the problem.
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I think if Windows ran everything in something like a sandbox, where programs couldn't communicate with programs outside itself, and saw its own version of a disk system which only had itself on it, things wouldn't be bad for starters. A virus then couldn't then spread to other files on your filesystems because each program couldn't access programs outside itself.
.exe, I would try out a lot more software.
It doesn't help much for legacy software, but a special memory section could be used for shared memory, and a special disk location could be used for shared files.
A system prompt would be needed before installing driver files or changing things on startup.
This doesn't stop a keylogger from getting you though. There are ways of stopping keyloggers, but no need to get to complex stuff when people will want to shoot holes through my theory "Windows as a filesystem sandbox mode". I think about this a lot since it doesn't seem like several OSes are designed to operate in the Internet environment without getting hosed by running the wrong file. If Windows could be secure from running an occasional malware
DOTA 2 once had a 10$ million tournament. Are you telling me one of the richest corporations on the planet couldn't even pony up that much?
Professional sports teams pay single players 10$ million salary just to compete. Add up all the players in a league and you're looking in the billions.
Halo has a small skill curve/ceiling compared to something like Starcraft or League of Legends. In Halo, the difference between getting killed or scoring a kill isn't much. So if someone wanted to go pro with Halo, they'd have to take a lot of risk with them instead of being a lock to win. When skill ceilings are low, there's more random luck involved in who wins. I believe even the best Halo player isn't that much better than the top 100 world wide. So for someone to dedicate a thousand+ hours of practice to become the best Halo 5 player means they're willing to take the risk of not winning in your piddly 1 million dollar tournament. It sounds like a whole lot of investment for a big gamble. Now say you made a 5-10 million dollar tournament, and promised to do this for 4 years straight, then it sounds like something almost worth pursuing. But 1 meelion *finger to lip* is a joke. All it does is attract little kids who can't do math think they're going to be the next pro gamer. If they have an on site tournament like MLG, the travel expenses and hotels of everyone participating is more expensive than the prize pool.
I once had a hiesenbug, which was a simple dereferrenced pointer. The problem is that I had a couple thousand lines of code, and the bug wasn't where I was recently coding. Every coder knows to check for bugs in their most recent code, but a derefferenced pointer can be anywhere in the code. Anyway, I decided to break down and pray for help. Then within moments I read through a random line of code in some random file and debugged the problem. Since then, I often pray I do well in general, then I don't get stuck on a brick wall of tech, that God helps me while I code, and a host of other cool stuff. I find things flow more smoothly since then and I don't fight with code. I know God is real, and I've come to discover prayer does help too. In addition to that, I've been more careful with pointer math, biasing array memory structures more.
That's only what the queen bee says. She also says,"No one is allowed to make jokes about my fat body".
Remember a few days ago, The UK proposed a 10 year copyright violation imprisonment? Next up, what if the "rights" holders for "Happy Birthday" decide to go all RIAA and sue everyone they can. All you have to do is open up Facebook or Instagram, and bam, thousands of families can be taken straight to prison for ten years. That'll teach them.
From what it seems, electricity costs less to travel, especially if you have cheap solar panels. However, you can get 100,000 miles of gasoline buying a 10,000$ car over a $20,000 electric plugin hybrid. $10,000 /(3$gallon)=3,333 gallons of gasoline * 32 miles to a gallon = 100,000 miles of travel. If an electric plugin hybrid car can get around $15,000 or less, then it will be a game changer for people who care about economy.
But can it run Crysis?
Dude1:"HI GUYS! HOW IS EVERYONE?"
Dude2:"Hey. Doing okay. You?"
Dude1:"COULDN'T BE BETTER! ANYTHING GOING ON?"
Dude2:"There's a caps lock key on your keyboard, press it."
Dude1"OH! THANK YOU! IT'S SO MUCH EASIER TYPING NOW NOT HAVING TO HOLD SHIFT."
Which is the funny part, that I don't use a data plan or that I think it will protect against MMS? I don't even get images sent via texts, so I was wondering if I don't download any data if the payload can still hit.
If the data plan is turned off, you can't get any multimedia. It isn't an optimal solution, but turning data off will protect you, right?
That is really really cool. I figured we were going to use solar with hydrogen gas someday to store the energy in gas. If they're doing it with methane already, I'm sure they have great results.
I have my data plan turned off. When I receive multimedia texts, it receives nothing but a message prompting me to download it, but it doesn't actually download anything.
Hey, Snapchat makes no sense at all, since anyone can screenshot/hack their own device. Even though Snapchat doesn't do what it claims, its a phenomena which has made lots of money. I think Google just wants to jump on the money train of making impossible claims to technology.
Ebay: We're nothing like auctions.
Paypal: We're nothing like a bank.
If you're a tech company, claim you're nothing like has ever come before as to be immune to as many laws as possible.
I just think the electronic voting should have a verifiable paper trail.
Why do we allow a computer program to count our election results with no oversight?
Not to mention beating the odds in the long haul is much more suspicious to me at least. The odds of hitting the lottery for one big payout is nothing compared with consistently winning the 3 digit lottery over the long run.
I would honestly like an answer from someone.
If I had a 100,000 line of code video game that took me years to make, and I want to use some 10x10 pixel piece of GPLed art that took someone a few minutes to make, does that mean I have to release my 100,000 lines of code open source? I think it does and people have suggested it to me in the past.
This is why I think artists get lulled into thinking they can license under GPL and people can use their art as long as they put their name in the credits, but that isn't the result at all. Artists who want their art to be used freely in video games probably want to use Creative Commons license, and not CC-BY.
I thought you couldn't sell the software unless you provided your own code with GPL and open sourced your code? Admittedly my grammar failed, but I was trying to say,"Unless I provided all my code open sourced and available, I could not sell my game."
Some people think GPL means you can use my stuff as long as you put my name in the credits and keep my stuff free. But GPL means,"If you use my stuff, you can't charge for your stuff and have to make all your code public." So if I write a 100,000 line of code game, and I am on opengameart.org and want to use someone's pretty butterfly picture under GPL, I can't use that picture unless I release years worth of source code. Thankfully there is a work around of contacting artists directly and asking for a different license. Some get surprised they didn't pick a friendly license to begin with since GPL gets pushed so much as the correct for sharing license.
Everyone talks about how bad Command and Conquer 3 was balanced. In that game there is no financial decisions or tiberium farming strategies like C&C1. You build 95% medium tanks and so does your opponent, and win or lose. Next game? Build all medium tanks.
But I'm curious about C&C1. I was really good at it with my people at my university, but I'd be curious to see how it holds up if it was laddered. Its probably imbalanced really badly, but it is hard to be more imbalanced than C&C3 where you can build a single unit all game and be top 100 world wide in ladder.
For only about as much as you'd pay in a car payment, you can have the speed other countries get for about the price of a cup of coffee a day.
It took working with the self driving car to finally get to the realm of AI. AI in essence is one part complicated sensors, and one part video game AI. If you can know where stuff is in your environment, then the other part is just acting on that stuff with your current robot's body/abilities. AI is way simpler than anyone thought it was back in the days of Tron or simulating animal brains. All you need is the ability to know and map your environment then act on it. Everything in between like natural language kinda is coded along side it. I have a webpage www.botcraft.biz which really simplifies stuff. Now don't get me wrong, some of the software that is needed to be coded is big and complex, but none of it is out of the realm of human understanding. If a corporation really wanted AI,they could have it in 7 years or so, but most corporations don't look that far out. I think the race to make a self driving car will naturally lead into AI. And what is funny is that you could have robot delivery service for lawn care, parties, law enforcement backup, etc, because they could use the self driving car to get to the locations.
I'd go so far as to predict the self driving car will turn into AI because I posted it on another forum, but I post so much on forums, its hard to back track and point at references.
Everyone deserves sympathy because they're people. Everyone matters.
I'll tell a story about helping people related to Katrina. There were two types of people who went down to help. One person jumped in their car and came down immediately and said,"What can I do to help." The other person loaded their car with bottled water, chainsaws, gasoline and canned food then came down. The person who came loaded used their own supplies and just started chainsawing trees in the road. If they saw someone who could use help, they donated supplies. They helped. The other person used the local gasoline jacking the prices higher, and used supplies needed for the people. The unprepared helper was a net negative to helping out. The lesson in this is that helping others is a lifetime job. We educate ourselves always, work a moral job, live a frugal life so we can help others maximally. If we simply gave away all our money and capital all at once, we become part of the problem.
*Not to say the defenders of the Alamo aren't heroes. I just meant people want to know victory is possible.