$100 will not buy you a decent home theater system so I'm not sure why the choices are mutually exclulsive.
But even if they were equal, buying the HTS contributes far more to society than the food bank donation. Why? Because $100 to a HTS company will mean jobs for marketeers, salespeople, technicians, engineers, researchers, local power company, etc. Not to mention a lot of fun for you, your family and friends. Give people a reason to work and they will aspire to be more than they are today.
Give them a handout, well thanks for the bandaid, but what they really need is a job to help make ends meet. If only there were a way to create jobs.....
Your success and agressiveness have nothing to do with whether you abide by the law. Both rich, ambulance chasing lawyers and poor, homeless slackers have equal opportunity to either abide by the law or break it on a daily basis. The result of millions of people and corporations making that choice everyday give us either a society... or chaos.
Capitalism itself is based upon the ability for buyers and sellers to aggressively compete in a marketplace governed by rules. Notice the caveat, "governed by rules." Microsoft is a convicted monopolist under the Federal government's antitrust laws. These laws are there to make a level playing field and are an underpinning of capitalism itself. Imagine a capitalistic world without rules. Why one could assassinate the executives of competing corporations, poison their workers or even bomb their factories. This is the situation in many banana republics today -- notice how few of them are bastions of capitalism.
So capitalism requires rules to work. Without everyone abiding by those rules, capitalism itself is threatened. Today Microsoft has grown to be one of the largest corporations in the world and, through its illegal anticompetitive business practices, is a bigger threat to capitalism and our way of life than either Osama bin Laden or Hussein.
This is one thing that I don't get about techies, why are we so critical of ourselves and feel we're not justified in making the money we make? Mind you that I'm a techie that is just as guilty of this as the next person.
Do lawyers and doctors sit around and say that they are overpaid? How about CEO's, supermodels and any kind of athlete? Do they knock each other when new salary plateau's are reached? Or do they contact their agent and start to figure out ways they can increase their own salary?
I'd be interested to know how many lawyers there are versus techies and then compare the salaries of a mid level person in each field. From a gut feel, I kind of think that the average mid level techie is overpaid -- but then I think about what the average mid level lawyer probably makes and I'm not so sure.
Do multiple website attacks resulting from a single system breach count as one attack or many?
Mass website attacks are counted as multiple attacks because although there is a single action on the part of the attacker, economic damage is always done to multiple victims.
So if a single ISP box gets hacked, they may count that as 100 linux sites hacked because of virtual hosting.
But even more important than their actual counting methods are where they get their data. Again, according to the same paper: mi2g is principally reliant on data for SIPS and EVEDA from a number of sources:
Personal relationships at CEO, CIO, CISO level within the banking, insurance and reinsurance industry in Europe, North America and Asia. We have been involved in pioneering cyber liability insurance cover for Lloyd's of London syndicates which has given us access to case history since the late 1990s.
Monitoring hacker bulletin boards and hacker activity. We have several white hat hackers who we use for penetration testing and developing our bespoke security architecture that feed digital risk information through to us on a continuous basis including vulnerabilities, exploits and the latest serious attacks they are aware of.
We maintain anonymous communication channels with a large number of black hat hacker groups.
So their highly informed executive manager friends seem to know when their linux systems get hacked versus their windows systems, they browse the web, looking at defacement sites and they converse with script kiddies via email. Umm, does anyone else see an issue with their data collection methods besides me?
If you don't yet, then let me give you a simple example. Let's say that I wanted to bias the results. Mmm... it appears that all I have to do is deploy one linux box that is virtual hosting say 2,000 sites that noone visits. I leave some things in a very insecure mode and let some script kiddies know about it. Once its been "hacked", the script kiddie posts on a board or sends email to mi2g.com and their numbers move by 2,000 sites.
You can show me analyst reports by people like this all day long. In the end, this report bears no relation to what I see day to day in the real world.
Use OO inheritance to represent common behavior between classes. Common attributes are irrelevant in true OO -- after all, with data hiding you never have access to those attributes except through methods anyway. So you see, it all goes back to behavior.
Actually the owners of the IP are deprived of cash.
No, their IP is diminished by your copyright infringement. Noone can steal your song. Noone can deprive you of cash. At best, someone can illegally copy your song and diminish the value of your work.
Look at GPL'd works. One can violate the copyright, but the original author is not deprived of cash - as that was not the terms of the licensing.
Perhaps they are enlightened and are embracing disruptive technologies head on and developing new business models.
All the ISP's are facing a problem with WIFI. If I can get DSL and then share that line via WIFI to say 2 neighbors, then the ISP has missed out on 2 potential customers. ISP's can react to this by outlawing WIFI, outlawing NAT or by working with the disruptive technology and adding their own value.
Let's look at Speakeasy's case. If a DSL connection through them costs say $60 and I want to share it to say 2 neighbors, with each paying $30. Then Speakeasy will collect $90 from all of us. This is more than the $60 they would have collected from me alone, if I was just giving my neighbors free bandwidth. You might be tempted to think that Speakeasy is losing out on the deal since they could theoretically be collecting $180 if all three of us had our own DSL line. However, that's not true.
Whether I alone sign up for DSL or all three of us sign up for DSL, we're paying Speakeasy $60/DSL line. In their WIFI sharing plan, they can now collect $90/DSL line. How much they collect depends on how much you charge your neighbors, but in every case, it will be more than if you had the line just by yourself.
This is the kind of situation I like to see. A company using its head to give the customers what they want, while at the same time making more money doing it. Kudos to Speakeasy.
I agree with Bill. Microsoft very well may be the most innovative company to hit the high tech industry. Disagree? Well, lets look at the facts:
Who came up with the concept of bundling software desktop productivity apps with the operating system?
Who came up with the licensing scheme to force hardware vendors to pay them for every machine sold, regardless of what OS was installed?
Who first pioneered the practice of publishing faulty and/or poor performing api's to the world while allowing their own app developers access to better api's?
Who pioneered the concept of trademarking a generic name like Windows? Had Linus been innovative, he would have named Linux as Kernel, Micro-Kernel or simple OS. While I'm on this, perhaps even better names would be Desk or Desktop... but I digress.
Who pioneered the practice of aggressively marketing their "innovative" product development while surreptitiously purchasing or copying everyone else's technology?
Who pioneered EULA's that essentially made the end user a slave to their software vendor?
Who raised the product announcement marketing bullshit factor to a such a high level that the phrase, vaporware, had to be created?
Who consistently managed to get consumers to pay through the nose for "new" products that were essentially cosmetically modified versions of the same buggy products they already owned?
Who first managed to get customers to pay for upgrades to the buggy releases they originally purchased?
Who pioneered the notion of charging customers to report a bug?
Who first came up with the idea to partner with hardware vendors at the BIOS level to lock out competing OS's?
Who came up with the idea to provide software CD's as a mult-billion dollar lawsuit settlement?
Who may soon generate a huge revenue stream from selling anti-virus tools to fix viruses propagated by their buggy OS and apps?
C'mon people. Linus, PARC, IBM and even the talented Steve Jobs never did as much. All Linus did was create a solid, well performing kernel.... big deal, like that's worth anything. Had he been really talented, like Bill, he would have copied and extended all the GNU pieces so he could claim copyright on them and killed the FSF. Ha, ha, now that would have shown Stallman what innovation is all about. Emacs, my ass.
Microsoft is more innovative than Rockefeller and Standard Oil. Whereas the latter had to resort to age old techniques such as industrial sabotage and thugs to kill competition, Microsoft created new techniques such as leveraging lawyers and contracts to lock out and starve the competition. Hell, even Hitler could have learned a thing or two from the master BillG. Instead of all that gas chamber and kristalnacht stuff, Bill would have suggested a more creative strategy. First, mandate that all middleware such as roads, freeways, alleys, waterways require signed permits for use. Second force everyone to sign up at a central server for permits. Third, display a blue screen of death for all non-aryans who submit permit requests. Within a short period, all non-aryans in Germany would have starved for being unable to get to work, buy food, etc.
Finally, BillG's illegitimate father, Saddam Hussein, could've used a bit of his son's wisdom. Saddam should've claimed that his WMD were bundled in with the people of Iraq and that they couldn't be disabled without adversely affecting the lives of the people. Also, he could've made available the documents surrounding the WMD's... but at a price. Under RAND licensing, He should've charged $100 millon a page to anyone who wanted to view the documents.
Bill has shown great creativity and innovation in the use of Marketing & Legal to control/enslave large groups of people and generate huge sums of cash. Technologists, CEO's, dictators and despots alike could have all benefited from his wisdom.
This is what happens when the people who are dictating the language of a discussion are really trying to sell a product. Their usage is determined by what sounds the best and the phrases to which their focus groups responded most positively.
Have you ever noticed that suburban residential developments and streets are often named after the things that they destroyed and replaced? How often have you seen an Elm street that was created by chopping down all of the Elm trees. Or a ShadyBrook development that has no trees, streams or shade. It's almost as if the name serves as a memorial or reminder of what was destroyed.
Understanding that some people (marketroids) in this world use memorial names really helps when trying to parse their message. Using this as a guide, what does Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing mean to you?
So there are four umpires for as many as 13 players on the field.
Emphasis is mine. So what you're saying is that the minimum ref to player ratio in a regular season game is 4:13. But the maximum, and higher occurance, ratio is 4:10 when no one is on base.
Moreover, in a playoff game since they add 2 more umps, the ratio becomes 6:10. Does this not seem like a few too many umps to you? Especially considering the hot chick to dude ratio is 1:20 and the beer dude to fan ratio is like 1:500.
Come to think of it, baseball should spend its time trying to create/attract more hot women to baseball rather than worrying about whether a fat ump is replaced by a 3D image processing computer or even a random number generator. Like anyone would notice the difference anyway.
I totally agree. Blade Runner, The Director's Cut was interesting but I really want to see the original Blade Runner (the one I saw in the theater) that I still have fond memories of.
Bah, Mensa membership is easy.... 1 out of every 50 idiots gets the invite. Back when I was a Giga Society member, Mensans were our boot licking lackeys. They were fit for all manners of menial tasks from ritualistic scrotum shaving to carrying the piss buckets. In a pinch, they were even handy as replacement skeet targets. Ah, the summers in Rangoon... I remember them well.
Anyway, I dropped out of Giga since they weren't exclusive enough. I'm now making a bid for the Exa Society. My Princeton Review book arrived yesterday, but I haven't cracked it open yet since the test isn't until next week. Wish me luck.
Even though business documents rarely exhibit the level of quality of open source software, it doesn't have to be that way. Collaborative projects work.... as long as their is a small set (1-3) of highly talented, like minded people to review and approve the changes. Linux is good because of Linus overseeing changes to the kernel. The same can be said of other open source projects.
Ownership, it does a project good.
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The Java system is based on the cleaning of a partly object-orientated language: C++. I know C++ coders will hate me for this, but if you compare C++ to real object-orientated languages like Smalltalk or CLOS, you'll have to admit that it's the plain truth.
C++ is fast and less OO, Smalltalk and CLOS are slow and more OO. Since both classes of languages exist, obviously each user has different requirements and choose their level of OO and performance accordingly.
Secondly the Java interpreter scheme was extremely promising, too. However, SUN fuck this advantage totally up... MS did recognize this potential much better with their.NET system providing a platform for a huge range of languages ranging from C++, C#, Java, VB to even Eiffel.
What exactly is the failure of the Sun VM? It runs on different CPU's and OS's. It has a published VM language for which people can implement compilers. Oh your argument is that the system libraries are inadequate. In what way do you feel they are less in capability than.Net?
And SUN failed unlike MS to provide decent interoperability here, because their Java VM was never really meant to run with other languages.
The common definition of interoperability and MS Interoperability(tm) are slightly different. Essentially, the MS definition is a very small subset of the more common definition. As far as MS is concerned, Interoperability is the ability for MS programs and languages to speak with one another.
So let me ask you, what is the real benefit of the CLR? Do you find yourself writing a lot of C++ in the morning and extending it with VB in the afternoon? No you say, it's to allow multiple programmers to work on the same monolithic application in their language of choice? Oh so the ui guys can code in VB and the backend people can write in C++ or C#. Mmmm... I've seen many languages interoperate in monolithic applications such as C, Fortran, Tcl, Java so I'm not exactly sure what MS has added as new. And if we're talking about most applications which are distributed (ie. non-monolithic) nowadays, then the point of a CLR becomes even less clear.
Mensa member, beware of the high IQ
I don't often pick on people, but I think the combination of this signature with the post forces my hand. A more apt signature for this post would have been: MS shill, beware of the FUD
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As an American who has been regularly travelling to Canada, let me say that I absolutely hate the $1/$2 coins! Jeez, my wallet is next to useless now as I continuously seem to fill my pockets with metal.
I'm sure jingling coins sound pleasing to guidos and pimp daddys, but give me paper currency or credit cards anyday.
I have to hand it to you for your insight. In 25 years, the elderly will want to play video games just like when they were younger. The only difference may be that the games will have to factor in their reduced hand-eye coordination and reaction times. I'd imagine multiplayer strategy games to be immensely popular as that would allow them to interact with others while playing at a more leisurely pace. It's one of the key reasons why card games are so popular with this crowd.
Of course, we could be totally off. It may turn out that "Sim Orgy - the extended Viagra edition" turns out to be the most popular game. Who knows.
Its been said that Satan's greatest trick has been convincing mankind he does not exist.
What should you care whether Satan exists or not? Do your ethics or morality change in one case versus the other? Are you merely a pawn who is manipulated by external forces such as Satan, your church or the media?
Or are you a sentient being, capable of independent thought? Are you capable of discerning make believe versus reality? Some people are capable of distinguishing between shooting something (mailbox, person, demon) in a game and shooting something in real life.
Stop listening to your priest when he tells you to "just believe." What he's really saying to you is to turn your mind off, listen and do exactly as he and the church command you to do. Because if you don't, their bad - but somehow very convenient - heavy (Satan) is going to make your life a living hell.
I'm not telling you what to believe or not believe. That's your life, you live it. However, don't ever, ever turn your mind off and don't ever stop distinguishing between fantasy and reality.
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Microsoft advises Malaysians to stear clear of the Windows operating system .... finally some good advice from Redmond.
... relation between Open Source and Microsoft as: "one of gnats swarming around a large, slow-moving beast."
Funny, I would have described it as "one of flies swarming around a large pile of shiat."
And who do you think makes the syndicated tv shows and big budget movies that you will be watching on your your HTS?
$100 will not buy you a decent home theater system so I'm not sure why the choices are mutually exclulsive.
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But even if they were equal, buying the HTS contributes far more to society than the food bank donation. Why? Because $100 to a HTS company will mean jobs for marketeers, salespeople, technicians, engineers, researchers, local power company, etc. Not to mention a lot of fun for you, your family and friends. Give people a reason to work and they will aspire to be more than they are today.
Give them a handout, well thanks for the bandaid, but what they really need is a job to help make ends meet. If only there were a way to create jobs
If I had my way, you would need at least a high school education to be able to vote.
If I had my way, a person would need an IQ above 80 to serve as president.
Your success and agressiveness have nothing to do with whether you abide by the law. Both rich, ambulance chasing lawyers and poor, homeless slackers have equal opportunity to either abide by the law or break it on a daily basis. The result of millions of people and corporations making that choice everyday give us either a society ... or chaos.
Capitalism itself is based upon the ability for buyers and sellers to aggressively compete in a marketplace governed by rules. Notice the caveat, "governed by rules." Microsoft is a convicted monopolist under the Federal government's antitrust laws. These laws are there to make a level playing field and are an underpinning of capitalism itself. Imagine a capitalistic world without rules. Why one could assassinate the executives of competing corporations, poison their workers or even bomb their factories. This is the situation in many banana republics today -- notice how few of them are bastions of capitalism.
So capitalism requires rules to work. Without everyone abiding by those rules, capitalism itself is threatened. Today Microsoft has grown to be one of the largest corporations in the world and, through its illegal anticompetitive business practices, is a bigger threat to capitalism and our way of life than either Osama bin Laden or Hussein.
... IT salaries are still overinflated.
This is one thing that I don't get about techies, why are we so critical of ourselves and feel we're not justified in making the money we make? Mind you that I'm a techie that is just as guilty of this as the next person.
Do lawyers and doctors sit around and say that they are overpaid? How about CEO's, supermodels and any kind of athlete? Do they knock each other when new salary plateau's are reached? Or do they contact their agent and start to figure out ways they can increase their own salary?
I'd be interested to know how many lawyers there are versus techies and then compare the salaries of a mid level person in each field. From a gut feel, I kind of think that the average mid level techie is overpaid -- but then I think about what the average mid level lawyer probably makes and I'm not so sure.
Personally, I feel underpaid.
From MI2g website:
So if a single ISP box gets hacked, they may count that as 100 linux sites hacked because of virtual hosting.
But even more important than their actual counting methods are where they get their data. Again, according to the same paper:
mi2g is principally reliant on data for SIPS and EVEDA from a number of sources:
reinsurance industry in Europe, North America and Asia. We have been involved in
pioneering cyber liability insurance cover for Lloyd's of London syndicates which has
given us access to case history since the late 1990s.
hackers who we use for penetration testing and developing our bespoke security
architecture that feed digital risk information through to us on a continuous basis
including vulnerabilities, exploits and the latest serious attacks they are aware of.
hacker groups.
So their highly informed executive manager friends seem to know when their linux systems get hacked versus their windows systems, they browse the web, looking at defacement sites and they converse with script kiddies via email. Umm, does anyone else see an issue with their data collection methods besides me?
If you don't yet, then let me give you a simple example. Let's say that I wanted to bias the results. Mmm
You can show me analyst reports by people like this all day long. In the end, this report bears no relation to what I see day to day in the real world.
Use OO inheritance to represent common behavior between classes. Common attributes are irrelevant in true OO -- after all, with data hiding you never have access to those attributes except through methods anyway. So you see, it all goes back to behavior.
Look at GPL'd works. One can violate the copyright, but the original author is not deprived of cash - as that was not the terms of the licensing.
Perhaps they are enlightened and are embracing disruptive technologies head on and developing new business models.
All the ISP's are facing a problem with WIFI. If I can get DSL and then share that line via WIFI to say 2 neighbors, then the ISP has missed out on 2 potential customers. ISP's can react to this by outlawing WIFI, outlawing NAT or by working with the disruptive technology and adding their own value.
Let's look at Speakeasy's case. If a DSL connection through them costs say $60 and I want to share it to say 2 neighbors, with each paying $30. Then Speakeasy will collect $90 from all of us. This is more than the $60 they would have collected from me alone, if I was just giving my neighbors free bandwidth. You might be tempted to think that Speakeasy is losing out on the deal since they could theoretically be collecting $180 if all three of us had our own DSL line. However, that's not true.
Whether I alone sign up for DSL or all three of us sign up for DSL, we're paying Speakeasy $60/DSL line. In their WIFI sharing plan, they can now collect $90/DSL line. How much they collect depends on how much you charge your neighbors, but in every case, it will be more than if you had the line just by yourself.
This is the kind of situation I like to see. A company using its head to give the customers what they want, while at the same time making more money doing it. Kudos to Speakeasy.
C'mon people. Linus, PARC, IBM and even the talented Steve Jobs never did as much. All Linus did was create a solid, well performing kernel .... big deal, like that's worth anything. Had he been really talented, like Bill, he would have copied and extended all the GNU pieces so he could claim copyright on them and killed the FSF. Ha, ha, now that would have shown Stallman what innovation is all about. Emacs, my ass.
Microsoft is more innovative than Rockefeller and Standard Oil. Whereas the latter had to resort to age old techniques such as industrial sabotage and thugs to kill competition, Microsoft created new techniques such as leveraging lawyers and contracts to lock out and starve the competition. Hell, even Hitler could have learned a thing or two from the master BillG. Instead of all that gas chamber and kristalnacht stuff, Bill would have suggested a more creative strategy. First, mandate that all middleware such as roads, freeways, alleys, waterways require signed permits for use. Second force everyone to sign up at a central server for permits. Third, display a blue screen of death for all non-aryans who submit permit requests. Within a short period, all non-aryans in Germany would have starved for being unable to get to work, buy food, etc.
Finally, BillG's illegitimate father, Saddam Hussein, could've used a bit of his son's wisdom. Saddam should've claimed that his WMD were bundled in with the people of Iraq and that they couldn't be disabled without adversely affecting the lives of the people. Also, he could've made available the documents surrounding the WMD's ... but at a price. Under RAND licensing, He should've charged $100 millon a page to anyone who wanted to view the documents.
Bill has shown great creativity and innovation in the use of Marketing & Legal to control/enslave large groups of people and generate huge sums of cash. Technologists, CEO's, dictators and despots alike could have all benefited from his wisdom.
Sig Heil, Bill G, sig heil.
Understanding that some people (marketroids) in this world use memorial names really helps when trying to parse their message. Using this as a guide, what does Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing mean to you?
letting them compete for First Post on /.?
Moreover, in a playoff game since they add 2 more umps, the ratio becomes 6:10. Does this not seem like a few too many umps to you? Especially considering the hot chick to dude ratio is 1:20 and the beer dude to fan ratio is like 1:500.
Come to think of it, baseball should spend its time trying to create/attract more hot women to baseball rather than worrying about whether a fat ump is replaced by a 3D image processing computer or even a random number generator. Like anyone would notice the difference anyway.
Damn, now where'd that beer guy disappear to?
I totally agree. Blade Runner, The Director's Cut was interesting but I really want to see the original Blade Runner (the one I saw in the theater) that I still have fond memories of.
Bah, Mensa membership is easy .... 1 out of every 50 idiots gets the invite. Back when I was a Giga Society member, Mensans were our boot licking lackeys. They were fit for all manners of menial tasks from ritualistic scrotum shaving to carrying the piss buckets. In a pinch, they were even handy as replacement skeet targets. Ah, the summers in Rangoon ... I remember them well.
Anyway, I dropped out of Giga since they weren't exclusive enough. I'm now making a bid for the Exa Society. My Princeton Review book arrived yesterday, but I haven't cracked it open yet since the test isn't until next week. Wish me luck.
Damn, where are my mod points when I need them. I especially liked how you brought the offtopic post back in line with the original article. Nice job.
Even though business documents rarely exhibit the level of quality of open source software, it doesn't have to be that way. Collaborative projects work .... as long as their is a small set (1-3) of highly talented, like minded people to review and approve the changes. Linux is good because of Linus overseeing changes to the kernel. The same can be said of other open source projects.
Ownership, it does a project good.
The Java system is based on the cleaning of a partly object-orientated language: C++. I know C++ coders will hate me for this, but if you compare C++ to real object-orientated languages like Smalltalk or CLOS, you'll have to admit that it's the plain truth.
C++ is fast and less OO, Smalltalk and CLOS are slow and more OO. Since both classes of languages exist, obviously each user has different requirements and choose their level of OO and performance accordingly.
Secondly the Java interpreter scheme was extremely promising, too. However, SUN fuck this advantage totally up ... MS did recognize this potential much better with their .NET system providing a platform for a huge range of languages ranging from C++, C#, Java, VB to even Eiffel.
What exactly is the failure of the Sun VM? It runs on different CPU's and OS's. It has a published VM language for which people can implement compilers. Oh your argument is that the system libraries are inadequate. In what way do you feel they are less in capability than .Net?
And SUN failed unlike MS to provide decent interoperability here, because their Java VM was never really meant to run with other languages.
The common definition of interoperability and MS Interoperability(tm) are slightly different. Essentially, the MS definition is a very small subset of the more common definition. As far as MS is concerned, Interoperability is the ability for MS programs and languages to speak with one another.
So let me ask you, what is the real benefit of the CLR? Do you find yourself writing a lot of C++ in the morning and extending it with VB in the afternoon? No you say, it's to allow multiple programmers to work on the same monolithic application in their language of choice? Oh so the ui guys can code in VB and the backend people can write in C++ or C#. Mmmm ... I've seen many languages interoperate in monolithic applications such as C, Fortran, Tcl, Java so I'm not exactly sure what MS has added as new. And if we're talking about most applications which are distributed (ie. non-monolithic) nowadays, then the point of a CLR becomes even less clear.
Mensa member, beware of the high IQ
I don't often pick on people, but I think the combination of this signature with the post forces my hand. A more apt signature for this post would have been: MS shill, beware of the FUD
As an American who has been regularly travelling to Canada, let me say that I absolutely hate the $1/$2 coins! Jeez, my wallet is next to useless now as I continuously seem to fill my pockets with metal.
I'm sure jingling coins sound pleasing to guidos and pimp daddys, but give me paper currency or credit cards anyday.
True, but perhaps by then FPS will mean First Person Sex instead.
I have to hand it to you for your insight. In 25 years, the elderly will want to play video games just like when they were younger. The only difference may be that the games will have to factor in their reduced hand-eye coordination and reaction times. I'd imagine multiplayer strategy games to be immensely popular as that would allow them to interact with others while playing at a more leisurely pace. It's one of the key reasons why card games are so popular with this crowd.
Of course, we could be totally off. It may turn out that "Sim Orgy - the extended Viagra edition" turns out to be the most popular game. Who knows.
What should you care whether Satan exists or not? Do your ethics or morality change in one case versus the other? Are you merely a pawn who is manipulated by external forces such as Satan, your church or the media?
Or are you a sentient being, capable of independent thought? Are you capable of discerning make believe versus reality? Some people are capable of distinguishing between shooting something (mailbox, person, demon) in a game and shooting something in real life.
Stop listening to your priest when he tells you to "just believe." What he's really saying to you is to turn your mind off, listen and do exactly as he and the church command you to do. Because if you don't, their bad - but somehow very convenient - heavy (Satan) is going to make your life a living hell.
I'm not telling you what to believe or not believe. That's your life, you live it. However, don't ever, ever turn your mind off and don't ever stop distinguishing between fantasy and reality.