I hear that now they have this spyware that downloads and installs.Net framework on users' PCs. Now we need a worm that does the same and the thing will soon be widely deployed!
You first said "teach" and then "lead". Teach they do - they teach kids to not waste ammo, to aim for the body center and to keep scanning for new targets quickly. They do teach how to kill more efficiently.
I am, right now, flaunting a green-tinted DVD-ROM jewel case which in the future just might house an entire Opteron-based system. As such, am providing some strong competition to Intel and the already dead Apple's Mac Mini.
Bear with my bad SF for a moment. Western civilization seems to be converging to the point where citizens will have no choice, but will depend upon a handful of mega-corporations for their sustenance, while at the same time having to give not only their time and energy, but also their identity in return. By this time, privacy will have been successfully abolished and its last traces outlawed. Every adoption of RFIDs, DRM technology - as well as every merger between huge corporate actors is pushing the world nearer to a dystopic future.
Not a flamebait, just feeling the need to vent. Mod me a fool and placate me, please.
I use 8.8.25 with R9800Pro under Gentoo and can safely say it still sucks. And I gladly say "screw compositing manager" and settle for faux transparency, but Celestia 1.3.2 does not work and I miss my trips to space.
Because those that would mess with it are not above it, because they are it as well. It's not messing with the code that bothers me; it's putting evolution in the hands of today's corporate and political forces - neither of which strikes me as competent to take its steering wheel. So, I guess I feel it should remain a taboo - so long as minor things like wars between nations, racial intolerance and huge fucking ideological gaps that make people kill other people by the millions are not settled. Otherwise (and this is just me again), we are asking for trouble.
Proverbs for Paranoids, 1: You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
Proverbs for Paranoids, 2: The innocence of the creatures is in inverse proportion to the immorality of the Master.
Proverbs for Paranoids, 3: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
Proverbs for Paranoids, 4: You hide, they seek.
Paranoids are not paranoids (Proverb 5) because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.
"Real people" can also choose. And why would having children mean compromising your morality? It's not as if he first got a million dollar grant and then decided he can afford his beliefs.
What's really interesting is the kickoff of the private/commercial space age begun with SpaceShipOne.
Well, since that is going to be subject to laws of economics, all that humanity will gain are a few new space cocktail recipes - at least the part of humanity which cannot afford to go up there and look for themselves. Which in itself will not be much more than entertainment. To start the forces of business, you need something to exploit. Science is not really their focus.
Because your mage, my cleric, and the impossible to reach corner of the dungeon are not actually in a mythical world of make-believe, but just linked structs in heap memory?
That was mean, you really should have put that shit in tags.
Yes, only it's not advertised. Try here, or just download what I feel is game of the year. Two players, one keyboard. 1.6 MB. Win32, but you have source inside.
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I hear that now they have this spyware that downloads and installs .Net framework on users' PCs. Now we need a worm that does the same and the thing will soon be widely deployed!
Someone is going to spend a lot of time on the telephone dictating license numbers to activate an entire cluster...
You first said "teach" and then "lead". Teach they do - they teach kids to not waste ammo, to aim for the body center and to keep scanning for new targets quickly. They do teach how to kill more efficiently.
I am, right now, flaunting a green-tinted DVD-ROM jewel case which in the future just might house an entire Opteron-based system. As such, am providing some strong competition to Intel and the already dead Apple's Mac Mini.
Oh, it'll be Linux-based.
I'll probably just wait until SP1, bound to fix that nasty strangulation bug.
...I'll be back for breakfast.
Bear with my bad SF for a moment. Western civilization seems to be converging to the point where citizens will have no choice, but will depend upon a handful of mega-corporations for their sustenance, while at the same time having to give not only their time and energy, but also their identity in return. By this time, privacy will have been successfully abolished and its last traces outlawed. Every adoption of RFIDs, DRM technology - as well as every merger between huge corporate actors is pushing the world nearer to a dystopic future.
Not a flamebait, just feeling the need to vent. Mod me a fool and placate me, please.
Unless you define "lust" as "programmed tendency to move towards another robot and interface to it" or something.
And that differs from people, how?
It always inevitably boils down to:
JA: What if your job requires you to use non-free software?
Richard Stallman: I would quit that job.
Beyond that, I certainly don't need any system that can be used as a DRM system.
The point is, you won't have to use it as a DRM system, since you won't have to use DRM-protected content and services that distribute it.
Brilliant, in a word. I dare anyone to not read this with their Bible voice on. I have no points, but this deserves modding up.
I use 8.8.25 with R9800Pro under Gentoo and can safely say it still sucks. And I gladly say "screw compositing manager" and settle for faux transparency, but Celestia 1.3.2 does not work and I miss my trips to space.
Unless he can somehow convert said AC to DC.
Because those that would mess with it are not above it, because they are it as well. It's not messing with the code that bothers me; it's putting evolution in the hands of today's corporate and political forces - neither of which strikes me as competent to take its steering wheel. So, I guess I feel it should remain a taboo - so long as minor things like wars between nations, racial intolerance and huge fucking ideological gaps that make people kill other people by the millions are not settled. Otherwise (and this is just me again), we are asking for trouble.
You forgot Pynchon:
Proverbs for Paranoids, 1: You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
Proverbs for Paranoids, 2: The innocence of the creatures is in inverse proportion to the immorality of the Master.
Proverbs for Paranoids, 3: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
Proverbs for Paranoids, 4: You hide, they seek.
Paranoids are not paranoids (Proverb 5) because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.
Real people have real responsibilities.
"Real people" can also choose. And why would having children mean compromising your morality? It's not as if he first got a million dollar grant and then decided he can afford his beliefs.
Best comment on this article. Alas, I have no mod points.
How long now do you think it will be before Google announces its own system?
What's really interesting is the kickoff of the private/commercial space age begun with SpaceShipOne.
Well, since that is going to be subject to laws of economics, all that humanity will gain are a few new space cocktail recipes - at least the part of humanity which cannot afford to go up there and look for themselves. Which in itself will not be much more than entertainment. To start the forces of business, you need something to exploit. Science is not really their focus.
You are either dumb or you are lying. Probably the latter.
I was speaking about time going backwards, sheesh. It should have been obvious from, you know, grammar.
So? X can do it now. Your point is moot. Time ain't gonna flow backwards, buddy.
Actually, man, it will. Starting April 13. 2029., all the way back to the first visit of the Dogon Tribe.
*spoiler* tags. Only I tagged it and it is gone. Ack, my lovely joke. Ruined.
Because your mage, my cleric, and the impossible to reach corner of the dungeon are not actually in a mythical world of make-believe, but just linked structs in heap memory?
That was mean, you really should have put that shit in tags.
Sorry, I fscked the links as mailto, thanks to Firefox BBCode extension and me being stupid. So: site, game zip.
Yes, only it's not advertised. Try here, or just download what I feel is game of the year. Two players, one keyboard. 1.6 MB. Win32, but you have source inside.