1. Collect the most patent/copyright protected parts that you can get your hands on. 2. Weave them into device driver code in a way that makes it impossible to notice the source of the code, unless you are the one who might sue (=yourself). 3. Release them as GPL and let it grow into Linux. 4.... 5. Sue Linux to death! (=Profit) </humor>
What do you expect from schizophrenics (religiously infected people)? If you believe your bullshit story strongly enough, you can make people do everything you want.
Logic has nothing to do with this. Dumbing down has.
Why the f. do some people always have to take sides? It's so stupid! We're on this planet and especially in this space station together! So how about working as a *team*?
Take the best from the Russians (reliability and ability to go trough rough times), the USA (high tech, money?, etc.), ESA (any ESA person here, so comment on their strengths?), Japan (dito) etc.
I bet the astronauts themselves are already doing it, and constantly banging their heads on the walls, because of us down here just not getting it!
Sometimes, I wish something like the "wakeup call" in Watchmen would really happen...
<cartman> Weell, weell, weell, you have a photo, you say? Sure you can upload it. But first you have to create an account. (5 mins later) Ok, nice. But I can't see you in this list of approved users. You want in there? Weeell, then you better wait at least two weeks. Then you can get into tier one. Which means, that one of our higher-level users might approve your image after upload. You know... so you can actually use it. </cartman>
<me> Well, fuck that! *logs out and closes tab* </me>
And you wonder why the photos (and images in general) are so bad...?
Well, it's just that DVD-RAMs and HDDs already got error correction in them. But if you want to add even more protection, you can of course add thicker layers of cross-interleaved Reed-Solomon coding to it.
It's just that CD-Rs and DVD+/-Rs are probably the worst place to start when you want data safety.
I bet that they are made in the original golden material (yes, that's real gold). The cheaper materials that came later, were just shit, and survived 3-4 years max.
But I warn you. Because those golden ones usually die after 10 years too. So you really got a good batch there. But I'd copy them to a better medium. Like DVD-RAMs, which should last 10 times that of DVD+/-Rs, just as CD-RWs last a multiple of that of CD-Rs. You can keep the spindle too. Just add 65 DVD-RAMS to them. Then you can safely watch the CD-R die, for at least 10-20 years. Because obviously they will die at some time.
I recommend to always update your BIOS. From what I know, this gives the BIOS infos on how to read more recent discs (they are apparently not all equal, which makes sense).
I have to see it help though. Some readers are just shit. (Like my Samsung for DVD-RAMs [firmware crashes. hard.])
(Throw a coin. If it's heads, read the P.S. first. Lucky you.)
I remember a large-scale test with pretty much all CD-Rs and CD-RWs on the market back in (around) 2000 (I think). They used a climate chamber with all the effects of nature, amplified so much, that they could simulate 10 years of normal daylight, humidity, etc. The blue and green materials died first. (I think blue was much worse than green, but only for some models.) After an average of 3-4 years! The original golden material survived better, but not much. Only CD-RWs could even come close to 20 years, because they had to be manufactured better, and use other materials.
I also remember that our very first CD-Rs, burned on a huge rented SCSI burner, at 13 DM a piece, were unreadable right when we took them out of the archive one year later. Which was still better than those 50% who never survived the first burning at all.
Everyone around me always tells me that his old CD-Rs still work, and things like that. And they do not take me seriously when I tell them of the low life-span. But usually, they do not even take them out to try them. And if they do, they look at the directory index, and think that means that all data is OK. And even than sometimes fails. Also, they rarely can find CD-Rs, old enough to prove me right on the spot.
But if you take those discs, transfer everything and all its data to the hard disk, and then look at what you get, usually what you're left with, looks like a shattered mirror or the output of a random number generator.
P.S.: Sorry, just watched the Watchmen again (is that a pun?), and inadvertently wrote the whole comment in Rohrschach's journal voice.
Wow. They got you so far, that to this day, you try to understand it, just to accept their (totally fucked up, sick, perverse, and just plain wrong) reality?:(
Seems that juvenile was really "working". But no to make you a "good citizen" (whatever that means), but to make you play along with their rules.
Maybe if you start thinking more often, that you are right. Period. And that your reality is stronger, because you got a better system of values. Then you can protect yourself from the psychological effects of things like that.
What I find even more fucked up than the government acting that way, is that you juuust accept it. Statements like "If the cops kick down your door and scream 'Child molester!' while pointing at you nowadays you are guilty," make me cringe, because you totally buy in to their reality, making it possible for them to get trough with it in the first place!
Also, obviously, you do not have to prove that you are not guilty. They have to prove that you are guilty. Which they can't on an open network! Period. No matter what some people scream, who can't tell a WLAN router from an AM radio receiver.
So maybe you, and all those who think like that, should look at themselves, and think that if they would go "WTF? NO! You are talking bullshit, don't know shit about the technology, and have neither the right nor the competence to declare anything here!!", shit like that would not get that far at all.
It's exactly the same as with any dictatorship, oppressive regime, abusive boss, abusive partner in a relationship, etc: They can't get trough, without everyone around them buying into their bullshit reality!
BE. STRONGER! (In your reality.) That's how opinions are made.:)
Oh, I forgot: What when it just was created as a fantasy map, back it those very old times? Like for a cult, where Vinland was some holy place. Very unlikely, yes. But hey, who knows...
All the tests that we have done over the past five years -- on the materials and other aspects -- do not show any signs of forgery,
Sounds to me like
All the tests that we have done over the past five years -- on the software and other aspects -- do not show any signs of security holes,
Which of course does not mean that there are none.:)
Proving that the map is genuine, is something different, that he can never arrive to, trough only searching for signs of forgery. He should search for something that proves it can only be old.
And your comparison is only as true, as a rocket is a stick of explosives.
Or in other words: It is not a stick of explosives, or it would be called that.
Sure it's not without risk. But hey, remember that your car uses an *explosion* motor too? So in your spirit, I could argue that you are sitting behind a box in which there are thousands of explosions a minute.
You see how far this can be from the truth.
There being a big tank of fuel below them does *not* mean it has to kill them. That's just being lazy!
Sure it is no childs play to make it safe and working. But damnit, you're *rocket scientist*. It's your *job* to do that.
and wanna know how i'd protect them? Between the main capsule and the fuel tanks, I'd put a upside-down cone, with the capsule partially "inside" it. I'd build that thing in a way, that pressure from the (exploding or burning) tanks would push the capsule away. The worse, the further. Then use the usual parachutes, and you're good. Optionally, add some *small* explosives, and a strong plate *on top* of it, so that the explosives can impossibly penetrate the plate, but just help to push the capsule away, enough to be safe. (A bit like a ejection seats.)
powershell can only replace bash. But you still need CLI tools to go with it (imagemagick would be a specific example), and all that is only half as good, when you can not access everything an all on your system as a file.
Plus: This may be a false argument, but I also do not see why I should learn a new half-done shell with not much documentation (compared to things like the advanced bash scripting guide, and man pages to all the tools, etc), when I can just use a proven modular system like Linux with bash, zsh, or something like that. And then grow it into python/perl/php, and later Haskell/Java/C/C++.
But I think it's good that at least MS acknowledges that the shell is always more powerful than a GUI.
Now if only someone would make something where every and all GUI things are a frontend to a shell. (Like in Maya.)
Or maybe it's a lie. Or maybe they do not exist long enough.
I know that before all that, there was Irrational Games, and Looking Glasses. If you always close your company and make a new one when you would have to fire people, of course you will never have "fired" someone (at the current company).
But I must say, that as usual, it's EA's fault again. Oh, and the idiots who buy EA games like/(NBA|NFL|FIFA|WTF|BBQ|ETC) (199|200)[0-9]/, and the next pack of 20 virtual "H&M" clothes, all looking like each other, for The Sims for $39.99. (Yes, that really exists! I did crack those packs for some girls I know, only to remove them again because they were so crappy that they were not worth the bytes they occupied.)
So. After System Shock, and BioShock, we will get:
NanoShock, (grey goo) RoboShock, MechaShock, SteamShock (steampunk) Electric Shock (post-streampunk revolution) DinoShock, (jumping the shark) FantasyShock (falling with the face on a set of sea urchins after jumping the shark)
More weapons, combinations, drugs, little things, cool story, and sheer fun, like in, you know, System Shock 1??;)
I find it annoying, that BioShock is so dumbed down. As if they wanted to have dumber clients/buyers/players on average. It's all about money, I guess. So beef up the graphics (remember how they talked about the water FX half the time of the hype videos?).
I give credit for the athmosphere and Big Daddy / Little Sister thing though. But I miss all that love of details. I'd even give most of the graphics to have that back. Like I loved the GTA series for the car lights that made lines in the air when it rained, and all the thousand funny little things in them.
Oh, and the psychology is SS1/2 was really creepy, with things like Shodan sending all the cyborgs in when you angered him, with things like finding a log, listening to it while seeing an image of the women talking, and then looking up into a air duct and finding the severed head of her. Then throwing that head onto the attacking buggy medical robot. With things like getting halucinations, being on heavy drugs, drunk, hooked to a freaking cyberspace machine, pushing anti-radiation medicine into you, always in fear of a cyborg killing you while logged in. And then Shodan telling you some shit about you being an insect insulting a god.
Grow! Do something better. Beat that!:) (Yeah, I know how hard it is. But when you see it come to life, it is the greatest and most fun thing you will ever have done.)
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1. Collect the most patent/copyright protected parts that you can get your hands on. ...
2. Weave them into device driver code in a way that makes it impossible to notice the source of the code, unless you are the one who might sue (=yourself).
3. Release them as GPL and let it grow into Linux.
4.
5. Sue Linux to death! (=Profit)
</humor>
What do you expect from schizophrenics (religiously infected people)? If you believe your bullshit story strongly enough, you can make people do everything you want.
Logic has nothing to do with this. Dumbing down has.
How sad. I really liked Ireland and its people.
Why the f. do some people always have to take sides? It's so stupid!
We're on this planet and especially in this space station together!
So how about working as a *team*?
Take the best from the Russians (reliability and ability to go trough rough times), the USA (high tech, money?, etc.), ESA (any ESA person here, so comment on their strengths?), Japan (dito) etc.
I bet the astronauts themselves are already doing it, and constantly banging their heads on the walls, because of us down here just not getting it!
Sometimes, I wish something like the "wakeup call" in Watchmen would really happen...
So your "argument" is "ad hominem"?
Sorry, but: FAIL.
Tomorrow's headline: Amazon is dead.
<cartman>
Weell, weell, weell, you have a photo, you say?
Sure you can upload it. But first you have to create an account.
(5 mins later)
Ok, nice. But I can't see you in this list of approved users.
You want in there? Weeell, then you better wait at least two weeks.
Then you can get into tier one. Which means, that one of our higher-level users might approve your image after upload.
You know... so you can actually use it.
</cartman>
<me>
Well, fuck that! *logs out and closes tab*
</me>
And you wonder why the photos (and images in general) are so bad...?
Well, it's just that DVD-RAMs and HDDs already got error correction in them.
But if you want to add even more protection, you can of course add thicker layers of cross-interleaved Reed-Solomon coding to it.
It's just that CD-Rs and DVD+/-Rs are probably the worst place to start when you want data safety.
I bet that they are made in the original golden material (yes, that's real gold).
The cheaper materials that came later, were just shit, and survived 3-4 years max.
But I warn you. Because those golden ones usually die after 10 years too. So you really got a good batch there. But I'd copy them to a better medium. Like DVD-RAMs, which should last 10 times that of DVD+/-Rs, just as CD-RWs last a multiple of that of CD-Rs. You can keep the spindle too. Just add 65 DVD-RAMS to them. Then you can safely watch the CD-R die, for at least 10-20 years. Because obviously they will die at some time.
I recommend to always update your BIOS. From what I know, this gives the BIOS infos on how to read more recent discs (they are apparently not all equal, which makes sense).
I have to see it help though. Some readers are just shit. (Like my Samsung for DVD-RAMs [firmware crashes. hard.])
(Throw a coin. If it's heads, read the P.S. first. Lucky you.)
I remember a large-scale test with pretty much all CD-Rs and CD-RWs on the market back in (around) 2000 (I think).
They used a climate chamber with all the effects of nature, amplified so much, that they could simulate 10 years of normal daylight, humidity, etc.
The blue and green materials died first. (I think blue was much worse than green, but only for some models.) After an average of 3-4 years! The original golden material survived better, but not much.
Only CD-RWs could even come close to 20 years, because they had to be manufactured better, and use other materials.
I also remember that our very first CD-Rs, burned on a huge rented SCSI burner, at 13 DM a piece, were unreadable right when we took them out of the archive one year later. Which was still better than those 50% who never survived the first burning at all.
Everyone around me always tells me that his old CD-Rs still work, and things like that. And they do not take me seriously when I tell them of the low life-span.
But usually, they do not even take them out to try them. And if they do, they look at the directory index, and think that means that all data is OK. And even than sometimes fails.
Also, they rarely can find CD-Rs, old enough to prove me right on the spot.
But if you take those discs, transfer everything and all its data to the hard disk, and then look at what you get, usually what you're left with, looks like a shattered mirror or the output of a random number generator.
P.S.: Sorry, just watched the Watchmen again (is that a pun?), and inadvertently wrote the whole comment in Rohrschach's journal voice.
Now the question would be: How does this put food on their tables? And bombs off of them?
Wow. They got you so far, that to this day, you try to understand it, just to accept their (totally fucked up, sick, perverse, and just plain wrong) reality? :(
Seems that juvenile was really "working". But no to make you a "good citizen" (whatever that means), but to make you play along with their rules.
Maybe if you start thinking more often, that you are right. Period. And that your reality is stronger, because you got a better system of values. Then you can protect yourself from the psychological effects of things like that.
Guyyys! Don't see a joke when you fall over it? ^^
I recommend some of those funny glasses and a week of "silliest-of" Monty Pythons therapy.
Naa. You just should go out more often. ^^
How about taking a day off?
What I find even more fucked up than the government acting that way, is that you juuust accept it. Statements like "If the cops kick down your door and scream 'Child molester!' while pointing at you nowadays you are guilty," make me cringe, because you totally buy in to their reality, making it possible for them to get trough with it in the first place!
Also, obviously, you do not have to prove that you are not guilty. They have to prove that you are guilty. Which they can't on an open network! Period. No matter what some people scream, who can't tell a WLAN router from an AM radio receiver.
So maybe you, and all those who think like that, should look at themselves, and think that if they would go "WTF? NO! You are talking bullshit, don't know shit about the technology, and have neither the right nor the competence to declare anything here!!", shit like that would not get that far at all.
It's exactly the same as with any dictatorship, oppressive regime, abusive boss, abusive partner in a relationship, etc: They can't get trough, without everyone around them buying into their bullshit reality!
BE. STRONGER! (In your reality.) :)
That's how opinions are made.
Oh, I forgot: What when it just was created as a fantasy map, back it those very old times? Like for a cult, where Vinland was some holy place. Very unlikely, yes. But hey, who knows...
All the tests that we have done over the past five years -- on the materials and other aspects -- do not show any signs of forgery,
Sounds to me like
All the tests that we have done over the past five years -- on the software and other aspects -- do not show any signs of security holes,
Which of course does not mean that there are none. :)
Proving that the map is genuine, is something different, that he can never arrive to, trough only searching for signs of forgery. He should search for something that proves it can only be old.
And your comparison is only as true, as a rocket is a stick of explosives.
Or in other words: It is not a stick of explosives, or it would be called that.
Sure it's not without risk. But hey, remember that your car uses an *explosion* motor too? So in your spirit, I could argue that you are sitting behind a box in which there are thousands of explosions a minute.
You see how far this can be from the truth.
There being a big tank of fuel below them does *not* mean it has to kill them. That's just being lazy!
Sure it is no childs play to make it safe and working. But damnit, you're *rocket scientist*. It's your *job* to do that.
and wanna know how i'd protect them? Between the main capsule and the fuel tanks, I'd put a upside-down cone, with the capsule partially "inside" it. I'd build that thing in a way, that pressure from the (exploding or burning) tanks would push the capsule away. The worse, the further. Then use the usual parachutes, and you're good.
Optionally, add some *small* explosives, and a strong plate *on top* of it, so that the explosives can impossibly penetrate the plate, but just help to push the capsule away, enough to be safe.
(A bit like a ejection seats.)
I always found that single "?" to be the perfect computer equivalent of the blank stare.
powershell can only replace bash. But you still need CLI tools to go with it (imagemagick would be a specific example), and all that is only half as good, when you can not access everything an all on your system as a file.
Plus: This may be a false argument, but I also do not see why I should learn a new half-done shell with not much documentation (compared to things like the advanced bash scripting guide, and man pages to all the tools, etc), when I can just use a proven modular system like Linux with bash, zsh, or something like that. And then grow it into python/perl/php, and later Haskell/Java/C/C++.
But I think it's good that at least MS acknowledges that the shell is always more powerful than a GUI.
Now if only someone would make something where every and all GUI things are a frontend to a shell. (Like in Maya.)
Comparing something bad to something worse, does not make it good somehow. ^^
Oh, and my OS did cost me $0. And I got a free crash course in how the OS works internally. ;)
I can even give you a copy: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml
Thank you. Now I'm nauseousest. That was by farest the cheesiest, marketing-lies-filledest and unrealisticest video *everestestest*. What a jokest!
Did they let the marketingest internest do that?
___
P.S.: Offering bag of "est" syllables for sate. Buy now!
Or maybe it's a lie. Or maybe they do not exist long enough.
I know that before all that, there was Irrational Games, and Looking Glasses. If you always close your company and make a new one when you would have to fire people, of course you will never have "fired" someone (at the current company).
But I must say, that as usual, it's EA's fault again. Oh, and the idiots who buy EA games like /(NBA|NFL|FIFA|WTF|BBQ|ETC) (199|200)[0-9]/, and the next pack of 20 virtual "H&M" clothes, all looking like each other, for The Sims for $39.99. (Yes, that really exists! I did crack those packs for some girls I know, only to remove them again because they were so crappy that they were not worth the bytes they occupied.)
So. After System Shock, and BioShock, we will get:
NanoShock, (grey goo)
RoboShock,
MechaShock,
SteamShock (steampunk)
Electric Shock (post-streampunk revolution)
DinoShock, (jumping the shark)
FantasyShock (falling with the face on a set of sea urchins after jumping the shark)
Then they go fishing for names here: http://www.google.com/search?q=*shock
More weapons, combinations, drugs, little things, cool story, and sheer fun, like in, you know, System Shock 1?? ;)
I find it annoying, that BioShock is so dumbed down. As if they wanted to have dumber clients/buyers/players on average. It's all about money, I guess. So beef up the graphics (remember how they talked about the water FX half the time of the hype videos?).
I give credit for the athmosphere and Big Daddy / Little Sister thing though. But I miss all that love of details. I'd even give most of the graphics to have that back.
Like I loved the GTA series for the car lights that made lines in the air when it rained, and all the thousand funny little things in them.
Oh, and the psychology is SS1/2 was really creepy, with things like Shodan sending all the cyborgs in when you angered him, with things like finding a log, listening to it while seeing an image of the women talking, and then looking up into a air duct and finding the severed head of her. Then throwing that head onto the attacking buggy medical robot. With things like getting halucinations, being on heavy drugs, drunk, hooked to a freaking cyberspace machine, pushing anti-radiation medicine into you, always in fear of a cyborg killing you while logged in. And then Shodan telling you some shit about you being an insect insulting a god.
Grow! Do something better. Beat that! :)
(Yeah, I know how hard it is. But when you see it come to life, it is the greatest and most fun thing you will ever have done.)