I haven't read the article but this headline reminds me of the X-men of Marvel comics.
The main theme of that comic centered around normal people who were afraid of mutants with extra abilities and the X-men trying to intervene in the conflicts that resulted. The writers at Marvel had some nice stories sometimes, the execution could have been better though.
Anyway, it's amazing to me, that civilisation has only existed for 200.000 years (I'll adopt English punctuation when you go metric ok?:)
Imagine what it must have been like for those non-mutants whose world got turned upside-down completely by these strange beings that for them were like aliens.
I wonder how our society would react to mutants. Or other beings that are superiour to us but not sexually compatible. Maybe "gene altered freaks" or artificial intelligence will appear in our future. It's not outside the realm of possibility.
Would society react like the normal people in the X-men or would we somehow co-exist peacefully during the transition?
Nope, I'm talking about dividing your force into sub-groups that can take decisions individually when something unexpected arises (something always does, too many possibilities). As opposed to a giant machine that grinds to a halt whenever one of it's components is having a bit of trouble.
The book starts out with describing the traditional (for battle school) way of doing battle and Ender's way.
Ever since I read the book, I've gotten a taste for thinking up tactics and implementing them in Counter-Strike. Even things that were not in the book. The cliche words that Hollywood movies use even make sense to me, now that I've put some thought into them. Decoy, ambush, reserve backup etc.
I'm sure I'll use the "enemy's gate is down" idea for when I start playing 3D space combat games:)
By the way, does anybody have any good (military) tactics website URLs they want to share?
I liked a number of different elements in Ender's Game. How it makes you identify with the smart but disconnected Ender, the psychological manipulation Ender uses on others etc.
One of the reasons Ender's Game was such a joy to read is because I was (and am) heavy into Counter-Strike. The book has some nice tactical combat insights that helped me understand and improve my game.
These tactics apply to all team based First Person Shooter like UT and Q3 DM, not just CS.
If you're smart, like Sci-Fi and games, you'll probably have a great time reading this book.
I hate defragmenting my drive every so often. Computers should be able to run indefinitely on their own!
Does FreeBSD or any other OS already have background defragmenting that does not cause danger to the files on disk with regard to crashes?
We are going to need a background defragmenter anyway as soon as non-volatile ram is here (like MRAM). Or doesn't RAM (HEAP?) fragment in the first place?
I'm no expert but I've never heard of it. And I do think it's a basic necessity.
Can anyone please tell me if background defragmenting of HD or RAM is already here or not? And if not, please tell me if you think we'll see something like this anytime soon.
You're suggesting we only use the internet as a TV from now on.
Being a P2P or FTP server means sharing information and culture with other people which is undeniably a good thing (+ a shitload of porn ofcourse, true:)
I've received wonderful stuff from others who were eager to share their cool stuff with me, I've seen such great animated movies from Japan that I would otherwise have never bought. All because of normal people being a "server".
Inventors of internet (that Vint Cerf guy one of them right?) should be PROUD that their creation is improving human existance.
Anything that prevents that stuff from happening should be resisted (within reason ofcourse). don't rent unless it's unlimited.
Your (Open Source) software should check a website every month or so, to see if there are still no vulnerabilities discovered for it.
If there is a known vulnerability for that program, the website will put that info on as content that is readable for that program, this is Also known as XML web services. The program can look for a certain XML tag to see if there is a vulnerability discovered for itself.
The content of the XML tag should be: "yes there is a hack" in addition to: "the hack is possible on versions x.xx - x.xx"
This method of providing a service would be the 2nd great way to make money off of Open Source software, because you don't have to make that XML tag viewable for free. You can ask for a fee to let people use your web service. In fact, it's easier to provide this service to OS software because you can view and edit the source without having to contact a company for permission/negotiations first.
Ofcourse this "Vulnerability Info Module" (let history show that I coined the phrase:P) should be optional both during compile time and during the actual use of the program. OS programs that don't have the option to have this module switched off would probably be forked.
The possibility of forking OS programs would also be the mechanism that prevents a "Vulnerability Webservice Website" from hijacking the code written by others (making it only work with a paid-for module inside the program).
Because this service is easiest to implement for Open Source programs, it would mean that Open Source programs would be even more safer than Closed Source programs.
How about giving money for bugs found to programmers? The webservice company may be willing to pay money for that, to supply it's business with a steady stream of valuable info. That would creat a 3rd way to profit from Open Source programs.
Yes yes, *smug* I know I'm giving this splendid idea away for free, you may praise me now.
Scientists have established an undetectable force that pushes the universe apart faster and faster.
Mysterious particles that appear in empty space and push matter.
What if gravity is a pushing force, not a pulling force? Maybe from the same pushing force seen in the accelerated expansion of the universe. Maybe from another pushing force.
Gravity is a pushing force, pushing you to the earth from your the direction of your head. The pushing power is diminished by the earth because it's particles somehow "filter out" the pushing forces. In other words, the pushing force is all around us, but the earth is shielding us from the push coming from our feet.
I probably won't be the first with this theory and there's probably some simple way to disprove this theory but I wanted to put this on Slashdot before the topic cooled.
Can anybody please tell me how brilliant I am or tell me how this theory got disproven in some experiment?
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Teachers can start teaching objects and classes from the beginning. They don't have to tell students:
"Just write down: public static void main (String args[]) { } And don't ask me about it until later".
it wouldn't run some of my home-made classes, but then I didn't read the manual :P
I haven't read the article but this headline reminds me of the X-men of Marvel comics.
:)
The main theme of that comic centered around normal people who were afraid of mutants with extra abilities and the X-men trying to intervene in the conflicts that resulted. The writers at Marvel had some nice stories sometimes, the execution could have been better though.
Anyway, it's amazing to me, that civilisation has only existed for 200.000 years (I'll adopt English punctuation when you go metric ok?
Imagine what it must have been like for those non-mutants whose world got turned upside-down completely by these strange beings that for them were like aliens.
I wonder how our society would react to mutants. Or other beings that are superiour to us but not sexually compatible. Maybe "gene altered freaks" or artificial intelligence will appear in our future. It's not outside the realm of possibility.
Would society react like the normal people in the X-men or would we somehow co-exist peacefully during the transition?
Haha, this would make a great geek LAN contest.
:)
Who can type a hello world program the fastest. WITH A BLINDFOLD ON
Or give them a really simple assignment and see who can write the program with a blindfold and have it compile and run in 1 try.
Nope, I'm talking about dividing your force into sub-groups that can take decisions individually when something unexpected arises (something always does, too many possibilities). As opposed to a giant machine that grinds to a halt whenever one of it's components is having a bit of trouble.
:)
The book starts out with describing the traditional (for battle school) way of doing battle and Ender's way.
Ever since I read the book, I've gotten a taste for thinking up tactics and implementing them in Counter-Strike. Even things that were not in the book. The cliche words that Hollywood movies use even make sense to me, now that I've put some thought into them. Decoy, ambush, reserve backup etc.
I'm sure I'll use the "enemy's gate is down" idea for when I start playing 3D space combat games
By the way, does anybody have any good (military) tactics website URLs they want to share?
I liked a number of different elements in Ender's Game. How it makes you identify with the smart but disconnected Ender, the psychological manipulation Ender uses on others etc.
One of the reasons Ender's Game was such a joy to read is because I was (and am) heavy into Counter-Strike.
The book has some nice tactical combat insights that helped me understand and improve my game.
These tactics apply to all team based First Person Shooter like UT and Q3 DM, not just CS.
If you're smart, like Sci-Fi and games, you'll probably have a great time reading this book.
I hate defragmenting my drive every so often. Computers should be able to run indefinitely on their own!
Does FreeBSD or any other OS already have background defragmenting that does not cause danger to the files on disk with regard to crashes?
We are going to need a background defragmenter anyway as soon as non-volatile ram is here (like MRAM). Or doesn't RAM (HEAP?) fragment in the first place?
I'm no expert but I've never heard of it. And I do think it's a basic necessity.
Can anyone please tell me if background defragmenting of HD or RAM is already here or not?
And if not, please tell me if you think we'll see something like this anytime soon.
thanks.
Why shouldn't we be servers ourselves?!
:)
You're suggesting we only use the internet as a TV from now on.
Being a P2P or FTP server means sharing information and culture with other people which is undeniably a good thing (+ a shitload of porn ofcourse, true
I've received wonderful stuff from others who were eager to share their cool stuff with me, I've seen such great animated movies from Japan that I would otherwise have never bought. All because of normal people being a "server".
Inventors of internet (that Vint Cerf guy one of them right?) should be PROUD that their creation is improving human existance.
Anything that prevents that stuff from happening should be resisted (within reason ofcourse).
don't rent unless it's unlimited.
Your (Open Source) software should check a website every month or so, to see if there are still no vulnerabilities discovered for it.
:P) should be optional both during compile time and during the actual use of the program. OS programs that don't have the option to have this module switched off would probably be forked.
If there is a known vulnerability for that program, the website will put that info on as content that is readable for that program, this is Also known as XML web services. The program can look for a certain XML tag to see if there is a vulnerability discovered for itself.
The content of the XML tag should be: "yes there is a hack" in addition to: "the hack is possible on versions x.xx - x.xx"
This method of providing a service would be the 2nd great way to make money off of Open Source software, because you don't have to make that XML tag viewable for free. You can ask for a fee to let people use your web service.
In fact, it's easier to provide this service to OS software because you can view and edit the source without having to contact a company for permission/negotiations first.
Ofcourse this "Vulnerability Info Module" (let history show that I coined the phrase
The possibility of forking OS programs would also be the mechanism that prevents a "Vulnerability Webservice Website" from hijacking the code written by others (making it only work with a paid-for module inside the program).
Because this service is easiest to implement for Open Source programs, it would mean that Open Source programs would be even more safer than Closed Source programs.
How about giving money for bugs found to programmers? The webservice company may be willing to pay money for that, to supply it's business with a steady stream of valuable info. That would creat a 3rd way to profit from Open Source programs.
Yes yes, *smug* I know I'm giving this splendid idea away for free, you may praise me now.
Scientists have established an undetectable force that pushes the universe apart faster and faster.
Mysterious particles that appear in empty space and push matter.
What if gravity is a pushing force, not a pulling force? Maybe from the same pushing force seen in the accelerated expansion of the universe. Maybe from another pushing force.
Gravity is a pushing force, pushing you to the earth from your the direction of your head. The pushing power is diminished by the earth because it's particles somehow "filter out" the pushing forces.
In other words, the pushing force is all around us, but the earth is shielding us from the push coming from our feet.
I probably won't be the first with this theory and there's probably some simple way to disprove this theory but I wanted to put this on Slashdot before the topic cooled.
Can anybody please tell me how brilliant I am or tell me how this theory got disproven in some experiment?
Thanks.