There have been a handful of cases where a nutjob has tracked someone down IRL and murdered or attempted to murder them. The important thing to remember is that this isn't special or unique to gaming. Its really no different than any other time someone with anger management issues attempts murder due to a perceived slight.
My assumption is that whenever we do get to that level where people can be given enhanced vision, it wont be through something that requires invasive surgery like injecting nanonparticles into your eyes. If the tech pans out as it develops then genetic modification seems more likely. But then we get into the weeds about designer babies like that one doctor in China. Then again enhancement through cybernetics (lets call it what it is after all) has much the same social issues. I don't think we were ready or even now are ready for social media. And that's peanuts compared to Gattica.
What makes you think it wouldn't be in your lifetime? Medical technology is a quickly advancing field and there are a lot of cool things available today that would have been science fiction in the 90's. We laymen just don't hear about it all the time and when we do its usually overly sensationalized or described so inaccurately that it is completely wrong.
While true, there are some definite advantages to HTML over the old text mode terminals. Take a look at a modern terminal emulator sometime and check out all of the parameters that have to be explicitly defined for it to work right. Its kind of absurd the number of things we take for granted today in graphics that had to be manually configured back in the day. I had to support users who would interface with some old software written for an IBM 360 mainframe. Today it lives in a virtualized zOS environment on some very expensive IBM blade servers. But as far as the application is concerned, its the 1960's. We used an application called bluezone as the terminal emulator in Windows and the config file had hundreds of arcane and obscure settings that had to be just so to work. IT's job never changes though, back then it was the job of those who came before us to set up the terminals properly and today its our job to make sure the config files are correct.
Modern systems do away with that level of tedious config work but they do replace them with other new problems. Performance is one of them, cost of maintenance is another. For a lot of that old stuff as long as you have hardware or vms that will run it they will work. But I can't tell you the number of times I have seen "replacements" for these older systems be late 90's Java applets that take far too much effort to keep running. The money lost in maintenance costs and lost productivity makes an easy business case to replace those abominations.
Somehow I doubt those are in the currently operating 1980's era database. And it can also be argued that if they didn't drones before, they dont need them now and they are a waste of tax payer funds.
The average professional developer of the 80's was probably better at their job than the average one today. For one, they actually had a working understand of the hardware on a conceptual level and could relate how their code would interact with the system. Ask your average JS coder how a computer works and grab some popcorn. Due to the limitations of distribution methods and storage media of the time software was also far less bloated and much more stable at launch. You couldn't easily patch something post launch like you can now so you had to get it mostly right the first time. There is no such thing as bug free code but there is code with some bugs and then there is code that is mostly bugs.
Yes journalism is broken and has been for a long time. I think the combination of the lack of money in reporting these days and the consolidation of news media has led us to this point. Now everything is over sensationalized for clicks and reporters flaunt their own opinions and agendas blatantly. That's not to say that there wasn't a problem with journalism in the past either, this same shit helped start the spanish american war.
To fix it I think the first step is breaking up the media empires we have now into smaller independent news organizations. I'm open to hearing other suggestions on what to do afterwords. I think any kind of rules that try to enforce objectivity are 1: unconstitutional and 2: backfire anyways. So something has to be done to incentivize the market to want to turn back to honest factual reporting.
Those are cool but way too much money. The ghetto blasters I remember were pretty affordable. I could probably do just as well getting an old one, modifying to take lithium batteries and retrofitting a Bluetooth receiver.
So what did she do? Send him to the shadow realm? Hit him with a good 'ole Kamehameha?
Nope. She just chewed him out. Can we chill with the over dramatic headlines? I want to destroy modern journalism and replace with something that just tells me what happened.
How much of that music Warner claims is actually legally theirs? They unlawfully claimed the ownership of happy birthday for over a century. What else are they squatting on and nobody questions just because the history is murky and they are so large?
Computers have gotten so fast that glue code now is not inefficient.
You realize efficiency is not the same thing as out right speed right? Something can be wildly inefficient and still run fast through brute force. And most new software falls into that category. I'm reminded of the idiotic re-implementation of Win95 in JS. They took an OS that ran well on a 32bit 33mhz single core, in order scalar processor and 8 megs of single data rate memory on a 32 bit data bus and now requires a 64bit multicore processor and a few gigs of ram once you factor in everything running beneath it before you get to the actual hardware.
I have heard about the death of programming for years. Since the mid 90's people have been telling me that software that can write software better than programmers can is just around the corner. I'm still waiting. Development tools have gotten better and newer languages are certainly easier and faster to develop on, although they don't result in faster code. Right now AI is little more than an industry buzzword. It isn't real yet, not in the way its marketed at least. Don't expect anyone to change this soon.
Hipsters aren't nerds no. Its a term for a type of subculture obsessed with consumerism while vocally decrying capitalism, buys craft and artisan versions of everything no matter how silly, doesn't have a job because mommy and daddy have a trust fund for them and did everything before it was cool. I think those are all of the main stereotypes. You can find more searching around google. Like any fad they are ruthlessly mocked.
I'm not sure what good it does to offer absurdly high bandwidth to mobile devices while capping data plans to insignificant amounts. Exceeding a data cap even faster doesn't sound all that appealing. I'm not sure when I've needed something delivered to my phone at higher than 20mbps and LTE is more than capable of doing that.
The benefit is that the ISP can effectively advertise faster rates than you truly get. It would be better is there were no data caps and providers simply sold rates based on what level of network saturation they could maintain. But if they did that then they would loose profits. Its no secret ISPs, wired and wireless both over subscribe their networks. They bank on not everyone using full bandwidth at the same time. It would be great if the FCC would do its job but as long as government appointees can be corrupted with kickbacks and cushy jobs from the industry leaders it ain't happening.
If they still offered truly unlimited plans with reasonable pricing then I would use it for high bandwidth as long as latency wasn't requirement. They dont, so I avoid using it as much as I can.
The release spec of 5G wont be ratified by that point. The early release will be ratified by April, one month before they expect to roll out. How do they expect to go in one month from a ratified paper spec to real hardware that is deployed and working in multiple cities? And that's not the finalized spec, that's due out next year. This reminds me of all of those "pre-N" wifi routers from 10 years ago. Each supported its own non-spec extension of G that was compatible with nothing and failed to give any real world performance gains.
Waaaay back in the days of the S-100 bus everything was on a card including the cpu. While the processors of the time weren't meant for SMP the hobby community has gotten it to work on S-100. Depending on your bus architecture there is nothing really preventing this from happening aside from it just being space inefficient and OEMs like to to sell tiered products. IE: different model motherboards that support a different number of physical processors.
Thanks for the explanation. If the Navy did develop a practical and working room temperature semiconductor then I think in all likelihood there would be no patent and instead the technology would be highly classified. For a working example see the radar absorbent paint used in stealth aircraft. Patents are used when you want to market a novel idea. Usually materials breakthroughs done by military projects become trade secrets instead. The fear isn't a competing company ripping off your design but an adversary getting access to the technology. Nuclear weapons aren't patent either. Having a patent that explains how the technology works would potentially give hostile nations a head start on copying the technology.
IF it was the military that figured it out, chances are we wouldn't hear about the existence of the technology for years to come. By which point civilian researchers or a company would have independently discovered it as well and began marketing it. Just like microprocessors. Garret research developed the first microprocessor for the F-14 Tomcat but we didn't learn about it until decades later. That, combined with the fact that you couldn't buy the thing is why Intel is usually credited with making the first.
Great point. ARM doesn't have a basic system specification like x86 PC's do. While its all kind of adhoc and a mess PC side, it does work. Originally the PC spec was just the IBM 5150 and as time went on it extended incrementally. But at least it has one. IMO the push to mass adopt ARM is not a good thing for the Linux world. Its not an open architecture and as you pointed out, the transition is fraught with technical issues. We would be much better off going to RISCV. Nobody "owns" it and the community can develop and agree upon a basic system platform spec. There is still a risk (heh) of fragmentation, one of FOSS' biggest weaknesses, but is the RISCV foundation can agree on a basic general purpose platform spec in the next few years then we can start making truly open PC's.
MacOS is a bunch of BSD userland on top of a custom kernel that was developed by NeXT. Then add some Apple special sauce like the carbon graphics toolkit. iOS is MacOS with some things not needed for mobile stripped out and other things added in. They are closely related. The biggest difference is one is x86 and the other is ARM.
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There have been a handful of cases where a nutjob has tracked someone down IRL and murdered or attempted to murder them. The important thing to remember is that this isn't special or unique to gaming. Its really no different than any other time someone with anger management issues attempts murder due to a perceived slight.
My assumption is that whenever we do get to that level where people can be given enhanced vision, it wont be through something that requires invasive surgery like injecting nanonparticles into your eyes. If the tech pans out as it develops then genetic modification seems more likely. But then we get into the weeds about designer babies like that one doctor in China. Then again enhancement through cybernetics (lets call it what it is after all) has much the same social issues. I don't think we were ready or even now are ready for social media. And that's peanuts compared to Gattica.
What makes you think it wouldn't be in your lifetime? Medical technology is a quickly advancing field and there are a lot of cool things available today that would have been science fiction in the 90's. We laymen just don't hear about it all the time and when we do its usually overly sensationalized or described so inaccurately that it is completely wrong.
While true, there are some definite advantages to HTML over the old text mode terminals. Take a look at a modern terminal emulator sometime and check out all of the parameters that have to be explicitly defined for it to work right. Its kind of absurd the number of things we take for granted today in graphics that had to be manually configured back in the day. I had to support users who would interface with some old software written for an IBM 360 mainframe. Today it lives in a virtualized zOS environment on some very expensive IBM blade servers. But as far as the application is concerned, its the 1960's. We used an application called bluezone as the terminal emulator in Windows and the config file had hundreds of arcane and obscure settings that had to be just so to work. IT's job never changes though, back then it was the job of those who came before us to set up the terminals properly and today its our job to make sure the config files are correct. Modern systems do away with that level of tedious config work but they do replace them with other new problems. Performance is one of them, cost of maintenance is another. For a lot of that old stuff as long as you have hardware or vms that will run it they will work. But I can't tell you the number of times I have seen "replacements" for these older systems be late 90's Java applets that take far too much effort to keep running. The money lost in maintenance costs and lost productivity makes an easy business case to replace those abominations.
Somehow I doubt those are in the currently operating 1980's era database. And it can also be argued that if they didn't drones before, they dont need them now and they are a waste of tax payer funds.
The average professional developer of the 80's was probably better at their job than the average one today. For one, they actually had a working understand of the hardware on a conceptual level and could relate how their code would interact with the system. Ask your average JS coder how a computer works and grab some popcorn. Due to the limitations of distribution methods and storage media of the time software was also far less bloated and much more stable at launch. You couldn't easily patch something post launch like you can now so you had to get it mostly right the first time. There is no such thing as bug free code but there is code with some bugs and then there is code that is mostly bugs.
Yes journalism is broken and has been for a long time. I think the combination of the lack of money in reporting these days and the consolidation of news media has led us to this point. Now everything is over sensationalized for clicks and reporters flaunt their own opinions and agendas blatantly. That's not to say that there wasn't a problem with journalism in the past either, this same shit helped start the spanish american war. To fix it I think the first step is breaking up the media empires we have now into smaller independent news organizations. I'm open to hearing other suggestions on what to do afterwords. I think any kind of rules that try to enforce objectivity are 1: unconstitutional and 2: backfire anyways. So something has to be done to incentivize the market to want to turn back to honest factual reporting.
Those are cool but way too much money. The ghetto blasters I remember were pretty affordable. I could probably do just as well getting an old one, modifying to take lithium batteries and retrofitting a Bluetooth receiver.
Nope. She just chewed him out. Can we chill with the over dramatic headlines? I want to destroy modern journalism and replace with something that just tells me what happened.
That still sounds awesome but power it with modern electronics and batteries so it weighs half as much, runs 4 times longer and has bluetooth.
I'm sure they have. I'm just not old enough to remember. I wasn't exactly discussing future programming paradigms in the 80's.
How much of that music Warner claims is actually legally theirs? They unlawfully claimed the ownership of happy birthday for over a century. What else are they squatting on and nobody questions just because the history is murky and they are so large?
Computers have gotten so fast that glue code now is not inefficient.
You realize efficiency is not the same thing as out right speed right? Something can be wildly inefficient and still run fast through brute force. And most new software falls into that category. I'm reminded of the idiotic re-implementation of Win95 in JS. They took an OS that ran well on a 32bit 33mhz single core, in order scalar processor and 8 megs of single data rate memory on a 32 bit data bus and now requires a 64bit multicore processor and a few gigs of ram once you factor in everything running beneath it before you get to the actual hardware.
I have heard about the death of programming for years. Since the mid 90's people have been telling me that software that can write software better than programmers can is just around the corner. I'm still waiting. Development tools have gotten better and newer languages are certainly easier and faster to develop on, although they don't result in faster code. Right now AI is little more than an industry buzzword. It isn't real yet, not in the way its marketed at least. Don't expect anyone to change this soon.
Hipsters aren't nerds no. Its a term for a type of subculture obsessed with consumerism while vocally decrying capitalism, buys craft and artisan versions of everything no matter how silly, doesn't have a job because mommy and daddy have a trust fund for them and did everything before it was cool. I think those are all of the main stereotypes. You can find more searching around google. Like any fad they are ruthlessly mocked.
Yup, LTE isn't technically 4G but it was advertised as such.
I'm not sure what good it does to offer absurdly high bandwidth to mobile devices while capping data plans to insignificant amounts. Exceeding a data cap even faster doesn't sound all that appealing. I'm not sure when I've needed something delivered to my phone at higher than 20mbps and LTE is more than capable of doing that.
The benefit is that the ISP can effectively advertise faster rates than you truly get. It would be better is there were no data caps and providers simply sold rates based on what level of network saturation they could maintain. But if they did that then they would loose profits. Its no secret ISPs, wired and wireless both over subscribe their networks. They bank on not everyone using full bandwidth at the same time. It would be great if the FCC would do its job but as long as government appointees can be corrupted with kickbacks and cushy jobs from the industry leaders it ain't happening.
If they still offered truly unlimited plans with reasonable pricing then I would use it for high bandwidth as long as latency wasn't requirement. They dont, so I avoid using it as much as I can.
The release spec of 5G wont be ratified by that point. The early release will be ratified by April, one month before they expect to roll out. How do they expect to go in one month from a ratified paper spec to real hardware that is deployed and working in multiple cities? And that's not the finalized spec, that's due out next year. This reminds me of all of those "pre-N" wifi routers from 10 years ago. Each supported its own non-spec extension of G that was compatible with nothing and failed to give any real world performance gains.
Apple hasn't made servers in a very very long time.
Waaaay back in the days of the S-100 bus everything was on a card including the cpu. While the processors of the time weren't meant for SMP the hobby community has gotten it to work on S-100. Depending on your bus architecture there is nothing really preventing this from happening aside from it just being space inefficient and OEMs like to to sell tiered products. IE: different model motherboards that support a different number of physical processors.
Thanks for the explanation. If the Navy did develop a practical and working room temperature semiconductor then I think in all likelihood there would be no patent and instead the technology would be highly classified. For a working example see the radar absorbent paint used in stealth aircraft. Patents are used when you want to market a novel idea. Usually materials breakthroughs done by military projects become trade secrets instead. The fear isn't a competing company ripping off your design but an adversary getting access to the technology. Nuclear weapons aren't patent either. Having a patent that explains how the technology works would potentially give hostile nations a head start on copying the technology. IF it was the military that figured it out, chances are we wouldn't hear about the existence of the technology for years to come. By which point civilian researchers or a company would have independently discovered it as well and began marketing it. Just like microprocessors. Garret research developed the first microprocessor for the F-14 Tomcat but we didn't learn about it until decades later. That, combined with the fact that you couldn't buy the thing is why Intel is usually credited with making the first.
Great point. ARM doesn't have a basic system specification like x86 PC's do. While its all kind of adhoc and a mess PC side, it does work. Originally the PC spec was just the IBM 5150 and as time went on it extended incrementally. But at least it has one. IMO the push to mass adopt ARM is not a good thing for the Linux world. Its not an open architecture and as you pointed out, the transition is fraught with technical issues. We would be much better off going to RISCV. Nobody "owns" it and the community can develop and agree upon a basic system platform spec. There is still a risk (heh) of fragmentation, one of FOSS' biggest weaknesses, but is the RISCV foundation can agree on a basic general purpose platform spec in the next few years then we can start making truly open PC's.
MacOS is a bunch of BSD userland on top of a custom kernel that was developed by NeXT. Then add some Apple special sauce like the carbon graphics toolkit. iOS is MacOS with some things not needed for mobile stripped out and other things added in. They are closely related. The biggest difference is one is x86 and the other is ARM.
Yeah and those dev boards are outrageously expensive too.