My gut feeling is that nothing, if anything, substantial will be done until the international capital oligarchs sense a real financial threat. Good intentions create politics; money creates policy.
I agree wholeheartedly. Business will drive the planet down until it is profitable to change and then charge us for that as well. While future generations get the raw end of the deal. We won't feel it in our lifetimes.
The problem is great games are made to work on consoles as well as PC's. So us PC gamers are stuck with consoles crippling what can be done and the UI the game uses.
How can we not be surprised when off the shelf tech used as military attack machines are compromised. We must be still the most stupid intelligent race in the universe. When will we learn ?
That is because the whole base of current OS's are not engineered from the ground up to work as a rock solid foundation.
Its past time the software we run is built on a solid foundation. Windows / Linux / OS X all compete on unstable bases. Backwards compatibility has its down side.
Sure there will be bugs. But it does not need to be so rampant.
1. Put it in someone else's hands. Then trust them.
2. Manage it yourself and copy the data to new formats as they become mainstream. Not hard as each new tech stores more than the old. Keep hard a hard copy on paper stored somewhere dry / secure.
There is no bullet proof storage that ensures it will be readable in 100 years. There could be wars, natural disasters both planetary or galactic. Language could change or be lost.
Where do you stop. It pretty clear a hard drive today will not be supported in 100 years. Something better will be available or we will have devolved to not be able to read a current hard drive.
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We are over populating the planet as is.
A decline in breeding is a welcome balance.
The pursuit about understanding can only go one way.
Science is about truth.
Faith can be about anything. Its make believe after all.
What happens on a cloudy day ?
you cant sell crap...well only too idiots.
I won't be there.
And all that happens is people crash.
My gut feeling is that nothing, if anything, substantial will be done until the international capital oligarchs sense a real financial threat. Good intentions create politics; money creates policy.
I agree wholeheartedly. Business will drive the planet down until it is profitable to change and then charge us for that as well. While future generations get the raw end of the deal. We won't feel it in our lifetimes.
We will be remembered badly I think.
Totally agree.
Consoles are holding back innovation. Decade old tech gets currently made games written for it.
PC games have been stagnated by consoles.
The problem is great games are made to work on consoles as well as PC's. So us PC gamers are stuck with consoles crippling what can be done and the UI the game uses.
This is moronic.
Windows 8 is an abomination on a PC to start with.
Don't measure retards against real PC OS;s
It is just not far or usable.
It is not me. I'm just the fool paying tax for the last few decades.
How do I get Aussies to riot. It seem we will put up with anything like whipped dogs.
We are so whipped people will agrue with me.
Is it working ?
Why not build a weapons platform from Lego's.
How can we not be surprised when off the shelf tech used as military attack machines are compromised. We must be still the most stupid intelligent race in the universe. When will we learn ?
The system is only as good as the horde that push the buttons.
Agreed.
As soon as you need a program not on a desktop shortcut or a built in windows app you rarely use like MSpaint or Notepad. Where do you go, Start Menu.
This is stupidity at its best.
A decade of culture tossed out the window leaving life long customer woundering what to do when looking for a program.
Morons.
A third of all the kids play the top 1% of iOS games.
I play PC games. Give me a call when you make a decent one. That is what phones are for.
Not pointless if installed on down ramps of car parks. Where is save the car owners brakes.
It would tax a cars fuel on flat ground or ramps uphill. Going downhill your using brakes not fuel.
So they want to make eco friendly power. What do they do, make the floor tile light up when you step on it to show there appreciation for the effort.
OMG. Talk about wasting power.
Launch it into the sun.
You should not have to overbuild your code. The OS should be rock solid and your app should have no vector to get out of user space.
It is impossible to built a secure app on a unsecured OS.
That is because the whole base of current OS's are not engineered from the ground up to work as a rock solid foundation.
Its past time the software we run is built on a solid foundation. Windows / Linux / OS X all compete on unstable bases. Backwards compatibility has its down side.
Sure there will be bugs. But it does not need to be so rampant.
I agree 100% with the clean interface. Updates are smooth.
It also works well across MAC / Linux / Windows with sync.
You either;
1. Put it in someone else's hands. Then trust them.
2. Manage it yourself and copy the data to new formats as they become mainstream. Not hard as each new tech stores more than the old. Keep hard a hard copy on paper stored somewhere dry / secure.
There is no bullet proof storage that ensures it will be readable in 100 years. There could be wars, natural disasters both planetary or galactic. Language could change or be lost.
Where do you stop. It pretty clear a hard drive today will not be supported in 100 years. Something better will be available or we will have devolved to not be able to read a current hard drive.
Indeed. And they will bend over to do it as long as there is profit.
NASA has been turned from science to profit.
Their new goal is to let Commercialization take to cost to explore space for profit. Once it happens they plan to jump on as customers.
In the mean time China will just go there. Should be interesting to see what happens.