I guess this should be modded as a me too. The book Adiamante written by L.E. Modesitt pg 76,"..Meleysens are bioengineered trees which detoxify soil". Its cool for science advancement catch up with science fiction. The setting of this book is posthumans restoring the ecosystem of Old Earth after nuclear war fought by telepaths against cyber-enhanced humans. Maybe a glimpse into the future.
I've read some of the post for this thread. I should say something P.C. like the processing power of the moment increases every 11 months, but frankly its a cop-out. Let me explain before you send the flame mail, true it is a fact that according to Moores law, that memory (processor also) increases capacity by a factor of 2 every 11 months. But there is also another law qouted be system 'engineers' , "the faster the hardware available, the slower the software that operates on the hardware". You can disagree with me, but its a simple fact that major system software such as $MS Windows$ requires a more powerful processor, more memory and a bigger harddisk. Increasingly developement of programs operate in the megabyte range. My question is why! , At one time ALL programs were limited to 64K segment, because that was the standard size for a ram chip. A "hello world" program compiled in C++(c evil progeny) can easily exceed 20k. You probably say BIG DEAL, even coded up in Turbo Pascal the max is 2k. I dont think that I am eccentric because I don't want BLOATED CODE!. Getting back on task, code morphing is a polished version of self-modifing code. I know it isnt obvious on the surface, but think does it really matter if the code that is emitted by the compiler is part of the active process, the end result is code is executed, that wasn't initially envisioned by the program developer. I know thgis post is a little off-topic and probably get moderated out, but striving toward maximum efficiency should be the focus. Laziness and apathy shouldnt dictated the rule stick . Other engineers are required to use the minimum resources to achieve the maximum requirements of the project design, shouldn't computer 'engineers' be able to acheive the same.
Why bother with a virus, Upload a beta copy of windows 2000 to the mothership !!!. Seriously, most desktop applications are composed of competing threads. This (at least in my experience) overwrites memory they don't own, and crashes the application. Duh, "I thought my processors disallows writing to protected memory". Microprocessors don't protect memory !!!, so why call it protected mode, if it does'nt protect anything. Alrighty then, I better stop tapping at Intel, we all know they've got security inside. Hold the phone, I got it Redmond, we know you were beta testing Winblows 1MILLION on those poor defenseless aliens. Seriously, I agree the alien genre is a little overdone in Hollywood. Maybe the aliens were pissed, when they received radio tranmissions of hitler from nazi germany. I don't know about you but I'd aim my phasor or death ray for any planet with that meglaomaniac. But then again, the same could be said about Bill $$Gates. I don't know, are movie suppose to be base on fact ? Let's be realistic, $$Hollywood is targeting young sexually obsessed zit-popping teeneboops who think that captain kirk is the only sci-fi character. I think "Screamers" was the last sci-fi movie that made me think. Although overdramatized it reflected Philip Dicks' stories. I'm tired of these action movies disquised are sci-fi, im tired of the emotional roller- caster that $Hollywood is running. I advise you to pick up a good book, no movie has ever been able to compete with the universe of your imagination. If you want a good plot for a alien movie, try Octavia Butlers Xenogenesis book trilogy. The aliens in the books, the Oankali interbreed with other species to maintain genetic and cultural diversity.
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I guess this should be modded as a me too.
The book Adiamante written by L.E. Modesitt pg 76,"..Meleysens are bioengineered trees which detoxify soil". Its cool for science advancement catch up with science fiction. The setting of this book is posthumans restoring the ecosystem of Old Earth after nuclear war fought by telepaths against cyber-enhanced humans. Maybe a glimpse into the future.
I've read some of the post for this thread. I should say something P.C. like the processing
power of the moment increases every 11 months, but frankly its a cop-out. Let me explain
before you send the flame mail, true it is a fact that according to Moores law, that memory
(processor also) increases capacity by a factor of 2 every 11 months. But there is also
another law qouted be system 'engineers' , "the faster the hardware available, the slower the software that operates on the hardware". You can disagree with me, but its a simple fact
that major system software such as $MS Windows$ requires a more powerful processor, more memory and a bigger harddisk.
Increasingly developement of programs operate in the megabyte range. My question is why! , At one time ALL programs were limited to 64K segment, because that was the standard size for a ram chip. A "hello world" program compiled in C++(c evil progeny) can easily exceed 20k.
You probably say BIG DEAL, even coded up in Turbo Pascal the max is 2k. I dont think that I am eccentric because I don't want BLOATED CODE!. Getting back on task, code morphing is a polished version of self-modifing code. I know it isnt obvious on the surface, but think does it really matter if the code that is emitted by the compiler is part of the active process, the end result is code is executed, that wasn't initially envisioned by the program developer.
I know thgis post is a little off-topic and probably get moderated out, but striving toward
maximum efficiency should be the focus. Laziness and apathy shouldnt dictated the rule stick
. Other engineers are required to use the minimum resources to achieve the maximum requirements of the project design, shouldn't computer 'engineers' be able to acheive the same.
Why bother with a virus, Upload a beta copy of windows 2000 to the mothership !!!. Seriously, most desktop applications are composed of competing threads. This (at least in my experience) overwrites memory they don't own, and crashes the application. Duh, "I thought my processors disallows writing to protected memory". Microprocessors don't protect memory !!!, so why call it protected mode, if it does'nt protect anything. Alrighty then, I better stop tapping at Intel, we all know they've got security inside. Hold the phone, I got it Redmond, we know you were beta testing Winblows 1MILLION on those poor defenseless aliens. Seriously, I agree the alien genre is a little overdone in Hollywood. Maybe the aliens were pissed, when they received radio tranmissions of hitler from nazi germany. I don't know about you but I'd aim my phasor or death ray for any planet with that meglaomaniac. But then again, the same could be said about Bill $$Gates. I don't know, are movie suppose to be base on fact ? Let's be realistic, $$Hollywood is targeting young sexually obsessed zit-popping teeneboops who think that captain kirk is the only sci-fi character. I think "Screamers" was the last sci-fi movie that made me think. Although overdramatized it reflected Philip Dicks' stories. I'm tired of these action movies disquised are sci-fi, im tired of the emotional roller- caster that $Hollywood is running. I advise you to pick up a good book, no movie has ever been able to compete with the universe of your imagination. If you want a good plot for a alien movie, try Octavia Butlers Xenogenesis book trilogy. The aliens in the books, the Oankali interbreed with other species to maintain genetic and cultural diversity.