Yeah, in ten years, there will be a lot of dead useless and radioactive batteries to throw out.
And what if the batteries break? What if they rupture or leak? I don't think thats going to be a very good scenario for your battery dependant gadgetry or medical devices like pacemakers.
First off, no matter how much money you have, stay far far away from the Torque3D engine. It's antiquated, bulky, and not designed for an MMOG setting. I know this from first hand experience as part of the development team of Virtual Canada. Tourque3D was the engine behind it, and we could only use 64x64 textures, no stretching, very limited size in maps, and well, since we modeled 15 major canadian cities and natural wonders (ie: Niagara Falls), the Tourque 3D engine just collapsed under its own weight.
So, we end up with a game that looks and feels 10 years old, yet requires a modern day computer. It was barely able to handle processing a complex map layout like Ottawa, which since this was a federal government project, was the most detailed map, when there were just 50 connections running around.
The program looks worse than the first Half Life, but required a minimum 1ghz cpu, go figure.
Yes, get over it. I'd rather microsoft NOT share its source code. Microsoft isn't exactly well known for security, and if finding loopholes in policies, buffer overrides, ect is as easy as it is now without the source, imagine how much easier it will be WITH the source? Need I remind everyone what happened a few years ago when SQL Server got wormed up the ass and took out a third of the internet with it? It probally would've been worse, if the creators of the worm saw the source code for SQL Server.
It's very different to start a project as open source and keep that way, then to take a "mature" application and share its sourcecode 5 years down the road. And this has nothing to do with money, the risks financially are superfluous compared to the security implications. A big company will take weeks, even months to fix security holes while a large open source project will take hours, maybe days, it's just one quick visit to the CVS tree for an update. When people are going to find exploits in MS code, hell will be unleashed.
So MS, please, either learn security, or keep your code to yourself.
Yes, see, if you spend $2k more on Oracle instead of SQL Server, then you wont end up spending $10k more on salary to maintain SQL Server.
Secondly, if you have a development team, don't spend money on stupid things like Visual Source Safe. Sometimes, the free alternatives are the far superior ones. Use CVS.
Thirdly, unless it's needed, why use windows on your servers? Workstations, its understandable, but servers? Why spend money on Win2k3 when you can get FreeBSD for free.
Fourthly, fire management unless they know what they are doing. Management tends to be a massive drain on resources because they get paid to do nothing relevent to IT. I mean seriously, when was the last time you knew a CTO who didn't think his cdrom tray was a cupholder?
Can you imagine what a nightmare life will be if windows loses dominance? If the desktop market changes radically? It's already hard enough to create graphical applications that are optimized for two video cards, web applications for four or five browsers, programming code for two or more compilers, db layers for two or more databases, what are we going to do when now we have ot start making things for two or more operating systems or risk a considerble loss of business?
The only real thing I can think of that makes sense is to replace client apps with web apps. But that poses enough risks on its own. Though, rumor has it that Microsoft is gearing up to release Office 12 as a web app and not a client app, buta gain, those are just rumors.
Today's browsers do wierd things sometimes. Its call ed Quirks Mode. Quirks Mode is when the browser assumes responsibility for what HTML does and doesn't rely on a DTD.
If you supply a proper DTD to a standard spec like HTML 4.01 Strict, and then use improper HTML (like these tags) inside your site, the browser will rush into quirks mode again, potentially ruining your site.
What they should've done instead was use meta tags and throw in some custom headers. This would've a lot smarter.
Reinformation - information we already know but weren't told about it for a few days.
This climate program is just going to come up with the same outcome that every semi-aware human has come up with. The world is fucked, we are partially to blame.
So far the best comic book adaption is X-men. Yes, x-men. Why? For starters, it is PERFECTLY CASTED. Every single actor in x-men is 100% perfect for their roles. Secondly, the movie is more true to the comic book and the original cartoon series. In the original cartoon series, rogue is like 30 years old.
I really hope that X-Men 3 will have something to do with the phoenix.
What if you're upset while text messaging. Can you just shake the phone violently and it'll know you meant to say "FUCK YOU ASSHOLE NOOB MOTHERFUCKER, I HATE YOU". Kinda like how software that converts pictures to music will take a picture of porn and crank out 70ies funk.
This new goal of resource sharing and decentralization sounds like post-neo-communism. Not that I'm complaining or anything, but as everyone knows, communism only works if everyone works, as does P2P, and this is why its destined to fail, as did communism. There are more and more people getting on the internet now, most of whom don't understand the concept of "sharing", only "taking". The individualist movement, the me-generation did this to us. So while P2P looks good now, so did communism. And eventually it will fail, just like Yugoslavia. So enjoy it while it lasts folks, because the McDonalds kids are pouring in at record rates (either that or get to know the right people so you can get on the best trackers!)
Earth is obviously the first step.
The moon would be the second.
The third mars.
Problem? How do we do this feasibly? Its only a matter of time before we start colonizing Mars, but Mars is pretty far away.
According to the laws of physics, one can not go faster than the speed of light. This includes ANY information whatsoever.
It takes light from the sun roughly 8.3 minutes to reach earth and roughly 12.6 minutes to reach Mars, so lets assume that light takes 4.3 minutes to reach Mars from Earth. (3 x 10^5 km/s == speed of light, distance of Mars from Sun is 227,940,000km).
That type of information lag is unpleasant by today's standards.
Also, I seriously doubt that we will have developed an engine let alone a means by which to transport humans to Mars the way we transport humans from north america to europe. It takes over a year to travel to Mars right now. How much faster could we possibly go without hurting the human body in the process?
Also, mars has less gravity, and more radiation. Even after "terraforming" Mars, it will not have the same conditions as Earth. This will have a considerable affect on human beings, even altering their physical apearances, altering their mental processes and what not. Will society develope a martian xenophobia? "OMG MUTANTS! KILL THEM ALL" the way we did to blacks, russians, and now arabs?
So many questions, so few answers...
Windows 2000 crashed on occaison when I used faulty programs. Windows XP hasn't crashed since uhm, I dunno. Windows XP is pretty solid. As for viruses, security in numbers son. OSX is minute, a small player, teeny tiny. You don't see people trying to find and do something about exploits in Opera or Konqueror, because no one cares. And protecting your self from viruses on your PC is simple enough for a monkey to do. I've been using Outlook since v97. I got infected once by an email virus, because of my own stupidity.
My machine works, it works like a charm. I bet it works better than any mac of equal hardware strength.
Lets face it, it'd be ridiculous to say that MS Office is a bad product. Infact, its probally the best product (or group of products?) MS has ever made. Even Access has uses in the desktop publishing world. MS Office is FAR from bloated. It just contains every tool anyone anywhere could ever possibly need in any scenario whatsoever.
This is just going to be another lame attempt by apple to reinvent the wheel, and every time Apple tried to reinvent the wheel, it fails. I'm beginning to question why Apple is in the computer business at all. PCs, in every way, are superior. They are faster, stronger, and cheaper. The whole "Apple is better for media" is no longer applicable becaue it was only applicable when Apple computers were faster than PCs, which they are not anymore. Don't fall for marketing gimmicks like OSX. OSX only uses Unix because Steve Jobs knows that there are enough anti microsoft extremists out there to sustain his company. Apple should stick to doing what it does best: making nifty gadgets like iPod. Infact, I bet that if people at Apple put their heads together, they could make a great competitor to Sony's PSP.
So really, whats next? If anything, the world would benefit from some simplification in identification. I'd feel more comfortable with one company or government knowing my details, then 20/30 companies and various different governments knowing my details.
Mind you, Passport sucked. But thats no excuse to not try to do something better.
Humans have evolved technologically, we have gained a lot more knowledge, but lets face it, when it comes to society and communal living, we have DE EVOLVED. This is inpart due to technology and knowledge. We know too much, we gather too much, we do too much, that by the end of day, if a stranger said "Good day sir", you'd end up slamming a 40lb sledge hammer into this head.
No one cares
1) Not all countries can be affected by the MPAA/RIAA.
2) In almost all cases, it will be requested that the tracker be taken down first, or action will be sought after. So take the tracker down and throw it up somewhere else.
3) It wouldn't be impossible to run a tracker in anonymity, but the warez scene is so full of elitism and kids with low self esteem, that its no wonder people get caught.
As the MPAA and RIAA and various other groups kick up the fight against piracy, decentralization will do no good to the individual user, because now the responsibility falls SOLELY on that user, and not the provider of content, like a tracker or a P2P server. This means that users are easier targets because now there is no one else to blame.
This was written under the assumption that Canada is a puppet of the US, which we have proven time and time again that we aren't, since we can legalize pot, gay marriages, deal with disease outbreaks without calling it terrorism, not attack poor defenseless countries while snubbing the countries that do, and yet, despite all this, have the most powerful economy in the G8.
I think its time people stop grouping Canada UNDER the US. We've evolved past that nonsense so that nazi regimes like the RIAA can't touch us.
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the cure for cancer has been found we are able to work on superfluous stuff like this
You can't play these games without a mouse, impossible, not doable, don't even try, thank you.
Yeah, in ten years, there will be a lot of dead useless and radioactive batteries to throw out.
And what if the batteries break? What if they rupture or leak? I don't think thats going to be a very good scenario for your battery dependant gadgetry or medical devices like pacemakers.
Imagine the lawsuits that can come from this!
First off, no matter how much money you have, stay far far away from the Torque3D engine. It's antiquated, bulky, and not designed for an MMOG setting. I know this from first hand experience as part of the development team of Virtual Canada. Tourque3D was the engine behind it, and we could only use 64x64 textures, no stretching, very limited size in maps, and well, since we modeled 15 major canadian cities and natural wonders (ie: Niagara Falls), the Tourque 3D engine just collapsed under its own weight. So, we end up with a game that looks and feels 10 years old, yet requires a modern day computer. It was barely able to handle processing a complex map layout like Ottawa, which since this was a federal government project, was the most detailed map, when there were just 50 connections running around. The program looks worse than the first Half Life, but required a minimum 1ghz cpu, go figure.
Yes, get over it. I'd rather microsoft NOT share its source code. Microsoft isn't exactly well known for security, and if finding loopholes in policies, buffer overrides, ect is as easy as it is now without the source, imagine how much easier it will be WITH the source? Need I remind everyone what happened a few years ago when SQL Server got wormed up the ass and took out a third of the internet with it? It probally would've been worse, if the creators of the worm saw the source code for SQL Server.
It's very different to start a project as open source and keep that way, then to take a "mature" application and share its sourcecode 5 years down the road. And this has nothing to do with money, the risks financially are superfluous compared to the security implications. A big company will take weeks, even months to fix security holes while a large open source project will take hours, maybe days, it's just one quick visit to the CVS tree for an update. When people are going to find exploits in MS code, hell will be unleashed.
So MS, please, either learn security, or keep your code to yourself.
Yes, see, if you spend $2k more on Oracle instead of SQL Server, then you wont end up spending $10k more on salary to maintain SQL Server.
Secondly, if you have a development team, don't spend money on stupid things like Visual Source Safe. Sometimes, the free alternatives are the far superior ones. Use CVS.
Thirdly, unless it's needed, why use windows on your servers? Workstations, its understandable, but servers? Why spend money on Win2k3 when you can get FreeBSD for free.
Fourthly, fire management unless they know what they are doing. Management tends to be a massive drain on resources because they get paid to do nothing relevent to IT. I mean seriously, when was the last time you knew a CTO who didn't think his cdrom tray was a cupholder?
Can you imagine what a nightmare life will be if windows loses dominance? If the desktop market changes radically? It's already hard enough to create graphical applications that are optimized for two video cards, web applications for four or five browsers, programming code for two or more compilers, db layers for two or more databases, what are we going to do when now we have ot start making things for two or more operating systems or risk a considerble loss of business?
The only real thing I can think of that makes sense is to replace client apps with web apps. But that poses enough risks on its own. Though, rumor has it that Microsoft is gearing up to release Office 12 as a web app and not a client app, buta gain, those are just rumors.
Today's browsers do wierd things sometimes. Its call ed Quirks Mode. Quirks Mode is when the browser assumes responsibility for what HTML does and doesn't rely on a DTD.
If you supply a proper DTD to a standard spec like HTML 4.01 Strict, and then use improper HTML (like these tags) inside your site, the browser will rush into quirks mode again, potentially ruining your site.
What they should've done instead was use meta tags and throw in some custom headers. This would've a lot smarter.
Reinformation - information we already know but weren't told about it for a few days.
This climate program is just going to come up with the same outcome that every semi-aware human has come up with. The world is fucked, we are partially to blame.
So far the best comic book adaption is X-men. Yes, x-men. Why? For starters, it is PERFECTLY CASTED. Every single actor in x-men is 100% perfect for their roles. Secondly, the movie is more true to the comic book and the original cartoon series. In the original cartoon series, rogue is like 30 years old.
I really hope that X-Men 3 will have something to do with the phoenix.
What if you're upset while text messaging. Can you just shake the phone violently and it'll know you meant to say "FUCK YOU ASSHOLE NOOB MOTHERFUCKER, I HATE YOU". Kinda like how software that converts pictures to music will take a picture of porn and crank out 70ies funk.
This new goal of resource sharing and decentralization sounds like post-neo-communism. Not that I'm complaining or anything, but as everyone knows, communism only works if everyone works, as does P2P, and this is why its destined to fail, as did communism. There are more and more people getting on the internet now, most of whom don't understand the concept of "sharing", only "taking". The individualist movement, the me-generation did this to us. So while P2P looks good now, so did communism. And eventually it will fail, just like Yugoslavia. So enjoy it while it lasts folks, because the McDonalds kids are pouring in at record rates (either that or get to know the right people so you can get on the best trackers!)
Earth is obviously the first step. The moon would be the second. The third mars. Problem? How do we do this feasibly? Its only a matter of time before we start colonizing Mars, but Mars is pretty far away. According to the laws of physics, one can not go faster than the speed of light. This includes ANY information whatsoever. It takes light from the sun roughly 8.3 minutes to reach earth and roughly 12.6 minutes to reach Mars, so lets assume that light takes 4.3 minutes to reach Mars from Earth. (3 x 10^5 km/s == speed of light, distance of Mars from Sun is 227,940,000km). That type of information lag is unpleasant by today's standards. Also, I seriously doubt that we will have developed an engine let alone a means by which to transport humans to Mars the way we transport humans from north america to europe. It takes over a year to travel to Mars right now. How much faster could we possibly go without hurting the human body in the process? Also, mars has less gravity, and more radiation. Even after "terraforming" Mars, it will not have the same conditions as Earth. This will have a considerable affect on human beings, even altering their physical apearances, altering their mental processes and what not. Will society develope a martian xenophobia? "OMG MUTANTS! KILL THEM ALL" the way we did to blacks, russians, and now arabs? So many questions, so few answers...
Windows 2000 crashed on occaison when I used faulty programs. Windows XP hasn't crashed since uhm, I dunno. Windows XP is pretty solid. As for viruses, security in numbers son. OSX is minute, a small player, teeny tiny. You don't see people trying to find and do something about exploits in Opera or Konqueror, because no one cares. And protecting your self from viruses on your PC is simple enough for a monkey to do. I've been using Outlook since v97. I got infected once by an email virus, because of my own stupidity.
My machine works, it works like a charm. I bet it works better than any mac of equal hardware strength.
And, well, Avid > FCP...
Lets face it, it'd be ridiculous to say that MS Office is a bad product. Infact, its probally the best product (or group of products?) MS has ever made. Even Access has uses in the desktop publishing world. MS Office is FAR from bloated. It just contains every tool anyone anywhere could ever possibly need in any scenario whatsoever.
This is just going to be another lame attempt by apple to reinvent the wheel, and every time Apple tried to reinvent the wheel, it fails. I'm beginning to question why Apple is in the computer business at all. PCs, in every way, are superior. They are faster, stronger, and cheaper. The whole "Apple is better for media" is no longer applicable becaue it was only applicable when Apple computers were faster than PCs, which they are not anymore. Don't fall for marketing gimmicks like OSX. OSX only uses Unix because Steve Jobs knows that there are enough anti microsoft extremists out there to sustain his company. Apple should stick to doing what it does best: making nifty gadgets like iPod. Infact, I bet that if people at Apple put their heads together, they could make a great competitor to Sony's PSP.
cans
lots of string
What more could you possibly need?
So really, whats next? If anything, the world would benefit from some simplification in identification. I'd feel more comfortable with one company or government knowing my details, then 20/30 companies and various different governments knowing my details. Mind you, Passport sucked. But thats no excuse to not try to do something better.
Humans have evolved technologically, we have gained a lot more knowledge, but lets face it, when it comes to society and communal living, we have DE EVOLVED. This is inpart due to technology and knowledge. We know too much, we gather too much, we do too much, that by the end of day, if a stranger said "Good day sir", you'd end up slamming a 40lb sledge hammer into this head. No one cares
1) Not all countries can be affected by the MPAA/RIAA. 2) In almost all cases, it will be requested that the tracker be taken down first, or action will be sought after. So take the tracker down and throw it up somewhere else. 3) It wouldn't be impossible to run a tracker in anonymity, but the warez scene is so full of elitism and kids with low self esteem, that its no wonder people get caught.
As the MPAA and RIAA and various other groups kick up the fight against piracy, decentralization will do no good to the individual user, because now the responsibility falls SOLELY on that user, and not the provider of content, like a tracker or a P2P server. This means that users are easier targets because now there is no one else to blame.
This was written under the assumption that Canada is a puppet of the US, which we have proven time and time again that we aren't, since we can legalize pot, gay marriages, deal with disease outbreaks without calling it terrorism, not attack poor defenseless countries while snubbing the countries that do, and yet, despite all this, have the most powerful economy in the G8.
I think its time people stop grouping Canada UNDER the US. We've evolved past that nonsense so that nazi regimes like the RIAA can't touch us.