Despite many elitists decrying the book, it's the best place to start when trying to understand C and C++ as a language as it gives you a bit of background behind how and why C developed and for anyone who's read through many programming books, the hardest part about learning programming is learning to think and understand how a CPU operates. Probably the most fundamental thing I would require all programmers to learn is some c or c++ AND assembly. Why assembly? Because when you're forced to read assembly code you need to get a feel for how cpu's really work and what the stack is and those strange instructions are when you do assembly read outs.
Also I would highly recommend making basic cheats or playing with seemly code in single player games using something like cheat engine. You get experience through reverse engineering and trying to read assembly code.
IMHO reverse enginering is probably the best way to learn for someone who has the discipline and a deep work ethic. The biggest problems for kid starting out is not having any good teachers who have a clue how beginners to programming struggle. Finding a good teacher who has lived through many programming era's and can kind of explain the fucked up half-baked fly by the seat of your pants nature of how many languages were designed is important IMHO. Because many programming languages were designed by experts for other experts, the weren't the result of scentific usability studies. It was really all engineers and nerds making tools for other engineers are nerds and that's fine but the hardest part of programming is taking a problem and understanding it well first and then building a model for code. Your code is only as good as your model or foundation, aka only as good as your understanding of the problem.
I'd tell new programers don't assume that everything that has been invented or that the tools used to program are finished. If I had infinite lifespan I'd go back and do small scale models of simple machines and cpu's and have a visual display of what the computer is actually doing, something like those old Disk defrag programs, aka what the data is doing, where the data is, what is happening. That hardest part of programming is really wrapping your mind around how the machine works and then realizing that programming is really just structured mathematical workflows, anything you program, often will at some point need to be performant and the only way to get high speed or fast software is to really understand how manage how work is batched and processed. That ultimately requires for you to have a good mental model of how the machine works at a low level. At some point in if you ever want to become good you'll need to understand how the computer underneath actually works. Trying to avoid it is just really living in ignorance.
... on power. If there's ever a power outage of any significance your "economy" is fucked. Doesn't seem very sound to have such a point of failure. It would make it trivially easy to fuck up anyones economy in case war broke out. Seems like a recipe for disaster.
... they have no new idea's for the mouse after 20 years? I've had a tonne and even failed ideas like the strategic commander form microsoft had people experimenting with input devices.
Basically the button placement on the mouses being designed by these companies are made by people who obviously don't use computers. I've had lots of thoughts about what could be added to mice in various games/software I've used over the years that would need some more testing/refinement as to get the placement right.
I've always wanted to put a dpad or small analog joystick on the right side of the mouse but do it in such a way as to make it non intrusive, aka you can have it slide/retract inside the mouse and cover it if you don't want to use it for instance. Many functions could easily be mapped onto the mouse but stupid ass "MMO" mice and idiot designs by people who don't use compturs regularly reign. Like the razor naga/trinity, a big laugh of a design where the buttons are too close together.
... the game industry succesfully got it's way to control software and by keeping half of it on their machines. They're finding out how gaming always was - most games will be played once, finished and then forgotten. It's hard for any game to keep players for a long time, which is why people need a rest from games between sequels instead of always online service base gaming bullshit. This is especially true for mobile games that survives off a tiny minority of whales. The sooner the game industry figures out we want good content for money and stop trying to turn every game into a service the better off we'll all be. People can buy multiple single player games they can't play every multiplayer game.
That means service based games are a winner take all market because free time is limited when many multiplayer games are released in the same period vying for player attention. The level of idiocy coming out of management selecting for short term profits instead of fixing the AAA game industries ability to make said games is the issue.
... textbooks are not obsolete. Not everyone on the planet can afford internet especially schools in places where internet is costly/sketchy and teachers need classrooms where kids can focus.
But if the most consumer desireable device can not be made repairable, let the consumer decide.
Consumers are too stupid to decide many aspects of capitalist society, sorry to tell ya. That's how we got fake news and anti-vaxxers. The average human being is too stupid to govern himself in many important areas of society which is why society is so fucked up to begin with.
Just look at videogames, the videogame industry has successfully stolen software by letting "the consumer decide". We got DRM, broken games and stolen games out the wazoo.
... who are naturally don't mind being alone rather. AKA monks, etc, people who can naturally be away from society or others and years at a time and see what is different about them and how they deal with it. I'm sure they'd be better then sticking comedian on board.
They have to learn a lot of mental gymnastics to justify pirating all those games.
You prove the study right, you obviously don't have high moral reasoning skills. The last 200 years of theft from the public domain by big companies and dipshits like you can't just wait to bend over and get fully raped.
The last 20 years of PC games has been one of Valve and big videogame companies attacking and undermining game ownership and control of game software on the PC by literally stealing the game and chaining it to servers in their office, ensuring the game is never really yours. It's basically fraud on a massive scale. Which began with half-life/counterstrike in 2004.
Given the overwhelming amount of corruption in america, and the success of big corporations having undermind our rights to own the products we buy. There's a good chance people like you cannot morally reason yourself out of a wet paper bag.
The private ownership of software companies + wires that go from microsoft HQ but connect every household on the planet, means all they have to do is cut the software in half and everyone on an endpoint of a telephone pole/fibre optic cable can be taken over like childs play.
Folks aren't mining your data and invading your privacy for fun (outside of 4chaners and internet trolls), they're doing it so they can monopolize everything and get away with it.
As long as capitalism and free market dogma is worshipped there is little chance. You can't reform the beast. I watched as videogmae companies stole videogame software out from under us on the PC for the last 20 years beginning with mmo's. The internet has created a society that conflicts with private ownership. How would anyone have stopped Valve from inserting drm into half-life? AKA in order for there to be a market you need to be able to stop bad behavior, the only way you could have done thta in 2004 would have been physically right next to valve.
Everyone has jumped on the drm (software as service bandwagon). You can't have privacy in that world and capitalism at the same time everyone who thinks privacy can be protected under capitalism in an internet enabled society doesn't understand that the public has no power. You can't hold an organization accountable when it's 100's of miles away from you. It's a delusion.
Either way the wires we laid all over the surface of the planet has given ability for software companies to steal and take control of our machines from the safetly of their offices by just keeping some files on their computers they disgustingly call "the cloud".
All this "social media" bullshit is bullshit, all facebook and reddit are, are forums with different levels of pseudo-anonymity or none at all in the case of facebook.
Sorry to tell ya we're going to have to rethink society if we ever want our rights back and I have serious doubts that will ever happen given human's subservience to power and corruption and general stupidity and ignorace.
... it was called television. TV existed long before computers. The naive idea people were "more connected" back in the day is quite the bit of bullshit. People have always had a love hate relationship with other people, including their own family.
If we want better relationships that would require whether most human beings are actually capable of genuine relationships. If human history is anything to go by the answer is not really, racism, war, poverty, environmental destruction, stupid politics. Human beings are not well put together life forms on the whole.
... the problem is that human beings are too limited intellectually to act in accordance with the economic doctrines preached in the universities. Most of us who have experience with mankind, know that our species is full of shit, the corporations are full of shit, the politicians are full of shit and humanity itself is full of god damn bullshit.
Take videogames for example for the first 30 or so years of PC game history, we got complete games singleplayer+multiplayer in the same package until the internet arrived in the 1990's and companies started to rebadge PC RPG's as mmo's to confuse a gullible and stupid public to get them to pay for the same game multiple times while removing ownership. Watching valve and company steal videogames is broad daylight and watch the public fall all over themselves to give money to game companies for games they don't own just defies anything like a rational society.
It's not in your interest as a gamer to basically pay to fuck yourself, but that's exactly what happened because you can't have a market with no accountability. You can't hold a company accountable that's 100's of miles away in an internet enabled age, so it's just one giant institution of software fraud and companies are making a killing.
So silicon valleys model is just to make software everyone uses and make sure they never get to own or control it, and use that software to spy on and gather data from the dirty technology illiterate masses.
Your sentiment is probably indicative of what is happening here. You don't want to talk to "Trumpers" and they almost certainly don't want to talk to you either.
The problem is most people are not qualified to be political, you can't have a politics that literally rejects the laws that govern the unvierse and is anti-science, and that is the entire republican party. Most americans would never accept that science shows they are not authorities on what they do and don't know about the world. AKA human perception is much more direly flawed then we've imagined. There is no sound politics that rejects reason and evidence, you can't have a functional world where people can't accept that science shows people are not very good at seeing the world clearly and building accurate political perspectives from the data.
... to test AI. Since RTS games already have a bad UI where the bottneck is the human being in the chair, aka trying to control many units with a limited UI v ia keyboard and mouse is cumbersome at best. It was even back in the Warcraft 2 days when you tried to bloodlust ogres or heal paladins -- healing paladins being damn near impossible. While warcraft 3 'fixed' the issue with impossible casting/w large numbers of units using autocast.
The main problem being is that games like starcraft can be played perfectly because it's really an action game masquerading as a strategy game, aka the actions take place in real time. So for a computer like deepmind, the human appears super slow. Imagine if you ropponent appeared retarded in terms of their reflexes. That's basically deepmind vs any human opponent in an RTS. So a computers perfect information and perfect reflexes mean making 99% accurate micromanaging decisions for units everywhere at once.
You can't do that as a human player. Deepmind for an RTS is like having an aimbot in quake. Not really impressive since we already know making bots that can win against humans is trivially easy.
... technology dystopia can't be avoided under a private ownership model. You can't hold tech and software companies accountable when they are 100's of miles away.
The reason why the world is corrupt as fuck and why human culture is being destroyed and corporations rule the world, is because people are politically and historically illiterate. If one looks objectively at the facts. We live in a lawless oligarchy and have for 200 years if intellectual property law is anything to go by. So no, until people start to really understand how their society actually works and stop falling for oligarch asskissing free market fundy ideology, the madness will continue.
That's why we, wait for it, are supposed to REGULATE our CAPITALISM derp! Because that's the only way we aren't screwing ourselves, IF we do that comprehensively and competently.
You don't seem to understand you can't regulate the very thing that has the power to undermine the regulations, see: bailouts in 2008. You're historically illiterate to an insane degree.
... a capitalist society. The nature of communication technology is honesty, the individual simply cannot be private because companies own the infrastructure of society. Every company from our gorocery store, to our internet service provider, to our bank is selling our data or doing so on the sly. Private power cannot be incentivized to not erase privacy, it simply cannot work in a technocratic capitalist society because most people are not technology illiterate and will end up leaking data about you indirectly just through interactions.
With the amount of data facebook/google/amazon have they can build good enough inference models now, it's much too late to go back since the general groundwork for revealing hidden characteristics of nodes in the social graph (aka other people) due to discovering the rules of how people select their friends and mates.
We've opened the pandora's box of technology + private power. We're heading to a new feudal/slave technocratic society of pure oligarchy lawlessness. This is aptly seen on our PC's with windows 10 as a service, steam, mmo's and mobile games - aka software you don't own or control means you must give up privacy by default to use these things.
The only way you get your privacy back is ideological revolution and having a say in how these companies are run. They have no incentive not to harvest your data by using theiverous software as a service models.
... to be a disaster because the average person is a fucking moron.
The internet finally revealed what many of us always knew - our species is a race of god damn morons. Many of us nerds never imagind the overwhelming level of stupid that people would give up their rights to own videogame software and enable invasive and orwellian drm and enable the theft of software by Valve and other software companies.
The average person getting internet has allowed companies to wage war on general computing at every level and now Microsoft is aiming to lock down the PC and turn it into an appliance.
So as a comptuer nerd from the 90's... The tech future turned into a tool for theft and larceny on behalf of corporations the like this world has never seen. That microtransactions, lootboxes, gacha in videogames are even things, speaks to the subhuman level of intelligence of our entire species.
I don't know man; facebook seems to be an evil of several orders of magnitude worse than MS. MS wanted to control the desktop market - through any means necessary -- but they mostly stopped there. They didn't really get into the pervasive surveillance that modern web companies are involved with.
Basically FB wants to monetize and track every single living person on this planet. That's way worse than anything MS ever did in their heyday.
Nope, MS is just as bad now with windows 10 and drm, thanks to the rise of smart phones and high speed internet penetration reaching the most stupid among us. Fortnite is just stolen game/w microtransactions, people today are literally paying for skins in a game they don't own whose files and the game disappear at epic games behest.
Windows 10 and no doubt hardware is going to be locked down like android soon enough thanks to dumbness of the average citizen.
We're heading towards dystopia all because stupid people got internet and locked down smart phones.
... of course it is, the reality is when you put microtransactions and gambling mechanics inside games.
One of the reasons it's grown so much is because the game playing masses on both PC and phones is fucking tech illiterate. Steam, mmo's, mobile gambling/gacha games could only exist in a world where the average gamer is bum fuck moron.
Watching RPG's gettting rebranded MMO's in the 90's to stick drm server lock into them and charge a subscription was annoying, the fact that the public fell all over themselves to pay money for software they didn't own or control incentivized the entire industry to code games in a way that the public never controls the game. Watching Team fortress 2 going from paid product to f2p microtransaction ridden game was pretty much the death knell for game ownership. Now that even fucking starcraft 2 is in on it.
Sad place where PC gaming and software ownership (aka windows 10 as a service we definitely are in an idiocracy) ended up due to the masses getting internet.
Why are we celebrating that more than half of the windows boxes are infected by a terrible malware that attack via the windows update mechanism then proceeds to display Ads,add a very annoying search bar, track the user's every move and potentially can turn him into a bot, given how hard it is to disable it's ability to download updates?
The attack began 20 years ago with the rise of smart phones and drm'd games. Back when the videogame industry was pushing to get rid of game ownership by rebranding rpg's in development "MMO's". Everyone saw what kind of profits you could get from a locked down platform like android/iphone via apps + in app purchases. So the big plan is to turn the desktop PC into a locked down platform. Just like steam, mmo's and phones.
...the reality is the reason we have so many problems is because people who are irrational have equal power with the people who are rational.
For those who rail at these words, the reality is right now we live in a lawless oligarchy that's has been basically stealing everything that is nailed down and has been since the US's founding. To even suggest any modern capitalist state "is a democracy" is just utter bullshit when it has been owned lock stock and barrel by corporations for most western states history with brief interruptions of world war 1 and world war 2 and the cold war to try to soften the ruthless harshness of capitalist societies.
Now with the fall of the USSR corporations are unchecked and out of control and being enabled by a heavily indoctrinated public.
Don't think so? Every time IP law came up for review to benefit the public it was pushed to benefit the rich and their corporations.
In fairness MMOs killed more game companies than piracy ever could. So many farms bet on being the next WOW. So many farms reposessed.
Except almost all games now don't release server exe's and the multiplayer portion is server locked and we got no LAN option. Look at what happened to diablo 3. Starcraft 2 is now locked down to sell skins/mtx. They are taking control of software, the net and the PC. Windows 10 + future hardware drm is coming to lockdown the PC and turn it into the android. Shit is about to get worse all thanks to stupid getting internet and feeding those MTX mobile games.
It's insane how mobile gacha/gambling games are making more money then both console and PC combined, shit is saddening but it shows how fucking stupid our species is.
Slashdot Mirror
... by stephen prata.
Despite many elitists decrying the book, it's the best place to start when trying to understand C and C++ as a language as it gives you a bit of background behind how and why C developed and for anyone who's read through many programming books, the hardest part about learning programming is learning to think and understand how a CPU operates. Probably the most fundamental thing I would require all programmers to learn is some c or c++ AND assembly. Why assembly? Because when you're forced to read assembly code you need to get a feel for how cpu's really work and what the stack is and those strange instructions are when you do assembly read outs.
Also I would highly recommend making basic cheats or playing with seemly code in single player games using something like cheat engine. You get experience through reverse engineering and trying to read assembly code.
IMHO reverse enginering is probably the best way to learn for someone who has the discipline and a deep work ethic. The biggest problems for kid starting out is not having any good teachers who have a clue how beginners to programming struggle. Finding a good teacher who has lived through many programming era's and can kind of explain the fucked up half-baked fly by the seat of your pants nature of how many languages were designed is important IMHO. Because many programming languages were designed by experts for other experts, the weren't the result of scentific usability studies. It was really all engineers and nerds making tools for other engineers are nerds and that's fine but the hardest part of programming is taking a problem and understanding it well first and then building a model for code. Your code is only as good as your model or foundation, aka only as good as your understanding of the problem.
I'd tell new programers don't assume that everything that has been invented or that the tools used to program are finished. If I had infinite lifespan I'd go back and do small scale models of simple machines and cpu's and have a visual display of what the computer is actually doing, something like those old Disk defrag programs, aka what the data is doing, where the data is, what is happening. That hardest part of programming is really wrapping your mind around how the machine works and then realizing that programming is really just structured mathematical workflows, anything you program, often will at some point need to be performant and the only way to get high speed or fast software is to really understand how manage how work is batched and processed. That ultimately requires for you to have a good mental model of how the machine works at a low level. At some point in if you ever want to become good you'll need to understand how the computer underneath actually works. Trying to avoid it is just really living in ignorance.
... more undermining of software ownership and the right to own the things we are paying for.
... on power. If there's ever a power outage of any significance your "economy" is fucked. Doesn't seem very sound to have such a point of failure. It would make it trivially easy to fuck up anyones economy in case war broke out. Seems like a recipe for disaster.
... they have no new idea's for the mouse after 20 years? I've had a tonne and even failed ideas like the strategic commander form microsoft had people experimenting with input devices.
Basically the button placement on the mouses being designed by these companies are made by people who obviously don't use computers. I've had lots of thoughts about what could be added to mice in various games/software I've used over the years that would need some more testing/refinement as to get the placement right.
I've always wanted to put a dpad or small analog joystick on the right side of the mouse but do it in such a way as to make it non intrusive, aka you can have it slide/retract inside the mouse and cover it if you don't want to use it for instance. Many functions could easily be mapped onto the mouse but stupid ass "MMO" mice and idiot designs by people who don't use compturs regularly reign. Like the razor naga/trinity, a big laugh of a design where the buttons are too close together.
... the game industry succesfully got it's way to control software and by keeping half of it on their machines. They're finding out how gaming always was - most games will be played once, finished and then forgotten. It's hard for any game to keep players for a long time, which is why people need a rest from games between sequels instead of always online service base gaming bullshit. This is especially true for mobile games that survives off a tiny minority of whales. The sooner the game industry figures out we want good content for money and stop trying to turn every game into a service the better off we'll all be. People can buy multiple single player games they can't play every multiplayer game.
That means service based games are a winner take all market because free time is limited when many multiplayer games are released in the same period vying for player attention. The level of idiocy coming out of management selecting for short term profits instead of fixing the AAA game industries ability to make said games is the issue.
... textbooks are not obsolete. Not everyone on the planet can afford internet especially schools in places where internet is costly/sketchy and teachers need classrooms where kids can focus.
But if the most consumer desireable device can not be made repairable, let the consumer decide.
Consumers are too stupid to decide many aspects of capitalist society, sorry to tell ya. That's how we got fake news and anti-vaxxers. The average human being is too stupid to govern himself in many important areas of society which is why society is so fucked up to begin with.
Just look at videogames, the videogame industry has successfully stolen software by letting "the consumer decide". We got DRM, broken games and stolen games out the wazoo.
... who are naturally don't mind being alone rather. AKA monks, etc, people who can naturally be away from society or others and years at a time and see what is different about them and how they deal with it. I'm sure they'd be better then sticking comedian on board.
And where the hell is the media in all this? Why the hell aren't they calling the current Admin out for doing nothing to stop the recession?
The media doesn't work for the public, it's there to lie to you and keep you distracted.
Media under capitalism
They have to learn a lot of mental gymnastics to justify pirating all those games.
You prove the study right, you obviously don't have high moral reasoning skills. The last 200 years of theft from the public domain by big companies and dipshits like you can't just wait to bend over and get fully raped.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The last 20 years of PC games has been one of Valve and big videogame companies attacking and undermining game ownership and control of game software on the PC by literally stealing the game and chaining it to servers in their office, ensuring the game is never really yours. It's basically fraud on a massive scale. Which began with half-life/counterstrike in 2004.
Given the overwhelming amount of corruption in america, and the success of big corporations having undermind our rights to own the products we buy. There's a good chance people like you cannot morally reason yourself out of a wet paper bag.
How did they get all this data of yours.
The private ownership of software companies + wires that go from microsoft HQ but connect every household on the planet, means all they have to do is cut the software in half and everyone on an endpoint of a telephone pole/fibre optic cable can be taken over like childs play.
Folks aren't mining your data and invading your privacy for fun (outside of 4chaners and internet trolls), they're doing it so they can monopolize everything and get away with it.
As long as capitalism and free market dogma is worshipped there is little chance. You can't reform the beast. I watched as videogmae companies stole videogame software out from under us on the PC for the last 20 years beginning with mmo's. The internet has created a society that conflicts with private ownership. How would anyone have stopped Valve from inserting drm into half-life? AKA in order for there to be a market you need to be able to stop bad behavior, the only way you could have done thta in 2004 would have been physically right next to valve.
Everyone has jumped on the drm (software as service bandwagon). You can't have privacy in that world and capitalism at the same time everyone who thinks privacy can be protected under capitalism in an internet enabled society doesn't understand that the public has no power. You can't hold an organization accountable when it's 100's of miles away from you. It's a delusion.
Either way the wires we laid all over the surface of the planet has given ability for software companies to steal and take control of our machines from the safetly of their offices by just keeping some files on their computers they disgustingly call "the cloud".
All this "social media" bullshit is bullshit, all facebook and reddit are, are forums with different levels of pseudo-anonymity or none at all in the case of facebook.
Sorry to tell ya we're going to have to rethink society if we ever want our rights back and I have serious doubts that will ever happen given human's subservience to power and corruption and general stupidity and ignorace.
... it was called television. TV existed long before computers. The naive idea people were "more connected" back in the day is quite the bit of bullshit. People have always had a love hate relationship with other people, including their own family.
If we want better relationships that would require whether most human beings are actually capable of genuine relationships. If human history is anything to go by the answer is not really, racism, war, poverty, environmental destruction, stupid politics. Human beings are not well put together life forms on the whole.
... the problem is that human beings are too limited intellectually to act in accordance with the economic doctrines preached in the universities. Most of us who have experience with mankind, know that our species is full of shit, the corporations are full of shit, the politicians are full of shit and humanity itself is full of god damn bullshit.
Take videogames for example for the first 30 or so years of PC game history, we got complete games singleplayer+multiplayer in the same package until the internet arrived in the 1990's and companies started to rebadge PC RPG's as mmo's to confuse a gullible and stupid public to get them to pay for the same game multiple times while removing ownership. Watching valve and company steal videogames is broad daylight and watch the public fall all over themselves to give money to game companies for games they don't own just defies anything like a rational society.
It's not in your interest as a gamer to basically pay to fuck yourself, but that's exactly what happened because you can't have a market with no accountability. You can't hold a company accountable that's 100's of miles away in an internet enabled age, so it's just one giant institution of software fraud and companies are making a killing.
So silicon valleys model is just to make software everyone uses and make sure they never get to own or control it, and use that software to spy on and gather data from the dirty technology illiterate masses.
Your sentiment is probably indicative of what is happening here. You don't want to talk to "Trumpers" and they almost certainly don't want to talk to you either.
The problem is most people are not qualified to be political, you can't have a politics that literally rejects the laws that govern the unvierse and is anti-science, and that is the entire republican party. Most americans would never accept that science shows they are not authorities on what they do and don't know about the world. AKA human perception is much more direly flawed then we've imagined. There is no sound politics that rejects reason and evidence, you can't have a functional world where people can't accept that science shows people are not very good at seeing the world clearly and building accurate political perspectives from the data.
Science on reasoning...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
... to test AI. Since RTS games already have a bad UI where the bottneck is the human being in the chair, aka trying to control many units with a limited UI v ia keyboard and mouse is cumbersome at best. It was even back in the Warcraft 2 days when you tried to bloodlust ogres or heal paladins -- healing paladins being damn near impossible. While warcraft 3 'fixed' the issue with impossible casting /w large numbers of units using autocast.
The main problem being is that games like starcraft can be played perfectly because it's really an action game masquerading as a strategy game, aka the actions take place in real time. So for a computer like deepmind, the human appears super slow. Imagine if you ropponent appeared retarded in terms of their reflexes. That's basically deepmind vs any human opponent in an RTS. So a computers perfect information and perfect reflexes mean making 99% accurate micromanaging decisions for units everywhere at once.
You can't do that as a human player. Deepmind for an RTS is like having an aimbot in quake. Not really impressive since we already know making bots that can win against humans is trivially easy.
... technology dystopia can't be avoided under a private ownership model. You can't hold tech and software companies accountable when they are 100's of miles away.
The reason why the world is corrupt as fuck and why human culture is being destroyed and corporations rule the world, is because people are politically and historically illiterate. If one looks objectively at the facts. We live in a lawless oligarchy and have for 200 years if intellectual property law is anything to go by. So no, until people start to really understand how their society actually works and stop falling for oligarch asskissing free market fundy ideology, the madness will continue.
George carlin said it best about humanity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That's why we, wait for it, are supposed to REGULATE our CAPITALISM derp! Because that's the only way we aren't screwing ourselves, IF we do that comprehensively and competently.
You don't seem to understand you can't regulate the very thing that has the power to undermine the regulations, see: bailouts in 2008. You're historically illiterate to an insane degree.
... a capitalist society. The nature of communication technology is honesty, the individual simply cannot be private because companies own the infrastructure of society. Every company from our gorocery store, to our internet service provider, to our bank is selling our data or doing so on the sly. Private power cannot be incentivized to not erase privacy, it simply cannot work in a technocratic capitalist society because most people are not technology illiterate and will end up leaking data about you indirectly just through interactions.
With the amount of data facebook/google/amazon have they can build good enough inference models now, it's much too late to go back since the general groundwork for revealing hidden characteristics of nodes in the social graph (aka other people) due to discovering the rules of how people select their friends and mates.
We've opened the pandora's box of technology + private power. We're heading to a new feudal/slave technocratic society of pure oligarchy lawlessness. This is aptly seen on our PC's with windows 10 as a service, steam, mmo's and mobile games - aka software you don't own or control means you must give up privacy by default to use these things.
The only way you get your privacy back is ideological revolution and having a say in how these companies are run. They have no incentive not to harvest your data by using theiverous software as a service models.
... to be a disaster because the average person is a fucking moron.
The internet finally revealed what many of us always knew - our species is a race of god damn morons. Many of us nerds never imagind the overwhelming level of stupid that people would give up their rights to own videogame software and enable invasive and orwellian drm and enable the theft of software by Valve and other software companies.
The average person getting internet has allowed companies to wage war on general computing at every level and now Microsoft is aiming to lock down the PC and turn it into an appliance.
So as a comptuer nerd from the 90's... The tech future turned into a tool for theft and larceny on behalf of corporations the like this world has never seen. That microtransactions, lootboxes, gacha in videogames are even things, speaks to the subhuman level of intelligence of our entire species.
I don't know man; facebook seems to be an evil of several orders of magnitude worse than MS. MS wanted to control the desktop market - through any means necessary -- but they mostly stopped there. They didn't really get into the pervasive surveillance that modern web companies are involved with.
Basically FB wants to monetize and track every single living person on this planet. That's way worse than anything MS ever did in their heyday.
Nope, MS is just as bad now with windows 10 and drm, thanks to the rise of smart phones and high speed internet penetration reaching the most stupid among us. Fortnite is just stolen game /w microtransactions, people today are literally paying for skins in a game they don't own whose files and the game disappear at epic games behest.
Windows 10 and no doubt hardware is going to be locked down like android soon enough thanks to dumbness of the average citizen.
We're heading towards dystopia all because stupid people got internet and locked down smart phones.
... of course it is, the reality is when you put microtransactions and gambling mechanics inside games.
One of the reasons it's grown so much is because the game playing masses on both PC and phones is fucking tech illiterate. Steam, mmo's, mobile gambling/gacha games could only exist in a world where the average gamer is bum fuck moron.
Watching RPG's gettting rebranded MMO's in the 90's to stick drm server lock into them and charge a subscription was annoying, the fact that the public fell all over themselves to pay money for software they didn't own or control incentivized the entire industry to code games in a way that the public never controls the game. Watching Team fortress 2 going from paid product to f2p microtransaction ridden game was pretty much the death knell for game ownership. Now that even fucking starcraft 2 is in on it.
Sad place where PC gaming and software ownership (aka windows 10 as a service we definitely are in an idiocracy) ended up due to the masses getting internet.
Why are we celebrating that more than half of the windows boxes are infected by a terrible malware that attack via the windows update mechanism then proceeds to display Ads,add a very annoying search bar, track the user's every move and potentially can turn him into a bot, given how hard it is to disable it's ability to download updates?
The attack began 20 years ago with the rise of smart phones and drm'd games. Back when the videogame industry was pushing to get rid of game ownership by rebranding rpg's in development "MMO's". Everyone saw what kind of profits you could get from a locked down platform like android/iphone via apps + in app purchases. So the big plan is to turn the desktop PC into a locked down platform. Just like steam, mmo's and phones.
...the reality is the reason we have so many problems is because people who are irrational have equal power with the people who are rational.
For those who rail at these words, the reality is right now we live in a lawless oligarchy that's has been basically stealing everything that is nailed down and has been since the US's founding. To even suggest any modern capitalist state "is a democracy" is just utter bullshit when it has been owned lock stock and barrel by corporations for most western states history with brief interruptions of world war 1 and world war 2 and the cold war to try to soften the ruthless harshness of capitalist societies.
Now with the fall of the USSR corporations are unchecked and out of control and being enabled by a heavily indoctrinated public.
Don't think so? Every time IP law came up for review to benefit the public it was pushed to benefit the rich and their corporations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The reality is the general public in the US worships their robber barrons. George carlin said it best about americans.
Carlin
Look at the distribution of wealth, it is just insane, anyone who thinks they live in a society that benefits the many is uninformed.
US distribution of wealth
https://imgur.com/a/FShfb
Wealth in america
In fairness MMOs killed more game companies than piracy ever could. So many farms bet on being the next WOW. So many farms reposessed.
Except almost all games now don't release server exe's and the multiplayer portion is server locked and we got no LAN option. Look at what happened to diablo 3. Starcraft 2 is now locked down to sell skins/mtx. They are taking control of software, the net and the PC. Windows 10 + future hardware drm is coming to lockdown the PC and turn it into the android. Shit is about to get worse all thanks to stupid getting internet and feeding those MTX mobile games.
It's insane how mobile gacha/gambling games are making more money then both console and PC combined, shit is saddening but it shows how fucking stupid our species is.