Actually, I was thinking of something else - because Ebola is going to be injected into people(although most of the time dead, sometimes it is still alive -just look at all the flu vaccines.) it might be given a rather large chance to mutate THAT way.
You BMTI, you SOB! WTF? I should KYA with my RBB so that I CCTTAMO and LAYM, YBM. IHURIH YSSOAJ! ASDLKAS MASOKF AKASL! ASDFGHHJK:L ABCDEFGH!!!1
On that note, you know something is related to the Large Hadron Colldier when everything is shortened and condensed. I saw a bunch of 3 letter shortcuts and figured it would be.
OR maybe it's better to realize that that's what happens when you blow up innocents in war in times like these with devices as inaccurate as bombs and missiles. Again. And Again. And Again. Without any regard to the actual people who aren't your targets.
Why do you think America wanted to go to war after 9/11? Surely if 3,000 innocent people getting blown up, by something which is very close to a bomb(but it flies instead of drops,) equates as cowardice, what exactly is the result on a populace when over 10 times more are killed by the same techniques?
It's human nature to want to attack back at those who brutally murdered your loved ones or your best friend - especially if what was blown up was not just a building one person you loved was in, but your entire family while you were away at work. Can you imagine the countless fathers and mothers and sons and daughters and husbands and wives and boyfriends and girlfriends that have to come home to find burning bits of their family and friends scattered around the rubble of what used to be their lives?
They have nothing left. All those many, many years they spent with all those people they loved, all the emotions and memories they put in it.. Gone, charred beyond recognition in a blink of an eye. All because someone else wanted to kill a group of people they thought was bad, thought lived near these poor souls, and instead of using smart measures to take them out, uses a bomb to destroy everything surrounding the targets to make sure they're taken out.
And of course, when mentioned later on, they're called collateral damage, like pointless bits of concrete that might've been blown up as a result of the bomb's explosion. The people who survive, after days of shock, sadness, and on the edge of sanity from all that has happened, decide to do whatever it takes to avenge those that meant most to them. And usually they don't have too much money to get what they need, so they join whatever group that can supply them with tools to take their vengeance.
It's not racist. Those are the consequences. That'd happen in any country given the circumstances.
But there are ways to approach this problem. Here are a couple:
1. Read absolutely everything you can find on Software Reliability.
2. Experienced Software Engineers opinions should count for more than Joe Q. Random here on Slashdot.
3. The fact that you are doing this in C++ is not the problem. More to the point, the quality of your development staff is paramount. One bad programmer set loose on a good project can wreck it.
4. Learn and use the priciples Extreme Programming. This should take care of many of your reliability problems.
5. Define *exactly* what you mean by "never crash". What are the risks involved? If it crashes, do people die or go to jail? If thats the case then you need to seriously consider correspondingly large funding levels, and....
6. Testing. Addressed somewhat by Extreme Programming. You absolutely positively need to define exhaustive tests for each module, before you even bother coding it. This means you need to encode exactly what each module should be producing for a given set of inputs and use good sense in your OO programming to isolate each object/class from side effects and cascade failure. Furthermore, test not just for inputs and outputs, but for timing and also consider security implications. What if the system doesn't normally fail unless someone is trying to push it into a failure mode (known as a morbidity state). Make sure you are do tests for input validity. Buffer overflows in your code can open the entire system up to hacking. If this is a web app, scan it with WebInspect. Hire a penetration team to do application vulnerablity testing on it. Have the platform built from a known good system image. Lock the machine down. Test the platform for vulnerablities.
7. Test, Test, Test. Run the test suite with each and every build. Make each programmer responsible for writing the test cases against his partners code. If the test cases fail, make the responsible programmer fix the code (or the tests if they are broken) before the new module/class can be checked in.
8. You are using a decent version control system right? Anything is better than nothing. RCS, CVS, SVN whatever.
9. Use a proper software engineering life cycle. Make sure you never push code directly into production before Q/A testing. This can suicide a project (and a company) faster than you might imagine. If the tests are properly written, if positive tests results are required before code checkin, then Q/A should be a very fast process and they will thank you.
I guess that explains why Grand Theft Auto inspires thousands upon thousands to go out and jack cars and beat old women with baseball b- wait, that's silly! Oh, child porn? Yeah, yeah! 'Devil made me do it!' Right on!
...
I do not favor giving up any of my rights unless there is a clear benefit and a timetable for restoring those rights. That's why I support the temporary extension of the Patriot Act rather than the permanent extension advocated by the Bush administration...
But, alas, the temporary extension will be permanently renewed. Terrorism is the monster in the closet. You think it's there, but.. is it really? Is it worth hiding under your sheets all the time out of fear that something might come out of it? You stand up and face it. If you open the closet, and nothing is there, you go back to bed and forget about it.
Oh, that's right.
The American people aren't the ones opening the closet to check for monsters! Bush and the media are! Of course, we all know how trustworthythey are.
But seriously, I agree. Except for the part about writing to representitives. If that worked, we wouldn't be worrying about all this. They've been under the same control for decades.
The US government thinks the country is their land, not the people's. And by the looks of things, they've done a bang-up job convincing most of the people in the country that it is true.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, I was thinking of something else - because Ebola is going to be injected into people(although most of the time dead, sometimes it is still alive -just look at all the flu vaccines.) it might be given a rather large chance to mutate THAT way.
The one and only. A beautiful machine that got me started (along with an old TRS) in programming way back in 197DSFhee,...#@$!
CARRIER LOST, CONNECTION DROPPED
http://oldcomputers.net/imsai8080.html
Hehe..
We're coming out of an ice age. Of course it's the warmest its been in centuries. It's returning to normal.
They're turning into adults! They have other things to doa gaming might be cutting into work time!
You BMTI, you SOB! WTF? I should KYA with my RBB so that I CCTTAMO and LAYM, YBM. IHURIH YSSOAJ! ASDLKAS MASOKF AKASL! ASDFGHHJK:L ABCDEFGH!!!1 On that note, you know something is related to the Large Hadron Colldier when everything is shortened and condensed. I saw a bunch of 3 letter shortcuts and figured it would be.
OR maybe it's better to realize that that's what happens when you blow up innocents in war in times like these with devices as inaccurate as bombs and missiles. Again.
And Again.
And Again.
Without any regard to the actual people who aren't your targets.
Why do you think America wanted to go to war after 9/11? Surely if 3,000 innocent people getting blown up, by something which is very close to a bomb(but it flies instead of drops,) equates as cowardice, what exactly is the result on a populace when over 10 times more are killed by the same techniques?
It's human nature to want to attack back at those who brutally murdered your loved ones or your best friend - especially if what was blown up was not just a building one person you loved was in, but your entire family while you were away at work.
Can you imagine the countless fathers and mothers and sons and daughters and husbands and wives and boyfriends and girlfriends that have to come home to find burning bits of their family and friends scattered around the rubble of what used to be their lives?
They have nothing left. All those many, many years they spent with all those people they loved, all the emotions and memories they put in it.. Gone, charred beyond recognition in a blink of an eye. All because someone else wanted to kill a group of people they thought was bad, thought lived near these poor souls, and instead of using smart measures to take them out, uses a bomb to destroy everything surrounding the targets to make sure they're taken out.
And of course, when mentioned later on, they're called collateral damage, like pointless bits of concrete that might've been blown up as a result of the bomb's explosion. The people who survive, after days of shock, sadness, and on the edge of sanity from all that has happened, decide to do whatever it takes to avenge those that meant most to them. And usually they don't have too much money to get what they need, so they join whatever group that can supply them with tools to take their vengeance.
It's not racist. Those are the consequences. That'd happen in any country given the circumstances.
But there are ways to approach this problem. Here are a couple:
....
1. Read absolutely everything you can find on Software Reliability.
2. Experienced Software Engineers opinions should count for more than Joe Q. Random here on Slashdot.
3. The fact that you are doing this in C++ is not the problem. More to the point, the quality of your development staff is paramount. One bad programmer set loose on a good project can wreck it.
4. Learn and use the priciples Extreme Programming. This should take care of many of your reliability problems.
5. Define *exactly* what you mean by "never crash". What are the risks involved? If it crashes, do people die or go to jail? If thats the case then you need to seriously consider correspondingly large funding levels, and
6. Testing. Addressed somewhat by Extreme Programming. You absolutely positively need to define exhaustive tests for each module, before you even bother coding it. This means you need to encode exactly what each module should be producing for a given set of inputs and use good sense in your OO programming to isolate each object/class from side effects and cascade failure. Furthermore, test not just for inputs and outputs, but for timing and also consider security implications. What if the system doesn't normally fail unless someone is trying to push it into a failure mode (known as a morbidity state). Make sure you are do tests for input validity. Buffer overflows in your code can open the entire system up to hacking. If this is a web app, scan it with WebInspect. Hire a penetration team to do application vulnerablity testing on it. Have the platform built from a known good system image. Lock the machine down. Test the platform for vulnerablities.
7. Test, Test, Test. Run the test suite with each and every build. Make each programmer responsible for writing the test cases against his partners code. If the test cases fail, make the responsible programmer fix the code (or the tests if they are broken) before the new module/class can be checked in.
8. You are using a decent version control system right? Anything is better than nothing. RCS, CVS, SVN whatever.
9. Use a proper software engineering life cycle. Make sure you never push code directly into production before Q/A testing. This can suicide a project (and a company) faster than you might imagine. If the tests are properly written, if positive tests results are required before code checkin, then Q/A should be a very fast process and they will thank you.
go!
That's the point :D There is no 'google.' Just googol. The fact that they have google bytes warps reality and blows their heads up.
:P
Scenario 5: Google's database storage reaches a google bytes. Founders' heads explode.
..And you still call them libertarians?
Because they had written a letter which read, "Hello! We're the first African slaves."
I guess that explains why Grand Theft Auto inspires thousands upon thousands to go out and jack cars and beat old women with baseball b- wait, that's silly! Oh, child porn? Yeah, yeah! 'Devil made me do it!' Right on!
South Park is a bunch of BS! And so is that song! We all know Canada isn't a real country, anyway.
...Things will get better.
Like they did after Clinton's 8 years of 'service?' Oops, apparently not.
This probably means that the games will be ridiculously expensive to make up for the console profit loss.
This is the second damned story on dead or alive 4 today. Hello!
Probably EA just being EA and forcing people to not download the game anymore. It wouldn't surprise me.
German taxpayers.
I'm not kidding.
Must.. keep self from.. making fun of.. article about.. Robot - lawyers! SPOOOOOOCKKK!! NOOOOOOO!!!
"And before I'm accused of being a Microsoft apologist, I am a foaming-at-the-mouth Nintendo fanboy"
Which, I'm sure, is why you didn't mention the gamecube in a negative light. I'm sure it eats just as many discs as any other console.
... I do not favor giving up any of my rights unless there is a clear benefit and a timetable for restoring those rights. That's why I support the temporary extension of the Patriot Act rather than the permanent extension advocated by the Bush administration...
But, alas, the temporary extension will be permanently renewed. Terrorism is the monster in the closet. You think it's there, but.. is it really? Is it worth hiding under your sheets all the time out of fear that something might come out of it? You stand up and face it. If you open the closet, and nothing is there, you go back to bed and forget about it.
Oh, that's right.
The American people aren't the ones opening the closet to check for monsters! Bush and the media are! Of course, we all know how trustworthy they are.
Good lord, the feds got him.
But seriously, I agree. Except for the part about writing to representitives. If that worked, we wouldn't be worrying about all this. They've been under the same control for decades.
Global.. thermonuclear war!?! OH MY GOD WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE GOODBYE FO- Oh.. Oh it's a game! *has heart attack anyway*
See, that's the problem.
The US government thinks the country is their land, not the people's. And by the looks of things, they've done a bang-up job convincing most of the people in the country that it is true.
A million points for a story used in The Invisibles.