echo > hardened_os.asm -e "\tCALL _do_non_networked_basic_bomber_plane_stuff\n\tNOP" make run_vm./hardened_os attack_vm if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "It's tough. You should buy it." fi
do something more valuable, which will be something there is a lower supply and/or a higher demand for.
That's a pretty scary thing to read. Are you really saying that because a lot of people want to help others, that's not as valuable as one guy who wants to engineer some new kind of toilet seat with 5% more warmth for your cheeks?
Comparing IT to the military is apples-to-oranges. People go into the military for all sorts of crazy reasons, including proving that they're tough after some sort of trauma, and even reasons like "my father was in the military, and my great-great-great grandfather was in the military. It's in my blood." You don't get that with IT. Thankfully.
I suspect it's got nothing to do with guys, but probably does have to do with the social environment. Even I, as a guy, have left IT (professionally, at least) due to this environment. It's pretty clear, in IT, when battering away at keys and facing a screen, that you're not making headway in the more important things, like building friendships, social support networks, gaining relationship skills, helping others, being helped in return, etc. If anything, it's just the opposite: you're being kept away from social interaction by the need to face a screen; kept from rewards for your work by the expectation of being a cog-in-the-wheel who will do whatever the contract says to make Mr. X's business stay on track, even if it means being bitched at, etc. When you finally do get through a long boring project that you mostly did out of a desire to make someone smile, the most you usually get is the personal satisfaction of knowing you accomplished something. Will the employer actually smile and say thanks for the help after you worked your butt off for them? Probably not.
Our weapons are already far, far larger than we could ever deploy here on Earth. Making them that much bigger only makes them that much more useless.
One could argue that all wars are worse than useless. Doesn't stop them happening. In fact, the US Air Force has already shown interest in anti-matter weapons:
Better than nothing, but personally, I think not much better. This will be because some phone use arm, so it's a strategic platform for THEM, and they choose to grace us with one more binary. What we need are open tools so they can be ported to all the same archs that our open OS's are ported to.
In Aeonite's defense, he did try to find an alternative to using a reference from another space movie. Honest. I actually saw him out combing the desert.
Considering it's an ethical and social issue, I doubt very much that he didn't care. He just knew he couldn't say it and get away with it, I think. It's one of the few disappointing things for me about Jesus's story.
But honestly, when else have we had the decision-makers from the government, big business, and the best IP lawyers in the same location at the same time?
No, no, no. Not a dog with a nuclear heart. How would that save you trouble? You'd still have to get the dog, install the heart, etc. Obviously I meant a dog that'll build the robot for you;)
Considering that this advances humanity (albeit just a little more, since we've done similar things before, but rarely), I think all of humanity can be proud of this.
For some reason, tearing is seen as acceptable (and even desireable, by some nutters) on PCs (and by extension, XBoxes, since many of the XBox programmers are probably just directx programmers who've been encouraged to develop for XBox too).
Even back in Amiga days, it was well known that double-buffering and synchronisation with the screen refresh lead to nice, smooth, constant play which was vastly superior to jerky or ugly animation. In fact, I learnt it with some of my very first beginner programmers game tutorials back then.
There's absolutely no benefit that I can see to not doing this on a PC, as there's always going to be a maximum frame rate that your display can handle, and rendering more screens than that will (at best) only mean drawing things that can't be seen.
Building levees around a city's low-lying areas is achievable, but I doubt building them around an entire city when all of the ground is going to be under water, and expecting that to protect people forever is at all viable. For one thing, water will eventually seep in and find its own level. For another, maintaining those levees against continual water would, at best, require specialist underwater construction skills. Of course, we might find some newly popularised jobs like that once the environment changes enough.
Microsoft have been involved in a number of government-level bribes, so saying that their "prices [likely] dipped to near-zero" is a bit of an understatement.
Pros do NOT use forums. Forums are slow & inefficient (having to visit sites individually, regularly, unless they provide decent feeds). They're also centralised, which is bad in technical circles when you know stuff can go wrong, and that people can become dictators. Generally speaking, forums tends to be haunted by younger people who grew up thinking the web was the net, and started by people who care more about building a name for their site and advertising revenue than building a functioning discussion community. Also, the moderation on forums tends to either be limited, or heavy-handed.
The rest of us use mailing lists which feed directly into our mail clients (read: not webmail), and let us search/reply/archive at will. That works out very similar to usenet, is more practical now with decent mailing list software, and so it's an obvious transition. We also like IRC which allows real-time, moderated conversation, combined with online logs of those conversations.
Most PC users aren't even aware of the concept of a filesystem. A good portion aren't aware of the possibility of installing programs and using them without an internet connection, or that needing an account on a website to use some basic thing is a loss of autonomy. Some users are getting more PC saavy, but many are barely hanging on as their boss tells them to type at the new-fangled glowy-box.
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echo > hardened_os.asm -e "\tCALL _do_non_networked_basic_bomber_plane_stuff\n\tNOP" ./hardened_os
make
run_vm
attack_vm
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "It's tough. You should buy it."
fi
That's a pretty scary thing to read. Are you really saying that because a lot of people want to help others, that's not as valuable as one guy who wants to engineer some new kind of toilet seat with 5% more warmth for your cheeks?
Comparing IT to the military is apples-to-oranges. People go into the military for all sorts of crazy reasons, including proving that they're tough after some sort of trauma, and even reasons like "my father was in the military, and my great-great-great grandfather was in the military. It's in my blood." You don't get that with IT. Thankfully.
I suspect it's got nothing to do with guys, but probably does have to do with the social environment. Even I, as a guy, have left IT (professionally, at least) due to this environment. It's pretty clear, in IT, when battering away at keys and facing a screen, that you're not making headway in the more important things, like building friendships, social support networks, gaining relationship skills, helping others, being helped in return, etc. If anything, it's just the opposite: you're being kept away from social interaction by the need to face a screen; kept from rewards for your work by the expectation of being a cog-in-the-wheel who will do whatever the contract says to make Mr. X's business stay on track, even if it means being bitched at, etc. When you finally do get through a long boring project that you mostly did out of a desire to make someone smile, the most you usually get is the personal satisfaction of knowing you accomplished something. Will the employer actually smile and say thanks for the help after you worked your butt off for them? Probably not.
One could argue that all wars are worse than useless. Doesn't stop them happening. In fact, the US Air Force has already shown interest in anti-matter weapons:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/10/04/MNGM393GPK1.DTL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter_weapon
Better than nothing, but personally, I think not much better. This will be because some phone use arm, so it's a strategic platform for THEM, and they choose to grace us with one more binary. What we need are open tools so they can be ported to all the same archs that our open OS's are ported to.
In Aeonite's defense, he did try to find an alternative to using a reference from another space movie. Honest. I actually saw him out combing the desert.
Considering it's an ethical and social issue, I doubt very much that he didn't care. He just knew he couldn't say it and get away with it, I think. It's one of the few disappointing things for me about Jesus's story.
Now try it on Arm Linux, Linux/MIPS, Linux/PPC, or one of the many other branches that make up the complete Linux platform.
Ah, don't worry about Starforce. Just wait 'til the Federation hears about this.
That's what worries me.
Jesus was sitting on the fence on that one if you ask me.
No, no, no. Not a dog with a nuclear heart. How would that save you trouble? You'd still have to get the dog, install the heart, etc. Obviously I meant a dog that'll build the robot for you ;)
Considering that this advances humanity (albeit just a little more, since we've done similar things before, but rarely), I think all of humanity can be proud of this.
Getting yourself a dog would be less trouble ;)
For some reason, tearing is seen as acceptable (and even desireable, by some nutters) on PCs (and by extension, XBoxes, since many of the XBox programmers are probably just directx programmers who've been encouraged to develop for XBox too).
Even back in Amiga days, it was well known that double-buffering and synchronisation with the screen refresh lead to nice, smooth, constant play which was vastly superior to jerky or ugly animation. In fact, I learnt it with some of my very first beginner programmers game tutorials back then.
There's absolutely no benefit that I can see to not doing this on a PC, as there's always going to be a maximum frame rate that your display can handle, and rendering more screens than that will (at best) only mean drawing things that can't be seen.
Building levees around a city's low-lying areas is achievable, but I doubt building them around an entire city when all of the ground is going to be under water, and expecting that to protect people forever is at all viable. For one thing, water will eventually seep in and find its own level. For another, maintaining those levees against continual water would, at best, require specialist underwater construction skills. Of course, we might find some newly popularised jobs like that once the environment changes enough.
Microsoft have been involved in a number of government-level bribes, so saying that their "prices [likely] dipped to near-zero" is a bit of an understatement.
Pros do NOT use forums. Forums are slow & inefficient (having to visit sites individually, regularly, unless they provide decent feeds). They're also centralised, which is bad in technical circles when you know stuff can go wrong, and that people can become dictators. Generally speaking, forums tends to be haunted by younger people who grew up thinking the web was the net, and started by people who care more about building a name for their site and advertising revenue than building a functioning discussion community. Also, the moderation on forums tends to either be limited, or heavy-handed.
The rest of us use mailing lists which feed directly into our mail clients (read: not webmail), and let us search/reply/archive at will. That works out very similar to usenet, is more practical now with decent mailing list software, and so it's an obvious transition. We also like IRC which allows real-time, moderated conversation, combined with online logs of those conversations.
Do you see any mention of asking every day citizens whether they want to be able to copy a song from their friend? If not, it'll go industry's way.
It's exactly that thought process which leads to running out of (or destroying) resources.
Probably something like Linux package managers, only you have to pay for the privilege of a less functional version.
Most PC users aren't even aware of the concept of a filesystem. A good portion aren't aware of the possibility of installing programs and using them without an internet connection, or that needing an account on a website to use some basic thing is a loss of autonomy. Some users are getting more PC saavy, but many are barely hanging on as their boss tells them to type at the new-fangled glowy-box.
No offense to you as the messenger, but that's just about the ugliest hack I've ever heard of.
If you snooze, you lose ;)