The problem with your assement here is the definition of what's illegal. Sure, that's fine if it's ensuring that violent criminals are being taken care of, but as it's used against (yours, ours, my) children for downloading music, or later down the road against those that disagree or speak against what they do (or what we don't know that they do), then you have a problem.
And maybe if you think everyone is just group hating the government, maybe you need to pay closer attention.
Gambling, or maybe just attention to game play. Tetris doesn't invovle gambling, but was and still is hella fun to play. It's almost as if that should be part of the focus when developing. Naaaaaaaah, just throw some more eye candy out there, the players won't even care. Give some fool the chance to make money . . . I'm not saying it's right, I'm actually saying it's lame.
Software is too dynamic to reach a 'finished' state for something as complex as an operating system. There is always something to fix, improve, or some new bug/vulnerability to patch. No, XP will never reach that 'golden' state where it doesn't have problems/security holes. Rather M$ will just move it's focus to Vista (mistakenly early I suspect, as the majority of user base is most likely just getting to XP now), and open up that new can of worms.
On a side note, this is the precise reason M$ needs to build an O/S from the ground up with security in mind and abandon it's legacy of insecurity.
The level of control you need as a programmer is related to the work that you are doing. If you are writing an O/S, low level network app, embedded system app, etc, then you'd better have the control afforded by non-managed code. If you are just writing web-based business logic programs then higher level languages are a better fit. Overall though, as they move languages to fit the lowest common denominator those of us that were forced to learn the lower languages will find their value increased. Not to mention that those understand the more diffcult programming concepts encompassed by managing memory or multithreading are going to better grasp other languages and complex concepts (if you don't believe me, study compliers and see how related all programming language concepts are).
Now who else thinks the first 100 comments on this thread are what make slashdot a venting forum for offtopic issues?
Just plain ridiculous, I don't care who they are implanting.
Here's a head up to the NSA and anyone else reading this, RFID implants aren't going to work! The security is weak, the tracking implications make all of us sick, and who is going to want to implant buggy hardware into themselves?
Let me tell you what, fuck that upgrade twice a month where we all go in for surgery (though I'm sure the Medical world wouldn't mind). On top of these reasons, I think that it's just plain wrong.
Way too many books written about technology being used to control people that are all becoming very plausible.
The difference is the forced discrimination provided by Capitalism. It's existed for years quietly, and now that the Internet has balanced the playing field somewhat (far from even) everyone that has a stake in the previous monopoly cries out. RIAA, MPAA, Telephone Provides, TV and Cable (Not much from book publishers, but when people start using smart scanning and text inputs we will more). Everyone that attempts to control the flow of Media.
That's network traffic too, and you can guarantee that it's unencrypted. Just like any cool mic/audio program you might use as well. Sad that this topic came up in my Grad Game Design course, but they're there to ensure that you don't use this technology in anything that could be 'exploited' by 'Terrorists'.
So you have no idea what P and NP are then, right? Becauase one is a super set of the others and it's whether the sets are the same or not, not some simple variable manipuation. But for that matter, the poster made a connection where one didn't make sense. As if whether we can solve difficult problems in polynomial time has anything in common with whether a chicken or egg came first.
That's because you ordered the robot with the intelligence of a 6 year old ("No means No"... "Ooooh! A Pool!"). You need to drop the flow to pick up a higher end model.
So my dream-like thought here would be a method of converting electricity into light and back. Seeing as how we can do it for information, I would think that it would be possible at some point in time. Or does this enter the realm of the Unification of forces in Physics?
When did we as Americans become scared of everything that might happen? Those aren't the ideals this country was founded on. Liberty had a price, and it was in blood. It still does. So why should we mistakenly trade away our freedoms earned with blood in order to avoid future blood? This cost won't go away. When did most Americans become sheep afraid to speak out and protect what they care about? This is an obvious abuse of power that should be checked, and if the other branches of our government won't do their jobs, then it's our job as people to address it.
Having been exposed to the Internet at a young age (for both it and myself), I've learned over the years never to touch Ads. Whether benign looking links in my Gmail to the annoying flash ads, there is no way I'm touching them. If I need a product, I find the manufacturer or vendor's website and do what I need to there.
So I pose the question, how long will the ad based revenue system remain relevant once your common internetite learns this lesson?
Kinda Off-topic, but one of this season's Robot Chicken does a great job satiring what 'terrorism' has become. I'll give you a hint, it's a lot like communism (is the a realtion with isms here)
Taking the time during development to test and debug your code. I'm sorry, but this isn't something new, nor somethign to be ignored. People mistakenly think that you throw your code together, and if it works you're done. This is wrong. Any production system code should be tested before being put in. Maybe testing and debugging should be considered overhead in an industry that doesn't have much thereof (consider manufacturing of hardware).
Otherwise we are just fueling the fire of exploitation and bad-user experiences.
So I'm addicted to Oblivion, at least an hour a day of late. It's a great game, and one of the aspects that builds on this is that there is a sense of Accountability in the game. If you outright kill someone, things change. If you steal, people get pissed at you. If you punch someone, they go rounds with you. Isn't it more important when rating a game that it enforces proper consequences upon the player?
This is in addition to how ridiciulous it is that you can Mod it, therefore it's MA. Guess what, I can render porn in another well known program, called Windows, so I want it rated MA too (MA for what I say when it crashes).
Amen. I hate the assumption that those lost sales are because of Pirating only. Maybe because it cost $20 to go the movies now? When I was a kid you complained about paying $3 instead of sitting at the dollar theatre. And why is some artist worth getting paid more than anyone I know will every have summed up? They're not. Welcome to the equality RIAA, give up your monopoly.
"As computers become more powerful, will stealing cars become even easier?"
Or perhaps the question should be, if the people that are stealing the cars are better educated (hacking the security system), will it be harder to stop them from finding a way to steal it?
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Goblez
P.S. The answer is Yes.
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So long as there is some non-essential way to produce revenue and pacify what masses perceive as a problem.
The problem with your assement here is the definition of what's illegal. Sure, that's fine if it's ensuring that violent criminals are being taken care of, but as it's used against (yours, ours, my) children for downloading music, or later down the road against those that disagree or speak against what they do (or what we don't know that they do), then you have a problem.
And maybe if you think everyone is just group hating the government, maybe you need to pay closer attention.
And get someone that knows what fonts are hard to read.
Gambling, or maybe just attention to game play. Tetris doesn't invovle gambling, but was and still is hella fun to play. It's almost as if that should be part of the focus when developing. Naaaaaaaah, just throw some more eye candy out there, the players won't even care. Give some fool the chance to make money . . . I'm not saying it's right, I'm actually saying it's lame.
Software is too dynamic to reach a 'finished' state for something as complex as an operating system. There is always something to fix, improve, or some new bug/vulnerability to patch. No, XP will never reach that 'golden' state where it doesn't have problems/security holes. Rather M$ will just move it's focus to Vista (mistakenly early I suspect, as the majority of user base is most likely just getting to XP now), and open up that new can of worms.
On a side note, this is the precise reason M$ needs to build an O/S from the ground up with security in mind and abandon it's legacy of insecurity.
The level of control you need as a programmer is related to the work that you are doing. If you are writing an O/S, low level network app, embedded system app, etc, then you'd better have the control afforded by non-managed code. If you are just writing web-based business logic programs then higher level languages are a better fit. Overall though, as they move languages to fit the lowest common denominator those of us that were forced to learn the lower languages will find their value increased. Not to mention that those understand the more diffcult programming concepts encompassed by managing memory or multithreading are going to better grasp other languages and complex concepts (if you don't believe me, study compliers and see how related all programming language concepts are).
Now who else thinks the first 100 comments on this thread are what make slashdot a venting forum for offtopic issues?
Here's a head up to the NSA and anyone else reading this, RFID implants aren't going to work! The security is weak, the tracking implications make all of us sick, and who is going to want to implant buggy hardware into themselves?
Let me tell you what, fuck that upgrade twice a month where we all go in for surgery (though I'm sure the Medical world wouldn't mind). On top of these reasons, I think that it's just plain wrong.
Way too many books written about technology being used to control people that are all becoming very plausible.
Blogging == Flogging?
The difference is the forced discrimination provided by Capitalism. It's existed for years quietly, and now that the Internet has balanced the playing field somewhat (far from even) everyone that has a stake in the previous monopoly cries out. RIAA, MPAA, Telephone Provides, TV and Cable (Not much from book publishers, but when people start using smart scanning and text inputs we will more). Everyone that attempts to control the flow of Media.
Key Word: Control.
Key way to get control: Money.
Now isn't that a surprise?
That's network traffic too, and you can guarantee that it's unencrypted. Just like any cool mic/audio program you might use as well. Sad that this topic came up in my Grad Game Design course, but they're there to ensure that you don't use this technology in anything that could be 'exploited' by 'Terrorists'.
So you have no idea what P and NP are then, right? Becauase one is a super set of the others and it's whether the sets are the same or not, not some simple variable manipuation. But for that matter, the poster made a connection where one didn't make sense. As if whether we can solve difficult problems in polynomial time has anything in common with whether a chicken or egg came first.
That's because you ordered the robot with the intelligence of a 6 year old ("No means No" ... "Ooooh! A Pool!"). You need to drop the flow to pick up a higher end model.
So my dream-like thought here would be a method of converting electricity into light and back. Seeing as how we can do it for information, I would think that it would be possible at some point in time. Or does this enter the realm of the Unification of forces in Physics?
When did we as Americans become scared of everything that might happen? Those aren't the ideals this country was founded on. Liberty had a price, and it was in blood. It still does. So why should we mistakenly trade away our freedoms earned with blood in order to avoid future blood? This cost won't go away. When did most Americans become sheep afraid to speak out and protect what they care about? This is an obvious abuse of power that should be checked, and if the other branches of our government won't do their jobs, then it's our job as people to address it.
Velvet Glove == Lube. Bend Over America.
Having been exposed to the Internet at a young age (for both it and myself), I've learned over the years never to touch Ads. Whether benign looking links in my Gmail to the annoying flash ads, there is no way I'm touching them. If I need a product, I find the manufacturer or vendor's website and do what I need to there.
So I pose the question, how long will the ad based revenue system remain relevant once your common internetite learns this lesson?
Kinda Off-topic, but one of this season's Robot Chicken does a great job satiring what 'terrorism' has become. I'll give you a hint, it's a lot like communism (is the a realtion with isms here)
Taking the time during development to test and debug your code. I'm sorry, but this isn't something new, nor somethign to be ignored. People mistakenly think that you throw your code together, and if it works you're done. This is wrong. Any production system code should be tested before being put in. Maybe testing and debugging should be considered overhead in an industry that doesn't have much thereof (consider manufacturing of hardware).
Otherwise we are just fueling the fire of exploitation and bad-user experiences.
--
Goblez
So I'm addicted to Oblivion, at least an hour a day of late. It's a great game, and one of the aspects that builds on this is that there is a sense of Accountability in the game. If you outright kill someone, things change. If you steal, people get pissed at you. If you punch someone, they go rounds with you. Isn't it more important when rating a game that it enforces proper consequences upon the player?
This is in addition to how ridiciulous it is that you can Mod it, therefore it's MA. Guess what, I can render porn in another well known program, called Windows, so I want it rated MA too (MA for what I say when it crashes).
--
Goblez
Amen. I hate the assumption that those lost sales are because of Pirating only. Maybe because it cost $20 to go the movies now? When I was a kid you complained about paying $3 instead of sitting at the dollar theatre. And why is some artist worth getting paid more than anyone I know will every have summed up? They're not. Welcome to the equality RIAA, give up your monopoly.
--
Goblez
"As computers become more powerful, will stealing cars become even easier?" Or perhaps the question should be, if the people that are stealing the cars are better educated (hacking the security system), will it be harder to stop them from finding a way to steal it? -- Goblez P.S. The answer is Yes.