Easy to learn = more people doing it. Anyone can take a dump in the woods, doesn't mean they should earn $75,000 a year doing it. More people in.NET however would mean more demand, to hire people who can maintain existing code without rewriting it from scratch. Hopefully lots of people will jump onto the.NET bandwagon and flood the job market. After windows 95...I'm not a big fan of MS.
I must agree. I've never developed on.NET, a few years back I tried to install the microsoft.NET C++ compiler. I found the interface to be extremely sluggish. And previous code that was written for windows API wouldn't compile. Open source != Corperate world. Bosses want the newest product from microsoft no matter what the cost. After all, everything microsoft makes is good, right? Look at windows 95 that... oh wait...nevermind.
Since when did programming languages (C#, VB.NET) that a blind monkey missing three fingers could learn to program in pay high salaries? Bah. Blame it on point haired bosses (think Dilbert) who just want to incorperate the newest technology without understanding the benefits.
Duke Nukem Forever is slated to be released for the Play Station 6, which will, like all previous playstation consoles, feature real time toy story like graphics, and will be cutting edge, and also for the Xbox 36,000, which will require an entire garage to store the external PSU brick.
Uh...no...if it picked up any sizable amounts of a antimatter, it would've been vaporized before hand. Unless it has some high power electromagnetic shield to trap antimatter. Somehow, someway it does come across the path of any antimatter, then the exterior particles that comprise the probe will come in contact and go *poof* (in laymen's terms), but because antimatter isn't exactly found around here, I'd be surprised if even one antiparticle made it to the probe, at that amount, the integrity of the probe is quite intact.
If you didn't notice, the woman looks far too much like that air powered android that was featured a few months ago, did this happen by chance? I think not. Maybe the makers of the 'real AI' teamed up with the android maker...oh dear no the end is near. We'll have advanced technology coming out of our ears, but the androids will have a strange obsession with getting us to click on them...the end is nigh...the end is nigh.
Does the chemical produce the feeling of love, or does feeling in love produce the chemical? Anyone want to donate their brain to science? You'll get it back...I promise.
So...aliens that are light years away supposed to:
1) Guess our processor architecture, well enough to be able to write machine code that a computer could execute.
Otherwise all they'd manage to do is crash a couple computers
2) Guess how we've set up the internet to work, as well as guess vulnerabilities for operating systems for their 'virus' to spread.
What's the point in infecting a couple thousand computers? It would be pointless just to infect only computers that are running SETI, sure I suppose some geeks out there are using their companies' servers to crunch for SETI, but if they want to do any damage at all, the virus must spread, a virus by definition must spread and replicate. The internet seems the most logical and fastest avenue of infection.
3) Guess the holes in the SETI program.
Otherwise, we humans will spend the next 20 years trying to figure out what the heck they're trying to say, when in fact it's a virus designed for the alien version of the commodor 64.
Also, they'll have to deal with the limited bandwith (send it too fast, and we're more likely to miss an important part of it), so they're not going to be able to try sending a couple billion bytes to try different buffer over flows. And, they have to deal with data corruption, even if there's extreme redundancy in this highly impossible virus, there's only so much redundancy that can be done, the code that checks and makes sure there's no corruption could be corrupt itself and instead of taking over the world, it could merely start producing horribly written OSes and then pay consulting firms to give the OS good reviews as slashdotters post cruel comments about it.
There's also one slight problem, sending a virus to destroy a civilization would be an act of war. Not only that, but your victim(s) would know where you are. If you're sending it as far and wide as possible (which is a must, it's pointless to only destroy 3/4ths of the galaxy's civilizations), you now have enemies who know where you are, but you haven't the slightest clue. It would be more feasible to provide plans for a 'free energy' device, that would actually be a bomb. No guessing what kind of computers were using, we'll kill ourselves. As a culture, we're stupid enough to fall for it, only 4% of internet users can identify a phishing site 100% of the time.
Also, the author failed to realize one final thing. If this were at all possible, then there would also be a threat of the random background noise randomly being a 'virus'. As SETI expands, more and more data will be examined, if life can be created out of a some atoms joining together, then assuming the SETI software is vulnerable, might artificial life be created out of the millions of terabytes of random background noise? Probably not...but it's as believible as l337 4l13n5 h4x0r1ng 73h pl4n37.
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Easy to learn = more people doing it. Anyone can take a dump in the woods, doesn't mean they should earn $75,000 a year doing it. More people in .NET however would mean more demand, to hire people who can maintain existing code without rewriting it from scratch. Hopefully lots of people will jump onto the .NET bandwagon and flood the job market. After windows 95...I'm not a big fan of MS.
I must agree. I've never developed on .NET, a few years back I tried to install the microsoft .NET C++ compiler. I found the interface to be extremely sluggish. And previous code that was written for windows API wouldn't compile. Open source != Corperate world. Bosses want the newest product from microsoft no matter what the cost. After all, everything microsoft makes is good, right? Look at windows 95 that... oh wait...nevermind.
Since when did programming languages (C#, VB .NET) that a blind monkey missing three fingers could learn to program in pay high salaries? Bah. Blame it on point haired bosses (think Dilbert) who just want to incorperate the newest technology without understanding the benefits.
Duke Nukem Forever is slated to be released for the Play Station 6, which will, like all previous playstation consoles, feature real time toy story like graphics, and will be cutting edge, and also for the Xbox 36,000, which will require an entire garage to store the external PSU brick.
Uh...no...if it picked up any sizable amounts of a antimatter, it would've been vaporized before hand. Unless it has some high power electromagnetic shield to trap antimatter. Somehow, someway it does come across the path of any antimatter, then the exterior particles that comprise the probe will come in contact and go *poof* (in laymen's terms), but because antimatter isn't exactly found around here, I'd be surprised if even one antiparticle made it to the probe, at that amount, the integrity of the probe is quite intact.
If you didn't notice, the woman looks far too much like that air powered android that was featured a few months ago, did this happen by chance? I think not. Maybe the makers of the 'real AI' teamed up with the android maker...oh dear no the end is near. We'll have advanced technology coming out of our ears, but the androids will have a strange obsession with getting us to click on them...the end is nigh...the end is nigh.
Does the chemical produce the feeling of love, or does feeling in love produce the chemical? Anyone want to donate their brain to science? You'll get it back...I promise.
So...aliens that are light years away supposed to: 1) Guess our processor architecture, well enough to be able to write machine code that a computer could execute. Otherwise all they'd manage to do is crash a couple computers 2) Guess how we've set up the internet to work, as well as guess vulnerabilities for operating systems for their 'virus' to spread. What's the point in infecting a couple thousand computers? It would be pointless just to infect only computers that are running SETI, sure I suppose some geeks out there are using their companies' servers to crunch for SETI, but if they want to do any damage at all, the virus must spread, a virus by definition must spread and replicate. The internet seems the most logical and fastest avenue of infection. 3) Guess the holes in the SETI program. Otherwise, we humans will spend the next 20 years trying to figure out what the heck they're trying to say, when in fact it's a virus designed for the alien version of the commodor 64. Also, they'll have to deal with the limited bandwith (send it too fast, and we're more likely to miss an important part of it), so they're not going to be able to try sending a couple billion bytes to try different buffer over flows. And, they have to deal with data corruption, even if there's extreme redundancy in this highly impossible virus, there's only so much redundancy that can be done, the code that checks and makes sure there's no corruption could be corrupt itself and instead of taking over the world, it could merely start producing horribly written OSes and then pay consulting firms to give the OS good reviews as slashdotters post cruel comments about it. There's also one slight problem, sending a virus to destroy a civilization would be an act of war. Not only that, but your victim(s) would know where you are. If you're sending it as far and wide as possible (which is a must, it's pointless to only destroy 3/4ths of the galaxy's civilizations), you now have enemies who know where you are, but you haven't the slightest clue. It would be more feasible to provide plans for a 'free energy' device, that would actually be a bomb. No guessing what kind of computers were using, we'll kill ourselves. As a culture, we're stupid enough to fall for it, only 4% of internet users can identify a phishing site 100% of the time. Also, the author failed to realize one final thing. If this were at all possible, then there would also be a threat of the random background noise randomly being a 'virus'. As SETI expands, more and more data will be examined, if life can be created out of a some atoms joining together, then assuming the SETI software is vulnerable, might artificial life be created out of the millions of terabytes of random background noise? Probably not...but it's as believible as l337 4l13n5 h4x0r1ng 73h pl4n37.