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See, it's all the signs, al you have to do is look at them.
Well, not really, but I was working in the petrol station at Tesco today, and the tills (running on Microsoft Windows, I would like to point out) kept re-booting themselves, cutting off all fuel supplies to the forecourt, and leaving some really massive fuel tanks in a state of limbo.
Then we had some funny person sitting in a Tesco hardware call centre remotly rebooting the system and its servers, in a franly obscene bid at giving us control of the system again. Gah, computer suck at doing things where peoples' lives actually count.
So, I work in a petrol station, operated by a system powered by Intel processors and Microsoft operating systems, did this realisation today make me feel much safer at work? Emmmm, yes, and no all at the same time.
See, computers have ifiltrated the world, well, not so much computers, but definately digital processing systems. The current crop of guided missles are little better than multi-processor computers. The claim made by Sony that the MIPS 5900 processor inside the PS2 would be used in military hardware, and specifically ballistic missles isn't too far off the mark.
That's the level we're at today, digital processing hardware is the centre of our living and breathing world. We're at a level of technilogical addvancement that would have been seen as science fiction as recently as the late 80's. This is where the biggest problems come, and the ethics of technology are called into question. How robust is computer software?
We know where software comes from, people make it up. We know that, without software, all digital systems would do absolutely nothing, so the place in society of computer programmers is soon going to be more important than the people who decide what needs built, when it needs built and where it needs to be applied. Next month Bush and Blair are going to launch guided missles into Iraq, which are being controlled by a software system written by some little geekboy who was probably bullied at school by the very sort of people who will obnoxiously be firing these missles.
This is where civilians lives are put at risk, a + instead of a minus might destroy a hospital. A // remark in the wrong place might see a school flattened right after the beginning of a class.
As a computer programmer myself, I don't think I could cope with being the person who screwed up and caused the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians.
Quite scarey that Windows operating system could make me think of this stuff, but I guess it makes my decision to stick to games programming all the more important, if a missle goes astray in a game because of my poor programming at 4am and too many cups of coffee and Pro Plus tablets, someone's life wont be ended.
Well, not really, but I was working in the petrol station at Tesco today, and the tills (running on Microsoft Windows, I would like to point out) kept re-booting themselves, cutting off all fuel supplies to the forecourt, and leaving some really massive fuel tanks in a state of limbo.
Then we had some funny person sitting in a Tesco hardware call centre remotly rebooting the system and its servers, in a franly obscene bid at giving us control of the system again. Gah, computer suck at doing things where peoples' lives actually count.
So, I work in a petrol station, operated by a system powered by Intel processors and Microsoft operating systems, did this realisation today make me feel much safer at work? Emmmm, yes, and no all at the same time.
See, computers have ifiltrated the world, well, not so much computers, but definately digital processing systems. The current crop of guided missles are little better than multi-processor computers. The claim made by Sony that the MIPS 5900 processor inside the PS2 would be used in military hardware, and specifically ballistic missles isn't too far off the mark.
That's the level we're at today, digital processing hardware is the centre of our living and breathing world. We're at a level of technilogical addvancement that would have been seen as science fiction as recently as the late 80's. This is where the biggest problems come, and the ethics of technology are called into question. How robust is computer software?
We know where software comes from, people make it up. We know that, without software, all digital systems would do absolutely nothing, so the place in society of computer programmers is soon going to be more important than the people who decide what needs built, when it needs built and where it needs to be applied. Next month Bush and Blair are going to launch guided missles into Iraq, which are being controlled by a software system written by some little geekboy who was probably bullied at school by the very sort of people who will obnoxiously be firing these missles.
This is where civilians lives are put at risk, a + instead of a minus might destroy a hospital. A // remark in the wrong place might see a school flattened right after the beginning of a class.
As a computer programmer myself, I don't think I could cope with being the person who screwed up and caused the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians.
Quite scarey that Windows operating system could make me think of this stuff, but I guess it makes my decision to stick to games programming all the more important, if a missle goes astray in a game because of my poor programming at 4am and too many cups of coffee and Pro Plus tablets, someone's life wont be ended.
It is true that this society is far too reliant on computers.
Whasup?
To reply to this quote I shall tell you that nothing lasts forever, dough. Thas why we keep upgrading stuff. I shall tell you another thing, a proverb, "technology evolves together with laziness" (or however you spell that). Is your point therefore that we have become more lazy than we were about 20 years ago? I agree. If things keep going the way they are we shall become even more lazy and have so much technology that shall eventually lead to the end of humanity. Hopefully I wont be around to see that.
Cya
To reply to this quote I shall tell you that nothing lasts forever, dough. Thas why we keep upgrading stuff. I shall tell you another thing, a proverb, "technology evolves together with laziness" (or however you spell that). Is your point therefore that we have become more lazy than we were about 20 years ago? I agree. If things keep going the way they are we shall become even more lazy and have so much technology that shall eventually lead to the end of humanity. Hopefully I wont be around to see that.
Cya
Son of a...
I though Bonus was in Japan trading Michael Jackson albums and haggis for Woprk Experience?!!!
How are you mate, long time, no see.... or speak... or whatever you say on the internet!!?
I though Bonus was in Japan trading Michael Jackson albums and haggis for Woprk Experience?!!!
How are you mate, long time, no see.... or speak... or whatever you say on the internet!!?
how did that win,it sounds like a loud of stuff just made up.
Didnt think it could be used for anything else other then the PS2, didnt think it was powerfull enough...
*i cant be wrong, i am never wrong*
*i cant be wrong, i am never wrong*
CIA confirmed two years ago that the PS2 processor would not be usable for anything other than...the PS2.
~~Belldandy~~
~~Belldandy~~
See, it's all the signs, al you have to do is look at them.
Well, not really, but I was working in the petrol station at Tesco today, and the tills (running on Microsoft Windows, I would like to point out) kept re-booting themselves, cutting off all fuel supplies to the forecourt, and leaving some really massive fuel tanks in a state of limbo.
Then we had some funny person sitting in a Tesco hardware call centre remotly rebooting the system and its servers, in a franly obscene bid at giving us control of the system again. Gah, computer suck at doing things where peoples' lives actually count.
So, I work in a petrol station, operated by a system powered by Intel processors and Microsoft operating systems, did this realisation today make me feel much safer at work? Emmmm, yes, and no all at the same time.
See, computers have ifiltrated the world, well, not so much computers, but definately digital processing systems. The current crop of guided missles are little better than multi-processor computers. The claim made by Sony that the MIPS 5900 processor inside the PS2 would be used in military hardware, and specifically ballistic missles isn't too far off the mark.
That's the level we're at today, digital processing hardware is the centre of our living and breathing world. We're at a level of technilogical addvancement that would have been seen as science fiction as recently as the late 80's. This is where the biggest problems come, and the ethics of technology are called into question. How robust is computer software?
We know where software comes from, people make it up. We know that, without software, all digital systems would do absolutely nothing, so the place in society of computer programmers is soon going to be more important than the people who decide what needs built, when it needs built and where it needs to be applied. Next month Bush and Blair are going to launch guided missles into Iraq, which are being controlled by a software system written by some little geekboy who was probably bullied at school by the very sort of people who will obnoxiously be firing these missles.
This is where civilians lives are put at risk, a + instead of a minus might destroy a hospital. A // remark in the wrong place might see a school flattened right after the beginning of a class.
As a computer programmer myself, I don't think I could cope with being the person who screwed up and caused the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians.
Quite scarey that Windows operating system could make me think of this stuff, but I guess it makes my decision to stick to games programming all the more important, if a missle goes astray in a game because of my poor programming at 4am and too many cups of coffee and Pro Plus tablets, someone's life wont be ended.
Well, not really, but I was working in the petrol station at Tesco today, and the tills (running on Microsoft Windows, I would like to point out) kept re-booting themselves, cutting off all fuel supplies to the forecourt, and leaving some really massive fuel tanks in a state of limbo.
Then we had some funny person sitting in a Tesco hardware call centre remotly rebooting the system and its servers, in a franly obscene bid at giving us control of the system again. Gah, computer suck at doing things where peoples' lives actually count.
So, I work in a petrol station, operated by a system powered by Intel processors and Microsoft operating systems, did this realisation today make me feel much safer at work? Emmmm, yes, and no all at the same time.
See, computers have ifiltrated the world, well, not so much computers, but definately digital processing systems. The current crop of guided missles are little better than multi-processor computers. The claim made by Sony that the MIPS 5900 processor inside the PS2 would be used in military hardware, and specifically ballistic missles isn't too far off the mark.
That's the level we're at today, digital processing hardware is the centre of our living and breathing world. We're at a level of technilogical addvancement that would have been seen as science fiction as recently as the late 80's. This is where the biggest problems come, and the ethics of technology are called into question. How robust is computer software?
We know where software comes from, people make it up. We know that, without software, all digital systems would do absolutely nothing, so the place in society of computer programmers is soon going to be more important than the people who decide what needs built, when it needs built and where it needs to be applied. Next month Bush and Blair are going to launch guided missles into Iraq, which are being controlled by a software system written by some little geekboy who was probably bullied at school by the very sort of people who will obnoxiously be firing these missles.
This is where civilians lives are put at risk, a + instead of a minus might destroy a hospital. A // remark in the wrong place might see a school flattened right after the beginning of a class.
As a computer programmer myself, I don't think I could cope with being the person who screwed up and caused the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians.
Quite scarey that Windows operating system could make me think of this stuff, but I guess it makes my decision to stick to games programming all the more important, if a missle goes astray in a game because of my poor programming at 4am and too many cups of coffee and Pro Plus tablets, someone's life wont be ended.