A sort of social survival guide...hmm I'm not sure if one could write these sorts of things clearly.  I mean I've attempted this before, writing all sorts of practical considerations, like things I've tried to think if caught in certain situations (like a coup d'etat in a more socio-politically turbulent society).  Its sadly easier to write theory down that's generally untested as opposed to a living experience.  If only you felt with a higher degree of certainty threatened, most likely social writing comes to a halt.  At least more there is a more measured approach often times to writing and exactly what you might say to whom and for what ever reasons.

Obviously, while some might be compelled on the point of courage and bravery to stand up for their own sets of convictions, it might be at some greater cost.  If only by way of the circumstance, that not only potentially any one individual (in the more devolved set of circumstances) might face or feel socially or in terms of other things, proximity and fear.

I remember reading some Knol (remember that old google wikipedia like service whose users where redirected only years ago to another service provider) by a Russian writer, not sure if her exact expertise but found something of useful information.  It went along the lines of providing benchmarks to incursion, for lack of better words, for instance, if you happened to be living in one of those more socially turbulent societies.  This is to say, measuring the degree of invasive behaviors of those engaged in varying sorts of socially and politically related hostilities.  Reads like a level of contact criteria:

1.  Are threats and or actions committed relegated to an electronic nature only?
2.  Are you encountering them personally in public spaces?
3.  Are you encountering these in private spaces (e.g., home invasion)?

Of course, the reading goes on further (at some point in my now more vague recollections), to say that there is actually something to be inferred by the level of contact received.  Namely, that often times, when groups of individuals might be motivated to some greater extent, there may be something of informal if not formal risk assessments (logic) behind the perpetration of activities.  Obviously, its higher contact risk when engaged in yet more potentially criminal behavior (if legal systems are able to do their jobs more adequately), and this may provide an individual, at least with a set of decisions to be had in so far as assessing their own personal security at least.

It at least helps to keep, I imagine, composure (in as much as possible), a level head with good reason, and much else.  As I've tried to be in keeping in general to some other advice that I've picked up on over the years, for instance, when making appeal in writing:  it is important to address fundamentally the issue of human rights (i.e., where violations are occurring and exactly what those sorts of violations might be), and then avoiding degenerating the argument to the point of like kind hostility, or at least if engagement in the same sorts of verbal hostilities/threat not only neither potentially aiding in addressing situations often times, but makes a given appeal more likely ignored if not something worse.

I'd mention at times, owing to the limited nature of one's view especially where one might be isolated in varying degrees and without the nature of social communications, might have more difficult time assessing with certainty the clearer nature of one's circumstance, it seems at times difficult making what one might feel were adequate assessments.  For this, of course, there is the nature of precaution at least that one could rely upon, if for instance, the contact criteria above were generally limited to 1-2, it would seem more obvious that limiting one's public social exposure might help, and neither clearly broadcasting intent with respect to one's intent.  More problematic to this circumstance (as I've written before), however, were that one's behavioral patterns in so far as going out and about might be known to some greater degree.  For instance, you frequent the same supermarkets (to the extent that people that you don't clearly know and whom you've generally never met before seem to magically know your name), or that you go to the same set of commercial retailers.  At least if you break from the frequency probabilities of going somewhere or doing something, you contend arguably less with the problems of encountering circumstances?!    The later degree of contact nature, is obviously a more difficult one in dealing with, obviously in a democracy with legal systems, the logical step were resorting to local enforcement regarding a crime, but outside of this, it seems, then getting into another set of issues.  Finally while it might not serve as psychological consolation, at least, for all categories of violence and related causes, political violence, for instance, in the history of the United States, actually topped the charts (grossly), and this is where the center of my writings are guided here.  Often times, the causes while having the appearance of something else in nature may have a higher degree of attribution to these sorts of causes (i.e., whether by social incitements and propaganda alike in some form).  Even while a statistic may be shown high, this hadn't necessarily meant widespread, or more likely often times if related to such a cause, the perpetrators may be in serving to a relative minority of individuals...why often times, risk assessment applies in the first place (as mentioned above).  Even where the worst form of social political violence have taken the form of violence (i.e., genocide), often times has required coordinated planning where governments often suspected right away for the nature of these attacks, and often found guilty right away.  This is to say, while risk assessment might take place with individuals  (relative to groups of individuals), usually as applied to groups of individuals, there may be greater likelihood of risk assessment in so far as the coordination of activities going beyond the boundaries of law.

Upgrading from Windows 8 to 8.1

Make sure you have all updates installed in Windows 8, I noticed I wasn't getting the upgrade option through the Windows 8 store until I had all updates installed oddly enough...also at the time that I did my upgrade process I had to go from Windows 7 (on one laptop) to Windows 8 to Windows 8.1...apparently a Windows 8 upgrade product key installs immediately an upgrade to Windows 8 from Windows 7 to Windows 8, once upgraded to Windows 8 with all updates installed (then provides access to Windows 8.1)...last I checked.

Windows 8.1

  Happier today, for installing the recent windows 8.1 operating system.  I'd only recently note some improvements in terms as of recent days:  firstly past purchases of external sound cards have translated into the functionality of these devices aside from devoted applications for these purposes, the ability to change default sound settings both for system sounds, and applications extending beyond specialized sound production software for these purposes alone.  While generally I had resorted to the traditional windows 8 desktop for running applications and generally stayed away from the tablet style application interface applications, I've recently started to explore Store suggested applications.  Some basic improvement could be desired, for instance, at least in one application that I had worked with are:
    For image processing software, such Adobe Photoshop Express, one would hope for greater ease in accessibility to image library access, namely, through external drive devices, outside of revel for importation options.

Personally, while I hadn't complained or thought in complaint as much concerning the differences between Windows 8's 'tile world' versus desktop functionality.  I hadn't readily attempted to use 'tile world' as much in my general work, mostly because I hadn't understood, then more fluently basics of things like:  switching between applications, closing them,  and/or that applications themselves seemed at a basis so highly minimal in terms of application interfacing, that these should seem limited relative to the desktop versions.  The biggest recent problems that I've noticed are re direction from the 'tile world' version to the desktop versions.  For instance, an amazon application that calls up user account sign-in redirects to a desktop web application, for user sign in process completion, or then if you were a prime user, you might not be able to access (or it appears this way) that web browser provides better prime user account accessibility in resource usages and searches in general.  In another way, the full screen style interfaces, seems to provide something of a different user experience, where site immersion neither contains all the visual distractions contained by the frames, browser interface buttons.  I've recently explored tile worlds, new interface likewise, and generally I've liked something of the reader experience here, relative to more traditional text html style saturation, the feel is more like a polished 'zine like assortment of articles in general containing both larger scaling in text and photos, an approach that seems more like the arrangement of text that I might have found through Amazon Cloud's e-reader.  Generally my feeling is positive towards this type of electronic reading experience, at least different, if at least removing all aspects of form clutter, that often times browser readers might have contained.  On the downside, its still an appreciable differences migrating culture of users used to traditional mainstays regarding applications usage, I'd have to admit these days, however, I am using outside of music production software far less applications that I might have purchased by way of boxed software, and even there cloud based services for boxed applications have been essential, in so far as much of providing upcoming features and accessibility.  Likely, applications may be more a cloud reality, in as much as user experiences are based upon cloud storage services for provisioning applications/settings and other purchased goods.  Here this resolving inter oper ability issues between applications out of the box, that might have once worked on an old operating version of windows (or some operating system), and no longer working on a new one.  Windows 8, in my opinion, hopefully should take the lead not only in promotion of cloud services here, while at once it seems users on the other hand, aren't relating in the same ways to the large scale applications that might have been more readily relied upon in the past.  Even Adobe is providing now cloud based services for their larger scale applications (which entail as opposed to a one time larger purchase in the range of several hundred dollars), a given monthly subscription for photo/image/creative art graphics software.  While the start button, could be argued nominal, and generally speaking a user culture issue (which still could fade in some future), as it were owing to interfaces themselves, its resort seems one based more on psychological comfort, then outright necessity, even those less frequently using Windows 8, after all picked up on the fact that the Start button could be evoked easily by moving the cursor to the lower right corner, and in either case, its existence in one form or another, neither would change the aspect of general operations in so far as application performance, either way, this particular corner would be spatially reserved outside of full screen application usage in a non tile world case.

There's another reason why I have generally liked the generation of new operating systems in general, and this is system performance and security in general.  Even as older operating systems, continue to be supported by Long term support for their given lifetime, as a given compiler code base exists for a given operating system, in theory grows some length with respect to the host of problems that might exist.  This isn't to say that while an operating systems popularity use, and knowledge base increasing, hadn't neglected aspects of security support as long as the software producer maintains support, but at least if knowledge bases have grown, only grows the host of problems that exist.  In theory at least, one should hope as generations of new compilers and code bases have arisen here, represents potentially some diminished code knowledge base while a new learning curve has arisen finding port between old code provisioning inter operability.  Here those utilizing old code bases for ill purposes, have to make this jump, and a new operating system represents a new hurdle arguably if ports in code are required.  Here, I'd suggest if only Microsoft embraced only further the idea of rolling out more frequently new operating system version with not only new compilers which inevitably at times require their own porting processes, we might find only increased security for the change in knowledge bases themselves.  The oper ability issues facing soft ware development in my opinion, might be better reserved facing the reality of application usage as it is trending today, which is that many of application services are of a cloud reality, and that any provider (while having faced the added learning curve of porting code processes) might benefit if channeling processes here.  Of course, this should be at odds for independent small scale developers, but on the other hand, if services could be provided regarding this model, maybe the negatives could be less so.  Only increased frequency in operating system rollouts might increase interests in operating systems themselves, but make easier change and revisions should problems be perceived in the first place.  Here sales models, may prove more dynamic (should one version flop relative another), and only provision more reactive consumer feedback concerning revisions otherwise.  Not to say the Microsoft wouldn't continue (as in the case of operating system development models, Ubuntu coming to mind here) to provide long term support services, but also that Microsoft might shift itself in terms of where its bread and butter might be.  The personal computer user, might be part of this model, but the reality of personal computing has changed in this present day relative the past, somewhere if it could provision in these more frequent operating system roll out models (a smaller consumer charge for a given operating system), it might enjoy something of renaissance in so far as consumer interests?!

While I had at one times, only briefly, delved into desktop applications development, and much to the contrary, argue against myself in this one time complaint, regarding frequent operating system's development and software compatibility, fewer are doing these sorts of things today, and anyways, the learning curve of the new is always there isn't it?!   Its hard to imagine the desktop going away as we know it, but on the other hand something of a reality has arisen, more users with smart phones readily understand separate interfaces and systems that have changed the population of user desktop cultures...Microsoft seems to be facing this with sluggish PC sales at present, and some may still feel comfortable staying on smaller screen resolutions using the sorts of tile world application interfaces while for going the general PC.  Honestly, I don't know how?  I never got into game boys or small console systems or smart phones in any event, but it is a present reality.  The more we use devices changes the arrangement of our perceived spatial environment, the more we grow accustomed to spatial environments the more we grow fond and used to these environments.  Its why the Start button is hard to go away, and why Microsoft appears to be attempting to breach aesthetic cultural divisions likewise.  Then, another solution to this approach may include a non all encompassing approach, if noticeable user complaints of then Ubuntu's leap to the Unity interface, traditions in operating system layouts might be maintained, yet with Microsoft release flavor like systems in general with different design layout approaches.

Continuity, continuum, and causality

    Causality,  causal arrow of time that events are neither proceeded by their causes.
    Continuum as in describing a smooth continuous transition of events...also defined as measurable, or one could think of this in terms of perception which were a form of measurement.
    Continuity, if defined with respect to a point in time and space, that there should be in such space the existence of neighboring points also in such space and time for any given measure defined in such space which includes such point and neighboring point(s) also in such space.  Another way of considering is that there exists and infinity of measures which include such point and neighboring point(s) in such space.
For an closed finite interval, there exists an infinity of points in time and space also in such interval which define the continuum of such finite interval (seems a bit paradoxically absurd?!).  For each moment in time and space, we are passing through an infinity of points in time and space.  We are strangely finite and infinite in time and space all at once, or from each passing moment there is potentiality of an infinite lifetime of points in time representing experience (see time dialation and approaching the speed of light).

Sadly, if I sound crazy, I am really not.  :)

If adequately holed up in the house for periods of years (we'll being running on a ten years in another two years),  you can survive!  Sadly, unlike the sorts of social confrontations that might normally play out, its more as Pink Floyd apparently died much with a previous generation awhile ago while in perpetuation of the 'leaf' from another harvest.

Living in the limbo of test world, or test subject, or more happenstance, because social and political policies were always changing.  This sort of accounting for why on a given day, measured anti social hostilities rise and fall.

And honestly in a large democracy, you might have expected nothing more of name presence.  If you talked of an American dissident such as Bobby Fischer, most would say 'Who?'  This represents or at least seems to represent the truth of any American knowledge regarding the myth of its own existence, or in other words 'What made America so successful in the first place at providing little space in representing those whom might have been marginalized, served wrongly in history?' There could be buzz words in the space of Tuskegee, but did you know the names of those victimized wrongfully?  Or in this regard that Tuskegee actually extended beyond Tuskegee, that were actually other people and places effected by a more generalized social policy?  If it should seem only isolated in mind with respect to the course of history, is this not often times the course of social presentations often times found.  The nature of vocal ism changes itself, if only Chomsky or Zinn were most actively prominent in buzz circles at the heights of certain administration, otherwise, more muted could one say clearly, how one's experience were any better or any worse in these days?!  Certainly, there would be a large percentage of any others whom hadn't shared directly in one's experience alone, and this in a way could be the centerpiece of how social policies play out more clearly.  If it weren't based as it were allowed by the tolerances of populous as a whole, only more pervasive selection on the side of margins.  Wide spread dissent at times could be rarer these days, or where at least it might have been akin to the traditional mainstays of obvious physical presence, only electronic dissent, evoking in mind something of a distrust concerning the matter of reach.  I am left wondering what happened to the springs of a few years back here.  What happened to this generation of people?!  Did they abandon their causes?  Did they find more actively work in non profit or any profitable causes aiding people on the whole regarding concerns of economic and social nature?  It seems if anything something might have been short lived, and in Kansas City, my nearest sojourn nearest in proximity were as a passenger waiting only for the conclusion of where about information of a nearest CSA cooperative (incidentally I might not have seen this very muted rally if hadn't been nearest a Costco which weren't so far then from Liberty memorial).  It were colder that day, and more likely groups of people were huddled in tents, if they hadn't appeared closest to a cook, roasting something like hot dogs.  Their numbers could hardly be described in millions, hundreds of thousands, thousands, or even hundreds, more like a small handful.  In retrospect, often times media portrayals in some circles that might have likened this movement to thugs, rapist, and looters (whose relative social margins) could hardly describe a center whole in so far as complete descriptions, but how much impact and change really amounted here?  Hadn't clear enough contrast existed?

And as to today?!  Today, it seems relative any given day having existed a year or several years past,  if only increased social belligerence weren't on the rise in some manner, a context of present politic conditions should seem proximate enough.  One's perspective being limited enough,  I had shut down some social networking accounts a few months ago, and maybe it were the better course, given so much of the information gathering that were available.  Facebook, I had recently, only made it more difficult to keep postings private (not sure of this present status), and generally as far as e hostilities were concerned, and long enough in running, our civilization is now able to make the scarlet letter true of any for potentially an electronic lifetime...shouldn't this be our modern cause of social ill?  Are we that out of touch with any moral pulse that might have existed?!

I incidentally have tried picking up some autumn reading again, Henry James's Turn of the Screw, and watching a Bela Lugosi collection.  I am not sure what I may do next otherwise.

Sure run a car with a license plate that says little more then what it states except hinting at some fundamentally held and insistent belief never stating any clear reasons why, sure that's the way many propagandists operate and have operated for sometime, preaching like to self serving choirs.  Only with deeper inset faith and views to fundamental truths holding in principle concerning the non transient nature of universal justice, how far does a licence plate moniker go?!  Trying to screw people over for lies only goes so far...

For all these years of unwarranted social harassment wouldn't anyone want to know why?!  Granted on and off, its as if there were something true fundamentally regarding the arbitrary nature of states at times in so far as the condition of one's living existence (what is right in one day seems to be a relative no no on another day), granted one weren't experiencing the literally relativity of time itself as much, and maybe that's a conditional improvement?!

Typically speaking, there isn't much of huge substance, one would imagine, in writing more of daily activities here, in that they were much the same relative a past.  If a day might seem framed with some implicit communications on a given point, never are clearer charges presented on anything really, and that is if a given point could be more clearly made, noting often times if it could generally best be made outside the boundaries of home and electronic territories.  These seem in a way more like the sorts of social orchestrations of one sort or another...a lapse in clearer activity for months seemingly providing headway here, or leaving a certain sense of the matter in mind as often coming and going as it were like the seasons themselves, neither leaving impacting and significant note.  Minding if one is this role could be adequately served to the role Weather underground, so in passing, resolutions regarding budgetary impasses are in evidence being reached...as to who winners and losers are blowing wind, remains to be seen and especially with respect to social orchestrations...hmm, the underground doesn't seem to make any more headway relative to any other days before.

If you wanted to know or really cared, I'm generally much the moderate about anything political these days.

Generally speaking if this sounded like long winded approach to people bashing, I'd offer maybe outside of statistical information (for proof) that people aren't so bad, but this hadn't meant that there weren't those with ill purpose.  Its usually a minority population that apparently bothers to care so much to the extent of malign purpose sometimes to greater ambivalence of a given population of people.  While it should seem the nature of people in these population subsets statistically fluctuate for any number of reasons, its still a concern regarding the matter of privacy (or information phishing) on the part of a given small minority that use it for less the good purposes.  Not sure if facebook reneged on the removal of that keep your postings private for shares options, but one would still hope they reconsidered?!  

And now onto other news

http://www.technologyreview.com/review/520236/so-far-smart-watches-are-pretty-dumb/

   A brief review of the great mmo social life and how people in mmo s in general really in general aren't great people to get to know in general.

   World of Warcraft (mid 2000s):  Social gaming, should mean if you were joining a large scale guild synonymous with listening to really bad shock jock crap, sure a guild might have engaged in it repeatedly enough, sadly if you wanted to use this as a launching point for finding stuff do in game, you had to put up with the Duke Nukem aspects of speech, sorry while living through the late 90s, its not a notable highlight for this generation.  So you end up going to smaller scale guilds or avoiding guilds in general, actually, and then you might have ended up in a larger family organized guild (where generally in fairness, sadly while being less in some ways academically inclined probably one of the best guilds in game...despite some goofy roleplaying and my general trollish insular habits).   If at times, you weren't hounded by individuals that considered it beyond their extra curricular habit to see exactly why you were one of those individuals in game that 'gamed too much', or the seeming perception of it, at least being the sort choosing to stay out of guilds for a lengthy time, should mean content exploration.  That generation apparently moved on...

Eve (mid 2000s):  Generally speaking, few might have seemed to care to know who you were, and generally if you stayed out of the main hubs of tranquility, easy to vanish.  On a very rare occasion, some joker might have showed up with with an info board reading, "I'd like to throw bleach on your gene pool"  But your family was rewarded apparently in the aspect of fertility much to the contrary.  Occasionally, a little bit of small scale pvp for the bored individual trying to think of some clever way for harassing your character in high security space, the sort like steal a can to see if you could provoke a gun in high security space, and then gank your ship before security would show up and deal with the offender back in those days.  But generally easy enough to remain anonymous in Eve in so far as space, and lots of turf to roam around in... 

Warhammer (mid 2000s)...not so long after the dates creation:  You had high hopes for this one, the claimed 'WoW killer', that ended up fitting critics title then a real 'dud' of a game.  Chats easily abused for longer epithets about politics in general...you might have turned off Glen Beck on Fox at this point, literally to listen to him in game.  Of course, the Warhammer franchise didn't have the population numbers really to alienate these types and so catered much to this crowd I could imagine likely (for fear of losing enough a sizable marginal contingent and so likely banked on the aspect that maybe there were enough of a demographic of these sorts in game that should feel more welcomed in a generally less populated game).  Mostly the games, in those days siege mechanics at times seemed to be approaching that of some real life experience, and then given the nature of restrictions present (nothing of level balancing) forcibly restricted players of higher levels from any given area.  Hence running into the problem, not enough players in any given zone to do anything but quest around and try to level.  One of the few games that I hadn't really finished to a level cap.

Guild Wars:  Arguably, if you hadn't minded beautifully flamboyant costumes (more amusing then anything to myself then anything), its a game I actually liked.  Mostly, outside of Lion's Arch being the more populated area, it were hard for any particular group of people to do much and staying anonymous were easier (not unlike Eve), you hadn't need worry as much about lame hostiles.  Sure you might have occasionally been in larger guilds on occasion, but the game were generally quieter and outside the auto bots of Jade Quarry and the other player versus player areas, much content to unlock..aside from experimenting with a myriad of character build types.  It were arguably one of the easiest games to put down and pick back up in those days. 

World of Warcraft (late 2000s):  You sign up your account, and literally there aren't a whole lot of characters in game that you recognize.  You realize its generally a generational social game which recycles itself to some, not sure if one could claim that its the sort that persistently holds out amongst the generation that might have been interested (way back in the mmos inception date).  On one rare weekend day, however, lo and behold, you noticed at least one familiar face, that might have logged on just for that instance alone, and at least in some ways, the new crowd should seem actually a nicer bunch relative to the older game filled with a bit more of the obnoxiously anti socials.  Then WoW made improvements anyways with respect to the looking for group tool finders for dungeon running experience, sure you might have had to put up at times with a mixed bunch of runners (either less knowledgeable, not specified well according to gear), but generally speaking experiences here should tend to be more positive after, the tool matched on an inter server basis and by now WoW had populations in the millions (much larger likely at that time relative to present Guild Wars 2), and the more in the bunch actually might improve watering down the more obnoxious throngs gravitating towards a given game...a problem in my view that might have hurt Warhammer.  Then despite playing WoW on windows, and now being able to play this on Linux, you notice some additional problems creeping, it could be on those problems that an old operating system should suffer from the longer that it endures from...likely because in protest then to WoW going long enough with the same code base for years and then black market copies of the game circulating for advertising (incidentally with easy to find google searches), code hacks might have more easily managed to find game infiltration methods in so far as altering game engine mechanics.  Here my departure point in game, came after numerous operating system reinstallations (and the long standing wisdom) that a Linux game might not suffer from the same problems once having existed under windows.  Wine apparently at least didn't seem to be subject to the same problems that might have existed in so far as malicious code hacking, when game mechanics render a game generally conceived more a balanced 'fair' game, and when it were the opposite, I considered it time to leave.  While in many respects, I liked WoW better then relative to earlier days, it now seemed to suffer from the problem of malicious social hacks in time even given WoW's cataclysm game engine and overall design re vamps (this sort of problem were months in coming only later at least).

Eve (post 2010 or there abouts):  Only a brief resurrection of this game account.  Changes to markets made less lucrative old habits, didn't feel like figuring out anything of new ventures here.  Hard to say much about social aspects of gaming here (since outside of the aspects relating to market exchanges), I generally cared less for it, and I stayed mostly in high security space, excepting some monthly sojourn to the main hub outside of Gallente space (where my reputation weren't bad enough otherwise) to get faction gear.

Guild Wars 2 (post 2010...around inception date to present):  Generally speaking received a few guild solicitations (most went defunct in a matter of months).  Didn't go out of my way, as were customary to solicit myself to active larger guilds and deliberately so because of past experience in high population guilds.  Generally have liked it this way, solicitors and those that deliberately invite especially in larger scale guilds, often more engaged in some sort of social trouble making 1/2 the time that I could tell, but overtly, it would seem for all games combined GW2 were probably the worst for any number of reasons on social fronts, one for guild members at times insinuating knowledge of private information, having access to this, and/or suggesting potentially threatening if not hostile and abusive language (not merely harassing it might seem).  Honestly, relative to many of the mmos played in the past, Guild Wars 2 has won the trophy for stinkiest social mmo experience that I could tell ever.  Why thank you HoD of Devona's Rest hopefully your chat logs are recorded.  :)

Now in fairness to GW2 as a whole, generally outside the more desolated Devona's Rest server, it seems population elsewhere should seem (hadn't really played much on other servers) better, why DR became a server magnet for some clandestine stinky social effort, not exactly certain...although it should seem that venture must be yet another bloat stinky waste of taxpayer time?!