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These tutorials focus mainly on OpenGL, Win32 programming and the ODE physics engine. OpenGL has moved on to great heights and I don't cover the newest features but cover all of the basic concepts you will need with working example programs.

Working with the Win32 API is a great way to get to the heart of Windows and is just as relevant today as ever before. Whereas ODE has been marginalized as hardware accelerated physics becomes more common.

Games and graphics utilities can be made quickly and easily using game engines like Unity so this and Linux development in general will be the focus of my next tutorials.

To the Children of the Modern Age and Beyond

By Alan Baylis

In the past we were told that the advent of the industrial and information ages would mean an increase in leisure time for the workers. This was to be brought about by increasing automation in the work environment. Many tools have now been developed to relieve workers of their jobs and in more optimistic times it was thought that these tools would leave the workers free to take their family to the beach while the machines worked relentlessly to provide their needs. This has not been the outcome. Instead, the workers made redundant by these machines have been labeled as unemployed. Far from being able to relax and know that the lack of work was a deliberate push by industry itself, they are made to feel ashamed.

It is known in economics that a certain percentage of the population is going to be unemployed at any one time. Some of these will be in transition or absent for personal reasons such as maternity, but most of these have been the undereducated, uncouth, or unkempt. This seemed like natural survival of the fittest but this is no longer the case. It appears that even the highly educated, etc, are also out of work and unable to support themselves easily. This trend is continuing to worsen and before long there will be extremely high unemployment regardless of how intelligent or well dressed or spoken the population become.

The solution suggested by government appears to be a policy of having each person start their own small business. So we have a situation wherein people have labored for the corporations for generations until the corporations reach a high level of automation and now, because there are fewer jobs, we have to compete with these self-same businesses without any capital. I can't see many that would be able to successfully compete with an airline or an auto manufacturer.

Best that we just become as self sufficient as possible and buy second hand until the corporations collapse. Then we might have a more level playing field in which to compete. If the communities share and barter work amongst themselves then they may have no need for any of the over priced and poor quality products. Why should everyone in a street have and maintain their own lawn mower when there could be a consensus to share a mower and use it on alternate days?

There will be no getting rich. The look of our houses and furniture will fall but rather than being beautiful they will simply be good and practical.

It's in the Bible. Not such a big read and I was happy to learn that God is not an Israelite.