I don't get why a university would offload the work normally done by the CS people. There's no more cool geek factor to running services like that. Sad.
I'm aware of the issue but all those prompts aren't for backward compatibility. They're a way of MS shifting the security burden on the dumb users.
MacOSX does it well: prompt for the root password when needed for sudo'ish type things. Ubunto does it in a similar fashion. I rarely get prompted for admin access on either of those systems save for when installing software. My brother's Vista box got so bad he just downloaded XP and installed that overtop. Sure, he could have turned off the warnings but then he's just using a fatter, slower XP at that point.
Mostly, NASA wants to know if he can heal himself or provide
resurrection to the other astronauts in case the experiments goes
awry.
Damn you for not providing more information! How can he
provide resurrection in space: the d20s will float away! Will they provide
slighty magnetized dice and a ferrous gameboard? Velcro-covered dice and
playing field? Dice in a centrifuge?
I think my kids (2 and 4 now) will find the whole notion of physical media for consumable media ridiculous.
Yep. My daughter is 2 and I can imagine the future conversation going "Back in my day we used to have to out in the winter to a store to buy plastic discs with music on them"
While I'm at it: - My youngest brother doesn't own a CD player and has gone through a few iPods in his time. - My own 50 CD jukebox was never installed on our new AV rack 3 years ago yet I still buy the odd CD to support the band or have the liner notes. The past few years of CDs I bought have never been spun.
Are you that dude from Alaska I play against on SnipersParadise? Seriously, there's one guy (forget his nick, been a few weeks) and he has >1000 ms pings. Gotta give it to him for tenacity.
Windows _NT_ was built by David Cutler, on a VMS foundation
Eh... Cutler used some of his experience with VMS in designing the core bits of NT but it isn't built on VMS. If it were bluescreens and the necessity for random reboots would be almost non-existent.
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Xohm delivered data smoothly to a car moving at highway speeds, played YouTube videos flawlessly
Awesome!
Talking on a cell while driving is illegal, so I may as well watch YouTube!
That's 524,994,000 before Earth was created!
I don't get why a university would offload the work normally done by the CS people. There's no more cool geek factor to running services like that. Sad.
I went for years without mod points then they suddenly started rolling in. No idea what happened there.
I'm aware of the issue but all those prompts aren't for backward compatibility. They're a way of MS shifting the security burden on the dumb users.
MacOSX does it well: prompt for the root password when needed for sudo'ish type things. Ubunto does it in a similar fashion. I rarely get prompted for admin access on either of those systems save for when installing software. My brother's Vista box got so bad he just downloaded XP and installed that overtop. Sure, he could have turned off the warnings but then he's just using a fatter, slower XP at that point.
No, don't write secure software, staple on a bunch of dialog boxes to shift the onus onto the user.
The mod system is good enough, IMHO. It has enough 'mob mentality' that the end users can modify their settings enough to not see down-modded tripe.
The buddy system would bring a tyranny of the majority to slashdot.
What about the rumours of Apple-mandated glory holes in the washrooms at all corporate offices?
It is Satan's rectum, poised over the third-world.
Best slashdot line in ages.
Linux 2.6.27 is out, OpenBSD 4.4 is in!
You can fit a lot of USB sticks in your anus. Probably 3 or 4 Libraries of Congress in your ass, isn't technology wonderful?!
Mostly, NASA wants to know if he can heal himself or provide resurrection to the other astronauts in case the experiments goes awry.
Damn you for not providing more information! How can he provide resurrection in space: the d20s will float away! Will they provide slighty magnetized dice and a ferrous gameboard? Velcro-covered dice and playing field? Dice in a centrifuge?
Tell us more!
It can only update every couple of minutes? Not to worry, Lucas will stretch out Episode XXIV accordingly.
Evolution has mountains of scientific evidence supporting it, your "feeling" has none. Who's trolling now?
Too bad the Creationists can't come up with any actual scientific research, they'd win this honour every year!
Ha ha ha! Very good. :)
I think my kids (2 and 4 now) will find the whole notion of physical media for consumable media ridiculous.
Yep. My daughter is 2 and I can imagine the future conversation going "Back in my day we used to have to out in the winter to a store to buy plastic discs with music on them"
While I'm at it:
- My youngest brother doesn't own a CD player and has gone through a few iPods in his time.
- My own 50 CD jukebox was never installed on our new AV rack 3 years ago yet I still buy the odd CD to support the band or have the liner notes. The past few years of CDs I bought have never been spun.
Are you that dude from Alaska I play against on SnipersParadise? Seriously, there's one guy (forget his nick, been a few weeks) and he has >1000 ms pings. Gotta give it to him for tenacity.
Your comment made me think of that old Dead Kennedys song "Soup is Good Food". As relevant now as it was in The Day.
Quebec is an exception, the cities are like nothing else in North America.
s/North America/the known universe/
Windows _NT_ was built by David Cutler, on a VMS foundation
Eh... Cutler used some of his experience with VMS in designing the core bits of NT but it isn't built on VMS. If it were bluescreens and the necessity for random reboots would be almost non-existent.
Atheism is a religion.
Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.
Also, most military women trim their bush or shave it outright.
Ah, you're confusing Open Source with Open Sores.
BSD is Linux?
Yeah! Also Ferrari is Ford!
8 * 1.36 > 130?
A nice example of why "No Child Left Behind" is a joke.