Because nobody remembers the days when UNIX was just as 'keep security out of the way of the user' as Windows was.
Nobody remembers the good old days of sendmail happily handing root access for the asking. 'wizard', 'debug', etc.
Nobody remembers that UNIX is 'MULTICS with most of the security stripped out.' UNIX as in eunuchs as in a castrated version of MULTICS.
I think the point he's trying to make is 'we can solve this problem, today. We, as a species, apparently choose not to. So why assume a new solution will be better implemented than the existing ones?'
Bioware/EA's MMO Star Wars The Old Republic is a counter to that - 8 huge personal (single player, in a multiplayer world) storylines, one for each basic character class, with minimal and entirely optional multiplayer content until you get to the endgame, at which point it becomes almost totally about multiplayer in a traditional MMO grind-fest for gear.
Alternatively, you can do the tutorial planet, then jump immediately into PvP, PvP Dogfighting, flashpoints, etc etc, i.e. do nothing BUT multiplayer, while hitting three or four missions per planet to progress the storyline.
One day, at a U2 concert in (insert traditional butt of jokes for your area, I'll say Newfoundland,) Bono stops the music and starts clapping his hands, slowly, rhythmically.
As he gazes out over the crowd, still clapping slowly, he intones 'Every time *clap* I clap *clap* my hands, *clap* a child *clap* in Africa *clap* dies *clap* of starvation. *clap*'
From the audience comes up the outraged cry of 'Then stop fucking clapping, you idiot!'
Don't you see? Minecraft BECOMES the new metro interface! Instead of dragging tiles, you pick them up and put them down! Sometimes you shear them for wool!
Handbrake runs it through handbrakeCLI. Handbrake is not FFMPEG. For example, Handbrake won't do video passthru. Audio passthru, sure. But not video. So you can't, for example, use handbrake to straight remux MKV into mp4.
Sounds like he got perfectly good customer service. He was paying for an insurance plan which would get him an overnight replacement, and he got an overnight replacement.
Absolutely. There are all sorts of reasons why a person lands in jail. Some are in their control, some aren't.
But, to tie this back to the original poster and to the various responses, is it entirely beyond the pale to even entertain the notion that, possibly, due to some combination of nature and nurture, of social upbringing, evolutionary selection, and everything else, that maybe, just maybe, women and men are different?
And that, for some things, those differences may prove to be helpful or harmful? Isn't it better to have the discussion, to figure out what the differences are, and in some cases, make allowances or adjustments for them?
Premise: Women in western society, for a variety of factors both social and biological, tend to be more collaborative than adversarial. Assertion: Wikipedia editing is an adversarial process, in the same way the US legal system is adversarial: people argue their positions with the intent that the best argument wins. Implication of assertion: many women, who prefer collaboration to adversarial systems, will avoid Wikipedia.
To me, that is in no way sexist, demeaning, or anything else negative. But many people, whom I would term 'overly PC,' would attack me for even putting that little paragraph together.
Faith is defined as 'belief without evidence.' In other words, and *at best*, one makes a knowledge claim without any supporting fact or evidence whatsoever.
The problem is, 'belief without evidence' rapidly tends to turn into 'belief *despite* evidence.' In other words, the same knowledge claim is often made *despite* clear and contradictory evidence. That's a hell of a way to run a railroad.
Well, given that the majority of incarcerated males in the US are black, it could be argued, just as was previously argued, that you are implicitly saying that black people have inherently inferior reasoning ability.
Science is not something that is "correct" or "incorrect"; it's a meaningful way of observing the world, reducing human bias of those observations, and making meaningful predictions.
To take this a step farther: "Science" is an epistemology. It's a way of coming to knowledge. Science will NEVER BE 'correct.' One of the basic tenants of a scientific hypothesis is that it needs to be falsifiable. Science just strives and strives to be *more* correct than it was. As opposed to faith, aka 'belief despite evidence,' aka 'pretending to know things you don't know, then making plans and decisions based on that.'
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Because nobody remembers the days when UNIX was just as 'keep security out of the way of the user' as Windows was. Nobody remembers the good old days of sendmail happily handing root access for the asking. 'wizard', 'debug', etc. Nobody remembers that UNIX is 'MULTICS with most of the security stripped out.' UNIX as in eunuchs as in a castrated version of MULTICS.
I liked SAO better when it was called '.hack//sign', personally.
Isn't that the entire point of Software As A Service?
The term you're looking for is 'ad-hoc reporting,' rather than realtime.
The problem with programming is that most programmers consider basic error handling and sanity checking to be optional.
I think the point he's trying to make is 'we can solve this problem, today. We, as a species, apparently choose not to. So why assume a new solution will be better implemented than the existing ones?'
He says, using the computer which is a direct result of WW2 code breaking technology, across the Internet, a direct descendant of Arpanet.
Depends on what kind of LongBow you mean.
Alternatively, you can do the tutorial planet, then jump immediately into PvP, PvP Dogfighting, flashpoints, etc etc, i.e. do nothing BUT multiplayer, while hitting three or four missions per planet to progress the storyline.
You get to play your way.
Obligatory old joke:
One day, at a U2 concert in (insert traditional butt of jokes for your area, I'll say Newfoundland,) Bono stops the music and starts clapping his hands, slowly, rhythmically.
As he gazes out over the crowd, still clapping slowly, he intones 'Every time *clap* I clap *clap* my hands, *clap* a child *clap* in Africa *clap* dies *clap* of starvation. *clap*'
From the audience comes up the outraged cry of 'Then stop fucking clapping, you idiot!'
Offering free music? Fine. Forcing it onto you? Not fine.
When your introductory training includes psychological coping mechanisms, rethink your decision to be there. :-)
Honestly, I don't think the power would be as much of an issue as focusing it down narrowly enough to carve the letters.
Don't you see? Minecraft BECOMES the new metro interface! Instead of dragging tiles, you pick them up and put them down! Sometimes you shear them for wool!
Superfly's Jonhson.
Wouldn't be much use in using magic if it weren't repeatable, would it? Why bother learning a levitation spell if it won't consistently levitate you?
Handbrake runs it through handbrakeCLI. Handbrake is not FFMPEG. For example, Handbrake won't do video passthru. Audio passthru, sure. But not video. So you can't, for example, use handbrake to straight remux MKV into mp4.
But /dev/null benchmarks faster. If only it supported sharding.
Sounds like he got perfectly good customer service. He was paying for an insurance plan which would get him an overnight replacement, and he got an overnight replacement.
Absolutely. There are all sorts of reasons why a person lands in jail. Some are in their control, some aren't.
But, to tie this back to the original poster and to the various responses, is it entirely beyond the pale to even entertain the notion that, possibly, due to some combination of nature and nurture, of social upbringing, evolutionary selection, and everything else, that maybe, just maybe, women and men are different?
And that, for some things, those differences may prove to be helpful or harmful? Isn't it better to have the discussion, to figure out what the differences are, and in some cases, make allowances or adjustments for them?
Premise: Women in western society, for a variety of factors both social and biological, tend to be more collaborative than adversarial. Assertion: Wikipedia editing is an adversarial process, in the same way the US legal system is adversarial: people argue their positions with the intent that the best argument wins. Implication of assertion: many women, who prefer collaboration to adversarial systems, will avoid Wikipedia.
To me, that is in no way sexist, demeaning, or anything else negative. But many people, whom I would term 'overly PC,' would attack me for even putting that little paragraph together.
Faith is defined as 'belief without evidence.' In other words, and *at best*, one makes a knowledge claim without any supporting fact or evidence whatsoever.
The problem is, 'belief without evidence' rapidly tends to turn into 'belief *despite* evidence.' In other words, the same knowledge claim is often made *despite* clear and contradictory evidence. That's a hell of a way to run a railroad.
Science and faith are both epistemologies; they are ways of coming to knowledge. They are also diametric opposites.
Well, given that the majority of incarcerated males in the US are black, it could be argued, just as was previously argued, that you are implicitly saying that black people have inherently inferior reasoning ability.
See how easy it is to twist things into isms?
We shall spread rational inquiry by the sword!
Acknowledge the teachings of Dawkins and Hitchens, and the torture will stop!
To take this a step farther: "Science" is an epistemology. It's a way of coming to knowledge. Science will NEVER BE 'correct.' One of the basic tenants of a scientific hypothesis is that it needs to be falsifiable. Science just strives and strives to be *more* correct than it was. As opposed to faith, aka 'belief despite evidence,' aka 'pretending to know things you don't know, then making plans and decisions based on that.'