Defaulting to Don't-Save at least avoids destroying data that you don't want to save over. And OS's these days will almost always warn you if you have programs with unsaved documents open before they shut down. I would consider saving without asking a violation of user expectations. Maybe there's an autosave feature, but that stores it to a different file, not the one you were working on. And we should all be trained to Save Early, Save Often anyway.
If you're asking "why don't desktops default to hibernate instead of shut down"...I suppose that's a matter of preference. Saving files to disk is my idea of "saving state," but I'm not a laptop person so I don't have a workflow that involves me constantly popping in and out of my machine.
Depending on whether you're installing updates etc. during the reboot process, it may not be actually possible to preserve the state accurately anyway.
Drawing a distinction between "shown trying to fly it" and "successfully flying it." I'm not familiar with Adric or Nyssa (classic Who) but I would bet that even if Donna was "given pointers" she couldn't actually do it until the whole metacrisis thing.
Metacrisis Donna and River both being "half-Time Lord" sort of reinforces my point.
And Clara is just a twat. I swear the writers are just trying to see how badly they can abuse canon at this point.
P.S: Hmm...although they did have that scene at the end of the fourth season where the extended companion family flew it collectively.
Until recently nobody other than a Time Lord could manage to fly the TARDIS at all. Now I'm pretty sure the writers will say Clara could sit on the console and accidentally fly it better than the Doctor himself.
I suppose it's my own fault for thinking, "They couldn't possibly have a more annoying companion than Donna." CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
Yeah, I was a bit confused at that "She still deserves to go" comment as well.
[...] Glenn lifted off for a second space flight on October 29, 1998. He took flight on Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-95. At age 77, Glenn became the oldest person to go into space. Glenn states in his memoir that he had no idea that NASA was willing to send him back into space when NASA announced the decision.[17] According to the New York Times, Glenn "won his seat on the shuttle flight by lobbying NASA for two years to fly as a human guinea pig for geriatric studies", which were named as the main reasons for his participation in the mission.[18]
Glenn's participation in the nine-day mission was criticized by some in the space community as a political favor granted to Glenn by President Clinton.[citation needed] Others noted that Glenn's flight offered valuable research on weightlessness and other aspects of space flight on the same person at two points in life 36 years apart—by far the longest interval between space flights by the same person—providing information on the effects of spaceflight and weightlessness on the elderly, with an ideal control.[citation needed] Shortly before the flight, researchers learned that Glenn had to be disqualified from one of the flight's two main priority human experiments (about the effects of melatonin) because he did not meet one of study's medical conditions; he still participated in two other experiments about sleep monitoring and protein use.
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Sup dawg, I heard you like point-and-click GUIs so I put type-to-search in your start menu. ...wait. What?
Click the account icon and then click "Sign Out".
+1 Totally Intutive. "Just click on this picture that there's no reasonable cause to think does anything."
Oh look, Hairyfeet fawning over a Microsoft product. I know it must hurt saying "Windows 8 wasn't good."
P.S: What that other guy said about the tiles. And I assume The Ribbon is now everywhere as well, which can DIAF.
And doesn't 8 default to that "hybrid shutdown" which is closer to hibernate anyway? Or is that a feature they're adding to 10.
Defaulting to Don't-Save at least avoids destroying data that you don't want to save over. And OS's these days will almost always warn you if you have programs with unsaved documents open before they shut down. I would consider saving without asking a violation of user expectations. Maybe there's an autosave feature, but that stores it to a different file, not the one you were working on. And we should all be trained to Save Early, Save Often anyway.
If you're asking "why don't desktops default to hibernate instead of shut down"...I suppose that's a matter of preference. Saving files to disk is my idea of "saving state," but I'm not a laptop person so I don't have a workflow that involves me constantly popping in and out of my machine.
Depending on whether you're installing updates etc. during the reboot process, it may not be actually possible to preserve the state accurately anyway.
Yeah, rebooting PCs via automated scripts is both fucking lazy, and addresses the symptoms, not root cause.
Except for those times where it actually solves the problem, on Windows. (Rebooting Linux almost never fixes anything.)
Level 3 Can you outrun a weeping angel.
The joke being that getting away from a WA has nothing to do with the running.
Drawing a distinction between "shown trying to fly it" and "successfully flying it." I'm not familiar with Adric or Nyssa (classic Who) but I would bet that even if Donna was "given pointers" she couldn't actually do it until the whole metacrisis thing.
Metacrisis Donna and River both being "half-Time Lord" sort of reinforces my point.
And Clara is just a twat. I swear the writers are just trying to see how badly they can abuse canon at this point.
P.S: Hmm...although they did have that scene at the end of the fourth season where the extended companion family flew it collectively.
Mices, but pronounced "MY-sees" like index -> indices.
Especially considering that it's in no way meant to be watertight and you're already wearing SCUBA gear, sounds accurate.
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http://www.nature.com/news/201... [nature.com]
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04... [nytimes.com]
One example?
wat
You mean a serial port? I bet yours does and you didn't even know it.
Considering that when I was looking at desktops back in 2007, even, I only ran across one that did, I'd take that bet.
Until recently nobody other than a Time Lord could manage to fly the TARDIS at all. Now I'm pretty sure the writers will say Clara could sit on the console and accidentally fly it better than the Doctor himself.
I suppose it's my own fault for thinking, "They couldn't possibly have a more annoying companion than Donna." CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
I also question their programming chops, remembering that one horrid episode where the WiFi was killing people.
You know it's going to be a good episode when you're literally 10 seconds in and you're already cringing in horror.
Once you dig deep enough, everything is a GOTO.
Suck it, "Goto considered harmful."
The question isn't whether WE can tell the difference, but whether those in the COURT SYSTEM can.
Cool, so I can put up a webpage alleging that you are a paedophile then?
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Harassment, slander and libel
You just shot your own argument in the foot. As the GP said, existing laws cover the cases.
you're just a barbarian
Oh, like you can speak Greek either.
Yeah, I was a bit confused at that "She still deserves to go" comment as well.
[...] Glenn lifted off for a second space flight on October 29, 1998. He took flight on Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-95. At age 77, Glenn became the oldest person to go into space. Glenn states in his memoir that he had no idea that NASA was willing to send him back into space when NASA announced the decision.[17] According to the New York Times, Glenn "won his seat on the shuttle flight by lobbying NASA for two years to fly as a human guinea pig for geriatric studies", which were named as the main reasons for his participation in the mission.[18]
Glenn's participation in the nine-day mission was criticized by some in the space community as a political favor granted to Glenn by President Clinton.[citation needed] Others noted that Glenn's flight offered valuable research on weightlessness and other aspects of space flight on the same person at two points in life 36 years apart—by far the longest interval between space flights by the same person—providing information on the effects of spaceflight and weightlessness on the elderly, with an ideal control.[citation needed] Shortly before the flight, researchers learned that Glenn had to be disqualified from one of the flight's two main priority human experiments (about the effects of melatonin) because he did not meet one of study's medical conditions; he still participated in two other experiments about sleep monitoring and protein use.
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"X violates the fundamental spirit of Y but at least it lets you copy its data to Z to handle it the old way" is not a reason to implement X.
Remiiiiind you of anything??
*cough*beta*cough* Still interested to see how long they wait in the hopes we cool down before they roll it out anyway.
1 "it works and i figure if it isn't broken don't fix it"
2 [condescension about sys v init being old]
3 goto 1
Self-defeating trolls. Huh.
I actually did a "which systemd" on my current Mint XFCE install--which has GIMP installed and up-to-date--and got only silence.
Um...I know apt-get isn't shy about installing all kinds of dependencies when I need them...wat.
If you're talking about Deb & Ian, they apparently got a divorce in 2008 and Ian stepped down from project leader in 1996 anyway.