Why not just create an alternate account with sudo for them?
If I had mod points, I'd bump you up. Your password is your password. Who knows what else a person uses that password for...trying to gain access by using it is tantamount to a phishing scheme. Get your own damn password.
If the changes to Android from device to device were done instead at an API level, wouldn't these issues be redressed to a significant extent?
Isn't this what everyone was giving Apple grief about with their early iPhone updates? Some apps stopped working, but mostly the problem was the jailbroken phones being bricked. As Apple stabilized the OS and the API architecture, things were happier with developers. But people complained they couldn't change anything and could only write against APIs...
Sure the kid can say what she wants and should be able to say what she wants. But you know, if you don't have anything nice to say, keep your mouth shut. If you're going to get all teen angsty over this teacher you don't like, text your friends, not the world. You're a teenager, not a two year old.
I may not like what you have to say, but I'll defend your right, whilst rolling my eyes and giving heavy sighs, to say it.
So I realize the article is sort of whatever (having not read it myself, I can only assume that's the case) but a friend of mine has been harping about a reputation based economy where the dollar is less meaningful and you earn favors and acquire goods more on how well known you are in a particular area or field. A Nobel winner would be given kingly treatment wherever he or she goes while a politician would remain hated or loved depending on where they are, as they do now.
It was an interesting concept, hearkening back to traveling bards and the time before recorded music.
I wonder when Adobe will pull a Google and protect their name by claiming Photoshop is not a verb (and therefore not an everyday term that might fall outside of copyright law). Or perhaps they'll just enjoy the fact (monetarily speaking) that people aren't saying, "Yah. That chick is gimped. You can see the floating pixels..."
8:35 AM: On vacation until March. However, I'm contributing to the American economy by having hired 24-7 shark handlers and focused light and radiation engineers. The night shift guy is precisely 1/8th my size.
Ideally, insurance works best when everyone pays into it and their claims are valid. It's a waste of time and money to have dishonest people. You don't like your two year contract with your cell phone company, save your insurance money under your mattress and buy the phone when you want it. False insurance claims break the system -- it's a form of cheating. Not everyone does it, but because some people do it, every claim has to be verified. It's difficult with handsets and not often worth the time since they're relatively cheap compared to cars and homes. But it doesn't help anyone to go around the system.
If everyone played within the relatively simple rules, insurance would be cheaper, as would the services and products it's defending. See "Fining people who won't pay into the national health care system" for details.
So basically nothing would make you change your mind, as the OP suggested.
Not true. If new data was found, or if the scientists realized a mistake was made in their analysis, refuting the current theses, then I'd change my mind.
The OP is essentially asking us to witness a car accident, then describe events that would make us think it didn't happen. Maybe it was a hallucination? A hologram? But barring a fundamental change in the original data, the accident happened.
I think it depends on how much we need to adapt. If our most important resource, water, becomes too scarce, we'll be fighting over it. Admittedly, this will lower the population, possibly even to levels acceptable enough for the earth to recover its environment to levels tolerable to humanity.
I suppose what would change my mind would be a history of thousands of years that didn't show a marked increase in the past 100 years of gases which can enhance the greenhouse effect.
There are so many factors at play here -- will cloud cover generated by warmer oceans negate the overall warming as the sun doesn't reach earth as consistently? Will deforestation affect nitrogen levels in the atmosphere?
We have a good idea that human interaction with the earth is affecting the climate in a way detrimental to the species on the top of the food chain. Rather than sit and wait to see if we all die from drought or floods, we are trying to take some action to reverse our unnatural effects on the environment.
And whatever the reason, we should probably think hard about continuing watering golf courses.
Totally. I don't recall much in the way of action or special effects necessary outside of maybe the Holographic effect of Hari Seldon's performances. I don't see this as a movie -- no persistent characters, not much dialogue or action. The concept of the books is neat, but it's not a sci-fi blockbuster -- it's a piece of future historical fiction. I wouldn't bother with this in a movie.
Robots of Dawn? That could be a movie (which I think is what they based I, Robot on, very loosely, though I couldn't bring myself to watch it). That one is more of a mystery and not so much an action film.
If you run your XP box as root and allow items to be installed by clicking on an attachment or going to a website that runs an executable, no virus checker is going to stop you from hosing your machine. Vista's "cancel or allow" mechanism made fame by its annoying implementation (having to "cancel or allow" multiple times through a single process) but it was the best move Microsoft ever made towards their system's security. MacOS X and Linux have had "cancel or allow" mechanisms pretty much since their inception just implemented in a more user-friendly manner. Vista SP1 and Windows 7 makes the pop-up decidedly more tolerable.
What you say is true about the Anakin scene but since pretty much every character in those 3 movies was just a wooden prop, I'll take the fight scene choreography and "Duel" music piece over the other 6 hours of film.:-)
Businesses certainly run Macs but they really don't have any great centralized administration tools. Apple Remote Desktop and Open Directory aren't nearly as powerful out of the box as Active Directory and its accompanying tools. There's nothing comparable to Exchange server that I know of. MacOS is to business desktop computing in much the same way linux is...you can use it, but you need to develop the tools for administering it (or use some open source tools, etc).
We like Firefly\Serentity because we can RELATE to it better. That is the key. My nephew loves the first 3 movies and is rather 'meh' about the last 3.
Any movie or book is about what moves your emotions. If you're not moved, you're going to come away with a feeling of "meh". Episode IV had the tried and true (some would say overdone) story of a youth going on a great adventure, and with the help of a handsome and wily rogue, rescuing a princess from the dark lord. I liked it, and still like it, for the highs and lows, the humor, and for Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher's characters. Even C-3P0 and R2D2 had some great lines. The movie made me laugh ("I am not a committee!") and cringe ("Shut down all the compactors on the detention level!") and cheer ("Let's blow this thing, kid."). Episodes 1-3 did not. They only had one great scene and that was the lightsaber battle at the end of episode 1 with Darth Maul.
You can look at a modern trilogy for the same blaring difference: Pirates of the Caribbean. First one was great -- humor, wit, action, subtle glances, great characters and great lines. The next two seemed to be completely different films from the first with the same actors and costumes. Slapstick comedy ruled...all we needed was a slide trumbone and a cymbal for when Depp would fall and a laugh track. They lost all sense of what everyone enjoyed about the first one. I wouldn't even say they "dumbed it down" for the kids. They just didn't put any work into the script and relied on silly comedy and special effects. Kids appreciate humor, even subtle humor. I daresay they went from British humor (understated) to American humor (brash, in your face, "Buy a truckload today!")
If a movie makes me laugh, cry, cheer...then I generally remember it as "worth watching". If it doesn't, I forget about it pretty quickly. Firefly, to come full circle, and Serenity, had scripts that George Lucas would kill for. Never since the first Star Wars was I so enthralled with a sci-fi movie than Serenity (I saw the movie first).
I'm not certain that, outside of Ghost Hunters, humans have had any true sign that we're anything more than bags of mostly water. When we die, we go the same route as a flower, cricket, dog, or elephant. Electrical signals stop and our bodies decay. There's no light to follow, no perpetual state of dreaming. We just don't exist and never will again. Ever.
It's times like these I wish I could become a lich and keep myself alive for the very sake of fearing death.:-)
I used SelfImage recently to dd a windows 2003 box to an LVM-based virtual machine on Proxmox, a Debian-based Virtual Machine Server. Worked a treat. While I see the benefit of created a Microsoft VHD if you're an MS shop, we're a mix so being able to pump a live physical disk into a remote logical volume was great.
Dr. Simon Tam: A phrase that's encoded in her brain, that makes her fall asleep. If I speak the words, "Eta... Jayne Cobb: Well don't say it! Zoë: It only works on her, Jayne. Jayne Cobb: Oh... Well, now I know that.
If it were just like consumer routers, you wouldn't need a hack. Just download the manual from the web and look up the default admin password.
"Hah! I've tunneled under your foundation, broken through your basement floor, picked the lock on your basement door, and finally let myself in to join you for some refreshments and perhaps a movie."
At first I get sad thinking of younger folk using electric bikes. But there is a practical side and that is, as many have mentioned, replacing the car for commuting. If an electric bike can keep up a 15 MPH run (much faster and I wouldn't want it sharing bike paths with pedestrians and strollers), you could use it for the 5-20 mile commutes to work. I've been starting to realize just how completely absurd it is that we feel the need for 3000+ lbs of metal to cart us around. Even motorcycles are kind of ridiculous. But an electric bike that allows you to both pedal and ride...that's a decent idea.
I've got a 20 mile commute which is easy by highway, but hilly and 25 miles on a bike. I'd consider it with an electric bike though. But I'd consider it on a normal bike if I could get a bike path the whole way instead of sharing/dodging cars on the road.
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Why not just create an alternate account with sudo for them?
If I had mod points, I'd bump you up. Your password is your password. Who knows what else a person uses that password for...trying to gain access by using it is tantamount to a phishing scheme. Get your own damn password.
If the changes to Android from device to device were done instead at an API level, wouldn't these issues be redressed to a significant extent?
Isn't this what everyone was giving Apple grief about with their early iPhone updates? Some apps stopped working, but mostly the problem was the jailbroken phones being bricked. As Apple stabilized the OS and the API architecture, things were happier with developers. But people complained they couldn't change anything and could only write against APIs...
You can't legislate stupidity.
Sure the kid can say what she wants and should be able to say what she wants. But you know, if you don't have anything nice to say, keep your mouth shut. If you're going to get all teen angsty over this teacher you don't like, text your friends, not the world. You're a teenager, not a two year old.
I may not like what you have to say, but I'll defend your right, whilst rolling my eyes and giving heavy sighs, to say it.
So I realize the article is sort of whatever (having not read it myself, I can only assume that's the case) but a friend of mine has been harping about a reputation based economy where the dollar is less meaningful and you earn favors and acquire goods more on how well known you are in a particular area or field. A Nobel winner would be given kingly treatment wherever he or she goes while a politician would remain hated or loved depending on where they are, as they do now.
It was an interesting concept, hearkening back to traveling bards and the time before recorded music.
I wonder when Adobe will pull a Google and protect their name by claiming Photoshop is not a verb (and therefore not an everyday term that might fall outside of copyright law). Or perhaps they'll just enjoy the fact (monetarily speaking) that people aren't saying, "Yah. That chick is gimped. You can see the floating pixels..."
8:35 AM: On vacation until March. However, I'm contributing to the American economy by having hired 24-7 shark handlers and focused light and radiation engineers. The night shift guy is precisely 1/8th my size.
8:37: Muahahaha. Muahahahah. Muahahahahahahahahaha.
Ideally, insurance works best when everyone pays into it and their claims are valid. It's a waste of time and money to have dishonest people. You don't like your two year contract with your cell phone company, save your insurance money under your mattress and buy the phone when you want it. False insurance claims break the system -- it's a form of cheating. Not everyone does it, but because some people do it, every claim has to be verified. It's difficult with handsets and not often worth the time since they're relatively cheap compared to cars and homes. But it doesn't help anyone to go around the system.
If everyone played within the relatively simple rules, insurance would be cheaper, as would the services and products it's defending. See "Fining people who won't pay into the national health care system" for details.
So basically nothing would make you change your mind, as the OP suggested.
Not true. If new data was found, or if the scientists realized a mistake was made in their analysis, refuting the current theses, then I'd change my mind.
The OP is essentially asking us to witness a car accident, then describe events that would make us think it didn't happen. Maybe it was a hallucination? A hologram? But barring a fundamental change in the original data, the accident happened.
I think it depends on how much we need to adapt. If our most important resource, water, becomes too scarce, we'll be fighting over it. Admittedly, this will lower the population, possibly even to levels acceptable enough for the earth to recover its environment to levels tolerable to humanity.
But really then, what's the point?
I suppose what would change my mind would be a history of thousands of years that didn't show a marked increase in the past 100
years of gases which can enhance the greenhouse effect.
There are so many factors at play here -- will cloud cover generated by warmer oceans negate the overall warming as the sun doesn't reach earth as consistently? Will deforestation affect nitrogen levels in the atmosphere?
We have a good idea that human interaction with the earth is affecting the climate in a way detrimental to
the species on the top of the food chain. Rather than sit and wait to
see if we all die from drought or floods, we are trying to take
some action to reverse our unnatural effects on the environment.
And whatever the reason, we should probably think hard about continuing watering golf courses.
Totally. I don't recall much in the way of action or special effects necessary outside of maybe the Holographic effect of Hari Seldon's performances. I don't see this as a movie -- no persistent characters, not much dialogue or action. The concept of the books is neat, but it's not a sci-fi blockbuster -- it's a piece of future historical fiction. I wouldn't bother with this in a movie.
Robots of Dawn? That could be a movie (which I think is what they based I, Robot on, very loosely, though I couldn't bring myself to watch it). That one is more of a mystery and not so much an action film.
If you run your XP box as root and allow items to be installed by clicking on an attachment or going to a website that runs an executable, no virus checker is going to stop you from hosing your machine. Vista's "cancel or allow" mechanism made fame by its annoying implementation (having to "cancel or allow" multiple times through a single process) but it was the best move Microsoft ever made towards their system's security. MacOS X and Linux have had "cancel or allow" mechanisms pretty much since their inception just implemented in a more user-friendly manner. Vista SP1 and Windows 7 makes the pop-up decidedly more tolerable.
I didn't even know professors were paying attention!
What you say is true about the Anakin scene but since pretty much every character in those 3 movies was just a wooden prop, I'll take the fight scene choreography and "Duel" music piece over the other 6 hours of film. :-)
Businesses certainly run Macs but they really don't have any great centralized administration tools. Apple Remote Desktop and Open Directory aren't nearly as powerful out of the box as Active Directory and its accompanying tools. There's nothing comparable to Exchange server that I know of. MacOS is to business desktop computing in much the same way linux is...you can use it, but you need to develop the tools for administering it (or use some open source tools, etc).
We like Firefly\Serentity because we can RELATE to it better. That is the key. My nephew loves the first 3 movies and is rather 'meh' about the last 3.
Any movie or book is about what moves your emotions. If you're not moved, you're going to come away with a feeling of "meh". Episode IV had the tried and true (some would say overdone) story of a youth going on a great adventure, and with the help of a handsome and wily rogue, rescuing a princess from the dark lord. I liked it, and still like it, for the highs and lows, the humor, and for Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher's characters. Even C-3P0 and R2D2 had some great lines. The movie made me laugh ("I am not a committee!") and cringe ("Shut down all the compactors on the detention level!") and cheer ("Let's blow this thing, kid."). Episodes 1-3 did not. They only had one great scene and that was the lightsaber battle at the end of episode 1 with Darth Maul.
You can look at a modern trilogy for the same blaring difference: Pirates of the Caribbean. First one was great -- humor, wit, action, subtle glances, great characters and great lines. The next two seemed to be completely different films from the first with the same actors and costumes. Slapstick comedy ruled...all we needed was a slide trumbone and a cymbal for when Depp would fall and a laugh track. They lost all sense of what everyone enjoyed about the first one. I wouldn't even say they "dumbed it down" for the kids. They just didn't put any work into the script and relied on silly comedy and special effects. Kids appreciate humor, even subtle humor. I daresay they went from British humor (understated) to American humor (brash, in your face, "Buy a truckload today!")
If a movie makes me laugh, cry, cheer...then I generally remember it as "worth watching". If it doesn't, I forget about it pretty quickly. Firefly, to come full circle, and Serenity, had scripts that George Lucas would kill for. Never since the first Star Wars was I so enthralled with a sci-fi movie than Serenity (I saw the movie first).
I'm not certain that, outside of Ghost Hunters, humans have had any true sign that we're anything more than bags of mostly water. When we die, we go the same route as a flower, cricket, dog, or elephant. Electrical signals stop and our bodies decay. There's no light to follow, no perpetual state of dreaming. We just don't exist and never will again. Ever.
It's times like these I wish I could become a lich and keep myself alive for the very sake of fearing death. :-)
I used SelfImage recently to dd a windows 2003 box to an LVM-based virtual machine on Proxmox, a Debian-based Virtual Machine Server. Worked a treat. While I see the benefit of created a Microsoft VHD if you're an MS shop, we're a mix so being able to pump a live physical disk into a remote logical volume was great.
Dr. Simon Tam: A phrase that's encoded in her brain, that makes her fall asleep. If I speak the words, "Eta...
Jayne Cobb: Well don't say it!
Zoë: It only works on her, Jayne.
Jayne Cobb: Oh... Well, now I know that.
The original wasn't funny and I can't imagine the sequel will be any better.
As the OP, I must say that all these comments still didn't help me attain my goal of +3 Funny.
have successfully communicated with 4 out of 23 patients previously thought to be in a coma.
That's actually a better return than I get on security surveys sent to faculty...
If it were just like consumer routers, you wouldn't need a hack. Just download the manual from the web and look up the default admin password.
"Hah! I've tunneled under your foundation, broken through your basement floor, picked the lock on your basement door, and finally let myself in to join you for some refreshments and perhaps a movie."
"The front door was unlocked."
Me too...
At first I get sad thinking of younger folk using electric bikes. But there is a practical side and that is, as many have mentioned, replacing the car for commuting. If an electric bike can keep up a 15 MPH run (much faster and I wouldn't want it sharing bike paths with pedestrians and strollers), you could use it for the 5-20 mile commutes to work. I've been starting to realize just how completely absurd it is that we feel the need for 3000+ lbs of metal to cart us around. Even motorcycles are kind of ridiculous. But an electric bike that allows you to both pedal and ride...that's a decent idea.
I've got a 20 mile commute which is easy by highway, but hilly and 25 miles on a bike. I'd consider it with an electric bike though. But I'd consider it on a normal bike if I could get a bike path the whole way instead of sharing/dodging cars on the road.