/what/? I run make all the time on systems where I don't even have the/option/ of running sudo, much less have to actually do it. What the hell is wrong with your code? How in the world could that be required?
As others have said...the "problem" you're describing is *exactly the farking point of UAC* - it's *intentional*. of course the context is different - that is almost completely the entire design concept of UAC, and as an infosec and 20+ year UNIX guy, I personally appreciate UAC in windows when I'm forced to use that OS (which is all too often). UAC isn't a bad thing, it's a *good* thing. And if you can't get your program to work with UAC, either you're bad at design, or your program shouldn't exist.
So you don't have any games like Bioshock (1, 2, infinite), Mass Effect (1, 2, 3), Dragon Age (origins, 2, inquisition), Witcher (1, 2, upcoming 3), etc? For games like those, it would be like saying you own a few movies, and you think they're just fine to watch over and over. In a RPG like Mass Effect, where it's like being an interactive movie that plays for 24-36hrs. No matter how great such games are, there's a limit to the number of times one can play it - mostly *because* they're so engaging. A simple game like simcity or such, of which you don't become a part? Sure, play it daily for a decade. Not all of us like the same type game as you, perhaps.
for a moment there, my brain processed the headline as "Michael Stonebraker passes Turing Test." Given how forgetful my wife claims I am, I then wondered if perhaps I had forgotten a couple of decades, and we were in some sort of future where we couldn't tell the difference between androids and humans anymore.
Then I took my second sip of coffee. I think today might be less productive, yet more entertaining, than I had predicted.
"This isn't being forced on anyone" - because it's in pilot phase, and they haven't yet had their lawyers and PR folks work out how to slip it past people without them knowing/caring. They're also trying to float the idea of it being a "feature" temporarily, to try to come up with a way to convince people it's a value-add (much easier than hiding it). Eventually though - maybe in as little as 6 months - it will be forced on everyone. Of that, you should be certain.
Do you *need* beer? Do you *need* steak vrs a bowl of red beans and rice? A nice bed in a comfortable house, instead of some straw on the floor of a cave? 99.99% of your life is "luxury." That said, I have had the Samsung Gear Fit since last fall (my previous phone was stolen just days after the S5 Active came out, so I got it and the Gear Fit). I've found the watch to be extremely helpful in many ways, and have even regained my very lost habit of occassionally checking my watch (I went what, almost 15 years without one) to actually know what time it is. Then there's the sleep patterns, exercise tracking, etc...
It has *everything* to do with the complaint. They certify a breed. The clone is *not* a perfect equivalent, and will have problems that the parents did not impart, and that the original did not have. The primary (secondary, and tertiary) point of having a certified bloodline is to be able to have certainty of particular traits, and consistency. A clone won't have that - they'll have new, unique problems. Or maybe they'll be ok, but their children will have problems. Allowing them in as equal status *does* go against the entire (ethically highly questionable) purpose of the breed registry.
"(i.e., a perfect copy of a previous, 'natural-born' horse)" - it's not that. Not at all. Even if the horse lives, and seems to have a healthy life, and breeds...its children could have problems. Or maybe the clone will just be fine for 5 years, and suddenly have problems.
Your dna/ages/ in a sense. Unless you're cloning an infant, there are differences...and even then really, since even an infant has lost telomeres, and a variety of other things. If you cloned a blastocyst, it would probably be ok. Anything after that...problems occur, and we don't yet fully know why. More importantly, we don't know how to test for the potential problems, since we don't have a complete picture of what causes them. It is correct to exclude clones, in as much as it can be correct to worry about breed purity in the first place. You do understand that fields such as epigenetics and cloning in general are pretty much in their own infancy right now, right?
without saying the words, I was describing waterfall versus agile. If you come in from another field, you'll be doing waterfall. Then you haven't been corrupted by agile, thus you're still able to be a functional member of a team.
in all other engineering since the dawn of time, the engineer was presented a set of requirements, they then drafted a design they felt described the fulfillment of those requirements and presented it to the interested parties. Those parties agreed to it, then the engineer set to work completing the design documentation. Then junior engineers and workers would fulfill that design documentation. Then someone would make sure that the finished product still met the original requirements. Then everyone would go home.
Nowadays, CS grads are told that code writers are the only people who need to know anything about the product - they can start their own products, imagine new requirements along the way, document little to nothing, and never actually release something - just have snapshots of the code base they at a whim bequeath to the mere mortals scrambling at their feet.
Whenever I'm in the hiring seat, I give *substantial* preference to those who have done real things in their lives - things where communicating and meeting expectations were key, and where your efforts would be judged and evaluated. Anything from bar-tending to construction, really. Or maybe organized team sports, acting, music...? But a person that has done nothing other than flit around SF after a CS degree? No way in hell. So an EE over a CS? Heck yeah. Easier to teach a couple languages to a person who understands how to design things, than it is to un-teach stuff.
"read only" on those floppies was accomplished via a little plastic (physical) tab that could be toggled back and forth. A hole was either present, or not present, when a light attempted to shine through it and be seen on the other side. That mechanism was also hacked and subverted early on in floppy history
this - as a person with a parkinsonian disorder myself, mice and anything else with motion sensors (grrr...all phones) have become increasingly annoying and unproductive. While it takes some training, voice control can restore that productivity
I'm just staring at your comment and blinking, because...wow. Even if I ignore #1&2, #3..."and is typically only an issue for calendaring and scheduling." How about queuing? How about clustering? How about expiration of millions of things (tokens, certs, leases, etc). How about practically everything your computer is doing? Unless you're meaning to say that everything really does boil down to "calendaring" and "scheduling," and you're not just making some Outlook comment. If timing wasn't important, there wouldn't be circuits dedicated to keeping it, on practically every electronic device on the planet.
you, know - you're right. Instead of having a simple, lightweight protocol that keeps time accurate across the globe, to the tiniest portion of a second...we should have every single time-sensitive thing on every single machine everywhere re-write their own time service. That way, not only will everything suddenly become substantially more noisy, but risk factors will go through the roof and code complexity across all of the IT universe will dramatically increase! Or, we could just use the tiny, lightweight, extremely accurate tool that's been doing it very well for decades. Damn, such hard decisions...
gosh darn you, stealing my comment before I knew the thread existed...but yeah. Solutions looking for problems, problems looking for elimination. Redhat got me to drop out of being a member of several FUGs, even as someone who had gone to several FUDCons. Then everyone else jumped in (fark you upstart). So yeah, now I'm FreeBSD, having gone Linux in 93. I'll take non-binary logs, being able to recover from a failing startup, and actually controlling my system...thanks. Gosh, I guess I lost 2 seconds (not really, SSD anyone?)
this. Just because there are hundreds of thousands of people looking for tech jobs, doesn't mean there can't also be hundreds of thousands of tech jobs. Unless we're just going to pretend tech jobs don't have particular unique skill sets...
I know it's a bit late in life, but I was thinking about learning how to make mead. I know it's a bit late in life, but I was thinking about training to run a marathon. I know it's a bit late in life, but I met this woman and we've decided to get married...
You don't have to be the world's best at something, just to do it at all. There's a certain generation of geeks I guess that grew up playing particular games (modern warfare and the like) where those who weren't in the top tier would have a hard time having much fun at all playing with those who were - but that's not how most of life works. Do something for enjoyment and for enrichment, not to be the best at it. Extreme capitalism doesn't have to apply to anything, much less your everyday life.
err...what? (does google image search of chess conventions) ummm...what? The only images that have girls in them at all, much less at as anywhere near a third or more of the population, are images for cosplay where they're playing "human chess" at a convention. The conventions actually for chess...not so much.
There is certainly a segment of the population that really enjoys games like Witcher, Skyrim, and etc - game modding is a big thing now. Having understood engines and toolkits makes that a lot easier, obviously - and yeah, put something in the license that mods can be adopted and merged by the game publisher, so long as some credit is given? Or heck, DOTA was just a mod for Warcraft 3, if I recall correctly...now it's a game on it's own. Sometimes mods just get that popular, I guess. I do wish that somehow, the various studios could create a few standards on things upon which they all agree, and get it to where games could be more about the content, and less about re-inventing a wheel. It's not like the movie industry has to re-invent cameras and video editing every time they make a movie, after all.
there are no "white" pixels on your screen. There's a backlight, sure, but that's applied to the entire screen, to adjust brightness. Color saturation at extremely high levels is black. At extremely low levels, it's white. That there is blue, is immaterial - give it extreme low color saturation with even just blue, it becomes white. There is an extreme difference between seeing something in person, and seeing something on a computer monitor where two degrees of artificial filtration are occurring due to technological limitations.
And for the record, I saw blue and the brown/orange color used in the old cammo. I didn't see white:P
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/what/? I run make all the time on systems where I don't even have the /option/ of running sudo, much less have to actually do it. What the hell is wrong with your code? How in the world could that be required?
As others have said...the "problem" you're describing is *exactly the farking point of UAC* - it's *intentional*. of course the context is different - that is almost completely the entire design concept of UAC, and as an infosec and 20+ year UNIX guy, I personally appreciate UAC in windows when I'm forced to use that OS (which is all too often). UAC isn't a bad thing, it's a *good* thing. And if you can't get your program to work with UAC, either you're bad at design, or your program shouldn't exist.
PS - Witcher3 is said to have 200+ hours of content. Short attention span? huh?
So you don't have any games like Bioshock (1, 2, infinite), Mass Effect (1, 2, 3), Dragon Age (origins, 2, inquisition), Witcher (1, 2, upcoming 3), etc? For games like those, it would be like saying you own a few movies, and you think they're just fine to watch over and over. In a RPG like Mass Effect, where it's like being an interactive movie that plays for 24-36hrs. No matter how great such games are, there's a limit to the number of times one can play it - mostly *because* they're so engaging. A simple game like simcity or such, of which you don't become a part? Sure, play it daily for a decade. Not all of us like the same type game as you, perhaps.
for a moment there, my brain processed the headline as "Michael Stonebraker passes Turing Test." Given how forgetful my wife claims I am, I then wondered if perhaps I had forgotten a couple of decades, and we were in some sort of future where we couldn't tell the difference between androids and humans anymore.
Then I took my second sip of coffee. I think today might be less productive, yet more entertaining, than I had predicted.
"This isn't being forced on anyone" - because it's in pilot phase, and they haven't yet had their lawyers and PR folks work out how to slip it past people without them knowing/caring. They're also trying to float the idea of it being a "feature" temporarily, to try to come up with a way to convince people it's a value-add (much easier than hiding it). Eventually though - maybe in as little as 6 months - it will be forced on everyone. Of that, you should be certain.
Do you *need* beer? Do you *need* steak vrs a bowl of red beans and rice? A nice bed in a comfortable house, instead of some straw on the floor of a cave? 99.99% of your life is "luxury." That said, I have had the Samsung Gear Fit since last fall (my previous phone was stolen just days after the S5 Active came out, so I got it and the Gear Fit). I've found the watch to be extremely helpful in many ways, and have even regained my very lost habit of occassionally checking my watch (I went what, almost 15 years without one) to actually know what time it is. Then there's the sleep patterns, exercise tracking, etc...
so and should be or?
It has *everything* to do with the complaint. They certify a breed. The clone is *not* a perfect equivalent, and will have problems that the parents did not impart, and that the original did not have. The primary (secondary, and tertiary) point of having a certified bloodline is to be able to have certainty of particular traits, and consistency. A clone won't have that - they'll have new, unique problems. Or maybe they'll be ok, but their children will have problems. Allowing them in as equal status *does* go against the entire (ethically highly questionable) purpose of the breed registry.
"(i.e., a perfect copy of a previous, 'natural-born' horse)" - it's not that. Not at all. Even if the horse lives, and seems to have a healthy life, and breeds...its children could have problems. Or maybe the clone will just be fine for 5 years, and suddenly have problems.
Your dna /ages/ in a sense. Unless you're cloning an infant, there are differences...and even then really, since even an infant has lost telomeres, and a variety of other things. If you cloned a blastocyst, it would probably be ok. Anything after that...problems occur, and we don't yet fully know why. More importantly, we don't know how to test for the potential problems, since we don't have a complete picture of what causes them. It is correct to exclude clones, in as much as it can be correct to worry about breed purity in the first place. You do understand that fields such as epigenetics and cloning in general are pretty much in their own infancy right now, right?
without saying the words, I was describing waterfall versus agile. If you come in from another field, you'll be doing waterfall. Then you haven't been corrupted by agile, thus you're still able to be a functional member of a team.
I'm not seeing people with a passion for doing software well, I'm seeing people who want to be superstars and want to be part of the Next Big Thing.
in all other engineering since the dawn of time, the engineer was presented a set of requirements, they then drafted a design they felt described the fulfillment of those requirements and presented it to the interested parties. Those parties agreed to it, then the engineer set to work completing the design documentation. Then junior engineers and workers would fulfill that design documentation. Then someone would make sure that the finished product still met the original requirements. Then everyone would go home.
Nowadays, CS grads are told that code writers are the only people who need to know anything about the product - they can start their own products, imagine new requirements along the way, document little to nothing, and never actually release something - just have snapshots of the code base they at a whim bequeath to the mere mortals scrambling at their feet.
Whenever I'm in the hiring seat, I give *substantial* preference to those who have done real things in their lives - things where communicating and meeting expectations were key, and where your efforts would be judged and evaluated. Anything from bar-tending to construction, really. Or maybe organized team sports, acting, music...? But a person that has done nothing other than flit around SF after a CS degree? No way in hell. So an EE over a CS? Heck yeah. Easier to teach a couple languages to a person who understands how to design things, than it is to un-teach stuff.
"read only" on those floppies was accomplished via a little plastic (physical) tab that could be toggled back and forth. A hole was either present, or not present, when a light attempted to shine through it and be seen on the other side. That mechanism was also hacked and subverted early on in floppy history
this - as a person with a parkinsonian disorder myself, mice and anything else with motion sensors (grrr...all phones) have become increasingly annoying and unproductive. While it takes some training, voice control can restore that productivity
did you install your DOS6.22 from floppy, or were you an alien? If you installed from floppy, why is it that you think it couldn't have had a virus?
I'm just staring at your comment and blinking, because...wow. Even if I ignore #1&2, #3..."and is typically only an issue for calendaring and scheduling." How about queuing? How about clustering? How about expiration of millions of things (tokens, certs, leases, etc). How about practically everything your computer is doing? Unless you're meaning to say that everything really does boil down to "calendaring" and "scheduling," and you're not just making some Outlook comment. If timing wasn't important, there wouldn't be circuits dedicated to keeping it, on practically every electronic device on the planet.
you, know - you're right. Instead of having a simple, lightweight protocol that keeps time accurate across the globe, to the tiniest portion of a second...we should have every single time-sensitive thing on every single machine everywhere re-write their own time service. That way, not only will everything suddenly become substantially more noisy, but risk factors will go through the roof and code complexity across all of the IT universe will dramatically increase! Or, we could just use the tiny, lightweight, extremely accurate tool that's been doing it very well for decades. Damn, such hard decisions...
gosh darn you, stealing my comment before I knew the thread existed...but yeah. Solutions looking for problems, problems looking for elimination. Redhat got me to drop out of being a member of several FUGs, even as someone who had gone to several FUDCons. Then everyone else jumped in (fark you upstart). So yeah, now I'm FreeBSD, having gone Linux in 93. I'll take non-binary logs, being able to recover from a failing startup, and actually controlling my system...thanks. Gosh, I guess I lost 2 seconds (not really, SSD anyone?)
this. Just because there are hundreds of thousands of people looking for tech jobs, doesn't mean there can't also be hundreds of thousands of tech jobs. Unless we're just going to pretend tech jobs don't have particular unique skill sets...
ah, well, I hadn't factored that in - you must be correct, that's likely what is occurring.
I know it's a bit late in life, but I was thinking about learning how to make mead. I know it's a bit late in life, but I was thinking about training to run a marathon. I know it's a bit late in life, but I met this woman and we've decided to get married...
You don't have to be the world's best at something, just to do it at all. There's a certain generation of geeks I guess that grew up playing particular games (modern warfare and the like) where those who weren't in the top tier would have a hard time having much fun at all playing with those who were - but that's not how most of life works. Do something for enjoyment and for enrichment, not to be the best at it. Extreme capitalism doesn't have to apply to anything, much less your everyday life.
err...what? (does google image search of chess conventions) ummm...what? The only images that have girls in them at all, much less at as anywhere near a third or more of the population, are images for cosplay where they're playing "human chess" at a convention. The conventions actually for chess...not so much.
There is certainly a segment of the population that really enjoys games like Witcher, Skyrim, and etc - game modding is a big thing now. Having understood engines and toolkits makes that a lot easier, obviously - and yeah, put something in the license that mods can be adopted and merged by the game publisher, so long as some credit is given? Or heck, DOTA was just a mod for Warcraft 3, if I recall correctly...now it's a game on it's own. Sometimes mods just get that popular, I guess. I do wish that somehow, the various studios could create a few standards on things upon which they all agree, and get it to where games could be more about the content, and less about re-inventing a wheel. It's not like the movie industry has to re-invent cameras and video editing every time they make a movie, after all.
there are no "white" pixels on your screen. There's a backlight, sure, but that's applied to the entire screen, to adjust brightness. Color saturation at extremely high levels is black. At extremely low levels, it's white. That there is blue, is immaterial - give it extreme low color saturation with even just blue, it becomes white. There is an extreme difference between seeing something in person, and seeing something on a computer monitor where two degrees of artificial filtration are occurring due to technological limitations. And for the record, I saw blue and the brown/orange color used in the old cammo. I didn't see white :P