Darn -- I wish I hadn't let my mod-points expire. The choices are hard though -- troll, or overrated? I wouldn't call it a flame, and overrated is overused. But it doesn't feel like a troll so much. If you could mod yourself, how would you rate your comment?
I see. So the Admin user makes a folder and, while being admin, tries to copy a file into that folder which the admin has write permission, but the file is rejected anyway. That is unexpected behavior and would be quite maddening. I take back my previous comment.
I don't get your complaint. You are essentially saying that if one user creates a folder, all other users should be able to have write access to it automatically? That sounds like a security issue to me and I'd think the correct behavior would be for the file owner to intentionally give the appropriate "group" and "other" permissions in the event the owner wants to open up the folder. Till then, it should be restricted. I don't use Windows, but the behavior you describe is what I'd expect an OS to do, and sounds like something MS got right.
You can argue that mp3s appeal to the ear only as opposed to cassettes (or even vinyl for that matter) that appeal to the ears, eyes, touch and if you're weird like me, then even taste and smell.
While I am totally happy to have my entire music collection on a device about the size of a single cassette, and I in no way long for a return to cassette tapes, I will say this: I find it much harder to recall the name of the artist/song of new music I buy. When I bought records or CDs in my youth, playing a song meant grabbing the album, seeing the picture on the album, looking at the sleeve/booklet, touching the disc, and putting it on or in the player. Now, I have practically no visual or tactile connection with the media and as a result, on a number of occasions I have had to scroll through every artist in my playlist hoping that running across the name by doing a brute force "read every name" search will trigger enough to get me in the right direction. I find it much harder to remember new artist names and new song names without the additional cues you mention. Maybe it's just age, but I've always been bad at names, good at faces. Still, the thought of lugging around 50 pounds of CDs, or hundreds of pounds of records, makes me treasure my mp3 device, even if I have to give up my search and put it on random play.
I don't really understand the "letter to the judge" part. Absent an issue with a party abusing motion practice, any motion should be considered and nobody has a right to say a party can't file a motion. The other party is totally free to argue that the motion is bogus of course, and if the motion is defective for procedural reasons, it can be denied on that basis. Nothing is stopping the RIAA from filing a response saying the motion should be denied, and I suppose the letter could be considered an informal response, but if it isn't shared with the other party, then it is unethical and improper communication with a judge.
I wish we had more info on what this "letter to the judge" thing means.
Are you seriously suggesting that a person can judge speed 35000 ft over the ocean, at night in a storm by looking out the window? You are a complete idiot coward and I hope you don't work on anything more complicated than French Fries.
This sounds like it may be a combination of faulty sensors (pitot tubes), crashing computers, newer pilots being more oriented to automated flying than manual flying, and cost saving training cut backs on what to do when things go wrong.
As people age, they often realize that many of their youthful decisions, which seemed so correct at the time, were not such great ideas afterall. It's a natural part of growing up and the basis for the often heard cliche, "I if I knew then what I know now..." Any person who gets to 40 and feels that he or she has made only correct decisions in life, probably has some sort of diagnosable condition because nobody does everything perfectly all the time.
I'm not exactly clear why this guy ought to be put in jail. He had some bad thoughts.
Who else has bad thoughts?
Movie and TV producers who make media featuring simulated murder, robbery, or other criminal behavior.
Video game producers who make games featuring simulated murder, car jacking, or other criminal behavior.
Authors who write books featuring simulated...
You get the point. Why should someone be punished for imagining something? As long as nobody is actually harmed in the making of fiction, it's just fiction. As soon as we make fiction illegalh, we will definitely have come into the age of the Thought Police.
You sound like the guy who needs to look inside the new MacBook Pros and figure out how to put an additional battery in the space for the DVD drive. Make it a nice package deal with an aluminum usb shell for the removed DVD (for most people, a DVD in a shell would be fine because the reality is that most people don't use their DVDs all that much, but most people use their laptop unplugged frequently). It would rock to have 12 or 14 hours of battery life.
Now get cracking -- I want a laptop I can use all day unplugged! $175-200 would seem a reasonable price for an extra battery/DVD shell combo package, as long as the shell doesn't look like junk. No blue LEDs please.
They don't. They can print clearly in their warranty document that using third party batteries invalidates the warranty. If the computer is sophisticated enough to know that a third party battery is being used, it's sophisticated enough to change a flag the repair tech can read off the device. Problem solved, and everyone (except Panasonic's battery division) is happy.
No. Rights are human constructs. People are not born with rights. We are born with certain biological desires and as we grow, we develop additional learned desires. Societies have evolved as a way to ensure that at least some of our biological and learned desires are met, but mere existence is meaningless with respect to rights. We have rights because as a group, we've decided that each of us individually is better off if the whole group is better off. In other words, we've developed rules to benefit the herd.
With respect to water, it may be that it makes sense to ensure clean water for everyone, because lower disease rates as a direct result of a clean water supply means less chance of a disease for any of the people making the decision to provide clean water. That's just enlightened self-interest. It is also enlightened self-interest to provide free speech, free presses, etc. etc. But the notion that any of these are inherent to the biological existence of a human is silly unless you subtract a couple hundred years of science from our collective consciousness.
Just wait till the third world comes looking at the excessively luxurious lifestyle of garbagemen.
The fact is, there aren't enough resources to go around. People are basically like yeast. Yeast turns wort into beer until the excrement of yeast colony kills itself off. We are just smart yeast -- smart enough to make cool stuff, and not smart enough to stop our exponential growth. Anyway, if we could keep population in reasonable limits, it might be OK to say health care is a basic right. Till we solve that problem, health care is just a means to exacerbating our problems and using up our resources all that much faster till our entire colony collapses.
I'm not fabulously wealth, six feet tall, and I don't look like I spent the last eight years working out 6 hours per day. Some people have advantages. Some people don't. There is nothing inherently wrong about that, it's just a fact of life.
John Hancock. Point out how he tried to hide even though the consequence for his actions meant death if the British picked him up in a traffic stop while speeding in his buggy.
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Darn -- I wish I hadn't let my mod-points expire. The choices are hard though -- troll, or overrated? I wouldn't call it a flame, and overrated is overused. But it doesn't feel like a troll so much. If you could mod yourself, how would you rate your comment?
I see. So the Admin user makes a folder and, while being admin, tries to copy a file into that folder which the admin has write permission, but the file is rejected anyway. That is unexpected behavior and would be quite maddening. I take back my previous comment.
I don't get your complaint. You are essentially saying that if one user creates a folder, all other users should be able to have write access to it automatically? That sounds like a security issue to me and I'd think the correct behavior would be for the file owner to intentionally give the appropriate "group" and "other" permissions in the event the owner wants to open up the folder. Till then, it should be restricted. I don't use Windows, but the behavior you describe is what I'd expect an OS to do, and sounds like something MS got right.
While I am totally happy to have my entire music collection on a device about the size of a single cassette, and I in no way long for a return to cassette tapes, I will say this: I find it much harder to recall the name of the artist/song of new music I buy. When I bought records or CDs in my youth, playing a song meant grabbing the album, seeing the picture on the album, looking at the sleeve/booklet, touching the disc, and putting it on or in the player. Now, I have practically no visual or tactile connection with the media and as a result, on a number of occasions I have had to scroll through every artist in my playlist hoping that running across the name by doing a brute force "read every name" search will trigger enough to get me in the right direction. I find it much harder to remember new artist names and new song names without the additional cues you mention. Maybe it's just age, but I've always been bad at names, good at faces. Still, the thought of lugging around 50 pounds of CDs, or hundreds of pounds of records, makes me treasure my mp3 device, even if I have to give up my search and put it on random play.
A little? Feels like a lot to me.
You had a dog? We were so poor, we had to eat the dog.
Solution: Better guests.
Nice assumption. Again: 35000 ft, pitch black, stormy, over the ocean (flat, no point of reference). I hope you work with Onion Rings.
I don't really understand the "letter to the judge" part. Absent an issue with a party abusing motion practice, any motion should be considered and nobody has a right to say a party can't file a motion. The other party is totally free to argue that the motion is bogus of course, and if the motion is defective for procedural reasons, it can be denied on that basis. Nothing is stopping the RIAA from filing a response saying the motion should be denied, and I suppose the letter could be considered an informal response, but if it isn't shared with the other party, then it is unethical and improper communication with a judge.
I wish we had more info on what this "letter to the judge" thing means.
Are you seriously suggesting that a person can judge speed 35000 ft over the ocean, at night in a storm by looking out the window? You are a complete idiot coward and I hope you don't work on anything more complicated than French Fries.
This sounds like it may be a combination of faulty sensors (pitot tubes), crashing computers, newer pilots being more oriented to automated flying than manual flying, and cost saving training cut backs on what to do when things go wrong.
As people age, they often realize that many of their youthful decisions, which seemed so correct at the time, were not such great ideas afterall. It's a natural part of growing up and the basis for the often heard cliche, "I if I knew then what I know now ..." Any person who gets to 40 and feels that he or she has made only correct decisions in life, probably has some sort of diagnosable condition because nobody does everything perfectly all the time.
Shoulda previewed. That should be: So in order to NOT be taken advantage of, one must let the government take inappropriate advantage?
So in order to be taken advantage of, one must let the government take inappropriate advantage?
Who else has bad thoughts?
You get the point. Why should someone be punished for imagining something? As long as nobody is actually harmed in the making of fiction, it's just fiction. As soon as we make fiction illegalh, we will definitely have come into the age of the Thought Police.
You sound like the guy who needs to look inside the new MacBook Pros and figure out how to put an additional battery in the space for the DVD drive. Make it a nice package deal with an aluminum usb shell for the removed DVD (for most people, a DVD in a shell would be fine because the reality is that most people don't use their DVDs all that much, but most people use their laptop unplugged frequently). It would rock to have 12 or 14 hours of battery life.
Here's an inside shot: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-13-Inch-Unibody/814/1
Take a look at step five for the space.
Now get cracking -- I want a laptop I can use all day unplugged! $175-200 would seem a reasonable price for an extra battery/DVD shell combo package, as long as the shell doesn't look like junk. No blue LEDs please.
They don't. They can print clearly in their warranty document that using third party batteries invalidates the warranty. If the computer is sophisticated enough to know that a third party battery is being used, it's sophisticated enough to change a flag the repair tech can read off the device. Problem solved, and everyone (except Panasonic's battery division) is happy.
A vasectomy is the best decision you could ever make. 3-4 days of discomfort. A lifetime removal of one serious cause of anxiety.
I should have put some text in the body and not just the title. I find it sad that even nerds aren't immune to racism.
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I've no mod points and wish I did. Excellent post.
No. Rights are human constructs. People are not born with rights. We are born with certain biological desires and as we grow, we develop additional learned desires. Societies have evolved as a way to ensure that at least some of our biological and learned desires are met, but mere existence is meaningless with respect to rights. We have rights because as a group, we've decided that each of us individually is better off if the whole group is better off. In other words, we've developed rules to benefit the herd.
With respect to water, it may be that it makes sense to ensure clean water for everyone, because lower disease rates as a direct result of a clean water supply means less chance of a disease for any of the people making the decision to provide clean water. That's just enlightened self-interest. It is also enlightened self-interest to provide free speech, free presses, etc. etc. But the notion that any of these are inherent to the biological existence of a human is silly unless you subtract a couple hundred years of science from our collective consciousness.
Just wait till the third world comes looking at the excessively luxurious lifestyle of garbagemen.
The fact is, there aren't enough resources to go around. People are basically like yeast. Yeast turns wort into beer until the excrement of yeast colony kills itself off. We are just smart yeast -- smart enough to make cool stuff, and not smart enough to stop our exponential growth. Anyway, if we could keep population in reasonable limits, it might be OK to say health care is a basic right. Till we solve that problem, health care is just a means to exacerbating our problems and using up our resources all that much faster till our entire colony collapses.
Well put. Too bad you'll be "overrated" down to zero.
I'm not fabulously wealth, six feet tall, and I don't look like I spent the last eight years working out 6 hours per day. Some people have advantages. Some people don't. There is nothing inherently wrong about that, it's just a fact of life.
John Hancock. Point out how he tried to hide even though the consequence for his actions meant death if the British picked him up in a traffic stop while speeding in his buggy.