Actually, you can't. That's the point of UAC. It's a "secure" interface that under no conditions can take any input from anything other than a connected input device. No synthetic events or hooks available.
Not quite the same. Science could also include a story about an asteroid hitting earth, or a new galaxy discovered. Which wouldn't be tagged with "whatcouldpossiblygowrong", and wouldn't show up in a search. And you'd more easily find what you're looking for, if you're the kind of person who wants to search for those kinds of new, cutting-edge engineering and science developments.
The parent shouldn't be funny, it should be insightful. It didn't change much of anything if you looked at it rationally, but since when was politics rational?
He wasn't much of an engineer then. The LD50 of warfarin rat poison is something like 50-500mg/kg. A LOT, especially considering it'd have to be absorbed through the skin wounds or whatnot, rather than the effects being minimal because the chemical would be more or less instantly bled out by someone wounded enough to actually be exposed to significant levels of it. Not to mention there are more than the anticoagulant styles of rat-poison, so he'd have to make sure he got the right stuff. Metal phosphide poisons react with the acids in the stomachs, so that's not gonna do a whole lot in blood, which is actually very slightly basic (7.35-7.45 in a normal person).
I'm not saying that he wasn't a bastard... I'm just saying that he just threw stuff together without a lot of thought. Which means he wasn't much of an engineer to begin with, which kind of negates the point of this article (which I haven't read... full disclosure and all:)).
I would suggest you're wrong about agnostics and atheists. There are people who are agnostic and call themselves atheists, but that's not the majority. Most atheists are well aware of the distinction between those belief "states", and have chosen their camp in light of this (possibly excepting atheists who are so because they don't believe a loving god can allow the horrors of life to happen). The answer to the question "Is there a supernatural supreme being?" is the same as the answers to "Is evolution a fact?" and "Does gravity exist?". We have no direct proof of evolution or gravity or their mechanisms, but all the evidence points to "no". So the working theory, as a scientist, is that evolution is the mechanism in which life changes, gravity keeps us on the ground as the un-resolved 4th fundamental force, and no, there is no god.
Whereas an english lit major or graphic designer or similar folks are (at least in my experience) way more likely to tell you to go fuck yourself if you try to order them around. Seriously, tell a teacher that you want to design an explosive belt that you can wear into a mall and kill as many people and they'll just be horrified -- tell an average engineer that, and even if they reach poorly they'll still start thinking in the back of their head about how to do that. Guess we better start herding up them engineers and sending them to gitmo. Me? I'm just a redneck, yessiree, don' mind me... I think I saw a few engineers 'round back, though.
That'll fill the whole drive with random noise. Wear-leveling doesn't do much when the drive is completely full. You could even do it multiple times if you cared, but you don't have the magnetic side-effects of storage with flash that you do with traditional magnetic hard drives.
I keep in "lock step" with the crowd because Vista has yet to provide a compelling reason to move to it.
Benefits: Aero, DX10, "new" Detriments: DRM, high memory requirement, UAC, unfamiliarity, many apps need upgraded or replaced, high price, ultimate has failed to deliver, unusable for businesses, network issues, file management issues...
Nope. Can't see a compelling reason to "upgrade". Even if I did "give it a chance", why? Why should I have to upgrade a computer that's a little over a year old in order to adequately run an OPERATING SYSTEM, whose primary purpose is to allow other applications to run?
I'm not buying it. Just because everyone agrees with me doesn't mean that we're all falling into "groupthink" territory. Perhaps everyone just independently agrees that it's bad, including Microsoft fans?
So... you're saying that Vista runs great if you throw top-of-the-line hardware at it? Hell, I have a laptop that was near top of the line a little over a year ago, and it doesn't even have 4GB of RAM, or any SD cards for ReadyBoost. Try that machine with XP... it'll FLY. Or Linux even. Just because Vista is fast on new hardware does NOT mean that it's an efficiently designed OS. When you're running as many cycles through there as you are, you don't notice the tons that are wasted.
If you're gonna recommend Vista, at least throw in the caution that you have to have a machine that you paid over $1500US for in the last year.
It's a great analogy. If you mistakenly toss something in the trash can, you can pull it out before the cleaning staff comes through. After that though? You're SOL. The trash can is a TEMPORARY safety net. It's not a space to quickly "archive" things by pressing the Delete key. If you want to archive your email, archive it properly.
that's just H.264 vs MPEG-2. Which I will concede is a better encoding format. But there's still not the massive leap in functionality for Blu-Ray over DVD that DVD had over VHS. Which is why I keep my video on my hard drive.
Just existing and doing the same thing without actually improving your skills isn't like real life. Unless you're in a union job or flipping burgers, like the parent said.
It doesn't sound like your parents were true hippies;) Progressive maybe, but not hippies. Hippies generally conjure up images of "do whatever feels good, man". Your parents, on the other hand, sound a lot like mine, which would mean they're responsible, intelligent people. Which means that 90% of the population is shut out of that category right away.
This needs to be modded up. Lots of people think along these lines, same with cartoons are only for kids (hint to parents: there's a LOT of anime that's not safe for kids. Or anyone for that matter). And because they don't do it, no one should.
More than just Lego, give them a hammer and nails and such. Building something really helps with the spatial awareness, planning and design, etc. Lego is great (I have 3 popcorn tins full myself), but it's like a free-form puzzle where all the pieces still fit. Actually building things is a good lesson in free-form thought in general, as well as mechanical skills that will serve them for their whole life. Let them know they don't have to pay a plumber or repairman to simply fix a leaky faucet or a hole in a wall.
The Wii is nice because it can play a lot of flash games along with all the Wii games. Kid friendly flash games with something easier to use than a mouse is nice.
Hell, Mario Brothers demonstrably makes a great game, but a poor movie;) Not to mention Mortal Kombat (great soundtrack, but that's about it).
Games are just a new form of media, and should be treated as such. If your kid never goes outside and gets exercise because s/he's always reading a book, that's just as unhealthy as if they were always playing a video game, or always watching TV, or whatever. Balance and moderation are the key, as well as maturity. Just like driver's licenses, even though the law says 16, I knew some kids who I would trust driving at 14, and I know some 40 year olds and it scares the hell out of me that they still have their licenses.
At least the RIAA acknowledges that it's a corporation in it for profit, rather than trying to masquerade as a religion to get out of paying taxes or being subject to "laws"
What taxes? You aren't paying for gasoline or car taxes, and you still use the road on your bike or while walking. Seems he's paying for your ability to do those activities, too. You have no grounds to bitch, whereas he does. He's already shouldering a burden of taxes for your car-free lifestyle, you want him to pay more now?
Because now they're paying more than the cost of the road's repair and upkeep, as well as build cost. It's now a profit center for the state, rather than a publicly subsidized, public service as it should be. I pay taxes to help keep up the roads in numerous neighborhoods I will never drive in... should we implement some kind of horribly convoluted and expensive system so that I can only pay for the roads I actually use?
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Actually, you can't. That's the point of UAC. It's a "secure" interface that under no conditions can take any input from anything other than a connected input device. No synthetic events or hooks available.
That said, I still hate Vista.
Not quite the same. Science could also include a story about an asteroid hitting earth, or a new galaxy discovered. Which wouldn't be tagged with "whatcouldpossiblygowrong", and wouldn't show up in a search. And you'd more easily find what you're looking for, if you're the kind of person who wants to search for those kinds of new, cutting-edge engineering and science developments.
The parent shouldn't be funny, it should be insightful. It didn't change much of anything if you looked at it rationally, but since when was politics rational?
He wasn't much of an engineer then. The LD50 of warfarin rat poison is something like 50-500mg/kg. A LOT, especially considering it'd have to be absorbed through the skin wounds or whatnot, rather than the effects being minimal because the chemical would be more or less instantly bled out by someone wounded enough to actually be exposed to significant levels of it. Not to mention there are more than the anticoagulant styles of rat-poison, so he'd have to make sure he got the right stuff. Metal phosphide poisons react with the acids in the stomachs, so that's not gonna do a whole lot in blood, which is actually very slightly basic (7.35-7.45 in a normal person).
:)).
I'm not saying that he wasn't a bastard... I'm just saying that he just threw stuff together without a lot of thought. Which means he wasn't much of an engineer to begin with, which kind of negates the point of this article (which I haven't read... full disclosure and all
I would suggest you're wrong about agnostics and atheists. There are people who are agnostic and call themselves atheists, but that's not the majority. Most atheists are well aware of the distinction between those belief "states", and have chosen their camp in light of this (possibly excepting atheists who are so because they don't believe a loving god can allow the horrors of life to happen). The answer to the question "Is there a supernatural supreme being?" is the same as the answers to "Is evolution a fact?" and "Does gravity exist?". We have no direct proof of evolution or gravity or their mechanisms, but all the evidence points to "no". So the working theory, as a scientist, is that evolution is the mechanism in which life changes, gravity keeps us on the ground as the un-resolved 4th fundamental force, and no, there is no god.
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdf bs=512K
That'll fill the whole drive with random noise. Wear-leveling doesn't do much when the drive is completely full. You could even do it multiple times if you cared, but you don't have the magnetic side-effects of storage with flash that you do with traditional magnetic hard drives.
Dunno, the Mafia seems to have trouble with computers. I'd be most worried about the KGB or NSA, not the Mafia.
Naah. It's a directory that's a single line-feed ;)
I keep in "lock step" with the crowd because Vista has yet to provide a compelling reason to move to it.
Benefits: Aero, DX10, "new"
Detriments: DRM, high memory requirement, UAC, unfamiliarity, many apps need upgraded or replaced, high price, ultimate has failed to deliver, unusable for businesses, network issues, file management issues...
Nope. Can't see a compelling reason to "upgrade". Even if I did "give it a chance", why? Why should I have to upgrade a computer that's a little over a year old in order to adequately run an OPERATING SYSTEM, whose primary purpose is to allow other applications to run?
I'm not buying it. Just because everyone agrees with me doesn't mean that we're all falling into "groupthink" territory. Perhaps everyone just independently agrees that it's bad, including Microsoft fans?
I take it you've never taken the subway or a bus?
So... you're saying that Vista runs great if you throw top-of-the-line hardware at it? Hell, I have a laptop that was near top of the line a little over a year ago, and it doesn't even have 4GB of RAM, or any SD cards for ReadyBoost. Try that machine with XP... it'll FLY. Or Linux even. Just because Vista is fast on new hardware does NOT mean that it's an efficiently designed OS. When you're running as many cycles through there as you are, you don't notice the tons that are wasted.
If you're gonna recommend Vista, at least throw in the caution that you have to have a machine that you paid over $1500US for in the last year.
It's a great analogy. If you mistakenly toss something in the trash can, you can pull it out before the cleaning staff comes through. After that though? You're SOL. The trash can is a TEMPORARY safety net. It's not a space to quickly "archive" things by pressing the Delete key. If you want to archive your email, archive it properly.
Yeah. As a cheap up-converting DVD player. I doubt that more than half of those will ever see an actual HD-DVD placed in them.
that's just H.264 vs MPEG-2. Which I will concede is a better encoding format. But there's still not the massive leap in functionality for Blu-Ray over DVD that DVD had over VHS. Which is why I keep my video on my hard drive.
Just existing and doing the same thing without actually improving your skills isn't like real life. Unless you're in a union job or flipping burgers, like the parent said.
It doesn't sound like your parents were true hippies ;) Progressive maybe, but not hippies. Hippies generally conjure up images of "do whatever feels good, man". Your parents, on the other hand, sound a lot like mine, which would mean they're responsible, intelligent people. Which means that 90% of the population is shut out of that category right away.
This needs to be modded up. Lots of people think along these lines, same with cartoons are only for kids (hint to parents: there's a LOT of anime that's not safe for kids. Or anyone for that matter). And because they don't do it, no one should.
More than just Lego, give them a hammer and nails and such. Building something really helps with the spatial awareness, planning and design, etc. Lego is great (I have 3 popcorn tins full myself), but it's like a free-form puzzle where all the pieces still fit. Actually building things is a good lesson in free-form thought in general, as well as mechanical skills that will serve them for their whole life. Let them know they don't have to pay a plumber or repairman to simply fix a leaky faucet or a hole in a wall.
The Wii is nice because it can play a lot of flash games along with all the Wii games. Kid friendly flash games with something easier to use than a mouse is nice.
Without understanding the cogs, you can't ever build an engine.
Hell, Mario Brothers demonstrably makes a great game, but a poor movie ;) Not to mention Mortal Kombat (great soundtrack, but that's about it).
Games are just a new form of media, and should be treated as such. If your kid never goes outside and gets exercise because s/he's always reading a book, that's just as unhealthy as if they were always playing a video game, or always watching TV, or whatever. Balance and moderation are the key, as well as maturity. Just like driver's licenses, even though the law says 16, I knew some kids who I would trust driving at 14, and I know some 40 year olds and it scares the hell out of me that they still have their licenses.
At least the RIAA acknowledges that it's a corporation in it for profit, rather than trying to masquerade as a religion to get out of paying taxes or being subject to "laws"
What taxes? You aren't paying for gasoline or car taxes, and you still use the road on your bike or while walking. Seems he's paying for your ability to do those activities, too. You have no grounds to bitch, whereas he does. He's already shouldering a burden of taxes for your car-free lifestyle, you want him to pay more now?
Because now they're paying more than the cost of the road's repair and upkeep, as well as build cost. It's now a profit center for the state, rather than a publicly subsidized, public service as it should be. I pay taxes to help keep up the roads in numerous neighborhoods I will never drive in... should we implement some kind of horribly convoluted and expensive system so that I can only pay for the roads I actually use?