What they need is an ultimate computer (perhaps an M-5 unit) to do these dangerous things so that mankind need no longer die in mines. Perhaps Colossus can manage it, ushering in the human era. The City of Domes seems to work pretty well, at least for a few years.
New technologies are coming at an amazing pace. Perhaps instead of fearing the disruptions these new technologies cause, we can start finding ways to moderate the disruptive effects. After all, I'm pretty sure my bread started out at one of those dark Satanic mills. My car was doubtless assembled at least in part by a robot which did not kill all humans. Unlike my lunch, I'm pretty sure my weekly check was never touched by human hands.
Starting out with mining - a dangerous and traditionally not very rewarding career choice - strikes me as a good thing. Of course, I've never worked in a mine but then again I never wanted to either. Next thing you know, these machines will be working our farm fields, taking jobs away from honest hard-working illegal immigrants. Thanks to machines, we may no longer need that wall!
A shame we can't find a way to impress the memory engrams of our POTUS-erect on the circuits of a computer. The torrential flood of illogic would doubtless prove fascinating.
Just to say - I thought about disabling/removing my FB account about a couple months ago. Upon realizing that would leave everything I had posted or which was posted to my wall visible, I manually deleted each post, each wall post, etc.
It took me over a month to get everything from 2012 thru now. My wife double-checked my work, as the first time I thought I'd gotten everything it turns out FB was (accidentally? intentionally?) holding out on me, almost as though some piece of code detected what I was doing and chose to stop showing me everything in my history.
Uh . . . what about those of us who consider the Holy Scriptures to be the first and last word? I'm not into polytheism, let alone religious revisionism.
I don't feel like deploying a RADIUS server at home - it'd be nice if some router came with effective wifi encryption out of the box. Given a reasonable and secure solution, I'm sure M$ and 'NIX types would be happy to write the appropriate drivers to support it.
2) Get Windows to tell you your product key and reinstall Windows (after all, since it came with the computer, you paid for it). I doubt M$ will bake in "Net Nanny", even with the religious right fundies getting their undies in a knot.
Not any more. Have you looked at who's going to head the Environmental Petroleum Agency starting next year? Coal may not be petroleum, but I'm sure the EPA will conclude that coal is no more environmentally unfriendly than petroleum.
It's a shame that the Electoral College doesn't function as designed . . . but now that this is over, perhaps we can get on to the proper channel - the impeachment of Donald Trump. Despite his assertions, the blatant money-grab which is his coming Presidency is not lawful and should not be permitted.
You're right - the county should ensure that its employees can make only the most minimal use of the web, and only for the specific purpose of performing their work related duties. Laptops should not be issued and their use prohibited, and the use of personal mobile equipment (including smart phones) should be absolutely banned. Also, all county employees should be required to obtain a Bachelor's degree in Information Processing within two years of being hired, regardless of their capacity within county government.
The first is that there are a great many excellent games already available on the Android and iPhone platforms which were written from the ground up to take advantage of the hardware while minimizing the hardware's limitations (hint - most cell phones don't have anything as tactile as a joystick/joypad/t-pad).
The second is that a lot of the people using these games remember side-scrolling eight-bit gaming from their childhood - if at all - and to them, any variation on the Mario theme is likely to seem quaint, antiquated, unfinished. Minecraft was the sole recent exception to this trend - otherwise, you need a lot of polygons and at least a sixteen-bit deep soundtrack to even get anybody's attention.
Nintendo may have been the once and future video game company once (Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. took more than a few quarters out of my pocket in the day), but I guess that doesn't mean what it used to. Someone should tell the folks at Nintendo!
I sure hope so. They're a corporate, profit-making entity, a fact which they've never attempted to hide or disavow. If there is a benefit to be had from open source, they'll take full advantage of that benefit - hopefully to the mutual benefit of their bottom line and the open source community.
This sort of behavior got Herr Drumpf elected, but it isn't doing you any good here. If you will insist on dwelling on the past, we of the present will be more than happy to leave you there.
If this is your only use for an olive branch, I'll be more than happy to stop offering it. However, I doubt very seriously that you will find anyone else here even remotely interested in giving you even this much benefit of the doubt. Really - my comments were the closest I've seen here (aside from your own) to even remotely according you the respect of a peer.
But never mind - I'll stop. After all, a simple Windows hostfile manager is hardly the solution to all the worlds ills - and if yours continues to languish in obscurity because you do not understand civilized behavior, who am I to object? After all, I've never seen your solution in use in an enterprise environment and don't expect to - because no competent IT professional could recommend its use in an enterprise environment, not if it comes with the baggage of someone such as yourself attached.
Let me know when you understand the difference between friend and foe, won't you? I'd rather hoped you were learning to behave like an adult, but I see you're more like our President-erect.
The FBI is as stupid as the dullest of them - and as keen as the smartest among them. They may be somewhat malign, but they are not "clowns", and they (arguably) provide a net good. I suspect that the vast majority of FBI agents are well-intentioned, highly educated professionals. Their collective mistakes tend to be real lulus, and they've made more than a few of them; it seems to me wiser to seek to improve them than it is to denigrate and antagonize them.
To rephrase: if the FBI isn't the premier law enforcement agency we would desire, it'll be more effective to improve them than it is to replace them - and regardless of their blunders, we really can't do without them.
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Also a goat-thumper, or are you still sticking to sheep?
(with apologies to the LGBTQ community)
APK didn't make the list. Oh, well - maybe next year?
Except maybe Hitler, or over six centuries worth of Roman Catholic Popes.
Not all the acid in Berkeley could make Trump look sane. Just sayin'.
New technologies are coming at an amazing pace. Perhaps instead of fearing the disruptions these new technologies cause, we can start finding ways to moderate the disruptive effects. After all, I'm pretty sure my bread started out at one of those dark Satanic mills. My car was doubtless assembled at least in part by a robot which did not kill all humans. Unlike my lunch, I'm pretty sure my weekly check was never touched by human hands.
Starting out with mining - a dangerous and traditionally not very rewarding career choice - strikes me as a good thing. Of course, I've never worked in a mine but then again I never wanted to either. Next thing you know, these machines will be working our farm fields, taking jobs away from honest hard-working illegal immigrants. Thanks to machines, we may no longer need that wall!
A shame we can't find a way to impress the memory engrams of our POTUS-erect on the circuits of a computer. The torrential flood of illogic would doubtless prove fascinating.
So how do I score my FB videos?
It took me over a month to get everything from 2012 thru now. My wife double-checked my work, as the first time I thought I'd gotten everything it turns out FB was (accidentally? intentionally?) holding out on me, almost as though some piece of code detected what I was doing and chose to stop showing me everything in my history.
Good enough for me! Sounds like good, trustworthy science.
So . . . Preventing Congress-critters from live streaming our government in action will somehow protect freedom of speech for US subjectscitizens?
You should get your new from DJT's Twitter feed, like everyone else that matters.
APK, is that you?
Otherwise, how will we ever know what POTUS is thinking right now?
"Embrace. Extend. Extinguish."
Uh . . . what about those of us who consider the Holy Scriptures to be the first and last word? I'm not into polytheism, let alone religious revisionism.
I don't feel like deploying a RADIUS server at home - it'd be nice if some router came with effective wifi encryption out of the box. Given a reasonable and secure solution, I'm sure M$ and 'NIX types would be happy to write the appropriate drivers to support it.
2) Get Windows to tell you your product key and reinstall Windows (after all, since it came with the computer, you paid for it). I doubt M$ will bake in "Net Nanny", even with the religious right fundies getting their undies in a knot.
Not any more. Have you looked at who's going to head the Environmental Petroleum Agency starting next year? Coal may not be petroleum, but I'm sure the EPA will conclude that coal is no more environmentally unfriendly than petroleum.
It's a shame that the Electoral College doesn't function as designed . . . but now that this is over, perhaps we can get on to the proper channel - the impeachment of Donald Trump. Despite his assertions, the blatant money-grab which is his coming Presidency is not lawful and should not be permitted.
You're right - the county should ensure that its employees can make only the most minimal use of the web, and only for the specific purpose of performing their work related duties. Laptops should not be issued and their use prohibited, and the use of personal mobile equipment (including smart phones) should be absolutely banned. Also, all county employees should be required to obtain a Bachelor's degree in Information Processing within two years of being hired, regardless of their capacity within county government.
Where do you get your news - 100percentfedup.Com?
The second is that a lot of the people using these games remember side-scrolling eight-bit gaming from their childhood - if at all - and to them, any variation on the Mario theme is likely to seem quaint, antiquated, unfinished. Minecraft was the sole recent exception to this trend - otherwise, you need a lot of polygons and at least a sixteen-bit deep soundtrack to even get anybody's attention.
Nintendo may have been the once and future video game company once (Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. took more than a few quarters out of my pocket in the day), but I guess that doesn't mean what it used to. Someone should tell the folks at Nintendo!
I sure hope so. They're a corporate, profit-making entity, a fact which they've never attempted to hide or disavow. If there is a benefit to be had from open source, they'll take full advantage of that benefit - hopefully to the mutual benefit of their bottom line and the open source community.
If this is your only use for an olive branch, I'll be more than happy to stop offering it. However, I doubt very seriously that you will find anyone else here even remotely interested in giving you even this much benefit of the doubt. Really - my comments were the closest I've seen here (aside from your own) to even remotely according you the respect of a peer.
But never mind - I'll stop. After all, a simple Windows hostfile manager is hardly the solution to all the worlds ills - and if yours continues to languish in obscurity because you do not understand civilized behavior, who am I to object? After all, I've never seen your solution in use in an enterprise environment and don't expect to - because no competent IT professional could recommend its use in an enterprise environment, not if it comes with the baggage of someone such as yourself attached.
Let me know when you understand the difference between friend and foe, won't you? I'd rather hoped you were learning to behave like an adult, but I see you're more like our President-erect.
To rephrase: if the FBI isn't the premier law enforcement agency we would desire, it'll be more effective to improve them than it is to replace them - and regardless of their blunders, we really can't do without them.