"Loose cannon" is probably a fair label. That said, anyone who ever actually watched the Joe Rogan interview could clearly see that Musk has almost no experience with smoking pot.;) That interview was great for cracking jokes, of course.
The interview was even better for distracting the tech news world on the day Tesla's new head of auditing resigned after less than a month. I'll give it to Musk, it worked.
Are there cases where a firmware update for a shipping product replaced Linux with another operating system? I'm aware of plenty of Linksys hardware where a later revision of the "same" hardware has a totally different core and often different WiFi hardware as well, but none where it has a wholly different kernel, except maybe a slightly later one which is still Linux.
A firmware upgrade to a device replacing a kernel? Not that I know of.
A new "minor revision" with the same product name replacing the kernel? Yep, WRT54G v1-v4 ran Linux (the origin of OpenWRT), v5+ cut the RAM in half and ran VxWorks. Linksys renamed the v4 the WRT54GL and IIRC sold it for a premium over the regular WRT54G.
Something that I always found to be a design flaw should you disintegrate after you materialised the copy not before your even sure that the process worked? That way if there a fuck up the "original" is still well and alive!
If you do it this way then you will have two copies with diverging identity. The copy at the origin site will have to be, essentially, given a gun and told to shoot himself. Who will agree to that? Disintegration before transport avoids this problem because there is no duplication of consciousness.
Then you should turn in your geek card:P
(actually, I should watch less Star Trek)
I think TNG was a great show. But the points the AC made where valid, as far as I can tell.
This discussion was about how highly competent TNG's characters were at their jobs. If you stop enjoying the story and pick it apart,
you can see that they really aren't. They are as competent as they can be for the plot of the story to progress, and no more.
The episode where Barclay takes over the computer wouldn't have gone very far if the computer had been properly protected, and Geordi had been alerted about the attempt. Or the episode with the Romulan spy, where Data doesn't bother to report how she was "testing his security protocols" ie asking for information she shouldn't have. So, to cite the examples I think the AC was referring to:
Yes, the captain, who once ordered an omnipotent being not to save the life of an 8 year old girl,
The episode where Q makes Riker a Q. Picard decides that Riker shouldn't use the powers, even when said 8 year old is found dead in a cave-in.
Picard had a tendancy to play god, but justify it with pseudoscience, and then get mad when anyone else dares to play god. Or rather, the writers had some strange ideas, like an almighty omniscient deity named Evolution, which coincidentally is also the name of a scientific theory and process. For example, the people Worf's brother was living with were meant to die out, because it was all part of Evolution's holy plan that their world would become uninhabitable.
the first officer, who once tried to convince crewmembers to bully an underachieving officer,
The first episode with Barclay, and maybe more episodes later on. Barclay may not have fit in, but Riker really seemed to hate the guy for not being sociable.
the ops officer, who once wanted to kill because of the pleasure hatred gave him,
Descent. You're half right on this one, it's a "Data goes nuts" episode, but he goes nuts because he craves feelings and is willing to step on anyone to feel them again. (I know that sounds like he's already feeling "cravings", but I didn't write the episode)
the security officer, whose most famous attribute is being beaten up by aliens
Not sure about this one. Worf's Sound Advice tends to get ignored so that the ship can get into trouble, though.
The GP might have been referring to how Worf doesn't really get to fight in fights until DS9. On TNG, if he's in a fight, the plot generally requires security to lose, so something interesting can happen. If Worf won his fights, episodes would be a lot shorter. I think at least there's the one with the shape-shifter, the one with alien bugs controlling starfleet, the one where Picard is assimilated, the one with the xenophobic energy things and their fake wormhole, the one with the conditioned soldier, and the one where Troi, Data, and O'Brien are possessed. Maybe also the one where Dr. Crusher is kidnapped by the terrorists. Etc., etc. He was also beaten up by Romulans and Klingons a few times, but that's to be expected.
, the tech officer, who didn't install any anti-virus software
You don't remember the time the Enterprise computer was infected by the Iconian virus? Or the time the Bynars rewrote the ship's software so that it would do their bidding, and no one even bothered to try to check their work? Or the time that all the networked computers got some magic input and became alive? Or the time that Geordi hooked Data up to the main computer, and parts of the computer's program got replaced with bits of Data? Or the time Barclay was able to just plug himself into the computer, having the computer run his thoughts instead of his brain doing it? Those are all things I would want automated monitoring to tell me about.
The Enterprise computer got p0wned several times during the show, since Geordi didn't seem to th
Did you try KDE Plasma Active on it? I've been meaning to, but it seems like only a handful of people have. Arch looks like it has Plasma Active, so I may try that out soon.
Don't forget Xorg. GNU/Xorg/Linux? GNU/KDE/Xorg/Linux? I think that catches pretty much everything outside of/opt. It's kind of unwieldy to say, though.
(Does that also imply we should say KDE/Xorg/FreeBSD or GNU/Xorg/FreeBSD, etc.? Even better, what about people running GNOME on Mac OS or KDE on Windows?:) )
Apparently, the government pays per unit of contaminated seawater, so not separating the oil out makes the skimmers' job easier without affecting profit.
The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.
What law indicates it should be cut up?
When I was a Boy Scout, the American Legion post that chartered us disposed of flags every Flag Day, and never cut them. The Legion's official script for the ceremony makes no mention of flag parts, only draping whole flags. http://www.legion.org/flag/ceremony
I really would like to know what law you're referring to, so I can inform my old Troop and Post.
A pin is different from sewing the flag into a fabric.
Also, a common misconception is that the US Code says if a flag touches the ground you burn it. Wrong. You clean it (usually dry cleaning with what they're made of). Only worn out flags are burned.
'rules to live by', like dont eat this kind of food on this day etc are not the main focus here.
what im talking about, a total set of laws that govern all aspects of life, as i noted, from how to divide inheritance in what percentages to criminal punishments for numerous crimes.
it is a complete constutition with full criminal and civil law.
It's somewhat better now. I got it to look like this, with no center pane. Actually, the center pane is a tab on the bottom of the left pane, which I sometimes find nice.
I use Gentoo, and have Portage build some packages with ICC, including firefox.
From/etc/portage/packages.icc-cflags:
www-client/mozilla-firefox -xT -O2 -gcc -ipo -parallel -D_GCC_LIMITS_H_
I haven't tried building xulrunner with ICC.
I just meant they player doesn't have any cash to purchase things with. You don't pick up any money, you have no use for money, so there's no gain from killing them. The cloud of money is useless, unlike GTA.
Uuum, that’s an actual place in the game. If you killed the dancers, they bursted into a cloud of money, like piñatas.
And then swarms of monsters appeared. Just to point out that the game did punish players for doing that.
Also, for anyone who hasn't played DN3D, the player doesn't have money. You can't pick up the money.
Maybe I don't understand what you want, but there's a slider in the status bar that controls icon size, another in the settings that controls default icon and preview sizes, and settings for whether to replace icons with previews. And the file dialog uses a list mode and has the icon slider at a minimum by default. What is your desired behavior?
I agree with some of that. Personally, I'd like to have both a global and local search in Kate. It looks like the only way to set up a global search is to do it yourself with the external action plugin:(
the extremely hard way to drag a box with the mouse around files in the file manager
I've seen a lot of people say that, but I don't understand. Dragging a box works normally, ctrl+dragging works, what's broken?
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"Loose cannon" is probably a fair label. That said, anyone who ever actually watched the Joe Rogan interview could clearly see that Musk has almost no experience with smoking pot. ;) That interview was great for cracking jokes, of course.
The interview was even better for distracting the tech news world on the day Tesla's new head of auditing resigned after less than a month. I'll give it to Musk, it worked.
This IS Ceti Alpha 5! Actually a pretty good analogy, a lush and promising world turned barren and in ruins.
If are going to have "What do you want?", you also need "Who are you", and "Why are you here?"
They already ask "Who are your friends?" and they probably have enough information to infer "Who do you trust?"
Are there cases where a firmware update for a shipping product replaced Linux with another operating system? I'm aware of plenty of Linksys hardware where a later revision of the "same" hardware has a totally different core and often different WiFi hardware as well, but none where it has a wholly different kernel, except maybe a slightly later one which is still Linux.
A firmware upgrade to a device replacing a kernel? Not that I know of.
A new "minor revision" with the same product name replacing the kernel? Yep, WRT54G v1-v4 ran Linux (the origin of OpenWRT), v5+ cut the RAM in half and ran VxWorks. Linksys renamed the v4 the WRT54GL and IIRC sold it for a premium over the regular WRT54G.
Check out the first table in the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_WRT54G_series
Something that I always found to be a design flaw should you disintegrate after you materialised the copy not before your even sure that the process worked? That way if there a fuck up the "original" is still well and alive!
If you do it this way then you will have two copies with diverging identity. The copy at the origin site will have to be, essentially, given a gun and told to shoot himself. Who will agree to that? Disintegration before transport avoids this problem because there is no duplication of consciousness.
Or the transporter technician will end up with PTSD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Like_a_Dinosaur_(The_Outer_Limits)
I think TNG was a great show. But the points the AC made where valid, as far as I can tell. This discussion was about how highly competent TNG's characters were at their jobs. If you stop enjoying the story and pick it apart, you can see that they really aren't. They are as competent as they can be for the plot of the story to progress, and no more. The episode where Barclay takes over the computer wouldn't have gone very far if the computer had been properly protected, and Geordi had been alerted about the attempt. Or the episode with the Romulan spy, where Data doesn't bother to report how she was "testing his security protocols" ie asking for information she shouldn't have. So, to cite the examples I think the AC was referring to:
Yes, the captain, who once ordered an omnipotent being not to save the life of an 8 year old girl,
The episode where Q makes Riker a Q. Picard decides that Riker shouldn't use the powers, even when said 8 year old is found dead in a cave-in. Picard had a tendancy to play god, but justify it with pseudoscience, and then get mad when anyone else dares to play god. Or rather, the writers had some strange ideas, like an almighty omniscient deity named Evolution, which coincidentally is also the name of a scientific theory and process. For example, the people Worf's brother was living with were meant to die out, because it was all part of Evolution's holy plan that their world would become uninhabitable.
the first officer, who once tried to convince crewmembers to bully an underachieving officer,
The first episode with Barclay, and maybe more episodes later on. Barclay may not have fit in, but Riker really seemed to hate the guy for not being sociable.
the ops officer, who once wanted to kill because of the pleasure hatred gave him,
Descent. You're half right on this one, it's a "Data goes nuts" episode, but he goes nuts because he craves feelings and is willing to step on anyone to feel them again. (I know that sounds like he's already feeling "cravings", but I didn't write the episode)
the security officer, whose most famous attribute is being beaten up by aliens
Not sure about this one. Worf's Sound Advice tends to get ignored so that the ship can get into trouble, though.
The GP might have been referring to how Worf doesn't really get to fight in fights until DS9. On TNG, if he's in a fight, the plot generally requires security to lose, so something interesting can happen. If Worf won his fights, episodes would be a lot shorter. I think at least there's the one with the shape-shifter, the one with alien bugs controlling starfleet, the one where Picard is assimilated, the one with the xenophobic energy things and their fake wormhole, the one with the conditioned soldier, and the one where Troi, Data, and O'Brien are possessed. Maybe also the one where Dr. Crusher is kidnapped by the terrorists. Etc., etc. He was also beaten up by Romulans and Klingons a few times, but that's to be expected.
, the tech officer, who didn't install any anti-virus software
You don't remember the time the Enterprise computer was infected by the Iconian virus? Or the time the Bynars rewrote the ship's software so that it would do their bidding, and no one even bothered to try to check their work? Or the time that all the networked computers got some magic input and became alive? Or the time that Geordi hooked Data up to the main computer, and parts of the computer's program got replaced with bits of Data? Or the time Barclay was able to just plug himself into the computer, having the computer run his thoughts instead of his brain doing it? Those are all things I would want automated monitoring to tell me about.
The Enterprise computer got p0wned several times during the show, since Geordi didn't seem to th
Did you try KDE Plasma Active on it? I've been meaning to, but it seems like only a handful of people have. Arch looks like it has Plasma Active, so I may try that out soon.
Didn't they remove all the tolls in the western half of the state? AFAIK you only pay for the distance you covered in the Eastern half.
No, retaliation comes *after* the attack. The attack comes first.
This gives new meaning to atomic writes.
No, each of you both are and are not trolls. :)
Don't forget Xorg. GNU/Xorg/Linux? GNU/KDE/Xorg/Linux? I think that catches pretty much everything outside of /opt. It's kind of unwieldy to say, though.
:) )
(Does that also imply we should say KDE/Xorg/FreeBSD or GNU/Xorg/FreeBSD, etc.? Even better, what about people running GNOME on Mac OS or KDE on Windows?
Apparently, the government pays per unit of contaminated seawater, so not separating the oil out makes the skimmers' job easier without affecting profit.
Assuming Chris is singular, then it's Chris's brother's. Although I think both ways are considered correct now, IIRC.
I always thought it was either a GTK or GNOME guideline. KDE apps have 'configure' in the settings menu.
Because Youtube and eBay review everything users post before making it available to viewers or buyers....
The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.
What law indicates it should be cut up? When I was a Boy Scout, the American Legion post that chartered us disposed of flags every Flag Day, and never cut them. The Legion's official script for the ceremony makes no mention of flag parts, only draping whole flags. http://www.legion.org/flag/ceremony I really would like to know what law you're referring to, so I can inform my old Troop and Post.
A pin is different from sewing the flag into a fabric.
Also, a common misconception is that the US Code says if a flag touches the ground you burn it. Wrong. You clean it (usually dry cleaning with what they're made of). Only worn out flags are burned.
'rules to live by', like dont eat this kind of food on this day etc are not the main focus here.
what im talking about, a total set of laws that govern all aspects of life, as i noted, from how to divide inheritance in what percentages to criminal punishments for numerous crimes.
it is a complete constutition with full criminal and civil law.
Jewish law has those too.
It's somewhat better now. I got it to look like this, with no center pane. Actually, the center pane is a tab on the bottom of the left pane, which I sometimes find nice.
I use Gentoo, and have Portage build some packages with ICC, including firefox. From /etc/portage/packages.icc-cflags:
www-client/mozilla-firefox -xT -O2 -gcc -ipo -parallel -D_GCC_LIMITS_H_
I haven't tried building xulrunner with ICC.
I just meant they player doesn't have any cash to purchase things with. You don't pick up any money, you have no use for money, so there's no gain from killing them. The cloud of money is useless, unlike GTA.
Uuum, that’s an actual place in the game. If you killed the dancers, they bursted into a cloud of money, like piñatas.
And then swarms of monsters appeared. Just to point out that the game did punish players for doing that. Also, for anyone who hasn't played DN3D, the player doesn't have money. You can't pick up the money.
Maybe I don't understand what you want, but there's a slider in the status bar that controls icon size, another in the settings that controls default icon and preview sizes, and settings for whether to replace icons with previews. And the file dialog uses a list mode and has the icon slider at a minimum by default. What is your desired behavior?
the extremely hard way to drag a box with the mouse around files in the file manager
I've seen a lot of people say that, but I don't understand. Dragging a box works normally, ctrl+dragging works, what's broken?