Except he doesn't give two shits about trolls. He's worried about fanboys:
I can tolerate trolls as itâ(TM)s much easier to handle them. But fanboys are only there to harm you to diminish your work so that their world view doesnâ(TM)t break.
His point is that fanboys take as a given that their favorite software is perfect, and then engage in rabid apologetics to justify their position. In the face of change, they will quite literally invent reasons as to why their worldview is still correct.
Put another way: To someone who thinks "GNOME rocks => KDE sucks", nothing you can do to KDE will change their mind--it's still not GNOME, therefore it still sucks, and they'll create another justification as to why that is, forever and ever.
Since whatever purported problem isn't a real flaw, and fixing it won't make the fanboy happy, fretting over their posts is probably the worst thing you can do as a developer. And if listening to a fanboy can only do you harm, why let them derail all discussion and rob you of your chance to hear from those who can help you?
TL;DR--fanboys don't help discussion, and that's a problem if you depend on that discussion. It's not just butthurt.
At the very least account authorizations required for performing changes on production devices should require someone in house approve that authentication
I work for the "vendor" side of the equation. If we make any changes to a customer system outside this explicit, per-case authorization, we lose any limitations on liability. If we caused a downtime like in TFA, we'd be liable for up to $infinity in lost revenue, overtime, and other damages.
As Rusty says, OP absolutely, positively needs to have a change control process with teeth if it's not followed. If his organization's support contract lets the vendor off the hook for this, they got taken for an expensive ride.
With computer monitors, you're generally paying a premium for better input latencies, refresh rates, color reproduction, and ghosting. $5,000 is still on the high side, but I'd be extremely wary about replacing my monitor with a television, sight unseen.
Or perhaps they could disrupt a profitable market, sell at an appreciable margin, and make lots of money before trying to build massive, Toyota-scale factories out of nothing?
Have you tried filling your gas tank with solar, hydro, or nuclear power? It's actually pretty hard. Being able to power an electric car with anything that makes electricity is actually a benefit.
Fix your power grid.
I like the assumption that someone's supposed to buy an automobile for your benefit, and that you won't benefit anyway.
Congratulations on not only invoking race, religion, and sex within two posts (in a story about bees, no less), but also on your exceptionally obnoxious use of emoticons.
Don't sell yourself short! You already know where all the keys are, so learning to touch type won't take you long at all. Just rest your fingers on home row (index fingers on the "F" and "J" keys with the notches, thumbs on the spacebar.) Strike each key with the nearest finger, and return the hand to home row afterwards. Ta da! You're a typist. I'd be surprised if it took you longer than an afternoon to get back to your old speed, and you'll keep getting faster as you continue to type.
And don't say it's "irrelevant"--that's like some naughts gentleman wondering why anyone would pay for broadband when his AOL always worked just fine. Just change where you rest your hands, and you'll get a free broadband upgrade.
That's also true, but not insurmountable--buy a nice, bull barrel and put it on a well-machined gun.
Getting a full-auto receiver into an AR-15, on the other hand, typically needs some drilling and welding, since the ATF dislikes anything that's easily convertible to a machine gun.
Yes. My point is that it should come as a surprise to no one that fully-automatic weapons, designed to take fully-automatic trigger groups, sears, and disconnects, are easily converted to full auto. That also goes for burst-fire weapons and other "machine guns."
Yes, you can file down the sears on most other weapons, if you don't mind them instantly mag-dumping like that guy's Glock. And don't care about jamming or open breach detonations.
You're going to be hard pressed to find a gun that's easily converted to a safe, practical auto, simply because the ATF works it's darndest to ensure that those guns don't exist.
"Highly uneducated idiots?" "Lifetime supply of ammo?" Reloading supplies are also getting increasingly difficult to find, and you're going to need a lot more than a reloading turret if you want to be self-sufficient in primers, powder, and fresh cases.
What you have will likely last you until the AWB panic peters out, but you haven't thought this through any more than the pre-Connecticut "idiots" who weren't reloading 9mm.
Have you never used a BitTorrent client? Do you not know how to use Google or Wikipedia? GP is correct that the BitTorrent protocol splits files into "chunks," with peers sharing those chunks amongst themselves.
Unless you have citations otherwise, the copyright suits thus far have worked by identifying all the IP addresses in a swarm, subpoenaing their ISPs, and then sending settlement letters or suing. There's nothing magical about downloading 50.1% of a movie, or whatever the heck "majority of data representing a torrent" means.
Your definition of "art" excludes Beethoven, Rembrandt, and the Sistine Chapel. I know nobody agrees on exactly what "art" is, but, frankly, your definition sucks.
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Except he doesn't give two shits about trolls. He's worried about fanboys:
I can tolerate trolls as itâ(TM)s much easier to handle them. But fanboys are only there to harm you to diminish your work so that their world view doesnâ(TM)t break.
His point is that fanboys take as a given that their favorite software is perfect, and then engage in rabid apologetics to justify their position. In the face of change, they will quite literally invent reasons as to why their worldview is still correct.
Put another way: To someone who thinks "GNOME rocks => KDE sucks", nothing you can do to KDE will change their mind--it's still not GNOME, therefore it still sucks, and they'll create another justification as to why that is, forever and ever.
Since whatever purported problem isn't a real flaw, and fixing it won't make the fanboy happy, fretting over their posts is probably the worst thing you can do as a developer. And if listening to a fanboy can only do you harm, why let them derail all discussion and rob you of your chance to hear from those who can help you?
TL;DR--fanboys don't help discussion, and that's a problem if you depend on that discussion. It's not just butthurt.
Wrong.
At the very least account authorizations required for performing changes on production devices should require someone in house approve that authentication
I work for the "vendor" side of the equation. If we make any changes to a customer system outside this explicit, per-case authorization, we lose any limitations on liability. If we caused a downtime like in TFA, we'd be liable for up to $infinity in lost revenue, overtime, and other damages.
As Rusty says, OP absolutely, positively needs to have a change control process with teeth if it's not followed. If his organization's support contract lets the vendor off the hook for this, they got taken for an expensive ride.
With computer monitors, you're generally paying a premium for better input latencies, refresh rates, color reproduction, and ghosting. $5,000 is still on the high side, but I'd be extremely wary about replacing my monitor with a television, sight unseen.
Or perhaps they could disrupt a profitable market, sell at an appreciable margin, and make lots of money before trying to build massive, Toyota-scale factories out of nothing?
A few quibbles:
The computer can't fire the gun--it just makes the trigger incredibly hard to pull until you're on target.
The worst malware could do is let you pull the trigger regardless of your aim, which just happens to be how every other gun works.
Q: What kind of mind thinks traffic lights that don't work during blizzards without a round-the-clock crew of bulb sweeps is a good idea?
A: The same one that considers "snow" an example of American exceptionalism.
My teenage boys enjoy them and so do I
I take this to mean that there are at least three of you.
So far still count in base 10 and 2 working eyes.
Two working eyes... You should have at least six of those. O nocuous magnets!
Relax. We're laughing that "think of the children" claimed your toys, too.
Congratulations on not only invoking race, religion, and sex within two posts (in a story about bees, no less), but also on your exceptionally obnoxious use of emoticons.
4/10, 'cuz I replied.
A gunman, seeking vengeance for Aaron Swartz, unseen by anyone other than the caller, and magically disappears into thin air when police arrive?
That's not a hoax. Aaron confirmed for haunting MIT.
The difference is labor laws. In America, for example, you can actually fire someone.
I haven't seen an error like that since the Longhorn beta. I don't doubt that you ran into that problem, but "it happens a lot" is just wrong.
Don't sell yourself short! You already know where all the keys are, so learning to touch type won't take you long at all. Just rest your fingers on home row (index fingers on the "F" and "J" keys with the notches, thumbs on the spacebar.) Strike each key with the nearest finger, and return the hand to home row afterwards. Ta da! You're a typist. I'd be surprised if it took you longer than an afternoon to get back to your old speed, and you'll keep getting faster as you continue to type.
And don't say it's "irrelevant"--that's like some naughts gentleman wondering why anyone would pay for broadband when his AOL always worked just fine. Just change where you rest your hands, and you'll get a free broadband upgrade.
That's also true, but not insurmountable--buy a nice, bull barrel and put it on a well-machined gun.
Getting a full-auto receiver into an AR-15, on the other hand, typically needs some drilling and welding, since the ATF dislikes anything that's easily convertible to a machine gun.
Yes. My point is that it should come as a surprise to no one that fully-automatic weapons, designed to take fully-automatic trigger groups, sears, and disconnects, are easily converted to full auto. That also goes for burst-fire weapons and other "machine guns."
Yes, you can file down the sears on most other weapons, if you don't mind them instantly mag-dumping like that guy's Glock. And don't care about jamming or open breach detonations.
You're going to be hard pressed to find a gun that's easily converted to a safe, practical auto, simply because the ATF works it's darndest to ensure that those guns don't exist.
"Highly uneducated idiots?" "Lifetime supply of ammo?" Reloading supplies are also getting increasingly difficult to find, and you're going to need a lot more than a reloading turret if you want to be self-sufficient in primers, powder, and fresh cases.
What you have will likely last you until the AWB panic peters out, but you haven't thought this through any more than the pre-Connecticut "idiots" who weren't reloading 9mm.
The M4 or M16 can be made full auto "easily."
Christ. That's because they are full-auto. The variants that aren't have three-round burst.
Have you never used a BitTorrent client? Do you not know how to use Google or Wikipedia? GP is correct that the BitTorrent protocol splits files into "chunks," with peers sharing those chunks amongst themselves.
Unless you have citations otherwise, the copyright suits thus far have worked by identifying all the IP addresses in a swarm, subpoenaing their ISPs, and then sending settlement letters or suing. There's nothing magical about downloading 50.1% of a movie, or whatever the heck "majority of data representing a torrent" means.
So easy, a caveman could do her.
Programming? Yes, just like learning to play the piano requires a piano.
Computer science? Strictly speaking, no.
Nintendo to Europe: Go to bed.
Your definition of "art" excludes Beethoven, Rembrandt, and the Sistine Chapel. I know nobody agrees on exactly what "art" is, but, frankly, your definition sucks.
And then spit on him when he gets his first commission on DeviantArt, since apparently he's no longer an artist.