Why should cost of repairs be such an issue? Standard electric motors are pretty simple devices, with only one moving part. (Similarly, jet engines are simpler than piston engines.) Compare that to the valves, injectors, pistons, oil pump, alternator, etc. of a typical car, and at least frequency of repairs should be low. Electric motors are also fairly small, at least for a given amount of torque (that's why hybrids can have two engines), so the cost of manufacture should be lower in the long run.
I may have to try something along those lines. However, I did try copying the directory to his documents folder and running it from there, and it still crashed, so there was some other administrator-level thing it needed to do. I looked for files in C:\ to see if it had been mucking about there, in which case I could change the permissions on any files it created, but none had changed recently.
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Eriogonom, when death is on the line!'"
I actually have a wired mouse and a wireless keyboard with my primary system. The monitor is on a counter, and I sit at an office-style chair. I have a small side table with sufficient room for the mouse, but when I want the keyboard I put it on my lap. Being wireless allows me easily to put it to the side most of the time.
The mouse is wired because it always stays in the same small area, and the kids can't put it somewhere I can't find it. Keyboards are rather more difficult to hide.
Try holding the Shift key down and then right clicking on the.exe file, it should give you the option to "Run as.." and then you can enter the root login information.
This works for XP Home, but requires either my presence or telling my son the password. I want this specific app given permission so I don't always have to be there.
Have the user install the program in his own filesystem space.
I had tried that, and the app still crashed on startup, worked when "Run as..." administrator. Thus I suspect it wants access to C: . A version of FileZip I have installed wants the same, but just warns of not being able to write c:\filezip.ini or something like that, rather than actually crashing. (Also, it's on exit, which means it wouldn't matter if it did crash.)
Worms 2 is an old app, and thus probably tries to save something in the program directory itself. It's certainly not alone in that regard, it's just unusual in that it crashes rather than complaining and continuing.
DVD Decryptor also requires administrative rights to get access to the DVD, that's a more modern example.
One might also want a game to have a high score table readable by all, and modifiable by the program; how could that be done in Windows?
In XP Home, is there a way to configure an individual program to run with administrator priviledges?
I have a program (Worms 2) that will crash unless run by someone with administrator priviledges. My son wants to play, I don't want to give him the "root" password. What's the equivalent of setuid?
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So, what happens to all the programmers in the world when everything goes open source and free?
What happens to the programmers when their programs are essentially done?
Seriously, I work on a commercial program, and have for ~9 years. We've been through a number of new upgrade cycles in that time, with the program getting better and better. But we're getting to the point where I'm starting to see a limit. We've already hit the point where keeping the old stuff working is more important than new features/removing weaknesses. We have some great new features for our next version. But the version after that? At some point you run out of things to add. Can you name anything important that's been added to Word in the last five years? Excel?
Videogames are much the same way. PS2 games look much better than original Playstation games, and the PS3 will further improve; but how much better can the PS4 be than the PS3?
What about swap? Seems that would still take it down relatively quickly.
Swap could be placed fairly randomly in the flash drive, since it's created so dynamically. Also, memory keeps getting large and cheaper, so perhaps you can live without swap at all. This isn't really a tech for doing large project compiles, video editing, etc.
Especially since the male ALWAYS determines the sex of the child.
I give you a bag full of red and blue marbles, with a large number of each type. You draw a marble from the bag. Who determined what color marble you drew?
Intel could be arranging to supply Apple with non-CPU chips.
Intel could conceivably be arranging to be a source for G5 or G5-compatible chips. As one of the world's largest chip manufacturers, they've got lots of resources and access to technology. It's more central to their business than chips are to IBM.
The OS X on x86 path seems the least likely to me. App writers don't want to support what is essentially another platform, nor does Apple.
There are young women who have to have one or both ovaries removed for various ailments. Each ovary could conceivably supply up to a million eggs. While it's unlikely we'd actually approach that number, a single removed ovary could provide the unfertilized eggs for a large number of stem cell ops.
But would the time necessary to carry out this process--from cloning the embryo to harvesting stem cells to growing the organ--negate the benefit for many people?
From a substantial body of experience, we know that we can go from stem cells to working organs in nine months. (Less, really, with lungs generally taking the longest.) That's not enough in some cases, but average wait for a donated kidney currently is ~1000 days, so that's a huge reduction.
They are the products of a public school system that has taught them [...] how to become pregnant
Please. The U.S. has double or more the teen pregnancy rate of Canada, England, France, and the rest of western Europe. You think they're teaching abstinence overseas? Read what one of those horrible America-haters has to say here.
The real difference from the 50's is not the teen pregnancy rate. In the 50's people married earlier, or got married when they got pregnant. People are getting married later, and hitting puberty earlier.
As for GTA vs. previous games, apparently you've never seen Deathrace 2000 or Custer's Revenge. Halo, Doom 3, Medal of Honor, etc. all still have "the lone hero tasked with saving the world from the hordes of evil scum."
As for Survivor, we're watching less TV -- or at least less network TV -- than ever. A hit now has ratings that would have called for cancellation 10 to 15 years ago. No wonder low-budget shows are spreading.
You split people into good guys and bad guys, and it sure looks like you've got Republicans=good, Democrats=bad. You're not really going to try and claim the Republicans were the leaders of the civil rights movement, are you? Ol' Strom may have been boinking a black woman, but he was also trying to run on the Segregationist platform.
And yes, I do deny this "country going downhill" crap. The closest we're coming to your "equally poor, illiterate and powerless" is again Republican-led, with their work to increase the disparity between rich and poor. Cut taxes for the rich? No problem. Cut the AMT? Oop, *that* has to be matched by tax increases elsewhere, say reducing other middle class benefits. Social Security? Oh, that should be a scheme where the middle class subsidizes the poor.
What the frell would prevent us from voting? Republican fans Diebold having control of counting the ballots?
right up till our new masters put your 'revolutionary' ass up against the wall.
"our new masters?" Who, the kids practicing urban combat playing GTA? Or have you been watching "Red Dawn" marathons again?
What the heck are you blithering about? Find ONE real representive government that we overthrew?
Iran in the early 50's were as close to democratic as any reasonably stable Middle East, primarily Islamic country we've ever seen.
How good has our intervention been in Haiti for that country? I'm not willing to declare "mission accomplished" in Iraq, there's still a long way to go.
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Why should cost of repairs be such an issue? Standard electric motors are pretty simple devices, with only one moving part. (Similarly, jet engines are simpler than piston engines.) Compare that to the valves, injectors, pistons, oil pump, alternator, etc. of a typical car, and at least frequency of repairs should be low. Electric motors are also fairly small, at least for a given amount of torque (that's why hybrids can have two engines), so the cost of manufacture should be lower in the long run.
One of my co-workers lives fairly near a gun range. He'd certainly like them to use noise suppressors.
Better watch out though, it'll cause hallucinations.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
I may have to try something along those lines. However, I did try copying the directory to his documents folder and running it from there, and it still crashed, so there was some other administrator-level thing it needed to do. I looked for files in C:\ to see if it had been mucking about there, in which case I could change the permissions on any files it created, but none had changed recently.
Really, I still want setuid.
No wonder my GF was pissed when I showed up with two more women!
What the hell are you doing on Slashdot?
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Eriogonom, when death is on the line!'"
Isn't turning off the wi-fi a technological solution?
Why would someone want a wireless keyboard?
I actually have a wired mouse and a wireless keyboard with my primary system. The monitor is on a counter, and I sit at an office-style chair. I have a small side table with sufficient room for the mouse, but when I want the keyboard I put it on my lap. Being wireless allows me easily to put it to the side most of the time.
The mouse is wired because it always stays in the same small area, and the kids can't put it somewhere I can't find it. Keyboards are rather more difficult to hide.
Try holding the Shift key down and then right clicking on the .exe file, it should give you the option to "Run as.." and then you can enter the root login information.
This works for XP Home, but requires either my presence or telling my son the password. I want this specific app given permission so I don't always have to be there.
To the best of my knowledge, XP Home does not allow you to set specific read/write permissions -- that's an XP Pro feature.
Or, what if, like what just happened with Start Wars, you've got people "sharing" the stolen material before it's even been released to the theatres.
Yeah, it doesn't look like poor George Lucas is gonna make a dime from that movie...
Have the user install the program in his own filesystem space.
I had tried that, and the app still crashed on startup, worked when "Run as..." administrator. Thus I suspect it wants access to C: . A version of FileZip I have installed wants the same, but just warns of not being able to write c:\filezip.ini or something like that, rather than actually crashing. (Also, it's on exit, which means it wouldn't matter if it did crash.)
Worms 2 is an old app, and thus probably tries to save something in the program directory itself. It's certainly not alone in that regard, it's just unusual in that it crashes rather than complaining and continuing.
DVD Decryptor also requires administrative rights to get access to the DVD, that's a more modern example.
One might also want a game to have a high score table readable by all, and modifiable by the program; how could that be done in Windows?
In XP Home, is there a way to configure an individual program to run with administrator priviledges?
I have a program (Worms 2) that will crash unless run by someone with administrator priviledges. My son wants to play, I don't want to give him the "root" password. What's the equivalent of setuid?
So, what happens to all the programmers in the world when everything goes open source and free?
What happens to the programmers when their programs are essentially done?
Seriously, I work on a commercial program, and have for ~9 years. We've been through a number of new upgrade cycles in that time, with the program getting better and better. But we're getting to the point where I'm starting to see a limit. We've already hit the point where keeping the old stuff working is more important than new features/removing weaknesses. We have some great new features for our next version. But the version after that? At some point you run out of things to add. Can you name anything important that's been added to Word in the last five years? Excel?
Videogames are much the same way. PS2 games look much better than original Playstation games, and the PS3 will further improve; but how much better can the PS4 be than the PS3?
What about swap? Seems that would still take it down relatively quickly.
Swap could be placed fairly randomly in the flash drive, since it's created so dynamically. Also, memory keeps getting large and cheaper, so perhaps you can live without swap at all. This isn't really a tech for doing large project compiles, video editing, etc.
Especially since the male ALWAYS determines the sex of the child.
I give you a bag full of red and blue marbles, with a large number of each type. You draw a marble from the bag. Who determined what color marble you drew?
Intel could be arranging to supply Apple with non-CPU chips.
Intel could conceivably be arranging to be a source for G5 or G5-compatible chips. As one of the world's largest chip manufacturers, they've got lots of resources and access to technology. It's more central to their business than chips are to IBM.
The OS X on x86 path seems the least likely to me. App writers don't want to support what is essentially another platform, nor does Apple.
There are young women who have to have one or both ovaries removed for various ailments. Each ovary could conceivably supply up to a million eggs. While it's unlikely we'd actually approach that number, a single removed ovary could provide the unfertilized eggs for a large number of stem cell ops.
That's why the original poster suggested God contacting us directly, via pillar of fire, plagues, and the like.
You're in a room with an injured, non-mobile child and a 50 lb freezer of frozen embryos when a fire breaks out. Which do you grab to rescue first?
I am more than an egg with a complete set of DNA.
But would the time necessary to carry out this process--from cloning the embryo to harvesting stem cells to growing the organ--negate the benefit for many people?
From a substantial body of experience, we know that we can go from stem cells to working organs in nine months. (Less, really, with lungs generally taking the longest.) That's not enough in some cases, but average wait for a donated kidney currently is ~1000 days, so that's a huge reduction.
why does M$ have to hide all the extranious menu options by default
Has any app tried a highlighting scheme, where the menu options get a different display treatment depending on how often they're used?
They are the products of a public school system that has taught them [...] how to become pregnant
Please. The U.S. has double or more the teen pregnancy rate of Canada, England, France, and the rest of western Europe. You think they're teaching abstinence overseas? Read what one of those horrible America-haters has to say here.
The real difference from the 50's is not the teen pregnancy rate. In the 50's people married earlier, or got married when they got pregnant. People are getting married later, and hitting puberty earlier.
As for GTA vs. previous games, apparently you've never seen Deathrace 2000 or Custer's Revenge. Halo, Doom 3, Medal of Honor, etc. all still have "the lone hero tasked with saving the world from the hordes of evil scum."
As for Survivor, we're watching less TV -- or at least less network TV -- than ever. A hit now has ratings that would have called for cancellation 10 to 15 years ago. No wonder low-budget shows are spreading.
Where the fuck did you get that from my post?
You split people into good guys and bad guys, and it sure looks like you've got Republicans=good, Democrats=bad. You're not really going to try and claim the Republicans were the leaders of the civil rights movement, are you? Ol' Strom may have been boinking a black woman, but he was also trying to run on the Segregationist platform.
And yes, I do deny this "country going downhill" crap. The closest we're coming to your "equally poor, illiterate and powerless" is again Republican-led, with their work to increase the disparity between rich and poor. Cut taxes for the rich? No problem. Cut the AMT? Oop, *that* has to be matched by tax increases elsewhere, say reducing other middle class benefits. Social Security? Oh, that should be a scheme where the middle class subsidizes the poor.
What the frell would prevent us from voting? Republican fans Diebold having control of counting the ballots?
right up till our new masters put your 'revolutionary' ass up against the wall.
"our new masters?" Who, the kids practicing urban combat playing GTA? Or have you been watching "Red Dawn" marathons again?
What the heck are you blithering about? Find ONE real representive government that we overthrew?
Iran in the early 50's were as close to democratic as any reasonably stable Middle East, primarily Islamic country we've ever seen.
How good has our intervention been in Haiti for that country? I'm not willing to declare "mission accomplished" in Iraq, there's still a long way to go.