In the Windows world you can override other things using GPOs, but it's too much of a pain from the admin side (I've found, as have my coworkers over the years) to try and lock down developer machines by removing local admin rights. I've got better things to do than schedule up a time to install things via an account with local admin rights every time something new comes along for them.
The flip side is that they have greater responsibility for maintaining their desktop/laptop systems. If it gets screwed up enough, they know they're getting the thing re-imaged with the company standard desktop image and will need to reinstall their tools they use for their personal dev environment.
Works out pretty well, aside form the devs that install absolutely everything they come across, "Oooh that looks cool! [installs][never uses again]". They can be a pain.
He's essentially evolving slowly into the new Sagan, in a way. He is personable, funny and can boil complex scientific concepts down to street level. Pretty cool. The little bit where he wouldn't leave the Green Room on The Daily Show (or Conan O'Brien?) until he got done with his Rubik's Cube was hilarious.
Heh, yeah. Mine was so old the most "advanced" bit was a very small solar panel on it. I was quite enamored of the fact that you could make the little lightbulb turn on and off just by putting your thumb over the panel.
Because I had one of those Radio Shack 150-in-one project kits and I played with that for years. I can't claim that it helped me in my digital logic and system design class, but still...
They did, indeed, have the ability to do underwater launches.
This armchair cool military technology nerd (i.e. "me") saw an interesting documentary about submarines during the cold war a month or two back.
Putin (and his proxies/surrogates) feel the need to make the other major powers feel that Russia is not irrelevant in the post-war world, so they do stuff like this all the time.
I grew up in a different way, but same environment. My sister (2 years younger) and I were best buds until I got to the age of about 9 and she was 7, then we diverged two different ways, she got into sports and I got into BBSes (and later MUD/MUSH/MUSEs). Most of the folks on them were college aged, obviously, but I was able to "enter their world" because I'd wardialed the whole local BBS listing and found an open telnet prompt.
Until the age of 20-21 I rarely interacted with anyone who was my age or younger, and when I went off to college (spent 2 years at a local community college) it was very weird being in a peer group that was almost all younger than me by a few years (but popular due to the fact I could buy booze).
But, the end result was still that I had to learn social norms the "hard way", because by the time I started spending large amounts of time interacting socially in "meatspace", it was difficult to me to intuit cues like a child often does when socialized "normally".
Pretty much. I'd like to know what sort of psychological mechanism makes (some) adults entirely forget the sort of raunchy, crazy things they did and talked about as a kid.
No, but her concern was misplaced. If she was truly concerned about "other people" she would have asked if he was alright. She was more concerned with trivialities than the actual state of her fellow human.
While you progress towards valid points, keep in mind that violent crime has been trending down for 20 years now. While people "back then" may not have worried about the psychopathic pedophile behind every rock, it's ironic that these days folks are more worried about it, even though its less likely to happen to any given individual.
- If its spinning the pattern would probably be roughly symmetrical. the dude from Bad Astronomy noted that he's seen rockets do that sort of thing before
- Which makes it more likely that its something mundane like a rocket
- Russia apparently routinely uses the Baltic Sea for testing, and notifies Norway so that no one freaks out (it's not like it's only a few feet from Russia to Norway across the Baltic)
- It's (intelligently) noted that the altitude of the cloud makes it quite likely the light is sunlight (in spite of the dismissal by the non-scientific article).
Back in the day, DAoC (iirc, anyway) did a thing about midway through its popular life where once you got a Lvl 70 character, you could roll a new character that started at 50 of any class. That was a very, very welcome feature.
I'm sure you know that the "static ship models" actually are animated, that line-of-sight needs to be calculated whenever there's natural or artificial structures in place, and that the relative positioning of PCs and NPCs have to be calculated, anyway, right?
It's further complicated by the fact that "terrorists" often don't represent a state (or state-like) actor.
The convenient thing, from a classification point of view, was that with 9/11 there was actually a state that could be held responsible (and we promptly removed its existing government).
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In the Windows world you can override other things using GPOs, but it's too much of a pain from the admin side (I've found, as have my coworkers over the years) to try and lock down developer machines by removing local admin rights. I've got better things to do than schedule up a time to install things via an account with local admin rights every time something new comes along for them.
The flip side is that they have greater responsibility for maintaining their desktop/laptop systems. If it gets screwed up enough, they know they're getting the thing re-imaged with the company standard desktop image and will need to reinstall their tools they use for their personal dev environment.
Works out pretty well, aside form the devs that install absolutely everything they come across, "Oooh that looks cool! [installs][never uses again]". They can be a pain.
That's cuz squid are mean little bitches.
He's essentially evolving slowly into the new Sagan, in a way. He is personable, funny and can boil complex scientific concepts down to street level. Pretty cool. The little bit where he wouldn't leave the Green Room on The Daily Show (or Conan O'Brien?) until he got done with his Rubik's Cube was hilarious.
May more advanced than the one I got, that's for sure. There's no springs at the terminals or anything!!
Heh, yeah. Mine was so old the most "advanced" bit was a very small solar panel on it. I was quite enamored of the fact that you could make the little lightbulb turn on and off just by putting your thumb over the panel.
Because I had one of those Radio Shack 150-in-one project kits and I played with that for years. I can't claim that it helped me in my digital logic and system design class, but still...
They did, indeed, have the ability to do underwater launches.
This armchair cool military technology nerd (i.e. "me") saw an interesting documentary about submarines during the cold war a month or two back.
Putin (and his proxies/surrogates) feel the need to make the other major powers feel that Russia is not irrelevant in the post-war world, so they do stuff like this all the time.
Reduced opportunity to be "harmed" in some generically defined way, or reduced opportunity for kids to be normal kids?
I grew up in a different way, but same environment. My sister (2 years younger) and I were best buds until I got to the age of about 9 and she was 7, then we diverged two different ways, she got into sports and I got into BBSes (and later MUD/MUSH/MUSEs). Most of the folks on them were college aged, obviously, but I was able to "enter their world" because I'd wardialed the whole local BBS listing and found an open telnet prompt.
Until the age of 20-21 I rarely interacted with anyone who was my age or younger, and when I went off to college (spent 2 years at a local community college) it was very weird being in a peer group that was almost all younger than me by a few years (but popular due to the fact I could buy booze).
But, the end result was still that I had to learn social norms the "hard way", because by the time I started spending large amounts of time interacting socially in "meatspace", it was difficult to me to intuit cues like a child often does when socialized "normally".
Pretty much. I'd like to know what sort of psychological mechanism makes (some) adults entirely forget the sort of raunchy, crazy things they did and talked about as a kid.
No, but her concern was misplaced. If she was truly concerned about "other people" she would have asked if he was alright. She was more concerned with trivialities than the actual state of her fellow human.
While you progress towards valid points, keep in mind that violent crime has been trending down for 20 years now. While people "back then" may not have worried about the psychopathic pedophile behind every rock, it's ironic that these days folks are more worried about it, even though its less likely to happen to any given individual.
- If its spinning the pattern would probably be roughly symmetrical. the dude from Bad Astronomy noted that he's seen rockets do that sort of thing before
- Which makes it more likely that its something mundane like a rocket
- Russia apparently routinely uses the Baltic Sea for testing, and notifies Norway so that no one freaks out (it's not like it's only a few feet from Russia to Norway across the Baltic)
- It's (intelligently) noted that the altitude of the cloud makes it quite likely the light is sunlight (in spite of the dismissal by the non-scientific article).
Back in the day, DAoC (iirc, anyway) did a thing about midway through its popular life where once you got a Lvl 70 character, you could roll a new character that started at 50 of any class. That was a very, very welcome feature.
They had that sort of arrangement in Dark Age of Camelot, as well. For my money, no one has done realm vs realm as well as Mythic did in that game.
Sadly, they were unable to repeat the success with Warhammer, for a variety of reasons.
I'm sure you know that the "static ship models" actually are animated, that line-of-sight needs to be calculated whenever there's natural or artificial structures in place, and that the relative positioning of PCs and NPCs have to be calculated, anyway, right?
EVE is not a casual game, that's for sure. They're quite happy not being a game that caters to everyone, at that.
No, a couple beers (no matter how you define it in empirical numbers) didn't do any of that. Irresponsible people did all of that.
Until you find a way to legislate all irresponsibility, inexperience, and risk out of the human world, you're going to be very disappointed.
And MADD isn't an organization for preventing drunk driving, they're neo-prohibitionists attempting to get sobriety required throughout the US.
As for taking a cab, that's all well and good, but if you find a cheap cab ride that isn't downtown in a major metropolis, let us all know.
It's further complicated by the fact that "terrorists" often don't represent a state (or state-like) actor.
The convenient thing, from a classification point of view, was that with 9/11 there was actually a state that could be held responsible (and we promptly removed its existing government).
You know vhat she'll say
"something we can transplant??"
If I hadn't started this, I'd mod this up.
If you're lazily drinking, you're not even drinking 3-4 beers in an hour.
I think people have an odd idea of what "casual drinking" is, around here.
Just one more piece of evidence that proves I like TOS Star Trek more than is probably healthy.
Who knows, it could just be a piece of pre-animate matter caught in the matrix.
No, it won't. Unless by "a couple of beers" you mean "12", and by "you" you mean, "someone who is anorexic."
You gotta drink pretty deliberately to get a .08
Havin' some beers when you're on call won't impair your ability to drive or respond on-call, assuming you're not 16.