"Some cells dying so that others can grow or reproduce" isn't division of labor, it's some individual yeasts in the colony not getting the nutrients the need, and dying as a result. Just because they're clumpy doesn't make them a single creature...
20 years ago... Einstein thinks black holes should exist but most think he's nuts
Seance?
Weird seance. Just imagine a seance where scientists are gathered to ask secrets of the universe from dead scientists. The candles drop low, the room grows cold, a wind stirs the heavy velvety curtains, then suddenly the candles roar to life like welders' torches! She blinded me with seance!
If you pointed out that they remind you of one of the insane characters from Lexx's third season (Fire and Water), they'd have no idea what you're talking about.
Only because no one watched Lexx beyond one episode. Most people don't even know what it is (is it a car wax?).
No, you'd have a worse problem. Instead of just one open port for RDP with a daemon that gets regular updates and security audits from its creator, you'll have a port open for program X, another port for program Y, and another for program Z, each one without updates until you pay for the new version.
You missed the last 20 years where police departments have started supplementing their budgets with property seized from "drug dealers" (anyone with more than [a few bucks gets framed with] an ounce of pot). The public at large is now fair game.
With some programs (mentioned in my post above), getting the stats pane is semi-vital to their function. Sure, you could display that through a poorly-cobbled web page or a non-secure series of ports (one for each such program), but why not have RDP as your only weak spot?
I wasn't talking about setup.exe. I was talking about a server program that scans client computers and deploys patches or new software. I even provided an example (VMware netchk).
Windows servers need GUIs to run common third party software installation programs (vmware netchk) or AV consoles (Symantec Endpoint Protection) via RDP. Without a GUI, you'd be forced to serve up yet another port to clients to run the GUI consoles (that have tons of graphs and other things that are actually useful), or run them via a shoehorned webpage via IIS or apache (SEP already tries to do this). Do you really want unnecessarily open ports just to satisfy an urge to remove the GUI?
MS, If you're going to take away the GUI, then make the default command line powershell. And make your command line versions of programs more useful and optionally verbose.
if you know other programming languages, it's not that hard to learn a new one
1) No. For example knowing C still does not make C++ "not that hard to learn". Be an expert in Java and (modern usage of) JavaScript will still take a lot of getting used to. Grokking SQL is not helped by knowing any of the above.
2) So? Even in the rare cases where your statement is true, such as going between mutually redundant languages like C# and Java, you can't hardly actually do anything with either of those two unless you learn the GUI or web templating and database access and networking and other API's in their expansive associated class libraries. (Of which there are usually multiple of each.)
This is why I always shudder when I see the recurring "I can pick up any new language in a couple of weeks" sentiments posted to Slashdot. Maybe so, but they can't get a job in it unless it only requires coding for-loops and writing text to stdout.
If it takes you a couple weeks to learn how to do a loop and output in new syntax instead of less than a couple minutes, then you've got serious problems. C++ was extremely easy for me to learn after I had already learned C. Likewise Javascript, Perl, et al. LISP took a mental reconfiguring, but once I accepted that recursion was the norm, I took to it in less than a couple weeks. And I'm not a programmer by trade; I'm a sysadmin.
Once you know enough about one language (that there are things that allow information storage and retrieval, repetition, and branching), you'll know what to look for in the new languages and you'll spend less time on concepts and more time on syntax.
You know that China that sentences people to labor for thought crimes? That big bad China? Huge population?
The US imprisons more people than they do. That's more people, period. Also more per capita, a shit-ton more per capita, but the really scary number is plain old More. There are over a Billion Chinese! It doesn't seem possible, but it is true.
Maybe living in a free society makes people abuse their freedoms more (leading to situations that require jail). Or
How many Chinese who would normally be jailed are sold into slavery or shot and stuffed to be shown in traveling displays in other countries? How many are tortured in secret?
So its taken 30 years to hijack our government, really screw it over and sell it off one piece at a time to the highest bidder..Now there is only 1 party and it has two faces, whose only difference is who get's the welfare, poor folk or corporations..
It really confuses me how you can acknowledge that fundamental difference while saying they're both the same. A lot of their goals are the same, but to casually dismiss that is absurd.
That's because welfare (for poor or rich) isn't the goal, they're methodologies tithe end goal. Almost everyone elected to office is already rich. They don't want more money. They want Power.
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"Some cells dying so that others can grow or reproduce" isn't division of labor, it's some individual yeasts in the colony not getting the nutrients the need, and dying as a result. Just because they're clumpy doesn't make them a single creature...
The support tech closed the ticket because I doubted that something he wanted to try (flashing the BIOS...again...with the same version) would work.
The fact that he thought that would work (or was in his script) means that their DRM was planting BIOS hooks. That's pretty nasty.
It's an ice age! It's warming! It's change! It's not quite the new ethereal soup, that's dark matter.
They just don't post stupid questions to message boards because they RTFM.
Also, Superman doesn't really live in New York City,
We know that. He lives in Metropolis. Duh.
20 years ago... Einstein thinks black holes should exist but most think he's nuts
Seance?
Weird seance. Just imagine a seance where scientists are gathered to ask secrets of the universe from dead scientists. The candles drop low, the room grows cold, a wind stirs the heavy velvety curtains, then suddenly the candles roar to life like welders' torches! She blinded me with seance!
I knew Pons's father, and he was a fraudster
One of my ancestors was a horse thief, and another was a despot. Am I thus both of those things?
Wouldn't this cause it to rain more?
Quite possibly. And rain filled with sulfur to boot. Acid rain, anyone?
Could using sea water remove significantly more salt from the oceans?
24 million gallons of water is a drop in the ocean to the oceans.
Forget everything you've heard about carbon. Water vapor will be the poster child for environmental disaster in 2025.
If you pointed out that they remind you of one of the insane characters from Lexx's third season (Fire and Water), they'd have no idea what you're talking about.
Only because no one watched Lexx beyond one episode. Most people don't even know what it is (is it a car wax?).
No, you'd have a worse problem. Instead of just one open port for RDP with a daemon that gets regular updates and security audits from its creator, you'll have a port open for program X, another port for program Y, and another for program Z, each one without updates until you pay for the new version.
You missed the last 20 years where police departments have started supplementing their budgets with property seized from "drug dealers" (anyone with more than [a few bucks gets framed with] an ounce of pot). The public at large is now fair game.
FTFY
If they are stealing laptops and iPhones, why wouldn't they pocket much less traceable loose change?
With some programs (mentioned in my post above), getting the stats pane is semi-vital to their function. Sure, you could display that through a poorly-cobbled web page or a non-secure series of ports (one for each such program), but why not have RDP as your only weak spot?
I wasn't talking about setup.exe. I was talking about a server program that scans client computers and deploys patches or new software. I even provided an example (VMware netchk).
Windows servers need GUIs to run common third party software installation programs (vmware netchk) or AV consoles (Symantec Endpoint Protection) via RDP. Without a GUI, you'd be forced to serve up yet another port to clients to run the GUI consoles (that have tons of graphs and other things that are actually useful), or run them via a shoehorned webpage via IIS or apache (SEP already tries to do this). Do you really want unnecessarily open ports just to satisfy an urge to remove the GUI?
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/kenya/
Google-Kenya caught misbehaving in Kenya.
MS, If you're going to take away the GUI, then make the default command line powershell. And make your command line versions of programs more useful and optionally verbose.
if you know other programming languages, it's not that hard to learn a new one
1) No. For example knowing C still does not make C++ "not that hard to learn". Be an expert in Java and (modern usage of) JavaScript will still take a lot of getting used to. Grokking SQL is not helped by knowing any of the above.
2) So? Even in the rare cases where your statement is true, such as going between mutually redundant languages like C# and Java, you can't hardly actually do anything with either of those two unless you learn the GUI or web templating and database access and networking and other API's in their expansive associated class libraries. (Of which there are usually multiple of each.)
This is why I always shudder when I see the recurring "I can pick up any new language in a couple of weeks" sentiments posted to Slashdot. Maybe so, but they can't get a job in it unless it only requires coding for-loops and writing text to stdout.
If it takes you a couple weeks to learn how to do a loop and output in new syntax instead of less than a couple minutes, then you've got serious problems. C++ was extremely easy for me to learn after I had already learned C. Likewise Javascript, Perl, et al. LISP took a mental reconfiguring, but once I accepted that recursion was the norm, I took to it in less than a couple weeks. And I'm not a programmer by trade; I'm a sysadmin.
Once you know enough about one language (that there are things that allow information storage and retrieval, repetition, and branching), you'll know what to look for in the new languages and you'll spend less time on concepts and more time on syntax.
Now where are the ruby worlds?
You know that China that sentences people to labor for thought crimes? That big bad China? Huge population? The US imprisons more people than they do. That's more people, period. Also more per capita, a shit-ton more per capita, but the really scary number is plain old More. There are over a Billion Chinese! It doesn't seem possible, but it is true.
Maybe living in a free society makes people abuse their freedoms more (leading to situations that require jail). Or
How many Chinese who would normally be jailed are sold into slavery or shot and stuffed to be shown in traveling displays in other countries? How many are tortured in secret?
So its taken 30 years to hijack our government, really screw it over and sell it off one piece at a time to the highest bidder..Now there is only 1 party and it has two faces, whose only difference is who get's the welfare, poor folk or corporations..
It really confuses me how you can acknowledge that fundamental difference while saying they're both the same. A lot of their goals are the same, but to casually dismiss that is absurd.
That's because welfare (for poor or rich) isn't the goal, they're methodologies tithe end goal. Almost everyone elected to office is already rich. They don't want more money. They want Power.
"It'll never happen again. You know I love you baby. Just come back home to me. I won't beat you that badly ever again."
When somebody is offering you a carrot then simply bending over backwards is sending the wrong signal.
When somebody is offering you a carrot, then bending over forward is sending the wrong signal too.