This means we get to "look forward" to Windows Classic, doesn't it? I suppose it won't be all bad... just like Coke Classic, Windows also tastes like shoe leather tanning fluid.
Sure, but how do you figure out which engineers are smart and which ones aren't? The answer is usually one of the following:
1. Their CV/resume and interviews - self-marketing
2. Hearing about their work from somewhere else - getting someone else to market you
The entire point of marketing is to show people that you have a product to sell - it's up to them to determine whether or not it's worth buying. No product, no sale. Crappy product, initial sale, but quickly thrown out of the company.
We need to learn that marketing is not a four-letter word.
My problem wasn't with the wireless chipset - the problem I had when I attempted to install it was that it wouldn't boot. My understanding is that certain Compaq laptops, especially the AMD-based ones like mine, play some very interesting games with their BIOSes that Linux and BSD don't generally handle very well. Consequently, it can be hit-or-miss whether the OS can see the hardware well enough to even load drivers, even if you use the right boot flags. Though I have had a few issues with my wireless card, they've been pretty mellow and little that Ndiswrapper can't handle. I would like to move up from Feisty, though - it'd be nice to have NetworkManager properly handle WPA and actually be able to hot-swap video cables from my laptop without rebooting or restarting the GDI services. That said, I certainly don't blame a server operating system for not being particularly laptop-friendly.
Considering the way Microsoft writes its software, I'm somewhat relieved that it doesn't write most of the drivers. That said, as long as manufacturers like Broadcom refuse to release the specifications of their hardware, there's not a whole lot that anybody can do about binary blobs. Let's face it - most people don't care about how drivers are written, they just want whatever hardware they buy to work. As long as some hardware manufacturers insist on requiring people to use binary blobs to make their hardware work, and as long as people are willing to buy hardware that requires binary blob drivers, we're going to have binary blob drivers.
I've had problems with Ubuntu as well, especially upgrading from Feisty to Gutsy on my laptop. Heck, there's an entire thread on the subject of HP laptops and Gutsy on the Ubuntu Support forums. Granted, laptops and Linux are a rather interesting combination, to put it mildly, so I don't hold it against Ubuntu or anything. That said, claiming that Linux updates are completely flawless and that there are never hardware compatibility problems is absolutely ridiculous.
I know better than to reply to this... but I'm doing it anyways.
We don't use one core as a dedicated security and encryption subsystem. Personally, I'd be a little ticked if my computer required an entire core to handle security and encryption.
We don't effectively use our 1GB baseline RAM footprints to create an out of the box virtualization enviroment. Does Java,.NET, Python, or any of the other systems out there that rely on "virtual" machines count? If not, well, why would most consumers need a full-out virtual machine with separate operating systems and the like? I could see it for some sort of kiosk-mode application, which might make sense for homes with lots of kids, but I'm sure there are more resource efficient ways to implement that sort of functionality than having logically separate machines running concurrently on a box.
We're STILL running out and buying video adapters or buying motherboards with video chips in lieu of carving out a piece of one of those cores and using that as the soft video processor. Sure we are. Then again, those video adapters have multiple cores that are specialized to do nothing but video computations. In short, they're faster and more efficient at the kind of work that you're proposing, which also frees up the "dedicated" core to do other things. The entire point of having multiple cores on a CPU is so you don't have a "dedicated" anything - instead, you can dynamically allocate cores as you need them, depending on what tasks need to be run.
We're still not running a storage subsystem that spans physical volumes (in Windows). Speak for yourself. Most desktop boards these days come with on-board RAID support, and dynamic disks (with software RAID 0/1 support) has been around since Windows 2000. Whether you choose to use that functionality, of course, is your business.
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Sure. While we're at it, I know "Hello World!" is entrenched and all, but really, aren't we all fed up with this dinosaur? A new introductory programming example might be a good thing for Linux as a whole.
Umm... one comes with the "Classic" theme and one comes with the Windows XP theme? One keeps nagging me about how I don't have anti-virus software or my firewall is disabled and the other one doesn't? One says "Windows XP" when it boots and the other one says "Windows 2000"?
Ubuntu's repository support for Java and WINE are a little spotty, but you're not necessarily limited to that. What I do on my Ubuntu machines (Feisty and Dapper) is just grab the self-extracting installer from Sun. You can find instructions here. Granted, it's not as clean or as nice as the repository, but if you absolutely have to have Java support, it's not a bad way to go.
Everyone knows that the best gaming console was the Apple Pippin! I mean, it was designed by the same company as the Quadra and the Performa, so it has to be great!
The problem is not updates. The problem is being forced to do updates; the 100+ updates mentioned above fix security bugs only. Nobody is forcing you to run Windows Updates. You can have an unpatched Windows system just as easily as you can have an unpatched Ubuntu or Mac OS X system (using those two as alternative examples).
The biggest problem is that Microsoft makes it difficult to do the updates, instead of easy; it is the adversarial behavior that is disgusting.
When a computer running Microsoft Windows is infected, it cannot be connected to a network of other computers, because it may infect them, also. And many computers are stand-alone; they are not connected to Microsoft's expensive server. It's just as easy to run Windows Updates as it is to use Synaptic or Apple's Software Updates - two mouse-clicks at the most. Also, if you have an infected machine, yes, you should get it off of the rest of the network before it infects others. This is just as true of Mac OS X, Ubuntu, or any other operating system as it is of Windows. That's called "best practices" right there. Also, Windows and Microsoft Updates are both free for those that have valid Windows licensing, just like Apple's Software Updates are free for those with valid OS X licensing and Ubuntu's Synaptic is free for those that have valid GNU licensing.
Look, I'm all for bashing Microsoft. I think Vista is a pile of crap, too. I think WGA is obnoxious and counterproductive. I also agree that many of Microsoft's actions are more for its benefit than for any benefit possibly derived by their end-users. However, if you're going to bash Microsoft, you should come up with real, legitimate reasons to do so, instead of just making them up on the fly.
I'm not a pro-Microsoft guy, but it's not like other operating systems are better about updates, at least in the areas of quantity or size. I've dealt with a fair number of 50+ MB updates on my Mac running 10.3 and a fair number on my Ubuntu machines (100+ updates, easily). The catch, of course, is that the updates Apple hands you also involve iTunes, QuickTime, and a host of other things (you can achieve something similar to this in the Windows world by throwing on Microsoft Updates, especially if you have Office installed), and in Ubuntu, the updates take care of 95% of the software you will ever have installed on your system, so it balances out. Also, just like on a Mac or Linux system, you can install all of the updates in Windows in, at most, two or three batches. The first one is an update (no restart required) that shrinks the size of future updates. The next one is usually Windows Genuine Advantage and Microsoft Updates, neither of which call for a restart. Then, there's the final batch of 100+, after which you're pretty much good to go. Either way, it's really not that time consuming, unless you're sitting in front of your machine all day.
All I'm getting at here is that all software has bugs that call for updates. I'd be much more concerned if the software I was using didn't have updates these days. Heck, even routers have firmware updates and the like. Bashing Microsoft because they dare to have updates is like condemning the moon because it's white.
Note: One Ubuntu machine is running Dapper Drake, the last of the LTS releases. It's the worst about updates, which makes sense since it's using the oldest version. The other Ubuntu machine, my laptop, is running Feisty Fawn (Gutsy Gibbon and Compaq laptops frequently don't play well with each other), which isn't quite as bad but still fairly close. I'm sure Gutsy Gibbon has fewer updates, which makes sense - it came out in October.
I'm certainly not disagreeing with that, at least to a point - I have many a fond memory sitting in front of my Mac Classic. It worked well beyond its expiration date. That said, I don't remember it being terribly stable. I mean, it was stable compared to Win9x, but it gave me that little bomb icon one heck of a lot more often than I've seen the WinXP BSOD. Of course, if we're comparing OS 6 to Vista, well... as every Slashdotter knows, the only thing worse than Vista is whatever is coming after it!
Please note that I don't voluntarily use Windows - it's what we have at work.
In 1988? Nah... you barely had Multifinder and its cooperative multitasking goodness by then, no native 32-bit memory support, spotty color support, no aliases (what the rest of the world call "shortcuts")... yeah, pass. Amiga's OS was probably a little closer to Windows with preemptive multitasking and full color support, but it still didn't have any sort of memory protection. It did have the whole "multiple screens" thing, though, which is something Windows still doesn't have.
You are correct. However, I don't give a damn about WHY it's happening. I just know that it IS happening. I never said it was right. However, "why" is a very important point to consider. If it was a grand conspiracy by the government to gain unwanted power, the solution would be fairly simple - overthrow it either through force or fraud. However, if it's just politicians pandering to the voters, it doesn't matter if we overthrow it or not - it'll just get replaced with more of the same.
You don't think we need to fix what we broke in Iraq? Never said we didn't.
Death sure is final...no backsies. Are you implying that rape victims would be better off dead? I don't think you are, but your argument is a little odd. I mean, the victim could always choose to off themself, but if you kill them, then there is no choice. I'm certainly not implying that rape victims would be better off dead. That said, rape is pretty final, too - you can't get unraped, after all. All I was getting at is that both death and rape are extremely unpleasant, and choosing between the two is definitely something that nobody should have to do.
When I said "killing themselves or their occupants", I wasn't shooting for a literal interpretation. I was remarking on the fact that, due to their horsepower, they have the acceleration and top speed of an '87 Ford Festiva. Yes, they'll get on a freeway. The engine will also nearly blow itself apart in the process, and, thanks to its size, one stiff breeze can ruin your day.
Don't get me wrong. I like small cars. My first car was a Subaru Justy. It was a great and wonderful car. It also didn't handle well over 70 MPH (speed limits where I live go as high as 75) and it handled distressingly poorly in wind. But, hey, the gas mileage was great!
Contrary to what you might think, the US government isn't engaged in some grand and nefarious conspiracy to expand its extra-constitutional powers. It is, however, engaged in a grand conspiracy to win elections. Simply put, a politician that declares him/herself "tough on child porn", promises "tough measures" and actually delivers them is much more likely to get reelected than a politician that appears "soft on child porn" because they dare to say, "Uh... the federal government doesn't have the right to wiretap the entire US populace, even if it is to eliminate child porn." Until that's fixed, which would require a major attitude adjustment on the part of the electorate (not happening), we're going to get more of this kind of thing.
As for Iraqi children, I've never been a big fan of the argument, "Because X is broken in Y third world country, we should fix that first before we fix X' in our country", whether we caused it or not. For starters, just because the rest of the world is messed up, it doesn't mean we have to be. Secondly, we have 300 million people in this country - it's not like we can't do multiple things simultaneously. As for whether we caused women and children to die in Iraq, well, yes, some did die by our bullets, but, unlike Saddam's regime or the fundamentalist fiefdoms that have sprouted up in the wake of the invasion, it's not standard operating procedure with us.
By the way, given a choice between getting raped or dying... well, let's just hope that's a false choice. At least dying has the advantage of being final - getting raped leads to your entire life being screwed up 'til you're dead.
Yeah, that pricing is about right. Trouble is, it's still a terrible value proposition. The gas version, which is the only one that'll get sold in the States, gets maybe 40 MPG highway and runs on premium. For about $3k less, you can get a Chevy Aveo, Toyota Yaris, Honda Fit, or a Kia Rio, all of which are twice the car of the Smart, get nearly the same mileage (35ish, usually), can all seat four, and can actually get on to a freeway without killing themselves or their occupants. About the only way the Smart makes sense is if you're really into tight parking spaces, but, outside of a few densely urban areas (New York?), that's really not much of an issue here.
If the Smart sold for about $4-5k less, it'd make some sense. At its current price point... not so much.
Not that I disagree with your statement that more Americans should leave the country, but I will point out that leaving the USA is a little more geographically involved than it is in, say, Europe. Let's say you live in Nebraska and want to visit a neighboring country (Canada or Mexico). That puts you at nearly 700 miles from Winnipeg or over 1000 miles from the Mexican border. This pretty well rules out a day trip. To put this into perspective, that same trip to Mexico is longer than a road trip from Paris to Berlin, which goes through three separate countries... and, if you took a quick detour to Maastricht, you could make it four.
There's an adage I read somewhere (might even have been here) that said, "In America, 100 years is a long time ago. In Europe, 100 miles is a long trip." I don't have the statistics to back it up, but I would bet that your average American travels more, geographically speaking (kilometers per year or something like that) than the average European, if only because Americans like to drive a lot.
Windows "runas" is semi-broken in that it doesn't behave anywhere near the same as sudo, at least in my experience. Some programs handle it better than others due to Windows' twisted security model. One thing that I've found that works, though, is if you remember the following command:
runas/user:DOMAIN\administrator cmd
This will give you a command prompt, which will behave like a normal, administrative command prompt (as opposed to a lot of things under "runas" that behave somewhat more sporadically), and anything that's launched from it runs in the scope of the user that you runas'd into. This can be handy for installing software that doesn't like being installed under runas directly, or for using any management consoles and the like, to say nothing of whatever else you're able to do with the command prompt, and is about as close as I've ever been able to get to a sudo-like experience on Windows.
Note: "DOMAIN" corresponds to the domain or machine name that you're working from. "Administrator" corresponds to the name of an account with administrative privileges.
And on the whole nuclear weapons bit. Yes we are the only country that has used nuclear weapons is vastly overblown in my mind. Not because the strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not horrific, but because in the scale of horrors done during WWII they are not the worst. If you just concentrate on bombing during WWII then you have to realize that a single night of the fire bombing of Tokyo killed 100,000 people.
Ah, the "firebombing" chestnut. It's disingenuous to compare a night of firebombing to a single nuclear weapon. Why, if the results are the same? Is it worse because we used one bomb instead of many? I'd argue that raining death for a night is a heck of a lot worse than having a sudden blast wipe out your town - one ends a lot faster than the other. Then again, arguing between whether being a victim of a night-long firebombing campaign or a small fission bomb is sort of like arguing whether it's better to sleep with the 350 pound woman with the mustache at one corner of the bar or the 350 pound pre-op tranny in the other corner of the bar.
Note that I'm not trying to argue whether it was right or wrong to do what the US did to Japan or not - when two countries are at war, that's usually a sign that "civility" between the two countries has already been thrown out the window. What I am pointing out is that throwing the word "nuclear" before a weapon shouldn't automatically have a +6 Evil mod that every other weapon on the planet doesn't have. I mean, if you're killing 100,000 people, does it really matter how you do it?
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This means we get to "look forward" to Windows Classic, doesn't it? I suppose it won't be all bad... just like Coke Classic, Windows also tastes like shoe leather tanning fluid.
Sounds like the Flash plugin that runs under the 32 bit version of Ubuntu. :-)
Sure, but how do you figure out which engineers are smart and which ones aren't? The answer is usually one of the following:
1. Their CV/resume and interviews - self-marketing
2. Hearing about their work from somewhere else - getting someone else to market you
The entire point of marketing is to show people that you have a product to sell - it's up to them to determine whether or not it's worth buying. No product, no sale. Crappy product, initial sale, but quickly thrown out of the company.
We need to learn that marketing is not a four-letter word.
I think they prefer "The Sunshine State".
My problem wasn't with the wireless chipset - the problem I had when I attempted to install it was that it wouldn't boot. My understanding is that certain Compaq laptops, especially the AMD-based ones like mine, play some very interesting games with their BIOSes that Linux and BSD don't generally handle very well. Consequently, it can be hit-or-miss whether the OS can see the hardware well enough to even load drivers, even if you use the right boot flags. Though I have had a few issues with my wireless card, they've been pretty mellow and little that Ndiswrapper can't handle. I would like to move up from Feisty, though - it'd be nice to have NetworkManager properly handle WPA and actually be able to hot-swap video cables from my laptop without rebooting or restarting the GDI services. That said, I certainly don't blame a server operating system for not being particularly laptop-friendly.
Considering the way Microsoft writes its software, I'm somewhat relieved that it doesn't write most of the drivers. That said, as long as manufacturers like Broadcom refuse to release the specifications of their hardware, there's not a whole lot that anybody can do about binary blobs. Let's face it - most people don't care about how drivers are written, they just want whatever hardware they buy to work. As long as some hardware manufacturers insist on requiring people to use binary blobs to make their hardware work, and as long as people are willing to buy hardware that requires binary blob drivers, we're going to have binary blob drivers.
I've had problems with Ubuntu as well, especially upgrading from Feisty to Gutsy on my laptop. Heck, there's an entire thread on the subject of HP laptops and Gutsy on the Ubuntu Support forums. Granted, laptops and Linux are a rather interesting combination, to put it mildly, so I don't hold it against Ubuntu or anything. That said, claiming that Linux updates are completely flawless and that there are never hardware compatibility problems is absolutely ridiculous.
Don't worry. There's no such thing as a two.
But those of us born IN 1980... oh yes... we are treated like GODS among MEN!
Sure. While we're at it, I know "Hello World!" is entrenched and all, but really, aren't we all fed up with this dinosaur? A new introductory programming example might be a good thing for Linux as a whole.
Umm... one comes with the "Classic" theme and one comes with the Windows XP theme? One keeps nagging me about how I don't have anti-virus software or my firewall is disabled and the other one doesn't? One says "Windows XP" when it boots and the other one says "Windows 2000"?
The list kind of goes on like that.
Ubuntu's repository support for Java and WINE are a little spotty, but you're not necessarily limited to that. What I do on my Ubuntu machines (Feisty and Dapper) is just grab the self-extracting installer from Sun. You can find instructions here. Granted, it's not as clean or as nice as the repository, but if you absolutely have to have Java support, it's not a bad way to go.
Everyone knows that the best gaming console was the Apple Pippin! I mean, it was designed by the same company as the Quadra and the Performa, so it has to be great!
When a computer running Microsoft Windows is infected, it cannot be connected to a network of other computers, because it may infect them, also. And many computers are stand-alone; they are not connected to Microsoft's expensive server. It's just as easy to run Windows Updates as it is to use Synaptic or Apple's Software Updates - two mouse-clicks at the most. Also, if you have an infected machine, yes, you should get it off of the rest of the network before it infects others. This is just as true of Mac OS X, Ubuntu, or any other operating system as it is of Windows. That's called "best practices" right there. Also, Windows and Microsoft Updates are both free for those that have valid Windows licensing, just like Apple's Software Updates are free for those with valid OS X licensing and Ubuntu's Synaptic is free for those that have valid GNU licensing.
Look, I'm all for bashing Microsoft. I think Vista is a pile of crap, too. I think WGA is obnoxious and counterproductive. I also agree that many of Microsoft's actions are more for its benefit than for any benefit possibly derived by their end-users. However, if you're going to bash Microsoft, you should come up with real, legitimate reasons to do so, instead of just making them up on the fly.
I'm not a pro-Microsoft guy, but it's not like other operating systems are better about updates, at least in the areas of quantity or size. I've dealt with a fair number of 50+ MB updates on my Mac running 10.3 and a fair number on my Ubuntu machines (100+ updates, easily). The catch, of course, is that the updates Apple hands you also involve iTunes, QuickTime, and a host of other things (you can achieve something similar to this in the Windows world by throwing on Microsoft Updates, especially if you have Office installed), and in Ubuntu, the updates take care of 95% of the software you will ever have installed on your system, so it balances out. Also, just like on a Mac or Linux system, you can install all of the updates in Windows in, at most, two or three batches. The first one is an update (no restart required) that shrinks the size of future updates. The next one is usually Windows Genuine Advantage and Microsoft Updates, neither of which call for a restart. Then, there's the final batch of 100+, after which you're pretty much good to go. Either way, it's really not that time consuming, unless you're sitting in front of your machine all day.
All I'm getting at here is that all software has bugs that call for updates. I'd be much more concerned if the software I was using didn't have updates these days. Heck, even routers have firmware updates and the like. Bashing Microsoft because they dare to have updates is like condemning the moon because it's white.
Note: One Ubuntu machine is running Dapper Drake, the last of the LTS releases. It's the worst about updates, which makes sense since it's using the oldest version. The other Ubuntu machine, my laptop, is running Feisty Fawn (Gutsy Gibbon and Compaq laptops frequently don't play well with each other), which isn't quite as bad but still fairly close. I'm sure Gutsy Gibbon has fewer updates, which makes sense - it came out in October.
I'm certainly not disagreeing with that, at least to a point - I have many a fond memory sitting in front of my Mac Classic. It worked well beyond its expiration date. That said, I don't remember it being terribly stable. I mean, it was stable compared to Win9x, but it gave me that little bomb icon one heck of a lot more often than I've seen the WinXP BSOD. Of course, if we're comparing OS 6 to Vista, well... as every Slashdotter knows, the only thing worse than Vista is whatever is coming after it!
Please note that I don't voluntarily use Windows - it's what we have at work.
In 1988? Nah... you barely had Multifinder and its cooperative multitasking goodness by then, no native 32-bit memory support, spotty color support, no aliases (what the rest of the world call "shortcuts")... yeah, pass. Amiga's OS was probably a little closer to Windows with preemptive multitasking and full color support, but it still didn't have any sort of memory protection. It did have the whole "multiple screens" thing, though, which is something Windows still doesn't have.
Death sure is final...no backsies. Are you implying that rape victims would be better off dead? I don't think you are, but your argument is a little odd. I mean, the victim could always choose to off themself, but if you kill them, then there is no choice. I'm certainly not implying that rape victims would be better off dead. That said, rape is pretty final, too - you can't get unraped, after all. All I was getting at is that both death and rape are extremely unpleasant, and choosing between the two is definitely something that nobody should have to do.
When I said "killing themselves or their occupants", I wasn't shooting for a literal interpretation. I was remarking on the fact that, due to their horsepower, they have the acceleration and top speed of an '87 Ford Festiva. Yes, they'll get on a freeway. The engine will also nearly blow itself apart in the process, and, thanks to its size, one stiff breeze can ruin your day.
Don't get me wrong. I like small cars. My first car was a Subaru Justy. It was a great and wonderful car. It also didn't handle well over 70 MPH (speed limits where I live go as high as 75) and it handled distressingly poorly in wind. But, hey, the gas mileage was great!
Contrary to what you might think, the US government isn't engaged in some grand and nefarious conspiracy to expand its extra-constitutional powers. It is, however, engaged in a grand conspiracy to win elections. Simply put, a politician that declares him/herself "tough on child porn", promises "tough measures" and actually delivers them is much more likely to get reelected than a politician that appears "soft on child porn" because they dare to say, "Uh... the federal government doesn't have the right to wiretap the entire US populace, even if it is to eliminate child porn." Until that's fixed, which would require a major attitude adjustment on the part of the electorate (not happening), we're going to get more of this kind of thing. As for Iraqi children, I've never been a big fan of the argument, "Because X is broken in Y third world country, we should fix that first before we fix X' in our country", whether we caused it or not. For starters, just because the rest of the world is messed up, it doesn't mean we have to be. Secondly, we have 300 million people in this country - it's not like we can't do multiple things simultaneously. As for whether we caused women and children to die in Iraq, well, yes, some did die by our bullets, but, unlike Saddam's regime or the fundamentalist fiefdoms that have sprouted up in the wake of the invasion, it's not standard operating procedure with us. By the way, given a choice between getting raped or dying... well, let's just hope that's a false choice. At least dying has the advantage of being final - getting raped leads to your entire life being screwed up 'til you're dead.
Yeah, that pricing is about right. Trouble is, it's still a terrible value proposition. The gas version, which is the only one that'll get sold in the States, gets maybe 40 MPG highway and runs on premium. For about $3k less, you can get a Chevy Aveo, Toyota Yaris, Honda Fit, or a Kia Rio, all of which are twice the car of the Smart, get nearly the same mileage (35ish, usually), can all seat four, and can actually get on to a freeway without killing themselves or their occupants. About the only way the Smart makes sense is if you're really into tight parking spaces, but, outside of a few densely urban areas (New York?), that's really not much of an issue here.
If the Smart sold for about $4-5k less, it'd make some sense. At its current price point... not so much.
Not that I disagree with your statement that more Americans should leave the country, but I will point out that leaving the USA is a little more geographically involved than it is in, say, Europe. Let's say you live in Nebraska and want to visit a neighboring country (Canada or Mexico). That puts you at nearly 700 miles from Winnipeg or over 1000 miles from the Mexican border. This pretty well rules out a day trip. To put this into perspective, that same trip to Mexico is longer than a road trip from Paris to Berlin, which goes through three separate countries... and, if you took a quick detour to Maastricht, you could make it four.
There's an adage I read somewhere (might even have been here) that said, "In America, 100 years is a long time ago. In Europe, 100 miles is a long trip." I don't have the statistics to back it up, but I would bet that your average American travels more, geographically speaking (kilometers per year or something like that) than the average European, if only because Americans like to drive a lot.
Wow! It works! It says "recording" at the bottom now! Neat. I guess that means it's saving. It still won't let me leave, though. Very disappointing.
This will give you a command prompt, which will behave like a normal, administrative command prompt (as opposed to a lot of things under "runas" that behave somewhat more sporadically), and anything that's launched from it runs in the scope of the user that you runas'd into. This can be handy for installing software that doesn't like being installed under runas directly, or for using any management consoles and the like, to say nothing of whatever else you're able to do with the command prompt, and is about as close as I've ever been able to get to a sudo-like experience on Windows.
Note: "DOMAIN" corresponds to the domain or machine name that you're working from. "Administrator" corresponds to the name of an account with administrative privileges.
Note that I'm not trying to argue whether it was right or wrong to do what the US did to Japan or not - when two countries are at war, that's usually a sign that "civility" between the two countries has already been thrown out the window. What I am pointing out is that throwing the word "nuclear" before a weapon shouldn't automatically have a +6 Evil mod that every other weapon on the planet doesn't have. I mean, if you're killing 100,000 people, does it really matter how you do it?