I said it late last night, but Gone Home is a spectacular experience, even if it's not really a game, and is worth the 90 minutes of your time and 6-10 bucks it costs. I want to support projects like this in hopes that they find mainstream appeal.
AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
Don't worry, Syndalis. We're all well aware of your stances on things.
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How dare you, unnamed vendor, actually check to see if I have permission and authorization to do what I'm requesting and fuck up my client's network! Requiring the middleman who we bought the data circuit from to be on the call.. silly man!
(I love seeing organizations that take authentication and proper change control seriously. I actually enjoy going through the proper red tape, as it provides a layer of CYA. )
you don't want to use the only admin account as your main account because if you get a virus that fucks with privileges or whatever you're basically screwed
but i think you have to intend to use the admin account on win 7, and if you didn't intend to, you probably aren't
Yeah but it takes some work to get autologin on win7, too. IIRC, all my machines are 8, now.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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Syndalis also feels you should buy an apple product.
thatassemblyguyJanitor of Technical Debt.Registered Userregular
Basically, to the software pilot argument, I'd say we don't need pilots any more. The HMI should be simplified to a set of read-only status windows with minimal inputs. You want to pilot a plane? Get yourself in a small single or twin-prop. Otherwise, the computer is going to do a better job of it than you will, and for more than 98% of the time. If the auto-pilot of a particular make was statistically proven to fail in 2% of emergency cases, all of those planes would be grounded indefinitely until a new software patch was applied to improve reliability.
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syndalisGetting ClassyOn the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Productsregular
I said it late last night, but Gone Home is a spectacular experience, even if it's not really a game, and is worth the 90 minutes of your time and 6-10 bucks it costs. I want to support projects like this in hopes that they find mainstream appeal.
I have been told that I should play that.
Absolutely. It starts like a creepy ghost story, and becomes... Well, just play it.
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
Basically, to the software pilot argument, I'd say we don't need pilots any more. The HMI should be simplified to a set of read-only status windows with minimal inputs. You want to pilot a plane? Get yourself in a small single or twin-prop. Otherwise, the computer is going to do a better job of it than you will, and for more than 98% of the time. If the auto-pilot of a particular make was statistically proven to fail in 2% of emergency cases, all of those planes would be grounded indefinitely until a new software patch was applied to improve reliability.
While probably true, you'll need a person on-board to look like a human pilot or the passengers will flip out.
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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you don't want to use the only admin account as your main account because if you get a virus that fucks with privileges or whatever you're basically screwed
but i think you have to intend to use the admin account on win 7, and if you didn't intend to, you probably aren't
Yeah but it takes some work to get autologin on win7, too. IIRC, all my machines are 8, now.
nah you just don't set a password, or like chu did, don't check the "require password at login" when he goes and makes a password
some OEMs encourage users to use the Administrator account
some company laptops seem set up to do so, too
The main reason why is because there are some legacy apps that don't play nice if you put them in a sandbox. It's still a dumb idea, especially now that Windows has its own version of sudo.
Basically, to the software pilot argument, I'd say we don't need pilots any more. The HMI should be simplified to a set of read-only status windows with minimal inputs. You want to pilot a plane? Get yourself in a small single or twin-prop. Otherwise, the computer is going to do a better job of it than you will, and for more than 98% of the time. If the auto-pilot of a particular make was statistically proven to fail in 2% of emergency cases, all of those planes would be grounded indefinitely until a new software patch was applied to improve reliability.
Thank you for your input Dr. Dyson. We'll be sure to put serious consideration into your automated piloting solution. Why, this may even have some military applications!
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syndalisGetting ClassyOn the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Productsregular
Syndalis also feels you should buy an apple product.
An apple for your phone, an apple for your tablet, an apple for your laptop, and an xbawks for your gaming.
Desktop PC is a bit more flexible depending on needs, but if cash is absolutely no worry for you and the sky is the limit on budget, the new Mac Pro is so sexy. Like, I cannot even comprehend the sexiness of that machine. And it's a beast without being big and ugly.
SW-4158-3990-6116
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Basically, to the software pilot argument, I'd say we don't need pilots any more. The HMI should be simplified to a set of read-only status windows with minimal inputs. You want to pilot a plane? Get yourself in a small single or twin-prop. Otherwise, the computer is going to do a better job of it than you will, and for more than 98% of the time. If the auto-pilot of a particular make was statistically proven to fail in 2% of emergency cases, all of those planes would be grounded indefinitely until a new software patch was applied to improve reliability.
hmmm I don't think so
there's still ample space for good-weather "look out of the window" assessment of the situation, or all-weather communication with the tower, computers are not yet well-placed to handle that kind of data processing
Basically, to the software pilot argument, I'd say we don't need pilots any more. The HMI should be simplified to a set of read-only status windows with minimal inputs. You want to pilot a plane? Get yourself in a small single or twin-prop. Otherwise, the computer is going to do a better job of it than you will, and for more than 98% of the time. If the auto-pilot of a particular make was statistically proven to fail in 2% of emergency cases, all of those planes would be grounded indefinitely until a new software patch was applied to improve reliability.
You can't exhaustively test for every possibility.
I used to make an account named LocalAdmin on my 7 machines, then use Aioua (also an admin), just in case my profile got corrupted. Trying to enable the machine admin account when there are no users you can log into is not fun.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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thatassemblyguyJanitor of Technical Debt.Registered Userregular
Basically, to the software pilot argument, I'd say we don't need pilots any more. The HMI should be simplified to a set of read-only status windows with minimal inputs. You want to pilot a plane? Get yourself in a small single or twin-prop. Otherwise, the computer is going to do a better job of it than you will, and for more than 98% of the time. If the auto-pilot of a particular make was statistically proven to fail in 2% of emergency cases, all of those planes would be grounded indefinitely until a new software patch was applied to improve reliability.
While probably true, you'll need a person on-board to look like a human pilot or the passengers will flip out.
Yeah, i'm on board with that. Basically, the pilot is replaced by what we'd call an "operator". Someone to provide boots-on-the-ground diagnostics to a central tower (like Ground Control for NASA), play grabass with any attractive flight attendants, and smile and wave at the passengers.
Basically, to the software pilot argument, I'd say we don't need pilots any more. The HMI should be simplified to a set of read-only status windows with minimal inputs. You want to pilot a plane? Get yourself in a small single or twin-prop. Otherwise, the computer is going to do a better job of it than you will, and for more than 98% of the time. If the auto-pilot of a particular make was statistically proven to fail in 2% of emergency cases, all of those planes would be grounded indefinitely until a new software patch was applied to improve reliability.
While probably true, you'll need a person on-board to look like a human pilot or the passengers will flip out.
Yeah, i'm on board with that. Basically, the pilot is replaced by what we'd call an "operator". Someone to provide boots-on-the-ground diagnostics to a central tower (like Ground Control for NASA), play grabass with any attractive flight attendants, and smile and wave at the passengers.
also go "no, computer, this is the ocean and not the runway, no matter what that instrument is telling you" on occasion
I wonder whether windows 8 finally introduced a native way to request escalation in the command prompt
(no, powershell does not count)
Pretty sure no, because UAC.
You can, however, launch PS/CMD prompts as Admin from win+X and from the file menu in the new explorer. In fact if you launch it from explorer it starts with that folder and the working directory, which I think is pretty neat.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I remember when Papa Johns whined about how much it would cost consumers if Papa Johns had to give every employee health insurance, and it was something like 50 cents more a pizza and most people couldn't give a fuck.
Similar to McD's, someone ran the numbers on how much more an extra value meal would cost if McDonalds paid employees a living wage and it was like a buck more. End of civilization I tell ya.
I think, as @Ronya pointed out, right now you don't have computers getting all the information anyway. We need a person in the cockpit/control center to double check the computers readings(the ocean not runway thing) but also to give the visual inputs and such that a computer isn't getting. Once we get computers up to the point they can basically see+all the info they get then I think you can go full automated almost.
Actually Ben Bova's moon series actually describes the LEO planes as basically being automated but they keep a human in the cockpit for the other humans to feel safe. Mostly because the computers had reached the point that they don't need the human because they get all and more info than the human.
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less secure if you're operating from something with full root privileges
you get a virus, virus gets to be a super user
PSN/XBL: Zampanov -- Steam: Zampanov
I have been told that I should play that.
Unrelated:
How dare you, unnamed vendor, actually check to see if I have permission and authorization to do what I'm requesting and fuck up my client's network! Requiring the middleman who we bought the data circuit from to be on the call.. silly man!
(I love seeing organizations that take authentication and proper change control seriously. I actually enjoy going through the proper red tape, as it provides a layer of CYA.
Yeah but it takes some work to get autologin on win7, too. IIRC, all my machines are 8, now.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
well it's probably a good idea to set a password for it in those situations but not to actually use it unless shit goes down
PSN/XBL: Zampanov -- Steam: Zampanov
Absolutely. It starts like a creepy ghost story, and becomes... Well, just play it.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
While probably true, you'll need a person on-board to look like a human pilot or the passengers will flip out.
nah you just don't set a password, or like chu did, don't check the "require password at login" when he goes and makes a password
PSN/XBL: Zampanov -- Steam: Zampanov
My read: they just don't like my client. Which doesn't necessarily equal an actionable violation, so I've got that going for me.
wait...
you have standards?
Yes, it's the Windows version of root.
The main reason why is because there are some legacy apps that don't play nice if you put them in a sandbox. It's still a dumb idea, especially now that Windows has its own version of sudo.
Thank you for your input Dr. Dyson. We'll be sure to put serious consideration into your automated piloting solution. Why, this may even have some military applications!
An apple for your phone, an apple for your tablet, an apple for your laptop, and an xbawks for your gaming.
Desktop PC is a bit more flexible depending on needs, but if cash is absolutely no worry for you and the sky is the limit on budget, the new Mac Pro is so sexy. Like, I cannot even comprehend the sexiness of that machine. And it's a beast without being big and ugly.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
hmmm I don't think so
there's still ample space for good-weather "look out of the window" assessment of the situation, or all-weather communication with the tower, computers are not yet well-placed to handle that kind of data processing
You can't exhaustively test for every possibility.
heh
she was never the draw for me
I'd keep watching, Rose McGowan does a great job imo
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Yeah, i'm on board with that. Basically, the pilot is replaced by what we'd call an "operator". Someone to provide boots-on-the-ground diagnostics to a central tower (like Ground Control for NASA), play grabass with any attractive flight attendants, and smile and wave at the passengers.
also go "no, computer, this is the ocean and not the runway, no matter what that instrument is telling you" on occasion
(no, powershell does not count)
PSN/XBL: Zampanov -- Steam: Zampanov
so goooood
brutal.
"Tonight. You."
Best Murder Simulator set to thumpin' 80s beats ever.
Why not? Powershell is supposed to replace that outdated piece of junk called cmd.exe.
Pretty sure no, because UAC.
You can, however, launch PS/CMD prompts as Admin from win+X and from the file menu in the new explorer. In fact if you launch it from explorer it starts with that folder and the working directory, which I think is pretty neat.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
It also told us to sell our Christmas gifts to help with the burden of our bills.
Because cutting my days from 5 to 2 helped big time, McDonalds.
Similar to McD's, someone ran the numbers on how much more an extra value meal would cost if McDonalds paid employees a living wage and it was like a buck more. End of civilization I tell ya.
Actually Ben Bova's moon series actually describes the LEO planes as basically being automated but they keep a human in the cockpit for the other humans to feel safe. Mostly because the computers had reached the point that they don't need the human because they get all and more info than the human.
that's ... strange
edit: there it goes