Why did you have to rent your phone? Because government regulations and laws enforced a monopoly.
No, you had to rent your phone because there was only one telephone utility (AT&T), and that's what their business policy was. Do you think a bunch of telephone companies sprang up with interconnectable systems, and then the government decided to force the companies to only allow company approved hardware on the client side of their systems?
As what I'd consider a 'power user', one of the first things I do is turn that obnoxious thing off.
I remember during the Vista Beta time frame visiting a website that I'd never been to before and all of a sudden having the browser cause a UAC prompt. Now you can go off on what sort of insecure hole could exist that would allow a website to make admin level privileges on a computer, but that doesn't matter; what matters is that fact that it could. I clicked 'No' on the prompt and felt a sudden rush of power over my computer that I hadn't had before. Previously random crap from anywhere could make admin level changes to my computer, and before UAC I'd have no\little idea about it. But with UAC I was in control now.
It happened a few more times too. I was doing something that shouldn't have required admin privileges, got a prompt and denied the poorly written program the access it was trying to usurp.
As a power user, I'm sure you're aware that it's a really bad idea to do your day to day computing logged in as a user with administrative permissions. So with UAC turned off you must have some system setup where you download your installers, and then switch users to the admin to actually install them. Sounds like too much work to me.
Turning off UAC is like have a setting that will click 'yes' to every prompt. An idiot would click 'yes' to every prompt. A power user knows when to click 'no'.
From my experience dealing with Microsoft Exchange administrators, this comes as no surprise.
However, when people running high-performance, FOSS mailservers forget to get fresh certs before the old ones expire they are ridiculed and many even lose their jobs. There's a higher level of competence expected, I guess.
You're right, it totally sucks to have software that seems to be able to perform, without a crack team of competent professionals holding it together each day. All software should require massive amounts of 'competence' to manage it, instead of being able to just do what the user wanted it to do.
Just put two reasonably competent people in the cockpit
That's the real trick, ain't it. You can't guarantee that statement.
You'll do better to cut it up and cook the breasts for less time than the legs.
That's not nearly as photogenic though.
Because smart people don't seem to want the job.
It's not that smart people don't want the job, smart people aren't electable. During an election they'll inevitably make a comment that hurts a special interest group and get whisked out of the public spot light before the next sun rise.
And, of course, we can construct the scenario in which the co-pilot and one of the cabin crew conspires so that when the pilot has to take a leak it's the two of them in the cockpit, and then they can do the same damned thing.
There's really no way you can 100% prevent this kind of thing.
You could make the aircraft autonomous.
Either you embrace protectionism or risk losing all that makes you unique.
And nothing of value was lost. Sorry, but I don't see what's so cool about being unique. It's a lot harder to justify going to war with a people who are just like you.
I would not mind at all paying a reasonable tax in order to support the art, so we see stuff on TV, movies, and the Internet that isn't pre-digested, optimized crap done by market-droids in order to sell us more junk.
One mans trash is another mans treasure.
That post you just made! That, and all the other comments here, are splendid examples of 21st century culture.
I know that, but the people trying to defend culture see it as the enemy to real culture.
Not all of the arts are or ever have been self-sustaining. Historically, what you see is sponsorship by the state, the church, or the merchant prince.
I consider sponsorship from the church or merchant prince as being self sustaining. The artist found someone willing to pay for their services.
Yeah, but you wouldn't download a car...would you?
With the proper 3D printer, why wouldn't I?
How exactly do they differ from a bank? If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck.....
It's different because everything they do is appended with "... but on a computer".
I think the real question is how often do we have scenes with two robots in them, talking about something other than humans.
No, not really.
This.
We warn the reader in advance that the proof presented here depends on a clever but highly unmotivated trick. -- Howard Anton, "Elementary Linear Algebra"
