Its a little disingenuous to make that sweeping claim when the entire protestant reformation was centered around the idea that everyone should have access to all of the faith's books (and several protestants were burned for it).
But you know, carry on needless off-topic religion bashing.
Which is why GUI is great for the one-offs, which is exactly what I was driving at. And to master a CLI does indeed take years; anyone who tells me theyve mastered bash (or vi or sed or grep) in a few hours or days is full of crap.
So what youre saying is, the fact that I can type "dir" in a bash shell is evidence that Linux doesnt have it together, as dir isnt actually a built in command OR a built in binary?
And thats to say nothing of Ubuntu's dash-- they actually attempt to interpret not-found commands to find what program you need. Theres nothing wrong with this; command lines dont HAVE to be arcane and klunky to use.
I might agree with you, of course, if you could demonstrate a single instance where said behavior could ruin otherwise command syntax (certainly I was unaware of it, and have never had issues with it, despite 10 years of batch scripting experience).
No, it doesnt, because they STILL never created the suggestion. Answer me this-- Since google also sometimes removes google searches (china for example), are they now liable for all links indexed on their site?
Think carefully before you answer that; a judge saying "yes" would mean the end of search engines as we know them.
Libel and slander are something that Google should be held liable for no different than anyone else.
AFAIK, in order for something to appear in googles suggestions, someone else has to have searched it first. Google isnt creating the suggestion, its simply remembering the search that someone else did and offering it up.
This really isnt any different than google results turning up libel and slander. Google isnt creating it, its simply indexing it.
The emergence of PowerShell on the MS platform in the last few years means I can do stuff that was previously impossible to do -
Its been possible to bring user accounts in and out of AD with basic windows console for quite some time now (LDIFDE), and Im pretty sure you could import into SQL server using the Windows console as well.
That said, powershell really is nice, if they use some ridiculous naming schemes (MoveExchangeUserFromThisServerToThatServer -user=.....).
How useful would scripting that sort of thing be if you have a different set of tasks every week in unfamiliar territory? Are you going to spend hours reading documentation and fixing scripting bugs every week, or just use a GUI and be done with it?
Doing more work just for the sake of doing it a particular way isnt exactly what I would call smart.
It is often worth doing cost-benefit analysis and determining if the time spent reading the documentation is worth the time that will be saved by using CLI.
If someone asks me, for example, to add a user to active directory, it doesnt really make sense to research how to get LDIFDE or whatever to do an import properly. If, however, they hand me a CSV file of 100000 contacts and asks me to import them to active directory, then you better believe Im breaking out cygwin and awk documentation, and touching up on the active directory CLI tools. I may spend a few hours learning how to work them, but I will save hundreds of hours in time.
This isnt a "heres the right answer" scenario. You have to use your brain and your experience to choose the right tool for your job. That, as much as anything else, is the mark of a good systems administrator, not knowing every CLI in existence. A knowledgable SysAdmin can be inefficient if he needlessly ignores some tools (GUI) that are perfectly suitable to a task just so that he can use the same tool for every task.
One admin cannot master the commandline of every type of product out there. But with knowledge of networking protocols and how they interact, I can get up and running with FreeNAS in about 10 minutes with its GUI; if I need to learn the intricacies of FreeBSD and all the particular daemons it uses, I can do so later.
To prefer CLI is not elitism; anyone who has used it extensively knows that there are things that you can do better, faster, and more precisely using CLI. That is its benefit-- for those core technologies that are hanging around, learning CLI is a way of improving your efficiency.
The benefit of GUI, however, is that if you implement a new technology or service on your network, you dont have to spend years mastering the intricacies of the command line. The GUI lets you start using the product quicker.
To date, radiation detected in milk is on the order of picocuries (10-12 Curie) per liter. This is 5,000 times lower than the FDA’s Derived Intervention Level. A Derived Intervention Level is the point at which the FDA would act to take the food in question out of our food supply.
That doesnt seem like its anything worth being hospitalized over.
Makes a difference to me; I have a 5 year old core2 system (E6300) that is generally just fine; 4GB of ram suits my needs as does the graphics card, and the drives are configured as I like.
Unfortunately, I cant shift either motherboard or processor without swapping the other, and its kind of obnoxious...
2 lines changed in a single file will affect the entire ISO image, and its not a sure thing that recreating the ISO yourself will result in an identical image with an identical checksum.
The website that you linked me to asked for a login. Thats not terribly helpful.
And again, I dont imagine they have checksums for the OEM editions, which are sometimes shipped with drivers slipstreamed.
Because I dont imagine there are any aircraft flying out of Fukushima, and the levels at Tokyo and all the other similarly large cities are basically nil.
And as someone else has remarked, the levels even 30km from the reactors @ Fukushima (32uS/h, last I checked) were still lower than the dosage you receive from flying in the atmosphere anyways.
You can either support them through programmes such as Social Security, or you can live in a society with a desperate underclass that will do anything to survive.
That is what we call a false dichotomy. How exactly are you going to prove this? And how do you deal with the fact that its a worse savings vehicle than a Roth IRA, and a pyramid scheme to boot? And how do you respond to the fact that there are ALREADY tons of ways for the "desperate underclass" to survive WITHOUT social security-- food stamps, unemployment, disability, shelters, charities...
I will note noone has yet posted an example of a SINGLE starvation death in the United States. This isnt a problem we have, and its NOT because of how wonderful social security is.
If they stuck to that mentality with a vengeance, we wouldnt have any of the following:
New tab button
Tab tearing / reorganization
Session restore
Pinned tabs
Undo Close tab
And more.
Perhaps you dont remember the days when firefox really did gobble ram down, because TabMixPlus was an utter pig, or when the 20+ addins you needed to get to today's level of functionality were unstable, leaky, and a PITA to update.
Somehow folks dont complain about all the functionality in Opera; but then I suppose the grass is always greener.
Thats not why theyre doing it. Theyre trying to release faster, so that new features come out quicker. And before you complain "but that means stuff wont be tested well"....its what Chrome is doing, and it is a remarkably stable browser right now. There are many ways to mitigate creeping bugs from "release often", like having several running releases at once (again, like Chrome).
I don't, because it will either be an Adobe plugin, hence slow and a memory hog, or it will be written from scratch, hence not fully compatible and probably slow as well.
....Or, like with Chrome, it will use the Foxit SDK and rely on them for PDF; or, it will use libpdf (or whatever evince uses)....
So no, not really. You clearly havent used Chrome's PDF viewer; its phenomenal-- fast, compatible, and does exactly what needs to be done, with built in and not-obnoxious autoupdate.
All of them. take your pick; of all the prefectures listed, the only one with remotely "interesting" levels is Fukushima, and its levels are getting rather low as well-- until you get about 30km away, there isnt much in the way of radioactivity there either.
Its not peachy keen; the tsunami wrecked whole villages and people wont be living there again for some time. The radiation issue will be over long before the rest of the problems are dealt with. The tragedy in all of this is that when the japanese finally sort these reactors out once and for all, the world wont be letting out a collective sigh, or cheer, or congratulations; it will be far too busy bickering about whether this was another Chernobyl or not.
They are close to Japan. The plant is throwing up 24/7 for the last month or so.
Lets take an actual look at the data around Japan and see whether it matches up.
In particular, lets look at data from (courtesy of) Hiroshima (inland, southwest), Tokyo (east coast), Fukuoka (coastal, southwest), and Osaka (south).
All of those show near zeros across the board for environmental radioactivity-- with the highest reading @ Tokyo a mere 2% of the "notify your local official" level. Of them, only tokyo has detectable radiation in its water.
Im not nuclear scientist, but I think its fair game to call shenanigans when folks a thousand miles away start claiming that the radioactivity skipped over Hiroshima and landed in China.
Freedom is the freedom to make mistakes. If you want the government to run your life, please go live in China or Soviet russia; do be sure to write us and tell us how wonderful it is.
Here in the states, we started out with the idea that people should be able to run their own lives, the Fed should make sure we dont get invaded, and states should do whatevers left. Somehow people today have gotten the idea that that should be flipped upside down.
Look, this isnt hard. Lets break out the possibilities: 1) The government uses the money as I put it in, but the population continues to grow, so money continues to flow in. I get my money back in the end. 2) The government uses the money as I put it in, and the population has shrunk by the time I retire. OOPS! Social security is now underwater. I dont get all of my money back. 3) Im unemployed for a good number of years, so I end up getting other people's money.
Option 1 is basically a pyramid scheme: It works, until the population stops growing, and then (due to inflation) the entire thing collapses at worst, at best I lose the money that was mine. Option 2 isnt very appealing no matter how you look at it. Option 3 doesnt seem to make much sense; If we want to support the unemployed, lets just call it that and be done with the gigantic pyramid scheme.
No matter how you spin this, youre granting the government a gigantic interest free loan and hoping that the whole thing doesnt collapse in 50 years when you want your money back. I had understood this to be a capitialist system based on the idea that you earn your living and pay for yourself. I am not against select few social programs to prevent rampant poverty, but we dont exactly have that problem; the problem we have is that Social security is one of the BIGGEST costs in our system, and on a good day it would be called a Ponzi scheme if it werent run by the fed.
But don't let that make you think that everyone else has the same abilities, opportunities and good health that you may have.
Thats NOT what social security is spun as. Its spun as a retirement vessel, when in reality it is far inferior to something like a Roth IRA. If you want a system for the impoverished and sick (which, BTW, we already HAVE-- its called food stamps, unemployment, medical disability, etc etc etc etc etc etc....), then call it that and see whether the people want or need another one. We do NOT have a problem with this in this country; I defy you to pull up an example-- even ONE news story-- of people dying in the streets for lack of food (Even, I dare say, after Katrina-- google searches and wikipedia turned up nada), given the INCREDIBLE amount of handouts that occur in this country. Anyone implying that such and such will starve without such and such program is lying, or deeply misled.
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Its a little disingenuous to make that sweeping claim when the entire protestant reformation was centered around the idea that everyone should have access to all of the faith's books (and several protestants were burned for it).
But you know, carry on needless off-topic religion bashing.
Which is why GUI is great for the one-offs, which is exactly what I was driving at. And to master a CLI does indeed take years; anyone who tells me theyve mastered bash (or vi or sed or grep) in a few hours or days is full of crap.
So what youre saying is, the fact that I can type "dir" in a bash shell is evidence that Linux doesnt have it together, as dir isnt actually a built in command OR a built in binary?
And thats to say nothing of Ubuntu's dash-- they actually attempt to interpret not-found commands to find what program you need. Theres nothing wrong with this; command lines dont HAVE to be arcane and klunky to use.
I might agree with you, of course, if you could demonstrate a single instance where said behavior could ruin otherwise command syntax (certainly I was unaware of it, and have never had issues with it, despite 10 years of batch scripting experience).
No, it doesnt, because they STILL never created the suggestion. Answer me this-- Since google also sometimes removes google searches (china for example), are they now liable for all links indexed on their site?
Think carefully before you answer that; a judge saying "yes" would mean the end of search engines as we know them.
Libel and slander are something that Google should be held liable for no different than anyone else.
AFAIK, in order for something to appear in googles suggestions, someone else has to have searched it first. Google isnt creating the suggestion, its simply remembering the search that someone else did and offering it up.
This really isnt any different than google results turning up libel and slander. Google isnt creating it, its simply indexing it.
The emergence of PowerShell on the MS platform in the last few years means I can do stuff that was previously impossible to do -
Its been possible to bring user accounts in and out of AD with basic windows console for quite some time now (LDIFDE), and Im pretty sure you could import into SQL server using the Windows console as well.
That said, powershell really is nice, if they use some ridiculous naming schemes (MoveExchangeUserFromThisServerToThatServer -user= .....).
Some people-- some of them very skilled (*cough mark russinovich cough*) would say "why on earth wouldnt it start with C:\?"
Windows console is useful when you're...you know, working on windows.
How useful would scripting that sort of thing be if you have a different set of tasks every week in unfamiliar territory? Are you going to spend hours reading documentation and fixing scripting bugs every week, or just use a GUI and be done with it?
Doing more work just for the sake of doing it a particular way isnt exactly what I would call smart.
It is often worth doing cost-benefit analysis and determining if the time spent reading the documentation is worth the time that will be saved by using CLI.
If someone asks me, for example, to add a user to active directory, it doesnt really make sense to research how to get LDIFDE or whatever to do an import properly. If, however, they hand me a CSV file of 100000 contacts and asks me to import them to active directory, then you better believe Im breaking out cygwin and awk documentation, and touching up on the active directory CLI tools. I may spend a few hours learning how to work them, but I will save hundreds of hours in time.
This isnt a "heres the right answer" scenario. You have to use your brain and your experience to choose the right tool for your job. That, as much as anything else, is the mark of a good systems administrator, not knowing every CLI in existence. A knowledgable SysAdmin can be inefficient if he needlessly ignores some tools (GUI) that are perfectly suitable to a task just so that he can use the same tool for every task.
One admin cannot master the commandline of every type of product out there. But with knowledge of networking protocols and how they interact, I can get up and running with FreeNAS in about 10 minutes with its GUI; if I need to learn the intricacies of FreeBSD and all the particular daemons it uses, I can do so later.
To prefer CLI is not elitism; anyone who has used it extensively knows that there are things that you can do better, faster, and more precisely using CLI. That is its benefit-- for those core technologies that are hanging around, learning CLI is a way of improving your efficiency.
The benefit of GUI, however, is that if you implement a new technology or service on your network, you dont have to spend years mastering the intricacies of the command line. The GUI lets you start using the product quicker.
Both have their places.
According to http://www.mitnse.com/
To date, radiation detected in milk is on the order of picocuries (10-12 Curie) per liter. This is 5,000 times lower than the FDA’s Derived Intervention Level. A Derived Intervention Level is the point at which the FDA would act to take the food in question out of our food supply.
That doesnt seem like its anything worth being hospitalized over.
Makes a difference to me; I have a 5 year old core2 system (E6300) that is generally just fine; 4GB of ram suits my needs as does the graphics card, and the drives are configured as I like.
Unfortunately, I cant shift either motherboard or processor without swapping the other, and its kind of obnoxious...
2 lines changed in a single file will affect the entire ISO image, and its not a sure thing that recreating the ISO yourself will result in an identical image with an identical checksum.
The website that you linked me to asked for a login. Thats not terribly helpful.
And again, I dont imagine they have checksums for the OEM editions, which are sometimes shipped with drivers slipstreamed.
First off, if youre blaming HTML5 and JS on Firefox, then youve utterly lost me. You might as well blame AMD for OpenGLs failings.
Second, theyre not talking about making a facebook or twitter plugin. Reread things.
Because I dont imagine there are any aircraft flying out of Fukushima, and the levels at Tokyo and all the other similarly large cities are basically nil.
And as someone else has remarked, the levels even 30km from the reactors @ Fukushima (32uS/h, last I checked) were still lower than the dosage you receive from flying in the atmosphere anyways.
You can either support them through programmes such as Social Security, or you can live in a society with a desperate underclass that will do anything to survive.
That is what we call a false dichotomy. How exactly are you going to prove this? And how do you deal with the fact that its a worse savings vehicle than a Roth IRA, and a pyramid scheme to boot? And how do you respond to the fact that there are ALREADY tons of ways for the "desperate underclass" to survive WITHOUT social security-- food stamps, unemployment, disability, shelters, charities...
I will note noone has yet posted an example of a SINGLE starvation death in the United States. This isnt a problem we have, and its NOT because of how wonderful social security is.
If they stuck to that mentality with a vengeance, we wouldnt have any of the following:
And more.
Perhaps you dont remember the days when firefox really did gobble ram down, because TabMixPlus was an utter pig, or when the 20+ addins you needed to get to today's level of functionality were unstable, leaky, and a PITA to update.
Somehow folks dont complain about all the functionality in Opera; but then I suppose the grass is always greener.
Thats not why theyre doing it. Theyre trying to release faster, so that new features come out quicker. And before you complain "but that means stuff wont be tested well"....its what Chrome is doing, and it is a remarkably stable browser right now. There are many ways to mitigate creeping bugs from "release often", like having several running releases at once (again, like Chrome).
I don't, because it will either be an Adobe plugin, hence slow and a memory hog, or it will be written from scratch, hence not fully compatible and probably slow as well.
....Or, like with Chrome, it will use the Foxit SDK and rely on them for PDF; or, it will use libpdf (or whatever evince uses)....
So no, not really. You clearly havent used Chrome's PDF viewer; its phenomenal-- fast, compatible, and does exactly what needs to be done, with built in and not-obnoxious autoupdate.
Which "radiation level" are you referring to?
All of them. take your pick; of all the prefectures listed, the only one with remotely "interesting" levels is Fukushima, and its levels are getting rather low as well-- until you get about 30km away, there isnt much in the way of radioactivity there either.
Its not peachy keen; the tsunami wrecked whole villages and people wont be living there again for some time. The radiation issue will be over long before the rest of the problems are dealt with. The tragedy in all of this is that when the japanese finally sort these reactors out once and for all, the world wont be letting out a collective sigh, or cheer, or congratulations; it will be far too busy bickering about whether this was another Chernobyl or not.
Detectors in Hiroshima are picking up no radiation whatsoever.
Good to know that China has better detectors tho.
They are close to Japan. The plant is throwing up 24/7 for the last month or so.
Lets take an actual look at the data around Japan and see whether it matches up.
In particular, lets look at data from (courtesy of) Hiroshima (inland, southwest), Tokyo (east coast), Fukuoka (coastal, southwest), and Osaka (south).
All of those show near zeros across the board for environmental radioactivity-- with the highest reading @ Tokyo a mere 2% of the "notify your local official" level. Of them, only tokyo has detectable radiation in its water.
Im not nuclear scientist, but I think its fair game to call shenanigans when folks a thousand miles away start claiming that the radioactivity skipped over Hiroshima and landed in China.
Freedom is the freedom to make mistakes. If you want the government to run your life, please go live in China or Soviet russia; do be sure to write us and tell us how wonderful it is.
Here in the states, we started out with the idea that people should be able to run their own lives, the Fed should make sure we dont get invaded, and states should do whatevers left. Somehow people today have gotten the idea that that should be flipped upside down.
Look, this isnt hard. Lets break out the possibilities:
1) The government uses the money as I put it in, but the population continues to grow, so money continues to flow in. I get my money back in the end.
2) The government uses the money as I put it in, and the population has shrunk by the time I retire. OOPS! Social security is now underwater. I dont get all of my money back.
3) Im unemployed for a good number of years, so I end up getting other people's money.
Option 1 is basically a pyramid scheme: It works, until the population stops growing, and then (due to inflation) the entire thing collapses at worst, at best I lose the money that was mine. Option 2 isnt very appealing no matter how you look at it. Option 3 doesnt seem to make much sense; If we want to support the unemployed, lets just call it that and be done with the gigantic pyramid scheme.
No matter how you spin this, youre granting the government a gigantic interest free loan and hoping that the whole thing doesnt collapse in 50 years when you want your money back. I had understood this to be a capitialist system based on the idea that you earn your living and pay for yourself. I am not against select few social programs to prevent rampant poverty, but we dont exactly have that problem; the problem we have is that Social security is one of the BIGGEST costs in our system, and on a good day it would be called a Ponzi scheme if it werent run by the fed.
But don't let that make you think that everyone else has the same abilities, opportunities and good health that you may have.
Thats NOT what social security is spun as. Its spun as a retirement vessel, when in reality it is far inferior to something like a Roth IRA. If you want a system for the impoverished and sick (which, BTW, we already HAVE-- its called food stamps, unemployment, medical disability, etc etc etc etc etc etc....), then call it that and see whether the people want or need another one. We do NOT have a problem with this in this country; I defy you to pull up an example-- even ONE news story-- of people dying in the streets for lack of food (Even, I dare say, after Katrina-- google searches and wikipedia turned up nada), given the INCREDIBLE amount of handouts that occur in this country. Anyone implying that such and such will starve without such and such program is lying, or deeply misled.