If you can not avoid an action of another human being, then that action is an act of force. It need not be physical force. And if you can only avoid it taking huge penalties of some sort (like not eating), then it is still force. There is no sharp border between volontary and by force, there are infinitely many levels in between, and where you end up depends on how free you are to opt out, that is, what you miss by opting out and how dependent you are on that.
You do realize that one needs to eat, drink and have shelter to survive? Thus, living in a capitalistic society, trade to gain those things is not in any way volontary. And if you have little resources, and the one you trade with have huge ones, you _are_ oppressed. Physical force is just one type of force. Economical force is at least as important. For an example of that, look at the EU and the US. The US have a much stronger military force, but they still can not do whatever they pleases, but have to negotiate on more or less equal ground with the EU, as the EU do have as big an economy and an as important market.
I do use tla inventory for most things. However, there are some problems with this approach. First, 'tla inventory | while read name; do grep -H -e expression "$name"; done' is a bit clumsier than just 'grep -r -e expression', but that can be solved with some macros:) Second, and worse, is that I both like to include all the Arch-specific dirs and info in distribution tgz:s so that people can easily import that directly into their repo, and I do have some build-scripts that needs to traverse the tree in some ways, basicly doing the above command. This works fine for everyone who do have Arch. But most people don't and my program will fail to build for them:(
Hm, isn't this actually a proof that the system _works_: a distributed revission control system is meant exactly to ease forks and remerges of projects, so if the RCS itself has a tendency to fork and remerge, it is a _good_ sign, as long as the use their own RCS to version control the RCS source (as does Arch and most others:)... Kind of fluffy meta-abstract feeling, isn't it?
By the way, Arch rocks, except from three things: Its UI is constantly changing, it does not have completion of category/branch/version/patch names, so you have to write the whole thing all the time, and it should have put all the.arch-ids-directories within {arch} in the checked-out-copy. The last would force you to use 'tla move' even on directories, but that is a small price to pay not to constantly walk all over the id-files with find/grep/sed when you do magical things...
Oh yes, in today's world where the big labels has the violence monopoly, it unfourtunately is... And one that we won't have much longer... But it is indeed a right.
There's a big difference between an allowence and a right. Rights is something thinks you do have, while allowance is something someone else gives you, as he/shi has control over your situation. Most people thinks that you do have a right to copy a work and transfer it into other formats, as long as you don't play more than one copy at the same time, or let more than one household use the work at the same time. However, you may not have the allowence to do that, as the labels have the law and thus the force on their side...
Nah, that's another thing. Here in sweden, we too have a similar scheme with two state-owned "public service" TV-stations and fees on TV:s. Here, a computer _with_ a TV reciever built in counts as a TV, but one without does _not_, which I thinks is totally fair, at least until SVT1 and SVT2 start to broadcast an mpeg (or other open format) videa stream of all of their content over the internet, in which case I wouldn't be too angry if an internet connection counted too.
Does the german public service stations broadcast their shows over the internet in an open format (no, Real Video does _not_ count!)?
Have they ever counted the numbers of machines sold with windows on them, just to be scratched right away and reinstalled with Linux? Happens all the time around here...
Except his code is unreadable with numerical constans everywhere and no comments. Not that he's bad at what he's doing - the code _works_ damn good, but it can't be used as documentation for the cards, and there is usually no other doc for them:(
I usually preffere 'ssh root@localhost', since it handles X much more painlessly and securly - xhost + is a great evil and should be extingt! ssh uses xauth (which you could use by hand together with su, but that's a bit of work). In addition, using ssh-keys and ssh-agent, you can even get a smoth "single-sign-on" system.
But that was exactly my point - bring water, and split it into H2 and O2 just before usage, that is, just before start when rreturning frrom the Mars surface.
Hm, why not just send water and a fission-based energy-source? Water can be split into oxygen and hydrogen through elecrolysis. I imagine keeping water from escaping is much easier than keeping hydrogen and oxygen from doing the same - in the shadow in space, it would even be ice, so no need to protect it at all...
If, and I say if, someone manages to, in an easy-to-grasp way present and graphically model something with an expressiveness of a programming/script-language, where one can describe any algorithm, then yes. One has atempted to do this from time to time during the history, and allways failed. I don't think that time is aproaching that fast... This is not a question of pramming, but a question of human cognitive psycology - textual _language_ still is, after thousands of years, our most advanced communication method.
No. Someone has to write your GUI-app. For each and every purpose. The user can not just klick-and-combine functions to get away from repetitious tasks. At the CLI, on the other hand, the user does not need a program for each specific purpose, just one for each task, and he/she can then him/her self combine them with the shell scripting language.
It just boils down to if the interface is turing complete or not.
Of course you could construct a GUI with ability to describe functional abstractions and choices etc (loops etc), but to program such a GUI would be way more clumsy, and _less_ user friendly than in a textual system.
It is not the GUI itself that makes it easy, but that it's dumbed down and does not contain all of the expressive power of a CLI.
>I was merely dispelling the myth that government is >the only way a person might get the help they need. >Government is not the answer to everything.
But the only thing that can _guarantee_ _everyone_ treatment in a specific situation, or a basic level of food and shelter, is a government that _forcibly_ _takes_ property from other (richer) to pay for such things.
I'd rather live in a society with some guaranteed basic living standard, than in one where I may end up starving tomorrow.
NTFS does not have real inheritance - you can set an attribute top be inherited on file/diectory creation, but changing that property on the parent later on won't affect the child. In NetWare, you do not have ACLs but Trustees, which are inherited down through the file-tree.
This is not just very handy, but required to do things like allow students to disallow access by others to their home-directories if they so wishes, except that they shouldn't be allowed to disallow teatchers access to them.
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if the length of the array is what the code actually is to calculate, why call it something else than length?
Even the code
for (pos=1;array[pos];pos++);
len=pos-1;
is more unobvious than the one for 0-indexed arrays I wrote before.
Not quite so. The other way around, actually.
for (len=0; array[len]; len++);
is an obvious way to count the elements of a null-terminated array.
for (len=1; array[len]; len++);
len -=1;
isn't at all as obvious, is it? And there are several similar cases...
If you can not avoid an action of another human being, then that action is an act of force. It need not be physical force. And if you can only avoid it taking huge penalties of some sort (like not eating), then it is still force. There is no sharp border between volontary and by force, there are infinitely many levels in between, and where you end up depends on how free you are to opt out, that is, what you miss by opting out and how dependent you are on that.
You do realize that one needs to eat, drink and have shelter to survive? Thus, living in a capitalistic society, trade to gain those things is not in any way volontary. And if you have little resources, and the one you trade with have huge ones, you _are_ oppressed. Physical force is just one type of force. Economical force is at least as important. For an example of that, look at the EU and the US. The US have a much stronger military force, but they still can not do whatever they pleases, but have to negotiate on more or less equal ground with the EU, as the EU do have as big an economy and an as important market.
I do use tla inventory for most things. However, there are some problems with this approach. First, :) Second, and worse, is that I both like to include all the Arch-specific dirs and info in distribution tgz:s so that people can easily import that directly into their repo, and I do have some build-scripts that needs to traverse the tree in some ways, basicly doing the above command. This works fine for everyone who do have Arch. But most people don't and my program will fail to build for them :(
'tla inventory | while read name; do grep -H -e expression "$name"; done' is a bit clumsier than just 'grep -r -e expression', but that can be solved with some macros
Hm, isn't this actually a proof that the system _works_: a distributed revission control system is meant exactly to ease forks and remerges of projects, so if the RCS itself has a tendency to fork and remerge, it is a _good_ sign, as long as the use their own RCS to version control the RCS source (as does Arch and most others :)... Kind of fluffy meta-abstract feeling, isn't it?
.arch-ids-directories within {arch} in the checked-out-copy. The last would force you to use 'tla move' even on directories, but that is a small price to pay not to constantly walk all over the id-files with find/grep/sed when you do magical things...
By the way, Arch rocks, except from three things: Its UI is constantly changing, it does not have completion of category/branch/version/patch names, so you have to write the whole thing all the time, and it should have put all the
Oh yes, in today's world where the big labels has the violence monopoly, it unfourtunately is... And one that we won't have much longer... But it is indeed a right.
There's a big difference between an allowence and a right. Rights is something thinks you do have, while allowance is something someone else gives you, as he/shi has control over your situation. Most people thinks that you do have a right to copy a work and transfer it into other formats, as long as you don't play more than one copy at the same time, or let more than one household use the work at the same time. However, you may not have the allowence to do that, as the labels have the law and thus the force on their side...
War is peace (and slavery, or rather, death is freedom) has never been so true until now...
You could aswell rename your country to oceania...
Nah, that's another thing. Here in sweden, we too have a similar scheme with two state-owned "public service" TV-stations and fees on TV:s. Here, a computer _with_ a TV reciever built in counts as a TV, but one without does _not_, which I thinks is totally fair, at least until SVT1 and SVT2 start to broadcast an mpeg (or other open format) videa stream of all of their content over the internet, in which case I wouldn't be too angry if an internet connection counted too.
Does the german public service stations broadcast their shows over the internet in an open format (no, Real Video does _not_ count!)?
Do you have any inheritance down the tree using that type of ACLs?
Have they ever counted the numbers of machines sold with windows on them, just to be scratched right away and reinstalled with Linux? Happens all the time around here...
Except his code is unreadable with numerical constans everywhere and no comments. Not that he's bad at what he's doing - the code _works_ damn good, but it can't be used as documentation for the cards, and there is usually no other doc for them :(
Just try French Fry and you'l find it easily enought...
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=2y&s=SCOX&l=on&z=m &q=l&c=RHAT
:) They _do_ correlate at some points at least... Should we start some new fresh conspiracy theories?
Hm, that looks funny
There's a difference between a programmer and a hacker.
I usually preffere 'ssh root@localhost', since it handles X much more painlessly and securly - xhost + is a great evil and should be extingt! ssh uses xauth (which you could use by hand together with su, but that's a bit of work). In addition, using ssh-keys and ssh-agent, you can even get a smoth "single-sign-on" system.
You might be partly right, but at least, you are not correct about all of his books:
http://www.oreilly.com/openbook
And what is a CLI, except a scripting language?
But that was exactly my point - bring water, and split it into H2 and O2 just before usage, that is, just before start when rreturning frrom the Mars surface.
Hm, why not just send water and a fission-based energy-source? Water can be split into oxygen and hydrogen through elecrolysis. I imagine keeping water from escaping is much easier than keeping hydrogen and oxygen from doing the same - in the shadow in space, it would even be ice, so no need to protect it at all...
If, and I say if, someone manages to, in an easy-to-grasp way present and graphically model something with an expressiveness of a programming/script-language, where one can describe any algorithm, then yes. One has atempted to do this from time to time during the history, and allways failed. I don't think that time is aproaching that fast... This is not a question of pramming, but a question of human cognitive psycology - textual _language_ still is, after thousands of years, our most advanced communication method.
No. Someone has to write your GUI-app. For each and every purpose. The user can not just klick-and-combine functions to get away from repetitious tasks. At the CLI, on the other hand, the user does not need a program for each specific purpose, just one for each task, and he/she can then him/her self combine them with the shell scripting language.
It just boils down to if the interface is turing complete or not.
Of course you could construct a GUI with ability to describe functional abstractions and choices etc (loops etc), but to program such a GUI would be way more clumsy, and _less_ user friendly than in a textual system.
It is not the GUI itself that makes it easy, but that it's dumbed down and does not contain all of the expressive power of a CLI.
>I was merely dispelling the myth that government is
>the only way a person might get the help they need.
>Government is not the answer to everything.
But the only thing that can _guarantee_ _everyone_ treatment in a specific situation, or a basic level of food and shelter, is a government that _forcibly_ _takes_ property from other (richer) to pay for such things.
I'd rather live in a society with some guaranteed basic living standard, than in one where I may end up starving tomorrow.
NTFS does not have real inheritance - you can set an attribute top be inherited on file/diectory creation, but changing that property on the parent later on won't affect the child. In NetWare, you do not have ACLs but Trustees, which are inherited down through the file-tree.
This is not just very handy, but required to do things like allow students to disallow access by others to their home-directories if they so wishes, except that they shouldn't be allowed to disallow teatchers access to them.