And who is Robert Louis Kemp anyway? I was excited when Penrose's wrote The Road to Reality, as he's already established as one of the world's top minds. Where does Kemp teach? What peer reviewed papers has he authored? Where is his PhD from? How do I know he's not just some crank?
The file system hierarchy is well described in hier(7). It really shouldn't be that much of a hurdle, people deal with the same shit on windows. '/dev/sdb1' is no more cryptic, and more informative than 'D:'. Editing a config file in/etc with the same damn file browser and text editor that you use every day is a lot more user friendly than learning to use Regedit to manipulate bizarrely named registry keys.
Windows has a lot of clutter, but it is still a cohesive and fairly consistent experience
The problem is, it's consistently awful.
Designing a user interface is actually quite challenging.
Which is why the linux method of making everything an option and letting the user choose what works for him is the best. There's no such thing as a one size fits all user interface.
Nintendo should just update the BIOS with a config option that swaps the meaning of the d-pad and button array. Lefties can then use the X-B-Y-A instead of U-D-L-R.
Yes it's programming. It's not especially complicated programming, but it is programming.
tar -xzvf file.tar.lz sudo./install
That's a pretty simple program. About as simple as a hello world. But, since the shell is a programming language you can do more with it. You can save it to a file and run it whenever you want. You can change the argument to tar to a variable which you pass from the command line. You can put some 'if' statements in there to test whether it's already installed, or check if there's enough space on disc, etc.
If people don't think of the shell as programming, they'll never imagine that they can do so much with it.
The shell is an interpreted programming language. Issuing commands in the shell is not fundamentally different from writing code. It's all strings of text that cause the computer to do things. It's good for people to think of the CLI as a programming environment, as that emphasizes its real strength.
You just have to accept that being technically literate means understanding the basics of something and being able to trouble shoot a bit on your own
You are right. Even at those low standards, the vast majority of people are not technically literate. Not just about computers, but about any subject whatsoever.
Regarding the quote from PC-Pro, CLI use is part of "the basics". If you don't have the aptitude to pop open a CLI, copy and paste a few lines from a howto (these are "the basics"), and read and understand any error messages that come up (this is the "troubleshoot a bit" part), then you're not technically literate.
I always tell people, if you didn't vote in in the election, don't complain.
What sense does that make? If you expect other people to respect your choice if you win, you have to respect their choice when they win. In other words, if you vote don't complain.
On the other hand, suppose the process is entirely rigged. Wouldn't participating only legitimize it? Does refusing to participate in an unfair system really deprive you of the right to complain about that system?
Who needs an excuse? Information is not scarce. What excuse is there for prohibiting the free transfer of non-scarce goods? It's sure as hell not to promote the progress of science and useful arts, free copying actually encourages that. Copyright is just government interference in the free market. It's protectionism, and carries no moral force whatsoever. It's no more wrong to make a copy of a blu-ray than it was to make salt from the ocean in 1930s India.
It's not as hard as you remember it. Anyone with a little aptitude and practice can beat SMB. Compared to other games on the NES (Ninja Gaiden, Castlevania, etc) it's a walk in the park.
Any scientist who doesn't work for the government works for industry. They're even more controlled in what they can say.
No scientist should have to check with the government before talking to the media. The only duty of a scientist is to advance knowledge. To promote truth. If you trust them to do that, you should have no problem with them talking to the media. If you can't trust them to do that, then why are you giving them grants?
Actors, newscasters, athletes, they don't really need to know what real life is like. Lets take the Senate and make them work the fishing boats and oil rigs. It might give them some perspective. Shit, my Senator even admitted to never having used an ATM. These are people who would really benefit from seeing things from the other side.
It's for announcing torrents in a machine readable format. Then your reader parses the XML, downloads torrents matching your criteria, and they appear in a network share ready to watch.
Slashdot Mirror
And who is Robert Louis Kemp anyway? I was excited when Penrose's wrote The Road to Reality, as he's already established as one of the world's top minds. Where does Kemp teach? What peer reviewed papers has he authored? Where is his PhD from? How do I know he's not just some crank?
I don't follow. A stylus is symmetrical, it should be usable by both lefties and righties.
The file system hierarchy is well described in hier(7). It really shouldn't be that much of a hurdle, people deal with the same shit on windows. '/dev/sdb1' is no more cryptic, and more informative than 'D:'. Editing a config file in /etc with the same damn file browser and text editor that you use every day is a lot more user friendly than learning to use Regedit to manipulate bizarrely named registry keys.
Windows has a lot of clutter, but it is still a cohesive and fairly consistent experience
The problem is, it's consistently awful.
Designing a user interface is actually quite challenging.
Which is why the linux method of making everything an option and letting the user choose what works for him is the best. There's no such thing as a one size fits all user interface.
Nintendo should just update the BIOS with a config option that swaps the meaning of the d-pad and button array. Lefties can then use the X-B-Y-A instead of U-D-L-R.
And yes, most people find jokes about pedophilia not funny
Are you sure? Most people I've asked found this sketch hilarous.
Yes it's programming. It's not especially complicated programming, but it is programming.
That's a pretty simple program. About as simple as a hello world. But, since the shell is a programming language you can do more with it. You can save it to a file and run it whenever you want. You can change the argument to tar to a variable which you pass from the command line. You can put some 'if' statements in there to test whether it's already installed, or check if there's enough space on disc, etc.
If people don't think of the shell as programming, they'll never imagine that they can do so much with it.
The shell is an interpreted programming language. Issuing commands in the shell is not fundamentally different from writing code. It's all strings of text that cause the computer to do things. It's good for people to think of the CLI as a programming environment, as that emphasizes its real strength.
You just have to accept that being technically literate means understanding the basics of something and being able to trouble shoot a bit on your own
You are right. Even at those low standards, the vast majority of people are not technically literate. Not just about computers, but about any subject whatsoever.
Regarding the quote from PC-Pro, CLI use is part of "the basics". If you don't have the aptitude to pop open a CLI, copy and paste a few lines from a howto (these are "the basics"), and read and understand any error messages that come up (this is the "troubleshoot a bit" part), then you're not technically literate.
I also have to deal with a confusing variety of distros
You really only have to deal with the distro you choose.
poor documentation
There's man pages, info pages, --help, and if you need your hand held just google it.
asking how to do something in Linux that you could do in Windows
Try asking on a Windows forum about something you can do trivially in Linux sometime.
And downloading and installing software, even using the built-in installer, is a confusing nightmare.
Ok, now you're just trolling. There's a pretty GUI app installer for every distro.
He's suggesting that no one uses the internet without end-to-end encryption. That's only prudent these days.
Wait, you mean I can't play my Super-CDRom2 discs on this Dell?
I always tell people, if you didn't vote in in the election, don't complain.
What sense does that make? If you expect other people to respect your choice if you win, you have to respect their choice when they win. In other words, if you vote don't complain.
On the other hand, suppose the process is entirely rigged. Wouldn't participating only legitimize it? Does refusing to participate in an unfair system really deprive you of the right to complain about that system?
I think they'd be better if we called them GNUrikens.
Who needs an excuse? Information is not scarce. What excuse is there for prohibiting the free transfer of non-scarce goods? It's sure as hell not to promote the progress of science and useful arts, free copying actually encourages that. Copyright is just government interference in the free market. It's protectionism, and carries no moral force whatsoever. It's no more wrong to make a copy of a blu-ray than it was to make salt from the ocean in 1930s India.
This would have been a lot cooler if they had done Wolfenstein 3d instead.
It's not as hard as you remember it. Anyone with a little aptitude and practice can beat SMB. Compared to other games on the NES (Ninja Gaiden, Castlevania, etc) it's a walk in the park.
Research professors get salaries that generally come directly from federal grants. They work for the government.
Any scientist who doesn't work for the government works for industry. They're even more controlled in what they can say.
No scientist should have to check with the government before talking to the media. The only duty of a scientist is to advance knowledge. To promote truth. If you trust them to do that, you should have no problem with them talking to the media. If you can't trust them to do that, then why are you giving them grants?
I'm not sure what part of my sig has you confused. All of those statements are pretty obviously true.
Just because you are sweating and getting dirty doesn't mean you've got it hard
That's what she said. Um.. hold on..
Actors, newscasters, athletes, they don't really need to know what real life is like. Lets take the Senate and make them work the fishing boats and oil rigs. It might give them some perspective. Shit, my Senator even admitted to never having used an ATM. These are people who would really benefit from seeing things from the other side.
An RSS reader aggregates and allows you to preview the content published to many different websites, all from one place
Like Slashdot?
It's for announcing torrents in a machine readable format. Then your reader parses the XML, downloads torrents matching your criteria, and they appear in a network share ready to watch.
Whose trial do we get to see first?