I can't think of a single reason why knowing what the rules do precludes using a GUI tool to simplify and automate management.
Manually editing text is time-consuming, fatiguing and error prone. Have a tool to automate that sort of thing is one of the fundamental reasons for having computers in the first place.
The thing is the GUI design is very difficult. You need to know your users and their tasks in advance. They are good for things that are easy to specify in a high level language, and difficult in a low level language. Of course, the domain of problems to be solved needs to be small for a GUI to succeed in that task. The tool is not going to be simpler than the problem, so I think the best you could get would be some sort of iptables IDE, and that is not what came to my mind when I read "a GUI tool". Of course, all text editing can be "augmented" by a good tool, but I don't think it can be replaced. Text editing is _the_ way to configure complex stuff, maybe a good IDE can help you edit it better, or easier, but that's as far at it goes, in my opinion.
> What kind of life would be that, if I can't have beef?
Too long for you I guess;).
Ok, jokes apart, I don't think that beef itself is that guilty for heart disease. Grass-fed beef fat is substantially different from the one that comes from grain-fed cattle, and has more omega-3. Cooking style is important, too. Where I live, grilled beef is the national dish, and we eat it rare to medium, with a side of lettuce and tomatoes. Fish, on the other hand, is almost every time fried in batter. Chicken is grilled with skin. Add to that the fact that we export _all_ the good fish, and chicken is mostly bred in an industrial way, probably the best way to get your proteins is fresh, top quality grass fed beef. Of course, I live in Uruguay and beef is our flagship export, so other places might be different. I've been to Central America and the Caribbean, and the specific grade of US beef you can find there doesn't taste like real food.
On the other hand if you want to have a healthier diet, eat more vegetables and regularly eat oceanic fish (the ones lower down the food chain with less mercury and crap). You can still have a nice steak once in a while.
p.s. if you actually like very lean cuts of beef, then I guess you don't have to worry about the heart disease risk, not so sure about the cancer risk tho.
If by "once in a while" you don't mean everyday, you are not being reasonable. What kind of life would be that, if I can't have beef?
3) Exercised cows have leaner meat and more muscle mass... this sounds like it might be worthwhile (although they are doing it for milking cows, not those used for meat).
Leaner meat is lower quality meat. The most expensive beef comes from spoiled, lazy japanese cows. You could eventually get good prices with organic, grass fed beef, but there are a lot of reasons why you can't do it in North America. Here in Uruguay, cows are mostly grass fed, and grain is used during droughts, or in some specific conditions. Putting cows in a barn would be a waste of resources, because you would have to bring them fresh grass, and the exercise would work against the tenderness of the beef, which means selling it as a lesser grade.
I am sure you are referring to pizza by the slice places, which everyone here also recognizes are not the best pizza in the world, but you can be in and out in 2 minutes, so people eat it sometimes. The US has some of the best Pizza places in the world. Except perhaps Naples, you can find better Pizza in every state in the US than anywhere else in the world.
Yes, I was referring to pizza by the slice. The fact that places like that can survive says something about the publics tolerance with pizza.
That's what I mean, that you have to be from the US to tolerate such a thing for the sake of convenience, and even pay for it.
About having good pizza places, I wouldn't know. I've been only to Florida and NYC. In Florida I went to several pizza places, and they were regular to good. In NYC I didn't see a lot of places I could eat real pizza, I tried pizza by the slice and it had a dough that tasted like sponge, like supermarket pizza. I would assume I could get real pizza in Little Italy if I really wanted to, but I didn't run into any place that sold real pizza, in Manhattan or in Hoboken. I had good pizza in Union City, but it was not as good as what your get here or in Argentina (Italy should be better of course, but I've never been there!). I think the big problem is you can't get good cheese in the US.
most serious Microsoft-oriented shops will upgrade to Visual Studio 2010 and never look back
Of course, implying that you're not a serious Microsoft-oriented shop if you don't upgrade.
Or implying that VS 2008 is a POS, and any sensible person will trade it for anything that promises to be better. I'm just giving you another possibility. I don't know VS2008 _at_all_. In fact, I had to work through 2008 with VS2005 because the shop would not authorize 2008. My opinion at the time was that VS2005 was a POS, didn't have a responsive UI and lacked very mainstream editing capabilities. My coworkers kept saying that I was right, 2005 was a POS, but that the next version was going to be great. I step exactly every five years in the VS world, and the situation is always like that. This version is crap, but the next one is going to be great and non frustrating at all.
How does that make him american? Typical foreigner!
Because those "americans" eat old reheated pizza, in pizza places!! I've seen it with my own eyes!! They even have them in display, pre-baked pizza. In my country, pizza, specially mozzarella, is always freshly baked, never reheated in the pizza place. You could get in trouble with customers trying to pull that off.
There is no such thing as a FOSS zealot. There is no such thing as "FOSS", as a matter of fact. Free software is a political movement, and Open Source is a technical thing. "FOSS" can't be both.
Free software is political, OS is more technical and less political, so they are no zealots, we are.
I thought it was implicit. _Lying_ about having sex with others is immoral, not the act itself. Lying to your significant other about skateboarding would also be immoral, I think it does make sense. If your couple was ok with you having sex with the next door neighbour, I don't see why that would be immoral.
The iphone and other non-flash devices, added to free software zealots, plus corporations with a non-flash policy, plus fresh installs of windows probably account for more than 1%
(plus, where I live, myspace is probably more popular than slashdot, but that's only due to myspace not being that international)
I can't think of anything that's morally wrong that doesn't cause harm.
Back to your earlier point - quite frankly, adultery, if the other party never finds out. No one's harmed here.
Risk is potential for harm. Adultery puts your partner in risk of STDs, or loss of property, if you conceive a child. I know that condoms do exist, but the risk is non-zero.
Look closer at your sound card. Does it say "Sorny" or "Panaphonics" on it? Buying computers from a kangaroo in an alleyway will get you what you pay for.
I agree with your in the other points. In fact, knockoffs usually have more features than the originals. My chinese no-brand DVD player could play divx years before the recognized brands started to do it. Iphone knockoffs do everything the original does, and a lot more, like letting you install software, play regular media files, even watch air tv.
You don't get what you pay for in features, the money from the expensive products goes to design, good plastic, QA and lawyers. Features are cheap. When you pay less, you can even get more features.
But you neglect the fact that there is a protocol. By publishing the ESSID, you invite other to connect to your network. There is no need to publish an ESSID, and you could always lock the network.
If you leave the door open, and put a sign outside that says "come in", people might come to your house. For example, that's how retail works, and that's why we don't put "come in" signs at our front doors.
- Gods existence is not deniable, so its existence is irrelevant.
- God, as an angry cloud, who is also a bearded guy and a bird, and some other stuff also, does definitely not exist, but there is probably some consciousness that ties together the whole universe.
None of them are mine, but they seem plausible for the initial POVs you provide. I am an atheist, it doesn't mean I believe there is no god, it's just that I place it in the same existential class as Papá Noel, Santa, the Coca Cola guy or whatever you want to call him.
The bulk of Islam may be peaceful, but the people in their lands who control the power are not, and never have been. They have been a nuisance for the West for at least 200 years.
And the West has been a nuisance to Islam since the Crusades. Most of the modern trouble the US has with the middle-east originates from American imperialism and terrorism. You can only overthrow so many democratic governments, and murder so many innocent people, before they start hitting back.
I'm surprised by there isn't more terrorism from Latin America, they have more reason than anyone to hate the US.
Please, don't give them ideas.
Since they stopped financing dictatorships in the nineties, we in Latin America are a lot better socially and financially. Their involvement hasn't ended, but it slowed down enough to be less harmful.
In Latin America there has been a lot of fratricide, although externally funded, so the real enemy is not perceived to be outside. There is a lot of resentment for what the US are responsible of (things like Plan Condor here in the south) , but not irrational hatred towards the US. I live in Uruguay (far south), and most people here don't like US foreign policies, but there is probably no one here willing to lift a finger against them.
Anyhow, some Latin Americans are getting back at the US by colonizing them back. Illegal, legal immigration and faster birth rates are a peaceful and inevitable invasion.
IMHO, it's idiocy to assume that one's foes haven't already violated the treaty, and idiocy to not violate it. That's how the game is played, and you play to win if you care about your country.
Well, in fact, if you did actually care about your country, and you don't want it to be nuked, you would find out why your "foes" want to nuke you, and convince to not want to do it, with expensive gifts or the promise of expensive gifts. In the last century, it's the only thing that has given any results for now.
If they did orbit, they would be called ICOM, right? It's great that you know how to expand an acronym, congratulations.
My point was a lot less specific. I am not a fan of warfare strategy, so I don't actually care whether its best military application is launching nukes from orbit, or just disabling enemy satellites, but it does have lots of military applications that a plain rocket doesn't have, and it is probably a bad thing for a country to give that info to another country.
Well, we have a better invention, the human-adapted city. In cities that were build for people and not for cars, the grocery store is no more than two blocks away. No need to be lugging your food around, the miracle of logistics takes care of that.
And you can drive a car or ride for work, but there are lots of cities that have a good, fast, working public transportation system that doesn't smell funny, even in third world countries, like mine.
The crazy thing is trying to replace the car in cities built around cars. Those cities don't work for people, you have to change cities, change the city, or just keep your damn car with all its disadvantages.
What upsets me the most is that if I legally purchase windows for my computer I am limited on how much I can upgrade
Sadly you didn't purchase windows, you licensed it. Welcome to the world: intellectual property gets all the protection that physical property gets, with none of the 'disadvantages' (ability to loan, etc).
Well, I don't know whether you are trying to make a point, or you actually believe what you are saying, but "intellectual property" is not something that can be compared to actual property. The concept of property has its origins on scarcity. Intellectual works are not scarce, so the concept of property has no meaning regarding them. "Intellectual property" is about monopoly rights over immaterial works, in this case, copyright. The only thing copyright and property have in common is that confusing term. There is no analogy to be made between property and copyrights, and doing so brings confusion like the GP, who thought he bought something, when he only paid for the right to run certain software under certain conditions. Much more like game tickets, only you have to play yourself in addition to paying.
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I can't think of a single reason why knowing what the rules do precludes using a GUI tool to simplify and automate management.
Manually editing text is time-consuming, fatiguing and error prone. Have a tool to automate that sort of thing is one of the fundamental reasons for having computers in the first place.
The thing is the GUI design is very difficult. You need to know your users and their tasks in advance.
They are good for things that are easy to specify in a high level language, and difficult in a low level language. Of course, the domain of problems to be solved needs to be small for a GUI to succeed in that task.
The tool is not going to be simpler than the problem, so I think the best you could get would be some sort of iptables IDE, and that is not what came to my mind when I read "a GUI tool". Of course, all text editing can be "augmented" by a good tool, but I don't think it can be replaced. Text editing is _the_ way to configure complex stuff, maybe a good IDE can help you edit it better, or easier, but that's as far at it goes, in my opinion.
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> What kind of life would be that, if I can't have beef?
Too long for you I guess ;).
Ok, jokes apart, I don't think that beef itself is that guilty for heart disease.
Grass-fed beef fat is substantially different from the one that comes from grain-fed cattle, and has more omega-3.
Cooking style is important, too.
Where I live, grilled beef is the national dish, and we eat it rare to medium, with a side of lettuce and tomatoes. Fish, on the other hand, is almost every time fried in batter. Chicken is grilled with skin.
Add to that the fact that we export _all_ the good fish, and chicken is mostly bred in an industrial way, probably the best way to get your proteins is fresh, top quality grass fed beef.
Of course, I live in Uruguay and beef is our flagship export, so other places might be different. I've been to Central America and the Caribbean, and the specific grade of US beef you can find there doesn't taste like real food.
On the other hand if you want to have a healthier diet, eat more vegetables and regularly eat oceanic fish (the ones lower down the food chain with less mercury and crap). You can still have a nice steak once in a while.
p.s. if you actually like very lean cuts of beef, then I guess you don't have to worry about the heart disease risk, not so sure about the cancer risk tho.
If by "once in a while" you don't mean everyday, you are not being reasonable. What kind of life would be that, if I can't have beef?
3) Exercised cows have leaner meat and more muscle mass... this sounds like it might be worthwhile (although they are doing it for milking cows, not those used for meat).
Leaner meat is lower quality meat.
The most expensive beef comes from spoiled, lazy japanese cows.
You could eventually get good prices with organic, grass fed beef, but there are a lot of reasons why you can't do it in North America. Here in Uruguay, cows are mostly grass fed, and grain is used during droughts, or in some specific conditions.
Putting cows in a barn would be a waste of resources, because you would have to bring them fresh grass, and the exercise would work against the tenderness of the beef, which means selling it as a lesser grade.
I am sure you are referring to pizza by the slice places, which everyone here also recognizes are not the best pizza in the world, but you can be in and out in 2 minutes, so people eat it sometimes. The US has some of the best Pizza places in the world. Except perhaps Naples, you can find better Pizza in every state in the US than anywhere else in the world.
Yes, I was referring to pizza by the slice.
The fact that places like that can survive says something about the publics tolerance with pizza.
That's what I mean, that you have to be from the US to tolerate such a thing for the sake of convenience, and even pay for it.
About having good pizza places, I wouldn't know. I've been only to Florida and NYC. In Florida I went to several pizza places, and they were regular to good.
In NYC I didn't see a lot of places I could eat real pizza, I tried pizza by the slice and it had a dough that tasted like sponge, like supermarket pizza.
I would assume I could get real pizza in Little Italy if I really wanted to, but I didn't run into any place that sold real pizza, in Manhattan or in Hoboken.
I had good pizza in Union City, but it was not as good as what your get here or in Argentina (Italy should be better of course, but I've never been there!). I think the big problem is you can't get good cheese in the US.
most serious Microsoft-oriented shops will upgrade to Visual Studio 2010 and never look back
Of course, implying that you're not a serious Microsoft-oriented shop if you don't upgrade.
Or implying that VS 2008 is a POS, and any sensible person will trade it for anything that promises to be better.
I'm just giving you another possibility. I don't know VS2008 _at_all_. In fact, I had to work through 2008 with VS2005 because the shop would not authorize 2008. My opinion at the time was that VS2005 was a POS, didn't have a responsive UI and lacked very mainstream editing capabilities. My coworkers kept saying that I was right, 2005 was a POS, but that the next version was going to be great. I step exactly every five years in the VS world, and the situation is always like that. This version is crap, but the next one is going to be great and non frustrating at all.
How does that make him american? Typical foreigner!
Because those "americans" eat old reheated pizza, in pizza places!! I've seen it with my own eyes!! They even have them in display, pre-baked pizza.
In my country, pizza, specially mozzarella, is always freshly baked, never reheated in the pizza place. You could get in trouble with customers trying to pull that off.
There is no such thing as a FOSS zealot. There is no such thing as "FOSS", as a matter of fact. Free software is a political movement, and Open Source is a technical thing. "FOSS" can't be both.
Free software is political, OS is more technical and less political, so they are no zealots, we are.
I thought it was implicit.
_Lying_ about having sex with others is immoral, not the act itself. Lying to your significant other about skateboarding would also be immoral, I think it does make sense.
If your couple was ok with you having sex with the next door neighbour, I don't see why that would be immoral.
The iphone and other non-flash devices, added to free software zealots, plus corporations with a non-flash policy, plus fresh installs of windows probably account for more than 1%
(plus, where I live, myspace is probably more popular than slashdot, but that's only due to myspace not being that international)
I can't think of anything that's morally wrong that doesn't cause harm.
Back to your earlier point - quite frankly, adultery, if the other party never finds out. No one's harmed here.
Risk is potential for harm.
Adultery puts your partner in risk of STDs, or loss of property, if you conceive a child. I know that condoms do exist, but the risk is non-zero.
Look closer at your sound card. Does it say "Sorny" or "Panaphonics" on it? Buying computers from a kangaroo in an alleyway will get you what you pay for.
I agree with your in the other points.
In fact, knockoffs usually have more features than the originals.
My chinese no-brand DVD player could play divx years before the recognized brands started to do it.
Iphone knockoffs do everything the original does, and a lot more, like letting you install software, play regular media files, even watch air tv.
You don't get what you pay for in features, the money from the expensive products goes to design, good plastic, QA and lawyers. Features are cheap. When you pay less, you can even get more features.
Well, of course, YMMV, following the analogy, I'm sure you could buy doors that won't shut, or won't lock.
But you neglect the fact that there is a protocol.
By publishing the ESSID, you invite other to connect to your network.
There is no need to publish an ESSID, and you could always lock the network.
If you leave the door open, and put a sign outside that says "come in", people might come to your house. For example, that's how retail works, and that's why we don't put "come in" signs at our front doors.
Possible conclusions:
- Gods existence is not deniable, so its existence is irrelevant.
- God, as an angry cloud, who is also a bearded guy and a bird, and some other stuff also, does definitely not exist, but there is probably some consciousness that ties together the whole universe.
None of them are mine, but they seem plausible for the initial POVs you provide.
I am an atheist, it doesn't mean I believe there is no god, it's just that I place it in the same existential class as Papá Noel, Santa, the Coca Cola guy or whatever you want to call him.
(dali picture)
If it were actually a Dali picture, he would have intended it to show this way.
They summary already names a fix for Gimp (GEGL), but the posters only seem interested in whining instead of RTFS. Sigh.
And the West has been a nuisance to Islam since the Crusades. Most of the modern trouble the US has with the middle-east originates from American imperialism and terrorism. You can only overthrow so many democratic governments, and murder so many innocent people, before they start hitting back.
I'm surprised by there isn't more terrorism from Latin America, they have more reason than anyone to hate the US.
Please, don't give them ideas.
Since they stopped financing dictatorships in the nineties, we in Latin America are a lot better socially and financially. Their involvement hasn't ended, but it slowed down enough to be less harmful.
In Latin America there has been a lot of fratricide, although externally funded, so the real enemy is not perceived to be outside. There is a lot of resentment for what the US are responsible of (things like Plan Condor here in the south) , but not irrational hatred towards the US. I live in Uruguay (far south), and most people here don't like US foreign policies, but there is probably no one here willing to lift a finger against them.
Anyhow, some Latin Americans are getting back at the US by colonizing them back. Illegal, legal immigration and faster birth rates are a peaceful and inevitable invasion.
IMHO, it's idiocy to assume that one's foes haven't already violated the treaty, and idiocy to not violate it. That's how the game is played, and you play to win if you care about your country.
Well, in fact, if you did actually care about your country, and you don't want it to be nuked, you would find out why your "foes" want to nuke you, and convince to not want to do it, with expensive gifts or the promise of expensive gifts.
In the last century, it's the only thing that has given any results for now.
If they did orbit, they would be called ICOM, right? It's great that you know how to expand an acronym, congratulations.
My point was a lot less specific.
I am not a fan of warfare strategy, so I don't actually care whether its best military application is launching nukes from orbit, or just disabling enemy satellites, but it does have lots of military applications that a plain rocket doesn't have, and it is probably a bad thing for a country to give that info to another country.
The rumour was that the US chose the shuttle instead of better alternatives, because it can steer orbits, much better than an ICBM.
Well, we have a better invention, the human-adapted city. In cities that were build for people and not for cars, the grocery store is no more than two blocks away.
No need to be lugging your food around, the miracle of logistics takes care of that.
And you can drive a car or ride for work, but there are lots of cities that have a good, fast, working public transportation system that doesn't smell funny, even in third world countries, like mine.
The crazy thing is trying to replace the car in cities built around cars. Those cities don't work for people, you have to change cities, change the city, or just keep your damn car with all its disadvantages.
Freedom is somewhat like virginity. 98% free is not free.
What upsets me the most is that if I legally purchase windows for my computer I am limited on how much I can upgrade
Sadly you didn't purchase windows, you licensed it. Welcome to the world: intellectual property gets all the protection that physical property gets, with none of the 'disadvantages' (ability to loan, etc).
Well, I don't know whether you are trying to make a point, or you actually believe what you are saying, but "intellectual property" is not something that can be compared to actual property. The concept of property has its origins on scarcity. Intellectual works are not scarce, so the concept of property has no meaning regarding them. "Intellectual property" is about monopoly rights over immaterial works, in this case, copyright. The only thing copyright and property have in common is that confusing term. There is no analogy to be made between property and copyrights, and doing so brings confusion like the GP, who thought he bought something, when he only paid for the right to run certain software under certain conditions. Much more like game tickets, only you have to play yourself in addition to paying.