What you are describing, what the Finder does already, and what cp -r does, is copying not merging. Merging is when the most recent version of each file is kept regardless of whether the more recent version is in the source directory or the destination directory.
Sure thing - 'e' is what's omitted in "Mary's car."
In Old English 'es' was a common genitive case ending (genitive is the case of possessives). When the e was elided it was marked with the apostrophe. Originally it would have been:
"Maryes wagon" - since there were no cars back then;^)
p.s. I'm not the grammar nazi your replying to - I'm more of a grammar realist. Expect to see lots more grammatically acceptable uses of the apostrophe in English in the future. When it comes to grammar, usage, and spelling majority definitely rules, and the majority is using apostrophes like they were on special at Walmart.
You're forgetting the second key ingredient - VC money. You may well be willing to start a company in a relatively remote rural area, and you might even get a few like minded nerds to join you in the boondocks, but you won't get VCs to give you any money unless you move - if they do find out that you exist they'll make you relocate near them so they don't have to travel 4 hours every time they have to attend a board meeting. Of course if you'd rtfa you'd know this but this is slashdot so...
The most important difference between Explorer and Firefox is that one is provided by a proven monopolist that controls the dominant personal computing platform, and the other one isn't. It doesn't matter what comes preloaded with Firefox since Firefox doesn't ship on 90% of personal computers sold. It matters very much what comes preloaded with Explorer since its going to be the default browser on hundreds of millions of new machines, and it is the browser of a company already found by Federal Courts to have leveraged its OS monopoly to force feed users its web browser. Now it seems Microsoft is trying to force feed users its search technology. Hopefully the Courts will view this as dimly as Microsoft's attempts to lock out Netscape, and hopefully Google will take legal action before Google becomes the historical footnote that Netscape has become.
This would be a clever parody except for the fact that one platform outnumbers the other about 20 to 1. This being the case, what you describe - that users of the overwhelming majority platform would have no knowledge of the minority platform - is no surprise - most people would have no occasion to ever use a mac. What your parent describes - that daily users of the minority platform would have no experience whatsoever of the OS on 90% of PCs is noteworthy and telling - it suggests that the majority platform, even though ubiquitous, is something that many people avoid like the plague.
No contradiction here - Joe Sixpack (on Windows) is just not Apple's target market. Apple's market is and always has been people willing to pay a premium for a better user experience than Windows (and previously, DOS). These are people with enough money and intelligence to realize that their time is worth more than the money they'd save by buying a PC with Windows.
These people are also not going to waste their valuable time dicking around with some bootleg build of Mac OS X to get it to run on a less costly PC. They'll just buy a legitimate system from Apple.
Just as importantly, even if you can install it to any user specified directory, can you move it elsewhere after installation and still have it work? Can you move it to a CD, pop that CD in any other Linux user's machine and have the app run off the CD? Properly packaged Mac OS X apps do all these things.
When I try and install something on OS X that doesn't have the required dependencies, it simply fails to work and gives no user-friendly clues why.
We're talking about applications here. On Mac OS X, a properly packaged application lives in a.app directory which contains all dependencies with the sole exception of frameworks that are present on any version of Mac OS X that the app is capable of running on. In other words, a properly packaged Mac OS X app has no external dependencies - everything it needs to run is either in the.app directory, or comes standard with Mac OS X.
Any application packaging that assumes that users will not relocate an application is broken on Mac OS X. This means that any having dependencies not contained inside the.app directory (aka the app bundle) is broken, since users can and will relocate apps to removable media for use on other machines.
Now, some misguided *nix hackers will cobble together an application to run on Mac OS X that scatters little *nix file turds all over various directories, or will hard code installation directories so the application is not relocatable. These are both wrong on Mac OS X (though common practice on *nix) because Mac users have been relocating applications since the mid 1980s, and will continue to do so.
"We live in society's in which pretty much everybody reproduces and most of those reproductions end up reproducing themself."
Did you know that the majority of conceptions end in spontaneous abortion? In many parts of the world, half of all children born die before their first birthday?
Most of natural selection is occurring to offspring less than 10 years old. The overwhelming majority of human beings ever conceived never made it to sexual maturity, forget about reproduction.
This is a topic where knowing something about demographics is helpful. Just looking around at your coworkers and neighbors is not going to give you an accurate picture of what is really happening in human reproduction and hence, human evolution, because your coworkers and neighbors are already survivors.
Just as important as failure to reproduce at all is differential reproductive rates. Merely being outbred by 5:4 is enough to ensure that the more slowly reproducing strain will be all but gone from the gene pool within a few hundred generations.
Maybe, maybe not. Maybe there are some systematic genetic differences between PhDs and the average MacDonald's employee. Maybe there aren't. Merely asserting that there are no such differences does not constitute proof.
The brain is a complex organism. There are definite genetic variations in brain organization - see V. S. Ramachandran's Reith Lectures for some examples. Some of these may well make certain individuals better able to sit all day at a computer terminal doing programming than others who have difficultly mustering the sustained attention to logical detail necessary for this particular task.
This doesn't make one group "better" than the other. It makes each group better at different things. The really difficult moral question arises if we come to know that certain individuals are genetically less well suited for the sorts of occupations most needed in a modern economy. What does a society do about those people who would have been perfectly good factory workers, but rather poor information workers, when there is no longer much demand for factory workers? Do we just let the devil take the hindmost as we seem to be doing now?
By default Mac OS X does not show file extensions of applications. If, like many more computer literate users, you elect to "show all file extensions" (Finder:Preferences:Advanced), this "virus" (which is actually a trojan of course) will show up as YaddaYadda.jpg.app and you'll see that it's just a lame attempt at a trojan.
That said, it will definitely bite many naive mac users who think they are invulnerable, and don't realize that the Finder's default behavior, though a convenience for the computer illiterate, is very dangerous precisely because it allows executable trojans to masquerade as data files such as graphics, etc.
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Likewise, once you've lawfully obtained a copy of MacOS-X, Apple loses all rights to dictate how that copy may be used.
You never lawfully obtain a copy of Mac OS X to do with whatever you wish.
You only lawfully enter into a license agreement with Apple, the terms of which require you to run Mac OS X on Apple hardware.
Just in case any readers are unaware of this fact, it is perfectly legal for you to agree to a license that removes rights you would otherwise have. You may have the right to do anything you like with certain products in the absence of a license agreement governing your purchase. But it is perfectly legal for a vendor to sell a product by means of a license agreement which removes rights you would otherwise have had. When you agree to the license, you are bound by it, including those portions that restrict or remove rights you would otherwise have had in the absence of the license agreement. If you don't like the license agreement you are free not to purchase the product, or to return it for a refund. You are not legally entitled to unilaterally rewrite the terms of the license agreement to suit your desires.
You may dislike the fact that you never lawfully obtained a copy of Mac OS X to do with whatever you wish, but there is no ambiguity about your situation as far as the law is concerned. A recent federal court ruling has upheld click-through EULAs. As far as US law is concerned, they are fully valid license agreements, including terms that restrict or remove rights which purchasers normally have in the absence of such agreements. Click through EULAs were specifically ruled to waive fair use rights. (see page 23 of the linked decision)
Remember, these are babies that are still being carried around by their mothers, no older than 12 months. The have very little experience with everyday physics.
Right - this argument is known as "the poverty of the input." Basically you can conclude that a skill is at least partially innate if the sensory input the child has before acquiring the skill it is too small to have taught the child the skill from ground zero. This, for example, is why linguists and neurologist universally believe that human beings are hard wired for language acquisition and grammar.
And how, pray tell, could one characterize the rotation and scaling of two dimensional figures as anything other than geometry? Did we create a new sub-dicipline of mathematics outside of geometry just for 2D figure scaling and rotation while I wasn't looking?
FYI my dictionary gives this for geometry:
the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties and relations of points, lines, surfaces, solids, and higher dimensional analogs.( pl. -tries)
a particular mathematical system describing such properties : non-Euclidean geometries.
[in sing. ] the shape and relative arrangement of the parts of something : the geometry of spiders' webs.
Spatial pattern recognition in 2D is a kind of geometry. No one is saying that we are hard wired to prove theorems. The study simply says that people are hard wired to recognize simple geometric patterns such as distinguishing right angles from acute angles, and closed figures from open figures.
As usual, Ring TFA helps here. The knee-jerk dissing of anthropologists of the kind demonstrated by some of my peer posts just makes them look like blowhards who didn't RTFA.
Please, oh please, if there is any intelligence, justice or wisdom in the Slashdot universe, please MOD PARENT UP!!!!
It never ceases to amaze me how frequently even otherwise intelligent people confuse the map for the territory. Any abstract model you've ever conceived of or used is not reality. It is just a model that corresponds more or less well to reality. Please read and understand the parent post if you want to have any notion of how human knowledge differs from reality, and how human knowledge progresses by devising ever more sophisticated models (which are still not reality).
Here are the real facts which show that Clinton always complied with the law and got the necessary warrants.
Drudge want's to cloud the issue by making Bush's behavior look common. It most certainly is not. Bush bypassed even the after-the-fact warrant and conducted spying on US citizens without any court oversight whatsoever. This is an impeachable offense and Bush should be removed from office as quickly as the law permits.
Drudge was lying. Here are the real facts which show that Clinton always complied with the law and got the necessary warrants.
Drudge want's to cloud the issue by making Bush's behavior look common. It most certainly is not. Bush bypassed even the after-the-fact warrant and conducted spying on US citizens without any court oversight whatsoever. This is an impeachable offense and Bush should be removed from office as quickly as the law permits.
Another distortion. Clinton obeyed the law and obtained a warrant after the fact as he was allowed to in every case involving foreign intelligece. Bush has admitted that he bypassed even this post hoc requirement and conducted wiretaps of US citizens without any court oversight whatsoever, including the minimal requirement that he obtain warrants after the wiretap has already been conducted. Bush is a criminal who has committed impeachable offenses. It is time to remove him from office before he completely destroys what's left of our civil rights.
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What you are describing, what the Finder does already, and what cp -r does, is copying not merging. Merging is when the most recent version of each file is kept regardless of whether the more recent version is in the source directory or the destination directory.
Sure thing - 'e' is what's omitted in "Mary's car."
;^)
In Old English 'es' was a common genitive case ending (genitive is the case of possessives). When the e was elided it was marked with the apostrophe. Originally it would have been:
"Maryes wagon" - since there were no cars back then
see: the wikipedia article on Genitive Case.
p.s. I'm not the grammar nazi your replying to - I'm more of a grammar realist. Expect to see lots more grammatically acceptable uses of the apostrophe in English in the future. When it comes to grammar, usage, and spelling majority definitely rules, and the majority is using apostrophes like they were on special at Walmart.
right - self selecting segregation is known as de facto segregation as opposed to de jure segregation such as apartheid.
You're forgetting the second key ingredient - VC money. You may well be willing to start a company in a relatively remote rural area, and you might even get a few like minded nerds to join you in the boondocks, but you won't get VCs to give you any money unless you move - if they do find out that you exist they'll make you relocate near them so they don't have to travel 4 hours every time they have to attend a board meeting. Of course if you'd rtfa you'd know this but this is slashdot so...
The most important difference between Explorer and Firefox is that one is provided by a proven monopolist that controls the dominant personal computing platform, and the other one isn't. It doesn't matter what comes preloaded with Firefox since Firefox doesn't ship on 90% of personal computers sold. It matters very much what comes preloaded with Explorer since its going to be the default browser on hundreds of millions of new machines, and it is the browser of a company already found by Federal Courts to have leveraged its OS monopoly to force feed users its web browser. Now it seems Microsoft is trying to force feed users its search technology. Hopefully the Courts will view this as dimly as Microsoft's attempts to lock out Netscape, and hopefully Google will take legal action before Google becomes the historical footnote that Netscape has become.
This would be a clever parody except for the fact that one platform outnumbers the other about 20 to 1. This being the case, what you describe - that users of the overwhelming majority platform would have no knowledge of the minority platform - is no surprise - most people would have no occasion to ever use a mac. What your parent describes - that daily users of the minority platform would have no experience whatsoever of the OS on 90% of PCs is noteworthy and telling - it suggests that the majority platform, even though ubiquitous, is something that many people avoid like the plague.
No contradiction here - Joe Sixpack (on Windows) is just not Apple's target market. Apple's market is and always has been people willing to pay a premium for a better user experience than Windows (and previously, DOS). These are people with enough money and intelligence to realize that their time is worth more than the money they'd save by buying a PC with Windows.
These people are also not going to waste their valuable time dicking around with some bootleg build of Mac OS X to get it to run on a less costly PC. They'll just buy a legitimate system from Apple.
I think you mean "veritable orgy," not "veritable orgasm," unless of course you're processing the tail end of a porn video.
It is trivial to find. Googling "mach-o" pulls up both the man page and Mac OS X ABI Mach-O File Format
Reference in the first 3 hits.
Just as importantly, even if you can install it to any user specified directory, can you move it elsewhere after installation and still have it work? Can you move it to a CD, pop that CD in any other Linux user's machine and have the app run off the CD? Properly packaged Mac OS X apps do all these things.
When I try and install something on OS X that doesn't have the required dependencies, it simply fails to work and gives no user-friendly clues why.
.app directory which contains all dependencies with the sole exception of frameworks that are present on any version of Mac OS X that the app is capable of running on. In other words, a properly packaged Mac OS X app has no external dependencies - everything it needs to run is either in the .app directory, or comes standard with Mac OS X.
.app directory (aka the app bundle) is broken, since users can and will relocate apps to removable media for use on other machines.
We're talking about applications here. On Mac OS X, a properly packaged application lives in a
Any application packaging that assumes that users will not relocate an application is broken on Mac OS X. This means that any having dependencies not contained inside the
Now, some misguided *nix hackers will cobble together an application to run on Mac OS X that scatters little *nix file turds all over various directories, or will hard code installation directories so the application is not relocatable. These are both wrong on Mac OS X (though common practice on *nix) because Mac users have been relocating applications since the mid 1980s, and will continue to do so.
The man's name was Franz Anton Mesmer, and the term is mesmerize, not mesmorize.
Blue Sky is also the brand name of a soda that is manufactured in New Mexico.
"We live in society's in which pretty much everybody reproduces and most of those reproductions end up reproducing themself."
Did you know that the majority of conceptions end in spontaneous abortion? In many parts of the world, half of all children born die before their first birthday?
Most of natural selection is occurring to offspring less than 10 years old. The overwhelming majority of human beings ever conceived never made it to sexual maturity, forget about reproduction.
This is a topic where knowing something about demographics is helpful. Just looking around at your coworkers and neighbors is not going to give you an accurate picture of what is really happening in human reproduction and hence, human evolution, because your coworkers and neighbors are already survivors.
Just as important as failure to reproduce at all is differential reproductive rates. Merely being outbred by 5:4 is enough to ensure that the more slowly reproducing strain will be all but gone from the gene pool within a few hundred generations.
Maybe, maybe not. Maybe there are some systematic genetic differences between PhDs and the average MacDonald's employee. Maybe there aren't. Merely asserting that there are no such differences does not constitute proof.
The brain is a complex organism. There are definite genetic variations in brain organization - see V. S. Ramachandran's Reith Lectures for some examples. Some of these may well make certain individuals better able to sit all day at a computer terminal doing programming than others who have difficultly mustering the sustained attention to logical detail necessary for this particular task.
This doesn't make one group "better" than the other. It makes each group better at different things. The really difficult moral question arises if we come to know that certain individuals are genetically less well suited for the sorts of occupations most needed in a modern economy. What does a society do about those people who would have been perfectly good factory workers, but rather poor information workers, when there is no longer much demand for factory workers? Do we just let the devil take the hindmost as we seem to be doing now?
By default Mac OS X does not show file extensions of applications. If, like many more computer literate users, you elect to "show all file extensions" (Finder:Preferences:Advanced), this "virus" (which is actually a trojan of course) will show up as YaddaYadda.jpg.app and you'll see that it's just a lame attempt at a trojan.
That said, it will definitely bite many naive mac users who think they are invulnerable, and don't realize that the Finder's default behavior, though a convenience for the computer illiterate, is very dangerous precisely because it allows executable trojans to masquerade as data files such as graphics, etc.
Likewise, once you've lawfully obtained a copy of MacOS-X, Apple loses all rights to dictate how that copy may be used.
You never lawfully obtain a copy of Mac OS X to do with whatever you wish.
You only lawfully enter into a license agreement with Apple, the terms of which require you to run Mac OS X on Apple hardware.
Just in case any readers are unaware of this fact, it is perfectly legal for you to agree to a license that removes rights you would otherwise have. You may have the right to do anything you like with certain products in the absence of a license agreement governing your purchase. But it is perfectly legal for a vendor to sell a product by means of a license agreement which removes rights you would otherwise have had. When you agree to the license, you are bound by it, including those portions that restrict or remove rights you would otherwise have had in the absence of the license agreement. If you don't like the license agreement you are free not to purchase the product, or to return it for a refund. You are not legally entitled to unilaterally rewrite the terms of the license agreement to suit your desires.
You may dislike the fact that you never lawfully obtained a copy of Mac OS X to do with whatever you wish, but there is no ambiguity about your situation as far as the law is concerned. A recent federal court ruling has upheld click-through EULAs. As far as US law is concerned, they are fully valid license agreements, including terms that restrict or remove rights which purchasers normally have in the absence of such agreements. Click through EULAs were specifically ruled to waive fair use rights. (see page 23 of the linked decision)
Remember, these are babies that are still being carried around by their mothers, no older than 12 months. The have very little experience with everyday physics.
Right - this argument is known as "the poverty of the input." Basically you can conclude that a skill is at least partially innate if the sensory input the child has before acquiring the skill it is too small to have taught the child the skill from ground zero. This, for example, is why linguists and neurologist universally believe that human beings are hard wired for language acquisition and grammar.
And how, pray tell, could one characterize the rotation and scaling of two dimensional figures as anything other than geometry? Did we create a new sub-dicipline of mathematics outside of geometry just for 2D figure scaling and rotation while I wasn't looking?
FYI my dictionary gives this for geometry:
the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties and relations of points, lines, surfaces, solids, and higher dimensional analogs.( pl. -tries)
a particular mathematical system describing such properties : non-Euclidean geometries.
[in sing. ] the shape and relative arrangement of the parts of something : the geometry of spiders' webs.
Spatial pattern recognition in 2D is a kind of geometry. No one is saying that we are hard wired to prove theorems. The study simply says that people are hard wired to recognize simple geometric patterns such as distinguishing right angles from acute angles, and closed figures from open figures.
As usual, Ring TFA helps here. The knee-jerk dissing of anthropologists of the kind demonstrated by some of my peer posts just makes them look like blowhards who didn't RTFA.
Please, oh please, if there is any intelligence, justice or wisdom in the Slashdot universe, please MOD PARENT UP!!!!
It never ceases to amaze me how frequently even otherwise intelligent people confuse the map for the territory. Any abstract model you've ever conceived of or used is not reality. It is just a model that corresponds more or less well to reality. Please read and understand the parent post if you want to have any notion of how human knowledge differs from reality, and how human knowledge progresses by devising ever more sophisticated models (which are still not reality).
Here are the real facts which show that Clinton always complied with the law and got the necessary warrants.
Drudge want's to cloud the issue by making Bush's behavior look common. It most certainly is not. Bush bypassed even the after-the-fact warrant and conducted spying on US citizens without any court oversight whatsoever. This is an impeachable offense and Bush should be removed from office as quickly as the law permits.
Drudge was lying. Here are the real facts which show that Clinton always complied with the law and got the necessary warrants.
Drudge want's to cloud the issue by making Bush's behavior look common. It most certainly is not. Bush bypassed even the after-the-fact warrant and conducted spying on US citizens without any court oversight whatsoever. This is an impeachable offense and Bush should be removed from office as quickly as the law permits.
Another distortion. Clinton obeyed the law and obtained a warrant after the fact as he was allowed to in every case involving foreign intelligece. Bush has admitted that he bypassed even this post hoc requirement and conducted wiretaps of US citizens without any court oversight whatsoever, including the minimal requirement that he obtain warrants after the wiretap has already been conducted. Bush is a criminal who has committed impeachable offenses. It is time to remove him from office before he completely destroys what's left of our civil rights.