What about cp, mv, and ln? You would definitely not want to put a wildcard at the end of these unless you absolutely know what you are doing. Even that is a bit of a stretch.
That's because the last argument is the DESTINATION. It wouldn't make much sense (syntactically) to have the cp command work "cp [destination] [source]". Likewise for mv. ln doesn't really have anything to do with it, because you can't make one symlink target multiple files (and wouldn't want to if you could).
The reason you have to use tar like:
tar -cvf tarfile.tar files/*
is because tarfile.tar has to follow the f option.
Complain to the people who wrote those programs. I mean, Jesus, it's not like you don't have access to the source code.
I fail to see what tar and cdrecord have to do with Linux. They have those same problems on other platforms. Be glad you're not using IRIX, whose default version of tar can't handle GZIP'ed tar files at all.
Sorry, but I have a hard time believing that whether you're introverted or extroverted is hard coded into your genes. Stop trying to pass the blame off onto something else. If it really were genetic, extroverted parents couldn't have introverted kids, and vice versa, yet somehow they do it anyway.
I've been an introvert most of my life. But I got sick of it (chicks don't dig guys who stare at their feet while mumbling), and decided to do something about it. I still tend towards the introverted side, but if I want to I can be an extrovert. And be perfectly comfortable doing it (read: it isn't just a facade).
As much as I hate to say it, introverts (like myself) just need to learn some social skills. Take a Dale Carnegie course. I did, and it's why I can be perfectly comfortable as an extrovert.
All an extrovert really is is someone who's comfortable around other people and knows how to interact with them, which is learned behavior. Being an extrovert doesn't mean being the class clown or a show off. It doesn't mean giving up computers and books. It doesn't mean pretending to like the "popular" stuff that you actually hate (like sports, the TV show Friends, etc.), nor does it mean pretending to hate the stuff that you like. It doesn't mean showing so much enthusiasm about everything that if you showed any more you'd explode. And it doesn't mean wearing more than the minimum required amount of flair;) It just means being able to communicate well and interact well with people.
Yes, all the stupid, "Hi. I'm Joe Smith. What's your name? Where are you from?" stuff is annoying to all but the shallowest of the shallow, but it's part of being a good conversationalist. Part of being a good conversationalist is actually listening to what other people have to say with genuine interest (not necessarily in the subject, just in what they have to say about it) rather than just waiting for your turn to talk. And, despite what a lot of people think, being a good conversationalist does most certainly not mean doing the majority of talking (see the bit above about listening). People love to talk about themselves, and if you let them they will love you for it. However, that doesn't absolve you of trying to show interest (in other words, don't just look around the room while they're rambling on about the Dodgers or how they just replaced the clutch in their '67 Mustang, actually look them in the eye).
It can be hard, and the older you are the harder it becomes, but you can learn to have decent social skills. And if you can manage it, take a Dale Carnegie course.
At the very least, it will help you when looking for a job. Potential employers are more likely to hire someone if that person can communicate well with others.
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I guess I'm just trying to say that people should stop trying to pass the blame off onto someone/something else and take responsibility for the way they are. If, like me, you tend to be an introvert, you can learn to be perfectly comfortable talking to other people (even *gasp* GIRLS) and be comfortable at non-geek social gatherings if you actually try to change.
Yakov Smirnoff was a Russian who defected to the US, and became a popular comedian in the 1980s. Part of his success was because he always made fun of Russia (huge ego trip for Americans during the Cold War, but now that the Cold War is over nobody really cares).
Many of his jokes were like, "In America, you have/do X, in Soviet Russia X has/does YOU!" The episode of King of the Hill where Bobby writes a joke for Yakov that goes, "In America you put Presidents on your money. In Soviet Russia, we didn't have money!" pretty much hit the nail on the head.
I think that is only because like you said it is so intrenched so we have come up with easy ways to estimate the measurements. If we were using SI you would develope the same tricks, yard and meter are about the same. Liters would be easy to pick up based on sodas.
Actually, IIRC, those easy measurements were what the Imperial system was originally based on (length of the king's foot, etc.).
As good as the metric system is (easy to convert between units, decimal-based, internationally used, etc.), the Imperial system is not without its merits.
I dont even know how many teaspoons,tablespoons,quarts,pints,and cups there are in a gallon...
Not many people know all of it. I know that there's something like 2 pints in a quart, 4 quarts in a gallon, 12 inches in a foot, and 3 feet in a yard, but that's about it. Aside from being so entrenched, the only reason people still use the Imperial system is because things are evenly divisible by 2, 3, and 4, and because they are easy to measure (not with 100% accuracy, but a close estimate) without some sort of measuring device: 1 Imperial foot is approximately the same length as the average person's foot, the Imperial inch is about the same length as your index finger from the tip to the first knuckle, the yard is about the length of the average person's stride, etc.
The lander itself is not a rehash of the Mars Polar Lander, but a re-use of the Mars Surveyor Program's lander (whose 2001 mission was cancelled) with some of the instruments that were originally built for Mars Polar Lander but ended up not being used until now.
I thought it was the MCO (Mars Climate Observer) that crashed and burned, and that the MPL (Mars Polar Lander) landed OK, but for some reason couldn't open its solar panels so it died when the batteries ran dry.
IIRC they were sent as part of the same package or something like that. Or am I just way off my rocker on this one?
While the name OpenGL is owned by SGI (since OpenGL was invented at SGI), OpenGL itself is managed by the OpenGL ARB (Architecture Resource Board).
From OpenGL.org: The OpenGL Architecture Review Board (ARB), an independent consortium formed in 1992, governs the OpenGL specification. Composed of members from many of the industry's leading graphics vendors, the ARB defines conformance tests and approves OpenGL enhancements. Currently the board includes representatives from 3DLabs, ATI, Compaq, Evans & Sutherland, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, NVidia, Microsoft, and SGI.
I remember reading somewhere that Microsoft has recently pulled out of the OpenGL ARB.
Actually, it's because they don't have a length specifier, which means that sooner or later you'll get a buffer overflow from some idiot/malicious person giving the program too much input.
I hate to burst your bubble, but I don't particularly care for Charlton Heston. He makes sane gun owners (such as myself) look bad. And he's not that great of an actor. BTW, I'm not an NRA member. Nor am I what most people would consider right wing (agnostic, strong dislike and distrust of Dubya and his Good Ol' Boys Club, etc.)
That is the fault of the Academy for choosing to nominate and award him.
Yeah, because Michael Moore never presented the film as an unbiased documentary, did he? And when he won the award, did he get up and say, "I can't accept this award because I didn't intend this film to be a documentary"? No. He instead got up there and whined about the Democratic party losing the 2000 presidential election. The only thing I hate more than all these people who follow Bush blindly is a sore loser who still whines about the 2000 presidential election.
I hope you don't actually believe that.
Having known someone who was a news producer for a local TV station, I understand better than many people just how much the news media distorts things. But the level of distortion seen in Bowling For Columbine is, from what I've seen, rare in the news media. That isn't to say they don't do it, just that they don't do it as blatantly or with as much intent to deceive.
Sure, I know sometimes they do cut things out because of time, but they have been proven guilty time and again cutting a single sentence completely out of context for a sound bite. A concert promoter in my area was intervened by Dateline about the rise of non-commercial music. They spent almost 2 hours interviewing him. He was asked if he knew of any drugs present. He replied "Yea, there are drugs here. If I had to guess, I'd say just as much as any run of the mill rock concert. I'm confident in the abilities of our security which also happens to be mostly off duty cops." 10 seconds of it got aired. Guess which part got aired? "Yea, there are drugs here."
Did they show your friend saying, "Yeah, there are drugs here," cut to some stock footage, and then back to him (at another place/time) saying, "and I think it's just great!" so that it appears that he said it all at once? Because that's basically what Moore did to Heston's speeches.
Distorting what someone else says to further your own agenda is deceitful, regardless of whether you like/agree with that person.
Of course, that seems to be what your precious Michael Moore is all about. I wholeheartedly disagree with your presumption that Mr Moore is just a caring bystander who simply wants people to think for themselves. Bowling For Columbine is so obviously a carefully crafted attempt to lead viewers by the hand to what Moore wants them to think, that I really don't see how you can say otherwise.
Did you actually read the whole Hardylaw site? When a film wins awards for Best Documentary, it should contain 100% truth, 0% lies. Embellishing half-truths is lying, plain and simple. 20/20, Dateline, 60 Minutes, etc., all cut things out of interviews and speeches because of time limitations. Michael Moore did it to change the nature, content, and appearance of Charlton Heston's speeches. Hell, he combined two separate speeches so that they appear to be the same speech.
I'm not a member of the NRA, nor am I a huge Charlton Heston fan, but if Michael Moore really just wanted people to think for themselves instead of along party lines, he would have presented both sides of the issue with no distortion, left it at that, and let people decide for themselves. Instead, he leads the viewer along, using trickery to try and have viewers come to the conclusions Mr Moore wants them to reach.
You forgot that "mensa babe" includes waaay too many comments in "her" sentences, often at gramatically incorrect places, and almost always at places that break the flow of the sentence.
A typical mensa babe comment might look something like this:
These new SGI workstations, are, so cool. I just can't begin, to tell you how excited, I am.
No. Halon does not work by displacing oxygen. Read practically every post in this thread explaining how Halon actually works.
It works by breaking the burning cycle. From another poster:
The halogens (bromine and chlorine) in Halon preferentially glom onto free protons without releasing much heat, thus breaking the burning cycle. It only takes a low percentage of Halon to do this.
I also used to "make a living knowing a lot about parcel carriers."
Basically, the last thing you want is to ship it ground. Yes, ground is cheaper, but if having your system arrive intact and unharmed is what matters to you, sending it by air is the way to go. Some handlers have issues, and the fewer of them it has to go through, the better.
My experience, both with my own packages and other people's packages, is that Fedex Ground and UPS are on about the same level when it comes to damaged packages. Fedex Express seems to be the best at getting packages delivered on time and (relatively) unharmed, but can be pretty pricey if you're sending anything other than a letter or a small box (3 Day isn't too bad). It all depends on just how much you are willing to gamble on ending up with a lost or broken package.
I think he meant ending rampant consumerism, not eliminating the whole thing, because as you said, any time you trade something with someone else, you are consuming.
I would like to see an end to direct marketing. I don't mind commercials on TV (as long as the ratio between actual content and advertisements is at least 5:1), ads in the classifieds section of the newspaper, or ads in the Yellow Pages. THAT is how we would find the products or services we would need.
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If you read the man page, it lists the options as
blah blah blah
-f tarfile.tar
blah blah blah
So, you see, the f option needs the tar file to come right after it. This is because the original intent for tar was to archive files to tape.
And if you want, you could always do
tar cv files/* > tarfile.tar
That's because the last argument is the DESTINATION. It wouldn't make much sense (syntactically) to have the cp command work "cp [destination] [source]". Likewise for mv. ln doesn't really have anything to do with it, because you can't make one symlink target multiple files (and wouldn't want to if you could).
The reason you have to use tar like:
is because tarfile.tar has to follow the f option.
Complain to the people who wrote those programs. I mean, Jesus, it's not like you don't have access to the source code.
I fail to see what tar and cdrecord have to do with Linux. They have those same problems on other platforms. Be glad you're not using IRIX, whose default version of tar can't handle GZIP'ed tar files at all.
Sorry, but I have a hard time believing that whether you're introverted or extroverted is hard coded into your genes. Stop trying to pass the blame off onto something else. If it really were genetic, extroverted parents couldn't have introverted kids, and vice versa, yet somehow they do it anyway.
;) It just means being able to communicate well and interact well with people.
I've been an introvert most of my life. But I got sick of it (chicks don't dig guys who stare at their feet while mumbling), and decided to do something about it. I still tend towards the introverted side, but if I want to I can be an extrovert. And be perfectly comfortable doing it (read: it isn't just a facade).
As much as I hate to say it, introverts (like myself) just need to learn some social skills. Take a Dale Carnegie course. I did, and it's why I can be perfectly comfortable as an extrovert.
All an extrovert really is is someone who's comfortable around other people and knows how to interact with them, which is learned behavior. Being an extrovert doesn't mean being the class clown or a show off. It doesn't mean giving up computers and books. It doesn't mean pretending to like the "popular" stuff that you actually hate (like sports, the TV show Friends, etc.), nor does it mean pretending to hate the stuff that you like. It doesn't mean showing so much enthusiasm about everything that if you showed any more you'd explode. And it doesn't mean wearing more than the minimum required amount of flair
Yes, all the stupid, "Hi. I'm Joe Smith. What's your name? Where are you from?" stuff is annoying to all but the shallowest of the shallow, but it's part of being a good conversationalist. Part of being a good conversationalist is actually listening to what other people have to say with genuine interest (not necessarily in the subject, just in what they have to say about it) rather than just waiting for your turn to talk. And, despite what a lot of people think, being a good conversationalist does most certainly not mean doing the majority of talking (see the bit above about listening). People love to talk about themselves, and if you let them they will love you for it. However, that doesn't absolve you of trying to show interest (in other words, don't just look around the room while they're rambling on about the Dodgers or how they just replaced the clutch in their '67 Mustang, actually look them in the eye).
It can be hard, and the older you are the harder it becomes, but you can learn to have decent social skills. And if you can manage it, take a Dale Carnegie course.
At the very least, it will help you when looking for a job. Potential employers are more likely to hire someone if that person can communicate well with others.
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I guess I'm just trying to say that people should stop trying to pass the blame off onto someone/something else and take responsibility for the way they are. If, like me, you tend to be an introvert, you can learn to be perfectly comfortable talking to other people (even *gasp* GIRLS ) and be comfortable at non-geek social gatherings if you actually try to change.
It's a Yakov Smirnoff reference.
Yakov Smirnoff was a Russian who defected to the US, and became a popular comedian in the 1980s. Part of his success was because he always made fun of Russia (huge ego trip for Americans during the Cold War, but now that the Cold War is over nobody really cares).
Many of his jokes were like, "In America, you have/do X, in Soviet Russia X has/does YOU!" The episode of King of the Hill where Bobby writes a joke for Yakov that goes, "In America you put Presidents on your money. In Soviet Russia, we didn't have money!" pretty much hit the nail on the head.
I think that is only because like you said it is so intrenched so we have come up with easy ways to estimate the measurements. If we were using SI you would develope the same tricks, yard and meter are about the same. Liters would be easy to pick up based on sodas.
Actually, IIRC, those easy measurements were what the Imperial system was originally based on (length of the king's foot, etc.).
As good as the metric system is (easy to convert between units, decimal-based, internationally used, etc.), the Imperial system is not without its merits.
I dont even know how many teaspoons,tablespoons,quarts,pints,and cups there are in a gallon...
Not many people know all of it. I know that there's something like 2 pints in a quart, 4 quarts in a gallon, 12 inches in a foot, and 3 feet in a yard, but that's about it. Aside from being so entrenched, the only reason people still use the Imperial system is because things are evenly divisible by 2, 3, and 4, and because they are easy to measure (not with 100% accuracy, but a close estimate) without some sort of measuring device: 1 Imperial foot is approximately the same length as the average person's foot, the Imperial inch is about the same length as your index finger from the tip to the first knuckle, the yard is about the length of the average person's stride, etc.
The problem wasn't the scientists. The problem was the aerospace companies, which still use Imperial units of measurement.
Yes, it's deliberate. Read the Phoenix website.
The lander itself is not a rehash of the Mars Polar Lander, but a re-use of the Mars Surveyor Program's lander (whose 2001 mission was cancelled) with some of the instruments that were originally built for Mars Polar Lander but ended up not being used until now.
I thought it was the MCO (Mars Climate Observer) that crashed and burned, and that the MPL (Mars Polar Lander) landed OK, but for some reason couldn't open its solar panels so it died when the batteries ran dry.
IIRC they were sent as part of the same package or something like that. Or am I just way off my rocker on this one?
While the name OpenGL is owned by SGI (since OpenGL was invented at SGI), OpenGL itself is managed by the OpenGL ARB (Architecture Resource Board).
From OpenGL.org:
The OpenGL Architecture Review Board (ARB), an independent consortium formed in 1992, governs the OpenGL specification. Composed of members from many of the industry's leading graphics vendors, the ARB defines conformance tests and approves OpenGL enhancements. Currently the board includes representatives from 3DLabs, ATI, Compaq, Evans & Sutherland, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, NVidia, Microsoft, and SGI.
I remember reading somewhere that Microsoft has recently pulled out of the OpenGL ARB.
Regardless of what it gets billed as this year, the whole point of SIGGRAPH has always been computer graphics.
So, why Sony thought showcasing a music product there, and why the organisers allowed it, is beyond me.
Why was Sony demo'ing this at SIGGRAPH? SIGGRAPH is supposed to be all about graphics (Special Interest Group on GRAPHics or something like that).
So, while this is cool, why would a music oriented product be shown at a computer graphics oriented exhibition?
Actually, it's because they don't have a length specifier, which means that sooner or later you'll get a buffer overflow from some idiot/malicious person giving the program too much input.
I hate to burst your bubble, but I don't particularly care for Charlton Heston. He makes sane gun owners (such as myself) look bad. And he's not that great of an actor. BTW, I'm not an NRA member. Nor am I what most people would consider right wing (agnostic, strong dislike and distrust of Dubya and his Good Ol' Boys Club, etc.)
That is the fault of the Academy for choosing to nominate and award him.
Yeah, because Michael Moore never presented the film as an unbiased documentary, did he? And when he won the award, did he get up and say, "I can't accept this award because I didn't intend this film to be a documentary"? No. He instead got up there and whined about the Democratic party losing the 2000 presidential election. The only thing I hate more than all these people who follow Bush blindly is a sore loser who still whines about the 2000 presidential election.
I hope you don't actually believe that.
Having known someone who was a news producer for a local TV station, I understand better than many people just how much the news media distorts things. But the level of distortion seen in Bowling For Columbine is, from what I've seen, rare in the news media. That isn't to say they don't do it, just that they don't do it as blatantly or with as much intent to deceive.
Sure, I know sometimes they do cut things out because of time, but they have been proven guilty time and again cutting a single sentence completely out of context for a sound bite. A concert promoter in my area was intervened by Dateline about the rise of non-commercial music. They spent almost 2 hours interviewing him. He was asked if he knew of any drugs present. He replied "Yea, there are drugs here. If I had to guess, I'd say just as much as any run of the mill rock concert. I'm confident in the abilities of our security which also happens to be mostly off duty cops." 10 seconds of it got aired. Guess which part got aired? "Yea, there are drugs here."
Did they show your friend saying, "Yeah, there are drugs here," cut to some stock footage, and then back to him (at another place/time) saying, "and I think it's just great!" so that it appears that he said it all at once? Because that's basically what Moore did to Heston's speeches.
Distorting what someone else says to further your own agenda is deceitful, regardless of whether you like/agree with that person.
Of course, that seems to be what your precious Michael Moore is all about. I wholeheartedly disagree with your presumption that Mr Moore is just a caring bystander who simply wants people to think for themselves. Bowling For Columbine is so obviously a carefully crafted attempt to lead viewers by the hand to what Moore wants them to think, that I really don't see how you can say otherwise.
Did you actually read the whole Hardylaw site? When a film wins awards for Best Documentary, it should contain 100% truth, 0% lies. Embellishing half-truths is lying , plain and simple. 20/20, Dateline, 60 Minutes, etc., all cut things out of interviews and speeches because of time limitations. Michael Moore did it to change the nature, content, and appearance of Charlton Heston's speeches. Hell, he combined two separate speeches so that they appear to be the same speech.
I'm not a member of the NRA, nor am I a huge Charlton Heston fan, but if Michael Moore really just wanted people to think for themselves instead of along party lines, he would have presented both sides of the issue with no distortion, left it at that, and let people decide for themselves. Instead, he leads the viewer along, using trickery to try and have viewers come to the conclusions Mr Moore wants them to reach.
Yes, my Indy is obsolete and useless, just like every other computer from 1993. When did I ever say otherwise?
You're a very nice troll, though. Most trolls wouldn't put in the extra effort to visit my website to find out that I own an Indy.
When Mac has Flame, or can handle uncompressed HD while performing color correction in realtime on said uncompressed HD, we'll talk.
Until then, please feel free to help yourself to a nice big cup of STFU.
The R4000 was 32-bit. SGI didn't use 64-bit processors until the R8000.
I don't really consider calling the Indy or the Ingigo2 the equivalent of an 8086 to be a fair comparison.
The Indy had a 32-bit processor (could take the R4000, R4600, R4400, or the R5000), and the R5000 for the Indy could go up to 180mhz.
The Indigo2 originally had a 32-bit processor, but later models were made that used a 64-bit processor.
Are they slow by modern standards? Hell yes. But even the slowest Indy is an order of magnitude better than the fastest 8086 machine.
A typical mensa babe comment might look something like this:
Ugh. Once again:
HALON DOES NOT WORK BY DISPLACING OXYGEN
It was banned because it's bad for the ozone layer, not because it's bad for humans.
Read this post, this post, and this post to get the low-down on what Halon really does.
It works by breaking the burning cycle. From another poster:
I also used to "make a living knowing a lot about parcel carriers."
Basically, the last thing you want is to ship it ground. Yes, ground is cheaper, but if having your system arrive intact and unharmed is what matters to you, sending it by air is the way to go. Some handlers have issues, and the fewer of them it has to go through, the better.
My experience, both with my own packages and other people's packages, is that Fedex Ground and UPS are on about the same level when it comes to damaged packages. Fedex Express seems to be the best at getting packages delivered on time and (relatively) unharmed, but can be pretty pricey if you're sending anything other than a letter or a small box (3 Day isn't too bad). It all depends on just how much you are willing to gamble on ending up with a lost or broken package.
I think he meant ending rampant consumerism, not eliminating the whole thing, because as you said, any time you trade something with someone else, you are consuming.
I would like to see an end to direct marketing. I don't mind commercials on TV (as long as the ratio between actual content and advertisements is at least 5:1), ads in the classifieds section of the newspaper, or ads in the Yellow Pages. THAT is how we would find the products or services we would need.