On one hand, science and knowledge are inherently good, in and of themselves. For some odd reason, it still plants a seed of worry in my gut...
I think Mal put it best: "Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. And I do not hold to that."
Its just that most often, they come at the tail end of alot of hard work. Everything comes together in a flash, seemingly in one brilliant moment. Those moments are what many of us live for, but in truth, they really aren't the result of our brains exceeding physical and computational limits and suddenly operating at infinite clock-speed. The truth is you were probably working on the problem for some time (possibly unconsciously). Give yourself a little credit for having an efficient background scheduler.
By default, xargs places limits on both total command-line length and the number of arguments (I've never seen it exceed any limits). Assuming this default is 100 args, given a million files, xargs would run grep 10,000 times (avoiding these kernel defined limits)
Admittedly, "find BLAH | xargs CMD" does break on filenames with spaces, but that's the largest flaw here. "-print0" is a nice answer to this, but work in heterogeneous environments has taught me to avoid non-standard extensions.
Pictures?!?!?
I find a textual representation to be much more accurate and efficient. Certainly much easier to write an efficient parser for text than for a picture.
Unfortunately, since I have no desire, need or intention of running Vista (until a game warrants it) or any "office/secretarial" applications, the install media wouldn't get any use (except as maybe a coffee mug coaster).
My mind reels thinking about the usage report:
"User #43912, Month one: Vista DVD aided in the delivery of 90 large mugs of sumatran dark roast coffee and 60 double espressos. Office DVD successfully extinguished 25 cigars."
It seems quite strange that, excluding demos, their website is formatted in "old" paragraph blocks. One of the first links I visited on their website surprised me because it neglected to use their own technology. As one of their target markets seems to be web-publishing, fully "liveinking" liveink.com would speak volumes.
As a (yet another (quasi)) speed-reader, I also tend to pre-cache several lines under what I'm actually reading. As many others have stated, trying to read Moby Dick or any technical manual in this format would surely drive me mad. However, I can see a place for this in casual surfing of websites that inherently have a low information density. (ie. sports and leisure, entertainment, news and events)
Where this might have great application is in special education. My wife, a special ed. teacher, is constantly has issue with reading materials for her students, who often have difficulty with assembling the words in a block of text into sentences.
On my Solaris10 workstation, I'm running the "Ion Window Manager" with 45 windows (I recently cleaned up 20+ logins I haven't used in a day or so):
38 terminal windows, including
2 instances of mutt
3 instances of elinks
10 code fragments in progress(vi)
[n] various logins
6 Veritas Cluster Server gizmos
(slower than CLI, but much easier for demonstrations)
xeyes
And 4 windows on my windows box
firefox
outlook inbox
outlook calendar
cmd.exe
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[funny] For simplicity, I've prepended statements with recommended mods in [brackets]
Like the previous (religious) reply to the "parent post", I'm far from the most religious person in the world, but I've gotta make the [redundant] point that "offtopic" down-modding seems more like censorship than anything else.
[offtopic] The reason is likely that modern day intellectuals (and the unrelated slashdotters) have a tendencty towards anti-religious fervor. Ironically, this "anti-fervor" more closely resembles a dopamine-laden religious opiate than many church goers. ([troll] huzzah for the anti-dogma-dogma!)
[insightful] The "pro-god" parent post is likely more "on-topic" than most of the posts I've skimmed here (which covered offtopic issues ranging from welfare to race). It speaks of a correlation between religious beliefs and marital and/or life stability, which many studies support (google it yourself dammit). Its quite likely that had I not been so much of a heathen (or a lunatic), my personal contribution to the divorce rate would've been lower.
Con-artists are older than recorded time. Snake-oil salesmen, crooked used-car lots, (snail) mail scams and their ilk are likely at least as prevalent even in our quasi-"Information Age".
How many educated people have bought a lemon? I've known otherwise educated, extremely intelligent college-educated (students and grads alike) who've done this. Perhaps everyone should be fully educated about the hazards of auto-buying, phishing web-sites and maybe get a medical degree for proper evaluation of physicians while they're at it.
The answer is not pamphlets and FAQs. If anything these "easy answers" only propogate the problem of people being too damn trusting.
Seek your own understanding.
"I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making
use of one's contributions to computer science."
-- Donald E. Knuth, TAoCP vol 3
And yet this is somehow worse, the only algorithms are "use a combination of other people's algorithms" and "apply some tools to some task". Seems now that NAI owns "combining and applying"...
Perhaps I'll patent a method for "solving problems with obvious solutions" (which isn't done often nowadays in any event).
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry - couldn't help myself - if you're going to identify yourself as someone's better, ...
s/bald/hairless/; s/hairless/bold/;
Burma shave.
On one hand, science and knowledge are inherently good, in and of themselves. For some odd reason, it still plants a seed of worry in my gut...
I think Mal put it best:
"Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. And I do not hold to that."
I almost fell out of my chair laughing.
Please mod parent up "funny".
Its just that most often, they come at the tail end of alot of hard work. Everything comes together in a flash, seemingly in one brilliant moment. Those moments are what many of us live for, but in truth, they really aren't the result of our brains exceeding physical and computational limits and suddenly operating at infinite clock-speed. The truth is you were probably working on the problem for some time (possibly unconsciously). Give yourself a little credit for having an efficient background scheduler.
By default, xargs places limits on both total command-line length and the number of arguments (I've never seen it exceed any limits). Assuming this default is 100 args, given a million files, xargs would run grep 10,000 times (avoiding these kernel defined limits) Admittedly, "find BLAH | xargs CMD" does break on filenames with spaces, but that's the largest flaw here. "-print0" is a nice answer to this, but work in heterogeneous environments has taught me to avoid non-standard extensions.
Pictures?!?!?
I find a textual representation to be much more accurate and efficient. Certainly much easier to write an efficient parser for text than for a picture.
Unfortunately, this won't work. gawk, without arguments, returns a non-zero and halts termination of the scriptlet.
Short answer, you don't make it past "gawking".
Exactly what is a bad "ass-command prompt"? **
xargs does the trick nicely here (and most versions of find expect arguments after the pathname).
# find ${SOMEPATH} -type f | xargs grep -i "${PATTERN}"
I was using the Dewey Decimal system before you were born. In fact, I was using it before it was invented.
Everyone knows the invisible elephants aren't pink.
Maybe studying "adult viewing habits" is the real hidden agenda here.
Unfortunately, since I have no desire, need or intention of running Vista (until a game warrants it) or any "office/secretarial" applications, the install media wouldn't get any use (except as maybe a coffee mug coaster). My mind reels thinking about the usage report: "User #43912, Month one: Vista DVD aided in the delivery of 90 large mugs of sumatran dark roast coffee and 60 double espressos. Office DVD successfully extinguished 25 cigars."
It seems quite strange that, excluding demos, their website is formatted in "old" paragraph blocks. One of the first links I visited on their website surprised me because it neglected to use their own technology. As one of their target markets seems to be web-publishing, fully "liveinking" liveink.com would speak volumes.
As a (yet another (quasi)) speed-reader, I also tend to pre-cache several lines under what I'm actually reading. As many others have stated, trying to read Moby Dick or any technical manual in this format would surely drive me mad. However, I can see a place for this in casual surfing of websites that inherently have a low information density. (ie. sports and leisure, entertainment, news and events)
Where this might have great application is in special education. My wife, a special ed. teacher, is constantly has issue with reading materials for her students, who often have difficulty with assembling the words in a block of text into sentences.
(slower than CLI, but much easier for demonstrations)
[funny] For simplicity, I've prepended statements with recommended mods in [brackets]
Like the previous (religious) reply to the "parent post", I'm far from the most religious person in the world, but I've gotta make the [redundant] point that "offtopic" down-modding seems more like censorship than anything else.
[offtopic] The reason is likely that modern day intellectuals (and the unrelated slashdotters) have a tendencty towards anti-religious fervor. Ironically, this "anti-fervor" more closely resembles a dopamine-laden religious opiate than many church goers. ([troll] huzzah for the anti-dogma-dogma!)
[insightful] The "pro-god" parent post is likely more "on-topic" than most of the posts I've skimmed here (which covered offtopic issues ranging from welfare to race). It speaks of a correlation between religious beliefs and marital and/or life stability, which many studies support (google it yourself dammit). Its quite likely that had I not been so much of a heathen (or a lunatic), my personal contribution to the divorce rate would've been lower.
EOM
Con-artists are older than recorded time. Snake-oil salesmen, crooked used-car lots, (snail) mail scams and their ilk are likely at least as prevalent even in our quasi-"Information Age".
How many educated people have bought a lemon? I've known otherwise educated, extremely intelligent college-educated (students and grads alike) who've done this. Perhaps everyone should be fully educated about the hazards of auto-buying, phishing web-sites and maybe get a medical degree for proper evaluation of physicians while they're at it.
The answer is not pamphlets and FAQs. If anything these "easy answers" only propogate the problem of people being too damn trusting. Seek your own understanding.
I know its a stretch for the topic, but:
- it is a boast
- it is IT-related (in a way)
You can emulate the "run at will" behavior of an interpreter with the simplest of Makefiles, for example...
./$(PROG) $(ARGS)
-- Makefile --
# usage: make test [ARGS="args"]
PROG=hello
ARGS=world
all: $(PROG)
test: all # run the application
-- hello.c --
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int i;
for(i=(argc!=1);iargc;i++) {
printf("Hello, \"%s\".\n", argv[i]);
}
return 0;
}
"I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms.
There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people
from making use of one's contributions to computer science."
-- Donald E. Knuth, TAoCP vol 3
And yet this is somehow worse, the only algorithms are "use a combination of other people's algorithms" and "apply some tools to some task". Seems now that NAI owns "combining and applying"...
Perhaps I'll patent a method for "solving problems with obvious solutions" (which isn't done often nowadays in any event).
Simple answers are not what I'm known for...
Basically, Linux is the goose that layed the golden egg. They just want to be farmer and his axe.