Until of course you try and run a script written for fooshell on barshell, i.e. when a distro changes its shell.
If you were using #!/bin/sh and expecting bash specific code to work, you're doing it wrong. If you want bash, call it by its proper name and it will always work.
Well, sure, if your definition of "actually works" depends on "if you use it right", which is a perfectly reasonable condition.
But then that means the Windows "CLI/scripting system" also "actually work9s)", doesn't it? Perhaps more so, since (AFAIK) a script that was working won't suddenly assplode when you download a service pack or update.
Heck, maybe you were agreeing with me. It's hard to tell.
Technically as long as they were on public land, they're allowed to do whatever they please
No, they're not. Again with the confusion between what's legal, and what you are actually, physically allowed to do by people in costumes who think it's their job to stop you.
What kind of American thinks that they can have both Freedom and Security? Just who are you working for "N1K0N", if that is your real name, and I think we both know it isn't... Abdullah> .
Yes, yes, I know you're just tailing on my comment to make your tangential point about the distinction between public and private land, but if you bother to read the article (I know, Slashdot)...
"[n]othing in this section shall require any permit from: (i) Individuals filming or video taping only for their own personal or family use; (ii) Employees of print or electronic news media when filming on-going news events. This exception shall not apply to simulations or re-enactments orchestrated by print or electronic news media; or (iii) Students and faculty filming exclusively for educational purposes."
Still, at least spouting off while being ignorant of the facts is pretty Patriotic. There may be hope for you yet.
Don't they understand that just because there's no law against it doesn't mean that you're allowed to do it? That's exactly the kind of mistake that The Terrorists might make if they came to the Land of the Free and thought that you were allowed to actually exercise said Freedoms. See? That's why their behavior was suspicious.
I use a variety of POSIX operating systems 95% of the time, at work through necessity, and at home through choice. And because I use them, rather than despite it, I am compelled to respond.
Fewer viruses
And drunken cheerleaders get date raped more than shut-in nerd chicks. Personally, I prefer nerd chicks, and you likely do too, but most people don't. Really, they don't, and there's no use telling them that their opinion is wrong.
Lower cost of ownership
If you don't value your time. For the latest of many, many examples down the years, I 'invested' 3 hours this weekend trying to get WiFi with WPA working again after upgrading my wife's box from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04. Verdict: the rt73usb driver has (yet again) returned to a state of porkage, so it was (yet again) ndiswrapper and Windows drivers for the eventual win.
CLI/scripting system that actually works
Until of course you try and run a script written for fooshell on barshell, i.e. when a distro changes its shell.
Most open source software runs on it
Can be made to run on it, given enough time.
Drivers for just about any piece of hardware ever built
If you limit "ever" to "older than two years or so". But sure, many of the drivers give the appearance of working tolerably well, for a surprising amount of the time! And when they don't, well, there's ndiswrapper, or we'll-fix-it-in-the-next-release, or you've-got-the-source-compile-a-previous-version-yes-we-know-it-doesn't-build-against-your-kernel-headers-or-gcc-version-fix-it-yourself-you-filthy-M$-shill.
No blue screen of death
Ain't seen on one Windows for years.
Not nearly as resource hungry (unless of course you use Compiz:-)
Granted. Oh, unless you've got a driver bug, which you almost certainly do if your hardware was designed this millennium. Then see above.
Penguins way cooler than butterflies
By that measure, that would mean...
But the easiest way of making a windows user envious is to use a mac
...that.
This is not the year of Linux on the desktop (or the netbook). I thought we were there with Ubuntu 10.04, but it's actually a regression from 9.10. I'd just recommend 9.10, but that's effectively abandonware now, just like all previous versions of all Linux distros, "LTS" included.
Again: I'm writing this from Ubuntu 9.10. I've got RHEL5 in that VM over there, SUSE 11 yonder, Solaris in that shell, and even SUA on Windows (tastes a bit like POSIX). I'm happy with POSIX OSen. But I would not recommend them to a Joe Windows user, ever, since I don't want to be their Support Guy from now until there's a distro that actually Just Works.
Are you sure? I didn't see anything explaining how The Terrorists could use it to Destroy Freedom, or how Organized Foreign Crime is already pushing contaminated Xocflu in Your Neighborhood.
Wait... Michele Malkin is against industries that are demonstrably efficient in use and require fewer State funded employees? Perhaps she didn't understand the study.
Let's be clear on this: the majority just love their tyranny. For the small minded (you don't have to look far to find them) it's just so much fun to think up things that other people shouldn't be allowed to do.
A Freedom/Repeal bill is great in principle, but it'll never happen in practice. Quite apart from the problem that any repeals will pilloried as Soft On Something, the coalition have very different ideas on what the little people should be free to do: Cons tend to be pro freedom to smoke tobacco and anti freedom to smoke cannabis, and the Dems are t'other way around, for example.
Are you entering the bugs you find at connect.microsoft.com?
Last time I wanted to report a bug to Microsoft, they tried to bill me for "support". OK, it was 15 years ago, but I'm not much minded to go back and see if they've stopped beating their customers. It still hurts, man. It still hurts.
Direct2D? DirectWrite? 15 years ago, we were calling that DirectDraw, and accelerated rasterisation was the hottest thing since sliced time. I guess what goes around comes around, and these kids today will be laughing at the new kids in another 15 years when they discover the wonders of DirectFlatOGram. Also, their Goddamn DirectNoise is too loud on my DirectLawn.
These children don't remember when Direct2D and DirectWrite were called DirectDraw, and accelerated 2D was all the hot shizzle the first time round. In another 20 years, this lot of noobs will laughing in turn at the new lot of noobs wetting their sweatpants over DirectFlatOGram, or whatever they're calling the accelerated 2D API by then.
Wait, wait, wait: global warming? Y'all been frozen in a block of ice since 1999?
Presumably you're typing this from inside the ice, since the Goodthink now is "climate change", not anything as refutable as "warming", "global" or otherwise. You know, since the naughty old planet has stubbornly refused to actually warm up since 1990 or so, despite all the Top Men wagging their beards and declaring that it really should have done so, because they have Official Climate Change Computers that tell them that it must have.
Didn't you get that memo? Bah, you're as reactionary as that pesky climate, always stuck in the past. Please get with the program, lest we have to declare you a Climate Change Denying Extremist.
As the article submitter, I'm like to note that timothy actually corrected a factual inaccuracy in my original submission. In other words, he read the linked article and... well, there's no other word for it... he edited the submission.
I know, I know: I wouldn't have believed it unless I'd seen it myself.
"dangerously expansive" is soooo 2009. The meme for this year is "extremists". Didn't you get the memo? Anyone who doesn't go further than you asked is as bad as The Terrorists.
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Well, sure, if your definition of "actually works" depends on "if you use it right", which is a perfectly reasonable condition.
But then that means the Windows "CLI/scripting system" also "actually work9s)", doesn't it? Perhaps more so, since (AFAIK) a script that was working won't suddenly assplode when you download a service pack or update.
Heck, maybe you were agreeing with me. It's hard to tell.
It's a crying shame that the goddamn Wikipedia Cabal has stopped us peons from correcting inaccurate articles. [citation needed]
No, they're not. Again with the confusion between what's legal, and what you are actually, physically allowed to do by people in costumes who think it's their job to stop you.
What kind of American thinks that they can have both Freedom and Security? Just who are you working for "N1K0N", if that is your real name, and I think we both know it isn't... Abdullah> .
Yes, yes, I know you're just tailing on my comment to make your tangential point about the distinction between public and private land, but if you bother to read the article (I know, Slashdot)...
Still, at least spouting off while being ignorant of the facts is pretty Patriotic. There may be hope for you yet.
Don't they understand that just because there's no law against it doesn't mean that you're allowed to do it? That's exactly the kind of mistake that The Terrorists might make if they came to the Land of the Free and thought that you were allowed to actually exercise said Freedoms. See? That's why their behavior was suspicious.
I use a variety of POSIX operating systems 95% of the time, at work through necessity, and at home through choice. And because I use them, rather than despite it, I am compelled to respond.
And drunken cheerleaders get date raped more than shut-in nerd chicks. Personally, I prefer nerd chicks, and you likely do too, but most people don't. Really, they don't, and there's no use telling them that their opinion is wrong.
If you don't value your time. For the latest of many, many examples down the years, I 'invested' 3 hours this weekend trying to get WiFi with WPA working again after upgrading my wife's box from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04. Verdict: the rt73usb driver has (yet again) returned to a state of porkage, so it was (yet again) ndiswrapper and Windows drivers for the eventual win.
Until of course you try and run a script written for fooshell on barshell, i.e. when a distro changes its shell.
Can be made to run on it, given enough time.
If you limit "ever" to "older than two years or so". But sure, many of the drivers give the appearance of working tolerably well, for a surprising amount of the time! And when they don't, well, there's ndiswrapper, or we'll-fix-it-in-the-next-release, or you've-got-the-source-compile-a-previous-version-yes-we-know-it-doesn't-build-against-your-kernel-headers-or-gcc-version-fix-it-yourself-you-filthy-M$-shill.
Ain't seen on one Windows for years.
Granted. Oh, unless you've got a driver bug, which you almost certainly do if your hardware was designed this millennium. Then see above.
By that measure, that would mean...
...that.
This is not the year of Linux on the desktop (or the netbook). I thought we were there with Ubuntu 10.04, but it's actually a regression from 9.10. I'd just recommend 9.10, but that's effectively abandonware now, just like all previous versions of all Linux distros, "LTS" included.
Again: I'm writing this from Ubuntu 9.10. I've got RHEL5 in that VM over there, SUSE 11 yonder, Solaris in that shell, and even SUA on Windows (tastes a bit like POSIX). I'm happy with POSIX OSen. But I would not recommend them to a Joe Windows user, ever, since I don't want to be their Support Guy from now until there's a distro that actually Just Works.
Are you sure? I didn't see anything explaining how The Terrorists could use it to Destroy Freedom, or how Organized Foreign Crime is already pushing contaminated Xocflu in Your Neighborhood.
Wait... Michele Malkin is against industries that are demonstrably efficient in use and require fewer State funded employees? Perhaps she didn't understand the study.
So it's true: if you stick with them, and love them enough, they can change!
Sir Humphry says: Noooooo, Minister.
Let's be clear on this: the majority just love their tyranny. For the small minded (you don't have to look far to find them) it's just so much fun to think up things that other people shouldn't be allowed to do.
A Freedom/Repeal bill is great in principle, but it'll never happen in practice. Quite apart from the problem that any repeals will pilloried as Soft On Something, the coalition have very different ideas on what the little people should be free to do: Cons tend to be pro freedom to smoke tobacco and anti freedom to smoke cannabis, and the Dems are t'other way around, for example.
Last time I wanted to report a bug to Microsoft, they tried to bill me for "support". OK, it was 15 years ago, but I'm not much minded to go back and see if they've stopped beating their customers. It still hurts, man. It still hurts.
Direct2D? DirectWrite? 15 years ago, we were calling that DirectDraw, and accelerated rasterisation was the hottest thing since sliced time. I guess what goes around comes around, and these kids today will be laughing at the new kids in another 15 years when they discover the wonders of DirectFlatOGram. Also, their Goddamn DirectNoise is too loud on my DirectLawn.
These children don't remember when Direct2D and DirectWrite were called DirectDraw, and accelerated 2D was all the hot shizzle the first time round. In another 20 years, this lot of noobs will laughing in turn at the new lot of noobs wetting their sweatpants over DirectFlatOGram, or whatever they're calling the accelerated 2D API by then.
If he wants to burn it, or eat it, or throw it out the window, that's his business.
If we're being technically correct - the best kind of correct - GP did say that the test was successful, not strictly that the engines were.
Wait, wait, wait: global warming? Y'all been frozen in a block of ice since 1999?
Presumably you're typing this from inside the ice, since the Goodthink now is "climate change", not anything as refutable as "warming", "global" or otherwise. You know, since the naughty old planet has stubbornly refused to actually warm up since 1990 or so, despite all the Top Men wagging their beards and declaring that it really should have done so, because they have Official Climate Change Computers that tell them that it must have.
Didn't you get that memo? Bah, you're as reactionary as that pesky climate, always stuck in the past. Please get with the program, lest we have to declare you a Climate Change Denying Extremist.
Controversy, bemusement, repudiation: the three stages of a classic troll.
Yup, they're fine, until the cases get clogged with airborne debris, like dust or hair. Say, where are they being used again?
Upgrade your wife. You can get bulk buy discounts if you import 10 or more from Russia.
No. No, they REALLY did not.
Note: if a question actually has multiple possible answers, it's not rhetorical.
As the article submitter, I'm like to note that timothy actually corrected a factual inaccuracy in my original submission. In other words, he read the linked article and... well, there's no other word for it... he edited the submission.
I know, I know: I wouldn't have believed it unless I'd seen it myself.
I'm pretty sure that a self aware adult would acknowledge that games are essentially frivolous. There's no "WIN IN THE REAL WORLD" achievement.
"dangerously expansive" is soooo 2009. The meme for this year is "extremists". Didn't you get the memo? Anyone who doesn't go further than you asked is as bad as The Terrorists.
Thumbs up on those Acers, although they do suffer from pretty loud fan howl if you do something rash, like actually turning them on.
Teaching someone how to learn is like fucking them into virginity.