Next trick, back ticks. `` Back ticks substitute the output of a command within a command. Ex. Name a file after the date. echo "hi" > `date +%Y%M%d`.txt
Don't use backticks unless you are stuck with bourne shell. Use $() instead:
echo hi > $(date +%Y%M%d).txt
They have two benefits over backticks: you can nest them and they are easier to see.
Ah, but that is what the original HHGTTG was as well. Tons of info on alcohol and Eccentricea Gallumbits (the triple breasted whore of Eroticon Six), but the entry for Earth was: Harmless. Later it was expanded: Mostly Harmless.
Resizing is still done by the tool kit (Gtk, QT, etc.) if you want it to be live. The tool kits are not yet GL aware. Moving, minimizing, changing desktops, etc are all done by the window manager (Compiz or Metacity). The latest versions of Compiz (actually its plugins) supports a method of resizing where you specify the new size with a either a texture that is a screenshot of the app or a colored rectangle. I would not call it smoking fast because the tool kit still has to update the widgets after you specify the new size, but it is a massive improvment.
Eye candy (when done right) brings more than just neat looking stuff. On my machine running XGL and Compiz I no longer get a CPU spike when moving windows. The CPU doesn't even see the move; the GPU does. There is no reason in the world for me to have a GPU if it isn't going to get used. I say bring me more eye candy.
The reason you need a control group is to have something to compare to. Without a control group you can say this ad was clicked X times with Y sales, but you still don't know if X is higher than it should be. With a control group that produces Y1 sales for X1 clicks you can then determine if X is higher than it should be (and therefore has a high probabilty of fraudulent activity).
Some ideas: A screenshot of each of my virtual desktops (updated periodicaly), map the buton to switch to that desktop. Likewise, any of the buttons/icons/notifications that currently reside on my screen taking up valuable real estate. You could even dynamicaly map the button to a notification. Imagine an email comming in, the daemon grabs the next available button, displays the email notification image, waits for the user to touch it, opens the email client, removes the mapping. You could even have a software queue of virtual buttons that show up as the notifications get dealt with.
Because you might have nine tabs open. Sometimes it is easier to click once to show all and click on the right iconified image of the page then to go through all tabs until you find the one you are looking for.
I don't know if Packard Bell licensed MSBob or not, but they had a windows shell called Navigator that was very similar. I beleive I saw it before MSBob came out.
What you want is something like the katie fs. it is a versioned filesystem. You can access the current version by saying vi/home/user/foo or an older version by saying vi/home/user/foo@@main/5 where main is the branch and 5 is the version number. I don't know if katie is still under active development anymore though.
I believe the parent was trying to say that patents should be for working implementations of ideas. So, for example. you could not patent the idea of a pill that cures depression, but you could patent a specific type of molecule that achieves that effect.
Now, what would that mean for code? Well, for one thing Amazon's one-click patent would revert to only protecting their implementation of one-click. If this is the case, then what does patent law provide that copyright doesn't? Nothing, and we go back to the sane old days where software is deemed unpatentable (but still protected by copyright).
I can just see Microsoft announcing that future version of Windows will run on the IBM Cell processor. After all, they have a copy of Windows running on it already.
Well, I just downloaded both of them. My best game out of 6 was 8 lines in bastet. I got 35 lines in my first game of Ltris with "Expert Mode" turned on (and I made a lot of silly errors). I would say Bastet has a significantly more evil algorhythm. In particular it seemed as if Ltris wasn't choosing a hard block for the next block; it looks like it chooses a hard block for the block after the next one. So the pattern goes: random block, hard block, random block, hard block, ad infinitum. This is much easier than Bastet, but still much harder than normal tetris-style games.
My point was that he was pissed. Pissed enough to fuck with some sales droid who had nothing to do with his problem. What other bad choices was he making that night? Who knows, maybe the cops overreacted, but I get the feeling reading the article that he was being an ass in a way that made the cops feel safer with him restrained.
Reread my comment. It wasn't the two dollar bills. It wasn't the fact that they were sequentially numbered. It wasn't the fact the he was disgruntled. It wasn't the fact that one of the bills was smudged. It was the combination of all of these facts.
The cops didn't have an issue with the two dollar bill, they had an issue with the fact that a disgruntled customer tried to pay a debt with 57 sequentialy numbered two dollars bills and one of the had an ink smudge. Take those bold pieces and put them together and you start to see why the cops reacted the way they did. Should they have brought up 9/11? No. Should they have taken him back to the station to investigate? Yes. Should they have put him in hand cuffs? Depends, how much of an ass he was being. We know he went in with the intent of being an ass (that was why he was paying with two dollar bills). How loud and obnoxious was he being? That isn't stated in the article.
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If you think people don't quit commercial jobs because of what they see as unreasonable demands then you haven't paid attention to the news.
Don't use backticks unless you are stuck with bourne shell. Use $() instead:
echo hi > $(date +%Y%M%d).txt
They have two benefits over backticks: you can nest them and they are easier to see.
Ah, but that is what the original HHGTTG was as well. Tons of info on alcohol and Eccentricea Gallumbits (the triple breasted whore of Eroticon Six), but the entry for Earth was: Harmless. Later it was expanded: Mostly Harmless.
No, they are already speaking in enlgish. We need an enlgish-to-English translator.
It is called bullbaiting as is part of the indoctrination of Scientology members. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditing_(Scientology )
Resizing is still done by the tool kit (Gtk, QT, etc.) if you want it to be live. The tool kits are not yet GL aware. Moving, minimizing, changing desktops, etc are all done by the window manager (Compiz or Metacity). The latest versions of Compiz (actually its plugins) supports a method of resizing where you specify the new size with a either a texture that is a screenshot of the app or a colored rectangle. I would not call it smoking fast because the tool kit still has to update the widgets after you specify the new size, but it is a massive improvment.
Eye candy (when done right) brings more than just neat looking stuff. On my machine running XGL and Compiz I no longer get a CPU spike when moving windows. The CPU doesn't even see the move; the GPU does. There is no reason in the world for me to have a GPU if it isn't going to get used. I say bring me more eye candy.
The reason you need a control group is to have something to compare to. Without a control group you can say this ad was clicked X times with Y sales, but you still don't know if X is higher than it should be. With a control group that produces Y1 sales for X1 clicks you can then determine if X is higher than it should be (and therefore has a high probabilty of fraudulent activity).
Some ideas:
A screenshot of each of my virtual desktops (updated periodicaly), map the buton to switch to that desktop. Likewise, any of the buttons/icons/notifications that currently reside on my screen taking up valuable real estate. You could even dynamicaly map the button to a notification. Imagine an email comming in, the daemon grabs the next available button, displays the email notification image, waits for the user to touch it, opens the email client, removes the mapping. You could even have a software queue of virtual buttons that show up as the notifications get dealt with.
Because you might have nine tabs open. Sometimes it is easier to click once to show all and click on the right iconified image of the page then to go through all tabs until you find the one you are looking for.
I don't know if Packard Bell licensed MSBob or not, but they had a windows shell called Navigator that was very similar. I beleive I saw it before MSBob came out.
What you want is something like the katie fs. it is a versioned filesystem. You can access the current version by saying vi /home/user/foo or an older version by saying vi /home/user/foo@@main/5 where main is the branch and 5 is the version number. I don't know if katie is still under active development anymore though.
On its project page LFS is listed as a related project.
http://www.nilfs.org/
I always find it useful to point out that the author doesn't work for Microsoft, just published by Microsoft Press.
I believe the parent was trying to say that patents should be for working implementations of ideas. So, for example. you could not patent the idea of a pill that cures depression, but you could patent a specific type of molecule that achieves that effect.
Now, what would that mean for code? Well, for one thing Amazon's one-click patent would revert to only protecting their implementation of one-click. If this is the case, then what does patent law provide that copyright doesn't? Nothing, and we go back to the sane old days where software is deemed unpatentable (but still protected by copyright).
Vorbis, speex, flac, theora, if it's ogg I love it.
I can just see Microsoft announcing that future version of Windows will run on the IBM Cell processor. After all, they have a copy of Windows running on it already.
C is the speed of light in a vacuum. Light travels at different speeds in different medium.
Well, I just downloaded both of them. My best game out of 6 was 8 lines in bastet. I got 35 lines in my first game of Ltris with "Expert Mode" turned on (and I made a lot of silly errors). I would say Bastet has a significantly more evil algorhythm. In particular it seemed as if Ltris wasn't choosing a hard block for the next block; it looks like it chooses a hard block for the block after the next one. So the pattern goes: random block, hard block, random block, hard block, ad infinitum. This is much easier than Bastet, but still much harder than normal tetris-style games.
See, this is the way a reasonable adult would deal with the situation.
My point was that he was pissed. Pissed enough to fuck with some sales droid who had nothing to do with his problem. What other bad choices was he making that night? Who knows, maybe the cops overreacted, but I get the feeling reading the article that he was being an ass in a way that made the cops feel safer with him restrained.
Reread my comment. It wasn't the two dollar bills. It wasn't the fact that they were sequentially numbered. It wasn't the fact the he was disgruntled. It wasn't the fact that one of the bills was smudged. It was the combination of all of these facts.
The cops didn't have an issue with the two dollar bill, they had an issue with the fact that a disgruntled customer tried to pay a debt with 57 sequentialy numbered two dollars bills and one of the had an ink smudge. Take those bold pieces and put them together and you start to see why the cops reacted the way they did. Should they have brought up 9/11? No. Should they have taken him back to the station to investigate? Yes. Should they have put him in hand cuffs? Depends, how much of an ass he was being. We know he went in with the intent of being an ass (that was why he was paying with two dollar bills). How loud and obnoxious was he being? That isn't stated in the article.
And both of those movies were predicted by a hokey sci-fi writer named Dick!