1) When I get sent a huge datafile with no (or inaccurate) specifications, I can open it in Excel, examine the structure and then decide how to import it into SAS. No more messing around with less and wc.
2) When I screw up step 1, due to a regex error or off-by-one, I can open the faulty file in Excel and quickly find the problem.
You may need admin rights to test and to package, but you should not need admin rightsfor 95%+ of the development cycle.
I think this is less about "need" than "want" -- I was just bitching about not having access to change [Unix environment tweak] and having to go through a sysadmin for it, but it hardly rises to the level of "need".
I'm talking about young people who don't know how to use a period. Or never learned that you need to capitalize "United States." Or have no idea about extreme basics like nouns and verbs, and why one of each must be in every sentence.
I can believe this is a problem. (A coworker was recently ranting about someone who regularly sends her lengthy emails where the only vowels are the 'o's in 'lol'.) But IM, chatrooms and blogs seem like more likely culprits than games.
My favorite was what the article refers to as "the somewhat contrived recursive title" of Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition. Yeah, that's definitely part of Unix that needs to be demystified -- the notion that godawful recursive names are hilarious and just keep getting hilariouser with each new atrocity.
Notes isn't a mail client. It's a platform for database applications, which can be developed by anyone. If you don't like something in the default mail template, you are free to change it, as everything is open!
I was going to make this as a sarcastic suggestion, but maybe it's not such a bad idea:
Instead of having this argument every time Notes comes up in every forum, and instead of blaming users for not writing their own email application -- how about if you and the rest of the Lotus enthusiasts sit down and write an open source Notes email client? It doesn't have to be better than Outlook or Eudora, just less horrific than the bundled Notes email. Given that Freshmeat is full of half-finished email apps that I'd use in a heartbeat over Notes, and given that you guys always go on about how great a development platform Notes is, how hard can it be?
Heh, I was just marveling once more at how in Lotus Notes detaching a single attached file and detaching multiple attached files seem to act through entirely different toolkits, with the former opening a standard Windows save dialog and the latter using some hideous thing that looks like it escaped from 1997-era Java.
Embedding OpenFreakingOffice in that thing? Yeah, sounds promising.
I think farmers are excluded from these statistics more for bureaucratic reasons (they fall under a different department's purview) than economic reasons. Anyway, I'd imagine that "private-sector workers" drives the percentage of small-firm workers up far more than "non-farm" pushes it down.
OK, someone's got to go to look up the real number... here ya go:
Small businesses play an important part in the United States economy. There are about 22.4 million non-farm firms in the U.S, according to 2001 data. Small businesses represent more than 99 percent of all employers. They also employ 51 percent of private-sector workers, 51 percent of workers on public assistance, and 38 percent of workers in high-tech jobs.
Not the 85% of all workers some guy was claiming, but much higher than I would have guessed.
This is not only a fundamental change in how advertising is done; it is a fundamental change in how BUSINESS is done.
For the sake of argument, let's put aside the total absence of numbers in that paragraph... But, if one company is going to be credited with "making a ton of money from people who never were even in business before", surely it's E-Bay!
The last boom was based on the principle that all stock prices were justified, regardless of whether any of them were profitable. The new boom is based on the principle that all stock prices are justified as long as Google makes some profit. Totally different reasoning.
It's not like unionization is necessarily contradictory to free markets, nor is it necessarily aligned with the statism the author seems to think it demands. In a free market, workers can come up with whatever individual or group demands they want, and employers can take or leave them.
There's obviously something wrong there -- compare the results for cities and regions. Unless rural Colombians and Turks are absolutely obsessed with NASA, I don't see how those rankings could possibly both be accurate. (The spike in Mexico City is South Park-related, I'd guess...?)
Has it occurred to you that not telling of a problem could be, in theory, punishable under law?
I'm fairly confident that the legal risks of illegally accessing systems or data far outweigh the risks of failing to do so. You're entitled to your theories, but given that the people who follow it are in jail and I'm not, YMMV.
It is not, incidentally, necessary to link every damn thing to Wikipedia. I know what "negligence" means.
Jail time for McDanel is almost certainly excessive, but that doesn't mean that accessing (or hax0ring -- it's not clear what he did) your ex-employer's email server to write to all their customers isn't a stupid idea, let alone that it's a protected First Amendment matter.
And as long as we're slinging around prissy "Will they ever learn?"s, the other poor victim of persecution, McCarty (what's up with all these Celts?) is a real case of failure to learn. Has it not sunk in yet that you simply can't intrude on systems or files without permission, however helpful your intentions? How freaking difficult is that for people to grasp?
There were people bragging about running these at home in the "How Pointlessly Excessive Is Your Home Network?" Ask Slashdot, but -- I'd be curious to play with a PDP-11 running circa-1970 Unix.
Even if what you're saying is true for a comparison of orange slices and Coke (which it may be, but it's hardly proven fact), that has nothing to do with fruit juice. And it certainly has nothing to do with the OP's assertion that fruit has "sugar", unlike corn syrup.
In fact, before corn syrup became common, experts "knew" that fructose was Natural, unlike sucrose which was Processed and therefore Bad For You. And they told us to use fruit juice and honey instead of cane sugar, with pretty much the same biochemical handwaving they use now to explain why high fructose corn syrup is now Processed and Bad For You.
Soda is 100% sweetened with corn syrup, which has been shown to have a direct link to obesity and diabetes. 100% juice juices (not juice cocktails) are naturally sweetened with sugar.
I'm somewhat skeptical about the "shown to have a direct link to obesity and diabetes", but that aside -- the fructose in corn syrup is the same as the fructose in fruit. One is simply a dietary bogeyman of the moment while the other isn't.
I'd recommend tap water, ice and lemon juice (or a wedge of lemon and lime) but the questioner seems to be simultaneously insisting on sugar while trying to avoid sugar.
It would have been nice if the article had given some information on the advantages a 100% free software solution gave him...why did he put himself through all this trouble for no gain?
I think it's hinted at in "Sovilla couldn't find any other publisher who was already working in the same way. Even the most militant and progressive ones were firmly fixed on proprietary software."
The goal here is being "militant and progressive". I don't think he's even claiming there's any pragmatic advantage to it.
One current example is the V7ndotcom Elursrebmem SEO contest (white-hat celiac charity site I'm supporting)
Is this in competition with the guy whose girlfriend will have a threesome with him if his blog gets a million hits? If so, I've got to throw in with him. Sorry, sick kids but when you get older, you'll understand.
Anyway, now that the link has finally loaded while I was writing the above -- OK, the quote is out of context but it's not that out of context. (Certainly not by/. standards for "out of context".) The link between Google's hardware capacity and its supposed search problems isn't presented as anything but speculation and Schmidt's comment doesn't seem irrelevant to that speculation.
A favorite pseudonym of the campaign(ers?) seems to be Michael Tzez...
Sorry, I've missed the part where you back up that assertion except by linking to a bunch of your 1337 friends saying the same thing. According to your Google results, the guy seems to exist, and while he might be a bit too excited over Viewpoint, it doesn't seem like he's alone in that.
And what kind of stupid astroturf campaign would have multiple people pretending to be a single goofball?
Well, if it says "Made in China", it's from the PRC, not Taiwan. But even if your motherboard was made in China, it was almost certainly designed in Taiwan.
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1) I work with one application that takes textfile input with hundreds of thousands of columns. Even head -n 1 won't open in Excel.
2) The error is in line 522,867 of 857,024. How am I going to find that in tail?
Obviously I can do these things at the Unix command line, plus some scripting.But why should I, if there's an easier way?
Two more reasons why this is great news:
1) When I get sent a huge datafile with no (or inaccurate) specifications, I can open it in Excel, examine the structure and then decide how to import it into SAS. No more messing around with less and wc.
2) When I screw up step 1, due to a regex error or off-by-one, I can open the faulty file in Excel and quickly find the problem.
I think this is less about "need" than "want" -- I was just bitching about not having access to change [Unix environment tweak] and having to go through a sysadmin for it, but it hardly rises to the level of "need".
I can believe this is a problem. (A coworker was recently ranting about someone who regularly sends her lengthy emails where the only vowels are the 'o's in 'lol'.) But IM, chatrooms and blogs seem like more likely culprits than games.
My favorite was what the article refers to as "the somewhat contrived recursive title" of Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition. Yeah, that's definitely part of Unix that needs to be demystified -- the notion that godawful recursive names are hilarious and just keep getting hilariouser with each new atrocity.
Wow, you haven't just taken the Pointless Wikipedia Link to a new level, you've taken it to two new levels!
I was going to make this as a sarcastic suggestion, but maybe it's not such a bad idea:
Instead of having this argument every time Notes comes up in every forum, and instead of blaming users for not writing their own email application -- how about if you and the rest of the Lotus enthusiasts sit down and write an open source Notes email client? It doesn't have to be better than Outlook or Eudora, just less horrific than the bundled Notes email. Given that Freshmeat is full of half-finished email apps that I'd use in a heartbeat over Notes, and given that you guys always go on about how great a development platform Notes is, how hard can it be?
Embedding OpenFreakingOffice in that thing? Yeah, sounds promising.
I think farmers are excluded from these statistics more for bureaucratic reasons (they fall under a different department's purview) than economic reasons. Anyway, I'd imagine that "private-sector workers" drives the percentage of small-firm workers up far more than "non-farm" pushes it down.
For the sake of argument, let's put aside the total absence of numbers in that paragraph... But, if one company is going to be credited with "making a ton of money from people who never were even in business before", surely it's E-Bay!
Boy, people sure were stupid in the 90's, huh?
It's not like unionization is necessarily contradictory to free markets, nor is it necessarily aligned with the statism the author seems to think it demands. In a free market, workers can come up with whatever individual or group demands they want, and employers can take or leave them.
There's obviously something wrong there -- compare the results for cities and regions. Unless rural Colombians and Turks are absolutely obsessed with NASA, I don't see how those rankings could possibly both be accurate. (The spike in Mexico City is South Park-related, I'd guess...?)
I'm fairly confident that the legal risks of illegally accessing systems or data far outweigh the risks of failing to do so. You're entitled to your theories, but given that the people who follow it are in jail and I'm not, YMMV.
It is not, incidentally, necessary to link every damn thing to Wikipedia. I know what "negligence" means.
Actually, I was just giving him the benefit of the doubt. My guess about his real intentions is the same as yours.
And as long as we're slinging around prissy "Will they ever learn?"s, the other poor victim of persecution, McCarty (what's up with all these Celts?) is a real case of failure to learn. Has it not sunk in yet that you simply can't intrude on systems or files without permission, however helpful your intentions? How freaking difficult is that for people to grasp?
Sorry, I now notice you specified "microcomputer". I'll have to email the clowns from the Ask Slashdot and see if I can come over to their home.
And a Xerox Star.
In fact, before corn syrup became common, experts "knew" that fructose was Natural, unlike sucrose which was Processed and therefore Bad For You. And they told us to use fruit juice and honey instead of cane sugar, with pretty much the same biochemical handwaving they use now to explain why high fructose corn syrup is now Processed and Bad For You.
I'm somewhat skeptical about the "shown to have a direct link to obesity and diabetes", but that aside -- the fructose in corn syrup is the same as the fructose in fruit. One is simply a dietary bogeyman of the moment while the other isn't.
I'd recommend tap water, ice and lemon juice (or a wedge of lemon and lime) but the questioner seems to be simultaneously insisting on sugar while trying to avoid sugar.
I think it's hinted at in "Sovilla couldn't find any other publisher who was already working in the same way. Even the most militant and progressive ones were firmly fixed on proprietary software."
The goal here is being "militant and progressive". I don't think he's even claiming there's any pragmatic advantage to it.
Is this in competition with the guy whose girlfriend will have a threesome with him if his blog gets a million hits? If so, I've got to throw in with him. Sorry, sick kids but when you get older, you'll understand.
Anyway, now that the link has finally loaded while I was writing the above -- OK, the quote is out of context but it's not that out of context. (Certainly not by /. standards for "out of context".) The link between Google's hardware capacity and its supposed search problems isn't presented as anything but speculation and Schmidt's comment doesn't seem irrelevant to that speculation.
Sorry, I've missed the part where you back up that assertion except by linking to a bunch of your 1337 friends saying the same thing. According to your Google results, the guy seems to exist, and while he might be a bit too excited over Viewpoint, it doesn't seem like he's alone in that.
And what kind of stupid astroturf campaign would have multiple people pretending to be a single goofball?
Well, if it says "Made in China", it's from the PRC, not Taiwan. But even if your motherboard was made in China, it was almost certainly designed in Taiwan.