Hey! Stop supporting their sick point of view, by also acting as if the command line was something bad like a cancer, and acting defensive!
The command line of Linux (bash plus all the apps and the "everything is a file" philosophy), is one of the greatest things in computing, ever made!
Why that bold statement?
Because it is the missing link between the basic Joe Sixpack user, and the programmer. It is the ability, to start out with one app command, make a small loop out of it, then later maybe put it into a shell script file. Oh, and I could add this little check in front of it, to make it more comfortable. And a month later, I notice i could do it better in this way. I add a GUI button to it. maybe one, two shortcuts, and some informative output. And before I know it, I have grown a neat little (prototype) of a tool, that makes my everyday life easier. I did not even have to learn programming. I just looked up what I needed in the bash man page and tldp.org bash scripting guide in the process. And sure it is no great programming. But:
It makes my life easier and way more efficient! It makes computers work for me again! Instead of what some development team thought I would need.
And maybe in a year, I will post it on the net, for others to use, and someone will re-write it in C++, with a bash interface and maybe a GUI.
Therfore I proudly recommend the bash shell as the best thing since sliced bread to my friends, my brothers, moms, old car mechanics, etc, whenever I can. They feel like gurus when they get their first little working "magic thingie" that they could make in an hour and saved them sooo much time!:)
Hey, I bet a month after that Chrome OS comes out, someone will have the Google custom stuff packaged up into the GUI part and other parts, for you to install as you please, parallel and integrating into your normal GUI.
I'll just look for the Gentoo Portage overlay in layman.:D
Yes it is. What you described is the very definition of typosquatting, if you add the point of what you see on this "GUI interface" (which is the job of your browser to create, btw.)
And if you think about them paying for servers to display this "interface", you will know that there is a reason they do this: To make money. Obviously.
And what is the reason, that typosquatters add a "GUI interface" to unused domains? Also to make money. Obviously.
But then I noticed that OpenDNS also does DNS redirection! The scary thing was, that of course this even works when I mistype Intranet addresses. (Should have been obvious to me, but I did not think about having switched to OpenDNS when this happened, and got very scared about the possibility of a MITM attack.)
Well, I don't know how it is in third world countries. But here in Germany, if you leave the "allegedly" away, even in the headline of a tabloid newspaper, you will get sued and your business may get closed down if you do not immediately rectify the statement.
Imagine having a method, that could prevent getting any heart attacks at all. If detected, trashy food could be thrown in the trash where it belongs automatically. If reliable, what would this do for survival rates?
Now imagine what this would do to the incomes of big "health" companies.
Hey look! The "bible thumpers" and naysayers already blindly spent their mod points! I have to say I expected that.
But let me react to it with a nice quote from the great movie "Revolver":
You know what's so elegant about this little game, Jake? Nobody knows what the enemy is. They don't even know he exists. He's in ever...one of their heads. And they trust him. Because they think they are him. If you try to destroy him... to save them,... they'll destroy you... to save him. Ahh... it's beautiful man... You have to admire the opponent's elegance. Check.
If you look at natural processes, they grow exponentially. Until limiting factors come into place. Then the curve flattens again, until it is horizontal, and the limiting factors and the growth balance each other out.
The inability to cope with the speed of change, close to the singularity, will itself be such a limiting factor. Which will mean, that the speed of change will limit our ability to change things, slowing that speed of change itself down, until they balance each other out.
But how would Kurzweil and Cerf get any media attention, if that core object of fear would simply vanish into the air? ^^
No. The pictures do not have to overlap with all pictures on the same 80 to 90 percent of the image. Which means you can just record a film of a object turning around, creating a 180 3D "ring". Then do it vertically (eg with some more rings), and you get the complete model.
Think of it like creating a QuicktimeVR view, stitched together out of many images, just from the outside instead of from the inside. I wonder if this software will work for "inside" views too. At least in theory, it should.
The first thing I will do, when I get this software into my hands, is film off entire streets, or houses (from the inside), and put it into a game!:D
Well, it never is a partisan issue, is it? The whole two-sides thing is just a strawman. After all, it is always the same lobbies controlling everything in the background.
I mean, even if I do a really big site project, I can't imagine going over $100,000 for programming, *ever*. (But more likely something like $10,000.) Including designing the database layer, backend, template system, business logic, structure, content and design!
Can anyone enlighten me on the possible server costs for such a project?
How much would be a realistic price range for such a project?
Oh, and to clarify, I must mention, that I love women, and what I want, is for them to be happy too.
So see this as a little humor, and be clear that in reality, it 1. is their decision anyway, and 2. a will always decide what is good for both men and women, when ji get to decide.
Ok, I as usual did not see some errors in the preview, but noticed them right after clicking submit.
1. I should not have used the aggressive tone of "bible thumpers" in the first sentence. If was a bad start. I meant people who strongly believe in their religious rules (which include that view about obscenity), wherever they may come from. I hope you can forgive me, as I respect every person. 2. I should not have used the evil word of "bing" in the seventh sentence. It was a bad pothole. I meant the search engines who gloriously are believed in like religious rules (which include that site from Google), wherever they may come from. I hope you can forgive me, as I respect every eye that is now gouged out because it read that word.
Has anyone of those bible thumpers ever thought about what that word means? It is the implication of nudity, sex, and talking about these things, being related to something bad and forbidden. Now if you think about it, we all are born nude, and by nature, this is our intended default state. Also our very existence is based on sex, and it is probably the best feeling that anything can give you. (Especially when based on love and fun). Which of course is for the same reason of our existence depending on it. So if this are the best and most natural and important things in our existence, then why in the world would anyone come up with the concept of them bing somehow bad and forbidden? It just boggles the mind, doesn't it? Yet somehow we are so used to it, that it appears to be a totally normal thing, to look in a disgusted manner upon "obscenity".
I once found an article that was the first to actually shed some light on how this was possible. It explained, that in the dark ages, and even before that, some people came up with this scheme: You make the very things that they love the most, and can't help but wanting to do, because it is you basic nature, a bad and forbidden thing. Forbidden by "god". You then tell the people, that this "nice" god, would literally raise hell upon you, if you so much as thought about doing these things. Because nobody can hold back his basic nature forever, this would make everyone a sinner. And this would give you absolute power and absolute control over those people, commanding them to do how you please, to pay for their sins.
So apparently, this whole concept is just straight out of the rule book for oppression from the dark ages. And in reality, there is no such thing as obscenity. Which would make it a power play. A fight for power and control.
Well, if this really is the case, which I believe it is, (but ask you to think and decide for yourselves), then, well, this is easy to fight: Just ignore those who scream against "obscenity". Because all they scream for, is to stay in power, or for their master to stay in power (while being mostly unaware of it).
So question such (seemingly) basic matters of course, and look at things yourself. Then you will exactly know what is OK and what is not OK to do, and your art and ideas will not be limited by false beliefs or controlled by others. Which in my experience usually results in the most outstanding art and concepts, and even make people follow your strong reality. But not because you oppress them, but because they respect you.
And so, our brain has not infinite storage, and we do not only use 10% of our brain. It is all overlaying, and only the strongest/extremest information survives. While the weaker / less extreme information gets diluted until it is impossible to think of it at all, but only a weak feeling of it is left.
I get "Insightful" for THIS, but my other much more important comments get nothing or even "Troll"??
Slashdot got seriously weird / fucked up, in the last time...
People, please learn that even if you completely disagree, it still is no troll, but very insightful. Because without it you would not be able to disagree with it and come up with your own point of view in the first place! And sometimes making you disagree is just the point of a good argument!
I bet the only reason it got cheaper now, is because those "big" radios finally bought into Payola.
For $25,000 they now can play everything they want, as long as it's what the RIAA tells them to play.
Luckily, I and my Internet radios never cared, and never will!
Some of them are even illegal by government rules (like the idiotic UK laws), which makes them real analog "pirate" radios too!
But I either listen to them or to my mp3s. I could never go back to that pop shit that is "normal" radio stations. My musical knowledge of rare bands of the UK, Russia, Japan, UK, France, etc, grew massively since I listen to Internet radio. To me it's the second most important killer feature of the Internet. Right after porn!
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Hey! Stop supporting their sick point of view, by also acting as if the command line was something bad like a cancer, and acting defensive!
The command line of Linux (bash plus all the apps and the "everything is a file" philosophy), is one of the greatest things in computing, ever made!
Why that bold statement?
Because it is the missing link between the basic Joe Sixpack user, and the programmer. It is the ability, to start out with one app command, make a small loop out of it, then later maybe put it into a shell script file. Oh, and I could add this little check in front of it, to make it more comfortable. And a month later, I notice i could do it better in this way. I add a GUI button to it. maybe one, two shortcuts, and some informative output.
And before I know it, I have grown a neat little (prototype) of a tool, that makes my everyday life easier.
I did not even have to learn programming. I just looked up what I needed in the bash man page and tldp.org bash scripting guide in the process.
And sure it is no great programming. But:
It makes my life easier and way more efficient!
It makes computers work for me again! Instead of what some development team thought I would need.
And maybe in a year, I will post it on the net, for others to use, and someone will re-write it in C++, with a bash interface and maybe a GUI.
My first result of this process, was this very very useful little app: https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2942061&forum_id=19083
Therfore I proudly recommend the bash shell as the best thing since sliced bread to my friends, my brothers, moms, old car mechanics, etc, whenever I can. :)
They feel like gurus when they get their first little working "magic thingie" that they could make in an hour and saved them sooo much time!
Hey, I bet a month after that Chrome OS comes out, someone will have the Google custom stuff packaged up into the GUI part and other parts, for you to install as you please, parallel and integrating into your normal GUI.
I'll just look for the Gentoo Portage overlay in layman. :D
You forgot their attacks on Borland (now dead), Netscape (now dead), and Sun (with Java, survived).
And they are only those that I still remember.
Yes it is. What you described is the very definition of typosquatting, if you add the point of what you see on this "GUI interface" (which is the job of your browser to create, btw.)
And if you think about them paying for servers to display this "interface", you will know that there is a reason they do this:
To make money. Obviously.
And what is the reason, that typosquatters add a "GUI interface" to unused domains?
Also to make money. Obviously.
Point proven. :)
Are you kidding, or do you work for OpenDNS?
Because I switched to OpenDNS because of people (you?) mentioning it here on Slashdot.
And then I noticed, that OpenDNS also does DNS redirection!
But then I noticed that OpenDNS also does DNS redirection!
The scary thing was, that of course this even works when I mistype Intranet addresses. (Should have been obvious to me, but I did not think about having switched to OpenDNS when this happened, and got very scared about the possibility of a MITM attack.)
You young whippersnappers! In my days, BT meant "big tits"! And that is how it should always be!
Now get off my lawn!
Well, I don't know how it is in third world countries. But here in Germany, if you leave the "allegedly" away, even in the headline of a tabloid newspaper, you will get sued and your business may get closed down if you do not immediately rectify the statement.
Imagine having a method, that could prevent getting any heart attacks at all. If detected, trashy food could be thrown in the trash where it belongs automatically. If reliable, what would this do for survival rates?
Now imagine what this would do to the incomes of big "health" companies.
Nope. The building, maintaining, and all will be extra posts, costing another 100 million dollars*.
* per month.
Hey look! The "bible thumpers" and naysayers already blindly spent their mod points! I have to say I expected that.
But let me react to it with a nice quote from the great movie "Revolver":
You know what's so elegant about this little game, Jake? Nobody knows what the enemy is. They don't even know he exists. He's in ever...one of their heads. And they trust him. Because they think they are him. If you try to destroy him... to save them,... they'll destroy you... to save him. Ahh... it's beautiful man... You have to admire the opponent's elegance.
Check.
And I can prove it with this little explanation:
If you look at natural processes, they grow exponentially. Until limiting factors come into place. Then the curve flattens again, until it is horizontal, and the limiting factors and the growth balance each other out.
The inability to cope with the speed of change, close to the singularity, will itself be such a limiting factor.
Which will mean, that the speed of change will limit our ability to change things, slowing that speed of change itself down, until they balance each other out.
But how would Kurzweil and Cerf get any media attention, if that core object of fear would simply vanish into the air? ^^
No. The pictures do not have to overlap with all pictures on the same 80 to 90 percent of the image. Which means you can just record a film of a object turning around, creating a 180 3D "ring". Then do it vertically (eg with some more rings), and you get the complete model.
Think of it like creating a QuicktimeVR view, stitched together out of many images, just from the outside instead of from the inside.
I wonder if this software will work for "inside" views too. At least in theory, it should.
The first thing I will do, when I get this software into my hands, is film off entire streets, or houses (from the inside), and put it into a game! :D
Well, it never is a partisan issue, is it? The whole two-sides thing is just a strawman. After all, it is always the same lobbies controlling everything in the background.
Hey, for that price, I expect a space station too!
I mean, even if I do a really big site project, I can't imagine going over $100,000 for programming, *ever*. (But more likely something like $10,000.) Including designing the database layer, backend, template system, business logic, structure, content and design!
Can anyone enlighten me on the possible server costs for such a project?
How much would be a realistic price range for such a project?
Oh, and to clarify, I must mention, that I love women, and what I want, is for them to be happy too.
So see this as a little humor, and be clear that in reality, it 1. is their decision anyway, and 2. a will always decide what is good for both men and women, when ji get to decide.
Ok, I as usual did not see some errors in the preview, but noticed them right after clicking submit.
1. I should not have used the aggressive tone of "bible thumpers" in the first sentence. If was a bad start. I meant people who strongly believe in their religious rules (which include that view about obscenity), wherever they may come from. I hope you can forgive me, as I respect every person.
2. I should not have used the evil word of "bing" in the seventh sentence. It was a bad pothole. I meant the search engines who gloriously are believed in like religious rules (which include that site from Google), wherever they may come from. I hope you can forgive me, as I respect every eye that is now gouged out because it read that word.
Has anyone of those bible thumpers ever thought about what that word means?
It is the implication of nudity, sex, and talking about these things, being related to something bad and forbidden.
Now if you think about it, we all are born nude, and by nature, this is our intended default state. Also our very existence is based on sex, and it is probably the best feeling that anything can give you. (Especially when based on love and fun). Which of course is for the same reason of our existence depending on it.
So if this are the best and most natural and important things in our existence, then why in the world would anyone come up with the concept of them bing somehow bad and forbidden? It just boggles the mind, doesn't it?
Yet somehow we are so used to it, that it appears to be a totally normal thing, to look in a disgusted manner upon "obscenity".
I once found an article that was the first to actually shed some light on how this was possible.
It explained, that in the dark ages, and even before that, some people came up with this scheme:
You make the very things that they love the most, and can't help but wanting to do, because it is you basic nature, a bad and forbidden thing. Forbidden by "god".
You then tell the people, that this "nice" god, would literally raise hell upon you, if you so much as thought about doing these things.
Because nobody can hold back his basic nature forever, this would make everyone a sinner.
And this would give you absolute power and absolute control over those people, commanding them to do how you please, to pay for their sins.
So apparently, this whole concept is just straight out of the rule book for oppression from the dark ages. And in reality, there is no such thing as obscenity.
Which would make it a power play. A fight for power and control.
Well, if this really is the case, which I believe it is, (but ask you to think and decide for yourselves), then, well, this is easy to fight:
Just ignore those who scream against "obscenity". Because all they scream for, is to stay in power, or for their master to stay in power (while being mostly unaware of it).
So question such (seemingly) basic matters of course, and look at things yourself. Then you will exactly know what is OK and what is not OK to do, and your art and ideas will not be limited by false beliefs or controlled by others. Which in my experience usually results in the most outstanding art and concepts, and even make people follow your strong reality. But not because you oppress them, but because they respect you.
And how exactly did you gain the right, to demand things from him? Did you pay him? Did you do things yourself?
I recommend doing one thing yourself: Vote the Pirate Party, and disobey unjust laws.
I already did it. And 229,117 others did too in Germany alone. So you will not be alone by any means, but with us then! :)
Well, I think this graphic explains it very well.
Well, they don't need to, so why should they?
It's all about efficiency.
Now there is place for other things.
And so, our brain has not infinite storage, and we do not only use 10% of our brain. It is all overlaying, and only the strongest/extremest information survives. While the weaker / less extreme information gets diluted until it is impossible to think of it at all, but only a weak feeling of it is left.
Nope.
But hey, why is you e-mail addresses domain a domain squatter owned one?
I get "Insightful" for THIS, but my other much more important comments get nothing or even "Troll"??
Slashdot got seriously weird / fucked up, in the last time...
People, please learn that even if you completely disagree, it still is no troll, but very insightful. Because without it you would not be able to disagree with it and come up with your own point of view in the first place! And sometimes making you disagree is just the point of a good argument!
I bet the only reason it got cheaper now, is because those "big" radios finally bought into Payola.
For $25,000 they now can play everything they want, as long as it's what the RIAA tells them to play.
Luckily, I and my Internet radios never cared, and never will!
Some of them are even illegal by government rules (like the idiotic UK laws), which makes them real analog "pirate" radios too!
But I either listen to them or to my mp3s. I could never go back to that pop shit that is "normal" radio stations. My musical knowledge of rare bands of the UK, Russia, Japan, UK, France, etc, grew massively since I listen to Internet radio. To me it's the second most important killer feature of the Internet. Right after porn!