You'd be remarkably surprised, a lot of people are really poor communicators. Imagine having a conversation about something deeply technical with your grandmother. You're both human, you're both intelligent, and your both having a conversation, but I doubt you're communicating much. Same thing if someone started talking to you about something you're really not very interested in.
That's not even counting the people who don't actually listen to others very much.
How brittle something is and how likely it is to actually break are two totally separate things.
Shell scripts are brittle because as a whole, and as far as their individual parts go, they assume a certain input set and generate a certain output set. If these assumptions turn out to be incorrect they will fail, sometimes spectacularly, and often it will take a serious amount of time and effort to determine exactly where the problem is.
That doesn't mean they're actually going to break, or that their brittleness is actually a problem. As I said, the GNU toolset is very mature and there isn't an awful lot of change. The likelihood that your script is going to be required to bend in such a way that it breaks is almost non existent.
That doesn't mean that the scripts aren't brittle.
The difference is the publishers actually getting paid.
If libraries had an unlimited number of copies of a digital book, very few people would ever actually buy one. The fact that your choice is between buying or waiting gives some people the motivation to buy(even if not you).
That's not entirely true, there has been A/I progress in the last 40 years. Somewhat unfortunately a lot of that progress has been in determining how far there is to go rather than actually getting there.
I remember 20 years ago when everyone thought that computers were a lot smarter than humans because they could do all that adding up and whatnot a lot faster than humans were and people sincerely seemed to believe we'd have artificial intelligence within the next few years. Fast forward 10 years or so and you start to have people doing experiments with getting computers to recognize objects or sounds and it starts to become apparent just how much processing power is required to take visual input and make any sort of sense of it, that's not even taking into processing the other 4 senses simultaneously.
You might argue that all of this isn't really necessary for the creation of an artificial intelligence, but realistically how do we possibly relate to or understand any sort of intelligence which doesn't and can't experience the same world that we do? If we created a super genius computer we'd never know as it currently stand.
You've never met a human being who ignored what you were saying and talked about what they wanted to talk about?
The spectrum of human conversation is broad. Not everyone is a good communicator, even people who are are not always at the top of their game at any given moment. Lord knows I've had calls at 3 am in the morning where all I can really do is repeat what the person talking to me is saying until my brain wakes the rest of the way up and I'm capable of rational thought.
This isn't some sort of elitist bull crap about stupid people and intelligent people, it's just a comment that it's perfectly possible for two people to have a conversation where nothing actually gets communicated due to any number of possible reasons.
This is where the Turing test becomes difficult. It's easy to say "That is a human" because the upper communication level of a bot isn't as high as a human beings it's a lot harder to say "That's not a human".
They're brittle in that the conditions they operate in must not change. If any single one of the tools you're running on changes its input or output even slightly the whole thing can fall apart in a rather spectacular manner. The same is true if you change the specification even a little bit. There's also no real debuggers for shell script so it's going to be a serious pain the rear to actually fix it if it does break. Metaphorically if you try to bend them at all they shatter rather spectacularly, they are brittle.
Now certainly the unix tool set is a fairly mature product, so the likelihood of inputs or outputs changing dramatically isn't huge, and system APIs can and do change as well, but generally speaking, a program can be tweaked a little more easily than a shell script.
Now you can of course write brittle programs, but it's easier to write non brittle ones than in shell script.
Notepad is a raw text editor. You open a file in it and it shows you exactly what the text in it is. That's what it's for, wordpad does all that shiny stuff like make things pretty, notepad shows you what is there.
I haven't seen Sicko, I have seen a lot of his other work.
He pulls an awful lot of stunts and massages facts. Which, as I said, is sad because he doesn't need to. He's got a lot of really really good points, but he gets all foaming at the mouth and fakes things to make his points stronger, which does more harm than good.
To clarify, I believe GM were a bunch of bastards, guns should be banned, the Iraq war was a mistake, the PATRIOT act was a violation of everything America stands for, US health care is a joke, and pretty much everything else he stands for.
What I don't believe is pretending that the GM guy didn't meet with him when he did, pretending that Canadians leave their doors unlocked, turning opposition to the Patriot act into a giant stunt or any of the garbage he pulls to try and get them across.
I'm not sure exactly what to do about Afghanistan or Iraq, it is entirely possible that the damage is already done.
Personally, as much as I dislike the war, and think we shouldn't have gone in in the first place, we did so. As such, the only viable justification for full withdrawal is the belief that we can't manage any result which is better than the one we get by pulling out(which isn't going to be pretty).
What we have to do, both in the current wars, and in the future, is to find all the people who start spouting off about 21st century war making the Geneva convention outdated and fire them. Then we need to start acting like the good guys again. We need to stop bombing women and children, stop torturing people. Yes I know it gets results, but it's wrong.
He was a douche. The letter of the law is deliberately broad to protect police from things the legislators didn't think of. People think of shitty things to do to the police all the time that no one had thought to legislate against. The fact that that discretion exists and is necessary doesn't mean that officers have the right to use that discretion to be a douche.
If the public weren't up in arms about it, then he wouldn't be suing, he'd just be a cop doing his job.
Notepad's great strength is that it's mind numbingly stupid.
If you want a slightly more up to date version, you've got wordpad which does all the reformatting and clever stuff you might want. On the other hand, wordpad(and most smarter text editors) won't open a file that's in use by another process. Notepad will, there are other apps which will as well(vi springs to mind), but those show the line characters as well.
Actually Mother Theresa wasn't very nice either. She might have taken care of the poor and the down trodden, but from what I've read she firmly believed that they were poor and downtrodden because God wanted them to be that way and she didn't lift a finger to try and stop them from being poor and downtrodden in the first place.
You can argue that certain operational details ought to be kept secret within certain contexts(where, when and who for instance), but what and why should really be public, at least after the fact.
You don't need to say that these troops were in that place at this time(and you surely don't need to say where they will be), but what those troops did and why they did it is something we ought to know.
We are responsible for what they did, for good or for ill. We pay for it both literally and metaphorically. We must know.
The problem with this view is that what they're doing over there isn't making us safer, if anything it's doing the opposite. The US government seems to have this idea that the Geneva convention cannot apply to 21st century warfare, because we've got all these insurgents now. I've actually seen US government officials spouting the line that because the insurgents surround themselves with children when they know it's against the Geneva conventions to do so that it's ok for us to violate them.
When we violate our own values, the terrorists win. If you kill a terrorist with a drone and in doing so take out a dozen innocents, you turn the friends and relatives of those innocents into terrorists. You give them just cause to hate us and to want to give their lives to fight against us. When you lock people up and torture them with no just cause for suspicion and with no appeal or trial of any kind, you create terrorists. Hell the reason for all of those rules about the treatment of prisoners in the first place was to protect your own troops from that sort of treatment when they get captured.
People need to see what our governments are doing, we need to understand it and we need to stop it before it is too late. We cannot fight extremists by descending to their level. We cannot prevent the murder of innocents by murdering innocents. We cannot become that which we are fighting against or we have already lost. The US government along with the governments of many western nations have committed crimes not only against the Geneva convention, but against human decency. Their guilt carries over to those who they represent and we need to know.
Assange is an ass, and there have obviously been and will continue to be consequences from the release of these documents. You could even argue that they should have been filtered in some way, but the reality is that the military has been doing a lot of really awful things in relative secret, and considering that we're the ones who are paying and will continue to pay for their actions we ought to know what we're buying.
Michael Moore is an ass. He trashed his own credibility by massaging reality and making a spectacle of himself. I could live with that, but in doing so he damaged the credibility of the things he was arguing most of which were and still are real problems that need to be addressed.
It has to do with two different methods being equally correct in the standard. Microsoft requires both a carriage return and a linefeed(just like a typewriter), Unix only uses a linefeed. Which one you think is more correct is really a matter of opinion as both are fully correct according to the ISO standard. Historically there were reasons for the combo pair, and the ANSI standard requires it, but it is rather an anachronism in this day and age.
Not exactly accurate, though obviously some people do do this.
The nature of the current political system in the US is that, for the most part, the president provides a strategic direction for the country and congress either follows that strategic direction or doesn't. When a president provides a strategic direction which and congress goes along with it, it is fair to give credit or blame the president. When the president provides a strategic direction and congress does not follow it or mutates it into a monstrosity) then it is fair that congress gets the blame or credit.
Specifically, Bush wanted to get us into two pointless wars which diminished US national security, cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars, enact legislation which would destroy civil liberties, and open a torture camp in Cuba, all of which congress let him do.
Obama on the other hand has been dealing with a bunch of congress critters who have been only out for their own skin and generally shooting down or warping everything he's tried to do. This has been so excessive that incumbents on both sides are in serious jeopardy this November.
If they'd had any sense they'd have done it as a tax deduction. Everyone who earns over X is subjected to health tax "Y", if you can show you have a health care plan which meets requirements Z you receive a deduction which exactly equals "Y". The constitution grants the federal government the right to levy taxes, and they can most certainly offer tax deductions. That's what most people do.
That said, requiring people to have health cover is a necessary step to any sort of health care reform in the US, and the vast majority of the people who are opposing it are just talking about the constitutionality because they don't want to reform health care in the US.
Primarily what you're paying for is support and guaranteed configurations.
Managing 1000 PC's is really about having as limited a number of variables as you can possibly handle. You don't want 50 or 100 different hardware configurations because it's going to make your life a living hell. You really need to be able to stick image X on model Y and know 100% that it's going to work. You need to know that if you test a piece of software or an update on models A,B, and C that you've covered every possible hardware config in your company.
You need to know that the one in your lab is the same as the one down in the marketing department, so that if you deploy all the apps which are on the marketing install you can know whether that new publishing software they want is going to blow up their PC.
If you buy parts off the shelf, you're exceptionally lucky if all the parts you buy in one lot are actually the same model number, forget how difficult it is to replace that part 2 years later.
Yes you can get a faster PC than the Dell substantially less than the cost of the Dell, but when you take a look at the TCO build your own just isn't even on the radar.
There's really not all that much less physical material in a mac mini than in a standard desktop, they may be smaller, but remember the vast majority of your desktop is air.
One could also argue that it's far more wasteful to spend the materials and energy to produce and run a toy which is incapable of accomplishing any serious tasks(iPad, ChromeOS, netbook) than to produce and run something which is actually fit for purpose.
What does how much it costs to call Microsoft have to do with their AV? I also never said it was perfect, it won't stop an idiot who runs stuff they shouldn't, but all the other free options are worse, the pay ones are no better, and it doesn't kill your CPU running it.
You don't have to be some sort of elite product to be the best AV solution, you just need to find problems some of the time and use less resources than the malware.
The free market doesn't work like that unless the barrier for entry is zero, starting your own mobile carrier is about as far from zero barrier to entry as you can get.
MSE is free, available on every OS back to XP and as from my personal experience and research actually works. They're certainly far better than any other free AV solution available and I've seen it pick up stuff which broke Norton, all without requiring an extra core just to run your AV program.
Not sure what the heck you mean about business accounts or high dollars since the app is free.
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You'd be remarkably surprised, a lot of people are really poor communicators. Imagine having a conversation about something deeply technical with your grandmother. You're both human, you're both intelligent, and your both having a conversation, but I doubt you're communicating much. Same thing if someone started talking to you about something you're really not very interested in.
That's not even counting the people who don't actually listen to others very much.
How brittle something is and how likely it is to actually break are two totally separate things.
Shell scripts are brittle because as a whole, and as far as their individual parts go, they assume a certain input set and generate a certain output set. If these assumptions turn out to be incorrect they will fail, sometimes spectacularly, and often it will take a serious amount of time and effort to determine exactly where the problem is.
That doesn't mean they're actually going to break, or that their brittleness is actually a problem. As I said, the GNU toolset is very mature and there isn't an awful lot of change. The likelihood that your script is going to be required to bend in such a way that it breaks is almost non existent.
That doesn't mean that the scripts aren't brittle.
The difference is the publishers actually getting paid.
If libraries had an unlimited number of copies of a digital book, very few people would ever actually buy one. The fact that your choice is between buying or waiting gives some people the motivation to buy(even if not you).
That's not entirely true, there has been A/I progress in the last 40 years. Somewhat unfortunately a lot of that progress has been in determining how far there is to go rather than actually getting there.
I remember 20 years ago when everyone thought that computers were a lot smarter than humans because they could do all that adding up and whatnot a lot faster than humans were and people sincerely seemed to believe we'd have artificial intelligence within the next few years. Fast forward 10 years or so and you start to have people doing experiments with getting computers to recognize objects or sounds and it starts to become apparent just how much processing power is required to take visual input and make any sort of sense of it, that's not even taking into processing the other 4 senses simultaneously.
You might argue that all of this isn't really necessary for the creation of an artificial intelligence, but realistically how do we possibly relate to or understand any sort of intelligence which doesn't and can't experience the same world that we do? If we created a super genius computer we'd never know as it currently stand.
You've never met a human being who ignored what you were saying and talked about what they wanted to talk about?
The spectrum of human conversation is broad. Not everyone is a good communicator, even people who are are not always at the top of their game at any given moment. Lord knows I've had calls at 3 am in the morning where all I can really do is repeat what the person talking to me is saying until my brain wakes the rest of the way up and I'm capable of rational thought.
This isn't some sort of elitist bull crap about stupid people and intelligent people, it's just a comment that it's perfectly possible for two people to have a conversation where nothing actually gets communicated due to any number of possible reasons.
This is where the Turing test becomes difficult. It's easy to say "That is a human" because the upper communication level of a bot isn't as high as a human beings it's a lot harder to say "That's not a human".
That was HTML redirects (well likely more specifically javascript redirects), not HTTP redirects.
They're brittle in that the conditions they operate in must not change. If any single one of the tools you're running on changes its input or output even slightly the whole thing can fall apart in a rather spectacular manner. The same is true if you change the specification even a little bit. There's also no real debuggers for shell script so it's going to be a serious pain the rear to actually fix it if it does break. Metaphorically if you try to bend them at all they shatter rather spectacularly, they are brittle.
Now certainly the unix tool set is a fairly mature product, so the likelihood of inputs or outputs changing dramatically isn't huge, and system APIs can and do change as well, but generally speaking, a program can be tweaked a little more easily than a shell script.
Now you can of course write brittle programs, but it's easier to write non brittle ones than in shell script.
Notepad is a raw text editor. You open a file in it and it shows you exactly what the text in it is. That's what it's for, wordpad does all that shiny stuff like make things pretty, notepad shows you what is there.
Use Wordpad, it handles them fine. Notepad doesn't, deliberately and by design.
I haven't seen Sicko, I have seen a lot of his other work.
He pulls an awful lot of stunts and massages facts. Which, as I said, is sad because he doesn't need to. He's got a lot of really really good points, but he gets all foaming at the mouth and fakes things to make his points stronger, which does more harm than good.
To clarify, I believe GM were a bunch of bastards, guns should be banned, the Iraq war was a mistake, the PATRIOT act was a violation of everything America stands for, US health care is a joke, and pretty much everything else he stands for.
What I don't believe is pretending that the GM guy didn't meet with him when he did, pretending that Canadians leave their doors unlocked, turning opposition to the Patriot act into a giant stunt or any of the garbage he pulls to try and get them across.
I'm not sure exactly what to do about Afghanistan or Iraq, it is entirely possible that the damage is already done.
Personally, as much as I dislike the war, and think we shouldn't have gone in in the first place, we did so. As such, the only viable justification for full withdrawal is the belief that we can't manage any result which is better than the one we get by pulling out(which isn't going to be pretty).
What we have to do, both in the current wars, and in the future, is to find all the people who start spouting off about 21st century war making the Geneva convention outdated and fire them. Then we need to start acting like the good guys again. We need to stop bombing women and children, stop torturing people. Yes I know it gets results, but it's wrong.
He was a douche. The letter of the law is deliberately broad to protect police from things the legislators didn't think of. People think of shitty things to do to the police all the time that no one had thought to legislate against. The fact that that discretion exists and is necessary doesn't mean that officers have the right to use that discretion to be a douche.
If the public weren't up in arms about it, then he wouldn't be suing, he'd just be a cop doing his job.
Notepad's great strength is that it's mind numbingly stupid.
If you want a slightly more up to date version, you've got wordpad which does all the reformatting and clever stuff you might want. On the other hand, wordpad(and most smarter text editors) won't open a file that's in use by another process. Notepad will, there are other apps which will as well(vi springs to mind), but those show the line characters as well.
Actually Mother Theresa wasn't very nice either. She might have taken care of the poor and the down trodden, but from what I've read she firmly believed that they were poor and downtrodden because God wanted them to be that way and she didn't lift a finger to try and stop them from being poor and downtrodden in the first place.
You can argue that certain operational details ought to be kept secret within certain contexts(where, when and who for instance), but what and why should really be public, at least after the fact.
You don't need to say that these troops were in that place at this time(and you surely don't need to say where they will be), but what those troops did and why they did it is something we ought to know.
We are responsible for what they did, for good or for ill. We pay for it both literally and metaphorically. We must know.
The problem with this view is that what they're doing over there isn't making us safer, if anything it's doing the opposite. The US government seems to have this idea that the Geneva convention cannot apply to 21st century warfare, because we've got all these insurgents now. I've actually seen US government officials spouting the line that because the insurgents surround themselves with children when they know it's against the Geneva conventions to do so that it's ok for us to violate them.
When we violate our own values, the terrorists win. If you kill a terrorist with a drone and in doing so take out a dozen innocents, you turn the friends and relatives of those innocents into terrorists. You give them just cause to hate us and to want to give their lives to fight against us. When you lock people up and torture them with no just cause for suspicion and with no appeal or trial of any kind, you create terrorists. Hell the reason for all of those rules about the treatment of prisoners in the first place was to protect your own troops from that sort of treatment when they get captured.
People need to see what our governments are doing, we need to understand it and we need to stop it before it is too late. We cannot fight extremists by descending to their level. We cannot prevent the murder of innocents by murdering innocents. We cannot become that which we are fighting against or we have already lost. The US government along with the governments of many western nations have committed crimes not only against the Geneva convention, but against human decency. Their guilt carries over to those who they represent and we need to know.
Assange is an ass, and there have obviously been and will continue to be consequences from the release of these documents. You could even argue that they should have been filtered in some way, but the reality is that the military has been doing a lot of really awful things in relative secret, and considering that we're the ones who are paying and will continue to pay for their actions we ought to know what we're buying.
Michael Moore is an ass. He trashed his own credibility by massaging reality and making a spectacle of himself. I could live with that, but in doing so he damaged the credibility of the things he was arguing most of which were and still are real problems that need to be addressed.
That's not actually an issue with notepad.
It has to do with two different methods being equally correct in the standard. Microsoft requires both a carriage return and a linefeed(just like a typewriter), Unix only uses a linefeed. Which one you think is more correct is really a matter of opinion as both are fully correct according to the ISO standard. Historically there were reasons for the combo pair, and the ANSI standard requires it, but it is rather an anachronism in this day and age.
Not exactly accurate, though obviously some people do do this.
The nature of the current political system in the US is that, for the most part, the president provides a strategic direction for the country and congress either follows that strategic direction or doesn't. When a president provides a strategic direction which and congress goes along with it, it is fair to give credit or blame the president. When the president provides a strategic direction and congress does not follow it or mutates it into a monstrosity) then it is fair that congress gets the blame or credit.
Specifically, Bush wanted to get us into two pointless wars which diminished US national security, cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars, enact legislation which would destroy civil liberties, and open a torture camp in Cuba, all of which congress let him do.
Obama on the other hand has been dealing with a bunch of congress critters who have been only out for their own skin and generally shooting down or warping everything he's tried to do. This has been so excessive that incumbents on both sides are in serious jeopardy this November.
If they'd had any sense they'd have done it as a tax deduction. Everyone who earns over X is subjected to health tax "Y", if you can show you have a health care plan which meets requirements Z you receive a deduction which exactly equals "Y". The constitution grants the federal government the right to levy taxes, and they can most certainly offer tax deductions. That's what most people do.
That said, requiring people to have health cover is a necessary step to any sort of health care reform in the US, and the vast majority of the people who are opposing it are just talking about the constitutionality because they don't want to reform health care in the US.
Primarily what you're paying for is support and guaranteed configurations.
Managing 1000 PC's is really about having as limited a number of variables as you can possibly handle. You don't want 50 or 100 different hardware configurations because it's going to make your life a living hell. You really need to be able to stick image X on model Y and know 100% that it's going to work. You need to know that if you test a piece of software or an update on models A,B, and C that you've covered every possible hardware config in your company.
You need to know that the one in your lab is the same as the one down in the marketing department, so that if you deploy all the apps which are on the marketing install you can know whether that new publishing software they want is going to blow up their PC.
If you buy parts off the shelf, you're exceptionally lucky if all the parts you buy in one lot are actually the same model number, forget how difficult it is to replace that part 2 years later.
Yes you can get a faster PC than the Dell substantially less than the cost of the Dell, but when you take a look at the TCO build your own just isn't even on the radar.
There's really not all that much less physical material in a mac mini than in a standard desktop, they may be smaller, but remember the vast majority of your desktop is air.
One could also argue that it's far more wasteful to spend the materials and energy to produce and run a toy which is incapable of accomplishing any serious tasks(iPad, ChromeOS, netbook) than to produce and run something which is actually fit for purpose.
What does how much it costs to call Microsoft have to do with their AV? I also never said it was perfect, it won't stop an idiot who runs stuff they shouldn't, but all the other free options are worse, the pay ones are no better, and it doesn't kill your CPU running it.
You don't have to be some sort of elite product to be the best AV solution, you just need to find problems some of the time and use less resources than the malware.
The free market doesn't work like that unless the barrier for entry is zero, starting your own mobile carrier is about as far from zero barrier to entry as you can get.
MSE is free, available on every OS back to XP and as from my personal experience and research actually works. They're certainly far better than any other free AV solution available and I've seen it pick up stuff which broke Norton, all without requiring an extra core just to run your AV program.
Not sure what the heck you mean about business accounts or high dollars since the app is free.