You're right, they did lose, and it is a bad strategy. I was more referring to the battles they did win, not the war as a whole.
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I'm not sure where our opinions differ. sed and awk are both extremely powerful. bash is extremely powerful. One of the things that makes bash powerful is the existence of sed and awk. sed and awk don't require bash, and bash doesn't require sed and awk. Yet if you write a book on using bash, and leave out sed and awk, you would be doing your readers a great injustice.
Maybe at one point. But not currently. Currently they seem to be spending a lot of money fighting Iraq, which most of the place you mentioned specifically were against, and still are against, the US being involved in. Also, the umbrella effect, as far as Canada is concerned, means that we have to go in after the fact, as is the case with Afghanistan, and clean up the mess that the US left behind.
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Maybe we should all have to buy different books on grep too. Why not separate books on dd, ls, df, free, etc? sed and awk are a very integral part of bashscripting. You can't talk about bash without talking about sed and awk. Same way you can't talk about Perl without talking about regular expressions. Well, on second thought, you could, but you'd be leaving out a huge part reason for using Perl in the first place.
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The lack of structured data and live objects is a feature, not a bug. The fact that everything is a string, and that everything can be piped between all the different commands means that you can string together commands in new and exciting ways that nobody ever thought was possible. Making all the commands pass around different types of objects means that all the other commands have to be aware of all these other datatypes, and have to know how to handle them. If you want something with objects and structured data in the shell, then there's MS PowerShell. But maybe there's a reason it hasn't caught on yet.
I live in Canada, and from talking to a couple Americans, my taxes seem to be right on pay with what they are paying, possibly a little higher. Once I count in all the benefits my government provides me, like free health care, I would probably say I pay less taxes than many Americans. Americans think they have less taxes, but if you really look into it, you'll find that logic flawed. They pay a little less, but get a lot less out of their government.
Plenty of other news sources offer their material in English. Places like Al Jazeera, Shanghai Daily, and Indian Express are just a few examples. Being English speaking is a blessing, as it is pretty much a defacto second language for the rest of the world. If your argument was that americans only spoke spanish, and couldn't find any other news sources, I'd believe that.
Yeah, I did play a lot of it, can't remember if I finished it though. Now that you bring it up, I do remember having shields on some ships. However, there was quite a few missions without them, and I remember those being quite annoying. The whole concept of being a career TIE fighter pilot was flawed anyway. It's like being a pilot for the Japanese in WWII. Where they just sent out a million people in planes, and won by sheer numbers. Death was likely, and, in the case of kamikaze missions, downright inevitable, but it was all worth it if you end up taking down one of the adversaries in the process.
Yes, there are bad managers out there. Managers who don't fire people who should be, and managers who fire people that shouldn't be, and managers who don't promote people who should be. However, with many unions, even a manager who wants to do a good job, is unable to, because, due to union contracts, can't fire those who need to be fired, ends up firing those who should stay on, simply because they have the least seniority, and can't promote people who really deserve to be promoted. So, while bad management can exist in non-unionized work environments, it's almost inevitable in unionized ones.
But that doesn't make them not rare. If there's 100 billion star systems, and even just 1 million stars in each, you are looking at 100,000,000,000,000 star systems. Even if there is a.000001% chance of a star system like ours existing, it means that there are 1,000,000 star systems that are like ours. So they could be both very rare, and yet still very likely to happen.
And how is it bad? More importantly, how do you define "good employee"? Is it someone who does a magnificient job by the standards on how the job is measured, or is it someone whose boss is pleased when he sees him?
I would define it as people who get stuff done, and get stuff done well. People who put in an honest day's work. Regardless of how you define "good", I think there are a few qualities that most people can agree are "bad", and the unions still fight to keep bad employees.
With the advanced years of service, you get more experience, thus automatically becoming more valuable as your quality of work increases. This insures that the bosses don't play favourites by promoting the ass-lickers who don't really do a better job.
More experience doesn't mean you are better for the company. Sometimes companies need to change to account for market forces, and employee who has lots of experience, but refuses to change, or to learn new skills to account for the changing needs of the company isn't helping anything. Also, in many unionized positions, there becomes a point where your extra years of service don't really offer anything extra to the company. City bus drivers who keep on getting salary increases, even though the difference between somebody who's being working 5 years and somebody who's been working 20 years is probably close to 0.
While I see where you are coming from, you seem to have a Utopian view of how unions should work. In reality, most unions end up generating low standards of work, increasing salaries for employees who do very little for the company, and no compensation for employees who go the extra mile.
I enjoyed TIE Fighter, but I have to say that I liked X-Wing more. TIE Fighters don't have shields, which meant that a couple shots to you would often end up bringing your ship down. Manipulating the direction and power of the shields, while accounting for how it would affect the speed of your craft added an extra layer of complexity to X-Wing. Personally, I think both were great, and really wish they would put out a similar game with updated graphics.
As far as science being more difficult than the humanities, here's my view on it. It's harder to get 100% on a humanities test than it is to get 100% on a science test. In humanities, the responses are often subjective, and there's no perfect answer. The other side of the coin is that if you don't know all the material, you can still get a pretty good mark (lets say 70%) on a humanities exam, just by presenting your answers in a clear and concise way. If you don't know the material in science, it's very likely that you will end up with a failing grade.
If you want to be informed you can. I would say that what you say would be true in the 50s. All the media you got was local. Local TV channels, local radio, local newspapers. Now, on the internet, you can read news from all over the world. And anybody can post an article on the web, so if the traditional sources aren't enough, go to non-traditional sources such as blogs. If you don't own a computer, go down to the public library or internet cafe and user their computers. There's also satellite/cable TV, so you can get TV news from around the world too. If people aren't informed, it's because they are complacent, not because the information isn't available.
Seems like somebody forgot to read the FAQ. Not all the articles on slashdot are US centric, but I think that anything that involves the law or politics tends to be very much U.S. centric.
The reason a lot of people (myself included) don't like unions, is because they fight for all employees, not just the good ones. Basically everybody in the same position gets the same pay, and employees are paid more based on years of service. This means that all you have to do to keep advancing your salary, is to do just good enough to not get fired. And unions make it plenty hard to fire union members also. People should get paid based on what they bring to the company. If a guy straight out of university, his first year on the job, brings more to the company then the guy who has been working there 40 years, then he should be paid more.
That depends if you're talking about supervisors or canaries.
On a more serious note, I grew up in a mining town. Those guys were paid pretty well considering a lot of them only had a highschool diploma, if that. 60 grand back in the early 90's was pretty good cash, especially when a house could be bought for $40 grand.
"Select * from Users Where UserID='" & Request("UserID") & "'"
To
CREATE PROCEDURE GET_USER_DATA(@UserID varchar(200))
AS
exec('SELECT * FROM Users WHERE UserID=''' + @UserID + '''')
END
Using stored procedures doesn't solve anything if developers don't actually understand what the problem is. You don't even need to use stored procedures. Simply switching to prepared statements would have fixed the problem.
I'm not sure what they should do, however, storing the opt out as a cookie, means that the person wishing to opt out will probably delete the cookie eventually. Not a very effective opt out system.
Works in Firefox also. I allow cookies to save for the session, except for a whitelist of about 10-20 sites. You could also disable them completely, except for your whitelist, but sometimes sites that don't work without cookies just act erratically, and don't let you know that you should enable cookies.
But it's not as simple as you put it. Let's say all my data was on the cloud. And I spend a 30 days writing up some code for a client. And I charged the client a rate of $1000 a day. Based on days*cost per day, I would get $30,000. But by losing all that data, I have lost much more. Maybe there was something in the contract (there should have been), stating that if I was late, I would have to lower the final price the client paid me, and not be paid for the additional days. What about all the other clients I promised work to, who's contracts I can't fulfill because I'm stuck having to rewrite the code I lost for the first client. Maybe that client no longer wants to deal with me for future projects. Maybe that client will tell a bunch of other potential clients how unreliable I am, and I will lose future clients. There's no easy way to figure out how much a single days work is actually worth. It seems in most cases, that the best "insurance" would be to create multiple backups, rather than trust your data to "the cloud".
That works well if your definition of a cloud is "webdav". But what about all the other cloud features, where whole applications are available on the cloud, and your data is actually manipulated by server side code? If we were just talking webdav here, backups would be a lot easier. But with many cloud offerings, there simply isn't a way to download all your data with one command. Also, for clouds that do offer applications, download just the files may not be enough, as you would have your files, but might not be able to manipulate them with the applications on the cloud.
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You're right, they did lose, and it is a bad strategy. I was more referring to the battles they did win, not the war as a whole.
I'm not sure where our opinions differ. sed and awk are both extremely powerful. bash is extremely powerful. One of the things that makes bash powerful is the existence of sed and awk. sed and awk don't require bash, and bash doesn't require sed and awk. Yet if you write a book on using bash, and leave out sed and awk, you would be doing your readers a great injustice.
Maybe at one point. But not currently. Currently they seem to be spending a lot of money fighting Iraq, which most of the place you mentioned specifically were against, and still are against, the US being involved in. Also, the umbrella effect, as far as Canada is concerned, means that we have to go in after the fact, as is the case with Afghanistan, and clean up the mess that the US left behind.
Maybe we should all have to buy different books on grep too. Why not separate books on dd, ls, df, free, etc? sed and awk are a very integral part of bashscripting. You can't talk about bash without talking about sed and awk. Same way you can't talk about Perl without talking about regular expressions. Well, on second thought, you could, but you'd be leaving out a huge part reason for using Perl in the first place.
The lack of structured data and live objects is a feature, not a bug. The fact that everything is a string, and that everything can be piped between all the different commands means that you can string together commands in new and exciting ways that nobody ever thought was possible. Making all the commands pass around different types of objects means that all the other commands have to be aware of all these other datatypes, and have to know how to handle them. If you want something with objects and structured data in the shell, then there's MS PowerShell. But maybe there's a reason it hasn't caught on yet.
I live in Canada, and from talking to a couple Americans, my taxes seem to be right on pay with what they are paying, possibly a little higher. Once I count in all the benefits my government provides me, like free health care, I would probably say I pay less taxes than many Americans. Americans think they have less taxes, but if you really look into it, you'll find that logic flawed. They pay a little less, but get a lot less out of their government.
Plenty of other news sources offer their material in English. Places like Al Jazeera, Shanghai Daily, and Indian Express are just a few examples. Being English speaking is a blessing, as it is pretty much a defacto second language for the rest of the world. If your argument was that americans only spoke spanish, and couldn't find any other news sources, I'd believe that.
Yeah, I did play a lot of it, can't remember if I finished it though. Now that you bring it up, I do remember having shields on some ships. However, there was quite a few missions without them, and I remember those being quite annoying. The whole concept of being a career TIE fighter pilot was flawed anyway. It's like being a pilot for the Japanese in WWII. Where they just sent out a million people in planes, and won by sheer numbers. Death was likely, and, in the case of kamikaze missions, downright inevitable, but it was all worth it if you end up taking down one of the adversaries in the process.
Yes, there are bad managers out there. Managers who don't fire people who should be, and managers who fire people that shouldn't be, and managers who don't promote people who should be. However, with many unions, even a manager who wants to do a good job, is unable to, because, due to union contracts, can't fire those who need to be fired, ends up firing those who should stay on, simply because they have the least seniority, and can't promote people who really deserve to be promoted. So, while bad management can exist in non-unionized work environments, it's almost inevitable in unionized ones.
But that doesn't make them not rare. If there's 100 billion star systems, and even just 1 million stars in each, you are looking at 100,000,000,000,000 star systems. Even if there is a .000001% chance of a star system like ours existing, it means that there are 1,000,000 star systems that are like ours. So they could be both very rare, and yet still very likely to happen.
I would define it as people who get stuff done, and get stuff done well. People who put in an honest day's work. Regardless of how you define "good", I think there are a few qualities that most people can agree are "bad", and the unions still fight to keep bad employees.
More experience doesn't mean you are better for the company. Sometimes companies need to change to account for market forces, and employee who has lots of experience, but refuses to change, or to learn new skills to account for the changing needs of the company isn't helping anything. Also, in many unionized positions, there becomes a point where your extra years of service don't really offer anything extra to the company. City bus drivers who keep on getting salary increases, even though the difference between somebody who's being working 5 years and somebody who's been working 20 years is probably close to 0.
While I see where you are coming from, you seem to have a Utopian view of how unions should work. In reality, most unions end up generating low standards of work, increasing salaries for employees who do very little for the company, and no compensation for employees who go the extra mile.
I enjoyed TIE Fighter, but I have to say that I liked X-Wing more. TIE Fighters don't have shields, which meant that a couple shots to you would often end up bringing your ship down. Manipulating the direction and power of the shields, while accounting for how it would affect the speed of your craft added an extra layer of complexity to X-Wing. Personally, I think both were great, and really wish they would put out a similar game with updated graphics.
As far as science being more difficult than the humanities, here's my view on it. It's harder to get 100% on a humanities test than it is to get 100% on a science test. In humanities, the responses are often subjective, and there's no perfect answer. The other side of the coin is that if you don't know all the material, you can still get a pretty good mark (lets say 70%) on a humanities exam, just by presenting your answers in a clear and concise way. If you don't know the material in science, it's very likely that you will end up with a failing grade.
If you want to be informed you can. I would say that what you say would be true in the 50s. All the media you got was local. Local TV channels, local radio, local newspapers. Now, on the internet, you can read news from all over the world. And anybody can post an article on the web, so if the traditional sources aren't enough, go to non-traditional sources such as blogs. If you don't own a computer, go down to the public library or internet cafe and user their computers. There's also satellite/cable TV, so you can get TV news from around the world too. If people aren't informed, it's because they are complacent, not because the information isn't available.
Exactly my point. $60k back then was amazing. Miners get paid pretty well, at least in Canada/US.
Seems like somebody forgot to read the FAQ. Not all the articles on slashdot are US centric, but I think that anything that involves the law or politics tends to be very much U.S. centric.
The reason a lot of people (myself included) don't like unions, is because they fight for all employees, not just the good ones. Basically everybody in the same position gets the same pay, and employees are paid more based on years of service. This means that all you have to do to keep advancing your salary, is to do just good enough to not get fired. And unions make it plenty hard to fire union members also. People should get paid based on what they bring to the company. If a guy straight out of university, his first year on the job, brings more to the company then the guy who has been working there 40 years, then he should be paid more.
That depends if you're talking about supervisors or canaries.
On a more serious note, I grew up in a mining town. Those guys were paid pretty well considering a lot of them only had a highschool diploma, if that. 60 grand back in the early 90's was pretty good cash, especially when a house could be bought for $40 grand.
Let me guess, they converted
"Select * from Users Where UserID='" & Request("UserID") & "'"
To
CREATE PROCEDURE GET_USER_DATA(@UserID varchar(200))
AS
exec('SELECT * FROM Users WHERE UserID=''' + @UserID + '''')
END
Using stored procedures doesn't solve anything if developers don't actually understand what the problem is. You don't even need to use stored procedures. Simply switching to prepared statements would have fixed the problem.
Yeah, but where does one obtain dry ice? You could easily walk down to the store and buy aluminium foil and toilet bowl cleaner.
I'm not sure what they should do, however, storing the opt out as a cookie, means that the person wishing to opt out will probably delete the cookie eventually. Not a very effective opt out system.
Works in Firefox also. I allow cookies to save for the session, except for a whitelist of about 10-20 sites. You could also disable them completely, except for your whitelist, but sometimes sites that don't work without cookies just act erratically, and don't let you know that you should enable cookies.
But it's not as simple as you put it. Let's say all my data was on the cloud. And I spend a 30 days writing up some code for a client. And I charged the client a rate of $1000 a day. Based on days*cost per day, I would get $30,000. But by losing all that data, I have lost much more. Maybe there was something in the contract (there should have been), stating that if I was late, I would have to lower the final price the client paid me, and not be paid for the additional days. What about all the other clients I promised work to, who's contracts I can't fulfill because I'm stuck having to rewrite the code I lost for the first client. Maybe that client no longer wants to deal with me for future projects. Maybe that client will tell a bunch of other potential clients how unreliable I am, and I will lose future clients. There's no easy way to figure out how much a single days work is actually worth. It seems in most cases, that the best "insurance" would be to create multiple backups, rather than trust your data to "the cloud".
That works well if your definition of a cloud is "webdav". But what about all the other cloud features, where whole applications are available on the cloud, and your data is actually manipulated by server side code? If we were just talking webdav here, backups would be a lot easier. But with many cloud offerings, there simply isn't a way to download all your data with one command. Also, for clouds that do offer applications, download just the files may not be enough, as you would have your files, but might not be able to manipulate them with the applications on the cloud.
The cloud changed my novel into a picture of a newt!