I hate to break it to you, but bash sucks. Some of the features in this sparse little abstract sound really nice. Exporting a list command to spreadsheets,.NET objects, etc, beats the hell out of obscure ls | grep {'jibber $!9)20 jabber'} commands.
Who need's another shell?
Tell that to the unix nerds. bash, ksh, csh, perl, python, tcl, etc etc etc...
You can do WinFS filtering through the "|" symbol. MONAD can also export natively to: HTML, XML, Excel, or plain command text in either a Table or List format.
Sure beats the hell out of using obscure grep commands to parse a blob of ascii.
And....the commandlets are developer friendly. You can make a commandlet by inheriting from the commandlet base class, and adding attribute tags to the public properties to make them parameters to the commandlet..NET handles whether the user types "-?" or "/?", so you don't have to care anymore!
Sounds pretty easy for a developer to extend.
This is a good thing for MS to do. The slashbots are always whining about how MS takes standards and breaks them for it's own gain. Rather than taint your precious bash or perl, they started from scratch.
Anyone who wants to do a bit of scripting on Windows has vbscript, javascript, perl, tcl/tk, and a plethora of other options.
This is going to be for headless servers. So you can ssh into a box and administer it remotely, or through a dumb terminal on a serial port, etc, etc..
There's no good reason your mailserver or each machine in your SQL Server farm needs a GUI.
After the hippie bum rush against detroit, compact and economy cars were all the rage. They got smaller and smaller. To drive a full sized sedan, after all, was to spit in mother natures face.
Now, people are realizing that the gas mileage between a compact and a full sized car is negligible (it's also negligible compared to an SUV), and all the tiny cars do for you is increase your chances of dying exponentially. The safest passenger vehicle on the road is a full sized car. So they're going back to normal.
Of course, theres the rebound of the Mini, and the hundreds of asian miniature cars, if you really want to face down a bus on the highway in a pop can.
In short, people dont want small cars. People want to seat four or more comfortably, and have enough trunk space for their luggage.
Sounds to me like you're a Mac fan who's peeved that CR didnt gush and laud praise on your beloved.
CR just gives the facts.
Some see cheap details like that being missing as indicitive of a cheap product with every corner cut. If they're too cheap to spring for a $0.0025 LED, what else might be missing?
It's up to you whether or not you care if the eMac has a HDD activity light. CR is just reporting what's there.
Do you think if Intel sends toms hardware a new CPU to review, they don't test the hell out of it to make sure they send the best one possible - the one that can be overclocked the furthest?
Wouldn't you, if in Intels shoes?
I was burned by this when I bought the first run of the Asus P4S8X motherboard. Review sites like toms were talking about this board being the cats ass, stable as a rock.
However, the first runs of the retail version were garbage.
They had a different clock gen, a different stepping on the 648 northbridge chip, and were unstable at stock settings - myself and tons of folks were pissed. The released a bios update "fix" that underclocked the system, running DDR333 at 266 (though the bios said 333 benchmarks confirmed the real performance).
Anyways, the point is, the super mega ultra board that was reviewed was NOT what was shipped to customers. It was as simple as comparing photos in the reviews to the board to see that.
To me, the fault is the reviewers. They should go down to best buy and grab the same retail box I would.
To me, getting free booty to review == paid endorsement. I lend them as much credibility as I do John Stamos' on 1010-987.
First off, this thing is going to cost a bazillion dollars, and will be a "commercial beta" product for years.. They'll sell them, but theres still a ton of work to improve the thing.
So who would buy one? Someone with lots of cash - the DoD.. You wanna sell to the DoD, you have to show how it will fight terrorism.. It's just the way things are selling to the government.
I work writing code for public safety systems - records and dispatching for cops. We did a search and replace on all our marketing literature, replacing "gang member" with "terrorist".
I don't like seing "terrorist" being morphed into the buzzword du jour, it lessens its value to the point the word will be meaningless soon enough. Like "racist". The word "racist" has been thrown around so much that it doesnt mean anything. Bush is a racist, Clinton was a racist, Jesse Jackson is racist, Phil down the street is racist, N'Sync - all racists. Bleah..
And they claim they should be able to speed it up to 1 minute per scan..
Think about that, even at one minute per scan... Compared to the billions of pieces of mail that go through the system on any given day, or the thousands of travellers at an airport, and their luggage..
Just doesn't seem practical. Looks like the dogs will remain the drug detection instrument of choice for some time.
I used to have one of his collections, and there was a big intro written by Larson, talking about his ups and downs cartooning, and some funny anecdotes..
The best one involved the cartoon where a bunch of ants are standing outside the anthill holding a baby, while one screams "You idiots! We'll never get that thing down the hole!"
Apparantly when he first submitted the cartoon, the ants were carrying a grown man. It was rejected as being too macabre and grotesque. Just for grins he redrew it with a baby, and it was accepted..
Another story talked about the "William Tell's unfortunate other son" cartoon, where a kid with an enormous head with a tiny apple on top says "c'mon pop! shoot the apple!"... It got him sued by some Hydrocephelacy (sp?) orginization - the disease that makes your skull grow abnormally large..
There was the "what dogs dream about" cartoon, where millions wrote him to ask "Why is that dog humping that car?"..
In all, the anecdotes were much more entertaining than the comics themselves, of which I find 1 in 100 funny..
Far Side is no Family Circus, but it's pretty good. Notme and Ida Know! ahhahah
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Once upon a time you could expect to work in the same place for 20 years. It used to be called job security.
What exactly is wrong with that? What if you like being a (whatever), and actually like what you do?
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Good for you.
YOU signed up for ameicorps. YOU take coursework. That's YOUR time. If you worked for someone else, you wouldn't have that time.
As this becomes the "norm" in society, people are forced more and more to work beyond what they should as it's expected.
Don't like 60 hours a week? OK, fine, quit, and guess what? EVERYONE ELSE EXPECTS 60 hours a week too.
Go find a job anywhere in IT (since that's what slashbots know) that doesn't expect you to work 60 hours a week (at least) for 40 hours pay.
If you want to work 40 hours a week, and have time left over for school, family, whatever - society looks at you as if you're lazy of incapable. That perception needs to change. The PHB needs to understand that my kids are a whole fuck of a lot more important than he or the Johnson account are.
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It's my call huh?
Yeah I'll just get rid of the children. That's the ticket.
The problem is, in a nutshell, that the true cost of living has gone through the roof, but pays havent.
And I don't mean the "cost of living" that PHBs quote. Thats fucking fantasyland cost of living. My boss tells me a cost of living increase is 3%, so I should be just elated with my 5% raise - as if I was an idiot.
Meanwhile, my property taxes jacked my mortgage up 15%, gasoline went up 20%, etc, etc...
So you wind up working harder and harder year after year for what is ulitmately less and less money, and a lower and lower standard of living.
I wish it was my choice. It's not, it's a scam perpetrated on every working stiff in the country.
BTW, backpacking around the world or living in a raft offshore is not "improving the quality of my life" any more than sleeping in a van down by the river is.
Have you seen the checkout counter at Best Buy, EB or CompUSA lately? There's a ton of freebie/demo stuff there. PS2 demo discs for 2 bucks. Game soundtracks for 2 or 3 bucks. Playable demos, AOL discs..
So stick your MMORPG there for a buck or two.
Though anyone who would play it would have no problem downloading it.
It's greed. They want 50 bucks from you even if you decide it sucks after the first 10 minutes and never sign up.
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you can use perl, tcl, python as a shell if you want
/bin/perl
why anyone would is beyond me, but go ahead and add a user and set the default shell to
Good point!
Unix services for windows has korn shell and c shell, NFS, all kinds of goodies.
Why do all the microsoft bashers here know so little about any of it's products? Or linux for that matter, there is no one "Unix shell".
This shell sounds really cool. And it's just a matter of time before someone "liberates" it and releases a GNU version of it.
I hate to break it to you, but bash sucks. Some of the features in this sparse little abstract sound really nice. Exporting a list command to spreadsheets, .NET objects, etc, beats the hell out of obscure ls | grep {'jibber $!9)20 jabber'} commands.
Who need's another shell?
Tell that to the unix nerds. bash, ksh, csh, perl, python, tcl, etc etc etc...
You can do WinFS filtering through the "|" symbol. MONAD can also export natively to: HTML, XML, Excel, or plain command text in either a Table or List format.
.NET handles whether the user types "-?" or "/?", so you don't have to care anymore!
Sure beats the hell out of using obscure grep commands to parse a blob of ascii.
And....the commandlets are developer friendly. You can make a commandlet by inheriting from the commandlet base class, and adding attribute tags to the public properties to make them parameters to the commandlet.
Sounds pretty easy for a developer to extend.
This is a good thing for MS to do. The slashbots are always whining about how MS takes standards and breaks them for it's own gain. Rather than taint your precious bash or perl, they started from scratch.
Anyone who wants to do a bit of scripting on Windows has vbscript, javascript, perl, tcl/tk, and a plethora of other options.
This is going to be for headless servers. So you can ssh into a box and administer it remotely, or through a dumb terminal on a serial port, etc, etc..
There's no good reason your mailserver or each machine in your SQL Server farm needs a GUI.
Anymore newsworthy than the 66th, 64th, 63rd anniversaries?
I can see 50, 75.. Nice round numbers. Or the centennial anniversary, 100.. I'll even go so far as the 69th anniversary.
But what's so special about the 65th anniversary?
This isn't news, this is a lame segment for "this week in history".
Cars bigger and bigger?
After the hippie bum rush against detroit, compact and economy cars were all the rage. They got smaller and smaller. To drive a full sized sedan, after all, was to spit in mother natures face.
Now, people are realizing that the gas mileage between a compact and a full sized car is negligible (it's also negligible compared to an SUV), and all the tiny cars do for you is increase your chances of dying exponentially. The safest passenger vehicle on the road is a full sized car. So they're going back to normal.
Of course, theres the rebound of the Mini, and the hundreds of asian miniature cars, if you really want to face down a bus on the highway in a pop can.
In short, people dont want small cars. People want to seat four or more comfortably, and have enough trunk space for their luggage.
Sounds to me like you're a Mac fan who's peeved that CR didnt gush and laud praise on your beloved.
CR just gives the facts.
Some see cheap details like that being missing as indicitive of a cheap product with every corner cut. If they're too cheap to spring for a $0.0025 LED, what else might be missing?
It's up to you whether or not you care if the eMac has a HDD activity light. CR is just reporting what's there.
Do you think if Intel sends toms hardware a new CPU to review, they don't test the hell out of it to make sure they send the best one possible - the one that can be overclocked the furthest?
Wouldn't you, if in Intels shoes?
I was burned by this when I bought the first run of the Asus P4S8X motherboard. Review sites like toms were talking about this board being the cats ass, stable as a rock.
However, the first runs of the retail version were garbage.
They had a different clock gen, a different stepping on the 648 northbridge chip, and were unstable at stock settings - myself and tons of folks were pissed. The released a bios update "fix" that underclocked the system, running DDR333 at 266 (though the bios said 333 benchmarks confirmed the real performance).
Anyways, the point is, the super mega ultra board that was reviewed was NOT what was shipped to customers. It was as simple as comparing photos in the reviews to the board to see that.
To me, the fault is the reviewers. They should go down to best buy and grab the same retail box I would.
To me, getting free booty to review == paid endorsement. I lend them as much credibility as I do John Stamos' on 1010-987.
This is the copyright office, not a judges ruling.
A judge can overrule the copyright office, they just loooove doing stuff like that.
Y'know - the same judges who tried to kill the do not call list.
Such is the system of checks and balances.
It's a DSP, not a CPU.
Stream comes in one end, chip does some magical shit to it, stream comes out the other end..
Like your mp3 player - raw data goes in one end of the DSP, gets decoded into audio, then sent off to the D/A converter for your listening pleasure.
So this can handle larger/faster streams and do more to them.
First off, this thing is going to cost a bazillion dollars, and will be a "commercial beta" product for years.. They'll sell them, but theres still a ton of work to improve the thing.
So who would buy one? Someone with lots of cash - the DoD.. You wanna sell to the DoD, you have to show how it will fight terrorism.. It's just the way things are selling to the government.
I work writing code for public safety systems - records and dispatching for cops. We did a search and replace on all our marketing literature, replacing "gang member" with "terrorist".
I don't like seing "terrorist" being morphed into the buzzword du jour, it lessens its value to the point the word will be meaningless soon enough. Like "racist". The word "racist" has been thrown around so much that it doesnt mean anything. Bush is a racist, Clinton was a racist, Jesse Jackson is racist, Phil down the street is racist, N'Sync - all racists. Bleah..
But thats just how politics work.
taxing it == profit
but
while (civil_forfeiture.profit > tax.profit)
{
citizens_property.sieze;
citizens_property.sell;
}
And they claim they should be able to speed it up to 1 minute per scan..
Think about that, even at one minute per scan... Compared to the billions of pieces of mail that go through the system on any given day, or the thousands of travellers at an airport, and their luggage..
Just doesn't seem practical. Looks like the dogs will remain the drug detection instrument of choice for some time.
Just like blowing up a balloon!
Of course!
Considering your odds of getting carjacked, held for ransom, and then murdered in the name of Allah in Pakistan are about 1:1, I'm all for it.
If I had to go to Pakistan, then the more people on my side watching me 24/7 the better.
Fuck privacy. I'd be saying, "if you lose sight of me for more than 5 seconds, drop the fucking hammer!"
I remember a really old, really obscure reference in Disney's Darkwing Duck..
There were two scientists, drawn like all the scientists in Far Side were, and named "Dr Gary" and "Dr Larson".
I used to have one of his collections, and there was a big intro written by Larson, talking about his ups and downs cartooning, and some funny anecdotes..
The best one involved the cartoon where a bunch of ants are standing outside the anthill holding a baby, while one screams "You idiots! We'll never get that thing down the hole!"
Apparantly when he first submitted the cartoon, the ants were carrying a grown man. It was rejected as being too macabre and grotesque. Just for grins he redrew it with a baby, and it was accepted..
Another story talked about the "William Tell's unfortunate other son" cartoon, where a kid with an enormous head with a tiny apple on top says "c'mon pop! shoot the apple!"... It got him sued by some Hydrocephelacy (sp?) orginization - the disease that makes your skull grow abnormally large..
There was the "what dogs dream about" cartoon, where millions wrote him to ask "Why is that dog humping that car?"..
In all, the anecdotes were much more entertaining than the comics themselves, of which I find 1 in 100 funny..
Far Side is no Family Circus, but it's pretty good. Notme and Ida Know! ahhahah
Look at me, Doctor Zoidberg, Homeowner!
- Simpsons, Season 4, Ep 2
http://www.amazon.com/blahblah/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/b lahblah
is that not the referrer tag?
Once upon a time you could expect to work in the same place for 20 years. It used to be called job security.
What exactly is wrong with that? What if you like being a (whatever), and actually like what you do?
Good for you.
YOU signed up for ameicorps. YOU take coursework. That's YOUR time. If you worked for someone else, you wouldn't have that time.
As this becomes the "norm" in society, people are forced more and more to work beyond what they should as it's expected.
Don't like 60 hours a week? OK, fine, quit, and guess what? EVERYONE ELSE EXPECTS 60 hours a week too.
Go find a job anywhere in IT (since that's what slashbots know) that doesn't expect you to work 60 hours a week (at least) for 40 hours pay.
If you want to work 40 hours a week, and have time left over for school, family, whatever - society looks at you as if you're lazy of incapable. That perception needs to change. The PHB needs to understand that my kids are a whole fuck of a lot more important than he or the Johnson account are.
It's my call huh?
Yeah I'll just get rid of the children. That's the ticket.
The problem is, in a nutshell, that the true cost of living has gone through the roof, but pays havent.
And I don't mean the "cost of living" that PHBs quote. Thats fucking fantasyland cost of living. My boss tells me a cost of living increase is 3%, so I should be just elated with my 5% raise - as if I was an idiot.
Meanwhile, my property taxes jacked my mortgage up 15%, gasoline went up 20%, etc, etc...
So you wind up working harder and harder year after year for what is ulitmately less and less money, and a lower and lower standard of living.
I wish it was my choice. It's not, it's a scam perpetrated on every working stiff in the country.
BTW, backpacking around the world or living in a raft offshore is not "improving the quality of my life" any more than sleeping in a van down by the river is.
All a MMORPG is is a chatroom with fancy graphics.
I've never gotten the point. They're so boring. And IRC is free.
And Efnet has better characters than any developer could come up with.
Have you seen the checkout counter at Best Buy, EB or CompUSA lately? There's a ton of freebie/demo stuff there. PS2 demo discs for 2 bucks. Game soundtracks for 2 or 3 bucks. Playable demos, AOL discs..
So stick your MMORPG there for a buck or two.
Though anyone who would play it would have no problem downloading it.
It's greed. They want 50 bucks from you even if you decide it sucks after the first 10 minutes and never sign up.