Sorry, but that just sounds like the comment of somebody who uses the commandline. And, with current filesystems, you can do just that, give no extension and access files by passing them as arguments to your programs.
However, for people who are used to GUIs, it's a very nice optional shortcut to be able to click on a file and have it automatically opened by something. What's your problem again?
Third, slightly more complicated regular expressions are better than accidentally obliterating files because you copied some with names differing only in capitalization.
Erm, surely the point is that it's better to use a filesystem that doesn't LET you have files with names differing only in capitalization in the first place.
Why would you want to switch TO a case-sensitive filesystem? Could somebody actually tell me that? It seems like only Linux has it by default because when Unix (which it was based on) was written, they hadn't thought of anything better.
In my experience, all case sensitivity does is make filenames look uglier because people end up writing eveyhting in lowercase to avoid mistakes. Are you REALLY going to have a 'Data2' and a 'data2' in the same directory? If so, I suggest you redesign your application.
The greatest value of humanity isn't our genes and our biological qualities. It's the stuff we've created, and the things we've discovered that are really worthwhile.
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One time I threw a brick at a duck.
Clearly, what we've discovered will bring huge benefits to future species in their fields of duck research.
But the uni example you gave was perfect. Go to europe and get cheap higher education. Go to the US and get the best higher education in the world. Take your pick.
But then if you don't get a job after your US education, you're left with $50000+ of debt and go bankrupt. Not everyone is able to get high paying, high flying jobs. If you're OK with that, fine, but I think it's a rather inhumane and primal attitude.
I believe that charities and non-profits are a much better means to that end, and that they should get standing as such from the government for tax purposes.
You seem to be forgetting that many charities are very inefficient. People here are quite annoyed at how much was wasted on 'wages' for charity workers when they donated toward the DEC to help with the Indonesian tsunami.
get out on that campaign trail, educate the fat cats as to the long term harm you see
Hi Mr. Fat Cat, you know, that mouse and cream would really benefit society MUCH more in the long term if you shared them out, you know.
Face it, the only way to cut down on fatcats is to remove their money and power by FORCE. Then put a system in place that, whilst still capitalist, has a lot more power to prevent people getting uber-wealthy. For the good of society.
I sound like a socialist, but i'm still right wing by most European standards.
Wow. You have the gall to say that at a time when the Bush administration is taking funding away from NASA and it's over 30 years since a US person has set foot on another planet or moon?
I, on the other hand, have been helped enormously by IRC. Nothing like going on IRC to get a quick answer (usually even useful!) when you're having trouble with Linux, programming, HTML/CSS, etc. People always seem to think I know lots about computers, but I'm not that intelligent, really. I just harvest the power of IRCers.:-)
There's nothing inherently difficult about making a severed finger or removed eye show lifesigns, from pulse to micromovements to blinking.
Ehhhh?? This is a very bizarre statement to make. So, you've chopped someone's finger off and there's blood everywhere. It's pretty much all leaked out of the finger. How exactly do you use this in the next 30 minutes to purchase something, without suspicion, whilst making blood pump through it?
This might seem an obvious point, but wouldn't the cashier probably notice you holding up a fake finger to the device? I guess you could make a latex thimble with the faked print on instead.
Well I won't be doing that just yet, only having 256kb upload bandwidth.:-) My post was really about hoping for more in the future. The real problem I'm seeing is not at the customers' ends, but in the middle. The general internet bandwidth. Especially if they start removing net neutrality, and relegate backups that don't conform to any 'important' data type (eg. VoIP) to being given a very low priority. That's the bottleneck.
I don't really think that argument washes. You can have a wireless router that has a pretty weak signal that basically extends to the geographical area of your coffee shop's outside area (I'm assuming this is outside). The person has to be in close vicinity to use it then. It becomes a bit like someone coming along and sitting at one of your tables to eat their sandwich. Are you gonna call 911 over that?? The police _would_ tell you where to go.
Sod that, I already have a removable PATA drive housing that would do. What I don't have is a close enough offsite storage location that I could get to on a weekly basis.
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Sorry, but that just sounds like the comment of somebody who uses the commandline. And, with current filesystems, you can do just that, give no extension and access files by passing them as arguments to your programs.
However, for people who are used to GUIs, it's a very nice optional shortcut to be able to click on a file and have it automatically opened by something. What's your problem again?
Third, slightly more complicated regular expressions are better than accidentally obliterating files because you copied some with names differing only in capitalization.
Erm, surely the point is that it's better to use a filesystem that doesn't LET you have files with names differing only in capitalization in the first place.
Why would you want to switch TO a case-sensitive filesystem? Could somebody actually tell me that? It seems like only Linux has it by default because when Unix (which it was based on) was written, they hadn't thought of anything better.
In my experience, all case sensitivity does is make filenames look uglier because people end up writing eveyhting in lowercase to avoid mistakes. Are you REALLY going to have a 'Data2' and a 'data2' in the same directory? If so, I suggest you redesign your application.
The greatest value of humanity isn't our genes and our biological qualities. It's the stuff we've created, and the things we've discovered that are really worthwhile.
--
One time I threw a brick at a duck.
Clearly, what we've discovered will bring huge benefits to future species in their fields of duck research.
Dunno what UK you've been to, but in my UK we do things the US way. 1,000,000,000 is almost always a billion.
The Waltons, owners of WAL*MART.
But the uni example you gave was perfect. Go to europe and get cheap higher education. Go to the US and get the best higher education in the world. Take your pick.
But then if you don't get a job after your US education, you're left with $50000+ of debt and go bankrupt. Not everyone is able to get high paying, high flying jobs. If you're OK with that, fine, but I think it's a rather inhumane and primal attitude.
I believe that charities and non-profits are a much better means to that end, and that they should get standing as such from the government for tax purposes.
You seem to be forgetting that many charities are very inefficient. People here are quite annoyed at how much was wasted on 'wages' for charity workers when they donated toward the DEC to help with the Indonesian tsunami.
get out on that campaign trail, educate the fat cats as to the long term harm you see
Hi Mr. Fat Cat, you know, that mouse and cream would really benefit society MUCH more in the long term if you shared them out, you know.
Face it, the only way to cut down on fatcats is to remove their money and power by FORCE. Then put a system in place that, whilst still capitalist, has a lot more power to prevent people getting uber-wealthy. For the good of society.
I sound like a socialist, but i'm still right wing by most European standards.
Wow. You have the gall to say that at a time when the Bush administration is taking funding away from NASA and it's over 30 years since a US person has set foot on another planet or moon?
As an adult, you're complex enough to tell the difference between good sushi and bad.
Yeah, the same way as I'm complex enough to tell the difference between good E.coli and bad E.coli.
I, on the other hand, have been helped enormously by IRC. Nothing like going on IRC to get a quick answer (usually even useful!) when you're having trouble with Linux, programming, HTML/CSS, etc. People always seem to think I know lots about computers, but I'm not that intelligent, really. I just harvest the power of IRCers. :-)
Wow, is that miserly. How could anyone get by on $10,000,000?
There's nothing inherently difficult about making a severed finger or removed eye show lifesigns, from pulse to micromovements to blinking.
Ehhhh?? This is a very bizarre statement to make. So, you've chopped someone's finger off and there's blood everywhere. It's pretty much all leaked out of the finger. How exactly do you use this in the next 30 minutes to purchase something, without suspicion, whilst making blood pump through it?
This might seem an obvious point, but wouldn't the cashier probably notice you holding up a fake finger to the device? I guess you could make a latex thimble with the faked print on instead.
Much easier to extend this to be a blanket tax on all net communications.
I'm a Canadian, and my back was merged with another
That's gotta hurt.
The death of privacy is GOOD. The only people that care about it are the ones who shouldn't be doing what they're doing ANYWAY.
:-P)
Quite. Now I want you to post videos of yourself masturbating and/or having sex.
(no i'm not gay
governments should [...] start [...] killing
Barbarian.
Is there a better equivalent to the latest version of DirectX?
Well I won't be doing that just yet, only having 256kb upload bandwidth. :-) My post was really about hoping for more in the future. The real problem I'm seeing is not at the customers' ends, but in the middle. The general internet bandwidth. Especially if they start removing net neutrality, and relegate backups that don't conform to any 'important' data type (eg. VoIP) to being given a very low priority. That's the bottleneck.
The guy was outside, however. Imagine the person has, in fact, just come and sat at one of your outside tables. Your argument is weakened.
I don't really think that argument washes. You can have a wireless router that has a pretty weak signal that basically extends to the geographical area of your coffee shop's outside area (I'm assuming this is outside). The person has to be in close vicinity to use it then. It becomes a bit like someone coming along and sitting at one of your tables to eat their sandwich. Are you gonna call 911 over that?? The police _would_ tell you where to go.
Maxthon keeps the formatting the way the page author intended so there's nothing unexpected when it is rendered.
No it doesn't. It removes the ad. (speaking as a webmaster here)
Sod that, I already have a removable PATA drive housing that would do. What I don't have is a close enough offsite storage location that I could get to on a weekly basis.