No, *nix is not weak in this regard, it is actually the power of *nix!
The old "it ain't a bug, it's a feature" excuse.
No, man. You are still missing the point. As somebody stated before, Unix's philosophy is "do one thing very well". The ls command is meant to do one thing: to list files and subdirectories. Period. That way, it's a tool that can be used by users and other tools without expecting more nor less. One of those tools is, precisely, your terminal.
So, ls is not guessing at all. It's doing its job very well. If you don't like the way it works, blame it to your terminal software. Go find or write your own "smart-the-alomex-way" terminal software. Personally, I prefer my terminal to behave the way it does. I just use "less", or my mouse wheel.
And by the way... this behavior is found in other OSes. Try a dir in an msdos prompt.
I know you are joking, but anyways, it's interesting to continue the discussion.
YYoouu rreeaadd iitt sslloowweerr because it's not a good analogy. A better analogy would be that we extend the alphabet by adding 26 times more symbols (26*26 = 676 symbols), so, in theory, we could cut the words half their current size, and thus, reading them faster.
But if I have to write the database product ITSELF from scratch, then I'm looking at literally YEARS of work before I ever even get to the point where I can start analyzing the data.
Dude, if it's not done yet, and you don't anything except complaining, that's not going to motivate people to solve the problem. Go hire a developer team to do it for you, and make millions selling the resulting product to others.
So when it detects that we make an "annoyed" face because a webpage takes ages to load, it pops up a message saying "I know. Meanwhile, let's play War Games".
talking over the phone, via e-mail is not as clear cut as body language.
I think that I can express myself better over the phone, thank you. Going to a club and using my body language while dancing could send the message "Hey, ladies, our children could be beaten up everyday at school!".
I found your comment very interesting, especially the part with the guy with the goggles.
However, let me clear things up a little bit. When you spin or walk and suddenly stop, and you feel your brain overcompensates is not due to sight but to the inner ear, where the "labyrinth", and its fluids that help us with orientation, resides.
Wow, man.... it might not be a big deal, but I understand those people who still stick to imperial units.
I mean, in Venezuela, where I live, I was born thinking in metric system units. Now, if the government declares that all of us must use brittish imperial units... that would be hard for me.
I like Canada... hasn't visited it yet, but according to everything I've heard about it, it has more resemblance with Europe than with the United States. And I liked Europeans, not caring that much about racism, and not violent at all (at least, most of them). I guess Canada is more or less like that.
A virus spreading using phones and PCs could be possible.
But there are many technical quirks to take into account, beginning with the fact that PCs and phones have different hardware architectures. A huge barrier.
I love Linux.. I got slackware 9.0, and it runs beautifully. However, I keep Windows XP lying around, and I have to admit it's never given me trouble. Just once, the PC was freezing as hell, but it was a dead fan cooler.
XP is very stable. Too bad is too insecure "by default".
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Hehe... oh, the irony!!
Thanks, man.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of comments pointing the mistyped word world in the article.
We'd get a Deep Blue!!
No, *nix is not weak in this regard, it is actually the power of *nix!
The old "it ain't a bug, it's a feature" excuse.
No, man. You are still missing the point. As somebody stated before, Unix's philosophy is "do one thing very well". The ls command is meant to do one thing: to list files and subdirectories. Period. That way, it's a tool that can be used by users and other tools without expecting more nor less. One of those tools is, precisely, your terminal.
So, ls is not guessing at all. It's doing its job very well. If you don't like the way it works, blame it to your terminal software. Go find or write your own "smart-the-alomex-way" terminal software. Personally, I prefer my terminal to behave the way it does. I just use "less", or my mouse wheel.
And by the way... this behavior is found in other OSes. Try a dir in an msdos prompt.
I know you are joking, but anyways, it's interesting to continue the discussion.
YYoouu rreeaadd iitt sslloowweerr because it's not a good analogy. A better analogy would be that we extend the alphabet by adding 26 times more symbols (26*26 = 676 symbols), so, in theory, we could cut the words half their current size, and thus, reading them faster.
But if I have to write the database product ITSELF from scratch, then I'm looking at literally YEARS of work before I ever even get to the point where I can start analyzing the data.
Dude, if it's not done yet, and you don't anything except complaining, that's not going to motivate people to solve the problem. Go hire a developer team to do it for you, and make millions selling the resulting product to others.
Millions of people, perhaps?
So when it detects that we make an "annoyed" face because a webpage takes ages to load, it pops up a message saying "I know. Meanwhile, let's play War Games".
There was this guy who promised to compete with his entry "Duke Nukem Forever Doomed", but he was taken away by black-suited guys.
talking over the phone, via e-mail is not as clear cut as body language.
I think that I can express myself better over the phone, thank you. Going to a club and using my body language while dancing could send the message "Hey, ladies, our children could be beaten up everyday at school!".
A better link here:
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20011102S0121.
I found your comment very interesting, especially the part with the guy with the goggles.
However, let me clear things up a little bit. When you spin or walk and suddenly stop, and you feel your brain overcompensates is not due to sight but to the inner ear, where the "labyrinth", and its fluids that help us with orientation, resides.
Another one who bites the media dust.
You refer to cracking. Hacking means knowing a system more than you need to. Enjoying it is optional.
It can't be that difficult to create a nice front end in whatever language/platform you choose.
Wow, man.... it might not be a big deal, but I understand those people who still stick to imperial units.
I mean, in Venezuela, where I live, I was born thinking in metric system units. Now, if the government declares that all of us must use brittish imperial units... that would be hard for me.
I like Canada... hasn't visited it yet, but according to everything I've heard about it, it has more resemblance with Europe than with the United States. And I liked Europeans, not caring that much about racism, and not violent at all (at least, most of them). I guess Canada is more or less like that.
Cheers!
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Thanks!
Thank you for this link!!!
It's soooo funny and brilliant!!!!
A virus spreading using phones and PCs could be possible.
But there are many technical quirks to take into account, beginning with the fact that PCs and phones have different hardware architectures. A huge barrier.
When can we expect a Duke Nukem Forever port on one of these things???
Music will always live.
What is dying is the way big record companies make business (I know.. it's not disappeating any time soon, but anyways, it's dying slowly).
But around the world there will always be people willing to make music, perform music and freely share music.
But how can we to actually get there? ;)
Thank you.
When can one expect for this baby to drop prices?
Maybe be it's a hardware problem.
I love Linux.. I got slackware 9.0, and it runs beautifully. However, I keep Windows XP lying around, and I have to admit it's never given me trouble. Just once, the PC was freezing as hell, but it was a dead fan cooler.
XP is very stable. Too bad is too insecure "by default".
Feel free to criticize after you RTFM.
Feel free to actually read the fucking posting before you criticize.
The Ctrl+ENTER he's referring to is very useful in Mozilla... it will open the URL in a new tab. In firefox, you just can't do this.
I haven't tried it myself, but entering "slashdot.org" will try to fetch www.slashdot.org.com when typing Ctrl+Enter? Give me a break.
Dude... thanks for the link, but it's better if others can click on it:
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~tzer-jen/zbochs/.
Oh, the laziness ;-)