This is a good moment to mention. Doesn't the slippery slope deserves more respect?
I mean, I understand that logically it does not follow that taking some steps towards an undesirable result necessarily mean we will go all the way to that undesirable result. But wouldn't you say that, under some conditions, it can be useful as an heuristic criteria?
Actually Windows XP makes it next to impossible to use the computer except as administrator. I just tried to do that in a new SP3 install and it's a nightmare. For most tasks there is no automatic gksudo, not even for the clock applet, run as administrator is not easy by default you need a 3rd party tool an even that only helps you if you run as admin from the begining, there is no way to make aadministration programs request for your password.
The straw that broke the camel's back was that I could browser an external USB HDD without administrator privileges, why? WHY?
I just changed the account into a administrator one and now I can do some real life work on it.
The greatest danger to Linux's success is not Microsoft. It's the hubris of many Linux developers, users, and advocates, who are too busy disavowing responsibility and blaming everybody else to fix real user's problems
Unlike Microsoft who takes all responsibility from any malfunction in its softw--Oh that's right the EULA crowd never does.
Come on, no Ubuntu LTS uses ext4 by default, nor Debian stable, nor OpenBSD AFAIK.
When you are dealing with the bleeding edge its normal for things to break. This is not disavowing responsibility, its fixing the problem where the problem is.
One could argue runover latin was NOT ok, that's why they invented spaces.
Kana is written smashed together because any significant white space would need to be as wide as a regular kanji, that's huge, kana is squared because kanji is squared, without kanji kana could be made slender and spaces would become possible.
That's never going to happen of course but I get the feeling that if manga was available in romaji, instead of japanese only or translation only. Spoken Japanese would spread very fast.
But teaching with romaji is taboo. One is supposed to learn kanji from day one. Of course you are also learning handwriting, pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary from day one the barrier to entry is huge!
The kana are actually very easy to learn. What about japanese romaji for an international language?
Hepburn obviously because its prettier (and I'm suck with it). We can call it Romajigo, would context suffice to replace kanji recognition? Most languages seem to do fine without them.
No, I agree airport food is expensive and not worth it, specially considering sanitary risks.
I too thought of the restrooms and agree that if people were given a choice of restrooms or WiFi people would always take restrooms. Not so sure about food. I for once wouldn't mind if they were gone, I've only eaten in a airport once. Most of the time its better to just have a drink.
Granted, but conjugating a verb is easier than guessing how a word is written although today's mostly written conversations make that mostly irrelevant.
Actually English has been in dire need of a huge spelling reform for the last 500 years. America has spawned a couple reform projects but all have been miserable failures.
I really lament that a language like English became the international lingua franca, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese or just plain old Latin or even Greek were better options.
Yes I understand English speakers earned that place, but English itself didn't.
Somehow I get the feeling that the next lingua franca could be Japanese because of how much exposure and cultural influence it has gotten lately. I mean, I now know what a burakumin is!
The singularity will eat us before that happens tho...
Oh, I have to add that documenting said task objects involved inserting screenshots of the creation process, as well as a light version of how to change the server just in case the client needed to.
Are you implying that GUI task...icon thingies don't need to be documented? Please, I had to document them as well or nobody else would even know they were there.
Yes scripts aren't the only way to automate things but we are programmers! they are the natural way for us! And it is the most flexible way too, Enterprise Manager had a bazillion options but still felt about as flexible as a surf table.
I'm not saying it's not an viable tool, but it's not something I'll choose a database over.
I had to work with MS SQL for almost two years for a living and used enterprise manager daily and I have to say that I was terribly unimpressed. Granted, I didn't use all of it's features, but it largely struck me as a clutch around the incompetence of its users.
The most impressive uses I saw for it was using it to pipe data to another server and scheduling backups. In Linux I could do both with cron/python or simple mysql scripts or a web service and apache etc.
Enterprise manager is essentially another "programming by gui" tool for people who can't use a command line or write scripts who surprisingly --considering they are programmers-- constitute the majority of my coworkers, except for a java guy (a solaris fan) and a php guy (another linux fan).
Needless to say we used to run circles around the other developers, and I am a lazy ass slacker.
The Nintendo cult is string here. And most popular games elsewhere are also popular here. People are simply not gonna buy a console that doesn't let them play Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Halo, Metal Gear, Final Fantasy, Spore or Grand Thief auto.
The only way this console can be popular is if it play games from already popular consoles, preferentially pirated.
Actually if this thing played pirated DS games it WILL sell like hot burritos*. But that's not gonna happen.
Did I mention that there's a very popular type of burrito here named 'pirata'?
Yeah - ridiculous for a cyborg, but awesome for me. I can't tell you how useful it would be for me if, when somebody walked up to me at a party, I received the following tips on my head's-up:
* Name: John * Relationship: Husband of wife's co-worker * How well known?: Talked 3 times informally * Drink/Smoke: Y/N * Topics to avoid: Christian (fanatic), Janet (knocking her off behind wife's back) * Suggested topics: MMA/UFC, Italian food
Would save me a lot of awkward conversation lulls.
My desktop works fine and I don't change settings by CLI, but the problem of legacy and niche apps is real, people expect to run their windows programs in linux and linux ports are unrealistic expectations.
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Swahili makes for a kick ass high compression language then.
This is a good moment to mention. Doesn't the slippery slope deserves more respect?
I mean, I understand that logically it does not follow that taking some steps towards an undesirable result necessarily mean we will go all the way to that undesirable result. But wouldn't you say that, under some conditions, it can be useful as an heuristic criteria?
Run as Administrator by default?
Actually Windows XP makes it next to impossible to use the computer except as administrator. I just tried to do that in a new SP3 install and it's a nightmare. For most tasks there is no automatic gksudo, not even for the clock applet, run as administrator is not easy by default you need a 3rd party tool an even that only helps you if you run as admin from the begining, there is no way to make aadministration programs request for your password.
The straw that broke the camel's back was that I could browser an external USB HDD without administrator privileges, why? WHY?
I just changed the account into a administrator one and now I can do some real life work on it.
AFAIK BSDs can be run on top any fs including ext4 yet not by defaut.
The solution is to give up on science and rely on religion, Ray Comfort is a geniusa and Kevin Hovind was right all along! </sarcasm>
Unlike Microsoft who takes all responsibility from any malfunction in its softw--Oh that's right the EULA crowd never does.
Come on, no Ubuntu LTS uses ext4 by default, nor Debian stable, nor OpenBSD AFAIK.
When you are dealing with the bleeding edge its normal for things to break. This is not disavowing responsibility, its fixing the problem where the problem is.
One could argue runover latin was NOT ok, that's why they invented spaces.
Kana is written smashed together because any significant white space would need to be as wide as a regular kanji, that's huge, kana is squared because kanji is squared, without kanji kana could be made slender and spaces would become possible.
That's never going to happen of course but I get the feeling that if manga was available in romaji, instead of japanese only or translation only. Spoken Japanese would spread very fast.
But teaching with romaji is taboo. One is supposed to learn kanji from day one. Of course you are also learning handwriting, pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary from day one the barrier to entry is huge!
No kidding! Lacrosse is hardcore[WS]!
The kana are actually very easy to learn. What about japanese romaji for an international language?
Hepburn obviously because its prettier (and I'm suck with it). We can call it Romajigo, would context suffice to replace kanji recognition? Most languages seem to do fine without them.
Sore-wa omoshiroi da yo ne? tanoshi da yo nee?
This should be tagged iamlegend, tvirus and of course whatcouldpossiblygowrong. Damn all taken already!
As a Python, Javascript and PHP programmer, you would think I lean to the Algol style of programming yet I find C brittleness unbearable.
I don't know any Lisp but I was tough C at college and Lisp still looks more readable than C and it's micromanaging tendencies.
I'm pretty sure a Lisp 101 would teach me to write Lisp as good as C in less than a semester.
In short, I don't think the availability of C programmers and scarcity of Lisp programmers is due to Lisp being harder than C is it?
And if it is, how is it? What's so easy about C? What so hard about Lisp?
No, I agree airport food is expensive and not worth it, specially considering sanitary risks.
I too thought of the restrooms and agree that if people were given a choice of restrooms or WiFi people would always take restrooms. Not so sure about food. I for once wouldn't mind if they were gone, I've only eaten in a airport once. Most of the time its better to just have a drink.
Granted, but conjugating a verb is easier than guessing how a word is written although today's mostly written conversations make that mostly irrelevant.
I don't think German verbs are that hard though.
Actually English has been in dire need of a huge spelling reform for the last 500 years. America has spawned a couple reform projects but all have been miserable failures.
I really lament that a language like English became the international lingua franca, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese or just plain old Latin or even Greek were better options.
Yes I understand English speakers earned that place, but English itself didn't.
Somehow I get the feeling that the next lingua franca could be Japanese because of how much exposure and cultural influence it has gotten lately. I mean, I now know what a burakumin is!
The singularity will eat us before that happens tho ...
Then why aren't you speaking proto-indo-european? Languages change and you *know* that troll, the moderators are on crack today.
Oh, I have to add that documenting said task objects involved inserting screenshots of the creation process, as well as a light version of how to change the server just in case the client needed to.
Are you implying that GUI task...icon thingies don't need to be documented? Please, I had to document them as well or nobody else would even know they were there.
Yes scripts aren't the only way to automate things but we are programmers! they are the natural way for us! And it is the most flexible way too, Enterprise Manager had a bazillion options but still felt about as flexible as a surf table.
I'm not saying it's not an viable tool, but it's not something I'll choose a database over.
(And really, who gives a !@#% about that scenario?)
Why sqlite of course! And they are unbeatable in that niche.
I had to work with MS SQL for almost two years for a living and used enterprise manager daily and I have to say that I was terribly unimpressed. Granted, I didn't use all of it's features, but it largely struck me as a clutch around the incompetence of its users.
The most impressive uses I saw for it was using it to pipe data to another server and scheduling backups. In Linux I could do both with cron/python or simple mysql scripts or a web service and apache etc.
Enterprise manager is essentially another "programming by gui" tool for people who can't use a command line or write scripts who surprisingly --considering they are programmers-- constitute the majority of my coworkers, except for a java guy (a solaris fan) and a php guy (another linux fan).
Needless to say we used to run circles around the other developers, and I am a lazy ass slacker.
This is going to fail, hard.
The Nintendo cult is string here. And most popular games elsewhere are also popular here. People are simply not gonna buy a console that doesn't let them play Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Halo, Metal Gear, Final Fantasy, Spore or Grand Thief auto.
The only way this console can be popular is if it play games from already popular consoles, preferentially pirated.
Actually if this thing played pirated DS games it WILL sell like hot burritos*. But that's not gonna happen.
Did I mention that there's a very popular type of burrito here named 'pirata'?
I'd mod you -1 Lack of common sense.
Logic should never be violated but logic without information of the real world is empty and useless.
That Cory Doctorow runs one of the most popular blogs in the web makes him relevant so the parent is right, the grand parent is wrong.
Next you are gonna tell me God is not logically impossible so I must be an agnostic and not atheist.
It always irk me when I find someone debating with logic and no common sense, it makes philosophers look stupid.
haha only serious.
Yeah - ridiculous for a cyborg, but awesome for me. I can't tell you how useful it would be for me if, when somebody walked up to me at a party, I received the following tips on my head's-up:
* Name: John
* Relationship: Husband of wife's co-worker
* How well known?: Talked 3 times informally
* Drink/Smoke: Y/N
* Topics to avoid: Christian (fanatic), Janet (knocking her off behind wife's back)
* Suggested topics: MMA/UFC, Italian food
Would save me a lot of awkward conversation lulls.
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ROTFLMAO, precise positioning, that was funny, sorry you can continue...
My desktop works fine and I don't change settings by CLI, but the problem of legacy and niche apps is real, people expect to run their windows programs in linux and linux ports are unrealistic expectations.