There is nothing that you can do in Bash that can't be done easier and faster in PowerShell. I guess you're just not a programmer so you don't understand it.
Man, I do Unix (and shells) for something like 15 years now. Before that 5 years Windows.
From all your words I can see that you simple failed to grasp what Unix shell is.
And yes, you can do image manipulation directly in PowerShell. It gives complete access to the entire Windows API.
Which is the whole point of the suckage of the PowerShell.
And the quirky syntax, as if they wanted to make sure that the developers would suffer just like they did with VB.
This is how I know you've never touched it. You don't even know basic information like this. Just stick with your simplistic UNIX shell, because you're obviously incapable of handling PowerShell.
I did actually handled PowerShell, though stupid security policies make it a non-starter in enterprise and limit its usefulness to developer workstations. You can't run PS1 files out of box == Universally useless.
Otherwise, I have failed to see anything new in the PowerShell beside the retarded reinvention of the "host VB".
They had a clean start - a rare and real chance to do it right - and they still have came up with that atrocity.
And even at the VB emulation, the Perl with Win32::OLE beats PowerShell handily. Because it is real programming language and the Win32::OLE gives pretty much unlimited access to every Windows capability.
Never heard of PowerShell, eh? Bash is extremely weak and lame by comparison.
LOL. Heard. Tried. Dismissed it. Definitely a tool for VB aficionados.
Anyone comparing a Unix shell to PowerShell is either illiterate or hasn't mastered the Unix shell. (Especially Bash, which not only Turing complete (aka "real programming language") but in recent version even supports the associative arrays. IMO redundant, but nice.)
Also, what does any of this have to do with the look of the GUI? Move goalposts much?
It's not the look of the user interface. It is about how the different user interfaces change what information is accessible via them.
Even your PowerShell, for example, when working with files, as retarded as that whole idea is, provides much much more meta data to crunch compared to the GUI of the (file) Explorer. But PowerShell, no matter how hard you try, can't display the thumbnails of the image files.
That is true of any area of work, if you are working correctly.
Not so fast.
Under Linux, a terminal with the standard shell is immensely powerful tool.
On Windows there is simply no alternative. And if you use the huge big name tool - PhotoShop or Visual Studio - then the OS is useless to you anyway, since Windows provides only bare/no tools for the specialized tasks. And the big tools tend to eventually reimplement huge chunks of the OS inside of them, making the user often oblivious to the OS.
On Linux, you (can) have bunch of command line tools. And you can do (and automate) one hell out of literally any specialized (or generic) task using the same OS interface: the shell.
Taking DTP as an example, one of the first times I have seen Linux outside my office was a publishing agency. They had used the GIMP scripting interface from the command line to automate processing of the huge batches from the photoshoots. (PhotoShop gained the batch capabilities much much later.)
Under Windows, it might be true that seeing the OS means you are doing something wrong or inefficiently. But under Linux, the OS is a huge bonus.
DTP was always a branch on its own. Most of the time you just start PhotoShop/etc, and pretty much never switch to another application. I'm not sure how Win8 could have improved (or changed) your workflow, because you rarely see the OS anyway.
In a way, it is similar to the Internet surfing workflow. The only time you see or use the OS is to start the browser. After that, everything is done inside the browser, which is largely OS independent and can be used to the same effect under literally any OS.
Welcome addition. Who knows, probably Win20 would finally allow users to configure system keyboard shortcuts. Then it would be almost at parity with Linux of 15 years ago.
Interfaces are dumbed down for touch UI. That's the main problem.
Application are also getting increasingly dumber and dumber. Because from perspective of some, if you can't make feature "beautiful" for the touch UI, then there is no point in providing the feature.
The modern OSes, including Win10, as if competing who can make a bigger clusterfuck out of the UI.
Some say it is because of the touchscreen support. But in my experience it sucks even more with the touchscreen. Unless you play movies or listen to music. Because even moderately involved browsing (say going through the bug tracking) is already rather tedious.
At least under Linux, I can replace the UI with something user-friendly like Xfce or LXDE. Useless with touchscreen - but fully usable with the mouse and not fucked up.
And even at that - legal boring stories: USA company comes to another market and ignores the local laws; but drat, USA can't bomb it to ruin provisionally, because unfortunately they are both members of the NATO. Oh tragedy.
Was somewhat disappointed, and in a sentimental rush came back to the original - TA (and TA Kingdoms) - which are still are fantastic games even by modern standards.
I'm not sure in what kind of barbaric anarchy you are living to give you that perspective, but you can't be more wrong.
The tax police in Germany is a fact of life that people have to deal with there and ratting out your neighbours is a national past time.
Again, Germany is highly individualistic. Respect for privacy is very high here. What you say is simply fictitious because most neighbors have no idea what other neighbors doing, because they do not poke nose in others affairs - not without an invitation.
But yes, if you do openly something illegal, just like in any other country, you would be reported to authorities. That's because law (which is the same literally all around the world) makes you an accomplice if you do not report crime.
If you were ever convicted in Germany, that might explain your sentiment.
I prefer societies that realize that the individual is more important than the collective personally.
Germany is highly individualistic. Yet, if you put individual over society, than it simply means that there is no cohesive society. And the society is there to deal with global problems of which there were plenty in recent times.
It is hard to find and it is not a society bound by nation borders, it is a society above such notions and limits.
Mafia? Organized international crime syndicates? Fit your requirements perfectly.
Europe does tend to go a bit to far in being pro-worker, and anti-corporation.
I do not think it is anti-business per se.
In one German book about business, in the basics, I have read that business is like a privilege bestowed for the benefit of the society. And imagine that: there were no mention of money nowhere near the definition.
In other words, it is not seen as a device for personal enrichment. And it is handled as such, at the very least, to cause no harm to people and society.
In the end, I do not see the lack of an overcrowded tech town as a shortcoming. If a packed tech community is your thing, then there are several cities with strong tech sector - Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Dresden, Nuremberg, etc, their satellites - which provide enough opportunities for businesses and workers.
Finally, you're free to think that math is a human invention. My personal feeling is that we discover math more than we invent it, [...]
That is not uncommon opinion.
But IMO the opinion is biased by the human perception.
For example, some interesting areas of algebra are so weird and require such level of (let's call it) free thinking, that the normal human brains simply refuse to work with them. Or the brains simply fry after too much trying. The tales about mathematicians degenerating as human beings as they advance in the math, have unfortunately a lot of truth to them.
And the question is much easier on normal people, compared to: show me a 0 in the nature? The very concept of the zero - of what it represents - is unnatural.
Though I do not have personal experience working/living in UK, over the years met lots of people who were simply orgasmic after the move from UK to Germany. Especially the London with its outrageous rent prices.
Munich is good place too. And if you are in the financial software, Frankfurt am Main is the place to go.
Much better living standards than the UK in general and London in particular.
The language in large cities in general is not a problem too. Some companies (esp international) require the fluent English, and often offer help to those who just move from abroad.
Asking what is X divided by zero is no different than asking what is Y plus red, or what is Z times pineapple.
Actually these do make more sense.
Ah, you naive physicists. Your attempts at trying to attach the math to reality always make me smile. And your believe that the human words mean the same thing in math - that's just hilarious.
Because, it is just math. It's human invention and we can do whatever we like with it.
But to the point: division by zero is not illegal - it is simply not defined.
The usual mathematical workaround is to simply define another operation - "zivition" or whatever you like - which is just like division, but in case of X/0, it has value of X or 1 or 0 or whatever you like.
Or one can even go step further and define the zivition as ternary operation: ziv(X, Y, Z) = { div(X,Y), Y!=0; Z, Y==0 }
The seven months of lost data were completely unnecessary,
A dangerous proposition. Some might counter it by questioning just how much the Philae's mission was really "necessary", and not just huge waste of funds and resources.
and resulted solely from the world's nuclear fears.
Or probably because world wants to push scientists to find alternatives?
Anyway. Nuclear power is one of those "not in my backyard" things. It's good - as long you live far enough from it. You do not "fear" it, unless it actually hits you. (And I am saying this as a person who as a child actually lived in the ex-USSR's area mildly affected by disaster of Chernobyl.)
If old KGB tales are to be believed, the secret services have subtle ways of communicating to each other such things.
The main purpose of such communication is to avoid (A) diplomatic scandals and (B) bilateral witch hunts.
In one of the documentaries about the Cold War time, a retired KGB agent was telling that one ways is to start almost openly tailing the compromised agents.
It is arbitrary actions like this that cause Android's fragmentation problems.
I know I'm in minority, but this is plain bullshit.
Google continuously pumping "releases" is what causes the fragmentation.
There are just too many "releases" of Android.
It is fine to pop 2-3 releases a year - if you are niche player targeted at geeks. But it is not, if you want to serve near billion users of several thousand different device types.
Do you even have an experience with such malware ridden installers?
The creators abuse every possible linguistic trick on the book to confuse the user about what s/he had selected and what is going to be installed. Sometimes even blatantly lying and claiming that something will not work properly if you choose not to install the optional "performance enhancer".
I had to deal once with such installer for a freebie game, which was bundled with 5(?) pieces of malware. Luckily for me it was an InstallShield which was showing a summary screen of what is going to be installed before doing anything. I had to go through the install wizard three times before the summary screen was showing that only the game itself would be installed. The last one was the trickiest: in description they used effectively triple negative and user had to actually check the box to not to install the malware.
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There is nothing that you can do in Bash that can't be done easier and faster in PowerShell. I guess you're just not a programmer so you don't understand it.
Man, I do Unix (and shells) for something like 15 years now. Before that 5 years Windows.
From all your words I can see that you simple failed to grasp what Unix shell is.
And yes, you can do image manipulation directly in PowerShell. It gives complete access to the entire Windows API.
Which is the whole point of the suckage of the PowerShell.
And the quirky syntax, as if they wanted to make sure that the developers would suffer just like they did with VB.
This is how I know you've never touched it. You don't even know basic information like this. Just stick with your simplistic UNIX shell, because you're obviously incapable of handling PowerShell.
I did actually handled PowerShell, though stupid security policies make it a non-starter in enterprise and limit its usefulness to developer workstations. You can't run PS1 files out of box == Universally useless.
Otherwise, I have failed to see anything new in the PowerShell beside the retarded reinvention of the "host VB".
They had a clean start - a rare and real chance to do it right - and they still have came up with that atrocity.
And even at the VB emulation, the Perl with Win32::OLE beats PowerShell handily. Because it is real programming language and the Win32::OLE gives pretty much unlimited access to every Windows capability.
Never heard of PowerShell, eh? Bash is extremely weak and lame by comparison.
LOL. Heard. Tried. Dismissed it. Definitely a tool for VB aficionados.
Anyone comparing a Unix shell to PowerShell is either illiterate or hasn't mastered the Unix shell. (Especially Bash, which not only Turing complete (aka "real programming language") but in recent version even supports the associative arrays. IMO redundant, but nice.)
Also, what does any of this have to do with the look of the GUI? Move goalposts much?
It's not the look of the user interface. It is about how the different user interfaces change what information is accessible via them.
Even your PowerShell, for example, when working with files, as retarded as that whole idea is, provides much much more meta data to crunch compared to the GUI of the (file) Explorer. But PowerShell, no matter how hard you try, can't display the thumbnails of the image files.
because you rarely see the OS anyway
That is true of any area of work, if you are working correctly.
Not so fast.
Under Linux, a terminal with the standard shell is immensely powerful tool.
On Windows there is simply no alternative. And if you use the huge big name tool - PhotoShop or Visual Studio - then the OS is useless to you anyway, since Windows provides only bare/no tools for the specialized tasks. And the big tools tend to eventually reimplement huge chunks of the OS inside of them, making the user often oblivious to the OS.
On Linux, you (can) have bunch of command line tools. And you can do (and automate) one hell out of literally any specialized (or generic) task using the same OS interface: the shell.
Taking DTP as an example, one of the first times I have seen Linux outside my office was a publishing agency. They had used the GIMP scripting interface from the command line to automate processing of the huge batches from the photoshoots. (PhotoShop gained the batch capabilities much much later.)
Under Windows, it might be true that seeing the OS means you are doing something wrong or inefficiently. But under Linux, the OS is a huge bonus.
Nah. Win10 looks like the modern GNOME3 desktop: beatiful as a hand-drawn picture, but just as useful.
I create graphics for educational materials.
DTP was always a branch on its own. Most of the time you just start PhotoShop/etc, and pretty much never switch to another application. I'm not sure how Win8 could have improved (or changed) your workflow, because you rarely see the OS anyway.
In a way, it is similar to the Internet surfing workflow. The only time you see or use the OS is to start the browser. After that, everything is done inside the browser, which is largely OS independent and can be used to the same effect under literally any OS.
Welcome addition. Who knows, probably Win20 would finally allow users to configure system keyboard shortcuts. Then it would be almost at parity with Linux of 15 years ago.
Interfaces are dumbed down for touch UI. That's the main problem.
Application are also getting increasingly dumber and dumber. Because from perspective of some, if you can't make feature "beautiful" for the touch UI, then there is no point in providing the feature.
The modern OSes, including Win10, as if competing who can make a bigger clusterfuck out of the UI.
Some say it is because of the touchscreen support. But in my experience it sucks even more with the touchscreen. Unless you play movies or listen to music. Because even moderately involved browsing (say going through the bug tracking) is already rather tedious.
At least under Linux, I can replace the UI with something user-friendly like Xfce or LXDE. Useless with touchscreen - but fully usable with the mouse and not fucked up.
And even at that - legal boring stories: USA company comes to another market and ignores the local laws; but drat, USA can't bomb it to ruin provisionally, because unfortunately they are both members of the NATO. Oh tragedy.
I do not see any relevance to - or deep profound effect on- IT/etc.
Really? IT people design and make the "social engineering" software that makes things like Uber possible!
Oh please. Business intelligence is one of the oldest types of software in existence.
That's basically how/why the computers were commercialized. Otherwise they would have stayed a toy of scientists and a tool of military.
Why the hell Uber/etc are on /. front page at all?
I do not see any relevance to - or deep profound effect on- IT/etc.
The Uber - and its failing outside USA - are so non-news.
Tried SC, tried FA.
Was somewhat disappointed, and in a sentimental rush came back to the original - TA (and TA Kingdoms) - which are still are fantastic games even by modern standards.
P.S. Also, proportional unit sizes suck.
I'm not sure in what kind of barbaric anarchy you are living to give you that perspective, but you can't be more wrong.
The tax police in Germany is a fact of life that people have to deal with there and ratting out your neighbours is a national past time.
Again, Germany is highly individualistic. Respect for privacy is very high here. What you say is simply fictitious because most neighbors have no idea what other neighbors doing, because they do not poke nose in others affairs - not without an invitation.
But yes, if you do openly something illegal, just like in any other country, you would be reported to authorities. That's because law (which is the same literally all around the world) makes you an accomplice if you do not report crime.
If you were ever convicted in Germany, that might explain your sentiment.
I prefer societies that realize that the individual is more important than the collective personally.
Germany is highly individualistic. Yet, if you put individual over society, than it simply means that there is no cohesive society. And the society is there to deal with global problems of which there were plenty in recent times.
It is hard to find and it is not a society bound by nation borders, it is a society above such notions and limits.
Mafia? Organized international crime syndicates? Fit your requirements perfectly.
Europe does tend to go a bit to far in being pro-worker, and anti-corporation.
I do not think it is anti-business per se.
In one German book about business, in the basics, I have read that business is like a privilege bestowed for the benefit of the society. And imagine that: there were no mention of money nowhere near the definition.
In other words, it is not seen as a device for personal enrichment. And it is handled as such, at the very least, to cause no harm to people and society.
In the end, I do not see the lack of an overcrowded tech town as a shortcoming. If a packed tech community is your thing, then there are several cities with strong tech sector - Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Dresden, Nuremberg, etc, their satellites - which provide enough opportunities for businesses and workers.
Finally, you're free to think that math is a human invention. My personal feeling is that we discover math more than we invent it, [...]
That is not uncommon opinion.
But IMO the opinion is biased by the human perception.
For example, some interesting areas of algebra are so weird and require such level of (let's call it) free thinking, that the normal human brains simply refuse to work with them. Or the brains simply fry after too much trying. The tales about mathematicians degenerating as human beings as they advance in the math, have unfortunately a lot of truth to them.
[...] but I guess we'll never know for sure.
My personal counter-argument to the opinion: show me a "1" in the nature. Because even a singular particle isn't really "one".
And the question is much easier on normal people, compared to: show me a 0 in the nature? The very concept of the zero - of what it represents - is unnatural.
Shameless plug for Germany.
Though I do not have personal experience working/living in UK, over the years met lots of people who were simply orgasmic after the move from UK to Germany. Especially the London with its outrageous rent prices.
Munich is good place too. And if you are in the financial software, Frankfurt am Main is the place to go.
Much better living standards than the UK in general and London in particular.
The language in large cities in general is not a problem too. Some companies (esp international) require the fluent English, and often offer help to those who just move from abroad.
Divide by zero is clearly defined and that value is NAN.
You have mixed up your sciences.
Div by zero is not defined in the math, in the definition of the operation division.
Div by zero is defined in the applied math.
Asking what is X divided by zero is no different than asking what is Y plus red, or what is Z times pineapple.
Actually these do make more sense.
Ah, you naive physicists. Your attempts at trying to attach the math to reality always make me smile. And your believe that the human words mean the same thing in math - that's just hilarious.
Because, it is just math. It's human invention and we can do whatever we like with it.
But to the point: division by zero is not illegal - it is simply not defined.
The usual mathematical workaround is to simply define another operation - "zivition" or whatever you like - which is just like division, but in case of X/0, it has value of X or 1 or 0 or whatever you like. Or one can even go step further and define the zivition as ternary operation: ziv(X, Y, Z) = { div(X,Y), Y!=0; Z, Y==0 }
The seven months of lost data were completely unnecessary,
A dangerous proposition. Some might counter it by questioning just how much the Philae's mission was really "necessary", and not just huge waste of funds and resources.
and resulted solely from the world's nuclear fears.
Or probably because world wants to push scientists to find alternatives?
Anyway. Nuclear power is one of those "not in my backyard" things. It's good - as long you live far enough from it. You do not "fear" it, unless it actually hits you. (And I am saying this as a person who as a child actually lived in the ex-USSR's area mildly affected by disaster of Chernobyl.)
If old KGB tales are to be believed, the secret services have subtle ways of communicating to each other such things.
The main purpose of such communication is to avoid (A) diplomatic scandals and (B) bilateral witch hunts.
In one of the documentaries about the Cold War time, a retired KGB agent was telling that one ways is to start almost openly tailing the compromised agents.
From description, it sounds like the AppArmor.
The perldelta mentions that there were a number of fixes/enhancements to floating point numbers handling implemented.
I'm not sure why the hex fp (a rather obscure feature) was singled out for the summary.
It is arbitrary actions like this that cause Android's fragmentation problems.
I know I'm in minority, but this is plain bullshit.
Google continuously pumping "releases" is what causes the fragmentation.
There are just too many "releases" of Android.
It is fine to pop 2-3 releases a year - if you are niche player targeted at geeks. But it is not, if you want to serve near billion users of several thousand different device types.
Do you even have an experience with such malware ridden installers?
The creators abuse every possible linguistic trick on the book to confuse the user about what s/he had selected and what is going to be installed. Sometimes even blatantly lying and claiming that something will not work properly if you choose not to install the optional "performance enhancer".
I had to deal once with such installer for a freebie game, which was bundled with 5(?) pieces of malware. Luckily for me it was an InstallShield which was showing a summary screen of what is going to be installed before doing anything. I had to go through the install wizard three times before the summary screen was showing that only the game itself would be installed. The last one was the trickiest: in description they used effectively triple negative and user had to actually check the box to not to install the malware.
Luxembourg is an incredibly small but rich country. Why do they appear to be such disproportionate leeches compared to every other member state?
A nifty infographic.
Quote:
In 2013 Luxembourg received €1.6 billion in EU spending, mostly due to the presence of several EU institutions. EU administrative expenditure accounted for €1.35 billion, or 84% of total spending. Regional policy accounted for only 1.2%, far below the EU average of 42%. Farm spending accounted for only 3%, also far below the EU average of 43%. Research and development took €163 million (10%), slightly above the EU average of 8%.