Well, if Netflix is 30% of the Internet's traffic, the average user's usage is 133 GB/month. A 17 GB overhead doesn't sound particularly generous to me.
What format are dates transferred in? Same as the string that's shown in ls, where the year is shown or not shown based on when the mod date actually is, that requires machine parsing thus negating the entire point of the JSON encoding? No, that would be stupid. So, with time in the same field? Number of seconds since 1/1/1970? UTC? Floating point number of days since 1/1/1970, with 0.0 being noon? Or 12/31/1969 with 0.0 being midnight?
Here, let's do a best-case scenario where it's ISO 8601:
I'm not always grepping for filenames. In fact, that's one of the least frequent things I grep for: I can do ls *blah* just fine. But maybe I don't want to fuck around with some syntax I'll only use once every four years, I just want all the files modified in 1997: ls -l | grep 1997. Yeah, that's not suitable for usage in a script, but it's easy, so if I'm not looking for a general, reusable, bullet-proof "solution" and am just looking for output, it's quick as hell.
The examples, while pretty, are ridiculous. If I want to display an image, I can open it in my GUI. If it's actually a common enough operation, I'll write a quick script so I can make it pop up by typing something: showimage blah.png. This, like powershell, forgets that CLIs are user interfaces, and tries to force a bunch of "correctness" that we don't need on us. If it needs to handle weird filenames with newlines and shit in them--here's the critical part that the author is missing--I'll use something stronger than bash. You don't need to use the same interpreter as your scripting language as you do to hack around in a CLI. As for piping from HTTP? Uh, sure, that's neat, but I've literally never needed to do it outside of a script, where the consideration is correctness rather than being easy to remember and quick to type. For regular usage, downloading a file is a wget away.
And why do we need an entirely new UI to fix things like -r and -R? Couldn't you just fix them independently with a small, testable, revertable-if-it-causes-problems patch? Maybe I'm just an old codger, but I don't get this. If you want to separate data handling from UI, separate them, don't try to mash them together into some abortion that's good at neither. Additional standard file descriptors for data exchange? Great, go nuts. Additional standard file descriptors for user frontends? Love it. Re-purposing FD{0,1,2}? You must be high.
It's weird that anybody gives a shit about vi vs emacs--it's obvious that unless you use an exclusive feature, they're essentially the same, modal vs modeless is nothing more than a preference, and given their complexity, the most important thing about either is how familiar you are with it. I guess people just like to believe that what they're already doing is the best thing. And hey, who wouldn't like for that to be true? Maybe the difference is skipping the step where you find out if what you want to believe is true.
Tabs vs spaces, on the other hand, well, there's no question. Heretics who indent with spaces should be burned at the stake.
I like the iPhone because it has an external switch for vibrate/audible instead of sending me through 9,000 menus. It's the one thing I wanted every phone to have since I had a cell phone. Oh, others had external volume switches, but you had to unlock the phone to use it, or hit the button 40 times but not 41, and it would still bling if you set a message tone, but if you didn't set a message tone it wouldn't be audible when the ringer was on, etc., etc. The iPhone got it mostly right (I can't imagine wanting videos to be audible but not wanting the ringer, but whatever, I don't watch a lot of videos when sound is inappropriate anyway). Everything else doesn't just get that wrong, it gets a ton of other things wrong, and from past experience is generally a piece of shit anyway.
Due to that past experience, I have faith that future iterations of the iPhone will get it right as well, until I see evidence otherwise. I don't buy newly-released anything until it's been out long enough for reviews to come out, so I won't be caught unaware by the next iPhone 4 antenna issue, but at the same time I don't see the point in expending the effort to research a new phone--the iPhone has all the features I care about, future iterations are unlikely to drop features, and reviews will howl about any issues so I don't even need to look that hard when deciding whether to pick up a new model.
But because of that, I have to deal with, "RAAAAAGHHHHH! You're a cultist!" Whatever. If the most annoying thing about owning an iPhone is dealing with smug clones who don't even know the difference between a thought that originated inside their head versus one from outside, it's less annoying than every other phone I know about.
This post sums up the entire argument pretty well. Allow me to translate:
"Anyone who isn't me? Perhaps not. I cannot picture how anyone who isn't me would need any luxury whatsoever, because it would not make me happier. Therefore, they are prima donnas, and should be fired for the sheer audacity. I, on the other hand, absolutely need a second monitor, and denying me one would be tantamount to cutting my pay in half and sticking me in the boiler room."
Saying we could do worse as president isn't much of an endorsement--hell, you could put my drunken, meth-scabbed, bike-stealing neighbor in the oval office and you could still do worse. We only get to pick one, so the idea is to pick the one where we can't do better.
As for Newt seeming to be a decent guy by his Amazon book reviews, well yeah, most people are capable of looking learned, compassionate, and open-minded, given effectively infinite time to compose and edit their thoughts if that's what they really want to do. Imagine what somebody who spent their entire life dissembling, with a team of PR people just begging for the opportunity to make them look good would be capable of.
You don't find out what a person is really like by hanging out with them while everybody's comfortable and relaxed, and you don't find out what they're like when they're warm and safe in their house, killing time on the internet. Anyone who isn't a psychopath seems nice when they have everything they want and don't have an immediate way to get more. You'll find out, and should have already found out, what he's like when you look at his voting record, or how he treated his wife, or how well he upholds the morals he spouts.
Finally, seeing that he's read and thinking that because he's read books on paleontology/evolution and says that the book is worth reading or well written, he's definitely not a creationist is just silly. I've read Ayn Rand, but I don't agree with her philosophy. I've read the entire Bible, but I'm an atheist. Maybe you've heard the saying "know your enemy"? If that's what he was doing, why wouldn't he take the opportunity to spin that into displaying his open-mindedness to liberals in a way that's non-threatening to conservatives?
If you weren't talking about someone who's based their entire career on being the best liar (because it is frankly impossible to make enough people happy to win a simple majority election without lying) I might give you a 50/50 shot at being right in your first-level assessment, but this is a politician, publishing things. I mean, come on.
Yep, the keyboards we have now are perfect, and there's no reason to incrementally improve them. Why, when it comes time to use something better, it'll be okay that it's completely different because we'll all just jump to that en-masse. I mean, what, is some totally new input system going to have unforeseen consequences? Hah! That'll be the day!
Almost any major app has it's own auto-update mechanism.
The rest of your points are valid, but this is a clear downside for Windows. I don't know if you've used a Linux where everything you wanted was in the package manager, but as far as software updates go it's pure heaven compared to Windows. Update, done. Not, get notified constantly about updates to this or that piece of software, and "oh, you want to run it? Well, I guess I'll check for updates now, so you have the choice between putting off what you wanted to do, or likely forgetting to update by the time you're done" and "hey, mind if I use 128MB of RAM forever so I can notify you of our annual update" and sometimes appened to that last sentence "(and biweekly spam popups)".
Of course, that's only marginally better on OS X--the only saving grace there is that there's not as much software. Maybe it'll get better with the app store, but 80% of the stuff I look for isn't in there.
A Hummer is about $40,000, twenty times that is $800,000. $800,000 less than $40,000 is ($760,000), so apparently they'll pay me three quarters of a million dollars to drive a Kia Picanto... my only question is, where do I sign?
The fact that you need to integrate with Exchange pretty much makes this a necessity. Even if you go with something else, you'll have to do PowerShell to talk to Exchange.
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Whose an idiot?
Anything I want to use less than two weeks from now.
Well, if Netflix is 30% of the Internet's traffic, the average user's usage is 133 GB/month. A 17 GB overhead doesn't sound particularly generous to me.
What format are dates transferred in? Same as the string that's shown in ls, where the year is shown or not shown based on when the mod date actually is, that requires machine parsing thus negating the entire point of the JSON encoding? No, that would be stupid. So, with time in the same field? Number of seconds since 1/1/1970? UTC? Floating point number of days since 1/1/1970, with 0.0 being noon? Or 12/31/1969 with 0.0 being midnight?
Here, let's do a best-case scenario where it's ISO 8601:
$ ls -l | grep 1997
modDate: "1997-05-02",
modDate: "1997-05-02",
modDate: "1997-05-02",
modDate: "1997-04-20",
modDate: "1997-03-15",
Awesome.
I don't care.
I'm not always grepping for filenames. In fact, that's one of the least frequent things I grep for: I can do ls *blah* just fine. But maybe I don't want to fuck around with some syntax I'll only use once every four years, I just want all the files modified in 1997: ls -l | grep 1997. Yeah, that's not suitable for usage in a script, but it's easy, so if I'm not looking for a general, reusable, bullet-proof "solution" and am just looking for output, it's quick as hell.
The examples, while pretty, are ridiculous. If I want to display an image, I can open it in my GUI. If it's actually a common enough operation, I'll write a quick script so I can make it pop up by typing something: showimage blah.png. This, like powershell, forgets that CLIs are user interfaces, and tries to force a bunch of "correctness" that we don't need on us. If it needs to handle weird filenames with newlines and shit in them--here's the critical part that the author is missing--I'll use something stronger than bash. You don't need to use the same interpreter as your scripting language as you do to hack around in a CLI. As for piping from HTTP? Uh, sure, that's neat, but I've literally never needed to do it outside of a script, where the consideration is correctness rather than being easy to remember and quick to type. For regular usage, downloading a file is a wget away.
And why do we need an entirely new UI to fix things like -r and -R? Couldn't you just fix them independently with a small, testable, revertable-if-it-causes-problems patch? Maybe I'm just an old codger, but I don't get this. If you want to separate data handling from UI, separate them, don't try to mash them together into some abortion that's good at neither. Additional standard file descriptors for data exchange? Great, go nuts. Additional standard file descriptors for user frontends? Love it. Re-purposing FD{0,1,2}? You must be high.
Well thank you for the contentless assertion.
Legacy systems? Legacy systems?
Or should I say, PAGAN systems! Repent, sinner!
abso-fuckin-loutely.
It's weird that anybody gives a shit about vi vs emacs--it's obvious that unless you use an exclusive feature, they're essentially the same, modal vs modeless is nothing more than a preference, and given their complexity, the most important thing about either is how familiar you are with it. I guess people just like to believe that what they're already doing is the best thing. And hey, who wouldn't like for that to be true? Maybe the difference is skipping the step where you find out if what you want to believe is true.
Tabs vs spaces, on the other hand, well, there's no question. Heretics who indent with spaces should be burned at the stake.
In my experience, completely.
I like the iPhone because it has an external switch for vibrate/audible instead of sending me through 9,000 menus. It's the one thing I wanted every phone to have since I had a cell phone. Oh, others had external volume switches, but you had to unlock the phone to use it, or hit the button 40 times but not 41, and it would still bling if you set a message tone, but if you didn't set a message tone it wouldn't be audible when the ringer was on, etc., etc. The iPhone got it mostly right (I can't imagine wanting videos to be audible but not wanting the ringer, but whatever, I don't watch a lot of videos when sound is inappropriate anyway). Everything else doesn't just get that wrong, it gets a ton of other things wrong, and from past experience is generally a piece of shit anyway.
Due to that past experience, I have faith that future iterations of the iPhone will get it right as well, until I see evidence otherwise. I don't buy newly-released anything until it's been out long enough for reviews to come out, so I won't be caught unaware by the next iPhone 4 antenna issue, but at the same time I don't see the point in expending the effort to research a new phone--the iPhone has all the features I care about, future iterations are unlikely to drop features, and reviews will howl about any issues so I don't even need to look that hard when deciding whether to pick up a new model.
But because of that, I have to deal with, "RAAAAAGHHHHH! You're a cultist!" Whatever. If the most annoying thing about owning an iPhone is dealing with smug clones who don't even know the difference between a thought that originated inside their head versus one from outside, it's less annoying than every other phone I know about.
You're a sick fuck, dude.
What sort of people stay at a $5000 per night suite?
Rapists?
This post sums up the entire argument pretty well. Allow me to translate:
"Anyone who isn't me? Perhaps not. I cannot picture how anyone who isn't me would need any luxury whatsoever, because it would not make me happier. Therefore, they are prima donnas, and should be fired for the sheer audacity. I, on the other hand, absolutely need a second monitor, and denying me one would be tantamount to cutting my pay in half and sticking me in the boiler room."
Saying we could do worse as president isn't much of an endorsement--hell, you could put my drunken, meth-scabbed, bike-stealing neighbor in the oval office and you could still do worse. We only get to pick one, so the idea is to pick the one where we can't do better.
As for Newt seeming to be a decent guy by his Amazon book reviews, well yeah, most people are capable of looking learned, compassionate, and open-minded, given effectively infinite time to compose and edit their thoughts if that's what they really want to do. Imagine what somebody who spent their entire life dissembling, with a team of PR people just begging for the opportunity to make them look good would be capable of.
You don't find out what a person is really like by hanging out with them while everybody's comfortable and relaxed, and you don't find out what they're like when they're warm and safe in their house, killing time on the internet. Anyone who isn't a psychopath seems nice when they have everything they want and don't have an immediate way to get more. You'll find out, and should have already found out, what he's like when you look at his voting record, or how he treated his wife, or how well he upholds the morals he spouts.
Finally, seeing that he's read and thinking that because he's read books on paleontology/evolution and says that the book is worth reading or well written, he's definitely not a creationist is just silly. I've read Ayn Rand, but I don't agree with her philosophy. I've read the entire Bible, but I'm an atheist. Maybe you've heard the saying "know your enemy"? If that's what he was doing, why wouldn't he take the opportunity to spin that into displaying his open-mindedness to liberals in a way that's non-threatening to conservatives?
If you weren't talking about someone who's based their entire career on being the best liar (because it is frankly impossible to make enough people happy to win a simple majority election without lying) I might give you a 50/50 shot at being right in your first-level assessment, but this is a politician, publishing things. I mean, come on.
Yep, the keyboards we have now are perfect, and there's no reason to incrementally improve them. Why, when it comes time to use something better, it'll be okay that it's completely different because we'll all just jump to that en-masse. I mean, what, is some totally new input system going to have unforeseen consequences? Hah! That'll be the day!
Almost any major app has it's own auto-update mechanism.
The rest of your points are valid, but this is a clear downside for Windows. I don't know if you've used a Linux where everything you wanted was in the package manager, but as far as software updates go it's pure heaven compared to Windows. Update, done. Not, get notified constantly about updates to this or that piece of software, and "oh, you want to run it? Well, I guess I'll check for updates now, so you have the choice between putting off what you wanted to do, or likely forgetting to update by the time you're done" and "hey, mind if I use 128MB of RAM forever so I can notify you of our annual update" and sometimes appened to that last sentence "(and biweekly spam popups)".
Of course, that's only marginally better on OS X--the only saving grace there is that there's not as much software. Maybe it'll get better with the app store, but 80% of the stuff I look for isn't in there.
Jesus Christ Slashdot, if you're going to eat a symbol, don't show it in the preview. Not much of a preview, now is it? Anyway:
2 H2(g) + O2(g) --> 2 H2O(l) + 572 kJ (286 kJ/mol)
Why? Burning hydrogen with oxygen makes:
2 H2(g) + O2(g) 2 H2O(l) + 572 kJ (286 kJ/mol)
You don't like water?
I'm sure it'll see plenty of use on Hurd.
Ah, so when you come back from the dead you're the antithesis of what you were when you lived. Makes sense.
I'm not trolling, and I know it's common usage, it just sounds dumb.
A Hummer is about $40,000, twenty times that is $800,000. $800,000 less than $40,000 is ($760,000), so apparently they'll pay me three quarters of a million dollars to drive a Kia Picanto... my only question is, where do I sign?
The fact that you need to integrate with Exchange pretty much makes this a necessity. Even if you go with something else, you'll have to do PowerShell to talk to Exchange.
It sure would be.