that Microsoft only reinvents it for marketing purposes. Why didn't they make a decent scriptable shell 10 years ago with Windows 95?
I recall one of those books, 1001 DOS commandline utilities or the like. There was DOSKey, choice, getkey, etc. Why did I have to wait 15 freaking years so I could do a simple for loop in a bat file?
No, I had to learn Pascal, or qbasic (eew) to make stupid for loops and read user input in an installation program or something.
As a Joe User, I was never fond of the cryptic unix shells (bsh, ksh, etc) and I had to learn the differences between them, some programs required one or the other. But despite this, I was amazed the amount of complex processing you could do with a simple shell script.
Big deal, Microsoft. You invent something really useful too late. If you had given this to us 10 years ago, we might have appreciated it, but no, you make this AFTER the GUI revolution.
dir/s to find a lost file (ok i admit it, execution time is much slower than doing it via windows search), attrib to change file attributes, and remember gems like XCopy which allowed you to set the file attributes to signal an already-copied file? I used to do that to back up my directories into floppies.
I'm really glad these guided tours exist, they can do a lot to boost productivity.
So, if healthy stem cells aren't enough to battle the disease, perhaps gene therapy might do the trick? i.e. using some kind of virus that will mutate back the cells into normal?
Like Fluorescent, requires supporting circuitry -- doesn't plug directly into AC wiring.
Just like most modern electronic devices...
I have a printer, an electronic keyboard, a hub, my MODEM, the Playstation, the cellphone battery charger... each one requires ONE power supply.
Man, you'd have to see my computer setup!
THREE multicontacts in series. One for the monitor and the UPS. The second goes into the UPS, and that's where my PC is plugged in. The third one goes into the second one, and that's where the bulky transformer power supplies go.
(I'm sure Edison didn't think about that one!) Clearly this has to change.
I'm wondering if in the future installations will provide an additional stepdown transformer, say, from 120 to 12V AC so you can plug your electronic devices in it.
This of course, would include the LED lighting and your e-paper 48" TV's.
Just how cool is it to be paid to test "stuff" like that?
Fsck! I need a job like that!
You can contact www.discovery.com and search for the Animal Faceoff show. Requirements: Very good knowledge of hydraulics, zoology, physics, materials dynamics, physical simulations on computers, etc. etc.
I have a Treo 650. It's a phone, it's a PDA, it's a pretty good MP3 player, it's a pretty good games machine to pass the time when I'm bored travelling and it's power-efficient too
Yes, but you belong to the/. minority. What about the rest of the world?
The opposition parties always existed. First was Accion Nacional since around the 40's, and in 1988 the "Partido de la Revolucion Democratica" (PRD) was born. This was the party that promoted Cuauhtemoc Cardenas for president. The point was that the official party used voting fraud to legitimize their dictatorship and pretend there was a democracy after all. But I'm going off-topic, so I'll shut up now.
computers have been a synonym for organized fraud in other places.
In Mexico, in the 1988 elections, the opposition candidate was winning by a large margin according to the official data. Then suddenly, "the system crashed", and when it came up, the official party was winning by a large margin.
This event was called "La caida del sistema de 1988", and makes me think that there's nothing new under the sun (Diebold voting machines, anyone?).
The lesson is clear: Regarding data and computers, if someone can do something wrong, he WILL. So auditing is a must.
After writing the above post and clicking to read the article, look what I found on the banner ad!
It really must be a weird coincidence... a newspaper talking about SCAM, and such a blatant ad on the side. And it has a "CLICK NOW!" on it. Somebody shoot me.
Is the average american stupid and gullible? Let's see what Mr. Infomercial can tell us.
"Forget about diets! Forget about exercise! With the new fat-o-free efervescent pills, you can get from THIS (fat lady in picture) to THIS (supermodel)! Forget about those tight clothes (B/W scene shown)! Start your new, slim life, with fat-o-free! 1-900-IAMA-DUMB. CALL NOW! Our operators will be pleased to help you! And if you call in the next 30 minutes, you get F-R-E-E our how-to-lose-weight manual. (blinking)C-A-L-L---N-O-W!!!!!"
As I said in an earlier post, the media and commercialized culture has "educated" the american mind into believing there are easy magical solutions for all our problems, instead of investigating the problems from the root and encouraging hard work. And if material solutions don't work, then somebody must be affecting your karma (and there we go, to the next degree of scams: If it doesn't work is because you don't have faith!).
The apparition of 419 scams was just a matter of time. (Kinda brought it upon themselves, if you ask me)
Standards are like highways. A reasonable person would say: "Thank goodness they made a highway in the middle of this jungle". A Linux zealot would say: "Highways hinder our freedom! If we don't follow their way, we can go WHENEVER we want! (grabs tree-rope) AAAaaaa-AaaaAa-Aahhh!!!!"
Get the idea? Linux zealots often confuse "order" with "restrictions", and "chaos" with "freedom".
History is not repeating itself. The previous attempts weren't backed up with LOT$ OF $$$$. And I for one welcome our new corporate Linux overlords:-) (really, someone had to organize the Linux "tribes", don't you think?)
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that Microsoft only reinvents it for marketing purposes. Why didn't they make a decent scriptable shell 10 years ago with Windows 95?
I recall one of those books, 1001 DOS commandline utilities or the like. There was DOSKey, choice, getkey, etc. Why did I have to wait 15 freaking years so I could do a simple for loop in a bat file?
No, I had to learn Pascal, or qbasic (eew) to make stupid for loops and read user input in an installation program or something.
As a Joe User, I was never fond of the cryptic unix shells (bsh, ksh, etc) and I had to learn the differences between them, some programs required one or the other. But despite this, I was amazed the amount of complex processing you could do with a simple shell script.
Big deal, Microsoft. You invent something really useful too late. If you had given this to us 10 years ago, we might have appreciated it, but no, you make this AFTER the GUI revolution.
But I shouldn't complain. Better late than ever.
dir /s to find a lost file (ok i admit it, execution time is much slower than doing it via windows search), attrib to change file attributes, and remember gems like XCopy which allowed you to set the file attributes to signal an already-copied file? I used to do that to back up my directories into floppies.
I'm really glad these guided tours exist, they can do a lot to boost productivity.
Hey, perhaps the editor thought it was something about Microsoft Windows...
So, if healthy stem cells aren't enough to battle the disease, perhaps gene therapy might do the trick? i.e. using some kind of virus that will mutate back the cells into normal?
Like Fluorescent, requires supporting circuitry -- doesn't plug directly into AC wiring.
Just like most modern electronic devices...
I have a printer, an electronic keyboard, a hub, my MODEM, the Playstation, the cellphone battery charger... each one requires ONE power supply.
Man, you'd have to see my computer setup!
THREE multicontacts in series. One for the monitor and the UPS. The second goes into the UPS, and that's where my PC is plugged in. The third one goes into the second one, and that's where the bulky transformer power supplies go.
(I'm sure Edison didn't think about that one!)
Clearly this has to change.
I'm wondering if in the future installations will provide an additional stepdown transformer, say, from 120 to 12V AC so you can plug your electronic devices in it.
This of course, would include the LED lighting and your e-paper 48" TV's.
Just how cool is it to be paid to test "stuff" like that?
Fsck! I need a job like that!
You can contact www.discovery.com and search for the Animal Faceoff show. Requirements: Very good knowledge of hydraulics, zoology, physics, materials dynamics, physical simulations on computers, etc. etc.
So *AHEM* you were saying?
What about their JAWS?
How many of these lawsuits involve "Intellectual Property" (copyright / RIAA subpoenas / patents),spamming or spyware?
Just curious.
I have a Treo 650. It's a phone, it's a PDA, it's a pretty good MP3 player, it's a pretty good games machine to pass the time when I'm bored travelling and it's power-efficient too
/. minority. What about the rest of the world?
Yes, but you belong to the
How many justifications of piracy will be posted?
:)
At least 5
(Disclaimer: I do not necessarily agree with the above manifesto, it's just an informational link, yadda yadda all rights reserved etc etc).
The opposition parties always existed. First was Accion Nacional since around the 40's, and in 1988 the "Partido de la Revolucion Democratica" (PRD) was born. This was the party that promoted Cuauhtemoc Cardenas for president. The point was that the official party used voting fraud to legitimize their dictatorship and pretend there was a democracy after all. But I'm going off-topic, so I'll shut up now.
After all, the Chair-man was supposed to be Bill Gates!
computers have been a synonym for organized fraud in other places.
In Mexico, in the 1988 elections, the opposition candidate was winning by a large margin according to the official data. Then suddenly, "the system crashed", and when it came up, the official party was winning by a large margin.
This event was called "La caida del sistema de 1988", and makes me think that there's nothing new under the sun (Diebold voting machines, anyone?).
The lesson is clear: Regarding data and computers, if someone can do something wrong, he WILL. So auditing is a must.
After writing the above post and clicking to read the article, look what I found on the banner ad!
It really must be a weird coincidence... a newspaper talking about SCAM, and such a blatant ad on the side. And it has a "CLICK NOW!" on it.
Somebody shoot me.
Is the average american stupid and gullible? Let's see what Mr. Infomercial can tell us.
"Forget about diets! Forget about exercise! With the new fat-o-free efervescent pills, you can get from THIS (fat lady in picture) to THIS (supermodel)! Forget about those tight clothes (B/W scene shown)! Start your new, slim life, with fat-o-free! 1-900-IAMA-DUMB. CALL NOW! Our operators will be pleased to help you! And if you call in the next 30 minutes, you get F-R-E-E our how-to-lose-weight manual. (blinking)C-A-L-L---N-O-W!!!!!"
As I said in an earlier post, the media and commercialized culture has "educated" the american mind into believing there are easy magical solutions for all our problems, instead of investigating the problems from the root and encouraging hard work. And if material solutions don't work, then somebody must be affecting your karma (and there we go, to the next degree of scams: If it doesn't work is because you don't have faith!).
The apparition of 419 scams was just a matter of time. (Kinda brought it upon themselves, if you ask me)
It was that the Linux zealots hindered them.
Standards are like highways. A reasonable person would say: "Thank goodness they made a highway in the middle of this jungle".
A Linux zealot would say: "Highways hinder our freedom! If we don't follow their way, we can go WHENEVER we want! (grabs tree-rope) AAAaaaa-AaaaAa-Aahhh!!!!"
Get the idea? Linux zealots often confuse "order" with "restrictions", and "chaos" with "freedom".
History is not repeating itself. The previous attempts weren't backed up with LOT$ OF $$$$. And I for one welcome our new corporate Linux overlords :-) (really, someone had to organize the Linux "tribes", don't you think?)
I have a bit of a bone to pick with that headline... it's not a "software glitch."
Well the human brain is SOFT, isn't it?
Clearly the ancient Greeks had mechanical technology beyond even modern capabilities!
HAH! That's NOTHING! What you must see, is their Orichalcum robots!
Just replace "Quake" for any other app with heavy dependencies. It won't be that hard...
*ducks flying tomato*
And I just purchased Quake 3... damn!
The Windows Vista review article was on the same website.
/. articles, same website, same day.
Two
No wonder the server flunked. Heh.
Because since you'll be working 80 hour weeks, you won't have time to spend it!
Don't worry, these will go to health care in no time! SPECIALLY with 80 hour weeks.
Nothing worse than exposing your php/mysql site with an error message. Hello.... security?
(let's hope the website is fixed soon)
RIAA/MPAA to consumers: Resistance is futile
Consumers to RIAA/MPAA: Your existance is futile.