Save a thousand bucks: buy an Airport Express. It lets you use optical out with iTunes and costs way, way less. Of course, it doesn't work for DVDs, but why are you watching a DVD on a 15" screen anyway?
Did you ever read about the first English colonies to America? A group of stockholders sent some colonists, who then all nearly died, because they made plans for spending their time picking up the gold nuggets that litter coast, instead of planning on bustin' ass just to survive, which was how it actually turned out. Seriously, before John Smith took over things were hanging on by the barest thread. And the same thing happened again and again in America history. All the '49s went out to California, sold their souls to the shopkeepers for some bread and died broke. The majority of immigrants to America were as seriously deluded about what to expect when they got there.
Now, I'm not saying this has any bearing on the space program. I'm just saying, pointing to past efforts at colonization doesn't reflect well on your chances for success on planets where Squanto isn't there to tell you to plant the fish heads in with your corn...
Knowing grammar but not knowing vocabulary is like knowing that you concatenate strings with . in php, but not knowing string length function until you search php.net.
Ahh!! Do you realize what you've just done!! All numbers are now equal to all other numbers! It's chaos!! Math has no value anymore! Dogs and cats living together!!!!!!!!1!1!!1one=two!!!!!!
The problem is only a paradox when phrased so that it means, "this statement is false." With this statement, it can't be false, since then it would be true, but it can't be true, since then it would be false. So, we can only conclude that it's nonsense. But yes, the phrasing of the Cretan problem given before is not equivalent to the paradox, and so it's easily solved by saying Cretans sometimes lie and sometimes don't. The key difference is that "this statement" is an atomic unit and can't sometime be true and sometimes be false.
Wow, I wish I hadn't already given up my mod points by posting elsewhere. You're exactly backwards in your conclusion.
The answer is to have distributed solution with standardized places to save standardized preference files. It's not that tricky. There's one location for global settings (/etc in Linux,/Library in OS X) and one place for local settings (~/. in Linux, ~/Library in OS X). Now, I would say the current problem with Linux is that there are a few too many places for config files to be stored. It would be better if Linux was like OS X and absolutely everything was stored in one of two places. Why? Because like you said it's "a nightmare for sys admins" to have a bunch of scattered files. For most non-corporate users, the sys admin is the user. Which is to say, nightmares should be prevented at all costs. Having standardized locations and preference file types give you all the advantages of centralized systems (clean standard, better security, OS maintained) with none of the disadvantages. At any rate, mixing and matching is the worst approach, because you guaranty that you'll pick up some of the disadvantages of both approaches: it's difficult to backup and there's a big central part that can get corrupted and bork your system.
Once again, see Apple's plists. XML all the way, with tools to manipulate them if you don't like your text editor.
Minor nitpick: In OS 10.4, Apple's plists come in two formats, XML and binary. The binary files are made for saving space, I suppose, but both can be read by applications and there's a tool to convert from one to the other as you like. I think Apple should have just gzipped the plists, instead of inventing its own binary format, but it's still basically transparent enough.
In other news, here's some numbers I pulled out of my ass... Oooh, don't they smell nice?
Seriously, is there any possible way that someone can predict what game sales will be like NEXT YEAR, let alone 10 years from now? Maybe, possibly, after the launch of the next-gen systems, you can start to project future sales by assuming that demand will level off then start to drop over the life of the system. Maybe. But to pretend like you can accurately predict sales trends for gaming into completely different eras of technology?? Well, I hope that they enjoyed their brick of hashish at least.
You can block ads in Safari by using a custom.css file. Unlike PithHelmet, they're free and won't break when Safari upgrades. Or, you can do what I did just before switching to Camino, and just turn off plugins. That got rid of flash ads, which was the #1 thing to piss me off anyway. The other ads I can take, and hey, the sites I like gotta make money, but yeah, screw flash. It's the devil.
If you "forget" to increment a pointer, it won't have advanced the next time you use it. If you forget to open a file, assuming your program doesn't crash, anything you write to it goes to the bit bucket.
If you forget a wife' birthday, you'll have a pissed-off wife.
I'm not about to forget my girlfriend's birthday, because my computer warns me about it three days ahead of time. Similarly, why should we risk forgetting to deallocate stuff from the heap, when we can have the computer do it itself? Yes, programming takes some skill. But we shouldn't start programming using only our thumbs while dangling over a pit of lava, just to up the skill factor needlessly. If we're going to do something more difficult, we need to get a benefit for it. The benefit of not using a garbage collecting language is that your code will probably be slightly faster than the equivalent code in a GC language. But, is that slight performance increase worth the pain in the ass of doing it the manly way? In most cases, not really. But hey, judge for yourself: find the best language for your particular job and forget the rest.
Well, if you have a link to a site that a credible explains this, just put that link on the page along with the explanation you just gave. If you give a good link, then the well-meaning editors of the page will protect your addition.
Yes, Wikipedia has problems. Everything does. The point is that Wikipedia's problems are easily fixable by people who know better.
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viPod shuffle? emacsPod shuffle is clearly superior.
The DS launched in the US first last year too. It's all my fault. Ever since I moved to Japan, we've been pushed to the bottom of the schedule as part of Nintendo's "screw the earthbound kid" strategy.
"When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere... the Microsoft Galaxy... Planet Starbucks...."
(And when the story is duped, I'll get to post, "Everything is just a copy of copy..." Whee!)
No argument here: For practical purposes, Linux is more secure than Windows.
I'm just saying, I wish someone would implement easy to use per-process ACLs. I sent a feature request to Apple about it, but I'd be happy to see Linux do it too. Even if Microsoft were to implement it, I would be a little happy, even though I can't stand to use Windows, because the shame of being beaten by MS would propel Linux and Apple to copy the feature pretty quickly. Just so long as someone does it.
You're right on the facts, but I think you're missing one point, which is that though you can set up application specific ACLs in Linux, it's not common or easy to do so. True, if your banking password gets stolen from Mozilla, yer fucked. But, it would be *even worse* (if only marginally so, depending on the value of your documents) to also have all your documents stolen and deleted. So, it would be nice if there was an easy and commonly used way to set permissions for individual applications, so that the death of Mozilla does not result in the death of everything else in your home folder. The poster who started this thread was sort of trolling, but it is true: my executable files are worthless, since they're all stuff I downloaded off the internet. The stuff in my home directory is the stuff that's of value to me, since that's the stuff that I have created and are unique to me. To get around this, it would be nice if applications were easily ACLed into only having access to their own files, such that one application get owned results in only a portion of your data getting owned. Today, this can be done, but it's a pain in the ass, and requires a lot of work by the user. It would be nice if tomorrow there was an automatic method for implementing this that didn't require the user to do everything manually, just in order to get a tiny degree of better security.
So, application specific ACLs aren't a magic bullet in the sense that losing Mozilla alone is a disaster. But, they are an advantage. But, to do it today is way too inconvenient. So, I'd like to see it automated.
The end of Earthbound, when you have to pray for your team is moving.
Majora's Mask, when Anju decides to wait for Kafee, even as the moon bears down on her house is really sad.
It just depends on how emotionally open you are. If you harden yourself enough, you can make fun of Schindler's List. If you open yourself enough, you can cry during an AT&T commercial.
ACLs aren't a magic bullet, but being able to easily restrict applications to only be able access/erase files they create would make it a little bit harder for viruses to own your machine. So, in this case, you would still lose your Mozilla bookmarks, passwords, etc., but at least your confidential documents would still be safe.
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Save a thousand bucks: buy an Airport Express. It lets you use optical out with iTunes and costs way, way less. Of course, it doesn't work for DVDs, but why are you watching a DVD on a 15" screen anyway?
Did you ever read about the first English colonies to America? A group of stockholders sent some colonists, who then all nearly died, because they made plans for spending their time picking up the gold nuggets that litter coast, instead of planning on bustin' ass just to survive, which was how it actually turned out. Seriously, before John Smith took over things were hanging on by the barest thread. And the same thing happened again and again in America history. All the '49s went out to California, sold their souls to the shopkeepers for some bread and died broke. The majority of immigrants to America were as seriously deluded about what to expect when they got there.
Now, I'm not saying this has any bearing on the space program. I'm just saying, pointing to past efforts at colonization doesn't reflect well on your chances for success on planets where Squanto isn't there to tell you to plant the fish heads in with your corn...
I would say the worst thing is not understanding the meaning of the word "crock."
Knowing grammar but not knowing vocabulary is like knowing that you concatenate strings with . in php, but not knowing string length function until you search php.net.
The last version of Emacs came complete with Vim v. 10.03c! ;)
Ahh!! Do you realize what you've just done!! All numbers are now equal to all other numbers! It's chaos!! Math has no value anymore! Dogs and cats living together!!!!!!!!1!1!!1one=two!!!!!!
The problem is only a paradox when phrased so that it means, "this statement is false." With this statement, it can't be false, since then it would be true, but it can't be true, since then it would be false. So, we can only conclude that it's nonsense. But yes, the phrasing of the Cretan problem given before is not equivalent to the paradox, and so it's easily solved by saying Cretans sometimes lie and sometimes don't. The key difference is that "this statement" is an atomic unit and can't sometime be true and sometimes be false.
Wow, I wish I hadn't already given up my mod points by posting elsewhere. You're exactly backwards in your conclusion.
/Library in OS X) and one place for local settings (~/. in Linux, ~/Library in OS X). Now, I would say the current problem with Linux is that there are a few too many places for config files to be stored. It would be better if Linux was like OS X and absolutely everything was stored in one of two places. Why? Because like you said it's "a nightmare for sys admins" to have a bunch of scattered files. For most non-corporate users, the sys admin is the user. Which is to say, nightmares should be prevented at all costs. Having standardized locations and preference file types give you all the advantages of centralized systems (clean standard, better security, OS maintained) with none of the disadvantages. At any rate, mixing and matching is the worst approach, because you guaranty that you'll pick up some of the disadvantages of both approaches: it's difficult to backup and there's a big central part that can get corrupted and bork your system.
The answer is to have distributed solution with standardized places to save standardized preference files. It's not that tricky. There's one location for global settings (/etc in Linux,
Minor nitpick: In OS 10.4, Apple's plists come in two formats, XML and binary. The binary files are made for saving space, I suppose, but both can be read by applications and there's a tool to convert from one to the other as you like. I think Apple should have just gzipped the plists, instead of inventing its own binary format, but it's still basically transparent enough.
Sorry, but taiko means fat-drum in Japanese. In Chinese, taiko means literally "fat-sky" meaning "space." "Taikonaut" is, however, a bullshit term.
Correction, 4 years, not 10. At any rate, the point stands: it's useless to make sales projections just before the launch of the next-gen systems.
In other news, here's some numbers I pulled out of my ass... Oooh, don't they smell nice?
Seriously, is there any possible way that someone can predict what game sales will be like NEXT YEAR, let alone 10 years from now? Maybe, possibly, after the launch of the next-gen systems, you can start to project future sales by assuming that demand will level off then start to drop over the life of the system. Maybe. But to pretend like you can accurately predict sales trends for gaming into completely different eras of technology?? Well, I hope that they enjoyed their brick of hashish at least.
You can block ads in Safari by using a custom .css file. Unlike PithHelmet, they're free and won't break when Safari upgrades. Or, you can do what I did just before switching to Camino, and just turn off plugins. That got rid of flash ads, which was the #1 thing to piss me off anyway. The other ads I can take, and hey, the sites I like gotta make money, but yeah, screw flash. It's the devil.
I'm not about to forget my girlfriend's birthday, because my computer warns me about it three days ahead of time. Similarly, why should we risk forgetting to deallocate stuff from the heap, when we can have the computer do it itself? Yes, programming takes some skill. But we shouldn't start programming using only our thumbs while dangling over a pit of lava, just to up the skill factor needlessly. If we're going to do something more difficult, we need to get a benefit for it. The benefit of not using a garbage collecting language is that your code will probably be slightly faster than the equivalent code in a GC language. But, is that slight performance increase worth the pain in the ass of doing it the manly way? In most cases, not really. But hey, judge for yourself: find the best language for your particular job and forget the rest.
Well, if you have a link to a site that a credible explains this, just put that link on the page along with the explanation you just gave. If you give a good link, then the well-meaning editors of the page will protect your addition.
Yes, Wikipedia has problems. Everything does. The point is that Wikipedia's problems are easily fixable by people who know better.
viPod shuffle? emacsPod shuffle is clearly superior.
The DS launched in the US first last year too. It's all my fault. Ever since I moved to Japan, we've been pushed to the bottom of the schedule as part of Nintendo's "screw the earthbound kid" strategy.
"When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name ..."
everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere... the Microsoft Galaxy... Planet Starbucks.
(And when the story is duped, I'll get to post, "Everything is just a copy of copy..." Whee!)
No argument here: For practical purposes, Linux is more secure than Windows.
I'm just saying, I wish someone would implement easy to use per-process ACLs. I sent a feature request to Apple about it, but I'd be happy to see Linux do it too. Even if Microsoft were to implement it, I would be a little happy, even though I can't stand to use Windows, because the shame of being beaten by MS would propel Linux and Apple to copy the feature pretty quickly. Just so long as someone does it.
You're right on the facts, but I think you're missing one point, which is that though you can set up application specific ACLs in Linux, it's not common or easy to do so. True, if your banking password gets stolen from Mozilla, yer fucked. But, it would be *even worse* (if only marginally so, depending on the value of your documents) to also have all your documents stolen and deleted. So, it would be nice if there was an easy and commonly used way to set permissions for individual applications, so that the death of Mozilla does not result in the death of everything else in your home folder. The poster who started this thread was sort of trolling, but it is true: my executable files are worthless, since they're all stuff I downloaded off the internet. The stuff in my home directory is the stuff that's of value to me, since that's the stuff that I have created and are unique to me. To get around this, it would be nice if applications were easily ACLed into only having access to their own files, such that one application get owned results in only a portion of your data getting owned. Today, this can be done, but it's a pain in the ass, and requires a lot of work by the user. It would be nice if tomorrow there was an automatic method for implementing this that didn't require the user to do everything manually, just in order to get a tiny degree of better security.
So, application specific ACLs aren't a magic bullet in the sense that losing Mozilla alone is a disaster. But, they are an advantage. But, to do it today is way too inconvenient. So, I'd like to see it automated.
They have a new system in place to decide to which projects your tax paxments go. It's called "voting."
It just depends on how emotionally open you are. If you harden yourself enough, you can make fun of Schindler's List. If you open yourself enough, you can cry during an AT&T commercial.
ACLs aren't a magic bullet, but being able to easily restrict applications to only be able access/erase files they create would make it a little bit harder for viruses to own your machine. So, in this case, you would still lose your Mozilla bookmarks, passwords, etc., but at least your confidential documents would still be safe.
Here, this should at least get a mild reaction from you: http://www.cartmanthearistocrat.com/
But yeah, nothing's quite as strong after a while.
I started laughing because this was funny, but then I stopped when I realized how sad it was that I actually know what you are talking about.
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