:0 why would you put a space after the asterisk? If someone is that confused about how to use rm, they should stick to a GUI, or at least not use forced mode until they get more acquainted with it. I imagine in a more "friendly" version of bash, you'd get a recycle bin.
To be honest, the language is hardly the real problem [..]breaking down a task logically into discrete units and defining them, ordering them, and putting the right logic around them pis the problem]
Once you learn one or two languages, picking up another is usually easy.
Definitely agree. Plus, the more wordy you make the language, the more likely people are to make mistakes. Just think of all the times that people misuses then/than, loose/lose on internet comments *shudder* If you get your basic syntax mixed up like that when programming, you are going to have problems.
Couldn't you just as easily replace the text editor with a flow chart where each operation or function was represented as an object in the chart? Not saying this is how I want to roll, but, I see no reason that it couldn't be made functionally equivalent.
LabVIEW basically does this:) It's an interesting concept, and good for people who are used to designing and building electronic circuits, but I prefer the text editor myself.
Free speech is a joke when you can't debate history. Now, that's hypocritical.
I have no idea what you're referring to. Sounds like something that maybe Germany would do, but there's a whole lot more to Europe than Germany. It's pretty silly to lump the whole of Europe together when you're referring to matters of culture, law and politics.. the European Union is nowhere near as much of a monoculture as the Unites States are. That's not meant to be an insult, just an observation, and a fairly obvious one to anyone who actually knows anything about Europe.
Yes, the original post was a bit light on arguments;)
Europe isn't really very close to being a single entity at the moment compared to the US. The laws and cultures in each country vary a lot. Even in the British Isles and little islands around about we have separate law in Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, the Isle of Man, probably different ones in Jersey etc.. I'm not an expert on it all. So just because Italy and Germany (2 of the countries that are a bit more likely to be right wing historically) do a couple of crazy things doesn't say much about Europe as a whole.
I hope that google analytics thing is shot down, and no harm was caused by the morons that were trying to blame Google in italy. The are idiots in every country, and unfortunately the idiots are the ones most likely to get on the news. Again, that's not an attempt at misdirection, juts a statement of fact to try to inject a bit of perspective.
It seemed pretty relevant to me, especially considering it was part of the base of this guy's argument. Yes it would be simpler to keep everything in one country, but in that case I don't think the US is place that would grant the most freedom from oppression or political influence. I'm quite serious about that, though I'm aware it's kind of flame bait around here.
I'm not trying to justify the actions of the Italian government at all, but I find it sad that he thinks it's better to just keep everything in the US rather than try to cater to local markets. I'm quite happy that there is a google.co.uk service. Yes there may be a few squabbles every now and then over local laws, but I'm sure google was quite aware of that before branching out. They're a clever bunch of people.
And again, the US is quite the "police state" with the Patriot Act and some of the crazy "security" measures that have been put in place since 9/11. Are you really that blinkered, or do you just enjoy being a hypocrite?
The whole China situation isn't great, but it's better for google to be there and complying with the laws, than for them not to be there at all. Things will change over time. There must be millions of businesses worldwide that interact with China. Google is one of the ones that is more likely to encourage a positive change in their political spectrum.
I get that there are cultures in the world that could do with a bit of enlightenment, but saying "fuck you" and ignoring them is not going to help. And on top of that, there are a few countries in the world that I think would be even better than the US for hosting google in an unmolested fashion, Sweden is probably a good one.
it's not the norm, anymore, to wage wars based on racial prejudices.
Maybe not many full blown wars, but there's still a whole lot of prejudice and the "war on terror" creating a climate of unnecessary fear and negative stereotypes.
Yeah I'd actually written down a couple of ideas like: alien invasion, global warming, land dwelling sharks, but I decided to try and keep things simple. Plus, I didn't want to start people ranting on about global warming again, but you might just have gone and done it!
Just because you can 'see' it on the internet doesn't mean that the act occurred within your country's jurisdiction.
Apart from the fact that Google.it is registered in Italy, and the video is accessible from google.it
I hope this serves as a lesson to companies who seem to want the best of all worlds. I'm kind of glad that google is getting hit with this because it brings to light the problem with trying to cater to the demands of local governments. When Google began working with governments in foreign jurisdictions it opened the door to this type of activity.
Xenophobic much? If Google wants to customise their service depending on which country they're serving, it's their own [censored] business. If you don't like it, nobody's forcing you to use anything Google related. It's not like the US is perfect either.
In recent news, leaders of the BBC were jailed for showing footage of a warzone during a news report. Obviously, they must be entirely responsible for this war.
Also, it has just been discovered that if you hide a problem, it goes away.
I could be demonstrably classified as "smart" (for certain definitions of smart), but I usually find RPGs and strategy games quite dull.
The difference might be that I am generally pretty good at action games (thinking mostly FPSes like Counter-Strike, but I have enjoyed a few 3rd person games like Uncharted and Heavenly Sword). Games where my characters skill is decided by a random number generator and/or XP level, or where I have to command a bunch of retarded troops who can't do anything particularly intelligent for themselves, bore me.
I do enjoy some RPGs (traditionally, MUDs) for the community aspects, and I admit I can get addicted to pointlessly gaining levels, but I don't pretend it actually has any bearing on anything at all. With action games, at least I know I am improving my own reactions, coordination and tactics. There is obvious a strong element of tactics to strategy games and RPGs too, but.. I've just never found them much fun for probably the same reason that I'd much prefer to write programs myself rather than manage a team of coders. I can see how it would be rewarding in some ways, but I am the type that prefers to crush new challenges rather than train a bunch of people up and then watch them crush challenges for me.
Just because something is part of human nature, does not mean it's not racist.. in fact it's the natural human "us/them" mentality that causes racism, sports related violence, religious wars and all that good stuff:/ I suppose it also drives things like capitalism.
Basically we are social animals, and need to feel we belong. On top of that, a lot of people like to believe that what they belong to is better than everything else.
It will be nice when everyone can think of "us" as the whole of humanity. Until we as a species have a more natural enemy (whether real or imagined) than other humans, things will probably continue to suck.
BadAnalogyGuy seemed to stop making bad analogies recently and just started making insightful yet vaguely flamebaity posts. I prefer the pizza analogies, though I fail to see the actual analogy in this one. It's like some guy started making this really awesome pepperoni and green pepper pizza, cooked it to perfection, then forgot to actually eat it.
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I don't think you're making your point very well. Why not just give people your email address rather than getting them to sign up to yet another service? Also, your computer is apparently off just now. So people will only even be able to see content you've shared when your personal computer is switched on. I don't really see it catching on, I'd prefer to set up an always on server for this kind of thing. But at the moment I'm happy with the multitude of social networking sites out there for whenever I actually feel like sharing something.
It's the whole of humanity, not just "your country" (which I assume is the US if you automatically assume that he's from the same country as you).
You are perpetuating things by still thinking of things in terms of "sides". "Same side" (whatever that may refer to, presumably you mean "being American vs everything that is not American") or not.
I agree that that way of thinking is stupid and blinkered though.
The amount of force that would be needed move a ~200 pound human body horizontally and across the room would exceed the amount of friction provided by Sylar's sneakers
Like I said it would also push down a bit if he threw them up and across. But I have also said a couple of times that he could be pushing a wall with an opposing force at the same time. If you're looking to pick an argument over nothing, you'll have to do it elsewhere.. otherwise if you're going to keep replying, please pay attention.
>>>telekinesis is pure fantasy.
This is what I've been saying all along. You can't justify what Sylar does with science, so why do you keep trying?
Probably for the same reason that you wondered about it in the first place. And like I said, myself and others have already pointed out the flaws in your own reason for why his power couldn't work.. the are more obvious problems like how can he control external objects directly with his mind, never mind why he doesn't appear to have to balance out the forces involved..
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:0 why would you put a space after the asterisk? If someone is that confused about how to use rm, they should stick to a GUI, or at least not use forced mode until they get more acquainted with it. I imagine in a more "friendly" version of bash, you'd get a recycle bin.
user@computer:~$ delete all files in this folder, and I'm sure I want to do this
are you really sure?
user@computer:~$ yes I am sure
you do know that this will delete ALL files in the folder, yes?
user@computer:~$ yes, that's what I asked for
just making sure
user@computer:~$ delete the fucking files already
final answer?
user@computer:~$ killall friendlybashhelper
are you sure?
To be honest, the language is hardly the real problem [..]breaking down a task logically into discrete units and defining them, ordering them, and putting the right logic around them pis the problem]
Once you learn one or two languages, picking up another is usually easy.
Definitely agree. Plus, the more wordy you make the language, the more likely people are to make mistakes. Just think of all the times that people misuses then/than, loose/lose on internet comments *shudder* If you get your basic syntax mixed up like that when programming, you are going to have problems.
Couldn't you just as easily replace the text editor with a flow chart where each operation or function was represented as an object in the chart? Not saying this is how I want to roll, but, I see no reason that it couldn't be made functionally equivalent.
LabVIEW basically does this :) It's an interesting concept, and good for people who are used to designing and building electronic circuits, but I prefer the text editor myself.
I didn't say it was evil, but it certainly is a step towards being a "Police state". The AC I was replying to was IMO being rather hypocritical.
Free speech is a joke when you can't debate history. Now, that's hypocritical.
I have no idea what you're referring to. Sounds like something that maybe Germany would do, but there's a whole lot more to Europe than Germany. It's pretty silly to lump the whole of Europe together when you're referring to matters of culture, law and politics.. the European Union is nowhere near as much of a monoculture as the Unites States are. That's not meant to be an insult, just an observation, and a fairly obvious one to anyone who actually knows anything about Europe.
Yes, the original post was a bit light on arguments ;)
Europe isn't really very close to being a single entity at the moment compared to the US. The laws and cultures in each country vary a lot. Even in the British Isles and little islands around about we have separate law in Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, the Isle of Man, probably different ones in Jersey etc.. I'm not an expert on it all. So just because Italy and Germany (2 of the countries that are a bit more likely to be right wing historically) do a couple of crazy things doesn't say much about Europe as a whole.
I hope that google analytics thing is shot down, and no harm was caused by the morons that were trying to blame Google in italy. The are idiots in every country, and unfortunately the idiots are the ones most likely to get on the news. Again, that's not an attempt at misdirection, juts a statement of fact to try to inject a bit of perspective.
It seemed pretty relevant to me, especially considering it was part of the base of this guy's argument. Yes it would be simpler to keep everything in one country, but in that case I don't think the US is place that would grant the most freedom from oppression or political influence. I'm quite serious about that, though I'm aware it's kind of flame bait around here.
I'm not trying to justify the actions of the Italian government at all, but I find it sad that he thinks it's better to just keep everything in the US rather than try to cater to local markets. I'm quite happy that there is a google.co.uk service. Yes there may be a few squabbles every now and then over local laws, but I'm sure google was quite aware of that before branching out. They're a clever bunch of people.
And again, the US is quite the "police state" with the Patriot Act and some of the crazy "security" measures that have been put in place since 9/11. Are you really that blinkered, or do you just enjoy being a hypocrite?
The whole China situation isn't great, but it's better for google to be there and complying with the laws, than for them not to be there at all. Things will change over time. There must be millions of businesses worldwide that interact with China. Google is one of the ones that is more likely to encourage a positive change in their political spectrum.
I get that there are cultures in the world that could do with a bit of enlightenment, but saying "fuck you" and ignoring them is not going to help. And on top of that, there are a few countries in the world that I think would be even better than the US for hosting google in an unmolested fashion, Sweden is probably a good one.
it's not the norm, anymore, to wage wars based on racial prejudices.
Maybe not many full blown wars, but there's still a whole lot of prejudice and the "war on terror" creating a climate of unnecessary fear and negative stereotypes.
Yeah I'd actually written down a couple of ideas like: alien invasion, global warming, land dwelling sharks, but I decided to try and keep things simple. Plus, I didn't want to start people ranting on about global warming again, but you might just have gone and done it!
Just because you can 'see' it on the internet doesn't mean that the act occurred within your country's jurisdiction.
Apart from the fact that Google.it is registered in Italy, and the video is accessible from google.it
I hope this serves as a lesson to companies who seem to want the best of all worlds. I'm kind of glad that google is getting hit with this because it brings to light the problem with trying to cater to the demands of local governments. When Google began working with governments in foreign jurisdictions it opened the door to this type of activity.
Xenophobic much? If Google wants to customise their service depending on which country they're serving, it's their own [censored] business. If you don't like it, nobody's forcing you to use anything Google related. It's not like the US is perfect either.
In recent news, leaders of the BBC were jailed for showing footage of a warzone during a news report. Obviously, they must be entirely responsible for this war.
Also, it has just been discovered that if you hide a problem, it goes away.
That depends if the suits can eventually evolve energy condensers
I could be demonstrably classified as "smart" (for certain definitions of smart), but I usually find RPGs and strategy games quite dull.
The difference might be that I am generally pretty good at action games (thinking mostly FPSes like Counter-Strike, but I have enjoyed a few 3rd person games like Uncharted and Heavenly Sword). Games where my characters skill is decided by a random number generator and/or XP level, or where I have to command a bunch of retarded troops who can't do anything particularly intelligent for themselves, bore me.
I do enjoy some RPGs (traditionally, MUDs) for the community aspects, and I admit I can get addicted to pointlessly gaining levels, but I don't pretend it actually has any bearing on anything at all. With action games, at least I know I am improving my own reactions, coordination and tactics. There is obvious a strong element of tactics to strategy games and RPGs too, but.. I've just never found them much fun for probably the same reason that I'd much prefer to write programs myself rather than manage a team of coders. I can see how it would be rewarding in some ways, but I am the type that prefers to crush new challenges rather than train a bunch of people up and then watch them crush challenges for me.
That isn't racism, its human nature.
Just because something is part of human nature, does not mean it's not racist.. in fact it's the natural human "us/them" mentality that causes racism, sports related violence, religious wars and all that good stuff :/ I suppose it also drives things like capitalism.
Basically we are social animals, and need to feel we belong. On top of that, a lot of people like to believe that what they belong to is better than everything else.
It will be nice when everyone can think of "us" as the whole of humanity. Until we as a species have a more natural enemy (whether real or imagined) than other humans, things will probably continue to suck.
Are 1 in 4 children really sexually abused by the Internet?
The solution is obvious. We need to put a restraining order on the internet, to not allow it within 50 feet of any child.
BadAnalogyGuy seemed to stop making bad analogies recently and just started making insightful yet vaguely flamebaity posts. I prefer the pizza analogies, though I fail to see the actual analogy in this one. It's like some guy started making this really awesome pepperoni and green pepper pizza, cooked it to perfection, then forgot to actually eat it.
That way you can tell your friends to leave you at note at an URL like http://macbook-win7.jfim.operaunite.com/fridge/ [operaunite.com] instead of having to sign up for yet another service for only one simple app.
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I don't think you're making your point very well. Why not just give people your email address rather than getting them to sign up to yet another service? Also, your computer is apparently off just now. So people will only even be able to see content you've shared when your personal computer is switched on. I don't really see it catching on, I'd prefer to set up an always on server for this kind of thing. But at the moment I'm happy with the multitude of social networking sites out there for whenever I actually feel like sharing something.
Opera apparently made a business decision to go for the 0.1% of the market
It's about time they focused on growing their userbase!
The one big exception that I can think of is music.
And photos, writing and other art. And even videos.
3 years and less than one month..
It's the whole of humanity, not just "your country" (which I assume is the US if you automatically assume that he's from the same country as you).
You are perpetuating things by still thinking of things in terms of "sides". "Same side" (whatever that may refer to, presumably you mean "being American vs everything that is not American") or not.
I agree that that way of thinking is stupid and blinkered though.
can you catch this cookie through visiting other sites
o_0 it's not the flu. AFAIK you can only set a cookie for your own domain or a subdomain thereof. I'm sure someone who actually cares will clarify.
The amount of force that would be needed move a ~200 pound human body horizontally and across the room would exceed the amount of friction provided by Sylar's sneakers
Like I said it would also push down a bit if he threw them up and across. But I have also said a couple of times that he could be pushing a wall with an opposing force at the same time. If you're looking to pick an argument over nothing, you'll have to do it elsewhere.. otherwise if you're going to keep replying, please pay attention.
>>>telekinesis is pure fantasy.
This is what I've been saying all along. You can't justify what Sylar does with science, so why do you keep trying?
Probably for the same reason that you wondered about it in the first place. And like I said, myself and others have already pointed out the flaws in your own reason for why his power couldn't work.. the are more obvious problems like how can he control external objects directly with his mind, never mind why he doesn't appear to have to balance out the forces involved..