I know of several managers who were excellent engineers before they were promoted and have made excellent managers as well. This guy is just projecting his own personal view onto the rest of the world. His argument that good engineers won't accept a promotion is complete bullshit since there are many good engineers who would enjoy the increased pay and/or power. In general, money and power are the ultimate motivators, even if it isn't the case for this author.
For a little while, I was afraid that Microsoft would choose someone from outside of their own toxic corporate culture and regain at least a little bit of the dominance they once had. Now that it seems likely they will choose someone who has been drinking the Microsoft KoolAid for several decades, I am suddenly much less worried. Then again, these "leaks" could just be schemes from the board to get the press, business writers, and public at large to critique each candidate for them like one giant focus group.
And Google could have spent far less than $1.56B to lobby for the destruction of software patents that are costing manufacturers of Android devices billions of dollars in court, settlement, and licensing fees. But Google would rather talk out of both sides of their ass and say that they oppose software patents while taking no serious actions to work toward ending them.
Samsung Ecogreens are manufactured by Seagate. Both of these drives that I have owned failed during the warranty period and after all the time I have spent reinstalling OSes and apps, I will never use another Seagate-manufactured drive again - it's just not worth my time for reinstalls.
IF he had gone to any of the various Representatives or Senators, he would have been a whistle blower.
You mean the same Representatives that voted for unconstitutional laws that violated the Fourth Amendment making programs like this possible? Yeah, that would've gotten him real far. The point of "blowing the whistle" is to tell someone who will enact change against an illegal or immoral act. The president, reps, and three-letter agencies all support these laws despite their unconstitutionality. Numerous others have already tried to blow the whistle and have gotten nowhere. The only place left to go was the press.
However, he handed information from the NSA to a foreign reporter...and then ran to Russia. Sorry....loks like someone knew they violated the law even though there was a way to be a whistleblower without violating the law.
So you're throwing him to the wolves because he violated a law strictly to prove that the NSA was violating many laws (and the Constitution) on an unimaginable scale. If you feel that strongly about punishing a whistleblower, I can only imagine the horrific things you would want done to the people that coordinated the effort to create these systems in the first place. You do believe they should be punished as well, don't you?
He didn't just state the obvious like many people before him did - he had the balls to gather evidence that the most powerful nation on the planet was spying on its own citizens, spying on allies, spying on international corporations, and outright abusing its power in dozens of previously unknown manners. The evidence is what separated him from every other person that attempted to blow the whistle on these activities before and the process of methodically gathering that evidence over a long period of time took balls of titanium. If he was smart, he would never attempt to step foot in the U.S. again because he made a ton of powerful people look really bad and I'm sure they can't wait to greet him.
If you read the article, you would know that many of the dates he went on hardly cost him a thing other than his time. He often met up with his match on the beach or in a park and simply walked around and talked with her. If he did meet in a place where he had to spend money, it was either a coffee shop or a bar for a drink or two. In that respect, he actually had a pretty good approach - dating is supposed to be about getting to know each other, not dropping a ton of money on her with the hope that she'll let you spend some time between her thighs.
I bought a Samsung (which is really a rebranded Seagate) to use in my HTPC and less than a year later, it died. I sent it back and got a replacement, but it was a huge pain to have to reinstall Mythbuntu and XBMC, get the two programs reconfigured and communicating again, as well as re-import all of my TV shows, movies, and music and fix all of the broken metadata. Since I suspected that the drive may have been running hot, I installed temperature monitoring software for the hard drive and had it record the temp once per minute. Less than a year later, that drive began to fail. I looked at the temperature logs while the drive still worked and it was pretty steady at about 40 degrees Celsius. I thought this may have been too hot, but when I looked up the specs for the drive, it was rated to operate at up to 60 degrees Celsius. So that's two Seagate drives that failed in less than a year each. Even though I may be able to get another replacement from Seagate for the failed drive, I wouldn't bother wasting my time reinstalling and reconfiguring the HTPC apps just to have the drive fail again, so I broke down and bought a WD Green since my other WD's have been solid over the past several years.
Can someone please explain to me why someone needs a separate app to do their banking? As a matter of fact, can anyone explain why we need most of the apps that are just poor rewrites of web sites? Why not make a good mobile version of the web site that users can bookmark as icons on their home screen and call it a day?
The judge seems very worried about protecting businesses from false negative reviews but how about protecting consumers from false positive reviews? Does this mean that shills are required to use their real names as well (at least in Virginia)?
That's an extremely one-sided view of scientific research. The private market only cares about discoveries that can be monetized within the next few years. Any big discoveries that would take too much time, money, or risk get thrown off the table. Those discoveries were usually funded by the government and led to such breakthroughs as going to the moon. At its peak, the U.S. used the combined might of our private AND public sectors to dominate nearly every corner of science and engineering. Now, many people such as yourself think that the road back to recovery with new big players in the game such as China can be handled single-handedly by the private sector. Well, you're getting your way as the U.S. is cutting back on government research in many different branches of science, and while that may line up with your political ideologies, I have a feeling that you, and the rest of our country, are not going to like the results.
You think that giving an unknown untity read, write, and execute access to all of your files and executables is sensationalist? It may not be as bad as getting root, but it is certainly a problem. And given that there are numerous ways of embedding fonts in file formats such as Flash and PDFs, it may be possible to get hit by this just by browsing the web. That doesn't even begin to describe all the damage it could do by downloading custom malware that keeps the door open for authors to upload new malware, especially after the potential exploit scans all of the processes running on the machine running as root and determines which version is running for each process. Cross-reference that with a list of known vulnerabilities for that software version, use your custom server process to upload and execute the new exploit and you've got root. Yeah, it's work, but I imagine getting your foot in the door is the hardest part and that's exactly what this vulnerability could easily do.
It was subtle satire. Even if you don't consider the limited availability of spectrum, the cost of blanketing the nation with your own wireless service would be enormous and blows a pretty big hole in the libertarian argument that anyone can start a competing service if they don't like the existing choices.
We can't say we didn't see this coming. When Obama appointed an industry lobbyist as the FCC chairman, he put the fox in charge of the hen house. It could take decades to undo the mess that this guy will likely create given his background.
This is precisely the results of the free market. Since there aren't regulations preventing data providers from double dipping or colluding with internet services, AT&T is free to offer "services" such as this, Don't worry, though, the market has a solution: if you don't like what AT&T is doing, then simply start your own nationwide wireless network to compete with them. The free market works!
Since this is mostly blowback from the assholes at Monsanto, I fully support removing the GMO ingredients. However, when it comes to Cinnamon Toast Crunch, GM really needs to stop using that whole wheat shit or at least take the word "Crunch" out of the title.
"Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference"
Besides the advice in that quote, the outcome of this "debate" won't change a thing. Creationists argue from emotional responses generated in their amygdalas. You can't change their minds with facts and reasoning because they are not open to the possibility of being wrong or learning something new. If it's possible to change their minds at all, and that's a pretty big "if", you will have to first win them over emotionally before they will let their guards down and attempt to actually follow the lines of reasoning you lay down for them. The most likely outcome in this debate is that you stomp the creationists with facts which will cause the people on your side to feel that they have won, but the reality is that you will probably be perceived by your opposition as a pompous jerk who is attempting to destroy their belief system just for fun, causing the rift between the two sides to grow bigger.
of-course it's a government program, so there has to be a level of inefficiency somewhere there
Yes, since it's the government, it just has to be inefficient! We need to have FedEx and UPS show USPS how to send letters from Florida to Alaska for 46 cents.
For a score of 8 out of 10, you would think that I could easily get a replacement motherboard, graphics card, or SSD and drop it in. But based on the shape of these components, it looks like you would have to order the parts from Apple directly. Any Mac sys admins care to chime in on this? I don't even see the ability to order spare parts from Apple's web site - is it possible to get spare parts upfront so that users aren't dead in the water if one of the components shits the bed?
Aside from that, you have to tear apart a whole bunch of pieces until you can get access to many of the components on the motherboard. Compare this to many PCs and even the Blue and White G3s that have a side panel that removes quickly with no tools and has everything immediately accessible once that panel has been removed.
The new design squeezes a lot of hardware into a very small space, but it seems very far from being easily repairable.
Right; but you're talking about a task that people (easily) go *years* without ever needing to do.
You can go a lifetime without using the CLI, especially if you work on a Microsoft platform. You don't need the CLI, but there are situations where it is definitely useful.
And it takes *months* to learn the CLI.
You can begin using very basic features of the CLI in minutes and yet it can take years to master CLI programs such as grep, awk, and sed. That is why I suggested starting with a very simple example to show how easy it can be and work up to a very difficult example to show how powerful yet complex it can be.
And since the CLI is so unforgiving (no recycle bin, no "undo" command, etc), learning it could easily cause you to lose your data.
I have seen some Linux distributions that alias the rm command to move files to the recycle bin. This was the configuration right out of the box. The undo command is much more difficult to implement. However, if you're teaching people to use the CLI, you should caution them to use ls first on statements with wildcards as well as wrap commands inside of loops with echo statements to see that they print out what you expect before you actually execute them. As with any power tools, they can make the job much easier, but they require a bit of safety training as well as a lot of caution during use.
The problem is that tasks that are fast on the CLI are always contrived-as-hell examples. "Rename every file with the word 'dog' in it!"
And yet everyone at some point has had to do a task like this that could have been performed much faster on the command line. The problem is that many people do not know that there is a faster way to do it. That ignorance is what the article is trying to address.
Now how about you do some non-linear editing of this video for YouTube and I time *you*.
Your analogy is flawed since this article is specifically about programming tasks that can benefit greatly from the CLI. Besides, this isn't a pissing contest between GUIs and CLIs - it's about using the right tool for the job. The more tools that you know how to use, the easier it will be to get work done since you will have a more versatile set of skills to tackle your problems.
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I know of several managers who were excellent engineers before they were promoted and have made excellent managers as well. This guy is just projecting his own personal view onto the rest of the world. His argument that good engineers won't accept a promotion is complete bullshit since there are many good engineers who would enjoy the increased pay and/or power. In general, money and power are the ultimate motivators, even if it isn't the case for this author.
For a little while, I was afraid that Microsoft would choose someone from outside of their own toxic corporate culture and regain at least a little bit of the dominance they once had. Now that it seems likely they will choose someone who has been drinking the Microsoft KoolAid for several decades, I am suddenly much less worried. Then again, these "leaks" could just be schemes from the board to get the press, business writers, and public at large to critique each candidate for them like one giant focus group.
Looks like it's time for a coupe
Would you care to elaborate rather than just throw out insults?
And Google could have spent far less than $1.56B to lobby for the destruction of software patents that are costing manufacturers of Android devices billions of dollars in court, settlement, and licensing fees. But Google would rather talk out of both sides of their ass and say that they oppose software patents while taking no serious actions to work toward ending them.
Samsung Ecogreens are manufactured by Seagate. Both of these drives that I have owned failed during the warranty period and after all the time I have spent reinstalling OSes and apps, I will never use another Seagate-manufactured drive again - it's just not worth my time for reinstalls.
You mean the same Representatives that voted for unconstitutional laws that violated the Fourth Amendment making programs like this possible? Yeah, that would've gotten him real far. The point of "blowing the whistle" is to tell someone who will enact change against an illegal or immoral act. The president, reps, and three-letter agencies all support these laws despite their unconstitutionality. Numerous others have already tried to blow the whistle and have gotten nowhere. The only place left to go was the press.
So you're throwing him to the wolves because he violated a law strictly to prove that the NSA was violating many laws (and the Constitution) on an unimaginable scale. If you feel that strongly about punishing a whistleblower, I can only imagine the horrific things you would want done to the people that coordinated the effort to create these systems in the first place. You do believe they should be punished as well, don't you?
He didn't just state the obvious like many people before him did - he had the balls to gather evidence that the most powerful nation on the planet was spying on its own citizens, spying on allies, spying on international corporations, and outright abusing its power in dozens of previously unknown manners. The evidence is what separated him from every other person that attempted to blow the whistle on these activities before and the process of methodically gathering that evidence over a long period of time took balls of titanium. If he was smart, he would never attempt to step foot in the U.S. again because he made a ton of powerful people look really bad and I'm sure they can't wait to greet him.
If you read the article, you would know that many of the dates he went on hardly cost him a thing other than his time. He often met up with his match on the beach or in a park and simply walked around and talked with her. If he did meet in a place where he had to spend money, it was either a coffee shop or a bar for a drink or two. In that respect, he actually had a pretty good approach - dating is supposed to be about getting to know each other, not dropping a ton of money on her with the hope that she'll let you spend some time between her thighs.
I bought a Samsung (which is really a rebranded Seagate) to use in my HTPC and less than a year later, it died. I sent it back and got a replacement, but it was a huge pain to have to reinstall Mythbuntu and XBMC, get the two programs reconfigured and communicating again, as well as re-import all of my TV shows, movies, and music and fix all of the broken metadata. Since I suspected that the drive may have been running hot, I installed temperature monitoring software for the hard drive and had it record the temp once per minute. Less than a year later, that drive began to fail. I looked at the temperature logs while the drive still worked and it was pretty steady at about 40 degrees Celsius. I thought this may have been too hot, but when I looked up the specs for the drive, it was rated to operate at up to 60 degrees Celsius. So that's two Seagate drives that failed in less than a year each. Even though I may be able to get another replacement from Seagate for the failed drive, I wouldn't bother wasting my time reinstalling and reconfiguring the HTPC apps just to have the drive fail again, so I broke down and bought a WD Green since my other WD's have been solid over the past several years.
You've got money, we've got rubber stamps
Can someone please explain to me why someone needs a separate app to do their banking? As a matter of fact, can anyone explain why we need most of the apps that are just poor rewrites of web sites? Why not make a good mobile version of the web site that users can bookmark as icons on their home screen and call it a day?
The judge seems very worried about protecting businesses from false negative reviews but how about protecting consumers from false positive reviews? Does this mean that shills are required to use their real names as well (at least in Virginia)?
That's an extremely one-sided view of scientific research. The private market only cares about discoveries that can be monetized within the next few years. Any big discoveries that would take too much time, money, or risk get thrown off the table. Those discoveries were usually funded by the government and led to such breakthroughs as going to the moon. At its peak, the U.S. used the combined might of our private AND public sectors to dominate nearly every corner of science and engineering. Now, many people such as yourself think that the road back to recovery with new big players in the game such as China can be handled single-handedly by the private sector. Well, you're getting your way as the U.S. is cutting back on government research in many different branches of science, and while that may line up with your political ideologies, I have a feeling that you, and the rest of our country, are not going to like the results.
You think that giving an unknown untity read, write, and execute access to all of your files and executables is sensationalist? It may not be as bad as getting root, but it is certainly a problem. And given that there are numerous ways of embedding fonts in file formats such as Flash and PDFs, it may be possible to get hit by this just by browsing the web. That doesn't even begin to describe all the damage it could do by downloading custom malware that keeps the door open for authors to upload new malware, especially after the potential exploit scans all of the processes running on the machine running as root and determines which version is running for each process. Cross-reference that with a list of known vulnerabilities for that software version, use your custom server process to upload and execute the new exploit and you've got root. Yeah, it's work, but I imagine getting your foot in the door is the hardest part and that's exactly what this vulnerability could easily do.
It was subtle satire. Even if you don't consider the limited availability of spectrum, the cost of blanketing the nation with your own wireless service would be enormous and blows a pretty big hole in the libertarian argument that anyone can start a competing service if they don't like the existing choices.
We can't say we didn't see this coming. When Obama appointed an industry lobbyist as the FCC chairman, he put the fox in charge of the hen house. It could take decades to undo the mess that this guy will likely create given his background.
This is precisely the results of the free market. Since there aren't regulations preventing data providers from double dipping or colluding with internet services, AT&T is free to offer "services" such as this, Don't worry, though, the market has a solution: if you don't like what AT&T is doing, then simply start your own nationwide wireless network to compete with them. The free market works!
Since this is mostly blowback from the assholes at Monsanto, I fully support removing the GMO ingredients. However, when it comes to Cinnamon Toast Crunch, GM really needs to stop using that whole wheat shit or at least take the word "Crunch" out of the title.
So stop dicking around already and put a dog in a Faraday cage to see if we can get a dog that doesn't poop!
"Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference"
Besides the advice in that quote, the outcome of this "debate" won't change a thing. Creationists argue from emotional responses generated in their amygdalas. You can't change their minds with facts and reasoning because they are not open to the possibility of being wrong or learning something new. If it's possible to change their minds at all, and that's a pretty big "if", you will have to first win them over emotionally before they will let their guards down and attempt to actually follow the lines of reasoning you lay down for them. The most likely outcome in this debate is that you stomp the creationists with facts which will cause the people on your side to feel that they have won, but the reality is that you will probably be perceived by your opposition as a pompous jerk who is attempting to destroy their belief system just for fun, causing the rift between the two sides to grow bigger.
Yes, since it's the government, it just has to be inefficient! We need to have FedEx and UPS show USPS how to send letters from Florida to Alaska for 46 cents.
For a score of 8 out of 10, you would think that I could easily get a replacement motherboard, graphics card, or SSD and drop it in. But based on the shape of these components, it looks like you would have to order the parts from Apple directly. Any Mac sys admins care to chime in on this? I don't even see the ability to order spare parts from Apple's web site - is it possible to get spare parts upfront so that users aren't dead in the water if one of the components shits the bed?
Aside from that, you have to tear apart a whole bunch of pieces until you can get access to many of the components on the motherboard. Compare this to many PCs and even the Blue and White G3s that have a side panel that removes quickly with no tools and has everything immediately accessible once that panel has been removed.
The new design squeezes a lot of hardware into a very small space, but it seems very far from being easily repairable.
You can go a lifetime without using the CLI, especially if you work on a Microsoft platform. You don't need the CLI, but there are situations where it is definitely useful.
You can begin using very basic features of the CLI in minutes and yet it can take years to master CLI programs such as grep, awk, and sed. That is why I suggested starting with a very simple example to show how easy it can be and work up to a very difficult example to show how powerful yet complex it can be.
I have seen some Linux distributions that alias the rm command to move files to the recycle bin. This was the configuration right out of the box. The undo command is much more difficult to implement. However, if you're teaching people to use the CLI, you should caution them to use ls first on statements with wildcards as well as wrap commands inside of loops with echo statements to see that they print out what you expect before you actually execute them. As with any power tools, they can make the job much easier, but they require a bit of safety training as well as a lot of caution during use.
And yet everyone at some point has had to do a task like this that could have been performed much faster on the command line. The problem is that many people do not know that there is a faster way to do it. That ignorance is what the article is trying to address.
Your analogy is flawed since this article is specifically about programming tasks that can benefit greatly from the CLI. Besides, this isn't a pissing contest between GUIs and CLIs - it's about using the right tool for the job. The more tools that you know how to use, the easier it will be to get work done since you will have a more versatile set of skills to tackle your problems.