I reiterate for posterity: I will never buy any game that requires Steam or any other DRM that prevents me from installing it twenty years from now or forces me to give up personally identifying information (especially CC numbers).
And if you only have one ISP, all you need to do is start another one. It's easy! Trust in the dread god Freem'Arkhet to handle everything!
This would be insightful if many local governments weren't granting monopolies for cable/Internet service. Back when ISPs were modem based, there were start ups all over the place, and they were driving costs down while providing better service than the likes of AOL.
What part of "Bipartisan Internet Sales Tax Bill Introduced" and "Four senators, including both Democrats and Republicans" makes you want to point at just conservatives
Because the D's are pro any-tax? I think GP was explaining the reason why it was bipartisan (whether correct or not is another matter).
And not just tax dollars, but more and more tax dollars. The same amount of tax dollars that built the roads and fire stations isn't enough to maintain them. How will the fire stations stay in good repair if taxes aren't raised for farm subsidies? If a farmer actually uses his land to grow crops, then the fire stations will crumble! And roads! Tunnels and roads cut through hills will revert to pristine hills sans roads unless taxes are raised to pay for Three Letter swag!
The current crop of UI designers seem like they want change for the sake of change. Possibly because they need to justify working on a UI for Canonical or Microsoft so that their department doesn't dwindle, or maybe they think a stagnant area of thought is useless (not so; has anyone tried designing a wheel that isn't round lately?). Maybe they need to keep trying to be different like teenagers try to stand out from a crowd.
All I know is they're taking something incredibly useful and trashing it, just like modern car radio interfaces. Do I really want to be looking at a digital touchscreen menu while I'm driving instead of hitting the radio-button furthest on the right or the one furthest on the left?
Did you read the next page of the article [bbc.co.uk] with the guy dressed up like Link from The Legend of Zelda? Proposals include a tax on large trades in stocks, bonds, derivatives, or foreign currency.
Not only is that somewhat offensive to male-to-female transgendered people, it basically disregards the existence of female-to-male transfolk.
I notice you didn't mention the robot-to-vehicle and robot-to-consumer-product transfolk. Bigot.
(I didn't mention the robot-to-dinosaur or robot-to-city transfolk because they are sparkless abominations.)
Even if everyone were geniuses, it's also a time-sink. Would everyone really want to vote on the minutiae that local state and federal governments deal with hourly? Heck, I find it a pain when/. Gives me another bundle of mod points just after I spent my last one ("oh jeez, now I have to judge").
No it's because iPhones are marketed like wine. The people who buy them are going to love them at least somewhat based upon owning something of "quality".
Partly. I bought my latest iPhone to replace the gen1 iPhone I had previously purchased second hand. At the time, android was still beIng tested, and the iPhone was better than my razr and Nokia candybar, and about 75% as useful for Internet stuff as my old Linux iPaq (but it actually fit in my pocket!). The iPhone4 was purchased due to laziness and lockin. Had I expended effort to port my data, I would have purchased an n900 just before Nokia whored itself out to Microsoft. Sure glad I didn't make the mistake of buying a Nokia based on the name, or I'd have a(n admittedly great) phone with no promise of a new one homogeneity to when it dies. I'll being buying an android next as Apple's ios5 has made my iphone4 run dog slow (when it used to be super fast).
Is is "cheating" to use PRNG when they work totally fine and computerized music that uses them can't be discerned from "natural" imperfect music. or is it cheating to use a computer to make music whether it's randomized or not?
On one side, the stress of knowing that if anything breaks you'll evaporate in space could break your sanity. On the other, knowing you'll be the first person in another planet should help on not breaking your sanity. On the third side, deciding who'll be the first to touch down on Mars and becoming a world symbol can produce a murderous individual.
So swinging between paranoia and megalomania. Sounds healthy.
I'm impressed by context sensitive fill in Photoshop
Apply that context sensitive fill (or at least change the background to be hot pink and use that as a transparency color) to thousands of images like with gimp script or image magick? I suppose a GUI could be specially designed to do specific cases, but why when the command line is so much more flexible?
It's been about 25 years since I've found piping text from app to app to be amazing
Reexamine it. Rediscover the magic. The beauty of a flow of data through a modularly assembled command line is transcendent.
What is it exactly that you are trying to accomplish with this hypothetical Windows workflow that you say doesn't work? What exactly is it you want Excel to do with your diffs?
Frankly, I was trying to come up with a quick list of GUI programs that I could name off the top of my head so that it wouldn't take me forever to point out that GUI programs suck at piping data to one another, especially so if you need to do the same thing iteratively for hundreds or thousands of cases. Sure, Word might be able to do specialty stuff like mail merge, but can you drag a directory of word documents onto the adobe acrobat icon and Winzip simultaneously to get a zipped directory of appropriately named PDF docs?
If I was asked to blindly code shit on a board/piece of paper, I'd probably just scratch my nuts then leave.
And you'd be the butt end of jokes for the rest of the hiring process; I know because we've laughed at people who gave up without trying to step through simple C code that was provided for them. Raw computational logic is far different from knowing an IDE inside and out. If you have to test even the tiniest loop output to see what it does, you don't belong in IT.
There's a reason computer science focuses on concepts and algorithms more than individual languages and environments.
And my mental model is stuck in text interfaces because it's what allows me to perform amazing feats of computing with large amount of repetition and interconnectivity. Try dragging the icons for two files onto windiff.exe and drag all three of those icons onto excel.exe and the printer icon and see how that works for you. Now do it with hundreds of other files. A command line guru could pipe the I/O together and get the necessary output in no time.
There is an actual store named "The Apple Store" in a city with an Apple "Apple Store". It sells apples, and has for a quarter of a century. I have heard about people using google maps bringing their macs to "The Apple Store" for genius help and being politely redirected to the Apple "Apple Store".
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I reiterate for posterity: I will never buy any game that requires Steam or any other DRM that prevents me from installing it twenty years from now or forces me to give up personally identifying information (especially CC numbers).
What kind of conceivable emergency would effect the entire country? Nuclear war?
Plague, OWS rioters in every city (or announcement of curfew because of said OWS rioters), Killer Bees!
And if you only have one ISP, all you need to do is start another one. It's easy! Trust in the dread god Freem'Arkhet to handle everything!
This would be insightful if many local governments weren't granting monopolies for cable/Internet service. Back when ISPs were modem based, there were start ups all over the place, and they were driving costs down while providing better service than the likes of AOL.
The only issue you had with my comment was mistaking state and federal tax responsibilities?
What part of "Bipartisan Internet Sales Tax Bill Introduced" and "Four senators, including both Democrats and Republicans" makes you want to point at just conservatives
Because the D's are pro any-tax? I think GP was explaining the reason why it was bipartisan (whether correct or not is another matter).
And not just tax dollars, but more and more tax dollars. The same amount of tax dollars that built the roads and fire stations isn't enough to maintain them. How will the fire stations stay in good repair if taxes aren't raised for farm subsidies? If a farmer actually uses his land to grow crops, then the fire stations will crumble! And roads! Tunnels and roads cut through hills will revert to pristine hills sans roads unless taxes are raised to pay for Three Letter swag!
Totally agree! I've never seen so many beekeepers posting to a tech news site before!! Things are getting curiouser and curiouser.
How many blacksmiths do we have?
The current crop of UI designers seem like they want change for the sake of change. Possibly because they need to justify working on a UI for Canonical or Microsoft so that their department doesn't dwindle, or maybe they think a stagnant area of thought is useless (not so; has anyone tried designing a wheel that isn't round lately?). Maybe they need to keep trying to be different like teenagers try to stand out from a crowd.
All I know is they're taking something incredibly useful and trashing it, just like modern car radio interfaces. Do I really want to be looking at a digital touchscreen menu while I'm driving instead of hitting the radio-button furthest on the right or the one furthest on the left?
Did you read the next page of the article [bbc.co.uk] with the guy dressed up like Link from The Legend of Zelda? Proposals include a tax on large trades in stocks, bonds, derivatives, or foreign currency.
Like rupees.
Not only is that somewhat offensive to male-to-female transgendered people, it basically disregards the existence of female-to-male transfolk.
I notice you didn't mention the robot-to-vehicle and robot-to-consumer-product transfolk. Bigot.
(I didn't mention the robot-to-dinosaur or robot-to-city transfolk because they are sparkless abominations.)
Even if everyone were geniuses, it's also a time-sink. Would everyone really want to vote on the minutiae that local state and federal governments deal with hourly? Heck, I find it a pain when /. Gives me another bundle of mod points just after I spent my last one ("oh jeez, now I have to judge").
78,32% of Americans believe any made up numbers.
So is it 78 Americans, or 32% of Americans?
Neither. It's 78,32 which is a made up number from a fairy tale land.
Tax them for inventory; every possible copy they can push out at maximum bandwidth.
promise of a new one homogeneity to when it dies
@&#%ing iPhone word replacement. "promise of a new one to upgrade to when it dies"
No it's because iPhones are marketed like wine. The people who buy them are going to love them at least somewhat based upon owning something of "quality".
Partly. I bought my latest iPhone to replace the gen1 iPhone I had previously purchased second hand. At the time, android was still beIng tested, and the iPhone was better than my razr and Nokia candybar, and about 75% as useful for Internet stuff as my old Linux iPaq (but it actually fit in my pocket!). The iPhone4 was purchased due to laziness and lockin. Had I expended effort to port my data, I would have purchased an n900 just before Nokia whored itself out to Microsoft. Sure glad I didn't make the mistake of buying a Nokia based on the name, or I'd have a(n admittedly great) phone with no promise of a new one homogeneity to when it dies. I'll being buying an android next as Apple's ios5 has made my iphone4 run dog slow (when it used to be super fast).
Is is "cheating" to use PRNG when they work totally fine and computerized music that uses them can't be discerned from "natural" imperfect music. or is it cheating to use a computer to make music whether it's randomized or not?
They had extremely high latency communications.
On one side, the stress of knowing that if anything breaks you'll evaporate in space could break your sanity. On the other, knowing you'll be the first person in another planet should help on not breaking your sanity. On the third side, deciding who'll be the first to touch down on Mars and becoming a world symbol can produce a murderous individual.
So swinging between paranoia and megalomania. Sounds healthy.
Maybe google for "the apple store"? http://www.google.com/search?q=%22the+apple+store%22
I'm impressed by context sensitive fill in Photoshop
Apply that context sensitive fill (or at least change the background to be hot pink and use that as a transparency color) to thousands of images like with gimp script or image magick? I suppose a GUI could be specially designed to do specific cases, but why when the command line is so much more flexible?
It's been about 25 years since I've found piping text from app to app to be amazing
Reexamine it. Rediscover the magic. The beauty of a flow of data through a modularly assembled command line is transcendent.
What is it exactly that you are trying to accomplish with this hypothetical Windows workflow that you say doesn't work? What exactly is it you want Excel to do with your diffs?
Frankly, I was trying to come up with a quick list of GUI programs that I could name off the top of my head so that it wouldn't take me forever to point out that GUI programs suck at piping data to one another, especially so if you need to do the same thing iteratively for hundreds or thousands of cases. Sure, Word might be able to do specialty stuff like mail merge, but can you drag a directory of word documents onto the adobe acrobat icon and Winzip simultaneously to get a zipped directory of appropriately named PDF docs?
If I was asked to blindly code shit on a board/piece of paper, I'd probably just scratch my nuts then leave.
And you'd be the butt end of jokes for the rest of the hiring process; I know because we've laughed at people who gave up without trying to step through simple C code that was provided for them. Raw computational logic is far different from knowing an IDE inside and out. If you have to test even the tiniest loop output to see what it does, you don't belong in IT.
There's a reason computer science focuses on concepts and algorithms more than individual languages and environments.
That was GP's point. Git yer own.
And my mental model is stuck in text interfaces because it's what allows me to perform amazing feats of computing with large amount of repetition and interconnectivity. Try dragging the icons for two files onto windiff.exe and drag all three of those icons onto excel.exe and the printer icon and see how that works for you. Now do it with hundreds of other files. A command line guru could pipe the I/O together and get the necessary output in no time.
The name comes from the ed command g/re/p (global / regular expression / print), or so says Wikipedia.
There is an actual store named "The Apple Store" in a city with an Apple "Apple Store". It sells apples, and has for a quarter of a century. I have heard about people using google maps bringing their macs to "The Apple Store" for genius help and being politely redirected to the Apple "Apple Store".
I almost want to apply for a job just to play the puzzles.