The manual is the last resort when someone didn't design the app very well.
Yeah, programs should run like this:
root:/etc# grep
GNU grep version X
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Do you want to search a file?([Y]/N) Y
What is the location of the file? [./]./
What is the name of the file? [passwd] group
Do you want to ignore case?([Y]/N) Y
Do you want to invert match?([Y]/N) N
Do you want to select only those lines containing matches that form whole words?([Y]/N) N
Do you want to select only those matches that exactly match the whole line?([Y]/N) N
Do you want to suppress normal output; instead print a count of matching lines for each input file?([Y]/N) N ...
Do you want to report Unix-style byte offsets?([Y]/N) N ...
Do you want to prefix each line of output with the 1-based line number within its input file?([Y]/N) Y ...
Okay, now that that's finished, we've stored these questions as your default choices. We'll ask you again next time, but you just need to press enter instead of typing the answer and pressing enter.
Now, what do you want to search for? Don't worry about using a regular expression, we'll send your natural-language request to a Mechanical Turk and ask them to convert it into a regular expression. [I wanna find all the instances of user IDs that are lower than 1000 but greater than 500] I wanna find all the instances of group IDs that are lower than 1000 but greater than 500
Okay, thanks. Go have a beer while your expression is parsed.
I was going to mod OP up, but I respond to you instead since I can't legitimately mod you down (you don't seem to be trolling).
- Who the f*ck cares, as long as it works.
- Why do you care, just don't use the Mac App Store, don't upgrade your OS to the version that locks you out, or don't use a Mac.
RMS cares. So do a lot of people who care about computational freedom. If the iPhone walled garden concept spreads to Macs (Steve always said it's the way of the future, so I believe they'll try it), then a significant minority of the computer using public will see computing like this as a normal processes. And by "like this" I mean that end users can create data, but can not order the OS to execute that data (ie they can't write their own software, and can only use what is provided). It's done quite a bit in university environments already on the *nix side, at least on shared systems. If Microsoft saw the profits from the Apple App Store and decided that they'd make something like it for Windows 8, then lock Windows 9 into a walled garden, and discontinue support for Windows less than 9, then you've got a situation where Linux/BSD is the only choice where end users (people who don't pay for the $10,000 developer license) are allowed to compile source into executables and run it. Stop the First Domino.
We use Motion LE1700 tablet PC's running Windows XP SP2 (no joke)
That had better be a joke, or they should be totally offline machines. Microsoft stopped supporting XP SP2 July 13th 2010. What does your HIPAA guy say about that?
Do you trust the incometent fool or do you trust the sneaky but savvy businessman?
You can always find the fool's Peter-principle level where they can be trusted, but the sneaky guy can't be trusted with anything without hiring someone else to watch him 24/7.
Christ, even I can tell the OP's comment wasn't meant to be taken seriously.
Actually, it was. Sure, the "two for me, one for the group" is silly, but I would think the natural urge would be to gorge on berries until sated, then gather the rest for the group. With meat, assuming people are cooking it (and leaving out some societies were the raw heart is eaten, although that's more social and ceremonial than almost any other eating), hunters would have to bring the meat back to the fire, roast it, and everyone would eat it, probably dancing, singing, and otherwise merrymaking.
IANAP, but my off the cuff thinking tells me that eating berries makes one selfish and antisocial. Spend a lot of time off on your own, picking berries, "two for me, one for the group, two for me, one for the group", whereas hunting is oft times a social experience, and the sharing of the kill is a party-level event.
Obfuscate your list and split it into N pieces. Then N relatives have to work together to violate your privacy or steal your money. Maybe keep the Nth piece in your safety deposit box. No messiness with encryption keys that they won't understand anyway.
Your biggest problem is the monthly password change-up. Your family will probably lose interest in keeping the pieces of random text you send them once a month. Maybe make the old password pieces redeemable for a dime when you give them a new one? That would give them an immediate incentive to hold on to a seemingly meaningless piece of paper/data file.
"Attacks like this make me wonder why should users even be able to execute *.exe files [in user writable space like \users\ or \temp\]. I've started to see the point of non-executable partitions in Linux."
Fixed for GP. It's pretty easy to set/home/ noexec on a linux machine and allow users to only run programs installed by the sysadmin. Still not perfect, but it would prevent a huge portion of malware out there now.
Unity hides all of the GUI representations of programs, and you have to know what they are by name to search for them in the menu. If I wanted that, I'd just open up the terminal and be done with it. Now what's the terminal called in Unity again...? Not to mention it's slow, jerky, buggy, and not ready for grandma.
Sorry, but exactly this is the misconception I'm arguing against.
For the majourity of our days laws of physics don't exist any "disproves". E.g. the law of gravity, (how does your anti experiment for Gallileos drop experiments look like???)
Okay, I've decided it isn't a translation problem. There is no "anti-experiment". You apparently have not taken any epistemology courses. Experimental data can't "prove" anything (it can only fit within expectations), so you run your experiments collecting data, comparing it to what you expect. But if you don't have a method for disproving your theory based on the experiments, then you can't call it science, and you most assuredly can't confirm your theory. You HAVE to have that ability to disprove. Sort of like having a base case in recursion (unless your intended purpose is a stack overflow). Regarding Galileo, anything that doesn't match the theory would work. If Galileo dropped a helium-filled balloon, he would note that it did not fall like the rocks, and would conclude his theory was flawed (didn't account for density and air pressure).
My point is the waves will not hit like in Day After Tomorrow. if it happens, the oceans will merely creep closer at a glacial pace. Someone's grandchild might have to move from the ancestral home, but it's not going to happen on a massive scale that civilization can't handle.
One of the co-authors of the paper, which by the way hasn't been accepted for publication, or peer reviewed, has attacked Muller for this. Judith Curry says it's nothing more than a pure PR operation, with no basis in fact. The actual data shows there's been no warming over the last 10 years, despite an increase in CO2. But Muller "hid the decline" in the graph that he published, by changing the scales on the graph to make it look insignificant, and use a 10 year average, thus cutting off the last 5 years of data. I know slashdot is astro-turfed by global warming cretins, but get your facts straight on this for once please.
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I told Rose that I was puzzled my Mullerâ(TM)s statements, particularly about âoeend of skepticismâ and also âoewe see no evidence of global warming slowing down.â
J.Curry.
So what you're saying is that Muller, who has always been an AGW proponent, has not changed his position, but Curry, who was, has changed her position after analyzing the data. So the/. story is actually about a believer turning into a "denialist" based on the evidence.
Warming is bad for humans... who live close to sea level or who depend on doing their farming where they've always done their farming and don't feel like moving.
Unless the sea level rises as fast as in Day After Tomorrow, no one but surveyors will know the difference.
Why is it that I, having paid my own way, not got into debt that I cannot pay, didn't buy a house I couldn't afford, don't have credit card debt upto my eyeballs have to pay for everyone else who did?
When a LIBERAL can answer that question, then we can have a dialog.
Watch out. A they might answer truthfully: "Because we think we're better than you." They like to rule, not govern.
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The manual is the last resort when someone didn't design the app very well.
Yeah, programs should run like this:
./
...
...
...
root:/etc# grep
GNU grep version X
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Do you want to search a file?([Y]/N) Y
What is the location of the file? [./]
What is the name of the file? [passwd] group
Do you want to ignore case?([Y]/N) Y
Do you want to invert match?([Y]/N) N
Do you want to select only those lines containing matches that form whole words?([Y]/N) N
Do you want to select only those matches that exactly match the whole line?([Y]/N) N
Do you want to suppress normal output; instead print a count of matching lines for each input file?([Y]/N) N
Do you want to report Unix-style byte offsets?([Y]/N) N
Do you want to prefix each line of output with the 1-based line number within its input file?([Y]/N) Y
Okay, now that that's finished, we've stored these questions as your default choices. We'll ask you again next time, but you just need to press enter instead of typing the answer and pressing enter.
Now, what do you want to search for? Don't worry about using a regular expression, we'll send your natural-language request to a Mechanical Turk and ask them to convert it into a regular expression. [I wanna find all the instances of user IDs that are lower than 1000 but greater than 500] I wanna find all the instances of group IDs that are lower than 1000 but greater than 500
Okay, thanks. Go have a beer while your expression is parsed.
- Who the f*ck cares, as long as it works.
- Why do you care, just don't use the Mac App Store, don't upgrade your OS to the version that locks you out, or don't use a Mac.
RMS cares. So do a lot of people who care about computational freedom. If the iPhone walled garden concept spreads to Macs (Steve always said it's the way of the future, so I believe they'll try it), then a significant minority of the computer using public will see computing like this as a normal processes. And by "like this" I mean that end users can create data, but can not order the OS to execute that data (ie they can't write their own software, and can only use what is provided). It's done quite a bit in university environments already on the *nix side, at least on shared systems. If Microsoft saw the profits from the Apple App Store and decided that they'd make something like it for Windows 8, then lock Windows 9 into a walled garden, and discontinue support for Windows less than 9, then you've got a situation where Linux/BSD is the only choice where end users (people who don't pay for the $10,000 developer license) are allowed to compile source into executables and run it. Stop the First Domino.
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We use Motion LE1700 tablet PC's running Windows XP SP2 (no joke)
That had better be a joke, or they should be totally offline machines. Microsoft stopped supporting XP SP2 July 13th 2010. What does your HIPAA guy say about that?
im working at a company that embraces google apps, that trusts its users in the cloud
Will you let us know if this policy lasts past the first huge data breach at your company or Google?
Do you trust the incometent fool or do you trust the sneaky but savvy businessman?
You can always find the fool's Peter-principle level where they can be trusted, but the sneaky guy can't be trusted with anything without hiring someone else to watch him 24/7.
All 19s are now 20! I'm just giving them away!
Congratulations!
Christ, even I can tell the OP's comment wasn't meant to be taken seriously.
Actually, it was. Sure, the "two for me, one for the group" is silly, but I would think the natural urge would be to gorge on berries until sated, then gather the rest for the group. With meat, assuming people are cooking it (and leaving out some societies were the raw heart is eaten, although that's more social and ceremonial than almost any other eating), hunters would have to bring the meat back to the fire, roast it, and everyone would eat it, probably dancing, singing, and otherwise merrymaking.
Via a brief flirtation with Logic.
Can we please stop calling psychology science?
It's more a science than the observational sciences.
IANAP, but my off the cuff thinking tells me that eating berries makes one selfish and antisocial. Spend a lot of time off on your own, picking berries, "two for me, one for the group, two for me, one for the group", whereas hunting is oft times a social experience, and the sharing of the kill is a party-level event.
Also I'd love shove the guy who keeps pushing the term "Maker" in a locker.
Sorry, but "craft" has already been coopted by goths.
Will you act the same when it comes to the IAEA (the agency that the U.S. relies on to restrain nuclear weapon development by Iran and North Korea)
Without the IAEA, the US's options for dealing with rogue states with nuclear ambitions are reduced, but they aren't null.
You'll be dead.
Okay, Dr. Evazan. No blasters, no blasters!
the standard internatural currency is the Euro, and it's been the Euro for a while.
What other nature are you trading with?
Obfuscate your list and split it into N pieces. Then N relatives have to work together to violate your privacy or steal your money. Maybe keep the Nth piece in your safety deposit box. No messiness with encryption keys that they won't understand anyway.
Your biggest problem is the monthly password change-up. Your family will probably lose interest in keeping the pieces of random text you send them once a month. Maybe make the old password pieces redeemable for a dime when you give them a new one? That would give them an immediate incentive to hold on to a seemingly meaningless piece of paper/data file.
"Attacks like this make me wonder why should users even be able to execute *.exe files [in user writable space like \users\ or \temp\]. I've started to see the point of non-executable partitions in Linux." /home/ noexec on a linux machine and allow users to only run programs installed by the sysadmin. Still not perfect, but it would prevent a huge portion of malware out there now.
Fixed for GP. It's pretty easy to set
Unity hides all of the GUI representations of programs, and you have to know what they are by name to search for them in the menu. If I wanted that, I'd just open up the terminal and be done with it. Now what's the terminal called in Unity again...? Not to mention it's slow, jerky, buggy, and not ready for grandma.
Sorry, but exactly this is the misconception I'm arguing against. For the majourity of our days laws of physics don't exist any "disproves". E.g. the law of gravity, (how does your anti experiment for Gallileos drop experiments look like???)
Okay, I've decided it isn't a translation problem. There is no "anti-experiment". You apparently have not taken any epistemology courses. Experimental data can't "prove" anything (it can only fit within expectations), so you run your experiments collecting data, comparing it to what you expect. But if you don't have a method for disproving your theory based on the experiments, then you can't call it science, and you most assuredly can't confirm your theory. You HAVE to have that ability to disprove. Sort of like having a base case in recursion (unless your intended purpose is a stack overflow). Regarding Galileo, anything that doesn't match the theory would work. If Galileo dropped a helium-filled balloon, he would note that it did not fall like the rocks, and would conclude his theory was flawed (didn't account for density and air pressure).
My point is the waves will not hit like in Day After Tomorrow. if it happens, the oceans will merely creep closer at a glacial pace. Someone's grandchild might have to move from the ancestral home, but it's not going to happen on a massive scale that civilization can't handle.
One of the co-authors of the paper, which by the way hasn't been accepted for publication, or peer reviewed, has attacked Muller for this. Judith Curry says it's nothing more than a pure PR operation, with no basis in fact. The actual data shows there's been no warming over the last 10 years, despite an increase in CO2. But Muller "hid the decline" in the graph that he published, by changing the scales on the graph to make it look insignificant, and use a 10 year average, thus cutting off the last 5 years of data. I know slashdot is astro-turfed by global warming cretins, but get your facts straight on this for once please. Â
I told Rose that I was puzzled my Mullerâ(TM)s statements, particularly about âoeend of skepticismâ and also âoewe see no evidence of global warming slowing down.â
J.Curry.
So what you're saying is that Muller, who has always been an AGW proponent, has not changed his position, but Curry, who was, has changed her position after analyzing the data. So the /. story is actually about a believer turning into a "denialist" based on the evidence.
Warming is bad for humans ... who live close to sea level or who depend on doing their farming where they've always done their farming and don't feel like moving.
Unless the sea level rises as fast as in Day After Tomorrow, no one but surveyors will know the difference.
I think the occupy crowd is ambitious about something. It takes some real drive to go there and some gumption to stick it out.
Why is it that I, having paid my own way, not got into debt that I cannot pay, didn't buy a house I couldn't afford, don't have credit card debt upto my eyeballs have to pay for everyone else who did? When a LIBERAL can answer that question, then we can have a dialog.
Watch out. A they might answer truthfully: "Because we think we're better than you." They like to rule, not govern.