As in, 'Enough already you son of a genderless pig' After following this thread down to this last reply I still have no idea what the argument is over.
I going to assume you spelled Perl Pearl as some kind of joke and you actually know what the hell you're talking about. I mean, pearl supports advanced gui support like tcl, which makes it very easy to write good, pretty applications. Interesting sentence. Anyway, Perl doesn't 'support' tcl. Tcl was made to work using Perl, probably because someone liked the language a whole lot and it has a good user base. That's not always the best reason. People build dynamic web pages using perl (not even mod_perl), just because they know the language and it came installed on their machine, but I don't think it's a good way to do it.
Archaic? I use a text file and tab delimit each line like: Mon Jan 04 Citibank 4.5h Adding Sort Options to Main Report My boss looks at it ocassionaly and uses it for billing purposes. Kind of archaic, but it works pretty well
Thanks, I'm glad someone noticed. One can only hope this gets caught in meta-moderation (if there is such a thing, I've seen it briefly mentioned to on this site). I think it was 2 different moderators, first it was put from 1 to 0 and then 0 to -1. People must be hard pressed to use their points. Whenever I get my points, redundant is one of the last things I look for, and I usually use it when 40 people are making the same insult about the same topic.
Actually this kind of thing should be easy to catch. They just have to check the database for any posts within the first 20 or so that have been moderated as redundant. I'm sure most of the time, it's not actually redundant.
Star Office replaces MS Office better than Nethack replaces Diablo II. Actually I like Nethack better, but you see what I was getting at? Large search and replace in MS Word?? Geeze, there are only 40 different quick ways to do this in Linux. For large search and replace in Windows I use textpad.
I know they need some connection to the internet somewhere, but why do they have an ISP? I would have thought they have their own infrastructure and connect to some large hub somewhere where they can encrypt anything going out. I don't know a lot about ISP and how large sections of the internet connect to one another, so I appologize in advance is this question sounds really stupid.
Hey, some of us click next to the beat of Marvin Gaye's 'Let's Get It On'. Of course, I don't sell myself as an NT Admin, I just wing it when the need arrives.
He said most Iomega products, and he's right. The Zip drive was very sucessful, compared to devices like it. However, Iomega makes quite a few other devices that didn't quite take off the way the Zip drive did. The kind of devices people get 2 of for a specific task between 2 computers, and they don't expect anyone else to have one of the discs to use with them. Iomega probably has a dozen or more devices like this in their history. They're still a remarkable company because they got 1 to take.
It's an easy to use client>operating system. You can argue about all the bugs it has and it's limitations, but a lot of computer illiterate people use it fairly well, the same sort of people who would shutdown a Linux box if they saw it boot because they'd think it was doing something bad.
I don't know where you work, but I don't get to see many girls at our office. I'll welcome any! But if they really are dumb, I wouldn't put it up with it I guess.
I know that's the running joke, about how anything you search for brings up at least one porn link. But it's not really true. I'm not sure what keywords you use, but maybe once in a hundred searches do I see a porn link. I agree that there is a lot of data and a comparativly low amount of analyzed information. I don't really have a problem with this. Whenever I use google to search for something, 99% of the time I find what I'm looking for, or raw information that I'll have to read, figure out a little, and at worst, it just provides me with some new search terms to use, or alter my old search terms slightly to avoid certain links.
I actually enjoy finding the raw data from multiple sites and brining it all together to make a little sense about what I'm looking for. Sometimes it's overwelming. When you search for something and google gives you 20 or more pages of 10 links each to see. But things like 'search within results' is pretty powerful. There are very good search tools out there, and they're going to keep on getting better (I hope). Even if it takes you 30 minutes to pick through stuff and find what you want, you couldn't do that years ago. If you spend 30 minutes and find nothing, it can be very disappointing, but I find that rarely happens. At worst, even if I don't get exactly what I was looking for, I get a better idea about the topic. Usuaully if a search is going to reveal no useful data, you know in the first 5 minutes of searching, because everything is a deadend.
After reading Katz's article, I'm not sure what the big deal is, and I'm not quite sure what he's getting at. He talks about the need for better information analyzing sites, and about how old filtered data isn't good enough. Why isn't the raw data good enough then? In his previous article, he mentions sites that turn Each reader becomes a highly-wired researcher and reporter, foraging for information. Wait a minute, do we need IPO'd sites for this? Isn't the internet what's allowing us to do this? Not a handful of sites, which to me sound like middle men between a search engine and the reader.
Sites like Slashdot, I use primarily for news. I can still find information, excuse me, data, about nearly any article posted by using a search engine. Slashdot is useful because it tells me about things I wouldn't have known to look for on my own. Links are provided, which are very convient, but it's not slashdot that is turning me into 'a highly-wired researcher and reporter'. The internet is doing that. Not that I think Slashdot is unbiased (another issue), but by using this site, you are looking at filtered data, and you may not be seeing the whole picture 100% of the time. I don't ever want to rely on a handful or even a hundred good sites like slashdot for my 'information'. I always still want to be able to use raw search engines and doing some figuring out myself.
There's a lot of crap released for PC, true, but I think there's a lot of crap released for console. Probably less, true, but never do you get a game as good as the really good PC games, which are far and few between, granted. I don't find many console games that call for sitting hours and hours at a time to play it. Usually they're a quicker type of game, you start it up, a few seconds you're into the game and don't really have to know much to start in right away. The majority get boring within 1 hour since they mostly involve repetitive tasks.
Though, I've only had 2 or 3 game systems ever. Atari 5200 and Dreamcast, each the games I got I really wanted, which were few. The crap released on the console seems to be bug free or well written crap. The concept is usually where it falls short. A wider range of gamers use console games, for instance, they make Strawberry Shortcake games for young girl gamers, and probably no other group would buy it.
I see I'm not the only person that might have a framed page of wired reflexes that fell out of my poorly bound Street Samurai handbook. Mostly, I put it in this extra frame because it just happened to fit in so well. Anyone else get a copy of the Street Samurai handbook with about 30 of the pages repeated? Were they all like that?
Sometimes I wish I could post something and have an option to not let anyone moderate it up because I'd like to say something, but I don't think it's that important many people see it besides the person I'm replying to, and if someone really hates it, then they can moderate it down all they want.
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I just wanted to make fun about it before someone posted the same subject, but is serious about it.
As in, 'Enough already you son of a genderless pig' After following this thread down to this last reply I still have no idea what the argument is over.
What if you're little command line thing fucks up the file? Would you be able to undo with a ctrl-z like you could in word? c(o)p(y) file file.bak
I going to assume you spelled Perl Pearl as some kind of joke and you actually know what the hell you're talking about. I mean, pearl supports advanced gui support like tcl, which makes it very easy to write good, pretty applications. Interesting sentence. Anyway, Perl doesn't 'support' tcl. Tcl was made to work using Perl, probably because someone liked the language a whole lot and it has a good user base. That's not always the best reason. People build dynamic web pages using perl (not even mod_perl), just because they know the language and it came installed on their machine, but I don't think it's a good way to do it.
Archaic? I use a text file and tab delimit each line like: Mon Jan 04 Citibank 4.5h Adding Sort Options to Main Report My boss looks at it ocassionaly and uses it for billing purposes. Kind of archaic, but it works pretty well
Thanks, I'm glad someone noticed. One can only hope this gets caught in meta-moderation (if there is such a thing, I've seen it briefly mentioned to on this site). I think it was 2 different moderators, first it was put from 1 to 0 and then 0 to -1. People must be hard pressed to use their points. Whenever I get my points, redundant is one of the last things I look for, and I usually use it when 40 people are making the same insult about the same topic.
Actually this kind of thing should be easy to catch. They just have to check the database for any posts within the first 20 or so that have been moderated as redundant. I'm sure most of the time, it's not actually redundant.
Oh well down from 13 to 11 now.
Actually I have, I just was thinking of most linux distributions.
Star Office replaces MS Office better than Nethack replaces Diablo II. Actually I like Nethack better, but you see what I was getting at? Large search and replace in MS Word?? Geeze, there are only 40 different quick ways to do this in Linux. For large search and replace in Windows I use textpad.
I know they need some connection to the internet somewhere, but why do they have an ISP? I would have thought they have their own infrastructure and connect to some large hub somewhere where they can encrypt anything going out. I don't know a lot about ISP and how large sections of the internet connect to one another, so I appologize in advance is this question sounds really stupid.
Hey, some of us click next to the beat of Marvin Gaye's 'Let's Get It On'. Of course, I don't sell myself as an NT Admin, I just wing it when the need arrives.
NT Admin are usually a happy bunch because most of them are getting paid top dollar to click next through installation wizards.
He said most Iomega products, and he's right. The Zip drive was very sucessful, compared to devices like it. However, Iomega makes quite a few other devices that didn't quite take off the way the Zip drive did. The kind of devices people get 2 of for a specific task between 2 computers, and they don't expect anyone else to have one of the discs to use with them. Iomega probably has a dozen or more devices like this in their history. They're still a remarkable company because they got 1 to take.
I thought Dreamcast GD-ROMs were more like DVDs?
It's an easy to use client>operating system. You can argue about all the bugs it has and it's limitations, but a lot of computer illiterate people use it fairly well, the same sort of people who would shutdown a Linux box if they saw it boot because they'd think it was doing something bad.
Huh? We do decide that right?
If you really work with Perl you would have done this with regular expression substitutions!
I don't know where you work, but I don't get to see many girls at our office. I'll welcome any! But if they really are dumb, I wouldn't put it up with it I guess.
You lose.
I know that's the running joke, about how anything you search for brings up at least one porn link. But it's not really true. I'm not sure what keywords you use, but maybe once in a hundred searches do I see a porn link. I agree that there is a lot of data and a comparativly low amount of analyzed information. I don't really have a problem with this. Whenever I use google to search for something, 99% of the time I find what I'm looking for, or raw information that I'll have to read, figure out a little, and at worst, it just provides me with some new search terms to use, or alter my old search terms slightly to avoid certain links.
I actually enjoy finding the raw data from multiple sites and brining it all together to make a little sense about what I'm looking for. Sometimes it's overwelming. When you search for something and google gives you 20 or more pages of 10 links each to see. But things like 'search within results' is pretty powerful. There are very good search tools out there, and they're going to keep on getting better (I hope). Even if it takes you 30 minutes to pick through stuff and find what you want, you couldn't do that years ago. If you spend 30 minutes and find nothing, it can be very disappointing, but I find that rarely happens. At worst, even if I don't get exactly what I was looking for, I get a better idea about the topic. Usuaully if a search is going to reveal no useful data, you know in the first 5 minutes of searching, because everything is a deadend.
After reading Katz's article, I'm not sure what the big deal is, and I'm not quite sure what he's getting at. He talks about the need for better information analyzing sites, and about how old filtered data isn't good enough. Why isn't the raw data good enough then? In his previous article, he mentions sites that turn Each reader becomes a highly-wired researcher and reporter, foraging for information. Wait a minute, do we need IPO'd sites for this? Isn't the internet what's allowing us to do this? Not a handful of sites, which to me sound like middle men between a search engine and the reader.
Sites like Slashdot, I use primarily for news. I can still find information, excuse me, data, about nearly any article posted by using a search engine. Slashdot is useful because it tells me about things I wouldn't have known to look for on my own. Links are provided, which are very convient, but it's not slashdot that is turning me into 'a highly-wired researcher and reporter'. The internet is doing that. Not that I think Slashdot is unbiased (another issue), but by using this site, you are looking at filtered data, and you may not be seeing the whole picture 100% of the time. I don't ever want to rely on a handful or even a hundred good sites like slashdot for my 'information'. I always still want to be able to use raw search engines and doing some figuring out myself.
There's a lot of crap released for PC, true, but I think there's a lot of crap released for console. Probably less, true, but never do you get a game as good as the really good PC games, which are far and few between, granted. I don't find many console games that call for sitting hours and hours at a time to play it. Usually they're a quicker type of game, you start it up, a few seconds you're into the game and don't really have to know much to start in right away. The majority get boring within 1 hour since they mostly involve repetitive tasks.
Though, I've only had 2 or 3 game systems ever. Atari 5200 and Dreamcast, each the games I got I really wanted, which were few. The crap released on the console seems to be bug free or well written crap. The concept is usually where it falls short. A wider range of gamers use console games, for instance, they make Strawberry Shortcake games for young girl gamers, and probably no other group would buy it.
I see I'm not the only person that might have a framed page of wired reflexes that fell out of my poorly bound Street Samurai handbook. Mostly, I put it in this extra frame because it just happened to fit in so well. Anyone else get a copy of the Street Samurai handbook with about 30 of the pages repeated? Were they all like that?
Sometimes I wish I could post something and have an option to not let anyone moderate it up because I'd like to say something, but I don't think it's that important many people see it besides the person I'm replying to, and if someone really hates it, then they can moderate it down all they want.
Please, some of us still have nightmares about that.
Since when does ASP have anything to do with distributed computing?
Oops. Sorry, I get it now, I think.