For 2.99USD, it's really a pittance and the developers deserve a little compensation for a job well done. Thanks for motivating me.
I hope you're being sarcastic. A "donate" button would be a motivation to compensate them. Bundling malware should be motivation to install an alternative, or even write a competing app, if you're an Android developer.
Gross revenue taxation would completely destroy companies that have large influx and outflow of money. It's not even an option.
Say I borrow a million bucks, have a factory make a bunch of coffee mugs, and sell them for 20% profit, repay the loan plus interest, and keep 15k. If you tax me based on my revenue, my profit will become negative! This is why the VAT was invented. You can't tax revenue because the buy=>improve/market=>sell business model has very little profit compared to the revenue.
Imagine you tried taxing Amazon.com based on revenue. Their tax would be many, many times greater than their profit!
I don't understand why people believe they are entitled to someone else's property in whatever way they choose at whatever price they feel they want to pay. Does any other business work this way? Does any other part of life work this way? Do you treat your own property this way?
This is basically the way everything works, and always has. If a company won't license you their product, you build your own version. If they won't license you their patent, you make something similar that does not use the mechanism they described in the patent. If it's too expensive, people make their own or find a substitute. There are so many examples of this that I can't even begin to name them. For the internet age: Soylent is a cheaper version of medical food replacements that have been available for decades. Facebook wouldn't give the Chinese government what it wanted, so a Chinese company created Renren. Do you think in any single one of these cases, the person that wanted the product decided, "No, I won't clone it because it would hurt the other company, and I have a really kind heart."???
The only thing different about the entertainment industry is that the most reasonable way to clone it is to make a bit-by-bit copy. It's unlawful, but so are half the other ways people/companies take ideas from other people/companies.
Oh, I didn't think of that one. However, it's still distinct from $foo/*, as the shell can tell the difference even when the variable is empty or unset (as long as "rm" is a shell builtin). However, that made me think of a much bigger problem: "rm $foo/*/" to get rid of directories. This is a common use case (for me), so I cannot think of a non-restrictive check will prevent this from wiping out the root folders when $foo is unset.
What do you use "rm $foo/*" for? I find that if I want to empty a directory, I generally want it deleted as well.
Yes, that's what I'm saying. The cases where you legitimately want to recursively delete a directory's contents, but not the directory itself or its dotfiles, are much rarer than the cases where you just need "rm -r dir" without globbing.
I just made up the 99% figure, but since you're not contradicting me or providing a contradicting use case, is that agreement?
I think we mostly agree. You'll note I didn't suggest making it harder to recursively delete "*/". I suggested disallowing it completely. Directories could be removed recursively, but not emptied recursively. "rm -r $foo" does not present the same problem as "rm -r $foo/*" when foo is undefined. "rm -r/$foo" would still present a problem, but --preserve-root mitigates that, plus who would store an absolute path as a relative path like that? (Okay, I'm sure it happens every day, but it reduces the likelihood of this problem.)
You can't prevent the computer from doing what the user tells it to in all cases.
For what it's worth, removing "*" recursively is a weird use case (99% of the time, you would just delete the directory), so "rm -r $foo/*" -> "rm -r/*" is unlikely to occur. (For a vaccine, 99% is a pretty damn good rate of protection.)
If "rm *" or "rm foo/*" were disallowed by all shells (if "rm" were removed as a command and only implemented as a shell builtin), this problem could be eradicated. A more difficult workaround would be to use a programming language with stronger typing, so arguments would not be computed by string interpolation. For example, if the guy's code had run "dir = Path.Combine(foo, bar)" and then deleted the contents of that dir, an exception would have stopped execution before ever getting to the line that does the deletion.
I cannot find any evidence that the LG G5's bootloader is unlocked. Every successive phone LG makes seems to be more restricted, so I expect to be SOL, just like I was with the G4.
This is turning out to be more of a pain than expected--without an unlocked bootloader, I can't update with confidence, since I don't know whether LG will fuck up the update and kill my battery life. (This is what some users are reporting for the G4.)
It's rough having to decide between modular battery/SD and unlocked bootloader.
"isn't an issue because of 'lost' subscription fees from players choosing these illegitimate servers over the real WoW servers -- it simply boils down to the fact that private servers are illegal, and that's that."
What a load of trite, cowardly, disingenuous crap!
I find that unremarkable and unsurprising. It seems like China blocks Western web sites randomly/intermittently, or for indecipherable reasons. You seem to be concluding that the US consulate's web site was blocked specifically, but I would estimate around 20% of Western web sites were blocked when I was in Shanghai five years ago.
From what I've heard about China, this is a big deal. Living in or near China, people generally say they're allowed to talk online, even criticizing the government, so long as they don't plan to meet. As soon as the talk turns toward actions, it becomes verboten. (Someone living in China, please correct me if I'm wrong.)
So this must be quite a big deal. It'll be interesting to see whether there's aftermath to the censorship.
It's really hard to get a phone that has complete freedom and isn't junk. The best compromise I've seen was the HTC m7. I heard the newer Nexus phones might not be as bad as the one I had, but it's going to be a few years before I'm willing to give Google another chance.
Thanks, you not only answered what I asked but my more interesting question as well. So it sounds like the biggest problem with low budget printers is that the exact control of extruders and stepper motors is not something chip/firmware creators usually do well.
I've a friend who's tried two kits, and is so totally fed up with them being pieces of finicky (@#%$^&!) garbage that
In what way were the kits junk? I'm curious about whether a fully built printer would necessarily be better. Was it about part interoperability, or just that the kit had bad controller/interface? (I mean, was it because they weren't good kits, or because they were kits?)
Okay, not really free. But I thought the only part of a 3D printer that a talented tinkerer couldn't build is the controller/software/firmware and the extruder. Does this really cost $300? What are the pitfalls of making your own printer with an extremely minimal kit (only an extruder and a chip)? Getting compatibility between the parts would take bloody ages, but is there any intrinsic reason why this doesn't work, or is it merely difficult (like restoring a car)?
Can I print replacement battery covers with it? That would be pretty useful. The finish looks pretty good I wonder if the tolerances are good enough for the clips to work.
Since you have to use a toy-oriented mobile app for modeling, you probably won't be able to make any sort of precise design.
Could you elaborate on how makerbots or other cheap 3D printers are deficient? Is it about print speed/quality/resolution or reliability? I'm interested in this market, but it's hard to evaluate products since I don't yet know about the things they're likely to fail at.
Your statements about dietary fat and "panic-mode" indicate that you don't have your facts in order (since these are topics I've researched). Consequently, your whole post is suspect.
Are you using a different definition of "word" than I am? Because I've encountered "flammable" hundreds of times in technical documents and thousands of times in speech. Burden of proof is on you, and you're gonna need some strong proof.
And neither etymology nor Latin grammar has any bearing on whether a given word exists. (For example, I could look up "obtuse" and "argument" in Latin, but that doesn't mean your post would correctly be called an "argumentusus".)
Your house already has several addresses. Street/st/St., Apt./Ste./Suite/Flat/#/Rm/Room, etc. Do you write the county/district? Do you write the state or omit it? What if you write the county instead of the city? Computers already handle all this when mail is processed. Same with names. You ever notice it's somehow never a problem if you omit your middle name on anything, or if you use your middle initial instead of writing out the full word? This new system is a many-to-one mapping of coordinate->residence. If you need more granularity, you can have it. "Room B, Horse Turbine Draw".
The bigger issue is the vertical dimension, which could be handled by adding extra data, if all buildings were made like in the US. They aren't. My last apartment was on "floor 6.5". And I think slums can be worse--if buildings grow together, a room could be on two different floors, depending on how you count. And the internal location won't necessarily correspond to the entrance of the building. This system seems like it's only for sparse locations.
"They have no respect for life"... is frequently attributed to cultures the speaker doesn't like.
I suspect you're misattributing the cause. Value of life is something you only notice when it's not high enough, and "good enough" is something you define roughly based on whatever you're used to.
In other words, it's not "us against them". The Chinese don't say life is cheap in the US. The Palestinians presumably don't think life is cheap in Israel. And nobody says "life is cheap in my country", because that's the definition of normal.
And I don't hate China, but here's another example--four book publisher employees near China were just "disappeared" for publishing books critical of the Chinese government. Every big country does illegal covert operations, but this was flagrant and obvious. You can't just kidnap all the employees of a book publisher! Unless it's not a big deal, because who cares about four people?
Not in China, but I can't speak for the rest of Asia. In China, drivers regularly back up to run over their crash victims again, to kill them and save money on victim compensation. Though I haven't seen any other examples that indicate life isn't valued. Rather, the other stories I've heard are all isolated incidents.
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It sounds like you're just really good at labeling people as autistic. I'm surprised your numbers aren't higher.
Besides, that doesn't sound like autism, though it was admittedly a very brief description.
For 2.99USD, it's really a pittance and the developers deserve a little compensation for a job well done. Thanks for motivating me.
I hope you're being sarcastic. A "donate" button would be a motivation to compensate them. Bundling malware should be motivation to install an alternative, or even write a competing app, if you're an Android developer.
Gross revenue taxation would completely destroy companies that have large influx and outflow of money. It's not even an option.
Say I borrow a million bucks, have a factory make a bunch of coffee mugs, and sell them for 20% profit, repay the loan plus interest, and keep 15k. If you tax me based on my revenue, my profit will become negative! This is why the VAT was invented. You can't tax revenue because the buy=>improve/market=>sell business model has very little profit compared to the revenue.
Imagine you tried taxing Amazon.com based on revenue. Their tax would be many, many times greater than their profit!
What's the relationship between Sci-Hub and GenLib, if any? Are they collaborative efforts or just independent efforts that arose in response to need?
I don't understand why people believe they are entitled to someone else's property in whatever way they choose at whatever price they feel they want to pay. Does any other business work this way? Does any other part of life work this way? Do you treat your own property this way?
This is basically the way everything works, and always has. If a company won't license you their product, you build your own version. If they won't license you their patent, you make something similar that does not use the mechanism they described in the patent. If it's too expensive, people make their own or find a substitute. There are so many examples of this that I can't even begin to name them. For the internet age: Soylent is a cheaper version of medical food replacements that have been available for decades. Facebook wouldn't give the Chinese government what it wanted, so a Chinese company created Renren. Do you think in any single one of these cases, the person that wanted the product decided, "No, I won't clone it because it would hurt the other company, and I have a really kind heart."???
The only thing different about the entertainment industry is that the most reasonable way to clone it is to make a bit-by-bit copy. It's unlawful, but so are half the other ways people/companies take ideas from other people/companies.
How about Voat? https://voat.co/
rm -rf $foo/*${something}*
Oh, I didn't think of that one. However, it's still distinct from $foo/*, as the shell can tell the difference even when the variable is empty or unset (as long as "rm" is a shell builtin). However, that made me think of a much bigger problem: "rm $foo/*/" to get rid of directories. This is a common use case (for me), so I cannot think of a non-restrictive check will prevent this from wiping out the root folders when $foo is unset.
What do you use "rm $foo/*" for? I find that if I want to empty a directory, I generally want it deleted as well.
Yes, that's what I'm saying. The cases where you legitimately want to recursively delete a directory's contents, but not the directory itself or its dotfiles, are much rarer than the cases where you just need "rm -r dir" without globbing.
I just made up the 99% figure, but since you're not contradicting me or providing a contradicting use case, is that agreement?
I think we mostly agree. You'll note I didn't suggest making it harder to recursively delete "*/". I suggested disallowing it completely. Directories could be removed recursively, but not emptied recursively. "rm -r $foo" does not present the same problem as "rm -r $foo/*" when foo is undefined. "rm -r /$foo" would still present a problem, but --preserve-root mitigates that, plus who would store an absolute path as a relative path like that? (Okay, I'm sure it happens every day, but it reduces the likelihood of this problem.)
You can't prevent the computer from doing what the user tells it to in all cases.
For what it's worth, removing "*" recursively is a weird use case (99% of the time, you would just delete the directory), so "rm -r $foo/*" -> "rm -r /*" is unlikely to occur. (For a vaccine, 99% is a pretty damn good rate of protection.)
If "rm *" or "rm foo/*" were disallowed by all shells (if "rm" were removed as a command and only implemented as a shell builtin), this problem could be eradicated. A more difficult workaround would be to use a programming language with stronger typing, so arguments would not be computed by string interpolation. For example, if the guy's code had run "dir = Path.Combine(foo, bar)" and then deleted the contents of that dir, an exception would have stopped execution before ever getting to the line that does the deletion.
I cannot find any evidence that the LG G5's bootloader is unlocked. Every successive phone LG makes seems to be more restricted, so I expect to be SOL, just like I was with the G4.
This is turning out to be more of a pain than expected--without an unlocked bootloader, I can't update with confidence, since I don't know whether LG will fuck up the update and kill my battery life. (This is what some users are reporting for the G4.)
It's rough having to decide between modular battery/SD and unlocked bootloader.
"isn't an issue because of 'lost' subscription fees from players choosing these illegitimate servers over the real WoW servers -- it simply boils down to the fact that private servers are illegal, and that's that."
What a load of trite, cowardly, disingenuous crap!
I find that unremarkable and unsurprising. It seems like China blocks Western web sites randomly/intermittently, or for indecipherable reasons. You seem to be concluding that the US consulate's web site was blocked specifically, but I would estimate around 20% of Western web sites were blocked when I was in Shanghai five years ago.
From what I've heard about China, this is a big deal. Living in or near China, people generally say they're allowed to talk online, even criticizing the government, so long as they don't plan to meet. As soon as the talk turns toward actions, it becomes verboten. (Someone living in China, please correct me if I'm wrong.)
So this must be quite a big deal. It'll be interesting to see whether there's aftermath to the censorship.
It's really hard to get a phone that has complete freedom and isn't junk. The best compromise I've seen was the HTC m7. I heard the newer Nexus phones might not be as bad as the one I had, but it's going to be a few years before I'm willing to give Google another chance.
Thanks, you not only answered what I asked but my more interesting question as well. So it sounds like the biggest problem with low budget printers is that the exact control of extruders and stepper motors is not something chip/firmware creators usually do well.
I've a friend who's tried two kits, and is so totally fed up with them being pieces of finicky (@#%$^&!) garbage that
In what way were the kits junk? I'm curious about whether a fully built printer would necessarily be better. Was it about part interoperability, or just that the kit had bad controller/interface? (I mean, was it because they weren't good kits, or because they were kits?)
Okay, not really free. But I thought the only part of a 3D printer that a talented tinkerer couldn't build is the controller/software/firmware and the extruder. Does this really cost $300? What are the pitfalls of making your own printer with an extremely minimal kit (only an extruder and a chip)? Getting compatibility between the parts would take bloody ages, but is there any intrinsic reason why this doesn't work, or is it merely difficult (like restoring a car)?
Can I print replacement battery covers with it? That would be pretty useful. The finish looks pretty good I wonder if the tolerances are good enough for the clips to work.
Since you have to use a toy-oriented mobile app for modeling, you probably won't be able to make any sort of precise design.
Could you elaborate on how makerbots or other cheap 3D printers are deficient? Is it about print speed/quality/resolution or reliability? I'm interested in this market, but it's hard to evaluate products since I don't yet know about the things they're likely to fail at.
Your statements about dietary fat and "panic-mode" indicate that you don't have your facts in order (since these are topics I've researched). Consequently, your whole post is suspect.
Are you using a different definition of "word" than I am? Because I've encountered "flammable" hundreds of times in technical documents and thousands of times in speech. Burden of proof is on you, and you're gonna need some strong proof.
And neither etymology nor Latin grammar has any bearing on whether a given word exists. (For example, I could look up "obtuse" and "argument" in Latin, but that doesn't mean your post would correctly be called an "argumentusus".)
Your house already has several addresses. Street/st/St., Apt./Ste./Suite/Flat/#/Rm/Room, etc. Do you write the county/district? Do you write the state or omit it? What if you write the county instead of the city? Computers already handle all this when mail is processed. Same with names. You ever notice it's somehow never a problem if you omit your middle name on anything, or if you use your middle initial instead of writing out the full word? This new system is a many-to-one mapping of coordinate->residence. If you need more granularity, you can have it. "Room B, Horse Turbine Draw".
The bigger issue is the vertical dimension, which could be handled by adding extra data, if all buildings were made like in the US. They aren't. My last apartment was on "floor 6.5". And I think slums can be worse--if buildings grow together, a room could be on two different floors, depending on how you count. And the internal location won't necessarily correspond to the entrance of the building. This system seems like it's only for sparse locations.
"They have no respect for life"... is frequently attributed to cultures the speaker doesn't like.
I suspect you're misattributing the cause. Value of life is something you only notice when it's not high enough, and "good enough" is something you define roughly based on whatever you're used to.
In other words, it's not "us against them". The Chinese don't say life is cheap in the US. The Palestinians presumably don't think life is cheap in Israel. And nobody says "life is cheap in my country", because that's the definition of normal.
And I don't hate China, but here's another example--four book publisher employees near China were just "disappeared" for publishing books critical of the Chinese government. Every big country does illegal covert operations, but this was flagrant and obvious. You can't just kidnap all the employees of a book publisher! Unless it's not a big deal, because who cares about four people?
Not in China, but I can't speak for the rest of Asia. In China, drivers regularly back up to run over their crash victims again, to kill them and save money on victim compensation. Though I haven't seen any other examples that indicate life isn't valued. Rather, the other stories I've heard are all isolated incidents.