Comment Re: PowerShell is yucky yucky yucky! (Score 1) 265
Broken-by-default
No, that would be secure-by-default. Sorry that is an inconvenience for you.
Broken-by-default
No, that would be secure-by-default. Sorry that is an inconvenience for you.
In the Linux world, Powershell is very limited. You may think it's powerful, but it's really very weak. If you know linux well enough, you have complete control over everything including the kernel.
So you claim, but I have yet to hear of anything that can't be done in Powershell. Undoubtedly there will be something, but I think that most of the time when people make this claim it is because they just assume that it is the case. But when asked to back up the statement...
Well, we can see what has happened. Just further vague claims.
Those examples are wrong.
GNU/Linux copy command: cp
Powershell: cp
GNU/Linux delete command: rm
Powershell: rm
Build a script library based on short mnemonic commands.
That's easy to do with set-alias. It already has built-in aliases for mv, cp, ls, cat, diff, echo, lp, man, ps, pushd, rm, wget and many more. Use get-alias to see the list of them.
For the other commands you listed, I use UnxUtils. It's a lot lighter than cygwin, although the versions are very old.
Every time I have used powershell it has been anything but intuitive or easy to remember.
Once you get used to the naming system then it is quite intuitive. And if you don't know how to do something then it has some built-in mechanisms to make it easy to find out how to do things. For example, if you don't know how to import a CSV file, try get-help *csv* and it shows all the aliases and commandlets and pertain to CSV importing and exporting.
Then with tab completion you can Import-Csv - and press tab after the dash and view all the parameters of the command. If you choose -Encoding press space then press tab again and it displays the options just for that argument (the different encoding types).
So all that was found without having to look up help files. You didn't even need to look at get-help to see the list of commands. Just type *csv* and press tab and display the commands interactively.
So yes it is a verbose language, but that makes it easier to discover the commands to use.
I can do a lot more with old linux tools than powershell have ever had the capability of.
What is it that Powershell can't do?
One of the authors thinks the problem may have been due to a leak at a storage tank on the surface. Emphasis on the "may".
Plus there's the concentration issue - parts per trillion doesn't make for much of a problem in any case. Even the authors didn't make this out to be a health problem....
So you are saying it was a pretty balanced and non-alarmist report then. That still didn't stop the industry shills from attacking it with their over-the-top "fact..fact..fact" format.
I retract my original statement, and revise it to "Pivot tables became a lot more user-friendly in Excel 2007." Many users simply did not know the functionality was even there prior to that version.
I think that statement is also false. By "many users", you really just mean you.
Instead of Insert Ribbon->PivotTable in Excel 2013, the 2003 version used Data Menu->Pivot Table and Pivot Chart Report. Not really different at all.
Once you are in the function, the later version has a nicer interface, but the old one is still workable. I think the difference that you have found between the old and new version was that you had a need and an understanding of pivot tables as you matured and used Excel rather than any glaring deficiencies with the spreadsheet itself.
You're missing out on Excel pivot tables. That is one hell of a big selling point for versions >= 2007.
Microsoft Excel introduced pivot tables in version 5.0 released in 1995. So yes they do keep making improvements pivot tables in each version (up to and including Power Pivots as an add-on for 2010 and included in 2013), but no you do "miss out" on pivot tables at all.
And yet for those people who don't know or care about that reputation, it is still the perfectly good browser as the OP said. It shows all the websites they want (so as far as they care it does adhere to the standards) and they are far more likely to get hacked due to social engineering than any browser hack.
That was always such a dumb quote because Microsoft had been writing software for Unix since the 80s. Even Microsoft Word ran on Unix 6 years before the first Linux release.
Ah, yes. Warmist nut jobs. I bet you are one of those people who gets offended when they get called a denier. I bet that you are also not qualified to know whether those claims of a climate change link to earthquakes are true or not.
But hey, don't let that stop you.
You should thank them for doing something new, without simply copying other systems.
I think that a window full of icons has been done before. It is not exactly a revolutionary interface.
The best part about Graffiti was that you didn't have to watch the screen while entering text. When I travelled across Europe by train, was able to look out the window and enjoy the scenery while I wrote my travel diary on my Pilot (actually a Handera TRGPro with a compact flash slot). I didn't have to move my hand like I would with a paper diary. I didn't have to key my eye on the screen for when I hit the wrong key or auto-correct decided to change what I meant to write. It was a very liberating experience.
PURGE COMPLETE.
