While I'll agree that these are problems....these CAN be avoided by people that have self control, live within their means...
Yes people, please do have the self control not to be diagnosed with a debilitating illness, ever get laid off or have a slump in income, or have your house burned down when your neighbor shoots off fireworks that land on your roof... *sigh*
It's great that you got out of your self-created emergency by some 'miracle', and that it leaves you time to worry about things like 'ohhh noooesss the brown people are takin over mah country!'. Just keep in mind that not everyone else's emergency is self-created. Consumers banding together to take large corporations to task for *illegal* fraud and deceit is more worthy than brow-beating them for legal and legitimate business practices.
Actually the administration is merely pandering to the evangelicals. They aren't actually getting much of what they want.
I'd wait for a few precedent-setting decisions by Bush's SCOTUS appointees before making that call. We might not have a good idea of how that'll shape up until after 2008.
How can I, as an American, support sending another American to die in a foreign land yet refuse to make any sacrifice for the war?
I don't know about you, but I've got a 'Support the Troops' magnetic sticker on the back of my SUV. It's taking up space I could've used for a sticker of Calvin pissing on something, or for Oakley sunglasses. I'm totally sacrificing for my country.
Thanks for helping support the notion that every high school history and civics teacher is a raving left-wing socialist out to corrupt the minds of our innocent right-thinking youth.
Unlike our navel-contemplating planet co-squatters in the East, our "God" is outside us, above us, and we're forever (hopefully forever) building towers and spaceships to meet Him. Works for me, just fine.
Priests and ministers and born-agains often rush in to give God the credit, but really feats of engineering and procreation occur because the process of creation is *fun*, not out of a specific desire to Glorify Him, Praise Him, Meet Him, or Otherwise Interact with God in Ways that Demand Use of Capitialization.
We can no longer rely on liberals to fight for true freedom. Liberals have won the right to dress funny in public schools, have sex with whomever they want and read and write about everything that they care about. But everything else is slipping away.
Freedom of expression, freedom of association, and right to privacy cover a lot of that "everything else" ground you speak of. The issues you pick off as frivolous liberal obsessions are particular manifestations of those basic rights. If you dismiss infractions against the rights of freaks and fags, don't expect respect for your right to have a 30-round banana clip in your assault rifle. Most people think you're a freak too.
Science cannot truly exist in a society that does not respect the Right to bear arms. Science is a weapon.
Silly non-sequitur. You might as well have said that science can't exist where the right to worship is not repected, that science is a religion.
More believably, you could say that progess in science requires freedom of expression. Yet there are plenty of examples (e.g. China) where speech and gun ownership are both heavily restricted, yet science education and research is (or is becoming) top notch. The driver is the prioritization at a societal level of funding science education and research, and on that score America is trailing badly.
I agree strongly with you that America is becoming a society where that which is not explicitly permitted is forbidden. And I agree that's very sad. But don't pretend that current-day Libertarians are any more principled than others; they rage and fume about eminient domain and gun rights (and rightly so!), but agree to disagree on gay marriage and abortion. What's been lost in terms of "true freedom" is the ethic of "I disagree with what you say, but I'll fight for your right to say it."
"Our hope is to answer every possible question about music that ever existed. If we can pull that off, then I think we're doing very well," says [Brian] Whitman.'"
Brian, repeat after me, "correctness before speed."
Profits notwithstanding, the primary intent of the AdWords algorithm is to provide relevant content to the user, including relevant ads.
Exactly... If I search on 'equation editor latex', I'd rather see
Equation editor -- Edit science/math equations in LaTex, import to Word
than
Low price equation editor at Walmart
and Find antique equation editor at Ebay
and
Sexy Latex Bodysuits from Amazon.
I realize Cringley brought "the rich get richer" silliness into it, but the point is that if Google just whores themselves out to the biggest-budget spenders, they'll alienate the users who found AdWords different and useful compared to the typical web advertising noise.
I can think of Seattle, Austin, Boston as comparable to the SF Bay Area. In all those cases, though, the atmosphere is pretty liberal; not only are the "fruitcakes" welcome, they give their domestic partners health benefits.
Virginia certainly has a lot of tech "cachet," and is populated by well-groomed blue-shrirt-and-tan-slacks wearing, security-cleared Republicans... of the sort who favor smaller government, except when it's their pockets getting lined... which jibes with the fact that Virgina's tech sector is domininated by defense contractors living well off the government teat.
Some months after the piece was released (along with "Return of the Jedi") they lost the original recording. I recreated the piece for them, but they kept complaining that it didn't sound the same. Since my random-number generators were keyed on the time and date, I couldn't reproduce the score of the performance that they liked. I finally found the original version and everybody was happy.
Whew!
I was in a somewhat similar spot a few years back, where a script I'd written to generate random data for load testing a server, used date and time as a rand() seed. One set of data I generated uncovered a weird threading issue, and it was pretty reproducible with that dataset. Then a disk crash wiped the dataset. I still had the script, but couldn't seem to get another dataset that would repro the issue.
In addition to being better about backups, I now log whatever random seed is used to generate a dataset like that.
You've got Google, use it. According to the budget explorer roughly 644 billion for health and human services and 475 billion for the DOD. And NASA? 15 billion. The Executive office of the President gets about 25 billion BTW.
Teh Google sez teh Prezidunt's numbers are a little bit different. $440B for 'defense', $68B for HHS, ah'll tell u whut.
While MySQL works with a JDBC connection, an Oracle database seems to return faster results and more functional result sets. And I don't know too much about how well MySQL stores java code, but I know the newer versions of Oracle have really added some neat functionality with that.
Actually the reason MySQL sucks is because it doesn't integrate well with AJAX. [/snark]
Aside from the low, low price, what gave MySQL the intial jump on Oracle and other 'mature' RDBMS is that it was much faster for simple things. This because it didn't include the kitchen sink of 10 years of "bright ideas" to synergize the enterprise with scalable robustness. You can include in this set of bright ideas, things like transactions (which many complex database applications really can't do without), and things like running a JVM within the database. No one has ever been able to coherently explain to me why it would be a good idea to do the latter (save as some workaround to a convoluted/broken legacy database they don't have the option of fixing).
Sometimes all you need is "SELECT... FROM... WHERE..." Hopefully MySQL doesn't lose sight of that. From the looks of it, they'd do better to work on securing a backend storage engine that Ellison can't buy out from under them, than to keep adding feature bulletpoints to glossy four-color datasheets.
In case you noticed, the linked article read like a bad translation from Chinese to English. Probably because it was.
What you say? Still, it is possible to do someone another way. Firefox makes good use of private and official time for sensuous people. Make your time.
It takes 9 months to a year to train a non-arabic speaker to speak well enough to just barely get by. It then usually takes an additional year of real-life exposure before they truly become proficient.[...]This all I know, being a former soldier with the 101st Airborne (311th MI bn, "Eyes of the Eagle") and a graduate myself of the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California.
I'm not usually one to support the knee-jerk slashweenie response, that all intellectual property is theft, but I do object to commercial enterprises refusing to sell me something and insisting that I can't copy it.
It might be their intellectual property but it's my culture, dammit.
I think I've figured out to how win the intellectual property wars... recast the battle as a culture war and you've got the support of knee-jerk conservative bush-apologists everywhere!;)
The way I think it works out now is that if you sign on to the Canadian Do-Not-Call list you will only receive calls from businesses, political parties, polling companies, and charities.
It's still a useful law...
1) Sign up for do not list 2) Have mom and dad call 3) Sue parents for damages 4) No estate taxes!
(OK, I'm assuming that awards from suits in Canada aren't taxed, and that being someone's parent doesn't establish a 'prior business relationship').
You do not expect a lion to respect a terrier, [...] Do as the Bible idealizes, and encourage the lion to have the strength of will and character to lay down with the sheep. But do not think that it is natural, [...] Click here or a puppy gets stomped! [blindmindseye.com]
I think the important questions to ask are:
1) would either the lion, the sheep, or the terrier stomp the puppy?
2) if the terrier stomps the puppy, will shouting "bad dog!" prevent other puppies from being stomped in future?
What they need is brotherly/sisterly reconciliation between their groups, not some half-assed bullshit called tolerance.
Wait, what? I'm confused, are you saying puppy stomping is bad? I thought it was natural for the strong and superior animals (or at least those animals that think they are, would presumably include Chihuahuas as well) to want to stomp puppies!
Probably the AC read your intial comment the same way I did: pick random people off the voter registration rolls and have them judge the merit of patents on internet routing metrics, gene therapy drugs, etc. The American general public, half of whom think dinosaurs co-existed with humans, and over half of whom couldn't pick out whether it takes a day/month/year for the earth to orbit the sun... they're the ones I want reviewing my patent!
But it sounds like by 'jury of your peers', you meant people in the field who actually understand the material covered in the patent. That's an interesting idea, though in small/nascent fields, I'd would still worry about competitors' conflict of interest.
They could at least have the sense to use Multiproxy so it wouldn't be so obvious.
Last I checked, Google did a pretty good job of keeping up with known open proxies... try searching on 'plasma TV' through one of the proxies listed at multiproxy.org, you'll notice you get the regular links, but no sponsored links.
You have to cut them a little slack. From where they stand, California and Kansas look like different planets. 8^)
Acutally, the Kansas School Board has conclusively determined that, in addition to dinosaur fossils being one of Satan's more elaborate tricks, life on other planets simply doesn't exist.
[insert ID/creationists' long-winded attempt to differentiate between 'micro-evolution' and 'macro-evolution' here]
Frankly, I've become bored with the whole argument; it always follows the same trajectories, and I've yet to see a fundamentalist convinced that the words in their holy book of choice are in error.
Lacking a fool-proof method to keep fundamentalists from landing spots on school boards, I would like to see a national database of school that insert ID/creationism in the biology cirriculum, so that I know where not to send my kids to school, and where not to buy a house (I have a hypothesis that creationist-teaching school districts will result in falling property values in the surrounding community, but I'm not willing to test this hypothesis myself).
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It's great that you got out of your self-created emergency by some 'miracle', and that it leaves you time to worry about things like 'ohhh noooesss the brown people are takin over mah country!'. Just keep in mind that not everyone else's emergency is self-created. Consumers banding together to take large corporations to task for *illegal* fraud and deceit is more worthy than brow-beating them for legal and legitimate business practices.
We've traced the call... it's coming from INSIDE the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES!
Actually the administration is merely pandering to the evangelicals. They aren't actually getting much of what they want.
I'd wait for a few precedent-setting decisions by Bush's SCOTUS appointees before making that call. We might not have a good idea of how that'll shape up until after 2008.
How can I, as an American, support sending another American to die in a foreign land yet refuse to make any sacrifice for the war?
I don't know about you, but I've got a 'Support the Troops' magnetic sticker on the back of my SUV. It's taking up space I could've used for a sticker of Calvin pissing on something, or for Oakley sunglasses. I'm totally sacrificing for my country.
Thanks for helping support the notion that every high school history and civics teacher is a raving left-wing socialist out to corrupt the minds of our innocent right-thinking youth.
Your taxes are high to encourage you to have children. Once you start having tax deductions, err, I mean children, things will be much better.
Nice try, Mr. wiggles, but you're not fooling me; you're just encouraging people to have children so as to sell more DVDs.
Unlike our navel-contemplating planet co-squatters in the East, our "God" is outside us, above us, and we're forever (hopefully forever) building towers and spaceships to meet Him. Works for me, just fine.
Priests and ministers and born-agains often rush in to give God the credit, but really feats of engineering and procreation occur because the process of creation is *fun*, not out of a specific desire to Glorify Him, Praise Him, Meet Him, or Otherwise Interact with God in Ways that Demand Use of Capitialization.
We can no longer rely on liberals to fight for true freedom. Liberals have won the right to dress funny in public schools, have sex with whomever they want and read and write about everything that they care about. But everything else is slipping away.
Freedom of expression, freedom of association, and right to privacy cover a lot of that "everything else" ground you speak of. The issues you pick off as frivolous liberal obsessions are particular manifestations of those basic rights. If you dismiss infractions against the rights of freaks and fags, don't expect respect for your right to have a 30-round banana clip in your assault rifle. Most people think you're a freak too.
Science cannot truly exist in a society that does not respect the Right to bear arms. Science is a weapon.
Silly non-sequitur. You might as well have said that science can't exist where the right to worship is not repected, that science is a religion.
More believably, you could say that progess in science requires freedom of expression. Yet there are plenty of examples (e.g. China) where speech and gun ownership are both heavily restricted, yet science education and research is (or is becoming) top notch. The driver is the prioritization at a societal level of funding science education and research, and on that score America is trailing badly.
I agree strongly with you that America is becoming a society where that which is not explicitly permitted is forbidden. And I agree that's very sad. But don't pretend that current-day Libertarians are any more principled than others; they rage and fume about eminient domain and gun rights (and rightly so!), but agree to disagree on gay marriage and abortion. What's been lost in terms of "true freedom" is the ethic of "I disagree with what you say, but I'll fight for your right to say it."
"Our hope is to answer every possible question about music that ever existed. If we can pull that off, then I think we're doing very well," says [Brian] Whitman.'"
Brian, repeat after me, "correctness before speed."
Exactly... If I search on 'equation editor latex', I'd rather see
Equation editor -- Edit science/math equations in LaTex, import to Word
than
Low price equation editor at Walmart
and
Find antique equation editor at Ebay
and
Sexy Latex Bodysuits from Amazon.
I realize Cringley brought "the rich get richer" silliness into it, but the point is that if Google just whores themselves out to the biggest-budget spenders, they'll alienate the users who found AdWords different and useful compared to the typical web advertising noise.
Where are these tech areas exactly?
... of the sort who favor smaller government, except when it's their pockets getting lined ... which jibes with the fact that Virgina's tech sector is domininated by defense contractors living well off the government teat.
I can think of Seattle, Austin, Boston as comparable to the SF Bay Area. In all those cases, though, the atmosphere is pretty liberal; not only are the "fruitcakes" welcome, they give their domestic partners health benefits.
Virginia certainly has a lot of tech "cachet," and is populated by well-groomed blue-shrirt-and-tan-slacks wearing, security-cleared Republicans
I was in a somewhat similar spot a few years back, where a script I'd written to generate random data for load testing a server, used date and time as a rand() seed. One set of data I generated uncovered a weird threading issue, and it was pretty reproducible with that dataset. Then a disk crash wiped the dataset. I still had the script, but couldn't seem to get another dataset that would repro the issue.
In addition to being better about backups, I now log whatever random seed is used to generate a dataset like that.
[/snark]
Aside from the low, low price, what gave MySQL the intial jump on Oracle and other 'mature' RDBMS is that it was much faster for simple things. This because it didn't include the kitchen sink of 10 years of "bright ideas" to synergize the enterprise with scalable robustness. You can include in this set of bright ideas, things like transactions (which many complex database applications really can't do without), and things like running a JVM within the database. No one has ever been able to coherently explain to me why it would be a good idea to do the latter (save as some workaround to a convoluted/broken legacy database they don't have the option of fixing).
Sometimes all you need is "SELECT
In case you noticed, the linked article read like a bad translation from Chinese to English. Probably because it was.
What you say? Still, it is possible to do someone another way. Firefox makes good use of private and official time for sensuous people. Make your time.
Given that and your experience, would you say that kicking out 37+ students because they're gay is a great strategic move?
I'm not usually one to support the knee-jerk slashweenie response, that all intellectual property is theft, but I do object to commercial enterprises refusing to sell me something and insisting that I can't copy it.
;)
It might be their intellectual property but it's my culture, dammit.
I think I've figured out to how win the intellectual property wars... recast the battle as a culture war and you've got the support of knee-jerk conservative bush-apologists everywhere!
The way I think it works out now is that if you sign on to the Canadian Do-Not-Call list you will only receive calls from businesses, political parties, polling companies, and charities.
It's still a useful law...
1) Sign up for do not list
2) Have mom and dad call
3) Sue parents for damages
4) No estate taxes!
(OK, I'm assuming that awards from suits in Canada aren't taxed, and that being someone's parent doesn't establish a 'prior business relationship').
You do not expect a lion to respect a terrier, [...] Do as the Bible idealizes, and encourage the lion to have the strength of will and character to lay down with the sheep. But do not think that it is natural, [...] Click here or a puppy gets stomped! [blindmindseye.com]
I think the important questions to ask are:
1) would either the lion, the sheep, or the terrier stomp the puppy?
2) if the terrier stomps the puppy, will shouting "bad dog!" prevent other puppies from being stomped in future?
What they need is brotherly/sisterly reconciliation between their groups, not some half-assed bullshit called tolerance.
Wait, what? I'm confused, are you saying puppy stomping is bad? I thought it was natural for the strong and superior animals (or at least those animals that think they are, would presumably include Chihuahuas as well) to want to stomp puppies!
Maybe they should get P Diddy to do these puff pieces... "Fo shizzle, tha 4 megapizel camera is off da hizzle!"
Probably the AC read your intial comment the same way I did: pick random people off the voter registration rolls and have them judge the merit of patents on internet routing metrics, gene therapy drugs, etc. The American general public, half of whom think dinosaurs co-existed with humans, and over half of whom couldn't pick out whether it takes a day/month/year for the earth to orbit the sun... they're the ones I want reviewing my patent!
But it sounds like by 'jury of your peers', you meant people in the field who actually understand the material covered in the patent. That's an interesting idea, though in small/nascent fields, I'd would still worry about competitors' conflict of interest.
[insert ID/creationists' long-winded attempt to differentiate between 'micro-evolution' and 'macro-evolution' here]
Frankly, I've become bored with the whole argument; it always follows the same trajectories, and I've yet to see a fundamentalist convinced that the words in their holy book of choice are in error.
Lacking a fool-proof method to keep fundamentalists from landing spots on school boards, I would like to see a national database of school that insert ID/creationism in the biology cirriculum, so that I know where not to send my kids to school, and where not to buy a house (I have a hypothesis that creationist-teaching school districts will result in falling property values in the surrounding community, but I'm not willing to test this hypothesis myself).