Stored procedures and views have been added to databases and marketed as part of them but are not really functions of a pure database. IMHO, views and stored procedures amount to short scripts, and were added to companies making databases at the right time (pre-boom) to make a new class of database that was term'd Enterprise but realy just meant hybrid DB engines with scripting support. MySQL does lack features that any database should have but citing stored procedures and views is a smack in the face of databases in general. If you are going to be worried about making sure everyone uses terms correctly (hacker/cracker/whatever) at least have a concensus on what an ideal database is before we can adequately compare the utility of MySQL versus Oracle (as an example).
That's a whole lot of 'should's you just put forth.
While these idead may actually sound good to YOU, these are 'Open Source Community concepts' that you are suggesting be put into law in America and that's not a good idea.
Software should be allowed to be given away with warranties proportionate to what you paid for it.
If Jill gives Joe a program for free that she tells him is supposed to make webpages but ends up being specifically for formatting his harddrive, now we dont have a civil case. He shoulda paid for it? Are you suggesting a government body to read/decode sourcecode and make legal determiniations?
If you're going to release a product, keep the source secret and not allow the user to help themselves or provide reliable updates on a timely scale you should be responsible.
While I agree, if I write and distribute a program, I am partially responsible for what it does (read: virus for example). The state of it being open source or not does not change my responsibility and does not help in accountability any more than a brand name nowadays.
This seems like a lot of talk about - how to best get back at the big corporations without legislating laws that can be used against my free software projects. Punishing capitalistic practices...charging what you can get...is the biggest barrier to these kinds of 'changes'. Good luck changing america's basic economic ideals.
The primary concern of a REAL system administrator has always been physical access. The greatest security threat is employees who want to circumvent or gain access to services you monitor or install. God forbit someone actually get in the building to tamper. Why put anything in a Dreamcast? Just carry around a Dreamcast/Xbox/whatever...That IS a GREAT gimmick to get into a building. Computer ppl tend to be eccentric (ty captain obvious!). My problem is that if you are going to risk getting into the building AND LEAVING HARDWARE because so many ppl are clueless, couldnt you just grab hardware when the techs are at lunch and escape (with the large number of plausible excuses for carrying around hardware during a crisis) in the ensuing chaos?
Many people will consider all different kind sof things "Cruft" as per the article writer with his "cruft 0"... right. I have been running windows 98 since 1999 with only 1 system reinstall (compare that to how many times you reinstalled linux trying to learn that). I dont care how "crufty" your box gets, most/. reader you can identify cruft and remove it without trouble. I consider KAZAA cruft. The concept that a computer becomes so corrupted that it cant be used effectively is nonsense. Did the author acknowledge that a computer is made up of different parts that you can replace when they actually short or die? (no) AMDs processors (200mhz and earlier) physically burnt out their insulation after a few months, which I will concede as degredation...but nothing a table fan blowing directly into the case wont fix;)
remove the offending programs/files, replace anything you short or break off (by screwing around with what you dont understand) and quit crying "computers die too!"
I lived with a gorgeous woman for 2 years. On a trip she saw a ferret in Arizona she had to have one. Get a de-scented female. Those actually dont stink at all. Of course when we broke up, she kept the ferret =(
While eggs are cool and all, why add them. Dont large sites have enough bugs or potential bugs to keep a bored admin happy? Simple sites like my personal one have shortcut urls but I usually rather add content than novelties for no purpose.
The one reason you should care about Warcraft3 is that it's a long-awaited cultural event. Everyone who's anyone on the internet knows about it and for some time people will have an opinion about it. That's not saying YOU should or that it's even a GOOD THING (tm) but it's something you should know. It's coming out July 3rd, a lot of internet savvy people care. Sleeping through this 'event' will be easy and probably wise. Oh yeah, Blizzard is a game company who has an unblemished track record in game varied popular game titles (debateable...Blackthorne?). There is no similar company. This is yet another opportunity to prove themselves or fail.
I disagree with you, so I didnt mod you. The lumens per dollar for very small LEDs is much cheaper. I dont have hard data or links to reference, however I can confidently say it through my own research over the last 2 years. The only reason I know this is because I have a penchant for a small light to wear around my neck when working in and around machines. I have been comparing and purchasing for about 2 years and I will agree that large arrays of small LEDs are used to approximate incandescents because of prohibitive cost of large LEDs...but then manufacturers can afford to use a multitude of tiny lights because of inverse cost.
And archiving old webpages != (reading || copying) It is an undefined area and I'm going to use the awful SHOULD word... This type of archiving SHOULD be considered what it is, archiving information. The comparison between webpages and newspapers and bulletin boards applies here. You can archive papers for viewing, why did this poster submit a flame about webpages?
I've always used a generic database object in PHP. I start every document with a config.php that defines the database, the paths, etc and then assume my generic objects and function calls will work through predefined wrappers or autodetection. If something breaks, PHP debugging is a breeze =)
# we always store the last result in the obj but # *can* catch it if we want and it's supported $result = DBobj->doQuery("SELECT * FROM FOO");
It bugs me a little bit that I have to sift through the comments to find out the existing, deterministic answer to a single question the article asks. From power req to heat generated, it looks like almost a unanimous "NO". The answer should be updated to reflect it.
When the primary subject of your article includes "I dont need to explain to the average Slashdot reader why", then why is it being explained, and more importantly why has it been posted?
Anakin is little improved from menace. I know he's supposed to be full of anger and angst, but mostly he just comes off as constipated and bitchy. Amidala seems to be taking a bit of a nap. Their romantic scenes together are the Jar Jar binks scenes of this movie: It just pauses the action, and the acting is so bad that the movie stalls until something interesting happened.
The romantic parts of the movie are the best parts. They are realistically awkward, slow, and mangled. Perfect romantic relationships dont just happen and Ep2 was an excellent example of what happens when you put 2 exceptional young adults together who like each other. Another important thing about Ep2 was that the human characters looked much more PLAIN (sans outrageous costumes and makeup and CG/movie lighting) and therefore real. Anakin was played perfectly by an excellent actor and we finally got to see some Amidala nipply-goodness!
I agree, when an earthquake happens, it might as well have snowed in Russia for the purposes of it being "news" for nerds. This article AND resulting posts are a waste of bandwidth and flamebait.
Your question irked me then made me think. I would figure the reason 20/20 was considered "standard" was probably something along the lines of median statistical data. Start with the premise that 20/20 vision is the most commmon. 20/20 being a ratio that easily describes statistically common vision accuities. 20/20 IMPLIES that there can be better as well as worse kinds of vision, but that they are simply anomalous (not in a bad way).
The first tech revolution was definitively about making information worthless, not connecting people. Saying 'connecting things to things' sounds a lot like bringing b2b and c2b without brick and mortar storefronts or something like that.
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How long before people have binaries or java (web) applets that can kindly disable the 'F'? Ridiculous. Moreover, I say it's a kindness, since this feature is a very BAD THING (tm). If I had never heard of it, I would probably be lost as to its use. Yet another thing to break and confuse the ill-informed.
Many times I have said it. I'll say it again. Text, and the information contained therein, cannot be regulated even by the specialized community that has created the specialized language(s).
To be a little less preachie, it's not like programmers can claim to be blameless for all the things we do...especially the things we dont tell people about. Viruses are programs. They show us vulnerabilities and FAILURES on our part as logicians. It's not about accountability or even the originator(s) intention, it's about fear. Luckily, not all powerful. I support virus makers. I see no reason to attack (pun) those which have though about the security more than I have.
It's a great idea; software expiration. Not so much that it's disabled, as much that it should notify when it's out of date. Saying saying "open source" is kinda pointless. All software could use this concept whether or not their code is "open source" and saying "should" is always wrong when making a suggestion.
So far slashdot has been following the MS model (not to say it's a bad one). MS scalable cost-benefit solution evolutions lead to anyone affiliated with a sponsor, with enough of a 'contribution', being able to have a single posted story, then only "subscribers" being able to post comments "since they are the most deserving" and then and then and then...
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Stored procedures and views have been added to databases and marketed as part of them but are not really functions of a pure database. IMHO, views and stored procedures amount to short scripts, and were added to companies making databases at the right time (pre-boom) to make a new class of database that was term'd Enterprise but realy just meant hybrid DB engines with scripting support. MySQL does lack features that any database should have but citing stored procedures and views is a smack in the face of databases in general. If you are going to be worried about making sure everyone uses terms correctly (hacker/cracker/whatever) at least have a concensus on what an ideal database is before we can adequately compare the utility of MySQL versus Oracle (as an example).
While these idead may actually sound good to YOU, these are 'Open Source Community concepts' that you are suggesting be put into law in America and that's not a good idea. If Jill gives Joe a program for free that she tells him is supposed to make webpages but ends up being specifically for formatting his harddrive, now we dont have a civil case. He shoulda paid for it? Are you suggesting a government body to read/decode sourcecode and make legal determiniations? While I agree, if I write and distribute a program, I am partially responsible for what it does (read: virus for example). The state of it being open source or not does not change my responsibility and does not help in accountability any more than a brand name nowadays.
This seems like a lot of talk about - how to best get back at the big corporations without legislating laws that can be used against my free software projects. Punishing capitalistic practices...charging what you can get...is the biggest barrier to these kinds of 'changes'. Good luck changing america's basic economic ideals.
The primary concern of a REAL system administrator has always been physical access. The greatest security threat is employees who want to circumvent or gain access to services you monitor or install. God forbit someone actually get in the building to tamper. Why put anything in a Dreamcast? Just carry around a Dreamcast/Xbox/whatever...That IS a GREAT gimmick to get into a building. Computer ppl tend to be eccentric (ty captain obvious!). My problem is that if you are going to risk getting into the building AND LEAVING HARDWARE because so many ppl are clueless, couldnt you just grab hardware when the techs are at lunch and escape (with the large number of plausible excuses for carrying around hardware during a crisis) in the ensuing chaos?
Many people will consider all different kind sof things "Cruft" as per the article writer with his "cruft 0" ... right. I have been running windows 98 since 1999 with only 1 system reinstall (compare that to how many times you reinstalled linux trying to learn that). I dont care how "crufty" your box gets, most /. reader you can identify cruft and remove it without trouble. I consider KAZAA cruft. The concept that a computer becomes so corrupted that it cant be used effectively is nonsense. Did the author acknowledge that a computer is made up of different parts that you can replace when they actually short or die? (no) AMDs processors (200mhz and earlier) physically burnt out their insulation after a few months, which I will concede as degredation...but nothing a table fan blowing directly into the case wont fix ;)
remove the offending programs/files, replace anything you short or break off (by screwing around with what you dont understand) and quit crying "computers die too!"
I lived with a gorgeous woman for 2 years. On a trip she saw a ferret in Arizona she had to have one. Get a de-scented female. Those actually dont stink at all. Of course when we broke up, she kept the ferret =(
While eggs are cool and all, why add them. Dont large sites have enough bugs or potential bugs to keep a bored admin happy? Simple sites like my personal one have shortcut urls but I usually rather add content than novelties for no purpose.
The Ancient Art of War was the best. I cant say it any better. This tripe they are peddling now makes me sick.
The one reason you should care about Warcraft3 is that it's a long-awaited cultural event. Everyone who's anyone on the internet knows about it and for some time people will have an opinion about it. That's not saying YOU should or that it's even a GOOD THING (tm) but it's something you should know. It's coming out July 3rd, a lot of internet savvy people care. Sleeping through this 'event' will be easy and probably wise. Oh yeah, Blizzard is a game company who has an unblemished track record in game varied popular game titles (debateable...Blackthorne?).
There is no similar company. This is yet another opportunity to prove themselves or fail.
I disagree with you, so I didnt mod you.
The lumens per dollar for very small LEDs is much cheaper. I dont have hard data or links to reference, however I can confidently say it through my own research over the last 2 years. The only reason I know this is because I have a penchant for a small light to wear around my neck when working in and around machines. I have been comparing and purchasing for about 2 years and I will agree that large arrays of small LEDs are used to approximate incandescents because of prohibitive cost of large LEDs...but then manufacturers can afford to use a multitude of tiny lights because of inverse cost.
And archiving old webpages != (reading || copying)
It is an undefined area and I'm going to use the awful SHOULD word...
This type of archiving SHOULD be considered what it is, archiving information. The comparison between webpages and newspapers and bulletin boards applies here. You can archive papers for viewing, why did this poster submit a flame about webpages?
I was actually looking and hoping for something about Dune as well.
I've always used a generic database object in PHP. I start every document with a config.php that defines the database, the paths, etc and then assume my generic objects and function calls will work through predefined wrappers or autodetection. If something breaks, PHP debugging is a breeze =)
# we always store the last result in the obj but
# *can* catch it if we want and it's supported
$result = DBobj->doQuery("SELECT * FROM FOO");
It bugs me a little bit that I have to sift through the comments to find out the existing, deterministic answer to a single question the article asks. From power req to heat generated, it looks like almost a unanimous "NO". The answer should be updated to reflect it.
When the primary subject of your article includes "I dont need to explain to the average Slashdot reader why", then why is it being explained, and more importantly why has it been posted?
Great suggestion. Get yourself an email in your profile thinmac, so I dont have to waste the bandwidth here :p
Anakin is little improved from menace. I know he's supposed to be full of anger and angst, but mostly he just comes off as constipated and bitchy. Amidala seems to be taking a bit of a nap. Their romantic scenes together are the Jar Jar binks scenes of this movie: It just pauses the action, and the acting is so bad that the movie stalls until something interesting happened.
The romantic parts of the movie are the best parts. They are realistically awkward, slow, and mangled. Perfect romantic relationships dont just happen and Ep2 was an excellent example of what happens when you put 2 exceptional young adults together who like each other. Another important thing about Ep2 was that the human characters looked much more PLAIN (sans outrageous costumes and makeup and CG/movie lighting) and therefore real. Anakin was played perfectly by an excellent actor and we finally got to see some Amidala nipply-goodness!
I agree, when an earthquake happens, it might as well have snowed in Russia for the purposes of it being "news" for nerds. This article AND resulting posts are a waste of bandwidth and flamebait.
Your question irked me then made me think. I would figure the reason 20/20 was considered "standard" was probably something along the lines of median statistical data. Start with the premise that 20/20 vision is the most commmon. 20/20 being a ratio that easily describes statistically common vision accuities. 20/20 IMPLIES that there can be better as well as worse kinds of vision, but that they are simply anomalous (not in a bad way).
The first tech revolution was definitively about making information worthless, not connecting people. Saying 'connecting things to things' sounds a lot like bringing b2b and c2b without brick and mortar storefronts or something like that.
How long before people have binaries or java (web) applets that can kindly disable the 'F'? Ridiculous. Moreover, I say it's a kindness, since this feature is a very BAD THING (tm). If I had never heard of it, I would probably be lost as to its use. Yet another thing to break and confuse the ill-informed.
Many times I have said it. I'll say it again. Text, and the information contained therein, cannot be regulated even by the specialized community that has created the specialized language(s).
To be a little less preachie, it's not like programmers can claim to be blameless for all the things we do...especially the things we dont tell people about. Viruses are programs. They show us vulnerabilities and FAILURES on our part as logicians. It's not about accountability or even the originator(s) intention, it's about fear. Luckily, not all powerful. I support virus makers. I see no reason to attack (pun) those which have though about the security more than I have.
It's a great idea; software expiration. Not so much that it's disabled, as much that it should notify when it's out of date. Saying saying "open source" is kinda pointless. All software could use this concept whether or not their code is "open source" and saying "should" is always wrong when making a suggestion.
Java leaves me lots of free time and I spending it screwing my gf's brains out. Sometimes I take a Pepsi or bio break.
So far slashdot has been following the MS model (not to say it's a bad one). MS scalable cost-benefit solution evolutions lead to anyone affiliated with a sponsor, with enough of a 'contribution', being able to have a single posted story, then only "subscribers" being able to post comments "since they are the most deserving" and then and then and then...
Another website that pre-dated this attempt, was Jack9.org - too bad @home went down or I could prove it with a link :(
Throughout it's 2 year lifetime it was parsing Slashdot.org, Fark.com, Clinko.com, Technocrat.net, isonews.com, techdirt.com, and kuro5hin.org.
Since the site is down (probably for a loooong time) this is not a promotion, just a fact.