Let's see, it's a discussion about HL2, maybe that's the version I meant? Sorry if by assuming most readers have enough brain matter to understand this I went over your microcephalus.
Every tax preparer I've ever seen (admittedly only about 4 times ever; usually I use software or in the old days did the EZ by hand) has expected ME to have all the documentation. They didn't go to my broker and do anything for me. The hard part is compiling the list, not finding a schedule for it. Especially if you're using software.
What a load. CDDB is so full of CRAP it's become nearly useless. Music Brainz is far from perfect either, but it's pretty darn good, and at least it tags a song as having a title AND an artist, as opposed to the title being "my song--jonny musician" with no artist.
I'm with those who say it's negligence. BTW, you are aware that many/most of the ATM machines out there are made by Diebold, right?
I'm no conspiracy nut who thinks Deibold deliberately threw the election (if they actually got caught, it'd be the end of the company), but I do think that they're incompetent programmers who wouldn't know security best practices if you whacked them with a book full of them. And I think that this problem ("pins left in temporary files") sounds very much like the same kind of slop that leads to some of their voting machine failures (recall "bits of voting records lying around temporary files").
Compared to a "draft" the majority of such armies usually consists of people of lower income.
Funny, I seem to recall the same criticisms levelled at the Viet Nam era military when there was a draft. I'm no great lover of using the military for everything, nor do I have any illusions that they're recruiting most heavily in the 90210 zip code, but it has nothing to do with draft or no draft.
Sorry you don't get the jokes or have a sense of humor about HL2. I just started reading them, and have been cackling ever since. Enjoy reading something else then eh?
That is a setting that can be controlled by commands to the drive. It is not "bad hardware" if the hardware lets you change the setting. Solaris explicitly turns that off unless you tell it not to.
If Linux is so bad why does Oracle support it and event advertise for it?
I don't recall saying that anything was "so bad". And I doubt that oracle's recommended configuration includes the disk side cache turned on.
If Oracle is running on linux or solaris on the same hardware, there isn't really much difference in integrity.
If it's in the same configuration (i.e. cache on vs cache off), you're right. My point was that by default Linux turns it on. By default Solaris turns it off. By default, Solaris has more integrity, but as I said before you *can* remedy that, and quite easily too.
My point was that the grandparent poster was being foolish by trying to attack Oracle because "mySQL is faster". That's hardly the bottom line most important factor in what database you use.
"Better" in terms of display is not going to happen any time soon. Not in a telephone form factor anyway. My PDA has one of the biggest screens available, and I'd go bigger if 1) it wasn't a luggable rather than a portable and 2) it ran palmOS.
Yeah, because we're all slasdotters who don't mind looking like big startrek geeks. And just because some business people don't mind either, they still look like idiot in my book. Until someone comes out with a bluetooth headset that doesn't look like I've strapped a clothespin on my ear, it ain't happnin.
And Solaris can be slower than Linux. Here's why: lack of data safeguards. Remember LiveJournal's big outage after a power spike trashed their DB? Do you like the fact that Linux enables controller-side caching by default, never mind that a power hit while your data is in that cache means bye-bye data? These are examples where speed is gained at the cost of reliability.
If we're talking about mission critical applications, whether you're a 30 person company or GE, you have to have data reliability. Can MySQL and Linux achieve these? Certainly, but guess what, suddenly you're not going faster than Oracle or Solaris any longer.
All of which is really irrelevant to Larry's claims. Personally I think he's full of it. Perl is another example of a wildly successful OSS project before there was "big" business support for it. It all depends on your definition of success, and I'm sure that in Larry's definition, he's right. But his definition is increasingly irrelevant.
Can we once and for all put to rest the idea that Republicans are universally luddite anti-science morons? This is not news people, it simply confirms the fact that we are letting the fringes drive the debate and that's just stupid on OUR PART!
portions of the book were plagarized from Leigh's and Baigent's work. What he did was take ownership of their work.
Care to give cites, or are you content just to spit venom?
Not to say I defend Brown's writing. Don't even bother reading any of his earlier books, they're even worse. BUT I hardly see his book as plagiarism. As I recall he even CREDITED Holy Blood Holy Grail.
If it is plagiarism, I think there are a lot of other authors who should be hunting down Robert Anton Wilson for Illuminatus!. And I could go on and on about all the derivative crap that's out there....
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Next time don't take notes, take photos. With your cellphone. Fast, easy, surreptitious.
So wait and buy the DVD once it's available. Or can't you be bothered to read the telltale games faq (scroll down most of the way)?
So get a bittorrent client and download the damn LD rips already then. Cost to you==3 DVD-R or DVD+R discs. Worked for me.
Because, after all, 4 x 11 = 44...but wait, isn't that 12 RUs instead of 4?
Get real. This is heavily engineered; no, it's not for the average slashdotter surfing porn in their mother's basement, so fucking what?
It's not really scientology...in manufacturing. it's bloody worthless in service or sales though.
Employees 1 2 3 & 4, not necessarily in that order. So yeah, I'd say they were all founders.
Let's see, it's a discussion about HL2, maybe that's the version I meant? Sorry if by assuming most readers have enough brain matter to understand this I went over your microcephalus.
I guess I played a different version of Half Life.
So I guess where the parent poster said "unless you're...loaning out books to friends" whizzed right past you, I guess?
Every tax preparer I've ever seen (admittedly only about 4 times ever; usually I use software or in the old days did the EZ by hand) has expected ME to have all the documentation. They didn't go to my broker and do anything for me. The hard part is compiling the list, not finding a schedule for it. Especially if you're using software.
Uh....and since when does a tax preparer do that for you?
Last time I checked, on MacOS X anyway, it was trivial to do sudo /bin/sh and voila I have a root shell. Get over it.
Sounds more to me like crying wolf than crying baa. In other words, lying is lying and when you get caught, no one will believe you next time.
What a load. CDDB is so full of CRAP it's become nearly useless. Music Brainz is far from perfect either, but it's pretty darn good, and at least it tags a song as having a title AND an artist, as opposed to the title being "my song--jonny musician" with no artist.
I'm no conspiracy nut who thinks Deibold deliberately threw the election (if they actually got caught, it'd be the end of the company), but I do think that they're incompetent programmers who wouldn't know security best practices if you whacked them with a book full of them. And I think that this problem ("pins left in temporary files") sounds very much like the same kind of slop that leads to some of their voting machine failures (recall "bits of voting records lying around temporary files").
Funny, I seem to recall the same criticisms levelled at the Viet Nam era military when there was a draft. I'm no great lover of using the military for everything, nor do I have any illusions that they're recruiting most heavily in the 90210 zip code, but it has nothing to do with draft or no draft.
Sorry you don't get the jokes or have a sense of humor about HL2. I just started reading them, and have been cackling ever since. Enjoy reading something else then eh?
That is a setting that can be controlled by commands to the drive. It is not "bad hardware" if the hardware lets you change the setting. Solaris explicitly turns that off unless you tell it not to.
I don't recall saying that anything was "so bad". And I doubt that oracle's recommended configuration includes the disk side cache turned on.
If Oracle is running on linux or solaris on the same hardware, there isn't really much difference in integrity.
If it's in the same configuration (i.e. cache on vs cache off), you're right. My point was that by default Linux turns it on. By default Solaris turns it off. By default, Solaris has more integrity, but as I said before you *can* remedy that, and quite easily too.
My point was that the grandparent poster was being foolish by trying to attack Oracle because "mySQL is faster". That's hardly the bottom line most important factor in what database you use.
"Better" in terms of display is not going to happen any time soon. Not in a telephone form factor anyway. My PDA has one of the biggest screens available, and I'd go bigger if 1) it wasn't a luggable rather than a portable and 2) it ran palmOS.
Yeah, because we're all slasdotters who don't mind looking like big startrek geeks. And just because some business people don't mind either, they still look like idiot in my book. Until someone comes out with a bluetooth headset that doesn't look like I've strapped a clothespin on my ear, it ain't happnin.
If we're talking about mission critical applications, whether you're a 30 person company or GE, you have to have data reliability. Can MySQL and Linux achieve these? Certainly, but guess what, suddenly you're not going faster than Oracle or Solaris any longer.
All of which is really irrelevant to Larry's claims. Personally I think he's full of it. Perl is another example of a wildly successful OSS project before there was "big" business support for it. It all depends on your definition of success, and I'm sure that in Larry's definition, he's right. But his definition is increasingly irrelevant.
I thought the George Lucas thing was self-evident, and didn't need any faith :-)
Can we once and for all put to rest the idea that Republicans are universally luddite anti-science morons? This is not news people, it simply confirms the fact that we are letting the fringes drive the debate and that's just stupid on OUR PART!
Care to give cites, or are you content just to spit venom?
Not to say I defend Brown's writing. Don't even bother reading any of his earlier books, they're even worse. BUT I hardly see his book as plagiarism. As I recall he even CREDITED Holy Blood Holy Grail.
If it is plagiarism, I think there are a lot of other authors who should be hunting down Robert Anton Wilson for Illuminatus!. And I could go on and on about all the derivative crap that's out there....