Looks legitimate. Doesn't look like he has a business relation with the company based on his resume
My own advice is 1and1.com, cheapest virtual hosting available. May not have everything he needs. If you want dedicated, I would say managed.com, 1TB of bandwidth for $60.
How many "tons" of water do I use to shower? And I do that everyday. I certainly don't buy a computer everyday, however. You may as well consider the air and food consumed by the factory workers if you are forced to follow the causal trail so far to get the desired dramatic number. How many fossil fuels are used to till the fields that grow the crops that feed the workers that make the computers? Clearly, this is an ecological disaster. Our only option is to start killing people, or at least keep them from being born. That is where this trail of logic will eventually lead you.
We must remember that copyrights and patents exist for a single purpose, to foster the growth of knowledge and innovation. There is no abstract "right" for any person to hold a monopoly on ideas or information except as such "rights" foster the growth of knowledge and innovation.
So we must look at this case. Has there been a lack of growth in factual databases due to the inability to profit from them in the same way that, say, the author of a novel can? No, I think not. If then is the case then it seems to undermine the whole enterprise of copyrights and patents altogether. For it seems that if a company can and will go through so much trouble to create a database of phone numbers without any monopoly protection, that lesser efforts will surely happen with or without such protections as well.
So, if these legal monopolies were created for a purpose and they no longer serve to help fulfill that purpose, then what good are they? None at all.
And yes, they are doing it. I know one in particular, who was laid off here in America and then rehired to work in India as the head of the outsourced division. Certainly he's not making what he made here, but when, for example, a haircut and head massage are mere (US) pennies, it doesn't matter much.
Hey, give the EU some credit. At least they are imposing a penalty.
Yes, I agree, this is commendable. But I seem to remember a much more severe judgement being handed down several years ago--the splitting of the company. Unfortunately, that did not survive appeal. While the current judgement is a good sign, it means nothing until the appeals have been fully resolved.
When Microsoft will have finished their appeals. By that time, they will have already crushed the competitors whose misfortunes initiated this inquiry. Furthermore, new anti-trust violations will be pending on new behavior, which will not be settled for another few years.
Late justice may as well be no justice. The courts of the US and EU need to find a way to act more swiftly in such matters.
I believe the point has been mentioned before in similar threads, but it bears repeating here.
Many businesses already have licenses for all the software that they run--either a seat for every user or a site-wide license. For such businesses, a PC that comes with Windows is just wasted money. It would make sense to try to wrestle a discount from Microsoft when such a situation occurs, but monopolies are not often sympathetic to such things.
Pyros are great at wreaking havoc, flag running, and keeping snipers at bay with fire. I try to play pyro whenever it makes sense for the map. I always end up with a low frag count, but it really helps the team out.
This article was nothing but an ad hominem rant. I almost never play sniper, and suck at it when I do. I do fairly well otherwise. So apparently there must be some skill that snipers possess that I do not.
I don't like snipers either. But neither do snipers like spies that stab them in the back;) Just because there is one class that you cannot beat as easily as the others, this does not make the class "bad" or "low skill". In fact, it usually means the opposite.
There is a reason for every class. In Team Fortress, Heavy Weapons and Rocket guys would be the only classes anyone played were it not for snipers.
It is certainly interesting that they are using MKS. The difference may be attributable to the command line argument passing. For example, doing the following literally creates a command line of several thousand parameters in my environment:
grep SOMETHING */*/*.cpp
As someone else said, no one's perfect. Doing the above literally in Linux actually causes bash to fail with too many arguments. However, Linux also has a recursive option that makes it much faster because the files do not have to be passed literally on the command line.
Whether the extra time taken by SfU is in the actual grep program, or breaking down the globular expressions for parsing, I don't know. But I do know that what I was doing with MKS became much longer with SfU.
going between Windows and Linux boxes. I speak from first hand experience. An FTP transfer of the same (very large) file goes 10 times as fast on my gigabit network. I can't speak for NFS, but SMB is certainly not the be-all-end-all for serving files.
I guess it depends on what you use it for. But as I have to do development work in Windows, I thought I'd try it out. Searching through the million line source tree our company has took about 10 times as long with 'grep' that came with "Services for UNIX" as it did with 'grep' that came with a now ancient version of MKS. Both of these were slower that current GNU grep on a Linux box, but the difference between GNU and MKS grep is not dramatic.
The lesson stays, however. If you expect to basically start with all the power of your Linux box, you'll be sorely dissappointed, just as someone expected the ease of use of Windows coming to Linux will be sorely dissappointed.
People were unable to open an image of the new $20 bill from a web location with Photoshop. They were also unable to copy and then paste it into Photoshop, except in pieces, or through certain import programs.
It doesn't matter whether it's blackboxed or not. It had to be tested for performance and functionality by Adobe, and calls to it had to be performed at various points. It seems that it will be invoked every time you open an image or paste an image into the editor. That's development effort on Adobe's part. While it's certainly not the effort required had they developed it themselves, it's inclusion is not trivial.
Everything should be as simple as possible, but no more. How simple you can make a game really depends on the type of game. And whether you enjoy the complexity of the game really should be a reflection of the genres you enjoy. Do you like to spend your time immersed in the fantasy realm of an RPG, or do you just like to kick back every now and then for a short FPS session?
And some things are obvious. Should you have separate buttons for opening a door, opening a chest, and pressing a lever, or should you have one "do stuff" button? In this case, the answer is "No" of course.
Actually, it's all cool. The data was much less important than determining why the table was cleared. We were QA'ing a new patch for our application, and we were afraid that the patch had somehow caused the massive row deletion. Finding out that it was my thoughtlessness actually put us in a better situation.
And I do remember running the specified script, just against another (more expendable) server. I probably mixed up which machine I was on. So I don't think anyone is out to get me.
I could have explained all this in the original post, but it would have seriously detracted from the punchline of the story.
Line termination not required for MS SQL Server. (No, I don't use it by choice.) CTRL-E will work just fine, ENTER does nothing. And sometimes you just forget the where clause, or I do anyway. That's the only time I found rollbacks to be of any use--when cancelling a delete statement set against a multi-million row table in production that was was started without a where clause. Heart-stopping stuff. It wasn't me (I was just a witness), but had it not been stopped, it could have been the entire company's ass on the line.
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Looks legitimate. Doesn't look like he has a business relation with the company based on his resume
My own advice is 1and1.com, cheapest virtual hosting available. May not have everything he needs. If you want dedicated, I would say managed.com, 1TB of bandwidth for $60.
How many "tons" of water do I use to shower? And I do that everyday. I certainly don't buy a computer everyday, however. You may as well consider the air and food consumed by the factory workers if you are forced to follow the causal trail so far to get the desired dramatic number. How many fossil fuels are used to till the fields that grow the crops that feed the workers that make the computers? Clearly, this is an ecological disaster. Our only option is to start killing people, or at least keep them from being born. That is where this trail of logic will eventually lead you.
We must remember that copyrights and patents exist for a single purpose, to foster the growth of knowledge and innovation. There is no abstract "right" for any person to hold a monopoly on ideas or information except as such "rights" foster the growth of knowledge and innovation.
So we must look at this case. Has there been a lack of growth in factual databases due to the inability to profit from them in the same way that, say, the author of a novel can? No, I think not. If then is the case then it seems to undermine the whole enterprise of copyrights and patents altogether. For it seems that if a company can and will go through so much trouble to create a database of phone numbers without any monopoly protection, that lesser efforts will surely happen with or without such protections as well.
So, if these legal monopolies were created for a purpose and they no longer serve to help fulfill that purpose, then what good are they? None at all.
The lathe is funnier though.
And yes, they are doing it. I know one in particular, who was laid off here in America and then rehired to work in India as the head of the outsourced division. Certainly he's not making what he made here, but when, for example, a haircut and head massage are mere (US) pennies, it doesn't matter much.
When Microsoft will have finished their appeals. By that time, they will have already crushed the competitors whose misfortunes initiated this inquiry. Furthermore, new anti-trust violations will be pending on new behavior, which will not be settled for another few years.
Late justice may as well be no justice. The courts of the US and EU need to find a way to act more swiftly in such matters.
No problem, these customers will just be upgrading from DOS
I believe the point has been mentioned before in similar threads, but it bears repeating here.
Many businesses already have licenses for all the software that they run--either a seat for every user or a site-wide license. For such businesses, a PC that comes with Windows is just wasted money. It would make sense to try to wrestle a discount from Microsoft when such a situation occurs, but monopolies are not often sympathetic to such things.
Pyros are great at wreaking havoc, flag running, and keeping snipers at bay with fire. I try to play pyro whenever it makes sense for the map. I always end up with a low frag count, but it really helps the team out.
This article was nothing but an ad hominem rant. I almost never play sniper, and suck at it when I do. I do fairly well otherwise. So apparently there must be some skill that snipers possess that I do not.
;) Just because there is one class that you cannot beat as easily as the others, this does not make the class "bad" or "low skill". In fact, it usually means the opposite.
I don't like snipers either. But neither do snipers like spies that stab them in the back
There is a reason for every class. In Team Fortress, Heavy Weapons and Rocket guys would be the only classes anyone played were it not for snipers.
Egads, this sounds like a QA test script. I think we would have gotten the idea without quite as much detail.
It is certainly interesting that they are using MKS. The difference may be attributable to the command line argument passing. For example, doing the following literally creates a command line of several thousand parameters in my environment:
grep SOMETHING */*/*.cpp
As someone else said, no one's perfect. Doing the above literally in Linux actually causes bash to fail with too many arguments. However, Linux also has a recursive option that makes it much faster because the files do not have to be passed literally on the command line.
Whether the extra time taken by SfU is in the actual grep program, or breaking down the globular expressions for parsing, I don't know. But I do know that what I was doing with MKS became much longer with SfU.
going between Windows and Linux boxes. I speak from first hand experience. An FTP transfer of the same (very large) file goes 10 times as fast on my gigabit network. I can't speak for NFS, but SMB is certainly not the be-all-end-all for serving files.
I guess it depends on what you use it for. But as I have to do development work in Windows, I thought I'd try it out. Searching through the million line source tree our company has took about 10 times as long with 'grep' that came with "Services for UNIX" as it did with 'grep' that came with a now ancient version of MKS. Both of these were slower that current GNU grep on a Linux box, but the difference between GNU and MKS grep is not dramatic.
The lesson stays, however. If you expect to basically start with all the power of your Linux box, you'll be sorely dissappointed, just as someone expected the ease of use of Windows coming to Linux will be sorely dissappointed.
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People were unable to open an image of the new $20 bill from a web location with Photoshop. They were also unable to copy and then paste it into Photoshop, except in pieces, or through certain import programs.
It doesn't matter whether it's blackboxed or not. It had to be tested for performance and functionality by Adobe, and calls to it had to be performed at various points. It seems that it will be invoked every time you open an image or paste an image into the editor. That's development effort on Adobe's part. While it's certainly not the effort required had they developed it themselves, it's inclusion is not trivial.
It seems that Hewish and Ryle got the Nobel for their role in radio astronomy, not pulsars.
Anybody know why Jocelyn Bell received no credit for actually discovering pulsars, yet her thesis advisor, who actually seemed to do nothing, did?
Everything should be as simple as possible, but no more. How simple you can make a game really depends on the type of game. And whether you enjoy the complexity of the game really should be a reflection of the genres you enjoy. Do you like to spend your time immersed in the fantasy realm of an RPG, or do you just like to kick back every now and then for a short FPS session?
And some things are obvious. Should you have separate buttons for opening a door, opening a chest, and pressing a lever, or should you have one "do stuff" button? In this case, the answer is "No" of course.
Actually, it's all cool. The data was much less important than determining why the table was cleared. We were QA'ing a new patch for our application, and we were afraid that the patch had somehow caused the massive row deletion. Finding out that it was my thoughtlessness actually put us in a better situation.
And I do remember running the specified script, just against another (more expendable) server. I probably mixed up which machine I was on. So I don't think anyone is out to get me.
I could have explained all this in the original post, but it would have seriously detracted from the punchline of the story.
But you make a good point. Any protectionist measures we implement will eventually hit cost us ten-fold any benefit they grant us now.
Line termination not required for MS SQL Server. (No, I don't use it by choice.) CTRL-E will work just fine, ENTER does nothing. And sometimes you just forget the where clause, or I do anyway. That's the only time I found rollbacks to be of any use--when cancelling a delete statement set against a multi-million row table in production that was was started without a where clause. Heart-stopping stuff. It wasn't me (I was just a witness), but had it not been stopped, it could have been the entire company's ass on the line.