Oh come on. All he's asking for is constructive comments on how to improve it. I've just taken a look at the pdf and there had really a lot of serious effort already put into this, and putting it up for free... whooo, it can only be a labour of love. Plus there's a kick-ass Chapter 1 summarizing computational theory from Babbage & Ada through Turing up to when quantum mechanics come into the picture.
Bearing in mind this is written as an armchair guide for the uninitiated (and should not be bogged down with the complex or minutae), I must say it is a very commendable effort. Very well done, Chillers!
Actually, if I buy derivatives as a risk mitigation instrument - I am actually *reducing* the gamble I'll be taking if I do not buy it.
Anyhow, if you pursue to the end the argument that jobs that deal with such intangibles are 'artificial' and not 'real', then you will end up throwing out almost all service professions as 'artificial': like lawyers, politicians, accountants, bankers, IT specialists, etc. In fact, anyone that does employ their labour to directly transform an actual physical product (say, wood) into one of higher value (chair) would be artificial.
I develop IT systems for big companies, but on your accounting, I am a just trying to make a buck out of the inefficiencies suffered by that big company. And so lawyers are milking the justice system, the politicians are milking the government, and the derivative traders who sought to minimize risk are shafting the world.
On the other hand, there may be a genuine positive value to what we do to improve the situation, and maybe we should be measured on if our individual actions makes the world (with all its warts and inefficiencies) a better or worse place, instead of broadly sweeping something as bad.
And so not all lawyers are bad - just those that milk it for their own gains. And not all derivative trading is bad - only those that cause more harm than good by taking gambles that either risk other peoples money entrusted to them, or causes distortion that hurt other economies.
Actually, isn't it that they were obeyed, but due to interpretation of the laws and circumstances, have contradictory consequences? Say like being able to kill Hitler because in the long run you save even more people?
What you mean is that we have been vulnerable to this since IE6 was available waaayyyyy back, but it wasn't known until 3 months ago, and that they just realised how easily exploitable it is 2 days ago.
What does Sarbanes-Oxley have to do with process streamlining? Isn't that the US legislation clobbered together to improve corporate governance after Enron?
Though I come to somewhat the same conclusion - that I enjoy the pleasure of downloading free stuffs - but it is for entirely different reasons, and I think your reasoning is flawed.
Downloading movies and taking donuts from dumps are different: for movies you are stealing without consent, for dumped donuts you're just taking something with implicit consent, in the former you disregard the concept of intellectual property and harm their profit, in the latter there are no such concepts because the donuts are a write-off anyway. And property, consent and the do-not-harm-principle are of course the pillars on which modern and progressive societies rest on.
You can argue that you do no harm by merely copying digital data, but you reduce their demand when you should be contributing to the cost of innovation.
You can also argue that there should not be intellectual property (in that ideas should be free), but this is untenable because there would otherwise be no impetus to innovate or to be creative if not adequately compensated.
The question now goes to what is an adequate compensation, and this is where I object to the way the movie and music industry is profiteering. Copyrights should never last several lifetimes. We should not be compelled to buy entire albums. Too much of the revenue goes to the flab like marketing, managing, mega-stars, mega-profits, and too little trickling to those who matter, like the artists.
I rather guiltily admit that I do pirate stuff occasionally, but I'll willingly pay if my grivances above are addressed. I don't see myself as a Robin Hood (the analogy is wrong anyway - I steal for myself not for others), but rather a 18th century peasant stealing bread from the French aristocrat!
Give the guy a break, it's China for gods sake. They don't exactly impress us with technical knowledge and high quality goods.
This was the sort of complacency the Romans and British were squatting on, just before their glorious empires kiss dirt. I'd say, watch out for the Chinese.
I think the head-count do matter, especially when it is the movie industry vs the game industry. It is much easier to reach a saturation point for games - and since the business is so good, we will probably see a proliferation of titles coming soon, and possibly not enough new hardcore gamers to play them.
Another related factor on why head-count matters is that movies occupy a much shorter attention time that a game - after 3 hours max you're done with the movie, but game can take days or weeks. Revenue for movies can grow by encouraging people to go to the cinemas more often, but this will be harder for games since a game already will take up much of your time - unless completion times are shortened and the games made more stupid so that most can whizz through it in a day.
There is no grounds to suggest that we can attribute the great ideas of Faraday, Pasteur & Newton to a deep seated belief in Creation. At that time, everybody has such deep-seated belief because science has not sufficiently progressed to explain nature, and nobody dares to question the church authorities anyway. I am not disputing if Newton and Kepler are devout, but that the devoutness has nothing to do with the quality of their ideas.
Who knows if they might have progressed further in science if they were not hindered with issues on how to marry their troubling science with their religious belief, or trying to justify it in a creationist framework without pissing off the Church? And I can also quote names like Abelard, Averroes, Galileo, Darwin, Spinoza, William of Ockham, whose thoughts were attacked by the Church for differing from the dogma.
I think it is more prudent to ask how this compares to PostgreSQL and Firebird, both in terms of features and performance. mySQL runs blazing fast because it doesn't have all the bells-and-whistles, which are of course sometimes necessary for enterprise database development.
Does anybody listens to what Osama really has to say, despite your hatred for him? The first thing that runs through everybody's mind is that 'Is this going to help Bush or Kerry?' That is not the issue here - it is terrorism, and how to end it.
It has been pointed out again and again that the main sticking point is Israel's blatant mistreatment of Palestinians, and America's support behind it. That alone is the greatest cause of anger in the Muslim world. Osama's message is not illogical or fanatical - it is, dare I say in a most politically incorrect way, passionate.
Of course the situation is rather complex and the powerful and hawkish Jewish lobby doesn't help, but America is the only one with the leverage to force Israel to hammer out a sane and workable peace deal - which is simply to define a partition with no crazy manderings and Jewish settlements dotting Palestinian autonomous land. It doesn't have to be unfair - it just have to be sane.
I am confident that doing something about that festoon of emnity and hatred will take the wind off the terrorist, and perhaps be a way towards peace with the Muslim world. And America is in a position to help, not in the lamest manner from the likes OF Carter through Clinton, but with more will, resolve and fairness.
That's why they have high inheritance tax - if you didn't earn it, then you really shouldn't be enjoying it that much.
Maybe they should have a copyright inheritance tax or something - upon death, 50% of the copyright revenues goes to the government, and after two generations most companies won't bother to hold on to it.
Compiere at the moment requires an Oracle database, so unless you want to shell out truckloads of $$$, you might want to take a look at Fyracle as covered by/. earlier for a way to make it work with the open-sourced Firebird SQL database.
I believe the Patriot Act just allows the government to:
a) snoop into your private life without court order or permission, b) detain non-citizens without trial [with exceptions of 'enemy combatants']. c) Expires End 2005.
The ISA has not expiry date and allows the police to detain anyone for arbitrary periods without trial on any suspicion on having acted or likely to act on any matter of national security. The difference is on implementation: the ISA is frequently used against opposition parties, religious fundamentalists, and people merely talking about racial relations. In 1963, 117 opposition and labour union leaders were arrested and some held up to 17 years, in 1987, 106 where arrested, and in 1988, Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who challenged the then Prime Minister Mahathir, was also detained under this Act (subsequently converted to a corruption and sodomy charge).
Compiere is an open-source implementation of an ERP+CRM system, the catch is that it requires expensive Oracle databases (as much of the functionality has been encoded using Oracle SPs and such). There have been lots of talk about migrating it to other databases like PostgreSQL and donations were even seeked but not much have progressed... until now.
Firebird (not to be confused with the Firefox browser) is another open source database based on Borland/Inprise InterBase - much improved now of course. Last I checked half a year ago, it has full ACID, distributed transactions *with savepoints* (postgreSQL can't), external/internal stored procs, triggers, subselects, referential integrity, ANSI compliant SQL, SMP support, ODBC/JDBC, triggers, up to 64Tb Databases, embedded build, native WIN32 build... and... with an amazingly small footprint of 2.5MB installation.
Anyway, it seems to me that the crux of Fyracle is not that they rewritten Compiere to run on Firebird. It seems like they engineered a layer to implement all Oracle-like features on Firebird. Anything written natively for Oracle should be able to run off it! If they can pull it off, you can just rip out Oracle and place Firebird in.
However, direct compatibility may not mean the ported application will run with the same performance and integrity as on an Oracle DB. But it is a very good step forward.
MENSA's cut-off is about the top 2 percentile. In a country of say 250 million, there would be 5 million eligible. Honestly, I don't think it is that big a deal.
Uhh, if you actually use the attack to find a collision to 1., it will probably not at all like 2., but would be more like: JJHWDF&*@#UB@#$JKGW*&F@GR@BFKJEWFBWEJF#EFNJ$KRF#$( R$#@R#$F#$JFJ#IRF#$KLCLD:LASWX_WR@#$R@#...
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Oh come on. All he's asking for is constructive comments on how to improve it. I've just taken a look at the pdf and there had really a lot of serious effort already put into this, and putting it up for free... whooo, it can only be a labour of love. Plus there's a kick-ass Chapter 1 summarizing computational theory from Babbage & Ada through Turing up to when quantum mechanics come into the picture.
Bearing in mind this is written as an armchair guide for the uninitiated (and should not be bogged down with the complex or minutae), I must say it is a very commendable effort. Very well done, Chillers!
Actually, if I buy derivatives as a risk mitigation instrument - I am actually *reducing* the gamble I'll be taking if I do not buy it.
Anyhow, if you pursue to the end the argument that jobs that deal with such intangibles are 'artificial' and not 'real', then you will end up throwing out almost all service professions as 'artificial': like lawyers, politicians, accountants, bankers, IT specialists, etc. In fact, anyone that does employ their labour to directly transform an actual physical product (say, wood) into one of higher value (chair) would be artificial.
I develop IT systems for big companies, but on your accounting, I am a just trying to make a buck out of the inefficiencies suffered by that big company. And so lawyers are milking the justice system, the politicians are milking the government, and the derivative traders who sought to minimize risk are shafting the world.
On the other hand, there may be a genuine positive value to what we do to improve the situation, and maybe we should be measured on if our individual actions makes the world (with all its warts and inefficiencies) a better or worse place, instead of broadly sweeping something as bad.
And so not all lawyers are bad - just those that milk it for their own gains. And not all derivative trading is bad - only those that cause more harm than good by taking gambles that either risk other peoples money entrusted to them, or causes distortion that hurt other economies.
Err what's NSFW by the way? New Stuff For Wanking?
Actually, isn't it that they were obeyed, but due to interpretation of the laws and circumstances, have contradictory consequences? Say like being able to kill Hitler because in the long run you save even more people?
What you mean is that we have been vulnerable to this since IE6 was available waaayyyyy back, but it wasn't known until 3 months ago, and that they just realised how easily exploitable it is 2 days ago.
What does Sarbanes-Oxley have to do with process streamlining? Isn't that the US legislation clobbered together to improve corporate governance after Enron?
Though I come to somewhat the same conclusion - that I enjoy the pleasure of downloading free stuffs - but it is for entirely different reasons, and I think your reasoning is flawed.
Downloading movies and taking donuts from dumps are different: for movies you are stealing without consent, for dumped donuts you're just taking something with implicit consent, in the former you disregard the concept of intellectual property and harm their profit, in the latter there are no such concepts because the donuts are a write-off anyway. And property, consent and the do-not-harm-principle are of course the pillars on which modern and progressive societies rest on.
You can argue that you do no harm by merely copying digital data, but you reduce their demand when you should be contributing to the cost of innovation.
You can also argue that there should not be intellectual property (in that ideas should be free), but this is untenable because there would otherwise be no impetus to innovate or to be creative if not adequately compensated.
The question now goes to what is an adequate compensation, and this is where I object to the way the movie and music industry is profiteering. Copyrights should never last several lifetimes. We should not be compelled to buy entire albums. Too much of the revenue goes to the flab like marketing, managing, mega-stars, mega-profits, and too little trickling to those who matter, like the artists.
I rather guiltily admit that I do pirate stuff occasionally, but I'll willingly pay if my grivances above are addressed. I don't see myself as a Robin Hood (the analogy is wrong anyway - I steal for myself not for others), but rather a 18th century peasant stealing bread from the French aristocrat!
Give the guy a break, it's China for gods sake. They don't exactly impress us with technical knowledge and high quality goods.
This was the sort of complacency the Romans and British were squatting on, just before their glorious empires kiss dirt. I'd say, watch out for the Chinese.
I think the head-count do matter, especially when it is the movie industry vs the game industry. It is much easier to reach a saturation point for games - and since the business is so good, we will probably see a proliferation of titles coming soon, and possibly not enough new hardcore gamers to play them.
Another related factor on why head-count matters is that movies occupy a much shorter attention time that a game - after 3 hours max you're done with the movie, but game can take days or weeks. Revenue for movies can grow by encouraging people to go to the cinemas more often, but this will be harder for games since a game already will take up much of your time - unless completion times are shortened and the games made more stupid so that most can whizz through it in a day.
There is no grounds to suggest that we can attribute the great ideas of Faraday, Pasteur & Newton to a deep seated belief in Creation. At that time, everybody has such deep-seated belief because science has not sufficiently progressed to explain nature, and nobody dares to question the church authorities anyway. I am not disputing if Newton and Kepler are devout, but that the devoutness has nothing to do with the quality of their ideas.
Who knows if they might have progressed further in science if they were not hindered with issues on how to marry their troubling science with their religious belief, or trying to justify it in a creationist framework without pissing off the Church? And I can also quote names like Abelard, Averroes, Galileo, Darwin, Spinoza, William of Ockham, whose thoughts were attacked by the Church for differing from the dogma.
I think it is more prudent to ask how this compares to PostgreSQL and Firebird, both in terms of features and performance. mySQL runs blazing fast because it doesn't have all the bells-and-whistles, which are of course sometimes necessary for enterprise database development.
Does anybody listens to what Osama really has to say, despite your hatred for him? The first thing that runs through everybody's mind is that 'Is this going to help Bush or Kerry?' That is not the issue here - it is terrorism, and how to end it.
It has been pointed out again and again that the main sticking point is Israel's blatant mistreatment of Palestinians, and America's support behind it. That alone is the greatest cause of anger in the Muslim world. Osama's message is not illogical or fanatical - it is, dare I say in a most politically incorrect way, passionate.
Of course the situation is rather complex and the powerful and hawkish Jewish lobby doesn't help, but America is the only one with the leverage to force Israel to hammer out a sane and workable peace deal - which is simply to define a partition with no crazy manderings and Jewish settlements dotting Palestinian autonomous land. It doesn't have to be unfair - it just have to be sane.
I am confident that doing something about that festoon of emnity and hatred will take the wind off the terrorist, and perhaps be a way towards peace with the Muslim world. And America is in a position to help, not in the lamest manner from the likes OF Carter through Clinton, but with more will, resolve and fairness.
And what if she was intimidated into saying she was not intimidated?
That's why they have high inheritance tax - if you didn't earn it, then you really shouldn't be enjoying it that much.
Maybe they should have a copyright inheritance tax or something - upon death, 50% of the copyright revenues goes to the government, and after two generations most companies won't bother to hold on to it.
If this is implemented and my phone ever jangles 2 hours into a movie, I'll probably piss in panic first.
Compiere at the moment requires an Oracle database, so unless you want to shell out truckloads of $$$, you might want to take a look at Fyracle as covered by /. earlier for a way to make it work with the open-sourced Firebird SQL database.
I believe the Patriot Act just allows the government to:
a) snoop into your private life without court order or permission,
b) detain non-citizens without trial [with exceptions of 'enemy combatants'].
c) Expires End 2005.
The ISA has not expiry date and allows the police to detain anyone for arbitrary periods without trial on any suspicion on having acted or likely to act on any matter of national security. The difference is on implementation: the ISA is frequently used against opposition parties, religious fundamentalists, and people merely talking about racial relations. In 1963, 117 opposition and labour union leaders were arrested and some held up to 17 years, in 1987, 106 where arrested, and in 1988, Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who challenged the then Prime Minister Mahathir, was also detained under this Act (subsequently converted to a corruption and sodomy charge).
Heh, that's funny. Someone mod parent up!
The 5 second rule has been covered by /. more than a year ago here.
Compiere is an open-source implementation of an ERP+CRM system, the catch is that it requires expensive Oracle databases (as much of the functionality has been encoded using Oracle SPs and such). There have been lots of talk about migrating it to other databases like PostgreSQL and donations were even seeked but not much have progressed... until now.
... and ... with an amazingly small footprint of 2.5MB installation.
Firebird (not to be confused with the Firefox browser) is another open source database based on Borland/Inprise InterBase - much improved now of course. Last I checked half a year ago, it has full ACID, distributed transactions *with savepoints* (postgreSQL can't), external/internal stored procs, triggers, subselects, referential integrity, ANSI compliant SQL, SMP support, ODBC/JDBC, triggers, up to 64Tb Databases, embedded build, native WIN32 build
Anyway, it seems to me that the crux of Fyracle is not that they rewritten Compiere to run on Firebird. It seems like they engineered a layer to implement all Oracle-like features on Firebird. Anything written natively for Oracle should be able to run off it! If they can pull it off, you can just rip out Oracle and place Firebird in.
However, direct compatibility may not mean the ported application will run with the same performance and integrity as on an Oracle DB. But it is a very good step forward.
MENSA's cut-off is about the top 2 percentile. In a country of say 250 million, there would be 5 million eligible. Honestly, I don't think it is that big a deal.
By way of analogies, then America must be the arse-pit...
Don't give them ideas!
Uhh, if you actually use the attack to find a collision to 1., it will probably not at all like 2., but would be more like: JJHWDF&*@#UB@#$JKGW*&F@GR@BFKJEWFBWEJF#EFNJ$KRF#$