TAR is a pure-streaming format and a real bitch to use in random access mode.
I just thought I'd mention that tar stands for tape archive, so it makes sense that it's good for streaming data--that's exactly what it was designed for.
Exactly how is pumping mercury into the air not "screwing with the planet?" How is polluting the air with noxious gases not "screwing with the planet?" All we do is screw with the planet! We've been lucky so far that it hasn't killed us, but that could be changing. Declining birthrates are a fine example that something is wrong. The fact that the government is warning against eating too much tuna or salmon is another fine example.
Well, I shall give you a break. Actually, I need one, because the company I work for is going this exact boneheaded exercise. Worse than that, we're taking the data from mainframe-like very standardized flat file, converting it to XML, loading the XML into SQLServer scratch tables, validating it, exporting it into a different XML format to transfer it to our "server" Oracle DB before revalidating it and sending it right back to the SQLServer we just got it from. And why are we doing this? Because speed is of the essence on this project. Did I mention we're using WebServices for all this data passing, even though we own both sides of the application?
This is off topic; I know that. But after just reading the article on SFVs and thinking I was the poor girl on the cover, I needed to vent.
I can't stand seeing this type of measurements. It seems to me that half your users could be using more than the average. Hell, almost all your users could actually be using more than the average.
So the solution is to charge people who download more than the average? Guess what? That will force the average down. Now you get to charge even more people for using "more than the average." Is this supposed to continue until everyone has service, but no one uses it?
Re:I still don't get cryptomoncomonmon
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You know, it's funny: I just finished reading "Demons" by Dostoyevsky. It's roughly comparable in size to Stephenson's book, and it didn't rely on filler for even a page. It's also enormously interesting. If by pure genious you meant utterly pointless, then I agree with you. Otherwise, Stephenson has a long way to go before I'll consider him an worthwhile author.
I still don't get cryptomoncomonmon
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I understand the book, I just can't come up with a feasible reason why someone would want to read it. I did, I'm sorry to say, and I wanted to tear my eyes out for the last 600 pages or so. I actually considered not finishing it when I was about 20 pages from the end, and to this day, I wish I had.
So am I interested in another 900 pages from an author without any apparent editor? No. I'm not interested in reading chapter upon chapter of stuff that has absolutely no bearing on the plot, is uninteresting in its own right, and will be forgotten as soon as the next totally unnecessary twist.
The thing that Neal seems to forget is that the essence of writing is deciding what to leave out. Until he figures that out or hires an editor that can make the decision for him, I'll pass.
Re:I'm still reading Cryptonomicon...
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and I'm only on page 200 or so...
STOP NOW! That way, you will save yourself a good 700 pages of gibberish. Seriously. You will finish Cryptonomocrap and then walk directly to the person that recommended it to you and kick that person square in the jeepers. Mark my words. It does not get better.
Now we'll get terrorists not ordering special meals (which I'm very certain they normally do - heck, when you're on a suicide mission you want to make sure you have a nice snack).
That's a good point. I imagine something like this:
Agent 1:Hey Bob, what did the person in seat 15F eat? Agent 2:Well let's see...summer greens salad, pheasant under glass, 100 year old bottle of wine, chocolate mousse pie, and a snifter of port for desert. Why? Agent 1:Dear God! That's a last meal if I've ever heard one. Shoot down that plane!
Moral: When you're being terroristic-like, be sure not to order like it's your last meal.
SCO's big stick right now is FUD. Fear, Uncertainity, and Doubt. The shred tool can remove the uncertainty and doubt. Only SCO will still have the Fear.:-)
I say we give the uncertainty back to them. Then they'd have a big FU from all of us.
You're being naive. I don't work for a non-profit, but it's close: a contractor to the EPA. My wife works for a non-profit org, though, and our experiences are the same (Both environmentally-leaning). After a while, you realize that people that work in the organization are really just working at a job.
For example, I remember listening to a conversation with one guy about the idiotic tax-exemption of improbably large SUVs. One guy was dead-set against it, and one guy said it wasn't such a bad thing. Fine. Conversation over. Then, while leaving work, the guy who was red in the face about what a bad idea it was because it would encourage more SUVs got into his...BMW SUV!
I asked him about it later, and he said it was his friend's, and he was just driving it around to keep the engine lubed while his friend was in Europe for the summer. Why was it necessary to drive it to work everyday to keep the engine oil out of the pan? I didn't ask, but I wish I had.
I guess I'm way too cynical, but I think people start out one way, but in the end, the job is just a job.
I will also say that working for small companies is no better and no worse than working for large ones. I've found that it can be hard to overcome the inertia in small companies unless you have some backing. Our backups where I work now haven't worked in over a month, and I'm still having to fight to fix it, because the guy in charge of the backups has been here for 9 years, and I've been here for three months. The management just believes in him, even though he's a moron.
Have you ever seen some of the shareware programs out there for Windows? Admittedly, there aren't that many anymore, but their UIs are all over the place. Roughly, I'd say their UIs are about as consistent as linux's. For KDE apps, however, I'd say the uniformity is pretty darn good. It boils down to this: if developers follow the standards (and KDE makes this relatively easy), the interface will conform. If developers don't follow the standards, it won't. How hard is that to understand?
Here is a rather funny page (since the author's disbelief and anger at IE's horrible behavior is palpable) which does a good job of explaining the issue, and supplying a few workarounds.
I will say this for the guy: for a non-native english speaker, he got the expletives working perfectly.
When will people realize that "begs the question" means asking a question that has already been answered. It does not mean "presents the next logical question!" Think circular reasoning, not linear reasoning.
Who cares about moot points. What I want are some mood points at/. Soft lighting, smooth jazz. Maybe a slowly rotating disco ball...What we're missing here is atmosphere!
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I just thought I'd mention that tar stands for tape archive, so it makes sense that it's good for streaming data--that's exactly what it was designed for.
I guess some people just really like to pee.
Exactly how is pumping mercury into the air not "screwing with the planet?" How is polluting the air with noxious gases not "screwing with the planet?" All we do is screw with the planet! We've been lucky so far that it hasn't killed us, but that could be changing. Declining birthrates are a fine example that something is wrong. The fact that the government is warning against eating too much tuna or salmon is another fine example.
Tell me, Steve: do you go by "Rim" Jobs professionally, or did you just have sadistic friends?
Nah, barbed wire enemas aren't as bad as everyone says they are. Just think of a happy place.
that's easy: cock size.
Now, is that really what Tracy Jacks would say?
But using XML _internally_? Gimme a break.
Well, I shall give you a break. Actually, I need one, because the company I work for is going this exact boneheaded exercise. Worse than that, we're taking the data from mainframe-like very standardized flat file, converting it to XML, loading the XML into SQLServer scratch tables, validating it, exporting it into a different XML format to transfer it to our "server" Oracle DB before revalidating it and sending it right back to the SQLServer we just got it from. And why are we doing this? Because speed is of the essence on this project. Did I mention we're using WebServices for all this data passing, even though we own both sides of the application?
This is off topic; I know that. But after just reading the article on SFVs and thinking I was the poor girl on the cover, I needed to vent.
There...I feel better now.
If I'm not mistakem, xmms even has an output filter that works directly with arts. You don't need to do anything special to get it to work with KDE.
I was beginning to think people would actually get what they want in America. My faith in the system is restored!
I can't stand seeing this type of measurements. It seems to me that half your users could be using more than the average. Hell, almost all your users could actually be using more than the average.
So the solution is to charge people who download more than the average? Guess what? That will force the average down. Now you get to charge even more people for using "more than the average." Is this supposed to continue until everyone has service, but no one uses it?
You know, it's funny: I just finished reading "Demons" by Dostoyevsky. It's roughly comparable in size to Stephenson's book, and it didn't rely on filler for even a page. It's also enormously interesting. If by pure genious you meant utterly pointless, then I agree with you. Otherwise, Stephenson has a long way to go before I'll consider him an worthwhile author.
So am I interested in another 900 pages from an author without any apparent editor? No. I'm not interested in reading chapter upon chapter of stuff that has absolutely no bearing on the plot, is uninteresting in its own right, and will be forgotten as soon as the next totally unnecessary twist.
The thing that Neal seems to forget is that the essence of writing is deciding what to leave out. Until he figures that out or hires an editor that can make the decision for him, I'll pass.
STOP NOW! That way, you will save yourself a good 700 pages of gibberish. Seriously. You will finish Cryptonomocrap and then walk directly to the person that recommended it to you and kick that person square in the jeepers. Mark my words. It does not get better.
That's a good point. I imagine something like this:
Agent 1:Hey Bob, what did the person in seat 15F eat?
Agent 2:Well let's see...summer greens salad, pheasant under glass, 100 year old bottle of wine, chocolate mousse pie, and a snifter of port for desert. Why?
Agent 1:Dear God! That's a last meal if I've ever heard one. Shoot down that plane!
Moral: When you're being terroristic-like, be sure not to order like it's your last meal.
SCO's big stick right now is FUD. Fear, Uncertainity, and Doubt. The shred tool can remove the uncertainty and doubt. Only SCO will still have the Fear. :-)
I say we give the uncertainty back to them. Then they'd have a big FU from all of us.
You're being naive. I don't work for a non-profit, but it's close: a contractor to the EPA. My wife works for a non-profit org, though, and our experiences are the same (Both environmentally-leaning). After a while, you realize that people that work in the organization are really just working at a job.
For example, I remember listening to a conversation with one guy about the idiotic tax-exemption of improbably large SUVs. One guy was dead-set against it, and one guy said it wasn't such a bad thing. Fine. Conversation over. Then, while leaving work, the guy who was red in the face about what a bad idea it was because it would encourage more SUVs got into his...BMW SUV!
I asked him about it later, and he said it was his friend's, and he was just driving it around to keep the engine lubed while his friend was in Europe for the summer. Why was it necessary to drive it to work everyday to keep the engine oil out of the pan? I didn't ask, but I wish I had.
I guess I'm way too cynical, but I think people start out one way, but in the end, the job is just a job.
I will also say that working for small companies is no better and no worse than working for large ones. I've found that it can be hard to overcome the inertia in small companies unless you have some backing. Our backups where I work now haven't worked in over a month, and I'm still having to fight to fix it, because the guy in charge of the backups has been here for 9 years, and I've been here for three months. The management just believes in him, even though he's a moron.
Have you ever seen some of the shareware programs out there for Windows? Admittedly, there aren't that many anymore, but their UIs are all over the place. Roughly, I'd say their UIs are about as consistent as linux's. For KDE apps, however, I'd say the uniformity is pretty darn good. It boils down to this: if developers follow the standards (and KDE makes this relatively easy), the interface will conform. If developers don't follow the standards, it won't. How hard is that to understand?
Here is a rather funny page (since the author's disbelief and anger at IE's horrible behavior is palpable) which does a good job of explaining the issue, and supplying a few workarounds.
I will say this for the guy: for a non-native english speaker, he got the expletives working perfectly.
CowboyNeal and I are from the same town!
KNEEL BEFORE ME
surprizingly, "regardless" and "IRregardless" mean the same thing. Talk about a quirky language. Of course, in Soviet Russia, the language quirks YOU.
-40C? Is that as cold as -40F?
When will people realize that "begs the question" means asking a question that has already been answered. It does not mean "presents the next logical question!" Think circular reasoning, not linear reasoning.
Who cares about moot points. What I want are some mood points at /. Soft lighting, smooth jazz. Maybe a slowly rotating disco ball...What we're missing here is atmosphere!
isn't that a light chicken gravy?