Dude, Amtrak's "plight" is that in the USA, trains are expensive, inconvenient, and dangerous. Why would anyone ride on a train, when airplanes are so cheap and safe?
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all that comes out of an oracifce
Shit and piss? That's all you could think of? What about nose snot? Ear wax? Those crufty eye-boogers you sometimes wake up with in the morning? Throaty phlegm?
I've got wierd goo oozing out of my body from a dozen different places, and the best you could come up with is shit and piss? You don't deserve to call yourself a crapflooder.
You know, once again I find it hilarious that Cmdr Taco gave "Troll" a -1 mod, but then rewards trolls in every other way.
The guy crossposted to net.bugs, net.flames, and net.puzzle. And he said, "I'm not a programmer, but there's this programmer dude that I talked to, and he said that all the computers are gonna explode in 2000. Is this really true? I haven't thought about it at all, but I just thought I'd ask you all just to see what you think?"
It reads like one of the lamest "ask slashdot" posts ever. But, in truth, this was quite clearly a troll. A clever and interesting troll, but most certainly a troll. And Taco has gone and brought even more attention to it, giving it a +5 mod for all eternity. Why? Because despite all claims to the contrary, CmdrTaco likes trolls.
MySQL is just a flatfile database for people too lazy to use those:-)
Well, of course it is just a flatfile database. It's not a transactional DB, and any comparison to a transactional DB just quickly turns into a vi vs. emacs debate. But there are a couple of improvements that MySQL adds to the flatfile database. And, for the kind of program where you would consider using a flatfile database, I think that MySQL provides a couple of nice features that anyone should consider:
First, the single biggest plus for MySQL over a flatfile database is that many of the useful methods have already been written for you, and you don't have to roll your own -- joins, selects, sorts, inserts, deletes, and hash indexes have all been taken care of for you already. And, those methods have been reasonably encapsulated behind a small SQL-like language that is going to be easy for just about anyone to learn.
If ever tried to maintain a few different programs that roll their own flatfile databases, you'll quickly appreciate the encapsulation that MySQL offers. In the real world, a lot of real programmers manage to produce an ugly unholy union between their data and their algorithms. At least when I'm maintaining a program that uses MySQL I can be reasonably certain of at least one level of abstraction exists, and I'm already familiar with that abstraction.
Second, MySQL helps with concurrent access. Some locking has been taken care of for you. It's not always perfect locking, but if it's locking that's good enough for your application, then it's good enough for your application. Again, if you've ever had to maintain code using a flatfile database, you'll quickly discover that not all programmers are very careful with their locking.
Third, there's a reasonable (although limited) permissions system in place. If your filesystem doesn't have ACL's (Access Control Lists), or if you don't want to create an OS user for each DB user, you'll appreciate the MySQL permission system.
Fourth, MySQL is a flatfile database with a network transport layer. You can stick all the data for all of your applications in one place, and even put the data on a seperate server from your applications. If you have a fairly simple application (like Slashdot, for example) that could easily use flat files, but which would benefit from a network layer, MySQL is a great plus. Of course, if your admin is a picklehead who inexplicably decides to delete the/var partition one day, you're gonna be unhappy. But if your admin is a picklehead, you're gonna be unhappy anyhow. Putting all your data in one basket makes backups and administration quite a bit easier. It also makes it easy to write new programs that use existing data.
In short, MySQL isn't a transactional database, and it doesn't use "real" SQL. But it does give several advantages over a plain flatfile database, and I would certainly recommend that anyone use it rather than roll their own flatfile database for their programs. If you ever expect someone else to maintain your code (or, if you ever expect to maintain more than one program yourself), you'll quickly appreciate what MySQL does offer. Of course, if you need a transactional database, or true SQL support, you'll quickly curse what MySQL doesn't offer. Know your application, and you'll be fine.
how many slashdot users are now going to order this software from amazon instead of apple? hands?
Don't be an idiot. Amazon is evil, because of the one-click shopping patent. Slashdot is a community of people who are incredibly sensible to such issues, and stay away from Amazon because of it. There isn't a person on this site who wouldn't gladly pay an extra $50, just to make their dissappointment in Amazon clear.
Also, Slashdot aren't going to buy this from Amazon, because most Slashdot users don't make enough money at their after-school job at McDonalds to afford the software.
So, they've taken a scan of someone else's copyright images, but they'll be torqued if you used the scan without permission?
Fair use probably gives them the right to scan and display TSR's copyrighted artwork in this way. It also gives me the limited right to some use of their scans. In fact, I'm using one as a desktop wallpaper right now, just because I legally can!
It's incredibly funny to me that they, of all people, would post the standard "use without permission is prohibited" crap. They have to realize that the claim is totally without merit, because otherwise they wouldn't be copying and distrubting TSR's artwork -- artwork which almost certainly has the same meaningless phrase printed on it somewhere.
If they didn't know the words were meaningless, they wouldn't have the site in the first place. Since they know they're meaningless, why do they have them on the site?
I'm astounded that anyone can have either that much time on their hands, money to waste or lack of a sense of self-preservation.
True. That rich asshole should be posting to slashdot at 3 in the morning, rather than trying to fly a fucking glider. Or, maybe he should be sitting in a bar someplace, drinking $4 glasses of booze and trying to mac on the ladies. At least then he wouldn't be wasting his life, like he is now.
Of course, even $79 is too much to charge someone who already paid for the OS with the prices Apple charges for proprietized, two-year old, commodity hardware.
Dude, Apple hardware is way more than two years out of date! Microsoft stopped selling One Button Mice like ten years ago! Those apple geeks are such tools, cuz they don't have enough buttons! Get it? It's a pun, on buttons! Ha ha ha! I kill myself!
I am technologically superior to you, cuz my computer can play games! I've learned a lot more about computers that way than I ever would have learned if I used an apple.
Also, I get to fuck around with my drivers. That means that I get to click on the icons, while I curse! This, too, has made me learn a lot about computers. Like, you have to curse at them, and sometimes you have to hold down the right mouse button to get at the hidden property pages. Those looser apple geeks could never do that!
I wonder if, when Apple notices all its orders are coming in through Amazon, they'll get the point?
What is the point? That people like to save money? I'm assuming that there is someone at Apple who doesn't live in a bizarro world 24 hours a day, and therefore already knew that.
I'm a little more concerned about the editors at this site, who are given thousands of stories to choose from every day, and regularly choose the ones that look like they were written by Signal 11.
Being able to use software RAID to create high performance meta devices and high reliability meta devices would really kick notebooks into high gear.
Can someone explain to me what a "meta device" is? And, can some explain to me what happens when you get a plurality of "meta devices?" I mean, what the hell is this guy blathering about?
I'm sure other people are going to point out that RAID probably isn't the solution to the problem you think you're having. It's like hoping that forged connecting rods and pistons are going to make your Dodge Neon into a sports car. By itself, it's not going to do what you seem to hope it will do.
Anyhow, if you want a good, decent, fast notebook get yourself and Apple.
Positive and negative look-behind are two features that come to mind.
Without doing a formal proof, I'm still fairly certain that positive and negative look-behind are still equivilant to classical regular expressions. Backreferences, however, make perl regular expressions into another beast entirely, as do independent subexpressions (i think), code refs, and postponed sub expressions.
wh00t! You're the best troll here, dude! Using UDP for financial data! ROFLMAO at your lovely troll, dude!
And you got a lot of bites, too! A lot of people on Slashdot are so stupid, they actually believe there's a human on the planet who would use UDP for a timeclock! Ha ha ha! Stupid Slashdoters. They'll bite on the stupidest, most inane claims.
There should be far more creationist trolls attached to this article. I only see two or three. Are the trolls getting lazy, or is the creationist troll not challenging enough, or is Slashdot dying?
If an article like this can't generate some good old fashioned creationist troll -- historically, one of the most fertile troll grounds to be found across all media -- then I'm afraid that Slashdot may actually be dying. I'm sad to see it go.
So you must be about 180 lbs then? Or are you one of those ugly fat fuckers who's like 6' 2" and 235 lbs, and stupid enough to think you're not fat?
Remember, Arnold Schwarzenegger was 6' 2", 235 lbs, and had something like a 29 inch waist, at the top of his career. There's a pretty good chance that if you weigh even that much, you're a fat fuck.
Since there isn't the normal quote marks and italics, I am assuming Micheal wrote this entire article, all by himself.
Would it have been possible to tell us what H2K2 is somewhere in the body of the article? Could you at least have written something like "H2K2 is 2600 magazine's fourth 'Hackers On Planet Earth' conference."
Adding even the most basic description wouldn't have been hard, and it would have saved the trouble of clicking the link and overloading 2600's poor server. 'Cuz, this ain't intriguing to me. And I'm not sure why I read slashdot.
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witness Amtrak's plight
Dude, Amtrak's "plight" is that in the USA, trains are expensive, inconvenient, and dangerous. Why would anyone ride on a train, when airplanes are so cheap and safe?
Are hard to understand without both a subject and a verb. Though not as complicated as the underwater vehicles.
"Lol, no."
ROFLMAO, yes.
all that comes out of an oracifce
Shit and piss? That's all you could think of? What about nose snot? Ear wax? Those crufty eye-boogers you sometimes wake up with in the morning? Throaty phlegm?
I've got wierd goo oozing out of my body from a dozen different places, and the best you could come up with is shit and piss? You don't deserve to call yourself a crapflooder.
Dumbass.
You know, once again I find it hilarious that Cmdr Taco gave "Troll" a -1 mod, but then rewards trolls in every other way.
The guy crossposted to net.bugs, net.flames, and net.puzzle. And he said, "I'm not a programmer, but there's this programmer dude that I talked to, and he said that all the computers are gonna explode in 2000. Is this really true? I haven't thought about it at all, but I just thought I'd ask you all just to see what you think?"
It reads like one of the lamest "ask slashdot" posts ever. But, in truth, this was quite clearly a troll. A clever and interesting troll, but most certainly a troll. And Taco has gone and brought even more attention to it, giving it a +5 mod for all eternity. Why? Because despite all claims to the contrary, CmdrTaco likes trolls.
Well, of course it is just a flatfile database. It's not a transactional DB, and any comparison to a transactional DB just quickly turns into a vi vs. emacs debate. But there are a couple of improvements that MySQL adds to the flatfile database. And, for the kind of program where you would consider using a flatfile database, I think that MySQL provides a couple of nice features that anyone should consider:
- First, the single biggest plus for MySQL over a flatfile database is that many of the useful methods have already been written for you, and you don't have to roll your own -- joins, selects, sorts, inserts, deletes, and hash indexes have all been taken care of for you already. And, those methods have been reasonably encapsulated behind a small SQL-like language that is going to be easy for just about anyone to learn.
- Second, MySQL helps with concurrent access. Some locking has been taken care of for you. It's not always perfect locking, but if it's locking that's good enough for your application, then it's good enough for your application. Again, if you've ever had to maintain code using a flatfile database, you'll quickly discover that not all programmers are very careful with their locking.
- Third, there's a reasonable (although limited) permissions system in place. If your filesystem doesn't have ACL's (Access Control Lists), or if you don't want to create an OS user for each DB user, you'll appreciate the MySQL permission system.
- Fourth, MySQL is a flatfile database with a network transport layer. You can stick all the data for all of your applications in one place, and even put the data on a seperate server from your applications. If you have a fairly simple application (like Slashdot, for example) that could easily use flat files, but which would benefit from a network layer, MySQL is a great plus. Of course, if your admin is a picklehead who inexplicably decides to delete the
/var partition one day, you're gonna be unhappy. But if your admin is a picklehead, you're gonna be unhappy anyhow. Putting all your data in one basket makes backups and administration quite a bit easier. It also makes it easy to write new programs that use existing data.
In short, MySQL isn't a transactional database, and it doesn't use "real" SQL. But it does give several advantages over a plain flatfile database, and I would certainly recommend that anyone use it rather than roll their own flatfile database for their programs. If you ever expect someone else to maintain your code (or, if you ever expect to maintain more than one program yourself), you'll quickly appreciate what MySQL does offer. Of course, if you need a transactional database, or true SQL support, you'll quickly curse what MySQL doesn't offer. Know your application, and you'll be fine.If ever tried to maintain a few different programs that roll their own flatfile databases, you'll quickly appreciate the encapsulation that MySQL offers. In the real world, a lot of real programmers manage to produce an ugly unholy union between their data and their algorithms. At least when I'm maintaining a program that uses MySQL I can be reasonably certain of at least one level of abstraction exists, and I'm already familiar with that abstraction.
how many slashdot users are now going to order this software from amazon instead of apple? hands?
Don't be an idiot. Amazon is evil, because of the one-click shopping patent. Slashdot is a community of people who are incredibly sensible to such issues, and stay away from Amazon because of it. There isn't a person on this site who wouldn't gladly pay an extra $50, just to make their dissappointment in Amazon clear.
Also, Slashdot aren't going to buy this from Amazon, because most Slashdot users don't make enough money at their after-school job at McDonalds to afford the software.
So, they've taken a scan of someone else's copyright images, but they'll be torqued if you used the scan without permission?
Fair use probably gives them the right to scan and display TSR's copyrighted artwork in this way. It also gives me the limited right to some use of their scans. In fact, I'm using one as a desktop wallpaper right now, just because I legally can!
It's incredibly funny to me that they, of all people, would post the standard "use without permission is prohibited" crap. They have to realize that the claim is totally without merit, because otherwise they wouldn't be copying and distrubting TSR's artwork -- artwork which almost certainly has the same meaningless phrase printed on it somewhere.
If they didn't know the words were meaningless, they wouldn't have the site in the first place. Since they know they're meaningless, why do they have them on the site?
I'm astounded that anyone can have either that much time on their hands, money to waste or lack of a sense of self-preservation.
True. That rich asshole should be posting to slashdot at 3 in the morning, rather than trying to fly a fucking glider. Or, maybe he should be sitting in a bar someplace, drinking $4 glasses of booze and trying to mac on the ladies. At least then he wouldn't be wasting his life, like he is now.
Of course, even $79 is too much to charge someone who already paid for the OS with the prices Apple charges for proprietized, two-year old, commodity hardware.
Dude, Apple hardware is way more than two years out of date! Microsoft stopped selling One Button Mice like ten years ago! Those apple geeks are such tools, cuz they don't have enough buttons! Get it? It's a pun, on buttons! Ha ha ha! I kill myself!
I am technologically superior to you, cuz my computer can play games! I've learned a lot more about computers that way than I ever would have learned if I used an apple.
Also, I get to fuck around with my drivers. That means that I get to click on the icons, while I curse! This, too, has made me learn a lot about computers. Like, you have to curse at them, and sometimes you have to hold down the right mouse button to get at the hidden property pages. Those looser apple geeks could never do that!
I wonder if, when Apple notices all its orders are coming in through Amazon, they'll get the point?
What is the point? That people like to save money? I'm assuming that there is someone at Apple who doesn't live in a bizarro world 24 hours a day, and therefore already knew that.
I'm a little more concerned about the editors at this site, who are given thousands of stories to choose from every day, and regularly choose the ones that look like they were written by Signal 11.
Being able to use software RAID to create high performance meta devices and high reliability meta devices would really kick notebooks into high gear.
Can someone explain to me what a "meta device" is? And, can some explain to me what happens when you get a plurality of "meta devices?" I mean, what the hell is this guy blathering about?
I'm sure other people are going to point out that RAID probably isn't the solution to the problem you think you're having. It's like hoping that forged connecting rods and pistons are going to make your Dodge Neon into a sports car. By itself, it's not going to do what you seem to hope it will do.
Anyhow, if you want a good, decent, fast notebook get yourself and Apple.
Positive and negative look-behind are two features that come to mind.
Without doing a formal proof, I'm still fairly certain that positive and negative look-behind are still equivilant to classical regular expressions. Backreferences, however, make perl regular expressions into another beast entirely, as do independent subexpressions (i think), code refs, and postponed sub expressions.
Now, if you can implement regular expressions, then I might be mildly impressed.
Who the hell can't implement regular expressions? It's pretty damned easy to do -- Kleene's Theorem isn't exactly rocket science.
More than 35 minutes of captivity in the theatre alone.
If they wouldn't let you leave, you probably can bring someone at the theatre up on charges. They can't force you to sit in the theatre.
Or, did they mean that you had to watch the trailers in order to see the movie? Well, tough shit. Stop watching movies, and go read a fucking book.
wh00t! You're the best troll here, dude! Using UDP for financial data! ROFLMAO at your lovely troll, dude!
And you got a lot of bites, too! A lot of people on Slashdot are so stupid, they actually believe there's a human on the planet who would use UDP for a timeclock! Ha ha ha! Stupid Slashdoters. They'll bite on the stupidest, most inane claims.
There should be far more creationist trolls attached to this article. I only see two or three. Are the trolls getting lazy, or is the creationist troll not challenging enough, or is Slashdot dying?
If an article like this can't generate some good old fashioned creationist troll -- historically, one of the most fertile troll grounds to be found across all media -- then I'm afraid that Slashdot may actually be dying. I'm sad to see it go.
There should be far more Creationist trolls attached to this article. I've only seen two or three. Are all the Slashdot trolls lazy>
A couple hours of downtime a month? Two hours is a quarter century of downtime at 5 9's.
If you needed five nine's, and you were willing to pay for five nine's, then how can two nine's suddenly become acceptable to your business plan?
So you must be about 180 lbs then? Or are you one of those ugly fat fuckers who's like 6' 2" and 235 lbs, and stupid enough to think you're not fat?
Remember, Arnold Schwarzenegger was 6' 2", 235 lbs, and had something like a 29 inch waist, at the top of his career. There's a pretty good chance that if you weigh even that much, you're a fat fuck.
Wow. There sure are a lot of useful comments posted in reply to this article. I'm glad I'm on Slashdot, where all the smart people are.
Uhh, guys? This isn't a coffee pot computer. This is a coffee maker.
At what point in a presentation should you realize you have nothing intersting to say, and just start playing video games on stage?
Since there isn't the normal quote marks and italics, I am assuming Micheal wrote this entire article, all by himself.
Would it have been possible to tell us what H2K2 is somewhere in the body of the article? Could you at least have written something like "H2K2 is 2600 magazine's fourth 'Hackers On Planet Earth' conference."
Adding even the most basic description wouldn't have been hard, and it would have saved the trouble of clicking the link and overloading 2600's poor server. 'Cuz, this ain't intriguing to me. And I'm not sure why I read slashdot.