Like Slashdot:) Remember yesterday's fiasco where posts were migrating into other articles and the time before that where it happened and the time before that.:)
Why people don't use PostgreSQL is beyond me - unless they don't like fact it is under a BSD license instead of the GPL (please don't get me started on that).
Umm SQL does have explicit indexes and they make a big difference:
create index t_c_idx on t (c);
creates an index "t_c_idx" on column "c" of table "t".
I've shaved 2 multi-second queries to under 1/10 of a second (it was an overall speedup of over 100X) just by adding indexes and letting them be used (e.g. you can't have where some_function(c)=value and expect the DB to use the index on c).
Happened to me too today. Confusing at first, but I remember it happened before.
Slashdot uses MySQL - what do you expect?
They should use PostgreSQL version 8, a full SQL implementation which is ACID compliant, highly scalable, highly available, enterprise-level and open source (BSD/BSD style license) which is deployed in literally thousands of production applications worldwide.
MySQL isn't the right tool for the job. What job is it the right tool for? Well we could have the gov't give it to Al Qaeda which would mess them up and thus help us in the War on Terror.
Big parts of Queens for example. Staten Island doesn't have subway. Same with Long Island. And the LIRR isn't near all the places in Long Island people live in.
People often want to live outside the city and commute to NYC to get to work.
Though the subway is great (people's bashing of it is a gross distortion of the truth) if both your start and destination are close enough to it.
If that is the route you want to go, heck don't just sell all your share - sell more than you own and go short - if you are willing to take the (big) risk.
Technically they could say they aren't BREAKING the format.
You aren't BREAKING the PNG format if you add a proprietary critical chunk. No view could read it other than ones that knew how to handle the chunk but it would be a valid PNG.
One could make a PNG that has a critical chunk that says uses decryption key 5 to decrypt the image chunk, and only give the list of decryption keys to authorized users or only include it in authorized software.
Voila instant DRM in an open image format.
DVD is even easier - as you can actually imbed code and it is still a valid DVD as long as every thing is well formed, etc.
So if there is a lawsuit they can possibly just say - it is a VALID DVD and win on a technicality - even though you are right from a common sense point of view.
You can vote at the stockholder's meeting or (much easier) proxy vote. Your brokerage should send you something in the mail if you owned shares at the right time and you can just fill out a form and select people other than the current board members.
Being paid more money is a perfectly valid reason.
Not if the cost of living is so high it negates that. Wages aren't the issue, the wage/price ratio is what is the issue. Getting paid 2X more and cost of living 2X more isn't any better - it actually is worse due to progressive taxation where the more you make the more % is taken away.
Case in point: New York City. You can make a lot more there than in Las Vegas. But parking your car over there costs as much as renting an apartment here! Everything costs more.
Of course a counter argument can be made that if you can save up a decent (perhaps 10%) portion of your income for a while and then move to a cheaper area (like Las Vegas) you can win big (no pun intended) since your savings now have more buying power (portion of high wages/low prices = good ratio). So going to NYC, the Bay Area, Seattle or some such for a while may be a wise move.
It is when you can skip it and it is against the CSS license for a player to let you skip it - and if they don't license CSS but use it anyway, they are liable for DMCA and patent violations and if you make a crack which lets you skip them your are liable for a DMCA violation.
It is DRM enforced by technology with the LAW backing up the technology - so if the technology is overridden, you could find your behind being "overridden" by a big man named Bubba in the Federal pen for the next 5 years after which it will be illegal for you to have many jobs in the tech field (either directly or because your boss doesn't want a court to take and redistribute all its assets to satisfy a "negligent hiring/retention" suit if you do anything in the future). You could probably still work at a burger joint though.
Simple, the DVD could have code on it which checks for the capability and refuses to run if it is not there.
DVDs actually have a program which runs and controls how or if the DVD gets played.
That is how they defeated the region 0 players which would play any disk. They added code to DVDs which checks the region and if it doesn't match, prevents it from playing, even if the player doesn't honor the restriction - the DVD code will. The MPAA (or actually, the DVDCCA) closed that hole a while ago.
Slashdot groupies love to support Apple and flame/mod down detractors, even though Apple has SUED a lot of people (as has been mentioned in many stories here).
And the post made valid points about bugs and performance.
Dr. - My CYA mentality, malpractice insurance woes, stodgy conservatism that believes 1950's era medical treatment is the way to go, pharmaceutical dinners, incentives and kickbacks, drug company propaganda, current issue hysteria (your obesity is why your arm is jacked up, not the 38 caliber bullet imbedded within), political reasoning (I don't like abortion - therefore the morning after pill is unsafe), lack of understanding of anything more modern or technological than a mercury sphyg... (uh the blood pressure thing), HMO/Medicare/other insurance restrictions and payback rates and kickbacks, my need to pay off my Ferrari and yacht, the fact I don't have time to figure out what is wrong with your or stay current on effective therapies, ego and pride which won't let me admit that people other than I have good ideas I didn't already know about and the fact I don't care if you live or die ever since med school, life, and my practice killed any soul I had...
has led me to believe that the treatment you are requesting is too risky.
Look at this site for info on how med school destroys doctors:
(even for non-experimental treatments). Of course, if it is a BIG money maker ("weight loss surgery" who cares about risk - if we kill you - you can't sue and we are already paid).
If medicine were a patient, it would belong in the ICU.
P.S. Not all doctor's are bad. But enough are. And a bad doctor is much worse for you than a bad mechanic.
Ever see how horribly Linux handles running out of memory?
Slows to a complete crawl, then either deadlocks, or goes on a process killing spree taking out even system daemons (nscd in my case) when it was a user process (Firefox is my case) that used up the morory. Also often kills X, which leaves a garbled console.
Slashdot Mirror
Is posting to Slashdot considered actual work?
Netcraft confirms SQL is dead.
Well, I have a BOOKMARK to my bank, so I can just click on that and be safe.
Don't take away people's ability to be anonymous?
Give people the ability to ignore those who are.
How about an "Ignore all anonymous users" option instead?
Try Samba + PostgreSQL.
I won't even trust MySQL to a bulletin board, let alone my files!
If full 3rd normal form is too slow, you need better hardware.
If a few joins (assuming you've got indexes, etc setup) make it too slow you are too close to the edge.
Saving on hardware but spending more in dealing with data problems is false economy.
Little crap bulletin boards can use MySQL.
Like Slashdot :) Remember yesterday's fiasco where posts were migrating into other articles and the time before that where it happened and the time before that. :)
Why people don't use PostgreSQL is beyond me - unless they don't like fact it is under a BSD license instead of the GPL (please don't get me started on that).
Umm SQL does have explicit indexes and they make a big difference:
create index t_c_idx on t (c);
creates an index "t_c_idx" on column "c" of table "t".
I've shaved 2 multi-second queries to under 1/10 of a second (it was an overall speedup of over 100X) just by adding indexes and letting them be used (e.g. you can't have where some_function(c)=value and expect the DB to use the index on c).
Happened to me too today. Confusing at first, but I remember it happened before.
Slashdot uses MySQL - what do you expect?
They should use PostgreSQL version 8, a full SQL implementation which is ACID compliant, highly scalable, highly available, enterprise-level and open source (BSD/BSD style license) which is deployed in literally thousands of production applications worldwide.
MySQL isn't the right tool for the job. What job is it the right tool for? Well we could have the gov't give it to Al Qaeda which would mess them up and thus help us in the War on Terror.
The universe is covered under a BSD style license.
Don't claim you wrote it (blasphemy), but you have a right to use it free of charge.
Didn't Jack Valenti say going to the bathroom during commercial breaks is theft?
Subway doesn't go everywhere.
Big parts of Queens for example. Staten Island doesn't have subway. Same with Long Island. And the LIRR isn't near all the places in Long Island people live in.
People often want to live outside the city and commute to NYC to get to work.
Though the subway is great (people's bashing of it is a gross distortion of the truth) if both your start and destination are close enough to it.
If that is the route you want to go, heck don't just sell all your share - sell more than you own and go short - if you are willing to take the (big) risk.
Technically they could say they aren't BREAKING the format.
You aren't BREAKING the PNG format if you add a proprietary critical chunk. No view could read it other than ones that knew how to handle the chunk but it would be a valid PNG.
One could make a PNG that has a critical chunk that says uses decryption key 5 to decrypt the image chunk, and only give the list of decryption keys to authorized users or only include it in authorized software.
Voila instant DRM in an open image format.
DVD is even easier - as you can actually imbed code and it is still a valid DVD as long as every thing is well formed, etc.
So if there is a lawsuit they can possibly just say - it is a VALID DVD and win on a technicality - even though you are right from a common sense point of view.
You can vote at the stockholder's meeting or (much easier) proxy vote. Your brokerage should send you something in the mail if you owned shares at the right time and you can just fill out a form and select people other than the current board members.
Being paid more money is a perfectly valid reason.
Not if the cost of living is so high it negates that. Wages aren't the issue, the wage/price ratio is what is the issue. Getting paid 2X more and cost of living 2X more isn't any better - it actually is worse due to progressive taxation where the more you make the more % is taken away.
Case in point: New York City. You can make a lot more there than in Las Vegas. But parking your car over there costs as much as renting an apartment here! Everything costs more.
Of course a counter argument can be made that if you can save up a decent (perhaps 10%) portion of your income for a while and then move to a cheaper area (like Las Vegas) you can win big (no pun intended) since your savings now have more buying power (portion of high wages/low prices = good ratio). So going to NYC, the Bay Area, Seattle or some such for a while may be a wise move.
It is when you can skip it and it is against the CSS license for a player to let you skip it - and if they don't license CSS but use it anyway, they are liable for DMCA and patent violations and if you make a crack which lets you skip them your are liable for a DMCA violation.
It is DRM enforced by technology with the LAW backing up the technology - so if the technology is overridden, you could find your behind being "overridden" by a big man named Bubba in the Federal pen for the next 5 years after which it will be illegal for you to have many jobs in the tech field (either directly or because your boss doesn't want a court to take and redistribute all its assets to satisfy a "negligent hiring/retention" suit if you do anything in the future). You could probably still work at a burger joint though.
DRM - it sure is.
Simple, the DVD could have code on it which checks for the capability and refuses to run if it is not there.
DVDs actually have a program which runs and controls how or if the DVD gets played.
That is how they defeated the region 0 players which would play any disk. They added code to DVDs which checks the region and if it doesn't match, prevents it from playing, even if the player doesn't honor the restriction - the DVD code will. The MPAA (or actually, the DVDCCA) closed that hole a while ago.
Why was this modded down?
Slashdot groupies love to support Apple and flame/mod down detractors, even though Apple has SUED a lot of people (as has been mentioned in many stories here).
And the post made valid points about bugs and performance.
Imagine you getting arrested by the Grammar Police.
Migratory culture doesn't help you if you'd actually LIKE to keep living in the city you do.
Many people do not like to move and will avoid so at any cost.
More like this:
Dr. - My CYA mentality, malpractice insurance woes, stodgy conservatism that believes 1950's era medical treatment is the way to go, pharmaceutical dinners, incentives and kickbacks, drug company propaganda, current issue hysteria (your obesity is why your arm is jacked up, not the 38 caliber bullet imbedded within), political reasoning (I don't like abortion - therefore the morning after pill is unsafe), lack of understanding of anything more modern or technological than a mercury sphyg... (uh the blood pressure thing), HMO/Medicare/other insurance restrictions and payback rates and kickbacks, my need to pay off my Ferrari and yacht, the fact I don't have time to figure out what is wrong with your or stay current on effective therapies, ego and pride which won't let me admit that people other than I have good ideas I didn't already know about and the fact I don't care if you live or die ever since med school, life, and my practice killed any soul I had...
has led me to believe that the treatment you are requesting is too risky.
Look at this site for info on how med school destroys doctors:
http://upalumni.org/medschool/
(even for non-experimental treatments). Of course, if it is a BIG money maker ("weight loss surgery" who cares about risk - if we kill you - you can't sue and we are already paid).
If medicine were a patient, it would belong in the ICU.
P.S. Not all doctor's are bad. But enough are. And a bad doctor is much worse for you than a bad mechanic.
Salty or acidic liquids conduct electricity more and thus are the worst.
Salt, Potassium Chloride, Citric, Malic, Phosphoric, Tartaric Acid, etc will make any liquid that much more effective at shorting out stuff.
Well you have a place to run SETI@Home or Quake tournaments off of.
Ever see how horribly Linux handles running out of memory?
Slows to a complete crawl, then either deadlocks, or goes on a process killing spree taking out even system daemons (nscd in my case) when it was a user process (Firefox is my case) that used up the morory. Also often kills X, which leaves a garbled console.