He's productizing Linux, as he has to given his position.
To recognize the Linux isn't a distro available as a boxed product at Borders, and is, rather, the source code, is to leave him with no means of directly comparing the two, let alone comparing the two to his advantage.
Linux is an instruction set to build an OS, made up out of the common wisdom, and hence is more comparable furniture plans than a chair.
Only in the case of Linux the computer builds the "chair" for you.
Red Hat may build "chairs" based on the publicly available pattern, but, as we all know Red Hat != Linux. The source code is Linux.
So long as you were willing to have a Mr. and Mrs. Frankenstein in relief, yes.
If not, you'd have to make two half models and glue them togehter, or trade in one of the dot matrix printers for a turntable. An old Technics direct drive ought to serve nicely.
Bounty may be the quicker picker upper, and thus the superiour technology for spills, but in any application where you are prone to reach for a Handiwipe, rag, dishcloth, etc. Viva is unbeatable.
If you're going to spray Pledge on it, Viva is the one you want.
Even in paper towel technology the right tool for the right job applies.
This method is not programable or fully 3D. It will create a set shape on a surface like a molding plane does. It will not carve a model of your head, and then carve a model of your girlfriend's head, and then carve a molding plug for a machine part.
For the record I never said anything about the prices in health food stores or anything marked "Health Food" in the supermarket. In fact, I explicitly didn't bring up anything marked "Health Food" in the supermarket.
Yeah, I was waiting for someone to nail me on that. In fact I was waiting for someone to agree with me.:)
I totally buggered that whole section, but it was just so funny I let it stand with the errata note that I had buggered it.
Ironically people know I "eat healthy," so I'm frequently asked where they should go to buy healthy food, to which I almost always reply:
"For God's sake man, whatever you do, don't go in the health food store!
"Well. . . where do I go then?"
"They've got these things now called "Supermarkets." Look, over here, brown rice, dried beans and lentils. Over here, the produce aisle. You need frickin' binoculars to see the end of the thing. Broccoli, Bok Choy, squash, potatoes to the ceiling, it's the middle of February and there are crates of oranges that were hanging on the tree a few days ago. Why go anywhere else?"
"But, but . . . what about organic?"
"Here, take my binoculars, look down there. No, to the right a little, yeah, see? A whole organic section if you want. Supermarkets today aren't the supermarkets of 20 years ago. They're catering to customer demand. Go figure.
But really, if you want my advice? Save your money. Only buy organic if the price is the same. If you eat the "normal" stuff there's a 99.84% chance it won't kill you. If you eat the organic there's a 99.984% chance it won't kill you, and they got those numbers by taking a phone survey, or from the I Ching, or something like that."
You have just unlocked the secret of virtually every news report that says "ten times more likely."
To get cancer. To have a heart attack. To suffer from the heartbreak of psoriasis. Whatever.
Yes, these numbers indicate "10 times better," and if you were to ask the reporter how likely am I to avoid cancer in both situations, these are the sorts of numbers he would show you.
Eat health food and your chance of having a heart attack is 99.984%. Eat too many donuts and your chance of having a heart attack is 99.983%, 10 times worse!
Always, always, always ask to see the raw numbers so that you know what "10 times worse" means.
Then ask if the numbers were collected by phone survey. If they were, throw them all away and have donut and a cup of coffee.
So Amtrak has to comply with airline regulations, and vice versa?
They're different technologies, relying on different physical architectures. What is reasonably mandatory in one might not even be physically possible in the other.
IRC and Roger Wilco compete with the phone companies, in my house so effectively that they have replaced my phone. Am I to be forced to have a phone? Are the 911 police going to storm my dwelling to shove a slimline down my throat to be fair to Verizon?
What am I going to do if I fall down and can't get up? I'm going to call for help, just like we used to. If help doesn't come, I'm going to die.
A ballpeen hammer is a very useful tool for opening a can of paint, if that's all you have.
The marketers labeling it as a canopener doesn't make it one, however.
Relational Database has as precise a technical defintion as the do the laws of thermodynamics. If popular usage of the word thermodynamics, or marketing manipulation of the word, differs from the definition it isn't because the definition has changed. It is because those who misuse it are ignorant of what it means.
I'm sorry, I have to run now. The CD in my cupholder needs changing.
They can say anything they want in their advertising material. SQL is an alpha test implimentation of the relational database model that IBM released to the public against Codd's (the inventor of the relational model) wishes.
It does not actually impliment the relational model, and is thus not really a relational database, merely what the marketers choose to call a relational database so that they might sell them as such.
When SQL products further confound the issue by tying the query language to the physical data storage system they also remove any claim that it is merely a logical query language.
One cannot make proper use of SQL without knowing what the relational model is, because then one cannot intelligently compose workarounds for the flaws and limitations of a particular SQL product.
If parent poster is a DBA looking for a job because he understands the difference between the relational model and SQL it is because the people who are doing the hiring do not know their business, especially if they are DBAs themselves.
And if you can't learn quantum mechanics by looking up the equations in a Funk & Wagnall's, oh well, be a garbage man.
Even Einstein and Feynman found refering to a physics textbook and taking a course or two helpful.
The context here is reading a book, not your time. You don't have to post at all, let alone take the trouble to post that you aren't going to post helpfully.
People even find books helpful in letting them know that to shutdown you have to click on the "Start" button. Or course you find help in this matter by refering to the bundled documentation, but clicking on the "Start" button.
There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza.
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He's productizing Linux, as he has to given his position.
To recognize the Linux isn't a distro available as a boxed product at Borders, and is, rather, the source code, is to leave him with no means of directly comparing the two, let alone comparing the two to his advantage.
Linux is an instruction set to build an OS, made up out of the common wisdom, and hence is more comparable furniture plans than a chair.
Only in the case of Linux the computer builds the "chair" for you.
Red Hat may build "chairs" based on the publicly available pattern, but, as we all know Red Hat != Linux. The source code is Linux.
KFG
So long as you were willing to have a Mr. and Mrs. Frankenstein in relief, yes.
If not, you'd have to make two half models and glue them togehter, or trade in one of the dot matrix printers for a turntable. An old Technics direct drive ought to serve nicely.
KFG
I sense distrust. :)
Bounty may be the quicker picker upper, and thus the superiour technology for spills, but in any application where you are prone to reach for a Handiwipe, rag, dishcloth, etc. Viva is unbeatable.
If you're going to spray Pledge on it, Viva is the one you want.
Even in paper towel technology the right tool for the right job applies.
KFG
This method is not programable or fully 3D. It will create a set shape on a surface like a molding plane does. It will not carve a model of your head, and then carve a model of your girlfriend's head, and then carve a molding plug for a machine part.
KFG
Viva. Trust me on this one.
KFG
Either that, or he's figured out something you haven't yet. Namely, a guy who uses a Swiffer is a guy who's got a girlfriend who'll do anything.
If he uses a vacuum as well she'll do it twice.
KFG
That has to be about the most round about and expensive way to build a kit car I have ever come across. Next time try adding parts one at a time. :)
Although I have to admit your way has advantages to ensuring that the thing actually runs someday.
KFG
You just don't go out with the right sort of women.
"He's got a mistress, she's Puerto Rican, and I hear she's got a wooden leg." -- Tom Waits
KFG
Only if she's a RealDoll.
KFG
To paraphrase the saying:
Sometimes it's easier to pay for forgiveness than to ask permission.
KFG
Well, personally, I don't blame you. You ever try to make a soybean or a dashiki out of plastic locking blocks?
Trust me. It isn't pretty.
KFG
The way to get a high post count is to post a lot over an extended period of time.
Film at 11.
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KFG
For the record I never said anything about the prices in health food stores or anything marked "Health Food" in the supermarket. In fact, I explicitly didn't bring up anything marked "Health Food" in the supermarket.
KFG
Yeah, I was waiting for someone to nail me on that. In fact I was waiting for someone to agree with me. :)
I totally buggered that whole section, but it was just so funny I let it stand with the errata note that I had buggered it.
Ironically people know I "eat healthy," so I'm frequently asked where they should go to buy healthy food, to which I almost always reply:
"For God's sake man, whatever you do, don't go in the health food store!
"Well. . . where do I go then?"
"They've got these things now called "Supermarkets." Look, over here, brown rice, dried beans and lentils. Over here, the produce aisle. You need frickin' binoculars to see the end of the thing. Broccoli, Bok Choy, squash, potatoes to the ceiling, it's the middle of February and there are crates of oranges that were hanging on the tree a few days ago. Why go anywhere else?"
"But, but . . . what about organic?"
"Here, take my binoculars, look down there. No, to the right a little, yeah, see? A whole organic section if you want. Supermarkets today aren't the supermarkets of 20 years ago. They're catering to customer demand. Go figure.
But really, if you want my advice? Save your money. Only buy organic if the price is the same. If you eat the "normal" stuff there's a 99.84% chance it won't kill you. If you eat the organic there's a 99.984% chance it won't kill you, and they got those numbers by taking a phone survey, or from the I Ching, or something like that."
KFG
That would be the Bill of Rights.
KFG
Yeah, I screwed up the numbers. So sue me, I'm dyslexic.
KFG
Congratulations, Mon Ami.
You have just unlocked the secret of virtually every news report that says "ten times more likely."
To get cancer. To have a heart attack. To suffer from the heartbreak of psoriasis. Whatever.
Yes, these numbers indicate "10 times better," and if you were to ask the reporter how likely am I to avoid cancer in both situations, these are the sorts of numbers he would show you.
Eat health food and your chance of having a heart attack is 99.984%. Eat too many donuts and your chance of having a heart attack is 99.983%, 10 times worse!
Always, always, always ask to see the raw numbers so that you know what "10 times worse" means.
Then ask if the numbers were collected by phone survey. If they were, throw them all away and have donut and a cup of coffee.
KFG
People are jackasses.
Hence we have spam in the first place.
KFG
So Amtrak has to comply with airline regulations, and vice versa?
They're different technologies, relying on different physical architectures. What is reasonably mandatory in one might not even be physically possible in the other.
IRC and Roger Wilco compete with the phone companies, in my house so effectively that they have replaced my phone. Am I to be forced to have a phone? Are the 911 police going to storm my dwelling to shove a slimline down my throat to be fair to Verizon?
What am I going to do if I fall down and can't get up? I'm going to call for help, just like we used to. If help doesn't come, I'm going to die.
My choice, my problem.
KFG
A ballpeen hammer is a very useful tool for opening a can of paint, if that's all you have.
The marketers labeling it as a canopener doesn't make it one, however.
Relational Database has as precise a technical defintion as the do the laws of thermodynamics. If popular usage of the word thermodynamics, or marketing manipulation of the word, differs from the definition it isn't because the definition has changed. It is because those who misuse it are ignorant of what it means.
I'm sorry, I have to run now. The CD in my cupholder needs changing.
KFG
The article did not refer to the customers as punters. It refered to the suppliers who evaded responsibility for handling the customers as punters.
KFG
Or, more accurately, hadn't disunified them.
KFG
They can say anything they want in their advertising material. SQL is an alpha test implimentation of the relational database model that IBM released to the public against Codd's (the inventor of the relational model) wishes.
It does not actually impliment the relational model, and is thus not really a relational database, merely what the marketers choose to call a relational database so that they might sell them as such.
When SQL products further confound the issue by tying the query language to the physical data storage system they also remove any claim that it is merely a logical query language.
One cannot make proper use of SQL without knowing what the relational model is, because then one cannot intelligently compose workarounds for the flaws and limitations of a particular SQL product.
If parent poster is a DBA looking for a job because he understands the difference between the relational model and SQL it is because the people who are doing the hiring do not know their business, especially if they are DBAs themselves.
KFG
I have never heard that phrase in my entire life.
Until now.
KFG
And if you can't learn quantum mechanics by looking up the equations in a Funk & Wagnall's, oh well, be a garbage man.
Even Einstein and Feynman found refering to a physics textbook and taking a course or two helpful.
The context here is reading a book, not your time. You don't have to post at all, let alone take the trouble to post that you aren't going to post helpfully.
People even find books helpful in letting them know that to shutdown you have to click on the "Start" button. Or course you find help in this matter by refering to the bundled documentation, but clicking on the "Start" button.
There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza.
KFG