I wish I had point to mod you up. Slasdot's main problem is that most idiots here infer that, since substance is more important than style (which is true), the logical conclusion is to remove all style from everything.
Sigh. I sometimes take down my old Commodore 64 and still marvel that the things boots in 1 second and programs load faster from the goddamn floppy than from a modern SATA harddisk.
There are lots of scenarios where you have a large fixed database which is used for analasys: ie, read only.
Think stock time series, scientific data read by some instrument, census data, geographic information systems. Quite often people just want to look and examine the stuff and update it never or once in a while, in which case you can reload the db.
Or you could have a large dataset which is appended to (stock time series, some instrument reading stuff) and writing to both the master copy on disk and the memory database. If anything goes wrong, reload the master copy.
This place has now changed into a cesspool of religious people who make their own dicks grow by out-hating Microsoft. Not any better than Osama bin Laden, only a different Great Satan. And just as senseless.
2 Things.
a) Why SHOULD Microsoft give a fuck about whatever works on a copy of a project of theirs? So goddamn what if it does not work? Its THEIR project and THEIR right to make work whatever on it. Open Source is not the friggin Messiah demanding absolute subservience.
b) They used features from another version which Mono has not copied yet or even tried to copy yet or claimed to copy yet or claimed to try to copy yet. Capice?
Hello, hello, kneejerk hatred puts YOU on the bad side. Idiot.
Yes, but. If Micosoft buys Sun and refuses to support Java do that back door will still exist. If Microsoft stop supporting Office (because in an alternative universe IBM buys them) then that back door will NOT exist because the source is nowhere.
If Sun stops with Java nobody is going to give a damn about their source license and keep opn running their legacy systems at least.
No, we honest folk have to accept DRM because people like you feel entitled to their music.
You are like my boss who pirates Windows XP and then bitches the next day that he had to call Microsoft to register his other (legit) copy. Goddamn retard.
TO some degree this is because they have not thought about it. Most people will not give you an answer because it has never entered their minds.
THe queestion is, what will happen IF we discover life, especially intelligent life out there. I once attended a discussion by fundamentalist Christians about the issue and they immediately stated that bringing the word to the Aliens would be an immediate priority. For most people first contact would probably be meaningless in any case especially if we find microorganisms in our own Solar System (which is much more likely IMHO)
The other thing about microbial life on Mars is that there would be a good chance that it would be a panspermic event, so it would have the same building blocks than our own. Ie, spores of them went there from here on a meteor. Which would make the hole philosophical debate moot.
Ok.Question. I am not a white-box-with-linux zealot but seriously, what would a $15000 AIX graphics workstation bring to the table and why would someone want to buy one?
Sigh. Always this/. crap about eliminating the middle men.
Same this morning about free academic publication. You have any idea how much time and cost it takes to produce an album? Not play and record it, but to produce the final product? You also know that the musicians themselves do not always do this?
You also know that it takes some rather expensive equipment to produce a professional album, equipment that is, in effect, shared by the people to are signed to a label?
I can attest to this. I once donated money to the IEEE (about 15 dollars added to my membership fee) and they sent me a glossy brochure with a list of all donors and a certificate to thank me.
I do not live in the US and I am pretty sure that more than half of that 15 dollars (earmarked for developing countries) was blown by the international packaged thank-you mail.
T'is more expensive than you think. While costs (espceially for distribution) have gone down dramatically since the advent of the internet its still high.
I have done this for years now (on the organisatory side, albeit more for conferences) and the editing and proofreading is quite expensive.
Problem is that many authors ignore or do not use the formats provided. They use whatever they want, whenever they want and tell you to fly to hell. Some of them refuse to give you an unencrypted PDF and then whine that the things is not searchable on a CD.
Publishing is cheap, high-quality publishing is not. Journals are expensive to produce and conferences, while funded by the attencance fees, usually make a loss in my experience. Publication costs are a large part of that.
And before everyone whines that the researchers work and review almost for free, this is not the main problem. The researchers usually like to review the papers since it is in fields that interest then and reading new papers. You do not get paid for reading that Perl book you wanted to read either, geeks do it for the pleasure of it.
The main work comes from simple things like secretaries and organisation. Despite the typical Slashdot whine that middlemen are useless and should be eliminated they still do a lot of good work, especially in keeping up standards.
And organisation can be a lot. Think about it this way: For a conference with 500 submissions (not particulary large) each paper has, say, 5 reviewers. That's 2500 messages to keep track of and organize right there. And then to sort out the replies. And whining at people to get their work done. Deciding who gets to review what. Informing them. Getting their answers back and getting it to the lead reviewers. And so on. and so on. Lots of this can be done electronically, but lots of it also involves calling people and personal discussions.
Summing up draft paper submission, reviews and revisions and you easily hit 5000 emails for one conference. Someone has to keep track of it or at least keep a eye on things.
You have used bluetooth to communicate between the cellphone in the other room and the laptop on your desk, yes? Or walked around in a room while doing skype with a bt headset?
True, but despite that a BT headset still puts out about 1000 times less power than a Cellphone. If it was not for the friggin reception technologies the cellphone would have had to put out 100000 times the power of a BT headset.
Of course, putting the radical reception techno in BT that gets you so excited could have been used to reduce the BT strength too, but then a BT receiver could be carried around and does not have a fixed alignment so it must be omnidirectional (as opposedto a cellphhone tower which does not have to receive from above for instance).
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I wish I had point to mod you up. Slasdot's main problem is that most idiots here infer that, since substance is more important than style (which is true), the logical conclusion is to remove all style from everything.
There is life beyond a green terminal screen.
Why don't you bash your head into a wall repeatedly. Its really fun to stop!
Her screaming will not be heard above the screaming of the disappointed fans in any case...
So AJAX - JA - X = A? So the guy wrote A Application. At least he removed an acronym, except now the grammar is wrong.
Sigh. I sometimes take down my old Commodore 64 and still marvel that the things boots in 1 second and programs load faster from the goddamn floppy than from a modern SATA harddisk.
There are lots of scenarios where you have a large fixed database which is used for analasys: ie, read only.
Think stock time series, scientific data read by some instrument, census data, geographic information systems. Quite often people just want to look and examine the stuff and update it never or once in a while, in which case you can reload the db.
Or you could have a large dataset which is appended to (stock time series, some instrument reading stuff) and writing to both the master copy on disk and the memory database. If anything goes wrong, reload the master copy.
Real men use echo > a.out
They do not need anyone to reverse engineer the PDF format. You can download it straight from their website. Stupid kneejerk.
Oh yeah! Welcome to the REAL world. I work in a non-profit. Sounds familiar. But hey, it works!
Yes, and the timecapsule itself WOULD be missed
Ok, this is it. Now I stop reading /.
This place has now changed into a cesspool of religious people who make their own dicks grow by out-hating Microsoft. Not any better than Osama bin Laden, only a different Great Satan. And just as senseless.
2 Things.
a) Why SHOULD Microsoft give a fuck about whatever works on a copy of a project of theirs? So goddamn what if it does not work? Its THEIR project and THEIR right to make work whatever on it. Open Source is not the friggin Messiah demanding absolute subservience.
b) They used features from another version which Mono has not copied yet or even tried to copy yet or claimed to copy yet or claimed to try to copy yet. Capice?
Hello, hello, kneejerk hatred puts YOU on the bad side. Idiot.
This place should be labelled a hate speech site.
Yes, but. If Micosoft buys Sun and refuses to support Java do that back door will still exist. If Microsoft stop supporting Office (because in an alternative universe IBM buys them) then that back door will NOT exist because the source is nowhere.
If Sun stops with Java nobody is going to give a damn about their source license and keep opn running their legacy systems at least.
For that matter you can download the source off Sun's JDK from their website too. Thats how it get run on BSD.
No, we honest folk have to accept DRM because people like you feel entitled to their music.
You are like my boss who pirates Windows XP and then bitches the next day that he had to call Microsoft to register his other (legit) copy. Goddamn retard.
TO some degree this is because they have not thought about it. Most people will not give you an answer because it has never entered their minds.
THe queestion is, what will happen IF we discover life, especially intelligent life out there. I once attended a discussion by fundamentalist Christians about the issue and they immediately stated that bringing the word to the Aliens would be an immediate priority. For most people first contact would probably be meaningless in any case especially if we find microorganisms in our own Solar System (which is much more likely IMHO)
The other thing about microbial life on Mars is that there would be a good chance that it would be a panspermic event, so it would have the same building blocks than our own. Ie, spores of them went there from here on a meteor. Which would make the hole philosophical debate moot.
Ok.Question. I am not a white-box-with-linux zealot but seriously, what would a $15000 AIX graphics workstation bring to the table and why would someone want to buy one?
Jesus you would think someone would be nice enough to document this.
English, and ok, maybe he brochure wasn't worth 7.50 but it was still a 15 page glossy printed a4 brochure and totally damn unnecessary.
And it was sent internationally
No, thy are grad student assistants of professors working over time:)
Sigh. Always this /. crap about eliminating the middle men.
Same this morning about free academic publication. You have any idea how much time and cost it takes to produce an album? Not play and record it, but to produce the final product? You also know that the musicians themselves do not always do this?
You also know that it takes some rather expensive equipment to produce a professional album, equipment that is, in effect, shared by the people to are signed to a label?
I can attest to this. I once donated money to the IEEE (about 15 dollars added to my membership fee) and they sent me a glossy brochure with a list of all donors and a certificate to thank me.
I do not live in the US and I am pretty sure that more than half of that 15 dollars (earmarked for developing countries) was blown by the international packaged thank-you mail.
T'is more expensive than you think. While costs (espceially for distribution) have gone down dramatically since the advent of the internet its still high.
I have done this for years now (on the organisatory side, albeit more for conferences) and the editing and proofreading is quite expensive.
Problem is that many authors ignore or do not use the formats provided. They use whatever they want, whenever they want and tell you to fly to hell. Some of them refuse to give you an unencrypted PDF and then whine that the things is not searchable on a CD.
Publishing is cheap, high-quality publishing is not. Journals are expensive to produce and conferences, while funded by the attencance fees, usually make a loss in my experience. Publication costs are a large part of that.
And before everyone whines that the researchers work and review almost for free, this is not the main problem. The researchers usually like to review the papers since it is in fields that interest then and reading new papers. You do not get paid for reading that Perl book you wanted to read either, geeks do it for the pleasure of it.
The main work comes from simple things like secretaries and organisation. Despite the typical Slashdot whine that middlemen are useless and should be eliminated they still do a lot of good work, especially in keeping up standards.
And organisation can be a lot. Think about it this way: For a conference with 500 submissions (not particulary large) each paper has, say, 5 reviewers. That's 2500 messages to keep track of and organize right there. And then to sort out the replies. And whining at people to get their work done. Deciding who gets to review what. Informing them. Getting their answers back and getting it to the lead reviewers. And so on. and so on. Lots of this can be done electronically, but lots of it also involves calling people and personal discussions.
Summing up draft paper submission, reviews and revisions and you easily hit 5000 emails for one conference. Someone has to keep track of it or at least keep a eye on things.
Its a lot of expensive effort, trust me.
So is the notion that Linux is low-maintenance and easy to deal with for Joe Average. In fact, for Joe Average Linux is way worse.
You have used bluetooth to communicate between the cellphone in the other room and the laptop on your desk, yes? Or walked around in a room while doing skype with a bt headset?
True, but despite that a BT headset still puts out about 1000 times less power than a Cellphone. If it was not for the friggin reception technologies the cellphone would have had to put out 100000 times the power of a BT headset.
Of course, putting the radical reception techno in BT that gets you so excited could have been used to reduce the BT strength too, but then a BT receiver could be carried around and does not have a fixed alignment so it must be omnidirectional (as opposedto a cellphhone tower which does not have to receive from above for instance).