To all the people who said I was crazy to have a planet table in my user database for Suso webhosting, *pfftt*
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True true. I know there have been several instances like this before. And it seems like each time something like this comes up, there are people with "strong evidence". I'm just saying that it seems like we don't really learn from history like they say we do.
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I expected the "turned on" link to be linking to XKCD.
My only question is, when the smoke clears and we're all fine, will the doomsayers ever learn for the next time? Probably not. I'm sure next time they'll say "this time, its different, the world is really going to end this time".
While I believe that it could be a mistake on their part. The fact that it was "an oversight" doesn't make sense to me. I mean if they just took some boilerplate EULA, then obviously a lot of thought didn't go into it. But if they wrote it from scratch, then I'd think that they were trying to get away with something, or that not everyone at Google agrees on not being evil.
Different technologies that accomplish the same thing:
Scalable Link Interface (SLI) is a brand name for a multi-GPU solution developed by Nvidia for linking two or more video cards together to produce a single output.
Scan-Line Interleave (SLI) from 3dfx is a method for linking two (or more) video cards or chips together to produce a single output.
Sure, it "changed dramatically", but don't all technologies change over time? 3dfx just didn't make it and especially since most of its IP was acquired by Nvidia, I'd say that 3dfx introduced SLI, not Nvidia.
Is it possible? Yes. But I wonder how many factors they really looked into before coming to this conclusion. What about how cows perceive things like the locations of houses, barns and roads. Are a lot of farms on north/south roads or are fields on the south side of the farm so the cows are facing towards the barn or house? I don't know, but from reading the article, it doesn't sound like they looked into much other than making conclusions from Google Earth. What about the fact that aeriel photography is done during certain times of the day or during certain seasons. Surely those have an effect on cows. Poor science in my opinion. And the sad thing is that an article like this only causes people to start propogating facts that might be wrong. Not that what direction cows face is a big deal, but its common enough that it only propogates stupidity.
And why use Google Earth? Indiana (I know cows are sacred in India) seems like a prime candidate for studying cows from space. In 2005 Indiana University released a complete set of aerial photos of the whole state that had as high as 6" per pixel resolution. Which is better than Google Earth.
Besides that, how many good research scientists are going to promote their work by posting a link to Slashdot to an article in a newspaper.
Believe it or not but there are some good applications out there in the government. I worked on a Naval base for a year as a contractor and was fortunate enough to work on a really kick ass PHP application. I can't tell you what it was, but to this day it was the best web application I've seen as far as security, design, functionality and sophistication goes. I think it was over 130,000 lines of code and was written by 2 guys over 3 years. I learned a lot from working on that application. So there are some gems out there, this so called terrorist database could have had the potential to be better. Maybe it would have been better if there wasn't so much hype around it.
That might not sound so bad until you learn that the database contains 463 poorly indexed tables.
This is not a good measure of how good or bad a database is. Its good to have a table for every type of data and every data type. Read about normalization. You can go overboard, but as long as your database is designed well, having 463 tables might be just fine.
I say this because once I heard consultant say something like "This web application shouldn't need more than 40 tables, when in fact they didn't know much about the details of the web app, which were quite sophisticated and the real application had more than 100 tables."
I consider this technology to be the next medium that everyone will use and it will supplant HTTP.
They said that about VRML replacing HTML, but readers didn't prefer a 3D room over a 2D page.
I think that this was because they were trying to run before they even learned to crawl. I mean they tried to get VRML going back in the mid 90s when most people still didn't know what the Internet was. They needed something simpler to introduce people too. Maybe now VRML would do better if it had some momentum behind it, but it doesn't, and now this is here so tough luck.
I predict it will only take a day for someone to start working on a project to rewrite this in some more open source friendly language. Just because it says OpenSimulator doesn't mean it really is.
I've been waiting for this whole ordeal to happen. I consider this technology to be the next medium that everyone will use and it will supplant HTTP. It needed two requirements for it to take off though. First, an open protocol needed to be developed and second it needed to be possible to interconnect different servers together to make once cohesive environment. Well, we have the first part now, is this the second part?
And that is the whole point. That way they can use less staff there. The process for the customer as a whole takes more time.
Actually, I don't think that is what the goal is for the retailer. They've already been able to cut staff using the self-scan systems. I think for the retailer the goal is better accuracy. And not just to prevent theft, its probably also to help order replacements for the right item. I know Wal-Mart at least has a Point Of Sale system in place that automatically reorders whatever is bought. And that was 10 years ago. They probably have the same thing at supermarkets too.
It might not always be the customer trying to cheat the store either, for instance, sometimes I'll buy a tomato and I don't know exactly what type of tomato it is because I forgot to look at the sign over them.
I run a web hosting company and over the past couple weeks I've had a few customers report that the amount of spam has dropped. Of course, they thought that this was something wrong, but I couldn't find any evidence of increased failures, it was just that there was slightly less mail coming in.
Shopping malls aren't public places. They can absolutely kick you out for any reason they feel necessary. They can't demand that you hand over your film or prevent you from publishing the pictures that you've taken, but they can demand that you not take pictures or kick you out.
Did you read the statement I made at the end of my comment? Read it again. But when it comes down to it, I bet if you did a survey, the majority of people would say that they think that a shopping mall is public property because it gives that impression. From what I read in the photographer's rights document that I read, it came down to being able to get into the facility without a key, special permission or some credential.
I am all the more concerned about this because on top of carrying a dSLR, I am also an immigrant and my skin color differs from the locals. That's one of the mains reasons I never got into public photography.
I'm so sorry about that. One shouldn't have to sacrifice their dreams for this shit.
Maybe there should be flash mobs of people going into public areas and taking a bunch of pictures to raise awareness about the change in policy due to 9/11.
Hawk is routinely confronting security guards who argue that photographing their buildings represents a 'security threat.'
A few months ago I was in the Prudential Center Mall and Copley Place in Boston. I was just looking around after attending Red Hat Summit. I saw a store that I knew my wife would love to have a picture of and took a picture of the front of it with my cell phone. A security guard came over and told me that I couldn't take pictures inside the mall. At first I thought that she was wrong about that, but decided not to challenge it since I already had taken the picture I wanted and didn't want to do anything that would jepordize missing my flight later that day. So I walked away and went over and asked another security guard about the policy on taking pictures and she also stated that you can't take pictures inside shopping malls. I went back to a computer and looked it up and found that they were wrong. If they asked me to leave, I'd have to leave or else face trespassing charges, but they can't stop me from taking pictures in what is considered a public place. They are just using something similar to the chilling effect to try to stop me because I'm guessing the owners of the shopping mall don't want people taking pictures. For the record, I know shopping malls are privately owned, but they let you walk in and out freely without needing a key.
Nobody is really reading these comments at this point, but I'll say it anyways.
I think we've found that freedom of religion leads to the following: The dominant religion that the country was founded on becomes the status quo and eventually it works its way into the government so that the idea of separation of church and state is only on the surface of the law.
Right now I live in a state (Indiana) where most everybody thinks its ok to put "In God We Trust" on a license plate and not charge anything for it like they do for the other specialized plates. It is instead considered an alternate plate to the official one, but its almost become the standard plate. And the kicker is, Christians don't see the irony in this. It was religious freedom that allows them to have all their denominations of Christianity, but by encouraging and praising the "In God We Trust Plates", they are oppressing other religions. What about Allah, Buddha and atheists? Will they soon have to have an affirmation of God on their car? The ACLU has started a court case against the state over it, but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
And for those that think that "In God We Trust" isn't so bad, it was obvious what the people were thinking when they made the plate because every Indiana specialized plate has 2 letters over top of each other and then 4 numbers next to it. Usually the initial two letters make up an abbreviation for something like IU for Indiana University or EN for the environment plates. The initial two letters on the "God plates" where TG instead of GT. TG obviously meaning Trust God, which is no longer the phrase but a command telling you to do something. I rest my case.
Ok, so you're basically saying that religion is ok because it takes peoples money through deception and then puts it towards other things? Good or not, it doesn't matter, isn't that deception plain and simple?
You know its funny, I was watching President Bush during an interview in Beijing talk about how they are trying to cool over relations with China. One thing he said is that they need to convince China that religion isn't going to hurt them.
Let me see, let's say you're a sane person with all their faculties in place. Someone comes along and tells you something that is just crazy, like there is a big flying spaghetti monster in the sky that you need to believe in and give 5% of your money to or you are going to spend an eternity in damnation. Are you going to just take his word for it or are you going to label that person as confused an deluded?
Slashdot Mirror
Hehe, exactly. And it was online before all others really.
To all the people who said I was crazy to have a planet table in my user database for Suso webhosting, *pfftt*
True true. I know there have been several instances like this before. And it seems like each time something like this comes up, there are people with "strong evidence". I'm just saying that it seems like we don't really learn from history like they say we do.
I expected the "turned on" link to be linking to XKCD.
My only question is, when the smoke clears and we're all fine, will the doomsayers ever learn for the next time? Probably not. I'm sure next time they'll say
"this time, its different, the world is really going to end this time".
While I believe that it could be a mistake on their part. The fact that it was "an oversight" doesn't make sense to me. I mean if they just took some boilerplate EULA, then obviously a lot of thought didn't go into it. But if they wrote it from scratch, then I'd think that they were trying to get away with something, or that not everyone at Google agrees on not being evil.
What would you be if you are atheist and not an evolutionist?
Different technologies that accomplish the same thing:
Sure, it "changed dramatically", but don't all technologies change over time? 3dfx just didn't make it and especially since most of its IP was acquired by Nvidia, I'd say that 3dfx introduced SLI, not Nvidia.
Didn't 3dfx have SLI capability 10 years ago?
Yes, but I also just wanted to be the first to call this finding bullshit. ;-)
Is it possible? Yes. But I wonder how many factors they really looked into before coming to this conclusion. What about how cows perceive things like the locations of houses, barns and roads. Are a lot of farms on north/south roads or are fields on the south side of the farm so the cows are facing towards the barn or house? I don't know, but from reading the article, it doesn't sound like they looked into much other than making conclusions from Google Earth. What about the fact that aeriel photography is done during certain times of the day or during certain seasons. Surely those have an effect on cows. Poor science in my opinion. And the sad thing is that an article like this only causes people to start propogating facts that might be wrong. Not that what direction cows face is a big deal, but its common enough that it only propogates stupidity.
And why use Google Earth? Indiana (I know cows are sacred in India) seems like a prime candidate for studying cows from space. In 2005 Indiana University released a complete set of aerial photos of the whole state that had as high as 6" per pixel resolution. Which is better than Google Earth.
Besides that, how many good research scientists are going to promote their work by posting a link to Slashdot to an article in a newspaper.
Believe it or not but there are some good applications out there in the government. I worked on a Naval base for a year as a contractor and was fortunate enough to work on a really kick ass PHP application. I can't tell you what it was, but to this day it was the best web application I've seen as far as security, design, functionality and sophistication goes. I think it was over 130,000 lines of code and was written by 2 guys over 3 years. I learned a lot from working on that application. So there are some gems out there, this so called terrorist database could have had the potential to be better. Maybe it would have been better if there wasn't so much hype around it.
That might not sound so bad until you learn that the database contains 463 poorly indexed tables.
This is not a good measure of how good or bad a database is. Its good to have a table for every type of data and every data type. Read about normalization. You can go overboard, but as long as your database is designed well, having 463 tables might be just fine.
I say this because once I heard consultant say something like "This web application shouldn't need more than 40 tables, when in fact they didn't know much about the details of the web app, which were quite sophisticated and the real application had more than 100 tables."
I consider this technology to be the next medium that everyone will use and it will supplant HTTP.
They said that about VRML replacing HTML, but readers didn't prefer a 3D room over a 2D page.
I think that this was because they were trying to run before they even learned to crawl. I mean they tried to get VRML going back in the mid 90s when most people still didn't know what the Internet was. They needed something simpler to introduce people too. Maybe now VRML would do better if it had some momentum behind it, but it doesn't, and now this is here so tough luck.
I predict it will only take a day for someone to start working on a project to rewrite this in some more open source friendly language. Just because it says OpenSimulator doesn't mean it really is.
I've been waiting for this whole ordeal to happen. I consider this technology to be the next medium that everyone will use and it will supplant HTTP. It needed two requirements for it to take off though. First, an open protocol needed to be developed and second it needed to be possible to interconnect different servers together to make once cohesive environment. Well, we have the first part now, is this the second part?
Time to go write a new spreadsheet.
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And that is the whole point. That way they can use less staff there. The process for the customer as a whole takes more time.
Actually, I don't think that is what the goal is for the retailer. They've already been able to cut staff using the self-scan systems. I think for the retailer the goal is better accuracy. And not just to prevent theft, its probably also to help order replacements for the right item. I know Wal-Mart at least has a Point Of Sale system in place that automatically reorders whatever is bought. And that was 10 years ago. They probably have the same thing at supermarkets too.
It might not always be the customer trying to cheat the store either, for instance, sometimes I'll buy a tomato and I don't know exactly what type of tomato it is because I forgot to look at the sign over them.
I run a web hosting company and over the past couple weeks I've had a few customers report that the amount of spam has dropped. Of course, they thought that this was something wrong, but I couldn't find any evidence of increased failures, it was just that there was slightly less mail coming in.
Shopping malls aren't public places. They can absolutely kick you out for any reason they feel necessary. They can't demand that you hand over your film or prevent you from publishing the pictures that you've taken, but they can demand that you not take pictures or kick you out.
Sorry, you are dead wrong here. Review this summary of photographer's rights.
Did you read the statement I made at the end of my comment? Read it again. But when it comes down to it, I bet if you did a survey, the majority of people would say that they think that a shopping mall is public property because it gives that impression. From what I read in the photographer's rights document that I read, it came down to being able to get into the facility without a key, special permission or some credential.
I am all the more concerned about this because on top of carrying a dSLR, I am also an immigrant and my skin color differs from the locals. That's one of the mains reasons I never got into public photography.
I'm so sorry about that. One shouldn't have to sacrifice their dreams for this shit.
Maybe there should be flash mobs of people going into public areas and taking a bunch of pictures to raise awareness about the change in policy due to 9/11.
Hawk is routinely confronting security guards who argue that photographing their buildings represents a 'security threat.'
A few months ago I was in the Prudential Center Mall and Copley Place in Boston. I was just looking around after attending Red Hat Summit. I saw a store that I knew my wife would love to have a picture of and took a picture of the front of it with my cell phone. A security guard came over and told me that I couldn't take pictures inside the mall. At first I thought that she was wrong about that, but decided not to challenge it since I already had taken the picture I wanted and didn't want to do anything that would jepordize missing my flight later that day. So I walked away and went over and asked another security guard about the policy on taking pictures and she also stated that you can't take pictures inside shopping malls. I went back to a computer and looked it up and found that they were wrong. If they asked me to leave, I'd have to leave or else face trespassing charges, but they can't stop me from taking pictures in what is considered a public place. They are just using something similar to the chilling effect to try to stop me because I'm guessing the owners of the shopping mall don't want people taking pictures. For the record, I know shopping malls are privately owned, but they let you walk in and out freely without needing a key.
Yeah, no kidding. I think the mass of all the comments that talk about Kelvin could make a black hole.
Nobody is really reading these comments at this point, but I'll say it anyways.
I think we've found that freedom of religion leads to the following: The dominant religion that the country was founded on becomes the status quo and eventually it works its way into the government so that the idea of separation of church and state is only on the surface of the law.
Right now I live in a state (Indiana) where most everybody thinks its ok to put "In God We Trust" on a license plate and not charge anything for it like they do for the other specialized plates. It is instead considered an alternate plate to the official one, but its almost become the standard plate. And the kicker is, Christians don't see the irony in this. It was religious freedom that allows them to have all their denominations of Christianity, but by encouraging and praising the "In God We Trust Plates", they are oppressing other religions. What about Allah, Buddha and atheists? Will they soon have to have an affirmation of God on their car? The ACLU has started a court case against the state over it, but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
And for those that think that "In God We Trust" isn't so bad, it was obvious what the people were thinking when they made the plate because every Indiana specialized plate has 2 letters over top of each other and then 4 numbers next to it. Usually the initial two letters make up an abbreviation for something like IU for Indiana University or EN for the environment plates. The initial two letters on the "God plates" where TG instead of GT. TG obviously meaning Trust God, which is no longer the phrase but a command telling you to do something. I rest my case.
Proof:
Ok, so you're basically saying that religion is ok because it takes peoples money through deception and then puts it towards other things? Good or not, it doesn't matter, isn't that deception plain and simple?
You know its funny, I was watching President Bush during an interview in Beijing talk about how they are trying to cool over relations with China. One thing he said is that they need to convince China that religion isn't going to hurt them.
Let me see, let's say you're a sane person with all their faculties in place. Someone comes along and tells you something that is just crazy, like there is a big flying spaghetti monster in the sky that you need to believe in and give 5% of your money to or you are going to spend an eternity in damnation. Are you going to just take his word for it or are you going to label that person as confused an deluded?
What is it, 95% believe in a supreme being? Not that believing in a supreme being is compromised by understanding the results of science. Oh no.