>- Why did they use a Seagate drive, when Seagate is known for sucking more power than just about anybody else?
I have not known this to be the case. When I replaced a Toshiba drive with a Seagate in my laptop, I doubled the capacity on 55% of the power or so. The Seagate drive in my games machine had about 60% of the power consumption of the WD.
I personally use them for nearly everything for three reasons:
Seems reasonable. I carry a point-and-shoot (a Canon SD550) everywhere I go, because it is tiny and fast. I don't have to think about whether or not to bring it, and the batteries will survive a week or two of "oh, man, I need a picture of that" without effort.
But before my next major hiking trip, I will be getting a DSLR to replace my APS SLR, because the advantage is all with digital now that they've got better resolution. The grain on my existing film is such that there's no POINT in trying to scan it at much over 5-6 megapixels of resolution.
My main working machine (NetBSD): 1. One giant xterm, running screen. Borderless 1600x1200 window, in 36-point lucida typewriter, for an 80x31 display. 2. Firefox with anywhere from 4-10 tabs. 3. GAIM. 4. xchat. 5. Sometimes one of staroffice or acroread, or something similar.
Each of these is a full-screen workspace; I loves me some Ion3.
On the Mac: One terminal, one Safari, one Moneydance, and then whatever else I'm working in only while I'm actually using it.
On Windows: One firefox, one or two filesystem windows, an app, and a full-screen video game hiding them all.
So I guess I tend towards smallish numbers of windows. The only machine I use two-headed is the Mac, and the second monitor is used mostly to pop open a terminal that ssh's over to the mailserver to browse things I need access to (CD keys, etc) while using full-screen apps under Windows, or to watch movies while I write.
Inspiration does not a "derivative work" make. You have to be actually *copying something* before you are creating a derivative work.
A lot of the material in question is in no way going to pass any coherent test for derivation, even if it was made in response to the movie in some way.
But we're not talking about pictures of things from the movie, in some cases; we're talking about much more general stuff, uncopyrightable short phrases or words, things like that.
It may not be legally binding, but there do exist companies which keep promises even when a court couldn't hold them to those promises.
LJ is now known to be a company you should not trust with anything you don't feel you could cost-effectively litigate and win. You cannot rely on them to keep promises. If they decide to sell a book with your blog entries in it, the question is not "does their policy allow this", but "if they change their policy to allow this, do I feel I could afford the necessary litigation, and that I would win it".
You're quite right that the agreement is almost certainly ineffectual. That we have to ask whether or not it's enforceable is why people should not trust LJ.
The agreement where, when you sign up, they tell you what their service is, and what their terms are, and post things like a "social contract" saying "WE WILL NEVER HAVE ADS".
It's not that they just by COINCIDENCE didn't have ads. It's that they said, in writing, "we will never, ever, have ads".
It's the doublespeak ("these aren't ads, even though you send email to lj_ads to buy them" and "these are not advertisements"). And, perhaps most importantly, the silent alteration of a user agreement. A company that makes a promise and then breaks it is not a trustworthy company.
We know, now, that they will change their minds and break promises if they feel the "need", defined very loosely. You cannot rely on a statement that LJ will do, or not do, a given thing; even if it's in writing, they can just delete the page later and say "we changed our minds". And they have done so, so this is no longer hypothetical.
Most of the time, when someone advocating network neutrality tells me what they think they want, they describe a policy under which I would be prohibited from dropping packets from spammers, or from giving questionable sources heavily throttled bandwidth.
I know that's not what most of us think we want. But when we ask people to define a policy, and give them a sentence describing the policy, that's what gets said.
And I, for one, do not want to face an 11 million dollar lawsuit from spammers (hi, spamhaus!) over a questionable law.
I am gonna be opposed to legislation of network neutrality until I see clear wording that doesn't have any unwanted side effects. Since that will never happen with a law, I guess I'd rather rely on market forces; I certainly wouldn't buy bandwidth from a company that was being abusive about their packet policies.
I have Zauruses, a Nokia N770, a PocketPC, and a Palm.
The Palm is the one I use day in and day out. If Handera hadn't folded, I might still be on my Handera 330, which wasn't even color.
Here is what you need: 1. Datebook/calendar software of some sort. 2. Usable text entry. 3. A good alarm. 4. Decent battery life.
That's it. Day in and day out, that's what matters. Can you take a note quickly enough to get it down before you forget? Can you get the alarm to go off at the time you need it to, and will it do common things (snooze for 10 minutes, for instance) with simple clicks?
If you can get that, you're done. You have a PDA. Do not let "features" distract you. My Compaq iPaq, with a 640x480 screen, untold memory, both SD and CF slots, wifi, and so on, sits on a shelf somewhere. My Palm with Datebook5 goes with me ABSOLUTELY EVERYWHERE. There is no comparison. PalmOS is technically inept; so what? It works. When an alarm is due, the machine makes a piercing noise I can detect even if the PDA is in a bag. It can go in a bag without breaking instantly. If I forget to charge it for a day, it still works.
In short, it's a kickass PDA. Which is what I want. Yeah, I would like it if PalmOS sucked less. But PocketPC isn't in the running, and after a couple of months trying to run various Linux-hosted PDA apps, I went back to Datebook5. It's just plain better.
If you want a portable computer, think of that as totally distinct from your PDA. The portable computer is for hacking on, for debugging interesting problems, for spending a week wondering why you can't get a new kernel to work with the sound hardware. The PDA runs one or two off the shelf apps and does it reliably and consistently.
That's why Galactic Civilizations II and Oblivion were total failures, with no one at all buying them, while more heavily-protected games like Runaway have been such consistent sellers.
If you mess up your timing, or a check to you bounces, it can suddenly become very interesting to be able to immediately check the exact balance in your account, go pick up images of cleared checks, and so on.
Yes, I have reasons to visit the bank; many of them have gone away now.
So, a systematically evil company that already has its own payment service which they very much want everyone to use (so they can be EXTRA evil) is... not being supportive of people using a competing service?
Why is this even news? What next? "Dog bites dogfood"?
A while back, I wrote an article for IBM developerWorks. The article was on AltiVec, and I used examples that I worked out months in advance with an editor so we could run the article on April 1st. The article covered AltiVec optimization techniques, and used as an example RGB to HSV color conversions to "accelerate" the beach ball cursor on OS X... But only after a quick summary of how to optimize the idle loop.
The PS3 giving the main CPU low-performance access to the graphics hardware's private memory is a non-issue. You normally don't even LOOK at the memory on the graphics hardware, and indeed, not all hardware makes it possible to do so from the main CPU. This is just stupid. It's not even a processor issue, it's a board-design question, but it's not a problem, because this is the case you never care about.
This is analagous to claiming that it's a serious flaw that the OCR on the console printer output is much slower than the main disks. You don't even USE it, and that it exists at all is probably never going to matter to anyone.
Happened to a friend of mine.
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Step 1. Guy walks around offering "massages" to artists at convention. Step 2. Guy buys commission from an artist. Step 3. Guy yanks on a different artist's hand hard enough that it'll be weeks healing. Step 4. Guy comes back later, offers to "fix" whatever has required artist to put on wrist brace. Step 5. Guy doesn't even apologize, just walks away. Step 6. Artists, who are in same studio together, compare notes on guy. Step 7. Artist puts up pictures with full name. Step 8. ??? Step 9. Profit!
This guy has no idea what he's talking about. I've gone through countless Apple laptops (okay, maybe ten or so) for various friends and family. One dead pixel on one of them. It got fixed free of charge a couple of years later. I did get a DOA new mini (core Duo), but they fixed it -- and the part which was bad wasn't a "new" part, it was an Airport Extreme card, something that's been out for years and Apple doesn't even really make.
Worst Apple product ever: The "saucer" power supplies. I've seen at least ten of them fail, some in ways that involved visibile flickering sparks over a period of time. We've had to mix and match parts to cobble together working power supplies. They sucked so much it's unbelievable... Even three years after they came out. Why? Not "rushed to market". "Fundamentally stupid design."
Now where's one for WordPress? I know I can export things from MT. The problem is, WordPress, last I checked, doesn't work with PostgreSQL. This isn't just that I didn't notice the option; it's that I went and looked and they have a whole page on why they don't have it and won't any time soon.
Because, see, they're very dependant on specific features of MySQL.
So it looks like my options are to stay with the proprietary solution that costs money (for this many blogs, it does) and thus can afford the maintenance cost of being pluggable, or get stuck with MySQL forever.
So what you've done, while it answers either of the sub-parts of my question, doesn't answer my actual question: If I want to move to WordPress, how do I get away from MySQL?
It turns out that I can do either, but not both. Which is to say, MySQL can't just be replaced; only some apps have support for alternatives.
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... Or given SUPERPOWERS!
You guys can't fool me, I saw that documentary about those people on the space station. I wanna be the one who can be all stretchy!
>- Why did they use a Seagate drive, when Seagate is known for sucking more power than just about anybody else?
I have not known this to be the case. When I replaced a Toshiba drive with a Seagate in my laptop, I doubled the capacity on 55% of the power or so. The Seagate drive in my games machine had about 60% of the power consumption of the WD.
I personally use them for nearly everything for three reasons:
* Five
* Year
* Warranty
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=212
"That's right, my toy box three is so popular we're completely out of units after the FIRST BOX. Fastest selling toy ever!"
I have not elsewhere seen the PS3 described as "easy" to develop for. More like "very very hard".
I am a big fan of the Cell (I've done some writing about it and played a bit with the sim), but I can't imagine calling it "easy".
Look at the lifespan of Microsoft's "this is really it, this is the target platform" specs. DOS, Windows, OS/2, Win32, NT, MFC...
.NET?
.NET in favor of something even buzzwordier?
How long has perl5 been out there?
What's the carryover from perl4 to perl5? How does that compare to, say, the carryover from MFC to
What is a reasonable expectation for the time between now and then next major overhaul that drops
Developing for Windows is the upgrade treadmill at its finest.
Seems reasonable. I carry a point-and-shoot (a Canon SD550) everywhere I go, because it is tiny and fast. I don't have to think about whether or not to bring it, and the batteries will survive a week or two of "oh, man, I need a picture of that" without effort.
But before my next major hiking trip, I will be getting a DSLR to replace my APS SLR, because the advantage is all with digital now that they've got better resolution. The grain on my existing film is such that there's no POINT in trying to scan it at much over 5-6 megapixels of resolution.
My main working machine (NetBSD):
1. One giant xterm, running screen. Borderless 1600x1200 window, in 36-point lucida typewriter, for an 80x31 display.
2. Firefox with anywhere from 4-10 tabs.
3. GAIM.
4. xchat.
5. Sometimes one of staroffice or acroread, or something similar.
Each of these is a full-screen workspace; I loves me some Ion3.
On the Mac: One terminal, one Safari, one Moneydance, and then whatever else I'm working in only while I'm actually using it.
On Windows: One firefox, one or two filesystem windows, an app, and a full-screen video game hiding them all.
So I guess I tend towards smallish numbers of windows. The only machine I use two-headed is the Mac, and the second monitor is used mostly to pop open a terminal that ssh's over to the mailserver to browse things I need access to (CD keys, etc) while using full-screen apps under Windows, or to watch movies while I write.
Inspiration does not a "derivative work" make. You have to be actually *copying something* before you are creating a derivative work.
A lot of the material in question is in no way going to pass any coherent test for derivation, even if it was made in response to the movie in some way.
But we're not talking about pictures of things from the movie, in some cases; we're talking about much more general stuff, uncopyrightable short phrases or words, things like that.
Spamhaus maintains excellent public listings of the evidence they used. Go look it up yourself.
You're the one calling them liars. It's up to you to substantiate the claim, by showing that the entity in question is not a spammer.
This comment would be a lot more coherent if false positives were in any way at issue.
They aren't.
There are no false positives involved in this story; just a whining spammer who lies a lot.
It may not be legally binding, but there do exist companies which keep promises even when a court couldn't hold them to those promises.
LJ is now known to be a company you should not trust with anything you don't feel you could cost-effectively litigate and win. You cannot rely on them to keep promises. If they decide to sell a book with your blog entries in it, the question is not "does their policy allow this", but "if they change their policy to allow this, do I feel I could afford the necessary litigation, and that I would win it".
You're quite right that the agreement is almost certainly ineffectual. That we have to ask whether or not it's enforceable is why people should not trust LJ.
The agreement where, when you sign up, they tell you what their service is, and what their terms are, and post things like a "social contract" saying "WE WILL NEVER HAVE ADS".
It's not that they just by COINCIDENCE didn't have ads. It's that they said, in writing, "we will never, ever, have ads".
It's the doublespeak ("these aren't ads, even though you send email to lj_ads to buy them" and "these are not advertisements"). And, perhaps most importantly, the silent alteration of a user agreement. A company that makes a promise and then breaks it is not a trustworthy company.
We know, now, that they will change their minds and break promises if they feel the "need", defined very loosely. You cannot rely on a statement that LJ will do, or not do, a given thing; even if it's in writing, they can just delete the page later and say "we changed our minds". And they have done so, so this is no longer hypothetical.
Disappointing.
Most of the time, when someone advocating network neutrality tells me what they think they want, they describe a policy under which I would be prohibited from dropping packets from spammers, or from giving questionable sources heavily throttled bandwidth.
I know that's not what most of us think we want. But when we ask people to define a policy, and give them a sentence describing the policy, that's what gets said.
And I, for one, do not want to face an 11 million dollar lawsuit from spammers (hi, spamhaus!) over a questionable law.
I am gonna be opposed to legislation of network neutrality until I see clear wording that doesn't have any unwanted side effects. Since that will never happen with a law, I guess I'd rather rely on market forces; I certainly wouldn't buy bandwidth from a company that was being abusive about their packet policies.
Me too!
Never had any problems ripping it. I keep all my CDs in crates, so I would know if I couldn't rip a given album.
I have Zauruses, a Nokia N770, a PocketPC, and a Palm.
The Palm is the one I use day in and day out. If Handera hadn't folded, I might still be on my Handera 330, which wasn't even color.
Here is what you need:
1. Datebook/calendar software of some sort.
2. Usable text entry.
3. A good alarm.
4. Decent battery life.
That's it. Day in and day out, that's what matters. Can you take a note quickly enough to get it down before you forget? Can you get the alarm to go off at the time you need it to, and will it do common things (snooze for 10 minutes, for instance) with simple clicks?
If you can get that, you're done. You have a PDA. Do not let "features" distract you. My Compaq iPaq, with a 640x480 screen, untold memory, both SD and CF slots, wifi, and so on, sits on a shelf somewhere. My Palm with Datebook5 goes with me ABSOLUTELY EVERYWHERE. There is no comparison. PalmOS is technically inept; so what? It works. When an alarm is due, the machine makes a piercing noise I can detect even if the PDA is in a bag. It can go in a bag without breaking instantly. If I forget to charge it for a day, it still works.
In short, it's a kickass PDA. Which is what I want. Yeah, I would like it if PalmOS sucked less. But PocketPC isn't in the running, and after a couple of months trying to run various Linux-hosted PDA apps, I went back to Datebook5. It's just plain better.
If you want a portable computer, think of that as totally distinct from your PDA. The portable computer is for hacking on, for debugging interesting problems, for spending a week wondering why you can't get a new kernel to work with the sound hardware. The PDA runs one or two off the shelf apps and does it reliably and consistently.
That's why Galactic Civilizations II and Oblivion were total failures, with no one at all buying them, while more heavily-protected games like Runaway have been such consistent sellers.
This addresses longstanding concerns that Firefox can't compete with IE for spyware.
If you mess up your timing, or a check to you bounces, it can suddenly become very interesting to be able to immediately check the exact balance in your account, go pick up images of cleared checks, and so on.
Yes, I have reasons to visit the bank; many of them have gone away now.
So, a systematically evil company that already has its own payment service which they very much want everyone to use (so they can be EXTRA evil) is... not being supportive of people using a competing service?
Why is this even news? What next? "Dog bites dogfood"?
If it'd been PostgreSQL, not MySQL, I think we'd all be much happier. It really is cleaner and (under load) faster.
A while back, I wrote an article for IBM developerWorks. The article was on AltiVec, and I used examples that I worked out months in advance with an editor so we could run the article on April 1st. The article covered AltiVec optimization techniques, and used as an example RGB to HSV color conversions to "accelerate" the beach ball cursor on OS X... But only after a quick summary of how to optimize the idle loop.
The Inquirer bought it.
The PS3 giving the main CPU low-performance access to the graphics hardware's private memory is a non-issue. You normally don't even LOOK at the memory on the graphics hardware, and indeed, not all hardware makes it possible to do so from the main CPU. This is just stupid. It's not even a processor issue, it's a board-design question, but it's not a problem, because this is the case you never care about.
This is analagous to claiming that it's a serious flaw that the OCR on the console printer output is much slower than the main disks. You don't even USE it, and that it exists at all is probably never going to matter to anyone.
Step 1. Guy walks around offering "massages" to artists at convention.
Step 2. Guy buys commission from an artist.
Step 3. Guy yanks on a different artist's hand hard enough that it'll be weeks healing.
Step 4. Guy comes back later, offers to "fix" whatever has required artist to put on wrist brace.
Step 5. Guy doesn't even apologize, just walks away.
Step 6. Artists, who are in same studio together, compare notes on guy.
Step 7. Artist puts up pictures with full name.
Step 8. ???
Step 9. Profit!
This guy has no idea what he's talking about. I've gone through countless Apple laptops (okay, maybe ten or so) for various friends and family. One dead pixel on one of them. It got fixed free of charge a couple of years later. I did get a DOA new mini (core Duo), but they fixed it -- and the part which was bad wasn't a "new" part, it was an Airport Extreme card, something that's been out for years and Apple doesn't even really make.
Worst Apple product ever: The "saucer" power supplies. I've seen at least ten of them fail, some in ways that involved visibile flickering sparks over a period of time. We've had to mix and match parts to cobble together working power supplies. They sucked so much it's unbelievable... Even three years after they came out. Why? Not "rushed to market". "Fundamentally stupid design."
I hadn't spotted the Postgres option in MT. Cool!
Now where's one for WordPress? I know I can export things from MT. The problem is, WordPress, last I checked, doesn't work with PostgreSQL. This isn't just that I didn't notice the option; it's that I went and looked and they have a whole page on why they don't have it and won't any time soon.
Because, see, they're very dependant on specific features of MySQL.
So it looks like my options are to stay with the proprietary solution that costs money (for this many blogs, it does) and thus can afford the maintenance cost of being pluggable, or get stuck with MySQL forever.
So what you've done, while it answers either of the sub-parts of my question, doesn't answer my actual question: If I want to move to WordPress, how do I get away from MySQL?
It turns out that I can do either, but not both. Which is to say, MySQL can't just be replaced; only some apps have support for alternatives.