I was about to post the same thing. Once you are in the office and at your desk/cubical/chair, anything else that has to happen for work to occur, is work... if that means waiting for a computer to boot up, or unlocking a safe and removing a hard drive to install in a computer to then boot the computer, or waiting for an application to connect to a central server/database, well, that is work...
I think his problems may be the result of how the questions are being given to them. They probably won't be your standard undergrad, here is an equation, give me the answer, type, but more of the here is the situation, figure out the equation, then solve it type.
My god, I had to learn that crap as a freshman UNDERGRAD!!! Now grant it I was an electrical/computer engineering major at the time, but still, I can't believe that a third year math PHD candidate would not have had partial diffs... I mean, seriously, it is the only way to do some stuff, especially anything in the real world (hence all the physics basis on the questions).
It is from all the space dust that gets into the ships/station(s) by the air locks as well as carried in from suits/objects that are worn or used in space. That is how you smell space.
It is all about the RPMs that the engine is doing. The more RPMs, the more times fuel is injected into the engine and burned per minute. It is really that simple. If your engine has a good gear ratio, maintaining speed at 2,000 RPMs at 50mph will be better fuel efficiency then 45mph at 3,000 RPM in the previous gear. However, that said, a 4 speed automatic won't usually be able to shift into a higher gear at a lower RPM than what is set in the computer to begin with, which is why manuals get better fuel economy than automatics (well that and the fact that the "manual" can shift gears ahead of changing conditions since the control mechanism can usually see a 50-100 feet ahead of the vehicle, whereas an automatic can only see the road that thing it is currently at).
Sure, if you want to pay IT support and computer programmers only base salary, that is fine. Just don't expect them to show up in the middle of the night or on Saturday when your severs crash. We will get to that bright and early at 9am next business day just like any other person who works 9-5. If you don't like it, well, that is too bad.
Boycotting doesn't work anymore. I have been boycotting most music for years, yet the music companies just point their finger and blame the drop in sales to pirates. Software companies will do the same thing.
The more I think about this the stupider an idea this change is. Does is suck that if you bomb the first quarter that you pretty much can't recover? Probably. Should this be the fix? Absolutely NOT. What should happen is that they are removed from that grade level class and put in the appropriate grade level course. This actually has a two fold effect on the students:
1st: It removes poor performing students from the group and lets the students who can learn more do so at a faster pace since time isn't wasted repeatedly going over the same material
2nd: Poorer performing students are placed in focus classes which are designed teach the fundamentals that the student doesn't understand (or for some students who have no opportunity to study at home or do homework), a slightly restructured class which focuses on in class participation and less on homework.
But even in this system, there would need to be some kind of GPA modifier to show which class you are a part of, for the terms of ranking students. Would this work? Possibly. Would it be more difficult on the school? Yes. Would it be more difficult on the teachers? Yes, at least in the beginning until well established tier levels are created to accommodate the majority of the students that were failing. Does this work with the No Child Left Behind Act? Probably not, because there will be a group of students that clearly leave behind the rest. But you know what? That is something that we need to let happen, and encourage to happen more often. Really the best idea would be to let the students who can work at a faster pace to have that option and remove the whole grade levels from the system. Move to a more lecture based learning where lectures are available via a computer assisted video setup where students can watch and review the videos at school or at home, and have the students be able to go to focus sessions instructed by a teacher during the normal school hours which allow for students to ask questions about things they are having problems understanding. When the student feels they are ready, let them take a test to finish the chapter/section and move on to the next chapter/section.
You do know that the above basically says if you got a 50, the score is recorded as a 6.25 (assuming correct math operator precedence in the programming language, since the ()'s would happen first, followed by the exponent, followed by the multiplication).
Well, not that bad, but you get the idea, because if you do nothing at all for the first quarter, and then just get a 71% the second, you have a passing grade for the semester. Why not just change how you calculate a passing grade for the semester or year? All I wonder is how this will affect what college entrance boards rank students from Pittsburg schools compared to other students from school districts that are not monkeying with their grading systems. I mean a 88% in Pittsburg could really be a 75% from somewhere else (if there are 4 tests a quarter), so you are giving potential C students a B+ grade boost. You have to expect that college boards will take this into account and basically ignore completely their GPA and instead only look at their SAT scores, or require more tests that cover more subject matter than the SATs (since this is only science and math), but now will require "CLEP like" tests (more appropriately HSLEP, for High School Level Examination Program, as opposed to College Level) for every major subject like science, history, etc.. This is just going to hurt the good students even more since they now have to prove that much more to the college boards that their B was really a B and not a C.
Yes, I know the first sale doctrine is confused because the software companies say that software is 'licensed'. The day they turn round and say that they'll replace all media once it's broken, and allow perpetual updates, and not tie it to any particular machine, and vastly reduce the cost, then I may think twice (actually, I use Steam, as it lets me do most of that).
But that is just it as well. There are several MAJOR court cases in the USA that have upheld the rights of owners of these "licenses" to sell them.
Another case in California state court ruled that you have the right to resell bundled software that was contained on a PC.
Yet another case has said that you can resell music CD's, even ones that are "not for resale" insider promo CD's.
As much as companies like EA want to make first sale go away, it has been upheld each and every time it has been tested. And as much as EA wants to make this a non-transferable license, law has said it is transferable. Other major cases have come from bankruptcy. Where it has been upheld that software "licenses" are property that has value and can be sold as assets to recoup costs to stakeholders. MS, Adobe, and Autodesk have been involved in those cases as well, and have all been overruled in their asserting that first sale doctrine does not apply to their software.
I don't think I would consider Austria large enough... You can fit it within Nevada and still have room for 78 cities the size of Las Vegas in the space not taken up my Austria....
Well, my router tracks my bandwidth usage, so now I'll know if I'm getting close. If nothing else, I guess that Comcast can't use the word "unlimited" in their marketing anymore. That's a good thing, I suppose.
Does that mean "given notice of termination"? I wouldn't put it past Comcast to just terminate those accounts, notice or otherwise.
Well, I for one have been tracking my usage over the last couple months and can say this, 250GB isn't as much as you think. Combined Up/Down for this month alone (which isn't over yet), I have used 200GB, and I havn't done a whole lot. I have a few OS downloads (latest Solaris 10 for Sparc and x86 both DVD and CD installs, the latest Ubuntu, some drivers, a couple song packs for Rock Band, well, 2 albums and 1 4 pack of songs...), and then normal web surfing/email, and online gaming. That used up 200GB so far for the month.
The second Comcast sends this house a warning phone call is the same phone conversation where I inform them that I will be canceling and switching the FIOS, as it is available for me. Say good-bye to a HD/Premium/Digital+Internet subscriber...
Pick a SCSI model hard drive. These things have been around since 1986, which is pretty close to the 25 years time-frame you are trying for. It also should be noted that we can still connect a SCSI-1 device into a modern day SCSI bus, so if someone had dropped a SCSI drive in 1986 into a time capsule that was to be opened up in 2011, there is a VERY good chance that we would be able to read it. This technology isn't going to go away either in the next 25 years. So it would be the method of choice if you are going to use a hard drive.
A game which starts out with the F bomb being dropped followed by two decapitations with blood spurting everywhere all in the first 5 seconds of the game.
There are lots of highly-reviewed games (ie. average over 90%) with under 200,000 sold through (which makes them a serious financial failure) and lots with scores under 75% but over a million sold through.
I think that is just it. If we are grading on a 0-100% scale, shouldn't we use 50 as the median score meaning it is an average game? With the way most review sites work, 80-95% is the average score. This leaves way too little room to really distinguish the genuine gems from the rest. Scores are skewed too high and then some type of logarithmic scaling occurs for those last 6-8% points as well as reviewer bias in terms of system/console it is released for.
And on the PC side, now just about the only thing we see is FPS after FPS after FPS (with a few RTS's thrown in for measure), yet, if you look at almost any of the Top 10 of all time games, you might see just 1 or 2 FPS games listed in there. I am personally pretty tired of FPS games. While I still play CS:Source, I don't really care for anything else. In fact if you do aggregates of most all the different Top 10 of All Time from all the different publications and polls out there, you only see 1 FPS even pop up more that 7 times across the 30 or so lists that are out there, and it is "Goldeneye 007" for the N64 of all things (which I have to agree was an awesome game). DOOM, Quake, or Halo (1, 2 or 3) didn't even get mentioned more than 2-3 times. So why is these they only games that keep getting dumped out in the PC market? Any why do the still get 80-90% for all of them? And will you seriously tell me that "Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time", which is on just about everyone's Top 10 of All time lists really only deserve a 95% in reviews when it first came out from places like Gaming Age or even Nintendo Power (9.5 of 10)? So what does it take to get that 100%? or 10 of 10? And even then, why would a so-so game like Crysis also get things like 9.5 or higher when in reality it is a pretty crappy game. Yes it has all the latest graphics bells and whistles, but aside from that, what does it really have? It is a horrible implementation which runs terribly on just about any PC hardware. If you look at user reviews, it gets maybe around an 8 of 10, which is certainly a lot less than the 9.5 that most magazines gave it.
The average population density of Japan is 339 people/km^2. The population density of New Jeresy is 453people/km2. Now tell me again why I can't get anything faster than 50/50Mbit which is STILL slower than the AVERAGE speed in Japan? It sure as heck isn't population density based because the numbers just show that the density here in New Jeresy would mean that we should be able to have higher speed rates than Japan if it was based on density.
Actually according to the International Labour Organization and the Japan Productivity Center for Socio-Economic Development, Americans work on average almost 100 hours more per year than Japanese. Mostly due to the fact that Japanese get 7 more vacation days per year on average.
Report on Productivity and Vacation
Go read the numbers before spouting off about things like this.
The reason we shot it down was because China had just shot down one of theirs in a weapons demonstration. China was using it as propaganda about how great they were. So we chopped them down a notch by showing them that we can do it as well. And not only that, we can do it from a mobile platform (i.e. a cruiser at sea), not just from a land based stationary platform. This was simply an international pissing match. Nothing more, nothing less.
Note that the value of "0" on those charts was arbitrarily set as the mean value of the temperatures from 1961 to 1990. However, it is very easy to see that across the globe, from 1845 to now the average temperature has risen about 1 degree C. That is an important amount. Especially considering that the difference in many places of 1 degree C is the difference between having ice in winter and not.
We in the Northwestern hemisphere have experienced 7 of the top 8 warmest years on record since 2001, and all 10 top warmest years since 1995. That says something right there. The difference between daily high and daily low temperatures has been decreasing as well over about 65-75% of all land masses. And the trend of both the high and low has been moving higher over the last 2 decades. In other words not only are we seeing higher high temperatures, we are also seeing higher low temperatures, and the low temperatures are growing higher faster than the high temperature is growing, meaning there is less and less capacity of cooling occurring, and possibly a thermal limit has been reached (kind of like how once you exceed the capacity of an air conditioner it doesn't matter how high you turn on the fan or low you set the temperature, it still is going up because it can't cool the air fast enough). The amount of sea ice has decreased 23% in just the last year alone. There is also been a trend across the globe of fewer low temperature records.
With the current trends in temperatures, in 2100, the global temperature will be around 5 degree's C warmer than in 1840's (when we started keeping regular weather records).
Now, given the FACT that it is getting warmer, I would say that we have a Global Warming Problem. Now, know that fact, we need to look at ways which we know contribute and play a part in warming an ecosystem and the environment. We know that greenhouse gases trap extra heat in the environment. That has been proven in many studies and papers. So we know it can contribute to warming. So step one, start decreasing the production of greenhouse gases will help reduce the effects of Global warming. Now, will it be enough? We don't know, but it is something that we can control. There are other factors that we can not control (i.e. we don't know how to control the energy output from the Sun... so that is not something we can do, and thus, it is really a moot point).
I think the 3 years since 2005 in which Oracle has not released a single patch out of sync with their Quarterly (yes, as in only 4 times a year) patch release cycle is pretty plain that they would not do anything until said patch cycle arrived.
Again, this brings up the whole debate on to disclose or not to disclose.
I seriously don't think that we would have seen any kind of information from Oracle about trying to mitigate a possible problem if this had simply been sent only to Oracle. As such, we are a little safer in the sense that at least we know of the issue, and as a result can apply the remedies both Oracle provided as well as any other solutions to help protect against this kind of attack.
Had this not gone public, it would almost definitely be another few months before we had a fix in place from Oracle, and in the mean time had been vulnerable to attack that someone has already found (which means it is likely that many people know of the flaw and may be looking to exploit it).
While some cases full disclosure may not be the best idea, this case (or any case for that matter where the exploit can be defeated with certain configuration options) it is better that we know of it immediately so we can put our own protections in place and use our own judgment as to what extra actions may need to take place (possibly including taking affected systems off-line or otherwise unavailable). We are all safer now because of this person releasing the exploit into the wild on the public internet, which forced a company to make a statement about that exploit and give immediate advice to protect against it, as opposed to sitting on that exploit, not telling anyone about it, and quietly have a patch released with the normal patch cycle.
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I was about to post the same thing. Once you are in the office and at your desk/cubical/chair, anything else that has to happen for work to occur, is work... if that means waiting for a computer to boot up, or unlocking a safe and removing a hard drive to install in a computer to then boot the computer, or waiting for an application to connect to a central server/database, well, that is work...
I think his problems may be the result of how the questions are being given to them. They probably won't be your standard undergrad, here is an equation, give me the answer, type, but more of the here is the situation, figure out the equation, then solve it type.
My god, I had to learn that crap as a freshman UNDERGRAD!!! Now grant it I was an electrical/computer engineering major at the time, but still, I can't believe that a third year math PHD candidate would not have had partial diffs... I mean, seriously, it is the only way to do some stuff, especially anything in the real world (hence all the physics basis on the questions).
It is from all the space dust that gets into the ships/station(s) by the air locks as well as carried in from suits/objects that are worn or used in space. That is how you smell space.
It is all about the RPMs that the engine is doing. The more RPMs, the more times fuel is injected into the engine and burned per minute. It is really that simple. If your engine has a good gear ratio, maintaining speed at 2,000 RPMs at 50mph will be better fuel efficiency then 45mph at 3,000 RPM in the previous gear. However, that said, a 4 speed automatic won't usually be able to shift into a higher gear at a lower RPM than what is set in the computer to begin with, which is why manuals get better fuel economy than automatics (well that and the fact that the "manual" can shift gears ahead of changing conditions since the control mechanism can usually see a 50-100 feet ahead of the vehicle, whereas an automatic can only see the road that thing it is currently at).
Sure, if you want to pay IT support and computer programmers only base salary, that is fine. Just don't expect them to show up in the middle of the night or on Saturday when your severs crash. We will get to that bright and early at 9am next business day just like any other person who works 9-5. If you don't like it, well, that is too bad.
Boycotting doesn't work anymore. I have been boycotting most music for years, yet the music companies just point their finger and blame the drop in sales to pirates. Software companies will do the same thing.
The more I think about this the stupider an idea this change is. Does is suck that if you bomb the first quarter that you pretty much can't recover? Probably. Should this be the fix? Absolutely NOT. What should happen is that they are removed from that grade level class and put in the appropriate grade level course. This actually has a two fold effect on the students:
1st: It removes poor performing students from the group and lets the students who can learn more do so at a faster pace since time isn't wasted repeatedly going over the same material 2nd: Poorer performing students are placed in focus classes which are designed teach the fundamentals that the student doesn't understand (or for some students who have no opportunity to study at home or do homework), a slightly restructured class which focuses on in class participation and less on homework.
But even in this system, there would need to be some kind of GPA modifier to show which class you are a part of, for the terms of ranking students. Would this work? Possibly. Would it be more difficult on the school? Yes. Would it be more difficult on the teachers? Yes, at least in the beginning until well established tier levels are created to accommodate the majority of the students that were failing. Does this work with the No Child Left Behind Act? Probably not, because there will be a group of students that clearly leave behind the rest. But you know what? That is something that we need to let happen, and encourage to happen more often. Really the best idea would be to let the students who can work at a faster pace to have that option and remove the whole grade levels from the system. Move to a more lecture based learning where lectures are available via a computer assisted video setup where students can watch and review the videos at school or at home, and have the students be able to go to focus sessions instructed by a teacher during the normal school hours which allow for students to ask questions about things they are having problems understanding. When the student feels they are ready, let them take a test to finish the chapter/section and move on to the next chapter/section.
You do know that the above basically says if you got a 50, the score is recorded as a 6.25 (assuming correct math operator precedence in the programming language, since the ()'s would happen first, followed by the exponent, followed by the multiplication).
I mean seriously, all this is doing is making:
A 90-100
B 80-89
C 70-79
D 10-69
F 0-9
Well, not that bad, but you get the idea, because if you do nothing at all for the first quarter, and then just get a 71% the second, you have a passing grade for the semester. Why not just change how you calculate a passing grade for the semester or year? All I wonder is how this will affect what college entrance boards rank students from Pittsburg schools compared to other students from school districts that are not monkeying with their grading systems. I mean a 88% in Pittsburg could really be a 75% from somewhere else (if there are 4 tests a quarter), so you are giving potential C students a B+ grade boost. You have to expect that college boards will take this into account and basically ignore completely their GPA and instead only look at their SAT scores, or require more tests that cover more subject matter than the SATs (since this is only science and math), but now will require "CLEP like" tests (more appropriately HSLEP, for High School Level Examination Program, as opposed to College Level) for every major subject like science, history, etc.. This is just going to hurt the good students even more since they now have to prove that much more to the college boards that their B was really a B and not a C.
Yes, I know the first sale doctrine is confused because the software companies say that software is 'licensed'. The day they turn round and say that they'll replace all media once it's broken, and allow perpetual updates, and not tie it to any particular machine, and vastly reduce the cost, then I may think twice (actually, I use Steam, as it lets me do most of that).
But that is just it as well. There are several MAJOR court cases in the USA that have upheld the rights of owners of these "licenses" to sell them.
Autodesk v Vernor
Another case in California state court ruled that you have the right to resell bundled software that was contained on a PC.
Yet another case has said that you can resell music CD's, even ones that are "not for resale" insider promo CD's.
As much as companies like EA want to make first sale go away, it has been upheld each and every time it has been tested. And as much as EA wants to make this a non-transferable license, law has said it is transferable. Other major cases have come from bankruptcy. Where it has been upheld that software "licenses" are property that has value and can be sold as assets to recoup costs to stakeholders. MS, Adobe, and Autodesk have been involved in those cases as well, and have all been overruled in their asserting that first sale doctrine does not apply to their software.
I don't think I would consider Austria large enough... You can fit it within Nevada and still have room for 78 cities the size of Las Vegas in the space not taken up my Austria....
lamp = (L)inux (A)pache (M)ysql (P)HP server...
Too bad you failed geography. South Africa is in Africa, which is not Europe.
Well, my router tracks my bandwidth usage, so now I'll know if I'm getting close. If nothing else, I guess that Comcast can't use the word "unlimited" in their marketing anymore. That's a good thing, I suppose. Does that mean "given notice of termination"? I wouldn't put it past Comcast to just terminate those accounts, notice or otherwise.
Well, I for one have been tracking my usage over the last couple months and can say this, 250GB isn't as much as you think. Combined Up/Down for this month alone (which isn't over yet), I have used 200GB, and I havn't done a whole lot. I have a few OS downloads (latest Solaris 10 for Sparc and x86 both DVD and CD installs, the latest Ubuntu, some drivers, a couple song packs for Rock Band, well, 2 albums and 1 4 pack of songs...), and then normal web surfing/email, and online gaming. That used up 200GB so far for the month. The second Comcast sends this house a warning phone call is the same phone conversation where I inform them that I will be canceling and switching the FIOS, as it is available for me. Say good-bye to a HD/Premium/Digital+Internet subscriber...
Pick a SCSI model hard drive. These things have been around since 1986, which is pretty close to the 25 years time-frame you are trying for. It also should be noted that we can still connect a SCSI-1 device into a modern day SCSI bus, so if someone had dropped a SCSI drive in 1986 into a time capsule that was to be opened up in 2011, there is a VERY good chance that we would be able to read it. This technology isn't going to go away either in the next 25 years. So it would be the method of choice if you are going to use a hard drive.
A game which starts out with the F bomb being dropped followed by two decapitations with blood spurting everywhere all in the first 5 seconds of the game.
There are lots of highly-reviewed games (ie. average over 90%) with under 200,000 sold through (which makes them a serious financial failure) and lots with scores under 75% but over a million sold through.
I think that is just it. If we are grading on a 0-100% scale, shouldn't we use 50 as the median score meaning it is an average game? With the way most review sites work, 80-95% is the average score. This leaves way too little room to really distinguish the genuine gems from the rest. Scores are skewed too high and then some type of logarithmic scaling occurs for those last 6-8% points as well as reviewer bias in terms of system/console it is released for.
And on the PC side, now just about the only thing we see is FPS after FPS after FPS (with a few RTS's thrown in for measure), yet, if you look at almost any of the Top 10 of all time games, you might see just 1 or 2 FPS games listed in there. I am personally pretty tired of FPS games. While I still play CS:Source, I don't really care for anything else. In fact if you do aggregates of most all the different Top 10 of All Time from all the different publications and polls out there, you only see 1 FPS even pop up more that 7 times across the 30 or so lists that are out there, and it is "Goldeneye 007" for the N64 of all things (which I have to agree was an awesome game). DOOM, Quake, or Halo (1, 2 or 3) didn't even get mentioned more than 2-3 times. So why is these they only games that keep getting dumped out in the PC market? Any why do the still get 80-90% for all of them? And will you seriously tell me that "Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time", which is on just about everyone's Top 10 of All time lists really only deserve a 95% in reviews when it first came out from places like Gaming Age or even Nintendo Power (9.5 of 10)? So what does it take to get that 100%? or 10 of 10? And even then, why would a so-so game like Crysis also get things like 9.5 or higher when in reality it is a pretty crappy game. Yes it has all the latest graphics bells and whistles, but aside from that, what does it really have? It is a horrible implementation which runs terribly on just about any PC hardware. If you look at user reviews, it gets maybe around an 8 of 10, which is certainly a lot less than the 9.5 that most magazines gave it.
The average population density of Japan is 339 people/km^2. The population density of New Jeresy is 453people/km2. Now tell me again why I can't get anything faster than 50/50Mbit which is STILL slower than the AVERAGE speed in Japan? It sure as heck isn't population density based because the numbers just show that the density here in New Jeresy would mean that we should be able to have higher speed rates than Japan if it was based on density.
Actually according to the International Labour Organization and the Japan Productivity Center for Socio-Economic Development, Americans work on average almost 100 hours more per year than Japanese. Mostly due to the fact that Japanese get 7 more vacation days per year on average.
Report on Productivity and Vacation
Go read the numbers before spouting off about things like this.
The reason we shot it down was because China had just shot down one of theirs in a weapons demonstration. China was using it as propaganda about how great they were. So we chopped them down a notch by showing them that we can do it as well. And not only that, we can do it from a mobile platform (i.e. a cruiser at sea), not just from a land based stationary platform. This was simply an international pissing match. Nothing more, nothing less.
... oh i don't know, obeys its own laws and attempts to embody American ideals? Just a suggestion.
Too bad this is Great Britain, the Surveillance State, not the USA, the lawsuit state.
Is the earth warming? Yes. Definitive proof: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data
Note that the value of "0" on those charts was arbitrarily set as the mean value of the temperatures from 1961 to 1990. However, it is very easy to see that across the globe, from 1845 to now the average temperature has risen about 1 degree C. That is an important amount. Especially considering that the difference in many places of 1 degree C is the difference between having ice in winter and not.
We in the Northwestern hemisphere have experienced 7 of the top 8 warmest years on record since 2001, and all 10 top warmest years since 1995. That says something right there. The difference between daily high and daily low temperatures has been decreasing as well over about 65-75% of all land masses. And the trend of both the high and low has been moving higher over the last 2 decades. In other words not only are we seeing higher high temperatures, we are also seeing higher low temperatures, and the low temperatures are growing higher faster than the high temperature is growing, meaning there is less and less capacity of cooling occurring, and possibly a thermal limit has been reached (kind of like how once you exceed the capacity of an air conditioner it doesn't matter how high you turn on the fan or low you set the temperature, it still is going up because it can't cool the air fast enough). The amount of sea ice has decreased 23% in just the last year alone. There is also been a trend across the globe of fewer low temperature records.
With the current trends in temperatures, in 2100, the global temperature will be around 5 degree's C warmer than in 1840's (when we started keeping regular weather records).
Now, given the FACT that it is getting warmer, I would say that we have a Global Warming Problem. Now, know that fact, we need to look at ways which we know contribute and play a part in warming an ecosystem and the environment. We know that greenhouse gases trap extra heat in the environment. That has been proven in many studies and papers. So we know it can contribute to warming. So step one, start decreasing the production of greenhouse gases will help reduce the effects of Global warming. Now, will it be enough? We don't know, but it is something that we can control. There are other factors that we can not control (i.e. we don't know how to control the energy output from the Sun... so that is not something we can do, and thus, it is really a moot point).
I think the 3 years since 2005 in which Oracle has not released a single patch out of sync with their Quarterly (yes, as in only 4 times a year) patch release cycle is pretty plain that they would not do anything until said patch cycle arrived.
I seriously don't think that we would have seen any kind of information from Oracle about trying to mitigate a possible problem if this had simply been sent only to Oracle. As such, we are a little safer in the sense that at least we know of the issue, and as a result can apply the remedies both Oracle provided as well as any other solutions to help protect against this kind of attack.
Had this not gone public, it would almost definitely be another few months before we had a fix in place from Oracle, and in the mean time had been vulnerable to attack that someone has already found (which means it is likely that many people know of the flaw and may be looking to exploit it).
While some cases full disclosure may not be the best idea, this case (or any case for that matter where the exploit can be defeated with certain configuration options) it is better that we know of it immediately so we can put our own protections in place and use our own judgment as to what extra actions may need to take place (possibly including taking affected systems off-line or otherwise unavailable). We are all safer now because of this person releasing the exploit into the wild on the public internet, which forced a company to make a statement about that exploit and give immediate advice to protect against it, as opposed to sitting on that exploit, not telling anyone about it, and quietly have a patch released with the normal patch cycle.