Before [David] Hasselhoff, no one seriously thought of rock music as actual art. That all changed in the 1990s, though, when Hasselhoff created an undeniable work of art which remains, after a number of years, one of the most influential albums of all time
I think it would also change the inherent fairness of the game. Randomising the location of the pieces for each side is likely to give one person an advantage.
Well, I imagine you'd randomize the position of pieces but give both players the same set.
Actually I don't think you disagree at all. I'll disagree some with you however:)
Having gross amounts of data to look at can inspire a new idea
Yes, but you do need the data. I don't think anyone could be such a genius that could just look at the world and figure it all out. You need the hard, tedious work as well.
Newton was a genius, I think everyone agrees, but he was still wrong on the theory he is most famous for because he didn't have access to the ideas and accumulated data that Einstein did have access to.
Lots of progress has been made by people wading through endless amounts of tediousness that they happened to be interested in and you're doing them a great disservice by saying that a genius could have figured it out without effort.
The "evil" flaks you like to berate actually produce products that people buy on their own.
Owww people buy it, well that's ok then. It can't be wrong if people buy it, right?
If we had scientists more concerned with creating viable solutions to the "problems" of global warming they would be more interested in practical solutions that people would want instead of screaming about doom & gloom to get another grant.
Yes really! I mean you just can't get any good scientists these days. I took mine back to the store the other day, all they did was hang around the pool moping. "Go and invent me a flying car already!" I would shout, but all they would do was beg for funding. Keeping me awake all bloody night screaming doom and gloom. Not a one of them would tell me anything to give me a warm and cozy feeling (well except for the sociologist, but I always suspected him of being a little 'funny').
Anyway, I took them to the store but the clerk wouldn't take them back, saying they were doing what they were trained to do, as if that helps me anything. Seriously, what is the world coming to!.
I wince every time I need to use nested loops to delete child records of child records before deleting the child records that I need to delete before I can delete the record I want to delete, something that could have been handled by a simple foreign key constraint. _That_ is what I would call a hassle!
Yes, yes I know you can use fk constraints with InnoDB now, but how many MySQL developers will? If you ask me, most will call it "unnecessary complex", "too much hassle" or some such drivel. The issue is not so much with MySQL per se but with a lot of the people who use it. Programmers working with databases _should_ know better but unfortunatly programmers accustomed to MySQL often don't.
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"we know that humans exist, while we don't know about the other ones." That's beside the point.
It's not besides the point at all. We know humans exist, we know they love to put out lots of CO2, we know CO2 is a greenhouse gas and we know the earth is warming up.
Now that might not be sufficient evidence, but I'm sure it would make us suspect number one in any investigation. Meanwhile the aliens can't even be placed at the scene of the crime.
Accepting the theorie that global warming just *might* be human induced is not the same as making it your new religion and personally I have never been attacked by animals because of it:)
The thing is, the only model to accurately predict this sort of thing seems to be the one that I'm living in and I'd thank you for not experimenting with it, especially not when the experiments could turn out disastrous for the model.
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The U.S. already consumes more CO2 than it produces. I don't know about other greenhouse gasses, but if there is a manmade greenhouse effect, the U.S. is not contributing any CO2 to it...
The us consumes more CO2 than it produces?? What do you do with it? Put it in your basement in little jars?
I don't believe it and even if I would believe it it would still not be my fault...ignorance is bliss huh?
No no you didn't get it. The moral here is: while boobies are generally good, if you look at the boobies of a mobsters wife you get the living crap beaten out of you with a trashcan.
Seriously, when you consider their other project I'd say this is a hoax.
From the site:
Orbital Development is at the forefront of the critical issue of "Property Rights in Space." Since March, 2000 the firm has managed the "Eros Project" which is designed to bring the issue into a United States of America Federal Court for a difinitive decision on the new legal subject of "Space Property Law."
The Eros Project is primarily sponsored by Beefjerky.com. You can support this critial legal work in progress by trying some delicious "Final Frontier Jerky"
Funny, I've yet to see a license that explicitly tells the licensor, "you are not allowed to generate revenue with this product under this license."
Yeah you crack me up:). Seriously though, I couldn't find this clause in their license
but I guess you don't see it a lot because it is implicit. You are not allowed to make money off someone else's IP unless you are explicitly given that right.
Which is why the GPL (among others) is so nice since it gives you this by default.
Still their importance is overestimated - the bottom 80% of all applications are just fine with MySQLs MYISAM "autocommit style nontransactions" and deal without subqueries just fine.
No, in fact they are not fine with it, and unless you want to compensate me for every unnecessary line of code I had to write for using MySQL I will not agree with you:).
By using MySQL for such projects, I can be sure that just about everybody will be able to maintain the end result, which again, is not a database, but a management issue.
Quality, Price, Time. Pick any two. I can't blame you for going the route that gives you the most return and I won't, but I prefer quality in my work and I like to take pride in my work, MySQL as it is now won't give me that.
And this is probably the main gripe I have with the Postgresql people. The almost certainly are the better database people, but they are completely lacking vision regarding analysis of target market requirements (MySQL excels here!) and their marketing/community communication department is next to nonexisting.
And still, you know about postgress, you claim to know about databases and you tell your clients to go with MySQL?
the myth that PERL or PHP are better for web apps was started by PERL and PHP programmers who needed to justify not knowing a lick of C.
Ok I'm gonna start here so you know who's talking. I am a (mainly) PHP programmer and whatever your feelings may be I am VERY much a programmer and I feel no need to justify my not knowing C.
Web apps written in C generally run much faster
I can imagine they do.
and i'm talking about real apps here, where speed is important.
As opposed to what?? Fake apps?? Wannabe apps?? Imaginary apps?? Anyway are we talking about the same thing here? Differences in speeds between interpreted languages and compiled languages are measured in microseconds, not a meaningful difference when talking about web applications.
Sure, PHP and PERL have their place, and can "fake it"
Fake what? I'm not gonna argue that you should use Perl or PHP for your work, but what the hell do they fake?
...and provides much more polished results than PHP or PERL.
How does it provide a more polished result. In what way? does the code look better? Is it easier to maintain?? What??
Sincerley, I don't mean to troll, but you're arguments don't make sense.
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This is too funny:
Before [David] Hasselhoff, no one seriously thought of rock music as actual art. That all changed in the 1990s, though, when Hasselhoff created an undeniable work of art which remains, after a number of years, one of the most influential albums of all time
I think it would also change the inherent fairness of the game. Randomising the location of the pieces for each side is likely to give one person an advantage.
Well, I imagine you'd randomize the position of pieces but give both players the same set.
So I went to this site and was greeted by a hundred thousand avatars who had just come from Slashdot.
It was horrible
Actually I don't think you disagree at all. I'll disagree some with you however :)
Having gross amounts of data to look at can inspire a new idea
Yes, but you do need the data. I don't think anyone could be such a genius that could just look at the world and figure it all out. You need the hard, tedious work as well.
Newton was a genius, I think everyone agrees, but he was still wrong on the theory he is most famous for because he didn't have access to the ideas and accumulated data that Einstein did have access to.
Lots of progress has been made by people wading through endless amounts of tediousness that they happened to be interested in and you're doing them a great disservice by saying that a genius could have figured it out without effort.
How many would you like?
Did you know that the "fathers" of many significant branches of modern science were creationists?
Did you know the "fathers" of many of these creationists were monkeys? 's true!
Just because your viewpoint is alternative doesn't automatically make it valid or worthy of discussion.
And I bet they still listen to disco as well!
The aquatic ape theory is absolute pseudo science and does not make any sense at all.
Look here for a good debunk.
Well, as a slighly more silly aside: http://www.ucomics.com/misterboffo/2004/04/27/
The "evil" flaks you like to berate actually produce products that people buy on their own.
Owww people buy it, well that's ok then. It can't be wrong if people buy it, right?
If we had scientists more concerned with creating viable solutions to the "problems" of global warming they would be more interested in practical solutions that people would want instead of screaming about doom & gloom to get another grant.
Yes really! I mean you just can't get any good scientists these days. I took mine back to the store the other day, all they did was hang around the pool moping. "Go and invent me a flying car already!" I would shout, but all they would do was beg for funding. Keeping me awake all bloody night screaming doom and gloom. Not a one of them would tell me anything to give me a warm and cozy feeling (well except for the sociologist, but I always suspected him of being a little 'funny').
Anyway, I took them to the store but the clerk wouldn't take them back, saying they were doing what they were trained to do, as if that helps me anything. Seriously, what is the world coming to!.
and the ability to have a single statement fail and not abort the entire transaction like postgresql.
Wow, that is almost like....not using transactions at all!!!
I wince every time I need to use nested loops to delete child records of child records before deleting the child records that I need to delete before I can delete the record I want to delete, something that could have been handled by a simple foreign key constraint. _That_ is what I would call a hassle!
Yes, yes I know you can use fk constraints with InnoDB now, but how many MySQL developers will? If you ask me, most will call it "unnecessary complex", "too much hassle" or some such drivel. The issue is not so much with MySQL per se but with a lot of the people who use it. Programmers working with databases _should_ know better but unfortunatly programmers accustomed to MySQL often don't.
"we know that humans exist, while we don't know about the other ones." That's beside the point.
It's not besides the point at all. We know humans exist, we know they love to put out lots of CO2, we know CO2 is a greenhouse gas and we know the earth is warming up.
Now that might not be sufficient evidence, but I'm sure it would make us suspect number one in any investigation. Meanwhile the aliens can't even be placed at the scene of the crime.
Accepting the theorie that global warming just *might* be human induced is not the same as making it your new religion and personally I have never been attacked by animals because of it :)
The thing is, the only model to accurately predict this sort of thing seems to be the one that I'm living in and I'd thank you for not experimenting with it, especially not when the experiments could turn out disastrous for the model.
The U.S. already consumes more CO2 than it produces. I don't know about other greenhouse gasses, but if there is a manmade greenhouse effect, the U.S. is not contributing any CO2 to it...
The us consumes more CO2 than it produces?? What do you do with it? Put it in your basement in little jars?
I don't believe it and even if I would believe it it would still not be my fault...ignorance is bliss huh?
Moral : Violence good, boobies bad.
No no you didn't get it. The moral here is: while boobies are generally good, if you look at the boobies of a mobsters wife you get the living crap beaten out of you with a trashcan.
Makes a lot more sense that way doesn't it?
Seriously, when you consider their other project I'd say this is a hoax.
From the site:
Orbital Development is at the forefront of the critical issue of "Property Rights in Space." Since March, 2000 the firm has managed the "Eros Project" which is designed to bring the issue into a United States of America Federal Court for a difinitive decision on the new legal subject of "Space Property Law."
The Eros Project is primarily sponsored by Beefjerky.com. You can support this critial legal work in progress by trying some delicious "Final Frontier Jerky"
the very most that I would want to do is put a few missle launchers on the moon to insure our security as a nation.
Huh? How would that secure anything?
Funny, I've yet to see a license that explicitly tells the licensor, "you are not allowed to generate revenue with this product under this license."
:). Seriously though, I couldn't find this clause in their license
but I guess you don't see it a lot because it is implicit. You are not allowed to make money off someone else's IP unless you are explicitly given that right.
Yeah you crack me up
Which is why the GPL (among others) is so nice since it gives you this by default.
I would of course want to go in costume [...] am I going to be insulted?
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I think it is safe to say that you will be insulted
Try to think for yourself and read the article again!
Yes, gladly, any and all. But in the interest of keeping comments brief (as opposed to the document) would you like to name one you wish refuted?
Still their importance is overestimated - the bottom 80% of all applications are just fine with MySQLs MYISAM "autocommit style nontransactions" and deal without subqueries just fine.
:).
No, in fact they are not fine with it, and unless you want to compensate me for every unnecessary line of code I had to write for using MySQL I will not agree with you
By using MySQL for such projects, I can be sure that just about everybody will be able to maintain the end result, which again, is not a database, but a management issue.
Quality, Price, Time. Pick any two. I can't blame you for going the route that gives you the most return and I won't, but I prefer quality in my work and I like to take pride in my work, MySQL as it is now won't give me that.
And this is probably the main gripe I have with the Postgresql people. The almost certainly are the better database people, but they are completely lacking vision regarding analysis of target market requirements (MySQL excels here!) and their marketing/community communication department is next to nonexisting.
And still, you know about postgress, you claim to know about databases and you tell your clients to go with MySQL?
the myth that PERL or PHP are better for web apps was started by PERL and PHP programmers who needed to justify not knowing a lick of C.
...and provides much more polished results than PHP or PERL.
Ok I'm gonna start here so you know who's talking. I am a (mainly) PHP programmer and whatever your feelings may be I am VERY much a programmer and I feel no need to justify my not knowing C.
Web apps written in C generally run much faster
I can imagine they do.
and i'm talking about real apps here, where speed is important.
As opposed to what?? Fake apps?? Wannabe apps?? Imaginary apps?? Anyway are we talking about the same thing here? Differences in speeds between interpreted languages and compiled languages are measured in microseconds, not a meaningful difference when talking about web applications.
Sure, PHP and PERL have their place, and can "fake it"
Fake what? I'm not gonna argue that you should use Perl or PHP for your work, but what the hell do they fake?
How does it provide a more polished result. In what way? does the code look better? Is it easier to maintain?? What??
Sincerley, I don't mean to troll, but you're arguments don't make sense.
Cheers