How does an analysis of Martian soil make a difference to the way I, and the rest of society, live our lives?
Because you may end up having to live there on day. Given our current environmental track record, there is still a very real chance that we won't get our shit together - that we'll turn the earth into a radioactive parking lot and be forced to live somewhere else.
Medical research is of vital importance to the lives of millions, and is far more worthy of our tax dollars then airy-fairy projects like this.
Hmmm, its not a zero-sum game. NASA's money is not earmarked for medicine, just like the CDC's budget is not available to NASA. There is plenty of venture money and public ownership in the biotech industry - I don't think lack of funds is holding them back.
Frankly, this near spiritual reverence for amendments written when the world was a different place baffles me.
Jefferson himself suggested that the Constitution should be amended and/or altered regularly - that Constitutional conventions should be held every two years.
And now, hundreds of years later, we treat the Constitution like the ten commandments - unwilling and unable to muster the courage to change a document that so must obviously be brought into line with modern life.
What a shame - except for gun violence (which, although is decreasing, is decreasing from a level that was and still is shameful), America really is a great place to live.
Rome had lead pipes, The US has guns and courts. Boths poisoned their empires from the inside.
Gag. Oracle is the answer...for a lazy database programmer.
Sure, thats why 90% of the websites out there run on it?
Oracle is an expensive and non-interoperable path.
Oracle in "non-interoperable"? What does that mean? Its the most widely supported product in its class - it has more hardware and third-party software support than any RDBMS. It has good programming libraries in almost any language.
worked around the stupid way ext2fs caches disk writes
Or maybe you bite the bullet and realize linux is not the way to go to run your company database, at least not yet.
The KDE folks are putting out some great software.
Those screenshots look great.
Warning: check errata on website for this book
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After I purchased this book a few months ago I found a number of errors in it. I contact the publisher, so you may want to check the errata on their site of they have a section for it.
Perl In a Nutshell is probably a superior reference volume to this book, and of course Programming Perl is the definitive tutorial.
Napster, Gnutella, Freenet...thus begins the decade long cat-and-mouse game that will clog up our courts until the legislature understands it is not productive to put everyone in America in jail in order to support Dr. Dre's copyright.
Should be an interesting episode.
Ever heard of the SEC? Trading already regulated
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The government can't, won't, and shouldn't eliminate risk.
The best they can do is make sure you know up front what you are getting into. Most disclosure forms from.coms are riddled with warnings. If you don't heed them, your losses are your own issue.
Was there ever any expectation that 90% of these web companies would last? It would appear that the general public are the only ones still clinging to the myth - most VCs and tech workers understand full well that only a few.coms are going to survive. It would appear that tech funds have already largely reflected this....its only the Newsweek crowd in Middle America who still need convincing.
It would be at least a year before anyone could dig through this stuff to make sense of it. This is a total-nonsolution to the Microsoft issue and if I were Bill Gates I would be overjoyed if this was the crux of the settlement.
Prices haven't dropped in the past 10 years because consumers are stupid, it's as simple as that.
No, because the people manufacturing the CDs act as a cartel - don't dispute it - class action lawsuits have already established this. The record companies are more than happy to pay out any class action settlement.
Bands traditionally had one place to go to get distributed, and fans had only one place to go to get music. This is not a free market. Maybe it would be if music companies let the prices of new CDs fluctuate, but their cartel-like behavior keeps this from happening. Its OPEC in your own backyard.
MP3 is nothing but a file format. Provided I have a CD I have a perfect right (acknowledged by courts and basically everybody except for RIAA) to make MP3s off the CD tracks and use these MP3s -- at home, at work, in the car -- wherever I want. Making MP3 from my own music is completely legal.
By no means is this issue concluded - there is a standing legal argument that the copyright holder may determine acceptable copying uses.
No, creating the MP3 is illegal. Trading it is an issue after the fact.
f CDs cost too much, don't buy them. Eventually the market will evolve where they are cheaper.
This is ridiculous - why haven't CD prices dropped in the last ten years? Its innovations like Napster that force the price down! Do you think prices drop on their own? They drop in response to a changing market. Napster changes the market.
hat is a free market. If it costs too much buy someone elses music that is cheaper.
When did Metallica CDs cost more or less than others??? This is the whole idea - there is no free market for music. The prices for new CDs are essentially fixed. Where is your free makret???
Sorry, but there have been numerous class-action lawsuits awarded with regards to high CD prices. The actual costs involved in producing and promoting a CD are not nearly as high as you indicate.
Also, super-rich artists are a recent phenomena. In their early years, acts like the Beatles made barely a sliver of what some of today's mediocore label artists make. They've been getting away with murder, just like pro atheletes, and sooner or later the market tends to correct such incredible disequilibriums.
Metallica - no one listens to that shit anymore. As if anyone is using Napster to trade in their shit. More people are probably trading Jim fucking Nabors songs than their shit. Hank Williams Sr. has a bigger fan club than these dicks.
As for Dre, he's just a joke. If it wasn't for Snoop Dog and Eminem, no one would give a flying fuck about this knob. Oh I forgot, I'm supposed to be afraid of him since he's a "gangsta".
However, just because you own a CD doesn't necessarily mean you can store a copy of the same song made from someone else's CD.
Effectively it does as there is no meaningful way to determine the source of the recording.
Dropping BeOS is likely realistic in long term
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I see nothing about the future of the BeOS market to suggest that it will be a lucrative market for developers. Its focus on the multimedia market is nothing but backpedalling. They might as well make a solid run at the appliance market - the desktop market is spoken for. The Mac and linux suitably fills in the small cracks that windows doesn't address - the remaining market share is too small to bother trying to make a profit off of.
If you buy into the notion that perl programming replaces shell programming, then its only a small leap to envision a shell that uses perl as its native syntax.
This could actually be quite useful - Bourne scripting is unbearable for anything but the most rudimentary scripts.
The ISS has one overriding purpose - a political tool.
Getting Russia onboard in a meaningless, endless debacle of public spending is the best way to keep their rocket engineers from moving to the middle east or China.
Also, the Star Wars gravy train had dried up and left many military contractors hung out to dry, so the usual pork diet was lined up to keep them afloat too.
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Because you may end up having to live there on day. Given our current environmental track record, there is still a very real chance that we won't get our shit together - that we'll turn the earth into a radioactive parking lot and be forced to live somewhere else.
Medical research is of vital importance to the lives of millions, and is far more worthy of our tax dollars then airy-fairy projects like this.
Hmmm, its not a zero-sum game. NASA's money is not earmarked for medicine, just like the CDC's budget is not available to NASA. There is plenty of venture money and public ownership in the biotech industry - I don't think lack of funds is holding them back.
Jefferson himself suggested that the Constitution should be amended and/or altered regularly - that Constitutional conventions should be held every two years.
And now, hundreds of years later, we treat the Constitution like the ten commandments - unwilling and unable to muster the courage to change a document that so must obviously be brought into line with modern life.
What a shame - except for gun violence (which, although is decreasing, is decreasing from a level that was and still is shameful), America really is a great place to live.
Rome had lead pipes, The US has guns and courts. Boths poisoned their empires from the inside.
I'm sure even in NZ a court can order that this information be turned over. It would be idiotic for this provision not to exist.
By the same token it is illegal for the police to enter your house without your consent - yet a judge can give them permission to do this very thing.
Sure, thats why 90% of the websites out there run on it?
Oracle is an expensive and non-interoperable path.
Oracle in "non-interoperable"? What does that mean? Its the most widely supported product in its class - it has more hardware and third-party software support than any RDBMS. It has good programming libraries in almost any language.
worked around the stupid way ext2fs caches disk writes
Or maybe you bite the bullet and realize linux is not the way to go to run your company database, at least not yet.
Those screenshots look great.
Perl In a Nutshell is probably a superior reference volume to this book, and of course Programming Perl is the definitive tutorial.
Ripping off Google with Raging is a silly, rudderless move typical of CMGI companies.
Should be an interesting episode.
The best they can do is make sure you know up front what you are getting into. Most disclosure forms from .coms are riddled with warnings. If you don't heed them, your losses are your own issue.
Was there ever any expectation that 90% of these web companies would last? It would appear that the general public are the only ones still clinging to the myth - most VCs and tech workers understand full well that only a few .coms are going to survive. It would appear that tech funds have already largely reflected this....its only the Newsweek crowd in Middle America who still need convincing.
It means any algorithm can be expressed with that language.
It would be at least a year before anyone could dig through this stuff to make sense of it. This is a total-nonsolution to the Microsoft issue and if I were Bill Gates I would be overjoyed if this was the crux of the settlement.
No, because the people manufacturing the CDs act as a cartel - don't dispute it - class action lawsuits have already established this. The record companies are more than happy to pay out any class action settlement.
Bands traditionally had one place to go to get distributed, and fans had only one place to go to get music. This is not a free market. Maybe it would be if music companies let the prices of new CDs fluctuate, but their cartel-like behavior keeps this from happening. Its OPEC in your own backyard.
By no means is this issue concluded - there is a standing legal argument that the copyright holder may determine acceptable copying uses.
No, creating the MP3 is illegal. Trading it is an issue after the fact.
f CDs cost too much, don't buy them. Eventually the market will evolve where they are cheaper.
This is ridiculous - why haven't CD prices dropped in the last ten years? Its innovations like Napster that force the price down! Do you think prices drop on their own? They drop in response to a changing market. Napster changes the market.
hat is a free market. If it costs too much buy someone elses music that is cheaper.
When did Metallica CDs cost more or less than others??? This is the whole idea - there is no free market for music. The prices for new CDs are essentially fixed. Where is your free makret???
Uh, no, thats how the law sees it.
Go back to square one and figure out what you're talking about.
Also, super-rich artists are a recent phenomena. In their early years, acts like the Beatles made barely a sliver of what some of today's mediocore label artists make. They've been getting away with murder, just like pro atheletes, and sooner or later the market tends to correct such incredible disequilibriums.
Within three years displays on cell phones will become useful for pushing lo rez graphics.
As for Dre, he's just a joke. If it wasn't for Snoop Dog and Eminem, no one would give a flying fuck about this knob. Oh I forgot, I'm supposed to be afraid of him since he's a "gangsta".
Effectively it does as there is no meaningful way to determine the source of the recording.
I see nothing about the future of the BeOS market to suggest that it will be a lucrative market for developers. Its focus on the multimedia market is nothing but backpedalling. They might as well make a solid run at the appliance market - the desktop market is spoken for. The Mac and linux suitably fills in the small cracks that windows doesn't address - the remaining market share is too small to bother trying to make a profit off of.
I find the perl shell indispensible, even in its current form.
This could actually be quite useful - Bourne scripting is unbearable for anything but the most rudimentary scripts.
Reading your post has been extremely educational. From time to time slashdot posts really are valuable - yours is one of those gems.
Getting Russia onboard in a meaningless, endless debacle of public spending is the best way to keep their rocket engineers from moving to the middle east or China.
Also, the Star Wars gravy train had dried up and left many military contractors hung out to dry, so the usual pork diet was lined up to keep them afloat too.