Microsoft should pay the existing, independent DNS server operators to subsidize scaling for the traffic their products create. MS is making $BILLIONS off the Internet; they should reinvest more in its infrastructure. But not by buying it to operate themselves - they're just not trustworthy enough to rely on if you're possibly competing with them, or just a locked-in dependent on their software (like the majority of Internet users).
The new version claims to stretch notebook battery performance. I know it's not GNOME's fault, but my Dell Inspiron 8000's two batteries seem to be nearly dead and not charging. GNOME says they're charging, but they stay at "15 hours until charged". Their HW lights show blank on one, and 3 spaced lights blinking on the other.
I use nanotech every time I cover my face with a folded handkerchief to avoid breathing smoke. Or light incense to absorb odors.
Romans used lead water pipes in ancient times. But that didn't prove it was safe, even if they didn't realize they were getting lead poisoning.
Archeological studies of ancient chemistry and other technologies has a lot of value informing our modern applications of related technologies. As well as teaching us to respect our elders. But we shouldn't worship the ancient tech as if it's harmless.
I'm fascinated by the total absence of any offers of evidence of digital voting devices somehow winning elections for Democrats.
Yet every time I post evidence of Republican crimes, there's plenty of replies saying nothing but "Democrats are just as bad, there's no difference between the parties".
I guess that Republican talking point is so well conditioned that you have to trigger it just right to get any output.
"The site's elevation 4,700 feet above sea level will also make for a shorter trip into space, saving on fuel costs."
Isn't Earth's escape velocity constant, regardless of how far you travel to escape it? I don't see dropping off quicker with only 1 mile "head start" so much of the acceleration to escape velocity is against less weight, with constant mass requiring constant acceleration fuel.
Wouldn't the Equator's 26 miles extra distance from the Earth's center (compared to the distance at the poles) make it an even cheaper launch site?
Even if all these factors count, isn't Ecuador's low lattitude and high altitude the best combination? Forget a space elevator, how about just an escalator up the Andes?
I didn't say "but they didn't invade Iraq based on THEIR lies", I said they didn't invade Iraq. And their words said they were busy stopping Saddam from getting WMD, to which effect Clinton ran an air war against Saddam through the decade which stopped him without invading.
My charge was that Bush lied us into invading Iraq. Spin that however you want, your boy lied us into Iraq.
Where's the WMD?
And as long as you're going to fly all over the map with your strawmen and lies, WHERE'S OSAMA?
If I wanted to play your game, I'd cut through your lies by saying that neither Clinton nor Kerry invaded Iraq. And even though I haven't said anything about Kerry, he was one of the people who Bush lied in the most seriously wrong way. Bush lied to Congress, which is an impeachable offense. And invaded Iraq on those lies. Even a Republican Senate didn't find Clinton guilty of lying about a blowjob.
And don't give me any of that crap about "Bush had bad intelligence" (unless you mean "Bush is stupid"). No one believes that BS. Everyone knows that Bush and Cheney made up the intelligence to get the Iraq War they always wanted. And now we're stuck with it. And we're stuck with losers like you calling people "Liberal" as if it were a bad word, or as if it were true, or even meant anything. Republican loser people like you who respond to talk about Bush's catastrophes with "But Clinton...". You are the sissiest political monsters ever, and only you diehard Bush worshippers even repeat that BS anymore. Save it for your concession speeches.
The title is a figure of speech from the Bible (Daniel 2:33-45) used to indicate a weakness or a hidden flaw in the character of a greatly admired or respected person:
"Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image... his feet part of iron and part of clay.... And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken."
"Moral relativism"? Even Jesus thought murder was worse than lying, and anyone who doesn't worship Bush would agree that lying us into war is worse than lying about a blowjob.
There were no WMD. And those inspectors you have the gall to mention also said there were no WMD.
But "morality" is your virgin priest's business. The legal penalty for lying about a blowjob is... acquittal in the Senate. The legal penalty for lying us into invading Iraq is... nothing, when Republicans run Congress.
You people are disgusting, and you're all going to hell. And I don't mean just the "war is hell" hell, either.
Wikipedia could help crack this whole logjam with some simple user interface improvements. Each titled section should have a "trackback" link for linking to it in another page (eg. if I linked/quoted it in this post). They've already got the "id" HTML tag. In fact, each paragraph should have a "link/quote me" link, maybe even a link that adds an ID to a sentence, phrase or paragraph fragment upon linking to it.
Wikipedia is an "open reference" site. It should include much more support for embedding its content into other content. Each entry could have stats of who links/quotes to it. And an interface with a customizable formula with user-specified weighting to factors like linking/quoting, editing, initiating, commenting. Then we could all easily use the Wikipedia at a meaningful level of granularity, encouraging much more quoting (which encourages more chance of editing by a wider audience), and backfeeding more data about how Wikipedia is created and used.
So they neither stayed the same nor moved into the future. Canny Canadians, with your common sense. Balanced by your "open minds", which actually voted the PCs (hah) into power in Ontario.
Comparing a couple of researchers buying copies of a confidential credit report on a MD Lt Governor to senate staff hacking the Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats mail server for over a year, spying on the strategy to oppose Bush's judge nominee (including the Supreme Court), is like comparing lying about a blowjob to lying us into Iraq. If you insist, we should agree to impeach Bush.
People who forgot Hoover, his Great Depression, his "Hoovervilles" of refugee shanty camps, will forget any president not worshipped like a god (Reagan/Kennedy/FDR) or demonized (Nixon/Carter). We have 2 more years in which anything can happen to brand Bush into the American psyche. But I think he'll be remembered for generations, as his legacy will last for dozens if not hundreds of years.
"Liberal" really means essentially "of/for/from/with freedom", the reason "liberal" and "liberty" sound so similar. It usually is in reference to some existing/previous condition of constraint. "Trade liberalism" means unregulated trade. "Liberal" as in socialism or just America's government mediation of economics or society means freedom from oppression generally. Ironically many people think that kind of freedom is produced by less freedom to oppress, which often translates to just less freedom when the bureaucrats get hold of it.
American politics is so twisted now that "Conservatives" don't conserve but rather discard, "Liberals" impose restraints, and "neoconservatives" are really "neoliberal" ideologists/rhetoricians. At least we're not Canada, whose "Progressive Conservative Party" really threw out all meaning in favor of marketing buzzwords.
Richard Nixon isn't nearly as scary as Bush. I guess when someone compares some political abuse to Bush you'll claim the same about Bush. Do you complain the same way when people bring up Hoover?
Republican Senate staff cracked into the Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats' mail server, spying on hundreds of memos focusing on the Democrats' strategy to respond to Bush's nominee judges, including Supreme Court Justices. But somehow that hasn't triggered another Watergate in America's Republican Congress.
I agree. LDAP is a protocol, and interface between ID data and applications. BDB is high performance, optimized for the hierarchical data model of LDAP data. A local hierarchical cache in BDB is the right way to support the high transaction volume in LDAP transactions. So a BDB datamart against an RDBMS datastore is the best compromise for required performance, flexibility, manageability and access to applications outside the LDAP interface.
That means extra HW and complexity. The extra HW cost is worth it if the requirements can't be met by the BDB, as in joins to existing relational data, because it's still the cheapest alternative. The extra complexity of maintaining parallel BDB and RDBMS datasets with bidirectional consistency is a bigger question. I think this architecture won't really be fully worked out until people with expertise in write-thru caches apply their techniques to this device for both performance and integrity, without sacrificing the rest of the features.
Actually I'm using LDAP all day long, as a user of an installation that runs against BDB, as I mentioned. The discussions of porting to MySQL didn't inform me much, as I've waited for (and encouraged) better experts to get it working on Postgres, which I prefer. Nor did the Postgres compile option inform much, because there isn't enough doc on the Web describing its tested use against a real Postgres. That's the point at which I use options: when there's a community of people which has already reported common errors and solutions.
The fact that there is a Pg option and many HOWTOs for MySQL LDAP datastores shows that relational and hierarchical databases are complementary, or at least compatible, systems for LDAP. The GIST tree structures you mention are only the latest in many schemas which map hierarchical to relational. As I mentioned, BDB is faster in the purely hierarchical operations than Pg, but of course all the relational ops I need find BDB performing at "0%". And the other connectivity/management benefits of my existing Pg operations of course also require connection.
I'm going to pull this off, at least once I'm not the first pioneer facing the arrows. Hopefully next time someone else asks about it on Slashdot I'll have more answers than questions.
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Microsoft should pay the existing, independent DNS server operators to subsidize scaling for the traffic their products create. MS is making $BILLIONS off the Internet; they should reinvest more in its infrastructure. But not by buying it to operate themselves - they're just not trustworthy enough to rely on if you're possibly competing with them, or just a locked-in dependent on their software (like the majority of Internet users).
Thank you for your generous offer. Please ship them overnight express - this laptop isn't getting any younger.
The new version claims to stretch notebook battery performance. I know it's not GNOME's fault, but my Dell Inspiron 8000's two batteries seem to be nearly dead and not charging. GNOME says they're charging, but they stay at "15 hours until charged". Their HW lights show blank on one, and 3 spaced lights blinking on the other.
Anyone know how to revive these batteries?
I use nanotech every time I cover my face with a folded handkerchief to avoid breathing smoke. Or light incense to absorb odors.
Romans used lead water pipes in ancient times. But that didn't prove it was safe, even if they didn't realize they were getting lead poisoning.
Archeological studies of ancient chemistry and other technologies has a lot of value informing our modern applications of related technologies. As well as teaching us to respect our elders. But we shouldn't worship the ancient tech as if it's harmless.
Why, Anonymous fascist Coward, because you fascist Republicans can't pretend you're anything but failures for much longer?
Yap yap yap.
I'm secular all right.
And YOU ARE GOING STRAIGHT TO HELL. You can argue about it with Saddam forever.
I'm fascinated by the total absence of any offers of evidence of digital voting devices somehow winning elections for Democrats.
Yet every time I post evidence of Republican crimes, there's plenty of replies saying nothing but "Democrats are just as bad, there's no difference between the parties".
I guess that Republican talking point is so well conditioned that you have to trigger it just right to get any output.
"I would call this at best a Beta Three and not a Release Candidate One."
Why not? In Microsoft world, "Final Release v" = "Release Candidate v" for v=1,2. "Version 3" = "Final Beta".
"The site's elevation 4,700 feet above sea level will also make for a shorter trip into space, saving on fuel costs."
Isn't Earth's escape velocity constant, regardless of how far you travel to escape it? I don't see dropping off quicker with only 1 mile "head start" so much of the acceleration to escape velocity is against less weight, with constant mass requiring constant acceleration fuel.
Wouldn't the Equator's 26 miles extra distance from the Earth's center (compared to the distance at the poles) make it an even cheaper launch site?
Even if all these factors count, isn't Ecuador's low lattitude and high altitude the best combination? Forget a space elevator, how about just an escalator up the Andes?
Has anyone found any independently verified evidence of any of these digital voting devices used in an election won by a Democrat?
I didn't say "but they didn't invade Iraq based on THEIR lies", I said they didn't invade Iraq. And their words said they were busy stopping Saddam from getting WMD, to which effect Clinton ran an air war against Saddam through the decade which stopped him without invading.
My charge was that Bush lied us into invading Iraq. Spin that however you want, your boy lied us into Iraq.
Where's the WMD?
And as long as you're going to fly all over the map with your strawmen and lies, WHERE'S OSAMA?
If I wanted to play your game, I'd cut through your lies by saying that neither Clinton nor Kerry invaded Iraq. And even though I haven't said anything about Kerry, he was one of the people who Bush lied in the most seriously wrong way. Bush lied to Congress, which is an impeachable offense. And invaded Iraq on those lies. Even a Republican Senate didn't find Clinton guilty of lying about a blowjob.
And don't give me any of that crap about "Bush had bad intelligence" (unless you mean "Bush is stupid"). No one believes that BS. Everyone knows that Bush and Cheney made up the intelligence to get the Iraq War they always wanted. And now we're stuck with it. And we're stuck with losers like you calling people "Liberal" as if it were a bad word, or as if it were true, or even meant anything. Republican loser people like you who respond to talk about Bush's catastrophes with "But Clinton...". You are the sissiest political monsters ever, and only you diehard Bush worshippers even repeat that BS anymore. Save it for your concession speeches.
You go to roll with the Segway you have, not the Segway you want. Unless you wait until you turn it on first, before trying something so stupid.
"Moral relativism"? Even Jesus thought murder was worse than lying, and anyone who doesn't worship Bush would agree that lying us into war is worse than lying about a blowjob.
There were no WMD. And those inspectors you have the gall to mention also said there were no WMD.
But "morality" is your virgin priest's business. The legal penalty for lying about a blowjob is... acquittal in the Senate. The legal penalty for lying us into invading Iraq is... nothing, when Republicans run Congress.
You people are disgusting, and you're all going to hell. And I don't mean just the "war is hell" hell, either.
"pretty much impossible to fall off of"
Unless you have clay feet.
Wikipedia could help crack this whole logjam with some simple user interface improvements. Each titled section should have a "trackback" link for linking to it in another page (eg. if I linked/quoted it in this post). They've already got the "id" HTML tag. In fact, each paragraph should have a "link/quote me" link, maybe even a link that adds an ID to a sentence, phrase or paragraph fragment upon linking to it.
Wikipedia is an "open reference" site. It should include much more support for embedding its content into other content. Each entry could have stats of who links/quotes to it. And an interface with a customizable formula with user-specified weighting to factors like linking/quoting, editing, initiating, commenting. Then we could all easily use the Wikipedia at a meaningful level of granularity, encouraging much more quoting (which encourages more chance of editing by a wider audience), and backfeeding more data about how Wikipedia is created and used.
So they neither stayed the same nor moved into the future. Canny Canadians, with your common sense. Balanced by your "open minds", which actually voted the PCs (hah) into power in Ontario.
Comparing a couple of researchers buying copies of a confidential credit report on a MD Lt Governor to senate staff hacking the Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats mail server for over a year, spying on the strategy to oppose Bush's judge nominee (including the Supreme Court), is like comparing lying about a blowjob to lying us into Iraq. If you insist, we should agree to impeach Bush.
People who forgot Hoover, his Great Depression, his "Hoovervilles" of refugee shanty camps, will forget any president not worshipped like a god (Reagan/Kennedy/FDR) or demonized (Nixon/Carter). We have 2 more years in which anything can happen to brand Bush into the American psyche. But I think he'll be remembered for generations, as his legacy will last for dozens if not hundreds of years.
"Liberal" really means essentially "of/for/from/with freedom", the reason "liberal" and "liberty" sound so similar. It usually is in reference to some existing/previous condition of constraint. "Trade liberalism" means unregulated trade. "Liberal" as in socialism or just America's government mediation of economics or society means freedom from oppression generally. Ironically many people think that kind of freedom is produced by less freedom to oppress, which often translates to just less freedom when the bureaucrats get hold of it.
American politics is so twisted now that "Conservatives" don't conserve but rather discard, "Liberals" impose restraints, and "neoconservatives" are really "neoliberal" ideologists/rhetoricians. At least we're not Canada, whose "Progressive Conservative Party" really threw out all meaning in favor of marketing buzzwords.
Richard Nixon isn't nearly as scary as Bush. I guess when someone compares some political abuse to Bush you'll claim the same about Bush. Do you complain the same way when people bring up Hoover?
Republican Senate staff cracked into the Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats' mail server, spying on hundreds of memos focusing on the Democrats' strategy to respond to Bush's nominee judges, including Supreme Court Justices. But somehow that hasn't triggered another Watergate in America's Republican Congress.
I agree. LDAP is a protocol, and interface between ID data and applications. BDB is high performance, optimized for the hierarchical data model of LDAP data. A local hierarchical cache in BDB is the right way to support the high transaction volume in LDAP transactions. So a BDB datamart against an RDBMS datastore is the best compromise for required performance, flexibility, manageability and access to applications outside the LDAP interface.
That means extra HW and complexity. The extra HW cost is worth it if the requirements can't be met by the BDB, as in joins to existing relational data, because it's still the cheapest alternative. The extra complexity of maintaining parallel BDB and RDBMS datasets with bidirectional consistency is a bigger question. I think this architecture won't really be fully worked out until people with expertise in write-thru caches apply their techniques to this device for both performance and integrity, without sacrificing the rest of the features.
Actually I'm using LDAP all day long, as a user of an installation that runs against BDB, as I mentioned. The discussions of porting to MySQL didn't inform me much, as I've waited for (and encouraged) better experts to get it working on Postgres, which I prefer. Nor did the Postgres compile option inform much, because there isn't enough doc on the Web describing its tested use against a real Postgres. That's the point at which I use options: when there's a community of people which has already reported common errors and solutions.
The fact that there is a Pg option and many HOWTOs for MySQL LDAP datastores shows that relational and hierarchical databases are complementary, or at least compatible, systems for LDAP. The GIST tree structures you mention are only the latest in many schemas which map hierarchical to relational. As I mentioned, BDB is faster in the purely hierarchical operations than Pg, but of course all the relational ops I need find BDB performing at "0%". And the other connectivity/management benefits of my existing Pg operations of course also require connection.
I'm going to pull this off, at least once I'm not the first pioneer facing the arrows. Hopefully next time someone else asks about it on Slashdot I'll have more answers than questions.