Yes, it does matter, because *I* want to know *WHO* is making the opinion, and what agenda might be satisfied by publishing the opinion. This way, I can decide which elements I can reasonably trust on faith, and which elements may have ulterior motives for pomulgating.
This is not science and would set a bad example for elemetary school children.
But, it's an EXCELLENT example of how science bends and changes as new discoveries are made, and new theories proven or disproven. For a great example, look how many times certain species have had their Genus changed. The tiger is "Panthera tigris", "Tigris tigris" and "Neofelis tigris", depending on who you ask, and when.
Science is malleable. This is really neat and simple way to teach children this.
You know, people have been hassling me about "not understanding Australian law", but the quoted text above just about contradicts all those assertions. From your text: "...they can prohibit almost anything they like (including photography)..."
Oh, and another thing, I'm not too sure about that last line... the images taken from WITHIN the building I believe are subject to copyright, and the owner of the building CAN take action to stop them being published.
The article mentions being 'hauled away by security' for taking photos inside Eastland shopping center. Well, that one's understandable. The shopping center is private property... can't take photos without the property owner's permission.
That the article fails to mention the difference between photots inside someone's property, and from outside the property, is poor journalism.
However, the typical anti-static bag is only conducative to something like 10 megaohms per cm. Your SKIN is more conductive than that. Perfectly adequate for dissipating static charge, though.
Performance of a drive is not just about how fast the platters spin. There are limitations on that, too... spin too fast and the edges start to break the sound barrier, and all sorts of weird crap happens, including the platters tearing themselves apart.
Data density on the platter itself plays a much greater role in media transfer speeds. Spin rate mostly affects latency.
Most 'news' nowadays is just repeating what other people say, rather than doing original research. After all, if all your news is just "so and so said", then you can't be sued for telling lies, since "so and so DID actually say this, we never said it was true or false."
THAT is the reason I don't bother with MSM anymore. It's all worthless PR.
What you want is a CONDUCTIVE bag, not just anti-static. They're the ones that typically have a grid of black lines, rather than the grey semi-transparent bags.
Aha... *gets out his complaint sending application*
Of course some users like to email me to tell me [...] how the most terrible thing in the history of Slashdot is the fact that the 4th story down contains the word 'to' when it ought to contain the word 'too'. That missing 'o' is the greatest travesty on-line today!
Well, if your stress comes from not knowing if its going to be used properly, or sqandered, why not give to United Way and remove all doubt that it'll be squandered ??
But we're not so stupid that to think that a short fat glass, and a long tall one, with the same 'height' liquids has the same amount of liquid in it. We simply underestimate the increase in volume that the extra width, and depth, causes.
I think a better way to put this would be: We tend to underestimate what the width and especially the 'invisible' depth of a glass will factor the volume at a particular height.
Actually, it's quite true, and if you look at what's actually going on behind the scenes inside the database, it makes sense.
If there's nothing going on in the database, then the 'summary' value that MySQL keeps is probably spot on accurate. But, if there's lots of simultaneous inserts and deletes, then it's really going to be very approximate. Until things are all flushed, the summary may include all the inserts and none of the deletes, or vice versa. If you wanted to make the summary information accurate, then you'd have to establish locks and the like around that summary value, and THAT will slow the database down. As it stands, inserts and deletes can be executed with ZERO regard to each other.
Postgresql has a similar problem, except instead of offering a summary value and informed that it's an estimate, whenever you do a count(*) it actually scans the entire table file looking for 'valid' rows. Ie, count(*) is not instantaneous. I think they were going to address this issue in a later release (or perhaps it's in 8.1 already), but it's NOT a simple thing. However, if you wanted instant answers in Postgresql NOW, you can do it by setting up a trigger on insert and delete, and maintaining your own summaries. This is a performance hit, of course... but you'd get the same, or a similar hit, if the database was maintaining for you.
What the 'big guys' do, I don't know. But... don't knock MySQL for doing something weird:)
Postgresql, for comparison, will give you an 'accurate' value, but it actually has to create rows: it can't rely on summary information.
That's a good point. I certainly did misread UTF-7 as UTF-8, and I think it would be much harder to do a XSS attack just using UTF-8, since UTF-8 doesn't mangle any of the normal ASCII characters - included - while UTF-7 does.
Ah, but you're only describing one edge - the good edge - of the sword, which is that a web application is fixed across the board when the patch is applied.
The phrase 'double edged sword' refers to a solution having good effects and bad effects. My comment meant to indicate that a web application did not have an applicable bad edge; it's only a single-edged sword.
Now... the 'bad edge' could be that feature improvements introduce NEW bugs, or undesirable feaetures, immediately across the board, but I'm sure that's not what the grandparent was thinking about:)
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Yes, it does matter, because *I* want to know *WHO* is making the opinion, and what agenda might be satisfied by publishing the opinion. This way, I can decide which elements I can reasonably trust on faith, and which elements may have ulterior motives for pomulgating.
Science is malleable. This is really neat and simple way to teach children this.
You know, people have been hassling me about "not understanding Australian law", but the quoted text above just about contradicts all those assertions. From your text: "...they can prohibit almost anything they like (including photography)..."
Oh, and another thing, I'm not too sure about that last line... the images taken from WITHIN the building I believe are subject to copyright, and the owner of the building CAN take action to stop them being published.
The article mentions being 'hauled away by security' for taking photos inside Eastland shopping center. Well, that one's understandable. The shopping center is private property... can't take photos without the property owner's permission.
That the article fails to mention the difference between photots inside someone's property, and from outside the property, is poor journalism.
Okay, I'll concede the 'radio shielding' part :)
However, the typical anti-static bag is only conducative to something like 10 megaohms per cm. Your SKIN is more conductive than that. Perfectly adequate for dissipating static charge, though.
To me, "conductive" means mere OHMS per cm.
Performance of a drive is not just about how fast the platters spin. There are limitations on that, too... spin too fast and the edges start to break the sound barrier, and all sorts of weird crap happens, including the platters tearing themselves apart.
Data density on the platter itself plays a much greater role in media transfer speeds. Spin rate mostly affects latency.
Huh? What kind of comparison is that?
Most 'news' nowadays is just repeating what other people say, rather than doing original research. After all, if all your news is just "so and so said", then you can't be sued for telling lies, since "so and so DID actually say this, we never said it was true or false."
THAT is the reason I don't bother with MSM anymore. It's all worthless PR.
Radio can go through those things.
What you want is a CONDUCTIVE bag, not just anti-static. They're the ones that typically have a grid of black lines, rather than the grey semi-transparent bags.
Aha... *gets out his complaint sending application*
Aww crap... spoil all my fun!
Agreed. Perhaps I should make a list of all the words you can spell with LETTERS. Wow! How avant garde!
This is perfectly okay, because Google is not Evil... yet. Once google turn evil, then we'll turn on Google just like we've turned on Microsoft.
Really, I don't mind big companies, as long as they Do The Right Thing, which is what Google seem to be doing right now.
My apple earbuds fitted great. A set of plantronics earbuds I bought for this and other reasons didn't fit anywhere near as well.
My guess is that apple sized them to fit 'most ears'.
Well, if your stress comes from not knowing if its going to be used properly, or sqandered, why not give to United Way and remove all doubt that it'll be squandered ??
But we're not so stupid that to think that a short fat glass, and a long tall one, with the same 'height' liquids has the same amount of liquid in it. We simply underestimate the increase in volume that the extra width, and depth, causes.
I think a better way to put this would be: We tend to underestimate what the width and especially the 'invisible' depth of a glass will factor the volume at a particular height.
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And Google responds: "Fff! We could sell a few more million shares, and buy enough toys for everyone for ever and ever."
I agree... what in the world does comparing average and best write ratios have to do with 'endurance' ??
Actually, it's quite true, and if you look at what's actually going on behind the scenes inside the database, it makes sense.
:)
If there's nothing going on in the database, then the 'summary' value that MySQL keeps is probably spot on accurate. But, if there's lots of simultaneous inserts and deletes, then it's really going to be very approximate. Until things are all flushed, the summary may include all the inserts and none of the deletes, or vice versa. If you wanted to make the summary information accurate, then you'd have to establish locks and the like around that summary value, and THAT will slow the database down. As it stands, inserts and deletes can be executed with ZERO regard to each other.
Postgresql has a similar problem, except instead of offering a summary value and informed that it's an estimate, whenever you do a count(*) it actually scans the entire table file looking for 'valid' rows. Ie, count(*) is not instantaneous. I think they were going to address this issue in a later release (or perhaps it's in 8.1 already), but it's NOT a simple thing. However, if you wanted instant answers in Postgresql NOW, you can do it by setting up a trigger on insert and delete, and maintaining your own summaries. This is a performance hit, of course... but you'd get the same, or a similar hit, if the database was maintaining for you.
What the 'big guys' do, I don't know. But... don't knock MySQL for doing something weird
Postgresql, for comparison, will give you an 'accurate' value, but it actually has to create rows: it can't rely on summary information.
Umm... didn't I just say that?
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That's a good point. I certainly did misread UTF-7 as UTF-8, and I think it would be much harder to do a XSS attack just using UTF-8, since UTF-8 doesn't mangle any of the normal ASCII characters - included - while UTF-7 does.
Ah, but you're only describing one edge - the good edge - of the sword, which is that a web application is fixed across the board when the patch is applied.
:)
The phrase 'double edged sword' refers to a solution having good effects and bad effects. My comment meant to indicate that a web application did not have an applicable bad edge; it's only a single-edged sword.
Now... the 'bad edge' could be that feature improvements introduce NEW bugs, or undesirable feaetures, immediately across the board, but I'm sure that's not what the grandparent was thinking about