You think Bush gave a shit about sensitivity to the families of dead soldiers?
Not exactly. He realized if you marginalize losses, glamorize success and hide the truth, you can desensitize the populace. The first dead soldiers america felt.
Now, the dead are merely a statistic. I don't recall the quote exactly off the top of my head, but "if you kill one, it's a tragedy. if you kill a million, it's a statistic".
Just look at the lack of outrage for activities in Rwanda, Congo, Somalia(ok i'll give you this one, we did intervene, albeit weakly) and the whole string of genocides that have occurred in the last few decades. If you kill enough people, it's just a number. Kind of like money. Bush gave $750,000 million to a bunch of crooks but the outrage came when people found out $400 million went to corporate bonuses for said crooks.
No. During the Vietnam war, newspapers were really a powerful influence in public policy due to their honesty about the cost of the war.
We're just wrapping up the longest war the US has been involved in since World War 2 and until recently it was illegal to publish pictures of dead soldiers to quell public outrage. Had we seen daily pictures of dead soldiers on TV for seven years, the public acceptance would have been far lower and diminished far faster than it did.
Now, yeah the news is a farce. They split us down the middle every 4 years to turn the nation against one another, simplifying our political decisions into an us versus them, red versus blue game.
Now, the only credible news are the comedians comfortable with criticizing the government by exposing their ridiculous actions.
Sadly, the comedy is in the absurdity of the truth they tell.
Another obvious, more practical but potentially less powerful method is simply to index all of the printouts with serial numbers and manually create a database of tags with serial numbers.
You then have a library card index system, but electronic. Sure, it won't help with documents that aren't entered properly, but it's dramatically more efficient than thumbing through PDF's until you find what you need.
OCR, in my experience, is also crap with equations and technical literature in general. It's linguistic fuzzy matching changes technical words it doesn't recognize into similar words it does, on the basis that well shit it might have just not scanned very well.
I hate to follow up my own reply, but just as an aside...
this seems a perfect place to say Microsoft is insane for not reimplementing rich text boxes in.NET Forms from scratch. Their insistence on using native Win32 text boxes is fucking nuts and makes subclassing the RichTextBox class a stupid stupid nightmare.
Personally, I used SQL Server Management Studio 2005 Express(the free edition) and wasn't really impressed. I had a hard time distinguishing it's features from PostgreSQL, with the exception that stored procedures interface in MSSQL is better.
It works I suppose. I wouldn't use it anything that really matters though, I would still use PostgreSQL on principle, familiarity and portability reasons.
I use Visual Studio 2008 Professional and it is tremendous. I haven't used Visual Studio in a few years and it's gotten even better. The project management and build integration tools are great.
As a old timer Win32 programmer, finally having an application framework from Microsoft that comes even a smidgin close to QT's API sanity has been nice. I tried programming in MFC in the past and that alone converted me to Linux for a few years!
It's been a few months since I programmed anything in C++, and even then it was on a GNU toolchain. I haven't done any VC++ since VB is just so much easier for GUI intensive applications, so I can't say if the C++ bindings are as consistent and easy to use.
As someone who is currently writing a medium scale.NET application and intending on releasing it as GPL, I'd really rather compile against Mono but they aren't 3.5 compatible.
In addition to that, it seemed to me the integration with Visual Studio IDE wasn't that good. Hate to say it, but the Visual Studio IDE is pretty much bomb compared to a lot of the open source stuff I've used in the past, including Eclipse.
That's why you run your own server and reroll paladin. You can 1 man all the content, except for scripted events that require more than one player(Lady Vashj comes to mind first).
SolidWorks was already available for cheap since Dassault Systems released the student development kit. Sure, the licenses only last for for about 6 months, but they're also like $80. That's a far cry from the typical licensing fees.
Now if only there was a student version of CAMWorks...
MS has an IA64 release of Windows and it probably costs them a fortune to maintain for little benefit other than to let Intel know they support them, even when they are epic failures. I wouldn't hold my breath for an Windows 7 ARM edition.
I guess regarding this farfetched 96% statistic... Look who it's coming from. Brought to you by the same market researchers who contended the 13-17 year old music listeners would accept ad-supported music. The 96% figure seems more likely to be a massive error in calculation than anything.
I've spoken with a few retailers about their Netbook selection and as far as I can tell, Linux dominates based on price. Sure, I don't have hard data to back it up but 96% seems off-the-map implausible.
You mean Maher Arar? He was held captive and tortured for 10 months before being returned to Canada after they figured out he wasn't a terrorist.
No criminal charges were ever filed, either against him or against the people who kidnapped him. (oops sorry I meant "renditioned" him). While an apology was issued by the US House of Representatives, they vowed to fight any attempt to ban the practice.
So, don't be dense. Canadian's are some of the least likely to be terrorists. I can't think off the top of my head of a single example where a US terrorist attack had a Canadian participant.
After a night of watching movie channels, I can say authoritatively that the 80's and 90's were chock full of shitty movies.
We tend to remember the memorable movies, which were typically the best. Need I remind everyone of the existence of movies like Tremors, 2, 3, 4 and the series?
Ok, now that your eyes are bleeding from the pain, you'll realize there always were, are and will be shitty movies. Just gotta see the good ones.
The EM spectrum isn't really finite, but certain frequency bands are better than others for short range high bandwidth communication.
Sure, it's possible to saturate a tower or even a whole swath of towers with excess traffic, but this imo is just evidence that we need more spectrum dedicated to Wifi and cellular services.
Indeed, cellular telephone rates are astounding. Want to send a few 100kB of text messages? That could cost you $5-10 depending on text length.
Want tethering? They will only activate that for you if you are on a business or premium($$$) plan, and you still pay per megabyte unless you pay for unlimited($$$$).
They gouge consumers any way they can and disallow anything that might cut into their profits.
True, but the blow would only be in the MVP rail car and the hookers would stop to ask you if you want to pay extra to upgrade your experience, and when you're done she would ask you to fill out a survey about your experience.
Yeah right. With our tax dollars, MS would build a maglev monorail around their campus, furnished with Italian leather chairs, open bars, 42" plasma TV's hooked up to XBox 360's and wifi.
Anyone who isn't a dba will have their DB dictated by the the software they're using.
Whether or not the db dictates the software or the software dictates the db depends a lot on how important data integrity and the db features are to you. Whether you end up with PostgreSQL or MySQL, you need similar skills to maintain it.
For starters, the database schema is extremely complicated, much more so than is necessary for most companies. The web interface to eBusiness isn't too bad, although even on big iron it is still pretty slow for a lot of filter and search operations.
The web-launched Java interface takes a LOT of resources per instance; it's very slow on a typical desktop computer. The java interface is MDI, whereas separate windows would be quite a lot easier for users to use. It's also single threaded, meaning one blocking MDI child window blocks the entire eBusiness instance. Clicking the List of Values[...] object is scriptable and in some situations isn't very intuitive. In some cases it will not check the associated field or entered text first, meaning it performs a wildcard search. If done in a field that is populated with hundreds of thousands of records, this can block your eBusiness for 10 or 20 minutes. There is no "break" either, you let it run or you kill it and lose whatever didn't have saved in other MDI children windows.
This is just a short list. There are a lot of reasons Oracle eBusiness is a huge frustration for users and developers.
As someone who has extensive hands-on use of Oracle eBusiness, I can say it's a steaming turd with some authority. Having a vertical CRM/order management/invoicing/everything stack is an easy sell to managers, but what they don't realize is it requires significant effort to align it with your business model.
In short, Oracle is designed to sell and it does work, but only well if you're prepared to spend a fortune implementing it.
It's not a religious battle, it's about using the best tool for the job. MySQL may be very easy to setup, but just fyi, PostgreSQL is a snap to set up now on Windows or Linux.
Looking for reasons to use PostgreSQL? Much better index support. Kerberos or LDAP access controls. Better native Unicode support.
If you're hog-tied to MySQL because of your software, well so be it. But if you have a choice, the winner should be fairly obvious.
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You think Bush gave a shit about sensitivity to the families of dead soldiers?
Not exactly. He realized if you marginalize losses, glamorize success and hide the truth, you can desensitize the populace. The first dead soldiers america felt.
Now, the dead are merely a statistic. I don't recall the quote exactly off the top of my head, but "if you kill one, it's a tragedy. if you kill a million, it's a statistic".
Just look at the lack of outrage for activities in Rwanda, Congo, Somalia(ok i'll give you this one, we did intervene, albeit weakly) and the whole string of genocides that have occurred in the last few decades. If you kill enough people, it's just a number. Kind of like money. Bush gave $750,000 million to a bunch of crooks but the outrage came when people found out $400 million went to corporate bonuses for said crooks.
Getting my drift?
No. During the Vietnam war, newspapers were really a powerful influence in public policy due to their honesty about the cost of the war.
We're just wrapping up the longest war the US has been involved in since World War 2 and until recently it was illegal to publish pictures of dead soldiers to quell public outrage. Had we seen daily pictures of dead soldiers on TV for seven years, the public acceptance would have been far lower and diminished far faster than it did.
Now, yeah the news is a farce. They split us down the middle every 4 years to turn the nation against one another, simplifying our political decisions into an us versus them, red versus blue game.
Now, the only credible news are the comedians comfortable with criticizing the government by exposing their ridiculous actions.
Sadly, the comedy is in the absurdity of the truth they tell.
Another obvious, more practical but potentially less powerful method is simply to index all of the printouts with serial numbers and manually create a database of tags with serial numbers.
You then have a library card index system, but electronic. Sure, it won't help with documents that aren't entered properly, but it's dramatically more efficient than thumbing through PDF's until you find what you need.
OCR, in my experience, is also crap with equations and technical literature in general. It's linguistic fuzzy matching changes technical words it doesn't recognize into similar words it does, on the basis that well shit it might have just not scanned very well.
Not much way around this.
If pattern recognition CAPTCHA's don't work, the next obvious step is logic puzzles with type in answers.
Other than that, TPM based browser plugins verifying web submittals are coming from physical human interface devices are all I can think of.
I hate to follow up my own reply, but just as an aside...
this seems a perfect place to say Microsoft is insane for not reimplementing rich text boxes in .NET Forms from scratch. Their insistence on using native Win32 text boxes is fucking nuts and makes subclassing the RichTextBox class a stupid stupid nightmare.
Personally, I used SQL Server Management Studio 2005 Express(the free edition) and wasn't really impressed. I had a hard time distinguishing it's features from PostgreSQL, with the exception that stored procedures interface in MSSQL is better.
It works I suppose. I wouldn't use it anything that really matters though, I would still use PostgreSQL on principle, familiarity and portability reasons.
I use Visual Studio 2008 Professional and it is tremendous. I haven't used Visual Studio in a few years and it's gotten even better. The project management and build integration tools are great.
As a old timer Win32 programmer, finally having an application framework from Microsoft that comes even a smidgin close to QT's API sanity has been nice. I tried programming in MFC in the past and that alone converted me to Linux for a few years!
It's been a few months since I programmed anything in C++, and even then it was on a GNU toolchain. I haven't done any VC++ since VB is just so much easier for GUI intensive applications, so I can't say if the C++ bindings are as consistent and easy to use.
As someone who is currently writing a medium scale .NET application and intending on releasing it as GPL, I'd really rather compile against Mono but they aren't 3.5 compatible.
In addition to that, it seemed to me the integration with Visual Studio IDE wasn't that good. Hate to say it, but the Visual Studio IDE is pretty much bomb compared to a lot of the open source stuff I've used in the past, including Eclipse.
That's why you run your own server and reroll paladin. You can 1 man all the content, except for scripted events that require more than one player(Lady Vashj comes to mind first).
SolidWorks was already available for cheap since Dassault Systems released the student development kit. Sure, the licenses only last for for about 6 months, but they're also like $80. That's a far cry from the typical licensing fees.
Now if only there was a student version of CAMWorks...
MS has an IA64 release of Windows and it probably costs them a fortune to maintain for little benefit other than to let Intel know they support them, even when they are epic failures. I wouldn't hold my breath for an Windows 7 ARM edition.
I guess regarding this farfetched 96% statistic... Look who it's coming from. Brought to you by the same market researchers who contended the 13-17 year old music listeners would accept ad-supported music. The 96% figure seems more likely to be a massive error in calculation than anything.
I've spoken with a few retailers about their Netbook selection and as far as I can tell, Linux dominates based on price. Sure, I don't have hard data to back it up but 96% seems off-the-map implausible.
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS137134+31-Mar-2009+BW20090331
You mean Maher Arar? He was held captive and tortured for 10 months before being returned to Canada after they figured out he wasn't a terrorist.
No criminal charges were ever filed, either against him or against the people who kidnapped him. (oops sorry I meant "renditioned" him). While an apology was issued by the US House of Representatives, they vowed to fight any attempt to ban the practice.
So, don't be dense. Canadian's are some of the least likely to be terrorists. I can't think off the top of my head of a single example where a US terrorist attack had a Canadian participant.
Can you name one?
You wouldn't see anything. You would be long dead before you hit the event horizon from gravitational shearing and compression forces.
After a night of watching movie channels, I can say authoritatively that the 80's and 90's were chock full of shitty movies.
We tend to remember the memorable movies, which were typically the best. Need I remind everyone of the existence of movies like Tremors, 2, 3, 4 and the series?
Ok, now that your eyes are bleeding from the pain, you'll realize there always were, are and will be shitty movies. Just gotta see the good ones.
The EM spectrum isn't really finite, but certain frequency bands are better than others for short range high bandwidth communication.
Sure, it's possible to saturate a tower or even a whole swath of towers with excess traffic, but this imo is just evidence that we need more spectrum dedicated to Wifi and cellular services.
Indeed, cellular telephone rates are astounding. Want to send a few 100kB of text messages? That could cost you $5-10 depending on text length.
Want tethering? They will only activate that for you if you are on a business or premium($$$) plan, and you still pay per megabyte unless you pay for unlimited($$$$).
They gouge consumers any way they can and disallow anything that might cut into their profits.
True, but the blow would only be in the MVP rail car and the hookers would stop to ask you if you want to pay extra to upgrade your experience, and when you're done she would ask you to fill out a survey about your experience.
Yeah right. With our tax dollars, MS would build a maglev monorail around their campus, furnished with Italian leather chairs, open bars, 42" plasma TV's hooked up to XBox 360's and wifi.
I hereby turn in my Slashdot member card until it is 4/2/2009 or later in all time zones.
Thanks.
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Anyone who isn't a dba will have their DB dictated by the the software they're using.
Whether or not the db dictates the software or the software dictates the db depends a lot on how important data integrity and the db features are to you. Whether you end up with PostgreSQL or MySQL, you need similar skills to maintain it.
Yes, I was. eBusiness is more than just ERP, it's got CRM, order management, invoicing, inventory management, assets, HR, etc, just like SAP.
For starters, the database schema is extremely complicated, much more so than is necessary for most companies. The web interface to eBusiness isn't too bad, although even on big iron it is still pretty slow for a lot of filter and search operations.
The web-launched Java interface takes a LOT of resources per instance; it's very slow on a typical desktop computer. The java interface is MDI, whereas separate windows would be quite a lot easier for users to use. It's also single threaded, meaning one blocking MDI child window blocks the entire eBusiness instance. Clicking the List of Values[...] object is scriptable and in some situations isn't very intuitive. In some cases it will not check the associated field or entered text first, meaning it performs a wildcard search. If done in a field that is populated with hundreds of thousands of records, this can block your eBusiness for 10 or 20 minutes. There is no "break" either, you let it run or you kill it and lose whatever didn't have saved in other MDI children windows.
This is just a short list. There are a lot of reasons Oracle eBusiness is a huge frustration for users and developers.
As someone who has extensive hands-on use of Oracle eBusiness, I can say it's a steaming turd with some authority. Having a vertical CRM/order management/invoicing/everything stack is an easy sell to managers, but what they don't realize is it requires significant effort to align it with your business model.
In short, Oracle is designed to sell and it does work, but only well if you're prepared to spend a fortune implementing it.
It's not a religious battle, it's about using the best tool for the job. MySQL may be very easy to setup, but just fyi, PostgreSQL is a snap to set up now on Windows or Linux.
Looking for reasons to use PostgreSQL?
Much better index support.
Kerberos or LDAP access controls.
Better native Unicode support.
If you're hog-tied to MySQL because of your software, well so be it. But if you have a choice, the winner should be fairly obvious.
I was under the impression they got the trademark AND the copyrights, meaning they can release a closed source version.
Don't MySQL developers assign their copyrights to Sun?