In Oracle & Open Source, we concentrate on: Where to get today's open source base technologies and application tools; how to install them; how to connect them to Oracle; and how to modify them, should you wish to do so, to suit your own requirements.
What does this have to do with open sourcing Oracle? There is nothing in the article about that.
Yes, but I've had lots of trouble with this solution. When I want the little rodents to string my net cable to the living room, they end up coming it out in the kitchen, and so forth. Perhaps some species work better than others.
No. The deduction described is a charitable deduction. For example, if I donate a painting worth $20,000 to a museum, then I get a $20,000 tax deduction, even if I painted it myself.
Someone posted an urban legend about a person making a painting, valuing it at $1000 and donating it to the Red Cross, claiming a tax writeoff.
This may not be entirely myth. If you look at the Kentucky State tax code, they do accept donations of art as charitable tax deductions. The painting has to be appraised by a qualified person, but the fair market value of the painting is used for the deduction. I'm not sure about the Federal government, but there might be something like this in there as well.
You are very skeptical about the value of a book on how to improve processes. If everyone is so clueless, then why won't reading a book on how to do things better helpful? You seem to be saying that either people don't do things right, because they're clueless, and they'll never improve, or they're smart people, so they're already doing it right. What about learning and progression?
One of the benefits of the Y2K bug is that it forced many companies to get rid of outdated, out-of-control systems, and replace them with something maintainable. Perhaps we need a YKKII scare to help us clean up the rest.
AOL has managed to collect 25 million of the stupidest computer users in the world to fill with whatever propoganda and false information it chooses to. And Time Warner already enjoys enormous power with its products. Did you see Time Magazine's web site a few months ago where they invited people to choose the biggest fraud of the century. There were 100 people to choose from. They had Ken Starr, Linda Tripp and one or two similar names. There was nobody like Monica, Clinton, his aides, lawyers, or anyone else on Clinton's side of the purjery case. Once the voting was finished, Time reported the results as who America thought were the biggest frauds of the century. Other polls were similar. I would add Time Warner to the list of the biggest frauds. Merging 25 million stupid people with a powerful, biased media organization is not a good idea.
The only thing confusing about RPN is getting it into your head that there is a different, but consistent way of doing everything. So, on an RPN calculator, if you wanted to, say, take the square root of 5, it would be obvious to press 5, then the square root button. However, on a standard mixed prefix/infix/postfix calculator, which do you push first, the 5 or the square root key? It varies a lot. That's partly why standard calculators drive me crazy.
So every time I burn a copy of myself singing or playing, I'm paying a levy to the recording industry. Every time I back up my files, I'm paying them. Every time a CD I buy has errors and has to be thrown away, I can at least feel good knowing I was able to donate to the recording industry. That's one reason to be glad I don't live in Canada.
Isn't that ten digits? I've been using ten digits for a long time.
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That means, regardless of what point technology must reach before we can make truly intelligent machines, it will eventually happen so long as this trend continues
That's a pretty big condition to impose. The trend will only continue if we don't blow ourselves up or have a natural disaster do it for us, or God decides it's time for the end. And if none of that happens, we'd still have to reach the point before the sun burns out. And all this is assuming that we're capable of making technology to keep going like it is, and that we'll want to.
Since we can't do it, we might as well create something that thinks like we do that can go out and do it for us.
Or how about a space ship that lets us send it commands from a distance and sends us any information its sensors retrieve? Oh wait...
Also, consider a more practical reason. I'm a strong believer that the next phase of human evolution will involve the integration of man and machine.
Resistance is futile?
I'm sitting here looking at a screen using my fingers to encode messages that can be read by Earthlings throughout the world who are hooked into the same superhuman chain. Rather than calling it a communication or computation device, I prefer to call it a "brain augmentation."
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You might try Shawn Fanning. He seems to know a lot about Napster.
From the article:
In Oracle & Open Source, we concentrate on: Where to get today's open source base technologies and application tools; how to install them; how to connect them to Oracle; and how to modify them, should you wish to do so, to suit your own requirements.
What does this have to do with open sourcing Oracle? There is nothing in the article about that.
Yes, but I've had lots of trouble with this solution. When I want the little rodents to string my net cable to the living room, they end up coming it out in the kitchen, and so forth. Perhaps some species work better than others.
No. The deduction described is a charitable deduction. For example, if I donate a painting worth $20,000 to a museum, then I get a $20,000 tax deduction, even if I painted it myself.
Someone posted an urban legend about a person making a painting, valuing it at $1000 and donating it to the Red Cross, claiming a tax writeoff.
This may not be entirely myth. If you look at the Kentucky State tax code, they do accept donations of art as charitable tax deductions. The painting has to be appraised by a qualified person, but the fair market value of the painting is used for the deduction. I'm not sure about the Federal government, but there might be something like this in there as well.
Does the open source community have time travel capability?
The Linux Kernel is supposed to have this feature integrated within a few months.
You are very skeptical about the value of a book on how to improve processes. If everyone is so clueless, then why won't reading a book on how to do things better helpful? You seem to be saying that either people don't do things right, because they're clueless, and they'll never improve, or they're smart people, so they're already doing it right. What about learning and progression?
I know someone who patented /. a long time ago. This site is history! Hahahaha!
One of the benefits of the Y2K bug is that it forced many companies to get rid of outdated, out-of-control systems, and replace them with something maintainable. Perhaps we need a YKKII scare to help us clean up the rest.
ahhh, but there is no "standard" way to do sqrt. Go compare calculators. They vary between prefix and postfix.
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Discipline is first,
Organization is next,
Then test, test, and test!
If they can get a cable worth of information into a phone line, imagine how much bandwidth they'll get into cable lines, using similar techniques.
If Nintendo wins, then there will be one less Pokemon site on the web. Then we all win!
spam==one person sending questionable mail to many people.
feedback==one person sending a message to another person, in reply.
But in this modern age of technology, we are also lucky to have access to the very useful black permanent marker.
Yes indeed,
AOL has managed to collect 25 million of the stupidest computer users in the world to fill with whatever propoganda and false information it chooses to. And Time Warner already enjoys enormous power with its products. Did you see Time Magazine's web site a few months ago where they invited people to choose the biggest fraud of the century. There were 100 people to choose from. They had Ken Starr, Linda Tripp and one or two similar names. There was nobody like Monica, Clinton, his aides, lawyers, or anyone else on Clinton's side of the purjery case. Once the voting was finished, Time reported the results as who America thought were the biggest frauds of the century. Other polls were similar. I would add Time Warner to the list of the biggest frauds. Merging 25 million stupid people with a powerful, biased media organization is not a good idea.
The only thing confusing about RPN is getting it into your head that there is a different, but consistent way of doing everything. So, on an RPN calculator, if you wanted to, say, take the square root of 5, it would be obvious to press 5, then the square root button. However, on a standard mixed prefix/infix/postfix calculator, which do you push first, the 5 or the square root key? It varies a lot. That's partly why standard calculators drive me crazy.
that show Microsoft for who they really are.
Sounds like they have a sense of humor. That can't be entirely bad.
Score = 0 redundant
Since when is Microsoft viewing Linux as a threat news? Since when is it innovative to expect Microsoft to take competetive measures against Linux?
So every time I burn a copy of myself singing or playing, I'm paying a levy to the recording industry. Every time I back up my files, I'm paying them. Every time a CD I buy has errors and has to be thrown away, I can at least feel good knowing I was able to donate to the recording industry. That's one reason to be glad I don't live in Canada.
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Isn't that ten digits? I've been using ten digits for a long time.
That means, regardless of what point technology must reach before we can make truly intelligent machines, it will eventually happen so long as this trend continues
That's a pretty big condition to impose. The trend will only continue if we don't blow ourselves up or have a natural disaster do it for us, or God decides it's time for the end. And if none of that happens, we'd still have to reach the point before the sun burns out. And all this is assuming that we're capable of making technology to keep going like it is, and that we'll want to.
Since we can't do it, we might as well create something that thinks like we do that can go out and do it for us.
Or how about a space ship that lets us send it commands from a distance and sends us any information its sensors retrieve? Oh wait...
Also, consider a more practical reason. I'm a strong believer that the next phase of human evolution will involve the integration of man and machine.
Resistance is futile?
I'm sitting here looking at a screen using my fingers to encode messages that can be read by Earthlings throughout the world who are hooked into the same superhuman chain. Rather than calling it a communication or computation device, I prefer to call it a "brain augmentation."
Netscape = AOL = Stay as far away as possible
Victory!