Tom Kyte is a sort of help Guru for the Oracle community. His book Effective Oracle by Design is excellent can contains a lot references to other material.
He also runs a web site that has been very useful to me as well.
What makes YOU think that the environment can be changed so radically that it's impossible for anything to survive?
There have already been 5 mass extinction events as determined by the fossil record. Most biologists feel that we are in the middle of the sixth right now. 4 out of the 5 known mass extinctions are believed to be due to climate change.
The Permian extinction caused of 96% of all existing species to die out. This Permian extinction was the cataclysm which stimulated the development of mammals.
It is absolutely ridiculous to say that climate changes can't lead to mass extinctions, or that mammals have been around for a billion years.
As a species, humans are more adaptable than any plant or animal species in history.
How the hell do you draw a conclusion like that? Human beings have only existed on the planet for 1-2 million years, and have come damn close to extinction many times if you believe the DNA evidence. Compare people with say the cockroach or blue-geern algae and you will realize our long term existence is very much an open question.
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Nice rant, should be modded up. My impression is that most polymaths have given up on Windows and are now running their MatLab applications on Linux where it really kicks butt and they can get any UI they want. BTW, polymaths don't do Powerpoint.
Well, to be perfectly fair there is a Solaris plugin for Flash. The bad news is that there isn't one for x64 Linux.
The big problem is that there are really no good open standards for what Flash does. Just pieces here and there. SVG is part of it, Ajax another part - and good luck trying to weld them together.
Criminy imaging the support nightmare this is going to trigger at any third party software developer, not to mention hardware compatability, testing, you name it.
I can see why MS wants to churn their user base to increase profits, but all this is going to do is piss people off.
Not only that, but software quality will go down - with SP2 Windows XP is just starting to become good. Now with flavor du jour the OS will never become old enough to be stable.
Ignorance such as yours needs to be ended. Read this [thespaceplace.com] to see the benefits of the space program.
That list is actually EXTREMELY weak. For example:
WATER PURIFICATION SYSTEM - NASA-developed municipal-size water treatment system for developing nations, called the Regenerable Biocide Delivery Unit, uses iodine rather than chlorine to kill bacteria.
Anyone who knows any chemistry knows of several alternatives to chlorine for water purification including all the halogens, plus other strong oxidizers such as ozone, hydrogen peroxide etc etc. This is basic chemistry from the 19th century.
There is no need to invest in a massively wasteful program like NASA to get innovations like CAD software for school bus design.
If you spend the vast sums NASA spends on any technical endeavor you are likely to get some benefits. The problem is like I said - opportunity cost. The benefits from NASA could be easily surpassed by investments in other areas.
NASA has been struggling for decades now to show benefits from space explorartion, including zero G manufacturing etc. without much success. We do not need to have a beast like NASA to develop startling technologies like ribbed swimsuits!
Early space exploration has yielded some serious benefits like satellites for navigation, weather prediction, communication, new materials, real advances in miniaturization etc.
But little or nothing important has come out of NASA's space exploation programs for many many years and now it is time to recognize NASA for what it currently is - a black hole sucking money and giving nothing back and divert the money in other areas.
This is absurd. The 100 billion price tag could be used in R&D programs of far more potential value in biotech, energy research and environmental initiatives. Or in infrastructure improvements.
NASA is living proof of many key concepts of inefficiency in systems engineering, buraucracy and Parkinson's law.
Katrina is living proof of what happens when key infrastructure goes underfunded in deference to pork barrel projects.
The time has come to put an end to this sort of waste. We just cannot afford the opportunity cost.
2nd level domain owners do this all the time. It is very useful if you are selling subdomains or providing free subdomains as part of a hosting service or are running an affiliate program off your e-commerce site or any of a dozen other applications.
Slashdot needs to upgrade its editorial staff or implement a story moderating system so we can browse stories at a point level.
I can see it now:
-1 Dupe -1 Old -1 Overrated (i.e. Dumb) -1 Flamebait/Troll
+1 interesting +1 insightful
howver the point rating should be an average rather than a total rating number.
Maybe a condo with a nearby park would also fit your needs and you could live close enough to work to *gasp* walk to work.
I consider myself to be very fortunate to have a job that is only 5 miles from where I work. Not only is it a savings on gas, plus wear and tear on the car and a lot of time is freed up for my personal enjoyment rather than spent sitting in a car. Even the auto insurance is lower.
Living close to work is going to be the new American Dream I think. Right now it is hard when you have a job in the city but want your kids to attend a good suburban school.
A lot of things will have to change for people to give up that daily drive - more mass transit, cities will have to be resocialized, traditional ideas on home ownership have to be revised, etc.
I can just see it now - you are driving along and a spammer takes control of your car and drives it to a remote parking lot where you are required to purchase penis enlargement pills before you are given back control of your car.
Yes, I know most SUV owners say "oh, but I need them to get up gravel tracks, in snow, carry stuff, etc.
You really didn't read the question, did you?
In this case it actually seems to be true that the owner needs his vehicle to be able to do these sorts of things since the author, at least acccording to his question lives in a remote undeveloped area.
Here is a hint for you - rather than jumping to conclusions and stereotyping people you really should pay attention to what they are saying if you don't want to come off as a total jerk.
That's a ridiculous statement. If you don't like his qualifications, get mad at congress who confirmed him. They didn't raise any concerns, and some even said they felt that was a very beneficial qualification.
So what is this, some sort of nouveau government lack-of-accountability thing? - incompetent people aren't responsible for the havoc they wreak, because, after all, someone hired them?
In this case there is PLENTY of blame to go around. The whole lot - anyone who voted to confirm him, the nominator, anyone who supported the nomination and of course the subject himself should be tarred, feathered and run out of town on a rail after spending a few weeks bagging ripened bodies in the Gulf Coast.
Also any government official in a position of responsibility in disaster planning or response who stands up and makes ridiculous statements like the events weren't forseen or forseable gets the same treatment.
After all, this is a major branch of the Federal Government being run by a political hack whose main experience is running the National Arabian Horse Association.
The Dutch are facing some pretty severe long term issues with their system of flood control - the land behind the dikes is subsiding, and the global warming is causing sea levels to rise. To me the whole proposition that you can build for long term stability in a location like New Orleans is very questionable.
This is the problem with MySQL's cheerleaders - they believe that the app designer should re-invent the wheel, rather than expecting the DB to do the stuff that it's supposed to do.
That is EXACTLY the main problem with MySQL. It is ALWAYS missing some basic functionality that you have to implement in code. Sorry, but IMHO that just disqualified your product from consideration. I cannot believe that we are in 2005 and there are STILL fundamental pieces of DB functionality that are missing from MySQL.
Yes it is, those EULA on sales are blocked by doctrine of first sale,
You completely misunderstand the doctrine of first sale. The doctrine of first sale ONLY applies if the article was sold unrestricted. That is clearly not the case here - these cartridges are sold on a restricted basis. Here is an article that describes this distinction.
In addition there is even more in regards to 'reconstruction under first sale. The key phrase is:
"The principles that allow a US buyer who purchased the patented article, free of any mutually agreed restriction, to repair, modify, resell or otherwise dispose of it, but preclude him or her from recreating or rebuilding the original article flow naturally from the first sale doctrine."
So it is very obvious that this ruling is NOT something new at all and actually follows from the long existing first sale doctrine as applied to patented articles. In addition the EULA applies a restriction on the item, making this opinion even more sound under existing law.
The concept that this is something new under law is baloney. The only thing new is its application to printer cartridges.
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Tom Kyte is a sort of help Guru for the Oracle community. His book Effective Oracle by Design is excellent can contains a lot references to other material.
He also runs a web site that has been very useful to me as well.
What makes YOU think that the environment can be changed so radically that it's impossible for anything to survive?
There have already been 5 mass extinction events as determined by the fossil record. Most biologists feel that we are in the middle of the sixth right now. 4 out of the 5 known mass extinctions are believed to be due to climate change.
The Permian extinction caused of 96% of all existing species to die out. This Permian extinction was the cataclysm which stimulated the development of mammals.
It is absolutely ridiculous to say that climate changes can't lead to mass extinctions, or that mammals have been around for a billion years.
As a species, humans are more adaptable than any plant or animal species in history.
How the hell do you draw a conclusion like that? Human beings have only existed on the planet for 1-2 million years, and have come damn close to extinction many times if you believe the DNA evidence. Compare people with say the cockroach or blue-geern algae and you will realize our long term existence is very much an open question.
rsync is excellent at this, and rdist can have benefits too if you are updating a bunch of servers at once.
. HUGE changes have occurred, yet the earth has always pulled back to an equilibrium point that has provided life.
Right, but what makes you think that life will continue to include homo sapiens as a species?
Slashdot never became a tabloid; it has always been a tabloid.
Slashdot gives tabloids a bad name.
Nice rant, should be modded up. My impression is that most polymaths have given up on Windows and are now running their MatLab applications on Linux where it really kicks butt and they can get any UI they want. BTW, polymaths don't do Powerpoint.
Well, to be perfectly fair there is a Solaris plugin for Flash. The bad news is that there isn't one for x64 Linux.
The big problem is that there are really no good open standards for what Flash does. Just pieces here and there. SVG is part of it, Ajax another part - and good luck trying to weld them together.
New orleans would have been better off with no warning of the approaching hurricane at all?
I am sure that with all the air traffic, ground based radar et al the hurricane would have been tracked pretty well, NASA or not.
merely doing things we already knew how to do.
Fine, how about some peer reviewed proposals. Going back to the moon certainly is not something new.
Criminy imaging the support nightmare this is going to trigger at any third party software developer, not to mention hardware compatability, testing, you name it.
I can see why MS wants to churn their user base to increase profits, but all this is going to do is piss people off.
Not only that, but software quality will go down - with SP2 Windows XP is just starting to become good. Now with flavor du jour the OS will never become old enough to be stable.
Ignorance such as yours needs to be ended. Read this [thespaceplace.com] to see the benefits of the space program.
That list is actually EXTREMELY weak. For example:
WATER PURIFICATION SYSTEM - NASA-developed municipal-size water treatment system for developing nations, called the Regenerable Biocide Delivery Unit, uses iodine rather than chlorine to kill bacteria.
Anyone who knows any chemistry knows of several alternatives to chlorine for water purification including all the halogens, plus other strong oxidizers such as ozone, hydrogen peroxide etc etc. This is basic chemistry from the 19th century.
There is no need to invest in a massively wasteful program like NASA to get innovations like CAD software for school bus design.
If you spend the vast sums NASA spends on any technical endeavor you are likely to get some benefits. The problem is like I said - opportunity cost. The benefits from NASA could be easily surpassed by investments in other areas.
NASA has been struggling for decades now to show benefits from space explorartion, including zero G manufacturing etc. without much success. We do not need to have a beast like NASA to develop startling technologies like ribbed swimsuits!
Early space exploration has yielded some serious benefits like satellites for navigation, weather prediction, communication, new materials, real advances in miniaturization etc.
But little or nothing important has come out of NASA's space exploation programs for many many years and now it is time to recognize NASA for what it currently is - a black hole sucking money and giving nothing back and divert the money in other areas.
This is absurd. The 100 billion price tag could be used in R&D programs of far more potential value in biotech, energy research and environmental initiatives. Or in infrastructure improvements.
NASA is living proof of many key concepts of inefficiency in systems engineering, buraucracy and Parkinson's law.
Katrina is living proof of what happens when key infrastructure goes underfunded in deference to pork barrel projects.
The time has come to put an end to this sort of waste. We just cannot afford the opportunity cost.
Actually it is a double extra secret lie number for the following reasons:
1. That is the RETAIL price. It doesn't count markups in the distribution chain. Intel probably get one-half of that $637.
2. I expect Intel has chips that sell for well more than $637 - Itaniums, Xeons and the like.
2nd level domain owners do this all the time. It is very useful if you are selling subdomains or providing free subdomains as part of a hosting service or are running an affiliate program off your e-commerce site or any of a dozen other applications.
Slashdot needs to upgrade its editorial staff or implement a story moderating system so we can browse stories at a point level.
I can see it now:
-1 Dupe
-1 Old
-1 Overrated (i.e. Dumb)
-1 Flamebait/Troll
+1 interesting
+1 insightful
howver the point rating should be an average rather than a total rating number.
Maybe a condo with a nearby park would also fit your needs and you could live close enough to work to *gasp* walk to work.
I consider myself to be very fortunate to have a job that is only 5 miles from where I work. Not only is it a savings on gas, plus wear and tear on the car and a lot of time is freed up for my personal enjoyment rather than spent sitting in a car. Even the auto insurance is lower.
Living close to work is going to be the new American Dream I think. Right now it is hard when you have a job in the city but want your kids to attend a good suburban school.
A lot of things will have to change for people to give up that daily drive - more mass transit, cities will have to be resocialized, traditional ideas on home ownership have to be revised, etc.
I can just see it now - you are driving along and a spammer takes control of your car and drives it to a remote parking lot where you are required to purchase penis enlargement pills before you are given back control of your car.
Yes, I know most SUV owners say "oh, but I need them to get up gravel tracks, in snow, carry stuff, etc.
You really didn't read the question, did you?
In this case it actually seems to be true that the owner needs his vehicle to be able to do these sorts of things since the author, at least acccording to his question lives in a remote undeveloped area.
Here is a hint for you - rather than jumping to conclusions and stereotyping people you really should pay attention to what they are saying if you don't want to come off as a total jerk.
The problem is then you have to come up with a safe long term way to store digital data.
Clue:
There isn't one.
The best thing to do is NOT convert the paper to digitized format. Find some space instead, and store the paper. Your data will be much safer.
I'd bet you could get that just with conventional mods - tuning, air filters, bigger exhaust, special camshaft new ingintion computer chips etc.
That's a ridiculous statement. If you don't like his qualifications, get mad at congress who confirmed him. They didn't raise any concerns, and some even said they felt that was a very beneficial qualification.
So what is this, some sort of nouveau government lack-of-accountability thing? - incompetent people aren't responsible for the havoc they wreak, because, after all, someone hired them?
In this case there is PLENTY of blame to go around. The whole lot - anyone who voted to confirm him, the nominator, anyone who supported the nomination and of course the subject himself should be tarred, feathered and run out of town on a rail after spending a few weeks bagging ripened bodies in the Gulf Coast.
Also any government official in a position of responsibility in disaster planning or response who stands up and makes ridiculous statements like the events weren't forseen or forseable gets the same treatment.
After all, this is a major branch of the Federal Government being run by a political hack whose main experience is running the National Arabian Horse Association.
Well, at least until he did this.
The Dutch are facing some pretty severe long term issues with their system of flood control - the land behind the dikes is subsiding, and the global warming is causing sea levels to rise. To me the whole proposition that you can build for long term stability in a location like New Orleans is very questionable.
This is the problem with MySQL's cheerleaders - they believe that the app designer should re-invent the wheel, rather than expecting the DB to do the stuff that it's supposed to do.
That is EXACTLY the main problem with MySQL. It is ALWAYS missing some basic functionality that you have to implement in code. Sorry, but IMHO that just disqualified your product from consideration. I cannot believe that we are in 2005 and there are STILL fundamental pieces of DB functionality that are missing from MySQL.
Yes it is, those EULA on sales are blocked by doctrine of first sale,
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You completely misunderstand the doctrine of first sale. The doctrine of first sale ONLY applies if the article was sold unrestricted. That is clearly not the case here - these cartridges are sold on a restricted basis. Here is an article that describes this distinction.
http://www.managingip.com/?Page=10&PUBID=34&ISS=1
In addition there is even more in regards to 'reconstruction under first sale. The key phrase is:
"The principles that allow a US buyer who purchased the patented article, free of any mutually agreed restriction, to repair, modify, resell or otherwise dispose of it, but preclude him or her from recreating or rebuilding the original article flow naturally from the first sale doctrine."
So it is very obvious that this ruling is NOT something new at all and actually follows from the long existing first sale doctrine as applied to patented articles. In addition the EULA applies a restriction on the item, making this opinion even more sound under existing law.
The concept that this is something new under law is baloney. The only thing new is its application to printer cartridges.