Although Oracle specific, I would also add "Effective Oracle by Design" by Thomas Kyte to the list of good books about database application design and performance optimisation.
I read this book while working with Oracle, but now apply the concepts to my current job with Postgres.
BioArts has been granted the sole, worldwide license for the (US patents only) cloning of dogs, cats and endangered species.
So they have a US patent portfolio (that can only be enforced in the US) but provide a worldwide license ? What would stop me from building a competing production facility next their own in South Korea ?
The Earth's Solar System is located some 28,000 light years from the centre of the Milky Way. At that distance, the new measurements show that the galaxy is rotating at a speed of 965,600 km/h, compared to previous estimates of 804,672 km/h, the astronomers report.
965,600 km/h = 268 222.222 m/s or about 1/1117th of the speed of light...
Any financial institution that resets a password based solely off of an e-mail deserves to be raped. Most do forgotten password link -> sends e-mail to reset the pass with a unique URL -> user clicks on unique URL and answers additional verification questions
Right, but that's not the problem here. You don't even need the "recover password" feature. If a website that looks like the bank and has the url of the bank, most users would just buy it and type in their username and password. Or you could easily set up a proxy kind of webserver to make it look like everything is working as usual.
Of course it has to be a one way trip. Going to Mars and back requires too much energy (fuel).
I remember doing this in physics lessons a long time ago. If you add up the energy to: 1) Leave Earth 2) Land on Mars (thin atmosphere, so quite expensive) 3) Take off from Mars and head back It's simply too much fuel.
Why don't you talk to the person in charge of software ? That might be easier than dealing with the legal team....
One approach is to explain that by releasing software components to the open source community, you'll get other people to improve and test your software. This reduces your costs and people in charge tend to like that:)
I'm very curious as to what the SDK will allow me to do. Will we get access to the AT&T edge network ? Will I be able to write applications that talk to my laptop over bluetooth ?
It should be easy to write a bluetooth modem app for the iphone. Sure, it would increase the traffic on AT&T's network, but it would also be a great argument for getting an iphone.
Here's another idea. I'd love an API to send and receive text messages from my computer.
I recently switched my domain email to Google Apps and couldn't be happier about it. I don't need to deal with the spam and email administration anymore and all of my family and friends get their own accounts. Everything's free and works great. The downside is not having a regular IMAP or POP access to my email.
I use the same catchall feature as mentioned above and I also get a lot of bounce messages. The spam filtering of gmail is amazing. I get a few thousand spam a week and sometimes one falls escapes the spamfilter.
Of course, this doesn't solve the issue of proving you're not a spammer, but I haven't been accused of that anyway:)
Look at it the other way: The Mountain View office is really cool. They've got 14 different cafeterias, all serving great food. plus a number of other nice features.
If you want to visit a nice working environment for computer geeks, this is the one:)
The first (any this year the only) date to apply for an H1B is April 1st, but the worker can't enter the US to work before Oct 1st. So in order for a company to hire an H1B worker from abroad, they must hire them before April 1st, but won't be able to use them before October.
For college grads, this could work out pretty well. If you find a job right before leaving college, you can start working right away and wait for the H1B to arrive:)
The Quake code is very well written and organized. Reading it would give an aspiring game programmer some useful ideas of what to think about when designing a game engine.
Wanna set up your friends ? Just enter their name, IP and name of a copyright-protected file here and you'll get a nice screenshot prooving their guilt... http://www.piratbyran.org/bevismaskinen/
This page was set up to proove how easy it is to forge evidence...
Apart from the phishing problem, I've never understood how the problem of identity theft arises.
Is your social security number, mother's maiden name etc. considered enough information to obtain a credit card or buy drugs in a drugstore ? Some stories, like how they use some kid's SSN to buy drugs seem very strange to me.
The banks are offering all kind of services, which to me (coming from Europe) would seem unecessary. In a safe economy, nobody should obtain credit in my name, right ?
Yes, I went to E3 as an "Entertainment Industry Professional", but the whole thing felt like a big joke. You could stand in line for 1-2h to see a demo of some new technology or game or to get some freebee, like a t-shirt.
The press get treated really well, they get all kind of vip treatments and benefits.
A few years back, I was brought in to a small company to build their new software on top of the Tamino DB. XML was "the way of the future" and we were asked to use it as much as we could. Software AG promised that everything would be easy to program and that their software functioned perfectly. Software AG's sales rep used the fact that Tamino was used in production by (insert major national company here) as a major selling argument. I later found out from a friend working there that they had only evaluated Tamino, found it useless, and never used it in production.
Well, we did finish the software on time, but it was a complete nightmare. Software AG hardly gave us any straight answers (even though they charged big $ for customer support).
Tamino itself was missing a lot of features and seemed designed as a system for storing documents, totally lacking traditional database qualities (uniqueness, reliability, scalability,...) We couldn't even get a reliable unique key from the database. The id we did get "could change" if we were to backup and restore the database. Tamino also scaled very badly with simple queries taking up to a minute on the fastest PC we could buy.
Needless to say, the software was thrown away and rebuilt with a reliable SQL database.
I would strongly discourage anyone from bilding an application on top of an xml database, especially Tamino. If you really want to build your application on top of an xml database, I would seriously ask myself why and what difference it would make. Also, if you really need an xml interface, choose an ordinary sql db that has a xml plugin.
I would say that Linux (in this case, RTFA) is worth the opportunity cost of using another *BSD. That's to say the cost of modifying another kernel to doing the same thing as Linux. So $50000 sounds like a good deal to this guy. If they save a developer salary because of Linux, then $50000 is a good deal to them.
Saying Linux is worth $600M doesn't make sense to a single user, since they can opt for another kernel. But if you can find 12000 small companies, then sure.
The guy clearly wants to use the kernel in a BSD way, which I interpret as wanting to modify Linux without telling the rest of the world about how. And possibly get away from getting accused of breaking the GPL.
What I don't understand is _why_ the guy wants a BSD copy of the Linux kernel. If he wanted to add a specific feature without releasing the code, he could just add for a binary one, right ? (Just like NVidia does)
Must be the slashdot effect ...
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But already after 5 posted comments, Kerry leads overwhelmingly with 72% against 20% for Bush in the US as well...
One good thing of European law is that there are a lot more "default cases" than there are in American law.
There is, for example a default non-compete rule for employees of barber shops. A former employer is not allowed to work within 100 meters (300 feet) from the old barber shop.
As previous posts have suggested, any non-compete in Europe should be limited in scope, region and time. The ones I've signed had a one-year limit in a small market segment.
It is actually quite common for people to get a paid 6-month vacation when moving between to competing companies. Then the latest trade secrets is 6 months old.
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Although Oracle specific, I would also add "Effective Oracle by Design" by Thomas Kyte to the list of good books about database application design and performance optimisation.
I read this book while working with Oracle, but now apply the concepts to my current job with Postgres.
She'd just explain it all as she knows all there is to know about technology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d4rdat3HdA
http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/products/balancer_overview.php
Wow, this is a ridiculous comparison. Maybe they should outlaw cars too? They kill and hurt a lot more people than games do.
What Australia really needs to outlaw is vending machines. They kill more people than sharks.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2005/06/29/are-vending-machines-deadlier-than-sharks-repost.htm
Yeah, sounds like someone had a case of the Mondays...
Was I the only one who found this ironic ?
BioArts has been granted the sole, worldwide license for the (US patents only) cloning of dogs, cats and endangered species.
So they have a US patent portfolio (that can only be enforced in the US) but provide a worldwide license ? What would stop me from building a competing production facility next their own in South Korea ?
The Earth's Solar System is located some 28,000 light years from the centre of the Milky Way. At that distance, the new measurements show that the galaxy is rotating at a speed of 965,600 km/h, compared to previous estimates of 804,672 km/h, the astronomers report.
965,600 km/h = 268 222.222 m/s or about 1/1117th of the speed of light...
Any financial institution that resets a password based solely off of an e-mail deserves to be raped. Most do forgotten password link -> sends e-mail to reset the pass with a unique URL -> user clicks on unique URL and answers additional verification questions
Right, but that's not the problem here. You don't even need the "recover password" feature. If a website that looks like the bank and has the url of the bank, most users would just buy it and type in their username and password. Or you could easily set up a proxy kind of webserver to make it look like everything is working as usual.
Of course it has to be a one way trip. Going to Mars and back requires too much energy (fuel).
I remember doing this in physics lessons a long time ago. If you add up the energy to:
1) Leave Earth
2) Land on Mars (thin atmosphere, so quite expensive)
3) Take off from Mars and head back
It's simply too much fuel.
Why don't you talk to the person in charge of software ? That might be easier than dealing with the legal team....
:)
One approach is to explain that by releasing software components to the open source community, you'll get other people to improve and test your software. This reduces your costs and people in charge tend to like that
Geeks don't need a "regular" home theatre. What you really need is one of these:
The Death Star Theater
I'm very curious as to what the SDK will allow me to do. Will we get access to the AT&T edge network ? Will I be able to write applications that talk to my laptop over bluetooth ?
It should be easy to write a bluetooth modem app for the iphone. Sure, it would increase the traffic on AT&T's network, but it would also be a great argument for getting an iphone.
Here's another idea. I'd love an API to send and receive text messages from my computer.
I recently switched my domain email to Google Apps and couldn't be happier about it. I don't need to deal with the spam and email administration anymore and all of my family and friends get their own accounts. Everything's free and works great. The downside is not having a regular IMAP or POP access to my email.
:)
I use the same catchall feature as mentioned above and I also get a lot of bounce messages. The spam filtering of gmail is amazing. I get a few thousand spam a week and sometimes one falls escapes the spamfilter.
Of course, this doesn't solve the issue of proving you're not a spammer, but I haven't been accused of that anyway
Look at it the other way: The Mountain View office is really cool. They've got 14 different cafeterias, all serving great food. plus a number of other nice features.
:)
If you want to visit a nice working environment for computer geeks, this is the one
That's not true.
:)
The first (any this year the only) date to apply for an H1B is April 1st, but the worker can't enter the US to work before Oct 1st. So in order for a company to hire an H1B worker from abroad, they must hire them before April 1st, but won't be able to use them before October.
For college grads, this could work out pretty well. If you find a job right before leaving college, you can start working right away and wait for the H1B to arrive
Great suggestion.
The Quake code is very well written and organized. Reading it would give an aspiring game programmer some useful ideas of what to think about when designing a game engine.
Wanna set up your friends ? Just enter their name, IP and name of a copyright-protected file here and you'll get a nice screenshot prooving their guilt...
http://www.piratbyran.org/bevismaskinen/
This page was set up to proove how easy it is to forge evidence...
Apart from the phishing problem, I've never understood how the problem of identity theft arises.
Is your social security number, mother's maiden name etc. considered enough information to obtain a credit card or buy drugs in a drugstore ? Some stories, like how they use some kid's SSN to buy drugs seem very strange to me.
The banks are offering all kind of services, which to me (coming from Europe) would seem unecessary. In a safe economy, nobody should obtain credit in my name, right ?
Yes, I went to E3 as an "Entertainment Industry Professional", but the whole thing felt like a big joke. You could stand in line for 1-2h to see a demo of some new technology or game or to get some freebee, like a t-shirt.
The press get treated really well, they get all kind of vip treatments and benefits.
A few years back, I was brought in to a small company to build their new software on top of the Tamino DB. XML was "the way of the future" and we were asked to use it as much as we could. Software AG promised that everything would be easy to program and that their software functioned perfectly. Software AG's sales rep used the fact that Tamino was used in production by (insert major national company here) as a major selling argument. I later found out from a friend working there that they had only evaluated Tamino, found it useless, and never used it in production.
...) We couldn't even get a reliable unique key from the database. The id we did get "could change" if we were to backup and restore the database. Tamino also scaled very badly with simple queries taking up to a minute on the fastest PC we could buy.
Well, we did finish the software on time, but it was a complete nightmare. Software AG hardly gave us any straight answers (even though they charged big $ for customer support).
Tamino itself was missing a lot of features and seemed designed as a system for storing documents, totally lacking traditional database qualities (uniqueness, reliability, scalability,
Needless to say, the software was thrown away and rebuilt with a reliable SQL database.
I would strongly discourage anyone from bilding an application on top of an xml database, especially Tamino. If you really want to build your application on top of an xml database, I would seriously ask myself why and what difference it would make. Also, if you really need an xml interface, choose an ordinary sql db that has a xml plugin.
I would say that Linux (in this case, RTFA) is worth the opportunity cost of using another *BSD. That's to say the cost of modifying another kernel to doing the same thing as Linux. So $50000 sounds like a good deal to this guy. If they save a developer salary because of Linux, then $50000 is a good deal to them.
Saying Linux is worth $600M doesn't make sense to a single user, since they can opt for another kernel. But if you can find 12000 small companies, then sure.
The guy clearly wants to use the kernel in a BSD way, which I interpret as wanting to modify Linux without telling the rest of the world about how. And possibly get away from getting accused of breaking the GPL.
What I don't understand is _why_ the guy wants a BSD copy of the Linux kernel. If he wanted to add a specific feature without releasing the code, he could just add for a binary one, right ? (Just like NVidia does)
But already after 5 posted comments, Kerry leads overwhelmingly with 72% against 20% for Bush in the US as well ...
Not only is there a mp3 stream as mentioned, there is also a a 83 MB Quicktime video, which I'm just downloaded at 360 KB/s.
Come on slashdot, the server's still up, what are you waiting for ?
One good thing of European law is that there are a lot more "default cases" than there are in American law.
There is, for example a default non-compete rule for employees of barber shops. A former employer is not allowed to work within 100 meters (300 feet) from the old barber shop.
As previous posts have suggested, any non-compete in Europe should be limited in scope, region and time. The ones I've signed had a one-year limit in a small market segment.
It is actually quite common for people to get a paid 6-month vacation when moving between to competing companies. Then the latest trade secrets is 6 months old.
What a beginner's mistake: Allowing a physical attack to unplug the network.
They should have a Self defending network