One thing has always confused me about the Turing Test. It's currently the Holy Grail of software, right? Why don't more people work on it, and why don't we seem to be getting closer?
The best thing I've seen is ELIZA, and while she's sometimes suprisingly astute, the facade doesn't hold up for long . . .
It's because, obviously, NYT is paying Slashdot not to. Slashdot does accept corporate sponsors.
This also explains why we have so many articles about new Apple toys, new O'Reilly books, etc. Slashdot is not, and doesn't claim to be, impartial. And the sponsors aren't just limited to the banners and big-ass square ads around here . . . the content, too, is for sale.
Yours is not to question why,
yours is but to bill them high.
Were you born without business ethics or did you gradually lose them through bad experiences? Or are you just referring more to a "lackey" pure-implementation position where your consulting boss is the one whose job it is to question decisions?
Spammers *already* pay significant amounts of money sending spam. A few more cents per transaction isn't going to amount to a hill of beans worth of difference.
You're very, very wrong. It's true that a big-time spam operation requires significant funds to operate, but these people send MILLIONS of untargeted messages in a campaign. Adding even a penny charge to each message would make the campaign cost many times what it currently does.
Nevertheless, it will be joke fodder for many years to come. I still hear some sort of reference to DOS as proof of Microsoft's suckage every now and then.
I got a letter offering me more money than I really wanted- all because of four letters on my resume. I'll see if you are smart enough to figure them out.
I have personally closed over 20 duplicate bugs for a single incident, seeing 3 of the 5 most recently submitted bugs were the same was the first bad sign...
-Search It, then/when/ you find the same thing allready there, post a comment with your input, and stats on your OS and machine.
This is your responsibility. Searching for bugs is a pain, and learning a new interface is a pain. You're the expert, not to mention presumably responsible in some way for software quality. People submitting bug reports are doing you a service (even when it means work for you; boo hoo); you should make it as easy as possible for them.
Nah, with a sensitive-enough pair of microphones you could get a hi-fi recording even from these earbuds. If the audio exists (which by definition it must to be copyrightable), there is a way to record it analog with near-perfect accuracy.
Just knowing *what* happened doesn't really buy you anything -- it's just trivia. The *why* is what really counts, what really leads us to some understanding of history, and that's rightly always open to interpretation.
So right, and so rarely taught that way. I never liked history in grade school because I saw it as just memorizing irrelevant facts . . . it wasn't until college that the light bulb came on and I understood why it's important. Now it fascinates me.
select * from people where person_id in (select person_id from slashdot_users)
This one can be rewritten to use a join instead (MySQL's excuse for a workaround). However, there's another concept of "correlated subquery" (google for it) that cannot be rewritten in SQL, and instead requires some degree of procedural manipulation to simulate.
In the process of building features for new users, we have not forgotten requests by the community of loyal users.
What about integrity constraints, foreign keys, interval datatypes, full outer joins, subqueries, set operations, VIEWS for god's sake, and triggers? Too hard?
For cryin' out loud, half of these missing features put the "relational" in "relational database"!
...as the MySQL guy pointed out a log of sub-selects can be done with joins.
This is a pathetic excuse for a MAJOR lack of functionality. If a query can be rewritten to avoid the sub-select, why didn't the MySQL optimizer just do so?
Until a database can support transactions, subselects (yes on UPDATE/INSERTs too) and views (one of the most fundamental relational features) it has no business pitching itself as a real relational DBMS. MySQL is a glorified file system, and works well for people who need a SQL-like interface to a fast file system.
Water may not be the only liquid that makes a suitable carrier for life, but it would be really hard to find a more suitable one. Human experiments to use alcohol instead are rarely successful for very long.
Well, I know a few people that have been sustaining such "experiments" for many years now . . .
Morale is not something you can just throw away when the going gets tough. (And no, I'm not saying that there exists such a thing as an absolute morale, I'm talking about your personal morale.)
I believe the word you're looking for is morality. From what I hear, morale is consistently pretty high at Microsoft.
Slashdot Mirror
or, say, Slashdot?
The best thing I've seen is ELIZA, and while she's sometimes suprisingly astute, the facade doesn't hold up for long . . .
This also explains why we have so many articles about new Apple toys, new O'Reilly books, etc. Slashdot is not, and doesn't claim to be, impartial. And the sponsors aren't just limited to the banners and big-ass square ads around here . . . the content, too, is for sale.
yours is but to bill them high.
Were you born without business ethics or did you gradually lose them through bad experiences? Or are you just referring more to a "lackey" pure-implementation position where your consulting boss is the one whose job it is to question decisions?
They should just drop in a SplitFire and get an instant 50% performance boost!
I think he should be reworded.
Dude, that's Systems, not Software.
Too bad the other 16 minutes are utterly, utterly wasted.
I'm sure your mom probably still has some of your high school pictures around.
Is there a difference?
You're very, very wrong. It's true that a big-time spam operation requires significant funds to operate, but these people send MILLIONS of untargeted messages in a campaign. Adding even a penny charge to each message would make the campaign cost many times what it currently does.
Nevertheless, it will be joke fodder for many years to come. I still hear some sort of reference to DOS as proof of Microsoft's suckage every now and then.
BDSM?
I have personally closed over 20 duplicate bugs for a single incident, seeing 3 of the 5 most recently submitted bugs were the same was the first bad sign... /when/ you find the same thing allready there, post a comment with your input, and stats on your OS and machine.
-Search It, then
This is your responsibility. Searching for bugs is a pain, and learning a new interface is a pain. You're the expert, not to mention presumably responsible in some way for software quality. People submitting bug reports are doing you a service (even when it means work for you; boo hoo); you should make it as easy as possible for them.
Nah, with a sensitive-enough pair of microphones you could get a hi-fi recording even from these earbuds. If the audio exists (which by definition it must to be copyrightable), there is a way to record it analog with near-perfect accuracy.
So right, and so rarely taught that way. I never liked history in grade school because I saw it as just memorizing irrelevant facts . . . it wasn't until college that the light bulb came on and I understood why it's important. Now it fascinates me.
from people
where person_id in (select person_id from slashdot_users)
This one can be rewritten to use a join instead (MySQL's excuse for a workaround). However, there's another concept of "correlated subquery" (google for it) that cannot be rewritten in SQL, and instead requires some degree of procedural manipulation to simulate.
What about integrity constraints, foreign keys, interval datatypes, full outer joins, subqueries, set operations, VIEWS for god's sake, and triggers? Too hard?
For cryin' out loud, half of these missing features put the "relational" in "relational database"!
This is a pathetic excuse for a MAJOR lack of functionality. If a query can be rewritten to avoid the sub-select, why didn't the MySQL optimizer just do so?
Until a database can support transactions, subselects (yes on UPDATE/INSERTs too) and views (one of the most fundamental relational features) it has no business pitching itself as a real relational DBMS. MySQL is a glorified file system, and works well for people who need a SQL-like interface to a fast file system.
Well, I know a few people that have been sustaining such "experiments" for many years now . . .
Amazing indeed. The damage that this administration has done to U.S. diplomacy worldwide will take 20 years to repair.
It's harder than clicking on a link provided reguarly by one karma whore or another.
I take it that the "112 mile wide, 3000 foot deep impact crater" is actual size?
By the same token, if you're in the AARP set, you're not likely to seek wireless Internet access.
I believe the word you're looking for is morality. From what I hear, morale is consistently pretty high at Microsoft.