And not once you realize many tables have multiple nullable columns. Joining so many tables together would get ridiculous quickly.
In what normal form ?
When you look to 5nf, tables have 3 columns :
(id, key, value)
All the flexibility you want, but don't think SQL.
Date advocate no Null, but he also advocate something else in place of SQL. Tutorial D, in fact.
...software patents are bad. And as the recent case between sun and kodak demonstrated, patents are much more dangerous in the hands of those outside the industry, because there is no way to retaliate with the same weapons. Imagine mister Bill create some company with his own money, like he did with Corbis for pictures. Let call this company "Billy et ses tueurs". "Billy et ses tueurs" then buy a lot of software patents, and then selectively enforce them again linux (and even if not selectively, the fact there is a patent is enough to pose problems to OSS). How can Novell use patents to defeat "Billy et ses tueurs" ? Look at the damages patents only companies are making.
They say that 1)the number small percentage of linux shipped system result in 2)a smaller percentage of installed base, 3)so somebody must buy linux box to run windows.
I think they obtained from somewhere the two first facts, and deduced the third.
Let's use some numbers: It is a small island. The year start. There is an installed base of 900. A linux company deliver 10 boxes. At the same time, a Windows company deliver 90 boxes.
So a 10 % shipping rate (10/(10+90))result in an installed base of 1%(10/(900+(10+90))). For sure, those linux users are pirate.
The only reasonable conclusion is that manipulating percentage in public is just that : manipulation.
it's not perfect, but I regulary have 20 to 30 tabs open at once, and i still manage. In fact, i think i develop a mental model of the horizontal position of the tabs linked to the opening order, having the icons only as reminders. What could be cool (warning : it is obvious, and discussed in public. No patent allowed;-) is an intra browser exposé, where, with the press of one key, all tabs become small windows, you choose one, and then they become tabs again.
Even if you devellop a 5 channel, 256kHz 64 bit of precision format, what is the quality of your source ? how can you hope better sound from old tapes 50 years old ?
Alternative 4. Make a good joke about the comment you have chosen. I found that the +5 funny is the easiest way to go up quick (if you can be funny, of course).
Estimate : will this post be modded funny, or interresting ?
It's all we don't like : no tweaking, no property of the hard, pay per use...
Can customers upload their own ringtones?
No. There’s an effort by the industry to make people pay for the content on these devices....
Even though we’re 1 percent of T-Mobile’s installed base right now, we generate 10 percent of their data revenue....
What about allowing developers to create user-installable applications for the Sidekick?
Not user-installable. We’re a gatekeeper in that sense. they use our developer kit, they reach an agreement with us, and then through us they can have access to our user base.
Oracle et al have spent decades optimizing their products for SQL as they implement it
SQL should not be "as implemented by x or y".
And decades of optimization is perhaps not the best.
Decades ago, RAM was much more costly. Datatype where usually much poorer(even if I have problem with the principle ofBLOBs).
Premature optimization is the root of all evil (it's not from me;). Sound mathematical principles, without shortcuts and exceptions, seem much more interresting in the long run.
Nous avons acquis la certitude: We acquired certainty (word to word, not very elegant, I agree)-> The speaker is now convinced. This is the opinion of the speaker, not some scientific discovery. It has some weight, but it is still an opinion.
We have discovered with certainty : for me, your formulation is ambigous. I feel some research, but the "with certainty" breaks the effect. We have discovered, or we have not. But "discovering with certainty" make suspicion arise about the certainty of the discovery.
Now... my english/american is not perfect, so I can imagine subtelties that are not present.
http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do? reference=SPEECH/01/275&format=HTML&aged=1&languag e=EN&guiLanguage=en too lazy to put the correct link...
important facts: date: 11/06/2001 (not iso, so don't know if june or november)
subject: speech from Mario Monti, European Commissioner for Competition Policy
extract: Another area where the Commission is giving direct follow-up to the concerns of individual consumers is that of Digital Video Disc pricing. We have received a significant number of complaints from private citizens on this matter. In each case, the complaint is virtually the same namely, that DVD prices are significantly higher in the EU than in the USA.
Whilst the prices of many products are higher in the EU than in the US, the major film production companies in agreement with the major equipment manufacturers have introduced a worldwide regional coding system for DVDs. Under this system, a DVD sold in one of the world's six regions cannot be played on a DVD player sold in another region. The thrust of the complaints that we have been receiving is that such a system allows the film production companies to charge higher DVD prices in the EU because EU consumers are artificially prevented from purchasing DVDs from overseas.
As a direct result of these complaints, we have initiated contacts with the major film production companies. We will examine closely what they have to say. Whilst I naturally recognise the legitimate protection which is conferred by intellectual property rights, it is important that, if the complaints are confirmed on the facts, we do not permit a system which provides greater protection than the intellectual property rights themselves, where such a system could be used as a smoke-screen to allow firms to maintain artificially high prices or to deny choice to consumers.
My services have had contacts on this issue with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, which has also sought clarifications from the major film production companies. I have noted with great interest the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's conclusion that the regional coding system imposes a 'severe restriction of choice' on consumers. The Commission will need to determine whether there are similarly negative effects in the EU which could fall within the scope of the competition rules.
concrete actions : none to my knowledge as of 3 years later
the point I made is: 1) Politicians always (in real democracy) want to appear as the champion of the middle position, balancing interest of everybody. 2) I believe in some IP^H^H temporary restriction of rights of others concerning use of imaterial informations, but not what we can see now. 3) If I advocate my position, against big right holder, the middle ground move toward more IP. 4) So I advocate no IP at all, and perhaps, the equilibrium will move in the right direction.
But, while a copyright of reasonable length is still in effect, the owner of the copyright should have complete control of the work...
... as long as such control promote the progress of arts and sciences.
Considering that you are inundated by advertisement about medias, advertisement going straight into the brain of millions of people, those media become part of the culture. And as such, they should be NOT protected.
(let's communicate an extreme point of view, and then, the pre-DMCA situation can be presented as a balanced middle ground.)
if you go to computer voting, it is necessary, but not sufficient to be open source. As for your check, how can you verify, in the voting booth, that the program running is really the one in the rom, and not one in microcontroller memory:
you know, we just changed the controller from XX12587 with the XX12588, all the rest is the same. We just forget to tell you the XX12588 start from internal rom, and you checked the external one
As an european, I'm very happy with the move,( if it is not only for rebates (and having read some time ago about some administratives people, there seems to be a real will to use OSS),) because it will oblige France to stand strongly against abusive software patents.
I'm quite convinced that this sort of network need geographical addressing, not IP.
you know your position and the position of your near neighbours, you know the small obstacles near you (the forest) and the small shortcut near you, bigger obstacles and bigger shortcuts a little farther away, and you know the big obstacles far away (the oceans...) and the big shortcuts (cables, sat links...), and you deduce the approximate direction you need to route to.
As for mobility, you have a geographically fixed system. you inform it regularly of your current position. When someone want to contact you, the message goes to the fixed system, and then, to your mobile location.
Of course, those obvious ideas need some work before implementation, in term of routing algorithms on the sphere, trial and error about the most efficient way to advertize (and how far) obstacles and shortcuts, perhaps some net density metrics (the more node in a region, the more througput, but the more lattency (perhaps)), and usage scenarios for security, confidentiality, possibility or not to track mobile systems, logged/anonymous usge...
Not a problem of human condition. Some country have depassed the state of the States, where the enemy is part of the country management toolbox. The fact that the enemy change with the time is completely unimportant. Go and (re)read 1984, it is not only about Eurythmics and iPod.
note: I didn't bring Aunt Mildred into the conversation, so don't "you incensitive sod" me with your aunt Mildred, or because you are called Mildred and have a few nephews;).
Already there must be millions of self portraits taken at arms length (complete with double chins), countless pictures of Aunt Mildred (cut off at the knees) and just as many out of focus shots of everyday objects in the living rooms of new digital camera owners too lazy to move from the couch.
As the cost of photography and storage tends toward zero, it is not imaginable to think it will slow. You know the TV show where they show people having accident, filmed with a camescope, by some bystander ?
It could not work if millions of people where not filming absolutly anything. With photo, it will be more so, and even if we don't get gargoyles yet, millions, billions, and more photos will be taken, that are not intented as photo as we know it.
And frankly, Aunt Mildred is cut off at the knees, but what was the justification to take the picture in the first place ?
Before asking people to learn how to photograph, you must first teach them good taste.
I grew up on Windows machines, using the ol' ctrl-c to copy and ctrl-v to paste.
Those are not old. Those are a copy of Cmd-C Cmd-V from the Mac.
The original old shortcuts for Microsoft Windows are Ctrl+Ins and Shift+Ins. And when I'm on a Microsoft Windows station, my fingers are doing them without me thinking. But alas, less and less application support them, nowadays.
If Microsoft managed to change, in the course of a few years, such a fundamental characteristic of the UI, why X could not ?
The current system of manually counting votes is not the equivalent of 'open source'. It is a system designed to deliver a provable result, even if the different actors during the vote and the counting don't trust each other. Going voting machine move the trust relationship, to some technical system managed by (paid or volunter) experts.
And now, some gramatical questions from someone who is not a native english/american speaker:
When you ear about thinking machines, do you think of: - machine that help to think or - machine that think ? (without speaking of an old company of the 90) When you ear about voting machines, do you think of: - machine that help to vote or - machine that vote ?
Personnaly, I could be interested if: - it does firewire - it can be used as an external hard drive - it is compatible with iTunes on the mac - the sound quality, with 192 bps MP3, is good - I don't have to reencode my music (mp3 and some ogg) to another format
One can say that only the iPod is iTunes compatible, but if MicroSoft promise more choice, for me, it means choosing another player to work with iTunes.
Diesel is difficult to clean, because combustion is often incomplete, but recent cars with particules filters are quite clean (in Europe, where diesel is a reality, even for small/medium cars).
Now, for biodiesel, you have to remember that all the carbon you release in the atmosphere was not captured by plants eons ago, but just a few month ago. So, replacing petrol by biodiesel result in no increase, but a stabilization of CO2 level.
1) if MS is going to lose their trademark on Windows (that they should never get in the first place) it is time to be clear about what we are discussing.
2) running on a node of a cluster is not the same as running the cluster.
Slashdot Mirror
And not once you realize many tables have multiple nullable columns. Joining so many tables together would get ridiculous quickly.
In what normal form ?
When you look to 5nf, tables have 3 columns : (id, key, value) All the flexibility you want, but don't think SQL.
Date advocate no Null, but he also advocate something else in place of SQL. Tutorial D, in fact.
...software patents are bad.
And as the recent case between sun and kodak demonstrated, patents are much more dangerous in the hands of those outside the industry, because there is no way to retaliate with the same weapons.
Imagine mister Bill create some company with his own money, like he did with Corbis for pictures. Let call this company "Billy et ses tueurs".
"Billy et ses tueurs" then buy a lot of software patents, and then selectively enforce them again linux (and even if not selectively, the fact there is a patent is enough to pose problems to OSS).
How can Novell use patents to defeat "Billy et ses tueurs" ? Look at the damages patents only companies are making.
They say that
1)the number small percentage of linux shipped system result in
2)a smaller percentage of installed base,
3)so somebody must buy linux box to run windows.
I think they obtained from somewhere the two first facts, and deduced the third.
Let's use some numbers:
It is a small island. The year start.
There is an installed base of 900.
A linux company deliver 10 boxes.
At the same time, a Windows company deliver 90 boxes.
So a 10 % shipping rate (10/(10+90))result in an installed base of 1%(10/(900+(10+90))). For sure, those linux users are pirate.
The only reasonable conclusion is that manipulating percentage in public is just that : manipulation.
it's not perfect, but I regulary have 20 to 30 tabs open at once, and i still manage. In fact, i think i develop a mental model of the horizontal position of the tabs linked to the opening order, having the icons only as reminders. ;-) is an intra browser exposé, where, with the press of one key, all tabs become small windows, you choose one, and then they become tabs again.
What could be cool (warning : it is obvious, and discussed in public. No patent allowed
Even if you devellop a 5 channel, 256kHz 64 bit of precision format, what is the quality of your source ?
how can you hope better sound from old tapes 50 years old ?
any site that use favicon.ico will have it's tab using the icon, at least in Camino and firefox
Alternative 4. Make a good joke about the comment you have chosen.
I found that the +5 funny is the easiest way to go up quick (if you can be funny, of course).
Estimate : will this post be modded funny, or interresting ?
It's all we don't like : no tweaking, no property of the hard, pay per use...
...
...
Can customers upload their own ringtones?
No. There’s an effort by the industry to make people pay for the content on these devices.
Even though we’re 1 percent of T-Mobile’s installed base right now, we generate 10 percent of their data revenue.
What about allowing developers to create user-installable applications for the Sidekick?
Not user-installable. We’re a gatekeeper in that sense. they use our developer kit, they reach an agreement with us, and then through us they can have access to our user base.
SQL should not be "as implemented by x or y". And decades of optimization is perhaps not the best. Decades ago, RAM was much more costly. Datatype where usually much poorer(even if I have problem with the principle ofBLOBs).
Premature optimization is the root of all evil (it's not from me ;). Sound mathematical principles, without shortcuts and exceptions, seem much more interresting in the long run.
let progress...
We are now certain they are fake.
Nous avons acquis la certitude: We acquired certainty (word to word, not very elegant, I agree)-> The speaker is now convinced. This is the opinion of the speaker, not some scientific discovery. It has some weight, but it is still an opinion.
We have discovered with certainty : for me, your formulation is ambigous. I feel some research, but the "with certainty" breaks the effect. We have discovered, or we have not. But "discovering with certainty" make suspicion arise about the certainty of the discovery.
Now... my english/american is not perfect, so I can imagine subtelties that are not present.
http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do? reference=SPEECH/01/275&format=HTML&aged=1&languag e=EN&guiLanguage=en
too lazy to put the correct link...
important facts:
date: 11/06/2001 (not iso, so don't know if june or november)
subject: speech from Mario Monti, European Commissioner for Competition Policy
extract: Another area where the Commission is giving direct follow-up to the concerns of individual consumers is that of Digital Video Disc pricing. We have received a significant number of complaints from private citizens on this matter. In each case, the complaint is virtually the same namely, that DVD prices are significantly higher in the EU than in the USA.
Whilst the prices of many products are higher in the EU than in the US, the major film production companies in agreement with the major equipment manufacturers have introduced a worldwide regional coding system for DVDs. Under this system, a DVD sold in one of the world's six regions cannot be played on a DVD player sold in another region. The thrust of the complaints that we have been receiving is that such a system allows the film production companies to charge higher DVD prices in the EU because EU consumers are artificially prevented from purchasing DVDs from overseas.
As a direct result of these complaints, we have initiated contacts with the major film production companies. We will examine closely what they have to say. Whilst I naturally recognise the legitimate protection which is conferred by intellectual property rights, it is important that, if the complaints are confirmed on the facts, we do not permit a system which provides greater protection than the intellectual property rights themselves, where such a system could be used as a smoke-screen to allow firms to maintain artificially high prices or to deny choice to consumers.
My services have had contacts on this issue with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, which has also sought clarifications from the major film production companies. I have noted with great interest the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's conclusion that the regional coding system imposes a 'severe restriction of choice' on consumers. The Commission will need to determine whether there are similarly negative effects in the EU which could fall within the scope of the competition rules.
concrete actions : none to my knowledge as of 3 years later
the point I made is:
1) Politicians always (in real democracy) want to appear as the champion of the middle position, balancing interest of everybody.
2) I believe in some IP^H^H temporary restriction of rights of others concerning use of imaterial informations, but not what we can see now.
3) If I advocate my position, against big right holder, the middle ground move toward more IP.
4) So I advocate no IP at all, and perhaps, the equilibrium will move in the right direction.
... as long as such control promote the progress of arts and sciences.
Considering that you are inundated by advertisement about medias, advertisement going straight into the brain of millions of people, those media become part of the culture. And as such, they should be NOT protected. (let's communicate an extreme point of view, and then, the pre-DMCA situation can be presented as a balanced middle ground.)
if you go to computer voting, it is necessary, but not sufficient to be open source. :
As for your check, how can you verify, in the voting booth, that the program running is really the one in the rom, and not one in microcontroller memory
you know, we just changed the controller from XX12587 with the XX12588, all the rest is the same. We just forget to tell you the XX12588 start from internal rom, and you checked the external one
As an european, I'm very happy with the move,( if it is not only for rebates (and having read some time ago about some administratives people, there seems to be a real will to use OSS),) because it will oblige France to stand strongly against abusive software patents.
I'm quite convinced that this sort of network need geographical addressing, not IP.
you know your position and the position of your near neighbours, you know the small obstacles near you (the forest) and the small shortcut near you,
bigger obstacles and bigger shortcuts a little farther away, and you know the big obstacles far away (the oceans...) and the big shortcuts (cables, sat links...), and you deduce the approximate direction you need to route to.
As for mobility, you have a geographically fixed system. you inform it regularly of your current position. When someone want to contact you, the message goes to the fixed system, and then, to your mobile location.
Of course, those obvious ideas need some work before implementation, in term of routing algorithms on the sphere, trial and error about the most efficient way to advertize (and how far) obstacles and shortcuts, perhaps some net density metrics (the more node in a region, the more througput, but the more lattency (perhaps)), and usage scenarios for security, confidentiality, possibility or not to track mobile systems, logged/anonymous usge...
IDNRTFA, but if it say "novel approach" and "seemingly unrelated field", it will obviously be unobvious to an overworked patent examiner.
Not a problem of human condition. Some country have depassed the state of the States, where the enemy is part of the country management toolbox.
The fact that the enemy change with the time is completely unimportant.
Go and (re)read 1984, it is not only about Eurythmics and iPod.
see Zuse article on Wikipedia.
Already there must be millions of self portraits taken at arms length (complete with double chins), countless pictures of Aunt Mildred (cut off at the knees) and just as many out of focus shots of everyday objects in the living rooms of new digital camera owners too lazy to move from the couch.
As the cost of photography and storage tends toward zero, it is not imaginable to think it will slow. You know the TV show where they show people having accident, filmed with a camescope, by some bystander ?
It could not work if millions of people where not filming absolutly anything. With photo, it will be more so, and even if we don't get gargoyles yet, millions, billions, and more photos will be taken, that are not intented as photo as we know it.
And frankly, Aunt Mildred is cut off at the knees, but what was the justification to take the picture in the first place ?
Before asking people to learn how to photograph, you must first teach them good taste.
Those are not old. Those are a copy of Cmd-C Cmd-V from the Mac.
The original old shortcuts for Microsoft Windows are Ctrl+Ins and Shift+Ins. And when I'm on a Microsoft Windows station, my fingers are doing them without me thinking. But alas, less and less application support them, nowadays.
If Microsoft managed to change, in the course of a few years, such a fundamental characteristic of the UI, why X could not ?
The current system of manually counting votes is not the equivalent of 'open source'.
:
: :
It is a system designed to deliver a provable result, even if the different actors during the vote and the counting don't trust each other.
Going voting machine move the trust relationship, to some technical system managed by (paid or volunter) experts.
And now, some gramatical questions from someone who is not a native english/american speaker
When you ear about thinking machines, do you think of
- machine that help to think or
- machine that think ?
(without speaking of an old company of the 90)
When you ear about voting machines, do you think of
- machine that help to vote or
- machine that vote ?
will it be PC & Mac ?
:
Personnaly, I could be interested if
- it does firewire
- it can be used as an external hard drive
- it is compatible with iTunes on the mac
- the sound quality, with 192 bps MP3, is good
- I don't have to reencode my music (mp3 and some ogg) to another format
One can say that only the iPod is iTunes compatible, but if MicroSoft promise more choice, for me, it means choosing another player to work with iTunes.
Diesel is difficult to clean, because combustion is often incomplete, but recent cars with particules filters are quite clean (in Europe, where diesel is a reality, even for small/medium cars).
Now, for biodiesel, you have to remember that all the carbon you release in the atmosphere was not captured by plants eons ago, but just a few month ago. So, replacing petrol by biodiesel result in no increase, but a stabilization of CO2 level.
in theory, Microsoft Windows could run on them.
1) if MS is going to lose their trademark on Windows (that they should never get in the first place) it is time to be clear about what we are discussing.
2) running on a node of a cluster is not the same as running the cluster.