English is such an illogical and exception-infested language, it is really ironic that most of the computers in the world use it to interface with people.
Very true... but not an excuse for supposedly educated native speakers to screw it up again and again and again.
Use a wide variety of useful applications, or
Play good games, or
Watch or edit video, or
Use any hardware that was made in the past two years, or
Use a good office suite.
As a programmer, I find that the applications useful to me (text editors, compilers, shell tools) are better suited to the Linux environment.
Linux has given me much less trouble on brand-new hardware than the various MS products.
As for games, well, there's no rule against dual booting.
Anyone who has designed a site and its database in such a way that generating a page requires 16 queries should not taken seriously when conducting a database performance test.
Nonsense. One page may well be doing some extremely complicated processing, which has evolved over many iterations of the code - it's not hard to imagine that such a page could have 16 queries in it, especially if it's being written in an oo style. Sure, in an ivory tower you could spend days / weeks refactoring and cut down the number of queries a bit, but computer time is now significantly cheaper than programmer time.
If a tele-fucker calls you up on a cellular line, YOU CAN SUE THEM. If they refuse to pay up, the FCC can fine them, something along the lines of $50k.
How? It's happened to me, and I'd love to get my pound of flesh out of the bastards.
The "how will they know what song I was listening" problem is a relatively simple integration task. Goes like this...
Service provider (such as *CD) contracts with one of a couple providers of radio info - BDS or Real Networks.
BDS is super expensive but has most big stations in most big markets, while Real networks have information only about stations that are already broadcasting over the net.
Both providers tell you, for each song played,
name of song
artist
album
timestamp
radio station
All this info goes in your database as it becomes available.
When a user visits your site, you present her with a list of the stations in her location. The location is ideally known from their previous visit, or it can be guessed based on where the call originated from, etc.
The user picks the station from the list, and is told the last n songs played on that station, and can keep requesting the previous n songs.
Once the user finds the song they're interested in, they can buy the CD, buy a ticket to the artist's concert, buy a tshirt, blah blah blah.
Both are using the power of the state to micro manage individual behavior
Whereas the Republican policy is to use the power of the state to enrich their rich supporters. Great if you're a CEO or major stockholder, not so good for everyone else.
I don't like to sound so angry over money and taxes, but I'm disgrunted that I have relatives who could really use a bit of the 52% of my salary that the government is taking out of my checks.
If we had a fairer government, your poor relatives wouldn't need your money, because they'd have health care, living wages, etc. - PLUS those poor unlucky enough to lack a wealthy relative would ALSO benefit.
I for one am unhappy with my "full featured" driver. After two weeks of trial and error, the only feature I've found in NVdriver is the ability to crash my system. And since the drivers are closed, I have no reason to believe that these problems will be fixed...
My main reason for having a console is that I dig being able to kick back on the couch (after a long day of sitting in front of a computer) and play some mindless games. Sure, there are various living-room-computer setups, but I haven't seen one that made me want to shelf my psx, which can be kicked out of the way, plugged / unplugged without a hassle, and hasn't once barfed on me.
What we need in North America is a law that allows personal users to sue hackers who portscan your computer. Do you really think they'd be as eager to fuck around with your system after that?
Somehow, I don't think that would deter the danish students who try to break into my company's systems...
Ususally, it is some bullsh*t like, "Oh, I took a vacation for three months."
Excuse me, but why is this necessarily bullshit? If somebody's working 80 hour weeks and making buckets of money, they might well want to take some well-deserved time off of the rat race.
Of course, if you know that they're lying, then I'd agree with you 100%
What benefits are there to Linux that don't already exist on a Sun?
Plenty. If you're used to developing on / administrating the Linux way, Solaris is different enough to slow things down a bit. Linux also seems to perform quite a bit better than Solaris on most of the older Sparcs (I don't believe this applies to Ultrasparcs, though).
Considering SourceForge's Terms Of Service agreement, you'de be insane to host your project there. Youre essentially giving up your right to own that what you've created.
Naive question: where in the TOS does SourceForge get the rights to your creation? I just skimmed throught the "Content" section, and the only relevant section was the 6th paragraph, which applies only to "text or data entered into and stored by publicly-accessible site features such as message boards and bug trackers" and "publicly-availabe statistical content. ..generated by the site to monitor and display project activity".
I take this to mean that you can't claim patches submitted via Sourceforge to be your own property; and since whatever work in question is presumably under an Open Source license, SourceForge's ability to "turn around and sell your work without giving you a cent" is the same as any other group's (Red Hat, for example).
It does seem that the TOS is intended for pieces of code rather than artistic content, so I'm not entirely clear how the TOS would work with a project such as propaganda. Even so, there doesn't seem to be anything that would give SF ownership of your work.
Only likely to happen if you can convince your interviewer that someone else is responsible for the moosehead site rejecting Mozilla users by telling them to upgrade to netscape / IE 3.0 or greater...
Bzzzt! Try again. Logged in users get dynamically generated story lists (which are up-to-the-minute), while non-logged in users get a cached page that updates every so often.
Defendants, on the other hand, are adherents of a movement that believes that information should be available without charge to anyone clever enough to break into the computer systems or data storage media in which it is located.
While there certainly are those on the DeCCS side who may come off this way, it misses the issue by a mile. DeCCS doesn't "break into. ..computer systems", it plays back media! Nothing in DeCCS makes it easier to illegally use DVDs, unless viewing DVDs is in and of itself illegal in some way (now I guess it is).
For people paying attention to the trial, is this misunderstanding due to a bad job by the defense lawyers, or is the judge just an idiot?
Postgres doesn't have any in-the-database way to split indices and data across two drives, a major shortcoming for those with huge databases in particular (and something that will change in the future).
I was just looking into this a few days ago and became briefly alarmed - but it's really not that big a deal; if you're using RAID, this is taken care of you by the RAID hw/sw. If you're not, then you can simply move files from pg's data directory to another drive, and symlink to them. This allows for tuning with a fine degree of granularity (figure out exactly what table / index / etc. goes exactly where) - seems like the main downside is that you need to shut down the db before relocating files.
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When you consider how many high-volume web sites are run by farms of uni-processor web servers, you'll start to see the point.
See for yourself ... d elete&sektion=1&apropos=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkg_
Very true... but not an excuse for supposedly educated native speakers to screw it up again and again and again.
That's one of the funniest things I've seen on slashdot in weeks!
More easily understood source code is one of the reasons Hurd won't be successful? Must be a rough world you live in.
Use a wide variety of useful applications, or
Play good games, or
Watch or edit video, or
Use any hardware that was made in the past two years, or
Use a good office suite.
As a programmer, I find that the applications useful to me (text editors, compilers, shell tools) are better suited to the Linux environment.
Linux has given me much less trouble on brand-new hardware than the various MS products.
As for games, well, there's no rule against dual booting.
This ends today's feeding of the trolls.
Apparently not as a financial instrument.
Which suits me fine, I've always been more interested in Linux as something that made my computer more useful.
Nonsense. One page may well be doing some extremely complicated processing, which has evolved over many iterations of the code - it's not hard to imagine that such a page could have 16 queries in it, especially if it's being written in an oo style. Sure, in an ivory tower you could spend days / weeks refactoring and cut down the number of queries a bit, but computer time is now significantly cheaper than programmer time.
How? It's happened to me, and I'd love to get my pound of flesh out of the bastards.
BDS is super expensive but has most big stations in most big markets, while Real networks have information only about stations that are already broadcasting over the net.
All this info goes in your database as it becomes available.
Whereas the Republican policy is to use the power of the state to enrich their rich supporters. Great if you're a CEO or major stockholder, not so good for everyone else.
If we had a fairer government, your poor relatives wouldn't need your money, because they'd have health care, living wages, etc. - PLUS those poor unlucky enough to lack a wealthy relative would ALSO benefit.
were that this were actually true...
Because I've tried NVidia's drivers on 3 different machine / card combos, and all they do is crash...
Are you suggesting that a month economy would be more profitable? Or, perhaps, a day economy?
I for one am unhappy with my "full featured" driver. After two weeks of trial and error, the only feature I've found in NVdriver is the ability to crash my system. And since the drivers are closed, I have no reason to believe that these problems will be fixed...
My main reason for having a console is that I dig being able to kick back on the couch (after a long day of sitting in front of a computer) and play some mindless games. Sure, there are various living-room-computer setups, but I haven't seen one that made me want to shelf my psx, which can be kicked out of the way, plugged / unplugged without a hassle, and hasn't once barfed on me.
Somehow, I don't think that would deter the danish students who try to break into my company's systems...
Excuse me, but why is this necessarily bullshit? If somebody's working 80 hour weeks and making buckets of money, they might well want to take some well-deserved time off of the rat race.
Of course, if you know that they're lying, then I'd agree with you 100%
Plenty. If you're used to developing on / administrating the Linux way, Solaris is different enough to slow things down a bit. Linux also seems to perform quite a bit better than Solaris on most of the older Sparcs (I don't believe this applies to Ultrasparcs, though).
Naive question: where in the TOS does SourceForge get the rights to your creation? I just skimmed throught the "Content" section, and the only relevant section was the 6th paragraph, which applies only to "text or data entered into and stored by publicly-accessible site features such as message boards and bug trackers" and "publicly-availabe statistical content. .
I take this to mean that you can't claim patches submitted via Sourceforge to be your own property; and since whatever work in question is presumably under an Open Source license, SourceForge's ability to "turn around and sell your work without giving you a cent" is the same as any other group's (Red Hat, for example).
It does seem that the TOS is intended for pieces of code rather than artistic content, so I'm not entirely clear how the TOS would work with a project such as propaganda. Even so, there doesn't seem to be anything that would give SF ownership of your work.
So, what am I missing in the TOS?
Only likely to happen if you can convince your interviewer that someone else is responsible for the moosehead site rejecting Mozilla users by telling them to upgrade to netscape / IE 3.0 or greater...
Bzzzt! Try again. Logged in users get dynamically generated story lists (which are up-to-the-minute), while non-logged in users get a cached page that updates every so often.
Defendants, on the other hand, are adherents of a movement that believes that information should be available without charge to anyone clever enough to break into the computer systems or data storage media in which it is located.
While there certainly are those on the DeCCS side who may come off this way, it misses the issue by a mile. DeCCS doesn't "break into. .
For people paying attention to the trial, is this misunderstanding due to a bad job by the defense lawyers, or is the judge just an idiot?
I was just looking into this a few days ago and became briefly alarmed - but it's really not that big a deal; if you're using RAID, this is taken care of you by the RAID hw/sw. If you're not, then you can simply move files from pg's data directory to another drive, and symlink to them. This allows for tuning with a fine degree of granularity (figure out exactly what table / index / etc. goes exactly where) - seems like the main downside is that you need to shut down the db before relocating files.