Mandate all you want. If I have write access to my IM logs, I have access to doctor,modify, or fabricate them. Since this is the case, these should not be legal documents.
I work with a guy who used to work (as a contractor) for, um, a well-known cablE SPorts Network . His group was responsible for maintaining the code that populated the sports stats ticker that runs along the bottom of the screen, reporting the scores of various games. This data comes in from very disparate and non-standardized sources.
He has a couple war stories about how they would recompile code during the commercial breaks of a live broadcast!
Asimov postulated that robots would be humanoid because they would be relatively expensive, and would end up doing a lot of work humans would otherwise do. A small number of humanoid robots could operate the entire existing 'infrastructure' of existing dumb machines without retooling.
So instead of having a vacuum-bot and a dish-bot and clothes-bot and bathroom-bot, households would only need to have and maintain one expensive intelligent robot that would operate all the 'dumb' machines that we already have in the house.
Dumb machines would be plentiful, stupid, cheap, easy to maintain and/or disposable, and dedicated to specific purposes. These are the one's we already use. Smart machines -- robots -- would be relatively scarce, and more difficult amd expensive to maintain. Having them be "general purpose" where they could be used in various non-specialized areas will extend thier utility.
Additionally, if the humanoid robot ever broke, then a human could step into its place and scrub the toilet or wash the dishes with existing tools.
Read all of the Asimov robot books. They are incredible.
If anyone has noticed... one of the major areas of death/slashdotting of sites apart from bandwidth are php URL's... and/or mySQL queries (often on PHP URL's). I've not yet noticed many Perl-run pages that have been slashdotted so successfully as PHP.
PHP will run in just about any hosted environment. It is nearly ubiquitous in any shared hosting package.
Machines used in virtual hosting packages (in the < $50 price range) usually have the web server and the db on one machine with less than a GB of memory, and have upwards of a couple dozen or more sites running on the same machine.
For many, if not most, sites, especially the non-commercial sites, this is more than necessary. They can be incredibly complex and completely dynamic sites. Such is the power of PHP, it puts great power into meager hands.
In meager hands, however, one quickly runs out of resources.
Perl, on the other hand, and more specifically mod_perl, isn't usually in these virtual hosting packages. Why? Because mod_perl really gets into the the guts of apache, and anything really neat requires non-trivial modifications to the httpd.conf file. (not just an.htaccess file)
Sites that use mod_perl, then, usually have thier own dedicated machines, and in those cases will usually have _multiple_ machines dedicated to serving a site.
I think this may be the original. It has more text than what you posted. Maybe you got the 'edited' version? Couldn't read salon -- I have no subscription.
FWIW, I really like Drudge Report. He tends to sensationalize his headlines, but he gets stories quickly, and he uses a good share of international, non-US news links.
Yeah, but postgres doesn't have replication to speak of. We use postgres, but replication is a big missing element that we are looking to fill.
So whichever happens first -- postgres gets _good_ replication, or mysql gets stored procedures/triggers -- will probably determine which one leaps ahead of the other in terms of wide-spread adoption, especially as companies migrate from costly proprietary systems.
I think most of the Republican Party's core values are good, and would benefit this country, so voting Republican is a pragmatic decision to get those policies implemented.
Which of the "good core values" that you support have been implemented since you voted Republican?
Would it be:
The U.S. Patriot Act?
Massive subsidies to farmers?
Massive subsidies to the steel industry?
Expanding control over public education?
Federalization of the airport security industry?
Massive bailout of the airplane industry?
The debate-stifling "Campaign Finance Reform" act?
This is just off the top of my head.
Don't vote for Republicans for what they say, for against them for what they do.
If you keep doing the same thing you've always done, you going to keep getting the same resutlts you've always gotten -- Bigger government, more laws, more regulation, less freedom.
Tax "cuts" aside, Bush's proposed budget is the largest ever.
Slashdot Mirror
Mandate all you want. If I have write access to my IM logs, I have access to doctor,modify, or fabricate them. Since this is the case, these should not be legal documents.
The damn site is already slashdotted.
I work with a guy who used to work (as a contractor) for, um, a well-known cablE SPorts Network . His group was responsible for maintaining the code that populated the sports stats ticker that runs along the bottom of the screen, reporting the scores of various games. This data comes in from very disparate and non-standardized sources.
He has a couple war stories about how they would recompile code during the commercial breaks of a live broadcast!
How's that for pressure?!
Assuming managers are aware of what they're managing...
That's a BIIIIG assumption to make!
Hey, what was the last M$ or IBM software product, not being a clone?
Microsoft BOB.
Know those episodes of The Transformers where the Autobots and Decepticons had to work together to destroy a bigger evil?
You were supposed to reference the famous phrase "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." -- not an episode of Transformers.
A quick search did not turn up what said that first. I thought it was Sun-Tzu, but I'm not sure.
Transformers. Sheesh.
just cancel your account and create a new one every year or so. Make it a part of your spring cleaning.
Asimov postulated that robots would be humanoid because they would be relatively expensive, and would end up doing a lot of work humans would otherwise do. A small number of humanoid robots could operate the entire existing 'infrastructure' of existing dumb machines without retooling.
So instead of having a vacuum-bot and a dish-bot and clothes-bot and bathroom-bot, households would only need to have and maintain one expensive intelligent robot that would operate all the 'dumb' machines that we already have in the house.
Dumb machines would be plentiful, stupid, cheap, easy to maintain and/or disposable, and dedicated to specific purposes. These are the one's we already use. Smart machines -- robots -- would be relatively scarce, and more difficult amd expensive to maintain. Having them be "general purpose" where they could be used in various non-specialized areas will extend thier utility.
Additionally, if the humanoid robot ever broke, then a human could step into its place and scrub the toilet or wash the dishes with existing tools.
Read all of the Asimov robot books. They are incredible.
THIS IS NOT A CRASH. It's a recession. Even Alan Greenspan, the 20th time winner of the Most Boring Person Award, says so.
The national economy is in a recession.
Taken by itself, the tech industry is in a depression. A BIG depression.
I'm depressed.
The Forbin Project is not available on Netflix. Bummer.
If anyone has noticed... one of the major areas of death/slashdotting of sites apart from bandwidth are php URL's... and/or mySQL queries (often on PHP URL's). I've not yet noticed many Perl-run pages that have been slashdotted so successfully as PHP.
.htaccess file)
PHP will run in just about any hosted environment. It is nearly ubiquitous in any shared hosting package.
Machines used in virtual hosting packages (in the < $50 price range) usually have the web server and the db on one machine with less than a GB of memory, and have upwards of a couple dozen or more sites running on the same machine.
For many, if not most, sites, especially the non-commercial sites, this is more than necessary. They can be incredibly complex and completely dynamic sites. Such is the power of PHP, it puts great power into meager hands.
In meager hands, however, one quickly runs out of resources.
Perl, on the other hand, and more specifically mod_perl, isn't usually in these virtual hosting packages. Why? Because mod_perl really gets into the the guts of apache, and anything really neat requires non-trivial modifications to the httpd.conf file. (not just an
Sites that use mod_perl, then, usually have thier own dedicated machines, and in those cases will usually have _multiple_ machines dedicated to serving a site.
For instance, Slashdot is run using 10 different machines.
You'll have to stress test PHP vs. mod_perl on like hardware before drawing any conclusions
about slashdot-resistance.
Tremors -- best monster movie ever
THX 1138
Gattaca
Is it the developer who decide what the end-users needs are?
developer == end-user
I think this may be the original. It has more text than what you posted. Maybe you got the 'edited' version? Couldn't read salon -- I have no subscription.
FWIW, I really like Drudge Report. He tends to sensationalize his headlines, but he gets stories quickly, and he uses a good share of international, non-US news links.
Did you write that? It seems pretty good to be an off-the-cuff /. post. Do you have a url for the original?
Humans are not a commodity.
Can you prove that? Can you site corporate activity in the past 25 years that supports this statement?
[tongue-only-slightly-in-cheek]
Yeah, but postgres doesn't have replication to speak of. We use postgres, but replication is a big missing element that we are looking to fill.
So whichever happens first -- postgres gets _good_ replication, or mysql gets stored procedures/triggers -- will probably determine which one leaps ahead of the other in terms of wide-spread adoption, especially as companies migrate from costly proprietary systems.
Foreign keys -- Pass
Replication -- Pass
Triggers -- FAIL
SO close.....
As soon as this page gets indexed by google, it will cease to be so.
I think that by slightly modifying the search to be:
"placating counterbombardment -googlewhack" might still qualify as a success.
Or, you could instruct google not to index your page about googlewhacking.
I'm going to pronounce it G N U Linux, not Geenoo Linux, which sounds wierd.
I've always pronounced it Gah-New.
I think most of the Republican Party's core values are good, and would benefit this country, so voting Republican is a pragmatic decision to get those policies implemented.
Which of the "good core values" that you support have been implemented since you voted Republican?
Would it be:
The U.S. Patriot Act?
Massive subsidies to farmers?
Massive subsidies to the steel industry?
Expanding control over public education?
Federalization of the airport security industry?
Massive bailout of the airplane industry?
The debate-stifling "Campaign Finance Reform" act?
This is just off the top of my head.
Don't vote for Republicans for what they say, for against them for what they do.
If you keep doing the same thing you've always done, you going to keep getting the same resutlts you've always gotten -- Bigger government, more laws, more regulation, less freedom.
Tax "cuts" aside, Bush's proposed budget is the largest ever.
Flying Cars! Moon Base! It's only "ten years away."
Why did they choose sametime over jabber?
Crap this makes me question the legitimacy of trademarks as much as I question patents.
What do you call a dried grape? It's call a raisin. It's in the dictionary.
What do you call a dried cranberry? You can't call it a Craisin, because that word is a trademark of Ocean Spray.
Why isn't raisin trademarked? Legal fiat is getting ridiculous.
I think once mainstream people understand that big businesses use linux, lots of it's out-of-the-way appeal will be lessened.
By then, it won't matter anymore.