Only 9% feel there is anything wrong with their actions.
So what are we supposed to take from this ? What percentage of shoplifters really think they're doing something wrong (I know some think they're forced to do it, or that no one is really being hurt) ?
What percentage of heroin users think there's anything wrong with their actions ?
What percentage of the 9/11 terrorists thought there's anything wrong with their actions ?
What percentage of Timothy McVeigh's philosophical brethren think anything's wrong with his actions ?
What percentage of NAMBLA members think they're doing anything wrong.
Hey, this isn't a flame. It's just that when someone trots out an obviously meaningless statement, they need to be called out. Just because people don't think that what they do isn't wrong, doesn't mean it isn't - or is.
Is this a joke ? Forget, for a moment, the conclusions we're supposed to draw from 1) the observation that MySQL may run a lot of websites (this is about as relevant as pointing out that Hyundais outsell Ferraris - doesn't mean that Hyundais are superior vehicles), and 2) a lot of commercial websites might run MySQL (also about as relevant as pointing out that companies buy more Ford Focuses for their fleets than Hummers - doesn't mean the Focus is a 'better' vehicle than the Hummer).
mSQL is about as far away from providing the feature set of MySQL as MySQL is from providng the feature set of an Oracle or PostgreSQL - which is to say, worlds away. Sure, MAYBE mSQL is the tool for a particular job - but then we have to ask, are flat files a threat to the mSQLs and MySQLs - hell, the Oracles- of the world ? After all, flat files are free and we know they're in wide use in lots of companies.
Can we get at least one entry to represent slashdot?
Sure ! I'll just donate my working prototype on behalf of this worthy cause. After all, I don't need a million bucks that badly... I'm sure VA Linux/Slashdot can use the money more than I can.
so he finds himself in a Los Angeles apartment with a cranky soon-to-be-ex girlfriend and a copy of MAME,
Right here is where the story would lose me. It is nigh impossible that some nerd with MAME whose mission is to seek out this one mythical video game is going to have a girlfriend in the first place.
If it were a movie I'd be screaming at the screen.
In a business, time is money, so Mandrake's quick and easy installation is a huge plus point.
Are people at companies with more than a few machines actually still *doing* traditional installs at companies, instead of doing single installs, then duping the drives, or using something like Ghost ? If time is money, then time spent doing an install is a huge waste.
Good luck shoehorning the ad-hoc formatting and presentation requirements of documents produced by every-day users into a style sheet. Tags like and are frowned upon in HTML by some who say such formatting information should always be only specified in a stylesheet, but the minute a company releases a browser that DOESN'T let people do the above is the minute that company signs its death warrant.
Similarly, I cannot envision a modern word-processor for general purpose use enforcing the "formatting-and-presentation-goes-ONLY-in-style sheets" dogma.
Why hasn't it advanced much compared to just about every other technology in a laptop ? To me, low battery life and low weight are THE most important characteristics of any laptop, I might use, but we had laptops running for 2-3 hours 5-7 years ago, which is still where most laptops are at. Here it seems the Centrino ekes out its long life through advances in the CPU, not through better batteries.
A recent Sony Vaio notebook I just got, while a lovely machine, lasts *maybe* 1 1/2 hours when all the consumption-related options are turned way down. Plug in the wifi card and it's borderline useless.
So why hasn't battery life advanced significantly ? Are we already at a theoretical limit of battery performance ? Or is battery performance improving, but just managing to keep pace with ever-increasing power-consumption ?
I played this game when it came out for OS/2 - for those who don't know, Stardock started out as a strictly OS/2 shop- and I was surprised at how bad it was, given the accolades it was receiving, and how it seems to always top certain game lists. It was, to be as charitable as possible, a weak ripoff of Civilization, set in space.
The only theory I could come up with was that as one of the only native OS/2 games on the market, all the OS/2 fanatics/chauvinists had to buy it and had to convince themselves it was a good game to maintain internal consistency. It wasn't a good game.
Am I going to buy this game because it isn't copy-protected ? Nope. I might buy the game if people whose opinions I trust say it is a good game. If I happen to feel strongly about copy-protection, maybe I would restrict myself to good games that happen to fit with my philosophy.
Yesterday, there was an article about the/. effect and most posters seemed to be arguing that/. should not be liable for/. effect-related charges, on the grounds that if you have a website, you're asking for traffic for the world, and that/. should in no way be responsible for notification of the/.'ed website.
Yet when it comes to spam, most posters here are prepared to swing the heaviest hammer they can find at supposed offenders. But I wonder whether this is hypocritical.
Let's consider the parallels:
email and websites under consideration are both available to the Net public at large
both spam and the/. effect may be unsolicited. While some sites may seek exposure on/., certainly many did not.
both spam and the/. effect can be great inconveniences, but the/. effect can force the victim to incur huge, one-time charges - at least spam costs are absorbable for the average little guy.
there is no good way to opt-out of spam, and no good way to opt-out of the/. effect
spammers and/. would probably both claim it is beyond the scope of their responsibilities to check whether their targets are willing/able to handle increased load due to their activities.
spam companies make money indirectly from inconveniencing their victims, because they provide some of them with useful information (people do buy things from spammers after all)./. makes whatever money it makes from/.'ing its victims by using the/.'ed website provide content for its own benefit.
Is this a classic case of "do what I say, not what I do". ?
a product is always greater than the sum of it's parts.
Let's see...
1 * -2 = -2 1 + -2 = -1
Last I checked, -2 -1..
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It's interesting how bullying by people who are geeks is funny, when the same sort of activity by jocks is decried. Methinks if you had been a jock, you would have been bullying the geeks yourself. As it is, you just had to wait until you were in a position of strength, possibly if only via your anonymity. I'd lay a bet you wouldn't dare to do it to their face.
Mean behavior is mean behavior. If it really tortured and hurt you then, you ought not to participate in it now.
Sun also will continue to offer its traditional per-CPU pricing model for its Sun ONE stack and Solaris, Schwartz said.
Since they're now evidently offering companies a greater choice in how they're going to get their product, there is a very big difference between what they're doing and what MS is trying to do. As I understood it, MS was offering NO choice as to pricing model, which was made more onerous by the great leverage MS has over its customers as a result of limited choice in the Windows world.
The fact that Sun customers will have a choice of pricing model means Sun's not trying to bulldoze anyone, and should be praised instead of vilified as the poster tries to do, since subscription plans can make very good sense for some customers. Extending the range of choices is never a bad thing as long as the set of choices always includes the choices you had before.
Apple's market share...More like 5%. But I'd venture a guess that with OSX converting Linux users left and right that it'd be around 6-8%
Well now. In the best case scenario, with 100% of Linux users converting to OSX, this would mean that Linux users would constitute a market share of 1-3 %. I just cannot believe that even as many as 1% of all users are primarily using Linux.
You haven't heard of it because it's a Canadian magazine, which I doubt had much if any American circulation. I only know about it because I'm Canadian and would occasionally find a copy in a doctor's lobby or something. Even in Canada, the magazine was never as important or well-read as Wired, or Business 2.0, so why the closing of this magazine rates a story on Slashdot is beyond me.
They decline to name the commercial OSes. In a world where DBMS makers often refuse to let reviewers disclose performance benchmarks, could this be because no company like Sun is going to disclose the source code for their OS so that some company can go and run a comparison of the quality of their code against their competitors ?
As for Linux beating one of two "special purpose" networking products, the flip siding of beating one of two is that one of two of the commercial OSes was superior to Linux.
He found that particular word "bursts" could indeed be linked to important events at the time the speeches were delivered.
Does anyone else find this painfully obvious ? Certainly you wouldn't expect to hear the word "computer" much in FDR's state of the union addresses; just as you wouldn't expect to hear "icebox" in GWB's addresses.
The idea isn't as revolutionary as the author makes it out to be. People have been searching for terms in literature and using counts as indices of "importance" for a long time. Just to cite one example, researchers commonly use citation indexes to find out which fields are/were "hot".
Except that Google already has the de-facto capability of rapidly searching as many weblogs as they care to. Sure, it takes long to spider them across the web, but it takes a long time to spider damn well near every single page in the world.
As for how long it will be before we can do this in "real time", this all depends on what your definition of "real time" is. If you're happy with doing a few thousand blogs and getting results back in a few minutes, since at most only a few pages change on the aveage blog a day, I'd say any decent Perl guy could do that for you now.
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Only 9% feel there is anything wrong with their actions.
So what are we supposed to take from this ? What percentage of shoplifters really think they're doing something wrong (I know some think they're forced to do it, or that no one is really being hurt) ?
What percentage of heroin users think there's anything wrong with their actions ?
What percentage of the 9/11 terrorists thought there's anything wrong with their actions ?
What percentage of Timothy McVeigh's philosophical brethren think anything's wrong with his actions ?
What percentage of NAMBLA members think they're doing anything wrong.
Hey, this isn't a flame. It's just that when someone trots out an obviously meaningless statement, they need to be called out. Just because people don't think that what they do isn't wrong, doesn't mean it isn't - or is.
no mention of PostgreSQL or mSQL,
Is this a joke ? Forget, for a moment, the conclusions we're supposed to draw from 1) the observation that MySQL may run a lot of websites (this is about as relevant as pointing out that Hyundais outsell Ferraris - doesn't mean that Hyundais are superior vehicles), and 2) a lot of commercial websites might run MySQL (also about as relevant as pointing out that companies buy more Ford Focuses for their fleets than Hummers - doesn't mean the Focus is a 'better' vehicle than the Hummer).
mSQL is about as far away from providing the feature set of MySQL as MySQL is from providng the feature set of an Oracle or PostgreSQL - which is to say, worlds away. Sure, MAYBE mSQL is the tool for a particular job - but then we have to ask, are flat files a threat to the mSQLs and MySQLs - hell, the Oracles- of the world ? After all, flat files are free and we know they're in wide use in lots of companies.
Can we get at least one entry to represent slashdot?
Sure ! I'll just donate my working prototype on behalf of this worthy cause. After all, I don't need a million bucks that badly... I'm sure VA Linux/Slashdot can use the money more than I can.
I think Microsoft has it right here.
Are you sure you're at the right website ?
so he finds himself in a Los Angeles apartment with a cranky soon-to-be-ex girlfriend and a copy of MAME,
Right here is where the story would lose me. It is nigh impossible that some nerd with MAME whose mission is to seek out this one mythical video game is going to have a girlfriend in the first place.
If it were a movie I'd be screaming at the screen.
Just wait until I've installed 9.0 and gotten everything working. 9.1 will come out the week after that.
Just wait until I've installed 9.0 and gotten everything sorted out. Then you can bet 9.1 will be out the next week.
I've found that these -devel.rpm's and their dependencies are quite equally distributed across ALL 3 DARN CDs!
Why not just ftp over to a mirror, mget *-devel*.rpm, then rpm -i *-devel*.rpm ??
In a business, time is money, so Mandrake's quick and easy installation is a huge plus point.
Are people at companies with more than a few machines actually still *doing* traditional installs at companies, instead of doing single installs, then duping the drives, or using something like Ghost ? If time is money, then time spent doing an install is a huge waste.
Formatting and presentation goes in style sheets.
Good luck shoehorning the ad-hoc formatting and presentation requirements of documents produced by every-day users into a style sheet. Tags like and are frowned upon in HTML by some who say such formatting information should always be only specified in a stylesheet, but the minute a company releases a browser that DOESN'T let people do the above is the minute that company signs its death warrant.
Similarly, I cannot envision a modern word-processor for general purpose use enforcing the "formatting-and-presentation-goes-ONLY-in-style sheets" dogma.
Why hasn't it advanced much compared to just about every other technology in a laptop ? To me, low battery life and low weight are THE most important characteristics of any laptop, I might use, but we had laptops running for 2-3 hours 5-7 years ago, which is still where most laptops are at. Here it seems the Centrino ekes out its long life through advances in the CPU, not through better batteries.
A recent Sony Vaio notebook I just got, while a lovely machine, lasts *maybe* 1 1/2 hours when all the consumption-related options are turned way down. Plug in the wifi card and it's borderline useless.
So why hasn't battery life advanced significantly ? Are we already at a theoretical limit of battery performance ? Or is battery performance improving, but just managing to keep pace with ever-increasing power-consumption ?
I played this game when it came out for OS/2 - for those who don't know, Stardock started out as a strictly OS/2 shop- and I was surprised at how bad it was, given the accolades it was receiving, and how it seems to always top certain game lists. It was, to be as charitable as possible, a weak ripoff of Civilization, set in space.
The only theory I could come up with was that as one of the only native OS/2 games on the market, all the OS/2 fanatics/chauvinists had to buy it and had to convince themselves it was a good game to maintain internal consistency. It wasn't a good game.
Am I going to buy this game because it isn't copy-protected ? Nope. I might buy the game if people whose opinions I trust say it is a good game. If I happen to feel strongly about copy-protection, maybe I would restrict myself to good games that happen to fit with my philosophy.
Yet when it comes to spam, most posters here are prepared to swing the heaviest hammer they can find at supposed offenders. But I wonder whether this is hypocritical.
Let's consider the parallels:
Is this a classic case of "do what I say, not what I do". ?
Is the next Andy Rooney-type commentator going to be a /.er?
Maybe the first will be Internet "rock star" Jon Katz ? He is nearly as relevant as Rooney.
Lottery...def 1. A tax on people who suck at math.
I hope, for consistency's sake, you don't have any insurance policies.
a product is always greater than the sum of it's parts.
Let's see...
1 * -2 = -2
1 + -2 = -1
Last I checked, -2 -1..
It's interesting how bullying by people who are geeks is funny, when the same sort of activity by jocks is decried. Methinks if you had been a jock, you would have been bullying the geeks yourself. As it is, you just had to wait until you were in a position of strength, possibly if only via your anonymity. I'd lay a bet you wouldn't dare to do it to their face.
Mean behavior is mean behavior. If it really tortured and hurt you then, you ought not to participate in it now.
Sun also will continue to offer its traditional per-CPU pricing model for its Sun ONE stack and Solaris, Schwartz said.
Since they're now evidently offering companies a greater choice in how they're going to get their product, there is a very big difference between what they're doing and what MS is trying to do. As I understood it, MS was offering NO choice as to pricing model, which was made more onerous by the great leverage MS has over its customers as a result of limited choice in the Windows world.
The fact that Sun customers will have a choice of pricing model means Sun's not trying to bulldoze anyone, and should be praised instead of vilified as the poster tries to do, since subscription plans can make very good sense for some customers. Extending the range of choices is never a bad thing as long as the set of choices always includes the choices you had before.
Apple's market share...More like 5%. But I'd venture a guess that with OSX converting Linux users left and right that it'd be around 6-8%
Well now. In the best case scenario, with 100% of Linux users converting to OSX, this would mean that Linux users would constitute a market share of 1-3 %. I just cannot believe that even as many as 1% of all users are primarily using Linux.
These articles are almost as silly as the old argument that increasing S/N ratios on Usenet are killing the Internet.
Well, decreasing S/N ratios on Usenet may not have killed the Internet, but they have gone a long way to killing Usenet...
You haven't heard of it because it's a Canadian magazine, which I doubt had much if any American circulation. I only know about it because I'm Canadian and would occasionally find a copy in a doctor's lobby or something. Even in Canada, the magazine was never as important or well-read as Wired, or Business 2.0, so why the closing of this magazine rates a story on Slashdot is beyond me.
They decline to name the commercial OSes. In a world where DBMS makers often refuse to let reviewers disclose performance benchmarks, could this be because no company like Sun is going to disclose the source code for their OS so that some company can go and run a comparison of the quality of their code against their competitors ?
As for Linux beating one of two "special purpose" networking products, the flip siding of beating one of two is that one of two of the commercial OSes was superior to Linux.
Why *wouldn't* Microsoft want this?
Because Microsoft would then be heavily subsidizing hardware that runs a competing OS ?
He found that particular word "bursts" could indeed be linked to important events at the time the speeches were delivered.
Does anyone else find this painfully obvious ? Certainly you wouldn't expect to hear the word "computer" much in FDR's state of the union addresses; just as you wouldn't expect to hear "icebox" in GWB's addresses.
The idea isn't as revolutionary as the author makes it out to be. People have been searching for terms in literature and using counts as indices of "importance" for a long time. Just to cite one example, researchers commonly use citation indexes to find out which fields are/were "hot".
Except that Google already has the de-facto capability of rapidly searching as many weblogs as they care to. Sure, it takes long to spider them across the web, but it takes a long time to spider damn well near every single page in the world.
As for how long it will be before we can do this in "real time", this all depends on what your definition of "real time" is. If you're happy with doing a few thousand blogs and getting results back in a few minutes, since at most only a few pages change on the aveage blog a day, I'd say any decent Perl guy could do that for you now.