and bananas (damn that radioactive potassium!). What they should do is classify the amount of radiation that they mean. For example, the Navy guidelines for radiation exposure are 3millirems per calander quarter, not to exceed 5 millirems per calandar year. Only half the population will experience the mildest forms of radiation poisening at 25-50 rems (not millirems).
My point is this, a little bit of radiation ain't that bad. Just how much is a little bit is what we need to know.
Well thought out response to my quick (and in some cases quite-trite) post. While in some instances I obviously stand corrected (ie Christian mythos being one), I do disagree with you on a few points.
You are correct that the Hobbit would be more of an equilivant work to Narnia than LOTR; however, the post I was replying to did not mention it. My point was that the LOTR and Narnia were not on the same level. This is not to belittle Narnia, as some have taken. I love and appreciate Narnia and meant no disrespect. It stands on its own merits as a work of literature.
Tolkien and Lewis were companions, friends, co-workers who did review each other's work for many, many years; often urging each other on with their work. You are correct.
I would disagree with reading any deep relation between any of Tolkien's work and Christianity, including the Silmarillion and Gensis. While they both cover creation, Tolkien himself has strongly stated there was no correlation between them. (I wish I had the link, but I don't...sigh). Many religions cover creation, and the Silmarillion has as much in common with them as Christianity.
One last point, Tolkien was not so much branched in Romanism, but rather Norse Mythology. His work has been more than heavily influenced by that than anything else.
Anyway, you are right on in many points and I stand corrected on those.
Dude, I've read the Narnia series and liked it.....but in putting LOTR and Narnia on the same level is like putting War & Peace on the same level as Tales from the Brother Grimm.
While both fantasies were written by British authors who were friends and happened to work together, that's about the end of that. Tolkien detested allegory of any kind, whereas the whole Narnia series were just that. Tolkien created a rich mythology with a deep history, whereas Lewis simply took the Christian mythos and branched out a bit. The characters are deeper in LOTR and the sheer weight of the history behind the stories by Tolkien was immense.
To sum up, one is an epic tale (or mythos), whereas the other is a children's story.
Lawernce Lessig's Book, "The Future of Ideas" covers the loss of the internet as a commons for us all. Big Business & Government are stacking the legislation in their favor at the expense of this commons, which certainly stifles innovation.
In other words, we are collectively shorting ourselves in the long term for short term profits and security.
After my experiences dealing with DOD contractors, and their use of firewalls. Specifically, firewalls were used to strip out javascript on the fly; they were not used to block unauthorized access (that, of course, was left up to the administrator of each individual server).
Needless to say, this does not lend itself to a centralized, comprehensive security plan.
the original 128k Macintosh is not listed as #1. Don't get me wrong, it's high on the list, which is good. But this list is sort of like having a Top Ten Rock & Roll Bands List, with the Beatles beaten out by Bruce Springsteen. The original Mac was the 800lb Gorilla, who's presence is still felt today (at least in terms of every computer use by the masses). Love it or hate it, it basically defined the User Experience still in use today.
McBride: Our goal is not to blow up Linux. People ask why we don't go after the distributors...'If you have such a strong case, why not shut down Red Hat?' Our belief is that SCO has great opportunity in the future to let Linux keep going, not to put it on its back but for us to get a transaction fee every time it's sold. That's really our goal.
I've read a few of her reviews, and even more telling, many of her responses to people who disagree with aspects of her reviews in the OSNews forums.
She reminds me of Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh in her scathing rebuttals which are little more than personal attacks against those who dare to disagree with her. To top it off, I feel that her reviews are generally quite weak, barely scratching the surface. I don't think she is capable of writing a mature, indepth review (especially without comparing it to her lovely BeOS).
This is just the tip of the iceberg. I just quit a job (read by choice, not fired) where some of the software created for the DOD was done by mainland Chinese programmers....without the knowledge of the DOD. This was software which was tied to a backend database containing sensitive information. No, we are not talking nuclear secrets, but it was information which other non-friendly countries to the U.S. (ie anyone by England) would find interesting and useful. I broached the subject numerous times to my employer, who essentially pulled an Alfred E. Nueman (What?!?! ME worry?!?!). Finally, I quit and informed the proper people, washing my hands of the entire mess. While it may sound stupid to quit a high-paying job in this economy, having Bubba has a cellmate made it a lot easier.
My rambling point is this....the U.S. Government, particuarly the DOD, will be using software made by non-friendly parties with an axe to grind, without ever receiving the source code or knowing who actually wrote the software. And what's more, it's been my experience the bueacracy really doesn't give a sh*t as long as they can pass the buck.
>2. The searching system - does it maintain some sort of >small database in the background to keep things fast, or >just start off with a "find" style command?
This probably uses the same mechanism that was used in OS 9 and was still used in OS X for Find By Content....Indexing. While indexing the entire hard drive was a real performance drag, in OS 9 you could schedule it to run when the computer was likely not being used (as is 2am on Sunday morning). In OS X, the Find By Content (FBC) indexing occurred each time you navigated into a directory via the Finder. If no previous index has been created, one was then made. If an index did in fact exist, it merely updated it.
So, to sum...no small database, lots of little indexes everywhere.
I total agree. We need to make sure we look at the big picture. Giving up free speech to fight spam would be a terrible long term trade-off. However, I would not be surprised if some politician, say a current republican administration official, tried to limit free speech under the very guise of stopping both Spam and Terrorism (there is a link, you know).
This was my thought exactly! Build 802.11 repeaters into every freakin vehicle at the production plant. This would just about solve the last mile problem. The costs to the manufacturers would practically be neglible (as compared to the cost of the rest of the vehicle).
Everything which is absolutely fucked up in our legal system and capitalistic society. No, I'm not advocating communism/socialism/etc-ism...But I do think are on the path the pricing ourselves right the fuck out of existence because of pedantic laws made to cover every fucking possibility as well as squeezing every possible fucking nickel from the consumer.
Excuse me, it's now time for me to go take my meds.
Oracle was the database of databases. Now, IBM's DB2 has caught up on the high end, while Microsoft's SQL Server has been catching up on the low end. Still, Oracle is the one everyone compares to when talking databases.
Oracle also has many financial and business applications which, guess what? run on top of the Oracle database.
Many of it's competitors in the business applications market also use the Oracle database to power their applications. For example, at a previous employer we went through an SAP implementation (it was hell..you don't want to know). Anyway, while running SAP R3, we were using....yep, you guessed it..an Oracle database. At the time, it was simply ubiquitous.
Oh, how I love NMCI. We (a couple of consultants) won a gig with the Navy, developing a web application on Linux, MySQL & Apache. Got the go-ahead and started developing...Then, the big bad NMCI came along. In order to be NMCI compliant, we were forced to switch from MySQL to Oracle (to be fair, we were given the choice to use SQL Server....bah!). Ok, I can deal with that. I now get paid to learn Oracle. Cool. Then, after three months of development..."uh...we need you to switch to Windows. It's a NMCI thingy". Not a happy day. Anyway...to make a long story short, in order to be NMCI compliant (and not having the requirements up front), we have this monstrosity of a web application running on Win2000 with Perl, PHP, Oracle and Apache. Needless to say, there aren't too many people in that boat (whoa...a funny...navy..boat...oh nevermind).
There really is no point to this posting, so mod me down. I'm just ranting and wanted to share an example of your tax dollars at work.
Can't we just enjoy the fucking movie without looking for bullshit hidden ideologies and messages?
FWIW, I bet I can take a transcript of any John Ashcroft speech and "find" references to Satan Worship. Does that mean it's really in there,.....well...probably not....
Not at all. Bioware promised (at least initially) a simultaneous release of the windows/linux/mac versions. Many people placed pre-orders based on this information. Then, on the week of the release, Bioware makes a statement to the effect "oh by the way, we don't have the linux/mac versions done yet. But they will be soon."
Fast-forward to 9 months later....the linux beta version just gets released....no Mac version in site.
To sum up...I am not demanding the game developers support my tiny platform; however, don't promise me a version for my platform, and then screw-the-pooch (elegant, I know) by utterly failing to deliver (mac version, thank you).
Lets recap....They propose not telling the world to avoid the 'unnecessary' social costs (ie mayhem). Of course, if this is a certainty, we will all surely die. So what's a little social disorder (understated, I know). The public has the right to know. In this certain scenario, any social disorder is moot.
Who are these enlightened people who get to make such sweeping judgements for all of mankind? Where do I sign up? They are scientists, not social engineers. However, that does not give them the right to make that type of decision. Depending on your religious flavor (or the lack thereof), these last few minutes/hours/days/weeks/months might be of the utmost importance.
I believe if they know the end is nigh, we should be told. I want the last days of my life to be judiciously spent with the ones I love.
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Wasn't good ol' Bill just extolling the virtues of Windows Security in comparison to other 'unnamed' operating systems the other day?
Would you like some more pie, Bill?
The dude's hardware craps out (hey, it happes, regardless of vendor) and he bitches and whines about using OS X?!?!
Newsflash, Johnny Bravo
Ya knew what you were getting into when ya bought the iBook.
Besides, if you are feeling guilty about a little OS usage, god know how you must be a conflicted mess when it comes to masturbation!
and bananas (damn that radioactive potassium!). What they should do is classify the amount of radiation that they mean. For example, the Navy guidelines for radiation exposure are 3millirems per calander quarter, not to exceed 5 millirems per calandar year. Only half the population will experience the mildest forms of radiation poisening at 25-50 rems (not millirems).
My point is this, a little bit of radiation ain't that bad. Just how much is a little bit is what we need to know.
Well thought out response to my quick (and in some cases quite-trite) post. While in some instances I obviously stand corrected (ie Christian mythos being one), I do disagree with you on a few points.
You are correct that the Hobbit would be more of an equilivant work to Narnia than LOTR; however, the post I was replying to did not mention it. My point was that the LOTR and Narnia were not on the same level. This is not to belittle Narnia, as some have taken. I love and appreciate Narnia and meant no disrespect. It stands on its own merits as a work of literature.
Tolkien and Lewis were companions, friends, co-workers who did review each other's work for many, many years; often urging each other on with their work. You are correct.
I would disagree with reading any deep relation between any of Tolkien's work and Christianity, including the Silmarillion and Gensis. While they both cover creation, Tolkien himself has strongly stated there was no correlation between them. (I wish I had the link, but I don't...sigh). Many religions cover creation, and the Silmarillion has as much in common with them as Christianity.
One last point, Tolkien was not so much branched in Romanism, but rather Norse Mythology. His work has been more than heavily influenced by that than anything else.
Anyway, you are right on in many points and I stand corrected on those.
Cheers
That we hear about this from Wired, as opposed to CNN? MSNBC? New York Times? Washington Post? Fox News? (well, the last is a rheotical question).
My point is, what does it take for the mainstream press to pick up on this?!?!?!?
Dude, I've read the Narnia series and liked it.....but in putting LOTR and Narnia on the same level is like putting War & Peace on the same level as Tales from the Brother Grimm.
While both fantasies were written by British authors who were friends and happened to work together, that's about the end of that. Tolkien detested allegory of any kind, whereas the whole Narnia series were just that. Tolkien created a rich mythology with a deep history, whereas Lewis simply took the Christian mythos and branched out a bit. The characters are deeper in LOTR and the sheer weight of the history behind the stories by Tolkien was immense.
To sum up, one is an epic tale (or mythos), whereas the other is a children's story.
Lawernce Lessig's Book, "The Future of Ideas" covers the loss of the internet as a commons for us all. Big Business & Government are stacking the legislation in their favor at the expense of this commons, which certainly stifles innovation.
In other words, we are collectively shorting ourselves in the long term for short term profits and security.
This sucks.
After my experiences dealing with DOD contractors, and their use of firewalls. Specifically, firewalls were used to strip out javascript on the fly; they were not used to block unauthorized access (that, of course, was left up to the administrator of each individual server).
Needless to say, this does not lend itself to a centralized, comprehensive security plan.
the original 128k Macintosh is not listed as #1. Don't get me wrong, it's high on the list, which is good. But this list is sort of like having a Top Ten Rock & Roll Bands List, with the Beatles beaten out by Bruce Springsteen . The original Mac was the 800lb Gorilla, who's presence is still felt today (at least in terms of every computer use by the masses). Love it or hate it, it basically defined the User Experience still in use today.
And dammit, where is my TRS-80?
and I quote:
McBride: Our goal is not to blow up Linux. People ask why we don't go after the distributors...'If you have such a strong case, why not shut down Red Hat?' Our belief is that SCO has great opportunity in the future to let Linux keep going, not to put it on its back but for us to get a transaction fee every time it's sold. That's really our goal.
I've read a few of her reviews, and even more telling, many of her responses to people who disagree with aspects of her reviews in the OSNews forums.
She reminds me of Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh in her scathing rebuttals which are little more than personal attacks against those who dare to disagree with her. To top it off, I feel that her reviews are generally quite weak, barely scratching the surface. I don't think she is capable of writing a mature, indepth review (especially without comparing it to her lovely BeOS).
This is just the tip of the iceberg. I just quit a job (read by choice, not fired) where some of the software created for the DOD was done by mainland Chinese programmers ....without the knowledge of the DOD. This was software which was tied to a backend database containing sensitive information. No, we are not talking nuclear secrets, but it was information which other non-friendly countries to the U.S. (ie anyone by England) would find interesting and useful. I broached the subject numerous times to my employer, who essentially pulled an Alfred E. Nueman (What?!?! ME worry?!?!). Finally, I quit and informed the proper people, washing my hands of the entire mess. While it may sound stupid to quit a high-paying job in this economy, having Bubba has a cellmate made it a lot easier.
My rambling point is this....the U.S. Government, particuarly the DOD, will be using software made by non-friendly parties with an axe to grind, without ever receiving the source code or knowing who actually wrote the software. And what's more, it's been my experience the bueacracy really doesn't give a sh*t as long as they can pass the buck.
>2. The searching system - does it maintain some sort of >small database in the background to keep things fast, or >just start off with a "find" style command?
This probably uses the same mechanism that was used in OS 9 and was still used in OS X for Find By Content....Indexing. While indexing the entire hard drive was a real performance drag, in OS 9 you could schedule it to run when the computer was likely not being used (as is 2am on Sunday morning). In OS X, the Find By Content (FBC) indexing occurred each time you navigated into a directory via the Finder. If no previous index has been created, one was then made. If an index did in fact exist, it merely updated it.
So, to sum...no small database, lots of little indexes everywhere.
I total agree. We need to make sure we look at the big picture. Giving up free speech to fight spam would be a terrible long term trade-off. However, I would not be surprised if some politician, say a current republican administration official, tried to limit free speech under the very guise of stopping both Spam and Terrorism (there is a link, you know).
Please mod this up. It is absolutely freakin hilarious (because this is exactly what people will say)
And you can back this up how....?
Give me links...give me an indication of proof before making such accusations.
Put up or shut up.
This was my thought exactly! Build 802.11 repeaters into every freakin vehicle at the production plant. This would just about solve the last mile problem. The costs to the manufacturers would practically be neglible (as compared to the cost of the rest of the vehicle).
Everything which is absolutely fucked up in our legal system and capitalistic society. No, I'm not advocating communism/socialism/etc-ism...But I do think are on the path the pricing ourselves right the fuck out of existence because of pedantic laws made to cover every fucking possibility as well as squeezing every possible fucking nickel from the consumer.
Excuse me, it's now time for me to go take my meds.
Oracle was the database of databases. Now, IBM's DB2 has caught up on the high end, while Microsoft's SQL Server has been catching up on the low end. Still, Oracle is the one everyone compares to when talking databases.
Oracle also has many financial and business applications which, guess what? run on top of the Oracle database.
Many of it's competitors in the business applications market also use the Oracle database to power their applications. For example, at a previous employer we went through an SAP implementation (it was hell..you don't want to know). Anyway, while running SAP R3, we were using....yep, you guessed it..an Oracle database. At the time, it was simply ubiquitous.
Oh, how I love NMCI. We (a couple of consultants) won a gig with the Navy, developing a web application on Linux, MySQL & Apache. Got the go-ahead and started developing...Then, the big bad NMCI came along. In order to be NMCI compliant, we were forced to switch from MySQL to Oracle (to be fair, we were given the choice to use SQL Server....bah!). Ok, I can deal with that. I now get paid to learn Oracle. Cool. Then, after three months of development..."uh...we need you to switch to Windows. It's a NMCI thingy". Not a happy day. Anyway...to make a long story short, in order to be NMCI compliant (and not having the requirements up front), we have this monstrosity of a web application running on Win2000 with Perl, PHP, Oracle and Apache. Needless to say, there aren't too many people in that boat (whoa...a funny...navy..boat...oh nevermind).
There really is no point to this posting, so mod me down. I'm just ranting and wanted to share an example of your tax dollars at work.
Can't we just enjoy the fucking movie without looking for bullshit hidden ideologies and messages?
.....well...probably not....
FWIW, I bet I can take a transcript of any John Ashcroft speech and "find" references to Satan Worship. Does that mean it's really in there,
Sigh..........
Not at all. Bioware promised (at least initially) a simultaneous release of the windows/linux/mac versions. Many people placed pre-orders based on this information. Then, on the week of the release, Bioware makes a statement to the effect "oh by the way, we don't have the linux/mac versions done yet. But they will be soon."
Fast-forward to 9 months later....the linux beta version just gets released....no Mac version in site.
To sum up...I am not demanding the game developers support my tiny platform; however, don't promise me a version for my platform, and then screw-the-pooch (elegant, I know) by utterly failing to deliver (mac version, thank you).
Or, perhaps the game developers could just refrain from promising to deliver what they can't.
Crazy thought..I know....
Lets recap....They propose not telling the world to avoid the 'unnecessary' social costs (ie mayhem). Of course, if this is a certainty, we will all surely die. So what's a little social disorder (understated, I know). The public has the right to know. In this certain scenario, any social disorder is moot.
Who are these enlightened people who get to make such sweeping judgements for all of mankind? Where do I sign up? They are scientists, not social engineers. However, that does not give them the right to make that type of decision. Depending on your religious flavor (or the lack thereof), these last few minutes/hours/days/weeks/months might be of the utmost importance.
I believe if they know the end is nigh, we should be told. I want the last days of my life to be judiciously spent with the ones I love.
Larry Ellison is cackling like a little girl........