At work we use oracle to run a system I'm supposed to operate. As the actual application is, to say the least, weak my major interface to the system is TOAD [from quest software]. Its similiar to DB artisan etc.
Do either Pogres or MySQL have similiar, free tools? if so any recomendations / problems. I'd like to play about with one of the 2, but really want a reasonable FE to do it in.
If you going the developer route I'd also get a basic grounding in XML, both as a precursor to general XHTML use and as a format thats going to increasingly be used for general data sharing on the web.
In general its more useful to have skills that existing employees might not have.
Wearing my 'we-all-want-competition' hat [i aslo have a I'd have to say that I'm very glad the the PPC is offering a serious desktop alternative to Intel. Given its power-consumption yumminess this is going to potentially be going against the Xscale as well as i386 and IA-64 lines.
On the other hand, serious Mac fans aside, whose going to buy? Are they going to compete on price. Can they get IBM to use these rather than POWER3 in the RS/6000? [Because i always liked the idea that one, unified chip arch could be used across the computing field from phones to supercomps].
Anouther useful market for them might be Qube style boxes, would be cheap to run.
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Execpt that Quarz is about as open as a death-row prison
No 'The Insect Societies' by E.O.Wilson was my source on this. Its an amazing book if you can plow through the zooilogical detail.
Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstater is a great source for Ants and Intelligence. Its a little naive in ways, but its basically the most convincing [and entertaining] book on AI i've come across.
Well buildings will already cause these effects, except with the kinetic energy transformed into unharnessed heat and sound.
As the article said urban areas only have ~ 2/3 of rural winds, due to exactly this effect.
You have a reasonable point about large buildings, especially given recent advances in communications. However it is likely that a number of large building will continue to be built, at least in the medium term.
Real ants are genetically programmed with loyalty to their hive
This isnt actually true. Many experiments have been done were both adult ants and larve have been transported between hives, usually there is no difference in behavior to native ants.
There are even a number of ant species that have not worker caste of their own and survive by raiding other ant colonies [of a differing species] and stealing larve. These then hatch and act as workers for the new colony.
If ants are genetically programed to do anything it is to react to certain smells
Also what about the possibility of buying a [few?] cheap sun boxes on ebay etc. This would allow you to keep running your current apps whilst figuring out your medium to long term solution
They may have been, however a large [diameter] black-hole [and by that I just mean large diameter of event horizon] does not have to be very dense.
Basically if we take an object [well a sphere] of density d with a mass m then as we increase the diameter x [in a linear manner] the volume increases as x^3. So since g~m/x^2 the effective gravity on the perimeter increaes linearly.
In otherwords [in newtonian terms anyway] a large enougth object of any density would become a blackhole.
Interestingly as such an object would not necessarily be particuarly different from our world [ie if our universe is big enough and is evenly distributed etc then light is bounded, bounded universe ~ black-hole]
This has been a pet belief of mine for some time, as it is hard to see how a galaxy could form and survive without a ridiculous amount of mass gathering at the center.
My question is what is the approximate size (diameter) of this black-hole and what is its density. I assume its not particuarly dense just particuarly big.
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I seem to remember the source of this FTC ruling involved some sort of IP suit between DEC and Intel [SMP arch?]. As part of the settlement DEC forced Intel take the StrongARM rights. Since this was at the time one of the fastest processor architectures on the planet I never understood this.
I think [s]he's referning to the $1,000,000,000 investment in lLinux that Lou [IBM's CEO] has promised, plus the open-spourcing of some important and rather sexy AIX technology.[by a company that is annually the world largest filer of patents and is usually Very commited to protecting its IP] This is a commitment to Linux.
The thing about Linux from IBMs persepctive is that it doesnt interfere with their current portfolio of 'offerings', but can have strategic advantages for them, namely:
Its the only platform [java aside] that can run on all their boxes.
It allows them to offer a lower cost solution to certain markets who would not be able to afford AIX licencenses, conversely anyone who could afford AIX would take it because it highly tuned to IBMs hardware.
1/2 of IBMs revenue comes from services, anouther big chunk from making chips for other people etc, IBM can afford to lose all software revenue and be profitable.
IBM like the way that a free desktop OS [linux] makes Microsoft squirm, they have a long memory and, to be frank, are rather embarassed about OS/2 (and MSDOS for that matter)
Basically their philosophy these days is that there's no need to worry about a free product destroying the revenue from a premium product, the natural premium product customers will still spend, but the bottom end of the market will grow, and give you profitable services, support and hardware work. quite cuddly really, though more like a grizzly than a teddy were MS is concerned
I've always had a hunch that dreams were the biproduct of short-term memory being reprocessed and stored as long term memory. This would invovle a huge degree of 'compression' which could be done by concept association, i.e. storing information as a set of 'differentials' from pre-stored information. This explains [to me at least] the strange associations that are inherent in dreams, and the way that, for example, a place can be 'my bedroom' without sharing a single physical feature with my bedroom...
Slashdot Mirror
it seems unlikely don't you think?...
At work we use oracle to run a system I'm supposed to operate. As the actual application is, to say the least, weak my major interface to the system is TOAD [from quest software]. Its similiar to DB artisan etc.
Do either Pogres or MySQL have similiar, free tools? if so any recomendations / problems. I'd like to play about with one of the 2, but really want a reasonable FE to do it in.
Thanks
The first link seems to be broken ;o(
I rather like the second cheat sheet though.
it doesn like left join, full outer join etc it likes:
select a.name, w.name
from web_languages w, administrators a
where w.admin = a.name(+)
and w.name in ('php','perl','asp','java','jsp','python')
order by a.name, w.name
I agree whole heartedly, the Web Design Group have a great set of guides and info on why standards compliance makes sense.
They also have a very good validator/bbs/tutorial etc etc.
..of course oracle would baulk at that
If you going the developer route I'd also get a basic grounding in XML, both as a precursor to general XHTML use and as a format thats going to increasingly be used for general data sharing on the web.
In general its more useful to have skills that existing employees might not have.
Wearing my 'we-all-want-competition' hat [i aslo have a I'd have to say that I'm very glad the the PPC is offering a serious desktop alternative to Intel.
Given its power-consumption yumminess this is going to potentially be going against the Xscale as well as i386 and IA-64 lines.
On the other hand, serious Mac fans aside, whose going to buy? Are they going to compete on price. Can they get IBM to use these rather than POWER3 in the RS/6000? [Because i always liked the idea that one, unified chip arch could be used across the computing field from phones to supercomps].
Anouther useful market for them might be Qube style boxes, would be cheap to run.
Execpt that Quarz is about as open as a death-row prison
No 'The Insect Societies' by E.O.Wilson was my source on this.
Its an amazing book if you can plow through the zooilogical detail.
Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstater is a great source for Ants and Intelligence. Its a little naive in ways, but its basically the most convincing [and entertaining] book on AI i've come across.
Well buildings will already cause these effects, except with the kinetic energy transformed into unharnessed heat and sound.
As the article said urban areas only have ~ 2/3 of rural winds, due to exactly this effect.
You have a reasonable point about large buildings, especially given recent advances in communications. However it is likely that a number of large building will continue to be built, at least in the medium term.
Real ants are genetically programmed with loyalty to their hive
This isnt actually true. Many experiments have been done were both adult ants and larve have been transported between hives, usually there is no difference in behavior to native ants.
There are even a number of ant species that have not worker caste of their own and survive by raiding other ant colonies [of a differing species] and stealing larve. These then hatch and act as workers for the new colony.
If ants are genetically programed to do anything it is to react to certain smells
Could x86 solaris be an option?
Also what about the possibility of buying a [few?] cheap sun boxes on ebay etc. This would allow you to keep running your current apps whilst figuring out your medium to long term solution
Time Warner isn't important outside the US.
What?
What again?
well it is
Really! [I've been lameness filteres]
..is it as fun [or messy] as the classic cornflour and water.
Low-tech is the way to go for you cross-physical-states materials.
There's a fairly simple algorithm to solve a rubiks cube, so the cool tech here is presumably in the colour recongnition and manipulation side.
/.ed already, despite the lack of even fp comments as I write this.
Unfortunately the site seems
They may have been, however a large [diameter] black-hole [and by that I just mean large diameter of event horizon] does not have to be very dense.
Basically if we take an object [well a sphere] of density d with a mass m then as we increase the diameter x [in a linear manner] the volume increases as x^3. So since g~m/x^2 the effective gravity on the perimeter increaes linearly.
In otherwords [in newtonian terms anyway] a large enougth object of any density would become a blackhole.
Interestingly as such an object would not necessarily be particuarly different from our world [ie if our universe is big enough and is evenly distributed etc then light is bounded, bounded universe ~ black-hole]
This has been a pet belief of mine for some time, as it is hard to see how a galaxy could form and survive without a ridiculous amount of mass gathering at the center.
My question is what is the approximate size (diameter) of this black-hole and what is its density. I assume its not particuarly dense just particuarly big.
Off-Topic but semi-related:
I seem to remember the source of this FTC ruling involved some sort of IP suit between DEC and Intel [SMP arch?]. As part of the settlement DEC forced Intel take the StrongARM rights. Since this was at the time one of the fastest processor architectures on the planet I never understood this.
Can you shed any light?
..am I that you've managed to do this. One or two questions/suggestions about making it more 'open-source'.
Have an open day! Collect polls of what things [spaces?] people would like to see during the first day of operation...could draw a crowd.
If your interneting the picture have you considered a discussion site to allow people to discuss what they see, share observations etc etc?
Good Luck
I think [s]he's referning to the $1,000,000,000 investment in lLinux that Lou [IBM's CEO] has promised, plus the open-spourcing of some important and rather sexy AIX technology.[by a company that is annually the world largest filer of patents and is usually Very commited to protecting its IP] This is a commitment to Linux.
The thing about Linux from IBMs persepctive is that it doesnt interfere with their current portfolio of 'offerings', but can have strategic advantages for them, namely:
Its the only platform [java aside] that can run on all their boxes.
It allows them to offer a lower cost solution to certain markets who would not be able to afford AIX licencenses, conversely anyone who could afford AIX would take it because it highly tuned to IBMs hardware.
1/2 of IBMs revenue comes from services, anouther big chunk from making chips for other people etc, IBM can afford to lose all software revenue and be profitable.
IBM like the way that a free desktop OS [linux] makes Microsoft squirm, they have a long memory and, to be frank, are rather embarassed about OS/2 (and MSDOS for that matter)
Basically their philosophy these days is that there's no need to worry about a free product destroying the revenue from a premium product, the natural premium product customers will still spend, but the bottom end of the market will grow, and give you profitable services, support and hardware work. quite cuddly really, though more like a grizzly than a teddy were MS is concerned
Nah you dont have to be an AC to speak freely, just to be free from the consequences of your speech..
On the other hand nice slashdot reference...
I've always had a hunch that dreams were the biproduct of short-term memory being reprocessed and stored as long term memory. This would invovle a huge degree of 'compression' which could be done by concept association, i.e. storing information as a set of 'differentials' from pre-stored information. This explains [to me at least] the strange associations that are inherent in dreams, and the way that, for example, a place can be 'my bedroom' without sharing a single physical feature with my bedroom...