I appreciate the merit and advantages to object databases over relationals, and the code example was an eye-opener. Still, how do I transfer over simply? Every coder and his dog is familiar with relationship databases, but how prevalent is object....anybody?
This is a logical step for a small country that has no music exports anyway: by weakening copyright they are making their citizens richer without losing revenue. And what with Denmark being an EU member, nobody will dare call them a rogue state or something.
Isn't this just Denmark asking for a cultural war in the long term? Unless they place some sort of reverse firewall (and even then), how is it any different from Chinese or Russian rogue publishers printing out millions of copies of American authors' work and selling them for pennies with no royalties? It is still stealing culture, and now it's government sanctioned. They should be ashamed; I've been to Denmark and they still listen to music from outside of the country, buy cultural creative products that were made in America and now they want to sanction the stealing of products which their own retail community distributes for profit and as commodity. I don't support this at all.
As I am preparing to unveil on my own site in less than one month's time, it is time for the internet content sites to establish advertising or sponsorship in a similar manner as radio, television or print. That is, mixing content and advertising does not work. One most be of total focus, even if just briefly, for an advertiser to feel assured that their product, service or message is cutting straight through to the audience member. Why not more interstitial advertising that loads briefly (3 secs) while new content is freshly disseminated? Break up sections on a site with pointed, totally focused and focus-pulling advertising that is there and gone quickly? Prospective sponsors have responded very well for my upcoming relaunch and I expect it to be very, very successful.
The idea that Linux could be too widely distributed (by that I mean by too many competitors) is not only ridiculous but appears to be ignorant. If Linux is to continue resembling and possibly leading the open-source generation of programming, it is not just important but INHERENT that many distributions co-exist. Sure, there will be bottom-feeders and top-dogs, but this is a quality not quantity situation where we all just want the bugs worked out. The prediction that we will be down to 2 distros is not just ludicrous, it's damaging, ignorant and wholly implausible.
I assume it can be assumed that there is a better than average chance that this type of piracy is happening in more than just AOL Germany ranks. Anyone know offhand how many international divisions AOL has or plans to have? I've surprised they didn't try to bully Germany Online (GOL), etc. But then that would infringe on the whole America dominating all things agenda.
We've been very pleased with its performance, as it is a joint venture of Bruckheimer and Alliance Atlantis (the latter of which I am employed). Much of its success is certainly due to the slot after Survivor, but to see a program succeed that avoids the usual parlour tricks, is 50% Canadian-based and chooses reason over rage is a real treat. Thanks to those who support the show.
I'm surprised Rob Malda is so "excited" about this ad campaign which stems from a company as excited about open source and the current state of affairs as a shark caged in a goldfish bowl.
Seriously, where is Gary Larson? I think we at the slash followed by the dot should make a concerted collective effort to get him to come out of retirement to at least pen one more gem poking fun at the bleary-eyed, squirrly, odd open sourcers.
Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money. (Larson)
I've heard rumor that in Western Canada, there is talk of a suit that revolves around GPL. It involved a company called Mixar(?). Can anyone confirm or deny this?
This really is a pretty spectacular feat. I wonder if they could rig some sort of camera device that could monitor (in real-time) the ascension and orbit of the satellite. Anyone know if that's possible?
Look commander, we all appreciate what you started here. Cool community. Solid use of Perl for the time. But you really need to proofread:
Its apparently going to be a video release (well, DVD for me) that tries to
remain true to the original storyboards, not Lucas Style "I meant to do that- greedo really fired first"
sorta lame changes. Oh, and a CG enterprise.
This sounds like it might be interesting but unfortunately I don't speak 4-in-the-afternoon-downtimenospellcheckese. Maybe you and JonKatz should take a cruise or put your brains in a vat for a couple weeks. Something to ease the pressure of constantly having to find stories to repeat and subjects to repeat to repeat to repeat ad nauseum. What was this story? Who or what is how? Where am I? This place needs a janitorial crew pronto.
I agree with your assessment of the doctor. Memory does not equal intelligence on any scale. This memory issue comes down to one hinge: there are two kinds of people. Those who finish what they start and so on.
Pardon my ignorance, but could someone explain to me why I'd want to run Direct3D apps under WINE? I'm not too familiar with WINE and I'd just like a concise explanation - can anyone gimme one or direct me to one? Thanks.
Like every administration before it, this one will dabble in tech issues but never really get its feet wet because it doesn't put a high value on the community. People, people! Wars! - that's what gets a Republican administration salivating. Katz's rambling 100000000 word piece only underlines the self-important feeling techies give off, while ignoring the rest of the government's issues, and thus it should be perfectly understandable why a government built to service the hundreds of millions NOT in IT (and the few million of us involved), ranks these issues at about 196th on the list of things to squelch or postpone or mandate. And one other thing JonJon - learn to use the word "affect". Sometimes it is less effective.
It's true, the best solution is the one you presented. Placing sand inside - or taping a brick right on - the postage-paid envelope, then dropping it in a mailbox is the best way to take some revenge (and solace). In some cases the post office will attempt to collect upon delivery, but not always. However, they generally will attempt to return the item as they are mandated (they have to process and deliver anything up to a certain ridiculous level (I think it's in their constitutional documents), so I suppose sending turds would be a good way to go too.
That really was a tremendously solid Q&A. Watson certainly deserves our collective praise in taking so much time, care and energy in answering all questions in detail. One question though: who exactly uses FreeBSD? Just about ever open-sourcer I know prefers Linux.
Just thinkin deep-sea exploration out loud here. Has any group ever attempted the equivalent of the "space elevator" but for underwater exploration? Perhaps it wouldn't be useful for humans who suffer from pressure ailments, but for certain machines it could prove to be an effective mode of transport.
I appreciate Andre's banter, even if I'm unsure of the validity here and there, but what struck my fancy was his affiliation.
Andre Hedrick, Linux ATA dude and member of the committee that sets ATA hard drive interface standards...
How did he become a part of that committee? Was he elected or appointed? Did he have to do sexual favours for some of the older members? Seriously though - how does someone attain that (eh-hem) lofty title?
Sometimes unwittingly, "The Renaissance" connects the flowering of that period with the extraordinary outpouring of ideas, stories and culture made possible by the invention of the Net and the Web. Future historians may be writing about the history of this period in much the way Johnson takes on that one.
While I appreciate Johnson's writing, and his notions are told in a lucid, authoritative and often times clever manner, to assume this conclusion from the text and indeed from the time would be off-base. I don't like the music of the 50s or 80s much, but I'm not yet prepared to say that the Internet Generation was sparked from the rubble of a "Dark Ages"-type time. The pre-computer era was one of the most technologically imaginitive in our history and if we truly are too get a glimpse into where we are headed, maybe we should tell the events of the past with greater accuracy.
Agree. The Sixth Day owes me roughly 12 bucks back. As for the comment, Certain staple features of these films are beginning to emerge -- the evil, amoral, ruthless and greedy corporation which has acquired life-altering new technologies (this is becoming more believable by the day), and the hapless human, noble victims trying to sort their way through this unchartered and disturbing new world - firstly, this is not new. Secondly, the films that you point to such as The Matrix or Blade Runner are not based on this situation at all. A good example would have been Veerhoven's "ROBOCOP" which was a very clever sel-parody and an entertaining flick. This is what the Sixth Day should have been but failed to be humble enough to be.
100%. That particular scene was only released for one week - I had the same feeling when I left the theater and everybody I spoke too didn't know the scene I was talking about. That egg scene was one of my favorites and IS available on the DVD.
You'd think with Slashdot's slew of ICANN postings regarding the new 7 domains, they would have considered this vantage in this story:
How could crack.com ever sell for much when really solid, wonderful domains like crack.museum, crack.coop, crack.biz, and crack.asleepatthewheel are still available?
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Isn't this just Denmark asking for a cultural war in the long term? Unless they place some sort of reverse firewall (and even then), how is it any different from Chinese or Russian rogue publishers printing out millions of copies of American authors' work and selling them for pennies with no royalties? It is still stealing culture, and now it's government sanctioned. They should be ashamed; I've been to Denmark and they still listen to music from outside of the country, buy cultural creative products that were made in America and now they want to sanction the stealing of products which their own retail community distributes for profit and as commodity. I don't support this at all.
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Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money. (Larson)
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Its apparently going to be a video release (well, DVD for me) that tries to remain true to the original storyboards, not Lucas Style "I meant to do that- greedo really fired first" sorta lame changes. Oh, and a CG enterprise.
This sounds like it might be interesting but unfortunately I don't speak 4-in-the-afternoon-downtimenospellcheckese. Maybe you and JonKatz should take a cruise or put your brains in a vat for a couple weeks. Something to ease the pressure of constantly having to find stories to repeat and subjects to repeat to repeat to repeat ad nauseum. What was this story? Who or what is how? Where am I? This place needs a janitorial crew pronto.got filth?
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Andre Hedrick, Linux ATA dude and member of the committee that sets ATA hard drive interface standards...
How did he become a part of that committee? Was he elected or appointed? Did he have to do sexual favours for some of the older members? Seriously though - how does someone attain that (eh-hem) lofty title?
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While I appreciate Johnson's writing, and his notions are told in a lucid, authoritative and often times clever manner, to assume this conclusion from the text and indeed from the time would be off-base. I don't like the music of the 50s or 80s much, but I'm not yet prepared to say that the Internet Generation was sparked from the rubble of a "Dark Ages"-type time. The pre-computer era was one of the most technologically imaginitive in our history and if we truly are too get a glimpse into where we are headed, maybe we should tell the events of the past with greater accuracy.
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I find it amazing that they're already up to #21. Does anyone know how it all got started?
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