I can't believe I've seen this review linked on like every website I've been to today (well, not everyone, but fark, metafilter, and now slashdot).
The review is idiotc. He's basicaly complaning that everything in the book isn't also in the move, and that the movie isn't exactly the same as the book. Well, what the hell did he expect?
He claims that the script is horrible, and a travisty compared to what Adams would write, yet Adams wrote the screenplay himself before he died!
What a stupid review, and it's not done by a professional film reviewer, but a fanboy dissapointed that it's not letter-perfict with the book. Well, who would want to see a movie that was exactly the same as something they'd already read. I would have enjoyed Sin City a lot less if I'd read the stories word-for-word already.
Also, in any company you're going to have more then one program written by more then one person hitting the DB. Just the way it is. The less chance of having a bug in the DB itself (which everything depends on) the better.
I know I learned a lot more about computers from having my own then I did at school.
The only useful things I ever learned on a computer at school: how to type, and how to use Photoshop.
The attempts to 'integrate' computers into the course work were also a huge waste, although teachers using a computer to show slides was helpful. Having the computers there for typing papers if the need arose was nice, and trying to hack the weak "security" was also fun.
Please, the amount of work it would take to implement his tools is far less important then the amount of benifit to the reader! The slashdot editors are our gods. BOW DOWN PLEBE!!!
Like most of the instant millionaires, [Jean-Remy] Facq and the others were not able to sell their stock for six months. But that didn't mean they couldn't start shopping.
A month after InfoSpace went public, Facq ordered a $103,000 Dodge Viper. He shipped the Viper to Hawaii, where he commissioned an artist to paint its hood with a Hawaiian scene -- the sun setting over dolphins cavorting in blue waters. Tab for the paint job: $150,000... Not to be outdone, Facq two days later walked into a dealership and wrote a salesman a $1.1 million check to buy a Lamborghini Diablo and a Ferrari F50. "I just wanted to see the look on his face," Facq said... Anything Facq wanted, he could have. Disappointed by the jewelry at Tiffany & Co. -- "I wanted something more pimpish" -- Facq designed enormous rings and commissioned a jeweler to make them. He called himself the "Lord of the Rings."
It all depends on how quick the developer was and how dirty the code was. Oracle is expensive, and MySQL and Postgres were not nearly as advanced as they are now in 1995-8 when this custom DB was written.
His tree system could have been written in just a week or so, and if they only had simple data structures it might have been cheaper then Oracle. OTOH, using a real RDBMS would have allowed them to be much more flexable in what they created, and they could always have simply thrown hardware at the situation if it was too slow.
I'd say no. You could make the argument that the Valerie Plame story involves public intrest, because it revolves around alleged nepotism and poor quality research done at the CIA.
Not that Novak shouldn't be put in jail for being a douche. I'm just saying...
Look, the judge may have a point but celebrating the victory of a corporation over an individual just seems fucked up to me.
But he also might not have a point. The 'free speech' issue isn't' about wether or not you can go blabbing your companies trade secrets, it's about wether or not someone else, someone who has not signed an NDA or anything else should be able to re-spout them. These people, who are not under contract should be able (I think) to say whatever they want without repercussion even if someone would be harmed by the common knowledge.
It's all a question of what kind of harm is being done. If someone says "Kill her." they can be charged with conspiracy to commit murder, if someone makes a bomb threat or slanders someone those are lies. But it seems to me that simply telling the truth ought to be protected under the constitution, if you don't sign an NDA.
Yet, here these people are being forced to A) name their source, or B) Go to jail (or something). They're being punished for telling the truth about something, despite the fact that they signed no NDA and were not under any contract.
To me the article seemed sloppy. Ideas may be valueable. But the average idea is not. There's a cost associated with signing a NDA, and that cost may be higher then the average idea. If you don't know what an idea is, you can only assign it average value.
The biggest cost of an NDA is liablity. If you sign an NDA, then find out the idea is close to something you're already working on, you could get suied. And lets face it the average idea is crap.
People, in general, are too stupid to realize that voting for X or Y is going to save or cost them money in taxes. Look at all the poor people voting republican despite the fact that their tax burden is going up because of it.
Now, what politicians actually do is give money to their campaign (and pro-them PACs and 572s) contributors, who then give them the money they need to stay in office.
It's an inherent flaw in democracy. Unless you can think of a better solution, suck it up and pay your taxes, whiner.
Geez....why can't the legislatures see we're freaking taxed ENOUGH. My paycheck is near 30%+ taxed with Fed, State, Medicare and fucking SS that I'll never get back fully.
Well, a 400 billion budget deficit says otherwise. Rein in spending before reducing taxes.
Or people with money you can convice will make more off your idea
Or a bussness plan that dosn't cost much to start, for example a friend of mine started the site sinfulshirts with just the money for a t-shirt press, and hours and hours of coding.
I'm sorry. It would be extreemly easy for someone (or a couple people) to keep doing something once a day for the rest of their lives. I predict this is going to take a very long time to resolve.
Now, it might be intresting they put the money into a mutual fund or something, so that if the contest did take years, the reward would be worth it
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I thought SLI stood for Scan Line Interleaving. "Scaleable Link Interface" is completly vauge. Did they change the technology and keep the old name, or is this writer just an idiot?
If he never showed them an ID, how do they know it was him? How could they legaly ban him?
Ah well. I think it would be nicer not to have to show ID at the airport, but it isn't that bad. On the other hand all laws should be public, obviously.
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Douglass Adams wrote the script to the movie. He had moved to america, though. Is that what you meant?
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Those things wern't in the first book either, or so I've heard. Does that mean the first book sucks too?
I can't believe I've seen this review linked on like every website I've been to today (well, not everyone, but fark, metafilter, and now slashdot).
The review is idiotc. He's basicaly complaning that everything in the book isn't also in the move, and that the movie isn't exactly the same as the book. Well, what the hell did he expect?
He claims that the script is horrible, and a travisty compared to what Adams would write, yet Adams wrote the screenplay himself before he died!
What a stupid review, and it's not done by a professional film reviewer, but a fanboy dissapointed that it's not letter-perfict with the book. Well, who would want to see a movie that was exactly the same as something they'd already read. I would have enjoyed Sin City a lot less if I'd read the stories word-for-word already.
Oh well, whatever.
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Perl harbor cost $200 million to make, and made back $197 million. Thus, it did not make back a profit. That's the definition of a bomb.
Also, in any company you're going to have more then one program written by more then one person hitting the DB. Just the way it is. The less chance of having a bug in the DB itself (which everything depends on) the better.
I think your problem boils down to your broken shift key.
That post was about mysql5. This post was about how they fixed 10 years of criticism in one release, and how it was the most important release ever!
Duh, get it straight.
And why don't more people use Postgres?
I know I learned a lot more about computers from having my own then I did at school.
The only useful things I ever learned on a computer at school: how to type, and how to use Photoshop.
The attempts to 'integrate' computers into the course work were also a huge waste, although teachers using a computer to show slides was helpful. Having the computers there for typing papers if the need arose was nice, and trying to hack the weak "security" was also fun.
Actualy it's like putting ads on basic cable. You pay for it, but...
Also, how are TV networks going to take this? Not only are their ads getting skipped, but now other ones are being shown in their place! Crazyness.
But yeah. Lame. Down with TiVo!
Wow, you're so much smarter then those "tunnel-vision" technologist. They must have dropped out after 2nd.
Wouldn't you be buying in price per watt? After all, once you setup the cell, you can get 'free' energy from it forever.
Please, the amount of work it would take to implement his tools is far less important then the amount of benifit to the reader! The slashdot editors are our gods. BOW DOWN PLEBE!!!
Like most of the instant millionaires, [Jean-Remy] Facq and the others were not able to sell their stock for six months. But that didn't mean they couldn't start shopping.
... Not to be outdone, Facq two days later walked into a dealership and wrote a salesman a $1.1 million check to buy a Lamborghini Diablo and a Ferrari F50. "I just wanted to see the look on his face," Facq said ... Anything Facq wanted, he could have. Disappointed by the jewelry at Tiffany & Co. -- "I wanted something more pimpish" -- Facq designed enormous rings and commissioned a jeweler to make them. He called himself the "Lord of the Rings."
A month after InfoSpace went public, Facq ordered a $103,000 Dodge Viper. He shipped the Viper to Hawaii, where he commissioned an artist to paint its hood with a Hawaiian scene -- the sun setting over dolphins cavorting in blue waters. Tab for the paint job: $150,000
It all depends on how quick the developer was and how dirty the code was. Oracle is expensive, and MySQL and Postgres were not nearly as advanced as they are now in 1995-8 when this custom DB was written.
His tree system could have been written in just a week or so, and if they only had simple data structures it might have been cheaper then Oracle. OTOH, using a real RDBMS would have allowed them to be much more flexable in what they created, and they could always have simply thrown hardware at the situation if it was too slow.
I'd say no. You could make the argument that the Valerie Plame story involves public intrest, because it revolves around alleged nepotism and poor quality research done at the CIA.
Not that Novak shouldn't be put in jail for being a douche. I'm just saying...
Yay!
Look, the judge may have a point but celebrating the victory of a corporation over an individual just seems fucked up to me.
But he also might not have a point. The 'free speech' issue isn't' about wether or not you can go blabbing your companies trade secrets, it's about wether or not someone else, someone who has not signed an NDA or anything else should be able to re-spout them. These people, who are not under contract should be able (I think) to say whatever they want without repercussion even if someone would be harmed by the common knowledge.
It's all a question of what kind of harm is being done. If someone says "Kill her." they can be charged with conspiracy to commit murder, if someone makes a bomb threat or slanders someone those are lies. But it seems to me that simply telling the truth ought to be protected under the constitution, if you don't sign an NDA.
Yet, here these people are being forced to A) name their source, or B) Go to jail (or something). They're being punished for telling the truth about something, despite the fact that they signed no NDA and were not under any contract.
To me the article seemed sloppy. Ideas may be valueable. But the average idea is not. There's a cost associated with signing a NDA, and that cost may be higher then the average idea. If you don't know what an idea is, you can only assign it average value.
The biggest cost of an NDA is liablity. If you sign an NDA, then find out the idea is close to something you're already working on, you could get suied. And lets face it the average idea is crap.
The only people afraid of that are people who think they'll only have one good idea in their lifetime.
People, in general, are too stupid to realize that voting for X or Y is going to save or cost them money in taxes. Look at all the poor people voting republican despite the fact that their tax burden is going up because of it.
Now, what politicians actually do is give money to their campaign (and pro-them PACs and 572s) contributors, who then give them the money they need to stay in office.
It's an inherent flaw in democracy. Unless you can think of a better solution, suck it up and pay your taxes, whiner.
Geez....why can't the legislatures see we're freaking taxed ENOUGH. My paycheck is near 30%+ taxed with Fed, State, Medicare and fucking SS that I'll never get back fully.
Well, a 400 billion budget deficit says otherwise. Rein in spending before reducing taxes.
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Or people with money you can convice will make more off your idea
Or a bussness plan that dosn't cost much to start, for example a friend of mine started the site sinfulshirts with just the money for a t-shirt press, and hours and hours of coding.
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I'm sorry. It would be extreemly easy for someone (or a couple people) to keep doing something once a day for the rest of their lives. I predict this is going to take a very long time to resolve.
Now, it might be intresting they put the money into a mutual fund or something, so that if the contest did take years, the reward would be worth it
I thought SLI stood for Scan Line Interleaving. "Scaleable Link Interface" is completly vauge. Did they change the technology and keep the old name, or is this writer just an idiot?
If he never showed them an ID, how do they know it was him? How could they legaly ban him?
Ah well. I think it would be nicer not to have to show ID at the airport, but it isn't that bad. On the other hand all laws should be public, obviously.