But that underscores the validity of these schema-less database systems. Due to the technical depth required to use relational databases effectively, many people are better off not using them at all. They will get farther faster and with fewer bugs with something that is flexible and forgiving.
It's no surprise that the creator of CouchDB, for instance, hadn't a clue about databases when he began his project. All of that built up knowledge just ignored while someone invented their own, and it's as rational as rolling your own encryption from scratch without the slightest clue about encryption algorithms or theories.
It's funny how some people react by attributing ignorance to others when confronted with things they themselves don't understand.
The effect of censorship on people is a thousand times worse than the effect of romantic comedies, which is ten times worse than the effect of pr0n, which is one half as good as the effect of video games. This is basic psychology, empirically proven.
It IS treason, plain and simple. And for further proof of the pussification of America, look back 200 years and see how they would have handled this case back then.
They would have been all like "you let WOMEN vote!?!"
Dude, read some freakin' history. Violence was not unheard of at the ballot box. Ballots were not standardized, and often it was the political organizations themselves that collected them. There are even examples of people transporting ballot boxes having been murdered by members of opposing parties. It wasn't anywhere close to secure or fair until well into the 20th century.
This pattern of corruption is nothing new, and the mechanisms for preventing it are not common knowledge, and in fact, were not even well understood until the information age. It is our duty as technologists to educate people, and not go off the handle, foaming at the mouth and ranting about treason and teh founding fathers!1!!
Maybe, since they believe in a higher power, they believe that they "belong" on Earth and "have work to do" and that they can actually make a difference in the universe.
Work to do? Make a difference? In a lifetime that is infinitesimally short compared to the infinity of eternity, in a universe that has a fixed and predetermined end? That word "futile"... I do not think it means what you think it means.
One of the creators of LittleBigPlanet, a PS3 exclusive, made similar comments in an interview with Gamasutra, acknowledging that they're looking forward to the day Sony drops the PS3's price.
I look forward to the time when "exclusives" are no longer even pretended to be a good thing, and those who make those Faustian bargains are recognized as chumps.
Oh, a disinterested, impartial observer, who, nonetheless, reads threads that do not concern him. What point are you making, anyway? I believe you are making the assertion that criticism of DRM and platform lock-in should only be applicable to music, and not the general category of media and peripherals. Please, go on, elaborate and correct me.
Yeah, and what if the owner of the company declares you one, and it happens in more than one company, and you regularly live outside the traditional chain of command of the company, answerable only to the owners?
Do you have an equal share of the company as the owners? No? Then I hope the pats on the head are worth it.
Lesson, you are replaceable. If you are not replaceable, then you are too dangerous to have.
No, if you are not replaceable, you are working for a company which has exceeded its station according to the Peter Principle. When you treat employees like subjects in an aristocratic hierarchy, you have no right to be upset when they invert the power relationship. The only solution for a company in this situation is to scale back their ambition and hire less skilled people, or give the "troublemakers" as much stake and authority in the company that they are every bit as cognizant of the risks and costs of their decisions as is the executive management.
If you think all your peers are morons, you're going to a too easy school. If you're aren't stressing your abilities, you aren't learning. And if you can't handle busywork, how are you going to handle the monotony of satisfying your clients' business requirements? (I mean, seriously, it sounds like you live in Mississippi or Arkansas. How much interesting work is there?)
Even the smart kids must learn to get over themselves. Especially the smart kids.
You're ignoring the "try to be" part of what I quoted. For every astute, successful person there are ten "businessmen" who think the world owes them something and will try every gimmick they can find to get the status they want as fast as they can without actually learning or accomplishing anything. It doesn't matter if their role model is Donald Trump or Sean Combs, it's the same attitude, the same confidence games, the same cargo-cult mentality. And our economy is failing because of people like this and their playing with mathematics they don't understand.
They do this because the good students are winning at a competing status hierarchy, one that does not recognize any achievement in their own.
This is the same reason the jocks hate the nerds. This is the same reason the fundamentalists hate the scientists. This is the same reason MBAs hate the PhDs.
Most of human history has been centered around the primate culture of "Look at me, I am the big man, do what I say or else!" Only in the last few centuries has there been a competing culture that has risen up to say "You know, this universe is really a fascinating place. Your monkey games are so boring." And boy, does the first group hate them for it.
It has nothing to do with a culture that works very hard to create the image of the 'nerd' as something to be shunned as opposed to the 'businessman' the 'beauty queen' and the 'wealthy person' that everyone should try to be.
I corrected your spelling.
That's pretty much conservatism in a nutshell. It's all about the monopolization of resources, the encouragement of inanity to limit threats to the status quo, and good dose of misdirection to keep the victims angry at someone else. (In this case, inner city blacks, though liberals, intellectuals, Jews, women, gays, and many other groups serve that purpose just as well. This particular example is used because it is the only segment of American society that is less educated than the conservative base.)
An interesting point is that when you DDoS the systems, it's not the fault of some people who want to crash it but instead the systems' for blocking their users due to technical limitations. So if I shot someone to death it's not my fault for shooting them, but theirs instead because of technical limitations of their body.
It's the "I'm not touching you I'm not touching I'm not touching you" defense!
By that logic, we should just go ahead and nuke Russia now. It's not really our fault that they don't have a viable missile defense system.
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I do NOT want to have sounds in my environment if it is not neccesairy.
That's usually indicative of an anxiety disorder.
Nevermind, I watched part of that video. Yikes!
But that underscores the validity of these schema-less database systems. Due to the technical depth required to use relational databases effectively, many people are better off not using them at all. They will get farther faster and with fewer bugs with something that is flexible and forgiving.
It's no surprise that the creator of CouchDB, for instance, hadn't a clue about databases when he began his project. All of that built up knowledge just ignored while someone invented their own, and it's as rational as rolling your own encryption from scratch without the slightest clue about encryption algorithms or theories.
It's funny how some people react by attributing ignorance to others when confronted with things they themselves don't understand.
The effect of censorship on people is a thousand times worse than the effect of romantic comedies, which is ten times worse than the effect of pr0n, which is one half as good as the effect of video games. This is basic psychology, empirically proven.
It IS treason, plain and simple. And for further proof of the pussification of America, look back 200 years and see how they would have handled this case back then.
They would have been all like "you let WOMEN vote!?!"
Dude, read some freakin' history. Violence was not unheard of at the ballot box. Ballots were not standardized, and often it was the political organizations themselves that collected them. There are even examples of people transporting ballot boxes having been murdered by members of opposing parties. It wasn't anywhere close to secure or fair until well into the 20th century.
This pattern of corruption is nothing new, and the mechanisms for preventing it are not common knowledge, and in fact, were not even well understood until the information age. It is our duty as technologists to educate people, and not go off the handle, foaming at the mouth and ranting about treason and teh founding fathers!1!!
Ignorant of what?
Maybe, since they believe in a higher power, they believe that they "belong" on Earth and "have work to do" and that they can actually make a difference in the universe.
Work to do? Make a difference? In a lifetime that is infinitesimally short compared to the infinity of eternity, in a universe that has a fixed and predetermined end? That word "futile"... I do not think it means what you think it means.
The weak-willed and fearful are those who come to (or stay with) religion, therefore they are the most likely to fear dying.
What you're saying is... that this is a flying car. Thanks for clearing that up.
I here you like XBOX. You give me ten dollar I tell where you buy XBOX LIVE now!
One of the creators of LittleBigPlanet, a PS3 exclusive, made similar comments in an interview with Gamasutra, acknowledging that they're looking forward to the day Sony drops the PS3's price.
I look forward to the time when "exclusives" are no longer even pretended to be a good thing, and those who make those Faustian bargains are recognized as chumps.
You've now achieved what Palm devices could do ten years ago.
With BSG over, and this evidence that nothing as good will ever occur on that channel again, I can get rid of cable!
On behalf of an ungrateful world, I salute you, noble sir.
Oh, a disinterested, impartial observer, who, nonetheless, reads threads that do not concern him. What point are you making, anyway? I believe you are making the assertion that criticism of DRM and platform lock-in should only be applicable to music, and not the general category of media and peripherals. Please, go on, elaborate and correct me.
Or are you just bitching about something that's sure to get a bunch of other putzes to agree with you?
Are you playing a contest to see who can be the most submissive fanboy?
Would it help you understand if someone threw a hammer through a giant television showing an Apple commercial?
Yeah, and what if the owner of the company declares you one, and it happens in more than one company, and you regularly live outside the traditional chain of command of the company, answerable only to the owners?
Do you have an equal share of the company as the owners? No? Then I hope the pats on the head are worth it.
Lesson, you are replaceable. If you are not replaceable, then you are too dangerous to have.
No, if you are not replaceable, you are working for a company which has exceeded its station according to the Peter Principle. When you treat employees like subjects in an aristocratic hierarchy, you have no right to be upset when they invert the power relationship. The only solution for a company in this situation is to scale back their ambition and hire less skilled people, or give the "troublemakers" as much stake and authority in the company that they are every bit as cognizant of the risks and costs of their decisions as is the executive management.
If you think all your peers are morons, you're going to a too easy school. If you're aren't stressing your abilities, you aren't learning. And if you can't handle busywork, how are you going to handle the monotony of satisfying your clients' business requirements? (I mean, seriously, it sounds like you live in Mississippi or Arkansas. How much interesting work is there?)
Even the smart kids must learn to get over themselves. Especially the smart kids.
Calling them 'mostly binary and source incompatible' is just rubbish and plainly FUD.
No, they were binary incompatible, there is not even a "mostly" about it.
There's one more important thing you earned, besides that measely 14.4k per year: respect.
But that's easy enough with a song and dance number covering Aretha Franklin.
You're ignoring the "try to be" part of what I quoted. For every astute, successful person there are ten "businessmen" who think the world owes them something and will try every gimmick they can find to get the status they want as fast as they can without actually learning or accomplishing anything. It doesn't matter if their role model is Donald Trump or Sean Combs, it's the same attitude, the same confidence games, the same cargo-cult mentality. And our economy is failing because of people like this and their playing with mathematics they don't understand.
They do this because the good students are winning at a competing status hierarchy, one that does not recognize any achievement in their own.
This is the same reason the jocks hate the nerds.
This is the same reason the fundamentalists hate the scientists.
This is the same reason MBAs hate the PhDs.
Most of human history has been centered around the primate culture of "Look at me, I am the big man, do what I say or else!" Only in the last few centuries has there been a competing culture that has risen up to say "You know, this universe is really a fascinating place. Your monkey games are so boring." And boy, does the first group hate them for it.
It has nothing to do with a culture that works very hard to create the image of the 'nerd' as something to be shunned as opposed to the 'businessman' the 'beauty queen' and the 'wealthy person' that everyone should try to be.
I corrected your spelling.
That's pretty much conservatism in a nutshell. It's all about the monopolization of resources, the encouragement of inanity to limit threats to the status quo, and good dose of misdirection to keep the victims angry at someone else. (In this case, inner city blacks, though liberals, intellectuals, Jews, women, gays, and many other groups serve that purpose just as well. This particular example is used because it is the only segment of American society that is less educated than the conservative base.)
An interesting point is that when you DDoS the systems, it's not the fault of some people who want to crash it but instead the systems' for blocking their users due to technical limitations. So if I shot someone to death it's not my fault for shooting them, but theirs instead because of technical limitations of their body.
It's the "I'm not touching you I'm not touching I'm not touching you" defense!
By that logic, we should just go ahead and nuke Russia now. It's not really our fault that they don't have a viable missile defense system.