They'll pursue this for a while then quit - the false positives will be off the hook.
The thing is, most MMORG players in the USA are loyal Americans who'd love to help. Spying on them is just buring down the house to roast a pig.
Ungh, okay, screw read the article... read the summary! They're talking about modeling terrorist networks with MMORGs, not seeking out terrorists who play MMORGs!
As official representative of the common geek attitude around here, I can assure you that having money means that you can suddenly ignore everything.
Seriously though, you're going a little too far. Though my first post was a joke, I don't think that decency has anything to do with money.
You then take it a step further, and propose that a desire for money is some how indicative of a whacko. While it may be true that money doesn't buy happiness, it does buy everything else.
If it's Christmas day and you have no job, the time you spend worrying about where you're going to go when you get kicked out of your apartment on the 31st is certainly no good time. In this specific case, money would certainly buy you a fair amount of happiness, wouldn't it?
I think the phrase "money doesn't buy happiness" is wrong. Money does in fact buy happiness. You do however need your health to spend that money, that's something you can't buy. Also, money has diminishing returns which people often forget about. Certainly your second Ferrari will not be as satisfying as the first one.
In summation, relax. The world isn't coming to an end. But don't discount the importance of money, either.
While adding more series to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block is nice, unfortunately CN still has a bad habit of editing Japanese anime series various reasons. =(
Maybe it's the constant ocurrance to tentacle ass-fucking and monster-produced cumshots that lead to this editing you speak of.
Seriously guys, did it ever occur to you that watching cartoons that resemble 15 year old school girls being raped by various cartoon demons isn't exactly family television? With all the weird child-porn laws here in the US I'm not sure how they get away with what is obviosly underage girls. Wasn't there something recently in the news about even computer rendered images are now falling into child porn category?
With war and hatred so predominant these days, it's hard to believe that during the Holiday season, people are actually discouraging kindness.
Okay, let's take a step back for a minute. First of all, this is DSL, not saving the whales. The terrorists haven't won just because these guys can't post.
The truth is, running a company is hard. Wouldn't you rather have your job for the "Holiday season" that some free webboard tech support?
Part of the problem here is that it can be dangerous to have your employees posting as a representative of your company without any standard of what can or cannot be communicated safely.
It appears from this article that that some companies are setting up a policy that forbids this sort action by their employees. In a large company, this can be necessary. How well do the managers know their employees? Are they just spouting off about how much they hate their employers? Are managers going to scour the web for these people's posts?
It's true, it would be nice if this were allowed to continue, but I certainly understand why for liability's sake most companies don't want to be involved. This certainly doesn't warrant front page slashdot news. I know we all hate corporations, but often times companies get big because their the best at what they do, or at least good at making money while doing it.
Some day you kids will go off to college, and then, you might even have to get a job at a corporation, too.
Jesus, people. This isn't microsoft sacrificing babies in the parking lot every morning.
I agree. Scripting seems best for a quick and dirty approach, while actually writing some C or C++ takes more time and consideration. I can't see why you want to mix the two, unless of course you need some low level access to hardware that Perl doesn't offer directly...
Spoken like a dumb college student. I work for a small company started by my friend from college. We do everything almost exclusivly in perl (with some PHP). Our application is mostly a CGI interface to a obscenely diesel MySQL server (80 GB+, some tables have over 300 million rows, you dirty mysql nay-sayers). It has some low level functions that I wrote in C. It's extrememly modular. Perl has allowed us to write small daemon programs quickly. As our system grows large and larger, we're easily able to replace to slow performing sections with a optimized C version of the same daemon.
We took our particular space (I'd rather not get into it) by storm. Me and one other developer worked day and night for 6 months and we now have a product that we license for between $50,000 and $250,000 depending on how the client wants to scale. It is easily in the top 3 of similar programs. And it was written by me and another dude. In Perl. With some C. In 6 months.
As much as I love C and have mixed emotions about perl, if it was written in C we'd still be core dumping and our company would have probably gone out of business, as opposed to quadrupling in size and increasing our gross income 10 fold. Again, I hate perl, even, but there's no replacement for it. I, like you, was once a dumb college student who swore I would never write anything but C. But, then I graduated and realized I needed 22" dubs on my escalade. (okay, I have neither 22" dubs, or an escalade, but you can imagine if I did, right?).
C and C++ do take more time and consideration, and when you're part of a lean and mean company you do what you need to get ahead. If it wasn't for perl I'm 100% sure that we would not be where we are today.
If you want to complete a project in Perl, then just do it in Perl. If you want to use C for a project, just use C. It's bad enough when people start using buggy bloated libraries, but it's worse when they give their compiler an identity crisis.
I've done this on serveral occasions... did you ever have a huge project to finish in a small amount of time that had some sort of processor-critical portion that's run alot? Well then, I would suggest writing it in Perl and then optimizing that piece in C. Works for me.
Often in the "real world" you can't have your cake and eat it, too. That's why people embed C in Perl.
That's right folks. If OSX works on PC hardware, it has suddenly just become a competitor to Windows. What happens then? No more Mac IE, no more Mac Office. Suddenly Macs are nothing more than expensive linux boxes with a groovy desktop.
Apple can't "test" the waters by having some PPC boxes and some Intel boxes, they just have to jump head long into competition against essentially Dell for hardware and Microsoft for software. It'll never happen.
$5k is a lot of money for a single person, but it's fairly reasonable for just about any company. Don't forget, some companies pay $80k for a single Oracle license. The requisite Oracle DBA is about 80k a year extra on top of that.
Now my point was that if "his own thing" wasn't as good as someone else's, doesn't he owe it to us to say "hey guys, forget Perl. Yake a look at Ruby". If the answer was "yes" or "no", I didn't really care. I just wanted to know why.
Nope, even after that I think you're still an idiot. According to your twisted logic, we could say:
Everyone knows ford's cars aren't as good as BMW. Ford should start a new ad campaign that says "Why don't ya'll just go buy BMW's, they're better"?
Fucking of course not. Larry can't make perl better? He has to just give up? Why let people have choices, right?
I'd find it hard to beleive that someone could argue that Perl as a language has a better design than Ruby (now's your chance if you want to). If Larry Wall is any sort of visionary shouldn't he swallow his pride and switch to Ruby?
I find it hard to believe that someone could argue Gnome as a desktop has a better design than Windows. If swagr is any sort of visionary shouldn't he stop doing his own thing and immediately start blowing Bill Gates?
If you can record, verbatim, (i.e. through the use of some static ram, etc) what you see as a "perfect" digital copy, then would that be copyright infringment? Is the implant going to be considered the same as other (external) hardware?
I don't anything about copyright, but I'm sure it would probably precent chicks from getting drunk around me. * sigh * There goes my sex life...
MySQL's popularity can be traced back to the popularity of mSQL and MySQL's compatability with it. It's widespread use, however, is like the spread of Microsoft Windows or Visual Basic. Some people *believe* that MySQL is somehow "easier" or "faster", but that's just not the case.
Mysql nay-sayers on slashdot always talk about how Postgres blows Mysql out of the water, but I've never seen any evidence of that.
So, take the Pepsi challenge with me...
Postgres Faster? Well, not as of a point version ago:
Let's not forget about the joys of Postgres and "VACUUM" that locks the table. (Okay, in newer versions it doesn't have to lock the table, but then it slows everything to a crawl on a busy server)
Also, clearly just from reading slashdot, you would know there's far more people using Mysql than Postgres, far more "grassroots" open source type helpful people that everyone on slashdot supposedly loves.
Finally, compare the fucking manuals and try to argue how Postgres has an easier learning curve than Mysql. When you search the postgres site it returns a bunch of poorly named html documents, for Christ's sake.
Though I would agree that all of the SQL functions you've mentioned are useful, they aren't necessarily so for an enterprise. And honestly, not too many people in big business are using PostgresSQL. They were either duped into using SQL Server because they're MS slaves, or they use the Far Superior Oracle, and pay for Larry Elison's 20" spoke rims on his rich-dude pimp-mobile.
I know you think you so cool cause you can refer back to some discussion you didn't take part in.
Ouch. You're mean.
Except that was after the fact that the numbers were in for spiderman. It's really easy to make that sort of predicition when spiderman reported the most sucessful opening weekened ever. I doesn't suprise me that some thought of this a week ago, but what about a month ago.
Well, personally, I can recall alot of my friends being disatisfied with the episode 1, and most of the early reviews of episode 2 were mixed as well. They seemed to indicate that episode 2 was "better" but not great.
Also, in the end, how many years of hiatus was there between episode 6 and episode 1? I think there was a LOT more buzz the first time around.
Finally, Lucas' insistance on "digital only" screens had me worried, though he did cave in the end.
If I had a PDA or laptop in there you probably couldn't hear it over the chewing and slurping noises, and the more beer people drink the more likely they are to chatter noisily.
In other words, I won't be going to see Episode II anywhere that has the words "Draft House" in the name.
As someone who has actually been to the drafthouse, I feel I'm entitled to actually comment on it.
The Drafthouse has a very strict "Shut the hell up" policy and state before the movie starts to tell a waitress if other patrons get out of hand and they will be immediately dealt with.
Obviously they dealt with the original poster of the story effectively, huh?
It's also been my experience that the waitress only comes around 2 or maybe 3 times during the whole 2 hour movie, which I would say is significantly less distracting than the 2 hour glow of your Vaio backlighting.
This is a refreshing change of direction for Sun, but it may be too late in some instances -- as we all know, many companies are now phasing out their Sun hardware for inexpensive Linux-based solutions
But in the end, Solaris is still better than Linux on big iron, and there's more margin in big iron. While SPARC is on the way out for the workstation market, I think it'll be around for a long time for $20k+ servers, and so will solaris.
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They'll pursue this for a while then quit - the false positives will be off the hook.
The thing is, most MMORG players in the USA are loyal Americans who'd love to help. Spying on them is just buring down the house to roast a pig.
Ungh, okay, screw read the article... read the summary! They're talking about modeling terrorist networks with MMORGs, not seeking out terrorists who play MMORGs!
As official representative of the common geek attitude around here, I can assure you that having money means that you can suddenly ignore everything.
Seriously though, you're going a little too far. Though my first post was a joke, I don't think that decency has anything to do with money.
You then take it a step further, and propose that a desire for money is some how indicative of a whacko. While it may be true that money doesn't buy happiness, it does buy everything else.
If it's Christmas day and you have no job, the time you spend worrying about where you're going to go when you get kicked out of your apartment on the 31st is certainly no good time. In this specific case, money would certainly buy you a fair amount of happiness, wouldn't it?
I think the phrase "money doesn't buy happiness" is wrong. Money does in fact buy happiness. You do however need your health to spend that money, that's something you can't buy. Also, money has diminishing returns which people often forget about. Certainly your second Ferrari will not be as satisfying as the first one.
In summation, relax. The world isn't coming to an end. But don't discount the importance of money, either.
I dunno if I can support your login. It is Tuesday, and I think that's large corporation hating day.
Down to Intel! And Microsoft! And NVidia!
Spoken like a true poor person.
While adding more series to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block is nice, unfortunately CN still has a bad habit of editing Japanese anime series various reasons. =(
Maybe it's the constant ocurrance to tentacle ass-fucking and monster-produced cumshots that lead to this editing you speak of.
Seriously guys, did it ever occur to you that watching cartoons that resemble 15 year old school girls being raped by various cartoon demons isn't exactly family television? With all the weird child-porn laws here in the US I'm not sure how they get away with what is obviosly underage girls. Wasn't there something recently in the news about even computer rendered images are now falling into child porn category?
Jeez, I knew Microsoft was bad, but _every morning_? I had no idea
they sacrificed babies in the parking lot so _often_!
My joke was funnier. Your shitty attempt at Chandler Bing - level sarcasm has added nothing to this thread.
With war and hatred so predominant these days, it's hard to believe that during the Holiday season, people are actually discouraging kindness.
Okay, let's take a step back for a minute. First of all, this is DSL, not saving the whales. The terrorists haven't won just because these guys can't post.
The truth is, running a company is hard. Wouldn't you rather have your job for the "Holiday season" that some free webboard tech support?
Part of the problem here is that it can be dangerous to have your employees posting as a representative of your company without any standard of what can or cannot be communicated safely.
It appears from this article that that some companies are setting up a policy that forbids this sort action by their employees. In a large company, this can be necessary. How well do the managers know their employees? Are they just spouting off about how much they hate their employers? Are managers going to scour the web for these people's posts?
It's true, it would be nice if this were allowed to continue, but I certainly understand why for liability's sake most companies don't want to be involved. This certainly doesn't warrant front page slashdot news. I know we all hate corporations, but often times companies get big because their the best at what they do, or at least good at making money while doing it.
Some day you kids will go off to college, and then, you might even have to get a job at a corporation, too.
Jesus, people. This isn't microsoft sacrificing babies in the parking lot every morning.
Yeah, these announcements are starting to kind of boring and repetative.
In other news, Bob Smith today bought a new Dell PC preloaded with Windows XP. Chalk one up for the bad guys.
I agree. Scripting seems best for a quick and dirty approach, while actually writing some C or C++ takes more time and consideration. I can't see why you want to mix the two, unless of course you need some low level access to hardware that Perl doesn't offer directly...
Spoken like a dumb college student. I work for a small company started by my friend from college. We do everything almost exclusivly in perl (with some PHP). Our application is mostly a CGI interface to a obscenely diesel MySQL server (80 GB+, some tables have over 300 million rows, you dirty mysql nay-sayers). It has some low level functions that I wrote in C. It's extrememly modular. Perl has allowed us to write small daemon programs quickly. As our system grows large and larger, we're easily able to replace to slow performing sections with a optimized C version of the same daemon.
We took our particular space (I'd rather not get into it) by storm. Me and one other developer worked day and night for 6 months and we now have a product that we license for between $50,000 and $250,000 depending on how the client wants to scale. It is easily in the top 3 of similar programs. And it was written by me and another dude. In Perl. With some C. In 6 months.
As much as I love C and have mixed emotions about perl, if it was written in C we'd still be core dumping and our company would have probably gone out of business, as opposed to quadrupling in size and increasing our gross income 10 fold. Again, I hate perl, even, but there's no replacement for it. I, like you, was once a dumb college student who swore I would never write anything but C. But, then I graduated and realized I needed 22" dubs on my escalade. (okay, I have neither 22" dubs, or an escalade, but you can imagine if I did, right?).
C and C++ do take more time and consideration, and when you're part of a lean and mean company you do what you need to get ahead. If it wasn't for perl I'm 100% sure that we would not be where we are today.
If you want to complete a project in Perl, then just do it in Perl. If you want to use C for a project, just use C. It's bad enough when people start using buggy bloated libraries, but it's worse when they give their compiler an identity crisis.
I've done this on serveral occasions... did you ever have a huge project to finish in a small amount of time that had some sort of processor-critical portion that's run alot? Well then, I would suggest writing it in Perl and then optimizing that piece in C. Works for me.
Often in the "real world" you can't have your cake and eat it, too. That's why people embed C in Perl.
The real reason is: Microsoft.
That's right folks. If OSX works on PC hardware, it has suddenly just become a competitor to Windows. What happens then? No more Mac IE, no more Mac Office. Suddenly Macs are nothing more than expensive linux boxes with a groovy desktop.
Apple can't "test" the waters by having some PPC boxes and some Intel boxes, they just have to jump head long into competition against essentially Dell for hardware and Microsoft for software. It'll never happen.
$5k is a lot of money for a single person, but it's fairly reasonable for just about any company. Don't forget, some companies pay $80k for a single Oracle license. The requisite Oracle DBA is about 80k a year extra on top of that.
Now my point was that if "his own thing" wasn't as good as someone else's, doesn't he owe it to us to say "hey guys, forget Perl. Yake a look at Ruby". If the answer was "yes" or "no", I didn't really care. I just wanted to know why.
Nope, even after that I think you're still an idiot. According to your twisted logic, we could say:
Everyone knows ford's cars aren't as good as BMW. Ford should start a new ad campaign that says "Why don't ya'll just go buy BMW's, they're better"?
Fucking of course not. Larry can't make perl better? He has to just give up? Why let people have choices, right?
I'd find it hard to beleive that someone could argue that Perl as a language has a better design than Ruby (now's your chance if you want to). If Larry Wall is any sort of visionary shouldn't he swallow his pride and switch to Ruby?
I find it hard to believe that someone could argue Gnome as a desktop has a better design than Windows. If swagr is any sort of visionary shouldn't he stop doing his own thing and immediately start blowing Bill Gates?
If you can record, verbatim, (i.e. through the use of some static ram, etc) what you see as a "perfect" digital copy, then would that be copyright infringment? Is the implant going to be considered the same as other (external) hardware?
I don't anything about copyright, but I'm sure it would probably precent chicks from getting drunk around me. * sigh * There goes my sex life...
Screw robots, what about the saga of lobsterboy? Can you believe this is a respected CS school? My parents called, they want their $120,000 back.
Intrigue
Drunken Misadventure
Vow of silence broken
a new beginning
Someday you might learn how to interact with real girls, not just those pictures you are looking at.
But your mother is so hot... I didn't know Carnie-folk were so cute.
Though I would agree that all of the SQL functions you've mentioned are useful, they aren't necessarily so for an enterprise.
Someday I will learn to proofread:
"...they aren't necessary for small, non-enterprise customers".
MySQL's popularity can be traced back to the popularity of mSQL and MySQL's compatability with it. It's widespread use, however, is like the spread of Microsoft Windows or Visual Basic. Some people *believe* that MySQL is somehow "easier" or "faster", but that's just not the case.
Mysql nay-sayers on slashdot always talk about how Postgres blows Mysql out of the water, but I've never seen any evidence of that.
So, take the Pepsi challenge with me...
Postgres Faster? Well, not as of a point version ago:
http://www.mysql.com/information/benchmarks.html
Let's not forget about the joys of Postgres and "VACUUM" that locks the table. (Okay, in newer versions it doesn't have to lock the table, but then it slows everything to a crawl on a busy server)
Also, clearly just from reading slashdot, you would know there's far more people using Mysql than Postgres, far more "grassroots" open source type helpful people that everyone on slashdot supposedly loves.
Finally, compare the fucking manuals and try to argue how Postgres has an easier learning curve than Mysql. When you search the postgres site it returns a bunch of poorly named html documents, for Christ's sake.
Though I would agree that all of the SQL functions you've mentioned are useful, they aren't necessarily so for an enterprise. And honestly, not too many people in big business are using PostgresSQL. They were either duped into using SQL Server because they're MS slaves, or they use the Far Superior Oracle, and pay for Larry Elison's 20" spoke rims on his rich-dude pimp-mobile.
who are you, bill gates talk about Linux in 1996?
I know you think you so cool cause you can refer back to some discussion you didn't take part in.
Ouch. You're mean.
Except that was after the fact that the numbers were in for spiderman. It's really easy to make that sort of predicition when spiderman reported the most sucessful opening weekened ever. I doesn't suprise me that some thought of this a week ago, but what about a month ago.
Well, personally, I can recall alot of my friends being disatisfied with the episode 1, and most of the early reviews of episode 2 were mixed as well. They seemed to indicate that episode 2 was "better" but not great.
Also, in the end, how many years of hiatus was there between episode 6 and episode 1? I think there was a LOT more buzz the first time around.
Finally, Lucas' insistance on "digital only" screens had me worried, though he did cave in the end.
I did.
If I had a PDA or laptop in there you probably couldn't hear it over the chewing and slurping noises, and the more beer people drink the more likely they are to chatter noisily.
In other words, I won't be going to see Episode II anywhere that has the words "Draft House" in the name.
As someone who has actually been to the drafthouse, I feel I'm entitled to actually comment on it.
The Drafthouse has a very strict "Shut the hell up" policy and state before the movie starts to tell a waitress if other patrons get out of hand and they will be immediately dealt with.
Obviously they dealt with the original poster of the story effectively, huh?
It's also been my experience that the waitress only comes around 2 or maybe 3 times during the whole 2 hour movie, which I would say is significantly less distracting than the 2 hour glow of your Vaio backlighting.
This is a refreshing change of direction for Sun, but it may be too late in some instances -- as we all know, many companies are now phasing out their Sun hardware for inexpensive Linux-based solutions
But in the end, Solaris is still better than Linux on big iron, and there's more margin in big iron. While SPARC is on the way out for the workstation market, I think it'll be around for a long time for $20k+ servers, and so will solaris.
This is the last chance for major Star Wars bucks, probably ever, and I'd love to see it advertised like they mean it!
...except of course for the 3 movies after that. Wasn't it going to be a trilogy of trilogies?