Excluding tornadoes, the midwest can't hope to compete with the daily hurricane-force winds across all the mountain passes and deserts in CA.
Key phrase: "the mountain passes", as in "where wind is concentrated and accelerated." I live in Nebraska, and I've heard meteorologists state with a straight face that "today will be calm, with a 25 mile per hour west wind". That is, there are constant 25mph straight-line winds blowing across the prairies.
There may be places with higher average windspeeds than here, but I have a hard time imagining it.
OK, I'm ignorant about accounting. Why is showing $N/12 for 12 months better than showing $N for 1 month? At the end of the year, you've still taken in $N, right?
Finally, there's the fundamental assumption at the general level here which is fully out of place. Trade promotes efficiency and specialization in an ideal environment.
You were doing so well until your tangent. Here's the real final flaw in his argument:
Using your own natural resources when it's much cheaper to buy similar quality commodities from elsewhere is dumb. With software, there's no such inherent geographical bias. I'm unaware of any fundamental reason why a programmer in Quebec is less intelligent or capable than a programmer in Redmond, so I see no reason for Quebec to export their money to Redmond to get an item they could otherwise get locally.
First, MySQL is a toy. It's fundamentally braindamaged and you won't be happy migrating from SQL Server. Look at PostgreSQL which has much more functionality and is much faster in typical business settings. A lot of people like pgAdmin III for routine admin work; not having run an SQL Server before, I don't know how that compares to what you already know.
Well, exactly. That's right up there with "telnet to the fileserver" as dumb ideas. If you're on the LAN, then there are far more efficient protocols for doing the same thing. If you're not on the LAN, why should you have straight access right into the DB?
Why exactly would you want a SOAP interface to SQL Server anyway? I mean, I wrote an XMLRPC interface for Visual FoxPro so that Unix machines could run SQL against it, but that was the only binding we had. It's not like there were other client libraries to pick from.
I live in upstate NY as well and I see the tremendous issues NY has with attracting good paying jobs. NY is unable to attract new business' therefore they look to supplement their revenue by taxing the business' they can't attract here even if said business has no physical presence in the state.
My wife's from Buffalo and had asked before if I'd consider moving back there. No way! So we can pay astronomical taxes to enjoy a dying economy? If they were truly interested in attracting jobs and not just paying lip service to the idea, they'd make it less confiscatory.
My father-in-law is amazed that I have to pay for my own trash service, because it's "free" in Buffalo. Never mind that his property tax rate is about three times mine, so my "expensive" trash service is far cheaper than his.
Right! As you so astutely observe, there's absolutely no difference between caving in to an authoritarian policy when under intense political pressure and drafting said policies with the plan of getting them passed via creating said political pressure.
"Vote for me! I only vote against my principles when it would be difficult to stand up for what's right!"
That's one hell of an endorsement for a presidential candidate.
If you get bored sometime, read Zimmermann's Senate testimony regarding Senate Bill 1726. It's lucid and eloquent, and he names names:
Recently, we've seen the
images and sounds of the Rodney King beatings, Detective Mark
Fuhrman's tapes boasting of police abuses, and the disturbing
events of the Ruby Ridge case. And now Congress and the Clinton
administration seem intent on passing laws curtailing our civil
liberties on the Internet. At no time in the past century has
public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed
across the political spectrum, as it is today.
The Clinton Administration seems to be attempting to deploy and
entrench a communications infrastructure that would deny the
citizenry the ability to protect its privacy. This is unsettling
because in a democracy, it is possible for bad people to
occasionally get elected-- sometimes very bad people. Normally, a
well-functioning democracy has ways to remove these people from
power. But the wrong technology infrastructure could allow such a
future government to watch every move anyone makes to oppose it.
It could very well be the last government we ever elect.
Now, I can totally understand something along the lines of "I believe that their positions have changed", or "I still disagree, but McCain's stance is even worse". But he cautiously backpedal against senate testimony were he says that legislation of the sort that Biden drafted "could allow such a future government to watch every move anyone makes to oppose it. It could very well be the last government we ever elect." I just don't get it. Zimmermann's always kind of been a hero of mine. What happened to make him back off so strongly?
Declan's quote from me is out of context because it does not make it clear that I never mentioned Biden in my original quote at all when I wrote about Senate Bill 266.
Speaking of misquoting, here's what McCullagh actually wrote:
Biden's bill -- and the threat of encryption being outlawed -- is what spurred Phil Zimmermann to write PGP, thereby kicking off a historic debate about export controls, national security, and privacy. Zimmermann, who's now busy developing Zfone, says it was Biden's legislation "that led me to publish PGP electronically for free that year, shortly before the measure was defeated after vigorous protest by civil libertarians and industry groups."
Here "Biden's legislation" is "Senate Bill 266". So Zimmermann really did say that it was a law, proposed and advanced by Sen. Biden, that led him to preemptively publishing PGP.
The paragraph quoted above is correct in fact and in spirit. I'm not exactly sure what Zimmermann is opposed to. While I'm blissfully ignorant of who this McCullagh guy is outside of the recent Slashdot stories about him, I'd say he's right at least this one time.
If Richard Feynman himself showed up and told me something crazy about theoretical physics, I'd be like, "you fool, that's crazy."
From what I've studied, everything in theoretical physics is crazy.
Perhaps I misunderstood you.
I think you're conflating issues. When you're in a field, it's your job to question everything the other experts in the field claim, especially when the claims are dramatic or unexpected. When you're not in a field and want to know something about it, then it's perfectly OK to use experts analysis as a baseline for further study.
It's not OK to dismiss all the experts in that field as crackpots just because you don't understand what they're saying. For instance, if Feynman showed up and told me that there are charm quarks, then I'd be unjustified in dismissing him. That's what ID and anti-vaccine folks do all the time: reject all authority they disagree with. Call it "appeal to anti-authority".
At sixteen hundred pages, it can only create about a fourth of the suckiness of the OOXML standard. Since that hasn't generated a black hole - except for maybe a few terabytes of lost data here and there - we should be safe.
Parents who expect to get day care for their kids as a free ride really piss me off. Why should the childless pay for somebody else's kids, so that the parents can have a cushy job?
Because age correlates highly with job experience and with having kids. If you want to attract experienced workers, you need to take care of the ones with children. Any other questions?
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I know. That was the start of your off-topic tirade. Up until those words, we were in agreement.
Better than if we'd elected the other, even worse set of candidates.
Excluding tornadoes, the midwest can't hope to compete with the daily hurricane-force winds across all the mountain passes and deserts in CA.
Key phrase: "the mountain passes", as in "where wind is concentrated and accelerated." I live in Nebraska, and I've heard meteorologists state with a straight face that "today will be calm, with a 25 mile per hour west wind". That is, there are constant 25mph straight-line winds blowing across the prairies.
There may be places with higher average windspeeds than here, but I have a hard time imagining it.
But what are the odds that any given new version of MS Office is bug-compatible with an older one?
OK, I'm ignorant about accounting. Why is showing $N/12 for 12 months better than showing $N for 1 month? At the end of the year, you've still taken in $N, right?
Finally, there's the fundamental assumption at the general level here which is fully out of place. Trade promotes efficiency and specialization in an ideal environment.
You were doing so well until your tangent. Here's the real final flaw in his argument:
Using your own natural resources when it's much cheaper to buy similar quality commodities from elsewhere is dumb. With software, there's no such inherent geographical bias. I'm unaware of any fundamental reason why a programmer in Quebec is less intelligent or capable than a programmer in Redmond, so I see no reason for Quebec to export their money to Redmond to get an item they could otherwise get locally.
First, MySQL is a toy. It's fundamentally braindamaged and you won't be happy migrating from SQL Server. Look at PostgreSQL which has much more functionality and is much faster in typical business settings. A lot of people like pgAdmin III for routine admin work; not having run an SQL Server before, I don't know how that compares to what you already know.
As mentioned above, I have to work with FoxPro (at a distance). You're too close for comfort.
Well, exactly. That's right up there with "telnet to the fileserver" as dumb ideas. If you're on the LAN, then there are far more efficient protocols for doing the same thing. If you're not on the LAN, why should you have straight access right into the DB?
Still, it's not hard to think of some more, well, "electronic frontier-ish" applications for that kind of money.
Prime => crypto => EFF, so that seems pretty reasonable, albeit in the pure research sense.
Dude, take it back. There are some things that just aren't said in polite society.
Not unless they port SQL Server to Unix.
Proud Unix DB hippie, but the polo-wearing kind.
Why exactly would you want a SOAP interface to SQL Server anyway? I mean, I wrote an XMLRPC interface for Visual FoxPro so that Unix machines could run SQL against it, but that was the only binding we had. It's not like there were other client libraries to pick from.
I live in upstate NY as well and I see the tremendous issues NY has with attracting good paying jobs. NY is unable to attract new business' therefore they look to supplement their revenue by taxing the business' they can't attract here even if said business has no physical presence in the state.
My wife's from Buffalo and had asked before if I'd consider moving back there. No way! So we can pay astronomical taxes to enjoy a dying economy? If they were truly interested in attracting jobs and not just paying lip service to the idea, they'd make it less confiscatory.
My father-in-law is amazed that I have to pay for my own trash service, because it's "free" in Buffalo. Never mind that his property tax rate is about three times mine, so my "expensive" trash service is far cheaper than his.
Ugh, no kidding. I voted Bush twice simply because I liked the alternatives even less. This time? Third party.
So one candidate is wrongheaded and the other is a pushover. Both vote for the same end result. Frankly, I don't like either of those options.
Right! As you so astutely observe, there's absolutely no difference between caving in to an authoritarian policy when under intense political pressure and drafting said policies with the plan of getting them passed via creating said political pressure.
"Vote for me! I only vote against my principles when it would be difficult to stand up for what's right!"
That's one hell of an endorsement for a presidential candidate.
Introduce us next time.
Neither I nor McCullagh ever said that Zimmermann disliked Biden. Seriously, re-read McCullagh's words.
Not to mention:
If you get bored sometime, read Zimmermann's Senate testimony regarding Senate Bill 1726. It's lucid and eloquent, and he names names:
Now, I can totally understand something along the lines of "I believe that their positions have changed", or "I still disagree, but McCain's stance is even worse". But he cautiously backpedal against senate testimony were he says that legislation of the sort that Biden drafted "could allow such a future government to watch every move anyone makes to oppose it. It could very well be the last government we ever elect." I just don't get it. Zimmermann's always kind of been a hero of mine. What happened to make him back off so strongly?
What's so confusing here?
The fact that Zimmermann's on record as being against Biden's legislation, which is all that McCullagh ever said in the first place.
Declan's quote from me is out of context because it does not make it clear that I never mentioned Biden in my original quote at all when I wrote about Senate Bill 266.
Speaking of misquoting, here's what McCullagh actually wrote:
Here "Biden's legislation" is "Senate Bill 266". So Zimmermann really did say that it was a law, proposed and advanced by Sen. Biden, that led him to preemptively publishing PGP.
The paragraph quoted above is correct in fact and in spirit. I'm not exactly sure what Zimmermann is opposed to. While I'm blissfully ignorant of who this McCullagh guy is outside of the recent Slashdot stories about him, I'd say he's right at least this one time.
If Richard Feynman himself showed up and told me something crazy about theoretical physics, I'd be like, "you fool, that's crazy."
From what I've studied, everything in theoretical physics is crazy.
Perhaps I misunderstood you.
I think you're conflating issues. When you're in a field, it's your job to question everything the other experts in the field claim, especially when the claims are dramatic or unexpected. When you're not in a field and want to know something about it, then it's perfectly OK to use experts analysis as a baseline for further study.
It's not OK to dismiss all the experts in that field as crackpots just because you don't understand what they're saying. For instance, if Feynman showed up and told me that there are charm quarks, then I'd be unjustified in dismissing him. That's what ID and anti-vaccine folks do all the time: reject all authority they disagree with. Call it "appeal to anti-authority".
At sixteen hundred pages, it can only create about a fourth of the suckiness of the OOXML standard. Since that hasn't generated a black hole - except for maybe a few terabytes of lost data here and there - we should be safe.
Parents who expect to get day care for their kids as a free ride really piss me off. Why should the childless pay for somebody else's kids, so that the parents can have a cushy job?
Because age correlates highly with job experience and with having kids. If you want to attract experienced workers, you need to take care of the ones with children. Any other questions?