Trajan's bridge over the Danube (built between 103 and 105) was over a thousand meters long and 15 meters wides. Each individual arch that made up the bridge was over 35 meters long. Roman bridges in Spain that still exist extend over 800 meters. And then there are the various Byzantine bridges...
Not to mention the two mile long pontoon bridge built by the Persians so that their foot soldiers and cavalry could cross the Hellespont prior to the battle of Thermompylae.
Sure, a 150 foot rope bridge is a neat design, but it doesn't really compare in scale of engineering to the bridges of the ancient world.
Assuming that we're talking about only giving up an/individual/ right to vote. So long as other people's votes are so cheap, the interest alone on a million dollars can buy more votes than I'll ever had. Even 1% of a million bucks buys a lot of iPods.
The paraphrase of Plato from the grandparent post may not have addressed Plato's opinion of most people being neither completely good or completely evil, but if you're even passingly acquainted with Plato's works you should realize that he fully understands laws as being there for the people in the middle.
And I think your estimation of the quality of laws being key is mistaken. I might agree that high quality laws combined with a high quality enforcement process would make a tremendous impact. But as it stands, culture and mores tend to matter much more. For example, would theft rates go up if stealing was not forbidden by the law? Perhaps, but I'm not so certain.
Just imagine a set of deep pockets like IBM going around suing every large firm that aggressively impresses upon smaller firms that it would be prudent to pay for 'the protection of a large defensive patent portfolio.'
That's quite a few units. If I remember the numbers correctly, the latest version of Madden didn't sell that many units across all of the platforms its on the first month hit was out. It looks like about 1 out of 3 XBox 360 owners purchased Halo 3.
A large number of commercial products cannot be open sourced because they are built on top of proprietary libraries licensed from third parties. In fact, Star Office had a fair amount of such code that was pulled out before the source was released. If you go back to the early days of OpenOffice.org, you'll see how much work was put into reconstructing functionality that was removed before release of the code.
Top twenty list for August broken down by platform:
XBox 360: 5
Wii: 5
DS: 4
PS/2: 3
PSP: 1
PS/3: 1
Xbox: 1
Obviously this doesn't reflect the entire catalog. It does, however, suggest that the Wii catalog is selling just fine. The linked article only listed number of units for the top 10 games. There, the 1.3M games units were sold for the 360 vs. the 0.7M game units for the Wii. But the top ten has only 2 360 titles vs. 4 titles for the Wii. Obviously, the market thinks that the Wii has a decent catalog of games.
As soon as I saw the first version of the funky new controller on the (then) Revolution, I was fairly certain that Nintendo was going to come out on top of this round of the console wars.
What I didn't see was how well Microsoft was going to execute on the 360 and how badly Sony was going to drop the ball on the PS/3.
Are you really so functionally illiterate that you're unable to use a dictionary? If so, clicky:
dictionary.reference.com. Note the usage note cited from the American Heritage Dictionary:
Fact has a long history of usage in the sense "allegation of fact," as in "This tract was distributed to thousands of American teachers, but the facts and the reasoning are wrong" (Albert Shanker). This practice has led to the introduction of the phrases true facts and real facts, as in The true facts of the case may never be known. These usages may occasion qualms among critics who insist that facts can only be true, but the usages are often useful for emphasis.
I also highly recommend taking a trip down to your local library and asking to see the Oxford English Dictionary. If you do, you can see the etymology of various senses of the word. You'll discover that the sense of the word ``Something that is alleged to be, or conceivably might be, a 'fact''' goes back at least to the early eighteenth century.
If the results here are based on self-identification as either liberal or conservative, that in itself would be a large potential flaw with this study.
A fact can be ``something that actually exists; reality; truth'' or ``a truth known by actual experience or observation'' but it can also be ``something said to be true or supposed to have happened'' or even ``an actual or alleged event or circumstance''.
Only the first of these definitions points to a meaning where a `fact' is unequivocally and always true.
It looks to me like this argument is conflating an abstraction (relational theory) with its physical implementation. An RDBS shouldn't really care about whether data is stored by rows or columns.
In the state of Ohio, a teacher (or other representative of the school) cannot search a backpack or a book bag without consent of the owner without reasonable cause. Lockers are different because they are the property of the school.
In the late nineties, people could get a decent tech job just by knowing how to edit files in vi. This was because large numbers of people with actual experience were getting hired by the dot coms soon to be dot bombs.
Today, I know of experienced people working crappy first level support jobs simply because there isn't much else out there. While things are far better than they were in the early 00's, they still aren't all that great and are far short of the bubble in the nineties.
1. Find people who have taken the old oral assessment for the US foreign service and get them to tell you about the sorts of questions they were asked in the personal interview. They're brutal and most involve worst case scenarios and ask the candidate what they would do in those situations.
2. Ask what their biggest cock-up as a manager was and how they would do things differently. Toss them out on their ear if they can't think of anything.
3. Ask what they would change about management where they currently work.
And above all look for the ability to think abstractly rather than concretely in the answers provided to all questions.
But the results add up to more than 100% so if it was ``pick one'' then the results are bogus anyway. But I do agree that is highly irregular to subdivide version's of one vendor's products but not the others.
They survey is a multiple selection survey of what databases a certain number of developers intend to use for development platforms in a given span of time. You can only combine the two Oracle products together if there is no overlap between respondents who answered Oracle 9i and respondents who answered Oracle 10g. The survey had MS SQL at 61% and MS Access at 38%. If we used the same arithmetic, we'd have 99% of developers intending to use a Microsoft database platform. But, the truth of the matter is that there is a significant amount of overlap between those who use SQL Server and those who use Access as one of the more popular uses for Access is as a front end to SQL Server.
From the analysis I've seen of the Evans Data numbers, you can't pull out enough information to find out how many developers are using either Oracle 9i or Oracle 10g. Rather you can only know that of the developers polled, 20% use one and 22% use the other. How much overlap exists between those two groups is unknown. For that matter, how much overlap between MySQL developers and MS SQL developers is unknown. The actual report might break things down enough to get good information but I've only seen the treatment by various trade rags rather than actual report.
I was thinking about this and the commentator made a really big mistake unless we assume that no developers who intend to work with Oracle 10g are also working with Oracle 9i. Since the survey allowed for multiple answers, you can't just add the numbers of the two Oracle products together.
On the other hand, at least the commentator didn't add the numbers for MS SQL to the numbers for Access and conclude that MS has a combined 99% market share.
They're combining different versions (10g and 9i) of the same product. I'd have more sympathy for the distinction for the split if they (a) differentiated along those lines for all vendors or (b) they were differentiating distinct products such as the flagship Oracle RDBMS vs. the products the various database vendors purchased by Oracle that they still offer for sale while the features are being folded into future versions of Oracle proper.
The survey ``asked developers at 517 companies in its 2006 winter survey what database they developed with'' with developers allowed to give multiple answers. It isn't clear to me why Oracle was split between two versions while none of the other databases were.
With three Macs in the house, the most economical way for me to legally upgrade is Apple's household bundles that come with five licenses. Meaning that at any given time, I've usually got one or two licenses that I'm not using. I doubt that I'm the only person in this situation.
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Trajan's bridge over the Danube (built between 103 and 105) was over a thousand meters long and 15 meters wides. Each individual arch that made up the bridge was over 35 meters long. Roman bridges in Spain that still exist extend over 800 meters. And then there are the various Byzantine bridges ...
Not to mention the two mile long pontoon bridge built by the Persians so that their foot soldiers and cavalry could cross the Hellespont prior to the battle of Thermompylae.
Sure, a 150 foot rope bridge is a neat design, but it doesn't really compare in scale of engineering to the bridges of the ancient world.
Assuming that we're talking about only giving up an /individual/ right to vote. So long as other people's votes are so cheap, the interest alone on a million dollars can buy more votes than I'll ever had. Even 1% of a million bucks buys a lot of iPods.
The paraphrase of Plato from the grandparent post may not have addressed Plato's opinion of most people being neither completely good or completely evil, but if you're even passingly acquainted with Plato's works you should realize that he fully understands laws as being there for the people in the middle.
And I think your estimation of the quality of laws being key is mistaken. I might agree that high quality laws combined with a high quality enforcement process would make a tremendous impact. But as it stands, culture and mores tend to matter much more. For example, would theft rates go up if stealing was not forbidden by the law? Perhaps, but I'm not so certain.
I think /. will lose half of its page views without the regular release of console sales numbers to spawn 500+ comment threads on why sucks.
... a college course in symbolic logic. But somehow I think the benefits of course in symbolic logic would be of greater worth.
Further, I hope IBM aggressively enforces it.
Just imagine a set of deep pockets like IBM going around suing every large firm that aggressively impresses upon smaller firms that it would be prudent to pay for 'the protection of a large defensive patent portfolio.'
Would that not make the world a better place?
That's quite a few units. If I remember the numbers correctly, the latest version of Madden didn't sell that many units across all of the platforms its on the first month hit was out. It looks like about 1 out of 3 XBox 360 owners purchased Halo 3.
A large number of commercial products cannot be open sourced because they are built on top of proprietary libraries licensed from third parties. In fact, Star Office had a fair amount of such code that was pulled out before the source was released. If you go back to the early days of OpenOffice.org, you'll see how much work was put into reconstructing functionality that was removed before release of the code.
Top twenty list for August broken down by platform:
XBox 360: 5
Wii: 5
DS: 4
PS/2: 3
PSP: 1
PS/3: 1
Xbox: 1
Obviously this doesn't reflect the entire catalog. It does, however, suggest that the Wii catalog is selling just fine. The linked article only listed number of units for the top 10 games. There, the 1.3M games units were sold for the 360 vs. the 0.7M game units for the Wii. But the top ten has only 2 360 titles vs. 4 titles for the Wii. Obviously, the market thinks that the Wii has a decent catalog of games.
As soon as I saw the first version of the funky new controller on the (then) Revolution, I was fairly certain that Nintendo was going to come out on top of this round of the console wars.
What I didn't see was how well Microsoft was going to execute on the 360 and how badly Sony was going to drop the ball on the PS/3.
I also highly recommend taking a trip down to your local library and asking to see the Oxford English Dictionary. If you do, you can see the etymology of various senses of the word. You'll discover that the sense of the word ``Something that is alleged to be, or conceivably might be, a 'fact''' goes back at least to the early eighteenth century.
If the results here are based on self-identification as either liberal or conservative, that in itself would be a large potential flaw with this study.
Only the first of these definitions points to a meaning where a `fact' is unequivocally and always true.
It looks to me like this argument is conflating an abstraction (relational theory) with its physical implementation. An RDBS shouldn't really care about whether data is stored by rows or columns.
In the state of Ohio, a teacher (or other representative of the school) cannot search a backpack or a book bag without consent of the owner without reasonable cause. Lockers are different because they are the property of the school.
Today, I know of experienced people working crappy first level support jobs simply because there isn't much else out there. While things are far better than they were in the early 00's, they still aren't all that great and are far short of the bubble in the nineties.
1. Find people who have taken the old oral assessment for the US foreign service and get them to tell you about the sorts of questions they were asked in the personal interview. They're brutal and most involve worst case scenarios and ask the candidate what they would do in those situations.
2. Ask what their biggest cock-up as a manager was and how they would do things differently. Toss them out on their ear if they can't think of anything.
3. Ask what they would change about management where they currently work.
And above all look for the ability to think abstractly rather than concretely in the answers provided to all questions.
But the results add up to more than 100% so if it was ``pick one'' then the results are bogus anyway. But I do agree that is highly irregular to subdivide version's of one vendor's products but not the others.
They survey is a multiple selection survey of what databases a certain number of developers intend to use for development platforms in a given span of time. You can only combine the two Oracle products together if there is no overlap between respondents who answered Oracle 9i and respondents who answered Oracle 10g. The survey had MS SQL at 61% and MS Access at 38%. If we used the same arithmetic, we'd have 99% of developers intending to use a Microsoft database platform. But, the truth of the matter is that there is a significant amount of overlap between those who use SQL Server and those who use Access as one of the more popular uses for Access is as a front end to SQL Server.
From the analysis I've seen of the Evans Data numbers, you can't pull out enough information to find out how many developers are using either Oracle 9i or Oracle 10g. Rather you can only know that of the developers polled, 20% use one and 22% use the other. How much overlap exists between those two groups is unknown. For that matter, how much overlap between MySQL developers and MS SQL developers is unknown. The actual report might break things down enough to get good information but I've only seen the treatment by various trade rags rather than actual report.
I was thinking about this and the commentator made a really big mistake unless we assume that no developers who intend to work with Oracle 10g are also working with Oracle 9i. Since the survey allowed for multiple answers, you can't just add the numbers of the two Oracle products together.
On the other hand, at least the commentator didn't add the numbers for MS SQL to the numbers for Access and conclude that MS has a combined 99% market share.
They're combining different versions (10g and 9i) of the same product. I'd have more sympathy for the distinction for the split if they (a) differentiated along those lines for all vendors or (b) they were differentiating distinct products such as the flagship Oracle RDBMS vs. the products the various database vendors purchased by Oracle that they still offer for sale while the features are being folded into future versions of Oracle proper.
The survey ``asked developers at 517 companies in its 2006 winter survey what database they developed with'' with developers allowed to give multiple answers. It isn't clear to me why Oracle was split between two versions while none of the other databases were.
I certainly didn't because I don't.
Visitors to the iTunes store.
With three Macs in the house, the most economical way for me to legally upgrade is Apple's household bundles that come with five licenses. Meaning that at any given time, I've usually got one or two licenses that I'm not using. I doubt that I'm the only person in this situation.