> What I think would be interesting is if the mom and pops could create co-ops to do the same > thing nation-wide. "Look, we're all individuals but together we represent a thousand > restaurants.
I think this was tried in France for some hotels and restaurants under the label "relais vert" IIRC (not sure of the name, I remember the label was yellow and green). I don't know if it still exist, but whenever I ate in such a restaurant (and I did it a number of times), I always found the food below average and overpriced.
> We promise to buy in this quantity at these prices, and if anyone drops out, the rest of the > members will pick up the slack." Very hard to do 30 years ago but with computers these days, > should be far easier.
I think this is the way the 'E.Leclerc' french supermarkets work since they were created in the 50' (see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edouard_Leclerc ), and from what we can see around us, it works.
Some wines are also very good young, but do not age well beyond 4 or 5 years. Personally I really love wines from the Loire valley (Saumur, Bourgueil, Anjou...) which, for me, are in the best ones from a price/quality point of view (less than 10 euros/bottle). Unfortunately, from my experience, they don't age very well even kept in fine cellars.
On a different subject : why the fuck is this slashdot comment input box so narrow ??? This wasn't the case last time I typed a comment...
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> Where I am there is more C# work going on than any other single language.
What would be VERY interesting would be to have some people to accept to have those detected neurons (their neurons) to be destructed (laser ?), and see if they still remember the event these neurons were thought to have "memorized".
I know I wouldn't accept this to be done to me even for Science's sake...
> Either way, this could turn out to be a big hassle for Best Western. If only they could let me know > if my personal data was affected.
They will : they've just decided to put the list of names, addresses, and credit card information of the compromised client records freely available online for you to check. For convenience, they've put these datas available for download as an Excel spreadsheet as well.
This morning we had a planned shutdown of 100 servers for eletricity works, all were on the same 40 kVA UPS. All went fine, we shutdown all servers to be safe, and kept some stuff online for montoring and the like, then main power was shut off. The UPS gladly took the load, with an estimated battery life of 75 minutes, more than what was needed for the electrical work. Once this was done, the electrician put the main power back on, and... the UPS shutdown !
Since all servers were stopped already we didn't lose anything, but we had to put the UPS in bypass mode for a while, then back on, and now we hope for the best waiting for the UPS to be repaired, crossing most of our fingers because of the holidays...
In summary : testing that the UPS can handle the power coming back is as important as testing for it to be able to handle the power shutting down.
In case you didn't notice because you can't read, we (both the OP and me) were talking about the libraries, not the language itself. If I trust what you say, Java's libraries (the default ones) can't do anything "remotely" (this is the word) useful unless you install tons of add-ons, so basically they could as well have been thrown away a long time ago. So Java is bloated but does nothing by default excepted print "Hello World" (yes this is trollish). Java has always been overhyped by companies like Sun (but not only them).
> I wish that someone would create a non-bloat version of the Java class libraries. Do an analysis > of important use cases, redesigned the class libraries to be much less "fluffy"
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> What I think would be interesting is if the mom and pops could create co-ops to do the same
> thing nation-wide. "Look, we're all individuals but together we represent a thousand
> restaurants.
I think this was tried in France for some hotels and restaurants under the label "relais vert" IIRC (not sure of the name, I remember the label was yellow and green). I don't know if it still exist, but whenever I ate in such a restaurant (and I did it a number of times), I always found the food below average and overpriced.
> We promise to buy in this quantity at these prices, and if anyone drops out, the rest of the
> members will pick up the slack." Very hard to do 30 years ago but with computers these days,
> should be far easier.
I think this is the way the 'E.Leclerc' french supermarkets work since they were created in the 50' (see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edouard_Leclerc ), and from what we can see around us, it works.
> That 25% of the judges thought it was human is quite alarming.
Unless all judges were, in fact, computers...
Western devices ?
Last time I checked, Japan (Sony) was in China's East, not West.
Some wines are also very good young, but do not age well beyond 4 or 5 years. Personally I really love wines from the Loire valley (Saumur, Bourgueil, Anjou...) which, for me, are in the best ones from a price/quality point of view (less than 10 euros/bottle). Unfortunately, from my experience, they don't age very well even kept in fine cellars.
On a different subject : why the fuck is this slashdot comment input box so narrow ??? This wasn't the case last time I typed a comment...
> Where I am there is more C# work going on than any other single language.
Are you in Wall Street, by chance ?
> one of computer programming's most widely used languages -- C#
Any link to back this ?
(no, I didn't RTFA)
> A bit like when US government sends prisoners to countries that allows torture.
You mean like when US government sends prisoners to the USA ?
BTW their hash function is something like this :
IP=[192, 168, 1, 123] :-)
HASH = (IP[0] 24) + (IP[1] 16) + (IP[2] 8) + IP[3]
What would be VERY interesting would be to have some people to accept to have those detected neurons (their neurons) to be destructed (laser ?), and see if they still remember the event these neurons were thought to have "memorized".
I know I wouldn't accept this to be done to me even for Science's sake...
> Either way, this could turn out to be a big hassle for Best Western. If only they could let me know
> if my personal data was affected.
They will : they've just decided to put the list of names, addresses, and credit card information of the compromised client records freely available online for you to check. For convenience, they've put these datas available for download as an Excel spreadsheet as well.
You made my day with this one !
Thanks
Maybe the plane was in a tunnel at that time.
Keys fell from your keyboard but you are still seriously recommending that people buy from Apple ? Are you joking ?
I've bought an IBM PS/2 keyboard back in 1994, it had never lost any key and still works like if it was still brand new.
> By the way my patent on the biological reproductive process in humans will go into affect today.
> So all you with kids prepare to cough up.
Well, you're on /. so nobody will pay you a dime, unless you've also patented the stimulation of self genital organs with one's hand.
This morning we had a planned shutdown of 100 servers for eletricity works, all were on the same 40 kVA UPS. All went fine, we shutdown all servers to be safe, and kept some stuff online for montoring and the like, then main power was shut off. The UPS gladly took the load, with an estimated battery life of 75 minutes, more than what was needed for the electrical work. Once this was done, the electrician put the main power back on, and... the UPS shutdown !
Since all servers were stopped already we didn't lose anything, but we had to put the UPS in bypass mode for a while, then back on, and now we hope for the best waiting for the UPS to be repaired, crossing most of our fingers because of the holidays...
In summary : testing that the UPS can handle the power coming back is as important as testing for it to be able to handle the power shutting down.
Please stop to be an acronym NAZI !
Sure, to brick these laptops he should remotely install Vista on them instead.
> it sure has a large install base.
and a large memory footprint.
if I put my finger in my nose, does it understand that I want to watch some porn ?
a lot of packets lost if they route them through France...
Just 'rm /etc/resolv.conf' and you're done.
In case you didn't notice because you can't read, we (both the OP and me) were talking about the libraries, not the language itself. If I trust what you say, Java's libraries (the default ones) can't do anything "remotely" (this is the word) useful unless you install tons of add-ons, so basically they could as well have been thrown away a long time ago. So Java is bloated but does nothing by default excepted print "Hello World" (yes this is trollish). Java has always been overhyped by companies like Sun (but not only them).
Sorry I was thinking about individuals or small companies.
> I wish that someone would create a non-bloat version of the Java class libraries. Do an analysis
> of important use cases, redesigned the class libraries to be much less "fluffy"
Somebody did just this already.
Circa 1997 nobody could afford having 2 GB of RAM.