I disagree specifically with "people who can get by with Postgres wouldn't buy SQL server anyway" - I think the problem is that people _do_ use SQL server when they can get by with Postgres.
On a different note, I've never liked the idea of having a heavy database - i.e. one with code procedures etc. It seems to make more sense to keep the database as just a database and implement your model logic in the model classes of what ever access it. That way you can change the database fairly easily and aren't tied completely to one particular database system.
That depends on whether there's a competition for resources. It may turn out that almost all habitable planets have life. In which case habitable planets are rare and a resource to fight over.
However I think it's more likely that only a fraction of habitable planets (or almost habitable - i.e. within could be teraformed) are inhabited. In which case there's no competition for resources, and so other races wouldn't be a threat to us.
I haven't seen anyone point out the efficency of an carnot engine (car, your fridge, etc) depends on the output end being hot (the temperature difference).
If you cool the radiator to gain energy using this device, then you'll decrease the efficiency of the primary device.
e.g. if you connect this to the radiator at the back of your fridge, then your fridge will be less efficient.
I don't know whether the net gain is positive or negative though.
That's just silly. You have to pick and chose which parts to believe since it contradicts itself.
Very few Christians "suffer not a witch to live" as commanded. Almost all Christians will wear "cloth of mixed fibres" and so on. Not many Christians condone slavery (in fact it was a really big deal when Catholic church when against the old testament and said slavery was wrong).
Jesus himself said that you must not ignore "on iota" of the law of moses, so you can't even claim that the new testament supercedes the old testament.
You have to pick and chose which parts to follow and which not to. Most of the Old Testament is not compatible with "Love thy neighbour"
You get human readability, and you get a small file size. You need to put everything inside an achieve anyway since you have lots of different files (pictures, text, etc). It's mostly text anyway even ignoring the formatting codes, so you might as well compress the achieve, so what's the problem?
I'd rather have human readable markup in documents than save a few kilobytes.
Rather than giving stupid analogies, why don't you give a decent reason why this is bad?
Wow, it's almost as if we need some form of compression that would find often repeated strings and replace them with short strings. Let's invent it and write a program called gzip!
That's just nonsense. Putting a robots.txt file doesn't cost lots of money like printing on anti-photocopying paper.
A better analogy would be if you photocopied books with no indication that they shouldn't be protected. Almost every book you see has "all rights reservered, copyright @ year" on in it.
How can anyone possibly complain when they configure their webserver to allow google to view, do not put up a robots.txt, nor put a meta tag on the pages.
This is why people don't take you zealots seriously. Your fundamentalist foaming-at-mouth speaking just puts people off without getting your message across.
If you want to make a case about why a distro should include binary drivers and why we should give up the basic principles of a Free OS just for a short term gain but at the sacrifice of the long term, then you should try to do so with logic.
Frothing at the mad zealotry will blind you my friend.
My point about the hand held calculator was that it's not strange. I'm not talking about a high end TI, but a _standard_ calculator that does cos/sin.
You've never needed to do basic stuff like a*b + c*d + e*f etc that's just so nice to do on a handheld calculator but just difficult to do in windows calc?
Yeah after I hit submit, I just knew that some smartass would point out the memory store thing. But let's be honest - that's hardly a great way to do sums.
But seriously, consider that against the $15 calculator I bought where I type in: ( 3 + 4 ). It's all shown in graphical detail on the screen, and when I press enter, it shows the answer, and can show it as a fraction etc.
This isn't a fancy TI calculator, but pretty much the most basic cheapest calculator you can get with sin, cos etc functions.
Actually I took my pictures with Olan Mills (just before they went bankrupt) specifically because they would hand over the copyright (it was a special deal that you got all the pictures on a DVD - the copyright thing was a side effect).
Hi,
We had a similar program in KDE for how to sensible talk about how much memory apps use. For KDE 4 I have recently implemented some features to give a more accurate picture of how much memory apps use (I'm the maintainer of the KDE task manager app)
Gnome does something similar as well.
About 50% of the students in my computer science class were chinese women. None of them wanted to do computing, or had any interest in it at all. They did it because they had to and because they wanted the money from it. They weren't even any good at it.
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I disagree specifically with "people who can get by with Postgres wouldn't buy SQL server anyway" - I think the problem is that people _do_ use SQL server when they can get by with Postgres.
On a different note, I've never liked the idea of having a heavy database - i.e. one with code procedures etc. It seems to make more sense to keep the database as just a database and implement your model logic in the model classes of what ever access it. That way you can change the database fairly easily and aren't tied completely to one particular database system.
That depends on whether there's a competition for resources. It may turn out that almost all habitable planets have life. In which case habitable planets are rare and a resource to fight over.
However I think it's more likely that only a fraction of habitable planets (or almost habitable - i.e. within could be teraformed) are inhabited. In which case there's no competition for resources, and so other races wouldn't be a threat to us.
Space is really really really big.
Same reason why people don't stop smoking.
It's an addictive habit.
I haven't seen anyone point out the efficency of an carnot engine (car, your fridge, etc) depends on the output end being hot (the temperature difference).
If you cool the radiator to gain energy using this device, then you'll decrease the efficiency of the primary device.
e.g. if you connect this to the radiator at the back of your fridge, then your fridge will be less efficient.
I don't know whether the net gain is positive or negative though.
So, we are in full agreement then. The bible does contradict itself. Ergo you need to pick and choose which bits to follow.
You're saying that parsing a latex file into a editable memory structure is going to take up significantly less memory than an xml dom tree would?
That's just silly. You have to pick and chose which parts to believe since it contradicts itself.
Very few Christians "suffer not a witch to live" as commanded. Almost all Christians will wear "cloth of mixed fibres" and so on. Not many Christians condone slavery (in fact it was a really big deal when Catholic church when against the old testament and said slavery was wrong).
Jesus himself said that you must not ignore "on iota" of the law of moses, so you can't even claim that the new testament supercedes the old testament.
You have to pick and chose which parts to follow and which not to. Most of the Old Testament is not compatible with "Love thy neighbour"
You get human readability, and you get a small file size. You need to put everything inside an achieve anyway since you have lots of different files (pictures, text, etc). It's mostly text anyway even ignoring the formatting codes, so you might as well compress the achieve, so what's the problem?
I'd rather have human readable markup in documents than save a few kilobytes.
Rather than giving stupid analogies, why don't you give a decent reason why this is bad?
Wow, it's almost as if we need some form of compression that would find often repeated strings and replace them with short strings. Let's invent it and write a program called gzip!
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.
But I would count historians as scientists. Why wouldn't they be?
That's just nonsense. Putting a robots.txt file doesn't cost lots of money like printing on anti-photocopying paper.
A better analogy would be if you photocopied books with no indication that they shouldn't be protected. Almost every book you see has "all rights reservered, copyright @ year" on in it.
How can anyone possibly complain when they configure their webserver to allow google to view, do not put up a robots.txt, nor put a meta tag on the pages.
This is why people don't take you zealots seriously. Your fundamentalist foaming-at-mouth speaking just puts people off without getting your message across.
If you want to make a case about why a distro should include binary drivers and why we should give up the basic principles of a Free OS just for a short term gain but at the sacrifice of the long term, then you should try to do so with logic.
Frothing at the mad zealotry will blind you my friend.
Just FYI, use of an electron microscope is pretty cheap too. I'm charged £35 ($70) an hour.
My point about the hand held calculator was that it's not strange. I'm not talking about a high end TI, but a _standard_ calculator that does cos/sin.
You've never needed to do basic stuff like a*b + c*d + e*f etc that's just so nice to do on a handheld calculator but just difficult to do in windows calc?
Yeah after I hit submit, I just knew that some smartass would point out the memory store thing. But let's be honest - that's hardly a great way to do sums.
But seriously, consider that against the $15 calculator I bought where I type in: ( 3 + 4 ). It's all shown in graphical detail on the screen, and when I press enter, it shows the answer, and can show it as a fraction etc.
This isn't a fancy TI calculator, but pretty much the most basic cheapest calculator you can get with sin, cos etc functions.
And yet I cannot even do the most basic sqrt( 3^2 + 4^2) equation.
I've never understood why basic apps like the calculator and the character selector etc apps don't receive any love.
They seem like great places were a couple of developers could just be given the job to fix them up. Yet they never seem to improve.
No, it's to suggest that Bush is a more republican candidate than the opposition
Well, now that Olan Mills has gone bankrupt, all those negatives are probably lost forever!
Yay.
Actually I took my pictures with Olan Mills (just before they went bankrupt) specifically because they would hand over the copyright (it was a special deal that you got all the pictures on a DVD - the copyright thing was a side effect).
Hi,
We had a similar program in KDE for how to sensible talk about how much memory apps use. For KDE 4 I have recently implemented some features to give a more accurate picture of how much memory apps use (I'm the maintainer of the KDE task manager app)
Gnome does something similar as well.
He didn't put any words into people's mouths. He said that Microsoft and Apple control their customers via anti-trust practises and by imposing DRM.
Maybe one day you'll learn to attack the points that people make.
As opposed to before that time with the Ancient Greeks and the Library of Alexander etc ?
We were questioning things and trying to understand them way before 1600!
About 50% of the students in my computer science class were chinese women. None of them wanted to do computing, or had any interest in it at all. They did it because they had to and because they wanted the money from it. They weren't even any good at it.
But how many of those women take those toys apart? *grin*