Done. I just bought 512MB (2x256) of Micron PC2100 DDR 266MHz RAM for my new Athlon box. I was only going to get 256MB, but altima2000.com (no link because I don't recommend them) only sent me 128MB. So while I'm waiting for them to get it back and send me what I paid for, I got another stick at the wonderful General Nanosystems on University Avenue in Minneapolis.
You answered your own question. MS isn't a player in the high-end database space. It will be.
Not to troll, or start a flamewar or anything, but MSSQL 2000 (== MSSQL 8.0 == MSSQL 7.5) is a pretty good DBMS. I haven't seen anything to touch it on a MS platform. The cynical might say that the MSSQL releases right after they hire a bunch of talent from the competition are always the best. This release appears to follow that rule. --
Even before science back up the claims of harm from smoking, it was a common fact that smoking was not good for you.
Common, except for the tobacco companies, who frequently trotted out their own experts to point out there was no proof that smoking caused $DISEASE. When it could be shown that the officers of the company knew that this was false, they became liable.
If Miller, Coors or Budweiser ran an ad saying "Have an extra beer before you drive home. There's no proof it'll make you crash" they'd be similarly liable. --
When New Scientist was read by intelligent people, they wrote about intelligent robots. Now they write about dim-witted robots.
ObNotFlamingNS: This has been one of my pet peeves for a long time. We threw all this time and effort at creating AI, when we didn't even know how to create Artificial Stupidity. Humans did not walk fully-formed from the primordial slime. It took evolution a lot of trial and error to get from slime to scorpions to us. We should use the benefit of hindsight to avoid errors like the dinosaurs, but that doesn't mean we can skip all the steps on the way. We might miss an important lesson. --
Re:Air pressure would not be an issue.
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My wife passed out while we were driving up Mauna Kea. Fortunately I was driving. If the interprative center at 9000 feet had been open, we might have properly acclimatized, although we did also stop for a few minutes at the first observatory level to take pictures of ourselves in the snow. --
Graham's Number, a number so huge it needs its own notation, a number that dwarfs Littlewood's Number (10 ^ 10 ^ 34), is the upper bound for a problem to which most people think the answer is 6.
How many different songs are there? I don't know. But apparently there are less than 2^128.
Hey, this could help with the problem "What's the song that goes mmm-mmm-m-mmm?". Simply hum a few bars, take the acoustic fingerprint and query Napster's db for the artist, songwriter and song title.
It should also put an upper limit on creativity. If there are only 128 bits in the fingerprint then there are only 2^128 possible songs. --
2)How do you profit from someone's stock tanking unless you're a competitor? If the price goes down, and you hold stock, don't you lose money regardless of how much anyone else loses?
It's called shorting. Basically you borrow stock from someone else and sell it. When they want it back you buy some. Read up on it at The Motley Fool (about two thirds of the way down that page). They don't like it because there's unlimited potential losses. --
You can, of course, impose any terms you want on your intellectual property. Simply ask anyone who you give it to to sign a contract. Not click-through, but sign.
The "content industry" doesn't think people want to sign a contract every time they buy a CD or DVD or book. Instead, they are trying to extend copyright law to achieve the same ends.
You would be upset if you bought cookies from me, only to be subsequently told that you could only eat them with a knife and fork, and that you could only get approved cutlery from me. DMCA makes this legal, in terms of IP. --
I started programming on an 8088. Then I got the first 286 in our department. Then I switched jobs, and had to stay on a 286 while the other developers got their 386s. I didn't get a 486, or a Pentium, until I bought one (not at the same time).
In 1995 I proved to my manager that by buying each of his 5 developers a P90 instead of the 486DX75s we had, we would save the equivalent of one full time programmer. He said no. Don't ever confuse head count with capital budget. Finance people hate that.
Did we ship late? Sometimes. Do I ship stuff late now with my aging PII-366 laptop? Sometimes. So I ship it any later than the guy at the next desk with the 900MHz PIII? No. --
Your metaphor is a little skewed. You are asking us to take the whole barrel of apples, even though there are no good apples in the top layer, and the whole thing stinks like a Jon Katz article on a hot day.
Of the 5 or 6 items of spam that arrive daily in my spam folder, there is none from "legitimate" businesses. No valid return addresses. None from businesses that I would consider dealing with. Your "make money slowly enough to be ligitimate" email gets lost with the dreck. So don't send it. The customers you get will be the ones who also want to lose 20lbs in 20 days --
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Done. I just bought 512MB (2x256) of Micron PC2100 DDR 266MHz RAM for my new Athlon box. I was only going to get 256MB, but altima2000.com (no link because I don't recommend them) only sent me 128MB. So while I'm waiting for them to get it back and send me what I paid for, I got another stick at the wonderful General Nanosystems on University Avenue in Minneapolis.
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The inclusion of web-browsers and a tcp-ip stack as "standard equipment" in an OS
How about rewriting that as:
preventing the inclusion of web-browsers and a tcp-ip stack as "standard equipment" on a computer
In my mind, one of the more evil things Microsoft has ever done is to use their OS monopoly to deny the OEM sales channel to Netscape.
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Like this guy? Pardon me while I stuff cheese in my ears.
He is (probably unwillinigly) today's Cruel Site of the Day.
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where is the educational sectors fat, rude loud mouth in a wheelchair?
Oxford.
All of them.
Disclaimer: I went to Cambridge. Dislike for Oxford is a requirement for graduation.
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Aaargh!
That's worse than the goatse.cx guy.
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You answered your own question. MS isn't a player in the high-end database space. It will be.
Not to troll, or start a flamewar or anything, but MSSQL 2000 (== MSSQL 8.0 == MSSQL 7.5) is a pretty good DBMS. I haven't seen anything to touch it on a MS platform. The cynical might say that the MSSQL releases right after they hire a bunch of talent from the competition are always the best. This release appears to follow that rule.
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I assume it's a derivative of "whoo-hoo" or similar whooping noises.
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Even before science back up the claims of harm from smoking, it was a common fact that smoking was not good for you.
Common, except for the tobacco companies, who frequently trotted out their own experts to point out there was no proof that smoking caused $DISEASE. When it could be shown that the officers of the company knew that this was false, they became liable.
If Miller, Coors or Budweiser ran an ad saying "Have an extra beer before you drive home. There's no proof it'll make you crash" they'd be similarly liable.
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I believe at this point I'm supposed to say "w00t".
Thank you.
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When New Scientist was read by intelligent people, they wrote about intelligent robots. Now they write about dim-witted robots.
ObNotFlamingNS: This has been one of my pet peeves for a long time. We threw all this time and effort at creating AI, when we didn't even know how to create Artificial Stupidity. Humans did not walk fully-formed from the primordial slime. It took evolution a lot of trial and error to get from slime to scorpions to us. We should use the benefit of hindsight to avoid errors like the dinosaurs, but that doesn't mean we can skip all the steps on the way. We might miss an important lesson.
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My wife passed out while we were driving up Mauna Kea. Fortunately I was driving. If the interprative center at 9000 feet had been open, we might have properly acclimatized, although we did also stop for a few minutes at the first observatory level to take pictures of ourselves in the snow.
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Graham's Number, a number so huge it needs its own notation, a number that dwarfs Littlewood's Number (10 ^ 10 ^ 34), is the upper bound for a problem to which most people think the answer is 6.
How many different songs are there? I don't know. But apparently there are less than 2^128.
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Hey, this could help with the problem "What's the song that goes mmm-mmm-m-mmm?". Simply hum a few bars, take the acoustic fingerprint and query Napster's db for the artist, songwriter and song title.
It should also put an upper limit on creativity. If there are only 128 bits in the fingerprint then there are only 2^128 possible songs.
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2)How do you profit from someone's stock tanking unless you're a competitor? If the price goes down, and you hold stock, don't you lose money regardless of how much anyone else loses?
It's called shorting. Basically you borrow stock from someone else and sell it. When they want it back you buy some. Read up on it at The Motley Fool (about two thirds of the way down that page). They don't like it because there's unlimited potential losses.
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I can't believe I did that.
Mod me down, please.
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1) mod up the five slashdotters on the list below.
2) reply to the article (not this post).
3) copy this post into your new post.
4) Remove the top karma whore
5) add a link to your
6) post!
7) Paste the URL of your post into your
Within days you will receive at least 50 karma points.
People to mod up
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"programmers ... have the natural herding instincts of paranoid tigers"
Makes the EDS "herding cats" ad look pretty tame.
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From the article
And Linus Torvalds (creator of the Linux bazaar), rather than Bill Gates, may be the subject of epic films in the future.
Penguins of Silicon Valley?
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Isn't there a very limited market of people who want to plunge into the ocean at Mach 5?
Should have no problem getting venture capital, though.
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I'm moving back to England. No solar power for me :-(
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Given that PETA (link) are in favour of hoof & mouth disease, I don't think they can complain too much about the suffering of lamprey larvae.
If I get enough hrefs in my post do I qualify as a karma whore?
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You can, of course, impose any terms you want on your intellectual property. Simply ask anyone who you give it to to sign a contract. Not click-through, but sign.
The "content industry" doesn't think people want to sign a contract every time they buy a CD or DVD or book. Instead, they are trying to extend copyright law to achieve the same ends.
You would be upset if you bought cookies from me, only to be subsequently told that you could only eat them with a knife and fork, and that you could only get approved cutlery from me. DMCA makes this legal, in terms of IP.
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Oh yeah, that's informative.
When moderation costs you karma only karma whores will moderate. Or something like that.
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I started programming on an 8088. Then I got the first 286 in our department. Then I switched jobs, and had to stay on a 286 while the other developers got their 386s. I didn't get a 486, or a Pentium, until I bought one (not at the same time).
In 1995 I proved to my manager that by buying each of his 5 developers a P90 instead of the 486DX75s we had, we would save the equivalent of one full time programmer. He said no. Don't ever confuse head count with capital budget. Finance people hate that.
Did we ship late? Sometimes. Do I ship stuff late now with my aging PII-366 laptop? Sometimes. So I ship it any later than the guy at the next desk with the 900MHz PIII? No.
--
Your metaphor is a little skewed. You are asking us to take the whole barrel of apples, even though there are no good apples in the top layer, and the whole thing stinks like a Jon Katz article on a hot day.
Of the 5 or 6 items of spam that arrive daily in my spam folder, there is none from "legitimate" businesses. No valid return addresses. None from businesses that I would consider dealing with. Your "make money slowly enough to be ligitimate" email gets lost with the dreck. So don't send it. The customers you get will be the ones who also want to lose 20lbs in 20 days
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