But Mysql / MariaDB still beat PostgreSQL when it comes to replication.
...dafuq?
Dude, MySQL didn't even get two-way replication until 5.1 (and at the time you had to jimmy with Federation and SQL threads to get even that functionality). I'm sure it may have gotten easier/better since then, but compared to psql, it still ain't all that much to write home about.
Now master -> slave replication? Sure... MySQL is easier and even more fine-grained in some aspects. But Master-Master replication (you know, like you would set up in making an HA cluster)? IIRC MySQL does it, but it's a separate product that I think you have to purchase.*
* there could be a community/OSS version out there, but I kinda doubt it.
Well how would we go about treating them with dignity? We would have to give in to their unreasonable demands to turn off the wifi, would we not?
Not really. If there's an established physical link, they can faraday-up their home and be just fine. If there's no physical link (most likely), then psychiatric treatment is in order.
To be honest, there is research into alleged sensitivity to RF/EM Radiation, and there are credible studies which suggest that even if there is no definitive physical link, the symptoms are quite real (now whether or not it's psychosomatic, or something with an actual physical cause? That's another argument entirely. However, neither finding invalidates the symptoms in such a case.)
In either case, standard wifi isn't powerful enough to do much, especially when compared to high-tension power lines, or commercial/military radar sets. Yes frequency ranges vary, etc etc... but as parent said, there's an easy way to help folks figure out definitively whether or not it's an actual reaction or just a psychological thing, and appropriate treatment can be set up as a result.
Personally, I've played with everything from small microwave transmitters up to ECM pods and APG-66 radar sets, and I'm perfectly fine with hanging around it (but in the latter cases, taking precautions to avoid being literally cooked is rather paramount), so I'm not advocating that we pamper anybody here or dismantle civilization to accommodate anybody... but as parent said, that doesn't mean we shouldn't treat someone showing physical or mental symptoms with anything less than basic human dignity.
Agreed. Small disclosure: I'm from this particular bit of the planet. I can say that even 20 years ago, it was growing and doing very well - both academically and otherwise (especially compared with the rest of the state.) Incidentally, Fayetteville (the largest city in the area, just south of Springdale) is the home of the University of Arkansas, which is well regarded in its own right.
As for Healthcare, it is actually top-notch when compared to most of the South, and even most of the US.
The cost of living used to be insanely low, until Californians by the boatload began moving into the region during the 1990s; at the time, I could live very well and own a fairly nice home, all on a salary of roughly $30k/yr.
TFA caught my attention because of the numbers. When I left in 1999, the two counties had maybe 150,000 souls living there... 10k is a pretty significant percentage, no?
That would be correct under the condition that the jets in question all use the same radar set, which would make perfect sense, and be consistent considering that the RTWR uses radar signatures as a cue to identify the source.
Err, small technical note: the F-16 RTWR ("Radar Threat Warning Receiver") system can certainly be updated to account for different signatures, and the antennae are located all about the perimeter of the plane for full 360-bubble-style reception.
Pretty sure that while not a perfect setup (given the commonality of radar set components/behaviors across airframes), it would probably have zero problems telling friendlies from the not-friendlies.;)
If this claim is true, then Russians planes are shitty.
(I'm turkish),
The F-16 is a very capable fighter (especially when flown clean - that is, not weighed down with a LANTIRN pod or wing tanks). It's capable of sustained 9G maneuvers, and can even accelerate while flying straight up - which most jets cannot do. It has superior pilot visibility, has up to 9 hardpoints on which to mount armament, and there's a built-in 20mm cannon to boot (just behind the canopy on the right-hand side above the strake).
It may have been designed and built in the early-mid 1970s, but it was far ahead of its time, even back then. It was originally built as a 'cheap-but-plentiful' fighter (to compliment/support the expensive flagship F-15 fighters), but in the right hands, 'the little jet that could' turns out to be quite a little badass in its own right.
I shudder to think how WWII would have ended if the alliance powers had each worried so much about what the other sides would do AFTER they defeated Hitler that they refused to ally with one another to begin with.
Oh, believe me - they worried. Churchill openly worried about it (especially post-Yalta, where he saw that the UK got screwed pretty hard.) Roosevelt worried about it, though not as much... now post WWII, his big worry was that Gen. Patton would decide 'fuck it', and start a fight with the USSR anyway (just to get it out of the way).
Incidentally, there were more than a few tense crises between East and West (towards and at the end of WWII) that never really made the papers - the relative silence was only because back then, the government would tell the press to shut the hell up about something, and the press (more often than not) compliantly kept quiet about it.
1) the kid was not arrested, nor did he suffer any "damages" in light of the celebrity and overly-friendly treatment from the President, and 2) once the jury hears about his overly-activist father and the lawyer's insinuation that the whole thing was a set-up?
I used to think the same way... then I had to go from Portland to Seattle on business... a lot.
Turns out that the train takes the same amount of travel time (esp. when you factor in traffic), and when you add up gas and the cost of parking in Downtown Seattle (where even hotels will charge something like $40/day), it is actually somewhat *cheaper* than driving. Seattle is small enough size-wise to make most of it walkable without too much trouble.
I'd much rather sit in a fairly cozy seat on the train, plug in the laptop, maybe grab something to eat, and have a drink or two (even coach does this). Much superior to shouting at traffic IMHO.
Clue: suicide bombers really don't give a damn how much money they have in the bank, or how big their mansion is.
You (and others) harp on "wealth inequality" as if it 'solving' it were some sort of panacea. It's not. The source for this mess is far more ideological than economic. You could make everyone equally wealthy tomorrow morning at 9am sharp, and it wouldn't change a thing as far as these folks are concerned.
Militant Islam doesn't really give a shit about wealth, except for the type and quantity of armaments that can be purchased with it.
Most people are thrilled to get workflow enhancements.
Not always; it depends on the product and who uses it. I remember there being a rather large shit-fit when the UI was changed about a bit on DAZ Studio (a CG compositing/rendering app with some animation capabilities).
This is because CG artists (pro or hobbyist) tend to bristle whenever you tinker with their muscle-memory; I suspect other niches with complex workflows are similar.
Also, it would be worth taking a look (a hard look) at how the majority of users actually do use the UI (and be sure to beta-test the shit out of any changes), because there are cases where a quirk, bug, or otherwise-considered 'problem' may be the one critical thing that many customers need to complete their tasks.
Barring the idea of jumping ship, just go make some pretty images and/or a mock-up site showing the UI enhancements, and then show them to some of the head honchos at Marketing. Be sure to include lots of eye candy and extraneous gee-whiz shit that will be naturally pared off when the final requirements are drawn-up by Management.
You'll be re-writing the UI within a month at the most.
..."no" especially applies here, since wording, subtlety, and semantics are a rather big pillar of infosec, for frig sakes. If you get butthurt in the adverts, then how do you expect to once you're in it?
PS: 14% and 14.5% aren't far enough off to get anyone's panties in a bunch (yes, pun intended).
Well the sooner we can destroy the fallacy that coding is something beyond the ken of most mere mortals, the sooner we can get salaries down to what they should be.
I'm sick and tired of the Microsoft is evil crap. Yes, 20 years ago they tried to embrace, extend and extinguish their standards over open standards to the entire internet. But they didn't win. The average consumer is not a microsoft consumer, they are a Apple or Google consumer.
Depends on how "consumer" is defined. The vast majority of tablets and phones belong to the Apple/Google duopoly, hands-down. However, the majority of home computers/laptops are definitely still running Windows, and in spite of Microsoft's efforts to drive them off with their latest UI, there's no indication that too many folks are going to budge off of Windows anytime soon. Meanwhile XBox still dukes it out with Playstation, and seems to be holding its own in that arena.
I guess I'm just saying that you may have been a wee bit too simplistic on that one...
You are right in that Microsoft relies on the trinity of Office/Exchange/Desktops as their bread-and-butter (everything else they sell is ancillary to these, including SCOM/SCCM, SharePoint, Windows Server and SQL Server... because without the aforementioned threesome, who the hell would need that other crap in the server room?) That said? Outside of the XBox, they've not really made much in the way of inroads in the past decade or so (and in the XBox's case, has that thing actually reached any kind of usable ROI yet, or is it still in the R&D loss-leader cost hole?)
But they've been far more open and less heavy handed than those two in the last 5 years.
Maybe more open and less heavy-handed than they used to be, but IMHO neither Apple or Google can touch Microsoft's level of EEE. Also, Microsoft has become kinder/gentler on the interoperability front *only* for two reasons:
1) because they got their asses handed to them in mobile, and 2) because the other two big players (Apple, Google) are currently making serious inroads into the hearts and minds of consumers, both at work and home...and this means Microsoft is being forced to play nice these days by necessity. After all, you don't see them playing nice when it comes to consoles, do you?
Developers. If you can flood the market with people who know how to code, then you can pay them at fast-food worker wages.
Well, if successful they'd flood the market with.NET monkeys who won't be able to do much without Visual Studio. Not so sure about the plethora of other languages out there that pay a whole lot more per hour, though...
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But Mysql / MariaDB still beat PostgreSQL when it comes to replication.
...dafuq?
Dude, MySQL didn't even get two-way replication until 5.1 (and at the time you had to jimmy with Federation and SQL threads to get even that functionality). I'm sure it may have gotten easier/better since then, but compared to psql, it still ain't all that much to write home about.
Now master -> slave replication? Sure... MySQL is easier and even more fine-grained in some aspects. But Master-Master replication (you know, like you would set up in making an HA cluster)? IIRC MySQL does it, but it's a separate product that I think you have to purchase.*
* there could be a community/OSS version out there, but I kinda doubt it.
Well how would we go about treating them with dignity? We would have to give in to their unreasonable demands to turn off the wifi, would we not?
Not really. If there's an established physical link, they can faraday-up their home and be just fine. If there's no physical link (most likely), then psychiatric treatment is in order.
This, right here.
To be honest, there is research into alleged sensitivity to RF/EM Radiation, and there are credible studies which suggest that even if there is no definitive physical link, the symptoms are quite real (now whether or not it's psychosomatic, or something with an actual physical cause? That's another argument entirely. However, neither finding invalidates the symptoms in such a case.)
In either case, standard wifi isn't powerful enough to do much, especially when compared to high-tension power lines, or commercial/military radar sets. Yes frequency ranges vary, etc etc... but as parent said, there's an easy way to help folks figure out definitively whether or not it's an actual reaction or just a psychological thing, and appropriate treatment can be set up as a result.
Personally, I've played with everything from small microwave transmitters up to ECM pods and APG-66 radar sets, and I'm perfectly fine with hanging around it (but in the latter cases, taking precautions to avoid being literally cooked is rather paramount), so I'm not advocating that we pamper anybody here or dismantle civilization to accommodate anybody... but as parent said, that doesn't mean we shouldn't treat someone showing physical or mental symptoms with anything less than basic human dignity.
So... if you were to plant one on the Oregon Coast, you'd end up with a 6' tall base and a 1' tall statue atop that.
This of course does not count what it would take to anchor the whole shebang to bedrock so that tidal erosion doesn't knock it over and bury it.
Agreed. Small disclosure: I'm from this particular bit of the planet. I can say that even 20 years ago, it was growing and doing very well - both academically and otherwise (especially compared with the rest of the state.) Incidentally, Fayetteville (the largest city in the area, just south of Springdale) is the home of the University of Arkansas, which is well regarded in its own right.
As for Healthcare, it is actually top-notch when compared to most of the South, and even most of the US.
The cost of living used to be insanely low, until Californians by the boatload began moving into the region during the 1990s; at the time, I could live very well and own a fairly nice home, all on a salary of roughly $30k/yr.
TFA caught my attention because of the numbers. When I left in 1999, the two counties had maybe 150,000 souls living there... 10k is a pretty significant percentage, no?
Dear Ideologue Mod: You can mod me down with "Overrated", but you can never be un-butthurt.
Kisses,
FYI - He had full run of Congress the first two years of his first term, with his party in full majority within both houses... how'd that work out?
Ironic, because the real problem was MacArthur almost decided that nukes were pretty good problem solvers and kicked off WWIII.
True, but MacArthur's love affair with nukes didn't happen until the Korean War, some 5-odd years later.
That would be correct under the condition that the jets in question all use the same radar set, which would make perfect sense, and be consistent considering that the RTWR uses radar signatures as a cue to identify the source.
Err, small technical note: the F-16 RTWR ("Radar Threat Warning Receiver") system can certainly be updated to account for different signatures, and the antennae are located all about the perimeter of the plane for full 360-bubble-style reception.
Pretty sure that while not a perfect setup (given the commonality of radar set components/behaviors across airframes), it would probably have zero problems telling friendlies from the not-friendlies. ;)
If this claim is true, then Russians planes are shitty.
(I'm turkish),
The F-16 is a very capable fighter (especially when flown clean - that is, not weighed down with a LANTIRN pod or wing tanks). It's capable of sustained 9G maneuvers, and can even accelerate while flying straight up - which most jets cannot do. It has superior pilot visibility, has up to 9 hardpoints on which to mount armament, and there's a built-in 20mm cannon to boot (just behind the canopy on the right-hand side above the strake).
It may have been designed and built in the early-mid 1970s, but it was far ahead of its time, even back then. It was originally built as a 'cheap-but-plentiful' fighter (to compliment/support the expensive flagship F-15 fighters), but in the right hands, 'the little jet that could' turns out to be quite a little badass in its own right.
I shudder to think how WWII would have ended if the alliance powers had each worried so much about what the other sides would do AFTER they defeated Hitler that they refused to ally with one another to begin with.
Oh, believe me - they worried. Churchill openly worried about it (especially post-Yalta, where he saw that the UK got screwed pretty hard.) Roosevelt worried about it, though not as much... now post WWII, his big worry was that Gen. Patton would decide 'fuck it', and start a fight with the USSR anyway (just to get it out of the way).
Incidentally, there were more than a few tense crises between East and West (towards and at the end of WWII) that never really made the papers - the relative silence was only because back then, the government would tell the press to shut the hell up about something, and the press (more often than not) compliantly kept quiet about it.
OH, almost forgot - won first place in a science prize in which he bumped off a teenaged kid who found a cheap/easy means of detecting *ebola*?
The school certainly overreacted, but...
1) the kid was not arrested, nor did he suffer any "damages" in light of the celebrity and overly-friendly treatment from the President, and
2) once the jury hears about his overly-activist father and the lawyer's insinuation that the whole thing was a set-up?
I'm not seeing this one going very far.
Given the terrain around here, I'm not really sure if you'd want something that flew at 200kph
I used to think the same way... then I had to go from Portland to Seattle on business... a lot.
Turns out that the train takes the same amount of travel time (esp. when you factor in traffic), and when you add up gas and the cost of parking in Downtown Seattle (where even hotels will charge something like $40/day), it is actually somewhat *cheaper* than driving. Seattle is small enough size-wise to make most of it walkable without too much trouble.
I'd much rather sit in a fairly cozy seat on the train, plug in the laptop, maybe grab something to eat, and have a drink or two (even coach does this). Much superior to shouting at traffic IMHO.
Clue: suicide bombers really don't give a damn how much money they have in the bank, or how big their mansion is.
You (and others) harp on "wealth inequality" as if it 'solving' it were some sort of panacea. It's not. The source for this mess is far more ideological than economic. You could make everyone equally wealthy tomorrow morning at 9am sharp, and it wouldn't change a thing as far as these folks are concerned.
Militant Islam doesn't really give a shit about wealth, except for the type and quantity of armaments that can be purchased with it.
Most people are thrilled to get workflow enhancements.
Not always; it depends on the product and who uses it. I remember there being a rather large shit-fit when the UI was changed about a bit on DAZ Studio (a CG compositing/rendering app with some animation capabilities).
This is because CG artists (pro or hobbyist) tend to bristle whenever you tinker with their muscle-memory; I suspect other niches with complex workflows are similar.
Also, it would be worth taking a look (a hard look) at how the majority of users actually do use the UI (and be sure to beta-test the shit out of any changes), because there are cases where a quirk, bug, or otherwise-considered 'problem' may be the one critical thing that many customers need to complete their tasks.
Barring the idea of jumping ship, just go make some pretty images and/or a mock-up site showing the UI enhancements, and then show them to some of the head honchos at Marketing. Be sure to include lots of eye candy and extraneous gee-whiz shit that will be naturally pared off when the final requirements are drawn-up by Management.
You'll be re-writing the UI within a month at the most.
Nah - forget Minecraft as a sysadmin tool... let's bring back PSDOOM!
(just don't kill the init monster! )
..."no" especially applies here, since wording, subtlety, and semantics are a rather big pillar of infosec, for frig sakes. If you get butthurt in the adverts, then how do you expect to once you're in it?
PS: 14% and 14.5% aren't far enough off to get anyone's panties in a bunch (yes, pun intended).
Geez - it's not that hard - just license the Android OS from Google and give it a Windows UI skin!
( /me ducks and runs like hell...)
Well the sooner we can destroy the fallacy that coding is something beyond the ken of most mere mortals, the sooner we can get salaries down to what they should be.
Holy shit - who let the MBAs in here?
I'm sick and tired of the Microsoft is evil crap. Yes, 20 years ago they tried to embrace, extend and extinguish their standards over open standards to the entire internet. But they didn't win. The average consumer is not a microsoft consumer, they are a Apple or Google consumer.
Depends on how "consumer" is defined. The vast majority of tablets and phones belong to the Apple/Google duopoly, hands-down. However, the majority of home computers/laptops are definitely still running Windows, and in spite of Microsoft's efforts to drive them off with their latest UI, there's no indication that too many folks are going to budge off of Windows anytime soon. Meanwhile XBox still dukes it out with Playstation, and seems to be holding its own in that arena.
I guess I'm just saying that you may have been a wee bit too simplistic on that one...
You are right in that Microsoft relies on the trinity of Office/Exchange/Desktops as their bread-and-butter (everything else they sell is ancillary to these, including SCOM/SCCM, SharePoint, Windows Server and SQL Server... because without the aforementioned threesome, who the hell would need that other crap in the server room?) That said? Outside of the XBox, they've not really made much in the way of inroads in the past decade or so (and in the XBox's case, has that thing actually reached any kind of usable ROI yet, or is it still in the R&D loss-leader cost hole?)
But they've been far more open and less heavy handed than those two in the last 5 years.
Maybe more open and less heavy-handed than they used to be, but IMHO neither Apple or Google can touch Microsoft's level of EEE. Also, Microsoft has become kinder/gentler on the interoperability front *only* for two reasons:
1) because they got their asses handed to them in mobile, and ...and this means Microsoft is being forced to play nice these days by necessity. After all, you don't see them playing nice when it comes to consoles, do you?
2) because the other two big players (Apple, Google) are currently making serious inroads into the hearts and minds of consumers, both at work and home
Developers. If you can flood the market with people who know how to code, then you can pay them at fast-food worker wages.
Well, if successful they'd flood the market with .NET monkeys who won't be able to do much without Visual Studio. Not so sure about the plethora of other languages out there that pay a whole lot more per hour, though...