This and our continued support for israel is the reason for the WTC attacks, and for the turmoil in the middle east as I understand it.
There is more to it than that. There is also the oil factor. Like the fact that US troops are stationed in Saudi Arabia to prop up the tyranical government which supplies US with oil. It's quite amusing actually to hear Saudi Arabia referred to as "US ally".
Then there is the fact that 1.5 million Iraqis, inlcuding 500,000 children, died since the sanctions were imposed on Iraq. Here it gets absolutely comical. CNN talks about how evil Saddam Hussein is: "why, he gassed his own people!", but somehow forgets to add "with our support".
Yep, I feel disgusted whenever Dubya opens his mouth. And I am amazed at how easily the US populace swallows the lies he spits out.
Well, I just graduated, but I can tell you that in nearly all of my classes I would see 1-2 people taking notes with laptops or PDAs. I expect more of that with the advent of tablet PCs.
Like most other people, I can type faster than I can write. However, these things would be great for taking notes in class: use the keyboard to type; use the stylus to draw. It wouldn't work with a regular laptop very well: I draw bad enough with a pen; I certainly can't do it with a mouse. Also, there is no easy & fast way to type formulas and some funky math symbols, so tablet & stylus could be a step forward -- provided that it works as advertised, of course. What are your thoughts?
There have occasionally been UNIX knockoffs, like the vastly inferior command line "talk" implementation
Uhhm, no. talk has absolutely nothing to do with ICQ. It predates ICQ by at least a decade.
Programs like Trillian, that do what the author of this article suggests have been having a difficult time lately because they steal Yahoo, AOL, and Microsofts intellectual property
Please clarify what "intellectual property" do programs like Trillian "steal". Also, take an introductory law course. Until that time, just shut up. You are making a fool out of yourself.
They saw a duplication of effort in their own company and decided to stop it.
He says that the servers for ICQ and AIM are _identical_. The only thing that separates the two networks is _one flag_ (in the message header, I think), that AOL can switch at will. The reason AOL kept AIM and ICQ separate is purely political: they didn't want the competition to connect to AIM. (IIRC, this has something to do with fulfilling the AOL/TW merger requirements). Microsoft has been quite vocal on this issue, even going so far as to propose "open standards" for instant messaging. Funny how they cry foul when they have to fight an uphill battle for a change.
Fact is, Corps can be directed to enforce law outside the boundries of the Constitution. Their use to that end is pretty much the definition of Fachism.
"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism since it is the merger of state and corporate power" -- Benito Mussolini
Looks like the fine folks from Sweden have already made a 240-CPU Athlon MP super-cluster. It is currently #94 on the top 500 list (linked above). Just imagine what Hammer will do!
Whoever modded the parent post "insightful" hasn't got a clue.
AFAIK, Linux doesn't scale above a small number of CPU's. Looks to me that implementing it on a 16,000 cpu computer would require a complete rewrite of the entire OS.
Here is a 256-CPU IA-64 Linux cluster, #53 on the top 500 list. And here is CPlant, #50. You can find more Linux boxes on the top 500 list
Ease of use is a huge feature, its MS SQL-Server's #1 feature. If the enterprise database is easy to use it can also be the departmental level database and cut migration costs from departmental systems to enterprise systems.
Nevertheless, anyone who requires "wizards" to create a database schema should not be allowed anywhere near the DB. They can play with Access if they want.
Doesn't matter if you like the feature or not; obviously you are admitting its important.
Obviously, you are sarcasm-impaired. Don't worry, next time I'll enclose it in <sarcasm> tags.
Let say I have data that I don't share with you. You have a program that you don't want to share with me. You are willing to run your program over my data and give me the output; but not to have any other access to the program. I'm willing to let your program run over the data but I don't want you to have access to the data or the output. There is no 3rd party we both trust (other than the system). How do you solve the problem?
A very convoluted example that does not correspond to 99.9% of the real-world requirements. Note that it may well be possible to do it with PostgreSQL, but I don't even care how.
BTW, in the above example, how do you know the program does not make a copy of the data and transfer it somewhere else?
Whoop-dee-doo! If you need "wizards" to create a database schema or add a table you shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the DB. Maybe you'll complain about the lack of that dancing paperclip too?
2) Formal security accredidation
NT also has formal security accreditation. That's why it's so secure...
3) Multiple CPUs for update / insert select on single table
PostgreSQL got that.
4) Both bitmap and hash indexes
I'm assuming by bitmap you actually mean btree. I'm not sure if PostgreSQL has hash indexes, so I can't comment on that. But it certainly wouldn't result in a big speed advantage.
5) Dual / curcular logging
Can't comment on that.
6) SQL-92 catalog schema
PostgreSQL aims to be as much standards compliant as possible. Case in point: I once wrote very complicated queries for DB2; I then ran the same queries PostgreSQL and they worked perfectly. If anything, from my experience, PostgreSQL supports more of the SQL standard than the proprietary counterparts, not less.
7) Full support for XML syntax queries
Wow, that's very useful! Why is it that everyone seems to think that XML is some kind of magic potion?
If you were a DBA you would know that Oracle has everything *including* the kitchen sink installed. You can't say the 9i 2GB install has nothing more, can you? I smell a troll.
Oracle and DB2 still have major features for enterprise servers that MYSQL and Postgres just don't have.
Don't lump MySQL and PostgreSQL together. Name one feature that Oracle and DB2 support and PosgreSQL doesn't. The only thing I'm aware of is clustering, but if you need that, you probably have the money for it anyway, so IBM and Oracle will be happy to milk you. Other than that, what does Oracle or DB2 have that PostgreSQL doesn't?
Sigh... I agree that MySQL is not a database, and anyone who goes out of their way defending it should get a reality check. But it's really a shame that the true gem of the Open Source world gets left in the dust. Everyone uses MySQL "because everyone else does"...
...there's no part in copyright law that prevents resale (Used record stores still exist).
true
There's also no part that says "upon resale, work must remain intact."
Not true. If the copyrighted work does not remain intact, then you have, in fact, created a derivative work. The copyright holder has the exclusive right to create and distribute derivative works based on the original work -- the law is quite explicit about it. Clean Flicks are indeed creating derivative works and reselling them without permission of the copyright holders.
This doesn't mean that if you rip a page out of a book you can no longer sell it. But I am quite certain that you cannot start a business whose sole purpose is to rip pages out of books and resell them as "clean".
Note that nothing prevents the directors from mutilating their movies and distributing the "clean" versions, since they are the copyright holders. However, a third party cannot do so without permission.
Note also the implications on GPL that this case will have. (It's been pointed out in the previous/. story about this case). GPL relies on a simple trick: you cannot distribute other people's copyrighted works without their permission. GPL grants you said permission provided that you play by the rules, which means, among other things, that any and all modifications you make to the code must also be licensed under GPL. This keeps the Free code Free by removing the ability to relicense it.
However, if it is decided that you do not need to obtain the copyright holder's permission when distributing a derivative work, then the permission GPL gives you becomes moot: you do not need to accept GPL to distribute the code, since you already have that right. That's something to think about it before you cheer for the "cleaners".
User-level threads cannot take advantage of multiple CPUs. True, they are somewhat faster on a single CPU system due to lower overhead, but that's all they are good for.
AMD has no choice in this matter. It needs to support palladium so that Microsoft ports windows to x86-64. Without windows, AMD is dead. Notice that Intel is doing the same thing -- again because it has no choice. Once again, Microsoft has everyone by the balls, so I suggest you instead direct your mail to One Microsoft Way.
One of the things both mentioned on the gentoo-user email lists and in the XFS FAQ is that if the power drops on a system using XFS, only the *metadata* is journaled, not the data.
Yes, just like NTFS, ReiserFS, JFS, and ext3 (by default). That's kind of the whole point of journaled file systems: in the even of a crash, power failure, etc. you are guaranteed to get a consistent file system, though some data may be lost. Basically, you may lose a few files but you never lose the whole file system. ext3 is the only file system I know of that gives you an _option_ to journal data as well, but that makes it really slow.
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There is more to it than that. There is also the oil factor. Like the fact that US troops are stationed in Saudi Arabia to prop up the tyranical government which supplies US with oil. It's quite amusing actually to hear Saudi Arabia referred to as "US ally".
Then there is the fact that 1.5 million Iraqis, inlcuding 500,000 children, died since the sanctions were imposed on Iraq. Here it gets absolutely comical. CNN talks about how evil Saddam Hussein is: "why, he gassed his own people!", but somehow forgets to add "with our support".
Yep, I feel disgusted whenever Dubya opens his mouth. And I am amazed at how easily the US populace swallows the lies he spits out.
Well, I just graduated, but I can tell you that in nearly all of my classes I would see 1-2 people taking notes with laptops or PDAs. I expect more of that with the advent of tablet PCs.
Like most other people, I can type faster than I can write. However, these things would be great for taking notes in class: use the keyboard to type; use the stylus to draw. It wouldn't work with a regular laptop very well: I draw bad enough with a pen; I certainly can't do it with a mouse. Also, there is no easy & fast way to type formulas and some funky math symbols, so tablet & stylus could be a step forward -- provided that it works as advertised, of course. What are your thoughts?
Uhhm, no. talk has absolutely nothing to do with ICQ. It predates ICQ by at least a decade.
Programs like Trillian, that do what the author of this article suggests have been having a difficult time lately because they steal Yahoo, AOL, and Microsofts intellectual property
Please clarify what "intellectual property" do programs like Trillian "steal". Also, take an introductory law course. Until that time, just shut up. You are making a fool out of yourself.
They saw a duplication of effort in their own company and decided to stop it.
Wrong again. See my other post on the subject.
In short, this guy is an ignorant moron.
He says that the servers for ICQ and AIM are _identical_. The only thing that separates the two networks is _one flag_ (in the message header, I think), that AOL can switch at will. The reason AOL kept AIM and ICQ separate is purely political: they didn't want the competition to connect to AIM. (IIRC, this has something to do with fulfilling the AOL/TW merger requirements). Microsoft has been quite vocal on this issue, even going so far as to propose "open standards" for instant messaging. Funny how they cry foul when they have to fight an uphill battle for a change.
These are the words that came from the same visionary who predicted that 640K or RAM outght to be enough for everybody.
"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism since it is the merger of state and corporate power" -- Benito Mussolini
Whoever modded the parent post "insightful" hasn't got a clue.
Here is a 256-CPU IA-64 Linux cluster, #53 on the top 500 list. And here is CPlant, #50. You can find more Linux boxes on the top 500 list
... and died?
What is the best video capture card for Linux, preferrably with a supported hardware MPEG2 encoder?
Nevertheless, anyone who requires "wizards" to create a database schema should not be allowed anywhere near the DB. They can play with Access if they want.
Doesn't matter if you like the feature or not; obviously you are admitting its important.
Obviously, you are sarcasm-impaired. Don't worry, next time I'll enclose it in <sarcasm> tags.
Let say I have data that I don't share with you. You have a program that you don't want to share with me. You are willing to run your program over my data and give me the output; but not to have any other access to the program. I'm willing to let your program run over the data but I don't want you to have access to the data or the output. There is no 3rd party we both trust (other than the system). How do you solve the problem?
A very convoluted example that does not correspond to 99.9% of the real-world requirements. Note that it may well be possible to do it with PostgreSQL, but I don't even care how.
BTW, in the above example, how do you know the program does not make a copy of the data and transfer it somewhere else?
... but it has RWOMAN. That's even better.
Whoop-dee-doo! If you need "wizards" to create a database schema or add a table you shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the DB. Maybe you'll complain about the lack of that dancing paperclip too?
2) Formal security accredidation
NT also has formal security accreditation. That's why it's so secure...
3) Multiple CPUs for update / insert select on single table
PostgreSQL got that.
4) Both bitmap and hash indexes
I'm assuming by bitmap you actually mean btree. I'm not sure if PostgreSQL has hash indexes, so I can't comment on that. But it certainly wouldn't result in a big speed advantage.
5) Dual / curcular logging
Can't comment on that.
6) SQL-92 catalog schema
PostgreSQL aims to be as much standards compliant as possible. Case in point: I once wrote very complicated queries for DB2; I then ran the same queries PostgreSQL and they worked perfectly. If anything, from my experience, PostgreSQL supports more of the SQL standard than the proprietary counterparts, not less.
7) Full support for XML syntax queries
Wow, that's very useful! Why is it that everyone seems to think that XML is some kind of magic potion?
8) Better rule based administration
Explain.
right. Bigger means better.
Don't lump MySQL and PostgreSQL together. Name one feature that Oracle and DB2 support and PosgreSQL doesn't. The only thing I'm aware of is clustering, but if you need that, you probably have the money for it anyway, so IBM and Oracle will be happy to milk you. Other than that, what does Oracle or DB2 have that PostgreSQL doesn't?
Sigh... I agree that MySQL is not a database, and anyone who goes out of their way defending it should get a reality check. But it's really a shame that the true gem of the Open Source world gets left in the dust. Everyone uses MySQL "because everyone else does"...
true
There's also no part that says "upon resale, work must remain intact."
Not true. If the copyrighted work does not remain intact, then you have, in fact, created a derivative work. The copyright holder has the exclusive right to create and distribute derivative works based on the original work -- the law is quite explicit about it. Clean Flicks are indeed creating derivative works and reselling them without permission of the copyright holders.
This doesn't mean that if you rip a page out of a book you can no longer sell it. But I am quite certain that you cannot start a business whose sole purpose is to rip pages out of books and resell them as "clean".
Note that nothing prevents the directors from mutilating their movies and distributing the "clean" versions, since they are the copyright holders. However, a third party cannot do so without permission.
Note also the implications on GPL that this case will have. (It's been pointed out in the previous /. story about this case). GPL relies on a simple trick: you cannot distribute other people's copyrighted works without their permission. GPL grants you said permission provided that you play by the rules, which means, among other things, that any and all modifications you make to the code must also be licensed under GPL. This keeps the Free code Free by removing the ability to relicense it.
However, if it is decided that you do not need to obtain the copyright holder's permission when distributing a derivative work, then the permission GPL gives you becomes moot: you do not need to accept GPL to distribute the code, since you already have that right. That's something to think about it before you cheer for the "cleaners".
User-level threads cannot take advantage of multiple CPUs. True, they are somewhat faster on a single CPU system due to lower overhead, but that's all they are good for.
AMD has no choice in this matter. It needs to support palladium so that Microsoft ports windows to x86-64. Without windows, AMD is dead. Notice that Intel is doing the same thing -- again because it has no choice. Once again, Microsoft has everyone by the balls, so I suggest you instead direct your mail to One Microsoft Way.
Does anyone else think that the previously reported delay in ClawHammer production is due to this crap?
Yes, just like NTFS, ReiserFS, JFS, and ext3 (by default). That's kind of the whole point of journaled file systems: in the even of a crash, power failure, etc. you are guaranteed to get a consistent file system, though some data may be lost. Basically, you may lose a few files but you never lose the whole file system. ext3 is the only file system I know of that gives you an _option_ to journal data as well, but that makes it really slow.
So funny, so true!
Additionally, your/tmp (if located on a separate partition) should be mounted noexec
that's not a good idea
CowboyNeal turns out to be a real person. And I thought he was just a /. ghost that lives in the polls.
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