Those are some amazing shots. I was just looking at them with my 5 year old son. Hopefully by the time he is my age, pictures from Mars will have people in them.
You are right, ACs posting stupid comments does get old. But the freedom to post anonymously is highly valued around here- so the best thing to do is just ignore them. Browsing higher rated comments makes this easier if you are so inclined.
I still use the boxes that originally held sim farm, sim ant, sim life and sim city for storage - though I don't have all the contents any more. I used to really enjoy all that came with a game- the nice box, the manuals, etc.
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I think the problem is that due to the way slashdot operates - and I think it is a good choice - stuff like this will already have been old news on at least 3 extremely high traffic sites before it shows up here. People don't want to come here and get the exact same stuff they've already seen at fark, reddit, digg, etc. An exception might be those topics that have some intrinsic value. Because I think one way slashdot sets itself apart (and I'll get torn up over this but I still think it is true.) is in the quality of the comments.
Or at the very least, as has already been mentioned a few times, they should make it possible to filter idle, like everything else.
The reaction does seem a bit strong, but I think it is a cumulative thing - and this post just produced a watershed of responses.
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What defines wearable? I would have thought wearable means - it goes where I go and can go anywhere I go. This vehicle appears to me not to do that. It looks like the rider goes where the trike goes - and the trike cannot go anywher the rider can go. But maybe I'm missing some key factor or my definition is insufficient.
if you think that this will make you the only person taking a pay check to sit around all day and do nothing more than post to slashdot, you are sorely mistaken.
A guy on my team has the new hp mininote or whatever it is - with Suse. Out of the box wireless causes system crashes and the camera doesn't work. Maybe Novell wont mind the lack of publicity.
It's just stupid to use company resources to look for another job. I saw emails from an upper level manager that said things like "My goal for this year is to get out of [company name]." Why would someone do that?
Maybe we just had a lot of stupid people working there. (And yes - maybe I was the chief.) I remember eating at a Chinese place across the street one day and at the table next to me the VP of Operations was interviewing for another job. Not interviewing someone, being interviewed himself.
There was a lower level manager running a business - selling illegaly copied cds and dvds - all on the clock and using company resources. Stupid.
So yeah - your company may jack you over and it is smart to have contingency plans in place. But that doesn't mean it is o.k. to be stupid about it, or it is quite possible they may be needed much more quickly than anticipated.
I wrote the code that went through the emails from a small company where I was employed. While I was writing and testing the system, I ended up reading a lot of email.
I was shocked at what I saw. People shopping around their resume, looking for new jobs. People emailing people who they were involved with in an extra-marital affair. And lots of the other junk you mention. And this was primarily involving execs.
It sounds like a way for the wealthy to go out and do what they want without having to bother with laws they don't like.
The idea that purchasing a flag of convenience will providing meaningful protection seems a bit naive.
Also wondering about food, waste disposal and power. How are all these cared for? Would the contracts necessary to provide for such make it prohibitive to just move about at will, or are they just planning on dumping all their trash in the ocean?
Will every citizen be a trained firefighter? Who will provide emergency medical services?
If any get too large and do too well, despite nay sayers like myself, it is inevitable that they would become a target by other groups if for nothing more than a source of taxable income.
He's not whining. He's just pointing out that it seems very natural, with a bit of thought, for Shuttleworth to want this and for Red Hat not to feel too much pressure to comply - for very good reasons on both sides.
I think the big deal here is how they connect. Most databases I manage are not being accessed directly by anyone but me and the other dba team members. And we aren't mucking about with data.
Users are reaching the database through applications across many layers of security.
So my concern with the question hear would not be some ignorant user bringing down my system with a wayward query. Good database management will make that pretty much impossible. My concern would be - how do they gain this connectivity and how secure is that connection both ways?
I would think that the primary concern would be the mode of access. A database should sit behind multiple levels of security. Can a secure connection be built between the client and the db? If not - then there is a problem.
If they can access the database securely - then Oracle provides all the functionality necessary to ensure that they can't do any damage.
If I was talking about my nationality I would say, "We're from the US". When I goofed up usually it was more a case of saying something like, "Well back in America...." and the preferred was "Well back in the US..."
It wasn't the end of the world with anybody. It was my first visit to Mexico City and I was amazed at how friendly and nice everyone was for such a big city. My experience in large US cities has been that size and kindness have an inverse relationship.
I was in Mexico City, hanging out with university students on a number of campuses. They were all pretty nice about it but made clear their preference. I had been warned ahead of time, but still slipped up.
You mention Mexico being mistaken as part of Central America. Since I've been back I've had a couple people ask me how I enjoyed my time in South America. I wish I was kidding.
No one was confused, but some were put off. They weren't confused because they new I was an American and put it together. But I was corrected more than once. None of those who didn't like it or corrected me were European, from the US or people I would characterize as linguistic pedants. But that is just my singular experience.
You are right, but it's tough for many of us from the US to remember that. We've become so used to using American to refer to the USA that when we are in a place that uses the term properly it gives us trouble.
I was in Mexico recently and even though I consciously tried to avoid saying 'America' or 'American' in reference to the US, I still slipped up quite a bit. I think a lot of people here are not even aware of the distinction.
Thanks - you can read a good review by a well-known, top notch scientist and slashdot reader right here. Has some nice comments from a unique (to me anyway) perspective.
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Those are some amazing shots. I was just looking at them with my 5 year old son. Hopefully by the time he is my age, pictures from Mars will have people in them.
You are right, ACs posting stupid comments does get old. But the freedom to post anonymously is highly valued around here- so the best thing to do is just ignore them. Browsing higher rated comments makes this easier if you are so inclined.
I still use the boxes that originally held sim farm, sim ant, sim life and sim city for storage - though I don't have all the contents any more. I used to really enjoy all that came with a game- the nice box, the manuals, etc.
I think the problem is that due to the way slashdot operates - and I think it is a good choice - stuff like this will already have been old news on at least 3 extremely high traffic sites before it shows up here. People don't want to come here and get the exact same stuff they've already seen at fark, reddit, digg, etc. An exception might be those topics that have some intrinsic value. Because I think one way slashdot sets itself apart (and I'll get torn up over this but I still think it is true.) is in the quality of the comments.
Or at the very least, as has already been mentioned a few times, they should make it possible to filter idle, like everything else.
The reaction does seem a bit strong, but I think it is a cumulative thing - and this post just produced a watershed of responses.
and now the circle is complete.
very nice. your mother would be proud.
If they are on reddit or digg right now - then probably so.
my cowboy neal bot has already gained complete control of all survey functionality.
A Natalie Portman statue and a 10 gallon tub of hot grits or I wont give control back. Oh - and I want the ponies theme back. Permanently.
What defines wearable? I would have thought wearable means - it goes where I go and can go anywhere I go. This vehicle appears to me not to do that. It looks like the rider goes where the trike goes - and the trike cannot go anywher the rider can go. But maybe I'm missing some key factor or my definition is insufficient.
if you think that this will make you the only person taking a pay check to sit around all day and do nothing more than post to slashdot, you are sorely mistaken.
A guy on my team has the new hp mininote or whatever it is - with Suse. Out of the box wireless causes system crashes and the camera doesn't work. Maybe Novell wont mind the lack of publicity.
It's just stupid to use company resources to look for another job. I saw emails from an upper level manager that said things like "My goal for this year is to get out of [company name]." Why would someone do that?
Maybe we just had a lot of stupid people working there. (And yes - maybe I was the chief.) I remember eating at a Chinese place across the street one day and at the table next to me the VP of Operations was interviewing for another job. Not interviewing someone, being interviewed himself.
There was a lower level manager running a business - selling illegaly copied cds and dvds - all on the clock and using company resources. Stupid.
So yeah - your company may jack you over and it is smart to have contingency plans in place. But that doesn't mean it is o.k. to be stupid about it, or it is quite possible they may be needed much more quickly than anticipated.
I wrote the code that went through the emails from a small company where I was employed. While I was writing and testing the system, I ended up reading a lot of email.
I was shocked at what I saw. People shopping around their resume, looking for new jobs. People emailing people who they were involved with in an extra-marital affair. And lots of the other junk you mention. And this was primarily involving execs.
It sounds like a way for the wealthy to go out and do what they want without having to bother with laws they don't like.
The idea that purchasing a flag of convenience will providing meaningful protection seems a bit naive.
Also wondering about food, waste disposal and power. How are all these cared for? Would the contracts necessary to provide for such make it prohibitive to just move about at will, or are they just planning on dumping all their trash in the ocean?
Will every citizen be a trained firefighter? Who will provide emergency medical services?
If any get too large and do too well, despite nay sayers like myself, it is inevitable that they would become a target by other groups if for nothing more than a source of taxable income.
He's not whining. He's just pointing out that it seems very natural, with a bit of thought, for Shuttleworth to want this and for Red Hat not to feel too much pressure to comply - for very good reasons on both sides.
Who is Wieers?
What did Shuttleworth propose?
Why he would propose it is sort of the point. RTFA.
I don't think it is a big stink. In fact it seems a rather well thought out bit of analysis.
The added bonus is that if you have them using sql*plus - their love for ad hoc queries may be short lived. :)
I think the big deal here is how they connect. Most databases I manage are not being accessed directly by anyone but me and the other dba team members. And we aren't mucking about with data.
Users are reaching the database through applications across many layers of security.
So my concern with the question hear would not be some ignorant user bringing down my system with a wayward query. Good database management will make that pretty much impossible. My concern would be - how do they gain this connectivity and how secure is that connection both ways?
I would think that the primary concern would be the mode of access. A database should sit behind multiple levels of security. Can a secure connection be built between the client and the db? If not - then there is a problem.
If they can access the database securely - then Oracle provides all the functionality necessary to ensure that they can't do any damage.
It is not difficult to make this impossible- oracle allows for limiting resource consumption by user among other things.
If I was talking about my nationality I would say, "We're from the US". When I goofed up usually it was more a case of saying something like, "Well back in America...." and the preferred was "Well back in the US..."
It wasn't the end of the world with anybody. It was my first visit to Mexico City and I was amazed at how friendly and nice everyone was for such a big city. My experience in large US cities has been that size and kindness have an inverse relationship.
I was in Mexico City, hanging out with university students on a number of campuses. They were all pretty nice about it but made clear their preference. I had been warned ahead of time, but still slipped up.
You mention Mexico being mistaken as part of Central America. Since I've been back I've had a couple people ask me how I enjoyed my time in South America. I wish I was kidding.
No one was confused, but some were put off. They weren't confused because they new I was an American and put it together. But I was corrected more than once. None of those who didn't like it or corrected me were European, from the US or people I would characterize as linguistic pedants. But that is just my singular experience.
You are right, but it's tough for many of us from the US to remember that. We've become so used to using American to refer to the USA that when we are in a place that uses the term properly it gives us trouble.
I was in Mexico recently and even though I consciously tried to avoid saying 'America' or 'American' in reference to the US, I still slipped up quite a bit. I think a lot of people here are not even aware of the distinction.
Thanks - you can read a good review by a well-known, top notch scientist and slashdot reader right here. Has some nice comments from a unique (to me anyway) perspective.