Good points. Personally, I'd be more interested in the interactiveness if it allowed me to punch annoying advertisers in the face. But why stop at commercials? If I could virtually punch Dawson or Pacey in the mouth and tell them what fu**ups they are, I might actually be lured to watch the show!;)
What better place to have a discussion about the relative merits of Open and Shared Source than at an open source conference?
How about at work when you're trying to sell your boss on either of the choices?
There's probably no better way to get lots of people who care about it together at once.
Exactly. That's why Microsoft wants to be there to drive an evil stake through the heart of open source. They just might convert a few people, or put such a damper on the event that many won't return.
You can't prove or convince anyone without reasonable and open debate, and you can't have an honest debate without fairly representing both sides of an issue.
Presumably, most people at the event will have already made their decision: no convincing needed, no honest debate needed.
You don't see people: - selling fancy paper sticky notes at a computer tradeshow. - selling bicycles at an auto show. - promoting travel by train at an airport. - promoting the devil at church.
Here's a strong example: would anti-gays be welcome at a gay parade? You wouldn't expect there to be a protest as a result?
Looks like Microsoft has everything covered in their patent. I guess somehow innovation will prevail?
Reading the patent, it sounds like someone is daydreaming aloud and having it speech-to-text input directly into the US patent system.
Now, consider for a moment if everyone input into the patent system whatever their little hearts could conjure up, what would everyone else be allowed to do?
You hit the nail on the head. The day it happened was just a constant rehash of a few basic facts. And just to string us along they kept saying "well we don't know if they've survived or not". What do you f----n think? Give me a break.
Zogbi cites tests by Japanese manufacturers that indicate the capacitor's lifetimes are half or less of the 4000 hours of continuous ripple current they are rated for.
4000 hours = 166.6 days. No wonder "Made in Taiwan" has such negative connotations.
That's right, and knowing all chip errata is important, too, I'd say. With new chips, a new bug might turn up and ditch the mission all for a few million unneeded clock cycles. Not to mention the chips they use are radiation hardened. I imagine it costs a lot of money to get special chips, so it's probably bought in batches and upgrading is not done often.
You can say that if it will help you sleep at night (and by 'sleep', I mean hiding in your mom's basement drinking Jolt and trying to get your soundcard to work with the new kernel while your pr0n is downloading)</childish rant>
Obviously, Microsoft consider's Slashdot and other means of open discussion a threat to their monopoly. The Microsoft trolls are clearly rearing their heads in large numbers as they try to throw all their weight in every direction to stop the open source epidemic which is killing them exponentially (we all know how exponents work). What happens if you throw all your weight in every direction?;)
I liked Nemesis. My favourite part had to be the two ships ramming together. WTF! Even self destruct didn't work. Now that was tense. Wooh!
I'd have to place Nemesis somewhere between Insurrection and First Contact. I still think First Contact was the best Trek ever made, and I also still think that Insurrection was horrible. The plot was something I didn't care enough about to see a whole movie surrounding it.
What could have been better with Nemesis? Maybe less blatant humour. It's often better delivered dryly I think. Less "emotional" scenes shall we say? As a die hard fan, I thought it was okay, but for the average mainstream viewer I think it would have looked kinda sappy.
They could have added some interesting new things about certain characters. Like how about Cmdr. Data doing something blindingly fast on camera? Or Geordi doing something you never knew he could? etc.. those kinds of things are what make a movie more memorable and stick with you after the movie so you're just bubbling to tell someone else about it.
Anyway, all in all I felt entertained and I'll be buying the DVD when it comes out. I feel fortunate that they even made another movie - I didn't think they would. Great to see the TNG cast again!!! In my mind I think they'll always be the best.
Sure, heat convection flows, but your efficiency goes way up if you have an active flow. Same principle with hot water heating. They used to not have pumps to circulate the water - because it worked - but it's more efficient to have a pump.
I am definitely going to pick up one of these machines. It's too bad it's not going to be an "unwrap it, plug it in" experience, though. Having to supply your own case will be a bit of a problem for some. I'm buying one anyway!
Interesting. As to the memory issue, are you using mysql_unbuffered_query rather than mysql_query?
In order to achieve moving to the prior record, all records must be buffered. I'd almost bet this is the cause of your memory usage. Try using a unidirectional cursor instead which doesn't buffer the resultset and you should notice your memory stay low and performance go way up.
If that's not possible, can you possibly add to your where clause so you can select 10% of the results at a time and re-execute the query 10 times to get at the different sections? (eg. by pkey range).
If you've tried all of the above, there must be a memory leak somewhere. But I don't know your system, so take it with a grain of salt.:)
I have to say I'm amazed that a machine swapping all day long every day can have a very long uptime!
Until somebody comes up with never-breakable encryption, this is a dream. You need trusted backup sources, otherwise the temptation is too great to see someone else's data (and maybe even with trusted sources).
Imagine there's a Slashdot article saying "2048 bit encryption broken in 48 hours" and you have your data spread throughout the world... imagine the horror! scrambling around trying to delete everything and hoping nobody took separate backups that you don't have access to.
That actually brings up another point that there's nothing stopping someone from copying your encrypted data and throwing several supercomputers or large P2P compute farms against it.
The advantage that I see to using tape, is that I can easily archive and store the video. If I have to backup my video from a hard drive on the camcorder to a hard drive on my system, I will be quickly running out of room. Yes, I could back it up to CD or DVD (if I had a DVD burner), but that's extra work I don't want to have to deal with.
Not to mention, you'll use 10 or 20 CDs in the process. Of course the RIAA will _assume_ you're burning MP3s so that will drive the price of CDs up. Ain't that funny.
It seems that this book is trying to show people what the government has known for years and what big business is becoming experts on.
If you know how the network works, you can make very high level decisions based on calculated cause and effect. For example, what might seem like a bad decision at first may eventually give you the outcome you desire.
In a world where all avenues seem tapped out and it's hard to get ahead, I believe networks are one of the keys to breaking through.
Such layers are stacked on each others (like microcode->assembly->C->SQL, or kernel->userland->libraries->apps).
I think you just proved how greater than 10 million lines of code has already happened.
How many lines of code is a 10 million line C program in assembly? 50 million? How many lines of code can a 10 line 4GL statement amount to in C or assembly?
What I think we really need to advance is another way to express logic in a computer system. New languages seem to be getting more focus these days with the popularity of open source, and I think that's a great step in the right direction since more people will get to try out new ideas.
Wow, for awhile there it sounded like maybe I'd worked with you on a past project... that goes to show you aren't the only one to work with such jokers! By the way, I ended up quitting, too.:) . . . FUCKERS.
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Good points. Personally, I'd be more interested in the interactiveness if it allowed me to punch annoying advertisers in the face.
But why stop at commercials? If I could virtually punch Dawson or Pacey in the mouth and tell them what fu**ups they are, I might actually be lured to watch the show!
How about at work when you're trying to sell your boss on either of the choices?
Exactly. That's why Microsoft wants to be there to drive an evil stake through the heart of open source. They just might convert a few people, or put such a damper on the event that many won't return.
Presumably, most people at the event will have already made their decision: no convincing needed, no honest debate needed.
You don't see people:
- selling fancy paper sticky notes at a computer tradeshow.
- selling bicycles at an auto show.
- promoting travel by train at an airport.
- promoting the devil at church.
Here's a strong example: would anti-gays be welcome at a gay parade? You wouldn't expect there to be a protest as a result?
Looks like Microsoft has everything covered in their patent. I guess somehow innovation will prevail?
Reading the patent, it sounds like someone is daydreaming aloud and having it speech-to-text input directly into the US patent system.
Now, consider for a moment if everyone input into the patent system whatever their little hearts could conjure up, what would everyone else be allowed to do?
What a flawed system we have.
For around $25,000 you too can make Pixar quality movies
1) Download renderman from https://renderman.pixar.com/
2) Learn how to use it.
3) ???
4) Profit!
Eureka! The missing link is "...plus the several million $ for the creative talent!"!
Microsoft declined to issue any new public comment at such a sensitive moment.
But we all know what that comment would have been: We are confident that Microsoft will prevail in this case.
You hit the nail on the head. The day it happened was just a constant rehash of a few basic facts. And just to string us along they kept saying "well we don't know if they've survived or not". What do you f----n think? Give me a break.
Uh huh. I guess your friends spell it out when they are joking? Kinda takes away from the friggen joke don't you think?
Zogbi cites tests by Japanese manufacturers that indicate the capacitor's lifetimes are half or less of the 4000 hours of continuous ripple current they are rated for.
4000 hours = 166.6 days. No wonder "Made in Taiwan" has such negative connotations.
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That's right, and knowing all chip errata is important, too, I'd say. With new chips, a new bug might turn up and ditch the mission all for a few million unneeded clock cycles.
Not to mention the chips they use are radiation hardened. I imagine it costs a lot of money to get special chips, so it's probably bought in batches and upgrading is not done often.
You can say that if it will help you sleep at night (and by 'sleep', I mean hiding in your mom's basement drinking Jolt and trying to get your soundcard to work with the new kernel while your pr0n is downloading)</childish rant>
;)
Obviously, Microsoft consider's Slashdot and other means of open discussion a threat to their monopoly. The Microsoft trolls are clearly rearing their heads in large numbers as they try to throw all their weight in every direction to stop the open source epidemic which is killing them exponentially (we all know how exponents work). What happens if you throw all your weight in every direction?
I liked Nemesis. My favourite part had to be the two ships ramming together. WTF! Even self destruct didn't work. Now that was tense. Wooh!
I'd have to place Nemesis somewhere between Insurrection and First Contact. I still think First Contact was the best Trek ever made, and I also still think that Insurrection was horrible. The plot was something I didn't care enough about to see a whole movie surrounding it.
What could have been better with Nemesis? Maybe less blatant humour. It's often better delivered dryly I think. Less "emotional" scenes shall we say? As a die hard fan, I thought it was okay, but for the average mainstream viewer I think it would have looked kinda sappy.
They could have added some interesting new things about certain characters. Like how about Cmdr. Data doing something blindingly fast on camera? Or Geordi doing something you never knew he could? etc.. those kinds of things are what make a movie more memorable and stick with you after the movie so you're just bubbling to tell someone else about it.
Anyway, all in all I felt entertained and I'll be buying the DVD when it comes out. I feel fortunate that they even made another movie - I didn't think they would. Great to see the TNG cast again!!! In my mind I think they'll always be the best.
Sure, heat convection flows, but your efficiency goes way up if you have an active flow. Same principle with hot water heating. They used to not have pumps to circulate the water - because it worked - but it's more efficient to have a pump.
It all comes down to funding, which comes from the government.
The other thing is that it's not large corporations pushing for more funding for NASA because there's nothing in it for them directly.
What's left is a small percentage of the public pushing for more funding.
"Next topic" says Mr. Speaker.
Adios, Comdex! That'll show you for catering to the suits. Good riddance.
I am definitely going to pick up one of these machines. It's too bad it's not going to be an "unwrap it, plug it in" experience, though. Having to supply your own case will be a bit of a problem for some. I'm buying one anyway!
Unity. Peace. Exploration. Knowledge.
Amen to that! Brother!
Interesting. As to the memory issue, are you using mysql_unbuffered_query rather than mysql_query?
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In order to achieve moving to the prior record, all records must be buffered. I'd almost bet this is the cause of your memory usage. Try using a unidirectional cursor instead which doesn't buffer the resultset and you should notice your memory stay low and performance go way up.
If that's not possible, can you possibly add to your where clause so you can select 10% of the results at a time and re-execute the query 10 times to get at the different sections? (eg. by pkey range).
If you've tried all of the above, there must be a memory leak somewhere. But I don't know your system, so take it with a grain of salt.
I have to say I'm amazed that a machine swapping all day long every day can have a very long uptime!
500 days of uptime... nice. Mind if I ask what OS, and what purpose do the servers serve?
Until somebody comes up with never-breakable encryption, this is a dream.
You need trusted backup sources, otherwise the temptation is too great to see someone else's data (and maybe even with trusted sources).
Imagine there's a Slashdot article saying "2048 bit encryption broken in 48 hours" and you have your data spread throughout the world... imagine the horror! scrambling around trying to delete everything and hoping nobody took separate backups that you don't have access to.
That actually brings up another point that there's nothing stopping someone from copying your encrypted data and throwing several supercomputers or large P2P compute farms against it.
They can come up with any gimmick they want. I'm never going to pay eight dollars for a _single_.
Make it two dollars a pop, let me download the whole song first at a 56kbps bitrate, and I'm in.
The advantage that I see to using tape, is that I can easily archive and store the video. If I have to backup my video from a hard drive on the camcorder to a hard drive on my system, I will be quickly running out of room. Yes, I could back it up to CD or DVD (if I had a DVD burner), but that's extra work I don't want to have to deal with.
Not to mention, you'll use 10 or 20 CDs in the process. Of course the RIAA will _assume_ you're burning MP3s so that will drive the price of CDs up. Ain't that funny.
It seems that this book is trying to show people what the government has known for years and what big business is becoming experts on.
If you know how the network works, you can make very high level decisions based on calculated cause and effect. For example, what might seem like a bad decision at first may eventually give you the outcome you desire.
In a world where all avenues seem tapped out and it's hard to get ahead, I believe networks are one of the keys to breaking through.
I think you just proved how greater than 10 million lines of code has already happened.
How many lines of code is a 10 million line C program in assembly? 50 million? How many lines of code can a 10 line 4GL statement amount to in C or assembly?
What I think we really need to advance is another way to express logic in a computer system. New languages seem to be getting more focus these days with the popularity of open source, and I think that's a great step in the right direction since more people will get to try out new ideas.
Wow, for awhile there it sounded like maybe I'd worked with you on a past project... that goes to show you aren't the only one to work with such jokers! By the way, I ended up quitting, too. :)
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FUCKERS.