From the tests I've seen reported -- Ah, that's a B-I-G NO!
One test in particular (c. 2001?), SQL Server started crapping out in a power curve after a couple hundred connections. PostgreSQL (and MySQL) performance degraded linearly about the same as Oracle and DB2.
From a recorded talk I heard it is my understanding the.org name registration server is a mission-critical PostgreSQL terabyte database. My introduction to client-server databases was Oracle and I find PostgreSQL a familiar fit. I've written a server-side procedure for PostgreSQL that massages addresses beautifully: spaces in a middle name (but only if there is one), closes empty lines, labels (home), (work), (fax) and (email) -- but only if they exist and, again, closes the line if they don't. Check points, replication.
without a doubt, there are mission critical and heavy entry load applications that absolutely, positively require restoring everything after the last checkpoint. Considering the cost of Oracle or DB2, I seriously think a person should look into PostgreSQL if their persistent data entry load in particular is less stringent than that.
Is the world becoming so serious -- or so frightened -- that fantasy is no longer allowed?"
Only the fantasies of Americn fear are allowed. Look at us the wrong way and we'll level your country, rape your children and kill the parents.
Just because.
Yes, everything and everyone are to be feared. Always. You can never be too safe. Unless safety costs money - like 1/2 the Food and Drug Administration testing labs our administration is in the process of dismantling.
Sounds to me like you should blame Raytheon only because the lazy asses apparently led you on to think you didn't have to pay taxes (and they didn't have to do any paperwork). Unless, of course, they had you believing a mediocre salary was a great deal. There aren't any "countries" in Antarctica and never have been. Everybody who paid attention in geography knows that.
But you aren't alone. I've known two people whose employers didn't take any taxes out: one because the employer was a crook and the other was, believe it or not, an honest muck-up and they offered the employee a loan to work it out amicably.
Yes, the shuttle was one example. But the concept of group think was developed during the Vietnam War and used since to attempt to explain the decision processes of many events before and after Vietnam.
Considering we'll snatch people off the streets of Europe and jet them somewhere else to get tortured, I rather doubt the prosecution gives a care for the laws of Australia. If _they_ want to give him $50,000, that's their business.
1. Find hacker give him a hefty fine and throw his ass in jail
2. $500.000 - 10 years worth of prison expenses
3. Profit
Quite literally if he is sent to one of the cheap-ass amateur _private_ prisons run for profit that have become the vogue. (All government is evil you know. Reagan said so.) The more prisoners, the more profit. Only a communist would argue against the logic of that business plan.
You want to test communication with Mars _and_ be capitalist? CHARGE people: "This valentine/birthday wish/whatever was relayed via Mars" with an earth-based wrapper suitable for printing and posting on the cubicle wall. Sure. it would be a pointless gimmick but let's not say that like it's a bad thing.
My vote as well that light speed really is the law. Although it would be a noble effort for a sufficiently advanced civilization that has kept it together and gives a care to attempt an ark when their sun is going out. So what are the odds of all that happening and succeeding?
What amuses me from casually watching the last decades of astronomy and exobiology is that for every discovery that life can exist in the harshest conditions and strangest forms there is a counterbalancing discovery about what a hostile universe it is. Pond scum all over the universe/the opportunity for interesting organisms to develop and thrive rather lower than we imagine?
All well and good but I would rather we caught the aneurysm first -- and I feel like we are making great progress. I personally have an aunt, uncle and another significant old guy who are ambling around after intervention before they blew. The 89-year-old TWICE and I have to muse on how amazing that is every time I visit him. Maybe the luck of a competent medical center and a knack for complaining at just the right time?
I mean, with Cuba's decades of involvement in Africa.
Sorry, just popped into my head. I'm not sure _how_ sarcastically I mean it myself because they have countered the cold war soldiers with some good done by their physician outreach.
A retired "rocket scientist" and sometime sci fi writer who is a regular at an annual convention we attend recommends beaming the energy.
Sure, you're talking about hitting a moving target light years away. But you are also probably talking about a civilization that has colonized the inner planets and has the means in place to convert large chunks of matter into energy. Because it'll need it. To maintain the sweet spot of about.62 light speed, he thinks the gain in reduced weight exceeds the loss in beaming the energy.
You must be outside the U.S. U.S. news is already sanitized so the citizen has the excuse of ignorance. Bullet-riddled cars sprayed blood-red and similarly blood-spewing victims before they have been stabilized and put into a hospital bed don't make the network news here like they do in Europe.
The mass media learned from the lesson of Vietnam. Out of sight, out of mind.
It's part of the whole censorship syndrome. Violence should only be portrayed if it is "fun" and not too graphically realistic.
The Minnesota settlement got my wife and me a refurb Epson 2400 scanner, a cheap HP inkjet (both linux compatible) and three LinuxStore "Tux" keyboards from Cheapbytes.
I'll take it. But, yes, I would rather be using IBM OS/4 HyperDrive today.
I suppose you could say there is some mighty bizarre legal overlap here and the Court was just doing its job. Sensible minds could put the kids on probation, community service or whatever, and perhaps expunge a juvenile record even if there was a desire to prosecute? Modify the legislation in the next session.
But when was the last time Florida was sensible? What are the penalties for creation and distribution of kiddie porn in Florida? Probably something like mandatory life without parole and eight hours of Sunday prayer meeting after the dawn whipping? That's teach them for photographing themselves in the U.S.
I have no doubt there will be many badly flawed milestones to come along the path to a coherent AI assistant. It is something too cool not to aspire to even if the results are going to be awful for years to come.
So far the most memorable I've seen was a shareware "Southern" parody of Microsoft Bob that involved an outhouse and, if I remember correctly, a possum.
There are many quotes by our forefathers regarding this.
Yeah, but they had ideals about how they thought individuals and society should act. That's why one of my philosophy books on that era was called "The Age of Ideology". America slipped into pragmatism a long time ago: "If it produces results, do it." Lately we've gone way Postmodern and if getting medieval on your ass feels good even if critics in the know who have tortured or been tortured tell you it doesn't work we'll do it anyway for the short-term power fix. A little late in the game to get our innocence back and extort ideals without a national catharsis.
Excel was not so much better than Quattro Pro. Word was not so much better than WordPerfect.
After Corel bought Quattro Pro and WordPerfect, they turned into steaming piles. I know... I worked there.:-)
Interesting you should say that. But I might not have your take on it. Generally I can be counted on to argue that WordPerfect was exponentially superior to the little text processing program with add-ons Microsoft called Word. But you have a valid point that beginning around version 7, or more clearly version 8, it seemed that WordPerfect was being dumbed down as elements of it were standardized to match Word. I see it as unfortunate that they felt it necessary to screw around with a fantastic program in order to be more compatible with the Microsoft bulldozer.
I have to agree that it is a corporate welfare fantasy.
Look at one of my favorite examples: the Chunnel vs. the Big Dig. The Chunnel is 31 miles long, 24 miles under the English Channel. The Big Dig is about 6 miles long, 2.5 miles under Boston Harbor. Wikipedia says the Chunnel cost about 10 billion pounds and the Big Dig has cost about $15 billion "so far". Not much difference between the two. The Chunnel has had a non-fatal fire. The Big Dig leaks like a sieve, the books were cooked to hide the substandard materials used to construct it and it has had a fatal ceiling collapse. Makes you proud to be an American taxpayer, doens't it?
But a person could take any number of examples of bridges to nowhere, Big Pharma and the like that are draining a few billion here and a few billion there of citizen taxpayer dollars until you are talking real money. What I have to wonder isn't how long people will put up with it but how long people _can_ put up with it. Is the typical American so rich he really can be bled indefinitely with little to show for it? I'm guessing not and I think that is an important difference between now and the 60s. You can point out that Apollo had to start from scratch, corporations were probably making a good profit on the deal then too and that the Vietnam war was going on. But the U.S. was in an historic boom, people with well-paying jobs actually made things here and the average household wasn't carrying $7000 in credit card debt. It isn't enough to rebuild the Saturn V or relearn the Apollo program knowledge now residing in nursing homes. We need to get back the best parts of the America that created the Apollo program.
What scares me most I think is the fallout when it becomes undeniably clear to the world and ourselves that we've metastasized from a pragmatic "can-do" nation of the Right Stuff to some schizoid out-of-touch B.S. nation.
how do you keep the economy going, when nobody wants to buy anything else we make here anymore?
We still make stuff!?! I thought we were a 3rd world nation that exports grains, coal, timber for chopsticks, recycling, beef (between mad cow scares) and other raw materials.
Don't forget what the desktops at the defense department run. Thinking about that aircraft carrier that had to be towed back to port when the NT 4 servers BSODed should put Vista's problems into perspective one way or the other. Hearing about a new project in embedded linux now and then makes me think the Army is slightly hip to linux but remember that Windows has a vast and overwhelming entrenched market _in_ government as well as being a darling industry supported _by_ government.
If their legal has a healthy wallet maybe they think they can crush the newcomer in legal expenses even if the case has no merit?
Also sounds like you are worth fighting for. If the competitor gives in and backs out of employing you, they have also won.
Most likely, you're an excuse. Isn't fighting your competition in court instead of fighting them in the marketplace the new front line of battle? They may have estimated the strength of the competitor, spreadsheeted it out and decided it makes sense to pursue this line.
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4 or 6, I forget which the news said last night.
Embarrassment of riches, I can walk to a Microcenter.
And do. Much too often.
From the tests I've seen reported -- Ah, that's a B-I-G NO!
One test in particular (c. 2001?), SQL Server started crapping out in a power curve after a couple hundred connections. PostgreSQL (and MySQL) performance degraded linearly about the same as Oracle and DB2.
From a recorded talk I heard it is my understanding the
without a doubt, there are mission critical and heavy entry load applications that absolutely, positively require restoring everything after the last checkpoint. Considering the cost of Oracle or DB2, I seriously think a person should look into PostgreSQL if their persistent data entry load in particular is less stringent than that.
Is the world becoming so serious -- or so frightened -- that fantasy is no longer allowed?"
Only the fantasies of Americn fear are allowed. Look at us the wrong way and we'll level your country, rape your children and kill the parents.
Just because.
Yes, everything and everyone are to be feared. Always. You can never be too safe. Unless safety costs money - like 1/2 the Food and Drug Administration testing labs our administration is in the process of dismantling.
Doesn't surprise me. I think some early 1.x OS/2's were in the same situation.
Sounds to me like you should blame Raytheon only because the lazy asses apparently led you on to think you didn't have to pay taxes (and they didn't have to do any paperwork). Unless, of course, they had you believing a mediocre salary was a great deal. There aren't any "countries" in Antarctica and never have been. Everybody who paid attention in geography knows that.
But you aren't alone. I've known two people whose employers didn't take any taxes out: one because the employer was a crook and the other was, believe it or not, an honest muck-up and they offered the employee a loan to work it out amicably.
Yes, the shuttle was one example. But the concept of group think was developed during the Vietnam War and used since to attempt to explain the decision processes of many events before and after Vietnam.
Considering we'll snatch people off the streets of Europe and jet them somewhere else to get tortured, I rather doubt the prosecution gives a care for the laws of Australia. If _they_ want to give him $50,000, that's their business.
1. Find hacker give him a hefty fine and throw his ass in jail
2. $500.000 - 10 years worth of prison expenses
3. Profit
Quite literally if he is sent to one of the cheap-ass amateur _private_ prisons run for profit that have become the vogue. (All government is evil you know. Reagan said so.) The more prisoners, the more profit. Only a communist would argue against the logic of that business plan.
You want to test communication with Mars _and_ be capitalist? CHARGE people: "This valentine/birthday wish/whatever was relayed via Mars" with an earth-based wrapper suitable for printing and posting on the cubicle wall. Sure. it would be a pointless gimmick but let's not say that like it's a bad thing.
My vote as well that light speed really is the law. Although it would be a noble effort for a sufficiently advanced civilization that has kept it together and gives a care to attempt an ark when their sun is going out. So what are the odds of all that happening and succeeding?
What amuses me from casually watching the last decades of astronomy and exobiology is that for every discovery that life can exist in the harshest conditions and strangest forms there is a counterbalancing discovery about what a hostile universe it is. Pond scum all over the universe/the opportunity for interesting organisms to develop and thrive rather lower than we imagine?
All well and good but I would rather we caught the aneurysm first -- and I feel like we are making great progress. I personally have an aunt, uncle and another significant old guy who are ambling around after intervention before they blew. The 89-year-old TWICE and I have to muse on how amazing that is every time I visit him. Maybe the luck of a competent medical center and a knack for complaining at just the right time?
I mean, with Cuba's decades of involvement in Africa.
Sorry, just popped into my head. I'm not sure _how_ sarcastically I mean it myself because they have countered the cold war soldiers with some good done by their physician outreach.
A retired "rocket scientist" and sometime sci fi writer who is a regular at an annual convention we attend recommends beaming the energy.
.62 light speed, he thinks the gain in reduced weight exceeds the loss in beaming the energy.
Sure, you're talking about hitting a moving target light years away. But you are also probably talking about a civilization that has colonized the inner planets and has the means in place to convert large chunks of matter into energy. Because it'll need it. To maintain the sweet spot of about
Comments?
It seems like I've heard about lab trials like this for decades now and I'm really getting bored,
the new device _may_ [emphasis mine] be available commercially by 2009,
Guess I'll be impressed when I start seeing people in my neighborhood walking around with them.
You must be outside the U.S. U.S. news is already sanitized so the citizen has the excuse of ignorance. Bullet-riddled cars sprayed blood-red and similarly blood-spewing victims before they have been stabilized and put into a hospital bed don't make the network news here like they do in Europe.
The mass media learned from the lesson of Vietnam. Out of sight, out of mind.
It's part of the whole censorship syndrome. Violence should only be portrayed if it is "fun" and not too graphically realistic.
The Minnesota settlement got my wife and me a refurb Epson 2400 scanner, a cheap HP inkjet (both linux compatible) and three LinuxStore "Tux" keyboards from Cheapbytes.
I'll take it. But, yes, I would rather be using IBM OS/4 HyperDrive today.
I suppose you could say there is some mighty bizarre legal overlap here and the Court was just doing its job. Sensible minds could put the kids on probation, community service or whatever, and perhaps expunge a juvenile record even if there was a desire to prosecute? Modify the legislation in the next session.
But when was the last time Florida was sensible? What are the penalties for creation and distribution of kiddie porn in Florida? Probably something like mandatory life without parole and eight hours of Sunday prayer meeting after the dawn whipping? That's teach them for photographing themselves in the U.S.
I have no doubt there will be many badly flawed milestones to come along the path to a coherent AI assistant. It is something too cool not to aspire to even if the results are going to be awful for years to come.
So far the most memorable I've seen was a shareware "Southern" parody of Microsoft Bob that involved an outhouse and, if I remember correctly, a possum.
there _are_ some of us who never liked Apple's attitude _either_. Guess that would explain the linux machines scattered about my place.
at our county system. About a dozen languages for download. Windows only "of course".
There are many quotes by our forefathers regarding this.
Yeah, but they had ideals about how they thought individuals and society should act. That's why one of my philosophy books on that era was called "The Age of Ideology". America slipped into pragmatism a long time ago: "If it produces results, do it." Lately we've gone way Postmodern and if getting medieval on your ass feels good even if critics in the know who have tortured or been tortured tell you it doesn't work we'll do it anyway for the short-term power fix. A little late in the game to get our innocence back and extort ideals without a national catharsis.
Excel was not so much better than Quattro Pro. Word was not so much better than WordPerfect.
:-)
After Corel bought Quattro Pro and WordPerfect, they turned into steaming piles. I know... I worked there.
Interesting you should say that. But I might not have your take on it. Generally I can be counted on to argue that WordPerfect was exponentially superior to the little text processing program with add-ons Microsoft called Word. But you have a valid point that beginning around version 7, or more clearly version 8, it seemed that WordPerfect was being dumbed down as elements of it were standardized to match Word. I see it as unfortunate that they felt it necessary to screw around with a fantastic program in order to be more compatible with the Microsoft bulldozer.
I have to agree that it is a corporate welfare fantasy.
Look at one of my favorite examples: the Chunnel vs. the Big Dig. The Chunnel is 31 miles long, 24 miles under the English Channel. The Big Dig is about 6 miles long, 2.5 miles under Boston Harbor. Wikipedia says the Chunnel cost about 10 billion pounds and the Big Dig has cost about $15 billion "so far". Not much difference between the two. The Chunnel has had a non-fatal fire. The Big Dig leaks like a sieve, the books were cooked to hide the substandard materials used to construct it and it has had a fatal ceiling collapse. Makes you proud to be an American taxpayer, doens't it?
But a person could take any number of examples of bridges to nowhere, Big Pharma and the like that are draining a few billion here and a few billion there of citizen taxpayer dollars until you are talking real money. What I have to wonder isn't how long people will put up with it but how long people _can_ put up with it. Is the typical American so rich he really can be bled indefinitely with little to show for it? I'm guessing not and I think that is an important difference between now and the 60s. You can point out that Apollo had to start from scratch, corporations were probably making a good profit on the deal then too and that the Vietnam war was going on. But the U.S. was in an historic boom, people with well-paying jobs actually made things here and the average household wasn't carrying $7000 in credit card debt. It isn't enough to rebuild the Saturn V or relearn the Apollo program knowledge now residing in nursing homes. We need to get back the best parts of the America that created the Apollo program.
What scares me most I think is the fallout when it becomes undeniably clear to the world and ourselves that we've metastasized from a pragmatic "can-do" nation of the Right Stuff to some schizoid out-of-touch B.S. nation.
how do you keep the economy going, when nobody wants to buy anything else we make here anymore?
We still make stuff!?! I thought we were a 3rd world nation that exports grains, coal, timber for chopsticks, recycling, beef (between mad cow scares) and other raw materials.
Don't forget what the desktops at the defense department run. Thinking about that aircraft carrier that had to be towed back to port when the NT 4 servers BSODed should put Vista's problems into perspective one way or the other. Hearing about a new project in embedded linux now and then makes me think the Army is slightly hip to linux but remember that Windows has a vast and overwhelming entrenched market _in_ government as well as being a darling industry supported _by_ government.
How big are they and how small is the competitor?
If their legal has a healthy wallet maybe they think they can crush the newcomer in legal expenses even if the case has no merit?
Also sounds like you are worth fighting for. If the competitor gives in and backs out of employing you, they have also won.
Most likely, you're an excuse. Isn't fighting your competition in court instead of fighting them in the marketplace the new front line of battle? They may have estimated the strength of the competitor, spreadsheeted it out and decided it makes sense to pursue this line.