People use stuff cos they know the name. The very smart and knowledgable guy at my university who teaches database theory recommended MySQL to some people when they asked him about installing stuff on their own machines. I showed them PostgreSQL and they all agreed it was more feature-filled.
So why did he recommend MySQL? He'd heard of it, and hadn't heard of PostgreSQL.
There is little I've needed PostgreSQL to do that it hasn't done when implementing databases for commercial purposes.
That's true, but why we're discussing SR when the article is involving rewriting important parts of QM is beyond me.:-)
Still, this will stop people from making silly assertions about black holes in the centre of the Sun and so on.
Sorry I'd have to correct you there - SR states that if something has *rest mass* then it can't travel at the speed of light. If it's moving, then it must have mass as it has an energy.
At Oxford brookes University in the UK when handing in our final year projects, worth a considerable amount of our final degree, we get to keep IP rights over the work we do, which would allow us to put that work out under the GPL.
This seems to be the only occasion that work done on university machines is given that privilege.
Work done from home probably would count too.
You must be a very poor bunch of web designers if you can only do flashy things that work with IE5 and not Mozilla.
The idea about standards is that every browser should be able to handle them correctly. Mozilla and IE5 handle the current crop fairly well in the context of browsers historically so you're really doing something wrong.
At my university a lecturer has written a search engine that is fed large chunks of text and can scan the web very quickly for it, so plagiarism from on-line sources is rooted out.
Apparently it works too. Very useful seeing as there have been people handing in dissertations where they've admitted in private that they've copied chunks of stuff from web sites.
Kind of annoying when you work your behind off and see someone else cheat to get the same marks as you.
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When it doesn't consume 8 megs of memory, yes.
Any union would have to officially recognise vim IMHO.
Not that it matters anyway - with many web pages often having dynamic content for dates and menus taking a checksum is a bit pointless.
Better to keep a DB of last-edited timestamps. This is how I work with a site of mine that uses HTML::Mason and needs to know when to serve a cached copy, when not to, or when to update the cache.
They can track and pinpoint who they want already. CCTV only makes it easier. That doesn't mean they wouldn't do it before when it was harder.
Please don't fall for the trolls who will tell you everyone is wide-eyed about them over here...
I've got two watching me now. When I leave I'll have one watch me at thedoor, another track me as I walk out the building, and then another two as I walk away from the building. They are there to stop professional gangs from stealing computing equipment worth more than 100K though.
Want to swap places?
Thing is, we have significant human rights legislation to cover for this.
We're just as scared of Police abuse of power here as anyone else is, ask anyone who has at some point gone to a street protest.
Thing is that when you weigh up the benefits of being able to catch the people that do MORE damage to society (ie. the type of people that only last night went rampaging around the centre of Bradford) against what MIGHT happen if a bad cop was able to use CCTV fotage to further abuse their positon of power, then I'd hope that most people would agree that CCTV is not an inherently bad thing.
> However, in Britain we have a more socialist,
> left wing government, one that is not friendly > to business or private interests. Out
> government is trusted by the people because it > composed of ordinary people, people like Gordon > Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
> Dennis Skinner, the Beast of Bolsover.
> Both these men are very powerful and respected
Okay - you've made me laugh too much. You are a troll and I claim my five pounds.
Dennis Skinner has as much influence on government policy as I do. You know this and you're trolling the idiots even more stupid than yourself.
Don't, for pity's sake.
> Does this sound odd to everyone else outside of > England? To me it sounds insane. Like issuing a > license to own a computer, or a phone. Please
> tell me the British government doesn't require > a license for a fucking toilet, cause that
> would suck.
The licence is to pay for the BBC. That's it.
It's a 'television tax' if you really want to criticise it.
However it gives us a unique advert-free media outlet and you have no idea how much you come to appreciate that. Seriously.
Okay, you raised Hitler so you are officially a Godwinned outof the argument but I'll bite:
Hitler's Germany had far far more surveillance through comunities spying on each other.
It was commonplace for people to be ready to report neighbours to the authorities should they suspect them of being subversive.
Gordon Brown has nothing to do with it, he's the Chancellor of the Exchequer who is charge of finances. The person you're struggling to think of is Jack Straw who is the Home Secretary.
To say that the Britishpeople could walk into a totalitarian government is quite an insult.
Some of us (me included) like our freedom and we don't see CCTV as taking it away.
Indeed - very well informed.
I bet 99% of people outside the UK wouldn't know that the Metropolitan Police only cover London, so that saying the UK Police are racist due to the actions of some London officers is seriously missing the point.
The Police up in Leeds were actually criticised by a judge for using the definition of racism as recommended by the author of the report into the Stephen Lawrence case. This was in another racist attack and shows that we don't tolerate racism any more than anyone else, by and large.
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People use stuff cos they know the name. The very smart and knowledgable guy at my university who teaches database theory recommended MySQL to some people when they asked him about installing stuff on their own machines. I showed them PostgreSQL and they all agreed it was more feature-filled.
So why did he recommend MySQL? He'd heard of it, and hadn't heard of PostgreSQL.
There is little I've needed PostgreSQL to do that it hasn't done when implementing databases for commercial purposes.
That's true, but why we're discussing SR when the article is involving rewriting important parts of QM is beyond me. :-)
Still, this will stop people from making silly assertions about black holes in the centre of the Sun and so on.
Sorry I'd have to correct you there - SR states that if something has *rest mass* then it can't travel at the speed of light. If it's moving, then it must have mass as it has an energy.
At Oxford brookes University in the UK when handing in our final year projects, worth a considerable amount of our final degree, we get to keep IP rights over the work we do, which would allow us to put that work out under the GPL.
This seems to be the only occasion that work done on university machines is given that privilege.
Work done from home probably would count too.
Ah this is 2.2, sorry.
Take note of my email address, get in touch later and I might have stuck 2.4 on there, but right now 2.2 is doing fine.
That's odd - I run a rock-solid server on UltraSPARC hardware for student projects (which often do odd and nasty things).
Mozilla startup speed was improved recently when they made the JVM load only when required.
Why not? If it's legal, convenient and you are aware of the stance on important issues each candidate has then there is nothing wrong with it per se.
You must be a very poor bunch of web designers if you can only do flashy things that work with IE5 and not Mozilla.
The idea about standards is that every browser should be able to handle them correctly. Mozilla and IE5 handle the current crop fairly well in the context of browsers historically so you're really doing something wrong.
You're right. Patents should help real innovations but that means a company has to have a REAL innovation. :-)
At my university a lecturer has written a search engine that is fed large chunks of text and can scan the web very quickly for it, so plagiarism from on-line sources is rooted out.
Apparently it works too. Very useful seeing as there have been people handing in dissertations where they've admitted in private that they've copied chunks of stuff from web sites.
Kind of annoying when you work your behind off and see someone else cheat to get the same marks as you.
When it doesn't consume 8 megs of memory, yes.
Any union would have to officially recognise vim IMHO.
And that's the bottom line. :-)
Not quite. Cars today are so much better than they were just 20 years ago that getting a new one makes loads of sense.
It was developed partly by a uni in the US IIRC, and then Sun took it on.
Not that it matters anyway - with many web pages often having dynamic content for dates and menus taking a checksum is a bit pointless.
Better to keep a DB of last-edited timestamps. This is how I work with a site of mine that uses HTML::Mason and needs to know when to serve a cached copy, when not to, or when to update the cache.
They can track and pinpoint who they want already. CCTV only makes it easier. That doesn't mean they wouldn't do it before when it was harder.
Please don't fall for the trolls who will tell you everyone is wide-eyed about them over here...
I've got two watching me now. When I leave I'll have one watch me at thedoor, another track me as I walk out the building, and then another two as I walk away from the building. They are there to stop professional gangs from stealing computing equipment worth more than 100K though.
Want to swap places?
"Britain is under surveillance and everyone in it has lost their freedom and privacy, I'm so glad I'm not British"
Of course I might be wrong and I apologise if that's not the case.
Thing is, we have significant human rights legislation to cover for this.
We're just as scared of Police abuse of power here as anyone else is, ask anyone who has at some point gone to a street protest.
Thing is that when you weigh up the benefits of being able to catch the people that do MORE damage to society (ie. the type of people that only last night went rampaging around the centre of Bradford) against what MIGHT happen if a bad cop was able to use CCTV fotage to further abuse their positon of power, then I'd hope that most people would agree that CCTV is not an inherently bad thing.
> However, in Britain we have a more socialist,
> left wing government, one that is not friendly > to business or private interests. Out
> government is trusted by the people because it > composed of ordinary people, people like Gordon > Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
> Dennis Skinner, the Beast of Bolsover.
> Both these men are very powerful and respected
Okay - you've made me laugh too much. You are a troll and I claim my five pounds.
Dennis Skinner has as much influence on government policy as I do. You know this and you're trolling the idiots even more stupid than yourself.
Don't, for pity's sake.
> Does this sound odd to everyone else outside of > England? To me it sounds insane. Like issuing a > license to own a computer, or a phone. Please
> tell me the British government doesn't require > a license for a fucking toilet, cause that
> would suck.
The licence is to pay for the BBC. That's it.
It's a 'television tax' if you really want to criticise it.
However it gives us a unique advert-free media outlet and you have no idea how much you come to appreciate that. Seriously.
Okay, you raised Hitler so you are officially a Godwinned outof the argument but I'll bite:
Hitler's Germany had far far more surveillance through comunities spying on each other.
It was commonplace for people to be ready to report neighbours to the authorities should they suspect them of being subversive.
Gordon Brown has nothing to do with it, he's the Chancellor of the Exchequer who is charge of finances. The person you're struggling to think of is Jack Straw who is the Home Secretary.
To say that the Britishpeople could walk into a totalitarian government is quite an insult.
Some of us (me included) like our freedom and we don't see CCTV as taking it away.
Your links prove you're desperate to push your own agenda. Try again.
Indeed - very well informed.
I bet 99% of people outside the UK wouldn't know that the Metropolitan Police only cover London, so that saying the UK Police are racist due to the actions of some London officers is seriously missing the point.
The Police up in Leeds were actually criticised by a judge for using the definition of racism as recommended by the author of the report into the Stephen Lawrence case. This was in another racist attack and shows that we don't tolerate racism any more than anyone else, by and large.
*chuckle* :)
This could get fun.