Look at the timing. 1958? Exactly the time when lots of UFO activities have been reported. It's clear now: the people 'out there' talked the President into not doing it to protect their moon base.
They used to blow mountains and dig whole lakes with nukes. I remember seeing a report on this a while ago. Great stuff, really nice lakes... too bad they're so radioactive that everybody's dying of cancer in the surrounding villages... LOL
No I don't. Slashdot has posted much worse stories. In this case, it wasn't GREAT journalism, to any extent, but I have to admit that I would have jumped to the same conclusion, given the input from the Blue people.
The various X11 implementations are NOT emulators, since their purpose, their only purpose it to implement the X11 protocol itself. Berlin, AFAIK aims at EMULATING X11: because its main purpose is not to implement X11, it will implement X11 on top of another API. That's emulation. WINE, however, allows to run Windows programs on Linux. Linux is not meant to be a Windows implementation. See the difference? WINE is Not A [CPU/Machine Code/Virtual Machine] Emulator. It runs things natively, yes. That
No shit, as if I was'nt aware of the meaning of the acronym... however, AFAIK, it actually *emulates* Direct3D by translating its API to OpenGL.. so there you go...
Wine seems to emulate Direct3D quite OK -- AFAIK, Unreal (not Tournament) for Windows runs on it in Direct3D mode. I guess it should be quite possible to link future Unreal games to WineLib.
Microsoft is complaining about someone distributing a document that themselves are already distributing at large, for free. That legalese bullshit is meaningless. Yeah, yeah, that's supposedly forbidden. Sheeeesh... I can't believe some of you are so keen on licking legality's butt.
Same here. A long time ago, Monty logged into my machine and tracked the crash up to a weird unofficial patch I had applied to the Linux kernel... duh!!! I did'nt even remember it was there in the first place... I feel very silly in retrospect.
Case sensitive string matching is faster than case insensitive string matching, so I'm actually surprised that they didn't make that the constraint instead of the opposite.
No it's not: it's just a matter of a different hash function (for hash tables) or comparison (for trees), and an added 0.000001% per row when there is no index. It's really lost in the noise, anyway.
Re:OK...anyone from Slashdot want to take this up?
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In most cases, this won't be too much of a problem. Table locking will make the system clash when there is a few long complicated queries and lots of writes. Typically, in web based environment, this does not happen too much. In my case, for instance, I have very frequent updates on my 'cookie' table, which records the last request from each user, so has to be able to compute when to automatically log them out. I don't need any long, complicated queries on this one, just very quick one-line selects.
This will not work, obviously, for applications such as financials, where you need to query and update very often. But that's really not MySQL's target.
I'm guilty of having developped a complex website with MySQL, and to have been above its limits. Now I'm in some trouble. That being said...
MySQL is indeed a perfect database for 90% of the sites out there. And in the 10% of the rest, it's the perfect tool for 50% of the job.
Example? Do you need ACID to store user comments? I don't think so. Do you need Oracle to store logs that you wan't to query and agglomerate quickly? Certainly not. Do you need transactions to store access control list for HTTP authentification? Hardly ever! Would you want to spend $20k on a quad-proc, 512MB, raid enabled server just to be able to conveniently store dozens of thousands of user cookies? You must be joking.
All this is what MySQL does best and that other database will do poorly. I don't see, in these really life, heavily tested cases, where it fails in any way to fulfill the need.
HTH.
Re:MySQL is a poor choice to store important data.
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Neither MySQL nor Berkeley DB is a substitute for a real SQL database. Berkeley DB at least has a solid foundation that could be extended to become a full SQL database, should someone write the necessary code. MySQL, on the other hand, has fundamental deficiencies that are hard to correct.
I fail to see how Berkeley DB is any better than MySQL. MySQL's ISAM (and new MyISAM) storage structure is very well tested and very reliable - it's been in development for almost 20 years now! MySQL weakness is exclusively in its SQL frontend. It seems to be rather straightforward to extend, and it's programmed rather cleanly from what I've seen of the code (yes, I've looked at it). It also uses standard Posix threads, which is why it is very portable.
First, your pseudo legal arguments suck. Then, if you had taken a look at the pages this article refers to, you would have seen that more than half of the reported entries had VERY UNSPECIFIC filenames (youngass, schoolgirl, hotteen, etc...) that could perfectly well apply to even non pornographic pictures. Hell, you can find pictures of a 2 yo baby's ass in any image bank. And you see those pics in plenty of commercials. This is really such a nonsense. That kind of vigilantism will have ZERO positive impact, and has only drawbacks.
The idea is stupid: there are plenty of legitimate reasons to want to look at suspicious looking files. If I found *real* pedophilia, I would probably report it to the police. But you would have to know what it is before doing this: hence you'd have to download it. Then just plain curiosity. With all that fuss about pedophilia on the internet, I'd be interested to actually find some to begin with, as opposed to just believing the media gossip on it. So merely downloading what looks like pedophilia does'nt mean that one is a pedophile.
Then the implementation sucks BIG TIME. Come on, youngass.jpg? Is a 21 yo ass OLD? I don't think so! It does'nt have anything to do with pedophilia. What about teenxxx.jpg? Last time I checked 18yo were both teens AND adults. Hardly qualifies for pedophilia! And then, there's plenty of teensomething.com sites out there that just carry playboy style pr0n.
So it's lame. The guy is just looking for attention. He got it!
No he did'nt bother reading the article, he's just followng the crowd of sheeps, bashing Jonkatz just because it's the thing to do, and maybe collect a few karma points this way.
Recipe for collecting karma points on slashdot currently:
Act as an NRA flag holder
Bash Jon Katz, preferrably without reading the article
Spot what has been moderated it up, and plagiarize it
Push libertarianism to the absurd
Worship money
Call your opponent a Nazi and/or a commie
Et voila.
ObFlame: Metallica is for retarded acneic teenager. MODERATE ME DOWN!!
Speaking of which, you could really use some training in this area yourself.
You have shown quite conclusively that you are one of the retarded acneic teenagers that you seem to despise so much.
I'm not a teenager, I don't have acne, though I *might* be retarded depending on one's point of view. You should have phrased that as you're no better than an..., that would have made more sense.
I would recommend that you back up for a second, reread your post, take a deep breath, and chant "It's only Slashdot, It's only Slashdot".
This is slashdot, and that is why I feel free to speak freely.
Most people who have passed their retarded acneic teenage years can find more constructive ways to counter an argument besides poorly thought out sarcasm and name calling.
As I said, you could really use some help and training in flaming and rhetoric. It was not an "argument" to begin with. It was opinion. Look that up for yourself in a dictionary, you might feel enlightened.
And then... here comes an actual argument: I've done name calling, I'm not ashamed of it, and I invite you to ask yourself... what's worse, speaking one's mind strongly and honestly, or sueing Universities for bogus reasons just because you have the money and power to do so?
Oh I'm so bad. Do you think I've hurt their feelings? I'm vaywwy sorry if that's the case.
I wish that everybody was as nice as you and stop fucking calling people "pirates" as if they had killed and raped and stolen whereas they have just moved a few electrons around.
And anyway, their music is crap for retarded acneic teenagers.
A big problem with people nowadays is that they think they are entitled to everything and anything. Its the "me" syndrome.
So what about the problem with wealthy corporate bastards who own most of the world's wealth? What about those fucking bastards who keep waiving unattainable goods, using very sophisticated techniques AKA marketing and advertising to wet our appetites... and then tell us that we can't have it?
I'm not poor myself, at least, not anymore, thanks to the IT boom. I might even get reasonably rich within 2 years if my company does well. I don't "steal" anything -- hell, I might have a dozen "illegal" MP3s around, for around a hundred CDs I own. And I use free software anyway. I'm just sick of hearing the moralizing bullshit the copyright holders serve us. I'm not a communist, I'm not necessarily on the side of the poor, I just know I'm not on the side of the indecent few who do nothing but amass immense wealth without giving back.
Keep your moralizing bullshit for yourself, it's not even moral. Money is no moral. Rich people don't deserve any kind of support -- they already can afford it for themselves. Praise the talented, the caring, the ingenious,.... I don't think Metallica and Dr Dre are any of that. They're just a bunch of marketing machines. What they sell is worth their weight of fart.
There is a reason that doesn't get moderated up...what kind of explanation for theft is 'I can't afford to legally buy them'. Most people can't afford a Ferrari either...you don't see people heisting them.
When you steal a Ferrari, the owner won't have it anymore. SO YOUR POINT IS VOID, EMPTY, NULL, NADA, BOLLOCKS, NICHTS, RIEN DU TOUT.
Oh how much I hate moralizing Anonymous Cowards. Stealing from a poor person is extremely bad. Stealing from an undecently wealthy bastard is just fair.
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Look at the timing. 1958? Exactly the time when lots of UFO activities have been reported. It's clear now: the people 'out there' talked the President into not doing it to protect their moon base.
Would someone care to make an energy consumption estimate for this baby ... Probably something like the power of 2637 large nuclear plants ...
They used to blow mountains and dig whole lakes with nukes. I remember seeing a report on this a while ago. Great stuff, really nice lakes ... too bad they're so radioactive that everybody's dying of cancer in the surrounding villages ... LOL
No I don't. Slashdot has posted much worse stories. In this case, it wasn't GREAT journalism, to any extent, but I have to admit that I would have jumped to the same conclusion, given the input from the Blue people.
I invite you to notice the question mark at the end of the title ...
The various X11 implementations are NOT emulators, since their purpose, their only purpose it to implement the X11 protocol itself. Berlin, AFAIK aims at EMULATING X11: because its main purpose is not to implement X11, it will implement X11 on top of another API. That's emulation. WINE, however, allows to run Windows programs on Linux. Linux is not meant to be a Windows implementation. See the difference? WINE is Not A [CPU/Machine Code/Virtual Machine] Emulator. It runs things natively, yes. That
No shit, as if I was'nt aware of the meaning of the acronym ... however, AFAIK, it actually *emulates* Direct3D by translating its API to OpenGL .. so there you go ...
Wine seems to emulate Direct3D quite OK -- AFAIK, Unreal (not Tournament) for Windows runs on it in Direct3D mode. I guess it should be quite possible to link future Unreal games to WineLib.
Microsoft is complaining about someone distributing a document that themselves are already distributing at large, for free. That legalese bullshit is meaningless. Yeah, yeah, that's supposedly forbidden. Sheeeesh ... I can't believe some of you are so keen on licking legality's butt.
With all that free advertising they're getting, their stock should go through the roof ...
Yeah, but MySQL does client/server, Berkely DB does not.
Same here. A long time ago, Monty logged into my machine and tracked the crash up to a weird unofficial patch I had applied to the Linux kernel ... duh!!! I did'nt even remember it was there in the first place ... I feel very silly in retrospect.
Case sensitive string matching is faster than case insensitive string matching, so I'm actually surprised that they didn't make that the constraint instead of the opposite.
No it's not: it's just a matter of a different hash function (for hash tables) or comparison (for trees), and an added 0.000001% per row when there is no index. It's really lost in the noise, anyway.
This will not work, obviously, for applications such as financials, where you need to query and update very often. But that's really not MySQL's target.
I'm guilty of having developped a complex website with MySQL, and to have been above its limits. Now I'm in some trouble. That being said ...
MySQL is indeed a perfect database for 90% of the sites out there. And in the 10% of the rest, it's the perfect tool for 50% of the job.
Example? Do you need ACID to store user comments? I don't think so. Do you need Oracle to store logs that you wan't to query and agglomerate quickly? Certainly not. Do you need transactions to store access control list for HTTP authentification? Hardly ever! Would you want to spend $20k on a quad-proc, 512MB, raid enabled server just to be able to conveniently store dozens of thousands of user cookies? You must be joking.
All this is what MySQL does best and that other database will do poorly. I don't see, in these really life, heavily tested cases, where it fails in any way to fulfill the need.
HTH.
Neither MySQL nor Berkeley DB is a substitute for a real SQL database. Berkeley DB at least has a solid foundation that could be extended to become a full SQL database, should someone write the necessary code. MySQL, on the other hand, has fundamental deficiencies that are hard to correct.
I fail to see how Berkeley DB is any better than MySQL. MySQL's ISAM (and new MyISAM) storage structure is very well tested and very reliable - it's been in development for almost 20 years now! MySQL weakness is exclusively in its SQL frontend. It seems to be rather straightforward to extend, and it's programmed rather cleanly from what I've seen of the code (yes, I've looked at it). It also uses standard Posix threads, which is why it is very portable.
First, your pseudo legal arguments suck. Then, if you had taken a look at the pages this article refers to, you would have seen that more than half of the reported entries had VERY UNSPECIFIC filenames (youngass, schoolgirl, hotteen, etc ...) that could perfectly well apply to even non pornographic pictures. Hell, you can find pictures of a 2 yo baby's ass in any image bank. And you see those pics in plenty of commercials. This is really such a nonsense. That kind of vigilantism will have ZERO positive impact, and has only drawbacks.
The idea is stupid: there are plenty of legitimate reasons to want to look at suspicious looking files. If I found *real* pedophilia, I would probably report it to the police. But you would have to know what it is before doing this: hence you'd have to download it. Then just plain curiosity. With all that fuss about pedophilia on the internet, I'd be interested to actually find some to begin with, as opposed to just believing the media gossip on it. So merely downloading what looks like pedophilia does'nt mean that one is a pedophile.
Then the implementation sucks BIG TIME. Come on, youngass.jpg? Is a 21 yo ass OLD? I don't think so! It does'nt have anything to do with pedophilia. What about teenxxx.jpg? Last time I checked 18yo were both teens AND adults. Hardly qualifies for pedophilia! And then, there's plenty of teensomething.com sites out there that just carry playboy style pr0n.
So it's lame. The guy is just looking for attention. He got it!
No he did'nt bother reading the article, he's just followng the crowd of sheeps, bashing Jonkatz just because it's the thing to do, and maybe collect a few karma points this way.
Recipe for collecting karma points on slashdot currently:
Et voila.
ObFlame: Metallica is for retarded acneic teenager. MODERATE ME DOWN!!
Your rebuttal
No because they spend their money on on drugs and hookers.
This was'nt a rebuttal. With that kind of stretching of words, you could as well call my comments bananas or power convertors.
On top of that, my opinion is that Metallica's music suck and that it's crap for acneic retarded teenagers. That's what you were commenting on.
Flame all you want, I'll post more
Speaking of which, you could really use some training in this area yourself.
You have shown quite conclusively that you are one of the retarded acneic teenagers that you seem to despise so much.
I'm not a teenager, I don't have acne, though I *might* be retarded depending on one's point of view. You should have phrased that as you're no better than an ..., that would have made more sense.
I would recommend that you back up for a second, reread your post, take a deep breath, and chant "It's only Slashdot, It's only Slashdot".
This is slashdot, and that is why I feel free to speak freely.
Most people who have passed their retarded acneic teenage years can find more constructive ways to counter an argument besides poorly thought out sarcasm and name calling.
As I said, you could really use some help and training in flaming and rhetoric. It was not an "argument" to begin with. It was opinion. Look that up for yourself in a dictionary, you might feel enlightened.
And then ... here comes an actual argument: I've done name calling, I'm not ashamed of it, and I invite you to ask yourself ... what's worse, speaking one's mind strongly and honestly, or sueing Universities for bogus reasons just because you have the money and power to do so?
Hope this helps, too.
Oh I'm so bad. Do you think I've hurt their feelings? I'm vaywwy sorry if that's the case.
I wish that everybody was as nice as you and stop fucking calling people "pirates" as if they had killed and raped and stolen whereas they have just moved a few electrons around.
And anyway, their music is crap for retarded acneic teenagers.
A big problem with people nowadays is that they think they are entitled to everything and anything. Its the "me" syndrome.
So what about the problem with wealthy corporate bastards who own most of the world's wealth? What about those fucking bastards who keep waiving unattainable goods, using very sophisticated techniques AKA marketing and advertising to wet our appetites ... and then tell us that we can't have it?
I'm not poor myself, at least, not anymore, thanks to the IT boom. I might even get reasonably rich within 2 years if my company does well. I don't "steal" anything -- hell, I might have a dozen "illegal" MP3s around, for around a hundred CDs I own. And I use free software anyway. I'm just sick of hearing the moralizing bullshit the copyright holders serve us. I'm not a communist, I'm not necessarily on the side of the poor, I just know I'm not on the side of the indecent few who do nothing but amass immense wealth without giving back.
Keep your moralizing bullshit for yourself, it's not even moral. Money is no moral. Rich people don't deserve any kind of support -- they already can afford it for themselves. Praise the talented, the caring, the ingenious, .... I don't think Metallica and Dr Dre are any of that. They're just a bunch of marketing machines. What they sell is worth their weight of fart.
There is a reason that doesn't get moderated up...what kind of explanation for theft is 'I can't afford to legally buy them'. Most people can't afford a Ferrari either...you don't see people heisting them.
When you steal a Ferrari, the owner won't have it anymore. SO YOUR POINT IS VOID, EMPTY, NULL, NADA, BOLLOCKS, NICHTS, RIEN DU TOUT.
(PS: are you really at microsoft.com?)
... take the left.
Oh how much I hate moralizing Anonymous Cowards. Stealing from a poor person is extremely bad. Stealing from an undecently wealthy bastard is just fair.