You are required to carry ID in the US as well. Big deal.
It is a big deal here (in Belgium).
If you don't have your card, you can be arrested and held in a cell until you are able to prove your identity.
This is anywhere, anytime - not just walking out of a bar, or driving a car. Stand too long on a street corner, or if the police think you're looking at them in a funny way, or be the wrong skin colour in thewrong area - with no official id, you can be held for a long time.
If you're from north Africa, and you're walking around Antwerp with some friends, you better have your card with you - and you better not resist arrest (like breath, etc...).
>1 followed by 100 zeros. A googol is a very large number. There isn't a googol of anything in the >universe. Not stars, not dust particles, not atoms.
I think you mean a googol-plex, which is a googol raised to a googol. That's more than the number of atoms in the universe.
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Ok, I'm not an American, and your comment has slightly confused me.
Are all of these conservative/liberal labels refering to political/economic or social view points?
I can see that wanting lower social benefits can be a conservative view point - that's pol/eco - but abortion?
I thought that, for example abortion would be an entirely in the social/moral area - nothing to do with politics.
Are social/moral issues part of the left/right political debate?
Does the left decide that it's ok to torture little kittens, so the right opposes it? Couldn't BOTH sides decide that, hamering nails into kittens is fun, and they both can support it? (for example only, I don't want to be seen to be supporting any specific issue - execpt hammering nails into kittens of course).
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Really, you can't honestly compare Amazon and Salon.
Take away Amazon's web site, and what do you have? A *huge* company with buildings, supply chains, delivery systems, etc... If they had a physical shop you could walk into, you wouldn't think that they're anything different than any new mega-chain spending money putting up shops and building market share.
The only thing with Amazon is that they are a web-based only catalogue ordering company. I know that there are alot of other companies in the US that are catalogue-only. That's what you should be comparing them to.
Salon is a web magazine site. No big inventory, no supply and distribution chains. All you need is a webserver, a co-lo, an editorial team, and some freelance writers. There is nothing forcing them to spend alot of money on fancy offices, marketing executives and coke habits. Sure, they wouldn't be as big, but they would probably stil be around.
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Kevin,
I enjoyed your bio, it's a pitty it was cut from your book.
Can you tell me why it was better to stay in prison and sign away your rights, than to go to trial early with a less prepared lawyer?
Weren't you just keeping yourself in prison longer that you should have been?
Do you really think that you would have got an even worse treatment if you went to trial earlier?
While I get to play with Oracle, Apache, Java, etc, the group I work with is only 10 people, where as not 10 feet away from is one of the many groups of mainframe only developers.
They have their 3270 emulators, program in COBOL, do some JCL, and there are a couple of hundred of them. Quite a number of them are under 30 (although there are also quite a few over 50).
Alot of these mainframers here are on contract from a few main agencies. These people are full-time employees of the agencies - places like EDS.
They're not dying out, because if they loose one, then EDS finds another monkey, trains it for a few months on JCL and COBOL and then puts them out on contract rates.
There seems to be a never ending supply of these monkeys who exchange their life for a boring, stable, if not well paid, job.
Not only is it the same story as the Voyager as someone else has already noted, but it appears to be even similar to the TOS episode Galileo 7.
It was Sci-Fi at it's best, a human drama between Trip's completely irrational hope (although deep down he knows the truth) and Reed's attempt to prepare for their pending deaths. They
An in the TOS episode, the same thing occured with Kirk and Spock. The had a twist in then end, when Spock performs an irrational action which had little chance of success and which shortened their time in orbit before they burned up, but by a stroke of luck, it worked (amazing, eh?).
In Shatner's autobio, he said that he started off not liking the next gen episodes, as they were ripoffs of earlier TOS episodes.
It appears that either all of the plots in existance have already been used in other trek episodes, or the writers just like to rehash old plots 'cause it's easy and it worked last time.
(Ok, I read the earlier slashdot article which discussed that there are only a few basic plots, like man vs man, man vs nature, nature vs nature, but as far as I know, they haven't done a trek plot of dog vs vampire* - so there's at leat one left).
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* with thanks to the original poster of those plots who refered to Stephen King.
In fact, there are quite a few types of cars being made today which have very little computer control, but I'm not surprised that people here are not aware of them, as i don't think they're available in the US.
My car has a engine management computer (it is almost impossible to find a engine desigend and produced in the last 10 years not to have one), but other than that, there is no other computer control. No ABS, no power brakes, no power steering, no airbags. And yes, my car was designed less than 10 years ago as a bran new model. It's a Lotus Elise, but the same could be said for a Caterham 7, or any number of similar cars.
If the engine CPU dies, the worst is the engine cuts out, I don't lose any other controls nor does it become different or difficult to control.
In essence, as the parent post to which you are replying to say, I don't trust my life to a computer running my car.
Just because you are not aware of something, doesn't mean it does not exist.
Well, I guess "being fired" gets news - but I would rather the article was just about me and not about HP.
Hmm.... I think I know the real reason he had to go...
Carly: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who has the biggest HP ego of all? MM: I don't think I should let this loose, you won't like it, it's not you, it's Bruce. Carly: Noooooo! Where is my huntsman? I need someone good with a chopping block.
Those plane spotters were taking pictures of aircraft at a military airfield in a country where that is illegal
No, taking the photos was ok. There were other people there taking photos. It was a sort of a display day.
There were arrested because they were writing down the serial numbers (or whatever the identifiers of planes are called). They were sad people who got enjoyment out of writing down what they've seen. As it has been pointed out in the media, this was of no military value. There was more information on-line and published in books and magazines (Janes etc) than what these sad people collected.
Now, being a sad person with wierd hobbies in most countries in Europe is not a crime. The Greek reaction was waaaaay over the top.
Everyone who likes UNIX and who knows both UNIX and VMS well cannot but hate VMS.
Ok, let me first tell you about my personal collection of computers. I have
HP-9000 J-210 - 2 processor HP/UX RS/6000 J-40 - 8 processor AIX (run *very* hot) 3 x Sun SS-20 - 2 processor Solaris 1 x SunBlade 100 - single procssor Solaris 2 x Sun LX - singal processor Solaris 2 x Tadpole 3GX - laptops, Solaris Alpha 2100 - single processor Tru64 intel - single processor SuSE 7.1
I've run Linux since the.99 days, before then I ran Coherent (unix clone, now dead), SCO Unix, SCO Xenix.
I use unix everyday in my job. I love unix, if it weren't for unix, I probably wouldn't be working in the computer industry.
My other remaining box is a VAX 7000/90 running OpenVMS.
I love VMS. It can do everything that unix can do, but it just does it differently. You wouldn't program in lisp the same way you would program in C. You have to think in VMS when using VMS and don't try to apply unix ways of working to it.
My guess is that you just didn't learn enough about how VMS works to really understand it. Not surprising since you only used it for a year. Maybe if you'd learnt it more and had to do system admin tasks in it, you'd appreciate it better.
VMS was ahead of unix in so many way - access control list security, VMS had it way before, clustering, VMS had it way before (and it still is bettter than most versions of unix). VMS was set up from the start to monitor and control users and their cpu usage, for unix, you get vendor-created add-ons which do the job and are no way near integrated.
From a captive end-user perspective, maybe VMS was not so much fun, but from an admin perspective, if was fantastic.
MySQL is the greatest thing since sliced bread for those that find that it DOES THE JOB. MySQL has done everything I need it to for my applications and does it fast
And perl too is fantastic, and I probably couldn't live without php, but what you're missing is that the one thing that MySQL, perl, php all have in common is that they are NOT enterprise level database management systems.
Look, I'm not trying to flame you, and if you really want to understand more, then I'll be willing to answer your questions. It does appear that you're exactly like the person in the parent post to which you are replying.
for 95% of the database applications, stored procedures, triggers, and even constraints are bloat. If I can SELECT, INSERT, DELETE, and UPDATE, MySQL serves my needs.
to even be considered by Yahoo, it's definitely good enough for 99.9% of the websites out there--despite your well-informed, expert opinion
I think I see the problem. You see, the majority of databases have existed before the web came to be. It may well be true that for web-based databases that MySQL if perfect, but it is not any good for critical data storage, which most web sites do not need.
All of the things you think are bloat are realy needed to keep enterprise-level system running.
Let me give you an idea of how it is used. Sitting just above me is a group of 200 programmers, they have been working one a single application for over 3 years. This also happens to have a web-interface for some elements, but mainly does batch processing on big IBM iron on DB2 databases. Now, with 200 programmers, there are quite a few different teams, and there is not a single person who knows exactly what everything does. The only way to maintain integrity of the system is to enforce some rules inside the database itself, so everytime an update or request for data is performed, certain checks are made. For exmaple, a person entering data using a web-based screen does not need to enter all of the same data and something coming in via a batch process, but the system has to make sure that the data from both sources are compatiable. This is where primary/foreign key constraints and thing like database triggers can be used. You make sure that all of the required data exists, and maybe perform some updates to automatically create something which is needed. Now, remember, the team developing the web interface probably don't even know who the people creating the batch processing interface even are.
Oracle and SQL Server might have their place on 0.1% of the databse applications
Do you really think that companies which need even 50 programmers for a project are going to be bothered about the cost of Oracle? People are far more expensive that the cost of the Oracle licenses.
If you're interested, I can tell you more, but I hope you get the idea.
Race drivers regularly use in-car radio systems and if they can do that at 150mph+, then there is nothing inherently dangerous about a cell phone.
Right, a pro racing driver can have a conversation and drive on a racing track at the same time. Fine. I can vouch for that. I've been driven, and drove myself with pro racing drivers around on racetracks. The pros seem to have no problem taking and driving at the same time.
On the other hand, I, a mere mortal, have driven around on racetracks at high speed at the limit of my ability, and I can tell you, whem I'm breaking into a corner and there's traffic either in front or comming up behind, I'll stop talking in mid-sentence (or even mid-word), and use all of my powers of concentration on controlling the car.
Believe me, it's very difficult to drive on a racetrack and talk at the same time.
Not to mention that a race track is far safer and a normal road. On a race track, I only have to worry about passing the slower cars in front of me, and watching for the faster ones from behind. I never have to worry about children running onto the track.
I'm sorry, you comparison is wrong. Talking (on the phone, with a passanger) while driving does affect your ability to control the car.
A modern x86 running Solaris 9 will spank a Sun Blade 100, so providing an x86 version of Solaris seems likely to hurt sales of lower-end Sun workstations. A decent x86 box is blindingly fast, in fact, and I would not be surprised to see them even hurt sales of low-end UltraSPARC servers
Well, maybe, but I don't think so.
In places where they are not already a Sun shop, or only have x86 PCs and no unix servers, then I could see a company choosing x86 over a low end ultra - but really, how many companies like that would be seriously considering a low end ultra anyway.
I have a Sunblade 100 on my desk. The reason? It runs the EXACT software as the really big suns in the computer room. In fact, the computer room suns are really not very big - just a cluster of 4-processors E4500 (I think, something like that). The company I'm working for also has alot of big old iron, but they chose Sun for some specific tasks, and want the same sort of hardware dependability as they're use to.
I'm sorry to say, but even the best x86 boxes cannot compete against something like the multi-processor SunFire range (hot swapping of CPUs, etc).
No, I think that this is more likely going to open up more of the really low end market to help Sun get their foot in the door to when the customer wants to scale up, they're already there ready to sell.
Seriously, remember the game "Cootie" when you were kids? (Those of you who aren't kids anymore anyway.)
Or... we're not from the US and therefore didn't share the same sort of childhood experiences as you.
Since you've been modded up to +4 (at the time I'm writing this), would you mind explaining to those of us who don't understand you, exactly what you're talking about?
While many of your friends would have called it a straight improvement, IMO this is only acceptable in the sense of "a interpretation which fits my taster better". Many others would not say it's an improvement.
True enough, the evaluation of an improvement is subjective - but if some people agree that it's an improvement, then for then at least, it is an improvement.
EL&P came around a little later than the original author, but if they were around at the same time, who's to say that they might not have worked together ? If a change brings the same music to a wider or new audience, then isn't that an improvement?
I bet if I hunt around, I could probably find an example which you would agree on being an improvement. Going back to classical times, I'm sure your aware that composers did ths all the time, 'borrowing' pieces of music.
Heh, let's get that outta way, my UID is lower
Wot? An that means you've been here longer? Huh? I only decided to get an account after getting tired of setting the comment threshold to 2 all of the time. I started reading here in '97, way before accounts even existed. Ok, linux? Started in '93 using a 0.99 kernel after I gave up on Coherent (also a unix clone for x86). Programming? I started on a pdp7, using cards. Ha!
People who are good at what they do deserve a chance to make good money. You have organized it such that even a successful band will barely break even. And for the privilege of making peanuts, they have to literally live on the road. That's just crazy.
My wife studied for 7 years for two degrees in language translation (Russian, French, English) and international economics. I dopped out of university (twice) and after 15 years I'm only completing my degree now. The best job she could get paid not alot more than the minumum wage. I get hundreds of thousands a year, and don't work half as hard as my wife.
Does my wife deserve more? Yes.
Do I deserve less? Probably.
Is life fair? No.
Just because someone wants to do something for a living (musician, Russian translator), doesn't mean they will get justly rewarded.
Life sucks. No-one owes you anything. If I could change the whoe economic system, I would, but until then, people will unfairly get shafted.
Umm... of course, it would be ok if it's your death? I mean, I'm all for retoric and all that, it's just that I'm rather attached to life, so if someone has to die for this, I'd prefer it was you, not me.
I have other causes for which I'm willing to die for, like saving the Earth from intergalatic space aliens. So, if it's ok with you, could you be the one that dies, preferable a horrible, painfull public death - all the better for the cause.
What, you didn't really mean it? You're not willing to die for my rights?
but has an expectant mother or an little old grandma or teenage girl EVER hijacked a plane or commited an act of terrorism?!
Are you serious?
Do you ever what the news, or doesn't your news cover the middle-east?
Only some weeks ago, a teenage girl blew her self up in Israel. In fact, it was the first time that a bomber was a teenage girl, which is why it made international news.
Oh, shit. My above post may have contained a spoiler.
(a bit more explained below) . . . . . . . . .
It's been a months since I read the story, but I think you don't find out about the 50% DNA gene pool purge until later into the story.
Sorry about that.
At least I didn't say that the lone gunmen were killed.
Which reminds me of the best spoiler I've ever seen. In the credits to, I think, Loaded Weapon, near the end, they had Gaffer -... Best Boy -.... The secret to the crying game - The girl's a guy Property Manager -....
I haven't read the book, but I have read the novella - it was published in 3 parts over 3 months in Analog.
You're correct that it won't change the person, but that doesn't matter.
What they do is to sterilize anyone who shares 50% of the same genetic material as the person who commits the crime. In this way, the 'bad' genes are removed from the gene pool.
But Jeff Bezos misrepresented his business to investors, workers and the world--he led people to believe that they were participating in a dream of changing commerce forever
What?
You're kidding me?
Next you're going to tell me that we won't all be driving to work on Segway scooter thingys and the car will be obsolete!
Amazing, alot of business people tell everyone that they are going to change the world, but infact very few ever do.
Jeff represented his busines as such either because he thought it was true, or he thought that was what was needed for him to succeed.
Misrepresentation is just part of the game. Remember, there's a sucker born every minute.
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You are required to carry ID in the US as well. Big deal.
It is a big deal here (in Belgium).
If you don't have your card, you can be arrested and held in a cell until you are able to prove your identity.
This is anywhere, anytime - not just walking out of a bar, or driving a car. Stand too long on a street corner, or if the police think you're looking at them in a funny way, or be the wrong skin colour in thewrong area - with no official id, you can be held for a long time.
If you're from north Africa, and you're walking around Antwerp with some friends, you better have your card with you - and you better not resist arrest (like breath, etc...).
This is nothing like the US.
Non sequitir. Bears don't commit armed robbery ... The Right To Keep and Bear Arms is about
But what if the 2nd amdt was "To Keep and Arm Bears", then maybe bears wold be commiting armed robbery.
>1 followed by 100 zeros. A googol is a very large number. There isn't a googol of anything in the
>universe. Not stars, not dust particles, not atoms.
I think you mean a googol-plex, which is a googol raised to a googol. That's more than the number of atoms in the universe.
Ok, I'm not an American, and your comment has slightly confused me.
Are all of these conservative/liberal labels refering to political/economic or social view points?
I can see that wanting lower social benefits can be a conservative view point - that's pol/eco - but abortion?
I thought that, for example abortion would be an entirely in the social/moral area - nothing to do with politics.
Are social/moral issues part of the left/right political debate?
Does the left decide that it's ok to torture little kittens, so the right opposes it? Couldn't BOTH sides decide that, hamering nails into kittens is fun, and they both can support it? (for example only, I don't want to be seen to be supporting any specific issue - execpt hammering nails into kittens of course).
Really, you can't honestly compare Amazon and Salon.
Take away Amazon's web site, and what do you have? A *huge* company with buildings, supply chains, delivery systems, etc... If they had a physical shop you could walk into, you wouldn't think that they're anything different than any new mega-chain spending money putting up shops and building market share.
The only thing with Amazon is that they are a web-based only catalogue ordering company. I know that there are alot of other companies in the US that are catalogue-only. That's what you should be comparing them to.
Salon is a web magazine site. No big inventory, no supply and distribution chains. All you need is a webserver, a co-lo, an editorial team, and some freelance writers. There is nothing forcing them to spend alot of money on fancy offices, marketing executives and coke habits. Sure, they wouldn't be as big, but they would probably stil be around.
Kevin,
I enjoyed your bio, it's a pitty it was cut from your book.
Can you tell me why it was better to stay in prison and sign away your rights, than to go to trial early with a less prepared lawyer?
Weren't you just keeping yourself in prison longer that you should have been?
Do you really think that you would have got an even worse treatment if you went to trial earlier?
Don't be silly. They're not dying out.
While I get to play with Oracle, Apache, Java, etc, the group I work with is only 10 people, where as not 10 feet away from is one of the many groups of mainframe only developers.
They have their 3270 emulators, program in COBOL, do some JCL, and there are a couple of hundred of them. Quite a number of them are under 30 (although there are also quite a few over 50).
Alot of these mainframers here are on contract from a few main agencies. These people are full-time employees of the agencies - places like EDS.
They're not dying out, because if they loose one, then EDS finds another monkey, trains it for a few months on JCL and COBOL and then puts them out on contract rates.
There seems to be a never ending supply of these monkeys who exchange their life for a boring, stable, if not well paid, job.
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Not only is it the same story as the Voyager as someone else has already noted, but it appears to be even similar to the TOS episode Galileo 7.
It was Sci-Fi at it's best, a human drama between Trip's completely irrational hope (although deep down he knows the truth) and Reed's attempt to prepare for their pending deaths. They
An in the TOS episode, the same thing occured with Kirk and Spock. The had a twist in then end, when Spock performs an irrational action which had little chance of success and which shortened their time in orbit before they burned up, but by a stroke of luck, it worked (amazing, eh?).
In Shatner's autobio, he said that he started off not liking the next gen episodes, as they were ripoffs of earlier TOS episodes.
It appears that either all of the plots in existance have already been used in other trek episodes, or the writers just like to rehash old plots 'cause it's easy and it worked last time.
(Ok, I read the earlier slashdot article which discussed that there are only a few basic plots, like man vs man, man vs nature, nature vs nature, but as far as I know, they haven't done a trek plot of dog vs vampire* - so there's at leat one left).
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* with thanks to the original poster of those plots who refered to Stephen King.
In fact, there are quite a few types of cars being made today which have very little computer control, but I'm not surprised that people here are not aware of them, as i don't think they're available in the US.
My car has a engine management computer (it is almost impossible to find a engine desigend and produced in the last 10 years not to have one), but other than that, there is no other computer control. No ABS, no power brakes, no power steering, no airbags. And yes, my car was designed less than 10 years ago as a bran new model. It's a Lotus Elise, but the same could be said for a Caterham 7, or any number of similar cars.
If the engine CPU dies, the worst is the engine cuts out, I don't lose any other controls nor does it become different or difficult to control.
In essence, as the parent post to which you are replying to say, I don't trust my life to a computer running my car.
Just because you are not aware of something, doesn't mean it does not exist.
Well, I guess "being fired" gets news - but I would rather the article was just about me and not about HP.
:-)
Hmm.... I think I know the real reason he had to go...
Carly: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who has the biggest HP ego of all?
MM: I don't think I should let this loose, you won't like it, it's not you, it's Bruce.
Carly: Noooooo! Where is my huntsman? I need someone good with a chopping block.
(No offense Bruce
Those plane spotters were taking pictures of aircraft at a military airfield in a country where that is illegal
No, taking the photos was ok. There were other people there taking photos. It was a sort of a display day.
There were arrested because they were writing down the serial numbers (or whatever the identifiers of planes are called). They were sad people who got enjoyment out of writing down what they've seen. As it has been pointed out in the media, this was of no military value. There was more information on-line and published in books and magazines (Janes etc) than what these sad people collected.
Now, being a sad person with wierd hobbies in most countries in Europe is not a crime. The Greek reaction was waaaaay over the top.
Everyone who likes UNIX and who knows both UNIX and VMS well cannot but hate VMS.
.99 days, before then I ran Coherent (unix clone, now dead), SCO Unix, SCO Xenix.
Ok, let me first tell you about my personal collection of computers. I have
HP-9000 J-210 - 2 processor HP/UX
RS/6000 J-40 - 8 processor AIX (run *very* hot)
3 x Sun SS-20 - 2 processor Solaris
1 x SunBlade 100 - single procssor Solaris
2 x Sun LX - singal processor Solaris
2 x Tadpole 3GX - laptops, Solaris
Alpha 2100 - single processor Tru64
intel - single processor SuSE 7.1
I've run Linux since the
I use unix everyday in my job. I love unix, if it weren't for unix, I probably wouldn't be working in the computer industry.
My other remaining box is a VAX 7000/90 running OpenVMS.
I love VMS. It can do everything that unix can do, but it just does it differently. You wouldn't program in lisp the same way you would program in C. You have to think in VMS when using VMS and don't try to apply unix ways of working to it.
My guess is that you just didn't learn enough about how VMS works to really understand it. Not surprising since you only used it for a year. Maybe if you'd learnt it more and had to do system admin tasks in it, you'd appreciate it better.
VMS was ahead of unix in so many way - access control list security, VMS had it way before, clustering, VMS had it way before (and it still is bettter than most versions of unix). VMS was set up from the start to monitor and control users and their cpu usage, for unix, you get vendor-created add-ons which do the job and are no way near integrated.
From a captive end-user perspective, maybe VMS was not so much fun, but from an admin perspective, if was fantastic.
MySQL is the greatest thing since sliced bread for those that find that it DOES THE JOB. MySQL has done everything I need it to for my applications and does it fast
And perl too is fantastic, and I probably couldn't live without php, but what you're missing is that the one thing that MySQL, perl, php all have in common is that they are NOT enterprise level database management systems.
Look, I'm not trying to flame you, and if you really want to understand more, then I'll be willing to answer your questions. It does appear that you're exactly like the person in the parent post to which you are replying.
for 95% of the database applications, stored procedures, triggers, and even constraints are bloat. If I can SELECT, INSERT, DELETE, and UPDATE, MySQL serves my needs.
to even be considered by Yahoo, it's definitely good enough for 99.9% of the websites out there--despite your well-informed, expert opinion
I think I see the problem. You see, the majority of databases have existed before the web came to be. It may well be true that for web-based databases that MySQL if perfect, but it is not any good for critical data storage, which most web sites do not need.
All of the things you think are bloat are realy needed to keep enterprise-level system running.
Let me give you an idea of how it is used. Sitting just above me is a group of 200 programmers, they have been working one a single application for over 3 years. This also happens to have a web-interface for some elements, but mainly does batch processing on big IBM iron on DB2 databases. Now, with 200 programmers, there are quite a few different teams, and there is not a single person who knows exactly what everything does. The only way to maintain integrity of the system is to enforce some rules inside the database itself, so everytime an update or request for data is performed, certain checks are made. For exmaple, a person entering data using a web-based screen does not need to enter all of the same data and something coming in via a batch process, but the system has to make sure that the data from both sources are compatiable. This is where primary/foreign key constraints and thing like database triggers can be used. You make sure that all of the required data exists, and maybe perform some updates to automatically create something which is needed. Now, remember, the team developing the web interface probably don't even know who the people creating the batch processing interface even are.
Oracle and SQL Server might have their place on 0.1% of the databse applications
Do you really think that companies which need even 50 programmers for a project are going to be bothered about the cost of Oracle? People are far more expensive that the cost of the Oracle licenses.
If you're interested, I can tell you more, but I hope you get the idea.
cheers,
Race drivers regularly use in-car radio systems and if they can do that at 150mph+, then there is nothing inherently dangerous about a cell phone.
Right, a pro racing driver can have a conversation and drive on a racing track at the same time. Fine. I can vouch for that. I've been driven, and drove myself with pro racing drivers around on racetracks. The pros seem to have no problem taking and driving at the same time.
On the other hand, I, a mere mortal, have driven around on racetracks at high speed at the limit of my ability, and I can tell you, whem I'm breaking into a corner and there's traffic either in front or comming up behind, I'll stop talking in mid-sentence (or even mid-word), and use all of my powers of concentration on controlling the car.
Believe me, it's very difficult to drive on a racetrack and talk at the same time.
Not to mention that a race track is far safer and a normal road. On a race track, I only have to worry about passing the slower cars in front of me, and watching for the faster ones from behind. I never have to worry about children running onto the track.
I'm sorry, you comparison is wrong. Talking (on the phone, with a passanger) while driving does affect your ability to control the car.
A modern x86 running Solaris 9 will spank a Sun Blade 100, so providing an x86 version of Solaris seems likely to hurt sales of lower-end Sun workstations. A decent x86 box is blindingly fast, in fact, and I would not be surprised to see them even hurt sales of low-end UltraSPARC servers
Well, maybe, but I don't think so.
In places where they are not already a Sun shop, or only have x86 PCs and no unix servers, then I could see a company choosing x86 over a low end ultra - but really, how many companies like that would be seriously considering a low end ultra anyway.
I have a Sunblade 100 on my desk. The reason? It runs the EXACT software as the really big suns in the computer room. In fact, the computer room suns are really not very big - just a cluster of 4-processors E4500 (I think, something like that). The company I'm working for also has alot of big old iron, but they chose Sun for some specific tasks, and want the same sort of hardware dependability as they're use to.
I'm sorry to say, but even the best x86 boxes cannot compete against something like the multi-processor SunFire range (hot swapping of CPUs, etc).
No, I think that this is more likely going to open up more of the really low end market to help Sun get their foot in the door to when the customer wants to scale up, they're already there ready to sell.
Seriously, remember the game "Cootie" when you were kids? (Those of you who aren't kids anymore anyway.)
Or... we're not from the US and therefore didn't share the same sort of childhood experiences as you.
Since you've been modded up to +4 (at the time I'm writing this), would you mind explaining to those of us who don't understand you, exactly what you're talking about?
While many of your friends would have called it a straight improvement, IMO this is only acceptable in the sense of "a interpretation which fits my taster better". Many others would not say it's an improvement.
True enough, the evaluation of an improvement is subjective - but if some people agree that it's an improvement, then for then at least, it is an improvement.
EL&P came around a little later than the original author, but if they were around at the same time, who's to say that they might not have worked together ? If a change brings the same music to a wider or new audience, then isn't that an improvement?
I bet if I hunt around, I could probably find an example which you would agree on being an improvement. Going back to classical times, I'm sure your aware that composers did ths all the time, 'borrowing' pieces of music.
Heh, let's get that outta way, my UID is lower
Wot? An that means you've been here longer? Huh? I only decided to get an account after getting tired of setting the comment threshold to 2 all of the time. I started reading here in '97, way before accounts even existed. Ok, linux? Started in '93 using a 0.99 kernel after I gave up on Coherent (also a unix clone for x86). Programming? I started on a pdp7, using cards. Ha!
Would it really improve if someone took it and came out with Toccata & Fuge 1.1?
Hang on, in't that exactly what Emersen Lake and Palmer did? They did an interpretation of Toccata and Fuge, and I think, release it as 'Toccata'.
It got alot of air play, and was pretty good. Some poeple would have called it an improvement (a lot of my friends at the time).
on Bachs work, but nobody seems to think it's a good idea.
Well, *I* thought it was a good idea, and so did EL&P's record company.
Hmm... maybe it was just too long ago, and you kids can't remember anything before rap.
I agree with you most of the way there, but ...
People who are good at what they do deserve a chance to make good money. You have organized it such that even a successful band will barely break even. And for the privilege of making peanuts, they have to literally live on the road. That's just crazy.
My wife studied for 7 years for two degrees in language translation (Russian, French, English) and international economics. I dopped out of university (twice) and after 15 years I'm only completing my degree now. The best job she could get paid not alot more than the minumum wage. I get hundreds of thousands a year, and don't work half as hard as my wife.
Does my wife deserve more? Yes.
Do I deserve less? Probably.
Is life fair? No.
Just because someone wants to do something for a living (musician, Russian translator), doesn't mean they will get justly rewarded.
Life sucks. No-one owes you anything. If I could change the whoe economic system, I would, but until then, people will unfairly get shafted.
Right on!
Freedom or death!
Umm... of course, it would be ok if it's your death? I mean, I'm all for retoric and all that, it's just that I'm rather attached to life, so if someone has to die for this, I'd prefer it was you, not me.
I have other causes for which I'm willing to die for, like saving the Earth from intergalatic space aliens. So, if it's ok with you, could you be the one that dies, preferable a horrible, painfull public death - all the better for the cause.
What, you didn't really mean it? You're not willing to die for my rights?
Bugger.
Do you know someone else who will?
but has an expectant mother or an little old grandma or teenage girl EVER hijacked a plane or commited an act of terrorism?!
Are you serious?
Do you ever what the news, or doesn't your news cover the middle-east?
Only some weeks ago, a teenage girl blew her self up in Israel. In fact, it was the first time that a bomber was a teenage girl, which is why it made international news.
So much for your ideas of gender profiling.
Oh, shit. My above post may have contained a spoiler.
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It's been a months since I read the story, but I think you don't find out about the 50% DNA gene pool purge until later into the story.
Sorry about that.
At least I didn't say that the lone gunmen were killed.
Which reminds me of the best spoiler I've ever seen. In the credits to, I think, Loaded Weapon, near the end, they had
Gaffer -
Best Boy -
The secret to the crying game - The girl's a guy
Property Manager -
I haven't read the book, but I have read the novella - it was published in 3 parts over 3 months in Analog.
You're correct that it won't change the person, but that doesn't matter.
What they do is to sterilize anyone who shares 50% of the same genetic material as the person who commits the crime. In this way, the 'bad' genes are removed from the gene pool.
But Jeff Bezos misrepresented his business to investors, workers and the world--he led people to believe that they were participating in a dream of changing commerce forever
What?
You're kidding me?
Next you're going to tell me that we won't all be driving to work on Segway scooter thingys and the car will be obsolete!
Amazing, alot of business people tell everyone that they are going to change the world, but infact very few ever do.
Jeff represented his busines as such either because he thought it was true, or he thought that was what was needed for him to succeed.
Misrepresentation is just part of the game. Remember, there's a sucker born every minute.
Who died ...
That would be democracy.
Kill in the whitehouse, by big business, with the bag-full-o-money.
I'm sorry, you lose.
To play again, please rewind to 1776.