Too bad their clever marketing tactic was only unveiled 23 years after it was released to the public, in 1995, when a stoner was listening to Dark Side on headphones while his little sister watched Wizard of Oz.
Some lesser known discoveries by this pioneer include the correlation between 'Detachable Penis' by King Missile and the trailer for 'The Crying Game', and the uncanny choreography of Slayer's 'Reign in Blood' with the second half of 'Shallow Hal'. Try it yourself, you'll be AMAZED!
It really isn't a big deal, and nothing more than a bunch of completely laughable media hype and ignorance.
The plague in rodents is actually very common, and occurs naturally. Here in the town where I live, it's a known fact that many many rodents, a hell of a lot more than 3, carry the plague. Two cats this year were discovered in my town with plague. It's known to be spread all over the county. You don't see me posting stories on slashdot about it.
First I saw this stupid story on drudgereport, and tried to explain to some co-workers that it was totally not a danger to anyone, then I see it on slashdot the next day. Sigh. Stay away from my mountain stronghold.
2^128 is huge. It's larger by far than the number of all the files in all of the computers in the world. It larger than the number of stars in the universe.
"I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to 2^128"
So is it then illegal to send notices to companies making allegations of copyright violations which are not true? If not, then a good way to get this law removed or modified would be to send out hundreds of e-mail to websites alleging copyright violation where there is none taking place. It would become common practice to ignore such requests, and those that were 'legitimate' would be lost in the crowd. The expense to businesses would be enormous and the law would be modified.
I wonder how long it takes before the thing runs out of smell and needs smell recharge cartridges. It's not the smell printer that costs money you know, its the smell recharge cartridges.
Me too, especially because I've already dropped hints to my girlfriend that what I want for xmas is a nice quality Go board. I've still never played anywhere but on the computer on IGS, and it sure would be great to have a nice board on my coffee table. Lots of people tell me it's far more fun to play with another in person.
Seriously, is there any other reason for these MySQL book reviews? They all sound the same, and who buys books on MySQL optimization anyway? The manual and 'EXPLAIN' should be enough for anyway.
Enough ranting, continue your too-highly-moderated offtopic flamewars.
I would be fine with this line of thinking if the data gathered by the cameras/listening implements were publicly available, but they are not.
Your analogy is not really valid because if I wanted to, I could not go out and set up my own cameras on public property. The government can, though, but even though they are using public money to place public devices in public places, I am denied access to the data they gather.
Personally I feel that if I had access to the data these things gather that there would be far less of a reason to complain.
Not that I really want the data, but if the government wants to make public life even more public, it should be ubiquitous, not just a government privilege.
It's funny he would have his name anywhere near this proposition, when his most successful and oft-played political ads him saying something:
I AM IN PRINCIPLE AGAINST TAXING, BECAUSE I FEEL THAT THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA HAVE BEEN PUNISHED ENOUGH. FROM THE TIME THEY GET UP IN THE MORNING, THEY GO AND GET COFFEE, THEY'RE TAXED; THEY GET INTO THEIR CAR, THEY'RE TAXED; THEY GO TO THE GAS STATION, THEY'RE TAXED. AND THIS GOES ON ALL DAY LONG. TAX, TAX, TAX, TAX, TAX.
Forgive the caps, its a copy/paste job. Hopefully this disclaimer will be enough to appease the lameness filter.
I know this has been said, but this will never happen. Firstly, we just got through recalling a governer, and one of the major factors which led to this was a car tax (in that case it was an increase in registration fees). People were pissed; California is a car state, the average commute is something like 45 minutes a day. If Arnold wants a one-way ticket out of politics, this is his move.
Not to mention trucking companies and their importance to the California economy. They do all this work to improve out trucking infrastructure, then think they can bust something like this out?
As for the privacy issues, they make me want to puke. Seeing such short sightedness makes me lose my faith in mankind.
But ain't those October Surprises like Bin Laden, same-sex marriage sort of swung the votes? Although the percentage changes in E-Touch Voting and Op-Scan are too irregular.
I don't think so. The vast majority of polls taken showed Bush ahead by a medium-to-slim margin through practically the entire race. I don't think many people's votes swing entirely on same-sex marraige or anything Bin Laden says, but that could just be wishful thinking.
The differences are not enough to change the outcome. If they were even remotely close, there'd be an army of 100,000 lawyers from both parties raising hell and generally making both parties appear far more unappealing than they already are.
Q: The music industry has only sued people who "upload" onto the Internet -- i.e., people who share content with others. No downloader has been sued, because the RIAA says it's easier to find uploaders. Are you planning to sue just uploaders as well?
Q: Mr Glickman, which movies specifically will you be suing people for sharing?
Q: And which networks will you be targetting in your lawsuits?
Q: Specifically what time of day will you most likely be busy gathering IPs of sharers?
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Oh come now, you act as if its impossible to get a job coding because of outsourcing to foreign countries.
Is it just a fluke that me and the majority of my friends are programmers, many of us without even any college experience, all of us making more than 40k a year?
I wouldn't give up on coding as a career just yet. The majority of companies are certainly willing to pay to have the programmer in the building rather than thousands of miles away.
What does resistance to consumer damage have to do with anything?
A lot! From a marketing standpoint (as if there were any other when dealing with manufacturers) the last thing they want is to have their brand name associated with discs which are rendered useless as soon as you get a fingerprint on them. (Not saying that Blu-ray is this sensitive, just making a point).
I think that most of us here understand core database concepts (including ACID) just fine.
Oh? Read some of the other comments on this article and see:)
I agree that MySQL is overused. It's the M in LAMP, and so people assume its what they have to use for everything.
But what are these alternatives you mention that are so much better suited for every possible scenario? For me, MySQL is the perfect mix of speed and features. Give me some leads on other databases I should consider replacing it with, I'll check them out.
I'm stepping out on a limb here, but I think you will end up having to lock all tables to make a real consistent backup of your database where all tables relational data is gauranteed intact.
I've never had to do this but your problem interested me. Think about it, how could you possibly make the database spit out a perfectly frozen-in-time set of tables without actually freezing in order to make the set?
It's not like you'd be able to tell the database "Make me a backup of the database as it was at is right now, at 12:45:23.183848!" and the database could continue modifying the content of the tables while still producing for you a perfect backup. Even things programmed into the database to perform an action like this would take as much overhead as locking the tables first anyway, right?
The important thing is, does it tell you how to set up and manage highly distributed system managing gigabytes of data under high transaction volumes?
The article did mention that it covers some related issues: "Other chapters within High Performance MySQL include chapters on server performance tuning, replication, load balancing, and high-availability, backup and recovery, and security."
But I agree, the review doesn't give any indication whether the book spends all its time repeating whats already available in the MySQL manual, or giving the reader new ideas and insight into 'professional' MySQL optimization.
If the book addresses topics so severely obvious (and covered in the MySQL documentation) as this, I would be pretty disappointed.
Of course indexes can hurt performance. If not, you would just make every field in a table an index.
Hopefully this book is made for people who know this already...
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While you make a valid point that it is falacious to equate authority with corruption, you should keep in mind that a government's authority is usually restricted because of just such a precept, and that governments which do not subscribe to such paranoia in their inception do not often "succeed".
Of course I'm not suggesting that government or authority in general is immoral. Just that perhaps you are having a knee-jerk reaction to a generalization used in the article which the author may have used in the sense I describe it in, and not the sense you describe it in.
The real problem is not his use of a fallacy, but your disagreement in the determination of moral uses of authority, and how reality applies to that determination.
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Too bad their clever marketing tactic was only unveiled 23 years after it was released to the public, in 1995, when a stoner was listening to Dark Side on headphones while his little sister watched Wizard of Oz.
Some lesser known discoveries by this pioneer include the correlation between 'Detachable Penis' by King Missile and the trailer for 'The Crying Game', and the uncanny choreography of Slayer's 'Reign in Blood' with the second half of 'Shallow Hal'. Try it yourself, you'll be AMAZED!
I see someone taking a picture of someone, stealing their cellphone, and holding up the picture in front of it for face recognition.
The plague in rodents is actually very common, and occurs naturally. Here in the town where I live, it's a known fact that many many rodents, a hell of a lot more than 3, carry the plague. Two cats this year were discovered in my town with plague. It's known to be spread all over the county. You don't see me posting stories on slashdot about it.
See:http://www.turnto23.com/news/4883235/detail.ht ml?subid=22100581&qs=1;bp=t
First I saw this stupid story on drudgereport, and tried to explain to some co-workers that it was totally not a danger to anyone, then I see it on slashdot the next day. Sigh. Stay away from my mountain stronghold.
Am I missing something?
I know I know, I was just joking around.
I wonder how long it takes before the thing runs out of smell and needs smell recharge cartridges. It's not the smell printer that costs money you know, its the smell recharge cartridges.
Me too, especially because I've already dropped hints to my girlfriend that what I want for xmas is a nice quality Go board. I've still never played anywhere but on the computer on IGS, and it sure would be great to have a nice board on my coffee table. Lots of people tell me it's far more fun to play with another in person.
Lots of nice feature-rich linux clients support it.
Seriously, is there any other reason for these MySQL book reviews? They all sound the same, and who buys books on MySQL optimization anyway? The manual and 'EXPLAIN' should be enough for anyway.
Enough ranting, continue your too-highly-moderated offtopic flamewars.
Your analogy is not really valid because if I wanted to, I could not go out and set up my own cameras on public property. The government can, though, but even though they are using public money to place public devices in public places, I am denied access to the data they gather.
Personally I feel that if I had access to the data these things gather that there would be far less of a reason to complain.
Not that I really want the data, but if the government wants to make public life even more public, it should be ubiquitous, not just a government privilege.
Forgive the caps, its a copy/paste job. Hopefully this disclaimer will be enough to appease the lameness filter.
Not to mention trucking companies and their importance to the California economy. They do all this work to improve out trucking infrastructure, then think they can bust something like this out?
As for the privacy issues, they make me want to puke. Seeing such short sightedness makes me lose my faith in mankind.
The differences are not enough to change the outcome. If they were even remotely close, there'd be an army of 100,000 lawyers from both parties raising hell and generally making both parties appear far more unappealing than they already are.
Q: Mr Glickman, which movies specifically will you be suing people for sharing?
Q: And which networks will you be targetting in your lawsuits?
Q: Specifically what time of day will you most likely be busy gathering IPs of sharers?
Is it just a fluke that me and the majority of my friends are programmers, many of us without even any college experience, all of us making more than 40k a year?
I wouldn't give up on coding as a career just yet. The majority of companies are certainly willing to pay to have the programmer in the building rather than thousands of miles away.
God, did I really just bother pointing that out?
A lot! From a marketing standpoint (as if there were any other when dealing with manufacturers) the last thing they want is to have their brand name associated with discs which are rendered useless as soon as you get a fingerprint on them. (Not saying that Blu-ray is this sensitive, just making a point).
Elaine: Then how did you know you cut them?
Kramer: Well ... I guess I just assumed!
Yeah, you are right, I've never heard of MVCC, but the transaction thing makes perfect sense to me.
I should have realized we'd left my area of expertise when the guy said he wasn't using MyISAM tables.
I agree that MySQL is overused. It's the M in LAMP, and so people assume its what they have to use for everything.
But what are these alternatives you mention that are so much better suited for every possible scenario? For me, MySQL is the perfect mix of speed and features. Give me some leads on other databases I should consider replacing it with, I'll check them out.
I've never had to do this but your problem interested me. Think about it, how could you possibly make the database spit out a perfectly frozen-in-time set of tables without actually freezing in order to make the set?
It's not like you'd be able to tell the database "Make me a backup of the database as it was at is right now, at 12:45:23.183848!" and the database could continue modifying the content of the tables while still producing for you a perfect backup. Even things programmed into the database to perform an action like this would take as much overhead as locking the tables first anyway, right?
The replication slave would work, though.
But I agree, the review doesn't give any indication whether the book spends all its time repeating whats already available in the MySQL manual, or giving the reader new ideas and insight into 'professional' MySQL optimization.
Of course indexes can hurt performance. If not, you would just make every field in a table an index.
Hopefully this book is made for people who know this already...
Of course I'm not suggesting that government or authority in general is immoral. Just that perhaps you are having a knee-jerk reaction to a generalization used in the article which the author may have used in the sense I describe it in, and not the sense you describe it in.
The real problem is not his use of a fallacy, but your disagreement in the determination of moral uses of authority, and how reality applies to that determination.