My Access DB cost the four projects £3,000. Don't be so quick to dismiss it.
I assume you're just including license costs - otherwise, if it includes the cost of your time I can only assume you work cheap. If this is the license cost, then a real database like PostgreSQL would have cost you nothing. As for Excel and Word reporting, last time I checked Excel still imported CSV files (that PostgreSQL can generate automatically) and likewise for Word and HTML.
There's also a "red flashing light of death" on the PS3, which indicates that the power supply has overheated, and it requires a similar amount of work to fix as the YLOD (about ten minutes). The difference is that with the YLOD the fix is often temporary a further damage has often occurred to the motherboard, which will eventually require replacing.
That's a stroke of luck, as my brother gave me a broken Playstation 3 yesterday. It's an original "fat" model suffering from the flashing red light of death, which means I'll need to replace the power supply, and the iFixit site has a guide for doing just that.
High School kids don't pay huge amounts of taxes into the system studying and doing homework, but traders do.
No they don't - there's a number of companies out there who make their money from exploiting tax law loopholes to avoid tax for "high value" clients such as traders. A friend used to work for one of them. As for the drugs mentioned in the grandparent post, my experience of working in the City of London is that traders are so stressed out they can only cope through heavy drinking and drugs. These people are not typically bright being the same kind of aggressive slime that run used car lots or market stalls, and even if they are bright they have little control over the markets they trade in. This is why traders behave like lemmings, and it is possible to game the system by making biggish trades that sets the lemmings running in one direction only for you to then trade against them.
The live music adds a certain element that a synthesizer never can.
You're making the mistake of confusing synthesisers - a musical instrument - with sequencers. Synths are capable of creating sounds that no conventional instrument can, and they also have features (velocity sensitivity, aftertouch, pitch bend, and so on) that are as expressive, if not more so, than conventional instruments. As an example, I can program controllers that sweep the filter and increase modulation of a subset of the oscillators when I increase key pressure of a held chord. Combinations of such real time controllers are very flexible on a synth, surpassing what can be achieved on a conventional instrument such as piano or violin. Synths can also make effective use of the stereo spectrum without the need for multiple performers (for example, on my Oberheim OB-X the oscillators can be panned individually - and this on a machine that's over thirty years old).
Some sequencers include features that introduce subtle, randomised variations that can mimic the behaviour of human performers. Such sequencers have been readily available since the 1980s, when I used software on 16bit computers such as the Atari ST that allowed you to "humanise" sequenced music. Sequencers can also be used to create music that is not possible for a human to perform, combining pitch and tonal variations in very sophisticated ways.
In short, don't think that that synths and sequencers are just capable of cheesy pop music!
The Kahler "Human Clock" was a MIDI clock generator that allowed drummers to control the tempo of sequencers. They were produces back in the late 1980s, and one was used by New Order.
Miguel hasn't been involved in core GNOME development for a looong time. He also had a habit of starting projects and then moving on to new ones quite quickly - Gnumeric and Bonobo for example. Nothing necessarily wrong with that, as it's up to him what he spends his time developing. As for Mono, I'm amazed he's stuck with it this long, but perhaps he's finally found the itch he really wanted to scratch.
"What is the truth about rock music? Music is a powerful and perhaps the
most powerful medium in the world. Music. Plato says when the music
of a society changes, the whole society will change. Aristotle, a contemporary
of Plato's, says when music changes there should be laws to govern the
nature and the character of that music. Lenin says that the best and the
quickest way to undermine any society is through its music...Music, ladies
and gentleman, is the gift of God it was given to man to offer praises
to God and to lift us up to him and to exalt Him to touch the tender
recesses of our hearts and of our minds. Satan has taken music and he has
counterfeited it, convoluted it, twisted it, exploited it and now he's
using it to hammer, hammer, hammer, hammer, hammer a message into the minds
and the lifestyles of this generation."
t allowed me to relocate and connect with old high school and college classmates. I also learned about the reunion through facebook
Come on, this is Slashdot - you only found out about the reunion because you were stalking your old high school and college "classmates" (tellingly, you didn't call them friends).
(Only joking - although my wife was stalked by an ex-boyfriend via a social networking website. He even found her address through another site that sells access to things like the electoral register, and then turned up one night on her doorstep).
Does a 50-year old man wanting to get invited over to this kid's house to play sound at all creepy to you?
Nope. Just sad. There again, I bought a complete set of TinTin books with the paycheck from my first contracting job, so I qualify for a special award of sad.
There are ways, such as Congressional investigations, to out that sort of stuff.
Sadly, I don't think there are that many people of the same calibre as Morris Udall (he was the congressman who took up an accusation of US soldiers massacring civilians in Vietnam - twenty nine other recipients of the same accusation ignored it).
They bought NeXSTEP, replaced its display system and GUI, and called it MacOS.
While they did replace Display Postscript with the more PDF-like Quartz, Apple didn't replace the GUI - they just changed the look and feel from the almost monochrome one of NextStep and OpenStep. The early developer and "Server" releases of OS X kept the NextStep look and feel, while Apple concentrated on updating the Unix core using code from NetBSD and FreeBSD.
I got given an Apple TV, one of the first ones with a fairly low hard drive capacity. My original plan was to install NetBSD or Linux onto it, but I out of curiosity I first installed XBMC and Boxee as apps for the original Apple TV OS. I've never got around to installing another OS on it now, as use I regularly use it for watching BBC iPlayer stuff and the occasional film rented from iTunes.
Isn't the flash file format and programming language an open standard?
It's not really open, nor is it a true standard as it's not been submitted to a recognised standards body. As recently noted on the Gnash developers mailing, Adobe's initial release of a "spec" was incorrect in many areas and incomplete. Then there was the dubious terms it was provided under, most notably that the spec couldn't be used as a reference to write an alternative implementation.
Wait a minute, people would starve because we can't feed them cheaply? This is bullshit.
No it's not bullshit. The introduction of modern fertilisers lead to massive increases in crop yields. Before this revolution (and that is not too strong a description), scientists feared that we had reached a peak in agricultural production. Coupled with a rapidly growing human population, this lead to fears of global food shortages and famine. Unfortunately, we are nearing a repeat of that crisis. Agricultural production is nearly maxed out, population growth is still sky rocketing, and there is no new agricultural revolution akin to the fertiliser one in the offing. Worst of all, we may not even be able to maintain current agricultural production levels for long, as some of the primary ingredients for modern fertilisers are becoming very scarce.
Many of the bendy buses on the 521 route have gone already, replaced by ordinary single deckers. The extra capacity of the 521 wasn't much used on that route anyway.
It's worth remembering the saying with data: "if you look hard enough, you can find anything you want to".
A friend of mine works as a quant at one of the big investment banks. He admitted that the models his team creates are useless at predicting the unexpected (as you'd probably expect). Adding in a degree of randomness rarely produces better models, as there are too many possible sources of such unpredictability and the reactions to them depend on many unquantifiable forces. This results in models that are OK at telling traders what they want to know - that they're doing the right thing by all doing the same thing. As soon as something undesirable or unexpected happens, then all hell breaks loose and the traders panic. Having mulled this over for a bit, I suggested his job was pointless, to which he agreed, but pointed out that the pay's great. So much wasted mathematical genius.
I see the numbnuts are out in force. Ever heard of a succinct example? Check out an algorithm book for C and another for Java, perhaps even those from the same author. Then notice the fact that implementations of the same algorithms differ between the books in an identical way that the implementation of swap does.
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Does it have materialized views yet ?
First hit in Google: http://tech.jonathangardner.net/wiki/PostgreSQL/Materialized_Views
My Access DB cost the four projects £3,000. Don't be so quick to dismiss it.
I assume you're just including license costs - otherwise, if it includes the cost of your time I can only assume you work cheap. If this is the license cost, then a real database like PostgreSQL would have cost you nothing. As for Excel and Word reporting, last time I checked Excel still imported CSV files (that PostgreSQL can generate automatically) and likewise for Word and HTML.
There's also a "red flashing light of death" on the PS3, which indicates that the power supply has overheated, and it requires a similar amount of work to fix as the YLOD (about ten minutes). The difference is that with the YLOD the fix is often temporary a further damage has often occurred to the motherboard, which will eventually require replacing.
That's a stroke of luck, as my brother gave me a broken Playstation 3 yesterday. It's an original "fat" model suffering from the flashing red light of death, which means I'll need to replace the power supply, and the iFixit site has a guide for doing just that.
Insert your own joke here.
How do you stop a dog from shagging your leg?
Suck it off first.
High School kids don't pay huge amounts of taxes into the system studying and doing homework, but traders do.
No they don't - there's a number of companies out there who make their money from exploiting tax law loopholes to avoid tax for "high value" clients such as traders. A friend used to work for one of them. As for the drugs mentioned in the grandparent post, my experience of working in the City of London is that traders are so stressed out they can only cope through heavy drinking and drugs. These people are not typically bright being the same kind of aggressive slime that run used car lots or market stalls, and even if they are bright they have little control over the markets they trade in. This is why traders behave like lemmings, and it is possible to game the system by making biggish trades that sets the lemmings running in one direction only for you to then trade against them.
The live music adds a certain element that a synthesizer never can.
You're making the mistake of confusing synthesisers - a musical instrument - with sequencers. Synths are capable of creating sounds that no conventional instrument can, and they also have features (velocity sensitivity, aftertouch, pitch bend, and so on) that are as expressive, if not more so, than conventional instruments. As an example, I can program controllers that sweep the filter and increase modulation of a subset of the oscillators when I increase key pressure of a held chord. Combinations of such real time controllers are very flexible on a synth, surpassing what can be achieved on a conventional instrument such as piano or violin. Synths can also make effective use of the stereo spectrum without the need for multiple performers (for example, on my Oberheim OB-X the oscillators can be panned individually - and this on a machine that's over thirty years old).
Some sequencers include features that introduce subtle, randomised variations that can mimic the behaviour of human performers. Such sequencers have been readily available since the 1980s, when I used software on 16bit computers such as the Atari ST that allowed you to "humanise" sequenced music. Sequencers can also be used to create music that is not possible for a human to perform, combining pitch and tonal variations in very sophisticated ways.
In short, don't think that that synths and sequencers are just capable of cheesy pop music!
The Kahler "Human Clock" was a MIDI clock generator that allowed drummers to control the tempo of sequencers. They were produces back in the late 1980s, and one was used by New Order.
Miguel hasn't been involved in core GNOME development for a looong time. He also had a habit of starting projects and then moving on to new ones quite quickly - Gnumeric and Bonobo for example. Nothing necessarily wrong with that, as it's up to him what he spends his time developing. As for Mono, I'm amazed he's stuck with it this long, but perhaps he's finally found the itch he really wanted to scratch.
... although Swaggart can go fsck himself.
"What is the truth about rock music? Music is a powerful and perhaps the most powerful medium in the world. Music. Plato says when the music of a society changes, the whole society will change. Aristotle, a contemporary of Plato's, says when music changes there should be laws to govern the nature and the character of that music. Lenin says that the best and the quickest way to undermine any society is through its music...Music, ladies and gentleman, is the gift of God it was given to man to offer praises to God and to lift us up to him and to exalt Him to touch the tender recesses of our hearts and of our minds. Satan has taken music and he has counterfeited it, convoluted it, twisted it, exploited it and now he's using it to hammer, hammer, hammer, hammer, hammer a message into the minds and the lifestyles of this generation."
Jimmy Swaggart
t allowed me to relocate and connect with old high school and college classmates. I also learned about the reunion through facebook
Come on, this is Slashdot - you only found out about the reunion because you were stalking your old high school and college "classmates" (tellingly, you didn't call them friends).
(Only joking - although my wife was stalked by an ex-boyfriend via a social networking website. He even found her address through another site that sells access to things like the electoral register, and then turned up one night on her doorstep).
How many countries have a serious interest in Baseball? US, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, RoK and Japan, that's pretty much it.
And Finland for some inexplicable reason.
What, a Valderama?
Does a 50-year old man wanting to get invited over to this kid's house to play sound at all creepy to you?
Nope. Just sad. There again, I bought a complete set of TinTin books with the paycheck from my first contracting job, so I qualify for a special award of sad.
if only there were more of us
Move to Scotland - the place is awash with gingers.
There are ways, such as Congressional investigations, to out that sort of stuff.
Sadly, I don't think there are that many people of the same calibre as Morris Udall (he was the congressman who took up an accusation of US soldiers massacring civilians in Vietnam - twenty nine other recipients of the same accusation ignored it).
They bought NeXSTEP, replaced its display system and GUI, and called it MacOS.
While they did replace Display Postscript with the more PDF-like Quartz, Apple didn't replace the GUI - they just changed the look and feel from the almost monochrome one of NextStep and OpenStep. The early developer and "Server" releases of OS X kept the NextStep look and feel, while Apple concentrated on updating the Unix core using code from NetBSD and FreeBSD.
Out of curiosity, what are people using instead?
I got given an Apple TV, one of the first ones with a fairly low hard drive capacity. My original plan was to install NetBSD or Linux onto it, but I out of curiosity I first installed XBMC and Boxee as apps for the original Apple TV OS. I've never got around to installing another OS on it now, as use I regularly use it for watching BBC iPlayer stuff and the occasional film rented from iTunes.
Gnash has a large number of problems, see the following thread for details: Stable branch of Gnash.
Isn't the flash file format and programming language an open standard?
It's not really open, nor is it a true standard as it's not been submitted to a recognised standards body. As recently noted on the Gnash developers mailing, Adobe's initial release of a "spec" was incorrect in many areas and incomplete. Then there was the dubious terms it was provided under, most notably that the spec couldn't be used as a reference to write an alternative implementation.
Bloody hell, you're so confused as to be beyond help. Nice lack of irony in the first sentence of your response as well.
Wait a minute, people would starve because we can't feed them cheaply? This is bullshit.
No it's not bullshit. The introduction of modern fertilisers lead to massive increases in crop yields. Before this revolution (and that is not too strong a description), scientists feared that we had reached a peak in agricultural production. Coupled with a rapidly growing human population, this lead to fears of global food shortages and famine. Unfortunately, we are nearing a repeat of that crisis. Agricultural production is nearly maxed out, population growth is still sky rocketing, and there is no new agricultural revolution akin to the fertiliser one in the offing. Worst of all, we may not even be able to maintain current agricultural production levels for long, as some of the primary ingredients for modern fertilisers are becoming very scarce.
Many of the bendy buses on the 521 route have gone already, replaced by ordinary single deckers. The extra capacity of the 521 wasn't much used on that route anyway.
It's worth remembering the saying with data: "if you look hard enough, you can find anything you want to".
A friend of mine works as a quant at one of the big investment banks. He admitted that the models his team creates are useless at predicting the unexpected (as you'd probably expect). Adding in a degree of randomness rarely produces better models, as there are too many possible sources of such unpredictability and the reactions to them depend on many unquantifiable forces. This results in models that are OK at telling traders what they want to know - that they're doing the right thing by all doing the same thing. As soon as something undesirable or unexpected happens, then all hell breaks loose and the traders panic. Having mulled this over for a bit, I suggested his job was pointless, to which he agreed, but pointed out that the pay's great. So much wasted mathematical genius.
I see the numbnuts are out in force. Ever heard of a succinct example? Check out an algorithm book for C and another for Java, perhaps even those from the same author. Then notice the fact that implementations of the same algorithms differ between the books in an identical way that the implementation of swap does.