Of course, the "force" in my previous post means that they stop giving you the temporary disability pension so you are "forced" to go back to work if you want to afford to live. If you have saved a lot of money you are free to spend them instead of working. For most non-rich people it is effectively forcing though.
At least in Sweden, if you've had a deep depression and are on the way to getting good, they will stop helping you and force you to go back to work 100% immediately. If you've ever had a (real) depression you know that that is not an option. You need to start slowly before you can get up to speed or you will be back to where you started (when you got depressed/burned out). So what to do? You lie to the doctors for a while and pretend that it's still as bad as it used to be so you get a chance to recover. The doctors would understand and agree with you but they aren't allowed to sick-list you if you aren't so down that you rather starve than go outside to buy some food. So, I think this survey isn't telling the whole truth.
If you don't care about HD, why buy the HD-DVD version instead of the cheaper DVD version to begin with? My guess is that people buying HD movies actually care about picture quality so downgrading to "watchable" DVD quality is not an option.
Almost right. The best one was the Wico Bathandle. That's a fact. In games where you were supposed to wiggle it as fast as possible you could just go *poing poing poing* on the stick with your finger and the springs would do the rest for you. You always got a perfect score.
Use NX instead of plain old remote DISPLAY or ssh's X11 forwarding or even VNC! It's silly fast! You get a perfectly usable desktop even on slow, high latency connections. The free edition is free as in GPL.
We were so amazed when Windows 3.0 taught us to "minimize" and still have ***another application running*** (back when DOS was neato) ...while us enlightened Amiga users were crying at the ignorance of the masses that were amazed by some ugly half ass non-multitasking task switching when we had been having real multitasking for half a decade, but of course that was stupid because "you can't use more than one program at a time anyway", as you PC lusers used to say...
I doubt it. If anything, we would want Iran to have 100% free and uncensored access for all citizens. Impossible. That would enable them to share music and movies. Hollywood would go bankrupt.
My guess is that he isn't using MySQL as a database, he's using it as a read-mostly dumb key-value datastore. Traditionally, MySQL is faster than PostgreSQL on swarms of very simple queries from a limited set of connections. In that edge case, I'm not surprised if MySQL is still faster. In most other cases, the newer versions of PostgreSQL are damn speedy and I recommend anybody who is looking for a professional RDBMS to evaluate it over MySQL and even Oracle, MS SQL and DB2. If you have very special needs, you might still settle with one of the others, but in most cases PostgreSQL will be perfect and compared to most other RDBMS it's a joy to administer.
If you would care to think for a moment, a press release is a... press release. Its function is to put the company in good light and get some free PR. What counts is only what they actually do. We will have to wait and see if Nokia buying Trolltech is good for Qt/KDE or not. Maybe they will LGPL it and become heroes. Maybe they will only focus on Qtopia and slow down Qt/desktop development to a halt, releasing only just enough stuff to avoid turning it BSD-licensed. Time will tell.
So you'd rather have employees hold a company hostage and bleed it of all it's money until the company goes out of business? Yes, absolutely! If the alternative is getting a pay cut or being forced to work a lot of unpaid hours of overtime.
If the company can't earn money without treating its employees like dirt they should find another business model.
I only respect a person's views if he or she has reasonable arguments for it. I don't respect ignorance. Also, non sequiturs such as "it says so in the Bible" aren't reasonable arguments.
But yes, I think it's our duty to either meet reasonable arguments for our opposite views with reasonable counter-arguments or rethink our own views if we can't find them.
"That's stupid!" is a perfectly valid way to dismiss an argument that IS stupid, but very often people say stupid things not because they are stupid but because there's a conflict of interest involved, or they are simply blinded by culture and ignorant about it.
I had no problem reading that code, but I've been coding Ruby for about 5 years. It's like regular expressions, hard to read but extremely powerful. Ruby can be VERY readable though, almost like plain english. It's up to the programmer to make her code readable.
DAT and MiniDisc were successful?! Yes, very much so. MiniDisc is still a very common and popular format in asia and DAT has been THE way to store the masters in small-to-medium sized music studios for 20 years and it's still going strong. Maybe it's popular in big-name studios also but I don't have any experience with them so I don't know.
Id be honestly interested if anyone has any examples of really bad things happening in any sector of the software development world. Settop boxes for sat and cable TV perhaps? If you argue that the software on the sim code falls out of copyright every five years then whats to stop you duping a bunch for your friends. It's not the copyright of the software on the sim card that prevents you from duplicating it for your friends as it is today. Reducing corporate copyright to 5 years wouldn't change anything in this regard. If anything, you'll get loads of more channels showing 5+ year old high quality movies every evening.
Qt for CROSS_PLATFORM applications? I think not! Unless you consider that Cross platform doesn't include Windows. Are you trolling? Qt supports Windows at least as well as it supports X11 and MacOS X. It's a joy to code for.
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Of course, the "force" in my previous post means that they stop giving you the temporary disability pension so you are "forced" to go back to work if you want to afford to live. If you have saved a lot of money you are free to spend them instead of working. For most non-rich people it is effectively forcing though.
At least in Sweden, if you've had a deep depression and are on the way to getting good, they will stop helping you and force you to go back to work 100% immediately. If you've ever had a (real) depression you know that that is not an option. You need to start slowly before you can get up to speed or you will be back to where you started (when you got depressed/burned out). So what to do? You lie to the doctors for a while and pretend that it's still as bad as it used to be so you get a chance to recover. The doctors would understand and agree with you but they aren't allowed to sick-list you if you aren't so down that you rather starve than go outside to buy some food. So, I think this survey isn't telling the whole truth.
If you don't care about HD, why buy the HD-DVD version instead of the cheaper DVD version to begin with? My guess is that people buying HD movies actually care about picture quality so downgrading to "watchable" DVD quality is not an option.
Yes, it is, but that was not the point.
Almost right. The best one was the Wico Bathandle. That's a fact. In games where you were supposed to wiggle it as fast as possible you could just go *poing poing poing* on the stick with your finger and the springs would do the rest for you. You always got a perfect score.
Use NX instead of plain old remote DISPLAY or ssh's X11 forwarding or even VNC! It's silly fast! You get a perfectly usable desktop even on slow, high latency connections. The free edition is free as in GPL.
My guess is that he isn't using MySQL as a database, he's using it as a read-mostly dumb key-value datastore. Traditionally, MySQL is faster than PostgreSQL on swarms of very simple queries from a limited set of connections. In that edge case, I'm not surprised if MySQL is still faster. In most other cases, the newer versions of PostgreSQL are damn speedy and I recommend anybody who is looking for a professional RDBMS to evaluate it over MySQL and even Oracle, MS SQL and DB2. If you have very special needs, you might still settle with one of the others, but in most cases PostgreSQL will be perfect and compared to most other RDBMS it's a joy to administer.
Now that's what I call overclocking!
They used a helicopter, not kites. Cheaters.
If you would care to think for a moment, a press release is a... press release. Its function is to put the company in good light and get some free PR. What counts is only what they actually do. We will have to wait and see if Nokia buying Trolltech is good for Qt/KDE or not. Maybe they will LGPL it and become heroes. Maybe they will only focus on Qtopia and slow down Qt/desktop development to a halt, releasing only just enough stuff to avoid turning it BSD-licensed. Time will tell.
I really hope that the KDE Qt Free Foundation agreements are valid because I have a gut feeling that they will be tested in court soon...
If the company can't earn money without treating its employees like dirt they should find another business model.
I only respect a person's views if he or she has reasonable arguments for it. I don't respect ignorance. Also, non sequiturs such as "it says so in the Bible" aren't reasonable arguments.
But yes, I think it's our duty to either meet reasonable arguments for our opposite views with reasonable counter-arguments or rethink our own views if we can't find them.
"That's stupid!" is a perfectly valid way to dismiss an argument that IS stupid, but very often people say stupid things not because they are stupid but because there's a conflict of interest involved, or they are simply blinded by culture and ignorant about it.
They are a search engine. They are not providing any copyrighted material, just pointing out where to find it. Just like Google.
Me too :/
I had no problem reading that code, but I've been coding Ruby for about 5 years. It's like regular expressions, hard to read but extremely powerful. Ruby can be VERY readable though, almost like plain english. It's up to the programmer to make her code readable.
No, but long, long tongues.
I'd call that one Judas though.
No, he overdosed on meditation.