(Example: Unions are good for workers, My Counter-Example: The number of Unions up until the 60s that prohibited blacks from working at a union shop)
That's a counterexample for "Unions are perfect", not for "Unions are good". I don't have any strong opinions on unions, one way or another, but I just hate to see a bogus argument go unchallenged.
Does that have something to do with the fact that we can go for several days now, without seeing a Chrome article on the Slashdot front page? It used to be a solid 3 or 4 articles a day, but now, we are lucky to see that in a week!
I don't get it, what's with the random dig at "profitability"? And why chromosome 21, in particular? Every chromosomes has genes related to various diseases, all of which could use "some of that" gene therapy.
Assuming you are talking about Down syndrome (since an Alzheimer's treatment would be stupendously profitable), that doesn't even make any sense: it's "trisomy 21", a duplication of the chromosome, and completely unrelated to gene therapy.
All in all, a bit of a stretch, just to get in knee-jerk dig at the pharmaceutical industry, wouldn't you say?
No offense to the creators of this site, but that's just about the worst user interface I've seen (OK, so maybe there's a little offense in there).
The intuitiveness of "Look what I can do with JavaScript!" Web 2.0 design principles, married to the visual aesthetic of circa 1993 "My cat's Homepage"-type sites.
But, they do have a lot of experience with having stout gentlemen wearing trench coats and jackboots, and carrying MP40s, stomping through trains yelling "Papieren, bitte!"
If I'm going to have my basic rights (such as movement) curtailed, I'd rather do it in style.
Well, there wasn't terroists flying airplanes into skyscrapers when the Magna Carta was written so that's a moot point.
That's the stupidest thing I've read today - does anyone actually buy that sort of argument?
If you think life is more dangerous today than it was in 1215, because of "terrists", that's really just giving the "terrists" far more credit than they deserve (of course the Magna Carta didn't have any practical effects either, but that's beside the point).
I have about 2.5 TB in MySQL right now, it does alright, but it's also not critical data. While MySQL improved technically quite a bit in the last couple of years, their overriding philosophy seems to have always been "speed over data integrity", which makes it a hard choice to make (and it only has that performance advantage in a relatively narrow set of circumstances, at that). So it's usually relegated to the role of "granular file system for non-critical data".
Maybe that's improved lately? I haven't looked at it in detail in a while (the above-mentioned database is large, but not terribly complex; it's also a free project, so I've only done minimal development with it). In the 3.x days it was a joke; 4.x was still missing a lot of basic functionality, but even more annoying was the developers' attitude that it's because you don't need it: Views? Only Elitist Ivory Tower developers would want such an outlandish feature in their database! And so on. 5.1 seems to have at least mostly caught up as far as the feature checklist.
But enough reminiscing, time for people with 100+ TB databases to jump into the willy-waving contest.
We can only hope that the popularity of netbooks will slim down web apps and speed up JavaScript implementations.
At least that one's a solved problem: V8, TraceMonkey, SquirrelFish - the next generation of JS engines in the major browsers (with the obvious exception) are orders of magnitude faster than the current releases (in the literal 10 or 100 times faster sense). No idea what's going on with IE8, though.
I've heard claims that some of them are approaching the performance of unoptimized (ie -O0) native C, for what that's worth.
Also just saw some demos of GPU-accelerated animation in the <canvas> tag - it's really looking like we are in for a major shakeup as far as browser performance goes.
The dig against Ron Paul is even more subtle, but no less telling: he isn't even mentioned at all! It seems that the Slashdot "editors" aren't even bothering to hide their bias anymore; this place has really gone downhill.
You believe neutrinos exist, right? How hard is it to believe that there's something else like a neutrino out there, but heavier?
It's also not hard to believe that there's something that's like a neutrino, but tastes like raspberries - that doesn't automatically make it true, though.
Dark matter is a pretty reasonable hypothesis, my main objection is that in the 90-some years since it's inception, very little actual evidence has been produced to support it, yet so many people treat it as established fact.
On the off chance that we may not know everything about gravity, or the composition of the entire universe, a little diffidence wouldn't hurt.
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(Example: Unions are good for workers, My Counter-Example: The number of Unions up until the 60s that prohibited blacks from working at a union shop)
That's a counterexample for "Unions are perfect", not for "Unions are good". I don't have any strong opinions on unions, one way or another, but I just hate to see a bogus argument go unchallenged.
Systems that require the coordination of groups of people do not scale linearly.
I just voted in our Canadian federal election and we're still using the pencil-and-paper and human-counted voting method.
Yeah, well, there's only like 47 people living in Canada - that makes things easier to do by hand.
If you love Microsoft so much, why don't you marry it? Microsoft-lover.
Hate is all-or-nothing, baby!
Does that have something to do with the fact that we can go for several days now, without seeing a Chrome article on the Slashdot front page? It used to be a solid 3 or 4 articles a day, but now, we are lucky to see that in a week!
I don't get it, what's with the random dig at "profitability"? And why chromosome 21, in particular? Every chromosomes has genes related to various diseases, all of which could use "some of that" gene therapy.
Assuming you are talking about Down syndrome (since an Alzheimer's treatment would be stupendously profitable), that doesn't even make any sense: it's "trisomy 21", a duplication of the chromosome, and completely unrelated to gene therapy.
All in all, a bit of a stretch, just to get in knee-jerk dig at the pharmaceutical industry, wouldn't you say?
No offense to the creators of this site, but that's just about the worst user interface I've seen (OK, so maybe there's a little offense in there).
The intuitiveness of "Look what I can do with JavaScript!" Web 2.0 design principles, married to the visual aesthetic of circa 1993 "My cat's Homepage"-type sites.
But, they do have a lot of experience with having stout gentlemen wearing trench coats and jackboots, and carrying MP40s, stomping through trains yelling "Papieren, bitte!"
If I'm going to have my basic rights (such as movement) curtailed, I'd rather do it in style.
Well, there wasn't terroists flying airplanes into skyscrapers when the Magna Carta was written so that's a moot point.
That's the stupidest thing I've read today - does anyone actually buy that sort of argument?
If you think life is more dangerous today than it was in 1215, because of "terrists", that's really just giving the "terrists" far more credit than they deserve (of course the Magna Carta didn't have any practical effects either, but that's beside the point).
Ooh, tens of gigabytes!
I have about 2.5 TB in MySQL right now, it does alright, but it's also not critical data. While MySQL improved technically quite a bit in the last couple of years, their overriding philosophy seems to have always been "speed over data integrity", which makes it a hard choice to make (and it only has that performance advantage in a relatively narrow set of circumstances, at that). So it's usually relegated to the role of "granular file system for non-critical data".
Maybe that's improved lately? I haven't looked at it in detail in a while (the above-mentioned database is large, but not terribly complex; it's also a free project, so I've only done minimal development with it). In the 3.x days it was a joke; 4.x was still missing a lot of basic functionality, but even more annoying was the developers' attitude that it's because you don't need it: Views? Only Elitist Ivory Tower developers would want such an outlandish feature in their database! And so on. 5.1 seems to have at least mostly caught up as far as the feature checklist.
But enough reminiscing, time for people with 100+ TB databases to jump into the willy-waving contest.
Wait, since when does SAP DB have strengths?
It's not.
Ah, my bad, this makes sense then.
Encyclopedias aren't for current events, nything related to current events on Wikipedia can be safely ignored.
Hell, I can't even read my own handwriting. Yeah, this is probably not going to happen.
Well would you at that.
Seconded. I recently bought one and was very with the performance and build quality, for something that costs $320.
Way better experience than the EEE, and at this point, it's what, less than half the price?
Haven't tried the MSI Wind yet, supposedly it can give Acer a run for the money.
We can only hope that the popularity of netbooks will slim down web apps and speed up JavaScript implementations.
At least that one's a solved problem: V8, TraceMonkey, SquirrelFish - the next generation of JS engines in the major browsers (with the obvious exception) are orders of magnitude faster than the current releases (in the literal 10 or 100 times faster sense). No idea what's going on with IE8, though.
I've heard claims that some of them are approaching the performance of unoptimized (ie -O0) native C, for what that's worth.
Also just saw some demos of GPU-accelerated animation in the <canvas> tag - it's really looking like we are in for a major shakeup as far as browser performance goes.
You feel that you are currently being taken seriously by the copyright "nazis"? Well, up until this story, I mean.
The dig against Ron Paul is even more subtle, but no less telling: he isn't even mentioned at all! It seems that the Slashdot "editors" aren't even bothering to hide their bias anymore; this place has really gone downhill.
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In particular for some fraction of people who gamble, it becomes an addictive behavior.
Yep, it's the same reason why cigarettes, alcohol, and food are illegal.
not everyone in the state of New York is a tough Italian mafia soldier or Jewish writer with an overbearing mother
You've never actually been to New York, have you?
If the rear-seat cup holders accounted for a substantial percentage of the Caravan's cost and design complexity, then that would be a problem, indeed.
Still not a problem with Caravan owners, though.
You believe neutrinos exist, right? How hard is it to believe that there's something else like a neutrino out there, but heavier?
It's also not hard to believe that there's something that's like a neutrino, but tastes like raspberries - that doesn't automatically make it true, though.
Dark matter is a pretty reasonable hypothesis, my main objection is that in the 90-some years since it's inception, very little actual evidence has been produced to support it, yet so many people treat it as established fact.
On the off chance that we may not know everything about gravity, or the composition of the entire universe, a little diffidence wouldn't hurt.