...and those of us who have chosen ethically in the past, even to our own financial disadvantage, quite rightly look down on those who do not.
I don't know, there's just something odd about someone bragging about the strength of their moral fiber by justifying looking down at people. Just a bit odd.
The movie was a financial success, if not a critical one, and my opinion has always been that critical review is flaky and insubstantial anyway.
By all of this you aren't purporting to say that a movie should be considered "good" because it made a lot of money, are you?
And we aren't really talking about "critical reviews" anyway, it's more the sitting there in the dark theater and being bored out of my skull; that's what I'm using as a measure of success in the current instance. (I know, I know - I don't get it, and I am stupid, etc, etc.)
If The Matrix 2-3 aren't nominated for an Oscar then we'll know that Hollywood has finally lost its last shred of credibility.
I thought that might be one tiny step to gaining some sort of credibility.
Seriously, did you not notice that the FX in Reloaded and Revolutions (especially Reloaded) just plain sucked? I mean, there are more realistic looking video games out there, for gods' sake.
Uh dude, the BLAST databases are not relational (and RDBMSs are being ranked here) they are just a bunch of indexed sequence files. And they are tiny too, in the tens of gigs region.
As for pubmed, that's pretty tiny too - I recently needed to download it for work, in their bloated XML format it takes up about 200GB, there's only something like 30-50GB of actual data in there (that's titles, authors and keywords for about 13 million papers, and abstracts for 2/3 of them).
Now the databases that run their Entrez services are real RDBMS (they run Sybase from what I remember), and are probably quite sizeable, but nowhere near the size of the databases ranked in the article.
Performance; scaleability (something around 9 million terabytes, if memory serves); stability - in the sense of a longer proven track-record - while ext3 is quite stable, XFS is simply a lot more mature; features, like ACLs and other small things.
I use XFS on serveral different servers, mainly because I belive it performs better then ext3, or any other fs.
Incidentally, "any other fs" also performs better than ext3.
I think after a few years of various benchmark comparisons it's now "common wisdom" that XFS is the best performer for large files (I think reiser is still at the top for small files); though these things are rather hard to prove categorically, one way or another.
I don't get it. Why would Gentoo's security need to be improved? I can only remember two Gentoo compromises (though I'm sure there have been more), this one and a long time ago there was an exploit introduced into the build script for a package, this was caught (also within the hour) by the MD5 hash check that emerge does.
Two compromises, both cought within an hour and with no (absolutely none) adverse effects on the users - there is just not much room for improvement here, this is what good security is.
Since when does copyright protect the "right" to restrict people from removing information? I would think ripping an unwanted page out of a book and throwing it away would be unquestionably fair use.
Since a few years ago. Since about the same time that you couldn't transfer an operating system (which you "bought") from one computer to another (transfer, not copy); or watch a DVD (which you've "bought") in a manner not approved by the company that released it; or break encryption on a file that you have produced with a piece of software that you've "bought."
The concept of "owning" things you buy is quickly becoming outdated. To cry now that copanies can't tell you what to do (and what not to do) with the products they sell you is, well, a little late.
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Hell, how many people have been killed by those things? Especially cars (not so much the hunting).
On TV? Where?
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Beats me - I just did.
I don't know, there's just something odd about someone bragging about the strength of their moral fiber by justifying looking down at people. Just a bit odd.
Did you seriously just compare working for a company that is engaging in frivolous law suits and a FUD campaign to mugging people?
That's just absolute bullshit. A lot of people on /. seem to have some sort of hyperbolic ethics fetish when it comes to the IT industry.
Here in the real world, not that many of us would be employed if we required the company we work for to be this idealistically ethical.
WTF? I looked it up - that actually is a word! Why we need multiple words for "acceptance" is a little beyond me.
(still sounds like a made-up word though)
Um, UDP/IP is just as much a part of the internet as TCP/IP is.
By all of this you aren't purporting to say that a movie should be considered "good" because it made a lot of money, are you?
And we aren't really talking about "critical reviews" anyway, it's more the sitting there in the dark theater and being bored out of my skull; that's what I'm using as a measure of success in the current instance. (I know, I know - I don't get it, and I am stupid, etc, etc.)
Well, even thought they say that LOTR is only 3 movies, there's gotta be at least 6 or so movies in there.
I'll agree that it's gone beyond 3 without sucking, but the last few really leave a lot to be desired.
I thought that might be one tiny step to gaining some sort of credibility.
Seriously, did you not notice that the FX in Reloaded and Revolutions (especially Reloaded) just plain sucked? I mean, there are more realistic looking video games out there, for gods' sake.
Better stay away from those wormholes...
Wow! Automated porn collection is one thing, but actually automating porn consumption - that's something!
What's so "illegitimate" about the goatse guy (or tubgirl, for that matter)? Apart from what you want to see taken down?
As for pubmed, that's pretty tiny too - I recently needed to download it for work, in their bloated XML format it takes up about 200GB, there's only something like 30-50GB of actual data in there (that's titles, authors and keywords for about 13 million papers, and abstracts for 2/3 of them).
Now the databases that run their Entrez services are real RDBMS (they run Sybase from what I remember), and are probably quite sizeable, but nowhere near the size of the databases ranked in the article.
Well, yeah, that's pretty much the gist of merging features into the kernel - distro maintainers don't have to patch them separately.
Performance; scaleability (something around 9 million terabytes, if memory serves); stability - in the sense of a longer proven track-record - while ext3 is quite stable, XFS is simply a lot more mature; features, like ACLs and other small things.
Incidentally, "any other fs" also performs better than ext3.
I think after a few years of various benchmark comparisons it's now "common wisdom" that XFS is the best performer for large files (I think reiser is still at the top for small files); though these things are rather hard to prove categorically, one way or another.
The hope of, possibly, getting laid someday?
Two compromises, both cought within an hour and with no (absolutely none) adverse effects on the users - there is just not much room for improvement here, this is what good security is.
Since a few years ago. Since about the same time that you couldn't transfer an operating system (which you "bought") from one computer to another (transfer, not copy); or watch a DVD (which you've "bought") in a manner not approved by the company that released it; or break encryption on a file that you have produced with a piece of software that you've "bought."
The concept of "owning" things you buy is quickly becoming outdated. To cry now that copanies can't tell you what to do (and what not to do) with the products they sell you is, well, a little late.
I believe you are thinking of Hanlon's razor, Occam's razor is more general.
So, like it says - gaming.
let's not forget these projects.