So now MySQL is a "real DBE". Does that mean this new version is no longer 5-10 times faster than the "real DBE" (Informix) that we abandoned for the one reason that MySQL has extreme performance?
I do hope all these new features are either off by default or easily turned off.
The WWW is also useless on a real PC if you actually try to use the resolutions the PC is capable of. For instance my current PC/monitor combination can handle 2048x1536 resolution.
I tried that just the other day, and >90% of sites were just unusable, even if you increase the font size.
Then again, >90% is way better than the OS (MacOSX) and my actual applications which was 100% unusable...
Apple is just sitting on this revolutionary resolution independent windowing system, and they just won't let me use it as intended.
For gods sake, I just want 300 dpi monitor resolution, is that too much to as for? Especially from the company that popularized WYSIWYG?
Imagine the replicator design equivilent of a trojan horse program, a virus, spam, or goatse...
Why did you have to say that?
"Click here to replicate the new Urbo Penstand 3000 [goatse.cx]". Ok. Hmm... This will take some time... Oh well, it'll be done when I get back home.
Later same day, Jhan returns home Jhan: Yeauuurgh!!!!! ...only to be greated by a 10" life-like replica of the goatse man. Soft and pink. With a built in vibrator.
Speaking of filmatisations, why can't they make a Green Lantern movie? Enormous powers, cosmic background, back story written by Larry Niven, and of course a guy in green spandex.
Yes, I suppose it is an Ancient Greek prefix and suffix pair, but there's no meaning to it, if you think about it. Inter-naut... would that be between sailors, or sailors of the between? I think it's more Modern Geek than Ancient Greek.
Makes a lot of sense to me, and I know (a bery little) old Greek.
Inter-net. Between nets, or in this case "connecting nets".
Inter-naut. Sailor of the Between, or in this case "sailor of the connected [nets, implied]".
The consequences are frightening. It would be a serious blow for European software developers.
Indeed it must, but not for that reason. Who gives a shit about European software developers (says I, a European software developer)?
What's really important is that the European Comission (we-the-comissioned as in non-elected b"euro"crats.) put forward this bill. The Concil of Ministers ("we-the-elected") voted against it.
The European Parliment ("we-the-people") ordered a restart of the whole process.
Rewind.
The CoM resubmitted the proposal, this time as a please-rubberstamp-me item, which should be reserved for uncontroversial bills. Only through massive public uproar did we get the EP to notice, and vote down the proposal again.
The EP (as you may remeber, "we-the-people") ordered a restart, again.
The EC, totally against all rules flatly refuses and are now submitting the law again, rubber-stamp-fashion.
No doubt the EC will continue to flout the EP and resubmit the bill again and again until by a fluke it gets voted through.
The EP has only two options. Sit down and take it, or fire the EC. Everyone seems to think the latter would be to extreme, I for one do not.
$2... No, perhaps $3? Even $5 doesn't seem too steep.
$5 (per week/episode), to download the latest installment of my favourite show(s). Of course, it would have to be a fast download, HDTV plus 5.1 and <blink>*no* *effing* *DRM*</blink> .
What has been taken for granted in every client/server application (that the client and server can, well, you know *communicate*) can now be done in a HTML application....and there was much rejoicing.
It's a hack based upon unstandard JavaScript extensions, and even when it works, it still sucks for building applications.
However, even though unstandard it is supported by most browsers, and it sucks very much less the alternatives.
If you are forced to develop web "applications" this is probably a very good way (in English: "If you are being forced to eat dung, a good way to do it is to cut of your nose first).
The Sony system was one of the first consoles to include a DVD/CD optical drive...
Nope, it was THE first. When in doubt, use "about". If you're too lazy to look up the correct information anyway.
Eh? I bought a Commodore CDTV in early 1991 (me and about six guys, world-wide). Console. CD based.
After that, the Philips CDi (Oh, shiny! Tetris with animated backgrounds!) in... late 1991? Then Commodore CD32 in 1993 (All the games of the Amiga! And...nothing more.)
Also, CD add-ons for Sega Megadrive (Crossbow blew my mind) and the Atari Jaguar (Tempest 2000 also blew my mind), both just a little later.
It takes roughly 56 hours to go from a message of
Please transfer $1,000,000 from account 123456789 to account 987654321
which hashes to 0xAABBCCDD11223344, to a message of
Please transfer $1,000,000 from account 123456789 to account 555555555 Its a nice sunny day please pardon the line noise Ab29!jqMV3o$2__#%#992mx...w,ea@L@L
which also hashes to 0xAABBCCDD11223344
Except, that's not at all how I read this news. In 56 hours you can generate a completely random string that you have no control over whatsoever that hashes to the same value.
You would have to repeat the process quite a few times before the random text becomes the message you want... I guess you could hire some chimps to overlook the process.
Even worse, one report I read claimed that all this hack can really do is to generate two random strings with the same hash, ie. no way to target a specific message at all.
They would only buy such rights from us if they were concerned about violating the treaty, which they have not signed.
Tearing tufts of hair from skull Ow!! Why do so many americans seem to believe that the haven't signed?
China and
India have both not just signed but also ratified the Kyoto Protocol, and 2.5 years ago already!
However, they are both "Annex II" (developing) countries and as such they do not need to curb pollution.
However II, Annex II countries will be upgraded to Annex I status (Industrialized) when certain criteria are fullfilled, and will then have to cut emissions.
And why isn't the US participating? Please tell me since I'm getting very mixed messages here (Sweden):
Might hurt the economy a little.
$FALSE_STATEMENT_CHINA, so we don't have to do squat
There is no $DANGER, there is only your mind
Europeans are all gay
The Kyoto Protocol does too little, too late. Therefore, we should do less, and even later.
[C] does not have multidimensional dereference. ...
char x[5][10]; ...
*((char *) (&x[0][0])+ 10 * i + j) = '\\n';// sic! (warning: multi-character character constant)
Informative my sphincter. Come on, aren't we all supposed to be C gurus on Slashdot?!
bash-2.05a$ vi t.c main() { ____int t[2][2]={{1,2},{3,4}}; ____printf("%d\n", t[1][1]); ____t[1][1]=17; ____printf("%d\n", t[1][1]); } bash-2.05a$ make t cc t.c -o t bash-2.05a$./t 4 17
...and of course, the multidimensional array is stored as a single contigous memory area, no "pointers to pointers" crap. You were saying?
Well, since every MS product sucks until version three, I was hoping the next console would be the XXBox.
That would make the first good MS console the XXXBox. I'll get five.
Having a human readable format makes it a lot easier to a) parse the data and b) validate the data.
...for a human. It makes it immensely harder for a computer to parse, or validate.
Have you ever tried to program a validating XML parser? Yes, without any libraries. If you want to do it proper it's about a man year of programming...
The 'Design' page says it has "a teensy little fan".
Aha. Oh, well.
A "teensy litle fan" that will have to run at umpteen hundred RPM's and sound like a mini jet engine. Well, there goes my dream of the perfect home server:-(
(I will still check the thing out in person when I get a chance, and maybe buy just two:-) )
What I can't quite make out is if the MiniMac is fanless? I'm running my own domain (DNS/Mail/Web/etc.) on a noise-ish computer in my bedroom and have been checking out silent machines for a couple of years. My next buy was going to be - grudgingly - a pay-through-your-nose HushPC.
The new MiniMac looks like it could be fanless. The front and sides seems to be hermetically sealed, but there are these ridges on the back that look suspisciously like air intakes/outlets....or are they just radiator fins?
If this is a sub-BTX 1.5ish MHz PPC $600 machine w. FireWire that is <blink><yell><explode part="head"> utterly silent</explode></yell></blink> there is nothing, repeat nothing on the market that can compete with this. I'm getting five.
Actually, they only benchmark one architecture, x86. A real shame, I would love to see a thorough comparison of *multiple* processor architectures over a long period of time.
Spammers don't want to send their outgoing emails to 'abuse' @ anything.com. They should know that abuse@whatever would be monitored by an IT Admin of some sort, and would use their spam to block them.
So... The perfect address would be abuse@microsoft.com? Spammers don't want to hit "abuse" addresses, and if they do, they'll spam MS? Sweet..
History tells us within a few years most drives will probably be 2.5".
Why? Because five years ago most drives where... 3.5".
And five years before that, they were... 3.5"
But, five years before that they were... 3.5"
Still, I agree that the shift will come soon. The real reason, however, is that HD's have gone from 4+ spindles per disk to 1, or even 1/2 (many modern drives use only one side of one disk because the head is to expensive!)
I've also heard that some (most? all?) of the 15,000 RPM SCSI disks are really using 2.5 platters in a 3.5 housing. No way you could spin a real 3.5" disk that fast.
It is Unix if you can look at a vastly unfamiliar GUI shell (or a vastly strange file system), click around a bit and still see he common points and say...
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So now MySQL is a "real DBE". Does that mean this new version is no longer 5-10 times faster than the "real DBE" (Informix) that we abandoned for the one reason that MySQL has extreme performance?
I do hope all these new features are either off by default or easily turned off.
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The WWW is also useless on a real PC if you actually try to use the resolutions the PC is capable of. For instance my current PC/monitor combination can handle 2048x1536 resolution.
I tried that just the other day, and >90% of sites were just unusable, even if you increase the font size.
Then again, >90% is way better than the OS (MacOSX) and my actual applications which was 100% unusable...
Apple is just sitting on this revolutionary resolution independent windowing system, and they just won't let me use it as intended.
For gods sake, I just want 300 dpi monitor resolution, is that too much to as for? Especially from the company that popularized WYSIWYG?
</horse>Why did you have to say that?
"Click here to replicate the new Urbo Penstand 3000 [goatse.cx]". Ok. Hmm... This will take some time... Oh well, it'll be done when I get back home.
Later same day, Jhan returns home
Jhan: Yeauuurgh!!!!!
Speaking of filmatisations, why can't they make a Green Lantern movie? Enormous powers, cosmic background, back story written by Larry Niven, and of course a guy in green spandex.
*That's* entertainment!
Makes a lot of sense to me, and I know (a bery little) old Greek.
Inter-net. Between nets, or in this case "connecting nets".
Inter-naut. Sailor of the Between, or in this case "sailor of the connected [nets, implied]".
Indeed it must, but not for that reason. Who gives a shit about European software developers (says I, a European software developer)?
What's really important is that the European Comission (we-the-comissioned as in non-elected b"euro"crats.) put forward this bill. The Concil of Ministers ("we-the-elected") voted against it.
The European Parliment ("we-the-people") ordered a restart of the whole process.
Rewind.
The CoM resubmitted the proposal, this time as a please-rubberstamp-me item, which should be reserved for uncontroversial bills. Only through massive public uproar did we get the EP to notice, and vote down the proposal again.
The EP (as you may remeber, "we-the-people") ordered a restart, again.
The EC, totally against all rules flatly refuses and are now submitting the law again, rubber-stamp-fashion.
No doubt the EC will continue to flout the EP and resubmit the bill again and again until by a fluke it gets voted through.
The EP has only two options. Sit down and take it, or fire the EC. Everyone seems to think the latter would be to extreme, I for one do not.
$2... No, perhaps $3? Even $5 doesn't seem too steep.
$5 (per week/episode), to download the latest installment of my favourite show(s). Of course, it would have to be a fast download, HDTV plus 5.1 and <blink>*no* *effing* *DRM*</blink> .
What has been taken for granted in every client/server application (that the client and server can, well, you know *communicate*) can now be done in a HTML application. ...and there was much rejoicing.
It's a hack based upon unstandard JavaScript extensions, and even when it works, it still sucks for building applications.
However, even though unstandard it is supported by most browsers, and it sucks very much less the alternatives.
If you are forced to develop web "applications" this is probably a very good way (in English: "If you are being forced to eat dung, a good way to do it is to cut of your nose first).
Eh? I bought a Commodore CDTV in early 1991 (me and about six guys, world-wide). Console. CD based.
After that, the Philips CDi (Oh, shiny! Tetris with animated backgrounds!) in... late 1991? Then Commodore CD32 in 1993 (All the games of the Amiga! And ...nothing more.)
Also, CD add-ons for Sega Megadrive (Crossbow blew my mind) and the Atari Jaguar (Tempest 2000 also blew my mind), both just a little later.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
...And the Neologism-of-the-Day award goes to MrRoach!:
Classical, consice, pretty!
My loins afire,
My heart asunder,
My brain asplode!
Except, that's not at all how I read this news. In 56 hours you can generate a completely random string that you have no control over whatsoever that hashes to the same value.
You would have to repeat the process quite a few times before the random text becomes the message you want... I guess you could hire some chimps to overlook the process.
Even worse, one report I read claimed that all this hack can really do is to generate two random strings with the same hash, ie. no way to target a specific message at all.
I have at least 21 senses!
Tearing tufts of hair from skull Ow!! Why do so many americans seem to believe that the haven't signed?
China and India have both not just signed but also ratified the Kyoto Protocol, and 2.5 years ago already!
However, they are both "Annex II" (developing) countries and as such they do not need to curb pollution.
However II, Annex II countries will be upgraded to Annex I status (Industrialized) when certain criteria are fullfilled, and will then have to cut emissions.
And why isn't the US participating? Please tell me since I'm getting very mixed messages here (Sweden):
Informative my sphincter. Come on, aren't we all supposed to be C gurus on Slashdot?!
...and of course, the multidimensional array is stored as a single contigous memory area, no "pointers to pointers" crap. You were saying?
Well, since every MS product sucks until version three, I was hoping the next console would be the XXBox. That would make the first good MS console the XXXBox. I'll get five.
I'm agreeableistic. Propositively disintegretitilyist. ...-ish. ...-able.
...for a human. It makes it immensely harder for a computer to parse, or validate.
Have you ever tried to program a validating XML parser? Yes, without any libraries. If you want to do it proper it's about a man year of programming...
Aha. Oh, well.
A "teensy litle fan" that will have to run at umpteen hundred RPM's and sound like a mini jet engine. Well, there goes my dream of the perfect home server :-(
(I will still check the thing out in person when I get a chance, and maybe buy just two :-) )
What I can't quite make out is if the MiniMac is fanless? I'm running my own domain (DNS/Mail/Web/etc.) on a noise-ish computer in my bedroom and have been checking out silent machines for a couple of years. My next buy was going to be - grudgingly - a pay-through-your-nose HushPC.
The new MiniMac looks like it could be fanless. The front and sides seems to be hermetically sealed, but there are these ridges on the back that look suspisciously like air intakes/outlets. ...or are they just radiator fins?
If this is a sub-BTX 1.5ish MHz PPC $600 machine w. FireWire that is <blink><yell><explode part="head"> utterly silent</explode></yell></blink> there is nothing, repeat nothing on the market that can compete with this. I'm getting five.
Best metaphore ever. +5 poetic.
Actually, they only benchmark one architecture, x86. A real shame, I would love to see a thorough comparison of *multiple* processor architectures over a long period of time.
So... The perfect address would be abuse@microsoft.com? Spammers don't want to hit "abuse" addresses, and if they do, they'll spam MS? Sweet..
I guess we will all have to prepare for ROBOTIC_LIBERATION . (Please follow the link, it's über-cool!)
Why? Because five years ago most drives where... 3.5".
And five years before that, they were... 3.5"
But, five years before that they were... 3.5"
Still, I agree that the shift will come soon. The real reason, however, is that HD's have gone from 4+ spindles per disk to 1, or even 1/2 (many modern drives use only one side of one disk because the head is to expensive!)
I've also heard that some (most? all?) of the 15,000 RPM SCSI disks are really using 2.5 platters in a 3.5 housing. No way you could spin a real 3.5" disk that fast.
It is Unix if you can look at a vastly unfamiliar GUI shell (or a vastly strange file system), click around a bit and still see he common points and say...