The new version of Postgres does have a version of table partitioning. Ain't tested it, don't know how much of an improvement it does on large table scans..... but still.
OSS isn't strictly an IT issue. It's a rights issue.
Who owns software? software design? concepts? ideas? thoughts?
This sounds like what I should have been taught in our semester of IT Law (As apposed to the far too specific individual legal cases to do with Data Protection Act (still very interesting though)).
If you were to take this class. A major part of the course would have to be the GPL. This has to be the most clear cut academic outline of OSS.
In short... Very good idea:)
What I want to know is when they'll separate the virus, bug and backdoor bits of windows into layers, so I can use them on other platforms.
At last, Iain M Banks gets a bit of recognition
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Everybody who likes SciFi should read a bit of Iain M Banks (Iain Banks (same author without the 'M') writes pretty dark, non-genre books, very good, but nothing compared to his SciFi).
Most of his SciFi books are based on 'The Culture' which is basically the human race in a few thousand years. VCool tech. and Uber-Cool Space Ship names ('Meat Fucker') is the nick-name other ships have given to one particular ship, 'cause it likes to read the minds of humans.
If you're going to read any of his books, read 'The Player of Games'. Amazing read. (Tiny spoiler...) There is a bit where the lead finds out about a very dark side to the race who he is 'Playing' with. From that point, he stops talking. Then only when he has taken apart the next few players does he speak. Iain M Banks is truely a very great under-appreciated author. READ HIM.
There is a windows laptop floating about there... http://files.macbidouille.com/transparen t/pages/ga llery_29767_11_13892.html And that's a particularly good one I thought.
I wouldn't start off with the database. Start off with plain XML stored as files. Then get working apps to pump out the XML as HTML or whatever using XSLT. Write some XSD to validate the XML before parsing it though.
As for languages, use PHP, Java,.Net Mono. They all have pretty good XML parsers.
www.w3schools.com has a pretty good XML tutorial (and all web type technologies).
Hope that helped
I don't think it's possible on normal machines, to calc the first few digits a home computer would do this real quick, the next few, you still wouldn't notice the difference, a good chunk of the 500 hours would have been spent on the 13 billionth digit, so you would have significantly longer than that processing the 13 billionth and 1st digit, then significantly longer again doing the 13... 2nd digit..... and so on.
The time it takes to process one digit is not the same as the next digit, the time increases. So when you get to the trillionth digit, you're spending a stink load of time doing that one digit.
Sorry, I'm just talking about applications. What's the point in having a massive fancy do it all kernel when you get no software with it. None at all. That's one of my biggest problems about Windows, you get nothing. Yes a kernel is a difficult thing to write, nothing to be excited about though, with a kernel, you can't do much, its the app's you use that's the important bit. But that is just my oppinion, a bit of a chicken and the egg argument really. My point is, there are lots of OS's out there, MS produce one and give you nothing to run on it, well relatively little. Sorry for the missunderstanding:)
What are you talking about! MS Bloatware comes with nothing. you get notepad and that's about it. If you did get everything like most GNU/Linux distro's then wayhay. But for all the gig's of space Windows (anyversion) takes up, you get surprisingly little.
It's only if your spare set of keys is discovered by the person responsible for their secure to be in an unsecure place. And therefore there is a posibility that they may have been copied. But no proof can be found that they have been copied.
Does the person in charge of that security tell the tenant of this poor security. Probably not at first. They should tell the person responsible for that side of the business, and knows what the customer should and should not know from a legal standpoint. If, after that, nothing is done, they should take further action... tell the tenant, go to the authorities...
Almost, that's what I, and it looks like most people, thought. But it seems that nothing has been stolen for sure. This is where the problem lies. I suppose he should tell the boss and leave it at that. Suggest a resolution to the technical aspect and leave the legal obligations to the people with the legal training.
Linus may have been doing it for fun, but stallman quit his job because he believed in something. Comparing the two is just rediculous.
It may have just been a flip of the coin as to who became more well known, but a large percentage of the population that have heard of Linus and Linux have not heard of Richard Stallman, me included until not that long ago.
My point is: Not only has he put loads of time and effort into GNU/Linux, so has lots of people, he gave up a stink load as well. Not many people have done the same.
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-3000 BC. That's like 1000 years in the future man!
The new version of Postgres does have a version of table partitioning. Ain't tested it, don't know how much of an improvement it does on large table scans..... but still.
"as clones of a master system"
Hundreds of networked Segas! sweet!
'Units' dumbass
If it's anything like "Life and Death 2: The Brain" for the PC, it'll be a hoot. That was a fantastic game. I think it came out in the early 90s.
OSS isn't strictly an IT issue. It's a rights issue. Who owns software? software design? concepts? ideas? thoughts? This sounds like what I should have been taught in our semester of IT Law (As apposed to the far too specific individual legal cases to do with Data Protection Act (still very interesting though)). If you were to take this class. A major part of the course would have to be the GPL. This has to be the most clear cut academic outline of OSS. In short... Very good idea :)
Even evolution doesn't take this long!
The Law of diminishing returns http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_diminishing_re turns
Oh, there was just one other thing....
What I want to know is when they'll separate the virus, bug and backdoor bits of windows into layers, so I can use them on other platforms.
Everybody who likes SciFi should read a bit of Iain M Banks (Iain Banks (same author without the 'M') writes pretty dark, non-genre books, very good, but nothing compared to his SciFi).
Most of his SciFi books are based on 'The Culture' which is basically the human race in a few thousand years. VCool tech. and Uber-Cool Space Ship names ('Meat Fucker') is the nick-name other ships have given to one particular ship, 'cause it likes to read the minds of humans.
If you're going to read any of his books, read 'The Player of Games'. Amazing read. (Tiny spoiler...) There is a bit where the lead finds out about a very dark side to the race who he is 'Playing' with. From that point, he stops talking. Then only when he has taken apart the next few players does he speak. Iain M Banks is truely a very great under-appreciated author. READ HIM.
There is a windows laptop floating about there...n t/pages/ga llery_29767_11_13892.html
http://files.macbidouille.com/transpare
And that's a particularly good one I thought.
Not really high bandwidth. But give this a go: here
Links are on main page.
Chopping Block would have no chance! Come on Lah, get your arse in gear!
I wouldn't start off with the database. Start off with plain XML stored as files. Then get working apps to pump out the XML as HTML or whatever using XSLT. Write some XSD to validate the XML before parsing it though. .Net Mono. They all have pretty good XML parsers.
As for languages, use PHP, Java,
www.w3schools.com has a pretty good XML tutorial (and all web type technologies).
Hope that helped
I don't think it's possible on normal machines, to calc the first few digits a home computer would do this real quick, the next few, you still wouldn't notice the difference, a good chunk of the 500 hours would have been spent on the 13 billionth digit, so you would have significantly longer than that processing the 13 billionth and 1st digit, then significantly longer again doing the 13... 2nd digit..... and so on.
The time it takes to process one digit is not the same as the next digit, the time increases. So when you get to the trillionth digit, you're spending a stink load of time doing that one digit.
Sorry, I'm just talking about applications. What's the point in having a massive fancy do it all kernel when you get no software with it. None at all. That's one of my biggest problems about Windows, you get nothing. Yes a kernel is a difficult thing to write, nothing to be excited about though, with a kernel, you can't do much, its the app's you use that's the important bit. But that is just my oppinion, a bit of a chicken and the egg argument really. My point is, there are lots of OS's out there, MS produce one and give you nothing to run on it, well relatively little. Sorry for the missunderstanding :)
What are you talking about! MS Bloatware comes with nothing. you get notepad and that's about it. If you did get everything like most GNU/Linux distro's then wayhay. But for all the gig's of space Windows (anyversion) takes up, you get surprisingly little.
Mod this git down for not being able to spell the country he's talking about! Damn Yanks
He's not speaking about the Internet "Growing Up", he's talking about the Internet being accessible by the common man. Completely different.
It's only if your spare set of keys is discovered by the person responsible for their secure to be in an unsecure place. And therefore there is a posibility that they may have been copied. But no proof can be found that they have been copied. Does the person in charge of that security tell the tenant of this poor security. Probably not at first. They should tell the person responsible for that side of the business, and knows what the customer should and should not know from a legal standpoint. If, after that, nothing is done, they should take further action... tell the tenant, go to the authorities...
Almost, that's what I, and it looks like most people, thought. But it seems that nothing has been stolen for sure. This is where the problem lies. I suppose he should tell the boss and leave it at that. Suggest a resolution to the technical aspect and leave the legal obligations to the people with the legal training.
Unfortunately a contract can be made without signing a bit of paper. That is not the definition of a contract.
A contract can be made by word of mouth, by the shaking of a hand....
David
Linus may have been doing it for fun, but stallman quit his job because he believed in something. Comparing the two is just rediculous.
It may have just been a flip of the coin as to who became more well known, but a large percentage of the population that have heard of Linus and Linux have not heard of Richard Stallman, me included until not that long ago.
My point is: Not only has he put loads of time and effort into GNU/Linux, so has lots of people, he gave up a stink load as well. Not many people have done the same.