I was involved in the development of a web based forum application that involved showing message counts for each topic, topic counts for each area, posting and topic counts for each user,...
Obviously you are running very small databases, it always took us a long downtime to dump and restore all the postings, topics,... Older versions of postgresql even had trouble restoring the dump sometimes and required manual edititing of the big dump files.
I usually don't need DB provided consistency when I can do a "SELECT COUNT()/MIN()/MAX" without the performance penalty of a sequential scan. MySQL can do this from an index, PostgreSQL cannot. Also I would not want to dump and restore my company's databases every few month in order to perform a release update. MySQL 5 in contrast can still use databases generated by version 3.
I would be very impressed if a lot of governments manage to suppress civil war for much longer. Even in socialist countries like germany the top half of the population possesses almost all the money with half of that total money beeing in the hands of the top 10%.
Can we be certain that this hasn't already happened? The black hole may just have disappeared from their instruments because it was sucked straight to the core of our planet where it has already started growing...
Unfortunately I have to agree with this. GNOME's file selection dialog is one of the worst things I have ever seen and I often end up typing the absolute path of a file I want to open/save.
I would also like to buy my favourite TV shows (Stargate) on the internet, even if I could get illegal downloads for free. They may even consider to optionally embed commercials and provide them for free or at least cheaper.
DRM protection would however not be an option for me as there can be no open source players and I am not aware of any company that provides closed source software that comes even close to OSS's reliability.
No big $$$ corporation or government can pay or threaten someone to have information removed or false information spread. Good examples are Monosodium glutamate or Freigeld.
I have already thought of creating an alternative to/. where not only comments but also story submissions get modded by the users. Current practice appears to be less than suboptimal.
How could you prevent people sharing what they have learned from your book? How could you prevent people from sharing their book with others? The only answer is you cannot. Everything is knowledge and knowledge will always find it's way. Da you remember Gilileo Galilei? Church burned everyone who spread knowledge they did not like, in the end they failed though. The only thing that has really changed is the time information needs to spread.
Intellectual property is only some kind of knowledge and can therefore never be stolen but only be propagated.
Church tried to stand in the way of knowledge a long time ago, when they held all of the legislative, executive and judicial powers. They still failed when there came the age of enlightenment
Even if the MAFIA paid the lawmakers to make BLACKMAILING legal, it is still IMMORAL. The same remains true in the other direction regarding copyright legislation.
You think that you do not pay interest when you keep your life debt free? Think again: You are always part of some bigger socienty that is not debt free.
At the very least you still pay interest when you pay your taxes. I can only tell for Austria: Last year our government paid 8 billion Euro interest, this boils down to about 1,000 Euro for each citizen.
Get a grip yourself! Only the national bank can MAKE money, everybody else has to get someone else's money. This only works as long as money remains about equally distributed. Unfortunately some people together already own more money than is available, therefore every cent we possess is burdened with interest payments for these people. Companies are now only the tools of these people to enslave the general public for ever decreasing wages.
Let's face the truth: The European Union is an institution designed and created to undermine the separation of powers in europe.
While national governments (executive branch) depend on the approval of their parliaments (legislative branch) to pass any laws, they now also delegate the european council which can pass directives equal or overrule any national legislation.
The european union is the world that has been pulled over our eyes to blind us from the truth. The truth, that power is no longer held by the people but by big $$$ corporations that are willing to do everything to enslave the very people that they are made up.
Why give up our beautiful planet? Just evacuate all those fucking morons calling themselves Managers, Politicians, Judges and Lawyers and make this once again a nice place to live.
You have been found guilty of propagating heretical texts. You can now renounce and life in poverty or die at the voice of Brittany Spears.
Intellectual property is only some kind of knowledge and can therefore never be stolen but only be propagated.
Church tried to stand in the way of knowledge a long time ago, when they held all of the legislative, executive and judicial powers. They still failed when there came the age of enlightenment.
Even if the MAFIA paid the lawmakers to make BLACKMAILING legal, it is still IMMORAL. The same remains true in the other direction regarding copyright legislation.
Intellectual property is only some kind of knowledge and can therefore never be stolen but only be propagated.
Church tried to stand in the way of knowledge a long time ago, when they held all of the legislative, executive and judicial powers. They still failed when there came the age of enlightenment
Even if the MAFIA paid the lawmakers to make BLACKMAILING legal, it is still IMMORAL. The same remains true in the other direction regarding copyright legislation.
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I was involved in the development of a web based forum application that involved showing message counts for each topic, topic counts for each area, posting and topic counts for each user,... Obviously you are running very small databases, it always took us a long downtime to dump and restore all the postings, topics,... Older versions of postgresql even had trouble restoring the dump sometimes and required manual edititing of the big dump files.
I usually don't need DB provided consistency when I can do a "SELECT COUNT()/MIN()/MAX" without the performance penalty of a sequential scan. MySQL can do this from an index, PostgreSQL cannot. Also I would not want to dump and restore my company's databases every few month in order to perform a release update. MySQL 5 in contrast can still use databases generated by version 3.
I would be very impressed if a lot of governments manage to suppress civil war for much longer. Even in socialist countries like germany the top half of the population possesses almost all the money with half of that total money beeing in the hands of the top 10%.
Can we be certain that this hasn't already happened? The black hole may just have disappeared from their instruments because it was sucked straight to the core of our planet where it has already started growing...
Why do you believe that only antimatter can fall into a black hole? Or why falling into the black hole would force a particle to be antimatter?
That may be correct from the object's point of view, for an observer the event horizon will extend to absorb the particle.
I guess the inhabitants of some other universe would be really grateful for this :-/
Let's hope a far more advanced alien species is already watching us and would interfere to prevent disaster in that case.
Unfortunately I have to agree with this. GNOME's file selection dialog is one of the worst things I have ever seen and I often end up typing the absolute path of a file I want to open/save.
I would also like to buy my favourite TV shows (Stargate) on the internet, even if I could get illegal downloads for free. They may even consider to optionally embed commercials and provide them for free or at least cheaper.
DRM protection would however not be an option for me as there can be no open source players and I am not aware of any company that provides closed source software that comes even close to OSS's reliability.
No big $$$ corporation or government can pay or threaten someone to have information removed or false information spread. Good examples are Monosodium glutamate or Freigeld.
I have already thought of creating an alternative to /. where not only comments but also story submissions get modded by the users. Current practice appears to be less than suboptimal.
Cobalt is not suitable for nuclear fission, more advanced terrorists may however use it to build a x-ray bomb.
using any passwords with Microsoft products is futile. Passphrases cannot change that. Use any system designed with security in mind if you care.
How could you prevent people sharing what they have learned from your book? How could you prevent people from sharing their book with others? The only answer is you cannot. Everything is knowledge and knowledge will always find it's way. Da you remember Gilileo Galilei? Church burned everyone who spread knowledge they did not like, in the end they failed though. The only thing that has really changed is the time information needs to spread.
Intellectual property is only some kind of knowledge and can therefore never be stolen but only be propagated.
Church tried to stand in the way of knowledge a long time ago, when they held all of the legislative, executive and judicial powers. They still failed when there came the age of enlightenment
Even if the MAFIA paid the lawmakers to make BLACKMAILING legal, it is still IMMORAL. The same remains true in the other direction regarding copyright legislation.
You think that you do not pay interest when you keep your life debt free? Think again: You are always part of some bigger socienty that is not debt free.
At the very least you still pay interest when you pay your taxes. I can only tell for Austria: Last year our government paid 8 billion Euro interest, this boils down to about 1,000 Euro for each citizen.
Get a grip yourself! Only the national bank can MAKE money, everybody else has to get someone else's money. This only works as long as money remains about equally distributed. Unfortunately some people together already own more money than is available, therefore every cent we possess is burdened with interest payments for these people. Companies are now only the tools of these people to enslave the general public for ever decreasing wages.
So let's just give them a continent and plenty of weapons.
Let's face the truth: The European Union is an institution designed and created to undermine the separation of powers in europe.
While national governments (executive branch) depend on the approval of their parliaments (legislative branch) to pass any laws, they now also delegate the european council which can pass directives equal or overrule any national legislation.
The european union is the world that has been pulled over our eyes to blind us from the truth. The truth, that power is no longer held by the people but by big $$$ corporations that are willing to do everything to enslave the very people that they are made up.
Why give up our beautiful planet? Just evacuate all those fucking morons calling themselves Managers, Politicians, Judges and Lawyers and make this once again a nice place to live.
You have been found guilty of propagating heretical texts. You can now renounce and life in poverty or die at the voice of Brittany Spears. Intellectual property is only some kind of knowledge and can therefore never be stolen but only be propagated. Church tried to stand in the way of knowledge a long time ago, when they held all of the legislative, executive and judicial powers. They still failed when there came the age of enlightenment. Even if the MAFIA paid the lawmakers to make BLACKMAILING legal, it is still IMMORAL. The same remains true in the other direction regarding copyright legislation.
Intellectual property is only some kind of knowledge and can therefore never be stolen but only be propagated.
Church tried to stand in the way of knowledge a long time ago, when they held all of the legislative, executive and judicial powers. They still failed when there came the age of enlightenment
Even if the MAFIA paid the lawmakers to make BLACKMAILING legal, it is still IMMORAL. The same remains true in the other direction regarding copyright legislation.
The solution is easy, I do not buy any products from companies that try to rip off their customers. HP just filled another line on my blacklist.
There was a case when a lawyer got his cigars insured against fire damage. After he smoked them he filed a claim and won $ 15,000 in court.
However the insurance company soon got him arrested for 24 months in 24 cases of arson and a $ 24,000 fine.