WTF is it with americans mispelling Antarctica??
Americans should be capitalized and it's spelled "misspelling".
Its been mentioned here a few times in the last several weeks (like that poll, etc), and it has ALWAYS been mispelt!
"It's" is the contraction "It has" and should contain an apostrophe. Again, the word is "misspelt", not "mispelt".
even have some american sci-fi shows and stuff here on dvd (i'm australian) and even on THERE they mispronounce Antarctica, saying it as "Antartica" just as they spell it.
"I'm" and "Australian" should be capitalized. You got it right for Anartica though. Kudos.
Are americans so brain dead they ALWAYS have to mispell it, and pronounce it the mispelt way too? ...Americans, misspell, misspelt... And by the way, "brain-dead" should be hyphenated.
The background temperature of the universe is so cold-hundreds of degrees below zero-that even ice is hot by comparison.
Wow! In other news, a journalist explains that the sun is so hot that it makes BURNING COALS seem cold! The journalist goes on to say that he is so smart that he makes that door-knob over there look completely stupid.
Vendors do this all the time. Siebel is notorious for it. They always talk about how they have 750 partners world-wide. In reality, any business that wants to pony up the dough can be a partner. If you have big gobs of cash you can be an impressive "Global Strategic Partner". If you times are tough, you can opt for the more affordable "Base Partnership".
This is a wonderful system that allows Siebel marketing drones to bullshit their investors about all of their "partnerships". And it also allows consultant marketing drones to bullshit their clients about their "strategic siebel alliance".
There is no real value in these pseudo-partnerships and sooner or later people will figure that out.
By the way, I use JBoss and it's an excellent app server. If you do J2EE, you definitely should check it out.
Adding layers of abstraction to handle software complexity is a technique that has been used for decades. Does it introduce computational overhead? Yes. It's called a trade-off. But, it is a fundamental design philosophy. Without it, large-scale software would be utterly un-manageable.
Ok, so what you're talking about here and in your article is a special-purpose database for storing XML documents. This is an important distinction, because I think a lot of people would read XML database to mean: a general-purpose data store, which uses XML documents to store the data.
One other question, and forgive me if this is naiive because I'm still thinking in relations. Can an XML database generate XML dynamically from other documents?
Say I have an RDBMS with three tables: STUDENTS, CLASSES, ENROLLMENTS. I can join STUDENTS and ENROLLMENTS to give me all of the students taking a particular class. How does an XML database handle that? How do I create relationships between the documents?
Could someone explain to me the benefits of an XML database? I can't think of an XML document that can't be expressed as a relation. I've seen vague references to
performance advantages and ease of development
for certain applications, but I haven't heard a convincing argument. Am I missing something, or is this just XML hype?
Welcome to a market economy. As participants we are assumed to be both informed and acting in our own interest. If I can get what I need for free, legally, then there is absolutely no compelling reason for me to pay for it. If I am willing to put up with advertisements, why should I bother to pay to remove them? The idea that we should all act with charity toward a good cause sounds great, but it is unrealistic. There will be those who feel strongly enough about Free-As-In-Speech to donate their cash, but as a group, we will remain greedy and opportunistic. Calling your fellow consumers cheap fucks will not change this.
ITER's planners hope to decide on a site in 2003; candidates are in Japan, France, Spain, and Canada. If all goes to plan, construction will begin in 2005, with operation to start around 2013. The US, which earlier withdrew from ITER, is now considering returning.
Anyone know why the US withdrew from ITER? Returning after a succesful experiment makes us look like bandwagoners.
nosferatu-man is right. Squid do not hunt in packs. They are solitary animals. Additionally, squid have been found in the stomachs of whale that have washed ashore. See this link, which was posted in an earlier comment.
Yes, I have heard that the Gamecube is easier to develop for, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will be easy to port Linux. It just means that the Gamecube has a nice API sitting on top of whatever OS they have running it, which makes programming games nice. Since the hardware is proprietary and documentation is not widely available I would imagine it is damned difficult to port Linux to the Gamecube.
"With the five year statute of limitations long expired, Mitnick appeared comfortable describing with great specificity how he first gained access to Sprint's systems..."
I wonder which would be more difficult; cracking the password or cracking the encryption on the data? They know the context of the data, so some clever cryptanalysis would work. On the other hand, the password is probably a dictionary word, so a norwegian dictionary attack would be even easier.
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You got it right for Anartica though. Kudos.
Ok, so maybe us American's can't spell afterall. Dammit! I previewed that and everything. Antarctica Antarctica Antarctica...
WTF is it with americans mispelling Antarctica??
...Americans, misspell, misspelt... And by the way, "brain-dead" should be hyphenated.
Americans should be capitalized and it's spelled "misspelling".
Its been mentioned here a few times in the last several weeks (like that poll, etc), and it has ALWAYS been mispelt!
"It's" is the contraction "It has" and should contain an apostrophe. Again, the word is "misspelt", not "mispelt".
even have some american sci-fi shows and stuff here on dvd (i'm australian) and even on THERE they mispronounce Antarctica, saying it as "Antartica" just as they spell it.
"I'm" and "Australian" should be capitalized. You got it right for Anartica though. Kudos.
Are americans so brain dead they ALWAYS have to mispell it, and pronounce it the mispelt way too?
Great flame. Very effective.
The background temperature of the universe is so cold-hundreds of degrees below zero-that even ice is hot by comparison.
Wow! In other news, a journalist explains that the sun is so hot that it makes BURNING COALS seem cold! The journalist goes on to say that he is so smart that he makes that door-knob over there look completely stupid.
Makes sense. I have always had the feeling that I'm just a computer simulation.
You are confusing nanotechnology with positional assembly
Assembling things one atom at a time is one way to accomplish nanotechnology, but it would be incorrect to assume it is the only way.
Vendors do this all the time. Siebel is notorious for it. They always talk about how they have 750 partners world-wide. In reality, any business that wants to pony up the dough can be a partner. If you have big gobs of cash you can be an impressive "Global Strategic Partner". If you times are tough, you can opt for the more affordable "Base Partnership".
This is a wonderful system that allows Siebel marketing drones to bullshit their investors about all of their "partnerships". And it also allows consultant marketing drones to bullshit their clients about their "strategic siebel alliance".
There is no real value in these pseudo-partnerships and sooner or later people will figure that out.
By the way, I use JBoss and it's an excellent app server. If you do J2EE, you definitely should check it out.
and not to mention that the "640k" quote often attributed to bill g is an urband legend.
nah. i have a radeon card and it runs great in linux. debian. xfree86. gnome desktop. all accelerated, it's beautiful. it even supports the multihead.
ODBC provides a platform independent API. You can use it with any database that provides ODBC drivers.
Adding layers of abstraction to handle software complexity is a technique that has been used for decades. Does it introduce computational overhead? Yes. It's called a trade-off. But, it is a fundamental design philosophy. Without it, large-scale software would be utterly un-manageable.
Ok, so what you're talking about here and in your article is a special-purpose database for storing XML documents. This is an important distinction, because I think a lot of people would read XML database to mean: a general-purpose data store, which uses XML documents to store the data.
One other question, and forgive me if this is naiive because I'm still thinking in relations. Can an XML database generate XML dynamically from other documents?
Say I have an RDBMS with three tables: STUDENTS, CLASSES, ENROLLMENTS. I can join STUDENTS and ENROLLMENTS to give me all of the students taking a particular class. How does an XML database handle that? How do I create relationships between the documents?
Could someone explain to me the benefits of an XML database? I can't think of an XML document that can't be expressed as a relation. I've seen vague references to performance advantages and ease of development for certain applications, but I haven't heard a convincing argument. Am I missing something, or is this just XML hype?
Welcome to a market economy. As participants we are assumed to be both informed and acting in our own interest. If I can get what I need for free, legally, then there is absolutely no compelling reason for me to pay for it. If I am willing to put up with advertisements, why should I bother to pay to remove them? The idea that we should all act with charity toward a good cause sounds great, but it is unrealistic. There will be those who feel strongly enough about Free-As-In-Speech to donate their cash, but as a group, we will remain greedy and opportunistic. Calling your fellow consumers cheap fucks will not change this.
ITER's planners hope to decide on a site in 2003; candidates are in Japan, France, Spain, and Canada. If all goes to plan, construction will begin in 2005, with operation to start around 2013. The US, which earlier withdrew from ITER, is now considering returning.
Anyone know why the US withdrew from ITER? Returning after a succesful experiment makes us look like bandwagoners.
can't i get some sharks with frickin' laser beams?
nosferatu-man is right. Squid do not hunt in packs. They are solitary animals. Additionally, squid have been found in the stomachs of whale that have washed ashore. See this link, which was posted in an earlier comment.
um yeah... it's not a cellphone and the bluetooth technology you speak of is made by motorola. in the usa.
Yes, I have heard that the Gamecube is easier to develop for, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will be easy to port Linux. It just means that the Gamecube has a nice API sitting on top of whatever OS they have running it, which makes programming games nice. Since the hardware is proprietary and documentation is not widely available I would imagine it is damned difficult to port Linux to the Gamecube.
+1 funny
Have you worked out a deal with those Darwin Awards people, just in case you make an appearance in the next edition?
A quote from the article:
"With the five year statute of limitations long expired, Mitnick appeared comfortable describing with great specificity how he first gained access to Sprint's systems..."
funniest thing i've read all week. thanks for that.
The site is down...
I wonder which would be more difficult; cracking the password or cracking the encryption on the data? They know the context of the data, so some clever cryptanalysis would work. On the other hand, the password is probably a dictionary word, so a norwegian dictionary attack would be even easier.
Ever heard of IBM Global Services?
"The C++ Programming Language" by Bjarne Stroustrup