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Her car has more luxuries and gizmos than any of our previous cars: Navagation System, Universal Garage Door Opener, 11-speaker sound system w/ DSP, CD Changer, Rear hatch auto-closer (close hatch the last inch), 8 airbags, 16-way power seats, rear wiper arm, etc.. bla.. bla.. bla... and so on
Only a large Globalised corporation can provide a product like that at a price you can afford. So we've all sacrificed our dot-com jobs for you to get your nice car at a cheap price. Cool.
Either us geeks are buying more books, or the mainstream population is getting brighter
It means more geeks are unemployed. You can't read while driving to work, and you can't read at work. With only the weekend free, one day is taken up by shopping, leaving Sunday to read a book. All this is assuming you don't spend a day posting to Slashdot;-)
I can walk how I want, I can think what I want, despite the possibility that my thoughts may be deduced from my way of sitting/walking. This is similar to contantly being strapped into a lie detector, does the Government have the right to do that?
MY PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS ARE MY OWN, THEY WILL NOT CONSTANTLY BE MONITORED, especially if that information will eventually be sold to advertisers.
"You're farting too much, get off the plane. Planes have expensive air recirculation systems because of people like you! I'm banning you from this airline!".
Perhaps you ought to think about how lucky you are to even HAVE a job right now
If you work twice as hard (as hard as two men); then are you keeping your job, or preventing another job from being created than if you worked half as hard? People like you ruin the economy for everybody else.
You just work, let the Government pick up the pieces of your life if you get fired, that's its job. In the US if you IT guys don't get unemployment benefits then you better mop floors (I mean it!) or overthrow your Government fast!
The government pays Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid (if you are truly poor in the US, your health care is free - no matter what the Europeans say), housing for the poor, hundreds of silly programs to help the poor that end up discouraging them from helping themselves
WHAT??? Read the book "Fast Food Nation" and "Nickel and Dimed". They disagree with you, and will blow your mind. Your Social Security expires after a short time, the long term unemployed "disappear" and die on a pavement somewhere, I'm sure more than one C++ coder has starved to death. Food programs like drive 50 miles for $10 worth of food? Where is a poor person supposed to get a car? Waitresses (YES, THEY DO EXIST) having to sleep in their cars! Belittling a waitress because of her lack of intelligence at learning Linux/C++ where intelligence is mostly inherited and static means violating the Constitution (all are born equal). People having their arm severed by workplace machinery and then being forced to return to work THE SAME DAY (Book: Fast Food Nation) and then getting fired after a Month, is this a job or slavery?
"Race to the bottom" is a fatal flaw with American economics and requires heavy Government intervention to prevent it - read massive Government control over the Capitalist system.
I am wondering: how realistic is a test which assumes that the phone will be 30cm from the equipment
The wiring harness runs the entire length of the plane, so if everybody was using a mobile phone then it would have a cumulative effect, plus a long power-line resonance effect. Plus the metal airframe of the aircraft could reflect part of the mobile phone radiation, concentrating it and hotspotting it much like you get hotspots in a microwave which is why microwaves without a turntable leave parts of the food overcooked.
It's either legal or illegal - a parent with ADD kids will have to comply with this and not weasel out with some excuse like "my kids were shouting at me and wanted a happy meal". Slashdot is under-represented in the category of parents with ADD kids, and as a forum of computer scientists we believe that bombarding people with high power GSM/802.11 radiation is an acceptable price to pay for increasing the range of our tight beam 802.11 transmitters. When Slashdot announces that somebody has made a 70km line of sight 802.11 system, do we care about the people tha live near the beam?
I dont know any arabs who asked for Mc Donalds to expand there, in fact it pisses them off
McDonalds is making a profit in Saudi. The Saudi Arabian people go there and eat non-Halal stuff. This pisses off the Sharia government who will then go and kill everybody eating at the restaurant, so what?
The Chinese government doesn't want people writing books about freedom, so then why do Chinese people go out and buy books then? Should we hate the book-writers and go and whip them like the Chinese police do?
We lose because now we will NEVER be able to get a job here in the USA.
So what if you can hire some Indian, Africa or Chinese programmer for $1 a day or something, I'm an American
WHAT?? Dude, these Indian guys are amazing. They outclass all the top software engineers at Banks. There's lots of cleaning jobs available in USA for American workers. These guys show the true power of an integral atomic family unit - Father goes to work from 9am to 11pm, wife doesn't complain and quietly cooks breakfast and dinner and keeps the house clean. Selfish and lazy American women are unwilling to do this, they are an inferior working breed and therefore with this collapse of the classic supportive American atomic family unit the American workers become unemplyable. It's Capitalism dude, it's the American way. Unless you want to change the American way...?
There's only 3 ways to stop the Indian programmers - bomb India, take so many programmers that the entire population of India ends up in the US, or create trade barriers and racism so that dumb and useless white American programmers with screaming selfish cook=divorcing wives get jobs in first preference, like Apartheid in South Africa.
If we admitted the truth that our application can be code from 500 other existing code fragments, we'd be out of a job. Do assembly line workers every say, "Hey, a machine could do my job as well as I can"?
So, to say it's a "solved problem in game theory" is correct - it's a solved problem in theory only. In practice, it's not a solved problem and people are looking at alternative economic constructs to help increase wealth and distribute it more fairly (see the work of Lietaer and Gesell for some examples).
Yes. The trickle-down effect doesn't work, the rich must be taxed. Only celebrities spend their millions on job-creating trickledown hobbies. Most rich businessmen who are assumed to partake in trickledown have been burned and actually invest the bulk of their money in real estate and expensive hobbies such as golf (they rich trickle-down their money to the rich NOT the poor).
Redistribution on savings via Bank gearing ratio only fund profit-making businesses and repayable loans. The only thing a poor man gets from Bank gearing ratio redistribution is a damn 50-year mortgage. You can buy yourself into slavery YEEEEEHA!
But what happens when all the products are built and sold? If everybody has an overengineered car and an overengineered house that will last 1000 years, then what profit-making businesses will appear for the Banks to give repayable loans to, where will the jobs come from if everybody has overengineered stuff?
The people demand jobs. This is why the entire Federal government will never be computerised and will never fire 99% of their staff that sit on their asses and do nothing.
Word on the street is that Dodge's new 5.7L HEMI has or will have in a near-future iteration cylinder shutoff for when you don't need all 8 sucking down the gas
A house online has no value because it cannot be lived in. Information in a book online is still information that can be used in the real world. Money in a bank can be withdrawn to purchase one of your cheap paper roses on the street corner
You are assuming your physical body has value. Of what value is a house or a tonne of gold to a man who is about to commit suicide?
During the Spanish crusades, the Spaniards raided the Mayan civilisation for Gold. When the Chinese leaders learned of this they laughed, as Gold has no value to the ancient Chinese, whereas Jade can buy a thousand palaces. What value does a Pentium IV have to a starving Ethiopean with no electricity? Why do we pay so much for them then?
P.S.: If the world really is sucked up by a black hole, it'll be a saving grace for all of the physicists who have been extraordinarily wrong for the past three-quarters of a century. ^-^
The FIPS docs were on the CD. You could see the CD drive from your Windows install, right?
Nope. Windows install was damaged, I believed I was competent and deleted the wrong.dll file in the \Windows\System directory rendering the system unbootable.
How is it "tricky" to create a Windows partition with Linux's fdisk
With the Redhat 5 installer, I opted to truncate my FAT32 partition and make an ext2fs in the resulting free space with Linux fdisk. It DIDN'T tell me that it would truncate it regardless of whether or not there was data there! I lost 50 Megabytes of mp3s on my FAT32 partition. I have a God damn MS in Computing so I'm both embarassed and angry simultaneously, whoa feels weird.
I use PartitionMagic now, I like linux and fdisk, but quite frankly if the F-18s bombing Baghdad were using a CLI I think thousands more Iraqi civilians would be dead. It's too risky to chance losing a partition full of my information IMO, even if it's RAID-1 mirrored. Altering partitions must be done in a rollback-capable manner, with 10 modal dialogs in your face.
Of course Ballmer wants to diversify. Microsoft stock isn't going anywhere fast (down or up). They are a large company that won't be doubling their revenue any time soon
Yup, other stocks are far more likely to go up, especially if the economy turns upwards it's a wise move. Investing that money into a wide collection of small companies would give a much better return than leaving it in Micro$oft.
Perhaps we should look more closely at why people like Balmer are willing to fund bubbles by investing huge amounts of money into "growth" sectors and then pull their money out fast when the companies stabilise like Micro$oft and Redhat.
... and then my Manager walks up to me and tells me he personally negotiated a great deal on a Compaq notebook. Then I look on their "buy online" section and find his great deal equals actual retail price.
Oh, and by the way, Beliskner, you've contradicted yourself in two paragraphs. In one, you say that it's your full-time job to repair data, and in the last line, you imply that it's not. I suspect the truth is the latter.
The latter paragraph meant "if I was posting on Slashdot full-time", I am doing databases full-time. It's a lot like C++ coding, you just hack it until it works right. I've even got SQL Server installed on my home machine so don't you fool with me;-)
Try using ODBC on joins between three tables, one with 57 million rows another with 200 million rows and a third with 1.5 million rows--using character-based "smart keys." Nah, better to load them into new tables with indexed 64-bit surrogate keys first, and issue the join on the server, in one instance of a DB, don't you think?
Why in such a hurry? All the competitors to my dot-com company have gone bust, we can set whatever price and timeline we want. I just extract the small tables via ODBC to a CSV flat-file, flattening subtables if necessary. Subtables are reconstructed upon import of this data. Alternatively, sometimes I do something really clever and turn off all the triggers and cascades, and then write SELECT DISTINCT queries to create the subtables and populate the Foreign key so it links with the main table correctly.
Now try doing diffs (changed data) between two versions of the same DB, where both are OVER 100 GB
Bah, just reimport all the data again. I tell my boss we need £5mil in new hardware and he stretches the timeline with our customers. Sometimes the customers call me directly to see what the delay is and I talk crap and then start reading out Stored Procedures over the phone until their eyes glaze over, "Yeah your project's late because uhhhh, the LEFT OUTER JOIN on the subquery is bypassing through the warp core. I think I can fix this by lubricating the INNER JOIN and cascading to related tables, this'll take 48 hours, do you have any suggestions?", then the customer always allows a big extension.
Try working with databases between 100 GB and a terabyte with these tools. And you'll find that your MySQL falls over and barfs. Even PostGreSQL has a hard time with data this large
These are children's databases but whenever you mention them you get modded up, oh well.
So one table in unidata, as each field might be a whole hierarchy of subtables--might require a dozen or more CSV files
Simply flatten the subtables into one CSV file. As for meta-data, nothing important is stored there, so I just DROP that. If the customer complains I just say, "well why don't I just dump all of your company's C++ source into the database? Your database is not compliant, you have bizarre meta-data extensions, you might as well give us a data cube. Put it in a proper table"
For your next exercise, weedhopper, try pulling the correlate data out of a 1TB DB2 database on an IBM S/390 running MVS using an ODBC join --to the Unidata DB running on an Alpha half way across the country. Can you spell "couriered tapes"?
Is this a farming database? This is when I tell the customer to upgrade to SQL Server or Oracle, only then will I take on their contract.
Or maybe you can pull the hundred some-odd tables, over 2 GB each, into into some flat CSV files onto your FAT file system on your PC with Access. guffaw!
I do that all the time, but Access starts breaking down at 1.5GB, and 30 or so tables is all it can comofrtably handle, so I do a lot of subtable-flattening before import. I love Access, graphical SQL construction is beautiful. What's a guffaw?
don't forget the native encoding is EBCDIC
Thanks! Now I know why 10 hours of my work got trashed. It only worked when I imported it into MS SQL Server from
It's not "impossible" to reconcile different data on the same subjects, it's just a whole lot of work, much of it analysis and data discovery, and being able to do the work typically requires that you be familiar with a variety of RDBMS's, billing engines, debt engines, file formats and platforms. The combinations are almost endless.
Take heart. You'll start seeing the same kinds of problems over and over: middle initial vs. middle name, spacing and capitalisation issues, address data entered as a small number of big long strings that needs to be parsed out into attributes, date/time format inconsistencies, record doubling, data integrity issues (1 supposedly unique key identifying multiple distinct records), data accuracy issues (data way out of range, data incorrect), null values with meaning, attributes used to identify a range of different things, "smart keys" that are not so smart being used to code everything about a customer in 8 characters, and so on and so forth. And you'll know to look for these "usual suspects" first, and develop some standard ways of dealing with them.
Remember, you're posting on Slashdot, repairing manually entered data into 1Gig databases is my full-time job. You're talking trash, even MySQL can JOIN databases.
Offline pretty much every database is ODBC compliant, you can pull off the data into CSV format, and fix the time/date inconsistencies DURING IMPORT, no complex "washing" queries needed by using Connect-It software.
Parsing an address into address attributes is: SELECT AddressHouse AS Split(Address," ",0), AddressStreet AS Split(Address," ",1), AddressZIP AS Rtrim(Address,",")
If I was doing this full-time then I could come up with lots more stuff, but I have to go have an eye test and RSI-test 'cos writing SQL queries 6 hours a day might have ruined my eyesight and my arms.
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MY PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS ARE MY OWN, THEY WILL NOT CONSTANTLY BE MONITORED, especially if that information will eventually be sold to advertisers.
"You're farting too much, get off the plane. Planes have expensive air recirculation systems because of people like you! I'm banning you from this airline!".
You just work, let the Government pick up the pieces of your life if you get fired, that's its job. In the US if you IT guys don't get unemployment benefits then you better mop floors (I mean it!) or overthrow your Government fast!
"Race to the bottom" is a fatal flaw with American economics and requires heavy Government intervention to prevent it - read massive Government control over the Capitalist system.
It's either legal or illegal - a parent with ADD kids will have to comply with this and not weasel out with some excuse like "my kids were shouting at me and wanted a happy meal". Slashdot is under-represented in the category of parents with ADD kids, and as a forum of computer scientists we believe that bombarding people with high power GSM/802.11 radiation is an acceptable price to pay for increasing the range of our tight beam 802.11 transmitters. When Slashdot announces that somebody has made a 70km line of sight 802.11 system, do we care about the people tha live near the beam?
The Chinese government doesn't want people writing books about freedom, so then why do Chinese people go out and buy books then? Should we hate the book-writers and go and whip them like the Chinese police do?
There's only 3 ways to stop the Indian programmers - bomb India, take so many programmers that the entire population of India ends up in the US, or create trade barriers and racism so that dumb and useless white American programmers with screaming selfish cook=divorcing wives get jobs in first preference, like Apartheid in South Africa.
If we admitted the truth that our application can be code from 500 other existing code fragments, we'd be out of a job. Do assembly line workers every say, "Hey, a machine could do my job as well as I can"?
Redistribution on savings via Bank gearing ratio only fund profit-making businesses and repayable loans. The only thing a poor man gets from Bank gearing ratio redistribution is a damn 50-year mortgage. You can buy yourself into slavery YEEEEEHA!
But what happens when all the products are built and sold? If everybody has an overengineered car and an overengineered house that will last 1000 years, then what profit-making businesses will appear for the Banks to give repayable loans to, where will the jobs come from if everybody has overengineered stuff?
The people demand jobs. This is why the entire Federal government will never be computerised and will never fire 99% of their staff that sit on their asses and do nothing.
Kazaa is old news. Direct Connect has overtaken it. It's a much more decentralised system.
During the Spanish crusades, the Spaniards raided the Mayan civilisation for Gold. When the Chinese leaders learned of this they laughed, as Gold has no value to the ancient Chinese, whereas Jade can buy a thousand palaces. What value does a Pentium IV have to a starving Ethiopean with no electricity? Why do we pay so much for them then?
E ~ mc^2 ahem, Einstein was wrong.
I use PartitionMagic now, I like linux and fdisk, but quite frankly if the F-18s bombing Baghdad were using a CLI I think thousands more Iraqi civilians would be dead. It's too risky to chance losing a partition full of my information IMO, even if it's RAID-1 mirrored. Altering partitions must be done in a rollback-capable manner, with 10 modal dialogs in your face.
Perhaps we should look more closely at why people like Balmer are willing to fund bubbles by investing huge amounts of money into "growth" sectors and then pull their money out fast when the companies stabilise like Micro$oft and Redhat.
... and then my Manager walks up to me and tells me he personally negotiated a great deal on a Compaq notebook. Then I look on their "buy online" section and find his great deal equals actual retail price.
The latter paragraph meant "if I was posting on Slashdot full-time", I am doing databases full-time. It's a lot like C++ coding, you just hack it until it works right. I've even got SQL Server installed on my home machine so don't you fool with me ;-)
Why in such a hurry? All the competitors to my dot-com company have gone bust, we can set whatever price and timeline we want. I just extract the small tables via ODBC to a CSV flat-file, flattening subtables if necessary. Subtables are reconstructed upon import of this data. Alternatively, sometimes I do something really clever and turn off all the triggers and cascades, and then write SELECT DISTINCT queries to create the subtables and populate the Foreign key so it links with the main table correctly.
Bah, just reimport all the data again. I tell my boss we need £5mil in new hardware and he stretches the timeline with our customers. Sometimes the customers call me directly to see what the delay is and I talk crap and then start reading out Stored Procedures over the phone until their eyes glaze over, "Yeah your project's late because uhhhh, the LEFT OUTER JOIN on the subquery is bypassing through the warp core. I think I can fix this by lubricating the INNER JOIN and cascading to related tables, this'll take 48 hours, do you have any suggestions?", then the customer always allows a big extension.
These are children's databases but whenever you mention them you get modded up, oh well.
Simply flatten the subtables into one CSV file. As for meta-data, nothing important is stored there, so I just DROP that. If the customer complains I just say, "well why don't I just dump all of your company's C++ source into the database? Your database is not compliant, you have bizarre meta-data extensions, you might as well give us a data cube. Put it in a proper table"
Is this a farming database? This is when I tell the customer to upgrade to SQL Server or Oracle, only then will I take on their contract.
I do that all the time, but Access starts breaking down at 1.5GB, and 30 or so tables is all it can comofrtably handle, so I do a lot of subtable-flattening before import. I love Access, graphical SQL construction is beautiful. What's a guffaw?
Thanks! Now I know why 10 hours of my work got trashed. It only worked when I imported it into MS SQL Server from
Offline pretty much every database is ODBC compliant, you can pull off the data into CSV format, and fix the time/date inconsistencies DURING IMPORT, no complex "washing" queries needed by using Connect-It software.
Parsing an address into address attributes is: SELECT AddressHouse AS Split(Address," ",0),
AddressStreet AS Split(Address," ",1),
AddressZIP AS Rtrim(Address,",")
If I was doing this full-time then I could come up with lots more stuff, but I have to go have an eye test and RSI-test 'cos writing SQL queries 6 hours a day might have ruined my eyesight and my arms.