Only the extremely ill, old, young, and those with compromised immune systems will have a problem in more developed countries where antiviral medicine is available.
Wow. You have just far too much faith in the governments of the world, and medicine. First of all there's not enough antiviral flu medication for everyone if the virus spreads to a large percentage of the population (not to mention infra-structure to distribute all of it, care for everyone, etc). Secondly, the flu mutates like crazy. The virus can easily evolve into a strain that's resistant to the 4 drugs used against influenza. At that point being rich isn't going to save you.
Once upon a time, when power was distributed more to the state (you know, how the founders wanted it)
The founders fought like dogs amongst themselves over state/federal control, so there's no single "the founders" here.
Anyway, as far as the state having the legal authority to do this, I highly doubt it. States have long tried to bar things they don't like from entering the state. It used to be pornography, now it's gambling. If Utah can't stop Hustler from going through the mail system, I doubt Minnesota can order ISPs to block websites.
And how often do jet-liners fly around Manhattan at 1/2 the height of the WTC towers? You realise that is how low Air Force 1.2 was flying, right?
1/2 the height you say? I didn't realize that. The WTC towers were about 1400 feet. You're trying to tell me that this 747 was flying at 700 feet? Sorry, but I don't believe you. That would be incredibly dangerous. Please provide a reference for such an outrageous claim.
It's not that the model can't work it just that if it becomes successful you are pretty much guaranteed to lose control of it at some point.
The mistake you make is you keep trying to think of the model as "owning the software" rather than "employing smart people that make your product worth buying, and keeping those smart people happy". If you don't do both of those things, you fail. The problem is they hang like a knife (or maybe that should be fork) over the company and if they are unfortunate enough to annoy the community they could eaisly lose control of their product.
Here's what I see from 10,000 feet after only knowing a little about MySQL and its history. (I don't use it, and if I want a free DB I use Postgresql).
I don't think they annoyed the community as you put it. I think what happened is the developer weren't kept happy, so they left. The project got derailed at that point and the product suffered. Closed source products have the same issues. They normally deal with this issue by trying to lock in users with proprietary interfaces, spreading FUD, etc. Basically stall until you can find people again to improve your product. That doesn't work as well with OSS.
As far as being crazy to open source your product.. well, it depends. If you're the top one or two guys in your market and aren't threatened by a Big Player.. you probably would be crazy to open source it. On the other hand if you're a small fish, or a Big Player is going to stomp you, it can make a lot of sense. In the end, it's not different than any other business decision. YMMV.
We're talking about at minimum infrared light. Or in other words -- we're talking about fiber optics, not cat5.
Except for the fact that:
1. Twisted pair ethernet uses electrical signal modulation, not photon modulation. 2. There are 4 pairs of wire in twisted pair ethernet cable. 3. The S/N ratio is a LOT higher than 1/1
Do not run higher speeds on lower standards, it works sometimes but often it "works" in that you get link but there's all kind of errors.
Like anything, it depends. Wiring standards are written for the worst case specification. i.e. the full 100 meter length with the minimum cable quality, and the minimum allowed errors. It's often the case that you can get by perfectly well running gigabit ethernet on plain-jane cat5 cable. I've certainly done it on short runs of say 30-40 feet and have had zero problems. The point being that being out of The Spec isn't as nearly a big deal as you make it out to be. YMMV.
Putting colonies in space will help to prevent the extermination of mankind due to a single cataclysmic event.
If your goal is prevent single cataclysmic events, it's be MUCH smarter to fund mapping all the asteroids, fund a lot of geology, and simply just general science. A lot of these kind of things are predictable. Given enough warning, asteroid collisions are completely avoidable. Thinking you'll get a large enough populace to live off-world for the purpose of preventing some unknown random cataclysm is a bit foolhardy. For one thing it does nothing for all the people on earth. How many people would REALLY want to fund a project to save "mankind", but wouldn't save themselves or their family?
As far as colonies, I assure you it'll happen just as soon as we find a way to make a living doing it (e.g. it shows a profit). It won't happen in any large scale a minute before that occurs. I'm sure we'll have some kind of scientific stations ala McMurdo Station in Antarctica, but that ain't a colony.
If you know even a tiny amount about the case, it actually was about commercial closed source software that violated the GPL. So if this is going to affect businesses opinions of software and risk, why is commercial software somehow immune from FUD?
It seems to me that open source software has LESS of a change of a license violation, for the very fact that anyone can look for anyone license violations. Closed source software is the one with the potential for all those scary skeletons in the closet. If you're to believe the Microsoft lawyer, I guess those closed source software operations should start shitting bricks.
why is it worded in such a way as to imply the different bacteria is the reason that one is obese and the other isn't, instead of the type of bacteria changed because being obese
IIRC there have been animal studies (mice I think) where changing the intestinal bacteria lead to changes in obesity. I don't have an article cite, but I read about it in Science News about a year ago. So it's not simply a correlation that supports this theory.
I mean, it's great to have someone available to handle that sort of thing, but can you really sustain a job with this as your only skill?
Are you kidding? I'm not a web designer, I'm a software developer. But I greatly value the people that know how to do good graphic design. I know very little about it, am not particularly talented at it, and have little interest in doing it myself. But it's definitely a skill in it's own right. A good designer knows a lot more than just some simple HTML. They understand how people visually look at a website, and often times have good insights into UI design. Suggesting that someone can't sustain a job "with this as your only skill" doesn't realize how much a difference a designer can make.
Is apple willing to pay the taxes on all that for you? Seriously that gotta be at least 13K in prizes for which the US gov will want ~ 50%.
There's no 50% tax bracket, and AFAIK there hasn't been one for a long time. The current top federal tax bracket is 35%. You have to make over 164,000 to get even into the 33% tax bracket. (There USED to be a 39% tax bracket, but our last president eliminated that. Then we ran up a huge deficit. No correlation between the two, of course)
I don't believe there's any extra tax on prizes, but I don't know for sure.
And with USB booting available on almost everything these days, it's just a matter of walking up to it...
Which won't help you at all at getting your system back up and running without reinstalling the whole thing. Booting the OS up into SOMETHING isn't the problem. There's been a million different rescue CDs and Floppies for 20+ years.
I have several bulbs at home I've never really paid attention to the 'warm-up times' problem.
In my experience the warm up times can vary between bulbs. The ones I've seen are quite noticeable though. I'd say it might take 2 minutes or so before a bulb is at peak light output. I'd guesstimate the initial light output at 1/5th the peak.
Dismissing using SSD because it's only cost effective for the boot partition is a mistake. Anyone who's put together servers before knows the boot partition is critical to the system, and the hardest part to backup. Once you get a system booted, there's a million things you can do to fix it or restore the relevant data. Getting it bootable if the boot partition is toast is much harder.
It's straightforward, to the point, and not so junked up with marketing S**T that you can't find what you want.
The other reason I think the simple design wins is simply because it's cheaper. Text is SMALL bandwidth and storage wise, easy to search, and doesn't require a lot of processing. The UI is simple, and really doesn't change much so do you don't need a team of programmers to support it. Craigslist has such a small operating cost, there's really no chance they'll go out of business.
I think the reason you don't see a lot of "me too" sites competing isn't because the UI is so great for the end user, it's really how could you possibly compete with a site as popular as craiglist? Some things tend to create natural monopolies because there's an advantage to everyone using one resource. Ebay is one of those kinds of things, craigslist is another. It's a feedback loop where both parties benefit.
Yet, it has never happened. It hasn't even come close to happening
Not exactly. It was shortly before my time, but the reports are that "the internet" had some significant problems.
I think you're right that it has to be hard enough for it to be too difficult for you average a-hole. The claim was that this might take a group of exceptional a-holes. The thing about a-holes is, they generally don't like other a-holes.
I thought we knew that combining these two theories resulted in answers we know to be nonsense. So the implication is one or both of them are wrong in some way. So I'm a little confused why we should trust results based on the combination of two theories that don't work together.
Granted I'm just a laymen, but does anyone else want to comment about the intersection of these two theories?
I do feel sad for today's generation, I don't think they ever get the sense of the fantastic we experienced so often in the 60s and 70s from our space program.
Are you kidding? We only have two robots wandering around Mars for the past several years, a space telescope, multiple missions to other planets, comets, and a host of other missions I can't even list. You're trying to tell me that pales in comparison to what amounts to little more than a giant balloon in orbit? It seems to me it's easier for a 10 year old to get the sense of the fantastic than it is for a 50 year old.
(clap clap clap clap) Thank you Sir, for pointing out these money grubbing craigslist scum to us. Craig Newmark is _exactly_ the cad you say he is. Part ueber-capitalist, part child molester assistance provider. He probably swims through his money bin like Scrooge McDuck. His palatial corporate "HQ" is the envy of many.
Sorta. From an operational perspective it represents an un-initialized state. If you don't write anything to a particular column, it's null. From a set-theory perspective it represents "nothing". which is something entirely different that a NULL reference, which in the context of programming languages is a discrete value? No. I'd say that NULL in a programming language is largely the same concept. Doesn't exist, nothing, etc. It's perhaps slightly more broad, since programming languages aren't just sets.
I couldn't agree more. The idea that we "shouldn't have models" is absurd. There's ALWAYS a model, it's just how our brains work. It may not be a formal model written down on paper, but it's still a model.
The problem comes when people either think the model is reality, or (as you point out) that they couldn't possibly be wrong. A false sense of security is always a liability.
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Only the extremely ill, old, young, and those with compromised immune systems will have a problem in more developed countries where antiviral medicine is available.
Wow. You have just far too much faith in the governments of the world, and medicine. First of all there's not enough antiviral flu medication for everyone if the virus spreads to a large percentage of the population (not to mention infra-structure to distribute all of it, care for everyone, etc). Secondly, the flu mutates like crazy. The virus can easily evolve into a strain that's resistant to the 4 drugs used against influenza. At that point being rich isn't going to save you.
Once upon a time, when power was distributed more to the state (you know, how the founders wanted it)
The founders fought like dogs amongst themselves over state/federal control, so there's no single "the founders" here.
Anyway, as far as the state having the legal authority to do this, I highly doubt it. States have long tried to bar things they don't like from entering the state. It used to be pornography, now it's gambling. If Utah can't stop Hustler from going through the mail system, I doubt Minnesota can order ISPs to block websites.
And how often do jet-liners fly around Manhattan at 1/2 the height of the WTC towers? You realise that is how low Air Force 1.2 was flying, right?
1/2 the height you say? I didn't realize that. The WTC towers were about 1400 feet. You're trying to tell me that this 747 was flying at 700 feet? Sorry, but I don't believe you. That would be incredibly dangerous. Please provide a reference for such an outrageous claim.
It's not that the model can't work it just that if it becomes successful you are pretty much guaranteed to lose control of it at some point.
The mistake you make is you keep trying to think of the model as "owning the software" rather than "employing smart people that make your product worth buying, and keeping those smart people happy". If you don't do both of those things, you fail.
The problem is they hang like a knife (or maybe that should be fork) over the company and if they are unfortunate enough to annoy the community they could eaisly lose control of their product.
Here's what I see from 10,000 feet after only knowing a little about MySQL and its history. (I don't use it, and if I want a free DB I use Postgresql).
I don't think they annoyed the community as you put it. I think what happened is the developer weren't kept happy, so they left. The project got derailed at that point and the product suffered. Closed source products have the same issues. They normally deal with this issue by trying to lock in users with proprietary interfaces, spreading FUD, etc. Basically stall until you can find people again to improve your product. That doesn't work as well with OSS.
As far as being crazy to open source your product.. well, it depends. If you're the top one or two guys in your market and aren't threatened by a Big Player.. you probably would be crazy to open source it. On the other hand if you're a small fish, or a Big Player is going to stomp you, it can make a lot of sense. In the end, it's not different than any other business decision. YMMV.
We're talking about at minimum infrared light. Or in other words -- we're talking about fiber optics, not cat5.
Except for the fact that:
1. Twisted pair ethernet uses electrical signal modulation, not photon modulation.
2. There are 4 pairs of wire in twisted pair ethernet cable.
3. The S/N ratio is a LOT higher than 1/1
Do not run higher speeds on lower standards, it works sometimes but often it "works" in that you get link but there's all kind of errors.
Like anything, it depends. Wiring standards are written for the worst case specification. i.e. the full 100 meter length with the minimum cable quality, and the minimum allowed errors. It's often the case that you can get by perfectly well running gigabit ethernet on plain-jane cat5 cable. I've certainly done it on short runs of say 30-40 feet and have had zero problems. The point being that being out of The Spec isn't as nearly a big deal as you make it out to be. YMMV.
Putting colonies in space will help to prevent the extermination of mankind due to a single cataclysmic event.
If your goal is prevent single cataclysmic events, it's be MUCH smarter to fund mapping all the asteroids, fund a lot of geology, and simply just general science. A lot of these kind of things are predictable. Given enough warning, asteroid collisions are completely avoidable. Thinking you'll get a large enough populace to live off-world for the purpose of preventing some unknown random cataclysm is a bit foolhardy. For one thing it does nothing for all the people on earth. How many people would REALLY want to fund a project to save "mankind", but wouldn't save themselves or their family?
As far as colonies, I assure you it'll happen just as soon as we find a way to make a living doing it (e.g. it shows a profit). It won't happen in any large scale a minute before that occurs. I'm sure we'll have some kind of scientific stations ala McMurdo Station in Antarctica, but that ain't a colony.
If you know even a tiny amount about the case, it actually was about commercial closed source software that violated the GPL. So if this is going to affect businesses opinions of software and risk, why is commercial software somehow immune from FUD?
It seems to me that open source software has LESS of a change of a license violation, for the very fact that anyone can look for anyone license violations. Closed source software is the one with the potential for all those scary skeletons in the closet. If you're to believe the Microsoft lawyer, I guess those closed source software operations should start shitting bricks.
why is it worded in such a way as to imply the different bacteria is the reason that one is obese and the other isn't, instead of the type of bacteria changed because being obese
IIRC there have been animal studies (mice I think) where changing the intestinal bacteria lead to changes in obesity. I don't have an article cite, but I read about it in Science News about a year ago. So it's not simply a correlation that supports this theory.
I mean, it's great to have someone available to handle that sort of thing, but can you really sustain a job with this as your only skill?
Are you kidding? I'm not a web designer, I'm a software developer. But I greatly value the people that know how to do good graphic design. I know very little about it, am not particularly talented at it, and have little interest in doing it myself. But it's definitely a skill in it's own right. A good designer knows a lot more than just some simple HTML. They understand how people visually look at a website, and often times have good insights into UI design. Suggesting that someone can't sustain a job "with this as your only skill" doesn't realize how much a difference a designer can make.
Is apple willing to pay the taxes on all that for you? Seriously that gotta be at least 13K in prizes for which the US gov will want ~ 50%.
There's no 50% tax bracket, and AFAIK there hasn't been one for a long time. The current top federal tax bracket is 35%. You have to make over 164,000 to get even into the 33% tax bracket. (There USED to be a 39% tax bracket, but our last president eliminated that. Then we ran up a huge deficit. No correlation between the two, of course)
I don't believe there's any extra tax on prizes, but I don't know for sure.
I found my information here:
http://www.moneychimp.com/features/tax_brackets.htm
Is there something I'm missing?
Maybe the part where you assume everyone knows the above?
Or how about the part where the submitter is asking about typical failure modes, not all possible failure modes?
And with USB booting available on almost everything these days, it's just a matter of walking up to it...
Which won't help you at all at getting your system back up and running without reinstalling the whole thing. Booting the OS up into SOMETHING isn't the problem. There's been a million different rescue CDs and Floppies for 20+ years.
I have several bulbs at home I've never really paid attention to the 'warm-up times' problem.
In my experience the warm up times can vary between bulbs. The ones I've seen are quite noticeable though. I'd say it might take 2 minutes or so before a bulb is at peak light output. I'd guesstimate the initial light output at 1/5th the peak.
but they do have to generate more than the "apparent" load to compensate the additional loss in transmission.
So what's the real number here? It sounds like calling it 28 watts is incredibly misleading. How much more energy does it take? 10%, 20%, 30%, what?
Dismissing using SSD because it's only cost effective for the boot partition is a mistake. Anyone who's put together servers before knows the boot partition is critical to the system, and the hardest part to backup. Once you get a system booted, there's a million things you can do to fix it or restore the relevant data. Getting it bootable if the boot partition is toast is much harder.
It's straightforward, to the point, and not so junked up with marketing S**T that you can't find what you want.
The other reason I think the simple design wins is simply because it's cheaper. Text is SMALL bandwidth and storage wise, easy to search, and doesn't require a lot of processing. The UI is simple, and really doesn't change much so do you don't need a team of programmers to support it. Craigslist has such a small operating cost, there's really no chance they'll go out of business.
I think the reason you don't see a lot of "me too" sites competing isn't because the UI is so great for the end user, it's really how could you possibly compete with a site as popular as craiglist? Some things tend to create natural monopolies because there's an advantage to everyone using one resource. Ebay is one of those kinds of things, craigslist is another. It's a feedback loop where both parties benefit.
Yet, it has never happened. It hasn't even come close to happening
Not exactly. It was shortly before my time, but the reports are that "the internet" had some significant problems.
I think you're right that it has to be hard enough for it to be too difficult for you average a-hole. The claim was that this might take a group of exceptional a-holes. The thing about a-holes is, they generally don't like other a-holes.
I thought we knew that combining these two theories resulted in answers we know to be nonsense. So the implication is one or both of them are wrong in some way. So I'm a little confused why we should trust results based on the combination of two theories that don't work together.
Granted I'm just a laymen, but does anyone else want to comment about the intersection of these two theories?
You might want to consider that 25,000 watts is about 34 horsepower. Not exactly a large amount of power.
I do feel sad for today's generation, I don't think they ever get the sense of the fantastic we experienced so often in the 60s and 70s from our space program.
Are you kidding? We only have two robots wandering around Mars for the past several years, a space telescope, multiple missions to other planets, comets, and a host of other missions I can't even list. You're trying to tell me that pales in comparison to what amounts to little more than a giant balloon in orbit? It seems to me it's easier for a 10 year old to get the sense of the fantastic than it is for a 50 year old.
(clap clap clap clap)
Thank you Sir, for pointing out these money grubbing craigslist scum to us. Craig Newmark is _exactly_ the cad you say he is. Part ueber-capitalist, part child molester assistance provider. He probably swims through his money bin like Scrooge McDuck. His palatial corporate "HQ" is the envy of many.
Because anything a NULL interacts with becomes a NULL. 1 + NULL is NULL, and so on. Which then is ultimately evaluated as false in a WHERE.
What I don't understand is why this is a legal expression. Why not simply return an error on trying to compile such a statement?
doesn't NULL in SQL represent "unknown",
Sorta. From an operational perspective it represents an un-initialized state. If you don't write anything to a particular column, it's null. From a set-theory perspective it represents "nothing".
which is something entirely different that a NULL reference, which in the context of programming languages is a discrete value?
No. I'd say that NULL in a programming language is largely the same concept. Doesn't exist, nothing, etc. It's perhaps slightly more broad, since programming languages aren't just sets.
I couldn't agree more. The idea that we "shouldn't have models" is absurd. There's ALWAYS a model, it's just how our brains work. It may not be a formal model written down on paper, but it's still a model.
The problem comes when people either think the model is reality, or (as you point out) that they couldn't possibly be wrong. A false sense of security is always a liability.