I sat in on one over a year ago. Thank heaven it was all technical people.
We ruled it out because of expense, IIRC. Looked like a really nice product, if you had big bucks to spend on a document management system (which is what we were after). I did not get the impression that it was any sort of replacement for a proper RDBMS--speed was acheived, from what I remember, by storing the data hierarchically. And not abstracting any relational features on top of that.
There was another product out of Canada called TextML that we looked at. Significantly less expensive, but at least as limited. And the company or product one had some sort of beef with certain portions of the XQuery rec that was in place at the time, so they refused to implement parts of it until it was done their way (ISTR it was full-text searching, but am not sure). I distinctly recall at least one very irritated reply from one of their folks about how they weren't going to implement it because it was a bad idea or something (time obscures details, sadly), which prompted some digging, from which it emerged that they had submitted an alternative proposal.
Anyway, they looked like nice solutions to storing and accessing XML documents, but a terrible solution for storing or retrieving data in XML, because they were both significantly geared toward text searching and CMS-type stuff. In the end, we used neither. Our need was not so pressing, and our budget was.
Ideally, we all have a moral obligation to uphold and to further positive moral values. Obviously, people disagree widely about these values, especially in the particulars. Furthermore, it ought be understood as a moral obligation, and not a legal one. Not because you can't legislate morality (in fact, we can, do, should, and must if law is to be meaningful), but because not all morality ought be legislated.
I realise that you're supposed to be editors, but I could do with less editorialising. At the very least, those strike me a semi-serious allegations, yet not one of them is substantiated, either in the editorial comment or in the provided links. That would have been appropriate.
but I'd imagine that's the sound of the two magnets being propelled into each other at glancing angles by the force of their magnetic fields. Over time, the magnets get closer and closer together at the peak of each bounce as the magnetic fields dampen the oscillations (um... the bouncing, I mean). Sort of like a spring system. As the magnets get closer together, they hit more frequently (since the force of magnetic attraction increases as they get closer -- if they were joined by a spring, it would get weaker, until the spring was being compressed instead of stretched), and some the frequency of the noise increases, raising the pitch, but reducing in volume, because they aren't hitting the same force as when they were initially farther apart.
You did notify Google and give them a reasonable period to time in which to respond, right? Because you've just shouted, in the loudest possible way, how to access all that data you're so worried about protecting.
Actually, I couldn't care. I just can't see inspiring any more ding-dongs who're convinced that buzzwords == skill and certifications == competence. Spare me the psychoanalysis: I would recommend against any field of study where his sole interest is a solid paycheck.
Compared to much of the programming I did in college, nearly all of the web programming I have done and currently do is trivial. It's just not that hard if you have a decent programming background to start with.
UI issues are infinitely trickier and require some pre-existing know-how in addition to user testing to sort out. Graphical issues aren't simply of matter of throwing images on the page, but even slashdot does include graphical design elements and images. It would do a 'budding web designer' who is already focused primarily on technology concerns some good to learn about the flipside of the subject. It is certainly the area in which I am weakest (and, natch, least read up).
then don't. Look into a different career, preferably one you enjoy or have some pre-existing aptitude.
If it genuinely does interest you and you have some programming background apready, start by picking up some graphic arts/design and UI design. The programming end of web work is usually relatively trivial.
Of course they would. Hell, of course I would love a large, chear flat panel display. My 17" inch monitor is old, kind of fuzzy, and does not respond well to large resolutions. My TV was put on the fritz by the TiVo (I think--it's one of those long, uninteresting stories, and involves no actual flaws in either device, AFAIK).
But, all the same, it's not some life-changing thing. I have computer monitor. I have a TV. My life will not be amazingly improved just because I can watch movies or TV on something the size my living room wall without going to a theater. There was an announcement about five years ago presaging a new form of computer memory to replace all our harddrives. It would be non-volatile, solid state and dense enough to fit a terabyte in something the size of a credit. *That* would get me excited.
If, over the span of one thousand years, you cannot put away enough to become financially independent you will have been doing something very, very wrongly. Provided that this sort of thing were available cheaply enough to be open to all comers (i.e. say that it could be done for a minimal fee once a year), anyway.
Otherwise, it seems likely that the earliest takers will be the upper classes.
I can't say I'm excited about the idea of functional immortality, but I don't think that working is likely to be a major concern.
Frnak L. Baum's body, which is undoubtedly spinning in his grave, can probably be utilised to generate a not insignificant amount of power. It won't be clean power, admittedly, owing to the generation of reels and reels of garbage film, but it ought to rather cleaner than, say, coal.
I'm pretty sure they get handled in software, which is very much the problem.
Something you maybe didn't notice:
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Review: Half-Life 2
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· Score: 4, Informative
The game still looks good in lower-detail modes.
The last game I played through was Tribes: Vengeance, which runs off the UT2K4 engine. Doesn't run well at all on my decrepit GeForce 3 until quite a few things are turned off, at which point, only the number of polygons is impressive: the textures are muddy, the light soures don't glow, etc, etc.
Half-Life 2 ran beautifully on the same hardware at the same resolution with only a couple of settings turned down (textures at Medium, water reflections on simple). There were times when I needed to turn things down a bit more (shaders caused me problems at various points), but it still looked fantastic.
While that's all well and good, that's neither a strict historical definition of the word (see 5a) nor a particularly revealing definition of the word in current usage, where the meaning is more closely along the lines of progressive (3).
I would surely like for the word to be reclaimed from the illiberal clutches of modern Liberalism. But it doesn't look likely any time soon. Better to call yourself libertarian, if that's your point of view.
That's nonsensical. If he didn't vote because he wasn't present, how can you assume that means he would've voted according the majority opinion? It's not like he abstained, he just wasn't there.
The National Journal article is up on their website, for what it's worth, as is a second article, apparently to clarify the first. Haven't read either one yet, too busy. A brief glance at the second suggests that his lifetime Senate voting record is a bit more flattering than the last couple year's. He still shows up as pretty liberal, but not quite so much. Moderate, he ain't.
Slashdot Mirror
Heh.
:)
I suppose I am suitably humbled, now.
You. Lose.
I sat in on one over a year ago. Thank heaven it was all technical people.
We ruled it out because of expense, IIRC. Looked like a really nice product, if you had big bucks to spend on a document management system (which is what we were after). I did not get the impression that it was any sort of replacement for a proper RDBMS--speed was acheived, from what I remember, by storing the data hierarchically. And not abstracting any relational features on top of that.
There was another product out of Canada called TextML that we looked at. Significantly less expensive, but at least as limited. And the company or product one had some sort of beef with certain portions of the XQuery rec that was in place at the time, so they refused to implement parts of it until it was done their way (ISTR it was full-text searching, but am not sure). I distinctly recall at least one very irritated reply from one of their folks about how they weren't going to implement it because it was a bad idea or something (time obscures details, sadly), which prompted some digging, from which it emerged that they had submitted an alternative proposal.
Anyway, they looked like nice solutions to storing and accessing XML documents, but a terrible solution for storing or retrieving data in XML, because they were both significantly geared toward text searching and CMS-type stuff. In the end, we used neither. Our need was not so pressing, and our budget was.
Ideally, we all have a moral obligation to uphold and to further positive moral values. Obviously, people disagree widely about these values, especially in the particulars. Furthermore, it ought be understood as a moral obligation, and not a legal one. Not because you can't legislate morality (in fact, we can, do, should, and must if law is to be meaningful), but because not all morality ought be legislated.
An MIT professor isn't a scientist?
I realise that you're supposed to be editors, but I could do with less editorialising. At the very least, those strike me a semi-serious allegations, yet not one of them is substantiated, either in the editorial comment or in the provided links. That would have been appropriate.
My alma mater shut off their news server a year or so ago. I have the strangest feeling the Usenet is finally dying its rather long-deserved death.
Like everyone else, though, I can't but view the removal of AOL from Usenet except with joy. I don't see how it could really hurt the old newsgroups.
Only 10K?
Good grief, I paid more than that in federal taxes alone last year, even accounting for the refund. Or do you mean after withholding?
but I'd imagine that's the sound of the two magnets being propelled into each other at glancing angles by the force of their magnetic fields. Over time, the magnets get closer and closer together at the peak of each bounce as the magnetic fields dampen the oscillations (um ... the bouncing, I mean). Sort of like a spring system. As the magnets get closer together, they hit more frequently (since the force of magnetic attraction increases as they get closer -- if they were joined by a spring, it would get weaker, until the spring was being compressed instead of stretched), and some the frequency of the noise increases, raising the pitch, but reducing in volume, because they aren't hitting the same force as when they were initially farther apart.
You did notify Google and give them a reasonable period to time in which to respond, right? Because you've just shouted, in the loudest possible way, how to access all that data you're so worried about protecting.
Actually, I couldn't care. I just can't see inspiring any more ding-dongs who're convinced that buzzwords == skill and certifications == competence. Spare me the psychoanalysis: I would recommend against any field of study where his sole interest is a solid paycheck.
But by all means, troll me some more.
Compared to much of the programming I did in college, nearly all of the web programming I have done and currently do is trivial. It's just not that hard if you have a decent programming background to start with.
UI issues are infinitely trickier and require some pre-existing know-how in addition to user testing to sort out. Graphical issues aren't simply of matter of throwing images on the page, but even slashdot does include graphical design elements and images. It would do a 'budding web designer' who is already focused primarily on technology concerns some good to learn about the flipside of the subject. It is certainly the area in which I am weakest (and, natch, least read up).
then don't. Look into a different career, preferably one you enjoy or have some pre-existing aptitude.
If it genuinely does interest you and you have some programming background apready, start by picking up some graphic arts/design and UI design. The programming end of web work is usually relatively trivial.
Somebody's bitter about shelling out for a phone with Bluetooth, I see.
Whoa, we better get cracking on that one right away.
Indeed! Lacking broadband, I have little recourse save sneakernet.
Of course they would. Hell, of course I would love a large, chear flat panel display. My 17" inch monitor is old, kind of fuzzy, and does not respond well to large resolutions. My TV was put on the fritz by the TiVo (I think--it's one of those long, uninteresting stories, and involves no actual flaws in either device, AFAIK).
But, all the same, it's not some life-changing thing. I have computer monitor. I have a TV. My life will not be amazingly improved just because I can watch movies or TV on something the size my living room wall without going to a theater. There was an announcement about five years ago presaging a new form of computer memory to replace all our harddrives. It would be non-volatile, solid state and dense enough to fit a terabyte in something the size of a credit. *That* would get me excited.
Bring stupidity into my living room with crystal clarity. I can't wait.
If, over the span of one thousand years, you cannot put away enough to become financially independent you will have been doing something very, very wrongly. Provided that this sort of thing were available cheaply enough to be open to all comers (i.e. say that it could be done for a minimal fee once a year), anyway.
Otherwise, it seems likely that the earliest takers will be the upper classes.
I can't say I'm excited about the idea of functional immortality, but I don't think that working is likely to be a major concern.
Frnak L. Baum's body, which is undoubtedly spinning in his grave, can probably be utilised to generate a not insignificant amount of power. It won't be clean power, admittedly, owing to the generation of reels and reels of garbage film, but it ought to rather cleaner than, say, coal.
I suspect you are only half right.
I'm pretty sure they get handled in software, which is very much the problem.
The game still looks good in lower-detail modes.
The last game I played through was Tribes: Vengeance, which runs off the UT2K4 engine. Doesn't run well at all on my decrepit GeForce 3 until quite a few things are turned off, at which point, only the number of polygons is impressive: the textures are muddy, the light soures don't glow, etc, etc.
Half-Life 2 ran beautifully on the same hardware at the same resolution with only a couple of settings turned down (textures at Medium, water reflections on simple). There were times when I needed to turn things down a bit more (shaders caused me problems at various points), but it still looked fantastic.
That's hardly the same thing, though, and makes comparisons with the NJ rankings kind of meaningless.
While that's all well and good, that's neither a strict historical definition of the word (see 5a) nor a particularly revealing definition of the word in current usage, where the meaning is more closely along the lines of progressive (3).
I would surely like for the word to be reclaimed from the illiberal clutches of modern Liberalism. But it doesn't look likely any time soon. Better to call yourself libertarian, if that's your point of view.
That's nonsensical. If he didn't vote because he wasn't present, how can you assume that means he would've voted according the majority opinion? It's not like he abstained, he just wasn't there.
The National Journal article is up on their website, for what it's worth, as is a second article, apparently to clarify the first. Haven't read either one yet, too busy. A brief glance at the second suggests that his lifetime Senate voting record is a bit more flattering than the last couple year's. He still shows up as pretty liberal, but not quite so much. Moderate, he ain't.
Think slowly?