Installing third party software on your phone affects you in a positive way, and doesn't make much difference to anyone else; cheating in an online game affects other people, giving you more than you paid for at the expense of others who get less.
I can't (easily) migrate a couple tables at a time from mysql to pg because that would make joins difficult to impossible across the two DBMS, correct?
Funnily enough, postgres does actually support foreign tables with mysql as a backend.
For the few migrations I've done. I've found custom scripts to be the easiest way of getting good results -- you're unlikely to find an automated tool that will look at your VARCHAR(15) column and realise that it should be translated into postgres' native "IP address" data type, or that your column of integers represents a number of seconds so it should really be an "interval" type, or that the "lat" and "lon" columns should be combined as a "2D point" so that you can take advantage of all the geometry & geography manipulation functions, etc etc.
In general I've found moving from mysql to postgres to be similar to moving from unstructured text files to mysql -- it can be a lot of effort to massage everything into place in a better defined structure, but your data will thank you:-)
I'm using postgres in what I'd consider an agile way -- I guess if you were typing SQL by hand then its strictness might hold you back (it also ensures that your data is valid, which I consider a worthwhile tradeoff), but we've been using an ORM to handle those sorts of details for us.
I've always spoken "1st September, 1990", as has everyone I know o_O I think the only exception is "September 11th", but that's when people are referring to the event and not the date
I graduated a couple of years ago, and of the class of ~300 there were only ~10 who really seemed to know what they were doing -- people were reaching the final year of the Java-based course without knowing the difference between classes and objects, for example; and the university was dropping the "hard" modules like "how compilers / interpreters work" in favour of more "hello world in PHP":-(
I'm *really* glad that I got lazy with the course, and spent my time writing my own code -- having a portfolio with a wide variety of open source projects has done more for my employability than anything else
As much as I think I agree with your sentiment, the simple fact is that the dictionary disagrees with you -- having a long, public process is pretty much the exact opposite of "to murder (a usually prominent person) by a sudden and/or secret attack"
I have a friend who used this method with his students, and found it very successful, but some advice by proxy -- if you're going to do something like making a cup of tea with real boiling water, do it at a desk where no students are sat...
(Though to be fair, the student in question did learn the difference between "pour the water out of the kettle" and "slowly pour the water out of the kettle and into the cup, stopping when the cup is nearly full")
Rather than all that effort spent researching the guy to complain about him, could you not just have read the article and discovered that the slashdot summary was (as ever) out of context flamebaiting?:-P
Is this one of those times that the mods are modding a comment "insightful" because "funny" doesn't give a karma bonus? I hope it is...
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I spotted the same thing and giggled, then seeing this on slashdot 24 hours later seemed a weird enough coincidence to mention -- unfortunately I lack mod points right now, so I shall just chime in by seconding your question:-)
I presume that you don't know what P2P actually means, and you just think that it's a synonym for file sharing? It isn't - it means "peer to peer", ie, two approximate equals communicating in some way. P2P file sharing is when multiple computers communicate to share a file, and this alarm service is people communicating to get each other out of bed. As examples of non-P2P alarms, consider the standard alarm device, a watch, or as somebody pointed out, a PBX. These do approximately the same thing, but are one-way (they wake you up), and there's no way to return the favour.
The obvious answer is "space travel is hard" - but then I wonder, what are the possibilities of a zerg / tyranid style race existing? I would love for some biologists / physicists to chip in, but until they do, my own thoughts are that it would be really hard for a planet to sustain life with practically no gravity, and an animal wouldn't be able to jump out of orbit if gravity was anything significant; and then on the landing side, any planet that could sustain life would need some sort of atmosphere, so the creatures would most likely burn up -- I can't see it being possible for a creature to evolve on a planet, and then be able to withstand both the extreme cold of space and the extreme heat of re-entry...
IIRC Episodes 1, 2, and 3 were originally going to be bundled as Half Life 3 -- the fact that we now have "Game #1: Half Life 1", "Game #2: Half Life 2" and "Game #3: Half Life 2" (in 3 parts) was a bit of a marketing cock-up, and it's still up for debate as to whether Game #4 will be called Half Life 3, or they'll rename the episodes to be HL3 and call game #4 HL4.
The (supposed) problem is that games are painting themselves into a corner where there's no room for fun - and so people are complaining seriously for a bit, because they don't want their relaxing fun time to be spoiled forever
X somehow just has to be replaced by Wayland, perhaps for the same reason PulseAudio just had to replace Alsa
This is an interesting comparison; I see one as a step forward and one as a step back -- X and Pulse are relatively complicated, but massively flexible and useful, and network transparency is a core design idea that makes several other normally impossible things simple; Wayland and Alsa are smaller and simpler, and work in the 99% of common cases -- but it's the 1% of special cases that really make linux stand out for me.
(Tangentially, I might even say that Pulse is better than X - with pulse, one can change output devices on the fly, where X apps need to be stopped and restarted when you move between thin clients - IIRC there was some work to keep them running locally, but I never saw that actually work...)
it's only been about 70 years in the US since large scale migration off the farms to cities
In the US maybe; in Britain the first machines started replacing farmers around 1700, and by 1800 the farm workers were rioting because they couldn't compete when it came to manual labour. Not sure if that's directly related to large scale migration per se, but I was talking about jobs rather than living locations~
You free market types... faith that your philosophy is right
I'm not sure why you're making this personal; I don't really have an opinion either way, I'm just quoting the history books
in uncharted territory, sure that what we did for the last 70 years will just keep on happening, even though you have no idea doing what
If you actually want my personal opinion, I'd say that we haven't been in charted territory since the middle ages; and I'm sure that the world will keep changing in unexpected ways, but we'll find some way to adapt (or we'll die, and in a few billion years some other species will take over, but I consider that far less likely)
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I'm amazed at how hateful and petty people are towards Mozilla over this. Google gets a pass though
Google don't break compatibility with every release
Installing third party software on your phone affects you in a positive way, and doesn't make much difference to anyone else; cheating in an online game affects other people, giving you more than you paid for at the expense of others who get less.
I can't (easily) migrate a couple tables at a time from mysql to pg because that would make joins difficult to impossible across the two DBMS, correct?
Funnily enough, postgres does actually support foreign tables with mysql as a backend.
For the few migrations I've done. I've found custom scripts to be the easiest way of getting good results -- you're unlikely to find an automated tool that will look at your VARCHAR(15) column and realise that it should be translated into postgres' native "IP address" data type, or that your column of integers represents a number of seconds so it should really be an "interval" type, or that the "lat" and "lon" columns should be combined as a "2D point" so that you can take advantage of all the geometry & geography manipulation functions, etc etc.
In general I've found moving from mysql to postgres to be similar to moving from unstructured text files to mysql -- it can be a lot of effort to massage everything into place in a better defined structure, but your data will thank you :-)
I'm using postgres in what I'd consider an agile way -- I guess if you were typing SQL by hand then its strictness might hold you back (it also ensures that your data is valid, which I consider a worthwhile tradeoff), but we've been using an ORM to handle those sorts of details for us.
It's a solution that only works in a very limited number of cases, but when it does, the results are beautiful
it requires a fair amount of logical and critical thinking skills that public schools don't really cater to
This is public schools catering to logic and thinking, and it is a good thing there's finally something attempting to fill the gap
As a demonstration of postgres' spatial abilities, check out OpenStreetMap and the various sub-projects
I've always spoken "1st September, 1990", as has everyone I know o_O I think the only exception is "September 11th", but that's when people are referring to the event and not the date
nor is it needed until we start covering the walls of our homes with screens.
Or we could have a 12" monitor with a decent DPI
I graduated a couple of years ago, and of the class of ~300 there were only ~10 who really seemed to know what they were doing -- people were reaching the final year of the Java-based course without knowing the difference between classes and objects, for example; and the university was dropping the "hard" modules like "how compilers / interpreters work" in favour of more "hello world in PHP" :-(
I'm *really* glad that I got lazy with the course, and spent my time writing my own code -- having a portfolio with a wide variety of open source projects has done more for my employability than anything else
a leaked internal memo [...] public statements prohibited
Is anybody else not seeing why this is a problem?
As much as I think I agree with your sentiment, the simple fact is that the dictionary disagrees with you -- having a long, public process is pretty much the exact opposite of "to murder (a usually prominent person) by a sudden and/or secret attack"
I have a friend who used this method with his students, and found it very successful, but some advice by proxy -- if you're going to do something like making a cup of tea with real boiling water, do it at a desk where no students are sat...
(Though to be fair, the student in question did learn the difference between "pour the water out of the kettle" and "slowly pour the water out of the kettle and into the cup, stopping when the cup is nearly full")
Rather than all that effort spent researching the guy to complain about him, could you not just have read the article and discovered that the slashdot summary was (as ever) out of context flamebaiting? :-P
wouldn't be surprising if all software is made available as an ISO on a USB drive which can be read by tablet and PC alike
Why not just put the files on the USB drive? :-|
(I appreciate that this line could have been a joke, but I can imagine people actually doing it...)
Is this one of those times that the mods are modding a comment "insightful" because "funny" doesn't give a karma bonus? I hope it is...
I spotted the same thing and giggled, then seeing this on slashdot 24 hours later seemed a weird enough coincidence to mention -- unfortunately I lack mod points right now, so I shall just chime in by seconding your question :-)
I presume that you don't know what P2P actually means, and you just think that it's a synonym for file sharing? It isn't - it means "peer to peer", ie, two approximate equals communicating in some way. P2P file sharing is when multiple computers communicate to share a file, and this alarm service is people communicating to get each other out of bed. As examples of non-P2P alarms, consider the standard alarm device, a watch, or as somebody pointed out, a PBX. These do approximately the same thing, but are one-way (they wake you up), and there's no way to return the favour.
The obvious answer is "space travel is hard" - but then I wonder, what are the possibilities of a zerg / tyranid style race existing? I would love for some biologists / physicists to chip in, but until they do, my own thoughts are that it would be really hard for a planet to sustain life with practically no gravity, and an animal wouldn't be able to jump out of orbit if gravity was anything significant; and then on the landing side, any planet that could sustain life would need some sort of atmosphere, so the creatures would most likely burn up -- I can't see it being possible for a creature to evolve on a planet, and then be able to withstand both the extreme cold of space and the extreme heat of re-entry...
IIRC Episodes 1, 2, and 3 were originally going to be bundled as Half Life 3 -- the fact that we now have "Game #1: Half Life 1", "Game #2: Half Life 2" and "Game #3: Half Life 2" (in 3 parts) was a bit of a marketing cock-up, and it's still up for debate as to whether Game #4 will be called Half Life 3, or they'll rename the episodes to be HL3 and call game #4 HL4.
The (supposed) problem is that games are painting themselves into a corner where there's no room for fun - and so people are complaining seriously for a bit, because they don't want their relaxing fun time to be spoiled forever
non-computer-geeks don't know jack shit about Linux
They don't know jack shit about windows either; but if there's a desktop shortcut for The Internet, they'll be fine :-P
X somehow just has to be replaced by Wayland, perhaps for the same reason PulseAudio just had to replace Alsa
This is an interesting comparison; I see one as a step forward and one as a step back -- X and Pulse are relatively complicated, but massively flexible and useful, and network transparency is a core design idea that makes several other normally impossible things simple; Wayland and Alsa are smaller and simpler, and work in the 99% of common cases -- but it's the 1% of special cases that really make linux stand out for me.
(Tangentially, I might even say that Pulse is better than X - with pulse, one can change output devices on the fly, where X apps need to be stopped and restarted when you move between thin clients - IIRC there was some work to keep them running locally, but I never saw that actually work...)
just like any other mundane post-apocalyptic FPS game, but wait you can play cards now
You could play cards in Fallout: New Vegas already :-P
it's only been about 70 years in the US since large scale migration off the farms to cities
In the US maybe; in Britain the first machines started replacing farmers around 1700, and by 1800 the farm workers were rioting because they couldn't compete when it came to manual labour. Not sure if that's directly related to large scale migration per se, but I was talking about jobs rather than living locations~
You free market types ... faith that your philosophy is right
I'm not sure why you're making this personal; I don't really have an opinion either way, I'm just quoting the history books
in uncharted territory, sure that what we did for the last 70 years will just keep on happening, even though you have no idea doing what
If you actually want my personal opinion, I'd say that we haven't been in charted territory since the middle ages; and I'm sure that the world will keep changing in unexpected ways, but we'll find some way to adapt (or we'll die, and in a few billion years some other species will take over, but I consider that far less likely)