I guess that the NSA counter would be stored that on the NSA SAN. Hmmmm, NSA is an anagram of SAN. A SAN is an anagram of NASA, the government is everywhere in this. Perhaps all SANS have a back door for the NSA, some sort of _NSAKEY. Hey, _NSAKEY is an anagram of SNAKEY, if you don't think that something that is snakey isn't evil, you have better review the history of Adam and Eve. Maybe all SANs are controlled by the NSA. I think we all need a personal Gauss box (aka tinfoil hat) to prevent the NSA from monitoring our brainwaves from the now ubiquitous SANs that surround us and that share their data with the NSA's master SAN.
like a bazooka. The blow back would prevent this from being shoulder fired. Still, this would be a cool support weapon to back up your Gauss rifle shock troops.
They can be found at http://accessibility.freestandards.org/a11yspecs/ia2/api/. From a quick look, it appears that the interfaces are under the GPL. Would this mean that any implementation that used these interfaces would have to be GPL? Surely you can't implement an interface without including the source code for the interface specification. For me, this would almost mean that any interface should be published under an MIT or BSD license, even if your want your implementation to be under a GPL. Then you would maximize sharing of the interface, while protecting your code that actually implements the interfaces. Am I missing something here?
If you are doing this by altering your SQL, it has nothing to do with column store. Column store means, as others have noted, that the physical memory is organized by columns, not rows. Writing clever SQL that mimics a 'pivot table' is not going to alter the internal structure of the data. As a practical matter, I would achieve a 'dual mode' database by using PostgreSQL for 'row store' and Vertica when I wanted 'column store'. Then I would at least be able to write portable SQL since they use the same PostgreSQL front end. Since the front end has the SQL parser, I would be able to move my work product from one DB to the other with a maximum likelihood of success (query optimization is another story, of course). In practice, this would mean that I use PostgreSQL for transaction processing and Vertica for analytics. Sybase also offers both sorts of databases, so that would also be an option. But SQL Server doesn't support column store, see the Wikipedia article on column oriented DBMS at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column-oriented_DBMS.
This is an IBM article aimed at getting Visual Studio developers to feel comfortable using Eclipse. IBM is a huge Eclipse supporter, they can be excused for not writing about Sun's NetBeans. I guess we can ask where the Sun articles are that try and get developers to try NetBeans.
Clipping occurs when you overdrive your speaker and it cannot have a response that is proportional to the applied signal. When a song is digitally compressed, you allow the medium & quiet parts to be louder. So, when you set the volume to listen to an 'average' passage, the loud parts are not all that much louder, so you actually have a lower chance of clipping. The applied signal has a much lower dynamic range, so its much easier for mediocre equipment to reproduce the signal. Its like photographing a gray goose on a cloudy day - with a limited dynamic range, its pretty easy to get a good exposure and even if you are off, you can still get useful results. But like a gray goose on a cloudy day, the limited dynamic range makes for uninteresting results.
Imagine that you suspect voter fraud. To be particular, lets say that you suspect that a voter impersonated a man who died on October 30. The impersonator cast a vote on November 3. If you have a list of who voted, you do have a paper trail that indicates fraud. You cannot go back and remove that vote, but you can investigate. If the investigation warrants prosecution, you can charge those who perpetrated the fraud.
This is a simple example that only changes one vote. Now assume that a lax county auditor purposefully allows dead
This is relevant to the integrity of the voting process.
I would tend to conclude that industrial age happened when it happened, but largely because of events in Europe. At that time the US happened to be Lassie-Faire. But this may only be a coincidence, there is a correlation but insisting upon the form of government in the US causing the Industrial Revolution seems like a weak argument. Stalinist Russia also experienced rapid economic growth and industrialization, but I would not be eager to argue that totalitarian Communism is a good way to advance an economy. (Although I guess I would argue that is is better than the Feudalism that preceded Communism.) Maoist China also enjoyed significant industrialization.
I think the parent comment makes sense and calling this a 'troll' us unfair. The consultant was not trying to stop the thieves from knowing what they had, he was covering his ass and hoping that this could just go away. If the correct tactic is to keep the information out of the press, then the police are the ones that should make the call.
Yesterday, I was the first on the scene to an accident. A kid (temporarily, I believe) lost vision in one eye when the air bag smacked him in the face. I think it was my duty to report everything that I did (check for injuries, make sure he was coherent, move some debris out of the road) to the police officers & ambulance crew. The police can decide was matters, they do this every day. I am a novice & my opinions as to what matters is inferior to their experience.
Windows Security is such a boring job, all you do is sit around watching the computers on the network run flawlessly. Look at the sad sack Maytag repairman in all those commercials and ask yourself, 'Is this how I want to end up?'
There is strong evidence that exposure to violence, even in a 'fantasy setting', desensitizes real people to violence. I don't care what anyone does to a movie or video character (fiction), but I do care if a violent game/move results in measurable increases in violence in the real world. As I understand the literature in the field (which is limited because I am not an expert in psychology/sociology/psychiatry ), these really are correlated and this correlation suggest that some movies/video games can be reasonably expected to result in harm to real people. I wish this wasn't true, but I am not so dogmatic as to ignore data that contradicts my prejudices. At the very least, there are two sides to this issue.
I do agree with you about news. Occasionally, there are news events that I feel should not be shown at times when children can reasonably be expected to be present. I did call the new office (you really can get through to network newsrooms on the phone) and complain bitterly when the morning news had a report that a certain cannibal preferred asparagus with severed penis. Parents should reasonably expect to allow children to watch news and I think this this sort of news story is almost completely salacious.
It may well be that this is cathartic for you, but experts that investigate the link find a positive correlation between exposure to TV violence and aggressive behavior. I'm not happy about that, but I think that we need to consider that our own unscientific opinions are not correct.
Even if you are right about most people finding this cathartic, we need to be concerned with statistically abnormal people. If we find that a non-zero fraction of the population will snap and resort to deadly violence, what should we do as a society? I certainly do not want to 'blame society' when an individual acts unethically. But, if we have reason to believe (for the sake of argument) 1 person in a million will snap and kill an average of 4 people, shouldn't we balance that risk of death against the value of the game? If being able to play games is worth a risk of 4 deaths per million, then we should allow games. If the will of society is that this small but quantifiable risk is not with the enjoyment of playing games, then it seems reasonable to ban games.
If we can significantly reduce the risk of violence by preventing children from playing the games, then adults can still enjoy the games. I don't know if you or the American Psychological Association is correct, but I don't understand the nearly reflexive action of slashdotters to condemn any attempt to prevent children from playing some truly disturbing games. I hope that you are right, but it doesn't seem like the evidence supports you.
I can respect your views on the classic Teleological argument. Establishing that something like Aristotle's Unmoved Mover is reasonable is completely different than accepting the Genesis story. What drives me nuts is when someone starts like this and two paragraphs latter they end up discussing The Flood and why the Universe, Earth, Man and Man's Rib aka Woman are no more than a few thousand year old. Since this is where the grandparent post seems to be headed, I want to understand how anyone can use Occam's Razor to argue for man being created around 6K BCE. The evidence for a much older Universe, planet and life seems overwhelming to me. The observed isotopic ratios point to material (with Z>2) being developed in super novae and then decaying over billions of years. It is fun to take models of super nova 'vomit' and let it decay over a few billion years using know nuclear decay rates because you suddenly start to understand why observed isotopic ratios are 'natural'. This seems like a pretty basic application of coupled first order differential equations. The differences in DNA sequences, along with observable error rates, leads to estimates of common ancestors that are often measured in millions of years. The underlying math is pretty similar to the isotopic abundances. A young universe would also require a completely new physical model of Cepheid variable stars - it seems quite unlikely to me that anyone can develop such a theory that is consistent with know physical laws.
So, even if I except the teleological argument, how does that move me toward some sort of ID where man was created by a perfect god who then allowed us, and our DNA, to decay after some original sin caused us to fall from grace? I understand that you did not make this claim directly. But you are supporting a parent post where this sort of claim seems implicit. If you want to support the later sort of ID, you need to come up with some way to reasonably explain the levels of lead found in uranium deposits, why carbon 14 is found in living organism but in decreasing amounts in dead remains and why genetic drift arguments, which work for known family trees, are incorrect when they find that 'Mitochondrial Eve' existed about 140,000 years ago. I don't care much about high precision, I want order of magnitude consistency with known physical law. ID is fine with me, if God is the Creator of Laws, where it is these laws that lead to the observed universe. If ID is used to defend the God of Genesis, then I am not on board.
I'm still pissed off that I had to be working at a DOE lab when F&P came out with the cold fusion crap. Several DOE labs had to spend millions of tax payer dollars investigating the nonsense. If the same school is still making claims about energy sources, lets just say that I am very skeptical. Yes, I do agree that my rant was unfair.
In the land of Cold Fusion, normal laws of physics don't seem to apply. This is only a problem when the rest of us try to replicate the results without access to divine intervention (e.g. from locations out of line of site of the Mormon Tabernacle)
The point is that they did try and it turns out that Word 2007 screws up the math, even if you save the results in Office 2003 formats. As it turns out, mathematics is the language of Science and Nature. So, while many of us can go thought life without ever writing a contour integral, most of us will never be published in Science or Nature either (the closest I got was Physical Review Letters). Unless you want to assure us that you can handle complex math expressions with you free patches, I would suggest that you have a bit more respect for the staff of Science and Nature. They are reacting to a observed problem. I'll bet you that they tried the free patches before they decided to warn scientists all over the world about submitting articles using Word 2007.
Lyx allows you to write TeX without having to learn all the funny commands. It's just like how you can use KOffice to write ODF documents or MS Office 2007 to write OOXML documents;-) There are other LaTeX front ends that allow you to generate documents without having to learn all the tags, but I like Lyx and its free.
This is interesting. We are looking at upgrading Office, and both Office 2007 and OpenOffice.org 2.2 are being considered. I had thought that Office 2007 would be able to use existing macros, but if this is not the case it could help tip the scales in favor of OO.o. After some study, it turns out that OO.o has templates that are more capable that Word (See thesis instructions from MIT or David Wheeler's blog. (Even if you don't want to write a thesis, they do represent a highly structured documents with stringent standards. This is something of an acid test for document formating.) The OO.o master documents are also a selling point, since dividing large written works into chapters is a time-honored approach to collaboration. If MSO 2007 doesn't import existing macros better than OO.o, its going to be harder for management to justify the considerable upgrade costs.
"Bring 'em on!" G.W. Bush
And that one is working out so well...
Anyone inclined to so 'So sue me' to a company nicknamed M$ or 'Bring it on!' to religious Zealots might be better off recalling Teddy Roosevelt's famous quote, "Speak softly and carry a big stick".
This meme that the French don't work is nonsense spread by the fools of Fox and their ilk. The French work, they just balance it with other goals. There are some people that might choose to sit on their asses, but they are a small minority. Most are holding down a job, seeing that their kids learn (with extra tutors), buying and selling homes and getting on with life. Besides, I think it would be great if the people that really are content not to work don't show up in my work place. I can get a lot more done if they stay away from my place of work. I worked at a French research reactor and it was a wonderful time. They even served beer and wine with lunch, but I didn't see anyone getting drunk - they all had enough self control to handle alcohol. That is one thing that I miss about living in France - I actually think that people accept more personal responsibility than in the land of 'screw you, I've got mine'. The other things are food because they take responsibility to prepare it well and the dinner conversation, because they really are better conversationalists.
Back to the health care costs, why do we not admit that we spend about 1.5-2 times the cost per capita as the Western Europeans for a demonstrably inferior system. In France, on the few occasions that I went to a doctor, I went into the waiting room wrote my name down and waited a few minutes. The doctor came out, look around to see if anyone had a special need and then called the next name on the list. Because the French were civil, the doctor didn't need any staff to oversee the waiting room. Since all he had to do was write down each person's card number, the paperwork that he provided to the state was very simple to fill out. He didn't need to hire staff to fill out papers for every insurance company. I got to be examined by a doctor - in the US, you have to deal with two clerks, you talk to a nurse and the doctor sees you long enough to read the nurse's observations and figure out if he will prescribe a drug from the company that gave him a free lunches or a free vacation. For further cost cutting, the French doctor used instruments of glass and stainless steel, not disposable plastic. Apparently, French doctors are capable of using autoclaves so they don't have to dispose of everything that touches a patient. By the way, if you think that disposable plastic is more sanitary, I think that the evidence is that US hospitals were more sanitary before antibiotics because that was the only defense against bacterial infection. They didn't use disposable everything in the 30's, they used glass, stainless and autoclaves.
On one occasion, I was in a bank when there was a false alarm. In contrast with the US, the doors of the bank locked and a ear splitting siren went off. The police showed up within about two minutes with automatic weapons. They were all physically fit, but the way. Compared with the US, this is a pretty hard ass response to bank robbery. The robber is trapped, but everyone in the bank is a de facto hostage. There is no negotiation because you can't even talk. They just come in hard and you had better be smart enough to stay on the floor.
The French are not a nation of weak, lazy people that can only survive because of government largess.
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I guess that the NSA counter would be stored that on the NSA SAN. Hmmmm, NSA is an anagram of SAN. A SAN is an anagram of NASA, the government is everywhere in this. Perhaps all SANS have a back door for the NSA, some sort of _NSAKEY. Hey, _NSAKEY is an anagram of SNAKEY, if you don't think that something that is snakey isn't evil, you have better review the history of Adam and Eve. Maybe all SANs are controlled by the NSA. I think we all need a personal Gauss box (aka tinfoil hat) to prevent the NSA from monitoring our brainwaves from the now ubiquitous SANs that surround us and that share their data with the NSA's master SAN.
like a bazooka. The blow back would prevent this from being shoulder fired. Still, this would be a cool support weapon to back up your Gauss rifle shock troops.
They can be found at http://accessibility.freestandards.org/a11yspecs/ia2/api/. From a quick look, it appears that the interfaces are under the GPL. Would this mean that any implementation that used these interfaces would have to be GPL? Surely you can't implement an interface without including the source code for the interface specification. For me, this would almost mean that any interface should be published under an MIT or BSD license, even if your want your implementation to be under a GPL. Then you would maximize sharing of the interface, while protecting your code that actually implements the interfaces. Am I missing something here?
If you copyright your Mantra, it could be your business model. Figuring out how to profit could be problem, but it wouldn't be my problem :-)
If you are doing this by altering your SQL, it has nothing to do with column store. Column store means, as others have noted, that the physical memory is organized by columns, not rows. Writing clever SQL that mimics a 'pivot table' is not going to alter the internal structure of the data. As a practical matter, I would achieve a 'dual mode' database by using PostgreSQL for 'row store' and Vertica when I wanted 'column store'. Then I would at least be able to write portable SQL since they use the same PostgreSQL front end. Since the front end has the SQL parser, I would be able to move my work product from one DB to the other with a maximum likelihood of success (query optimization is another story, of course). In practice, this would mean that I use PostgreSQL for transaction processing and Vertica for analytics. Sybase also offers both sorts of databases, so that would also be an option. But SQL Server doesn't support column store, see the Wikipedia article on column oriented DBMS at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column-oriented_DBMS.
This is an IBM article aimed at getting Visual Studio developers to feel comfortable using Eclipse. IBM is a huge Eclipse supporter, they can be excused for not writing about Sun's NetBeans. I guess we can ask where the Sun articles are that try and get developers to try NetBeans.
Clipping occurs when you overdrive your speaker and it cannot have a response that is proportional to the applied signal. When a song is digitally compressed, you allow the medium & quiet parts to be louder. So, when you set the volume to listen to an 'average' passage, the loud parts are not all that much louder, so you actually have a lower chance of clipping. The applied signal has a much lower dynamic range, so its much easier for mediocre equipment to reproduce the signal. Its like photographing a gray goose on a cloudy day - with a limited dynamic range, its pretty easy to get a good exposure and even if you are off, you can still get useful results. But like a gray goose on a cloudy day, the limited dynamic range makes for uninteresting results.
Imagine that you suspect voter fraud. To be particular, lets say that you suspect that a voter impersonated a man who died on October 30. The impersonator cast a vote on November 3. If you have a list of who voted, you do have a paper trail that indicates fraud. You cannot go back and remove that vote, but you can investigate. If the investigation warrants prosecution, you can charge those who perpetrated the fraud. This is a simple example that only changes one vote. Now assume that a lax county auditor purposefully allows dead This is relevant to the integrity of the voting process.
a flagrant flag rant.
I would tend to conclude that industrial age happened when it happened, but largely because of events in Europe. At that time the US happened to be Lassie-Faire. But this may only be a coincidence, there is a correlation but insisting upon the form of government in the US causing the Industrial Revolution seems like a weak argument. Stalinist Russia also experienced rapid economic growth and industrialization, but I would not be eager to argue that totalitarian Communism is a good way to advance an economy. (Although I guess I would argue that is is better than the Feudalism that preceded Communism.) Maoist China also enjoyed significant industrialization.
First, China is the most populous country in the world. Second, Japan, Korea and Vietnam also use Chinese characters.
I think the parent comment makes sense and calling this a 'troll' us unfair. The consultant was not trying to stop the thieves from knowing what they had, he was covering his ass and hoping that this could just go away. If the correct tactic is to keep the information out of the press, then the police are the ones that should make the call.
Yesterday, I was the first on the scene to an accident. A kid (temporarily, I believe) lost vision in one eye when the air bag smacked him in the face. I think it was my duty to report everything that I did (check for injuries, make sure he was coherent, move some debris out of the road) to the police officers & ambulance crew. The police can decide was matters, they do this every day. I am a novice & my opinions as to what matters is inferior to their experience.
I'm glad someone else was thinking this too.
Windows Security is such a boring job, all you do is sit around watching the computers on the network run flawlessly. Look at the sad sack Maytag repairman in all those commercials and ask yourself, 'Is this how I want to end up?'
I do agree with you about news. Occasionally, there are news events that I feel should not be shown at times when children can reasonably be expected to be present. I did call the new office (you really can get through to network newsrooms on the phone) and complain bitterly when the morning news had a report that a certain cannibal preferred asparagus with severed penis. Parents should reasonably expect to allow children to watch news and I think this this sort of news story is almost completely salacious.
Even if you are right about most people finding this cathartic, we need to be concerned with statistically abnormal people. If we find that a non-zero fraction of the population will snap and resort to deadly violence, what should we do as a society? I certainly do not want to 'blame society' when an individual acts unethically. But, if we have reason to believe (for the sake of argument) 1 person in a million will snap and kill an average of 4 people, shouldn't we balance that risk of death against the value of the game? If being able to play games is worth a risk of 4 deaths per million, then we should allow games. If the will of society is that this small but quantifiable risk is not with the enjoyment of playing games, then it seems reasonable to ban games.
If we can significantly reduce the risk of violence by preventing children from playing the games, then adults can still enjoy the games. I don't know if you or the American Psychological Association is correct, but I don't understand the nearly reflexive action of slashdotters to condemn any attempt to prevent children from playing some truly disturbing games. I hope that you are right, but it doesn't seem like the evidence supports you.
I can respect your views on the classic Teleological argument. Establishing that something like Aristotle's Unmoved Mover is reasonable is completely different than accepting the Genesis story. What drives me nuts is when someone starts like this and two paragraphs latter they end up discussing The Flood and why the Universe, Earth, Man and Man's Rib aka Woman are no more than a few thousand year old. Since this is where the grandparent post seems to be headed, I want to understand how anyone can use Occam's Razor to argue for man being created around 6K BCE. The evidence for a much older Universe, planet and life seems overwhelming to me. The observed isotopic ratios point to material (with Z>2) being developed in super novae and then decaying over billions of years. It is fun to take models of super nova 'vomit' and let it decay over a few billion years using know nuclear decay rates because you suddenly start to understand why observed isotopic ratios are 'natural'. This seems like a pretty basic application of coupled first order differential equations. The differences in DNA sequences, along with observable error rates, leads to estimates of common ancestors that are often measured in millions of years. The underlying math is pretty similar to the isotopic abundances. A young universe would also require a completely new physical model of Cepheid variable stars - it seems quite unlikely to me that anyone can develop such a theory that is consistent with know physical laws.
So, even if I except the teleological argument, how does that move me toward some sort of ID where man was created by a perfect god who then allowed us, and our DNA, to decay after some original sin caused us to fall from grace? I understand that you did not make this claim directly. But you are supporting a parent post where this sort of claim seems implicit. If you want to support the later sort of ID, you need to come up with some way to reasonably explain the levels of lead found in uranium deposits, why carbon 14 is found in living organism but in decreasing amounts in dead remains and why genetic drift arguments, which work for known family trees, are incorrect when they find that 'Mitochondrial Eve' existed about 140,000 years ago. I don't care much about high precision, I want order of magnitude consistency with known physical law. ID is fine with me, if God is the Creator of Laws, where it is these laws that lead to the observed universe. If ID is used to defend the God of Genesis, then I am not on board.
I'm still pissed off that I had to be working at a DOE lab when F&P came out with the cold fusion crap. Several DOE labs had to spend millions of tax payer dollars investigating the nonsense. If the same school is still making claims about energy sources, lets just say that I am very skeptical. Yes, I do agree that my rant was unfair.
In the land of Cold Fusion, normal laws of physics don't seem to apply. This is only a problem when the rest of us try to replicate the results without access to divine intervention (e.g. from locations out of line of site of the Mormon Tabernacle)
The point is that they did try and it turns out that Word 2007 screws up the math, even if you save the results in Office 2003 formats. As it turns out, mathematics is the language of Science and Nature. So, while many of us can go thought life without ever writing a contour integral, most of us will never be published in Science or Nature either (the closest I got was Physical Review Letters). Unless you want to assure us that you can handle complex math expressions with you free patches, I would suggest that you have a bit more respect for the staff of Science and Nature. They are reacting to a observed problem. I'll bet you that they tried the free patches before they decided to warn scientists all over the world about submitting articles using Word 2007.
Lyx allows you to write TeX without having to learn all the funny commands. It's just like how you can use KOffice to write ODF documents or MS Office 2007 to write OOXML documents ;-) There are other LaTeX front ends that allow you to generate documents without having to learn all the tags, but I like Lyx and its free.
This is interesting. We are looking at upgrading Office, and both Office 2007 and OpenOffice.org 2.2 are being considered. I had thought that Office 2007 would be able to use existing macros, but if this is not the case it could help tip the scales in favor of OO.o. After some study, it turns out that OO.o has templates that are more capable that Word (See thesis instructions from MIT or David Wheeler's blog. (Even if you don't want to write a thesis, they do represent a highly structured documents with stringent standards. This is something of an acid test for document formating.) The OO.o master documents are also a selling point, since dividing large written works into chapters is a time-honored approach to collaboration. If MSO 2007 doesn't import existing macros better than OO.o, its going to be harder for management to justify the considerable upgrade costs.
And that one is working out so well...
Anyone inclined to so 'So sue me' to a company nicknamed M$ or 'Bring it on!' to religious Zealots might be better off recalling Teddy Roosevelt's famous quote, "Speak softly and carry a big stick".
Back to the health care costs, why do we not admit that we spend about 1.5-2 times the cost per capita as the Western Europeans for a demonstrably inferior system. In France, on the few occasions that I went to a doctor, I went into the waiting room wrote my name down and waited a few minutes. The doctor came out, look around to see if anyone had a special need and then called the next name on the list. Because the French were civil, the doctor didn't need any staff to oversee the waiting room. Since all he had to do was write down each person's card number, the paperwork that he provided to the state was very simple to fill out. He didn't need to hire staff to fill out papers for every insurance company. I got to be examined by a doctor - in the US, you have to deal with two clerks, you talk to a nurse and the doctor sees you long enough to read the nurse's observations and figure out if he will prescribe a drug from the company that gave him a free lunches or a free vacation. For further cost cutting, the French doctor used instruments of glass and stainless steel, not disposable plastic. Apparently, French doctors are capable of using autoclaves so they don't have to dispose of everything that touches a patient. By the way, if you think that disposable plastic is more sanitary, I think that the evidence is that US hospitals were more sanitary before antibiotics because that was the only defense against bacterial infection. They didn't use disposable everything in the 30's, they used glass, stainless and autoclaves.
On one occasion, I was in a bank when there was a false alarm. In contrast with the US, the doors of the bank locked and a ear splitting siren went off. The police showed up within about two minutes with automatic weapons. They were all physically fit, but the way. Compared with the US, this is a pretty hard ass response to bank robbery. The robber is trapped, but everyone in the bank is a de facto hostage. There is no negotiation because you can't even talk. They just come in hard and you had better be smart enough to stay on the floor.
The French are not a nation of weak, lazy people that can only survive because of government largess.