Well, what I said is its still not working in a production release.
I cant ship solutions to clients that have major components labelled "beta" or "release candidate", even if it's bug-free and rock solid.
I've played with them though, as it stands subselect support is horrendously slow, at least in my tests. I probably have to rebuild it with a bunch of options and other database types to get it to work.
How is this different from the FBI or local PD keeping an eye on when I leave for work, my salary history, and my career development?
The students are minors.
Here's a secret though.. DONT TELL ANYONE!
Schools have kept records of this exact same stuff for decades. This newspaper article is a fluff piece, probably some new school board member got elected and wants to blow his horn on their new computer.
But the notion of noticing a students grades or attendance suddenly dropped, and asking them whats wrong, well... that's happened before! EVEN WITHOUT COMPUTERS!
I cant believe this type of crap gets posted on slashdot. I mean seriously. Can they not tell when they're reading a small town PR piece?
This just in! School keeping track of students grades! Film at eleven.
I just see a bug in his ass making a big issue and wasting time and taxpayer dollars to make some silly point that noone in the world really gives a shit about.
It's like when idiots sue the mayor for dressing up like santa on government property, or sue a high school for having an easter parade.
They may have some technically correct point, but are basically blowing shit way out of proportion to secure themselves a little bit of fame with their peers.
but this really is an important little interchange because later on in court you need to be able to say "i asked the company if they would sell me a copy of WinXP for $10 but they declined."
It's an OEM license, not retail. It cant be sold or transferred on it's own. You cant buy 10 licenses for 100 bucks, but you could buy 10 PCs with 10 copies of windows, and 100 bucks of the total price would have gone to licenses. If you did want licenses for 10 bucks a pop, you'd have to talk to MS's sales dept, and place an order for a few hundered thousand of 'em.
10 bucks for the OEM licenses sounds about right, actually.
An OEM copy of Windows XP Pro is not worth 199. It's 99 bucks everywhere online (with purchase of hardware). No doubt in bulk it's vastly cheaper.
So linux zealots think they're stickin' it to the man, but they're really screwing the vendors. Who will no doubt make sure the price of everything that ships with windows is instantly jacked up 200 bucks to cover their losses when they're flooded with refund demands.
It encrypts your data on the fly. Take the key away, now noone can mount/dev/porn.
Anything that restricts access to any data is DRM. That's why the slashbot reaction to the term is so moronic. Slashdot has DRM in the form of usernames and passwords, so I cant post as Perens or Carmack, and to make sure only subscribers get to see articles when first posted. A zip file with a password is "drm".
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I agree with you, but it's a hell of a marketing strategy.
Theres some sort of deal with "kids today", it was true even when I was in school. Intelligence and hard work is shunned. It makes you a nerd, or a geek. Ask any 15 year old girl what the square root of four is and she'll giggle and go "i dont know math!". She probably knows, but it's not cool to know math, so the act is that they dont. This drives me nuts, the "im pretending to be dumb because it's not cool to be smart" act.
Such with the dummies and idiots and morons books. You wouldnt want to be caught walking out of a bookstore with a copy of "Advanced Solaris 9 Setup and Maintainance". You'd look like a geek, a nerd.
But a "for dummies" book under your arm broadcasts the message that you dont know, and dont care about the subject, because you're just too cool.
I really cant stand the way ignorance and stupidity is glorified in western cultures. It's not an american thing, since I'm canadian and have lived in the UK - it seems to be a white thing.
We make heroes out of the stupidest people alive and hold them up as role models for our kids. The guy from "Dude wheres my car" is just supposed to be what every teenager wants to be. A fucking idiot who's barely functional.
Conflict resolutions and namespace collisions will ultimately make this the final revision of the language before it dies a slow death.
Execution will be drastically slowed with the new subroutine semantics, and interoperability with other components will get harder and harder.
Re:DMCA is already taking bite
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Actually, that's not quite what's happening.
ISDA spiders are trolling around and seeing a ftp/web site with "video game" in the text and offering files like pacman.zip and streetfighter2.zip for download.
C&D notices are automatically being sent, none of it has to do with the DMCA, but with regular old copyright law, since the ISDA assumes the games are being put up for download.
Whatshisface (who had the big manual site and shut it down) just couldnt be bothered to explain to anyone at the ISDA what files are.
I dont think any manufacturer really gives a shit about people collecting/trading/photocopying the service and operation manuals, or even schematics for out of production machines.
If an archeologist today can decipher egyptian hieroglyphs and decipher ancient pictorial languages, an archaeologist of tomorrow can figure out ascii.
It's not like every ascii character chart will magically dissappear.
You pay a levee, which is not a tax, and not in any way a license to copy music.
A levee is the governments way of agreeing with the RIAA (whatever the canadian version is called).
The government has basically said "yes, people are being robbed - so everyone should repay them"
It's a very socialist concept.
But its the opposite of what you think it is. Its basically the government admitting guilt on your part. Every time you pay the levee you admit that you plan on violating copyrights.
Do you order people you meet to forget your name and phone number?
Everyone has the right to gather as much information as they want. If I wanted to start a "Dachannien scrapbook" right now, there's nothing you or anyone could do to stop me.
Umm, nah, the ACLU is all about sound bites on the 6 o'clock news.
You know, suing some small town high school for having a christmas dance, or making sure that noone talks about anything to do with christianity in public.
I'm not religious, but their whole agenda is stupid and counterproductive.
You would never see them sue schools for forcing kids to study the Koran, but if some kid wants to hang a cross in her locker, or sing a christmas carol with offensive religious topics like "Saint Nick", then they come swooping down to save the day.
They're professional extortionists and a big cause behind the idiotic levels of political correctness these days.
Would it be worth the cost covering subequatorial deserts with solar panels and ship the electricity to the rest of the world? Of course we would lose a lot of electricity because of the transport, we would have to replace the broken panels every once in a while, but wouldn't this still be cheaper than all the petrol, natural gas, uranium we are using for our computers and our cars?
No.
Every year or so theres another article about how solar/wind/water/peanut power is going to revolutionize the world and guarantee humanities existence into the next few millenia.
Its been going on since the sixties.
The tech is now just barely out of the "neat science fair project" stage.
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Well, what I said is its still not working in a production release.
I cant ship solutions to clients that have major components labelled "beta" or "release candidate", even if it's bug-free and rock solid.
I've played with them though, as it stands subselect support is horrendously slow, at least in my tests. I probably have to rebuild it with a bunch of options and other database types to get it to work.
Haha
Yeah and a chapter on subselects and triggers for MySQL would be nice too.
whitespace is supposed to be stripped from varchar, but not from char.
Ie, "hello" in a varcharI10) = "hello", in a char(10) = "hello "
But whatever, who cares.
MySQLs lack of subselect support (its there but not in production code) make it utterly useless to the company I work for.
You may however open yourself to fraud charges.
Ie; it's illegal to show a fake ID to get a seniors or childrens discount at the movies.
n/t just a failed first post attempt.
This isnt flamebait. Try and find 3 people in a small town who want you to teach them linux.
Most, if not all, linux users are computer savvy already. They wouldnt take a 'course' taught by some kid at some nickel and dime PC store.
How is this different from the FBI or local PD keeping an eye on when I leave for work, my salary history, and my career development?
The students are minors.
Here's a secret though.. DONT TELL ANYONE!
Schools have kept records of this exact same stuff for decades. This newspaper article is a fluff piece, probably some new school board member got elected and wants to blow his horn on their new computer.
But the notion of noticing a students grades or attendance suddenly dropped, and asking them whats wrong, well... that's happened before! EVEN WITHOUT COMPUTERS!
I cant believe this type of crap gets posted on slashdot. I mean seriously. Can they not tell when they're reading a small town PR piece?
This just in! School keeping track of students grades! Film at eleven.
Complain about the dropout rate and how the nation is losing the skills to compete worldwide.
Complain that educators do anything to try to understand and reverse the rate of dropouts.
Who the hell assumes noone is watching them in high school, anyways?
I just see a bug in his ass making a big issue and wasting time and taxpayer dollars to make some silly point that noone in the world really gives a shit about.
It's like when idiots sue the mayor for dressing up like santa on government property, or sue a high school for having an easter parade.
They may have some technically correct point, but are basically blowing shit way out of proportion to secure themselves a little bit of fame with their peers.
but this really is an important little interchange because later on in court you need to be able to say "i asked the company if they would sell me a copy of WinXP for $10 but they declined."
It's an OEM license, not retail. It cant be sold or transferred on it's own. You cant buy 10 licenses for 100 bucks, but you could buy 10 PCs with 10 copies of windows, and 100 bucks of the total price would have gone to licenses. If you did want licenses for 10 bucks a pop, you'd have to talk to MS's sales dept, and place an order for a few hundered thousand of 'em.
10 bucks for the OEM licenses sounds about right, actually.
An OEM copy of Windows XP Pro is not worth 199. It's 99 bucks everywhere online (with purchase of hardware). No doubt in bulk it's vastly cheaper.
So linux zealots think they're stickin' it to the man, but they're really screwing the vendors. Who will no doubt make sure the price of everything that ships with windows is instantly jacked up 200 bucks to cover their losses when they're flooded with refund demands.
Yay, more expensive hardware for everybody!
If you want to keep data hidden from an indian, just hide it in his work boots.
It encrypts your data on the fly. Take the key away, now noone can mount /dev/porn.
Anything that restricts access to any data is DRM. That's why the slashbot reaction to the term is so moronic. Slashdot has DRM in the form of usernames and passwords, so I cant post as Perens or Carmack, and to make sure only subscribers get to see articles when first posted. A zip file with a password is "drm".
I agree with you, but it's a hell of a marketing strategy.
Theres some sort of deal with "kids today", it was true even when I was in school. Intelligence and hard work is shunned. It makes you a nerd, or a geek. Ask any 15 year old girl what the square root of four is and she'll giggle and go "i dont know math!". She probably knows, but it's not cool to know math, so the act is that they dont. This drives me nuts, the "im pretending to be dumb because it's not cool to be smart" act.
Such with the dummies and idiots and morons books. You wouldnt want to be caught walking out of a bookstore with a copy of "Advanced Solaris 9 Setup and Maintainance". You'd look like a geek, a nerd.
But a "for dummies" book under your arm broadcasts the message that you dont know, and dont care about the subject, because you're just too cool.
I really cant stand the way ignorance and stupidity is glorified in western cultures. It's not an american thing, since I'm canadian and have lived in the UK - it seems to be a white thing.
We make heroes out of the stupidest people alive and hold them up as role models for our kids. The guy from "Dude wheres my car" is just supposed to be what every teenager wants to be. A fucking idiot who's barely functional.
Oh well.
Conflict resolutions and namespace collisions will ultimately make this the final revision of the language before it dies a slow death.
Execution will be drastically slowed with the new subroutine semantics, and interoperability with other components will get harder and harder.
Actually, that's not quite what's happening.
ISDA spiders are trolling around and seeing a ftp/web site with "video game" in the text and offering files like pacman.zip and streetfighter2.zip for download.
C&D notices are automatically being sent, none of it has to do with the DMCA, but with regular old copyright law, since the ISDA assumes the games are being put up for download.
Whatshisface (who had the big manual site and shut it down) just couldnt be bothered to explain to anyone at the ISDA what files are.
I dont think any manufacturer really gives a shit about people collecting/trading/photocopying the service and operation manuals, or even schematics for out of production machines.
If an archeologist today can decipher egyptian hieroglyphs and decipher ancient pictorial languages, an archaeologist of tomorrow can figure out ascii.
It's not like every ascii character chart will magically dissappear.
WTF has Yale ever done for society, short of turning out wave after wave of ambulance chaser?
Paper or plastic?
Pens or pencils?
Oral vs Anal?
Sorry, this is just such a dumb topic I cant hear myself think.
Umm. No.
You pay a levee, which is not a tax, and not in any way a license to copy music.
A levee is the governments way of agreeing with the RIAA (whatever the canadian version is called).
The government has basically said "yes, people are being robbed - so everyone should repay them"
It's a very socialist concept.
But its the opposite of what you think it is. Its basically the government admitting guilt on your part. Every time you pay the levee you admit that you plan on violating copyrights.
Why dont you ask all the folks in DoD, RaZoR1911, FairLiGHT, etc how secure this is?
Yeah, your circle of trust can be corrupted.
It's still safer to be the guy in the limo distributing bricks of cocaine, than the kid on the streetcorner selling it in $10 bags.
Why?
Do you order people you meet to forget your name and phone number?
Everyone has the right to gather as much information as they want. If I wanted to start a "Dachannien scrapbook" right now, there's nothing you or anyone could do to stop me.
Umm, nah, the ACLU is all about sound bites on the 6 o'clock news.
You know, suing some small town high school for having a christmas dance, or making sure that noone talks about anything to do with christianity in public.
I'm not religious, but their whole agenda is stupid and counterproductive.
You would never see them sue schools for forcing kids to study the Koran, but if some kid wants to hang a cross in her locker, or sing a christmas carol with offensive religious topics like "Saint Nick", then they come swooping down to save the day.
They're professional extortionists and a big cause behind the idiotic levels of political correctness these days.
Answer:
Sure but it would suck.
The reason its so cold there is because what sunlight hits does so at an extreme angle.
Its hot at the equator because the sun is beaming straight down.
A square foot of ground in Mexico gets an order of magnitude more light energy hitting it than a square foot in antarctica.
Besides, it's pitch black 6 months of the year at either pole.
Would it be worth the cost covering subequatorial deserts with solar panels and ship the electricity to the rest of the world? Of course we would lose a lot of electricity because of the transport, we would have to replace the broken panels every once in a while, but wouldn't this still be cheaper than all the petrol, natural gas, uranium we are using for our computers and our cars?
No.
Every year or so theres another article about how solar/wind/water/peanut power is going to revolutionize the world and guarantee humanities existence into the next few millenia.
Its been going on since the sixties.
The tech is now just barely out of the "neat science fair project" stage.