And how (at a transistor level) is the computer going to store and manipulate this digit?
If it was going to use transistors, it could be done the same way as with binary digits, by varying the voltage. Instead of having a range between 0 and 0.8 volts = 0 and a range between 2 and 5 volts = 1, you make the chip recognize (for example) 0-0.8 = 0, 1.5-3 = 1, 3.6-5 = 2. Wow, a trinary computer.
Bringing it from the transistor level to the practical level, a bit harder....
You ever take a walk through the low-rent housing in your area and check out the family sizes among the welfare recipients?
You're flat out wrong. Good looks, high level of intelligence and good social skills might give you the choice of "life partner", but they make you LESS likely to reproduce in large numbers than those without these qualities.
Sounds to me like you're trying to use a database that was designed for OLTP to run queries better suited to an OLAP design. Or, to put it another way, you sound like someone who doesn't understand how to use the tool complaining that it won't do what you need when you're just using it wrong, which is what pretty much every complaint I've personally heard about SQL databases boils down to.
If I were you, I'd be looking at adding a second database on a second box for these queries, then horizontally partition your data and move the older stuff to the second box, index the shit out of it, create tables where you'd otherwise use views, etc and design your reporting software accordingly.
There's only one data solution out there that is time-tested, peer-reviewed and definately works. It's called a relational database.
1) Intellectuals aren't on the forefront of science. They might be on the forefront of philosophy... but science requires a bit more "hands on" than is generally associated with intellectuals
2) Our ever expanding knowledge doesn't contribute to evolution so much as prevent it. We keep the non-survivor types alive and encourage them to breed.
3) We're not evolving towards intelligence. We're evolving towards stupidity. The most intelligent and successful people generally don't breed as much and they breed later in life, so they go through less generations per x amount of time. The poor and stupid on the other hand breed like crazy and do so at an earlier age, resulting in more opportunities for evolution in x amount of time. From an evolutionary perspective, the stupid are winning, and not just by a little bit either.
Perhaps the way to go is to pay artists for performances rather than recordings.
As in, if you stop touring and sit home on your ass, you don't continue to get paid.
Wow, what a revolutionary idea.
I am not a doctor, but I find it very hard to believe what you say. In fact, I think you're thinking about a human's skin which is replaced on a regular schedule.
His statement is generally accepted in the medical community to be true. Your statement is generally accepted in the medical community to be false. Thanks for telling us your opinion. We care.
Maybe they will restrict the operation to those who do things to their brain other than try to deaden it and give way to instinct.
As Aldous Huxley said, "An intellectual is someone who has found one thing that's more interesting than sex."
Like I always told my ex, sex isn't enough to build a life on, but it is conspicuous in its absence.
See, I can drop inane sound-bites too, just like Mr. Huxley.
And having your brain on a hard drive surrounded by broken electronics unable to react in any fashion until those who are actually alive get around to replacing those electronics doesn't sound terribly safe to me.
Mozilla is responsible for their project. They code it so you don't have to, they fix it so you don't have to. They've assumed that responsibility.
Red Hat is responsible for building a compilation different projects so you don't have to. If they unload that responsibility on the users or the individual projects in their distro, they have dropped the ball, and have no reason to exist.
Considering that the Moz project is a volunteer project, and that Red Hat is being paid huge amounts of money just to package and patch other peoples work, it's rather offensive for them to be playing the shifting blame game. They are not Microsoft, they are not the irreplacable gatekeepers, they are just another distro selling other peoples work.
The day that a distro or two can start dictating to the projects instead of the other way around, there's a serious problem. If they're not up to the task of reacting to Moz's developments (and every other project) rather than dictating to them, they should stop charging money for the service and go home.
Stories like this make a great case for the Linux Standards Base project. Red Hat has been getting too big for their britches for a while now.
Excuse me, but I didn't take any of these books, or visit any of these websites. I believe someone has stolen my fingerprint. Could you please issue me another one?
Oh, you say you can't? Damn, I guess I'm really fucked now.
What a great idea this is! Think I'll score some politicians fingerprints and go flirt online with some federal agents pretending to be 14 year old girls.
Where the fuck do you dumb asses come from? Where the hell did I deny anything about America's racism, both past and present.
If you take a look at the top of my post, there's a nice little direct quote of you doing exactly that. It's even in italics so it's easy for you to find. Who's the dumbass?
If a foreign product or service would have been a better value than the domestically-produced product or service, they aren't spending taxpayer dollars as wisely as they could have. Such a policy benefits a small group (in this case, Chinese software developers) at the expense of the other 99.8% of Chinese citizens. The net effect is negative for their economy.
Yeah, right. Investing in their own software industry means all that money stays in their economy instead of going off to some other country. Can you imagine how much chinese tax money would be flowing off to the US if they were ever compelled to pay for all their software licenses? They'd be stupid not to prevent that, particularly since they have SO MANY PEOPLE to throw at the problem.
Not much good for the rest of us, though, but the smart thing for them to do.
Yes, it's an assult on my god-given right to associate voluntarily with my fellow man. Don't like the fact that I value my natural right to freedom more than your collectivist ideals? Good, deal with it. There are many more like me, and in case you didn't realize, we view people like you as the oppressors.
Might want to ease up on the kool-aid there bud. What does a government spending policy have to do with either freedom of association or collectivism?
This isn't protectionism. If they were preventing other companies from doing business in China, or applying a tarrif that wasn't also applied to local companies, that would be protectionism.
This is just a government spending policy. Is there really anything wrong with a government electing to support its own economy and keep the tax money it collects and spends within its borders? No. As a matter of fact, most would consider it the responsible way for a government to behave.
Perhaps the incentive might come from oh, the cost savings of the efficiency gained? Maybe even the ability to come to market with a new product that supersedes the ones they sold last year?
Patents stifle innovation. They're a weapon used by big companies to squash newcomers.
Oh yeah, American does not have a long history of racism.... Yeah, America does have a history of racism but at least we do something about it that matters.
You seem a little confused. If you wish to defend your nations current state where racism is concerned, go right ahead. Denying that it's a strong component of your history, however, just makes you look stupid... you'd have to have grown up under a rock not to be aware of this historical fact.
Feel free to name one country that has had such acts and done more for race relations.
Just one? Ok, Canada. Not a perfect record, no, the natives were pretty hard done by during the colonization period. However, we have the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which includes "Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability."
Canada also has a history of rescuing people from American racism. We passed a law up here declaring that any black man who made it across the border was immediately a free man shortly after we burned down the white house in 1812. Most of the old black communities in Canada were composed of slaves who fled the states on the underground railroad.
Land of the free my ass. Free to be brainwashed from birth with propaganda and march in lockstep or be singled out and persecuted. Aside from the blacks, there was the systematic persecution of the orientals, the systematic persecution of free-thinkers-i-mean-communists, the systematic persecution of the natives, the systematic persecution of the queers, and now the systematic persecution of the arabs. More like America, the land of the warmongering fascists.
Thus what you might consider to be a "stupid" choice may make sense to those who make it, because that choice best reflected their needs, their budget, their skill level, and/or their ability to change.
Yeah, that's all well and good, but look at the multitude of people out there choosing things beyond their budget that don't meet their needs or their skill level.
Why did they choose these products? Because they were shiny and offered by a pretty girl.
Yes and no. Yes - they thrive by implementing ideas from other companies. No - because it's not stealing. The whole "intellectual property" (and now "thought thieves") crap is language bastardized to make you believe that thoughts can be owned just like material property.
Of course it's not stealing. It's Thoughtcrime. Get with the program.
Lets see... what's happened JUST under the current leadership...
Violated the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missles Treaty
Killed the Biological Warfare Treaty
Killed the Small Arms Limitation Treaty
Killed the Anti-Personnel Land Mine Treaty
Is actively developing space weapons systems in violation of The Outer Space Treaty
Killed the International Criminal Court Treaty after previously signing on
Regularly violates NAFTA
Killed the Kyoto Treaty
For another, our actions tend to be genuinely defensive
Lets see... which countries has the US engaged in overt and covert aggression with in the last 50 years... I couldn't name them all, but they include
China
Italy
Greece
Philippines
South Korea
Albania
Germany
Iran
Indonesia
British Guiana
Vietnam
Cambodia
The Congo
Brazil
Dominican Republic
Cuba
Chile
East Timor
Nicaragua
Grenada
Libya
Panama
Iraq
El Salvador
Haiti
Iran
Afganistan
Lebanon
Venezuela
Sudan
North Korea
Our bonds of honor protect foregn civillians despite the fact that they aren't American
The US is currently holding over 500 people under the bullshit label "Enemy Combatants" in Guantanamo. They are neither given the rights of civilians nor the rights of POWs. They are, however, held indefinately with no legal basis and tortured by US troops with the blessing of the government.
Get with the program. All this rhetoric you Americans like to repeat to yourselves is NOT TRUE. Your country is an agressive fascist state. The world considers you a rogue nation and the #1 threat to world peace. Your leaders are War Criminals according to international law. Your nation is the number one aggressor on earth. Your nation is the number one arms dealer on earth. And your nation exploits everyone else on earth.
Unless something dramatic changes from within your country, the next World War will inevitably be when we all unite to lay low the US Military/Industrial complex. It will likely happen in your lifetime. And your people will be remembered with the same fondness as the Nazis.
What are you talking about? Hops has nothing to do with alcohol content. It is added to give beer bitterness. If you want alcohol to rise, you give the yeast more sugar to work on. Like instead of using malt, you make a fruit drink like wine, which has more alcohol.
While you can scream about "chilling effects", or "slippery slopes" all you want, the US hasn't turned into a facist state in spite of all these predictions on this site for the last 7+ years.
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And how (at a transistor level) is the computer going to store and manipulate this digit?
If it was going to use transistors, it could be done the same way as with binary digits, by varying the voltage. Instead of having a range between 0 and 0.8 volts = 0 and a range between 2 and 5 volts = 1, you make the chip recognize (for example) 0-0.8 = 0, 1.5-3 = 1, 3.6-5 = 2. Wow, a trinary computer.
Bringing it from the transistor level to the practical level, a bit harder....
You ever take a walk through the low-rent housing in your area and check out the family sizes among the welfare recipients?
You're flat out wrong. Good looks, high level of intelligence and good social skills might give you the choice of "life partner", but they make you LESS likely to reproduce in large numbers than those without these qualities.
Evolution requires 2 things to occur.
1) The population mutates.
2) The determination of who breeds is influenced by those mutations.
If everyone gets to breed, or if the determination of who gets to breed is not related to the mutations, then there's no evolution. Just mutation.
Which I suppose means I'm wrong. In our society, stupidity is a major survival trait, because the smarter you are, the less likely you are to breed.
Sounds to me like you're trying to use a database that was designed for OLTP to run queries better suited to an OLAP design. Or, to put it another way, you sound like someone who doesn't understand how to use the tool complaining that it won't do what you need when you're just using it wrong, which is what pretty much every complaint I've personally heard about SQL databases boils down to.
If I were you, I'd be looking at adding a second database on a second box for these queries, then horizontally partition your data and move the older stuff to the second box, index the shit out of it, create tables where you'd otherwise use views, etc and design your reporting software accordingly.
There's only one data solution out there that is time-tested, peer-reviewed and definately works. It's called a relational database.
1) Intellectuals aren't on the forefront of science. They might be on the forefront of philosophy... but science requires a bit more "hands on" than is generally associated with intellectuals
2) Our ever expanding knowledge doesn't contribute to evolution so much as prevent it. We keep the non-survivor types alive and encourage them to breed.
3) We're not evolving towards intelligence. We're evolving towards stupidity. The most intelligent and successful people generally don't breed as much and they breed later in life, so they go through less generations per x amount of time. The poor and stupid on the other hand breed like crazy and do so at an earlier age, resulting in more opportunities for evolution in x amount of time. From an evolutionary perspective, the stupid are winning, and not just by a little bit either.
Perhaps the way to go is to pay artists for performances rather than recordings. As in, if you stop touring and sit home on your ass, you don't continue to get paid. Wow, what a revolutionary idea.
I am not a doctor, but I find it very hard to believe what you say. In fact, I think you're thinking about a human's skin which is replaced on a regular schedule.
His statement is generally accepted in the medical community to be true. Your statement is generally accepted in the medical community to be false. Thanks for telling us your opinion. We care.
Maybe they will restrict the operation to those who do things to their brain other than try to deaden it and give way to instinct.
As Aldous Huxley said, "An intellectual is someone who has found one thing that's more interesting than sex."
Like I always told my ex, sex isn't enough to build a life on, but it is conspicuous in its absence.
See, I can drop inane sound-bites too, just like Mr. Huxley.
And having your brain on a hard drive surrounded by broken electronics unable to react in any fashion until those who are actually alive get around to replacing those electronics doesn't sound terribly safe to me.
Until computers can smoke joints and get a buzz, drink beer and get a buzz, and have orgasms, I won't consider it "living".
In other news, a new "smart bomb" that kills the very rich without harming the poor has been discovered... they call it an EMP.
The difference is one of responsibility.
Mozilla is responsible for their project. They code it so you don't have to, they fix it so you don't have to. They've assumed that responsibility.
Red Hat is responsible for building a compilation different projects so you don't have to. If they unload that responsibility on the users or the individual projects in their distro, they have dropped the ball, and have no reason to exist.
Considering that the Moz project is a volunteer project, and that Red Hat is being paid huge amounts of money just to package and patch other peoples work, it's rather offensive for them to be playing the shifting blame game. They are not Microsoft, they are not the irreplacable gatekeepers, they are just another distro selling other peoples work.
The day that a distro or two can start dictating to the projects instead of the other way around, there's a serious problem. If they're not up to the task of reacting to Moz's developments (and every other project) rather than dictating to them, they should stop charging money for the service and go home.
Stories like this make a great case for the Linux Standards Base project. Red Hat has been getting too big for their britches for a while now.
Excuse me, but I didn't take any of these books, or visit any of these websites. I believe someone has stolen my fingerprint. Could you please issue me another one?
Oh, you say you can't? Damn, I guess I'm really fucked now.
What a great idea this is! Think I'll score some politicians fingerprints and go flirt online with some federal agents pretending to be 14 year old girls.
Where the fuck do you dumb asses come from? Where the hell did I deny anything about America's racism, both past and present.
If you take a look at the top of my post, there's a nice little direct quote of you doing exactly that. It's even in italics so it's easy for you to find. Who's the dumbass?
If a foreign product or service would have been a better value than the domestically-produced product or service, they aren't spending taxpayer dollars as wisely as they could have. Such a policy benefits a small group (in this case, Chinese software developers) at the expense of the other 99.8% of Chinese citizens. The net effect is negative for their economy.
Yeah, right. Investing in their own software industry means all that money stays in their economy instead of going off to some other country. Can you imagine how much chinese tax money would be flowing off to the US if they were ever compelled to pay for all their software licenses? They'd be stupid not to prevent that, particularly since they have SO MANY PEOPLE to throw at the problem.
Not much good for the rest of us, though, but the smart thing for them to do.
Yes, it's an assult on my god-given right to associate voluntarily with my fellow man. Don't like the fact that I value my natural right to freedom more than your collectivist ideals? Good, deal with it. There are many more like me, and in case you didn't realize, we view people like you as the oppressors.
Might want to ease up on the kool-aid there bud. What does a government spending policy have to do with either freedom of association or collectivism?
This isn't protectionism. If they were preventing other companies from doing business in China, or applying a tarrif that wasn't also applied to local companies, that would be protectionism.
This is just a government spending policy. Is there really anything wrong with a government electing to support its own economy and keep the tax money it collects and spends within its borders? No. As a matter of fact, most would consider it the responsible way for a government to behave.
Perhaps the incentive might come from oh, the cost savings of the efficiency gained? Maybe even the ability to come to market with a new product that supersedes the ones they sold last year?
Patents stifle innovation. They're a weapon used by big companies to squash newcomers.
Oh yeah, American does not have a long history of racism. ... Yeah, America does have a history of racism but at least we do something about it that matters.
You seem a little confused. If you wish to defend your nations current state where racism is concerned, go right ahead. Denying that it's a strong component of your history, however, just makes you look stupid... you'd have to have grown up under a rock not to be aware of this historical fact.
Feel free to name one country that has had such acts and done more for race relations.
Just one? Ok, Canada. Not a perfect record, no, the natives were pretty hard done by during the colonization period. However, we have the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which includes "Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability."
Canada also has a history of rescuing people from American racism. We passed a law up here declaring that any black man who made it across the border was immediately a free man shortly after we burned down the white house in 1812. Most of the old black communities in Canada were composed of slaves who fled the states on the underground railroad.
Land of the free my ass. Free to be brainwashed from birth with propaganda and march in lockstep or be singled out and persecuted. Aside from the blacks, there was the systematic persecution of the orientals, the systematic persecution of free-thinkers-i-mean-communists, the systematic persecution of the natives, the systematic persecution of the queers, and now the systematic persecution of the arabs. More like America, the land of the warmongering fascists.
Then why do we have racial profiling and gun control?
Because 100% of murders committed with firearms were committed by gun owners, and Americans have a long history of racism.
Never heard of Paparazzi before?
Thus what you might consider to be a "stupid" choice may make sense to those who make it, because that choice best reflected their needs, their budget, their skill level, and/or their ability to change.
Yeah, that's all well and good, but look at the multitude of people out there choosing things beyond their budget that don't meet their needs or their skill level.
Why did they choose these products? Because they were shiny and offered by a pretty girl.
1) Build Mozilla suite
2) Break Mozilla suite apart, creating projects like Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird
3) Merge pieces back together again
Does anyone else think this is kind of weird?
Yes and no. Yes - they thrive by implementing ideas from other companies. No - because it's not stealing. The whole "intellectual property" (and now "thought thieves") crap is language bastardized to make you believe that thoughts can be owned just like material property.
Of course it's not stealing. It's Thoughtcrime. Get with the program.
For one thing, we honor treaties way too often.
Lets see... what's happened JUST under the current leadership...
Violated the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missles Treaty
Killed the Biological Warfare Treaty
Killed the Small Arms Limitation Treaty
Killed the Anti-Personnel Land Mine Treaty
Is actively developing space weapons systems in violation of The Outer Space Treaty
Killed the International Criminal Court Treaty after previously signing on
Regularly violates NAFTA
Killed the Kyoto Treaty
For another, our actions tend to be genuinely defensive
Lets see... which countries has the US engaged in overt and covert aggression with in the last 50 years... I couldn't name them all, but they include
China Italy Greece Philippines South Korea Albania Germany Iran Indonesia British Guiana Vietnam Cambodia The Congo Brazil Dominican Republic Cuba Chile East Timor Nicaragua Grenada Libya Panama Iraq El Salvador Haiti Iran Afganistan Lebanon Venezuela Sudan North Korea
Our bonds of honor protect foregn civillians despite the fact that they aren't American
The US is currently holding over 500 people under the bullshit label "Enemy Combatants" in Guantanamo. They are neither given the rights of civilians nor the rights of POWs. They are, however, held indefinately with no legal basis and tortured by US troops with the blessing of the government.
Get with the program. All this rhetoric you Americans like to repeat to yourselves is NOT TRUE. Your country is an agressive fascist state. The world considers you a rogue nation and the #1 threat to world peace. Your leaders are War Criminals according to international law. Your nation is the number one aggressor on earth. Your nation is the number one arms dealer on earth. And your nation exploits everyone else on earth.
Unless something dramatic changes from within your country, the next World War will inevitably be when we all unite to lay low the US Military/Industrial complex. It will likely happen in your lifetime. And your people will be remembered with the same fondness as the Nazis.
Welcome to the real world.
What are you talking about? Hops has nothing to do with alcohol content. It is added to give beer bitterness. If you want alcohol to rise, you give the yeast more sugar to work on. Like instead of using malt, you make a fruit drink like wine, which has more alcohol.
While you can scream about "chilling effects", or "slippery slopes" all you want, the US hasn't turned into a facist state in spite of all these predictions on this site for the last 7+ years.
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