Look, every dollar NASA spends on lawyers is a dollar it could have spent on space exploration. And it's a dollar a government already trillions in the hole will have to spend. In a word, screw this.
And as another poster pointed out, this could set an interesting precedent: Networks suing the government every time their ratings slip.
And it won't happen in America. The fear of an unsupervised two-year-old getting run over by a lawn mowing robot (or more to the point, the fear of the two-year-old's parents' lawyers) will prevent any sort of robotics revolution here, outside of tightly controlled environments like factories.
Most of the cabbies where I live are very recent immigrants who speak not a lot of English and often barely know their way around---or even to ask a dispatcher for directions. A London cab ride must be quite a treat.
University College London completed a study which demonstrated that London cabbies have larger brains that the ordinary Joe: a larger hippocampus in particular, implying superior spacial abilities. Study results here, but 403'd for the moment. Award for study published here.
Before Microsoft 0wnz0rd MapBlast, you could click "add location" to build routes. I used that feature all the time for touristing; it never occurred to me to do it to skirt heavy traffic. I believe MapQUest will still do this, although you have silly hoops to jump through.
MapBlast is great in the U.S. as well. Plenty accurate.
One thing I particularly like is the option of choosing shortest or fastest route. See, I'm a motorcyclist, and freeways suck. If I choose "shortest route" LineDrive, I will not only see much more interesting scenery, I get something that folds neatly into my tank bag. The trip will take longer, but so what---I'm on a motorcycle. If I were in a hurry I'd take the car.
I remember a site from a few years ago that had options for "avoid tolls", "avoid freeways", "avoid police roadblocks with drug-sniffing dogs", sort of thing.
Note that this is for cross-country driving. For crossing town, Yahoo has only let me down once at a recently rerouted intersection in Denver, CO; MapQuest and MapBlast both had trouble navigating a couple of tricky spots in Raleigh, NC and Atlanta, GA.
Probably the biggest irritation I have with Yahoo is that it's sometimes tediously thorough whenever highways share the same route. Used to be you'd be on the Interstate and every time another highway merged in/out, Yahoo printed another line. It has become much better about this lately, except on complicated offramps, where the extra information is actually a godsend.
My question is: How does PostgreSQL do when you have to issue a query across multiple remote instances? Because with Oracle (just for instance), it's basically a matter of adding permissions at one instance and aliases at another.
No, I have never touched PostgreSQL. If I had, I wouldn't be asking questions. But I do know what certain other products are capable of.
But judging from your response to my comment (and the other response), it would appear that PostgreSQL is the Macintosh of RDBMSs.
90% of goverment database applications don't require any big DBMS.
If you mean 90% of the running instances, yes. But governmments do tend to need databases for
Income tax returns
Sales tax records
Property tax records
Vehicle registrations
Driver's license records
Childhood immunization records
Medicaid
Pension funds
Employee payroll
Crime and police records
Those have millions of records in their tables and occasional demand for very high throughput.
Now for things like
Business licenses
Liquor licenses
Sex offender registries
Fingerprint registries
Epidemiology
Contract bids
Convicted felon DNA
Any open source RDBMS should suffice.
But you'll notice that some of those systems may have to interact with one another. Try this: Go through the unsolved sex crime records and match any DNA or fingerprints against white male convicted felons over forty. You need a wee bit of integration for that.
Perhaps. But the GPL goes on to say "by the way, here's the source code. If run up against any problems, you're welcome to patch it up, or just post to comp.foo.whatever. Enjoy!"
Whereas the standard EULA says "by the way, any attempt to tamper with our software is an act of piracy and we will take all your possessions away and maybe even put you in jail. it's not broken unless we say it's broken, and we say it's not broken."
Actually, the patent holders did file lawsuits, hundreds of them, against Ford vehicle owners. There was a huge public backlash; the lawsuit ended on something of a technicality; and Ford continues to exist where the other brands do not.
The biggest difference between now and then that I can see is that the RIAA is in bed with the news media. Who owns CNN? The same company that owns Warner Records. Who owns ABC? Disney. Who owns CBS? Viacom. All RIAA members. You'd never know there was a public outcry, because the public gets its information about this from RIAA members.
I know this sounds like conspiracy theory, but I honestly don't see how any major news outlet could be trusted to cover this objectively.
They note that the $45 target is highly speculative
Exactly. And who is pushing the price up? Speculators!
Folks, quit acting like a sock price is a truth quotient. It is not.
But if you can afford to speculate, then by all means do: If you can spare $1k, and there's a 1:500 chance you'll get $1m (versus 480:500 you'll lose it all and 1:19 you'll break even), you should do it, if you can spare $1k. That's speculation. If you play the smart odds long enough, you will wind up ahead.
"Commode-doors." I remember having fun with player-missile graphics, using a 6502 reference card to put tiny bits of machine code in a BASIC DATA statement. Remembering what memory addresses to POKE. Linking two sound channels into a 16-bit channel. My glorious copy of De Re Atari, and the little games I wrote to play against my brother---and rigged to cheat when I pressed the joystick button. And my 6502 ran at 1.79 MHz, not at wussie old 1.00 MHz. My Dad bought me 48K of memory for my birthday, and I was overwhelmed. What the hell was I going to do with all that?
In 2002 there were about 160 by-stranger kidnappings of children under the age of twelve by strangers. In the vast majority of the cases the child was returned unharmed; often, a car thief steals a car with a child sleeping in the back seat.
The biggest risk to a child's life is her mother's cell phone: she's talking on it rather than paying attention in traffic. No, that's a tad glib. But car accidents kill about 18,000 kids a year, yet I still won't let my children trick-or-treat unsupervised.
it just goes to show that lots of smarts in one area doesn't mean a thing about smarts in another area.
A valid observation.
I don't know much about Prevert, but to me the poem was about sitting in a coffeehouse and posing, which I've seen (and done) enough of and I'm not sure it's any more impressive when done in French. I've never read French poetry less than a hundred years old; clearly I've lost the ear for it.
It appears he received his PhD in computer science from Stanford University. I gathered this information by clicking the link right below his username.
When I clicked the link below your usename, I got a picture of a teddy bear wearing sunglasses and a quote from Hermann Goering.
Welcome to being a new parent in a new era, because you're certainly talking like a parent rather than a scientist: "We don't have enough data to say definitively one way or another that something's safe or not." Safety is the absence of danger, and when is there ever enough data to prove the absence of a phenomenon? And thirty years ago, between your 1960s color television and the flourescent lights in the supermarket where your mother, pregnant with you, filled up her cart with fatty, chemical-laced foods, you were being exposed to a hell of a lot more radiation that your Wi-Fi, and believe me that's the least of the environmental poisons you were exposed to in 1973. Yet you still managed to grow up to get a PhD.
There's a lot of money to be made by scaring the shit out of you. When it comes to technology, the magic words are "there is not enough evidence that this product is safe". Remember when they were screaming that power lines were killing babies? Remember when saccharin was killing babies? Remember when Y2K was going to kill all of us and our babies?
Try this: "There may be a link between measles vaccinations and autism". Okay? Now, wrap your scientist mind around that word "may". It means non-zero probability, so good luck disproving the proposition. And I hope your math skills are up to the task of comparing the "may" above to the "may" in "measles vaccinations may prevent measles", because I made that up about autism. Scared you, though, didn't I? So welcome to the new era of parenting.
And the fearmongers are never going to shut up. Twenty year studies that turn up no statistically significant link between their pet fear and reality obviously didn't look long enough or hard enough. They like the attention, and their lawyers like the money.
This is especially true when working with graphics applications. I can remember back in the day having an MS-DOS 3.3 box with one mono monitor and one VGA monitor. Using Borland C I could load the debugger on the mono disp and have the output on the VGA disp. Most handy.
These days I'm too poor (in both money and free space) for multiple screens, but I can envision having one "productive" screen and one "administrative" screen going on. I could drag a window off the productive screen and maximise it onto the admin screen and still get to my productive windows.
Frankly, unless I'm programming graphics (or viewing porno) where full-screen display is necessary, the only time I ever maximise a window is (a) because I want no distractions or (b) I'm viewing a badly designed web page that insists on being larger than my browser window.
On the Bonnie++ benchmarks, it looked to me like ext2's biggest advantage was efficient CPU use: that's where it earned most of its green squares.
The conclusion I drew from this was that if you don't have many spare cycles cycles, e.g. by running high-crunch applications or by running with a small CPU, ext2 has its advantages.
But if primarily you using a system to serve files rather than cycles, or you expect to fsck often, by all means go with jfs.
And if I grab a dog by its back legs and beat my wife into a coma with it, I spend more time in jail for what I did to the dog than what I did to her.
Realistically, there will not be bouncecount charges on the complaint, and all the bounces will be consolidated in some way. A sensible prosecutor would try the first, say, thousand messages, and leave it at that.
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Can anyone say "Taxpayer-funded publicity stunt?"
Look, every dollar NASA spends on lawyers is a dollar it could have spent on space exploration. And it's a dollar a government already trillions in the hole will have to spend. In a word, screw this.
And as another poster pointed out, this could set an interesting precedent: Networks suing the government every time their ratings slip.
And it won't happen in America. The fear of an unsupervised two-year-old getting run over by a lawn mowing robot (or more to the point, the fear of the two-year-old's parents' lawyers) will prevent any sort of robotics revolution here, outside of tightly controlled environments like factories.
And my first thought was, "Why haven't I heard of this store?"
University College London completed a study which demonstrated that London cabbies have larger brains that the ordinary Joe: a larger hippocampus in particular, implying superior spacial abilities. Study results here, but 403'd for the moment. Award for study published here.
Before Microsoft 0wnz0rd MapBlast, you could click "add location" to build routes. I used that feature all the time for touristing; it never occurred to me to do it to skirt heavy traffic. I believe MapQUest will still do this, although you have silly hoops to jump through.
One thing I particularly like is the option of choosing shortest or fastest route. See, I'm a motorcyclist, and freeways suck. If I choose "shortest route" LineDrive, I will not only see much more interesting scenery, I get something that folds neatly into my tank bag. The trip will take longer, but so what---I'm on a motorcycle. If I were in a hurry I'd take the car.
I remember a site from a few years ago that had options for "avoid tolls", "avoid freeways", "avoid police roadblocks with drug-sniffing dogs", sort of thing.
Note that this is for cross-country driving. For crossing town, Yahoo has only let me down once at a recently rerouted intersection in Denver, CO; MapQuest and MapBlast both had trouble navigating a couple of tricky spots in Raleigh, NC and Atlanta, GA.
Probably the biggest irritation I have with Yahoo is that it's sometimes tediously thorough whenever highways share the same route. Used to be you'd be on the Interstate and every time another highway merged in/out, Yahoo printed another line. It has become much better about this lately, except on complicated offramps, where the extra information is actually a godsend.
Two months? Boo fucking hoo. Call me in a year, fella, and tell me all about it.
No, I have never touched PostgreSQL. If I had, I wouldn't be asking questions. But I do know what certain other products are capable of.
But judging from your response to my comment (and the other response), it would appear that PostgreSQL is the Macintosh of RDBMSs.
- Income tax returns
- Sales tax records
- Property tax records
- Vehicle registrations
- Driver's license records
- Childhood immunization records
- Medicaid
- Pension funds
- Employee payroll
- Crime and police records
Those have millions of records in their tables and occasional demand for very high throughput. Now for things like- Business licenses
- Liquor licenses
- Sex offender registries
- Fingerprint registries
- Epidemiology
- Contract bids
- Convicted felon DNA
Any open source RDBMS should suffice. But you'll notice that some of those systems may have to interact with one another. Try this: Go through the unsolved sex crime records and match any DNA or fingerprints against white male convicted felons over forty. You need a wee bit of integration for that.Perhaps. But the GPL goes on to say "by the way, here's the source code. If run up against any problems, you're welcome to patch it up, or just post to comp.foo.whatever. Enjoy!"
Whereas the standard EULA says "by the way, any attempt to tamper with our software is an act of piracy and we will take all your possessions away and maybe even put you in jail. it's not broken unless we say it's broken, and we say it's not broken."
"All Assholes?"
The biggest difference between now and then that I can see is that the RIAA is in bed with the news media. Who owns CNN? The same company that owns Warner Records. Who owns ABC? Disney. Who owns CBS? Viacom. All RIAA members. You'd never know there was a public outcry, because the public gets its information about this from RIAA members.
I know this sounds like conspiracy theory, but I honestly don't see how any major news outlet could be trusted to cover this objectively.
Exactly. And who is pushing the price up? Speculators!
Folks, quit acting like a sock price is a truth quotient. It is not.
But if you can afford to speculate, then by all means do: If you can spare $1k, and there's a 1:500 chance you'll get $1m (versus 480:500 you'll lose it all and 1:19 you'll break even), you should do it, if you can spare $1k. That's speculation. If you play the smart odds long enough, you will wind up ahead.
Not a single word about Jesus. Not one. "Divine Providence" != "Jesus".
Well enough to remember that 342 and 316 wouldn't work. The machines wordsize was 8 bits.
"Commode-doors." I remember having fun with player-missile graphics, using a 6502 reference card to put tiny bits of machine code in a BASIC DATA statement. Remembering what memory addresses to POKE. Linking two sound channels into a 16-bit channel. My glorious copy of De Re Atari, and the little games I wrote to play against my brother---and rigged to cheat when I pressed the joystick button. And my 6502 ran at 1.79 MHz, not at wussie old 1.00 MHz. My Dad bought me 48K of memory for my birthday, and I was overwhelmed. What the hell was I going to do with all that?
The biggest risk to a child's life is her mother's cell phone: she's talking on it rather than paying attention in traffic. No, that's a tad glib. But car accidents kill about 18,000 kids a year, yet I still won't let my children trick-or-treat unsupervised.
A valid observation.
I don't know much about Prevert, but to me the poem was about sitting in a coffeehouse and posing, which I've seen (and done) enough of and I'm not sure it's any more impressive when done in French. I've never read French poetry less than a hundred years old; clearly I've lost the ear for it.
When I clicked the link below your usename, I got a picture of a teddy bear wearing sunglasses and a quote from Hermann Goering.
There's a lot of money to be made by scaring the shit out of you. When it comes to technology, the magic words are "there is not enough evidence that this product is safe". Remember when they were screaming that power lines were killing babies? Remember when saccharin was killing babies? Remember when Y2K was going to kill all of us and our babies?
Try this: "There may be a link between measles vaccinations and autism". Okay? Now, wrap your scientist mind around that word "may". It means non-zero probability, so good luck disproving the proposition. And I hope your math skills are up to the task of comparing the "may" above to the "may" in "measles vaccinations may prevent measles", because I made that up about autism. Scared you, though, didn't I? So welcome to the new era of parenting.
And the fearmongers are never going to shut up. Twenty year studies that turn up no statistically significant link between their pet fear and reality obviously didn't look long enough or hard enough. They like the attention, and their lawyers like the money.
The only thing I use paper money for is milk shakes and lap dances.
Well, at least he has multiple monitors, so you're on topic.
These days I'm too poor (in both money and free space) for multiple screens, but I can envision having one "productive" screen and one "administrative" screen going on. I could drag a window off the productive screen and maximise it onto the admin screen and still get to my productive windows.
Frankly, unless I'm programming graphics (or viewing porno) where full-screen display is necessary, the only time I ever maximise a window is (a) because I want no distractions or (b) I'm viewing a badly designed web page that insists on being larger than my browser window.
The conclusion I drew from this was that if you don't have many spare cycles cycles, e.g. by running high-crunch applications or by running with a small CPU, ext2 has its advantages.
But if primarily you using a system to serve files rather than cycles, or you expect to fsck often, by all means go with jfs.
Realistically, there will not be bouncecount charges on the complaint, and all the bounces will be consolidated in some way. A sensible prosecutor would try the first, say, thousand messages, and leave it at that.