Their solution really seems to rock, and may finally be the OO to DB paradigm everyone was waiting for.
Not likely. The REAL problem with OO databases isn't that RDBMs might be more mature or whatever else you might read, it is that the data is almost always more important to companies than the behaviors that operate on that data. For example, if the company has a database of customers, they might want to use that database in dozens of different ways, and they might want to grow it for years, if not decades. The OO-database view tends to look at things too much from the view of one single application of the data and the data gets entangled with code behavior based on that specific application. With a clean RDBMs you can hit the same database from many different applications (assuming the database has a well thought-out schema to begin with)... the data isn't so tightly wound up with a specific bit of application code.
This 'solution' doesn't fix that aspect of OO databases. In fact, it makes it worse. I will grant that it is a neat technology, but I wouldn't expect to see it take over the place of RDBMs systems any more than OO-databases of the past have.
A lot of the ROMs on that site *ARE* illegal. Yes, the Soldier of Fortune listing is wrong (the one they have is legal as they got permission..it has nothing to do with Raven's FPS), but for example they do NOT have permission to have the various Nintendo games, nor games where other publishers currently own the rights, such as Frogger.
If you read WoS's FAQ it even pretty much admits that their archive isn't fully legal...And if you read the correspondence, it only really deals with SoF, it ignores the other infringing games such as Frogger, Donkey Kong, etc.
Could enable publishers to have CD-KEYs on software/games that are unique for each printed CD. Doesn't make the software uncopyable/uncrackable, of course, but it would make things a big harder on Joe Compaq who knows about 'serialz' sites but not much more.
The media hasn't been anti-war for the past 5 years, at least. If you haven't noticed the extreme right-shift of the media in that time period, then all your opinions are worthless because you're ignorant. So hows about a nice cup of STFU?
What makes you think Dubya wants the price of oil to go DOWN? Have you forgetten that many of his Texan friends produce oil and would thus benefit from a RISE in worldwide oil prices?
Actually, as far as I am aware, Avril writes her own songs. At least the lyrics, you may be talking about the "music" part - but I don't think her stuff is so much about the music as the lyrics.
Heh, believe everything you see on MTV then, do you?
The issue with ISONEWS.com is that it was really 8 different servers spread throughout the country. The DOJ did arrest the site owner for selling 'mod chips', not for the site itself.
Since shutting down 8 servers at once (some of them being out of the US) is hard, the DOJ took control of the DNS for the isonews.com domain and pointed it to their own site, which is what many people get when they go to http://www.isonews.com now.
Some people still get redirected to the existing servers, but this will happen less and less as the DNS changes propagate out to leaf nodes.
I guess that's trustworthyness through DMCA ? If you can't even secure a game box, why would I trust them with my servers !
I suppose YOU could secure a game box where the attacker has physical access to the machine? If so, someone in the security industry should hire you ASAP! But in reality you're just an anti-Microsoft idiot...so nevermind.
I think a lot of this discrimination has to do with the Law of Leaky Abstractions. In short, the further people get from the metal, the less likely they are able to fix any subtle problems that may arise when the abstraction breaks down. High level script languages are generally themselves just abstractions to lower level systems.
Of course, some people who specialize in scripting DO know the lower levels too, and thus the law doesn't apply to them, but many people whose jobs rely around scripting activities would be stuck if their abstractions leaked...
Yes, people actually care about Episode 3. Don't forget that (no matter what YOU thought of Episode 2) it is still one of top money making movies of all time. The Star Wars fanbase is a lot bigger than just the geek population and it is pretty clear that not everyone has the Lucas-hatred that the hardcore geeks do.
Actually, you could have already read about it in Wil's journal and commented on it there. That would make you ultra-geeky.
Or gay. Not that I'm saying Wil Wheaton is gay, but clearly a large number of the people who post on his site are. And I don't mean gay as in "lame", I mean gay as in "a man who likes to have sex with other men".
Haha what a scam this stupid shit is. Hint to developers: Market the game yourself. Keep 100% of the profits, not 70%. Go the shareware route, perhaps. You'll do better alone than tied to these LGP assholes.
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You didn't think that with all those viruses running around and combining in there that IIS WOULDN'T become sentient, did you?
Not likely. The REAL problem with OO databases isn't that RDBMs might be more mature or whatever else you might read, it is that the data is almost always more important to companies than the behaviors that operate on that data. For example, if the company has a database of customers, they might want to use that database in dozens of different ways, and they might want to grow it for years, if not decades. The OO-database view tends to look at things too much from the view of one single application of the data and the data gets entangled with code behavior based on that specific application. With a clean RDBMs you can hit the same database from many different applications (assuming the database has a well thought-out schema to begin with)... the data isn't so tightly wound up with a specific bit of application code.
This 'solution' doesn't fix that aspect of OO databases. In fact, it makes it worse. I will grant that it is a neat technology, but I wouldn't expect to see it take over the place of RDBMs systems any more than OO-databases of the past have.
That might have been funny except they are TPS reports. You're FIRED!
What are you...ELEVEN?
Oh yeah? You can't fire me because I QUIT!!!!
Who says I read Slashdot?
Yeah you heard me right, Linux sucks. Gonna mod me down? Well then YOU SUCK TOO.
If you read WoS's FAQ it even pretty much admits that their archive isn't fully legal...And if you read the correspondence, it only really deals with SoF, it ignores the other infringing games such as Frogger, Donkey Kong, etc.
Could enable publishers to have CD-KEYs on software/games that are unique for each printed CD. Doesn't make the software uncopyable/uncrackable, of course, but it would make things a big harder on Joe Compaq who knows about 'serialz' sites but not much more.
The media hasn't been anti-war for the past 5 years, at least. If you haven't noticed the extreme right-shift of the media in that time period, then all your opinions are worthless because you're ignorant. So hows about a nice cup of STFU?
Heh, believe everything you see on MTV then, do you?
Since shutting down 8 servers at once (some of them being out of the US) is hard, the DOJ took control of the DNS for the isonews.com domain and pointed it to their own site, which is what many people get when they go to http://www.isonews.com now.
Some people still get redirected to the existing servers, but this will happen less and less as the DNS changes propagate out to leaf nodes.
I suppose YOU could secure a game box where the attacker has physical access to the machine? If so, someone in the security industry should hire you ASAP! But in reality you're just an anti-Microsoft idiot...so nevermind.
Yes. You can. Just buy an MSDN universal subscription. VS2003 final beta has been shipping to MSDN subscribers for months now.
Of course, some people who specialize in scripting DO know the lower levels too, and thus the law doesn't apply to them, but many people whose jobs rely around scripting activities would be stuck if their abstractions leaked...
FPGAs are cool, but Linux sucks.
Because as it happens, Linux IS gay.
Linux is gay, super gay in fact.
Linux is gay. Super gay, in fact.
No, thank you, fag.
no, thank you, fag.
Yes, people actually care about Episode 3. Don't forget that (no matter what YOU thought of Episode 2) it is still one of top money making movies of all time. The Star Wars fanbase is a lot bigger than just the geek population and it is pretty clear that not everyone has the Lucas-hatred that the hardcore geeks do.
Or gay. Not that I'm saying Wil Wheaton is gay, but clearly a large number of the people who post on his site are. And I don't mean gay as in "lame", I mean gay as in "a man who likes to have sex with other men".
Haha what a scam this stupid shit is. Hint to developers: Market the game yourself. Keep 100% of the profits, not 70%. Go the shareware route, perhaps. You'll do better alone than tied to these LGP assholes.