I've also heard Vegas bigwigs say that they love card-counters because very few of them do it well enough to actually make money. A lot of money is made off of gamblers who think they have a winning system.
Planning to succeed by (authentically) going viral is like buying lottery tickets. If I was looking at a business plan that even included the word 'viral' in it, I'd walk away.
Couldn't have the independent devs getting the top spots, now could they? That'd be embarrassing.
You make it sound like it's their fault that your excellent indie game isn't in the top 50. Why would anyone think that strong marketing isn't needed in a crowded marketplace?
I've been paying attention to this as well, and invariably the version of PostgreSQL is older, usually 7.x when 8.4 is the latest production-ready release. I would love to see more current versions of PostgreSQL.
The problem with moving is that MySQL (like PHP) has a huge install base in ISPs. If you're using shared hosting, you've got MySQL available, guaranteed, and that tends to determine what people use and know.
I develop with both PHP and Python/Django, and every time I try to push for the latter, I have to overcome the perception that PHP is king and should be used, even in environments that don't require it.
The threat of Oracle leaving MySQL to whither on the vine is part of it, but it's also the actions of the MYSQL AB founders forking their product, and several more forks in response. No one is quite sure which is the 'correct' or standard MySQL anymore.
MySQL's install base in ISPs is huge, though, and will determine a lot about usage going forward. There'll really only be a seismic shift from MySQL to PostgreSQL if the ISPs make the move.
MySQL has been forked several times since Sun bought them. There's now a confusing welter of forks of MySQL, and no one is sure which is the 'real' one anymore since the original owners of MySQL AB are responsible for one of the forks.
MySQL has an ace in the hole, however: a HUGE install base in ISPs. MySQL is THE default database you're going to be exposed to for web hosting, and a perception that it's being allowed to whither on the vine will kick up a backlash against Oracle (just as it did with Sun).
Well, the prize is for what the committee thinks it's for. If they destroy its prestige, that's their business.
If you look at the history of this prize, you will see it has most of the time been used to acknowledge people from racial minorities that contributed to reducing segregation of their minority.
Looking at this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_Peace_Prize_laureates, I'll give you Martin Luther King, Desmond Tutu, and Nelson Mandela. The rest are either white or got it for signing signficant peace accords (e.g., Anwar Sadat), or pre-democracy/human rights work within the context of their own ethic group (e.g., Aung San Suu Kyi, the Dalai Lama). You're simply wrong that the award has been granted in any significant numbers for "reducing segregation of their minority". That may have been an effect of their work, but the award has (usually) been granted for a fairly obvious peaceful act. Giving it to Obama is pretty weak in comparison, but there's no reason to doubt that they said what the real reason is: restoring diplomacy in the world.
Scandinavians aren't in the business of giving out affirmative action Nobels. They're so white there that they're not that clued in about racism in the U.S.
Your assumption that race is the only reason he got it is what's racist. The committee was slapping Bush in the face, not elevating a black man. Giving Obama the Nobel is a PR exercise in shitting on the last president and his history of war-before-diplomacy.
I think that if we could read the Russian nuclear war plans, we'd find an unusually large number were targeted at China. The Russians were worried more about them pouring over the border than they were about a first strike from Ronnie.
Indeed: the law is nothing but words on paper. It has no reality, no effect, and offers no protection.
I think I'll go clean my gun again, because obviously being against the law is no reason for anyone not to do anything. If I inventory your fridge and masturbate in your bed, I've done nothing wrong if I clean up after myself. Hell, I've done you a public service when I put the video on youtube by educating you on your need to lock your door.
In the note I leave behind, I'll leave an address where you can forward a thank you note. I'll also expect you at my trial to testify about how you plan to buy me a beer in gratitude that I didn't destroy anything.
Even granting the OP's flawed analogy, I don't care if MacKinnon is placed into perpetual servitude to NASA and the U.S. government. The bad act started with him. He knowingly committed the acts for which he is being punished, and I see no need or use for treating him leniently because he was a flake looking for UFO material, or because he didn't trash the system.
When you, of your own volition and under your own power, commit crimes, you own the consequences. Don't want the consequences? Don't commit the crime.
Selection bias. First, no one here is posting saying "I have an extremely fair employer who works closely with me in a very just way to ensure that I do my job well, and in turn I work very hard to please my employer so that my employment is safe and full of opportunity." The people responding here are ones with stories to share about how they got fired, and people who are fired rarely blame themselves or consider it to be justified.
Second, geeks in general seem prey to misconceptions about how the world should operate in ways that are very logical and rational and (invariably) beneficial to them. Their collisions with real life tend to lead to anecdotes posted on./ about how much they suffer at the hands of a cruel, cruel world.
No, what saved Lego was lucrative merchandising tie-ins with Hollywood, expansion into video games, and brutal reform of a very slack internal corporate culture.
The press office is deliberately set up as a separate entity. They don't know ELF terrorists, they don't know about attacks before they happen, all they do is accept anonymous communiques from ELFs and broadcast them, which isn't illegal. And it probably can't be made illegal without infringing the first amendment about a hundred different ways.
I understood perfectly, I was just told something different from what you're hearing. The AppleCare guy I spoke to actually put me on hold to confirm that with the $29 version, you need to have Leopard already installed. It's only with the $169 box set that you get a full installer--and the AppleCare guy said that they both have the full installer, it's just that the $29 version checks that it's going over Leopard. I specifically asked him why anyone would buy the $169 version if the $29 version didn't require Leopard--that's what made him check.
I actually worked with lawyers a couple jobs ago, and found them to be very likable people in general. They're very pragmatic, they tend to have thick skins, and have a very healthy scepticism about everything. And for the vast majority of them, it's simply a job that interests them, not a vocation that consumes them. They're usually the ultimate realists, and don't kid themselves about what they're doing.
So I'd reverse your ratio there, and say 2% of the lawyers make the other 98% look bad. You just don't hear about the ones putting in regular hours, collecting their paychecks, and going home every night.
For which waste would you rather pay: wasted bandwidth from spam, or wasted court time from a professional litigant who sees anti-spam laws as a get-right-quick scheme?
I suspect that the wasted bandwidth is less noticeable in daily life.
Actually, I confirmed on the phone with AppleCare that the upgrade version will require an install of Leopard to work. If you're on 10.4 you'll need to spend $169 for the box set that comes with iLife and iWorks.
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I've also heard Vegas bigwigs say that they love card-counters because very few of them do it well enough to actually make money. A lot of money is made off of gamblers who think they have a winning system.
Planning to succeed by (authentically) going viral is like buying lottery tickets. If I was looking at a business plan that even included the word 'viral' in it, I'd walk away.
Couldn't have the independent devs getting the top spots, now could they? That'd be embarrassing.
You make it sound like it's their fault that your excellent indie game isn't in the top 50. Why would anyone think that strong marketing isn't needed in a crowded marketplace?
Who's your host? My issue with 7.x is that a large part of the work on 8 was improving performance, something they were largely successful with.
I've been paying attention to this as well, and invariably the version of PostgreSQL is older, usually 7.x when 8.4 is the latest production-ready release. I would love to see more current versions of PostgreSQL.
The problem with moving is that MySQL (like PHP) has a huge install base in ISPs. If you're using shared hosting, you've got MySQL available, guaranteed, and that tends to determine what people use and know.
I develop with both PHP and Python/Django, and every time I try to push for the latter, I have to overcome the perception that PHP is king and should be used, even in environments that don't require it.
The threat of Oracle leaving MySQL to whither on the vine is part of it, but it's also the actions of the MYSQL AB founders forking their product, and several more forks in response. No one is quite sure which is the 'correct' or standard MySQL anymore.
MySQL's install base in ISPs is huge, though, and will determine a lot about usage going forward. There'll really only be a seismic shift from MySQL to PostgreSQL if the ISPs make the move.
MySQL has been forked several times since Sun bought them. There's now a confusing welter of forks of MySQL, and no one is sure which is the 'real' one anymore since the original owners of MySQL AB are responsible for one of the forks.
MySQL has an ace in the hole, however: a HUGE install base in ISPs. MySQL is THE default database you're going to be exposed to for web hosting, and a perception that it's being allowed to whither on the vine will kick up a backlash against Oracle (just as it did with Sun).
Well, the prize is for what the committee thinks it's for. If they destroy its prestige, that's their business.
Looking at this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_Peace_Prize_laureates, I'll give you Martin Luther King, Desmond Tutu, and Nelson Mandela. The rest are either white or got it for signing signficant peace accords (e.g., Anwar Sadat), or pre-democracy/human rights work within the context of their own ethic group (e.g., Aung San Suu Kyi, the Dalai Lama). You're simply wrong that the award has been granted in any significant numbers for "reducing segregation of their minority". That may have been an effect of their work, but the award has (usually) been granted for a fairly obvious peaceful act. Giving it to Obama is pretty weak in comparison, but there's no reason to doubt that they said what the real reason is: restoring diplomacy in the world.
Scandinavians aren't in the business of giving out affirmative action Nobels. They're so white there that they're not that clued in about racism in the U.S.
Your assumption that race is the only reason he got it is what's racist. The committee was slapping Bush in the face, not elevating a black man. Giving Obama the Nobel is a PR exercise in shitting on the last president and his history of war-before-diplomacy.
That's some awesome racism right there, especially since Obama isn't the first black guy to get the Nobel.
Pah! You've still got all your original teeth.
The posters at Stack Overflow know what they're talking about.
They collide them at an angle because that's the most typical head-on collision scenario. Full head-on collisions are rare.
I think that if we could read the Russian nuclear war plans, we'd find an unusually large number were targeted at China. The Russians were worried more about them pouring over the border than they were about a first strike from Ronnie.
Indeed: the law is nothing but words on paper. It has no reality, no effect, and offers no protection.
I think I'll go clean my gun again, because obviously being against the law is no reason for anyone not to do anything. If I inventory your fridge and masturbate in your bed, I've done nothing wrong if I clean up after myself. Hell, I've done you a public service when I put the video on youtube by educating you on your need to lock your door.
In the note I leave behind, I'll leave an address where you can forward a thank you note. I'll also expect you at my trial to testify about how you plan to buy me a beer in gratitude that I didn't destroy anything.
Even granting the OP's flawed analogy, I don't care if MacKinnon is placed into perpetual servitude to NASA and the U.S. government. The bad act started with him. He knowingly committed the acts for which he is being punished, and I see no need or use for treating him leniently because he was a flake looking for UFO material, or because he didn't trash the system.
When you, of your own volition and under your own power, commit crimes, you own the consequences. Don't want the consequences? Don't commit the crime.
Selection bias. First, no one here is posting saying "I have an extremely fair employer who works closely with me in a very just way to ensure that I do my job well, and in turn I work very hard to please my employer so that my employment is safe and full of opportunity." The people responding here are ones with stories to share about how they got fired, and people who are fired rarely blame themselves or consider it to be justified.
Second, geeks in general seem prey to misconceptions about how the world should operate in ways that are very logical and rational and (invariably) beneficial to them. Their collisions with real life tend to lead to anecdotes posted on ./ about how much they suffer at the hands of a cruel, cruel world.
(c.f., any thread mentioning Hans Reiser)
No, what saved Lego was lucrative merchandising tie-ins with Hollywood, expansion into video games, and brutal reform of a very slack internal corporate culture.
Melvin [Jack Nicholson] from As Good As It Gets
The press office is deliberately set up as a separate entity. They don't know ELF terrorists, they don't know about attacks before they happen, all they do is accept anonymous communiques from ELFs and broadcast them, which isn't illegal. And it probably can't be made illegal without infringing the first amendment about a hundred different ways.
I understood perfectly, I was just told something different from what you're hearing. The AppleCare guy I spoke to actually put me on hold to confirm that with the $29 version, you need to have Leopard already installed. It's only with the $169 box set that you get a full installer--and the AppleCare guy said that they both have the full installer, it's just that the $29 version checks that it's going over Leopard. I specifically asked him why anyone would buy the $169 version if the $29 version didn't require Leopard--that's what made him check.
I actually worked with lawyers a couple jobs ago, and found them to be very likable people in general. They're very pragmatic, they tend to have thick skins, and have a very healthy scepticism about everything. And for the vast majority of them, it's simply a job that interests them, not a vocation that consumes them. They're usually the ultimate realists, and don't kid themselves about what they're doing.
So I'd reverse your ratio there, and say 2% of the lawyers make the other 98% look bad. You just don't hear about the ones putting in regular hours, collecting their paychecks, and going home every night.
For which waste would you rather pay: wasted bandwidth from spam, or wasted court time from a professional litigant who sees anti-spam laws as a get-right-quick scheme?
I suspect that the wasted bandwidth is less noticeable in daily life.
Actually, I confirmed on the phone with AppleCare that the upgrade version will require an install of Leopard to work. If you're on 10.4 you'll need to spend $169 for the box set that comes with iLife and iWorks.