First off, you seem angry about something. Did you spend a lot of money on a DB cert, only to be angered that others are getting the same job done with OSS and good programming techniques?
I already mentioned my apps don't focused on accounting.
I was under the impression that transactions enable you to lump together a series of queries into one transaction, so if something fails, none of the queries/inserts execute. If I'm wrong, then I stand corrected.
Lastly, I have experience with high traffic websites as well as small business apps. I am not new to application design and certainly don't just 'hack' something together. Just because I don't use commerical products doesn't mean I can't design and implement professional solutions.
I understand the importance of data integrity but also keep in mind that in the 8 years that my career has focused on this business, I never once had a query or insert fail. Never once did I have data corruption. Of course I've encountered bugs in the applcation layer that caused bad db inserts; but nothing was unfixable.
You can try to sell me tornado insurance all day long, but that doesn't mean I'm required to purchase it.
I have done enterprise apps and 2 major websites using MySQL.
The one thing that MySQL excels in is raw speed. It's faster than everything else because it doesn't have all the data integrity features that a RDBMS does.
However, I stick everything into the application layer, so MySQL lacking these features doesn't bother me a bit.
As for data integrity; I haven't done a banking application yet, so I'm unconcerned. Scheduled DB backups and logging in the application layer keeps me from needing any transaction or rollback features.
Basically, I'm hoping that the new MySQL won't sacrifice speed for all these features.
I remember a time when local government officials (FBI, NSA) had no clue that there was an entire underground of teenage kids running around, illegally bouncing telephone calls all over the world, heavily researching telephony and abusing the current infrastructure via maintenence short cuts, frequenting digital hubs exchanging all kinds of illegal information, hijacking PBX's worldwide.
Basically, it gave the ability to access and disseminate information otherwise forbidden to us. Back then, we had the power to route how information was transmitted; we had the power to to control restrictive telephony points; we had the power to understand exactly how technology works. It was the makings of a digital underground, where no agency (government or otherwise) had your name or knew anything about you. We were better than them.
The Internet has been extremely open, without government enforced controls. Today, there is no need for an underground. Real hackers have become bored and now focus instead on uncovering other technological secrets like encryption, while script kiddies and kidhacks are doing what they thought the old school hackers did. Unfortuntely, today's script kiddies learn nothing and ruin everything; an idiotic combination.
I'm telling you now, if any government starts putting in worldwide hardware control to the basic function of the Internet as a means to control the flow of information, it will create a massive, digital underground of individuals who will band together..and overcome.
No, no, please government put all kinds of controls and filters on the Internet.
All this will do is give technically savvy people such as myself much more power and would basically kick off the revolution of the Internet underground.
I like the idea of doing things that 99% of the population can't.
Why do you think MS is waiting so long before releasing a product to compete with Firefox? It's all about business tactics.
You see, MS knows that if their browser contains all of the same features as a third part browser, they will regain market share, and fast. Their browser is already included in the operating system. Why should someone like my father go out of his way to download and install a peice of software when it's already included in his OS?
MS wants to be the underdog in this deal. They don't care about losing web browser market share. They are confident that when they finally release a browser that contains similar features to the leading third party browser that they will win over the market again (like with Netscape).
Right now, they are slowly becoming the underdog in the web browser market. Just think of the headlines they will make as their new IE7 begins to redominate the web browser market. Think of the happy investors that see MS gaining ground again.
MS is making a bold move; they just might pull this off. If they do, it's win/win for them.
When CNET News.com asked Bill Gates about software patents, he shifted the subject to "intellectual property," blurring the issue with various other laws.
Then he said anyone who won't give blanket support to all these laws is a communist. Since I'm not a communist but I have criticized software patents, I got to thinking this might be aimed at me.
When someone uses the term "intellectual property," typically he's either confused himself, or trying to confuse you. The term is used to lump together copyright law, patent law and various other laws, whose requirements and effects are entirely different. Why is Mr. Gates lumping these issues together? Let's study the differences he has chosen to obscure.
Software developers are not up in arms against copyright law, because the developer of a program holds the copyright on the program; as long as the programmers wrote the code themselves, no one else has a copyright on their code. There is no danger that strangers could have a valid case of copyright infringement against them.
Patents are a different story. Software patents don't cover programs or code; they cover ideas (methods, techniques, features, algorithms, etc.). Developing a large program entails combining thousands of ideas, and even if a few of them are new, the rest needs must have come from other software the developer has seen. If each of these ideas could be patented by someone, every large program would likely infringe hundreds of patents. Developing a large program means laying oneself open to hundreds of potential lawsuits. Software patents are menaces to software developers, and to the users, who can also be sued.
A few fortunate software developers avoid most of the danger. These are the megacorporations, which typically have thousands of patents each, and cross-license with each other. This gives them an advantage over smaller rivals not in a position to do likewise. That's why it is generally the megacorporations that lobby for software patents.
Today's Microsoft is a megacorporation with thousands of patents. Microsoft said in court that the main competition for MS Windows is "Linux," meaning the free software GNU/Linux operating system. Leaked internal documents say that Microsoft aims to use software patents to stop the development of GNU/Linux.
When Mr. Gates started hyping his solution to the problem of spam, I suspected this was a plan to use patents to grab control of the Net. Sure enough, in 2004 Microsoft asked the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) to approve a mail protocol that Microsoft was trying to patent. The license policy for the protocol was designed to forbid free software entirely. No program supporting this mail protocol could be released as free software--not under the GNU GPL (General Public License), or the MPL (Mozilla Public License), or the Apache license, or either of the BSD licenses, or any other.
The IETF rejected Microsoft's protocol, but Microsoft said it would try to convince major ISPs to use it anyway. Thanks to Mr. Gates, we now know that an open Internet with protocols anyone can implement is communism; it was set up by that famous communist agent, the U.S. Department of Defense.
With Microsoft's market clout, it can impose its choice of programming system as a de-facto standard. Microsoft has already patented some.Net implementation methods, raising the concern that millions of users have been shifted to a government-issue Microsoft monopoly.
But capitalism means monopoly; at least, Gates-style capitalism does. People who think that everyone should be free to program, free to write complex software, they are communists, says Mr. Gates. But these communists have infiltrated even the Microsoft boardroom. Here's what Bill Gates told Microsoft employees in 1991:
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a comple
I love OpenOffice. I love the concept of a kick ass office sweet that runs natively on Linux. I love the fact that entire business can operate on Linux workstations using OpenOffice.
But, why the hell does OpenOffice launch so slowly? I mean, really. Gnumeric launches in two seconds. Abiword launches in 4 seconds. OpenOffice (writer or calc) launches in 25 seconds?? An app that starts piggy, feels piggy.
What about an option to load up the OpenOffice libraries as soon as you log into your xsession (like the way MS does it)?
Something must change for users to feel good when clicking on their OpenOffice Writer icon...
Couldn't they just "buy" an hour timeslot from the station. They could show their own commercials and everything. At least this way, it's possible to make enough money to make another season.
They're not stuck with one station either. Just shopping it around, pick the best deal. Trekkies won't have a problem switching channels to watch their favorite show.
Speaking of 5.1, does anyone know what decent 5.1 soundcard works well in Linux? I'm not an audiophile, so I'm speaking about a typical consumer product.
On a side note, I've just setup a small office (all Fedora 3 workstations). The fileserver is connected to the stereo and I found this project called Tunez. (with a 5.1 capable receiver, which is why the need for a linux supported 5.1 soundcard). If anyone has one stereo system in the office that everyone shares, I highly recommend using Tunez as it allows your co-workers to choose and vote on songs in the playlist.
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If you're not trolling and really interested in a "killer app" with regards to wearable computing, I suggest you read this paper by Steve Mann which explains exactly how augmented reality can improve your awareness in everyday situations.
The man is truly a genius and well ahead of our time.
I can't remember the last time I heard anyone talk about the space station. I mean, people hang out up there (right?) but they aren't doing much more.
Are you kidding me? We are still studying the long term effects a zero-G environment has on a human body. So far, studies have shown that periods of weightlessness reduce the body's bone mass, cause muscle-wasting, depress the immune system and lead to changes usually associated with aging.
If we're ever to seriously think about colonizing space or even another planet, we need to focus on the afforementioned obstacles first.
abuse? What, they made them play grabass with each other for 15 minutes? that's abuse?
If you're a prisoner of war and all you're made to do is run around and play grabass with your fellow detainees, you don't call that abuse. you call that lucky.
I could imagine if I had a choice: You are a POW. Which would you choose?
A) bamboo under the fingernails while living in 1x1 meter bamboo cell half sinking in water.
B) give your body up for unethical scientific research (you might live).
C) be used as human shields to guard ammo dumps
D) run around grabbing each others asses while listening to some Benny Hill music.
Also, with the issue of indemnification, who would be a potential litigant against linux when SCO's dead? Novell, who owns SuSE?
I've asked that exact question myself. The only person who could really do damage in this regard would be Andrew S. Tanenbaum, although that actually happening is far from likely.
Thanks for letting us know about this issue. This type of ad is called a rich media ad. You should only see it once every 100 times you visit Gamers.com, so we didn't think it was that much of an intrusion. Personally, I've never seen the ad (and I go to the site 10 times a day).
However, the entire reason we exist is for people like yourself, so I'm going to forward this up the chain and see if we can come up with a better solution.
If IGN or Gamespot or Gamespy or EGM give a review that seems to be an anomaly, ignore it. It's a bought review.
You can be sure that at Gamers.com there are no bought reviews. In fact, in certain situations we've even received hate email by developers and publishers for not praising their game. We report what we consider to be fair and just, despite all the buzz.
Of course, not everyone should trust a single reviewer's opinion over a particular title. That's why we have a special section (Newest Games) in our forums to let new games fall under even more scrutiny by our members.
Between reading a review and following up on other gamers opinions, one should have a rough idea if the game is worth purchasing.
At the very least I want to know how to generate a stream of random numbers that reproduces this effect
That's really the problem, isn't it? To generate a true random stream of numbers is incredibly difficult, if not impossible. How are all these "eggs" creating random numbers? If they're using the same method of creating random numbers, of course they will find similar conclusions.
Once all these "eggs" discover a flucuation pattern, one need only read the newspapers and 'select the data' that these flucuations are responding to. They're simply selecting their data.
This isn't just bad science, this is stupid science.
I run a popular forum, and I find that picking the right moderators to keep the board clean of filth is not an easy task. Once you find the right folks to help moderate, it's all cake from there.
I've always wanted to put a video cam on a remote-controlled airplane, possibly even a jet.
If you can get a RC plane with mounted videocam that's fast enough, you can use it on road trips by having the plane fly ahead and recon the upcoming freeway for speed traps. plus, take off and landing could be interesting as you just stick the plane out the window and let go (or catch). it would sure make those incredibly boring road trips much more fun.
Couldn't you also use an RC plane with explosives and videocam attached as an assissination method?
Couldn't you build a large RC plane, mount a video cam onbaord, stash it with drugs in Mexico and fly it across the border? Sure, the distance would be large for both the video and control signal, but what about tailing it in a real aircraft?
Ohh, so much evilness but so much fun. Can anything think of any "goodboy" uses for such a device?
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Boy, I sure remember those days. I had a different bootable floppy to use depending on what game I wanted to play.
I remember a very short time after windows95 became available, I installed some A-10 flight sim.
Slip in the CD, then click Next,Next,Next,Finish. The most amazing thing I ever witnessed.
I understand that competition is good, but if Linux focused on one window environment then perhaps procedures like the aforementioned would be a reality.
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Wow, how did you know? It's like magic!
First off, you seem angry about something. Did you spend a lot of money on a DB cert, only to be angered that others are getting the same job done with OSS and good programming techniques?
I already mentioned my apps don't focused on accounting.
I was under the impression that transactions enable you to lump together a series of queries into one transaction, so if something fails, none of the queries/inserts execute. If I'm wrong, then I stand corrected.
Lastly, I have experience with high traffic websites as well as small business apps. I am not new to application design and certainly don't just 'hack' something together. Just because I don't use commerical products doesn't mean I can't design and implement professional solutions.
I understand the importance of data integrity but also keep in mind that in the 8 years that my career has focused on this business, I never once had a query or insert fail. Never once did I have data corruption. Of course I've encountered bugs in the applcation layer that caused bad db inserts; but nothing was unfixable.
You can try to sell me tornado insurance all day long, but that doesn't mean I'm required to purchase it.
I have done enterprise apps and 2 major websites using MySQL.
The one thing that MySQL excels in is raw speed. It's faster than everything else because it doesn't have all the data integrity features that a RDBMS does.
However, I stick everything into the application layer, so MySQL lacking these features doesn't bother me a bit.
As for data integrity; I haven't done a banking application yet, so I'm unconcerned.
Scheduled DB backups and logging in the application layer keeps me from needing any transaction or rollback features.
Basically, I'm hoping that the new MySQL won't sacrifice speed for all these features.
I remember a time when local government officials (FBI, NSA) had no clue that there was an entire underground of teenage kids running around, illegally bouncing telephone calls all over the world, heavily researching telephony and abusing the current infrastructure via maintenence short cuts, frequenting digital hubs exchanging all kinds of illegal information, hijacking PBX's worldwide.
Basically, it gave the ability to access and disseminate information otherwise forbidden to us. Back then, we had the power to route how information was transmitted; we had the power to to control restrictive telephony points; we had the power to understand exactly how technology works. It was the makings of a digital underground, where no agency (government or otherwise) had your name or knew anything about you. We were better than them.
The Internet has been extremely open, without government enforced controls. Today, there is no need for an underground. Real hackers have become bored and now focus instead on uncovering other technological secrets like encryption, while script kiddies and kidhacks are doing what they thought the old school hackers did. Unfortuntely, today's script kiddies learn nothing and ruin everything; an idiotic combination.
I'm telling you now, if any government starts putting in worldwide hardware control to the basic function of the Internet as a means to control the flow of information, it will create a massive, digital underground of individuals who will band together..and overcome.
In a way, I'm rather looking forward to it.
I'm an American living in a non-American,non-European country.
I am sad to see Americans losing their freedoms day by day in the name of security (Patriot Act, DMCA, etc).
I mean, what's next?
No, no, please government put all kinds of controls and filters on the Internet.
All this will do is give technically savvy people such as myself much more power and would basically kick off the revolution of the Internet underground.
I like the idea of doing things that 99% of the population can't.
Why do you think MS is waiting so long before releasing a product to compete with Firefox? It's all about business tactics.
You see, MS knows that if their browser contains all of the same features as a third part browser, they will regain market share, and fast. Their browser is already included in the operating system. Why should someone like my father go out of his way to download and install a peice of software when it's already included in his OS?
MS wants to be the underdog in this deal. They don't care about losing web browser market share. They are confident that when they finally release a browser that contains similar features to the leading third party browser that they will win over the market again (like with Netscape).
Right now, they are slowly becoming the underdog in the web browser market. Just think of the headlines they will make as their new IE7 begins to redominate the web browser market. Think of the happy investors that see MS gaining ground again.
MS is making a bold move; they just might pull this off. If they do, it's win/win for them.
Richard Stallman really says it best:
.Net implementation methods, raising the concern that millions of users have been shifted to a government-issue Microsoft monopoly.
When CNET News.com asked Bill Gates about software patents, he shifted the subject to "intellectual property," blurring the issue with various other laws.
Then he said anyone who won't give blanket support to all these laws is a communist. Since I'm not a communist but I have criticized software patents, I got to thinking this might be aimed at me.
When someone uses the term "intellectual property," typically he's either confused himself, or trying to confuse you. The term is used to lump together copyright law, patent law and various other laws, whose requirements and effects are entirely different. Why is Mr. Gates lumping these issues together? Let's study the differences he has chosen to obscure.
Software developers are not up in arms against copyright law, because the developer of a program holds the copyright on the program; as long as the programmers wrote the code themselves, no one else has a copyright on their code. There is no danger that strangers could have a valid case of copyright infringement against them.
Patents are a different story. Software patents don't cover programs or code; they cover ideas (methods, techniques, features, algorithms, etc.). Developing a large program entails combining thousands of ideas, and even if a few of them are new, the rest needs must have come from other software the developer has seen. If each of these ideas could be patented by someone, every large program would likely infringe hundreds of patents. Developing a large program means laying oneself open to hundreds of potential lawsuits. Software patents are menaces to software developers, and to the users, who can also be sued.
A few fortunate software developers avoid most of the danger. These are the megacorporations, which typically have thousands of patents each, and cross-license with each other. This gives them an advantage over smaller rivals not in a position to do likewise. That's why it is generally the megacorporations that lobby for software patents.
Today's Microsoft is a megacorporation with thousands of patents. Microsoft said in court that the main competition for MS Windows is "Linux," meaning the free software GNU/Linux operating system. Leaked internal documents say that Microsoft aims to use software patents to stop the development of GNU/Linux.
When Mr. Gates started hyping his solution to the problem of spam, I suspected this was a plan to use patents to grab control of the Net. Sure enough, in 2004 Microsoft asked the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) to approve a mail protocol that Microsoft was trying to patent. The license policy for the protocol was designed to forbid free software entirely. No program supporting this mail protocol could be released as free software--not under the GNU GPL (General Public License), or the MPL (Mozilla Public License), or the Apache license, or either of the BSD licenses, or any other.
The IETF rejected Microsoft's protocol, but Microsoft said it would try to convince major ISPs to use it anyway. Thanks to Mr. Gates, we now know that an open Internet with protocols anyone can implement is communism; it was set up by that famous communist agent, the U.S. Department of Defense.
With Microsoft's market clout, it can impose its choice of programming system as a de-facto standard. Microsoft has already patented some
But capitalism means monopoly; at least, Gates-style capitalism does. People who think that everyone should be free to program, free to write complex software, they are communists, says Mr. Gates. But these communists have infiltrated even the Microsoft boardroom. Here's what Bill Gates told Microsoft employees in 1991:
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a comple
I love OpenOffice. I love the concept of a kick ass office sweet that runs natively on Linux. I love the fact that entire business can operate on Linux workstations using OpenOffice.
But, why the hell does OpenOffice launch so slowly? I mean, really. Gnumeric launches in two seconds. Abiword launches in 4 seconds. OpenOffice (writer or calc) launches in 25 seconds?? An app that starts piggy, feels piggy.
What about an option to load up the OpenOffice libraries as soon as you log into your xsession (like the way MS does it)?
Something must change for users to feel good when clicking on their OpenOffice Writer icon...
English must be your second language. You're being modded as 'funny' because readers don't understand what the hell you're saying.
Couldn't they just "buy" an hour timeslot from the station. They could show their own commercials and everything. At least this way, it's possible to make enough money to make another season.
They're not stuck with one station either. Just shopping it around, pick the best deal. Trekkies won't have a problem switching channels to watch their favorite show.
The Airtunes device also supports 5.1 DTS sound.
Speaking of 5.1, does anyone know what decent 5.1 soundcard works well in Linux? I'm not an audiophile, so I'm speaking about a typical consumer product.
On a side note, I've just setup a small office (all Fedora 3 workstations). The fileserver is connected to the stereo and I found this project called Tunez. (with a 5.1 capable receiver, which is why the need for a linux supported 5.1 soundcard).
If anyone has one stereo system in the office that everyone shares, I highly recommend using Tunez as it allows your co-workers to choose and vote on songs in the playlist.
If you're not trolling and really interested in a "killer app" with regards to wearable computing, I suggest you read this paper by Steve Mann which explains exactly how augmented reality can improve your awareness in everyday situations.
The man is truly a genius and well ahead of our time.
I can't remember the last time I heard anyone talk about the space station. I mean, people hang out up there (right?) but they aren't doing much more.
Are you kidding me? We are still studying the long term effects a zero-G environment has on a human body. So far, studies have shown that periods of weightlessness reduce the body's bone mass, cause muscle-wasting, depress the immune system and lead to changes usually associated with aging.
If we're ever to seriously think about colonizing space or even another planet, we need to focus on the afforementioned obstacles first.
abuse? What, they made them play grabass with each other for 15 minutes? that's abuse?
If you're a prisoner of war and all you're made to do is run around and play grabass with your fellow detainees, you don't call that abuse. you call that lucky.
I could imagine if I had a choice:
You are a POW. Which would you choose?
A) bamboo under the fingernails while living in 1x1 meter bamboo cell half sinking in water.
B) give your body up for unethical scientific research (you might live).
C) be used as human shields to guard ammo dumps
D) run around grabbing each others asses while listening to some Benny Hill music.
I would choose D, no question.
Also, with the issue of indemnification, who would be a potential litigant against linux when SCO's dead? Novell, who owns SuSE?
I've asked that exact question myself. The only person who could really do damage in this regard would be Andrew S. Tanenbaum, although that actually happening is far from likely.
Thanks for letting us know about this issue.
This type of ad is called a rich media ad. You should only see it once every 100 times you visit Gamers.com, so we didn't think it was that much of an intrusion. Personally, I've never seen the ad (and I go to the site 10 times a day).
However, the entire reason we exist is for people like yourself, so I'm going to forward this up the chain and see if we can come up with a better solution.
If IGN or Gamespot or Gamespy or EGM give a review that seems to be an anomaly, ignore it. It's a bought review.
You can be sure that at Gamers.com there are no bought reviews. In fact, in certain situations we've even received hate email by developers and publishers for not praising their game. We report what we consider to be fair and just, despite all the buzz.
Of course, not everyone should trust a single reviewer's opinion over a particular title. That's why we have a special section (Newest Games) in our forums to let new games fall under even more scrutiny by our members.
Between reading a review and following up on other gamers opinions, one should have a rough idea if the game is worth purchasing.
At the very least I want to know how to generate a stream of random numbers that reproduces this effect
That's really the problem, isn't it? To generate a true random stream of numbers is incredibly difficult, if not impossible. How are all these "eggs" creating random numbers? If they're using the same method of creating random numbers, of course they will find similar conclusions.
Once all these "eggs" discover a flucuation pattern, one need only read the newspapers and 'select the data' that these flucuations are responding to. They're simply selecting their data.
This isn't just bad science, this is stupid science.
We never found an adequate defence against it.
I run a popular forum, and I find that picking the right moderators to keep the board clean of filth is not an easy task. Once you find the right folks to help moderate, it's all cake from there.
I've always wanted to put a video cam on a remote-controlled airplane, possibly even a jet.
If you can get a RC plane with mounted videocam that's fast enough, you can use it on road trips by having the plane fly ahead and recon the upcoming freeway for speed traps. plus, take off and landing could be interesting as you just stick the plane out the window and let go (or catch). it would sure make those incredibly boring road trips much more fun.
Couldn't you also use an RC plane with explosives and videocam attached as an assissination method?
Couldn't you build a large RC plane, mount a video cam onbaord, stash it with drugs in Mexico and fly it across the border? Sure, the distance would be large for both the video and control signal, but what about tailing it in a real aircraft?
Ohh, so much evilness but so much fun. Can anything think of any "goodboy" uses for such a device?
dammit, you're blowing our cover!
someone please gag this man!
Boy, I sure remember those days. I had a different bootable floppy to use depending on what game I wanted to play.
I remember a very short time after windows95 became available, I installed some A-10 flight sim.
Slip in the CD, then click Next,Next,Next,Finish. The most amazing thing I ever witnessed.
I understand that competition is good, but if Linux focused on one window environment then perhaps procedures like the aforementioned would be a reality.
The only time I've seen this problem is when using WinXP and Firefox.
Never, I repeat never has this happened on my linux desktop.
Personally if I want to ring a telephone, I call from a telephone, its still cheaper than skype when I use an alternative distance carrier.
You may not be aware, but there's an entire world that exists outside of America.
I use Skype to call from Russia to Europe and America. Skype is mostly designed for international travellers.