Exactly!.. kind of. It still doesn't make much sense. I understand the effect perfectly, but Lost was playing a little loose with that one. I was sort of a fool to think it would be more of a science explanation than a fantasy one. My hopes for the show have decreased dramatically.
My thinking exactly. Sort of. That might be a step up coming from quicktime for java, but still doesn't sit well with me. I haven't had a ton of experience with either Qt for Java, flex, or any other alternative. But, this being slashdot I'll make an ignorant complaint/ suggestion anyway. The right way to do that is Smil. Its an xml based multimedia presentation language, thats poorly supported by very few companies (real doing the least worst job). Why, why, why didn't anyone at all make it work well? It would have been awesome. Even with all resources on the same computer, the real implementation sucks. Being real, it trys to buffer the multimedia sources before beginning. Anyway, I haven't looked at Silverlight, but it sounds like the same idea, but infected with microsoftish style. I've seen enough crappy microsoft xml to know better than to trust them to design anything using it.
Ok, that makes more sense. I would think then that row level replication is physical replication, but its tough to say. The two databases could use completely different storage engines in mysql. The master could be using innodb tables, and the slave could be csv. So the data would be the same, but it wouldn't be stored byte for byte in the same manner.
No, its a physically different disk. There is the federation engine which does reference a table on another server. So if it was a normal innodb table on server A and a federated table on server B that was pointed at the table on server A. That's somewhat similar to what you are talking about, but there is increased overhead as the federated table actually queries the server the table lives on. You could are other ways to tell mysql where a table is stored, but having two servers access the same table on the same disk is not safe.
hmm.. Yeah, After looking at the MERGE INTO issue I understand what you are talking about. There really isn't anything equivalent in MySql, despite the wikipedia article's claim to the contrary. The MySql alternative listed there INSERT.. ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE only works if a duplicate key would be created. There are situations I am dealing with right now that show the limitations of that approach. I'll talk with my people and see if I can't come up with an equivalent solution.
On the other hand, the MERGE INTO can lead to so complex of a statement, it seems like a magnet for deadlocks, if not properly used. Foreign Key's are going Storage Engine Independent in 6.0. I know what you're referring to with the stored procedures/ triggers thing. I'm of the anti stored procedure school this month anyway, but if I weren't I could see how that could be an issue.
You haven't kept up. Sun stated that nothing was going to change with the license. The "closed source" portion had already been released under the gpl and Sun said it would stay that way. In Fact they just moved from the closed source bitkeeper to bazaar for source code control, allowing anyone to track their progress.
PostgreSQL is a fine Database as well. MySql just seems to be used more in web environments.
Not exactly. 5.1 introduces row based replication as opposed to the statement based replication that is incompatible with the new behavior. Statement based replication has the slaves execute the exact same statement on the slave. Row based just passes the new values of the modification to the slave.
I Had the same problem in the Caribbean. We ultimately just subscribed to the three different satellite services, and just had our network route the traffic accordingly. And yeah voip works fine over satellite. I don't know how it works so well, but it does work.
they'd probably make more money off them than a ssh client.
You have to read my posts with the understanding that I will contradict myself halfway through my post. Because the reality of most situations lie somewhere between the several opinions. One one hand its frustrating that it doesn't do what I want (something I hold as much more useful than the other features that will be included. Basically, its the equivalent of wanting a power drill included in a happy meal), on the other hand as you pointed out the universe does not revolve around me, but around the workings of an invisible hand or two.
wow that is amazing. I can't believe this is the first time I'm hearing about Malbolge. I used to collect odd programming languages. I would have thought that Funge-98 was the craziest. Now, I'm not so sure. Malbolge seems like its more of a difficult to exploit buffer overflow than a language. Then again, maybe thats the point. Now, if you could implement an interpreter in funge-98 that would take brainfuck as its input and out put the corresponding Malbolge program. We'd all have a new ruler of the planet earth, if he or she desired to rule. as puny humans would be unable to stop anyone capable of the intellectual challenge from doing anything else they put their mind to.
Good point, that I seem to keep forgetting. I don't actually have an iphone, though I was thinking about making the switch with the 3G. However, I wouldn't want to do a lot of editing on such a small screen anyways. It would be nice to simply log in run a couple commands to check server status, iostat, sar, take a look at log files and run commands.
And yet, they think the market badly needs more stupid phone based games and animated emoticons. And in an even more depressing thought, they'd probably make more money off them than a ssh client. People who want ssh clients, are probably the kind of people that don't want to pay for ssh clients. If its not free, they'll probably hack the firmware to install a free one.
Also, its not like this is the first time people have reinvented wheels. My first job as an intern I recognized a need for a finding text in a file program. Dos 6.2 didn't have such a program with the flexibility I needed. So I took a day and wrote it in pascal. Basically a poor man's grep -- with wildcards! I told my supervisor what I had done at the end of the week and he looked at me kind of funny and said you mean "you rewrote grep ? Its included in turbo pascal for dos" I rewrote a lot of software that summer that had already been invented. Good times, Good times.
They do need to be able to make the most out of minimal input from the user. The user might very likely have a minimal degree of movement of whatever the prosthetic is connected to. It would help greatly if the arm was intelligent enough to guess what movement the user was trying to do based upon the circumstance. If you were playing air hockey it would interpret your movements as attempts to play air hockey. If you were trying to play the guitar, it would interpret them in that fashion. There could be a sort of learning process for both the user and the arm as they learned how to work better with each other.
Yeah but if they created a working human like arm with the strength and reaction time of an average human and it still beat everyone in arm wrestling or air hockey, then I would be impressed. That kind of research would also be very useful for creating artificial limbs.
I don't really think that it does. There are IT enthusiast, if you will and then there are IT experts. An enthusiast may know how to change their background picture, and may love to play WOW. Most media outlets would call them a computer Geek. In fact I think the very definition of a geek that I would agree to if it were to be applied to me would be whether or not I used Linux. So by definition, those who do not use linux are not geeks. Of course, I prefer to call the enthusiasts geeks and myself a nerd. Nerds are more intelligent than geeks and are more objective in their decision making.
Look at the comments on amazon: other users are idiots.
Searching for anything is more efficient via text interface. For browsing with in a category , you can't do much better than a itunes like 3d -flip. Adding a 3-d avatar based interface will not improve either.
Are you suggesting muzak is something that needs to be added to online purchases? Or that its impossible to play music while browsing amazon? either interpretation is a disturbing insight to your personality
Yeah. Its nice that they've open sourced it and it really does look like a good solution to the problem, but the fact that so much time has passed since it was created before its release may hamper adoption. The weight of having Google behind it may overcome some of the problems, but for now its just another xml replacement that will crop up from time to time and cause some confusion and frustration for people. As a web service developer, it won't be long before some one now complains that they can't access the service with it. *Sigh*.
GPL v2 doesn't say anything about use. Its all about distribution of the program. You can use it however you want ( See Tivo), you just can't distribute it with out also distributing the source. You might argue that distribution is a use, I would argue, however that use is far too broad a term to apply to the restrictions of the license.
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Exactly! .. kind of. It still doesn't make much sense. I understand the effect perfectly, but Lost was playing a little loose with that one. I was sort of a fool to think it would be more of a science explanation than a fantasy one. My hopes for the show have decreased dramatically.
My thinking exactly. Sort of. That might be a step up coming from quicktime for java, but still doesn't sit well with me. I haven't had a ton of experience with either Qt for Java, flex, or any other alternative. But, this being slashdot I'll make an ignorant complaint/ suggestion anyway. The right way to do that is Smil. Its an xml based multimedia presentation language, thats poorly supported by very few companies (real doing the least worst job). Why, why, why didn't anyone at all make it work well? It would have been awesome. Even with all resources on the same computer, the real implementation sucks. Being real, it trys to buffer the multimedia sources before beginning. Anyway, I haven't looked at Silverlight, but it sounds like the same idea, but infected with microsoftish style. I've seen enough crappy microsoft xml to know better than to trust them to design anything using it.
Ok, that makes more sense. I would think then that row level replication is physical replication, but its tough to say. The two databases could use completely different storage engines in mysql. The master could be using innodb tables, and the slave could be csv. So the data would be the same, but it wouldn't be stored byte for byte in the same manner.
No, its a physically different disk. There is the federation engine which does reference a table on another server. So if it was a normal innodb table on server A and a federated table on server B that was pointed at the table on server A. That's somewhat similar to what you are talking about, but there is increased overhead as the federated table actually queries the server the table lives on. You could are other ways to tell mysql where a table is stored, but having two servers access the same table on the same disk is not safe.
hmm.. Yeah, After looking at the MERGE INTO issue I understand what you are talking about. There really isn't anything equivalent in MySql, despite the wikipedia article's claim to the contrary. The MySql alternative listed there INSERT .. ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE only works if a duplicate key would be created. There are situations I am dealing with right now that show the limitations of that approach. I'll talk with my people and see if I can't come up with an equivalent solution.
On the other hand, the MERGE INTO can lead to so complex of a statement, it seems like a magnet for deadlocks, if not properly used. Foreign Key's are going Storage Engine Independent in 6.0. I know what you're referring to with the stored procedures/ triggers thing. I'm of the anti stored procedure school this month anyway, but if I weren't I could see how that could be an issue.
I must admit, I'm not familiar with that terminology. Row based replication still uses a log file. more info here
You haven't kept up. Sun stated that nothing was going to change with the license. The "closed source" portion had already been released under the gpl and Sun said it would stay that way. In Fact they just moved from the closed source bitkeeper to bazaar for source code control, allowing anyone to track their progress.
PostgreSQL is a fine Database as well. MySql just seems to be used more in web environments.
Not exactly. 5.1 introduces row based replication as opposed to the statement based replication that is incompatible with the new behavior. Statement based replication has the slaves execute the exact same statement on the slave. Row based just passes the new values of the modification to the slave.
Some do. Bluehost asked me when I signed up what versions of popular web tools I wanted MySql 4 vs 5 was one of the options.
I Had the same problem in the Caribbean. We ultimately just subscribed to the three different satellite services, and just had our network route the traffic accordingly. And yeah voip works fine over satellite. I don't know how it works so well, but it does work.
Stole my joke. I'd suggest my new favorite language Malbolge.
Please don't mod up, I'm just stealing the reference from david.given
You have to read my posts with the understanding that I will contradict myself halfway through my post. Because the reality of most situations lie somewhere between the several opinions. One one hand its frustrating that it doesn't do what I want (something I hold as much more useful than the other features that will be included. Basically, its the equivalent of wanting a power drill included in a happy meal), on the other hand as you pointed out the universe does not revolve around me, but around the workings of an invisible hand or two.
wow that is amazing. I can't believe this is the first time I'm hearing about Malbolge. I used to collect odd programming languages. I would have thought that Funge-98 was the craziest. Now, I'm not so sure. Malbolge seems like its more of a difficult to exploit buffer overflow than a language. Then again, maybe thats the point. Now, if you could implement an interpreter in funge-98 that would take brainfuck as its input and out put the corresponding Malbolge program. We'd all have a new ruler of the planet earth, if he or she desired to rule. as puny humans would be unable to stop anyone capable of the intellectual challenge from doing anything else they put their mind to.
Wow, I've never been more happy to be an American.
Good point, that I seem to keep forgetting. I don't actually have an iphone, though I was thinking about making the switch with the 3G. However, I wouldn't want to do a lot of editing on such a small screen anyways. It would be nice to simply log in run a couple commands to check server status, iostat, sar, take a look at log files and run commands.
And yet, they think the market badly needs more stupid phone based games and animated emoticons. And in an even more depressing thought, they'd probably make more money off them than a ssh client. People who want ssh clients, are probably the kind of people that don't want to pay for ssh clients. If its not free, they'll probably hack the firmware to install a free one.
Yeah well, I have RHEW (Red Hat Enterprise Web 5.0). Its like your version, but more much stable and enterprisey.
Also, its not like this is the first time people have reinvented wheels. My first job as an intern I recognized a need for a finding text in a file program. Dos 6.2 didn't have such a program with the flexibility I needed. So I took a day and wrote it in pascal. Basically a poor man's grep -- with wildcards! I told my supervisor what I had done at the end of the week and he looked at me kind of funny and said you mean "you rewrote grep ? Its included in turbo pascal for dos" I rewrote a lot of software that summer that had already been invented. Good times, Good times.
They do need to be able to make the most out of minimal input from the user. The user might very likely have a minimal degree of movement of whatever the prosthetic is connected to. It would help greatly if the arm was intelligent enough to guess what movement the user was trying to do based upon the circumstance. If you were playing air hockey it would interpret your movements as attempts to play air hockey. If you were trying to play the guitar, it would interpret them in that fashion. There could be a sort of learning process for both the user and the arm as they learned how to work better with each other.
Yeah but if they created a working human like arm with the strength and reaction time of an average human and it still beat everyone in arm wrestling or air hockey, then I would be impressed. That kind of research would also be very useful for creating artificial limbs.
I don't really think that it does. There are IT enthusiast, if you will and then there are IT experts. An enthusiast may know how to change their background picture, and may love to play WOW. Most media outlets would call them a computer Geek. In fact I think the very definition of a geek that I would agree to if it were to be applied to me would be whether or not I used Linux. So by definition, those who do not use linux are not geeks. Of course, I prefer to call the enthusiasts geeks and myself a nerd. Nerds are more intelligent than geeks and are more objective in their decision making.
Yeah. Its nice that they've open sourced it and it really does look like a good solution to the problem, but the fact that so much time has passed since it was created before its release may hamper adoption. The weight of having Google behind it may overcome some of the problems, but for now its just another xml replacement that will crop up from time to time and cause some confusion and frustration for people. As a web service developer, it won't be long before some one now complains that they can't access the service with it. *Sigh*.
GPL v2 doesn't say anything about use. Its all about distribution of the program. You can use it however you want ( See Tivo), you just can't distribute it with out also distributing the source. You might argue that distribution is a use, I would argue, however that use is far too broad a term to apply to the restrictions of the license.