Bruce Schneier is a security expert because he has written what are widely regarded as the best books for cryptography and written several quality encryption and hash algorithms. One of his newest hash algorithms "Skein" has been selected as a finalist for the NIST SHA-3 competition.
First, I was saying that science does change its mind according to the facts, rather than changing its facts according to what it wants to be true.
Second, it was just odd and bad practice that it was linked through PETA. Its like linking to a story written by written by crack heads for the legalization of crack and puppies.
I think you need to go back and study a little more science.
First rule of science: go where the data leads you. When we learn more about the way our universe works, we update our thoughts about the way the universe works.
Second Rule of science: Investigate the sources of reports. If the main source is not a scientist in the field of study, and/or it was paid for by a notoriously insane group that is not respected by the scientific community at large, do not trust. PETA is one such group. They just want people to not kill animals. They don't really care why you don't kill animals, they just want you to not kill animals. So, they try to provide as many reasons why you shouldn't as possible. If you presented them with a "study" that showed them that raising animals to be killed caused the earthquake in Haiti, they would probably post it on their website.
No, it was not the bond rating agencies. It was the triumph of a flawed formula for accessing risk over common sense which was used to create the derivatives. Everyone (house buyers, reactors, brokers, lenders, bond rating agencies, insurance companies) just blindly trusted it, because it was in their short term interest to.
There were a few individuals that did know it couldn't be trusted and yelled at the top of their lungs, but no one believed them because everyone else was doing it and given a choice between trusting someone's mathematical logical answer vs observing the behaviour of large entities with billions and billions in stake people ( including journalists) trusted those betting billions on it being correct.
People trust other people's behaviour over anything else.
As others have pointed out, having a single line also introduces a longer gap between successive customers. A "break" if you will after every customer. If you have a line of your own, the next customer expects to be immediately helped right after the previous one is finished.
Having worked in both environments, I prefer single queue. For performance reviews, the single queue and the multi-queue stores both used electronic records, rather than the casual observances of a manager to determine productivity.
+ an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others
+ drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect; "the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain"; "the models show by analogy how matter is built up"
Ok, so we can cancel all Math classes after 10 years right? Because anything logical should take less time to completely learn and understand. Lets face it: Math professors are lazy bastards that don't deserve their research grants./sarcasm
I think you have the Military confused with the Mossad. Military always wants cred. Intel Agency wants you to have a doubt. Having that little bit of doubt makes you hesitant, giving them a little bit more of an edge.
Its like you're wondering why anyone would ever improve their tactics. Why on earth did we start dropping bombs from planes, when charging head on into machine gun fire worked so well for the past 6000 years? Why on earth did we start using computers, when typewriters were cheaper and more available?
Stuxnet is an awesome weapon. It continues to screw up the centrifuges. They have no way of keeping their systems clean. No one died. No human casualties. No one's that ticked off at Israel, except Iran who has been calling for the destruction of Israel for the past 30 years. Sounds pretty good to me. If Israel didn't do stuxnet, they sure as hell should have, and owe whoever did a huge favour.
Ah yes. I think I deleted the rest of my post last night that went into this. Its tricky. The definition of "derived work" is ambiguous. But, In my own non lawyer sensibilities, I think it would be a bit ridiculous to call something that just used mysql specific sql statements, but didn't link against anything prohibited a derivative of Mysql.
Anyone care to hack in all the mysql-isims via clean room reverse engineering to Sqllite, just to remove this possibility?
Eh, I think you could say they are biased in different ways. I do give MSNBC a little bit o props for slapping Olberman for donating to candidates. I also want to criticise them for not firing him as would be the correct punishment, IMHO.
True that. I did not mean that. I meant that replication can make backups easier. IE, you take the backup from the slave as to not interrupt the master that's handing the live requests from the app. But, none the less, I must make it up for leading some people to believing I was preaching unsafe practices.
So,let me be clear...
Replication is not back up. Replication is not back up. Replication is not back up. Replication is not back up. Replication is not back up. Replication is not back up. Replication is not back up. Replication is not back up. Replication is not back up. Replication is not back up. Replication is not back up. Replication is not back up.
Its GPL. You can't link to one of its libraries and satisfy the GPL without releasing your source code. If you do release your code under the GPL,then you may charge what ever fee you would like without Oracle's interference.
Now, if you don't link against it any other GPL'd code and just provide a standard way of connecting to a database like ODBC and have the configuration as part of the program's setup, you're in the clear.
I've actually looked at using Firebird before. It seems to be caught up in the Postgres trap. Postgres is a great RDBMS: Arguablly better than Mysql.
Question: How many people actually use Mysql as a RDBMS in such a way that it could benifit from the additional features of the more featureful systems?
Answer: not many.
Question: How many people are using Mysql because the lack of the features allows it to be faster?
Answer: All of the large users of mysql: facebook, flickr, google, yahoo, ect.
If you imagine two end of the spectrum between a full RDBMS on one end, and a NoSQL db on the other, Mysql sits in a sweet spot that many people appreciate.
Its also the easiest to set up and configure replication on, which gives it some level of backups, scalability, and availability.
Don't you support transparency? Don't you support wikileaks? Information was made to be free. When will you stop supporting MPAA and RIAA and join the forces of openness and freedom on the internet!
First of all, in all seriousness, your first post, is pretty much a exactly what I've heard theologians say in arguing for God's existence.
But secondly, You can't be serious that you don't think about the things you already believe to be true. Leaving the Theism vs Atheism debate aside, how did you ever learn anything with that attitude? I'm sure what you believed about math, language, culture, cuisine, love, work, live and death as a 9 year old isn't the same as you do now. How did you ever do that if you didn't revisit those things which you once believed? Progress of science is dependant on people looking at things the think and imagining for a second, what if ? And then of course applying that hypothesis towards the realm of experiences and seeing if it explains things a little bit better than what came before it.
Wow, that is the best argument for the existence of God, that I've ever read form someone trying very hard to pretend He didn't exist. Except the very end where you contradicted yourself by trying to assign your logic to God.
But Microsoft pays royalties to Sun/Oracle for java patents in.Net. What do you think will happen if anyone actually starts using Mono on the same scale as Android?
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I'm not sure I necessarily agree with anything, other than the scientific method, and the non-trustworthiness of PETA.
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Bruce Schneier is a security expert because he has written what are widely regarded as the best books for cryptography and written several quality encryption and hash algorithms. One of his newest hash algorithms "Skein" has been selected as a finalist for the NIST SHA-3 competition.
That's impressive and current. Joel? Not so much.
Yeah, only on Slashdot can you decide who your friend is without their confirmation needed, my newest slashdot Friend.
First, I was saying that science does change its mind according to the facts, rather than changing its facts according to what it wants to be true.
Second, it was just odd and bad practice that it was linked through PETA. Its like linking to a story written by written by crack heads for the legalization of crack and puppies.
I think you need to go back and study a little more science.
First rule of science: go where the data leads you. When we learn more about the way our universe works, we update our thoughts about the way the universe works.
Second Rule of science: Investigate the sources of reports. If the main source is not a scientist in the field of study, and/or it was paid for by a notoriously insane group that is not respected by the scientific community at large, do not trust. PETA is one such group. They just want people to not kill animals. They don't really care why you don't kill animals, they just want you to not kill animals. So, they try to provide as many reasons why you shouldn't as possible. If you presented them with a "study" that showed them that raising animals to be killed caused the earthquake in Haiti, they would probably post it on their website.
No, it was not the bond rating agencies. It was the triumph of a flawed formula for accessing risk over common sense which was used to create the derivatives. Everyone (house buyers, reactors, brokers, lenders, bond rating agencies, insurance companies) just blindly trusted it, because it was in their short term interest to.
There were a few individuals that did know it couldn't be trusted and yelled at the top of their lungs, but no one believed them because everyone else was doing it and given a choice between trusting someone's mathematical logical answer vs observing the behaviour of large entities with billions and billions in stake people ( including journalists) trusted those betting billions on it being correct.
People trust other people's behaviour over anything else.
Huge content company plus huge isp. How could it miss?
As others have pointed out, having a single line also introduces a longer gap between successive customers. A "break" if you will after every customer. If you have a line of your own, the next customer expects to be immediately helped right after the previous one is finished.
Having worked in both environments, I prefer single queue. For performance reviews, the single queue and the multi-queue stores both used electronic records, rather than the casual observances of a manager to determine productivity.
Definitions of analogy on the Web:
+ an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others
+ drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect; "the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain"; "the models show by analogy how matter is built up"
Ok, so we can cancel all Math classes after 10 years right? Because anything logical should take less time to completely learn and understand. Lets face it: Math professors are lazy bastards that don't deserve their research grants. /sarcasm
Germans? I'm pretty sure it was the Persians.
Ohh... didn't pay attention to the source.
Well, Maybe this isn't true. But it might be. You never know with fox.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/09/despite-iranian-claims-stuxnet-worm-causing-nuclear-havoc/#ixzz17fEbOlq4
I think you have the Military confused with the Mossad. Military always wants cred. Intel Agency wants you to have a doubt. Having that little bit of doubt makes you hesitant, giving them a little bit more of an edge.
Its like you're wondering why anyone would ever improve their tactics. Why on earth did we start dropping bombs from planes, when charging head on into machine gun fire worked so well for the past 6000 years? Why on earth did we start using computers, when typewriters were cheaper and more available?
Stuxnet is an awesome weapon. It continues to screw up the centrifuges. They have no way of keeping their systems clean. No one died. No human casualties. No one's that ticked off at Israel, except Iran who has been calling for the destruction of Israel for the past 30 years. Sounds pretty good to me. If Israel didn't do stuxnet, they sure as hell should have, and owe whoever did a huge favour.
Ah yes. I think I deleted the rest of my post last night that went into this. Its tricky. The definition of "derived work" is ambiguous. But, In my own non lawyer sensibilities, I think it would be a bit ridiculous to call something that just used mysql specific sql statements, but didn't link against anything prohibited a derivative of Mysql.
Anyone care to hack in all the mysql-isims via clean room reverse engineering to Sqllite, just to remove this possibility?
Eh, I think you could say they are biased in different ways. I do give MSNBC a little bit o props for slapping Olberman for donating to candidates. I also want to criticise them for not firing him as would be the correct punishment, IMHO.
True that. I did not mean that. I meant that replication can make backups easier. IE, you take the backup from the slave as to not interrupt the master that's handing the live requests from the app. But, none the less, I must make it up for leading some people to believing I was preaching unsafe practices.
So,let me be clear ...
Replication is not back up.
Replication is not back up.
Replication is not back up.
Replication is not back up.
Replication is not back up.
Replication is not back up.
Replication is not back up.
Replication is not back up.
Replication is not back up.
Replication is not back up.
Replication is not back up.
Replication is not back up.
Its GPL. You can't link to one of its libraries and satisfy the GPL without releasing your source code. If you do release your code under the GPL,then you may charge what ever fee you would like without Oracle's interference.
Now, if you don't link against it any other GPL'd code and just provide a standard way of connecting to a database like ODBC and have the configuration as part of the program's setup, you're in the clear.
I've actually looked at using Firebird before. It seems to be caught up in the Postgres trap. Postgres is a great RDBMS: Arguablly better than Mysql.
Question: How many people actually use Mysql as a RDBMS in such a way that it could benifit from the additional features of the more featureful systems?
Answer: not many.
Question: How many people are using Mysql because the lack of the features allows it to be faster?
Answer: All of the large users of mysql: facebook, flickr, google, yahoo, ect.
If you imagine two end of the spectrum between a full RDBMS on one end, and a NoSQL db on the other, Mysql sits in a sweet spot that many people appreciate.
Its also the easiest to set up and configure replication on, which gives it some level of backups, scalability, and availability.
Don't you support transparency? Don't you support wikileaks? Information was made to be free. When will you stop supporting MPAA and RIAA and join the forces of openness and freedom on the internet!
Hyperbole? A bit, but only a bit.
First of all, in all seriousness, your first post, is pretty much a exactly what I've heard theologians say in arguing for God's existence.
But secondly, You can't be serious that you don't think about the things you already believe to be true. Leaving the Theism vs Atheism debate aside, how did you ever learn anything with that attitude? I'm sure what you believed about math, language, culture, cuisine, love, work, live and death as a 9 year old isn't the same as you do now. How did you ever do that if you didn't revisit those things which you once believed? Progress of science is dependant on people looking at things the think and imagining for a second, what if ? And then of course applying that hypothesis towards the realm of experiences and seeing if it explains things a little bit better than what came before it.
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Wow, that is the best argument for the existence of God, that I've ever read form someone trying very hard to pretend He didn't exist. Except the very end where you contradicted yourself by trying to assign your logic to God.
But Microsoft pays royalties to Sun/Oracle for java patents in .Net. What do you think will happen if anyone actually starts using Mono on the same scale as Android?