Since he's a college student and probably NOT going to stay in this job forever, I suggest the best course is:
1. Say NOTHING to the boss about this matter from here on out. 2. Collect names and account numbers and contact information. 3. When you leave this job one day, and you will, and when you need money, and you will, contact the account holders *directly* and offer to tell them where you got your information for a fee.
I actually did not know about the iDrive system, but based on the description I found on Google, I'd say it's embedded Windows XP, not Embedded AutoPC, as I can't see the low power Xscale and ARM processors doing that much.
And in the implementations that are connected to the VIB, that connection is pretty much one-way; the AutoPC will give you information about fuel usage and such but will NOT be making decisions that the embedded microprocessors traditionally make. Yes, I know the AutoPC is an embedded operating system as well (since each manufacturer recompiles it to take advantage of specific hardware) but the point is that it's NOT designed to run your car. It's designed to entertain and inform you while you are driving your car.
Actually, I interpreted it as something that probably won't happen until at least 2010, and even then might not happen until 2017 or so- these bells and whistles that are included on new cars now being available to the 78% of the population who will *never* be able to afford to buy a new car, merely because the previous owner had it.
My wife now has a CD player built into a radio that gives her the song titles of songs on radio stations for that reason- in her new-to-her 2002 Chevy Venture.
Microsoft has 3 major code bases for operating systems that I know of. Of those, one was unstable, one was reasonably stable (in that it had an uptime of more than 160 hours) and the third is as stable as any operating system out there.
Windows AutoPC is a branch off of the third- but is designed to only control NON-mission-critical applications. In other words, it controls your radio and navigator, but not your fuel injectors and adaptive cruise control.
True enough, radioactivity isn't contagious. Remove the source of radiation, and with any luck, the body will heal. But certain types of radioactive materials DO glow without phosphorus- which in and of itself is a mildly radioactive material. Remember all of those green glow-in-the-dark mechanical clocks from the 1920s to the 1970s? Radium paint is what made them glow. And since light is in the electromagnetic spectrum- just about anything that glows without a power source is indeed "radioactive" to some extent. (note, this doesn't mean all "glow in the dark" materials, just some).
Yes, but I can't let that stop me from working and living in a house. So I don't. What does it matter if I'm a mentally compromised social reject? I'm the best me that I can be. And that is better than most in the end. I don't need you or anybody else to validate my existance.
Spare us the BS. You were dropped on your head. That explains your whining about headaches.
Nope, medical science. I wonder why you didn't know that- guess maybe you were lying about your education?
I pity the poor child who grows up under the supervision of a self-admitted youth s3x offender and a compulsive verbal abuser such as yourself. Every cent of your taxpayer leeched money will be necessary to ensure that the kid isn't reviled throughout their life.
Is there anybody out there who ISN'T reviled throughout their lives? Learning to deal with the hate is a part of growing up and being an ADULT.
As evidenced by your chosen path of discourse, in which you fail to maintain thorough continuity across subjects, your brain will never mature.
Learning to hold contradictory ideas in a single head is a part of maturity. Perhaps one day you will learn that.
Did that include the constant verbal degradation which you've clearly demonstrated on Slashdot?
Of course not- that's my WRITING style not my SPEAKING style- and as you admitted today, harrassment does not exist. Therefore it's not VERBAL, it's WRITTEN. Learn the difference.
Except that, when I dish back the insults and abuse which you've dished, you cop out. I've demonstrated that, no matter how ludicrous and incongruous your arguments are, I'm willing to patiently continue an attempt at discourse. Well, until today that is. I decided to try an experiment to see how you would receive the same crap which you give on a daily basis. You fail it.
I've kept up the discourse, but you fail to read it. The mark of a true troll.
If that is true then the level of disrespect which you've shown me is worthy of 4dult-calibre punishment (and no hiding behind desperate proclamations of "I'm autistic! I can't help it!"). You should be in prison or, at least, barred from internet use.
Disrespect isn't against the law. If you don't like the level of respect you're recieving, perhaps you need to change the level of respect you give.
Not a possible cause of autism, which is biochemical and neurological wiring in nature, not specific "damage" like some other diagnosis in the DSM-IV.
Or positive lack thereof since you seem to have an inner need to witness debasement.
No, actually, I have no such "inner need". I just recognize that unlike my prefered ideal of all jobs being allocated from a centeral government computer server, the real world of corporatism means that human beings are mere resources to be chewed up & spit out; treated like the garbage they are in comparison to the real first class citizens of this nation. That's true for just about everybody earning under an eight figure income. And to get even a six figure income, you've got to be willing to live wth a wage in the low hundreds first.
They failed.
Actually, they succeeded admirably by Church and Evolutionary standards- in that I'm now faithfully married, have NO extramarital sexual interests, AND have a child. Oh yeah, and divorce? That's something only Protestants do....
Which is what? "Do unto others" is somehow, in your mind, exempted in the course of discussion?
More that it's a simplification for simple minds. Paul VI said it better in Humanae Vitae, but it took until my brain finished maturing at 25 to even *begin* to understand why I should follow that instead of the liberal "have many partners and throw them away" sexual revolution. "Do unto others", heck, I was treating the girls I went out with before then the way I wanted to be treated. To me, love and lust were one and the same; I didn't understand the difference. And as an autistic "inappropriate" meant absolutely nothing. In a way, just like I've treated you online. I've treated you the *exact* same way I expect to be treated and debated with. Do unto others doesn't count for much when you're used to being treated as an adult, for there is no reason to hide feelings behind a false polticial correctness with an adult.
Are those the ones you credit with your autism, or the events which caused you to be a self-proclaimed sexual abuser in your childhood?
Neither. The cause of my autism is still unknown, and after discussions with other autistics, I find my sexual maturation process was quite common for somebody with my brain. But at least I had parents who cared to correct me, unlike you. I pity you, for you will never fully understand Church teaching on the subject.
Which one was it that contributed to your ability to foist your personal madness on the rest of the world with impossible regularity and without challenge?
Money. Well, partially. The other part was having parents who were actually FAITHFULL Catholics instead of bastards who got divorced and abused their kids.
No, votes is a subset of money. As is food, as is housing, as is any other good or service. Thus you see, Diebold is making the right decision. Security in votes is unimportant when related to security in money transactions.....
This is more about brand image than anything else- they're afraid people will start noticing the Diebold name on the ATM machines and stop using those banks, because Diebold has not been able to be trusted with voting.
After all, what's more important, voting or money?
Well, let's say a nice size production run. OPT, by 2010, is planning on putting 1,414 bouys off the shore of Oregon, replaced on a 2 year cycle, generating 202MW of power. OPD in Scotland can do the same thing with a mere 270 of their snakes, but they're not going to get the same economies of scale. Is there really a 7:1 difference in cost?
Ok, so one Pelamis is 750kw, as one Ocean Power Utility Size Bouy is 40kw. I sure wish the companies involved would reveal the cost of these modules so that we could do a true comparison....
Ocean Power is currently installing their Utility-sized bouys off the Oregon Coast, with the first 14 being a 2MW power plant for the city of Reedsport (providing about a quarter of the needed electricity for that resort community). The BBC article doesn't say what the expected output of the Scottish plant, using different technology, would be. Anybody know how the power output compares?
You don't, and at's the beauty of the relational model. All you need are relational operators and the query optimiser.
You can't even write a query optimiser without refering to memory locations. You can't write relational operators without refering to memory loacations. What you are talking about is the abstraction, not what the machine actually does, and thus you do not have a real relational model- because it can't be programmed. I guarantee you- Ingres's source code for the optimiser uses pointers. So does Oracle, SQL Server, Not-SQL, and all the others out there. Obviously you are more of a user of such tools than a builder- thus my original question is meaningless to you.
Mid 1990s, it's a Dual Pentium II. I guess I just mentioned it because that single stick looks awfully lonely alongside the 20 or so memory sockets right next to it...:-)
I'm wondering what he's doing that requires that much memory! I'm running my house server just fine off of an old Dell PowerEdge Server with only 512k of memory- Win2k3 doesn't actually *NEED* 1.6GB just to boot up. I think he's been Pwnd.
I don't have any mod points, but *BRAVO*!!!!! Seriously... good call. Now, if we could get people to realize that and STOP it, we might get somewhere. *sigh* Money money money... nothing else matters in this country (America) anymore.
It has been no different since 1945. The only difference was the discovery in the 1960s that the top level investors could get a tax credit for taxes paid to foreign governments; at which point the offshoring began. No patriotism could stop the rush for dollars after that.
Again, you don't need pointers at all to represent foreign keys.
Then how do you find the memory location of the other record (or the disk location, or what ever?). Eventually, all programming in machine language comes down to pointers- memory locations where you find the data. That is what I mean by the idea that I'm talking on a different level than you are; you're talking about the high level representation that the database engine provides you, I'm talking about the machine language that the database engine is programmed in.
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Why not autotakeoff as well, then we can just eliminate the human pilots altogether for nonmilitary aircraft?
Since he's a college student and probably NOT going to stay in this job forever, I suggest the best course is:
1. Say NOTHING to the boss about this matter from here on out.
2. Collect names and account numbers and contact information.
3. When you leave this job one day, and you will, and when you need money, and you will, contact the account holders *directly* and offer to tell them where you got your information for a fee.
I actually did not know about the iDrive system, but based on the description I found on Google, I'd say it's embedded Windows XP, not Embedded AutoPC, as I can't see the low power Xscale and ARM processors doing that much.
And in the implementations that are connected to the VIB, that connection is pretty much one-way; the AutoPC will give you information about fuel usage and such but will NOT be making decisions that the embedded microprocessors traditionally make. Yes, I know the AutoPC is an embedded operating system as well (since each manufacturer recompiles it to take advantage of specific hardware) but the point is that it's NOT designed to run your car. It's designed to entertain and inform you while you are driving your car.
Actually, I interpreted it as something that probably won't happen until at least 2010, and even then might not happen until 2017 or so- these bells and whistles that are included on new cars now being available to the 78% of the population who will *never* be able to afford to buy a new car, merely because the previous owner had it.
My wife now has a CD player built into a radio that gives her the song titles of songs on radio stations for that reason- in her new-to-her 2002 Chevy Venture.
Microsoft has 3 major code bases for operating systems that I know of. Of those, one was unstable, one was reasonably stable (in that it had an uptime of more than 160 hours) and the third is as stable as any operating system out there.
Windows AutoPC is a branch off of the third- but is designed to only control NON-mission-critical applications. In other words, it controls your radio and navigator, but not your fuel injectors and adaptive cruise control.
True enough, radioactivity isn't contagious. Remove the source of radiation, and with any luck, the body will heal. But certain types of radioactive materials DO glow without phosphorus- which in and of itself is a mildly radioactive material. Remember all of those green glow-in-the-dark mechanical clocks from the 1920s to the 1970s? Radium paint is what made them glow. And since light is in the electromagnetic spectrum- just about anything that glows without a power source is indeed "radioactive" to some extent. (note, this doesn't mean all "glow in the dark" materials, just some).
You're a mentally compromised social reject.
Yes, but I can't let that stop me from working and living in a house. So I don't. What does it matter if I'm a mentally compromised social reject? I'm the best me that I can be. And that is better than most in the end. I don't need you or anybody else to validate my existance.
Spare us the BS. You were dropped on your head. That explains your whining about headaches.
Nope, medical science. I wonder why you didn't know that- guess maybe you were lying about your education?
I pity the poor child who grows up under the supervision of a self-admitted youth s3x offender and a compulsive verbal abuser such as yourself. Every cent of your taxpayer leeched money will be necessary to ensure that the kid isn't reviled throughout their life.
Is there anybody out there who ISN'T reviled throughout their lives? Learning to deal with the hate is a part of growing up and being an ADULT.
As evidenced by your chosen path of discourse, in which you fail to maintain thorough continuity across subjects, your brain will never mature.
Learning to hold contradictory ideas in a single head is a part of maturity. Perhaps one day you will learn that.
Did that include the constant verbal degradation which you've clearly demonstrated on Slashdot?
Of course not- that's my WRITING style not my SPEAKING style- and as you admitted today, harrassment does not exist. Therefore it's not VERBAL, it's WRITTEN. Learn the difference.
Except that, when I dish back the insults and abuse which you've dished, you cop out. I've demonstrated that, no matter how ludicrous and incongruous your arguments are, I'm willing to patiently continue an attempt at discourse. Well, until today that is. I decided to try an experiment to see how you would receive the same crap which you give on a daily basis. You fail it.
I've kept up the discourse, but you fail to read it. The mark of a true troll.
If that is true then the level of disrespect which you've shown me is worthy of 4dult-calibre punishment (and no hiding behind desperate proclamations of "I'm autistic! I can't help it!"). You should be in prison or, at least, barred from internet use.
Disrespect isn't against the law. If you don't like the level of respect you're recieving, perhaps you need to change the level of respect you give.
You were dropped on your head.
Not a possible cause of autism, which is biochemical and neurological wiring in nature, not specific "damage" like some other diagnosis in the DSM-IV.
Or positive lack thereof since you seem to have an inner need to witness debasement.
No, actually, I have no such "inner need". I just recognize that unlike my prefered ideal of all jobs being allocated from a centeral government computer server, the real world of corporatism means that human beings are mere resources to be chewed up & spit out; treated like the garbage they are in comparison to the real first class citizens of this nation. That's true for just about everybody earning under an eight figure income. And to get even a six figure income, you've got to be willing to live wth a wage in the low hundreds first.
They failed.
Actually, they succeeded admirably by Church and Evolutionary standards- in that I'm now faithfully married, have NO extramarital sexual interests, AND have a child. Oh yeah, and divorce? That's something only Protestants do....
Which is what? "Do unto others" is somehow, in your mind, exempted in the course of discussion?
More that it's a simplification for simple minds. Paul VI said it better in Humanae Vitae, but it took until my brain finished maturing at 25 to even *begin* to understand why I should follow that instead of the liberal "have many partners and throw them away" sexual revolution. "Do unto others", heck, I was treating the girls I went out with before then the way I wanted to be treated. To me, love and lust were one and the same; I didn't understand the difference. And as an autistic "inappropriate" meant absolutely nothing. In a way, just like I've treated you online. I've treated you the *exact* same way I expect to be treated and debated with. Do unto others doesn't count for much when you're used to being treated as an adult, for there is no reason to hide feelings behind a false polticial correctness with an adult.
Are those the ones you credit with your autism, or the events which caused you to be a self-proclaimed sexual abuser in your childhood?
Neither. The cause of my autism is still unknown, and after discussions with other autistics, I find my sexual maturation process was quite common for somebody with my brain. But at least I had parents who cared to correct me, unlike you. I pity you, for you will never fully understand Church teaching on the subject.
Which one was it that contributed to your ability to foist your personal madness on the rest of the world with impossible regularity and without challenge?
Money. Well, partially. The other part was having parents who were actually FAITHFULL Catholics instead of bastards who got divorced and abused their kids.
No, votes is a subset of money. As is food, as is housing, as is any other good or service. Thus you see, Diebold is making the right decision. Security in votes is unimportant when related to security in money transactions.....
This is more about brand image than anything else- they're afraid people will start noticing the Diebold name on the ATM machines and stop using those banks, because Diebold has not been able to be trusted with voting.
After all, what's more important, voting or money?
Thanks to the spotted owl on the left and the hydropower plants on the right, lumber and fish don't pay what they used to....
Well, let's say a nice size production run. OPT, by 2010, is planning on putting 1,414 bouys off the shore of Oregon, replaced on a 2 year cycle, generating 202MW of power. OPD in Scotland can do the same thing with a mere 270 of their snakes, but they're not going to get the same economies of scale. Is there really a 7:1 difference in cost?
Ok, so one Pelamis is 750kw, as one Ocean Power Utility Size Bouy is 40kw. I sure wish the companies involved would reveal the cost of these modules so that we could do a true comparison....
Nah, there they'll use the Ocean Power Technologies system, which is virtually invisible a mile offshore.
Ocean Power is currently installing their Utility-sized bouys off the Oregon Coast, with the first 14 being a 2MW power plant for the city of Reedsport (providing about a quarter of the needed electricity for that resort community). The BBC article doesn't say what the expected output of the Scottish plant, using different technology, would be. Anybody know how the power output compares?
You don't, and at's the beauty of the relational model. All you need are relational operators and the query optimiser.
You can't even write a query optimiser without refering to memory locations. You can't write relational operators without refering to memory loacations. What you are talking about is the abstraction, not what the machine actually does, and thus you do not have a real relational model- because it can't be programmed. I guarantee you- Ingres's source code for the optimiser uses pointers. So does Oracle, SQL Server, Not-SQL, and all the others out there. Obviously you are more of a user of such tools than a builder- thus my original question is meaningless to you.
Mid 1990s, it's a Dual Pentium II. I guess I just mentioned it because that single stick looks awfully lonely alongside the 20 or so memory sockets right next to it...:-)
Damn- I messed up. I meant 512MB......a single stick though.....
I'm wondering what he's doing that requires that much memory! I'm running my house server just fine off of an old Dell PowerEdge Server with only 512k of memory- Win2k3 doesn't actually *NEED* 1.6GB just to boot up. I think he's been Pwnd.
I don't have any mod points, but *BRAVO*!!!!! Seriously... good call. Now, if we could get people to realize that and STOP it, we might get somewhere. *sigh* Money money money... nothing else matters in this country (America) anymore.
It has been no different since 1945. The only difference was the discovery in the 1960s that the top level investors could get a tax credit for taxes paid to foreign governments; at which point the offshoring began. No patriotism could stop the rush for dollars after that.
Again, you don't need pointers at all to represent foreign keys.
Then how do you find the memory location of the other record (or the disk location, or what ever?). Eventually, all programming in machine language comes down to pointers- memory locations where you find the data. That is what I mean by the idea that I'm talking on a different level than you are; you're talking about the high level representation that the database engine provides you, I'm talking about the machine language that the database engine is programmed in.