Feel free to essentially study the law yourself and become your own un-barred lawyer, but thats an investment in time and energy I'd rather put into other things and pay a lawyer for those bits of advice when I need them.
There are chronic do-it-yourselfers out there, and more power to you, but that doesn't make changing your own oil better than paying a mechanic (or lube tech) for the job instead either.
Anger management issues much? Your argument is predicated on a single piece of evidence which is a fabrication of your own mind.
My grade 6 reading comprehension told me your argument lacked substance. My university logic, reasoning and hermeneutics courses informed my sarcastic remark which I stand by -- without even a shred of evidence, your argument is invalid.
To be fair, I'd go so far as to say that if you're writing a program and can't find it already 80% implemented in CPAN modules, you're truly ingenious.
More importantly, Google has to write a lot of code that works in parallel across huge numbers of processors. A language that takes advantage of that situation and makes it easier for their engineers to write efficient parallelized code would be a huge boon.
Because significant digits are important, dipshit.
"The math" might've said something like "plus or minus 200m" if it had been calculated properly.
The whole point was that if you're rounding off the numbers to a certain number of significant digits, then only that number of significant digits can result.
In other words, a tree that is "approximately a foot in diameter" is also approximately 3 feet in circumference, not 3.14159 feet.
I lost my parallel ports on my new board, a cousin of yours, but I don't use it for anything but printing at home.
For industrial control applications I used and sold quite a few of the Lava PCI parallel cards of the last ten years. You're right that many of the USB parallel interfaces are flaky at times. Its too bad nobody's made a nice solid one, perhaps for the IEEE1394 interface if USB doesn't have solid enough timings.
Software piracy may be wrong, but allowing those computers to sit on the Internet spreading vulnerabilities is too. Microsoft should either disable non-genuine versions altogether or offer the security patches to them for the sake of the rest of us.
I have that happen quite regularly as well. I often click one of the tabs beside a friend's name and have nothing happen at all, or have the wrong data appear. Its great fun when "Info" shows up after clicking "Photos".
Obviously they're doing a better job of handling that amount of data than most people would be, but not as good at it as say VISA is.
Why is that a design problem? The whole point the RDBMS proponents have made all these years is precisely that -- all the messages are in a 'messages' table, indexed by an id, with 'from' and 'to' fields and (in Facebook's case), a thread-id of some form probably.
Then when you want your message list, you do something like:
SELECT Date,Name,Subject from Messages where Messages.UserID = 37173 ORDER BY Date DESC LIMIT 10;
or if your workload shows it makes more sense, you create a view based on the above and cursor your way through it.
That said, I use flat DB files through BDB and CDB every day, filesystem based storage algorithms as well as real SQL and an MVDB as well. Each has its benefits under specific circumstances.
While capital might be going a bit far, it should certainly be a felony in my mind to commit such obvious fraud. Fraud how? Fraud by standing on one's obvious power base and claiming authority one does not in fact have. The Justice Department ought to be held to a high standard here.
Interestingly, 15 yr olds have in fact been charged with CP distribution for taking photos of themselves to send to their boy or girlfriends (of the same age), in the United States at least.
That's almost exactly what I was thinking. Besides, since when does any set of characters need to be ideal at all? I find it much more interesting to try and play through RPGs with less-than-optimal character sets anyway.
Conversely, if that title were made for a console platform, it would most likely never be choppy or stutter at any points in the game since they have a fixed hardware spec to write and test against instead.
Lets compare apples to apples. Lets say you have an out-of-maintenance version of Linux (which would be some of the intermediate releases not in use by major distros) and your distro won't be patching you. You have the option of paying someone a lot less than $400 to back-port this patch to your kernel version or doing it yourself.
Now lets say you have an unsupported version of Windows (like NT 3.51) and you find out there's a major security hole in Vista dating right back to 3.51. How are you going to get that fixed? If you answer "by upgrading" then use the same answer with Linux.
The whole point of FOSS is that you're never stuck, you can always just do it yourself or pay someone to do it for you, the vendor can't lock you out of the code running on your systems.
Of course, if you run a maintained version of any Enterprise Linux I'd put good bets down that they'll be patched shortly. If you spun your own distro, then you made the choice to maintain it yourself anyway.
My complaint was specifically about Google Desktop. It was related to the parent's comment about a design inefficiency in Google's Chrome.
At no point did I complain that I wanted a better desktop search option, nor did I say I hadn't found one if I was. My comment was solely and quite obviously interconnecting the two as a Google database inefficiency in their desktop db design.
My Internet bandwidth is an order of magnitude higher than you think it is. And as a professional sysadmin, my normal server bandwidth is orders of magnitude higher than that again.
My home PC runs Linux, my office desktop runs Linux and my servers all run Linux. I've got the odd saturated gigabit link, I've got drives doing file serving at speeds that make vmstat's columns go wonky, and I use I/O cards that don't cause major wait times for that data.
You may want to consider changing the disk scheduler you're using. There are instructions online.
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However, what it does allow for hypothetically is "Mr. Manager, I need you to come authorize this change on my PC for me" in a domain setting.
Oooh, *shudder* I just felt a ripple in the force.
And as the GP said, that's why we have lawyers.
Feel free to essentially study the law yourself and become your own un-barred lawyer, but thats an investment in time and energy I'd rather put into other things and pay a lawyer for those bits of advice when I need them.
There are chronic do-it-yourselfers out there, and more power to you, but that doesn't make changing your own oil better than paying a mechanic (or lube tech) for the job instead either.
There's the Dead Sea :)
Anger management issues much? Your argument is predicated on a single piece of evidence which is a fabrication of your own mind.
My grade 6 reading comprehension told me your argument lacked substance. My university logic, reasoning and hermeneutics courses informed my sarcastic remark which I stand by -- without even a shred of evidence, your argument is invalid.
And there are others who allow alternate OS installations on their hardware purposefully.
I'm sorry mr statistics. Besides "its obvious to me" where did that number come from? Thanks for quoting the survey.
To be fair, I'd go so far as to say that if you're writing a program and can't find it already 80% implemented in CPAN modules, you're truly ingenious.
More importantly, Google has to write a lot of code that works in parallel across huge numbers of processors. A language that takes advantage of that situation and makes it easier for their engineers to write efficient parallelized code would be a huge boon.
Because significant digits are important, dipshit.
"The math" might've said something like "plus or minus 200m" if it had been calculated properly.
The whole point was that if you're rounding off the numbers to a certain number of significant digits, then only that number of significant digits can result.
In other words, a tree that is "approximately a foot in diameter" is also approximately 3 feet in circumference, not 3.14159 feet.
Thank-you for that diatribe. I enjoyed it greatly.
In fact, I just posted a much less eloquent rant to someone else in this thread.
I'm curious where you think the difference between 65 and 70 makes a difference to the math he was using.
I lost my parallel ports on my new board, a cousin of yours, but I don't use it for anything but printing at home.
For industrial control applications I used and sold quite a few of the Lava PCI parallel cards of the last ten years. You're right that many of the USB parallel interfaces are flaky at times. Its too bad nobody's made a nice solid one, perhaps for the IEEE1394 interface if USB doesn't have solid enough timings.
Software piracy may be wrong, but allowing those computers to sit on the Internet spreading vulnerabilities is too. Microsoft should either disable non-genuine versions altogether or offer the security patches to them for the sake of the rest of us.
I have that happen quite regularly as well. I often click one of the tabs beside a friend's name and have nothing happen at all, or have the wrong data appear. Its great fun when "Info" shows up after clicking "Photos".
Obviously they're doing a better job of handling that amount of data than most people would be, but not as good at it as say VISA is.
Why is that a design problem? The whole point the RDBMS proponents have made all these years is precisely that -- all the messages are in a 'messages' table, indexed by an id, with 'from' and 'to' fields and (in Facebook's case), a thread-id of some form probably.
Then when you want your message list, you do something like:
SELECT Date,Name,Subject from Messages where Messages.UserID = 37173 ORDER BY Date DESC LIMIT 10;
or if your workload shows it makes more sense, you create a view based on the above and cursor your way through it.
That said, I use flat DB files through BDB and CDB every day, filesystem based storage algorithms as well as real SQL and an MVDB as well. Each has its benefits under specific circumstances.
Actually I'd use a USB attached one, personally. I have a few and they're quite handy.
... and your firewall and access logs aren't on the tape backups either ....
While capital might be going a bit far, it should certainly be a felony in my mind to commit such obvious fraud. Fraud how? Fraud by standing on one's obvious power base and claiming authority one does not in fact have. The Justice Department ought to be held to a high standard here.
Interestingly, 15 yr olds have in fact been charged with CP distribution for taking photos of themselves to send to their boy or girlfriends (of the same age), in the United States at least.
That's almost exactly what I was thinking. Besides, since when does any set of characters need to be ideal at all? I find it much more interesting to try and play through RPGs with less-than-optimal character sets anyway.
Exactly.
Oblivion and Morrowind are two of the best examples of why multi-player is not necessary to make a game fun.
That said, Bioware's NWN was an excellent example of a multi-player RPG done right.
Conversely, if that title were made for a console platform, it would most likely never be choppy or stutter at any points in the game since they have a fixed hardware spec to write and test against instead.
Lets compare apples to apples. Lets say you have an out-of-maintenance version of Linux (which would be some of the intermediate releases not in use by major distros) and your distro won't be patching you. You have the option of paying someone a lot less than $400 to back-port this patch to your kernel version or doing it yourself.
Now lets say you have an unsupported version of Windows (like NT 3.51) and you find out there's a major security hole in Vista dating right back to 3.51. How are you going to get that fixed? If you answer "by upgrading" then use the same answer with Linux.
The whole point of FOSS is that you're never stuck, you can always just do it yourself or pay someone to do it for you, the vendor can't lock you out of the code running on your systems.
Of course, if you run a maintained version of any Enterprise Linux I'd put good bets down that they'll be patched shortly. If you spun your own distro, then you made the choice to maintain it yourself anyway.
My complaint was specifically about Google Desktop. It was related to the parent's comment about a design inefficiency in Google's Chrome.
At no point did I complain that I wanted a better desktop search option, nor did I say I hadn't found one if I was. My comment was solely and quite obviously interconnecting the two as a Google database inefficiency in their desktop db design.
Please learn to read context before replying.
My Internet bandwidth is an order of magnitude higher than you think it is. And as a professional sysadmin, my normal server bandwidth is orders of magnitude higher than that again.
My home PC runs Linux, my office desktop runs Linux and my servers all run Linux. I've got the odd saturated gigabit link, I've got drives doing file serving at speeds that make vmstat's columns go wonky, and I use I/O cards that don't cause major wait times for that data.
You may want to consider changing the disk scheduler you're using. There are instructions online.