Insightful?? Oh, please, give me a break!! The easy way out is always to blame the governement!
In my book, you have to come up with better excuses then 'nanny state' to start opening fire on social workers and firemen. And burning schools??? WTF!
Also, what good did the riots do for the people in these neighbourhoods?
So what you're saying is that in the case of bronze (inefficient) mirrors you would need more mirrors to get the same amount of sunlight on the target. The problem is that alledgedly they had five thousand mirrors, not one hundred. Also, they had thousands of soldiers pointing the mirros, not a few students to do all the work.
So let's say the mirros where half as effective as we know them today, that means the reflected sunlight was still ( 5000*50% ) / 100 = 25 times as great as in the experiment. That's not even counting for the better accuracy when having 5000 soldiers doing the targetting.
IMHO, I think it's still a bit early to call this a "bullshit myth".
Why didn't they figure out a way of measuring the disposed energy? You could target a large steel barrel of water and see how many degrees it heated... or something;-)
Just a few thoughts...
Cheers,
Matt
Convert CSV files with vim & awk
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You can use ! to process a CSV file by calling external commands like awk: for example:
Re:Why are people so illogical about the RIAA?
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I think people are upset because putting the family in question through this ordeal is (IMHO) a seriously overblown response to the downloading of a few songs.
Paying for the few hundred songs : let's say that a thousand dollars sounds reasonable to "compensate the artists" for the income they missed. If you go to trial with these hound dogs, it will cost you probably in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. This just seems unreasonable and unfair to me.
Sure, how about comparing MySQL to other free & open-source databases. PostgreSQL, Firebird, MaxDB and Ingres all handle the milions of rows *a lot* better. Especially PostgreSQL seems to stay on par with Oracle, even offering (primitive) support for table partitioning, bitmap indexes etc.
If I would try to do data warehousing on an open source database, it's probably going to be PostgreSQL.
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that - Oracle UI has to install 1Gb+ of data - Eclipse is a very complex application -...
and less with java?
I write software using SWT and the speed (after loading) is not different from a native application. (webstart: http://kettle.ixor.be/spoon.jnlp)
That doesn't prevent anyone from writing a bad application though. From *my* sysadmin days I can remember PLENTY of applications that were slow to the point of almost being unusable that had nothing to do with java.
Because the average person in Europe is getting older, it's a good strategy to bring in immigrants. However, there are lots of signs of stabalising demographics, so the answer to your last question is: their/our children ofcourse.
Do you know the amount of money that's on average on a Europeans savings account? In Belgium, the last number I heard quoted was in excess of $US100.000. Think about that and take a look at the US deficit before drawing doom scenarios for Europe.
Sad to see all this Euro-bashing FUD going on. I like living here. What you call stagnation, most people around here would call stability. In fact, a lot of people in Europe believe at this very moment, that things are evolving too fast and would opt for less change.
Mmm, perhaps featurewise software might be considered "finished", but it will still have to respond to change in the code habitat: OS, X, libraries, etc. As such, there will always be a need for fixes, updates, etc. unless the software risks being considered obsolete or dead.
I agree, the exploit works on my machine too. It has IE6/SP2, Norton AV 2005 software firewall, extra hardware firewall and all the latest patches installed (including Firefox;-).
When it saves you a lot of money the coming years I would be inclined to look at OO training as an investment, rather than just a cost. So instead of upgrading MS Office every 3-4 years, you just upgrade OO for free every time.
Plus, you can dump all the add-on software such as anti-virus, anti-spam and anti-adware. I'm guessing that a public service is going to HAVE to spend a lot of money on those the coming years.
My guts still tells me that it would be cheaper to turn to Open Source software. But I guess you know the saying that 70% of all statistics are wrong and that there are 3 kinds of people... those that can count and those that can't count.:-)
Cheers,
Matt
Re:I want Motif and full compatibility with dtksh
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Indeed, dtksh is nice. Actually, I think dtksh is the latest version of the Korn Shell around. Anybody know a more recent version? I especially like things such as
>all.txt for ((i=1;i> all.txt done
It still p*sses me off that such a simple thing can't be done with ksh. (the default shell on many HP-UX/AIX/etc boxes.) Features like the for loop above are mentioned in O'Reilly's Korn Shell book, but are not present in the version that's mostly available.
That's a very good remark indeed. I recognise the difficulty it takes to sometimes take a step back. The customer isn't always wrong. He sometimes has difficulty explaining perhaps, but it's our job to make sure software is being developped that is the best possible compromise between customer demand and technology.
I beg to disagree on the JDBC claim. As long as Statement.setFetchSize() or Statement.setFetchDirection() are not supported, it's close to useless to me. Try going over a couple of milion records if you doubt it's really needed. Not that MySQL's driver is any better in this regard. Real JDBC drivers like the ones for Oracle, DB2 and (gasp) even SQL Server support these hints without a problem.
I remember one instance where I had to go and take a look at a mail and file server at a university. It was an old RS/6000 and the drive had gone silent after a shutdown. Now as it happens, the machine had been running for years and years without a shutdown (and without a backup) in a non-ventilated area and so the drive motor was probably close to being dead. The drive wouldn't start to spin. The trick then was to open the box, start the machine and gently tap on the drive with a screwdriver. It somehow helped the motor to spin back up.
Cheers acros the room as the machine booted up again because as it appeared, years of scientific works where on that drive. It made them realize how much human sweat you can store on a few hundred MB.
This just proves there is a Monty Python scetch as a funny answer to just about anything. I really didn't see this one coming though. But then again, nobody...
I went to the store last week to buy this phone. Up to now I never bought anything else but Nokia. However, because I wanted a wireless earpiece to use in the car, Nokia wasn't an option. (Two words: No BlueTooth). So I went for the S55 and I haven't looked back. The included serial cable to connect to Windows comes very handy. The phone can then be browsed with an explorer like interface & accepts regular midi (ringtones) and jpg(pictures) files.
Cheers,
Matt
Re:No Post is Too Late: Send the Iraqis to Allah
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4l-j4z333ra 0wn3d
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And yes, the US media is twisted in its own way, and is of course very biased. But that doesn't mean Al Jazeera isn't worse, and I think evidence shows that it surpasses the US media in this regard.
I have to agree on this. Showing American prisoners of war on television was a clear breach of international conventions. I think the US army^H^H^H^H^H^H CNN did the same thing in Afghanistan, but that's no excuse...
I've seen them ski in Les Arcs (France) in 1999 and although the view was very impressive, since then I'm convinced that these people are completely nuts or incredibly brave.:-)
Furthermore, I think that reducing ski-resistance is not going to help these people. I think it's wind resistance that's holding them back.
Slashdot Mirror
OK, OK, it's easy to find flaws in any database.
On mysql do this for example:
create table T (a int, b int)
;
insert into T values(1, 2);
;
update T set a=b, b=a
;
What is the result? Well, on most REAL database the values whould be swapped: A=2, B=1.
On MySQL unfortunately the result is: A=2, B=2.
That bug has been present for a long time and is still there in 5.0.
Peace,
Matt
That whatever database you choose or if you change your mind, you can use a Free(LGPL) Kettle to build your data warehouse on it or migrate it :-)
Homepage: http://www.kettle.be/
Project page: http://kettle.javaforge.com/
Cheers,
Matt
1) Installed Mandriva Linux 2006.0 on my Acer Travelmate 8104 (very fast install, very easy to do)
2) Failed to boot the freshly installed OS.
That's it, this reviewer gives the OS a score of 0/10 for failing to even boot.
Insightful?? Oh, please, give me a break!! The easy way out is always to blame the governement!
In my book, you have to come up with better excuses then 'nanny state' to start opening fire on social workers and firemen.
And burning schools??? WTF!
Also, what good did the riots do for the people in these neighbourhoods?
So what you're saying is that in the case of bronze (inefficient) mirrors you would need more mirrors to get the same amount of sunlight on the target.
;-)
The problem is that alledgedly they had five thousand mirrors, not one hundred.
Also, they had thousands of soldiers pointing the mirros, not a few students to do all the work.
So let's say the mirros where half as effective as we know them today, that means the reflected sunlight was still ( 5000*50% ) / 100 = 25 times as great as in the experiment. That's not even counting for the better accuracy when having 5000 soldiers doing the targetting.
IMHO, I think it's still a bit early to call this a "bullshit myth".
Why didn't they figure out a way of measuring the disposed energy?
You could target a large steel barrel of water and see how many degrees it heated... or something
Just a few thoughts...
Cheers,
Matt
for example:
Cheers,
Matt
I think people are upset because putting the family in question through this ordeal is (IMHO) a seriously overblown response to the downloading of a few songs.
Paying for the few hundred songs : let's say that a thousand dollars sounds reasonable to "compensate the artists" for the income they missed.
If you go to trial with these hound dogs, it will cost you probably in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
This just seems unreasonable and unfair to me.
Matt
Sure, how about comparing MySQL to other free & open-source databases.
PostgreSQL, Firebird, MaxDB and Ingres all handle the milions of rows *a lot* better.
Especially PostgreSQL seems to stay on par with Oracle, even offering (primitive) support for table partitioning, bitmap indexes etc.
If I would try to do data warehousing on an open source database, it's probably going to be PostgreSQL.
This begs for the standard reply: "You must be new here."
:-(
Of course the answer is: stupid moderators that don't browse at -1!
Matt
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that ...
- Oracle UI has to install 1Gb+ of data
- Eclipse is a very complex application
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and less with java?
I write software using SWT and the speed (after loading) is not different from a native application.
(webstart: http://kettle.ixor.be/spoon.jnlp)
That doesn't prevent anyone from writing a bad application though. From *my* sysadmin days I can remember PLENTY of applications that were slow to the point of almost being unusable that had nothing to do with java.
Peace,
Matt
Because the average person in Europe is getting older, it's a good strategy to bring in immigrants.
However, there are lots of signs of stabalising demographics, so the answer to your last question is: their/our children ofcourse.
Do you know the amount of money that's on average on a Europeans savings account? In Belgium, the last number I heard quoted was in excess of $US100.000.
Think about that and take a look at the US deficit before drawing doom scenarios for Europe.
Sad to see all this Euro-bashing FUD going on. I like living here. What you call stagnation, most people around here would call stability. In fact, a lot of people in Europe believe at this very moment, that things are evolving too fast and would opt for less change.
Peace, Matt.
bla bla bla...
That's why 3.1M7 is a milestone release, NOT a stable release...
You can read up on some of the performance enhancements here:
performance bloopers
Matt
Mmm, perhaps featurewise software might be considered "finished", but it will still have to respond to change in the code habitat: OS, X, libraries, etc. As such, there will always be a need for fixes, updates, etc. unless the software risks being considered obsolete or dead.
Matt
OK, I'll say it: watching drops splash or not all day: SILLY!!
I agree, the exploit works on my machine too. It has IE6/SP2, Norton AV 2005 software firewall, extra hardware firewall and all the latest patches installed (including Firefox ;-).
I'd expect this machine to be fairly safe.
Oh well, I'm not using IE6 anyway.
Matt
So instead of upgrading MS Office every 3-4 years, you just upgrade OO for free every time.
Plus, you can dump all the add-on software such as anti-virus, anti-spam and anti-adware. I'm guessing that a public service is going to HAVE to spend a lot of money on those the coming years.
My guts still tells me that it would be cheaper to turn to Open Source software. But I guess you know the saying that 70% of all statistics are wrong and that there are 3 kinds of people... those that can count and those that can't count.
Cheers,
Matt
Indeed, dtksh is nice.
Actually, I think dtksh is the latest version of the Korn Shell around. Anybody know a more recent version?
I especially like things such as
>all.txt
for ((i=1;i> all.txt
done
It still p*sses me off that such a simple thing can't be done with ksh. (the default shell on many HP-UX/AIX/etc boxes.)
Features like the for loop above are mentioned in O'Reilly's Korn Shell book, but are not present in the version that's mostly available.
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Matt
That's a very good remark indeed. I recognise the difficulty it takes to sometimes take a step back. The customer isn't always wrong. He sometimes has difficulty explaining perhaps, but it's our job to make sure software is being developped that is the best possible compromise between customer demand and technology.
Just because someone else kills people it's OK for you to do so?
I don't think so, 2 wrongs don't make it right.
OK, and were do these numbers come from anyway?
I beg to disagree on the JDBC claim.
As long as Statement.setFetchSize() or Statement.setFetchDirection() are not supported, it's close to useless to me.
Try going over a couple of milion records if you doubt it's really needed.
Not that MySQL's driver is any better in this regard.
Real JDBC drivers like the ones for Oracle, DB2 and (gasp) even SQL Server support these hints without a problem.
Matt
I remember one instance where I had to go and take a look at a mail and file server at a university. It was an old RS/6000 and the drive had gone silent after a shutdown. Now as it happens, the machine had been running for years and years without a shutdown (and without a backup) in a non-ventilated area and so the drive motor was probably close to being dead. The drive wouldn't start to spin. The trick then was to open the box, start the machine and gently tap on the drive with a screwdriver. It somehow helped the motor to spin back up.
Cheers acros the room as the machine booted up again because as it appeared, years of scientific works where on that drive. It made them realize how much human sweat you can store on a few hundred MB.
Cheers, Matt
This just proves there is a Monty Python scetch as a funny answer to just about anything.
I really didn't see this one coming though.
But then again, nobody...
Cheers,
Matt
I went to the store last week to buy this phone. Up to now I never bought anything else but Nokia. However, because I wanted a wireless earpiece to use in the car, Nokia wasn't an option. (Two words: No BlueTooth).
So I went for the S55 and I haven't looked back. The included serial cable to connect to Windows comes very handy. The phone can then be browsed with an explorer like interface & accepts regular midi (ringtones) and jpg(pictures) files.
Cheers,
Matt
I have to agree on this. Showing American prisoners of war on television was a clear breach of international conventions. I think the US army^H^H^H^H^H^H CNN did the same thing in Afghanistan, but that's no excuse...
WorldRecord 1999
I've seen them ski in Les Arcs (France) in 1999 and although the view was very impressive, since then I'm convinced that these people are completely nuts or incredibly brave. :-)
Furthermore, I think that reducing ski-resistance is not going to help these people. I think it's wind resistance that's holding them back.
Cheers, Matt