The Adelphi Charter was a fairly thorough review of IP recently, and came to the conclusion that even the term IP presumes the shape of the answer. It will be interesting to see how much influence they have on this, as the RSA, who were behind the original project, have a fair bit of nous in getting the ear of these kinds of committees.
Yes, of course - and you can back up oracle with a one line export command too. If you need to be able to build backups that can cope with pretty much anything - and you need to know how to recover as well - then a three day course shows you how.
These days, even with Oracle, you can click-install-forget and you've got a workable database. But to maintain a corporate infrastructure, you need the whole toolkit - and Oracle lets you tinker with just about anything.
I reckon this is a pretty exciting innovation. I develop using my free developer's copy of Oracle 10g downloaded from OTN. If I can take that into production, then think about paying only if the product grows, it will be fabulous.
You ask who says there needs to be a balance at all? Shall we start with Thomas Jefferson and Lord Macaulay. It is perfectly reasonable that those who create new stuff should have some opportunity to profit from what they create; whether they choose to is up to them. If what you create is your only form of income, you'll want to make a living out of it. That's not the same as requiring that you can protect that right after your own death - and that trust funds or publishers can continue to make money out of you for decades afterwards.
Unless you have the opportunity to profit from your creativity, the only creativity in the world will be provided by the idle rich and the garret-dwelling, starving artist.
For anyone interested in what the rates are like, for both permanent and freelance, in most parts of the UK, you can have a look at Jobstats, which slices and dices all the data it can find on the job web sites.
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Or, possibly, brilliant. I really enjoyed 'Distraction', which, like much of Sterling's recent work, is "about" hacking the social fabric - as the /. review of Zeitgeist says. Sterling wants us to think about the world and think about how _we_ can change it.
It was when I was waiting for a bus in Birmingham, on the street where Tolkien lived as a child, that I realised what LotR was all about. Just looking around at a suburb of Britain's second largest city and making a mental comparison to what it looked like before the first world war, it was obvious what the man was thinking about. He was anti-modern; this was founded on the loss of his own childhood habitat to 'progress' and urbanisation.
The Scouring of the Shire is the destruction of your own favourite place by the madness of industrialisation. It is what makes LotR truly Tolkienian rather than simply a variation on Western myth. It tells the reader that it is not enough simply to save the world - you also have to save your own town. Going off and doing great deeds in distant places doesn't stop bad things happening when you get home. In a sense, it uses the idea of 'winning the peace' - on how veterans of the great wars of the twentieth century were changed by what they saw in the world, but who could not simply return to comfort and security at home afterwards. The wars transformed their own homes even if a bomb never dropped there.
The absence of the Scouring did not break the movie - but it turned it into a different creature, one which fits better with standard fantasy blueprints and which requires less of the viewer.
According to ABC Queensland , Macadamia shells are actually prime material for electricity generation - they burn more cleanly than coal, and produce more energy.
Of course, natural decay of the shells would release the CO2 in any case.
Another alternative is to find artists who make their own CDs. There's no chance of anyone other than Severed Heads getting the money when you buy from sevcom because they burn the CD when you pay the money.
Severed Heads also offer improved versions of their older stuff - and the latest album (Op) comes with a key to access 'upgrades' - i.e. extra songs and new versions. On top of all this, you can hear just about everything they sell as a (low bandwidth) MP3 before you buy.
Imagine how annoyed we were when they took the whole case off to Expo 88. I was in my third year and we knew it was supposed to drop but there was no point hanging around the Physics building since the experiment was on the other side of town. And it dropped!
Historically, it was more likely to happen in the summer as the weather is warmer and so it will flow that bit faster. I guess with aircon it must even out across the year better.
There is an interview with Ken held in a pub around the corner from The Guildford Arms - The Cafe Royal, which features in his second published novel, The Stone Canal.
The Zone website also has a review of Cosmonaut Keep by the same person (me!), who seems to quite like it.
Ah yes - but without him it would never have existed. The scary thing is that if ArsDigita had avoided taking VC steroids to make them grow faster they probably wouldn't be collapsing now. Instead, we don't get to discover whether their model of providing source code and selling the service could have worked in the long term.
If I lease an office, I can buy furniture or rent it. Whether I but or rent the filing cabinet, the stuff in that filing cabinet is still mine as long as I have the keys to the office and the cabinet. When I go, I can take the paper out of the cabinet and take it with me. If I lose my keys, I ask the estate agent for another set. If I think I'm going to run out of money and can't afford the rent next month, surely I'll sneak out all the important stuff.
And today, even Microsoft are offering reasonably compatible data formats, so the analogy does hold.
It's fine to maintain the "keep it portable" approach when you are working on a low-end system with the hope of graduating to a bigger DBMS later. Once you've chosen to go with a serious system such as Oracle or Sybase, though, keeping the application portable becomes painful.
Using RDBMS-specific code is vastly important to getting real performance out of the database. Of course you can write everything using Perl::DBI and access the database with pure SQL, but is that really as quick as putting stored procedures inside the database? Alternatively, you could use an abstraction layer and hide the "native" stuff, but you still have to re-implement for each back-end.
Also, part of the value of the big players is the add-ons. Doesn't Oracle claim to give you enormous performance benefits for the web if you use their products end-to-end? Are you really going to write your own text indexing system if Oracle's ConText/InterMedia is available?
And even if you do keep your application portable, you still need to invest in administration skills. Whilst almost anyone can fumble around the SQLServer Enterprise Manager GUI, you still need specific knowledge to really get the most out of it. And developers who think they can stuff data into Oracle without considering the specifics of the database are setting themselves up for a fall (or perhaps a crash:-).
Here is a picture of a skua over the Gentoo Penguin colony at Port Lockroy in the Antarctic Peninsula. Of course, the pic is better for the skua than the penguins but you can also check out some of the other shots too!
A company was created to develop this idea in the UK a year or two back. It was co-sponsored by a regional electricity company (Northern England from memory) and an international telecomms company (NTL?). The company "proved it was possible" but was wound up anyway. That's a pretty good indication that they didn't think it was commerically viable.
That all seems a bit vague, but the Computer Weekly search engine is even worse than the one in my head:-)
For long term monitoring on Solaris, I would recommend Orca. This is a perl based tool which uses the SE toolkit to collect data. It then stores it very tidily and produces HTML with PNG graphs that let you see many performance statistics on daily weekly... up to yearly cycles. The home page is here .
Second that question - Did you come into WWWork in the civil service from a civil service background? From a technical or non-technical background?
-How closely are you involved in content design? By this I don't mean detail so much as generalised layout issues.
-Is the UK really going online? What proportion of hits on open.gov.uk occur outside of normal working hours? This would be an indication of personal use of the site from home, rather than from work or by business. As an indicator of increasing usage generally, can you see more hits on your website now that one, three, six months ago?
One company I worked in had loads of Unix boxes and naming standards like this: Greece had Greek Gods, Central Support had Roman Gods and The States had NASA missions.
You can imagine the trouble when a test machine in the States started broadcasting as Apollo which was the name of the main support server.
Also, the US group would have meetings for hours trying to decide on the name of a new server. When they decided on Challenger they discovered there was a mainframe with that name. The suits nearly got away with the compromise solution of mis-spelling challenger. Grrr
Are you aware of the perl DBI? It works for both Oracle and PostgreSQL (and mysql and...). This can be used to provide access to databases regardless of type in a uniform manner, and are truly useful for remote access and regular running jobs, particularly those which use standard SQL. In Oracle terms, you can run Perl DBI anywhere that you can run sqlplus.
There are a number of GPL products which use Perl + DBI. One of the best, IMHO, is Orac which also uses Perl/Tk and so provides GUI access from multiple platforms (Solaris, Linux, NT). Orac offers loads of SQL scripts to help with tuning, or just seeing the layout, of databases. It also provides realtime database monitoring, which is the current thrust for improvement of the tool. You can find it on CPAN, e.g. here .
Another monitoring tool, which is capable of emailing you when it's unhappy as well as putting up current status on a web page is Karma. This is still developing rapidly and is intended for Oracle on Linux. This can be found here on freshmeat.
I'm inclined to agree with this. Last year I was doing operating system upgrades in Portugal. Whilst I was there, I got talking to an American pilot who flies for an air cargo company. He suggested that places like the Southern States of the USA would be bad to fly in on the Big Day as the system there has come to rely on computers and he thought that some of those computers would fail. In contrast, he thought that sub-Saharan Africa really wouldn't be that much of an issue because they just don't trust the machinery implicitly.
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The Adelphi Charter was a fairly thorough review of IP recently, and came to the conclusion that even the term IP presumes the shape of the answer. It will be interesting to see how much influence they have on this, as the RSA, who were behind the original project, have a fair bit of nous in getting the ear of these kinds of committees.
Yes, of course - and you can back up oracle with a one line export command too. If you need to be able to build backups that can cope with pretty much anything - and you need to know how to recover as well - then a three day course shows you how.
These days, even with Oracle, you can click-install-forget and you've got a workable database. But to maintain a corporate infrastructure, you need the whole toolkit - and Oracle lets you tinker with just about anything.
I reckon this is a pretty exciting innovation. I develop using my free developer's copy of Oracle 10g downloaded from OTN. If I can take that into production, then think about paying only if the product grows, it will be fabulous.
You ask who says there needs to be a balance at all? Shall we start with Thomas Jefferson and Lord Macaulay. It is perfectly reasonable that those who create new stuff should have some opportunity to profit from what they create; whether they choose to is up to them. If what you create is your only form of income, you'll want to make a living out of it. That's not the same as requiring that you can protect that right after your own death - and that trust funds or publishers can continue to make money out of you for decades afterwards. Unless you have the opportunity to profit from your creativity, the only creativity in the world will be provided by the idle rich and the garret-dwelling, starving artist.
For anyone interested in what the rates are like, for both permanent and freelance, in most parts of the UK, you can have a look at Jobstats, which slices and dices all the data it can find on the job web sites.
Or, possibly, brilliant. I really enjoyed 'Distraction', which, like much of Sterling's recent work, is "about" hacking the social fabric - as the /. review of Zeitgeist says. Sterling wants us to think about the world and think about how _we_ can change it.
The Scouring of the Shire is the destruction of your own favourite place by the madness of industrialisation. It is what makes LotR truly Tolkienian rather than simply a variation on Western myth. It tells the reader that it is not enough simply to save the world - you also have to save your own town. Going off and doing great deeds in distant places doesn't stop bad things happening when you get home. In a sense, it uses the idea of 'winning the peace' - on how veterans of the great wars of the twentieth century were changed by what they saw in the world, but who could not simply return to comfort and security at home afterwards. The wars transformed their own homes even if a bomb never dropped there.
The absence of the Scouring did not break the movie - but it turned it into a different creature, one which fits better with standard fantasy blueprints and which requires less of the viewer.
Of course, natural decay of the shells would release the CO2 in any case.
Severed Heads also offer improved versions of their older stuff - and the latest album (Op) comes with a key to access 'upgrades' - i.e. extra songs and new versions. On top of all this, you can hear just about everything they sell as a (low bandwidth) MP3 before you buy.
Cut up the middleman!
Historically, it was more likely to happen in the summer as the weather is warmer and so it will flow that bit faster. I guess with aircon it must even out across the year better.
The Zone website also has a review of Cosmonaut Keep by the same person (me!), who seems to quite like it.
The fascinating thing about this book is that is shows that, even in 1912, Scott had an excellent idea of what _normal_ weather was.
And today, even Microsoft are offering reasonably compatible data formats, so the analogy does hold.
Using RDBMS-specific code is vastly important to getting real performance out of the database. Of course you can write everything using Perl::DBI and access the database with pure SQL, but is that really as quick as putting stored procedures inside the database? Alternatively, you could use an abstraction layer and hide the "native" stuff, but you still have to re-implement for each back-end.
Also, part of the value of the big players is the add-ons. Doesn't Oracle claim to give you enormous performance benefits for the web if you use their products end-to-end? Are you really going to write your own text indexing system if Oracle's ConText/InterMedia is available?
And even if you do keep your application portable, you still need to invest in administration skills. Whilst almost anyone can fumble around the SQLServer Enterprise Manager GUI, you still need specific knowledge to really get the most out of it. And developers who think they can stuff data into Oracle without considering the specifics of the database are setting themselves up for a fall (or perhaps a crash :-).
Honstly!
Here is a picture of a skua over the Gentoo Penguin colony at Port Lockroy in the Antarctic Peninsula. Of course, the pic is better for the skua than the penguins but you can also check out some of the other shots too!
As this item from the BBC states, the title is "updated" from and 18th century carol title "Christians Awake!".
That all seems a bit vague, but the Computer Weekly search engine is even worse than the one in my head :-)
I reckon
-How closely are you involved in content design? By this I don't mean detail so much as generalised layout issues.
-Is the UK really going online? What proportion of hits on open.gov.uk occur outside of normal working hours? This would be an indication of personal use of the site from home, rather than from work or by business. As an indicator of increasing usage generally, can you see more hits on your website now that one, three, six months ago?
You can imagine the trouble when a test machine in the States started broadcasting as Apollo which was the name of the main support server.
Also, the US group would have meetings for hours trying to decide on the name of a new server. When they decided on Challenger they discovered there was a mainframe with that name. The suits nearly got away with the compromise solution of mis-spelling challenger. Grrr
There are a number of GPL products which use Perl + DBI. One of the best, IMHO, is Orac which also uses Perl/Tk and so provides GUI access from multiple platforms (Solaris, Linux, NT). Orac offers loads of SQL scripts to help with tuning, or just seeing the layout, of databases. It also provides realtime database monitoring, which is the current thrust for improvement of the tool. You can find it on CPAN, e.g. here .
Another monitoring tool, which is capable of emailing you when it's unhappy as well as putting up current status on a web page is Karma. This is still developing rapidly and is intended for Oracle on Linux. This can be found here on freshmeat.
Hope this is of some use.
I'm inclined to agree with this. Last year I was doing operating system upgrades in Portugal. Whilst I was there, I got talking to an American pilot who flies for an air cargo company. He suggested that places like the Southern States of the USA would be bad to fly in on the Big Day as the system there has come to rely on computers and he thought that some of those computers would fail. In contrast, he thought that sub-Saharan Africa really wouldn't be that much of an issue because they just don't trust the machinery implicitly.
On Excite:
good 3077961
evil 224941
evil / good = 7.3%
On AltaVista evil / good = 6.3%
So there is a greater proportion of evil on Excite - what does this mean?
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