After all, anyone developing software whilst they should be working is wasting their employer's time and resources, and if they're lucky enough not to be sacked then anything they produce is certainly the property of the employer - this is only fair.
This is not "insightful", this is an off-the-cuff comment from someone trying to score First (Coherent) Post without actually reading the article linked to.
FYI, the concern that SAGE is trying to address with this agreement is that many people have signed employment contracts (perhaps without reading them too clearly) that specify that anything you develop even on your own time, using your home computer is the intellectual property of your employer. SAGE are providing clauses for you to request in your contract which explicitly state that any open source software you develop in your own time does not become your employer's property.
An excellent idea, if you ask me. Although I personally would leave open source out of it, and demand that nothing you produce on your own time becomes your employer's property. If they don't like it - well, there's plenty of programmers they can hire that don't demand this. If these programmers are less talented than those who actually like programming and do it as a hobby - well, that's life.
A common thread of all these reviews is that the regular FPU on the P4 is pretty ordinary (ie, worse than on the P3), but the SSE2 instructions are great, and will speed things up immensely, if they're used. Hence the excellent specFP scores.
My question is: given that few developers these days have the mental fortitude to write hand-optimised assembly, and given that Intel's C++ compiler alleges to be able to vectorize loops to make use of the SSE2 instructions - why are they charging $500 for it?!?! (OK, it's only $400 during December).
Surely it is in their best interests to give the damn thing away, so that developers everywhere are releasing code optimised for the P4? (surely AMD should do the same, but maybe they don't have an army of compiler-writing gurus like Intel presumably does). Graphics card vendors, for example, are always exhorting you to "get the latest drivers", to improve the performance and stability of systems using their hardware. Intel should view this compiler like a driver for their CPU - get everyone (who compiles) to download it, and it'll make their hardware look better.
Lets face it; many of Intels 'new' chips don't make immediate sense, but who was buying the predecesor to any of the above chips once the new style had been in the market for a while.
Well, I don't think any of the reviewers giving the P4 bad reviews are hesitating to point out that this is a design for the future, that the primary goal of the P4 is to be the start of a whole new line of performance improvements, that the P3's are pretty much at the end of the line, etc. etc. None of them are denying that the P4 has a lot of potential, just as all the chips you listed had far more potential than the chips that preceded them.
But the purpose of a review is simply to give people an idea about whether they should splash out their cash or not. And the opinion seems to be fairly unanimous at present that your cash should be kept in your pocket, or spent on an Athlon. That's all.
These reviewers absolutely love their benchmarks. If a 2GHz P4 is romping it in with the best benchmarks in a year's time, you can bet they'll be singing its praises, alleged pro-AMD bias or not..
The story you remember hearing was about the early days of AOL when they installed a filtering program over all their software. It's primary purpose was to stop people creating "rude" usernames and/or swearing in chat rooms.
I had an amusing problem using the internet cafe at Debenhams (a department store in London). They had some little patch installed so you couldn't swear in text boxes in IE. So for instance, if I was there right now, and I tried to type the word "fuck" in this comment, it would come out as "****".
OK, fair enough. But what I didn't realise was that it was also applying this filter to masked input boxes, like for passwords on websites. Of course you didn't notice this, because whatever you typed showed up as *'s anyway. Only problem was, the password for my online banking had, um, a naughty word in it.
I don't know HOW many times I tried to log on to my online banking from there. I KNEW my password was right, but it kept getting rejected. My account got locked (which sucked, because I had to phone them to get it unlocked, and it was an Australian bank and I was in London), I was ready to kill!
And then, like a thunderbolt, it struck me what was going wrong.
I had to laugh. After I'd gone to a different internet cafe, and changed my password, anyway.:-)
Not buying one until facist recording practices stop.
Is a "facist" recording practice one where only someone with a pretty face gets a record deal? Actually, that's a pretty good summary of modern pop music..;-)
Down with facist recording practices! We want voicist practices!
The article mentions that AMD Duron isn't selling that well in North America, whereas in Europe the sales are "incredible". Why is that?
I doubt it's enough to fully explain it, but the price difference between Duron and Celeron is slightly more attractive here in the UK than the USA. Comparing prices on the UK site www.pcindex.co.uk to the USA site www.pricewatch.com, the price difference (while better for AMD in both countries) is maybe 5% bigger in the UK. That's why I bought a Duron for my new PC, I guess others think the same way.
But lets face it, if price/performance is what sold chips, Duron would kill Celeron in the USA also. I think it's just because you have more Intel ads over there.:-)
Same thing as the Rosetta Stone.. its from Egypt.. Egypt wants it back.. its in ENgland.. england stole it as war booty and refuses to return it
I think the French stole it first. I had a look at it (in the British Museum) last weekend, and there's French graffiti carved on the side of it.
Trying vainly to drag myself back on topic.. when this whole stolen Enigma scandal started, I was just in the middle of reading Cryptonomicon, so it was good timing - certainly made the news of the theft more interesting to me..
Like someone else said, hackers are born, not made. Some people will just take to computers like ducks to water. Others will play games for 5 years and not learn the difference between RAM and HD. (Anyone ever play the Paranoia RPG? Remember that mutation "machine empathy"? That's the sort of thing hackers have)
But I reckon the only way you'll ever find out is to expose a kid to a computer and see what happens. When I was 9 or so, my family got a TRS-80.. my brother and I both fiddled around with it a bit, learned a little BASIC, played a few (terrible!) games. Then we got a C-64, and that's pretty much where we diverged. He still played a few games, so did I, but I got into assembly coding as well.
One thing led to another and soon enough I was at uni studying computer science and coding Amiga demos in my spare time, he was off doing a law degree. Which he completed with first class honours, so it's not that I'm smarter than him or anything, it's just that we're differently wired.
Anyway, if I'm trying to make any sort of point with this rambling, it's that exposing some kids to computers will lead to lifelong interest and highly-paid programming jobs, others it will merely lead to playing a few games and then getting sick of it. But if you at all feel that having your kid grow up to be a hacker would be a good thing, then you gotta make sure they get the opportunity, but not try to force it if it's just not happening.
..since the gamasutra url has the date 20000724 embededded in it it should be a hint that this is old news..
Truly. But I just had the latest issue of Crypto-Gram land in my mailbox, with.. a link to this article! What's the bet that whoever submitted it to Slashdot found it the same way, and therefore thought it was new..?
There is always a cultural undercurrent of fascination with retro from about 20 years ago.
Read an ;am using piece on this idea a little while ago. Damned if I can remember what led me there, but it was probably a couple of links away from an old Slashdot story. Anyway, their point was that the gap between a period and the point at which it becomes "retro" and "cool" is getting smaller and smaller.
There was another piece on this, I'm sure I saw it on Salon but I can't find it now.. it went further, and predicted a "Retro Horizon" at which point the gap would shrink to nothing, and the concept of "retro" would cease to exist.
But it's true.. like you said, in the 70's, the 50's was retro. But by the 90's, it was the 80's.. I betcha you could try to push the rave culture of the early 90's as retro now and get away with it. Peoples memories are getting shorter and shorter..
What's this got to do with portable 2600's? Well, forget old consoles.. try showing a PC game of just a couple of years ago (say, a 3D game that missed the 3D hardware revolution and only had software rendering) to a young Quake ]I[ kiddie.. "what, it only does 320x200?!?! In 8-bit colour!?!"
Now THAT'S retro!!
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ps.dot is in there! Submitted by a group called Neustar, Inc., who are one of the applicants that merit further review (although.dot isn't their preferred string -.web is (how lame)).
http://slashdot.dot here we come!
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Hmm, having a bit of a poke around those links, I came across the applications for new general-purpose TLDs. There are applications from 14 groups, 7 of whom "merit further review" by ICANN, mostly suggesting a few new TLDs each.
But one of the unsuccessful groups is a mob called Name.Space, who proposed 117 new TLDs! Including such gems as ".nyc" (New York is a country now?), ".jazz" and ".music" (jazz isn't music?) and ".ads" (hmm there's one to avoid).
So I had a look at them - they're a firm that sell domain names in 546 new top level domains! All of the above plus such gems as.cow,.page and.2000 that they presumably thought were too daft to try to slip by ICANN. Anyway, you can register any of these for only $30 a domain! The fact that nobody is ever going to be able to access you via that domain name unless they set up to use Name.Space's rival DNS is tucked away in the middle of their FAQ where they tell you to spread the word, and get your friends and associates to connect to their DNS..
although you can trace access back to a terminal, you cannot reliably trace it to a user. In other words, it can be found that someone accessed www.1337pr0n.com at such-and-such time, but it cannot find who that was.
Depends. I'm assuming this is a Windows network - if people are logged in, the proxy server is almost certainly recording exactly who accesses www.1337pr0n.com. This is what you'd expect in a workplace where everyone has user accounts, obviously not what you'd expect in a library, where all the terminals will surely just be logged in as guest accounts. A school? Could be set up either way..
However, if you peruse the article in question, it makes reference to "the cost of redacting the names". Which certainly implies that (a) the logs do have the names of those who were accessing http://goatse.cx and (b) those names aren't going to be revealed.
Database is one area that needs more conceptual information in the marketplace. You can know every practical command for your database system, but if you don't know how to design the system properly to begin with, you will have trouble and headaches from it forever.
A lot of people look at it like programming - they think, you "know" this database, OK, you're hired, just as they would hire someone who "knows" a programming language. At least Microsoft distinguishes between Database Administration and Database Design in their certification.
I know this because a previous employer sent all the programmers on an Administration course rather than a Design one. Then we had to design our database (luckily I knew a bit about this from prior experience). We couldn't even use our freshly-learned Admin skills because we didn't have enough privilege on the NT servers.:-)
Oh well, I've since moved to a larger company, where I only do front-end stuff. My database skills will now slowly stagnate.
Palm Beach is a liberal, very Jewish community. I have a hard time believing Buchanan would receive a lot of support there.
He didn't receive "a lot" of support, he received 3407 votes. Out of several hundred thousand (can't find the exact number). The concern is that he received a pitiful miserable level of support there, compared to an even more pitiful and miserable vote elsewhere ion Florida.
Buchanan, among other things, has praised Hitler.
Do you think there are not 1% anti-semites in a "very Jewish" community? I think that is perfectly possible.
I have to say, the "maths" on that Palm Beach story are pretty shonky. "The probability that Buchanan would get so many votes in Palm Beach by chance is less than 1 in 3,000,000,000,000,000" ?! Come on.. votes aren't evenly distributed, there are such things as demographics.
That graph makes it look some huge landslide to Buchanan in Palm Beach, but according to CNN, he got 3407 votes in that county. According to the mean, you'd only have expected 800-900. You know, there are a lot of reasons why he could have pulled an extra 2500 votes in that county beyond mass voter confusion.
What was his campaign like there? Are there a few big churches that were leaning on their worshippers to get out there and vote for him? Did he have 4x as many supporters out canvassing for him as in other counties? (come on, you know that could mean 4 people compared to only 1 elsewhere). Has anyone even asked the Buchanan campaign for an opinion?
Anyway.. I'm just a UK-resident Australian, it's nothing to do with me.. but that bullshit graph made it look like every voter was a dice that got tossed and was 100x more likely to come up "Bush" or "Gore" than "Buchanan", rather than an actual thinking human being 1.
1 - OK, I don't think anyone who voted Buchanan was really doing much "thinking".;-)
Hey, does anyone know how similar those rules on Eligible Non-subscription Transmissions are to what "real" (ie, non-internet) radio stations have to abide by?
I'm talking about the "In a three hour period, you can't play more than three tracks from a given album, and no more than two consecutively" and "In a three hour period, you can't play more than four tracks by a given artist, and no more than three consecutively" restrictions.
Because, on Australian radio I've heard some great specials on particular artists, where many many more than 4 tracks get played in 3 hours. I've heard new albums played in full. So obviously APRA (the Australian version of ASCAP) doesn't enforce such conditions. I'd hate to think that radio stations in the USA missed out on the chance of such quality programming because of these rules..
A hotmail acount I never used, is spammed by +- 30 emails a day.
Same here, I created a Hotmail account intending to use it while my-deja.com was down for upgrades. The upgrade got postponed, I didn't use the Hotmail account for a while, but when I went to first send mail through it, the box was full of spam.
The account name is only 4 letters, thus I suppect that the spammers spam form A to ZZZZ.
Well, my account name was 14 letters long, so I suspect rather than Hotmail sells the addresses themselves as an extra revenue stream..;-)
Good for you! I for one had no end of problems trying to install 7.1 from a PC-plus cover disk
I too installed Mandrake 7.1 from a coverdisk, and had a few problems. Most serious one for me was that I was trying to install on a slightly battered HD (recently moved from Australia to the UK, seems that my HDs didn't enjoy the journey too well) and the option to check for bad blocks prior to formatting simply does not work. I know this, because I know how much slower it makes a format. With this installer, didn't matter whether I selected it or not, the format went swiftly, and then it installed a bunch of packages onto bad bits of disk, so when I booted up I had a filesystem so screwed that fsck couldn't fix it.
I struggled around this by moving partitions around and doing minimal installs until I got something bootable, then manually formatting my main partition, WITH the bad block check on. But damn, I shouldn't have had to.
I also had the problem one other guy mentioned of the bootloader setting up my Windows boot in a manner than simply did not work (hung on boot), but by that time I'd done so much fiddling around that I frankly can't say that it wasn't my own fault through some partitioning screwup. So I'll give Mandrake the benefit of the doubt here.
Great, in two weeks time I'm getting on a plane to move to London, in search of work. Now I read that the government is passing bills which will persuade all the high-tech firms in the UK to leave the country. Great timing on my part.:-(
We'll see. Typically, 80% or more of memory accesses are in cache. That's maybe a low number, but we'll work with it. Let's assume the DDR really doubles the bandwith. So now 20% of your application is going to be twice as fast. That's a whopping 10% speedup, which is hardly the same as doubling.
Yeah, but the 80% of your memory accesses from cache don't take anywhere near 80% of your processing time. Cache is so much faster that your 20% or whatever from main memory is probably taking more time than the 80% from cache. So now most of your application is going to be twice as fast. That is an impressive speedup.
Of course, like you, I'll wait and see. Theory and practice don't often agree.:-)
At the end, Rogue temporarily "inherited" Wolverine's claws when he saved her by touching her. But the claws are not his power. His power is his ability to heal rapidly!
Could go either way, and indeed it certainly has in the comics. When Wolverine first appeared in an ancient issue of The Incredible Hulk, he was just some Canadian bloke with claws in his gloves. Chris Claremont wrote that out as a stupid idea ("if they're just clawed gloves, then anyone could be Wolverine!") and made him a mutant with rapid healing, with the skeleton and claws being artificial. As you say.
But this was later changed again, when Wolverine had the adamantium ripped out of his body by Magneto (who was being written as somewhat more psychotic than he should have been, at the time). Much to everyone's surprise, Wolverine popped bone claws out of his hand. So the official line is that he always had claws as part of his mutation, and they were only coated with adamantium, not added to him at that point.
It's risky to say that anything in the X-Men movie contradicts the comics. They've contradicted themselves so often in the last 35 years that almost everything has been "true" at some point.;-)
As long as they don't make X-Men: The Musical, I'll be okay.
Although if they do, Hugh Jackman will still be perfect for the part of Wolverine. Apart from movies and television, he also has a strong background in musical theatre.:-)
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After all, anyone developing software whilst they should be working is wasting their employer's time and resources, and if they're lucky enough not to be sacked then anything they produce is certainly the property of the employer - this is only fair.
This is not "insightful", this is an off-the-cuff comment from someone trying to score First (Coherent) Post without actually reading the article linked to.
FYI, the concern that SAGE is trying to address with this agreement is that many people have signed employment contracts (perhaps without reading them too clearly) that specify that anything you develop even on your own time, using your home computer is the intellectual property of your employer. SAGE are providing clauses for you to request in your contract which explicitly state that any open source software you develop in your own time does not become your employer's property.
An excellent idea, if you ask me. Although I personally would leave open source out of it, and demand that nothing you produce on your own time becomes your employer's property. If they don't like it - well, there's plenty of programmers they can hire that don't demand this. If these programmers are less talented than those who actually like programming and do it as a hobby - well, that's life.
A common thread of all these reviews is that the regular FPU on the P4 is pretty ordinary (ie, worse than on the P3), but the SSE2 instructions are great, and will speed things up immensely, if they're used. Hence the excellent specFP scores.
My question is: given that few developers these days have the mental fortitude to write hand-optimised assembly, and given that Intel's C++ compiler alleges to be able to vectorize loops to make use of the SSE2 instructions - why are they charging $500 for it?!?! (OK, it's only $400 during December).
Surely it is in their best interests to give the damn thing away, so that developers everywhere are releasing code optimised for the P4? (surely AMD should do the same, but maybe they don't have an army of compiler-writing gurus like Intel presumably does). Graphics card vendors, for example, are always exhorting you to "get the latest drivers", to improve the performance and stability of systems using their hardware. Intel should view this compiler like a driver for their CPU - get everyone (who compiles) to download it, and it'll make their hardware look better.
Lets face it; many of Intels 'new' chips don't make immediate sense, but who was buying the predecesor to any of the above chips once the new style had been in the market for a while.
Well, I don't think any of the reviewers giving the P4 bad reviews are hesitating to point out that this is a design for the future, that the primary goal of the P4 is to be the start of a whole new line of performance improvements, that the P3's are pretty much at the end of the line, etc. etc. None of them are denying that the P4 has a lot of potential, just as all the chips you listed had far more potential than the chips that preceded them.
But the purpose of a review is simply to give people an idea about whether they should splash out their cash or not. And the opinion seems to be fairly unanimous at present that your cash should be kept in your pocket, or spent on an Athlon. That's all.
These reviewers absolutely love their benchmarks. If a 2GHz P4 is romping it in with the best benchmarks in a year's time, you can bet they'll be singing its praises, alleged pro-AMD bias or not..
The story you remember hearing was about the early days of AOL when they installed a filtering program over all their software. It's primary purpose was to stop people creating "rude" usernames and/or swearing in chat rooms.
I had an amusing problem using the internet cafe at Debenhams (a department store in London). They had some little patch installed so you couldn't swear in text boxes in IE. So for instance, if I was there right now, and I tried to type the word "fuck" in this comment, it would come out as "****".
OK, fair enough. But what I didn't realise was that it was also applying this filter to masked input boxes, like for passwords on websites. Of course you didn't notice this, because whatever you typed showed up as *'s anyway. Only problem was, the password for my online banking had, um, a naughty word in it.
I don't know HOW many times I tried to log on to my online banking from there. I KNEW my password was right, but it kept getting rejected. My account got locked (which sucked, because I had to phone them to get it unlocked, and it was an Australian bank and I was in London), I was ready to kill!
And then, like a thunderbolt, it struck me what was going wrong.
I had to laugh. After I'd gone to a different internet cafe, and changed my password, anyway. :-)
Not buying one until facist recording practices stop.
Is a "facist" recording practice one where only someone with a pretty face gets a record deal? Actually, that's a pretty good summary of modern pop music.. ;-)
Down with facist recording practices! We want voicist practices!
The article mentions that AMD Duron isn't selling that well in North America, whereas in Europe the sales are "incredible". Why is that?
I doubt it's enough to fully explain it, but the price difference between Duron and Celeron is slightly more attractive here in the UK than the USA. Comparing prices on the UK site www.pcindex.co.uk to the USA site www.pricewatch.com, the price difference (while better for AMD in both countries) is maybe 5% bigger in the UK. That's why I bought a Duron for my new PC, I guess others think the same way.
But lets face it, if price/performance is what sold chips, Duron would kill Celeron in the USA also. I think it's just because you have more Intel ads over there. :-)
Man, look at the POV-Ray scores.. Athlon 1.2GHz beats P4 1.6GHz by 960 to 834. Intel claims that "The Pentium 4 processors that we're announcing Monday have the highest performing floating point of any PC processor that's out there", and yet the Athlon is more than 50% faster at 3D rendering, clock for clock? What an embarrassment.
Same thing as the Rosetta Stone.. its from Egypt.. Egypt wants it back.. its in ENgland.. england stole it as war booty and refuses to return it
I think the French stole it first. I had a look at it (in the British Museum) last weekend, and there's French graffiti carved on the side of it.
Trying vainly to drag myself back on topic.. when this whole stolen Enigma scandal started, I was just in the middle of reading Cryptonomicon, so it was good timing - certainly made the news of the theft more interesting to me..
Many Americans don't even know who their own President is!
Actually, a lot of people would like to know who the President of the USA is.. so just keep counting them votes, y'all! ;-)
Like someone else said, hackers are born, not made. Some people will just take to computers like ducks to water. Others will play games for 5 years and not learn the difference between RAM and HD. (Anyone ever play the Paranoia RPG? Remember that mutation "machine empathy"? That's the sort of thing hackers have)
But I reckon the only way you'll ever find out is to expose a kid to a computer and see what happens. When I was 9 or so, my family got a TRS-80.. my brother and I both fiddled around with it a bit, learned a little BASIC, played a few (terrible!) games. Then we got a C-64, and that's pretty much where we diverged. He still played a few games, so did I, but I got into assembly coding as well.
One thing led to another and soon enough I was at uni studying computer science and coding Amiga demos in my spare time, he was off doing a law degree. Which he completed with first class honours, so it's not that I'm smarter than him or anything, it's just that we're differently wired.
Anyway, if I'm trying to make any sort of point with this rambling, it's that exposing some kids to computers will lead to lifelong interest and highly-paid programming jobs, others it will merely lead to playing a few games and then getting sick of it. But if you at all feel that having your kid grow up to be a hacker would be a good thing, then you gotta make sure they get the opportunity, but not try to force it if it's just not happening.
Truly. But I just had the latest issue of Crypto-Gram land in my mailbox, with.. a link to this article! What's the bet that whoever submitted it to Slashdot found it the same way, and therefore thought it was new..?
There is always a cultural undercurrent of fascination with retro from about 20 years ago.
Read an ;am using piece on this idea a little while ago. Damned if I can remember what led me there, but it was probably a couple of links away from an old Slashdot story. Anyway, their point was that the gap between a period and the point at which it becomes "retro" and "cool" is getting smaller and smaller.
There was another piece on this, I'm sure I saw it on Salon but I can't find it now.. it went further, and predicted a "Retro Horizon" at which point the gap would shrink to nothing, and the concept of "retro" would cease to exist.
But it's true.. like you said, in the 70's, the 50's was retro. But by the 90's, it was the 80's.. I betcha you could try to push the rave culture of the early 90's as retro now and get away with it. Peoples memories are getting shorter and shorter..
What's this got to do with portable 2600's? Well, forget old consoles.. try showing a PC game of just a couple of years ago (say, a 3D game that missed the 3D hardware revolution and only had software rendering) to a young Quake ]I[ kiddie.. "what, it only does 320x200?!?! In 8-bit colour!?!"
Now THAT'S retro!!
ps .dot is in there! Submitted by a group called Neustar, Inc., who are one of the applicants that merit further review (although .dot isn't their preferred string - .web is (how lame)).
http://slashdot.dot here we come!
Hmm, having a bit of a poke around those links, I came across the applications for new general-purpose TLDs. There are applications from 14 groups, 7 of whom "merit further review" by ICANN, mostly suggesting a few new TLDs each.
But one of the unsuccessful groups is a mob called Name.Space, who proposed 117 new TLDs! Including such gems as ".nyc" (New York is a country now?), ".jazz" and ".music" (jazz isn't music?) and ".ads" (hmm there's one to avoid).
So I had a look at them - they're a firm that sell domain names in 546 new top level domains! All of the above plus such gems as .cow, .page and .2000 that they presumably thought were too daft to try to slip by ICANN. Anyway, you can register any of these for only $30 a domain! The fact that nobody is ever going to be able to access you via that domain name unless they set up to use Name.Space's rival DNS is tucked away in the middle of their FAQ where they tell you to spread the word, and get your friends and associates to connect to their DNS..
What a bunch of maroons..
although you can trace access back to a terminal, you cannot reliably trace it to a user. In other words, it can be found that someone accessed www.1337pr0n.com at such-and-such time, but it cannot find who that was.
Depends. I'm assuming this is a Windows network - if people are logged in, the proxy server is almost certainly recording exactly who accesses www.1337pr0n.com. This is what you'd expect in a workplace where everyone has user accounts, obviously not what you'd expect in a library, where all the terminals will surely just be logged in as guest accounts. A school? Could be set up either way..
However, if you peruse the article in question, it makes reference to "the cost of redacting the names". Which certainly implies that (a) the logs do have the names of those who were accessing http://goatse.cx and (b) those names aren't going to be revealed.
Database is one area that needs more conceptual information in the marketplace. You can know every practical command for your database system, but if you don't know how to design the system properly to begin with, you will have trouble and headaches from it forever.
A lot of people look at it like programming - they think, you "know" this database, OK, you're hired, just as they would hire someone who "knows" a programming language. At least Microsoft distinguishes between Database Administration and Database Design in their certification.
I know this because a previous employer sent all the programmers on an Administration course rather than a Design one. Then we had to design our database (luckily I knew a bit about this from prior experience). We couldn't even use our freshly-learned Admin skills because we didn't have enough privilege on the NT servers. :-)
Oh well, I've since moved to a larger company, where I only do front-end stuff. My database skills will now slowly stagnate.
Palm Beach is a liberal, very Jewish community. I have a hard time believing Buchanan would receive a lot of support there.
He didn't receive "a lot" of support, he received 3407 votes. Out of several hundred thousand (can't find the exact number). The concern is that he received a pitiful miserable level of support there, compared to an even more pitiful and miserable vote elsewhere ion Florida.
Buchanan, among other things, has praised Hitler.
Do you think there are not 1% anti-semites in a "very Jewish" community? I think that is perfectly possible.
I have to say, the "maths" on that Palm Beach story are pretty shonky. "The probability that Buchanan would get so many votes in Palm Beach by chance is less than 1 in 3,000,000,000,000,000" ?! Come on.. votes aren't evenly distributed, there are such things as demographics.
That graph makes it look some huge landslide to Buchanan in Palm Beach, but according to CNN, he got 3407 votes in that county. According to the mean, you'd only have expected 800-900. You know, there are a lot of reasons why he could have pulled an extra 2500 votes in that county beyond mass voter confusion.
What was his campaign like there? Are there a few big churches that were leaning on their worshippers to get out there and vote for him? Did he have 4x as many supporters out canvassing for him as in other counties? (come on, you know that could mean 4 people compared to only 1 elsewhere). Has anyone even asked the Buchanan campaign for an opinion?
Anyway.. I'm just a UK-resident Australian, it's nothing to do with me.. but that bullshit graph made it look like every voter was a dice that got tossed and was 100x more likely to come up "Bush" or "Gore" than "Buchanan", rather than an actual thinking human being 1.
1 - OK, I don't think anyone who voted Buchanan was really doing much "thinking". ;-)
Hey, does anyone know how similar those rules on Eligible Non-subscription Transmissions are to what "real" (ie, non-internet) radio stations have to abide by?
I'm talking about the "In a three hour period, you can't play more than three tracks from a given album, and no more than two consecutively" and "In a three hour period, you can't play more than four tracks by a given artist, and no more than three consecutively" restrictions.
Because, on Australian radio I've heard some great specials on particular artists, where many many more than 4 tracks get played in 3 hours. I've heard new albums played in full. So obviously APRA (the Australian version of ASCAP) doesn't enforce such conditions. I'd hate to think that radio stations in the USA missed out on the chance of such quality programming because of these rules..
A hotmail acount I never used, is spammed by +- 30 emails a day.
Same here, I created a Hotmail account intending to use it while my-deja.com was down for upgrades. The upgrade got postponed, I didn't use the Hotmail account for a while, but when I went to first send mail through it, the box was full of spam.
The account name is only 4 letters, thus I suppect that the spammers spam form A to ZZZZ.
Well, my account name was 14 letters long, so I suspect rather than Hotmail sells the addresses themselves as an extra revenue stream.. ;-)
Good for you! I for one had no end of problems trying to install 7.1 from a PC-plus cover disk
I too installed Mandrake 7.1 from a coverdisk, and had a few problems. Most serious one for me was that I was trying to install on a slightly battered HD (recently moved from Australia to the UK, seems that my HDs didn't enjoy the journey too well) and the option to check for bad blocks prior to formatting simply does not work. I know this, because I know how much slower it makes a format. With this installer, didn't matter whether I selected it or not, the format went swiftly, and then it installed a bunch of packages onto bad bits of disk, so when I booted up I had a filesystem so screwed that fsck couldn't fix it.
I struggled around this by moving partitions around and doing minimal installs until I got something bootable, then manually formatting my main partition, WITH the bad block check on. But damn, I shouldn't have had to.
I also had the problem one other guy mentioned of the bootloader setting up my Windows boot in a manner than simply did not work (hung on boot), but by that time I'd done so much fiddling around that I frankly can't say that it wasn't my own fault through some partitioning screwup. So I'll give Mandrake the benefit of the doubt here.
Great, in two weeks time I'm getting on a plane to move to London, in search of work. Now I read that the government is passing bills which will persuade all the high-tech firms in the UK to leave the country. Great timing on my part. :-(
We'll see. Typically, 80% or more of memory accesses are in cache. That's maybe a low number, but we'll work with it. Let's assume the DDR really doubles the bandwith. So now 20% of your application is going to be twice as fast. That's a whopping 10% speedup, which is hardly the same as doubling.
Yeah, but the 80% of your memory accesses from cache don't take anywhere near 80% of your processing time. Cache is so much faster that your 20% or whatever from main memory is probably taking more time than the 80% from cache. So now most of your application is going to be twice as fast. That is an impressive speedup.
Of course, like you, I'll wait and see. Theory and practice don't often agree. :-)
At the end, Rogue temporarily "inherited" Wolverine's claws when he saved her by touching her. But the claws are not his power. His power is his ability to heal rapidly!
Could go either way, and indeed it certainly has in the comics. When Wolverine first appeared in an ancient issue of The Incredible Hulk, he was just some Canadian bloke with claws in his gloves. Chris Claremont wrote that out as a stupid idea ("if they're just clawed gloves, then anyone could be Wolverine!") and made him a mutant with rapid healing, with the skeleton and claws being artificial. As you say.
But this was later changed again, when Wolverine had the adamantium ripped out of his body by Magneto (who was being written as somewhat more psychotic than he should have been, at the time). Much to everyone's surprise, Wolverine popped bone claws out of his hand. So the official line is that he always had claws as part of his mutation, and they were only coated with adamantium, not added to him at that point.
It's risky to say that anything in the X-Men movie contradicts the comics. They've contradicted themselves so often in the last 35 years that almost everything has been "true" at some point. ;-)
As long as they don't make X-Men: The Musical, I'll be okay.
Although if they do, Hugh Jackman will still be perfect for the part of Wolverine. Apart from movies and television, he also has a strong background in musical theatre. :-)