Ignoring your complete lack of foresight, there are many reasons a government would want to control the flow of information that its citizens have access to. Those who control the flow of information control the way people perceive the world. Those who control peoples' perceptions, control those people. But I suppose you think books like Orwell's 1984 are just fictional rubbish and that government controls on information for the purposes of shaping public opinion have never existed.
When you first said "USPS" I thought "nah, he couldn't be talking about the postal service" but then you said "letter rate", and now I just have to say that I don't fancy the idea of printing all my ACK packets and sending them back. What happened to the paperless office? Obviously it's only paperless if you're using UDP!
In that case, it *really* sounds to me that you need a custom data type, and that using INTx is just force fitting an existing data type into a situation it is not intended for.
If you're within 50% of the data range, you should be using the next larger storage system anyway. It's insanely myopic to think you're going to go within 50% of the range limit, but never, ever over it.
Furthermore, if you're talking about needing unsigned 2 byte integers, an extra 2 bytes to go with signed 4 byte integers is 2 bytes per row. If you're dealing with tracking data and have billons of entries and a few extra gigabytes of space is a problem, then you have bigger problems, like, using $10 hardware for a large scale project. The same goes for 8 byte integers, the difference being 4 bytes per row, or 4gb per *billion* entries. Really, nobody working with tracking data should have a problem storing 4gb.
In short, the lack of unsigned integers is not a design deficiency, but the result of a calculated assessment of the uselessness of such a data type, and the knowledge that anyone needing such a strange animal can create one from the custom data type functionality.
Hello Hank. DVD players and batteries can be purchased more cheaply and discretely in volume from China. Please direct your questions there. You will also find that China's energy policies make it easier to pay in dinar if you wish. You will also find that America is about to put DVDs on the restricted export list along with PS2s and common encryption.
If you are caught taking a portable DVD player across a national border you will be arrested and tried as a terrorist. It is unclear whether this will apply to CD players as well, but better throw that out too, just to be on the safe side. BlueRay players have been classified as WMDs, so if you're a foreign government, you better stay friendly with the US if you want to watch The Matrix in high definition without being declared a rogue state and invaded.
It's legal? Well goody then. It's a good thing our great society has invented this thing called law so we can do away with annoying things like "morality", "ethics" and "values".
Jupiter is a much larger target, and therefore far more likely to get hit by the random motion of asteroids in space. Also, all them "pot holes we see on the moon" are a) spread out over a period of billions of years making the chance that it'll happen in *this* millennium very low and b) mainly the result of asteroids the size of golf balls, most of which would burn up in our atmosphere.
The chance of an asteroid large enough to get to the ground without burning up *and* hitting us in this millennium is so low that you really, honestly do have a better chance winning the lottery. Good luck with that too, by the way.
Can you please explain to me what similarities there are between the hydrodynamic motion of a shark and the beating wings of a bumblebee? I am intrigued by your ideas, and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
You fool! This is Slashdot, full of sci fi geeks who should know better than to do crazy things like experiment on tomato soup! Don't go crying to the DMCA waving government when your tomato soup is animated and eats your family!
I can't believe your view is the minority here. I don't understand why people find it easier to believe that the all-powerful Al-Qaeda videos are doctored by Osama and his crew than the videos are made by foreign agents who are fabricating the needed vindication for the decision to go to war and justification for continuing it.
So the Anonymous gang reported on by Fox news are not only hackers and life destroyers, now they're posting content on Slashdot! And here we thought we were safe.
Wow... I replied to your post while thinking about another one. My neural lines got crossed. Don't worry I've taken my medication for the day now and apologize for replying to your post thinking I was replying to someone else's.
There's a little more to it than that. The "if you don't like it, don't use it" argument is pretty silly, and if you're going to apply it, apply it everywhere: If you don't like Microsoft's behavior, don't use their software, and forgo the rights to whine about them.
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Ignoring your complete lack of foresight, there are many reasons a government would want to control the flow of information that its citizens have access to. Those who control the flow of information control the way people perceive the world. Those who control peoples' perceptions, control those people. But I suppose you think books like Orwell's 1984 are just fictional rubbish and that government controls on information for the purposes of shaping public opinion have never existed.
As a non-US citizen, I too hope your government subsides. :P )
(Not a spelling Nazi, just poking you coz you pointed it out
When you first said "USPS" I thought "nah, he couldn't be talking about the postal service" but then you said "letter rate", and now I just have to say that I don't fancy the idea of printing all my ACK packets and sending them back. What happened to the paperless office? Obviously it's only paperless if you're using UDP!
2001 called. It wants its MySQL indignant reply back.
In that case, it *really* sounds to me that you need a custom data type, and that using INTx is just force fitting an existing data type into a situation it is not intended for.
If you're within 50% of the data range, you should be using the next larger storage system anyway. It's insanely myopic to think you're going to go within 50% of the range limit, but never, ever over it.
Furthermore, if you're talking about needing unsigned 2 byte integers, an extra 2 bytes to go with signed 4 byte integers is 2 bytes per row. If you're dealing with tracking data and have billons of entries and a few extra gigabytes of space is a problem, then you have bigger problems, like, using $10 hardware for a large scale project. The same goes for 8 byte integers, the difference being 4 bytes per row, or 4gb per *billion* entries. Really, nobody working with tracking data should have a problem storing 4gb.
In short, the lack of unsigned integers is not a design deficiency, but the result of a calculated assessment of the uselessness of such a data type, and the knowledge that anyone needing such a strange animal can create one from the custom data type functionality.
So what you're saying is the Firefox is the inbred result of too-closely related parents? That explains quite a lot...
Why didn't you just say "I'm scared." ?
Indeed, but the caduceus is not what you're thinking of, this is.
Re: your sig
You just got in there, so don't be so cocky.
Hello Hank. DVD players and batteries can be purchased more cheaply and discretely in volume from China. Please direct your questions there. You will also find that China's energy policies make it easier to pay in dinar if you wish. You will also find that America is about to put DVDs on the restricted export list along with PS2s and common encryption.
If you are caught taking a portable DVD player across a national border you will be arrested and tried as a terrorist. It is unclear whether this will apply to CD players as well, but better throw that out too, just to be on the safe side. BlueRay players have been classified as WMDs, so if you're a foreign government, you better stay friendly with the US if you want to watch The Matrix in high definition without being declared a rogue state and invaded.
Yours truly,
John.
It's legal? Well goody then. It's a good thing our great society has invented this thing called law so we can do away with annoying things like "morality", "ethics" and "values".
Yes, like Microsoft, the Mozilla security chief will resort to insulting the competition. I expect he'll make many snyde remarks about Windows.
Jupiter is a much larger target, and therefore far more likely to get hit by the random motion of asteroids in space. Also, all them "pot holes we see on the moon" are a) spread out over a period of billions of years making the chance that it'll happen in *this* millennium very low and b) mainly the result of asteroids the size of golf balls, most of which would burn up in our atmosphere.
The chance of an asteroid large enough to get to the ground without burning up *and* hitting us in this millennium is so low that you really, honestly do have a better chance winning the lottery. Good luck with that too, by the way.
Can you please explain to me what similarities there are between the hydrodynamic motion of a shark and the beating wings of a bumblebee? I am intrigued by your ideas, and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
No, the OP was right. They're repealing attraction. Don't know why they took so long, Slashdotters repealed attraction years ago.
You fool! This is Slashdot, full of sci fi geeks who should know better than to do crazy things like experiment on tomato soup! Don't go crying to the DMCA waving government when your tomato soup is animated and eats your family!
Somehow, I don't see you flourishing and reproducing rampantly in the wild either.
I can't believe your view is the minority here. I don't understand why people find it easier to believe that the all-powerful Al-Qaeda videos are doctored by Osama and his crew than the videos are made by foreign agents who are fabricating the needed vindication for the decision to go to war and justification for continuing it.
What is this, the Fox news forums?
So the Anonymous gang reported on by Fox news are not only hackers and life destroyers, now they're posting content on Slashdot! And here we thought we were safe.
Wow... I replied to your post while thinking about another one. My neural lines got crossed. Don't worry I've taken my medication for the day now and apologize for replying to your post thinking I was replying to someone else's.
Look up. See that thing stuck to the ceiling? It's a joke.
How dare you sully this fine web forum with your facts?!
There's a little more to it than that. The "if you don't like it, don't use it" argument is pretty silly, and if you're going to apply it, apply it everywhere: If you don't like Microsoft's behavior, don't use their software, and forgo the rights to whine about them.
Lies! I refuse to believe that there has ever been talk in the Firefox dev team about memory size!