Could someone explain to me why this kind of speed would be a problem? It seems to me that if BinaryMemtable is so incredibly fast that other things become a bottleneck, then you're in a great position. You have something very fast for storing and retrieving data - you just need to get bigger, faster pipes.
Yeah, health care in America is so terrible that Khalid of Saudi Arabia, the king, came to the United States for his heart surgery. This is a guy who can afford to go anywhere in the world and simply not care about the cost. And where does he go? To the USA.
Here is where many people go wrong. They treat health insurance as a way to game the system and get someone else to pay for everything. Everyone wants a plan where everything is covered, including a $100 doctor's visit and $5 for antibiotics - then they wonder why their premiums are so high. That isn't what insurance was designed for, and it is one of the big reasons (imho) why health insurance costs are skyrocketing here in the US.
If you want to pay lower premiums, then contact your provider and work out a plan with higher deductibles and lower drug coverage. This is [i]insurance[/i], as in, "I can afford paying my own way for a half dozen visits to the doctor a year and some generic drugs, but if I fall and break my head open and need brain surgery, I'll need help paying."
Car Analogy: Does your car insurance cover a head light going out?
Too many people, the left in particular, has an insane sense of entitlement and want everything provided without paying the cost. Well, guess what - it doesn't work that way - and that includes government-provided health care. There's no such thing as free - someone has to pay for it.
I'll give this a try, thanks for the tip. I like to give everything a fair go, but Eclipse PDT has just been a giant mess every time I have decided to try it "one more time." (o:
Eclipse PHP Development Tools 2.1.2 received an overall score of 8.8. I'm not sure why. I have tried this on several occasions and I find the interface confusing, the software itself bloated and slow, and the internal plugin manager is always broken and can't download dependencies correctly - if at all.
Sure, there are posts all over the place that are supposed to help fix these issues: Download X from Y, and A from B, and then modify this configuration, and, and, and......and I shouldn't have to. It should 'just work'. I spent half a day trying to get the SFTP plugin installed and working and I gave up. I don't have time for that.
My personal favorite, as far as 'large' IDEs go, is Zend Studio - the last version before they moved over onto the Eclipse Framework.
The Transportation Department will post ratings for 2,400 lines of tires for consumer safety based on tire tread wear, traction performance and temperature resistance. The Labor Department will release the names of 80,000 workplaces where injuries and illness have occurred over the past 10 years.
How is this NOT valuable? Access to this information will change the world! We will FINALLY have government information on the tread wear of tires! SWEET! You can keep your musical revolution, I'm going to bask in the glory of TIRE TREAD DATA.
So far Obama has not shown much interest in rocking the boat
Obama, by putting Hillary in this position, has marginalized her. He essentially controls what she can and cannot do, and what she can and cannot say. Do you really think that she put this statement out without approval from the President?
On a side note: I don't like Obama or Hillary, but I would rather have Hillary in office because she, at least, has significant political expertise and knows how to make the country feel good. She wouldn't wait 3 days to make a public statement after a bombing attempt on an airplane. It doesn't do anything other than make people feel warm and fuzzy, but that is part of what that job entails.
Probably didn't catch the sarcasm, but since we are here: I would rather have no kids on the Internet than be arrested and thrown into jail for however long because of a vague law. This is about protecting me.
I have a better idea. Minors of any age simply cannot use the Internet. Then I can safely assume that everyone is an adult, and all of these "BUT THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!" laws can just go away. After all, think of the children, the Internet is full of nothing but perverts anyways, right?
With a law THAT ambiguous, I'm sure that every single person will at some point be branded some kind of predator. This is ridiculous.
I suffer from very strong red/green color blindness, which can be very problematic for me in some games. I was happy to see that L4D, and L4D2 include a 'color blindness' option that change some of the colors in the game so that they are easier for me to see.
Having a ratings system, even if it isn't an official one, is a nice idea.
The lawsuit though... Not so much. I don't see any legal basis for it. Someone with no legs shouldn't sue Ford because it is hard to drive.
I used to be involved in WarHammer table-top games. The books never did much for me, but the tabletop game was great. I never owned my own stuff; always played with a friend who had quite a lot, so I never needed to.
Well, he moved away at some point, and I decided that I should get some of my own stuff. That ended very quickly when I found out just how much I had to pay for a single piece of cheap, unpainted plastic.
And that is precisely why feel-good projects that "clean up the bad neighborhood" never work in the long term. Sure, you can head to the poor parts of town, pick up the trash, paint a few houses, whatever, that's very nice and I'm sure that it give people a warm fuzzy feeling... But ultimately, unless the people who live there put in the (minimal) effort to keep up after themselves, it will just go back to the way it was.
I understand that those who are involved in regular vigorous activity are more at risk to physical injury, which can cause them to take more sick leave in order to recover. I hereby recommend that all exercise be banned.
This was not-so-widely reported during the Katrina situation, because people were too busy jumping on the "Katrina is Bush's Fault!" bandwagon. Funding was funneled away from the levees and put into other projects.
That isn't to say that the ACE isn't at fault either; some of the levees seem to have been poorly built, but I am not convinced this is due to malicious intent.
Rich paying taxes is not unfair, but paying a higher percentage simply because they're more successful is unfair. If I am smarter, or work harder, or whatever, why should I pay 40% income tax when others who aren't as smart or motivated only pay 20%? Where is the motivation to improve when more of what I produce is being taken away from me?
Also, your idea of having tax rebates to make things more "fair" will end up changing nothing at all. It will evolve into a complex mess of laws and regulations and loopholes, just like we have now.
Either you have a fair and level playing field for everyone by holding everyone up to the same standards, or you don't.
That depends on the judge interpreting the law. One could argue that the law dictating that they not block lawful content implies the ability to block unlawful content. Otherwise, what is the point of the law?
This is why poorly worded, vague laws, no matter how well intentioned, are the most harmful of them all.
In order to properly enforce these clauses, the carriers would HAVE to be given the ability to do this, and with the current congress enjoying Big Government (both parties included, mind you), do you think that won't happen?
These players tend to be min-maxers, zealots, and other types that look for tiny nuances within the rules that make them 'better' than their peers.
And these are precisely the kinds of players that I won't play with, because they ruin games. Nothing is worse than The Rules Lawyer (especially in the middle of combat), or The Munchkin, or The Deep Brooder who doesn't understand why you don't want to read his sixty page character background. Scary people. They are good for business, though...
On a slightly different topic, when I was heavily involved in role playing (D&D and Werewolf, mostly), my groups rarely went beyond the core books. We made our own backstories, our own plots, and didn't ever see a need for "It's a fighter, except it uses oriental weapons and farts fairy dust so it is a different class with a totally different (yet the same) rules!"
If you wanted a fighter that used oriental weapons, well, then guess what - you were a fighter and you used oriental weapons. You don't need a $29 source book for that. It doesn't even make sense.
We did buy the occasional campaign settings - Ravenloft, Planescape, Council of Wyrms - but, keeping true to the Golden Rule of the WhiteWolf system, if it didn't work in our game, it was tossed out. This was always fascinating when someone new would join up, and things wouldn't be Exactly The Way The Bible Says It Is, and would totally flip out.
Honestly, a vast majority of the character classes outside of the core of 6-8 or so are really nothing more than very minor variations on the same theme, nothing that can't be accomplished with some light role playing to add a little flavor.
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Ah, that makes sense. For some reason I thought they were talking about general usage. Thanks for clearing that up. (o:
Could someone explain to me why this kind of speed would be a problem? It seems to me that if BinaryMemtable is so incredibly fast that other things become a bottleneck, then you're in a great position. You have something very fast for storing and retrieving data - you just need to get bigger, faster pipes.
Yeah, health care in America is so terrible that Khalid of Saudi Arabia, the king, came to the United States for his heart surgery. This is a guy who can afford to go anywhere in the world and simply not care about the cost. And where does he go? To the USA.
Here is where many people go wrong. They treat health insurance as a way to game the system and get someone else to pay for everything. Everyone wants a plan where everything is covered, including a $100 doctor's visit and $5 for antibiotics - then they wonder why their premiums are so high. That isn't what insurance was designed for, and it is one of the big reasons (imho) why health insurance costs are skyrocketing here in the US.
If you want to pay lower premiums, then contact your provider and work out a plan with higher deductibles and lower drug coverage. This is [i]insurance[/i], as in, "I can afford paying my own way for a half dozen visits to the doctor a year and some generic drugs, but if I fall and break my head open and need brain surgery, I'll need help paying."
Car Analogy: Does your car insurance cover a head light going out?
Too many people, the left in particular, has an insane sense of entitlement and want everything provided without paying the cost. Well, guess what - it doesn't work that way - and that includes government-provided health care. There's no such thing as free - someone has to pay for it.
Accidently selected 'Overrated' moderation option, posting to remove my mistake. I wish Slashdot would let me change moderation selections. )o:
I'll give this a try, thanks for the tip. I like to give everything a fair go, but Eclipse PDT has just been a giant mess every time I have decided to try it "one more time." (o:
Eclipse PHP Development Tools 2.1.2 received an overall score of 8.8. I'm not sure why. I have tried this on several occasions and I find the interface confusing, the software itself bloated and slow, and the internal plugin manager is always broken and can't download dependencies correctly - if at all.
Sure, there are posts all over the place that are supposed to help fix these issues: Download X from Y, and A from B, and then modify this configuration, and, and, and... ...and I shouldn't have to. It should 'just work'. I spent half a day trying to get the SFTP plugin installed and working and I gave up. I don't have time for that.
My personal favorite, as far as 'large' IDEs go, is Zend Studio - the last version before they moved over onto the Eclipse Framework.
Hey. I just want you to know...
How is this NOT valuable? Access to this information will change the world! We will FINALLY have government information on the tread wear of tires! SWEET! You can keep your musical revolution, I'm going to bask in the glory of TIRE TREAD DATA.
Wouldn't it be nice if they televised the entire health care bill debates on C-SPAN as they said they were going to?
Transparency my ass.
And the one in Perry, Ohio.
A politically saavy one, yes.
Obama, by putting Hillary in this position, has marginalized her. He essentially controls what she can and cannot do, and what she can and cannot say. Do you really think that she put this statement out without approval from the President?
On a side note: I don't like Obama or Hillary, but I would rather have Hillary in office because she, at least, has significant political expertise and knows how to make the country feel good. She wouldn't wait 3 days to make a public statement after a bombing attempt on an airplane. It doesn't do anything other than make people feel warm and fuzzy, but that is part of what that job entails.
The Blob came from a meteorite.
Yeah. The reality is that you will be stuck in a small cube writing code instead.
Probably didn't catch the sarcasm, but since we are here: I would rather have no kids on the Internet than be arrested and thrown into jail for however long because of a vague law. This is about protecting me.
I have a better idea. Minors of any age simply cannot use the Internet. Then I can safely assume that everyone is an adult, and all of these "BUT THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!" laws can just go away. After all, think of the children, the Internet is full of nothing but perverts anyways, right?
With a law THAT ambiguous, I'm sure that every single person will at some point be branded some kind of predator. This is ridiculous.
I suffer from very strong red/green color blindness, which can be very problematic for me in some games. I was happy to see that L4D, and L4D2 include a 'color blindness' option that change some of the colors in the game so that they are easier for me to see.
Having a ratings system, even if it isn't an official one, is a nice idea.
The lawsuit though... Not so much. I don't see any legal basis for it. Someone with no legs shouldn't sue Ford because it is hard to drive.
I used to be involved in WarHammer table-top games. The books never did much for me, but the tabletop game was great. I never owned my own stuff; always played with a friend who had quite a lot, so I never needed to.
Well, he moved away at some point, and I decided that I should get some of my own stuff. That ended very quickly when I found out just how much I had to pay for a single piece of cheap, unpainted plastic.
And that is precisely why feel-good projects that "clean up the bad neighborhood" never work in the long term. Sure, you can head to the poor parts of town, pick up the trash, paint a few houses, whatever, that's very nice and I'm sure that it give people a warm fuzzy feeling... But ultimately, unless the people who live there put in the (minimal) effort to keep up after themselves, it will just go back to the way it was.
I understand that those who are involved in regular vigorous activity are more at risk to physical injury, which can cause them to take more sick leave in order to recover. I hereby recommend that all exercise be banned.
This was not-so-widely reported during the Katrina situation, because people were too busy jumping on the "Katrina is Bush's Fault!" bandwagon. Funding was funneled away from the levees and put into other projects.
That isn't to say that the ACE isn't at fault either; some of the levees seem to have been poorly built, but I am not convinced this is due to malicious intent.
Rich paying taxes is not unfair, but paying a higher percentage simply because they're more successful is unfair. If I am smarter, or work harder, or whatever, why should I pay 40% income tax when others who aren't as smart or motivated only pay 20%? Where is the motivation to improve when more of what I produce is being taken away from me?
Also, your idea of having tax rebates to make things more "fair" will end up changing nothing at all. It will evolve into a complex mess of laws and regulations and loopholes, just like we have now.
Either you have a fair and level playing field for everyone by holding everyone up to the same standards, or you don't.
That depends on the judge interpreting the law. One could argue that the law dictating that they not block lawful content implies the ability to block unlawful content. Otherwise, what is the point of the law?
This is why poorly worded, vague laws, no matter how well intentioned, are the most harmful of them all.
In order to properly enforce these clauses, the carriers would HAVE to be given the ability to do this, and with the current congress enjoying Big Government (both parties included, mind you), do you think that won't happen?
This is dangerous stuff.
And these are precisely the kinds of players that I won't play with, because they ruin games. Nothing is worse than The Rules Lawyer (especially in the middle of combat), or The Munchkin, or The Deep Brooder who doesn't understand why you don't want to read his sixty page character background. Scary people. They are good for business, though...
On a slightly different topic, when I was heavily involved in role playing (D&D and Werewolf, mostly), my groups rarely went beyond the core books. We made our own backstories, our own plots, and didn't ever see a need for "It's a fighter, except it uses oriental weapons and farts fairy dust so it is a different class with a totally different (yet the same) rules!"
If you wanted a fighter that used oriental weapons, well, then guess what - you were a fighter and you used oriental weapons. You don't need a $29 source book for that. It doesn't even make sense.
We did buy the occasional campaign settings - Ravenloft, Planescape, Council of Wyrms - but, keeping true to the Golden Rule of the WhiteWolf system, if it didn't work in our game, it was tossed out. This was always fascinating when someone new would join up, and things wouldn't be Exactly The Way The Bible Says It Is, and would totally flip out.
Honestly, a vast majority of the character classes outside of the core of 6-8 or so are really nothing more than very minor variations on the same theme, nothing that can't be accomplished with some light role playing to add a little flavor.