Twitter was rendered obsolete by the marketing departments who overused it for advertising, and users who insist on notifying everyone of every mundane aspect of their lives.
You've obviously never slipped a disk, or thrown out your back doing physical labor or due to an accident.
The first time you have an issue with your spinal alignment, you'll think of chiropractors in an entirely different way.
After a fall, I couldn't walk without a cane. 20 minutes after staggering into my chiropractors office I was still sore - but I could stand upright again and I didn't need the cane to walk.
Right there with you. I was lucky enough to have an Atari 1040ST (the birth of 16 bit). I was stoked when I finally got a 360K floppy drive so I could actually store those programs I typed in from the COMPUTE! magazines. Those were the good old days. Wait...no they weren't.
I really enjoyed the BBS culture of the late 80's early 90's. Visiting the Filebank BBS, being a asysop on Revolution Calling BBS in San Diego. Yeah, a 386SX and co-processor with 4MB of ram and 10MB hard drives running DOS 5 with XTree Gold, Telemate at 2400 bps, an 8bit SoundBlaster. Who needs a mouse? Hmm....those days kinda sucked too.
Now, when Windows 95 was released - that was awesome. I bought my first Pentium, my first 1GB hard drive, my first CD-ROM drive. I never thought I would fill up that drive. Then I filled up the drive....so I guess that sucked too.
Winning a drawing for an Athlon XP, and all the fun building it into a screaming machine.....Nostalgia is fun, but not quite as fun as: 1. How cheap everything has become these days. 2. Having 4GB of RAM instead of 4MB 3. Affordable mass storage 4. Terabyte disks
I'm sure there is more to make me want to forget about the old days, but I think I've painted the picture clearly. I'm more excited about technology of tomorrow than I am excited about technology of yesterday. Sure, I'm glad to have experienced it, but the time I spend thinking about the old is time I can't spend thinking about the new.
Gary Gygax: For giving geeks and nerds something to do while all the popular kids were out drinking and having sex.
John Wayne: For not taking shit from anybody (his bronze statue needs to be electrified so he doesn't even take crap from pigeons). You know, forget the memorial.... We just need to clone the Duke.
Madonna: For the "Like a Virgin" years....when she was still hot....I want to remember the hot Madonna.
The 80's called, and they want their database back.
Seriously, what kind of performance can you get out of FMP? NONE!
The databases I was working with were written by a FMP "expert". The one I remember best was online for 3 hours before it crashed. The 13,000 users accessing it simultaneously probably didn't help. I spent 6 hours rewriting in PHP/MySQL. It didn't even hiccup.
If not having any love for FMP makes me incompetent, I'm ok with that. FMP is a piece of shit app anyway. The only thing worse is Access.
Filemaker sounds like a great place to start. It could be your introduction to databases.
Dear god, just tell him to commit suicide!
Once you understand the power of databases
Not using filemaker you won't!
Set up a webserver on your personal machine and start playing with some utilities that you think might be useful in your environment. When you've got more than 2 things you'd like to see in use at your office, pitch it to your boss and get his approval. Then create a webserver on the apple server and start building your new company intranet.
Oh, and stay as far away from filemaker as you possibly can. In my last job I was the go-to filemaker guy (I didn't build the FM databases, I just cleaned up the mess). My approach was to wait until a filemaker database crashed, and rebuild it correctly in PHP/MySQL.
The Star Trek reboot was unique in that the old universe initiated the new universe via unintentional time travel. It will be interesting to see how DC orchestrates the "Big Bang"...what will cause the reboot? Will they acknowledge within the comics that there was a reboot as was done in Star Trek?
Have you ever considered that those of us in genetic engineering aren't morons?
Yes, I have considered that. I've also considered that no studies have been made on the long term effects of the GMO foods on people.
Seriously, who's held responsible when long term consequences are identified? Will there be any way back when GMO contamination is widespread?
I'm personally concerned for my garden. Can I save seeds? Do I dare? I'm not concerned with Monsanto or other bio-techs coming after me for infringing on their IP because my garden isn't very big. What concerns me is feeding potentially dangerous food to my family.
That's how the situation plays out with Monsanto IP. If you're growing crops which contain their IP, then you're going to pay. The courts side with the bio-techs every time. The system is fixed in favor of the bio-techs and firmly against the farmers.
It's not so simple though. There will surely be companies who aren't concerned with the loss of ability to defend their "product" as intellectual property, but that won't stop them from creating organisms that might be dangerous.
Here are some of the more disturbing organisms that should be closely guarded (most are not) to prevent contamination of the natural gene pool:
To gain a different perspective on GM, look for a movie called "Light Years", an Isaac Asimov adaptation of a novel by Jean-Pierre Andrevon's - Les Hommes-machines contre Gandahar (The Machine-Men versus Gandahar). In the story, the people of Gandahar have genetically engineered the perfect utopia. Things take a turn for the worse when their existence is threatened with complete destruction by an organism which they had accidentally created during genetic experiments 1000 years earlier.
Unlike the prophecy in the story (...what can't be undone, will be), in our GMO world, what can't be undone - really can't be undone.
Actual genetic engineering is very new (since the 70's). If compared to the amount of time natural selection has been occurring, 40 years is only a very short time.
So, the scientists have time machines and are able to "know" the long term effects of modifying an organism?
Even artificial selection relies on the genetic traits already present in the cross-pollinated organisms. Directly modifying the genes can produce the intended result, but also unintended consequences that may not be immediately apparent. What are the long term consequences?
The problem I have with scientists playing god is that they're directly effecting the lives of others, without being responsible for it (or about it.)
It's likely that they're trying to protect the genetic purity of their own crops.
When a GM crop is created, it's patented. Natural pollination will contaminate the genetic purity of the natural crop. Eventually, the local farmers won't be able to keep seed for their own crops because they'll all be contaminated by the GM grown nearby. This has happened time and time again. Local farmers are raided and shut down because their crops have been contaminated and they're now infringing on the IP of some bio-tech firm.
Additionally, GMO toxins have been detected in the blood of fetuses, potentially effecting development. The jury is still out on the safety of GMO foods. God has had millions of years to work on this stuff, but we've been at it for only a few years and already a significant amount of commercially available food is GMO. What are the long term consequences? The bio-tech firms don't care what the consequences are...because they're making a buck.
So, for all those calling this "terrorism", you need to take your weenie hat off and man-up. I would liken a GM crop grown nearby to an uncontrolled wildfire. The local farmers who are protesting this are trying to protect their own crops.
And it increases the costs of doing business with these countries.
Maybe we're seeing the beginning of the end of the massive outsourcing that has been plaguing the American tech worker. When the financial incentives to outsource are gone, the jobs will return.
More likely, they'll move operations to countries that don't have these laws.
We're talking about a company owned by Rupert Murdoch here. Remember, he's the guy who claimed copyright on the word "Sky" and sued Skype over it.
These guys aren't so bright. After putting up their paywall to protect their web content, they found that readership dropped..... One article suggests that advertisers are much less interested in News Corp because of their paywall decision - less traffic = fewer sales.
Personally, I say more power to them. I think stupidity should be encouraged. They should definitely hold out for $100 million on MySpace. By the time they realize that nobody is buying, it will be dead, and I will laugh.
Apple never stated it's going to be encrypted. Read the article you linked to, or even Apple's actual Press Release
Yes they did! DUDE, take your own advice. From the Apple press release:
These calculations are performed live on the iPhone using a crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data that is generated by tens of millions of iPhones sending the geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers in an anonymous and *******encrypted******* form to Apple.
Further down, it states:
In the next major iOS software release the cache will also be encrypted on the iPhone.
Well, isn't that interesting....and you said:
cacheisn't even from the iPhone itself,
The Apple press release specifically says that it's generated from tens of millions of iPhones sending bla bla bla bla.....
My tinfoil hat fits fine, and I don't even own an iPhone.
I read the summary, the article and the press release. That's how I knew it was encrypted....All 3 resources state it....including Apple....in their press release....that you linked to....and obviously didn't read past the first paragraph.....
Slashdot Mirror
This is why they have failed. Nobody is interesting enough to follow.
Twitter was rendered obsolete by the marketing departments who overused it for advertising, and users who insist on notifying everyone of every mundane aspect of their lives.
I've heard of that. Any reputable chiropractor won't make such claims.
You've obviously never slipped a disk, or thrown out your back doing physical labor or due to an accident.
The first time you have an issue with your spinal alignment, you'll think of chiropractors in an entirely different way.
After a fall, I couldn't walk without a cane. 20 minutes after staggering into my chiropractors office I was still sore - but I could stand upright again and I didn't need the cane to walk.
Right there with you. I was lucky enough to have an Atari 1040ST (the birth of 16 bit). I was stoked when I finally got a 360K floppy drive so I could actually store those programs I typed in from the COMPUTE! magazines. Those were the good old days. Wait...no they weren't.
I really enjoyed the BBS culture of the late 80's early 90's. Visiting the Filebank BBS, being a asysop on Revolution Calling BBS in San Diego. Yeah, a 386SX and co-processor with 4MB of ram and 10MB hard drives running DOS 5 with XTree Gold, Telemate at 2400 bps, an 8bit SoundBlaster. Who needs a mouse? Hmm....those days kinda sucked too.
Now, when Windows 95 was released - that was awesome. I bought my first Pentium, my first 1GB hard drive, my first CD-ROM drive. I never thought I would fill up that drive. Then I filled up the drive....so I guess that sucked too.
Winning a drawing for an Athlon XP, and all the fun building it into a screaming machine.....Nostalgia is fun, but not quite as fun as:
1. How cheap everything has become these days.
2. Having 4GB of RAM instead of 4MB
3. Affordable mass storage
4. Terabyte disks
I'm sure there is more to make me want to forget about the old days, but I think I've painted the picture clearly. I'm more excited about technology of tomorrow than I am excited about technology of yesterday. Sure, I'm glad to have experienced it, but the time I spend thinking about the old is time I can't spend thinking about the new.
and sands serif
Much like Planet Express, bitcoins are:
"worth less than when they were worthless"
I'd endorse and support memorials for all 3.
Gary Gygax: For giving geeks and nerds something to do while all the popular kids were out drinking and having sex.
John Wayne: For not taking shit from anybody (his bronze statue needs to be electrified so he doesn't even take crap from pigeons).
You know, forget the memorial.... We just need to clone the Duke.
Madonna: For the "Like a Virgin" years....when she was still hot....I want to remember the hot Madonna.
And what the hell are you blathering on about Tomcat for? I never mentioned Tomcat, we're talking PHP here, not Java.
HEAnet's National Mirror Server regularly sustains over 20,000 concurrent connections on a single Apache instance.
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/08/09/cache-performance-comparison/
This is from Peter Zaitsev who managed the High Performance Group within MySQL until 2006...is he a liar too?
The server I used was anything but modest.
The 80's called, and they want their database back.
Seriously, what kind of performance can you get out of FMP? NONE!
The databases I was working with were written by a FMP "expert". The one I remember best was online for 3 hours before it crashed. The 13,000 users accessing it simultaneously probably didn't help. I spent 6 hours rewriting in PHP/MySQL. It didn't even hiccup.
If not having any love for FMP makes me incompetent, I'm ok with that. FMP is a piece of shit app anyway. The only thing worse is Access.
Filemaker sounds like a great place to start. It could be your introduction to databases.
Dear god, just tell him to commit suicide!
Once you understand the power of databases
Not using filemaker you won't!
Set up a webserver on your personal machine and start playing with some utilities that you think might be useful in your environment. When you've got more than 2 things you'd like to see in use at your office, pitch it to your boss and get his approval. Then create a webserver on the apple server and start building your new company intranet.
Oh, and stay as far away from filemaker as you possibly can. In my last job I was the go-to filemaker guy (I didn't build the FM databases, I just cleaned up the mess). My approach was to wait until a filemaker database crashed, and rebuild it correctly in PHP/MySQL.
The Star Trek reboot was unique in that the old universe initiated the new universe via unintentional time travel. It will be interesting to see how DC orchestrates the "Big Bang"...what will cause the reboot? Will they acknowledge within the comics that there was a reboot as was done in Star Trek?
Have you ever considered that those of us in genetic engineering aren't morons?
Yes, I have considered that.
I've also considered that no studies have been made on the long term effects of the GMO foods on people.
Seriously, who's held responsible when long term consequences are identified? Will there be any way back when GMO contamination is widespread?
I'm personally concerned for my garden. Can I save seeds? Do I dare? I'm not concerned with Monsanto or other bio-techs coming after me for infringing on their IP because my garden isn't very big. What concerns me is feeding potentially dangerous food to my family.
That's how the situation plays out with Monsanto IP. If you're growing crops which contain their IP, then you're going to pay. The courts side with the bio-techs every time. The system is fixed in favor of the bio-techs and firmly against the farmers.
Here's a mainstream story about it.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/26/eveningnews/main4048288.shtml
It's not so simple though. There will surely be companies who aren't concerned with the loss of ability to defend their "product" as intellectual property, but that won't stop them from creating organisms that might be dangerous.
Here are some of the more disturbing organisms that should be closely guarded (most are not) to prevent contamination of the natural gene pool:
Goats that product spiders silk protein in their milk
GMO cows producing human milk
Transgenic Salmon
GM fruit crops producing BT toxin in Hawaii
Maize, wheat, sweet potato
To gain a different perspective on GM, look for a movie called "Light Years", an Isaac Asimov adaptation of a novel by Jean-Pierre Andrevon's - Les Hommes-machines contre Gandahar (The Machine-Men versus Gandahar). In the story, the people of Gandahar have genetically engineered the perfect utopia. Things take a turn for the worse when their existence is threatened with complete destruction by an organism which they had accidentally created during genetic experiments 1000 years earlier.
Unlike the prophecy in the story (...what can't be undone, will be), in our GMO world, what can't be undone - really can't be undone.
About ten thousand years
Negative. We've been engaged in artificial selection for probably that long.
Actual genetic engineering is very new (since the 70's). If compared to the amount of time natural selection has been occurring, 40 years is only a very short time.
So, the scientists have time machines and are able to "know" the long term effects of modifying an organism?
Even artificial selection relies on the genetic traits already present in the cross-pollinated organisms. Directly modifying the genes can produce the intended result, but also unintended consequences that may not be immediately apparent. What are the long term consequences?
The problem I have with scientists playing god is that they're directly effecting the lives of others, without being responsible for it (or about it.)
It's likely that they're trying to protect the genetic purity of their own crops.
When a GM crop is created, it's patented. Natural pollination will contaminate the genetic purity of the natural crop. Eventually, the local farmers won't be able to keep seed for their own crops because they'll all be contaminated by the GM grown nearby. This has happened time and time again. Local farmers are raided and shut down because their crops have been contaminated and they're now infringing on the IP of some bio-tech firm.
Additionally, GMO toxins have been detected in the blood of fetuses, potentially effecting development. The jury is still out on the safety of GMO foods. God has had millions of years to work on this stuff, but we've been at it for only a few years and already a significant amount of commercially available food is GMO. What are the long term consequences? The bio-tech firms don't care what the consequences are...because they're making a buck.
So, for all those calling this "terrorism", you need to take your weenie hat off and man-up. I would liken a GM crop grown nearby to an uncontrolled wildfire. The local farmers who are protesting this are trying to protect their own crops.
Store the hosted files in memory, don't use server side scripted pages, serve tiny files, dump logs to /dev/null.
No problem.
Present note: They didn't install Apache.
And it increases the costs of doing business with these countries.
Maybe we're seeing the beginning of the end of the massive outsourcing that has been plaguing the American tech worker. When the financial incentives to outsource are gone, the jobs will return.
More likely, they'll move operations to countries that don't have these laws.
We're talking about a company owned by Rupert Murdoch here. Remember, he's the guy who claimed copyright on the word "Sky" and sued Skype over it.
These guys aren't so bright. After putting up their paywall to protect their web content, they found that readership dropped..... One article suggests that advertisers are much less interested in News Corp because of their paywall decision - less traffic = fewer sales.
Personally, I say more power to them. I think stupidity should be encouraged. They should definitely hold out for $100 million on MySpace. By the time they realize that nobody is buying, it will be dead, and I will laugh.
Those only cost $6 at Home Depot
count again...
Apple never stated it's going to be encrypted. Read the article you linked to, or even Apple's actual Press Release
Yes they did! DUDE, take your own advice.
From the Apple press release:
These calculations are performed live on the iPhone using a crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data that is generated by tens of millions of iPhones sending the geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers in an anonymous and *******encrypted******* form to Apple.
Further down, it states:
In the next major iOS software release the cache will also be encrypted on the iPhone.
Well, isn't that interesting....and you said:
cacheisn't even from the iPhone itself,
The Apple press release specifically says that it's generated from tens of millions of iPhones sending bla bla bla bla.....
My tinfoil hat fits fine, and I don't even own an iPhone.
I read the summary, the article and the press release. That's how I knew it was encrypted....All 3 resources state it....including Apple....in their press release....that you linked to....and obviously didn't read past the first paragraph.....