Actually, I thought she was completely convincing as the invisible woman. It's when she appeared again that her character sort of lost its beleivability.
Yes, one vote is a drop in the ocean... but if the Slashdot effect can bring down something designed with robustness and fault-tolerance in mind, such as a web server, imagine what we could do to the country!
the server's XML capabilities, eg. "SELECT... FOR XML..." will convert your dataset to XML
Ah, good. I've been waiting for a long time for somebody to relieve me from the mind-boggling complexity of inner joins, subselects, triggers, referential integrity rules and stored procedures by adding DOM, XSLT, XPath, DTD and XmlSchema on top of inner joins, subselects, triggers, referential integrity rules and stored procedures.
I'm probably going to regret posting this, but... what exactly is "workflow" software good for? What class of problems is it supposed to excel at? I first came across "BPM" about 6 years ago and to my (admittedly potentially naive mind) it looks like workflow tools are all just flowchart creator/executors. Is that it? Is there more to it than just a tool that lets you graphically define a flowchart which it then executes? If so, the cost seems hard to justify, especially since the tools themselves are far more limited than just drawing up a flowchart on paper and implementing it in code. I've been trying hard to "get" the point of these systems... they just seem like overhead since it's always easier, and significantly cheaper, to just write a program. Am I really missing something here? Am I like the people who think source control systems or relational databases are a waste of time just because they've never used them? I have tried, hard, to use Vitria and SeeBeyond to solve problems and figure out what they bring to the table, but in every case, I feel like I'd spend a lot less time and money just writing something in Java or Python or C that would do essentially the same thing.
I'd recommend that customers afraid of returning unrewound DVD's upgrade their DVD player like I did. With my old DVD player, rewinding DVD's was a real hassle, since it didn't have a "skip back" button on it, so I had to watch the whole movie in reverse to get back to the beginning. Now, with my newer DVD player, if a movie has 12 chapters, I only have to hit the "skip back" button 12 times and I'm back at the beginning... although I have to hit the stop button really fast when I get back to the beginning so it doesn't start playing the credits again and leave it partly unrewound.
And if Steve Jobs isn't lying (I'm too cynical not to suspect that he is), you're exactly the sort of person he's looking for. I'm with you - I'm in it for the coding. I enjoy learning about the core business (the real stuff like, "what do we sell" and "how do we make money") but only as it relates to learning it well enough to automate it.
Dont agree when they come out with the "it wont *really* take that long, will it?" stuff. Stand your ground, but realize you may not get the time.
Actually, the game I always end up playing here goes something like this:
M: "Ok, how long will it take to implement X?"
Programmer takes some time, gives realistic answer.
M: "Yikes, that's too long - our deadline is next month."
Programmer wonders why he asked in the first place, then...
M: "What if we cut unit testing? Could it be done faster then?"
Programmer stands ground.
M: "Ok, ok. What about documentation? Can you do that after the project?"
Programmer stands ground.
M: "Alright, alright. Well, then, let me see if I can get approval to cut feature Y.
Programmer didn't know feature Y was expected... but has to revise estimate down since somethings been removed anyway.
Repeat until estimate is one month.
... one month passes...
M: "What happened to feature Y (and Z, and alpha, and beta, and everything else that was cut to make the schedule match the deadline)? It was in the original data sheet! You incompetent programmer! You people never see the big picture! Don't you understand we have to sell a product to make a profit? Your boss will hear about this! You're working nights and weekends until this project is finished!
... until you get so cynical you answer every request for a schedule with "how long do you want me to say?"
If you only store a small piece of information per image, the number of false positives will make the whole thing useless.
That's what concerns me. I'd hate to get caught up in the dragnet of a KP sting because I donwloaded Firefox 1.1 which had the same checksum as "Debbie does Preschool 2". Presumedly you'd be able to defend yourself and prove your innocence - but I've heard lots and lots of horror stories about being "guily even after proven innocent" when it comes to accusations of crimes against children. I hope like hell they do some rock solid investigations and the detectives never have to worry about keeping a quota.
It's worse than you think - he's actually quoting the price in the pre-Euro currency of Italy, the lira. So he's actually paying about $0.61 per year in tuition.
It's not a huge leap to go from the gov't requiring that ISP's retain records to the gov't requiring that "anonymizers" (Tor, Freenet, etc.) retain records, too. If they don't retain gov't subpeonable records, their use is illegal. (Never mind that this makes no sense - that won't stop them from passing a law mandating it). In the war against child pr0n, the ends ALWAYS justify the means.
Dude, where do you work? I'm sure there's lots of people who'd jump at the chance to take advantage of an employer naive enough to measure productivity in terms of commit logs.
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I guess I'd have to be careful, though - I might end up being so productive I get promoted.
It seems to me that the thing we call "The Internet" today ain't really the Internet - it's just a hollow, stuffed-shirt MBA reflection of what the actual Internet used to be before it became a gold rush. To revive the real Internet (the Internet up to about 1995), we'd have to take the ISP's out of the picture entirely. I wish somebody less lazy than me would create a Roofnet that I could hook into - then let the now obsolete ISP's charge whatever the hell they want to charge.
Feel enriched that your children can use the Internet and speak their minds.
There was a quote that used to float around the Internet back in the "old days" (the mid 90's) that the Internet could never be controlled beacuse "the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." Great quote. Used to be true. Isn't true anymore. The Internet has effectively been controlled.
How? The same say we've always been controlled. Fear. Fear of being caught saying something unpopular. The anonymity to say things we're afraid to, or can't, say in public - that anonymity that was once the hallmark of the Internet's freedom - is gone. The Internet isn't even remotely anonymous. There are someattempts to reintroduce anonymity to the Internet, but there are depressingly few people supporting them - and depressingly even more actively campaigning against them.
Why not? Fear. Fear of terrorists. Fear of pedophiles. Fear of libel. Fear of piracy. Irrational fears of things that don't go away when your anonymity does... but depressingly scary enough to enough people to coerce the majority of the population into giving up - handing over - the anonymity that finally allowed us to speak frankly and for the first time in the history of the human race, tell the unadulterated, pure, non-watered-down truth about everything - the anonymity we'd never had before, and that we'll likely never have again. It was great while it lasted.
Amber Alert law, a law that banned simulated child pornography.
This is interesting, and the first I've ever heard of this. Do you have a reference for that? I can't find anything on the official gov't site about it (although that's hardly a surprise).
Rape is rape, regardless of age, and those who commit rape deserve to be punished.
I've often suspected (being far too lazy to do any research and instead relying on pure conjecture) that the primary reason age of consent laws and statutory rape were established was to protect minors from the difficulties of an actual rape trial. No reasonably sane person can say that a fourteen-year-old girl can't consent to sex (although people like to say so on the internet often and say so in the media non-stop), but what if she didn't? Then she has to defend her accusations at a rape trial. That's a brutal thing to put onto a young girl (or boy, as the case may be). And it just gets worse as the vicitm gets younger.
On the other hand, the penalty for otherwise consentual adult/minor sex seems far out of proportion to the actual act. It's not really something I worry about much myself (if 14 year olds were legal, they'd be turning me down just like the 18 year olds), but I almost always find myself empathizing with the abuser when I hear about these sorts of things. It seems like it would be a horrifically difficult temptation to resist (if the opportunity presented itself), and the punishment is by far the most draconian in existence. Using internet forums as my gauge, it would appear that general society views having sex with children as worse than, say, killing them, kidnapping them, torturing them, beating them, starving them, etc. This seems somewhat irrational to me.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, I thought she was completely convincing as the invisible woman. It's when she appeared again that her character sort of lost its beleivability.
Yes, one vote is a drop in the ocean... but if the Slashdot effect can bring down something designed with robustness and fault-tolerance in mind, such as a web server, imagine what we could do to the country!
Ah, good. I've been waiting for a long time for somebody to relieve me from the mind-boggling complexity of inner joins, subselects, triggers, referential integrity rules and stored procedures by adding DOM, XSLT, XPath, DTD and XmlSchema on top of inner joins, subselects, triggers, referential integrity rules and stored procedures.
I'm probably going to regret posting this, but... what exactly is "workflow" software good for? What class of problems is it supposed to excel at? I first came across "BPM" about 6 years ago and to my (admittedly potentially naive mind) it looks like workflow tools are all just flowchart creator/executors. Is that it? Is there more to it than just a tool that lets you graphically define a flowchart which it then executes? If so, the cost seems hard to justify, especially since the tools themselves are far more limited than just drawing up a flowchart on paper and implementing it in code. I've been trying hard to "get" the point of these systems... they just seem like overhead since it's always easier, and significantly cheaper, to just write a program. Am I really missing something here? Am I like the people who think source control systems or relational databases are a waste of time just because they've never used them? I have tried, hard, to use Vitria and SeeBeyond to solve problems and figure out what they bring to the table, but in every case, I feel like I'd spend a lot less time and money just writing something in Java or Python or C that would do essentially the same thing.
We don't have anything better to do than get excited about a Transformers movie.
You don't have anything better to do than think about us getting excited about a Transformers movie.
I'd rather be me here.
I'd recommend that customers afraid of returning unrewound DVD's upgrade their DVD player like I did. With my old DVD player, rewinding DVD's was a real hassle, since it didn't have a "skip back" button on it, so I had to watch the whole movie in reverse to get back to the beginning. Now, with my newer DVD player, if a movie has 12 chapters, I only have to hit the "skip back" button 12 times and I'm back at the beginning... although I have to hit the stop button really fast when I get back to the beginning so it doesn't start playing the credits again and leave it partly unrewound.
No, actually that's just his dad's home network.
And if Steve Jobs isn't lying (I'm too cynical not to suspect that he is), you're exactly the sort of person he's looking for. I'm with you - I'm in it for the coding. I enjoy learning about the core business (the real stuff like, "what do we sell" and "how do we make money") but only as it relates to learning it well enough to automate it.
Actually, the game I always end up playing here goes something like this:
Dude, I know numbers are theoretically infinite, but I don't think they really go that high...
Hahahaha! Good one!
Management also often has information you may not haveHoo-haa! You're on a roll!
he/she isn't likely to be around much longerStop, please, you're killing me!
Yeah, I bet they higher people who can't even spell.
Ah, you must be outside the jurisdiction of the U.S. court sytem, then.
Really? I've never even heard of that... NNTPS? I didn't think you could encrypt NNTP.
That's what concerns me. I'd hate to get caught up in the dragnet of a KP sting because I donwloaded Firefox 1.1 which had the same checksum as "Debbie does Preschool 2". Presumedly you'd be able to defend yourself and prove your innocence - but I've heard lots and lots of horror stories about being "guily even after proven innocent" when it comes to accusations of crimes against children. I hope like hell they do some rock solid investigations and the detectives never have to worry about keeping a quota.
No, Disney supports this completely - they're scheduling their own Pirate Party to celebrate the opening of the movie.
You must be really, really, REALLY new here.
It's worse than you think - he's actually quoting the price in the pre-Euro currency of Italy, the lira. So he's actually paying about $0.61 per year in tuition.
Actually, it's the ISP's retaining the records here. I'm pretty sure that "connect http://www.littleboys.com/" sets off the same red flags in the monitoring robot that "connect https://www.littleboys.com/" does.
It's not a huge leap to go from the gov't requiring that ISP's retain records to the gov't requiring that "anonymizers" (Tor, Freenet, etc.) retain records, too. If they don't retain gov't subpeonable records, their use is illegal. (Never mind that this makes no sense - that won't stop them from passing a law mandating it). In the war against child pr0n, the ends ALWAYS justify the means.
Dude, where do you work? I'm sure there's lots of people who'd jump at the chance to take advantage of an employer naive enough to measure productivity in terms of commit logs.
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I guess I'd have to be careful, though - I might end up being so productive I get promoted.
It seems to me that the thing we call "The Internet" today ain't really the Internet - it's just a hollow, stuffed-shirt MBA reflection of what the actual Internet used to be before it became a gold rush. To revive the real Internet (the Internet up to about 1995), we'd have to take the ISP's out of the picture entirely. I wish somebody less lazy than me would create a Roofnet that I could hook into - then let the now obsolete ISP's charge whatever the hell they want to charge.
There was a quote that used to float around the Internet back in the "old days" (the mid 90's) that the Internet could never be controlled beacuse "the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." Great quote. Used to be true. Isn't true anymore. The Internet has effectively been controlled.
How? The same say we've always been controlled. Fear. Fear of being caught saying something unpopular. The anonymity to say things we're afraid to, or can't, say in public - that anonymity that was once the hallmark of the Internet's freedom - is gone. The Internet isn't even remotely anonymous. There are some attempts to reintroduce anonymity to the Internet, but there are depressingly few people supporting them - and depressingly even more actively campaigning against them.
Why not? Fear. Fear of terrorists. Fear of pedophiles. Fear of libel. Fear of piracy. Irrational fears of things that don't go away when your anonymity does... but depressingly scary enough to enough people to coerce the majority of the population into giving up - handing over - the anonymity that finally allowed us to speak frankly and for the first time in the history of the human race, tell the unadulterated, pure, non-watered-down truth about everything - the anonymity we'd never had before, and that we'll likely never have again. It was great while it lasted.
This is interesting, and the first I've ever heard of this. Do you have a reference for that? I can't find anything on the official gov't site about it (although that's hardly a surprise).
I've often suspected (being far too lazy to do any research and instead relying on pure conjecture) that the primary reason age of consent laws and statutory rape were established was to protect minors from the difficulties of an actual rape trial. No reasonably sane person can say that a fourteen-year-old girl can't consent to sex (although people like to say so on the internet often and say so in the media non-stop), but what if she didn't? Then she has to defend her accusations at a rape trial. That's a brutal thing to put onto a young girl (or boy, as the case may be). And it just gets worse as the vicitm gets younger.
On the other hand, the penalty for otherwise consentual adult/minor sex seems far out of proportion to the actual act. It's not really something I worry about much myself (if 14 year olds were legal, they'd be turning me down just like the 18 year olds), but I almost always find myself empathizing with the abuser when I hear about these sorts of things. It seems like it would be a horrifically difficult temptation to resist (if the opportunity presented itself), and the punishment is by far the most draconian in existence. Using internet forums as my gauge, it would appear that general society views having sex with children as worse than, say, killing them, kidnapping them, torturing them, beating them, starving them, etc. This seems somewhat irrational to me.