Never trust a journalist to get gun facts straight.
Never trust a journalist to get computing, military, scientific, sociological, yada, yada, yada facts straight, with only a handful of honorable exceptions.
Most journalist value "shock" and "sensational" over anything else.
In synopsis, these three things make DBMSs more intelligent, and allow them to be the repository of business rules while your client apps remain simpler and easier to maintain.
I see Views (duh) as a versatility tool.
You can have a view that merges several tables in whatever way you see fit to solve a problem, then at call time You have to write less, You can make more concise SQL code.
Let's give you an example: You have the sales detail info for your company's retail stores, and given the data's size you have individual tables for each year or semester, you could use a view so when coding that gargantuan report of pencil sales from 1999 to 2004 summarized by minute (*grin*) you only have to build the SQL statement as if it were a single table. In this case, by wrapping your jumbo SQL instruction in a view, you've made your life easier.
Triggers are useful because you can program the DB to react to certain data and execute something. You could program a trigger to react when an employee record goes to certain status (say, he/she is fired or quits) and change the status of this employee's records all over the database to 'immobile' or 'retired'. You could do it on your client code, but it's not always much elegant. It's better to abstract these operations so the client code doesn't gum out in this kind of details. Also, care must be taken to keep the triggers light, or not use them at all when perforance is paramount.
Stored procedures also give you the ability to abstract operations. Say you have the previous example, If you issued the operation with explicit sql it might look like "UPDATE employee SET Status = 9 WHERE Employee_Id = 73829992", with a stored procedure you could make it look more mnemonic, self documenting: "spChangeEmployeeStatus @Id=73829992, @NewStatus=9 ". This update SQL is a one liner, so maybe it's not the best example, the more complex ones are better candidates. In a performance - conscious application you might want to zap those triggers and instead put all the logic in stored procedures and execute them as needed.
If you make "Nematodes" like this you surely should as well make a control mechanism so they spread nicely and without saturating the networks they're living on.
It's not like you're designing these things and then letting them to wantonly "infect" machines like their malign relatives.
I remember reading an article in a scientific magazine back in the late eighties / early nineties, about animatronic dummies designed to train medics. I think it was in germany or the UK
Problem I see with this is resolution. I thought of sound (as you did), sub-millimetric radar . . .
But, IMHO, the best solution would be those mosquito magnets they sell in outdoor equipment shops, you put it on a box with one hole (to serve both as ventilation and trap entrance) , and in that hole an IR beam that triggers a laser zapper, just inside the hole. Its: a) contained, no laser scorches all around the house; b) relatively easy/cheap to implement, less variables in the process.
I've had my skirmishes with nvidia, even with the fancy shmancy.run shell script thing.
I'd rather have any vital driver like this canned and pasteurized in the kernel sources, but, granted, I'll be deluding myself if I believed this might happen, due to political/marketing reasons we all know/infer.
I just hope if they're going to release linux drivers, they make them less a P.I.T.A. to install than Nvidia / ATI ones.
Maybe working more closely with the kernel developers, releasing the driver module as source code with the main kernel download, so it works out of the box.
>Creative do many things, and attacking Apple in the player market is >a very high risk gamble. If they lose they will basically >have destroyed their player business - no-one is going to >buy a product from a bunch of losers.
They didn't need to go this far to achieve that. Just releasing a MP3 player with a virus was enough.
An roach on the edge, controlling a giant robot in a rampage stomping humans: "That's for auntie Bea, and that's for my great grand daddy, and this is for inventing Raid, yarrr!!!"
A fatal exception 00 has ocurred at 0028:C0011E36 in VXD SpeedyGonzsSadLife(01) + 0010E36. The current insensitive clod has been terminated.
Or better just a segmentation fault, if I want to repent and go to pearly gates instead of the frying pan?
Don't you think parent's argument is... well... not helping? I mean, it could help to rally the American Trucker-Flashers Union (ATFU) against the ruling but...
Like that 60's Batman series. Batman "asked" the computer (using knobs and switches!) "where is the joker" and the computer churned out a punch card with the answer . . . geez
Re:this guy is just holding up a sign
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Remember he said he ripped all in 256, so 6-7 Mb is a better figure, that amounts to . . . 6.3 Tb
Sorry for this, i couldn't help it:
*** TIN FOIL HAT MODE ON
An IC card, capable of running a tiny java - based OS, used for, say, storing my Credit card details . . . sounds like clock frequencies on the high Khz to low Mhz order, am I right?
What about somebody detecting it's electromagnetic activity (when used) using a device like that "Tempest project" one that detects the EM fields produced by CRTs.
Does this thing use too small a voltage to be picked up by an antenna at short range?
*** TIN FOIL HAT MODE OFF
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Never trust a journalist to get gun facts straight.
Never trust a journalist to get computing, military, scientific, sociological, yada, yada, yada facts straight, with only a handful of honorable exceptions.
Most journalist value "shock" and "sensational" over anything else.
In synopsis, these three things make DBMSs more intelligent, and allow them to be the repository of business rules while your client apps remain simpler and easier to maintain.
I see Views (duh) as a versatility tool.
You can have a view that merges several tables in whatever way you see fit to solve a problem, then at call time You have to write less, You can make more concise SQL code.
Let's give you an example: You have the sales detail info for your company's retail stores, and given the data's size you have individual tables for each year or semester, you could use a view so when coding that gargantuan report of pencil sales from 1999 to 2004 summarized by minute (*grin*) you only have to build the SQL statement as if it were a single table. In this case, by wrapping your jumbo SQL instruction in a view, you've made your life easier.
Triggers are useful because you can program the DB to react to certain data and execute something. You could program a trigger to react when an employee record goes to certain status (say, he/she is fired or quits) and change the status of this employee's records all over the database to 'immobile' or 'retired'. You could do it on your client code, but it's not always much elegant. It's better to abstract these operations so the client code doesn't gum out in this kind of details. Also, care must be taken to keep the triggers light, or not use them at all when perforance is paramount.
Stored procedures also give you the ability to abstract operations. Say you have the previous example, If you issued the operation with explicit sql it might look like " UPDATE employee SET Status = 9 WHERE Employee_Id = 73829992 ", with a stored procedure you could make it look more mnemonic, self documenting: " spChangeEmployeeStatus @Id=73829992, @NewStatus=9 ". This update SQL is a one liner, so maybe it's not the best example, the more complex ones are better candidates. In a performance - conscious application you might want to zap those triggers and instead put all the logic in stored procedures and execute them as needed.
But how is this system better than simply having the OS automatically check for updates and download them silently?
That's a very good point.
Theoretically speaking, however, all this "nematode" idea is quite interesting
The key here is control.
If you make "Nematodes" like this you surely should as well make a control mechanism so they spread nicely and without saturating the networks they're living on.
It's not like you're designing these things and then letting them to wantonly "infect" machines like their malign relatives.
I for one welcome our new search engine overlords
I remember reading an article in a scientific magazine back in the late eighties / early nineties, about animatronic dummies designed to train medics. I think it was in germany or the UK
An animal that size, living so deep in the ocean, must have tough-as-fiberglass meat.
:)
Expect to be beating the meat night and day for a week, with a sledgehammer, to ready it before cooking
You reached the same conclusion than I. :)
Problem I see with this is resolution. I thought of sound (as you did), sub-millimetric radar . . .
But, IMHO, the best solution would be those mosquito magnets they sell in outdoor equipment shops, you put it on a box with one hole (to serve both as ventilation and trap entrance) , and in that hole an IR beam that triggers a laser zapper, just inside the hole. Its: a) contained, no laser scorches all around the house; b) relatively easy/cheap to implement, less variables in the process.
I've had my skirmishes with nvidia, even with the fancy shmancy .run shell script thing.
I'd rather have any vital driver like this canned and pasteurized in the kernel sources, but, granted, I'll be deluding myself if I believed this might happen, due to political/marketing reasons we all know/infer.
I just hope if they're going to release linux drivers, they make them less a P.I.T.A. to install than Nvidia / ATI ones.
Maybe working more closely with the kernel developers, releasing the driver module as source code with the main kernel download, so it works out of the box.
Breath analyzers like in Aliens 4, and it'll get cracked, hacked, etc too like in minutes or something
>Creative do many things, and attacking Apple in the player market is
>a very high risk gamble. If they lose they will basically
>have destroyed their player business - no-one is going to
>buy a product from a bunch of losers. They didn't need to go this far to achieve that. Just releasing a MP3 player with a virus was enough.
Priceless.
Like the roach controlled robot perhaps? that's even scarier!
An roach on the edge, controlling a giant robot in a rampage stomping humans: "That's for auntie Bea, and that's for my great grand daddy, and this is for inventing Raid, yarrr!!!"
. . . for pervs in hawaian shirts?
Now I can't decide between:
/proc/breathing, unmounting /dev/life"
"Segmentation fault, Corpse dumped"
and
"Kernel Panic, unable to continue
Yeah!, that's what i'll put in mine:
A fatal exception 00 has ocurred at 0028:C0011E36 in VXD SpeedyGonzsSadLife(01) +
0010E36. The current insensitive clod has been terminated. Or better just a segmentation fault, if I want to repent and go to pearly gates instead of the frying pan?
Virtual robbers, bullies, scammers . . . Net imitates life.
But I could use a wee bit less of ad bombardment and a little bit more of privacy . . . utopic as it may sound nowadays
// For everything else, there's Master Card
. . . the same one that made some controversy when he bashed the first iMac laptop in an article comparing it to a Barbie/makeup box thing?
Talk about political correctness . . .
Half full or half empty? :)
Don't you think parent's argument is... well... not helping? I mean, it could help to rally the American Trucker-Flashers Union (ATFU) against the ruling but...
Like that 60's Batman series. Batman "asked" the computer (using knobs and switches!) "where is the joker" and the computer churned out a punch card with the answer . . . geez
Remember he said he ripped all in 256, so 6-7 Mb is a better figure, that amounts to . . . 6.3 Tb
Sorry for this, i couldn't help it: *** TIN FOIL HAT MODE ON An IC card, capable of running a tiny java - based OS, used for, say, storing my Credit card details . . . sounds like clock frequencies on the high Khz to low Mhz order, am I right? What about somebody detecting it's electromagnetic activity (when used) using a device like that "Tempest project" one that detects the EM fields produced by CRTs. Does this thing use too small a voltage to be picked up by an antenna at short range? *** TIN FOIL HAT MODE OFF