If you don't know a lot of Chinese people of an older generation, you probably don't know just how important a part of their daily consciousness, the memory that the Japanese perpetrated genocidal acts against them, not so long ago. This is a cultural thread that is seldom discussed, yet is central to the social and political thought of many Chinese, with regard to Japan.
>my mom would (and did) >literally wash my mouth >out with soap
So... while the toxic and caustic agent didn't literally remove the language from your mouth, at least you're lucky that it didn't blind you or destroy your taste buds or trachea, right?
I had a very talented blacksmith living in my house for a year. He never had enough money to pay rent, but I happily allowed him to pay in trade. From a forge that he setup in my backyard with little besides found objects and salvaged material, he built kitchen pot racks, stair railings, many artistic objects, and two very well crafted swords (one blued!) that are not only highly prized possessions to this day, but are made in such a way that they could be used for live steel swordfighting. (Personally I was happy for him to take the edges off and mount them as display pieces, but they do have a full tang, are quite well balanced, and when sharpened, were the real deal.)
If he'd actually paid rent, the money would have been wasted on booze.
>There's probably a SCO box still sitting around somewhere, but I'd be surprised if there were many left doing anything terribly important.
I know of a large national grocery store chain that still runs its accounting system on SCO. I'm sure it's pretty important to them. I personally think they should move on before it cripples their operation.
>They might have had 130,000 on release or the first month but that doesn't mean they retained them.
In this market, "retention" isn't even the goal. They have to drive *growth* or else no matter how reliably they retain their subscribers, to the investors it's just a place to park their money... and entertainment companies are *terrible* places to park. If they couldn't show that they were getting increasing numbers of subscribers at an increasing rate quarter over quarter, they failed.
>False trichotomy. There's nothing in-between extreme extremists and moderates? >You're either morbidly obese, just the right weight, or severely anorexic?
These discussions are pointless without curve parameters and designations in terms of e.g., standard deviation.
>and just what is the reason for 'needing' so many kids?
Just a few generations ago, infant mortality was in the double digits, and the normal family business was farming. Cultural idioms move faster than culture itself.
"You can run a Google size database from MySQL, but you can't use to MySQL* to implement a search solution with performance like Google, without requiring much much much hardware."
There's nothing else that can meet such requirements without "much much much hardware", either.
I have a production server that boots from a USB thumb drive. I couldn't get any loader to boot a linux kernel from a partition on its hardware RAID, and I didn't think it was a better solution to add a boot drive, so I used a USB stick. To be honest, I didn't really intend for it to be a permanent solution, and I'm still a little surprised that this machine so adamantly refused to boot from the RAID, but I'm not seeing the problem.
I had an uncle who once "settled" an argument about gasoline by throwing his lit cigarette butt into a gas can. It extinguished the cigarette, of course, validating my insane uncle's premise.
It's not so much that the fuels are flammable, as Oxygen *really* wants a mate for each of the two unpaired electrons in its outer shell.
But of course, nobody is looking at this article and blaming *Oxygen*, are they?
"When you're learning to program, it's much more satisfying having something running on real hardware - even obsolete real hardware - than in an emulator. "
I would have killed for a Z80 or 6502 emulator back then.
>My knowledge of poweredge servers may be weak as I have been out of the loop for 4 years, but I was under the impression they had a limit of 8GB of ram each.
I have a rack of them, they are pretty nice. I never meant to imply that a 2U Dell server running linux VMs under QEMU is the equivalent to a SPARC M9K. I also don't care that Oracle has features that neither MySQL nor Postgres will ever match. Someone could offer to pay the licensing and consulting and I could get on board with it, equally competent as a developer or a DBA.
Would love to have the budget to get out of the Intel-based realm, thanks.
>My recommendations are more apt at hiding it from thieves than from government.
Maybe just invest in a Mutual Fund?
"Hiding from the government" starts and ends with not giving them any reason to think of getting a warrant. Once you cross that bridge, you have to assume the FBI will simply empty your house into their truck, take you to one place and the truck to another place, and find whatever you've hidden. At that point, you're probably far better off if you'd simply kept the cash in your safe. That will look a whole lot better to a jury than keeping it in your refrigerator...
Something else, $150K to this guy might be like the $150 or so I have in change jars and under cushions is to me.
I'm not really arguing. I've worked with Sun and Oracle quite a lot. I've done systems programming on Solaris for long enough that I never stopped calling it SunOS. I know you can't beat their IO for certain applications. The last time I used the Solaris+Oracle combination was to develop a billing system for a company with 5 million customers. When the place where I work now crosses the threshold from a 30 million dollar company to a 100 million dollar company, some of those same considerations might come up. But right now it would be grossly unprofessional of me to say that we need more horsepower than the Intel-based (Linux and OSX) servers we use can deliver.
You're the one who introduced the requirement of trillions of ops, etc.
Today I'm running a factory on these wimpy systems and MySQL, and I'll be pretty happy if we start to outgrow that...
Copyright works better as a weapon for when someone takes your work, publishes it as his own, and then sues YOU. That's the real strength of copyright law. Obviously there are many who would prefer copyright be a weapon to use to stop your work from being distributed other than exactly according to your wishes, and obviously there are people who wish that copyright "law" were on the same level of "law" as the laws against rape and murder. They can wish, but it really doesn't work that way.
>Right, except that there are physical limits to what you can accomplish when recording in a bedroom.
Mostly related to the size and composition of the room itself. Those lucky enough to live, say, in an old church building or something similar with large spaces and richly complex reflections, have something that is beyond the economic reach of some studios.
A basement is usually an extremely poor choice for your studio build, by the way. They tend not to have high ceilings, and tend to be quite rectangular. Also, they often aren't as quiet as you'd think, with outside noise, or with transmitting noise outside the room.
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>The title should be, "Holy crap, an entire 6% of books sold are eBooks."
Yep. I was going to post something to that effect, but you said it all.
Or you could even say "'Sblood! 6% of book sales are lost to eBooks!"
>And when China becomes disfunctional you won't be able to buy anthing anymore
I already buy almost nothing... and in a real sense I'm "wealthier" as a result.
If you don't know a lot of Chinese people of an older generation, you probably don't know just how important a part of their daily consciousness, the memory that the Japanese perpetrated genocidal acts against them, not so long ago. This is a cultural thread that is seldom discussed, yet is central to the social and political thought of many Chinese, with regard to Japan.
>Treaties signed with the U.S. post-WWII require the U.S. to assist in the defense of Japan if it is attacked.
Such treaties are in the set of errors that led to the madness that was the First World War.
>my mom would (and did)
>literally wash my mouth
>out with soap
So... while the toxic and caustic agent didn't literally remove the language from your mouth, at least you're lucky that it didn't blind you or destroy your taste buds or trachea, right?
>I take your point, but most people use neither of these things and will be at the mercy of persistent tracking.
Life is too short to worry about horses that won't drink when led to water.
I had a very talented blacksmith living in my house for a year. He never had enough money to pay rent, but I happily allowed him to pay in trade. From a forge that he setup in my backyard with little besides found objects and salvaged material, he built kitchen pot racks, stair railings, many artistic objects, and two very well crafted swords (one blued!) that are not only highly prized possessions to this day, but are made in such a way that they could be used for live steel swordfighting. (Personally I was happy for him to take the edges off and mount them as display pieces, but they do have a full tang, are quite well balanced, and when sharpened, were the real deal.)
If he'd actually paid rent, the money would have been wasted on booze.
Seriously, I didn't know until I read this thread that Google searches had ads.
I wish I had mod points. Maybe I can trade down Triumphs for them?
>There's probably a SCO box still sitting around somewhere, but I'd be surprised if there were many left doing anything terribly important.
I know of a large national grocery store chain that still runs its accounting system on SCO. I'm sure it's pretty important to them. I personally think they should move on before it cripples their operation.
>They might have had 130,000 on release or the first month but that doesn't mean they retained them.
In this market, "retention" isn't even the goal. They have to drive *growth* or else no matter how reliably they retain their subscribers, to the investors it's just a place to park their money... and entertainment companies are *terrible* places to park. If they couldn't show that they were getting increasing numbers of subscribers at an increasing rate quarter over quarter, they failed.
>False trichotomy. There's nothing in-between extreme extremists and moderates?
>You're either morbidly obese, just the right weight, or severely anorexic?
These discussions are pointless without curve parameters and designations in terms of e.g., standard deviation.
>and just what is the reason for 'needing' so many kids?
Just a few generations ago, infant mortality was in the double digits, and the normal family business was farming.
Cultural idioms move faster than culture itself.
"You can run a Google size database from MySQL, but you can't use to MySQL* to implement a search solution with performance like Google, without requiring much much much hardware."
There's nothing else that can meet such requirements without "much much much hardware", either.
Show each individual under NDA a different, completely false but very juicy tidbit.
I have a production server that boots from a USB thumb drive. I couldn't get any loader to boot a linux kernel from a partition on its hardware RAID, and I didn't think it was a better solution to add a boot drive, so I used a USB stick. To be honest, I didn't really intend for it to be a permanent solution, and I'm still a little surprised that this machine so adamantly refused to boot from the RAID, but I'm not seeing the problem.
I had an uncle who once "settled" an argument about gasoline by throwing his lit cigarette butt into a gas can. It extinguished the cigarette, of course, validating my insane uncle's premise.
It's not so much that the fuels are flammable, as Oxygen *really* wants a mate for each of the two unpaired electrons in its outer shell.
But of course, nobody is looking at this article and blaming *Oxygen*, are they?
Get a court order in the other. See which hand fills up first.
"When you're learning to program, it's much more satisfying having something running on real hardware - even obsolete real hardware - than in an emulator. "
I would have killed for a Z80 or 6502 emulator back then.
>My knowledge of poweredge servers may be weak as I have been out of the loop for 4 years, but I was under the impression they had a limit of 8GB of ram each.
I have a rack of them, they are pretty nice. I never meant to imply that a 2U Dell server running linux VMs under QEMU is the equivalent to a SPARC M9K.
I also don't care that Oracle has features that neither MySQL nor Postgres will ever match. Someone could offer to pay the licensing and consulting and I could get on board with it, equally competent as a developer or a DBA.
Would love to have the budget to get out of the Intel-based realm, thanks.
>My recommendations are more apt at hiding it from thieves than from government.
Maybe just invest in a Mutual Fund?
"Hiding from the government" starts and ends with not giving them any reason to think of getting a warrant. Once you cross that bridge, you have to assume the FBI will simply empty your house into their truck, take you to one place and the truck to another place, and find whatever you've hidden. At that point, you're probably far better off if you'd simply kept the cash in your safe. That will look a whole lot better to a jury than keeping it in your refrigerator...
Something else, $150K to this guy might be like the $150 or so I have in change jars and under cushions is to me.
I'm not really arguing. I've worked with Sun and Oracle quite a lot. I've done systems programming on Solaris for long enough that I never stopped calling it SunOS. I know you can't beat their IO for certain applications. The last time I used the Solaris+Oracle combination was to develop a billing system for a company with 5 million customers. When the place where I work now crosses the threshold from a 30 million dollar company to a 100 million dollar company, some of those same considerations might come up. But right now it would be grossly unprofessional of me to say that we need more horsepower than the Intel-based (Linux and OSX) servers we use can deliver.
You're the one who introduced the requirement of trillions of ops, etc.
Today I'm running a factory on these wimpy systems and MySQL, and I'll be pretty happy if we start to outgrow that...
>Maybe, maybe not. Hard to say. What if it he or she tripped a zero-tolerance?
No doubt. Or just didn't take the offer after an acquisition (I've _been_ that guy.)
Copyright works better as a weapon for when someone takes your work, publishes it as his own, and then sues YOU. That's the real strength of copyright law. Obviously there are many who would prefer copyright be a weapon to use to stop your work from being distributed other than exactly according to your wishes, and obviously there are people who wish that copyright "law" were on the same level of "law" as the laws against rape and murder. They can wish, but it really doesn't work that way.
>Right, except that there are physical limits to what you can accomplish when recording in a bedroom.
Mostly related to the size and composition of the room itself. Those lucky enough to live, say, in an old church building or something similar with large spaces and richly complex reflections, have something that is beyond the economic reach of some studios.
A basement is usually an extremely poor choice for your studio build, by the way. They tend not to have high ceilings, and tend to be quite rectangular. Also, they often aren't as quiet as you'd think, with outside noise, or with transmitting noise outside the room.