I've got it and have started reading it. A friend bought it for me last Christmas. As an avid fan of both comic books and Physics, it warms my heart to read how the author approaches each situation. That's with a very science first outlook. Essentially he's using comic books and super hero's to replace the common examples of "Man throws a 12kg ball over a cliff at 12,000meters, how much force will the ball have with the ground if F=ma". Just change ball to superman, and cliff to building, and man throwing to superman leaping.
As for an example, the first one in the book's about how to determine the velocity superman needs at ground zero to be able to jump a 30 or 40 story building given the outside forces acting upon him.
The author deals mostly with silver and golden age heros (Sorry Spawn lovers).
"Tens of thousands of people were busy sharing my identity and discussing how to punish me. My name was the most-searched phrase at portals"
The real problem is them gossiping so much, and not farming me gold or leveling my Warrior.
I fail to see how open source solves the problem where a business lacks innovation.
It allows them to break out of their perhaps stodgey programming trend and allows other fans of the product to express their interests and add another perspective that wasn't there with the same old same old guys typing away at the code.
Harvesting the innovation of others via open source is hardly beneficial innovative. This does not distinguish a company from anyone else. By the very definition of open source, everyone gets to benefit from this sort of "innovation", including my competitors. Where is the value added?
The product. I'm sure some of the techniques allow you to open source only the parts that really need it, and keep the propritary stuff in house.
The problem is not lack of innovation, but lack of innovation that is exclusive to my business. I can leverage open source. Fine. But innovation must then come from another quarter.
The problem is a lack of innovation and being able to coordinate external open source innovation into your product. A good example of this I feel is the.NET framework.
A small software company with a couple hundred, or even a thousand customers isn't finding anywhere *near* the amount of bugs as microsoft is for their applications. It's a matter of ratio's. There's no reason microsoft couldn't, if they only had the clients the small companies do. The reason they can't, is because they've got hundreds, if not thousands of times more people testing the hell out of their software and finding bugs and holes.
Just because someone doesn't report that a bug exists, doesn't mean the bug exists. I would say the only folly here, is the original author not taking that into account when bashing MS.
How about the virus definitions. This day and age especially, 550mb isn't that much to expect out of a database. That's rather small. The company I'm the DBA for stores more than that in a single column of text.
Also, MS does this sort of thing well. Purchasing other companies and using their ideas but making them not suck as bad. I'd give MS a chance here. The last couple of years MS has put out some pretty amazing technology, and they have some of the most intelligent developers in their employ. To argue otherwise would be being biased against what MS has accomplished.
Just take a look at.NET and Visual Studio.
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If you only go to church every so often, then you probably don't have any room to complain. Really nobody does. Any paralells drawn from this for any religious reasons are on our own heads. We've idolized Superman more than Jesus, is it any wonder that we're attempting to fill the void in a religion free country, with our savior of Metropolis/the world?
How many times does SuperMan have to save the world before people get offended? How long has Superman's personality (love humanity to death without any bounds) coincided with Jesus's? And how long has Jor-El been sending his "Only son" to earth? Pretty much since conception.
And you're *now* offended? Why start now? Why care now? There's hundreds of other religions out there that aren't christianity, but have some very extreme parallels to it. Why not get upset or offended at those?
Why does this movie, or more importantly, this hero, cause you to speak out about infringing on religious copyrights? Why should I care if you're offended by this introduction to the movie when your religious behavior/devotion is so inconsistant?
I don't.
This is not IE 6 with a few features borrowed from the competition, but rather a clear step in the evolution of user-centric design.
I don't think so. This is almost a complete FireFox ripoff. Even then it's not even that good. Speaking of which, unless you're running longhorn, it doesn't appear as if you're capable of changing any of the settings for I.E. You click, but nothing happens to the checkbox. Good software design Microsoft. Other than the phishing and refresh/stop being together, there's precious little i.e. has that firefox doesn't, and FF has extensions and themes to boot.
It's easier to prosecute a local national than a forign national. There's 100 hoops to jump through, and it might not be worth the companies time to prosecute, so they end up eating the costs depending on the situation. Once more foriegn workers realize that, this will happen more and more often and cost the companies outsourcing to India, millions, if not billions of dollars.
Miscrosoft has never been about innovation. They've been about finding good ideas people have, which are poorly implemented, and then making them not suck.
Ala DOS, Windows,.NET, Visual Studio, Internet Explorer, etc.
They've always followed and improved. They let others take the initial risk of what will and won't work, and then they pick up on it and make a profit.
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Oh sure. It'll be your memories, and your deepest, darkest thoughts that you thought you had hidden (People could pry around through that and find all the *bad* things you've done), but it isn't you.
It's not capable of rational thought, or even thought. You won't have the creative element that you have right now as a human. They could stick you with an AI processor which could anticipate and formulate responses based on each person's individual brain, but it's going to come to different conclusions than you would.
For example, say you were given a situation involving a shaky bridge and a very steep cliff that it's attached at either end to. Your normal self would weight in the situation, based on perspective, past life experiences, mood, and forsight, and come up with the answer to if you should cross it based on many human feelings, most notably fear. Whereas the AI module (assuming there is one) might come to a completely different conclusion due to lack of self preservation, too much self preservation, or not being able to properly factor in emotion/fear into the equation.
Thus, it is not you. Your self is lost upon death, while your memories could be used as a database for advanced AI chips. That's all.
...sentances. The point is that this guy was an obvious extreme case. 24 million in fraud? That's a crapload. Plus the spamming in general. 24 million stolen in fraud definately warrants the 9 year sentance.
Again, I agree with those as well who are confused with why rapists and murderes only get 5 or so years. Yeah, our legal system could use some work, but this spammer definately got what he deserved, if not needed a longer sentance (Or a more extreme sentance).
Let the punishment fit the crime. You kill someone, you get killed in return (death penalty needs to exist for more murderes), if you rape someone, you get raped and beaten back, if you steal from someone, you lose it all plus some.
Maybe, if we had a more extremist view on punishment, we'd have less people willing to exploit the system. Jail time? who cares about that any more. With the modern day jails, it's like a vacation. We've got a seriously overpopulated jail population, and we don't seem to care. They're costing us billions upon billions upon billions of dollars a year to keep convicted rapists, murderers and theives in jail with our hard earned money.
To me, that's a far more horrible crime than one someone commits to get into jail.
Keep in mind Nvidia said the same thing about their 6000 card in regards to power consumption, and then, a little over a month later, came back and mentioned they were overzealous in their power specs, and it could use a less wattage powersupply in most cases (except the extreme ones).
I'd be willing to bet that their 550 watt req is also them wanting to cover their arse on powercycles.
Gm is like taking a painting, and cleaning it up a bit. Like taking a work of art, and cutting out all of the dust and grime.
GM is not like creating a new work of art. You're just modifying what's already there. There's nothing wrong with "Trimming the fat" on templates on earth.
There's something philisophically wrong with positioning yourself as a new painter, and creating an original work of art. There's already a universal painter out there, and he/she dislikes competition.
GM plants, which gives us ideas on how to GM people to make better GM plants, who's tech allows us to extend it again and GM people to make better GM plants.
Not soon, but at some point in the next millenia, there will be Genetic modifications to almost everything we touch that has the ability to do so.
The only thing to prevent genetics from controlling our lifestyle, are ethics. Once the ethics are persuaded, bent, and altered, there's no limit to what we will consider "Normal" and "Natural".
What does this mean for current lawsuits, and why does having john doe lawsuits make it better than if they knew your name? Who's fielding those lawsuits?
Wow, his office was at 85F? Seems incredibly high to anyone else or just me? Over here we try to keep things as close to 70F or below as possible due to all the workstations.
Just when you think the world is insane, something sane happens.
Now if we could only get them to stop allowing rediculous lawsuits in the system at all, I would be able to sleep easy at night, instead of curled into a ball wishing I had a jumbo sized teddy bear to hug me...That being said, I feel quite confident my suit against Kerry for causing my ears to bleed during the debate will go through.
First off it should be noted that you can not use ODBC, OLE, or any else besides XML to access a Filemaker database.This means that you can't integrate Filemaker with outside applications programmed in an multitude of languages without building your own wrapper or obtaining a wrapper from someone else. Some people will say hey wait I saw in the docs that it supports ODBC. Look a little further into it and you will find that the client for Filemaker supports querying ODBC mounted db's but not the other way around. 1.)Absolutely 100% wrong here. It uses ODBC (Pretty much every SQL command including table creation), JDBC, and yes, it uses DDE too. Has just upgraded to a very robust XML system, which I'll cover in a second. The multi language thing is total BS as well. It's completely unicode compliant.
2.)For your #2, I just don't want to copy the entire text you wrote out, it's all crap. XML can be queryed from the server engine now. That pretty much defeats your entire rant there. Oh, and it's incredibly fast, especially with Web Services enabled to take advantage of caching features.
3.) THe secutiry method is about as granular as it gets now. It has external authentication, an extremely powerfull pessimistic security model, and as much of a lockdown as you can possibly wish for.
4.)Again, totally off base. It's incredibly compliant, and is ansi SQL-92 compliant as a matter of fact.
I'm still trying to figure out what the point of your post was other than showing how little you truly know about FileMaker and spreading your single minded cynacism to uninformed readers. Get some facts, research the product you're bitching about.
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It's basic stuff that you'd learn first year college for the most part.
I've got it and have started reading it. A friend bought it for me last Christmas. As an avid fan of both comic books and Physics, it warms my heart to read how the author approaches each situation. That's with a very science first outlook. Essentially he's using comic books and super hero's to replace the common examples of "Man throws a 12kg ball over a cliff at 12,000meters, how much force will the ball have with the ground if F=ma". Just change ball to superman, and cliff to building, and man throwing to superman leaping.
As for an example, the first one in the book's about how to determine the velocity superman needs at ground zero to be able to jump a 30 or 40 story building given the outside forces acting upon him.
The author deals mostly with silver and golden age heros (Sorry Spawn lovers).
"Tens of thousands of people were busy sharing my identity and discussing how to punish me. My name was the most-searched phrase at portals" The real problem is them gossiping so much, and not farming me gold or leveling my Warrior.
I think the analogy was taken too far already. No need to add to it ;)
Except for when they lost their "Good Guy" status by giving in to China's demands for a filtered engine.
I fail to see how open source solves the problem where a business lacks innovation.
.NET framework.
It allows them to break out of their perhaps stodgey programming trend and allows other fans of the product to express their interests and add another perspective that wasn't there with the same old same old guys typing away at the code.
Harvesting the innovation of others via open source is hardly beneficial innovative. This does not distinguish a company from anyone else. By the very definition of open source, everyone gets to benefit from this sort of "innovation", including my competitors. Where is the value added?
The product. I'm sure some of the techniques allow you to open source only the parts that really need it, and keep the propritary stuff in house.
The problem is not lack of innovation, but lack of innovation that is exclusive to my business. I can leverage open source. Fine. But innovation must then come from another quarter.
The problem is a lack of innovation and being able to coordinate external open source innovation into your product. A good example of this I feel is the
Phrasing fix: Doesn't mean the bug stops existing.
A small software company with a couple hundred, or even a thousand customers isn't finding anywhere *near* the amount of bugs as microsoft is for their applications. It's a matter of ratio's. There's no reason microsoft couldn't, if they only had the clients the small companies do. The reason they can't, is because they've got hundreds, if not thousands of times more people testing the hell out of their software and finding bugs and holes.
Just because someone doesn't report that a bug exists, doesn't mean the bug exists. I would say the only folly here, is the original author not taking that into account when bashing MS.
How about the virus definitions. This day and age especially, 550mb isn't that much to expect out of a database. That's rather small. The company I'm the DBA for stores more than that in a single column of text. Also, MS does this sort of thing well. Purchasing other companies and using their ideas but making them not suck as bad. I'd give MS a chance here. The last couple of years MS has put out some pretty amazing technology, and they have some of the most intelligent developers in their employ. To argue otherwise would be being biased against what MS has accomplished. Just take a look at .NET and Visual Studio.
Warning, religious discussion: If you only go to church every so often, then you probably don't have any room to complain. Really nobody does. Any paralells drawn from this for any religious reasons are on our own heads. We've idolized Superman more than Jesus, is it any wonder that we're attempting to fill the void in a religion free country, with our savior of Metropolis/the world? How many times does SuperMan have to save the world before people get offended? How long has Superman's personality (love humanity to death without any bounds) coincided with Jesus's? And how long has Jor-El been sending his "Only son" to earth? Pretty much since conception. And you're *now* offended? Why start now? Why care now? There's hundreds of other religions out there that aren't christianity, but have some very extreme parallels to it. Why not get upset or offended at those? Why does this movie, or more importantly, this hero, cause you to speak out about infringing on religious copyrights? Why should I care if you're offended by this introduction to the movie when your religious behavior/devotion is so inconsistant? I don't.
This is not IE 6 with a few features borrowed from the competition, but rather a clear step in the evolution of user-centric design.
I don't think so. This is almost a complete FireFox ripoff. Even then it's not even that good. Speaking of which, unless you're running longhorn, it doesn't appear as if you're capable of changing any of the settings for I.E. You click, but nothing happens to the checkbox. Good software design Microsoft. Other than the phishing and refresh/stop being together, there's precious little i.e. has that firefox doesn't, and FF has extensions and themes to boot.
It's easier to prosecute a local national than a forign national. There's 100 hoops to jump through, and it might not be worth the companies time to prosecute, so they end up eating the costs depending on the situation. Once more foriegn workers realize that, this will happen more and more often and cost the companies outsourcing to India, millions, if not billions of dollars.
It's like a reverse trickle down theory.
Miscrosoft has never been about innovation. They've been about finding good ideas people have, which are poorly implemented, and then making them not suck.
.NET, Visual Studio, Internet Explorer, etc.
Ala DOS, Windows,
They've always followed and improved. They let others take the initial risk of what will and won't work, and then they pick up on it and make a profit.
Oh sure. It'll be your memories, and your deepest, darkest thoughts that you thought you had hidden (People could pry around through that and find all the *bad* things you've done), but it isn't you.
It's not capable of rational thought, or even thought. You won't have the creative element that you have right now as a human. They could stick you with an AI processor which could anticipate and formulate responses based on each person's individual brain, but it's going to come to different conclusions than you would.
For example, say you were given a situation involving a shaky bridge and a very steep cliff that it's attached at either end to. Your normal self would weight in the situation, based on perspective, past life experiences, mood, and forsight, and come up with the answer to if you should cross it based on many human feelings, most notably fear. Whereas the AI module (assuming there is one) might come to a completely different conclusion due to lack of self preservation, too much self preservation, or not being able to properly factor in emotion/fear into the equation.
Thus, it is not you. Your self is lost upon death, while your memories could be used as a database for advanced AI chips. That's all.
The galaxy is so new that the light from the stars hasn't reached earth yet. That could be fun.
...sentances. The point is that this guy was an obvious extreme case. 24 million in fraud? That's a crapload. Plus the spamming in general. 24 million stolen in fraud definately warrants the 9 year sentance.
Again, I agree with those as well who are confused with why rapists and murderes only get 5 or so years. Yeah, our legal system could use some work, but this spammer definately got what he deserved, if not needed a longer sentance (Or a more extreme sentance).
Let the punishment fit the crime. You kill someone, you get killed in return (death penalty needs to exist for more murderes), if you rape someone, you get raped and beaten back, if you steal from someone, you lose it all plus some.
Maybe, if we had a more extremist view on punishment, we'd have less people willing to exploit the system. Jail time? who cares about that any more. With the modern day jails, it's like a vacation. We've got a seriously overpopulated jail population, and we don't seem to care. They're costing us billions upon billions upon billions of dollars a year to keep convicted rapists, murderers and theives in jail with our hard earned money.
To me, that's a far more horrible crime than one someone commits to get into jail.
Should be Hype instead of "hyoe"
Keep in mind Nvidia said the same thing about their 6000 card in regards to power consumption, and then, a little over a month later, came back and mentioned they were overzealous in their power specs, and it could use a less wattage powersupply in most cases (except the extreme ones).
I'd be willing to bet that their 550 watt req is also them wanting to cover their arse on powercycles.
Gm is like taking a painting, and cleaning it up a bit. Like taking a work of art, and cutting out all of the dust and grime. GM is not like creating a new work of art. You're just modifying what's already there. There's nothing wrong with "Trimming the fat" on templates on earth. There's something philisophically wrong with positioning yourself as a new painter, and creating an original work of art. There's already a universal painter out there, and he/she dislikes competition.
GM plants, which gives us ideas on how to GM people to make better GM plants, who's tech allows us to extend it again and GM people to make better GM plants.
Not soon, but at some point in the next millenia, there will be Genetic modifications to almost everything we touch that has the ability to do so.
The only thing to prevent genetics from controlling our lifestyle, are ethics. Once the ethics are persuaded, bent, and altered, there's no limit to what we will consider "Normal" and "Natural".
These answers are great, thank you for the replies! That does clear it up a bit.
What does this mean for current lawsuits, and why does having john doe lawsuits make it better than if they knew your name? Who's fielding those lawsuits?
Wow, his office was at 85F? Seems incredibly high to anyone else or just me? Over here we try to keep things as close to 70F or below as possible due to all the workstations.
Just when you think the world is insane, something sane happens.
Now if we could only get them to stop allowing rediculous lawsuits in the system at all, I would be able to sleep easy at night, instead of curled into a ball wishing I had a jumbo sized teddy bear to hug me...That being said, I feel quite confident my suit against Kerry for causing my ears to bleed during the debate will go through.
First off it should be noted that you can not use ODBC, OLE, or any else besides XML to access a Filemaker database.This means that you can't integrate Filemaker with outside applications programmed in an multitude of languages without building your own wrapper or obtaining a wrapper from someone else. Some people will say hey wait I saw in the docs that it supports ODBC. Look a little further into it and you will find that the client for Filemaker supports querying ODBC mounted db's but not the other way around.
1.)Absolutely 100% wrong here. It uses ODBC (Pretty much every SQL command including table creation), JDBC, and yes, it uses DDE too. Has just upgraded to a very robust XML system, which I'll cover in a second.
The multi language thing is total BS as well. It's completely unicode compliant.
2.)For your #2, I just don't want to copy the entire text you wrote out, it's all crap. XML can be queryed from the server engine now. That pretty much defeats your entire rant there. Oh, and it's incredibly fast, especially with Web Services enabled to take advantage of caching features.
3.) THe secutiry method is about as granular as it gets now. It has external authentication, an extremely powerfull pessimistic security model, and as much of a lockdown as you can possibly wish for.
4.)Again, totally off base. It's incredibly compliant, and is ansi SQL-92 compliant as a matter of fact.
I'm still trying to figure out what the point of your post was other than showing how little you truly know about FileMaker and spreading your single minded cynacism to uninformed readers. Get some facts, research the product you're bitching about.