I don't want any handouts from the state. I don't want handouts from the national government. I will find another job and I will support myself. I will do so with pride and without compromising what I believe in.
The failing of people that causes them to accept these handouts, is that they're pretentiously prideful. If I cannot get a job of the calibre I have now, I will get some other jobs. If I need to work two of them to support my wife, I will, but I will not take a handout. That is not the reason the government is there. They have no right to give away my tax money like that.
I would absolutely love to check it out, but I'm so crushed with the day to day stuff that currently trying to branch and test out new DB's is just not an option. Maybe after the economy picks up a little more...
Sadly, the only time I have for this fun side of my job (finding new and exciting products) is really on my own time.
I concur. Everything I've done with Oracle I've found very frustrating and it looks like I'm going to be inheriting a couple more Oracle systems in the near future as well. "Well you've done so well with the others, we're giving you more!" Yay!
The cross platform ability would be tremendous but I just can't see it happening any time in the near future. And as for security, I'd love to see more stuff beefed up with built in capabilities for point to point encryption of data going back and forth, etc... As for Slammer I've not ever been affected by it, we run most everything behind our own firewalls under very controlled conditions. So we were pretty safe from that. Only ones affected were development installs of MSDE, etc...
Not touting their security by any means, but I've not been bitten by it too hard as we run a really tight ship where I CAN control both the in/out network traffic *AND* the physical access. Makes life a lot easier.;)
I would much rather get a delayed product (especially considering that the current one is more than sufficient for the time being) rather than get a hurried product that is going to cut my legs out from under me.
If you are a cautious person (if you are a DBA and are NOT a cautious person I'd hesitate to call you a DBA at all) a release in 2005 means your earliest production database going on it in 2006, unless there is an absoultely driving feature that you MUST have as soon as possible. The bottom line is that more of often than not the users are not the driving force behind a DB Engine change (they might give feedback on what is slow but that is about it:) ) The DBA's and programmers are the driving force, we're looking for better products that are easier to manage, easier to recover and easier to administer. For those of us that are DBA/Programmers we're also looking for something that is great to work with all around since we see both sides of the coin.
So as far as the users are concerned, I'm going to keep their systems working. That is all they know. Whether I keep them working for the next 4 years on 2k doesn't bother them in the slightest as long as I still deliver what I promise to deliver (correct data in a timely fashion that you can be confident of.)
As a DBA who deals with MS SQL 2k (and 7 and 6.5) on a day to day basis (hour to hour basis?) I'm actually kind of saddened by this. I was really looking forward to playing with the TSQL/.Net paradigm shift as far as accessing data.
7.0 was a huge jump from 6.5 and 2k from 7.0 was almost as significant of a jump. I will call a spade a spade and say that the evolution of the MS SQL server has really impressed me and I was looking for good things from this next version as well. I know this is the wrong place to say such things, but I've had lots of problems with other MS problems, but this one since 7.0 has been quite good. Don't even get me started on some of their other products though.:)
I'll just go hide in my DBA hole until 2005 I guess.
Don't they mean they found spice?
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This would be much much more exciting if they found spice.
Other rover was actually taken by a sand worm.
In other news, new rovers will roll without rhythm.:)
It is the nature of languages to change. Just as society evolves, language evolves to suit it.
Sometimes it is done unintentially, othertimes it is done in the hopes of getting a product name out there ("I googled for it...", "Want a coke?" when you actually mean any generic soda, etc...) and other times it is done for the sake of brevity.
Irregardless of the motivation, the language evolves and eventually it becomes accepted enough and then it gets put into the dictionaries.
I had an interesting discussion with the folks at m-w.com about how that actually works. Pretty interesting stuff.
*shrug* That is how it works, so deal with it.
p.s. I used irregardless just to piss some people off.
I have a lot of digital music in my music collection, I also have lots of actual CD's. I understand how commerce works and that if I don't "buy" something to support the folks making the music, I know that it probably will not continue to get made. People work for money, and making music IS work.
So that being said... I still buy CD's. I will almost always listen to a CD from a copied digital version first. If the CD is good enough I buy it.
The first CD I buy that DOESN'T work in my cd player(s) is the last CD I buy. Period. That is unacceptable to me. When that day comes I will have to track down lots of names and addresses so I can send the artist money directly, or buy more shirts to help support them.
Of course the company owns the intellectual property of the employee. Damn near *EVERY* company out there does that in some way, shape, or form.
If you take a moment to actually talk to the legal folks where you work, you would understand a lot more about this. I work for a major fortune 500 company. I have something I want to patent. I went to our patent lawyers, asked them to give me a letter saying they give up rights to it. They of course wanted to know what it was, was it related to what we do, did you work on this while you were at work, etc...
AFter I told them truthfully, they were more than happy to give me the letter and I am now free to patent my invention on my own. For any successive patents, I will need more letters. I understand this.
This is all about communication. If you don't take the time to investigate something and take care of tying up your loose ends, you pretty much deserve to get screwed.
This might be just what is need to get permanent storage. The life expectency of most media we have around today is fairly short in terms of it's overall data rentention capabilities.
Taking these storage units, mounting them on something sturdy and sealing them in a vacuum container to prevent corrosion or breakdown and now the life of your data is incredibly longer.
The only perfect solution is to get rid of the waste all together. Since we cannot currently do that, we must pick a next best solution. That next solution WILL be flawed. There is no place on earth that would be safe for 10,000 years from someone accidentally finding it and getting their curiosity piqued to enter the room. Just as every code can be cracked, every secret can be found. It simply takes time and motivations.
So we must accept that our first model will not be perfect. Bottom line. Make something that will do for the time being and one that will be re-evaluated in the future.
I wonder how much money and work it take to move Google to a small, yet well connected island, and establish a new country for it. That way the search engine can be outside of the jurisdiction of any one country. It can, at that point, simply provide an unadulterated listing of what truly exists on the web regardless of content, location, or laws.
This is just an atrocious article. If this was a contest to see how many quasi-technical buzzwords, and "old terms" you could throw into an article then I could possibly see a reason for someone writing this article.
If you're going to post an article talking about high and mighty ideals at least include some philosophical discussion around the subject. Don't just throw slop at us and expect us to eat it. If you're going to discuss something then discuss it. Don't post meaningless drivel about it. You attempt to take 10-20 years of history and chunk it into a page or two of text and then you expect to have something meaningful? Writing about how the Internet as a whole has evolved just this year could easily fill 10-20 pages of text.
If you're going to do something, do it right. These half-assed attempts at pretentiousness are a waste of valuable news space on the front page. If you want to wax philosophical about the evolution of electronics or the 'net, then do it properly.
"Wasting power" Uh... Okay this is a satellite sitting in space. The solar energy it would be using is stuff that would either miss earth totally or get mostly dispersed in the atmosphere. It is already being wasted. 10% that we get out of it, is 10% than we are currently using.
This isn't like stealing money out of your own wallet.
So you're saying that we might just need to make some portions of these oceans off-limits due to the slightly hotter than normal conditions that I might encounter if I happened through there on my 60' yacht?
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I don't want any handouts from the state. I don't want handouts from the national government. I will find another job and I will support myself. I will do so with pride and without compromising what I believe in.
The failing of people that causes them to accept these handouts, is that they're pretentiously prideful. If I cannot get a job of the calibre I have now, I will get some other jobs. If I need to work two of them to support my wife, I will, but I will not take a handout. That is not the reason the government is there. They have no right to give away my tax money like that.
Yeah... libertarian through and through.
These are tears of joy...
I would absolutely love to check it out, but I'm so crushed with the day to day stuff that currently trying to branch and test out new DB's is just not an option. Maybe after the economy picks up a little more...
Sadly, the only time I have for this fun side of my job (finding new and exciting products) is really on my own time.
I concur. Everything I've done with Oracle I've found very frustrating and it looks like I'm going to be inheriting a couple more Oracle systems in the near future as well. "Well you've done so well with the others, we're giving you more!" Yay!
;)
The cross platform ability would be tremendous but I just can't see it happening any time in the near future. And as for security, I'd love to see more stuff beefed up with built in capabilities for point to point encryption of data going back and forth, etc... As for Slammer I've not ever been affected by it, we run most everything behind our own firewalls under very controlled conditions. So we were pretty safe from that. Only ones affected were development installs of MSDE, etc...
Not touting their security by any means, but I've not been bitten by it too hard as we run a really tight ship where I CAN control both the in/out network traffic *AND* the physical access. Makes life a lot easier.
Exactly, I'd kill a small country to get better error handling in stored procedures. :)
:) hehehe.
I think I've gotten used to handling it in code in a very make shift manner, but man I'd love that.
tages?
Agreed.
:) ) The DBA's and programmers are the driving force, we're looking for better products that are easier to manage, easier to recover and easier to administer. For those of us that are DBA/Programmers we're also looking for something that is great to work with all around since we see both sides of the coin.
I would much rather get a delayed product (especially considering that the current one is more than sufficient for the time being) rather than get a hurried product that is going to cut my legs out from under me.
If you are a cautious person (if you are a DBA and are NOT a cautious person I'd hesitate to call you a DBA at all) a release in 2005 means your earliest production database going on it in 2006, unless there is an absoultely driving feature that you MUST have as soon as possible. The bottom line is that more of often than not the users are not the driving force behind a DB Engine change (they might give feedback on what is slow but that is about it
So as far as the users are concerned, I'm going to keep their systems working. That is all they know. Whether I keep them working for the next 4 years on 2k doesn't bother them in the slightest as long as I still deliver what I promise to deliver (correct data in a timely fashion that you can be confident of.)
As a DBA who deals with MS SQL 2k (and 7 and 6.5) on a day to day basis (hour to hour basis?) I'm actually kind of saddened by this. I was really looking forward to playing with the TSQL/.Net paradigm shift as far as accessing data.
:)
7.0 was a huge jump from 6.5 and 2k from 7.0 was almost as significant of a jump. I will call a spade a spade and say that the evolution of the MS SQL server has really impressed me and I was looking for good things from this next version as well. I know this is the wrong place to say such things, but I've had lots of problems with other MS problems, but this one since 7.0 has been quite good. Don't even get me started on some of their other products though.
I'll just go hide in my DBA hole until 2005 I guess.
This would be much much more exciting if they found spice.
:)
Other rover was actually taken by a sand worm.
In other news, new rovers will roll without rhythm.
did anyone get in before it died? I'm interested.
Also probably very similiar to the quasi-tested theories of Super-Cavitation as well.
I wonder how many FPs they have between them?
Correct, you count each person separate for that. So if you have 10 people working 8 hours, that is 80 hours.
It is the nature of languages to change. Just as society evolves, language evolves to suit it.
Sometimes it is done unintentially, othertimes it is done in the hopes of getting a product name out there ("I googled for it...", "Want a coke?" when you actually mean any generic soda, etc...) and other times it is done for the sake of brevity.
Irregardless of the motivation, the language evolves and eventually it becomes accepted enough and then it gets put into the dictionaries.
I had an interesting discussion with the folks at m-w.com about how that actually works. Pretty interesting stuff.
*shrug* That is how it works, so deal with it.
p.s. I used irregardless just to piss some people off.
An unimpressive article, uninspired content, and in the end it didn't say anything.
How did this one slip onto Slashdot at all?
The real question....
Does the Line6 amp go to 10 or 11? Because 11 is one louder than 10!
I have a lot of digital music in my music collection, I also have lots of actual CD's. I understand how commerce works and that if I don't "buy" something to support the folks making the music, I know that it probably will not continue to get made. People work for money, and making music IS work.
So that being said... I still buy CD's. I will almost always listen to a CD from a copied digital version first. If the CD is good enough I buy it.
The first CD I buy that DOESN'T work in my cd player(s) is the last CD I buy. Period. That is unacceptable to me. When that day comes I will have to track down lots of names and addresses so I can send the artist money directly, or buy more shirts to help support them.
Of course the company owns the intellectual property of the employee. Damn near *EVERY* company out there does that in some way, shape, or form.
If you take a moment to actually talk to the legal folks where you work, you would understand a lot more about this. I work for a major fortune 500 company. I have something I want to patent. I went to our patent lawyers, asked them to give me a letter saying they give up rights to it. They of course wanted to know what it was, was it related to what we do, did you work on this while you were at work, etc...
AFter I told them truthfully, they were more than happy to give me the letter and I am now free to patent my invention on my own. For any successive patents, I will need more letters. I understand this.
This is all about communication. If you don't take the time to investigate something and take care of tying up your loose ends, you pretty much deserve to get screwed.
Didn't EPH allow you to copy songs from the unit? Or am I mistaken?
This might be just what is need to get permanent storage. The life expectency of most media we have around today is fairly short in terms of it's overall data rentention capabilities.
Taking these storage units, mounting them on something sturdy and sealing them in a vacuum container to prevent corrosion or breakdown and now the life of your data is incredibly longer.
The only perfect solution is to get rid of the waste all together. Since we cannot currently do that, we must pick a next best solution. That next solution WILL be flawed. There is no place on earth that would be safe for 10,000 years from someone accidentally finding it and getting their curiosity piqued to enter the room. Just as every code can be cracked, every secret can be found. It simply takes time and motivations.
So we must accept that our first model will not be perfect. Bottom line. Make something that will do for the time being and one that will be re-evaluated in the future.
I wonder how much money and work it take to move Google to a small, yet well connected island, and establish a new country for it. That way the search engine can be outside of the jurisdiction of any one country. It can, at that point, simply provide an unadulterated listing of what truly exists on the web regardless of content, location, or laws.
This is just an atrocious article. If this was a contest to see how many quasi-technical buzzwords, and "old terms" you could throw into an article then I could possibly see a reason for someone writing this article.
If you're going to post an article talking about high and mighty ideals at least include some philosophical discussion around the subject. Don't just throw slop at us and expect us to eat it. If you're going to discuss something then discuss it. Don't post meaningless drivel about it. You attempt to take 10-20 years of history and chunk it into a page or two of text and then you expect to have something meaningful? Writing about how the Internet as a whole has evolved just this year could easily fill 10-20 pages of text.
If you're going to do something, do it right. These half-assed attempts at pretentiousness are a waste of valuable news space on the front page. If you want to wax philosophical about the evolution of electronics or the 'net, then do it properly.
"Wasting power" Uh... Okay this is a satellite sitting in space. The solar energy it would be using is stuff that would either miss earth totally or get mostly dispersed in the atmosphere. It is already being wasted. 10% that we get out of it, is 10% than we are currently using.
This isn't like stealing money out of your own wallet.
So you're saying that we might just need to make some portions of these oceans off-limits due to the slightly hotter than normal conditions that I might encounter if I happened through there on my 60' yacht?