I do not usually respond to a AC but this ticks me off...
The problem is everything is network enabled these days. We have data acquisition hardware, remote monitoring camera's, telephones, even HVAC system, etc. hooked to the network. If we cannot hook up said device to the network then most stations will build and maintain 2 seperate networks.
This would be true if one size fits all. If what you say is true then why not propose a single solution for all of the DoD. And why stop there - why not all of the federal govenment or maybe the whole country should just standardized on a single solution than we may lose some flexability but we would make up for it elsewhere?...err wait a minute I think I just paraphrased Microsoft business plan.
Organization and people all have different needs and desires. A computer that was sized for the "heavy" computing needs of a receptionist does not fit the niche of a engineer that wants to install Perl on their machine or run X to process data on a remote machine. Yes I know there are different steps of standard desktops supplied, but have you looked at the top of the line - its a dog. So what will happen is that you will have 2 computers on your desktop and 2 networks. One to send e-mail and use office products and another "project" computer that you can control and get your work done.
Also, from a security point of view if your systems look alike a single virus or attack has the potential to wipe you out in short order.
A shame no slashdot readers are fit enough to join the navy
What the heck are you talking about! In fact, I would venture a guess a significant number of slashdot readers work in one way or another for the Navy - I am one.
Were I work we fear the NMCI contact mentioned in the article. Primarily because it shoves MS solutions down our throats and takes away our ability to choose the best approach to an application. In the project I work for we are in the process of replacing older Solaris/Sun based machines for Linux/Intel workstations. We recently selected Linux to run Matlab to process data instead of the Windows machines suggested by a contractor. We use use Perl extensively to prep, Q/A and archive data. Finally we use Perl/Apache/Linux to operate several intranets and internets installations.
Unfortunately, the article paints a real false and negative picture of the use of technology in the Navy. It is sensationalism crap.
Long term exposure to Capsaicin such as extreme hot sauce may cause pain receptors to become "desensitized".
However, pain receptors are completely different from taste receptors. In fact, Capsaicin fakes out the pain receptors as it simulates real damage. This tricks the brain into producing endorphins, which promote a pleasant sense of well-being or even an alterted state of consciousness. The endorphin high can make spicy foods mildly addictive (and for some, such as myself, a complete obsession).
Re:Why oh why are you such a snob?
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The symptom here is the the thinking that all applications that touch data must use a "real" DBMS.
There are plenty of applications where a flat file is sufficient and a database of any sort is overkill and a complication to the implementation.
Moving up a level and there are plenty of applications that do just fine with MySQL. MySQL does have some advantages for web based applications that demand low connection latency - an area where MySQL excels over "real" databases that cost "real" bucks. Also MySQL has a very easy to use command line management client that facilitate remote admin.
If you need transactions and views then consider a database that can provide those features.
In engineering there are few absolutes and most choices are compromises.
Why oh why are you such a snob?
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If I had a buck everytime some ignorant, stuckup, self described digerati exhorting someone that they should be using a "real database" or "real programming language" or "real operating system" than I would be typing this from a wireless laptop on the beach on my own private island.
What makes you so sure that MySQL was the source of the problem? You know I have seen error messages from "real" databases before, Oracle, DB2, etc. The problem could be from bad programming, hardware failure, network loss, etc.
Doing a quick calculation and using the sq mileage for San Diego County of 4281 sq miles and the nominal energy density of solar at that latitude of 3.1 KWh/m^s/day and a 1% conversion factor gives:
3.1 KWh/m^2/day *.01 =.031 KWh/m2/day
4281 Sq Miles * 2.58 x 10^6 Sq Meters/ Sq Miles = 11 x 10^9
11 x 10^9 x.031 = 343 x 10^6 Kwh/day
Or 343,000 Megawatts-Hours for a small California county.
Not that I am proposing to cover an entire county with PV panels but if you are going to "tell it like it is" then do.
BTW, can we bury the Nuclear afterproducts in your backyard?
They are not allies they are businesses and as such are responsible to the stock holders. They are in business to make money. IBM has been cozying up to some Open Source projects as a way to bolster its other offerings and to more effectively compete with MS and their other competitors.
IBM sells DB2, while MySQL does intersect a subset of the potential customer database needs, so they are naturally critical. Nothing amazing here.
the fact that THERE IS MOUNTAINS after BILLIONS of years of erosion
Sure lets use common-sense. It may suprise you that mountains are not typically BILLIONS of years old. They may have materials that are very old but their current elevation is due to the process uplifted. The rocky mountains for instance starting uplifting several 100 million years ago at best.
BTW there are lots of common sense geological features that nix a young earth arguement in the bud. For example, angular unconformties. There really is not a good young earth arguement for their existence. Examples abound, perhaps even in your neighborhood. Here is one from my collection. Such a feature requires several steps such as deposition, lithification (cementation), tilting, erosion, and deposition again. This takes time - and lot of it
Or here is another of my favorites. Here it is obvious that several processes are required to layer the column and then erode the river channel. If you are a YEC then indicate which feature was cause by the flood?
Re:Yet another reason to love duct tape...
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I mean duct tape is cool and all that but I think I would opt for welding that hood shut - and the doors, trunk, etc.
If you have heard it before then move along. There is no need to heap scorn - where is the benefit in that. If you have specific objections and are sufficiently cognizant on the subject to debate them, then lets hear them. However, I doubt you are capable.
The guy has a different perspective and I for one have not encountered his view point before and that is why I read slashdot. Don't attempt to use juvenile tactics to discourage someone from presenting their alternative ideas.
Since we are talking about offshore wind turbines here and floating obstacles tend to attact fish in large numbers, I would say any chopped birds would provide a ready supply of fish food - which in turn would be turned into human food.
So in a round about way these windmills would be transforming protein that is not normally in the human food chain (ie seagulls and such) into one that is (fish). Maybe we should be looking into the older faster turning wind conversion technology;)
Big difference between glass ceiling and being property of your husband who BTW was selected for you.
democracy - bush *bought* his job!
Sure he may have bought influence but citizens votes is what got him elected.
liberty - ashcroft's "terrorists" == mccarthy's "communists". don't stand in his way.
Hey you got me here, I have to whole heartly agree with you.
religious freedom - as long as you're christian or jewish.
Untrue. List one religion that is unfairly treated. In some middle eastern countries it is a hanging offence to convert someone from Islam. In the US it is generally PC in the communication and entertainment industry to make discouraging jokes or innuendo about christianity but _not_ any other religion. I always thought that was interesting.
I applaud the Danes for their bold, foward thinking Energy 21 energy policy. Bush's policy on the other hand, involves meddling in the middle east or drilling in our national parks and preserves.
Being the man of vision that he is, Bush, should reconsider our depenence on oil from the middle east and its impact of our foriegn policy. Like a drug addicted individual the US governments choices sometimes are far from rational.
For example, we call the Saudi's "our fiends". Bullshit! They would slice our thoat in a heart beat if we were not their biggest customer. They are a twisted theocracy that rejects womens rights, democracy, personal liberty, religious freedom, etc. We have nothing in common.
If the man would come out with a Kennedy like vision and plan of developing renewable technologies such as wind, solar, geothermal, wave, conservation, etc. and even clean and safe nuclear we would be much further down road to world stability, peace and prosperity. Instead he wants to start another war and one which has the potential of being a messy urban war where civilian casualities are unavoidable if you want to win.
I don't think you (or most people) really understand what evolution is
The implied assumption in your statement is that you do! - such hurbis is often a clear indication of ignorance.
However, the fossil record fails to show the progressive transformation of any living organism into a distinctly different kind of organism. The fossil record is "punctuated" by new fully formed organism. Is it not this observation that is the prime mover behind the concept of the "hopeful monster" or punctuated equilibrum.
Evolution goes a long ways towards explaining our wonderful landscape of crickets and birds in the air, but don't you feel that there is still something lacking.
As an analogy, I think we are still living in the comparable ara of newtonian physics and still waiting for relativity.
You are upset that Perl 6 is changing significantly enough that you feel it could be classified as a different language. And you don't want to learn a new language so to solve your dilemma you are going to learn a different language?:)
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It is much easier to download something than to go to the store and pay for it.
I think the "easier" part is the crux of the issue. If record companies make it easy to download and pay (a reasonable price mind you) for your music then a majority of folks would. The key is to make it easy and cheap and this will destroy any blackmarket or free file sharing communities. Make so easy and cheap that it is not even worth saving it your disk in most cases.
The video rental market is a great analogy. There was a lot of concern that when video rentals people would just copy video's and share them with their friend and sales would plummet. The opposite is true because it is just not worth the hassle and space.
An important factor in Europe's favour is that we retain a belief that governments are a good thing, that political control is both necessary and desirable, and that laws serve the people.
Hitler/Stalin/Mosalini/etc... (this list is long) would have agreed heartly and would have eagerly supported this notion.
Jefferson by the way would not. A few Jefferson quotes by contrast:
"Most bad government has grown out of too much government"
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."
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I do not usually respond to a AC but this ticks me off...
The problem is everything is network enabled these days. We have data acquisition hardware, remote monitoring camera's, telephones, even HVAC system, etc. hooked to the network. If we cannot hook up said device to the network then most stations will build and maintain 2 seperate networks.
This would be true if one size fits all. If what you say is true then why not propose a single solution for all of the DoD. And why stop there - why not all of the federal govenment or maybe the whole country should just standardized on a single solution than we may lose some flexability but we would make up for it elsewhere? ...err wait a minute I think I just paraphrased Microsoft business plan.
Organization and people all have different needs and desires. A computer that was sized for the "heavy" computing needs of a receptionist does not fit the niche of a engineer that wants to install Perl on their machine or run X to process data on a remote machine. Yes I know there are different steps of standard desktops supplied, but have you looked at the top of the line - its a dog. So what will happen is that you will have 2 computers on your desktop and 2 networks. One to send e-mail and use office products and another "project" computer that you can control and get your work done.
Also, from a security point of view if your systems look alike a single virus or attack has the potential to wipe you out in short order.
Diversity and chaos does have its advantages.
A shame no slashdot readers are fit enough to join the navy
What the heck are you talking about! In fact, I would venture a guess a significant number of slashdot readers work in one way or another for the Navy - I am one.
Were I work we fear the NMCI contact mentioned in the article. Primarily because it shoves MS solutions down our throats and takes away our ability to choose the best approach to an application. In the project I work for we are in the process of replacing older Solaris/Sun based machines for Linux/Intel workstations. We recently selected Linux to run Matlab to process data instead of the Windows machines suggested by a contractor. We use use Perl extensively to prep, Q/A and archive data.
Finally we use Perl/Apache/Linux to operate several intranets and internets installations.
Unfortunately, the article paints a real false and negative picture of the use of technology in the Navy. It is sensationalism crap.
Rearrange the words and now it makes sense.
Long term exposure to Capsaicin such as extreme hot sauce may cause pain receptors to become "desensitized".
However, pain receptors are completely different from taste receptors. In fact, Capsaicin fakes out the pain receptors as it simulates real damage. This tricks the brain into producing endorphins, which promote a pleasant sense of well-being or even an alterted state of consciousness. The endorphin high can make spicy foods mildly addictive (and for some, such as myself, a complete obsession).
The symptom here is the the thinking that all applications that touch data must use a "real" DBMS.
There are plenty of applications where a flat file is sufficient and a database of any sort is overkill and a complication to the implementation.
Moving up a level and there are plenty of applications that do just fine with MySQL. MySQL does have some advantages for web based applications that demand low connection latency - an area where MySQL excels over "real" databases that cost "real" bucks. Also MySQL has a very easy to use command line management client that facilitate remote admin.
If you need transactions and views then consider a database that can provide those features.
In engineering there are few absolutes and most choices are compromises.
If I had a buck everytime some ignorant, stuckup, self described digerati exhorting someone that they should be using a "real database" or "real programming language" or "real operating system" than I would be typing this from a wireless laptop on the beach on my own private island.
What makes you so sure that MySQL was the source of the problem? You know I have seen error messages from "real" databases before, Oracle, DB2, etc. The problem could be from bad programming, hardware failure, network loss, etc.
Throwing about hyperbole does not help
.01 = .031 KWh/m2/day
.031 = 343 x 10^6 Kwh/day
Doing a quick calculation and using the sq mileage for San Diego County of 4281 sq miles and the nominal energy density of solar at that latitude of 3.1 KWh/m^s/day and a 1% conversion factor gives:
3.1 KWh/m^2/day *
4281 Sq Miles * 2.58 x 10^6 Sq Meters/ Sq Miles = 11 x 10^9
11 x 10^9 x
Or 343,000 Megawatts-Hours for a small California county.
Not that I am proposing to cover an entire county with PV panels but if you are going to "tell it like it is" then do.
BTW, can we bury the Nuclear afterproducts in your backyard?
IBM and Sun are supposed to be open source allies
They are not allies they are businesses and as such are responsible to the stock holders. They are in business to make money. IBM has been cozying up to some Open Source projects as a way to bolster its other offerings and to more effectively compete with MS and their other competitors.
IBM sells DB2, while MySQL does intersect a subset of the potential customer database needs, so they are naturally critical. Nothing amazing here.
And regardless if the company bled red ink during his reign he would still have access to the company jet, etc.
the fact that THERE IS MOUNTAINS after BILLIONS of years of erosion
Sure lets use common-sense. It may suprise you that mountains are not typically BILLIONS of years old. They may have materials that are very old but their current elevation is due to the process uplifted. The rocky mountains for instance starting uplifting several 100 million years ago at best.
BTW there are lots of common sense geological features that nix a young earth arguement in the bud. For example, angular unconformties. There really is not a good young earth arguement for their existence. Examples abound, perhaps even in your neighborhood. Here is one from my collection. Such a feature requires several steps such as deposition, lithification (cementation), tilting, erosion, and deposition again. This takes time - and lot of it
Or here is another of my favorites. Here it is obvious that several processes are required to layer the column and then erode the river channel. If you are a YEC then indicate which feature was cause by the flood?
I mean duct tape is cool and all that but I think I would opt for welding that hood shut - and the doors, trunk, etc.
If you have heard it before then move along. There is no need to heap scorn - where is the benefit in that. If you have specific objections and are sufficiently cognizant on the subject to debate them, then lets hear them. However, I doubt you are capable.
The guy has a different perspective and I for one have not encountered his view point before and that is why I read slashdot. Don't attempt to use juvenile tactics to discourage someone from presenting their alternative ideas.
Since we are talking about offshore wind turbines here and floating obstacles tend to attact fish in large numbers, I would say any chopped birds would provide a ready supply of fish food - which in turn would be turned into human food.
;)
So in a round about way these windmills would be transforming protein that is not normally in the human food chain (ie seagulls and such) into one that is (fish). Maybe we should be looking into the older faster turning wind conversion technology
women's rights - the glass ceiling still exists.
Big difference between glass ceiling and being property of your husband who BTW was selected for you.
democracy - bush *bought* his job!
Sure he may have bought influence but citizens votes is what got him elected.
liberty - ashcroft's "terrorists" == mccarthy's "communists". don't stand in his way.
Hey you got me here, I have to whole heartly agree with you.
religious freedom - as long as you're christian or jewish.
Untrue. List one religion that is unfairly treated. In some middle eastern countries it is a hanging offence to convert someone from Islam. In the US it is generally PC in the communication and entertainment industry to make discouraging jokes or innuendo about christianity but _not_ any other religion. I always thought that was interesting.
Give every nation a surface "resistance" allotment or budget. For every windmill you put up you can cut down several trees :)
I applaud the Danes for their bold, foward thinking Energy 21 energy policy. Bush's policy on the other hand, involves meddling in the middle east or drilling in our national parks and preserves.
Being the man of vision that he is, Bush, should reconsider our depenence on oil from the middle east and its impact of our foriegn policy. Like a drug addicted individual the US governments choices sometimes are far from rational.
For example, we call the Saudi's "our fiends". Bullshit! They would slice our thoat in a heart beat if we were not their biggest customer. They are a twisted theocracy that rejects womens rights, democracy, personal liberty, religious freedom, etc. We have nothing in common.
If the man would come out with a Kennedy like vision and plan of developing renewable technologies such as wind, solar, geothermal, wave, conservation, etc. and even clean and safe nuclear we would be much further down road to world stability, peace and prosperity. Instead he wants to start another war and one which has the potential of being a messy urban war where civilian casualities are unavoidable if you want to win.
Doug William? is that you? It has to be.
I don't think you (or most people) really understand what evolution is
The implied assumption in your statement is that you do! - such hurbis is often a clear indication of ignorance.
However, the fossil record fails to show the progressive transformation of any living organism into a distinctly different kind of organism. The fossil record is "punctuated" by new fully formed organism. Is it not this observation that is the prime mover behind the concept of the "hopeful monster" or punctuated equilibrum.
Evolution goes a long ways towards explaining our wonderful landscape of crickets and birds in the air, but don't you feel that there is still something lacking.
As an analogy, I think we are still living in the comparable ara of newtonian physics and still waiting for relativity.
You are upset that Perl 6 is changing significantly enough that you feel it could be classified as a different language. And you don't want to learn a new language so to solve your dilemma you are going to learn a different language? :)
It is much easier to download something than to go to the store and pay for it.
I think the "easier" part is the crux of the issue. If record companies make it easy to download and pay (a reasonable price mind you) for your music then a majority of folks would. The key is to make it easy and cheap and this will destroy any blackmarket or free file sharing communities. Make so easy and cheap that it is not even worth saving it your disk in most cases.
The video rental market is a great analogy. There was a lot of concern that when video rentals people would just copy video's and share them with their friend and sales would plummet. The opposite is true because it is just not worth the hassle and space.
Car Guys on public radio wanted to sell a bumper sticker with:
"Would You Drive Better If I Crammed That Cell Phone Up Your Tailpipe?"
Marketing gurus thought better and finally published the boring
"Drive Now, Talk Later"
Now the slashdot editors know what really ups the old hit counter.
From now on when things get slow we can expect articles such as:
1. What to do when she finds out it is zirconium.
2. O.K. I forgot her birthday what do I do now?
3. Ideas on how to say you love her for 20 bucks or less.
From the article
An important factor in Europe's favour is that we retain a belief that governments are a good thing, that political control is both necessary and desirable, and that laws serve the people.
Hitler/Stalin/Mosalini/etc... (this list is long) would have agreed heartly and would have eagerly supported this notion.
Jefferson by the way would not. A few Jefferson quotes by contrast:
"Most bad government has grown out of too much government"
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."
Oh well.
Apply Insanity Sauce generously and even the local mongrel will steer clear.