Why would anyone close a profitable buisness department?
Mysql is not oracle. The brand is already established. If oracle bought them it probably would be to close the company out and use whatever they can to build an oracle database that appealed to the same market.
They could. But an application as important and popular as MySQL would simply fork. Simply look at X.org vs XFree86.
...and how long did we wait for x.org to get moving while xfree86 did piss all for the linux world? Why would this be any different?
If oracle bought and canceled mysql you would see a number of people try to improve it with five hundred million cludgey add-ons. Eventually in about two or three years frustration over that mess would hit critical mass and someone would organize something to fix it, after most people had run out of steam for starting their own projects on it.
No, those things would be useless... AJAX is about improving the user experience, not loading as much crap onto a page that you can, just 'cause.
You obviously do not understand the concept behind web 2.0. It is really intended to take the DoS power away from slashdot and put it more firmly in the hands of a sites' popularity.
Meanwhile these barges use energy during the process. 8,000 barges is a lot of energy. That energy production is probably going to contribute to global warming again.
Although on a slightly smaller scale, your breathing also contributes to global warming. The earth is a much bigger and more stable system than people tend to give it credit for. Eight thousand barges is really not a lot of energy when we are talking on these scales. Sometimes I wonder if it would be better to measure this kind of stuff relative to the output of a volcano. In that measurement system I would be suprised if 8,000 barges is more than 1/4 vu (volcanic unit).
If their goal is to cool the ocean's surface, they can't exactly use the ocean to cool the engine, compressor, and compressed air, can they?
Sure they can, just not that specific part of it. What is to stop them from cordoning off a large area of ocean and putting the compressor et al on a buoy away from the work site?
I would think the real issue is that it generally is not a good idea to have barges near large free floating chunks of ice. Then again I am not a meteorologist, climatologist, or sailor, so my take on it may not mean too much.
Why not just give people a limit on how much bandwidth they're allowed to use and leave it to them to decide how much of that goes towards P2P?
Because giving people a number that would allow everyone to be on at the same time would make it outrageously small. Anything less than that will cause even more problems if/when the upper user limit is reached. I would rather have the current system where more bandwidth is given to everyone that is on at the time instead of allotting bandwidth to people who are not even using their computer.
Who determines what the emergency is? The system itself?
Maybe the person who has credentials to these alternate accounts? Nothing about automated backups indicates that you will not be able to do a manual restore.
So you're saying the lawyers wrote the website? Maybe it was just the developers they contracted for it following what for them is SOP. Regardless the GGP started his comment by saying "Let's assume that the woman is telling the truth" which tells me that everything after that might, implicitly, be based on a belief that what the lawyer is saying is true.
I knew most people on slashdot didn't read the articles and only browsed the summaries, but this is just plain ridiculous.
1. Rip pages out of telephone directory
2. Pin to wall as darts target
3. Throw dart 4. Sue all those that weren't hit by dart
5. Profit!!!
(6. Repeat):)
Which means the RIAA is the only place in the world where games of darts played by blind people are an encouraged practice.
Doesn't this raise questions about how much work the RIAA is (vs should be) putting into these proceedings though? I mean home health aids are not exactly rich, defending herself against this is going to cost a lot of money. Granted if she wins a settlement out of it she will make that back, but what if she has to pay her lawyers in the meantime?
Mrs Lindor, it seems you have been living two lives. One life you are Marie Lindor, home health aid for a respectable healthcare company. You have a social security number, pay your taxes, and you... help your charges with their bedpans. The other life is lived in p2p file swapping where you go by the pirate alias "HotSexyNurse55" and have violated virtually every copyright law we have purchased in the last decade. One of these lives has a future, the other involves trying to deny that we are wrong.
Of course, those work better when you are an immortal and, after your rival runs you through ten times without killing you, you can apologize for calling his wife a bloated warthog and bid him good day!
Of course that would require me to actually be apologetic, which, as an immortal, I am not.
have someone actually check it over to make sure it doesn't sound like you have absolutely no touch with reality.
If, by chance, you did actually have no touch with reality, how would you tell? Maybe he has a cadre of gigantic-pink-bunny-speech-checking-ninjas that work on these things. He's out of touch with reality, how is he to know they don't really exist?
That said, i'm upset that he is using ninjas to do this. Everyone knows that pirates are better at speeches, you just have to have the ninjas come in later and remove all of the extra r's.
What am I to do when chimeric models are outlawed?
What are you to do? Why repent your sinful scientific ways and come to know the joy that is living under God's Will(TM). Here in Godstralia we don't have to worry about someone getting a better job by virtue of being "smarter" than us, nobody needs to think much to begin with. Even if someone is "smarter" that is because _God_ wanted them to be smarter. Who am I to argue with that. Same thing with athleticism, depression, butt-uglyness and a predisposition towards insipid trend following.
By mucking about with the blasphemy that is science you are tampering with God's will. Forget about curing diseases, birth defects, the possibility to grow replacement body organs, these are all sinful depradations upon the holy order of God's design. Who are you, a mere mortal, to question such things?
I know this is probably redundant, but is it possible for people to make a story submission relating to Microsoft without drawing imaginary horns and a "666" on their logo every time?
Are you kidding? The slashdot moderation preprocessor looks for this and automatically posts those submissions under a random editor. The next version is supposed to use a sophisticated AI mechanism to mimic individual editors so they can all sit around on a beach drinking margaritas.
3. What if the "vulnerability" that is being patched is a trojan that requires user input (and possibly administrator rights) to execute? If people want to flip out and buy this kind of patch early instead of teaching their users to not be stupid let them. If they ever want real estate I think I can find some good beachfront property in Arizona.
You need to fix that. Generalizations are the bread and butter of science. I assume you have a problem with generalizations from personal anecdotes or something like that. But that's not at all what you say.
I suppose generalizations from personal anecdotes work, but really I meant it more as generalizations from limited data sets, some kind of societal factor, or simple prejudice. That said:
Slashdot: Where personal anecdotes and generalizations from limited data sets, ethnocentric societal judgements, and prejudice can be freely substituted for facts, logic, or intelligence
doesn't really have a good feel to it, and wouldn't fit in the space alloted for a sig anyways. So far I have yet to hear from anyone who could not come up with a context under which it makes sense, and I can't remember how to change the sig anyways.
In theory you are right, but the practice does not pan out so well:
1) Blogs are for sharing thoughts and ideas. Except most of the thoughts and ideas are not worth sharing, or are just parroting of some luminaries thoughts and ideas to increase your popularity. My status as a scientician allows me to estimate that only about 1% of blogs have anything useful on them.
2) Flickr is for sharing photographs. ...most of which no one will really care about. It allows people with no web hosting to host pictures somewhere, then the blogging masses can come in and tag it, allowing it to be absorbed by the ego engine referred to as the "blogosphere".
3) Del.icio.us is for sharing and collecting information. Delicious is for trying to put your parroted/useless ideas from your blog into the world. Marginally it is useful for research of some kind, but the true intent is to provide more space for the worldwide popularity contest. It is kind of handy for transferring bookmarks though.
4) MySpace, um, well, you got me there. (Does this even count as a web 2.0 site?) From what I can tell it's purpose is solely for sharing STDs... and you are right. It also helps expand the blogosphere/popularity contest. Seems to work pretty well as an instrument of torture on web browsers as well.
I'd say 75% of what you consider web 2.0 is actually pretty useful. If you insist on labeling us, how about calling us shrewd? Most of what is going on in web2.0 is the standard high school popularity contest extended to staggering heights of stupidity. It is placing a slightly more technical focus on web development, but if I had to put a label on it I would use inane.
Slashdot Mirror
Mysql is not oracle. The brand is already established. If oracle bought them it probably would be to close the company out and use whatever they can to build an oracle database that appealed to the same market.
If oracle bought and canceled mysql you would see a number of people try to improve it with five hundred million cludgey add-ons. Eventually in about two or three years frustration over that mess would hit critical mass and someone would organize something to fix it, after most people had run out of steam for starting their own projects on it.
You obviously do not understand the concept behind web 2.0. It is really intended to take the DoS power away from slashdot and put it more firmly in the hands of a sites' popularity.
[Irritated retort that deliberate attempts to invoke Godwin's Law are not considered instances of such]
Although on a slightly smaller scale, your breathing also contributes to global warming. The earth is a much bigger and more stable system than people tend to give it credit for. Eight thousand barges is really not a lot of energy when we are talking on these scales. Sometimes I wonder if it would be better to measure this kind of stuff relative to the output of a volcano. In that measurement system I would be suprised if 8,000 barges is more than 1/4 vu (volcanic unit).
Sure they can, just not that specific part of it. What is to stop them from cordoning off a large area of ocean and putting the compressor et al on a buoy away from the work site? I would think the real issue is that it generally is not a good idea to have barges near large free floating chunks of ice. Then again I am not a meteorologist, climatologist, or sailor, so my take on it may not mean too much.
Because giving people a number that would allow everyone to be on at the same time would make it outrageously small. Anything less than that will cause even more problems if/when the upper user limit is reached. I would rather have the current system where more bandwidth is given to everyone that is on at the time instead of allotting bandwidth to people who are not even using their computer.
Maybe the person who has credentials to these alternate accounts? Nothing about automated backups indicates that you will not be able to do a manual restore.
Maybe you should go after the guy who has been messing with your keyboard. Something tells me you might find him out hunting "wascally wabbits".
I knew most people on slashdot didn't read the articles and only browsed the summaries, but this is just plain ridiculous.
Doesn't this raise questions about how much work the RIAA is (vs should be) putting into these proceedings though? I mean home health aids are not exactly rich, defending herself against this is going to cost a lot of money. Granted if she wins a settlement out of it she will make that back, but what if she has to pay her lawyers in the meantime?
Mrs Lindor, it seems you have been living two lives. One life you are Marie Lindor, home health aid for a respectable healthcare company. You have a social security number, pay your taxes, and you ... help your charges with their bedpans. The other life is lived in p2p file swapping where you go by the pirate alias "HotSexyNurse55" and have violated virtually every copyright law we have purchased in the last decade. One of these lives has a future, the other involves trying to deny that we are wrong.
Of course that would require me to actually be apologetic, which, as an immortal, I am not.
*Wall of text crits you for 5000 you die.
If, by chance, you did actually have no touch with reality, how would you tell? Maybe he has a cadre of gigantic-pink-bunny-speech-checking-ninjas that work on these things. He's out of touch with reality, how is he to know they don't really exist?
That said, i'm upset that he is using ninjas to do this. Everyone knows that pirates are better at speeches, you just have to have the ninjas come in later and remove all of the extra r's.
By mucking about with the blasphemy that is science you are tampering with God's will. Forget about curing diseases, birth defects, the possibility to grow replacement body organs, these are all sinful depradations upon the holy order of God's design. Who are you, a mere mortal, to question such things?
Are you kidding? The slashdot moderation preprocessor looks for this and automatically posts those submissions under a random editor. The next version is supposed to use a sophisticated AI mechanism to mimic individual editors so they can all sit around on a beach drinking margaritas.
3. What if the "vulnerability" that is being patched is a trojan that requires user input (and possibly administrator rights) to execute? If people want to flip out and buy this kind of patch early instead of teaching their users to not be stupid let them. If they ever want real estate I think I can find some good beachfront property in Arizona.
You forgot to include the part where it has to sound good too. Then again i'm not sure that will fit at that point.
I suppose generalizations from personal anecdotes work, but really I meant it more as generalizations from limited data sets, some kind of societal factor, or simple prejudice. That said:
doesn't really have a good feel to it, and wouldn't fit in the space alloted for a sig anyways. So far I have yet to hear from anyone who could not come up with a context under which it makes sense, and I can't remember how to change the sig anyways.1) Blogs are for sharing thoughts and ideas.
Except most of the thoughts and ideas are not worth sharing, or are just parroting of some luminaries thoughts and ideas to increase your popularity. My status as a scientician allows me to estimate that only about 1% of blogs have anything useful on them.
2) Flickr is for sharing photographs.
...most of which no one will really care about. It allows people with no web hosting to host pictures somewhere, then the blogging masses can come in and tag it, allowing it to be absorbed by the ego engine referred to as the "blogosphere".
3) Del.icio.us is for sharing and collecting information.
Delicious is for trying to put your parroted/useless ideas from your blog into the world. Marginally it is useful for research of some kind, but the true intent is to provide more space for the worldwide popularity contest. It is kind of handy for transferring bookmarks though.
4) MySpace, um, well, you got me there. (Does this even count as a web 2.0 site?) From what I can tell it's purpose is solely for sharing STDs...
and you are right. It also helps expand the blogosphere/popularity contest. Seems to work pretty well as an instrument of torture on web browsers as well.
I'd say 75% of what you consider web 2.0 is actually pretty useful. If you insist on labeling us, how about calling us shrewd?
Most of what is going on in web2.0 is the standard high school popularity contest extended to staggering heights of stupidity. It is placing a slightly more technical focus on web development, but if I had to put a label on it I would use inane.
Yeah, those things have monster AC. You probably won't even notice.