Agree. And it was even faster before Microsoft bought it. They've done two things with it since:
knacker FoxPro
graft some of the speed technology into Access (the grafts are of limited use, given that Access is a gigantic hack)
The original FoxPro team worked wonders with that code. The reason FP can't do the SQL benchmarks is that the SQL interpreter in it has basically been static since they were engulfed by The Borg.
I have a 486SLC40 gateway box feeding a modem. It has a BogoMIPS rating of 7.86 - yes, the decimal point does come second. On bad days, it drops to around 7.5. I don't get to see it change often (it's been... (/ME sshes in, checks uptime...) 82 days since the last power failure).
Given that a regular modem involves a CPU response to almost every single character (a DSL interface won't require that), and that the brain-dead not-even-PnP NE-2000-clone network card has never dropped a packet, I can't see anybody having horsepower issues with a real 486 or better. (-:
At $800 (Canadian) per license of Office, it's far too expensive for what you get.
Plus the cost of an OS, plus technician-time for reinstalling it with monotonous regularity. Oh, and we must remember to charge for a non-OEM Windows if it's installed over the top of an OEM Windows. And $Oz2500 PER CPU for an "Internet Connector" licence if we want our SQL database to be web-enabled. Greedy scumbags.
Microsoft's SeQueL inventor
charged too much for a website Connector:
for each CPU
half a grand and then two
now wonders - oh why have we left her?
After the IPO frenzy - real funds! Dollars for PostGreSQL, DebIan, Apache, SaMBa, now Gnome - where will it end? (-:
There's already two GPLed Office Suites around: StarOffice (soon GPL but already functional) and KOffice (already GPL but not fully functional - yet, but it'll be soon)
Have you tried SAIG Office? Do so and be pleasantly surprised. The wheel has been reinvented at least three times, and three wheels means stability. (-:
Prince supporting Napster won't make or break it. However, his voice will mean more to authorities since in theory the artists are supposed to b on the recording industry's side.
In the end, stepping on Napster will only boost FreeNet and friends. The Internet will route around the problem, as it always does. Unfortunately, in the case of spam.
Why do you think it's called SledgeHammer in the first place???
Because someone, somewhere in AMD got thoroughly stoked on Peter Gabriel songs? Might I even go so far as to say "stoked, big time?"
Alternatively, it may be because the crackers would ordinarily go nuts when they have that much horsepower on tap for DDoS attacks, so AMD are pre-empting them: everyone knows you don't drive crackers nuts with a sledge hammer.
All right, so the pun was stretched. It's morning here, OK? (-:
Given the way scientists were treated in those days when they tried to suggest that they knew things that officials of the church didn't
Consider Velikovski. He was right on many quite staggering points, made all kinds of correct predictions which would be (were) considered absolute lunacy until later demonstrated, but was still treated like a criminal, essentially banned from publishing (even replies), and his opponents frequently lied, used political pressure etc - and most of them didn't even read his book.
Now, I ask you, is God's case any worse? Have you read his book?
When atheism is oppressed (as it has been through most of history, and still is in much of the world)
After the French Revolution, Atheism didn't need repressing. People could see how well it worked. If you find yourself being repressed, you know that the repressors either aren't Christians or can't complain about being repressed right back (do unto others etc) - but just be sure that you're only repressing the repressors, because a lot of people call themselves Christian and few actually are.
As to the science-vs-faith arguments, trash them. A quote from God's book again: "prove all things, hold fast that which is good" (1 Thessalonians 5:21). Instead, go for a swim in the Gulf of Aquaba, off the big beach about halfway down the western shore (easily visible in satellite photos), and ask yourself how all of these thousands and thousands of chariot, horses and men came to be here.
Next, ask a few other questions like "how come there are vertebrate fossils clear down to the lower cambrian?" and "if the moon's receding so quickly, why isn't there a big, fat groove around the equator?" There are many thousands of such questions, so you might be able to pick a handful and bluff your way around them, but in the end you have to face the observable physical evidence that says we haven't been here for billions of years. The only rational explanation is what an Atheist must necessarily call "supernatural" and carefully ignore.
I guess the NYT 'phoned someone, 'coz this isn't mentioned at Lucent... 6000 DPI... that would make a really nice laser printer, but let's plug that into current technology.
Here I sit, before my 17" laser-powered flatscreen. 17" == 10.2" high x 13.6" wide == 61200 x 81600 pixels == 4.9gigapixels (== 624MB monochrome - colour depth for anti-aliasing? On goggles, maybe). It would take this here Voodoo Banshee card several seconds just to clear or scroll that sucker. I can fit a whole twelve screenshots on my hard disk, and emailing them out through this here modem would take days!
This implies an intelligent, probably distributed, video controller built into the screen itself. And an end to eyestrain, although an xterm based on the 10x20 font would be 600 characters wide x 300 characters high for a square inch of display space. Who remembers the "unreadable" font? Welcome to the "perfectly readable - up very close" font!
Then next year, the colour version! Actually, since the base material is transparent when not lasing, an Alpha index of 0 would show you whatever was behind the monitor.
I can imagine bacteria traveling through space, buried inside some porous rock... This way they don't have to be exposed to the harsh conditions of space.
Bzzzt! Because the rock is porous, the air leaks out. Because the rock is small (tens of meters across max) the radiation leaks in. Unless the rock only spends ten minutes in flight, in which case either it came from Earth or you want to be on a different planet when it lands.
On a real bacterium-carrying rock, the gremlins need to survive intense shock and heat as the rock is dislodged from the parent planet (Mars, in theory, but why life more likely formed there is still an open question), intense cold, vacuum and gamma as the rock travels through space for many-many years, electrical discharge as the rock hits atmosphere, extreme heat as it descends, intense shock as it stops descending.
His theories predicted heaps of stuff that other people laughed at. Only trouble was, he was later shown to be right in every area that has so far been tested on the Moon, Venus, Mars and Jupiter. John Baumgardner did a similar thing with magnetic fields on Uranus and Neptune.
If there are any bacteria there, they're probably from Venus, although some could have been borrowed from Earth in an earlier flyby.
The Moon's subsurface _is_ hot enough to support life. In fact, during the Lunar day it becomes too hot to support either the U/Pb or Rb/Sr dating methods.
See books like Velikovsky's "Worlds in Collision" and followups like "Velikovsky Reconsidered" (Pensee editors) for details. Or type "velikovsky" into Google.
Ever seen anyone try to deny that they sold the email address "<nameofsiteindenial>-<DDMMYYYY>ATbrooks.fdns.net" ? Hilarious! Get a whole email domain for yourself and make a living as a suer!
It will come down to "Never do anything that you wouldn't be caught dead doing". (-:
The baaaaad side is, of course, that you then have to trust *everyone* not to abuse the information. That is a losing game, in a big way.
Take an "innocuous" example: your online information profile happens to match a pattern that some gummint body has decided typifies mass murderers (paedophiles, people who would sneak a bomb into the US President's 'plane (and now that I have the snoopers' attention) litterbugs, whatever), so you are, in the mildest case, personally watched "just in case" - or in an extreme case, detained or "helped" in some way ("Yes, mister Jones, I hear you saying that you're a doctor. Are the walls comfortable?").
Or take a case which is likely to be a reality in parts of present-day Germany, for example. The local skinhead club hits your online data in a search for local Jewish, Negro or Asian people (anyone non-Aryan) - and you and/or your house/car/business suddenly get trashed.
businesses aren't into the upgrade every week (or even every 4 months) paradyne
So what do they make of better-than-quarterly "Service Packs", some of which break their systems and lack of which leave "rape me" signs up on each network interface?
Betcha the results are miles apart if done with, say, Mandrake 7.1 - and another quantum leap if you plug a 2.4.0pre kernel in. In short, by the end of the year, nothing Microsoft does will bring those tail-lights any closer.
However, it does make sense if you insert one word in the URI:
http://www.microsoft.com/ourfreedomtoinnovate/
Just like Torquemada would have said, "you're free to believe what you like, as long as you like XXX" (XXX being Romanism since the Dark Ages, and Microsoft today).
the m[a]jority want their McDonalds and their C+M and their cheap clothes and planned obscelence.
Codswallop! The majority don't want anything in particular and are only too happy to have others make their decisions for them. IMHO, this is the result of much careful training, e.g. during bulk education and child warehousing, in growing dole queues and an increasingly inaccurate/irrelevant media circus.
We cannot change that, and can only try and teach those willing to learn,
The best method so far is doing something direct and startling, instead of pontificating about possibilities and mourning the might have beens. Vandalism and violence are generally not viable answers, and in fact many a good cause is scuppered either by being used as an excuse for violence or through its proponents getting carried away. Even little direct actions like including "wire the bomb to the president's car" in your tagline to tickle 3(|-|3L0|\|'s fancy are a help, but the ones that count are the ones (as other posters have pointed out) which cost us "our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honour".
Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. -- Thomas Paine, in his 225-year-old bestseller Common Sense
AND you get to hold a number and say "cheese" at the start of your term.
On one hand, vandalism is not the answer. On the other, what else will "they" (MuckDonalds and the shire planning authorities) pay attention to? Remember those two Brits who were taken to court for handing out "propaganda" about MuckD's?
Slashdot Mirror
Hmmm... this might be better for Linux than it seems. I priced an MS Web server on Monday:
Total, $Oz5500 plus hardware (around $Oz2000-2500) (-: all prices include GST
Now, if Microsoft count a Sledgehammer as two processors, that becomes $Oz10,000-10,500. Ouch.
Contrast with Linux: Cost of system: $Oz2000-2500, plus maybe $50 if you buy somebody's boxed set. Given a choice of:
...which would you pick? (-:
If you were a supplier working to fit a $10,000 budget, which would you pick?
Agree. And it was even faster before Microsoft bought it. They've done two things with it since:
The original FoxPro team worked wonders with that code. The reason FP can't do the SQL benchmarks is that the SQL interpreter in it has basically been static since they were engulfed by The Borg.
It was added a while back.
No it wasn't. MySQL per se does NOT do real transactions. However, MySQL-the-company have partnered to produce MaxSQL, which apparently does.
Does this mean they'll be open sourcing The Joye Of Snackes too?
Open saucing. It's open saucing.
I'm sure Gytha would have approved of the internet. Just look at all of those pictures of young ladies enjoying themselves. To extremes.
"-- Daffy Duck, August 2000"
I have a 486SLC40 gateway box feeding a modem. It has a BogoMIPS rating of 7.86 - yes, the decimal point does come second. On bad days, it drops to around 7.5. I don't get to see it change often (it's been... (/ME sshes in, checks uptime...) 82 days since the last power failure).
Given that a regular modem involves a CPU response to almost every single character (a DSL interface won't require that), and that the brain-dead not-even-PnP NE-2000-clone network card has never dropped a packet, I can't see anybody having horsepower issues with a real 486 or better. (-:
Plus the cost of an OS, plus technician-time for reinstalling it with monotonous regularity. Oh, and we must remember to charge for a non-OEM Windows if it's installed over the top of an OEM Windows. And $Oz2500 PER CPU for an "Internet Connector" licence if we want our SQL database to be web-enabled. Greedy scumbags.
After the IPO frenzy - real funds! Dollars for PostGreSQL, DebIan, Apache, SaMBa, now Gnome - where will it end? (-:
There's already two GPLed Office Suites around: StarOffice (soon GPL but already functional) and KOffice (already GPL but not fully functional - yet, but it'll be soon)
Have you tried SAIG Office? Do so and be pleasantly surprised. The wheel has been reinvented at least three times, and three wheels means stability. (-:
Pun intended. (-:
Prince supporting Napster won't make or break it. However, his voice will mean more to authorities since in theory the artists are supposed to b on the recording industry's side.
In the end, stepping on Napster will only boost FreeNet and friends. The Internet will route around the problem, as it always does. Unfortunately, in the case of spam.
Why do you think it's called SledgeHammer in the first place???
Because someone, somewhere in AMD got thoroughly stoked on Peter Gabriel songs? Might I even go so far as to say "stoked, big time?"
Alternatively, it may be because the crackers would ordinarily go nuts when they have that much horsepower on tap for DDoS attacks, so AMD are pre-empting them: everyone knows you don't drive crackers nuts with a sledge hammer.
All right, so the pun was stretched. It's morning here, OK? (-:
I find that backing away from the "big" problem but keeping the coding wheels turning anyway is a reliable roadblock-eater.
Given the way scientists were treated in those days when they tried to suggest that they knew things that officials of the church didn't
Consider Velikovski. He was right on many quite staggering points, made all kinds of correct predictions which would be (were) considered absolute lunacy until later demonstrated, but was still treated like a criminal, essentially banned from publishing (even replies), and his opponents frequently lied, used political pressure etc - and most of them didn't even read his book.
Now, I ask you, is God's case any worse? Have you read his book?
When atheism is oppressed (as it has been through most of history, and still is in much of the world)
After the French Revolution, Atheism didn't need repressing. People could see how well it worked. If you find yourself being repressed, you know that the repressors either aren't Christians or can't complain about being repressed right back (do unto others etc) - but just be sure that you're only repressing the repressors, because a lot of people call themselves Christian and few actually are.
As to the science-vs-faith arguments, trash them. A quote from God's book again: "prove all things, hold fast that which is good" (1 Thessalonians 5:21). Instead, go for a swim in the Gulf of Aquaba, off the big beach about halfway down the western shore (easily visible in satellite photos), and ask yourself how all of these thousands and thousands of chariot, horses and men came to be here.
Next, ask a few other questions like "how come there are vertebrate fossils clear down to the lower cambrian?" and "if the moon's receding so quickly, why isn't there a big, fat groove around the equator?" There are many thousands of such questions, so you might be able to pick a handful and bluff your way around them, but in the end you have to face the observable physical evidence that says we haven't been here for billions of years. The only rational explanation is what an Atheist must necessarily call "supernatural" and carefully ignore.
Savvy?
I guess the NYT 'phoned someone, 'coz this isn't mentioned at Lucent... 6000 DPI... that would make a really nice laser printer, but let's plug that into current technology.
Here I sit, before my 17" laser-powered flatscreen. 17" == 10.2" high x 13.6" wide == 61200 x 81600 pixels == 4.9gigapixels (== 624MB monochrome - colour depth for anti-aliasing? On goggles, maybe). It would take this here Voodoo Banshee card several seconds just to clear or scroll that sucker. I can fit a whole twelve screenshots on my hard disk, and emailing them out through this here modem would take days!
This implies an intelligent, probably distributed, video controller built into the screen itself. And an end to eyestrain, although an xterm based on the 10x20 font would be 600 characters wide x 300 characters high for a square inch of display space. Who remembers the "unreadable" font? Welcome to the "perfectly readable - up very close" font!
Then next year, the colour version! Actually, since the base material is transparent when not lasing, an Alpha index of 0 would show you whatever was behind the monitor.
If it is, send cholera, AIDS, bubonic plague, malaria... and keep your telephones meticulously clean, lest you be eaten by a giant star goat.
"Rubber ducky, you're the one..." (-:
I can imagine bacteria traveling through space, buried inside some porous rock... This way they don't have to be exposed to the harsh conditions of space.
Bzzzt! Because the rock is porous, the air leaks out. Because the rock is small (tens of meters across max) the radiation leaks in. Unless the rock only spends ten minutes in flight, in which case either it came from Earth or you want to be on a different planet when it lands.
On a real bacterium-carrying rock, the gremlins need to survive intense shock and heat as the rock is dislodged from the parent planet (Mars, in theory, but why life more likely formed there is still an open question), intense cold, vacuum and gamma as the rock travels through space for many-many years, electrical discharge as the rock hits atmosphere, extreme heat as it descends, intense shock as it stops descending.
His theories predicted heaps of stuff that other people laughed at. Only trouble was, he was later shown to be right in every area that has so far been tested on the Moon, Venus, Mars and Jupiter. John Baumgardner did a similar thing with magnetic fields on Uranus and Neptune.
If there are any bacteria there, they're probably from Venus, although some could have been borrowed from Earth in an earlier flyby.
The Moon's subsurface _is_ hot enough to support life. In fact, during the Lunar day it becomes too hot to support either the U/Pb or Rb/Sr dating methods.
See books like Velikovsky's "Worlds in Collision" and followups like "Velikovsky Reconsidered" (Pensee editors) for details. Or type "velikovsky" into Google.
Ever seen anyone try to deny that they sold the email address "<nameofsiteindenial>-<DDMMYYYY>ATbrooks.fdns.net" ? Hilarious! Get a whole email domain for yourself and make a living as a suer!
And I really should learn to always preview.
Ever seen anyone try to deny that they sold the email address "- AT brooks.fdns.net"? Hilarious!
It will come down to "Never do anything that you wouldn't be caught dead doing". (-:
The baaaaad side is, of course, that you then have to trust *everyone* not to abuse the information. That is a losing game, in a big way.
Take an "innocuous" example: your online information profile happens to match a pattern that some gummint body has decided typifies mass murderers (paedophiles, people who would sneak a bomb into the US President's 'plane (and now that I have the snoopers' attention) litterbugs, whatever), so you are, in the mildest case, personally watched "just in case" - or in an extreme case, detained or "helped" in some way ("Yes, mister Jones, I hear you saying that you're a doctor. Are the walls comfortable?").
Or take a case which is likely to be a reality in parts of present-day Germany, for example. The local skinhead club hits your online data in a search for local Jewish, Negro or Asian people (anyone non-Aryan) - and you and/or your house/car/business suddenly get trashed.
Here is another result posted on zdnet
The gentle swishing noise of reality vanishing out the door.
throwing up [...] is cake on IIS
Amazing what a bit of editing can do. (-: Sorry... back to the plot...
throwing up a simple vb or c++ COM object for scalability is cake on IIS
Whereas on Zope or PHP, the better design makes such kludges pointless?
businesses aren't into the upgrade every week (or even every 4 months) paradyne
So what do they make of better-than-quarterly "Service Packs", some of which break their systems and lack of which leave "rape me" signs up on each network interface?
Betcha the results are miles apart if done with, say, Mandrake 7.1 - and another quantum leap if you plug a 2.4.0pre kernel in. In short, by the end of the year, nothing Microsoft does will bring those tail-lights any closer.
http://www.microsoft.com/freedomtoinnov ate/
However, it does make sense if you insert one word in the URI:
http://www.microsoft.com/ourfreedomtoinnovate/
Just like Torquemada would have said, "you're free to believe what you like, as long as you like XXX" (XXX being Romanism since the Dark Ages, and Microsoft today).
Read Robert Heinlen's SciFi book "Friday" for some interesting insight into corporation vs country wars.
the m[a]jority want their McDonalds and their C+M and their cheap clothes and planned obscelence.
Codswallop! The majority don't want anything in particular and are only too happy to have others make their decisions for them. IMHO, this is the result of much careful training, e.g. during bulk education and child warehousing, in growing dole queues and an increasingly inaccurate/irrelevant media circus.
We cannot change that, and can only try and teach those willing to learn,
The best method so far is doing something direct and startling, instead of pontificating about possibilities and mourning the might have beens. Vandalism and violence are generally not viable answers, and in fact many a good cause is scuppered either by being used as an excuse for violence or through its proponents getting carried away. Even little direct actions like including "wire the bomb to the president's car" in your tagline to tickle 3(|-|3L0|\|'s fancy are a help, but the ones that count are the ones (as other posters have pointed out) which cost us "our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honour".
Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. -- Thomas Paine, in his 225-year-old bestseller Common Sense
I understand you can get 5 years for that!
AND you get to hold a number and say "cheese" at the start of your term.
On one hand, vandalism is not the answer. On the other, what else will "they" (MuckDonalds and the shire planning authorities) pay attention to? Remember those two Brits who were taken to court for handing out "propaganda" about MuckD's?
Mass, if you're asking those questions of MacDonalds and not Bove, here's a list: