I'll tell you this, cow manure leads to 2 foot diameter sunflowers, and zuccini's the size of baseball bats. We used to mix cow, pig and horse manure when I was a kid, giant piles 30 feet high. Good stuff for growing corn and tomatoes.:-)
The dirt pile I have now for my vegetable garden has cow shit some 8 years old and still produces mega veggies.
Having known truckers, and driven big trucks myself, I'll tell you this, it's not manners, it's self-preservation. In any accident, the professional driver is going to be found at fault or presumed to be at fault because they are professionals. They should be able to anticipate every stupid moronic thing people do, because they're trained to recognize and avoid it.
I think the point is that in other decent, civilized countries who aren't killing their own Citizens, government is still somewhat "for the people" even if it's in a nanny form. Here in America, government is firmly "for business".
I'm not a Democrat because I dislike my government taking my money and giving it to other people. I'm not a Republican because I dislike my government taking my money and giving it to big business.
Damn straight. The kid should have called that teacher out in the middle of class and taken him to task rather than complain to a superior. Definitely worth getting a detention over...
No, in general, a database is EXACTLY something I should expect to be able to throw together and have "just work". The fact that I may be able to tweak it to death and/or improve queries to improve my query throughput is a bonus. But if I start shoving SQL into a SQL database, I'm going to get SQL out, and that's how it should be.
Which is utterly pointless, as they could simply take the BSD source, take everything good about Windows (Asynchronous IO/IO primitives) and rebrand it WinUX. A marriage with Linux seems pointless...
I have to agree with you here. The event dispatching model windows has for intrinsic primitives is unmatched in my opinion. But in hindsight, it had to be, even socket support, as the nature of Windows itself and it's message dispatching discourages waiting on synchronization primitives. If a message loop needs to keep running to prevent screen lockups, you cannot be waiting on File or Socket IO.
Having never used AIO, if what you say is true, I'm sorry to say I expected more...
Yup. You have to dope the iron with Vanadium and bring it to a particular temperature, or you'll never see the famed Wootz pattern. So I hear anyway. Having never forged a wootz blade of any kind, I can't speak authoritatively, but slashdot had an article last year that went into the details pretty thoroughly.
It's still FUD. There is nothing stopping you from using Sun's commercially available non-GPLd Java products just as you do today. Sun will continue to provide a non-GPL version for just the reasons you outline. If the GPL truly prevented commercial software from being written, sold and deployed on it, Oracle wouldn't be looking to create their own distribution. This will be the exact result of a GPLd Java distribution. I can run Websphere on my JVM of choice, the Sun commercial JVM, or the Sun GPL version that has my own special memory/JIT tweaks.
And the licensing isn't about end-users, it's about code distributors and authors. As an end-user, I can still take a servlet written by Company X, and run it on Jboss, or a future GPLd version of the Sun app server.
This is ABSOLUTE FUD. Nothing about this move signals any change from status-quo other than that the Java environment we all know and love will be 100% GPL. Sun will continue to develop, and release a commercial version unencumbered by GPL entanglements for corporate development to salve the fears of enterprise development. Nothing changes, except that Java can compete with other 100% open source tools.
What *IS* problematic, perhaps, is improvements made to the GPL version that are incompatible with Sun's closed-licensed version.
OS/2 was murdered by the insanely high price of memory at the time. If memory had been $4 per megabyte and not $40, OS/2 would have made much greater inroads. Around 1993-1995 most consumer computer builds were 4MB, maybe 8MB. In 4MB, OS/2 2.1 was barely useful. At 32MB of memory, OS/2 would have been fantastic, where Windows 3.1 would have foundered.
I was a bit surprised, having gone through the mass layoffs of 2000-2003, that when my turn came around in late '04 it was fairly anticlimatic. I was asked into a room, told I was laid off, asked to surrender my building keys, but given free reign for the day to pack and visit coworkers to say goodbye. This, and I'm a big scary guy who walks around like a stormtrooper and practiced karate outside the building on summer mornings. It entirely depends on the management, and whether a company makes layoffs a relatively consistent thing. It can be completely dignified if it's a well practiced move and you let pros handle it, and you're not wacking 100 people at a time.
Please. Microsoft hardware has steadily gotten worse as time has gone by. I'm not sure if they pioneered the bastard rearrangement of the home/insert keys, but they sure adopted it, and hence, have ruined the entire Microsoft Natural line of keyboards for those of us who loved them.
Where's my wireless ergonomic Natural keyboard? While the keys on my wireless Logitech are steadily being erased by overuse, at least it's the same damn layout I've been used to for 20 years.
My advice to you? Set something up around osCommerce [url:oscommerce.org]. Great UI for the customers, and you can hack something onto the backend to manage inventorying (which osCommerce can manage, albeit fairly poorly).
And there's a huge community of mods and forums to help you extend and enhance osCommerce based sites.
Not for nothing, but HT is only good for threads that stall and make use of widely spaced uncacheable memory.
It also has nothing to do with the ability of an OS to preempt other threads to allow you to kill processes. That's just certain OSes being extremely dumb in how thread prioritization works.
I've got bluetooth printers in my conference rooms here in the office. Our copy-cam takes pictures of the whiteboards and either emails then to the users, or spits 'em out to the printers..
Neat stuff, and it saves me having to scramble to catch up to the presenter.
What pisses me off the most is call centers (Like Dell, IBM, HP) who have these incredibly complicated IVRs that take your serial numbers and other details, and yet leave the CSRs to ask you the same damn information...
I thought computers were supposed to make life *easier*?
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I think the word you are looking for is rochambeau. :-)
Why the hell hasn't ODBC caught on in the Linux world? Really? Different libraries for database access, hardcoded? Ugh.
Granted, ODBC isn't exactly a panacea, but it's definitely better than dlopen(mysqlclient); or dlopen(pgclient);
I'll tell you this, cow manure leads to 2 foot diameter sunflowers, and zuccini's the size of baseball bats. We used to mix cow, pig and horse manure when I was a kid, giant piles 30 feet high. Good stuff for growing corn and tomatoes. :-)
The dirt pile I have now for my vegetable garden has cow shit some 8 years old and still produces mega veggies.
Having known truckers, and driven big trucks myself, I'll tell you this, it's not manners, it's self-preservation.
In any accident, the professional driver is going to be found at fault or presumed to be at fault because they are professionals. They should be able to anticipate every stupid moronic thing people do, because they're trained to recognize and avoid it.
Um, it's cold up there dude.
I think the point is that in other decent, civilized countries who aren't killing their own Citizens, government is still somewhat "for the people" even if it's in a nanny form. Here in America, government is firmly "for business".
:-/
I'm not a Democrat because I dislike my government taking my money and giving it to other people.
I'm not a Republican because I dislike my government taking my money and giving it to big business.
I'm right fucked.
Assuming a 5 day work week, times 50, that's 250 days of work. 105 weekend days. Not counting Holidays.
Counting a standard 10 holidays, that's off from your numbers by 40 days, or nearly two months of paid leave.
Damn straight. The kid should have called that teacher out in the middle of class and taken him to task rather than complain to a superior. Definitely worth getting a detention over...
No, in general, a database is EXACTLY something I should expect to be able to throw together and have "just work". The fact that I may be able to tweak it to death and/or improve queries to improve my query throughput is a bonus. But if I start shoving SQL into a SQL database, I'm going to get SQL out, and that's how it should be.
You missed his point. No one, especially Apple, ever said that OSX would work on any hardware that is not "Apple" hardware.
Who exactly is forcing you to buying a Mac again? Go shop at Dell if you want... they make cheap crap too.
Which is utterly pointless, as they could simply take the BSD source, take everything good about Windows (Asynchronous IO/IO primitives) and rebrand it WinUX. A marriage with Linux seems pointless...
I have to agree with you here. The event dispatching model windows has for intrinsic primitives is unmatched in my opinion. But in hindsight, it had to be, even socket support, as the nature of Windows itself and it's message dispatching discourages waiting on synchronization primitives. If a message loop needs to keep running to prevent screen lockups, you cannot be waiting on File or Socket IO.
Having never used AIO, if what you say is true, I'm sorry to say I expected more...
Yup. You have to dope the iron with Vanadium and bring it to a particular temperature, or you'll never see the famed Wootz pattern. So I hear anyway. Having never forged a wootz blade of any kind, I can't speak authoritatively, but slashdot had an article last year that went into the details pretty thoroughly.
It's still FUD. There is nothing stopping you from using Sun's commercially available non-GPLd Java products just as you do today. Sun will continue to provide a non-GPL version for just the reasons you outline. If the GPL truly prevented commercial software from being written, sold and deployed on it, Oracle wouldn't be looking to create their own distribution. This will be the exact result of a GPLd Java distribution. I can run Websphere on my JVM of choice, the Sun commercial JVM, or the Sun GPL version that has my own special memory/JIT tweaks.
And the licensing isn't about end-users, it's about code distributors and authors. As an end-user, I can still take a servlet written by Company X, and run it on Jboss, or a future GPLd version of the Sun app server.
You're a troll.
This is ABSOLUTE FUD. Nothing about this move signals any change from status-quo other than that the Java environment we all know and love will be 100% GPL. Sun will continue to develop, and release a commercial version unencumbered by GPL entanglements for corporate development to salve the fears of enterprise development. Nothing changes, except that Java can compete with other 100% open source tools.
What *IS* problematic, perhaps, is improvements made to the GPL version that are incompatible with Sun's closed-licensed version.
OS/2 was murdered by the insanely high price of memory at the time. If memory had been $4 per megabyte and not $40, OS/2 would have made much greater inroads. Around 1993-1995 most consumer computer builds were 4MB, maybe 8MB. In 4MB, OS/2 2.1 was barely useful. At 32MB of memory, OS/2 would have been fantastic, where Windows 3.1 would have foundered.
I was a bit surprised, having gone through the mass layoffs of 2000-2003, that when my turn came around in late '04 it was fairly anticlimatic. I was asked into a room, told I was laid off, asked to surrender my building keys, but given free reign for the day to pack and visit coworkers to say goodbye. This, and I'm a big scary guy who walks around like a stormtrooper and practiced karate outside the building on summer mornings. It entirely depends on the management, and whether a company makes layoffs a relatively consistent thing. It can be completely dignified if it's a well practiced move and you let pros handle it, and you're not wacking 100 people at a time.
Please. Microsoft hardware has steadily gotten worse as time has gone by. I'm not sure if they pioneered the bastard rearrangement of the home/insert keys, but they sure adopted it, and hence, have ruined the entire Microsoft Natural line of keyboards for those of us who loved them.
Where's my wireless ergonomic Natural keyboard? While the keys on my wireless Logitech are steadily being erased by overuse, at least it's the same damn layout I've been used to for 20 years.
My advice to you? Set something up around osCommerce [url:oscommerce.org]. Great UI for the customers, and you can hack something onto the backend to manage inventorying (which osCommerce can manage, albeit fairly poorly).
And there's a huge community of mods and forums to help you extend and enhance osCommerce based sites.
Not for nothing, but how can you be a victim of multiple murders?
Yah, they used them here in Boston too, in 2004 to quell the famous Red Sox riots and killed a poor girl with a pepper ball.
In their defense, how the flaming FUCK do you die from a pepper ball?
Not for nothing, but HT is only good for threads that stall and make use of widely spaced uncacheable memory.
It also has nothing to do with the ability of an OS to preempt other threads to allow you to kill processes. That's just certain OSes being extremely dumb in how thread prioritization works.
I've got bluetooth printers in my conference rooms here in the office. Our copy-cam takes pictures of the whiteboards and either emails then to the users, or spits 'em out to the printers..
Neat stuff, and it saves me having to scramble to catch up to the presenter.
What pisses me off the most is call centers (Like Dell, IBM, HP) who have these incredibly complicated IVRs that take your serial numbers and other details, and yet leave the CSRs to ask you the same damn information...
I thought computers were supposed to make life *easier*?