The Earth isn't going to stop being a giant heatsink for several BILLION years.
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Stock price is irrelevant. Only the P&L is relevant, and Intel's is MUCH, MUCH better than AMD's, although the green upstart has been doing much better these past eight quarters.
About the single best benefit of the Shuttle-Hubble symbiosis is the ability of NASA to retrieve the broken CMGs and study them for improvement. For the cost of the servicing flights, we could have launched three Hubbles in high orbits that do not need shuttle reboosts.
Whether I sympathize with the Libertarians or not, it's not "charity" when it's taken at the point of a gun. That's what Libertarians are against. I think the more radical ones are idiots, but they have halfway decent ideas if they can make some compromises.
How exactly are you going to defeat Postgres 8.01, downloaded umpteen-hundred-thousand times ( 8, at least, by me ). You can't. You may stop future development on it, but at what cost? You can't get monetary remuneration from the authors of any significant value, so why bother? If somepgsqlvendor.com starts making a billion a year, well, that's an entirely different situation altogether, but then it'll be Oracle v somepgsqlvendor.com and not Oracle v pgsql.
I don't understand, if you already have code that does joins for you, how is rewriting it necessary? Simply removing all the "quoting" from tables and object names is all that's usually necessary when migrating from mysql. The hard work is already done for you...
Now rewriting code INTO SQL is a different story, I suppose.
Subversion did that, from what I gather for two reasons:
1. Users of CVS balked at the thought of having a database-backed version-control system,
2. The possibility of the BDB versions that Apache and Svn were built against being different were high, impacting the svn_davfs module.
Let's say it proved more annoying to me, for sure. I'm using BDB 4.3 with SVN now, but I have to migrate my server soon, and it will be to fsfs to simply avoid this problem going forward. It's bad enough having to dump/load the svn database periodically (when schema updates warrant, which has been very rare), it's bad enough having BDB version incompatibilities among my servers.
This happens all the time, and with properly written contracts is a non-issue. Someone at MySQL AB screwed up, and now their corporate customers have to pay the penalty (assuming Oracle gets aggressive with MySQL AB).
If Veritas' Volume Manager is as bad as their Netbackup software, which has been unable to restore an HP-UX 11 backup made to a Windows 2003 media server, than I would be worried about your data.
Cracking CSS was one thing, someone had physical control of the media and a player to work with, software and a debugger.. It was just a matter of time. Google could put MANY roadblocks and switchbacks in any such interface to increase the time to source an entire work.
But when the effort of doing so exceeds the reasonable effort of walking into the library and scanning the entirety of said literary work, I would contend that Google has met it's burden (though I am sympathetic of the rights-holders desires). If you make the argument that it's a rare and unique book, then I think that the rights-holders arguments fall apart. I think in that case, those are the books most deserving of digital preservation.
A case could be made that someone could garner this same information from the Library of Congress by sitting there for hours on end. One thing that Google print brings is the possibility that a book will gain more exposure, and therefore potentially more revenue for it's owner.
Massachusetts, where through much testing, I KNOW Verizon coverage dominates.
I realize this does not apply to the whole country, but from Vermont to Florida, I've had more collective luck with my various Verizon phones over the years than my Sprint/AT&T using friends.
While I happily agree with you that the juggernaut that is Verizon starting becoming evil back in the Bell Atlantic days, I take great pleasure in knowing that for the $50 I pay per month in cellphone access will guarantee me cellular access EVERYWHERE I go (except two really stupid dead zones), while my fellow Cingular and Sprint users are up shits creek more often than not.
That 25% of dead cops who are stupid enough to try and arrest three suspected felons one with an outstanding warrant, all alone. I have no sympathy for stupidity. I grant a lot of cops, many, even most the benefit of the doubt. But they get into their little power trips, like the cop who got pissed I would stop for him on the highway for 2 miles (after immediately turning on my hazard lights). After politely mentioning that I was looking for a safe place to pull over, and him mentioning that he got to choose when it was safe to stop, a car flew by him in the breakdown lane at 55 mph (legal use of breakdown lane allowed during morning and afternoon rushhour), which is why it took me so long to find a place to stop.
Cops can indeed be just as stupid as the rest of us sometimes, and I take comments like yours with a huge grain of salt, because the smart cops I know would never get themselves into a position of aggression with anyone male or female without having backup handy.
I think you've hit on something here, but not quite. I do not think it is the computer that is at issue here, it's the applications and yes, the OS they are layered atop. We have a plethora of applications at hand that try to be more than single-purpose devices. We have word processor suites that attempt to be programming languages, databases that are application development platforms, email tools with built in instant messenging and scripting, browsers with plugins for everything under the sun.
The beauty of the GNU framework, and why it has become the toolchain of choice among nearly all Unix vendors, is it's simplicity. Each application attempts to do one thing, and one thing overly well (with a few missteps along the way, sure sed->awk->perl comes to mind). For over a decade that has served the Unix world well. The problem is that this simplicity of design never made it into a pluggable GUI world. In most cases the abstraction breaks down. Perhaps that is just a fundamental flaw of our OS design. Perhaps it's
There has to be a middle ground. Humans have great capacity to manage lots of simplistic tasks, and yet capable enough to break complex tasks into much smaller ones. Why can we not deal with this abstraction with our software?
Depends on the scope. A huge 4000 form application will be a lot different than a 2 forms application that spits out Excel spreadsheets or Word documents.
In general, anywhere from $30+ per hour, although for most anything less than $40 is below market rate (depending on your market).
For what it's worth, someone like yourself might be interested in Progress. Simple query language, not SQL although there is a SQL adapter available. I played with it during my short stint at Progress and I was impressed. Not bad for an embedded database, though the toolchain available for it is in some respects quite lacking.
<quote> It's disheartening to see so many spreadsheets being used with all the little cute coloring when the information should be persistent (kept) and used in DATABASES that the end-users can conquer, rather than in damned excel sheets that keep getting butchered and hammered into least-capable-user-understanding. Having excel sheets flurry back and forth is annoying when transactions could be done in the database. </quote>
I'd kill to be able to eliminate this phenomenon at my clients.
Stays the same right? Interesting thought question, does the U.S.S. Enterprise displace the same amount of water on the Moon as it does on Earth? I would think so since displacement is a mass equation and not a weight equation, but I have plenty of so called self-taught geniuses who think otherwise.
I learned one very good lesson during this event. Always be sure you know which tape is holding your catalog backup before you toast the backup server.
We needed it's Powervault, since the database server was MUCH more critical to restore, and they had identical hardware. We recorded the drive arrangements and numbered all the disks we took out with Sharpies so that we could restore the array once we saved the databases.
Problem was we never got the chance to put the disks back online before the second array failed.:-/
This is another reason I've sworn off anything but RAID1. Screw cheap drives. Give me mirrors or give me death. It's a waste, I know, but there's something primal about knowing I can just pull disk B and run over here and WHAMMO, instant machine copy.
Good plan on the dodgey disks. Anything that sounds off-nominal should never get reused.
I remember nearly everyone I spoke with raging "We need to turn them into a sea of glass". I asked each one how killing innocent people in our bloodlust would avenge those who died today, or make us any better than those who committed that terrible act.
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And it's staring us in the face, geothermal.
The Earth isn't going to stop being a giant heatsink for several BILLION years.
Stock price is irrelevant. Only the P&L is relevant, and Intel's is MUCH, MUCH better than AMD's, although the green upstart has been doing much better these past eight quarters.
About the single best benefit of the Shuttle-Hubble symbiosis is the ability of NASA to retrieve the broken CMGs and study them for improvement. For the cost of the servicing flights, we could have launched three Hubbles in high orbits that do not need shuttle reboosts.
Whether I sympathize with the Libertarians or not, it's not "charity" when it's taken at the point of a gun. That's what Libertarians are against. I think the more radical ones are idiots, but they have halfway decent ideas if they can make some compromises.
You sir are exactly what I still love about this country!
As a photographer, I can tell you that you aren't photographed like that unless you got one ugly disproportionate face.
Compaq, uh, I mean HPaq will kill the Alpha for sure this year... right? Still on track for that, right?
If they could, they already would.
How exactly are you going to defeat Postgres 8.01, downloaded umpteen-hundred-thousand times ( 8, at least, by me ). You can't. You may stop future development on it, but at what cost? You can't get monetary remuneration from the authors of any significant value, so why bother? If somepgsqlvendor.com starts making a billion a year, well, that's an entirely different situation altogether, but then it'll be Oracle v somepgsqlvendor.com and not Oracle v pgsql.
I don't understand, if you already have code that does joins for you, how is rewriting it necessary? Simply removing all the "quoting" from tables and object names is all that's usually necessary when migrating from mysql. The hard work is already done for you...
Now rewriting code INTO SQL is a different story, I suppose.
Subversion did that, from what I gather for two reasons:
1. Users of CVS balked at the thought of having a database-backed version-control system,
2. The possibility of the BDB versions that Apache and Svn were built against being different were high, impacting the svn_davfs module.
Let's say it proved more annoying to me, for sure. I'm using BDB 4.3 with SVN now, but I have to migrate my server soon, and it will be to fsfs to simply avoid this problem going forward. It's bad enough having to dump/load the svn database periodically (when schema updates warrant, which has been very rare), it's bad enough having BDB version incompatibilities among my servers.
This happens all the time, and with properly written contracts is a non-issue. Someone at MySQL AB screwed up, and now their corporate customers have to pay the penalty (assuming Oracle gets aggressive with MySQL AB).
One of the better written trolls I've read in a long time...
Huzzah!
If Veritas' Volume Manager is as bad as their Netbackup software, which has been unable to restore an HP-UX 11 backup made to a Windows 2003 media server, than I would be worried about your data.
Cracking CSS was one thing, someone had physical control of the media and a player to work with, software and a debugger.. It was just a matter of time. Google could put MANY roadblocks and switchbacks in any such interface to increase the time to source an entire work.
But when the effort of doing so exceeds the reasonable effort of walking into the library and scanning the entirety of said literary work, I would contend that Google has met it's burden (though I am sympathetic of the rights-holders desires). If you make the argument that it's a rare and unique book, then I think that the rights-holders arguments fall apart. I think in that case, those are the books most deserving of digital preservation.
A case could be made that someone could garner this same information from the Library of Congress by sitting there for hours on end. One thing that Google print brings is the possibility that a book will gain more exposure, and therefore potentially more revenue for it's owner.
Massachusetts, where through much testing, I KNOW Verizon coverage dominates.
I realize this does not apply to the whole country, but from Vermont to Florida, I've had more collective luck with my various Verizon phones over the years than my Sprint/AT&T using friends.
While I happily agree with you that the juggernaut that is Verizon starting becoming evil back in the Bell Atlantic days, I take great pleasure in knowing that for the $50 I pay per month in cellphone access will guarantee me cellular access EVERYWHERE I go (except two really stupid dead zones), while my fellow Cingular and Sprint users are up shits creek more often than not.
That 25% of dead cops who are stupid enough to try and arrest three suspected felons one with an outstanding warrant, all alone. I have no sympathy for stupidity. I grant a lot of cops, many, even most the benefit of the doubt. But they get into their little power trips, like the cop who got pissed I would stop for him on the highway for 2 miles (after immediately turning on my hazard lights). After politely mentioning that I was looking for a safe place to pull over, and him mentioning that he got to choose when it was safe to stop, a car flew by him in the breakdown lane at 55 mph (legal use of breakdown lane allowed during morning and afternoon rushhour), which is why it took me so long to find a place to stop.
Cops can indeed be just as stupid as the rest of us sometimes, and I take comments like yours with a huge grain of salt, because the smart cops I know would never get themselves into a position of aggression with anyone male or female without having backup handy.
I think you've hit on something here, but not quite. I do not think it is the computer that is at issue here, it's the applications and yes, the OS they are layered atop. We have a plethora of applications at hand that try to be more than single-purpose devices. We have word processor suites that attempt to be programming languages, databases that are application development platforms, email tools with built in instant messenging and scripting, browsers with plugins for everything under the sun.
The beauty of the GNU framework, and why it has become the toolchain of choice among nearly all Unix vendors, is it's simplicity. Each application attempts to do one thing, and one thing overly well (with a few missteps along the way, sure sed->awk->perl comes to mind). For over a decade that has served the Unix world well. The problem is that this simplicity of design never made it into a pluggable GUI world. In most cases the abstraction breaks down. Perhaps that is just a fundamental flaw of our OS design. Perhaps it's
There has to be a middle ground. Humans have great capacity to manage lots of simplistic tasks, and yet capable enough to break complex tasks into much smaller ones. Why can we not deal with this abstraction with our software?
Depends on the scope. A huge 4000 form application will be a lot different than a 2 forms application that spits out Excel spreadsheets or Word documents.
In general, anywhere from $30+ per hour, although for most anything less than $40 is below market rate (depending on your market).
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For what it's worth, someone like yourself might be interested in Progress. Simple query language, not SQL although there is a SQL adapter available. I played with it during my short stint at Progress and I was impressed. Not bad for an embedded database, though the toolchain available for it is in some respects quite lacking.
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It's disheartening to see so many spreadsheets being used with all the little cute coloring when the information should be persistent (kept) and used in DATABASES that the end-users can conquer, rather than in damned excel sheets that keep getting butchered and hammered into least-capable-user-understanding. Having excel sheets flurry back and forth is annoying when transactions could be done in the database.
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I'd kill to be able to eliminate this phenomenon at my clients.
Ah, but I, like Bush, believed that the invasion of Iraq was an inevitability. I just wish that Bush hadn't concocted a lie to get us started.
Stays the same right? Interesting thought question, does the U.S.S. Enterprise displace the same amount of water on the Moon as it does on Earth? I would think so since displacement is a mass equation and not a weight equation, but I have plenty of so called self-taught geniuses who think otherwise.
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I learned one very good lesson during this event. Always be sure you know which tape is holding your catalog backup before you toast the backup server.
:-/
We needed it's Powervault, since the database server was MUCH more critical to restore, and they had identical hardware. We recorded the drive arrangements and numbered all the disks we took out with Sharpies so that we could restore the array once we saved the databases.
Problem was we never got the chance to put the disks back online before the second array failed.
This is another reason I've sworn off anything but RAID1. Screw cheap drives. Give me mirrors or give me death. It's a waste, I know, but there's something primal about knowing I can just pull disk B and run over here and WHAMMO, instant machine copy.
Good plan on the dodgey disks. Anything that sounds off-nominal should never get reused.
I remember nearly everyone I spoke with raging "We need to turn them into a sea of glass". I asked each one how killing innocent people in our bloodlust would avenge those who died today, or make us any better than those who committed that terrible act.