Actually, my sister is in that line of work. When you call it unskilled labour, she gets very aloof and explains that, since the job requires training, that it is not unskilled. Then I must inform her that training is given at McDonald's to flip burgers. Anyway, her pay is now $24/hour after working there yor 2 months.
They seem to think paying people a higher wage will cause spontaneous generation of competence...
Actually, the hydrogen was not the cause of the Hindenberg disaster. The dirigible had 7.2 million cubic feet of hydrogen (displacing 236 tons of air) . What caught on fire was the surface varnish, laden with powdered aluminum. The paint formula was similar to a solid rocket booster. When the Hindendberg burned, 7.2 million cubic feet of hydrogen burned in about 30 seconds, the 120 foot drop killed some, followed by a massive fire on the ground -- hydrogen is about 15 times lighter than air, and it rose quickly away from the wreckage, causing virtually no harm. The diesel fuel and rocket-fuel-painted cloth exterior fell to the ground and burned for about 10 hours.
Compressed hydrogen fuel tanks have advanced greatly and are very safe. Modern tanks can withstand dynamite blasts, small artillery fire, crash tests, drops from extreme height, etc, without rupturing or exploding.
Huh? Are you talking about the fill factor? If so, that has little to do with locking, that is used to decide how many rows to leave empty on each page, to leave room for insertion of new rows in that page at a later time. This is mostly important with clustered indices...
Sybase has supported row level locking for a while, in fact locks start out at the row level and then get upgraded as needed to a page lock, then an extent lock, then a table lock, if memory serves correctly...
I guess people assume that because it's the government, it can't be efficient, despite
receiving proof that it's a pretty well-run system every day in their mailbox.
Actually, it is a self sustaining private corporation. It happens to be owned by the government but it is not the government. This happened as part of the Postal Reorginization act, passed into law in 1970. Prior to this change, the post office had been overwhelmed, and was unreliable and inefficient. Major hubs were completely clogged, the Postmaster General had no control over the wages of the workers, the condition of the vehicles and buildings used, etc.
The Quebec/New Hampshire border is at 45 degrees latitude. The same latitude line passes through the Minneapolis/Saint Paul metro region. Quebec is North of Minneapolis.
There are some shirts with artwork by BRUTE! (of KMFDM album cover fame, in the US anyway). They depict a large catlike creature with headphones and a sly grin, brandishing a large blunt object and claws above a cowering Lars Ulrich.
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They have some nice shirts at http://www.kmflu.com/, they feature a badass cat creature with a napster logo for a head, beating up on lars ulrich. Looks like they got BRUTE! of kmfdm fame to do the art, just like KMFMS
You can also use CorporateTime from CS&T (or whatever their name is now). It has clients for several unices, windows, and I believe mac (?). They've also got a web interface, and for your users who want to use the Outlook calendar, you can install their "outlook connector", which will let outlook talk to the CorporateTime server. We run it with ~150 users load, with mail and LDAP on the same server. This is a dual ultra2 450, with 1 gig of RAM, and it doesn't break a sweat at all.
I'm sorry. This is the lamest, most nitpicky post I've done, afaik. Seriously, though, anyone who uses the letter 'u' in place of the word 'you' can't rightly call themselves a geek. Geeks are supposed to be intellectuals.
How do you get several hundred million dollars from this? To me, it looks like 60 or 70 million, minus the 21 million it cost to make. Now, 40 or 50 million dollars is a whole lot of money, but it isn't hundreds of millions...
The Swedish Navy developed a programming language in the 1950's called Kvikkalkul, in honour of Plankalkul. The language was entered on 5bit Baudot paper tape, and lacked any alphabetic characters. It used solely punctuation and numerals.
It actually had some halfway decent flow control, and even pointers.
What is ultimately very scary is that the Swedish Navy was still using this language as late as 1991. And, code written in the 50's still compiles on the "modern" compilers. Now they have OO and some GUI functions in it, but still no alphabetic characters.
In Ultima VI, if you talk to Iolo, and say "Spam" three times on three seperate lines, followed by "Humbug" you'll get to a little cheat menu. I don't fully recall the things you can do here, but I know that one of them would let you set your stats to any numbers you so choose. Another would let you enter a numeric ID for any tile in the game and have that tile appear in your inventory -- whether it was an object, or a character, or a bit of landscape.
It was rather amusing to have Lord British in your inventory. Or the Ethereal Void.
I also used to make my own rivers. You can have the river tile in your inventory and can drop it wherever you want, you just can't pick it up again.
My friend and I actually went through and compiled a list of all the tile ID's, I sure wish I still had that.
In Toronto alone, the Cold Fusion User Group has over 800 members, and a regular turnout of 100 - 150 people to meetings.
In Allaire's case, then, they must have done something right, and people want to use it. I have, however, seen many a project get left in the cold due to dependencies on proprietary products that went south...
If Allaire responds to customer feedback and incorporates features customers request, then all the better.
I've wondered this many a time. In the shoes of an employed developer that actually cared about the future of my project, or in the shoes of an employer that cared about the same, I would not feel comfortable choosing a proprietary language. What happens when Allaire goes away some day? Will they promise to open source ColdFusion if they do? I doubt you'll find any company willing to make a last will and testament for their software -- they don't intend to fail. Sadly, however, it happens.
Does ColdFusion have a large enough user base and enough of a community built up around it to merit a workalike implementation, in the face of myriad other solutions?
This argument doesn't merely apply to ColdFusion, but to any proprietary language. I feel perfectly comfortable in using open standards such as C, C++, etc. You can count on them being around. Even projects based on pseudo-proprietary standards -- those that are not accepted industry standards, but are dictated by the language's project team, such as Perl and PHP, should stand the test of time fine. I don't see the entire Perl or PHP teams abandoning these projects, but if they did, you can rest assured that the community would carry the torch.
What of things like ColdFusion? I know next to nothing about the functionality of the language itself, and I admit that. I am not willing to bank my success on the success of another business. They go under, and then I'm stuck rewriting a bunch of code, or seeing it die like so many rats on a sinking ship.
If a new type of vehicle propulsion system were invented, and it was totally proprietary, but superior to internal combustion in every way, do you think society would adopt it, and adopt a dependency on the proprietors of the system? Even in the face of alternatives such as hydrogen, solar power, nuclear power, etc etc etc?
I've rambled long enough on this topic, I just felt that it was odd that nobody else had brought this point into the discussion.
Give me a break. If you'd read the page, the guy is a high school student. He's not some corporation trying to grub free information off the slashdot masses. I don't think he's planning to sell hundreds or thousands of these things, as he's building each one as a one-off.
I don't think most people that comment actually *look* at the pages linked in the articles...
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uh, no.
/etc/services /etc/protocols
more
then
more
thank you, drive through.
That's "Sky watch 1 reporting heavy traffic"
it's engrained in my head
This is silly. The universe is far too simple to be explained by mathematics.
Actually, my sister is in that line of work. When you call it unskilled labour, she gets very aloof and explains that, since the job requires training, that it is not unskilled. Then I must inform her that training is given at McDonald's to flip burgers. Anyway, her pay is now $24/hour after working there yor 2 months.
They seem to think paying people a higher wage will cause spontaneous generation of competence...
Actually, the hydrogen was not the cause of the Hindenberg disaster. The dirigible had 7.2 million cubic feet of hydrogen (displacing 236 tons of air) . What caught on fire was the surface varnish, laden with powdered aluminum. The paint formula was similar to a solid rocket booster. When the Hindendberg burned, 7.2 million cubic feet of hydrogen burned in about 30 seconds, the 120 foot drop killed some, followed by a massive fire on the ground -- hydrogen is about 15 times lighter than air, and it rose quickly away from the wreckage, causing virtually no harm. The diesel fuel and rocket-fuel-painted cloth exterior fell to the ground and burned for about 10 hours.
Compressed hydrogen fuel tanks have advanced greatly and are very safe. Modern tanks can withstand dynamite blasts, small artillery fire, crash tests, drops from extreme height, etc, without rupturing or exploding.
Huh? Are you talking about the fill factor? If so, that has little to do with locking, that is used to decide how many rows to leave empty on each page, to leave room for insertion of new rows in that page at a later time. This is mostly important with clustered indices...
Sybase has supported row level locking for a while, in fact locks start out at the row level and then get upgraded as needed to a page lock, then an extent lock, then a table lock, if memory serves correctly...
I guess people assume that because it's the government, it can't be efficient, despite receiving proof that it's a pretty well-run system every day in their mailbox.
Actually, it is a self sustaining private corporation. It happens to be owned by the government but it is not the government. This happened as part of the Postal Reorginization act, passed into law in 1970. Prior to this change, the post office had been overwhelmed, and was unreliable and inefficient. Major hubs were completely clogged, the Postmaster General had no control over the wages of the workers, the condition of the vehicles and buildings used, etc.The Quebec/New Hampshire border is at 45 degrees latitude. The same latitude line passes through the Minneapolis/Saint Paul metro region. Quebec is North of Minneapolis.
There are some shirts with artwork by BRUTE! (of KMFDM album cover fame, in the US anyway). They depict a large catlike creature with headphones and a sly grin, brandishing a large blunt object and claws above a cowering Lars Ulrich.
They have some nice shirts at http://www.kmflu.com/, they feature a badass cat creature with a napster logo for a head, beating up on lars ulrich. Looks like they got BRUTE! of kmfdm fame to do the art, just like KMFMS
You can also use CorporateTime from CS&T (or whatever their name is now). It has clients for several unices, windows, and I believe mac (?). They've also got a web interface, and for your users who want to use the Outlook calendar, you can install their "outlook connector", which will let outlook talk to the CorporateTime server. We run it with ~150 users load, with mail and LDAP on the same server. This is a dual ultra2 450, with 1 gig of RAM, and it doesn't break a sweat at all.
Erm, it was quite real, it happened 5 minutes down the road from me. Go see http://bastilleweb.techhouse.org/
Is your sig a quote from "Schizopolis"?
I'm sorry. This is the lamest, most nitpicky post I've done, afaik. Seriously, though, anyone who uses the letter 'u' in place of the word 'you' can't rightly call themselves a geek. Geeks are supposed to be intellectuals.
How do you get several hundred million dollars from this? To me, it looks like 60 or 70 million, minus the 21 million it cost to make. Now, 40 or 50 million dollars is a whole lot of money, but it isn't hundreds of millions...
But 4749934 in base 4749935 would be 218209582105893191417093178057233539963997955790 in decimal.
The Swedish Navy developed a programming language in the 1950's called Kvikkalkul, in honour of Plankalkul. The language was entered on 5bit Baudot paper tape, and lacked any alphabetic characters. It used solely punctuation and numerals.
,0 :3 .8 -/- ,0005 ,49975 -) :2 .9 -/- ,0005 ,49975 -) :1 :1
The code looks like this:
1030:
.8 (-
1040:
-)
1050:
.8 (-
.8 (
.9 (-
.9 (
:1 -) 666
-)
It actually had some halfway decent flow control, and even pointers.
What is ultimately very scary is that the Swedish Navy was still using this language as late as 1991. And, code written in the 50's still compiles on the "modern" compilers. Now they have OO and some GUI functions in it, but still no alphabetic characters.
In Ultima VI, if you talk to Iolo, and say "Spam" three times on three seperate lines, followed by "Humbug" you'll get to a little cheat menu. I don't fully recall the things you can do here, but I know that one of them would let you set your stats to any numbers you so choose. Another would let you enter a numeric ID for any tile in the game and have that tile appear in your inventory -- whether it was an object, or a character, or a bit of landscape.
It was rather amusing to have Lord British in your inventory. Or the Ethereal Void.
I also used to make my own rivers. You can have the river tile in your inventory and can drop it wherever you want, you just can't pick it up again.
My friend and I actually went through and compiled a list of all the tile ID's, I sure wish I still had that.
Actually, that line is (C) 1989, Cinemarq/New World Entertainment.
In Allaire's case, then, they must have done something right, and people want to use it. I have, however, seen many a project get left in the cold due to dependencies on proprietary products that went south...
If Allaire responds to customer feedback and incorporates features customers request, then all the better.
I've wondered this many a time. In the shoes of an employed developer that actually cared about the future of my project, or in the shoes of an employer that cared about the same, I would not feel comfortable choosing a proprietary language. What happens when Allaire goes away some day? Will they promise to open source ColdFusion if they do? I doubt you'll find any company willing to make a last will and testament for their software -- they don't intend to fail. Sadly, however, it happens.
Does ColdFusion have a large enough user base and enough of a community built up around it to merit a workalike implementation, in the face of myriad other solutions?
This argument doesn't merely apply to ColdFusion, but to any proprietary language. I feel perfectly comfortable in using open standards such as C, C++, etc. You can count on them being around. Even projects based on pseudo-proprietary standards -- those that are not accepted industry standards, but are dictated by the language's project team, such as Perl and PHP, should stand the test of time fine. I don't see the entire Perl or PHP teams abandoning these projects, but if they did, you can rest assured that the community would carry the torch.
What of things like ColdFusion? I know next to nothing about the functionality of the language itself, and I admit that. I am not willing to bank my success on the success of another business. They go under, and then I'm stuck rewriting a bunch of code, or seeing it die like so many rats on a sinking ship.
If a new type of vehicle propulsion system were invented, and it was totally proprietary, but superior to internal combustion in every way, do you think society would adopt it, and adopt a dependency on the proprietors of the system? Even in the face of alternatives such as hydrogen, solar power, nuclear power, etc etc etc?
I've rambled long enough on this topic, I just felt that it was odd that nobody else had brought this point into the discussion.
Give me a break. If you'd read the page, the guy is a high school student. He's not some corporation trying to grub free information off the slashdot masses. I don't think he's planning to sell hundreds or thousands of these things, as he's building each one as a one-off.
I don't think most people that comment actually *look* at the pages linked in the articles...
zarquon - workstation
bistromath - nis/mail server
trillian - workstation @work
magrathea - vpn server
random boxen:
slartibartfast, aneurysm, refractor, gutenberg,
damogran, etc