making perfectly marbled beef and reliably lean and tasty pork the norm on grocery shelves.
Why would the food industry sacrifice profit for taste? What is different about beef and pork that would make them produce us high-quality products? Technology is used to provide us lower-quality fruits and vegetables. The quality of produce available in the US is appalling compared to other countries. (althoug it often looks nice!)
Obviously she is in pretty bad shape if she could die if unaided for an hour. Is your desire to have a child so great that you do not care about her suffering or the fact that you are ruining your life as well? The prudent course of action would be to simply let nature take its course. Her suffering and yours will be over. You will have time in your life for a new child that will be able to fulfill all the natural reasons while you desire one so badly.
since they have warning stickers at gas stations about pumping gasoline and using your cell phone at the same time... myabe I'm just paranoid...
What do you think is the greater risk:
1. Your sub-watt signal from your cellphone induces a current in a nearby conductor and causes a miniscule spark, igniting gasoline vapors.
2. You drop your phone and the exposed contacts for charging your battery short on some random piece of metal. A tremendous spark welds the circuit in place, allowing it to dump vast majority of the battery's energy supply as heat into the battery itself. The battery catches on fire in an instant, but not before you jump back in surprise at the spark and knock the still-running gas nozzle onto the ground.
This can't happen in the NASDAQ market. There is a "clearly erroneous" rule, which allows trades made due to computer error (operator-caused or programmer-caused doesn't matter). Basically, a transaction at a "clearly erroneous" price can be un-done ("busted").
To operate a computer-based market without such a protection in place is pretty reckless.
Not getting a problem that is beyond the abilities of your in-house staff resolved in X number of hours. That's what RH is paid to do.
No they're not. The service agreement makes no guarantees that RedHat will fix anything for you. Just because you get to communicate with a support person doesn't mean they will be able to solve anything.
I have opened about a dozen cases with redhat support over the course of a couple years, for RHEL AS and ES systems. I have never been able to talk to someone competent.
If anyone knows how to get RH support to actually -fix- something, I'd love to hear about it.
If you never had to call Red Hat for service, they made more profit. That's how they stay in business and keep investors happy.
Well, I don't call Red Hat for service because they've never been able to help me. Their model seems to be to have support that is so bad, no one bothers to call. They know that the people calling support and the people making the decision to pay for support are ont usually the same people in any organization.
CGI does indeed require forking a new process, but there are already great ways to handle this. mod_perl, mod_php, mod_python all do it by embeding the interpreter inside the server.
mod_perl is really hard to get set up, really hard to code for, really poorly documented, and has no example code out there. It is fair to test CGI against whatever IIS has to offer that is as easy to use as CGI.
Saying "just use mod_perl" doesn't make sense unless it can be shown that it is possible to use mod_perl with a reasonable effort.
All this linux machine as a DVR stuff is great, except that I can't seem to find a video card that will work with my TV. I just want to display 1080i and 720p without any pieces of the image cut off. I have a nVidia card with DVI outputs that I can't find any information on how to configure correctly with my TV. I would buy a new card if I know it will work flawlessly, but no one seems to have information on what cards are good, or how to get the timings to configure X.
The DVI connector works but I've had problems with resolution and whatnot. I finally settled on component input but the resolution is limited to 640 and the desktop runs over the edges.
This is extremely frustrating. I have the same problem. I can find no information on how to fix this problem, or whether it should even be a problem. The vendors provide no help at all.
Is there anything that SQL can't do? I've been using various RDBMS for years and it hasn't come up yet.
Is the sole issue what it can and can't do? what if there was an easier way to express joins? Most queries I write have more joins than actual query. Even though the database already knows the relationships between the tables.
I really, really hate SQL. I have never found a way to generate SQL queries programmatically when there are many tables (and joins) involved. It quickly becomes quite hairy. But writing the queries explicitly causes massive code duplication.
I'd love some replacement for SQL that is suitable for dynamic query generation.
The only other solution I have is to query all the data and use only what I need, or to do a lot of little queries and join the data in my application.
Remember the visions of the future we had decades ago? We saw the future as a place of nothing but leisure for humans, while our machines did the work for us. We would spend our time playing games, instead.
Instead what happened is that machines took all the easy jobs, the people who control the machines get all the money, and most people are left working harder at the few jobs left that machines can't do.
You are truely a newbie at trading. Keep on "buying and holding" there, skipper. This firm requires it for high volume electonic daytrading. I worked there once.
If I expect to hold a position for 30 seconds, wouldn't I prefer that software give me a several second advantage in buying when I want and another several second advantage in selling when I want?
Or are you saying that they do high volume electronic daytrading but don't have control over the software they use?
You certainly can't be trying to say that a greater degree of automation only serves a long-term investor, can you?
First of all this article is nonsense. The trend is towards more automation, and fewer humans doing more work. Just like in every industry!
TFA says: The company follows small fluctuations in the market, easily missed on a bank of trading screens filled with fast moving numbers. Here, traders use mouse clicks to buy or sell.
The faster their reaction the more money they can make, which is where the video games skills come in.
Instead of a user interface that requires them to react in response to a change in state, the trader should be allowed to configure what actions he would like to take in what circumstances. This should be obvious.
I sure wouldn't want to work for any trading firm that fails to understand how to use technology to improve their profitability.
No, you will have to reformat. However, I recommend the upgrade; I've seen a number of studies showing that the performance of ext3 is awful compared to reiserfs. The only arguable advantage of ext3 is its compatibility with the baseline ext2.
ext3 has fewer bugs and has been through more testing. ext3 has a functioning fsck, reiserfs does not.
For most applications the reliability of the filesystem is far more important than the performance.
I'm definitely excited about reiser4 but I don't expect to be using it in production systems for years, unless I have an application that specifically requires it. If an fsck for reiser4 is never released, I might never use it.
Technical analysis of markets is a waste of time. When a pattern is found, it is exploited by many, which changes whatever "meaning" the pattern had before.
If it's a waste of time, how come there are firms that make millions per day doing it?
What would be a more valuable use of time in your opinion?
I didn't comment on the quality of Outlook. I said it is widely loathed, which is true, at least in the open source community.
Why would the open source community loathe an application which is clearly the best in its space?
However, are you arguing that the open source community can't do something better? That Outlook is, to all intents and purposes, the last email client?
No, just that it is by far the best email client, therefore it is not widely loathed.
In this particular case, the open source community is using a widely loathed proprietary program -- Outlook
Outlook is by far the best email client ever. And I say this as a free software bigot who hasn't run Windows at home since 3.0 and is the only person at a company of thousands without a Windows workstation at my desk. Outlook is the only Windows program I use.
I started using it becasue I had no choice but to use Outlook to be able to use all of the Exchange features. I'm not sure if Evolution has reached the point where it can replace Outlook when used with Exchange.
For years I used crappy email clients, Pine, Elm, Mutt, Netscape. None were any good. Outlook is the first email client I have used that was any good. But in addition to being -any- good, it is very good!
And they say Unix is hard. All this to remove a program?
In Unix you *can't* remove a program. They are all mixed in together and it is hopeless to determine what files belong to what package unless you keep a database of this.
For those of you that can remember, or who have read The electric KoolAid acid test, there were such stupid loopholes in narcotics laws in the 60s when it was illegal to smoke dope, but legal to use LSD. These got tightened up by having blanket laws covering narcotics in general.
Those laws are so wide-reaching that they make common items such as beef and sugar illegal. We rely on unwritten policies of our law enforcement to decide what portions of these blanket laws are enforced.
For example, we have laws banning a whole list of molecules - in any quantity, one molecule or more. Many if not most of these are found in nature and exist in trace amounts everywhere, with no exclusion in the law for such trace amounts. Then, we have laws banning their isomers, esters, ethers, salts and salts of isomers, esters and ethers.
What we have essentially done is made everything illegal. You rely on the discretion of police and prosecutors as to what actually does and doesn't break the law.
Want a real settlement? Should have made the terms such that they only give away Top 100 stuff or something like that (or better yet, cash!); otherwise there are no grounds for complaint.
The article says:
To prevent the companies from dumping unwanted inventory, lawyers for the states came up with a formula based on how much time artists spent on the Billboard charts,
But since the RIAA pays to get songs on the chart instead of it being based on quality or popularity, this is what you get.
Blame the lawyers this time. They knew what they were doing.
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Why would the food industry sacrifice profit for taste? What is different about beef and pork that would make them produce us high-quality products? Technology is used to provide us lower-quality fruits and vegetables. The quality of produce available in the US is appalling compared to other countries. (althoug it often looks nice!)
Obviously she is in pretty bad shape if she could die if unaided for an hour. Is your desire to have a child so great that you do not care about her suffering or the fact that you are ruining your life as well? The prudent course of action would be to simply let nature take its course. Her suffering and yours will be over. You will have time in your life for a new child that will be able to fulfill all the natural reasons while you desire one so badly.
What do you think is the greater risk:
1. Your sub-watt signal from your cellphone induces a current in a nearby conductor and causes a miniscule spark, igniting gasoline vapors.
2. You drop your phone and the exposed contacts for charging your battery short on some random piece of metal. A tremendous spark welds the circuit in place, allowing it to dump vast majority of the battery's energy supply as heat into the battery itself. The battery catches on fire in an instant, but not before you jump back in surprise at the spark and knock the still-running gas nozzle onto the ground.
This can't happen in the NASDAQ market. There is a "clearly erroneous" rule, which allows trades made due to computer error (operator-caused or programmer-caused doesn't matter). Basically, a transaction at a "clearly erroneous" price can be un-done ("busted").
To operate a computer-based market without such a protection in place is pretty reckless.
No they're not. The service agreement makes no guarantees that RedHat will fix anything for you. Just because you get to communicate with a support person doesn't mean they will be able to solve anything.
I have opened about a dozen cases with redhat support over the course of a couple years, for RHEL AS and ES systems. I have never been able to talk to someone competent.
If anyone knows how to get RH support to actually -fix- something, I'd love to hear about it.
Well, I don't call Red Hat for service because they've never been able to help me. Their model seems to be to have support that is so bad, no one bothers to call. They know that the people calling support and the people making the decision to pay for support are ont usually the same people in any organization.
mod_perl is really hard to get set up, really hard to code for, really poorly documented, and has no example code out there. It is fair to test CGI against whatever IIS has to offer that is as easy to use as CGI.
Saying "just use mod_perl" doesn't make sense unless it can be shown that it is possible to use mod_perl with a reasonable effort.
Until technology to somehow photocopy a barcode is developed, of course.
All this linux machine as a DVR stuff is great, except that I can't seem to find a video card that will work with my TV. I just want to display 1080i and 720p without any pieces of the image cut off. I have a nVidia card with DVI outputs that I can't find any information on how to configure correctly with my TV. I would buy a new card if I know it will work flawlessly, but no one seems to have information on what cards are good, or how to get the timings to configure X.
This is extremely frustrating. I have the same problem. I can find no information on how to fix this problem, or whether it should even be a problem. The vendors provide no help at all.
Is the sole issue what it can and can't do? what if there was an easier way to express joins? Most queries I write have more joins than actual query. Even though the database already knows the relationships between the tables.
I really, really hate SQL. I have never found a way to generate SQL queries programmatically when there are many tables (and joins) involved. It quickly becomes quite hairy. But writing the queries explicitly causes massive code duplication.
I'd love some replacement for SQL that is suitable for dynamic query generation.
The only other solution I have is to query all the data and use only what I need, or to do a lot of little queries and join the data in my application.
Instead what happened is that machines took all the easy jobs, the people who control the machines get all the money, and most people are left working harder at the few jobs left that machines can't do.
If I expect to hold a position for 30 seconds, wouldn't I prefer that software give me a several second advantage in buying when I want and another several second advantage in selling when I want?
Or are you saying that they do high volume electronic daytrading but don't have control over the software they use?
You certainly can't be trying to say that a greater degree of automation only serves a long-term investor, can you?
TFA says: The company follows small fluctuations in the market, easily missed on a bank of trading screens filled with fast moving numbers. Here, traders use mouse clicks to buy or sell.
The faster their reaction the more money they can make, which is where the video games skills come in.
Instead of a user interface that requires them to react in response to a change in state, the trader should be allowed to configure what actions he would like to take in what circumstances. This should be obvious.
I sure wouldn't want to work for any trading firm that fails to understand how to use technology to improve their profitability.
It is impossible to violate Godwin's law, except with an infintely long thread that does not mention Nazis.
ext3 has fewer bugs and has been through more testing. ext3 has a functioning fsck, reiserfs does not.
For most applications the reliability of the filesystem is far more important than the performance.
I'm definitely excited about reiser4 but I don't expect to be using it in production systems for years, unless I have an application that specifically requires it. If an fsck for reiser4 is never released, I might never use it.
If it's a waste of time, how come there are firms that make millions per day doing it?
What would be a more valuable use of time in your opinion?
Why would the open source community loathe an application which is clearly the best in its space?
However, are you arguing that the open source community can't do something better? That Outlook is, to all intents and purposes, the last email client?
No, just that it is by far the best email client, therefore it is not widely loathed.
Outlook is by far the best email client ever. And I say this as a free software bigot who hasn't run Windows at home since 3.0 and is the only person at a company of thousands without a Windows workstation at my desk. Outlook is the only Windows program I use.
I started using it becasue I had no choice but to use Outlook to be able to use all of the Exchange features. I'm not sure if Evolution has reached the point where it can replace Outlook when used with Exchange.
For years I used crappy email clients, Pine, Elm, Mutt, Netscape. None were any good. Outlook is the first email client I have used that was any good. But in addition to being -any- good, it is very good!
Standard database clusters use shared or replicated database storage. If you trash the database - a human error - the cluster is useless.
In Unix you *can't* remove a program. They are all mixed in together and it is hopeless to determine what files belong to what package unless you keep a database of this.
Those laws are so wide-reaching that they make common items such as beef and sugar illegal. We rely on unwritten policies of our law enforcement to decide what portions of these blanket laws are enforced.
For example, we have laws banning a whole list of molecules - in any quantity, one molecule or more. Many if not most of these are found in nature and exist in trace amounts everywhere, with no exclusion in the law for such trace amounts. Then, we have laws banning their isomers, esters, ethers, salts and salts of isomers, esters and ethers.
What we have essentially done is made everything illegal. You rely on the discretion of police and prosecutors as to what actually does and doesn't break the law.
They *did*. RTFA.
But since the RIAA pays to get songs on the chart instead of it being based on quality or popularity, this is what you get.
Blame the lawyers this time. They knew what they were doing.