Exchange does use a single instance store, so you only end up with one copy of the file in the database.
Even then, you've got the folks that use email for version control, and mail the same file back and forth as they revise it.
I don't even admin an email system, so I'm definitely not the type to be dogmatic about this sort of thing. I just believe in using the right tool for the job. Email *can* be used for file sharing and version control, but it does an awfully poor job of both.
Ever since yahoo upped their limits, I haven't deleted a single email from my yahoo inbox. I'm well over 7,000, which is filling 130 meg of my 1 gig limit.
Granted, I don't use yahoo for my work mailbox, but we're not an attachment-happy bunch around here. If we need to share data, throw it on a website or in a wiki.
- "Email is not a storage system" (dogma and hyperbole)
You want 40 people in your organization to view a 10 megabyte file. You can: A) sent it to them as an email attachment, resulting in over 400 megabytes of disk usage on the mail server B) use an appropriate network storage system, resulting in 10 megabytes of disk usage on the file server
Where's the dogma and hyperbole? Email is a dreadful means for sharing files.
Three rings, the makers of Puzzle Pirates, have you write a game in using their libraries as part of the interview process.
I think that's honestly probably one of the best ways to do the whole "show me you can code" thing; however, it's obviously a huge time commitment on the interviewee's part. Obviously, if you're applying for a half dozen jobs, you can't afford to write an application in a proprietary library for each and every one of them...
Actually, I'm guilty of not reading my google answer link in full.
"You are correct, that the only criminal statute regulating the destruction or defacement of U.S. currency requires fraudulent intent." only applies to *coins*
Further down, there's a statute related to bills, which our researcher "Note that this is also an intent-based crime. An element of the offense is "...intent to render such [currency] unfit to be reissued.""
So lighting your cigar with a bill might just be illegal after all. However, under these laws, dissolving a penny in acid isn't.
"You are correct, that the only criminal statute regulating the destruction or defacement of U.S. currency requires fraudulent intent."... well, until this law was passed.
There are a few famous classroom science experiments that involve the destruction of pennies. Here's hoping that's still legal.
Okay, so the GP estimates that it'd cost $98 trillion to build enough panels to supply the planets energy use (which, by the way, completely ignores the fact that there's no where near enough silicon available -- there's hardly enough available to meet current demand)
You, the parent, contend that perhaps 30 years of energy use for the world is less than $98 trillion.
Let's just work that backward. $98 trillion over 30 years is a bit over $3 trillion a year. There are about 6 billion people on the planet. 3 trillion over 6 billion = $500 per capita per year.
Going out on a limb here, but I'm pretty sure that's greater than the current world-wide per capita energy expenditure.
The cable company runs commercials advertising themselves. The satellite TV company does the same. The movie theater runs spots for themselves during their pre-show advertising. Billboards advertise themselves with the classic "Your ad here" line.
This is what ad publishers do. It'd be absurd to insist that they not do so, to give others "a fair chance".
Why, as the proprietor of "Joe's Billboard Shack", would you use your billboards to advertise *any* billboard service but your own? It's your advertising space, you're paying for it, and you'll do whatever is most beneficial to you.
How large of a sail would it take to provide worthwhile trust to a 100,000 ton container ship, I wonder?
A 170 ton Schooner uses 700 square feet of sail...
Assuming a linear sail:weight relation, that'd mean 400,000 sq feet of sail. Over 600 feet square. I wonder how your average sail material would hold up when scaled that large; additionally, what sort of mast and rigging would be required? How would you adjust the sails, anyway, when the deck is covered in thousands of 40 foot containers? Would all of this merit the additional weight?
Oh, and on top of that, a container ship travels twice as fast as a schooner.
I'd be interested if somebody has done a study to determine how much additional throughput is gained by giving X% of drivers congestion information. My guess is it would do more to reduce the variance of travel times than it would to reduce the average travel time.
As much as it seems a given that "You're going to have to drive home anyway", if you're in a situation where you can take advantage of the couple hours you'd otherwise spend in a traffic jam, being able to discover abnormal traffic ahead of time is a godsend.
That being said, I'm not sure that the benefits of this technology are sufficiently greater than existing technology ("traffic every 10 minutes" radio stations that already distribute this information on the web, as well as OTA), to justify the added privacy concerns.
In PHP's defense, it is desperately in need of the current functionality of ===, because 0 == false, and there are core PHP functions that return *both* 0 and false (which mean entirely different things, in context). As such, you're left in a situation where you must use PHP's === to tell which one exactly the function gave you.
An object identity comperator is all good and fine, but PHP needed this functionality much more desperately.
At any rate, I can't disagree with the perception of ineptitude on the part of the PHP team. I've spent the last two years working in PHP exclusively, and I finally got sick of it when I came across this bug: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=33487
Long story short, PHP doesn't totally release memory used by objects until your PHP process exits. The response from the PHP developers is "It cleans up on shutdown, so who cares?". God forbid anyone ever write an object-based command-line PHP script that runs for more than a few minutes...
We're transitioning to perl as rapidly as possible.
I think the answer is backwards compatibility. These changes will break backwards compatibility with many legacy 32-bit apps. However, I believe the assumption is that 64-bit users aren't expecting backwards compatibility anyway.
The other problem is that if you do get through to them, every singlr North Korean is going to want out of there fast, and you will have 60 million refugees flooding into S Korea and China, or anywhere they can get a boat to. A problem that would make the Vietnamese Boat People look like a trickle.
Clearly the Chinese need to build a wall on the NK border. I hear they're good with walls.
it will always be located in the same location, you could very easily hit that max-writes inside the journal, which is going to cause all sorts of havoc
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District the Supreme Court held that students "do not shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate"
Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 v. Pico "Local school boards may not remove books from school library shelves simply because they dislike the ideas contained in those books and seek by their removal to prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion."
Interactive Digital Software Association, et al. v. St. Louis County, Missouri, et al. speech that is neither obscene as to youths nor subject to some other legitimate proscription cannot be suppressed solely to protect the young from ideas or images that a legislative body thinks unsuitable for them. In most circumstances, the values protected by the First Amendment are no less applicable when the government seeks to control the flow of information to minors.
Maybe there is a first ammendment case here after all.
There's no such thing as free speech on a public school campus. I was suspended for handing out fliers (the sole purpose of which was entertainment) on campus, as a student, without permission during my highschool days.
Sure, you can say anything you want, but they can (and will) kick you off campus any time they please.
Similarly, if you can't require that schools carry every book in their libraries; how can you require that they allow students to view any website?
The first ammendment has *nothing* to do with this. If schools were causing these sites to be taken down entirely, that *might* be a first ammendment issue. As is, like the grandparent said, "Their site is up, people can get to it, just not from some schools". The government is required to let you speak; not to ensure that that speach is accessible via their computers.
The truth is some people have problems between their ears. The problem isn't WarCraft or any other game.
As true as that is, there *is* an element of MMOs that makes them easier to get 'hooked' on than other games. B.F. Skinner would recognize it in a heartbeat. Variable reinforcement works on an animal level.
Lest people think that Eugenics could only happened under the Nazis, various mental health places in America and other countries were practicing forms of it until the 1960-70s with practices like sterilizing the mentally handicapped:
People have also used the term to describe the whole in vitro fertilization industry as well. Read up on sperm donation, for example. Turns out they only want your spooge if you're rich tall and white. Go figure.
If only those devs at Apple had been smart enough to create something better than Windoze back in the early 90's
Back in the days of windows 3.11 and earlier, there was no question about it. Mac OS *was* better than windows, by a long shot. However, in 1995, Microsoft released Windows 95, which finally, was Good Enough. It was notoriously unstable, but PCs were cheap.
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Exchange does use a single instance store, so you only end up with one copy of the file in the database.
Even then, you've got the folks that use email for version control, and mail the same file back and forth as they revise it.
I don't even admin an email system, so I'm definitely not the type to be dogmatic about this sort of thing. I just believe in using the right tool for the job. Email *can* be used for file sharing and version control, but it does an awfully poor job of both.
Ever since yahoo upped their limits, I haven't deleted a single email from my yahoo inbox. I'm well over 7,000, which is filling 130 meg of my 1 gig limit.
Granted, I don't use yahoo for my work mailbox, but we're not an attachment-happy bunch around here. If we need to share data, throw it on a website or in a wiki.
- "Email is not a storage system" (dogma and hyperbole)
You want 40 people in your organization to view a 10 megabyte file. You can:
A) sent it to them as an email attachment, resulting in over 400 megabytes of disk usage on the mail server
B) use an appropriate network storage system, resulting in 10 megabytes of disk usage on the file server
Where's the dogma and hyperbole? Email is a dreadful means for sharing files.
Three rings, the makers of Puzzle Pirates, have you write a game in using their libraries as part of the interview process.
I think that's honestly probably one of the best ways to do the whole "show me you can code" thing; however, it's obviously a huge time commitment on the interviewee's part. Obviously, if you're applying for a half dozen jobs, you can't afford to write an application in a proprietary library for each and every one of them...
to all of their Canadian users.
Oh, I see, you are saying that buying pennies and melting them down and selling the scrap at a profit at taxpayer expense isn't 'fraudulent intent'?
No, I was saying that lighting a cigar with a $100 bill wasn't fraudulent intent.
However, now that you pose the question, I think it's worth noting that this new law wouldn't be necessary if your logic held.
Actually, I'm guilty of not reading my google answer link in full.
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"You are correct, that the only criminal statute regulating the destruction or defacement of U.S. currency requires fraudulent intent." only applies to *coins*
Further down, there's a statute related to bills, which our researcher
"Note that this is also an intent-based crime. An element of the offense is "...intent to render such [currency] unfit to be reissued.""
So lighting your cigar with a bill might just be illegal after all. However, under these laws, dissolving a penny in acid isn't.
There's a bit more here:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=4
This is a classic 'net argument. Long story short, the destruction of currency *with intent to defraud* is illegal.
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... well, until this law was passed.
There's a great google answer here:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=7
"You are correct, that the only criminal statute regulating the destruction or defacement of U.S. currency requires fraudulent intent."
There are a few famous classroom science experiments that involve the destruction of pennies. Here's hoping that's still legal.
Okay, so the GP estimates that it'd cost $98 trillion to build enough panels to supply the planets energy use (which, by the way, completely ignores the fact that there's no where near enough silicon available -- there's hardly enough available to meet current demand)
You, the parent, contend that perhaps 30 years of energy use for the world is less than $98 trillion.
Let's just work that backward. $98 trillion over 30 years is a bit over $3 trillion a year. There are about 6 billion people on the planet. 3 trillion over 6 billion = $500 per capita per year.
Going out on a limb here, but I'm pretty sure that's greater than the current world-wide per capita energy expenditure.
The cable company runs commercials advertising themselves.
The satellite TV company does the same.
The movie theater runs spots for themselves during their pre-show advertising.
Billboards advertise themselves with the classic "Your ad here" line.
This is what ad publishers do. It'd be absurd to insist that they not do so, to give others "a fair chance".
Why, as the proprietor of "Joe's Billboard Shack", would you use your billboards to advertise *any* billboard service but your own?
It's your advertising space, you're paying for it, and you'll do whatever is most beneficial to you.
How large of a sail would it take to provide worthwhile trust to a 100,000 ton container ship, I wonder?
c hooner
A 170 ton Schooner uses 700 square feet of sail...
Assuming a linear sail:weight relation, that'd mean 400,000 sq feet of sail. Over 600 feet square. I wonder how your average sail material would hold up when scaled that large; additionally, what sort of mast and rigging would be required? How would you adjust the sails, anyway, when the deck is covered in thousands of 40 foot containers? Would all of this merit the additional weight?
Oh, and on top of that, a container ship travels twice as fast as a schooner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenandoah_Topsail_S
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_M%C3%A6rsk
Were sticking a sail on a container ship practical, they'd probably have done it by now.
Guitar Hero taught me to use my pinky, and to double pick regularly.
And yes, I use a pick on the plastic controller. I can't nail the fast songs any other way.
I'd be interested if somebody has done a study to determine how much additional throughput is gained by giving X% of drivers congestion information. My guess is it would do more to reduce the variance of travel times than it would to reduce the average travel time.
As much as it seems a given that "You're going to have to drive home anyway", if you're in a situation where you can take advantage of the couple hours you'd otherwise spend in a traffic jam, being able to discover abnormal traffic ahead of time is a godsend.
That being said, I'm not sure that the benefits of this technology are sufficiently greater than existing technology ("traffic every 10 minutes" radio stations that already distribute this information on the web, as well as OTA), to justify the added privacy concerns.
In PHP's defense, it is desperately in need of the current functionality of ===, because 0 == false, and there are core PHP functions that return *both* 0 and false (which mean entirely different things, in context). As such, you're left in a situation where you must use PHP's === to tell which one exactly the function gave you.
An object identity comperator is all good and fine, but PHP needed this functionality much more desperately.
At any rate, I can't disagree with the perception of ineptitude on the part of the PHP team. I've spent the last two years working in PHP exclusively, and I finally got sick of it when I came across this bug: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=33487
Long story short, PHP doesn't totally release memory used by objects until your PHP process exits. The response from the PHP developers is "It cleans up on shutdown, so who cares?". God forbid anyone ever write an object-based command-line PHP script that runs for more than a few minutes...
We're transitioning to perl as rapidly as possible.
rising obesity?
Guess youtube is dead then.
I think the answer is backwards compatibility. These changes will break backwards compatibility with many legacy 32-bit apps. However, I believe the assumption is that 64-bit users aren't expecting backwards compatibility anyway.
The other problem is that if you do get through to them, every singlr North Korean is going to want out of there fast, and you will have 60 million refugees flooding into S Korea and China, or anywhere they can get a boat to. A problem that would make the Vietnamese Boat People look like a trickle.
Clearly the Chinese need to build a wall on the NK border. I hear they're good with walls.
it will always be located in the same location, you could very easily hit that max-writes inside the journal, which is going to cause all sorts of havoc
That's what wear leveling is for.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_levelling
It appears I was wrong. Great list of cases here: http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/firstamendment/courtcas es/courtcases.htm#fes
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
the Supreme Court held that students "do not shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate"
Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 v. Pico
"Local school boards may not remove books from school library shelves simply because they dislike the ideas contained in those books and seek by their removal to prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion."
Interactive Digital Software Association, et al. v. St. Louis County, Missouri, et al.
speech that is neither obscene as to youths nor subject to some other legitimate proscription cannot be suppressed solely to protect the young from ideas or images that a legislative body thinks unsuitable for them. In most circumstances, the values protected by the First Amendment are no less applicable when the government seeks to control the flow of information to minors.
Maybe there is a first ammendment case here after all.
There's no such thing as free speech on a public school campus. I was suspended for handing out fliers (the sole purpose of which was entertainment) on campus, as a student, without permission during my highschool days.
Sure, you can say anything you want, but they can (and will) kick you off campus any time they please.
Similarly, if you can't require that schools carry every book in their libraries; how can you require that they allow students to view any website?
The first ammendment has *nothing* to do with this. If schools were causing these sites to be taken down entirely, that *might* be a first ammendment issue. As is, like the grandparent said, "Their site is up, people can get to it, just not from some schools". The government is required to let you speak; not to ensure that that speach is accessible via their computers.
The truth is some people have problems between their ears. The problem isn't WarCraft or any other game.
e ment
As true as that is, there *is* an element of MMOs that makes them easier to get 'hooked' on than other games. B.F. Skinner would recognize it in a heartbeat. Variable reinforcement works on an animal level.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schedule_of_reinforc
Lest people think that Eugenics could only happened under the Nazis, various mental health places in America and other countries were practicing forms of it until the 1960-70s with practices like sterilizing the mentally handicapped:
People have also used the term to describe the whole in vitro fertilization industry as well. Read up on sperm donation, for example. Turns out they only want your spooge if you're rich tall and white. Go figure.
If only those devs at Apple had been smart enough to create something better than Windoze back in the early 90's
Back in the days of windows 3.11 and earlier, there was no question about it. Mac OS *was* better than windows, by a long shot. However, in 1995, Microsoft released Windows 95, which finally, was Good Enough. It was notoriously unstable, but PCs were cheap.
For that analogy to hold, they'd have to ship the oil back to penzoil/shell/chevron.
There's nothing wrong with regulating the disposal of hazardous wastes. But what the hell's up with this 'Make the manufacturer responsible' crap?