What a waste of/. commenting. I look through the top 50 and the obsession with the fucking name is amazing. How about the fact they don't support stored procedures or triggers.
Fundamentally, stored procedures usually are not the correct architectural decision for applications that need to scale.
WTF? Stored Procs are the basis for enterprise development with a DB backend. It is the whole point of scalability. Hard coding commands is horrible for anything but small apps. I am also not a fan of Oracle, but until a better alternative is presented I will stick with MySql because it is free, and can scale much better then these guys. Sorry Drizzle, its too muddy for my tastes.
“I think it was too much one-party control in our state,” Powell answered.
“That's the way the Legislature runs,” he added, when asked to clarify. “It's terrible. It's an atrocious law,” he continued without prodding.
“It's the worst thing I've ever seen, not just in the time I've served, but in my lifetime in the Utah Legislature, but it's because of the way the party controls the Legislature.”
“So you voted against it?” Powell was asked.
“No. I'm a Republican,” he replied.
So if i understand this convoluted thought process,
1. The legislature runs via blackmail 2. He's think bi-partisan politics is better 3. This was a horrible, bad bill 4. --- (wtf???) 5. I voted for it because I'm republican (profit)
yeah, sure beats doing the right thing up front. So he's on record being against it, even though he voted for it (great for campaign sound bites), he doesn't have to lift a finger to change it because only the leadership can "do something" for all Utahites, and they law stands so he does not have to reveal any communications.....right, bad bill indeed, for the populous. That stinks worse then a dead fish rotting in the great salt lake during the middle of summer.
To make me a believer, rally your republicans, gain a majority of moderates in the party and make a fucking change instead of whining about blackmail....God they really are just assholes. (ex believer in the US of Ca)
Seriously, you forget Christine O'Donnell? The Party hearty wiccan from New Castle County that put the republican party of DE under a spell and had them vote out a moderate candidate for her?
There was the President allowing the media to document the unloading of KIA soldiers at Dover AFB, big stink when they couldn't do it, now not even a glance...such honor the news gives...
Then there is Joseph Biden himself, the ex senator, now VP of the US of A who's humble comments proceed him...
Do note that several thousand layers of many Cassini photographs were animated to make the fly-through work without any 3D CGI. The saturation is off due to lack of Flash Player ICM support.
The initial article makes a similar statement. These are photos that have been taken by Cassini over the course of its tour of Saturn. The artist has made the effort to color match, light match, image match the thousands of shots to create the final product. From what I read (and yes, I did read both the articles) this has not been an easy process.
For myself, I am blow away by the beauty of the universe,and the minds that not only put Cassini there to take these images, but the mind who could seen them pieced together. The only thing better would have been to be in a spacecraft that could fly around Saturn and show me even more. Simply beautiful.
I am not sure if you came up with those or they are actual headlines. if the former, your creative writing brought a great smile to my face today. if the latter, I still had a good laugh, but cry for the state of the media and editing in this day and age. If okay, I plan to pass this along to non/. friends (yes, they exist)
Yes! and the receiver can store that so even if the GPS went out, it has that last known position. If the system queries and sees change it can then update the internal DB.
See, get enough smart people thinking of solutions and all sorts of things can be solved. Dang, I would love to have money to try this out. It is a cool idea and uses two disparate technologies in complement to support our systems.
This is where I disagree. GPS in phones in not accurate because business has not seen the need, nore the cost to build that level of capability into a device. With GSP, when you got three Sats back when it was a big deal to be/- 100 ft, today we pull many more signals and got accuracy down to tens of feet; enough for gps displays to adjust the visual to always keep you on the "road".
With the number of towers visible by a receiver, I would postulate that a dedicated receiver could multi-angulate to a rather precise position. It could even do this in 3D. We think 2D because that is all we are use too with cell *phones*. A cell positioning device could have more capability via programming to do the same thing as GPS. Besides, altitude with GPS is absolute, not relative to pressure which is how it is reported and designated on aviation maps. ( as I remember, one number tells you the altitude you'll hit the tower, the other tells you how far you'll fall).
Like anything these days, innovation is driven more by money or necessity, not curiosity. I freely admit I do not have the knowledge, capability, or capital to try this out, but in my gut, I know it would work and work accurately.
As a backup yes, but the genie is out of the bottle and if the FAA gets its way, you'll see VOR being phased out. What would be interesting is if we could get navigation via CPS, Cell Positioning System. Everyone one of those cell tower out there puts out radio waves. Why not a receiver that can triangulate on multiple towers to determine a position, ADF on steroids. It strikes me that the basic technology is out there to process the signals into a position. The receiver may need to have a database of tower locations, the towers would need to send out a ID signal, but with that I figure the accuracy would be damn good. As a long time inactive pilot I have not seen the inside of a GA airplane, but more and more panels are phasing out dials and nav radios.
It could be based on perspective. Asimov wrote a couple of short stories with positronic brains making world decisions.
Given the nature of the human condition these days, perhaps the overused meme "I for one welcome our life decision making robots" is better then the current option, greedy, political, me oriented humans.
While I do agree that what these students said was wrong, I don’t believe they should be punished for what they did. They need to be disciplined, sure, but the school should not have a right to get involved. This is a very fine line we’re talking about.
So somehow discipline is not punishment? Tell that to my Mom when I did something stupid like talking back to her. Soap on the tongue sure felt like punishment to me.
Having read TFA, the issue I find most jarring is that the parents of these children are considering suing the school for their actions. Really? Now that's a grand way to teach children right and wrong. "Gee Johny, you called your teacher a pedophile and got suspended because it was a false claim? Lets sue the bastard instead.". I don't see the argument as being over whether the school had the right or not, the core issue is that kids now feel free enough to use words, to "ink" words like pedophile, rapist, bi-polar as weapons. "Ha, you can't touch me because I am protected". Instead of taking the school to task for taking action to protect their employees, how about we take to task the parents that create children with little to know awareness of basic respect to adults. I may not have liked my English teacher in high school, I certainly may have said to friends, I cannot stand that lady, but had I called her a rapist, my parents would have applauded the school and added further "discipline" to make their "punishment" seem kind.
I was horrified, I was electrified, I was shocked!!!! Even worse, now I want to watch the whole documentary on space aliens and their impact on Earth humans, especially the sultry ones, with some popcorn on a raining day. Damn you for infecting my brain with such horror.
Judicial Watch, Inc., a conservative, non-partisan educational foundation,
Somehow the words conservative and non-partisan do not go well together. I took a look at the web site and was willing to give some believe that they had no agenda, even though nine of the ten most wanted are democrats. When I saw they were representing "Joe the Plumber" they lost the credibility for non-partisan. With all the lucre flying around, it would stand to reason that more then one republican would have the same level of corruption as these top ten.
If Judicial Watch has all this evidence then please, work to get indictments, bring these people to justice and stop wasting time on Joe the plumber. However, if all you have is innuendo, conspiracy theories, rumors, and circumstantial evidence then please Shut The Fuck Up. Accusing my neighbor of being an extraterrestrial means nothing unless I got a picture of him or her climbing into a spaceship. Barring evidence I would be considered a loon and crazy. Currently, the conservative, non-partisan education foundation looks like the crazy neighbor...prove it, in court.
(God I am so sick of this shit. From Rush, to Glenn, to who on the left...making shit up and spewing it out makes for bad entertainment and clouds any chance to attempts to find out the real truth)
I listened/watched the video (which I figure was part of why you posted a link, not just to complain about piracy), and found her to have a voice and sound I could listen too. So is the only path to stardom through a label? Does she tour, work at small gigs, or otherwise advertise her wares? Is there a (gasp) myspace site where more music is heard? Is there a fan web site to distribute concert info, merchandise, song samples?
She may have gone unsigned for 10 years, because she did not use the "free" media to get her name out there, to get a following that big labels will latch on too for money. Personally speaking, I wish she'd not sign a label, but use the tools out there today to get her name, and her music out there to the masses. Hell, you just did it here using/. as a free promotion. If she's good enough, people will listen, word will spread, she gets noticed.
back when it was radio stations or television, labels played the part of shill for the musicians. They had access to the people who decided what was and was not played over the air. They also had the machine to help promote an artist including marketing and distribution. Today, as another posted mentioned, an artist can go to a local studio and record good quality music (or buy software and run a board themselves). They can start a web site,or get a Facebook/myspace account, and of course start touring, even if it is local pubs and coffee houses. If you are good, they will come. Signing with a label these days is really playing with the devil. I wish her the best and as I said, I'd buy an album from her.
Other then greed, why do this? I listened to Pandora since almost its birth. I followed the struggles with royalty payments, I slightly complained, but quickly accepted the ads and today they seem to be doing well, growing and producing a good product. This will be good for the owners, but my experience shows that when you sell (or sell-out) it typically does not end well for the employee.
I wish them luck, but in a way, the creators have lost my respect and with that, it is easier for me to walk away for now they will think of the share holder, not the customer (and spare me the this is good for consumer crap./.'ers have said time and time again that CEO are beholding to the stockholder first).
I read through the web page and I am confused. If this is such a good technology, and it was tested successfully; why was the program/project stopped and set to inactive? Either this is a BS way to get people to link to a site for clicks, or y'all got bad marketing folks. To my eye this project does not need research dollars, it needs VC money to get it in the market place. So which is it, bogus site for clicks and giggles or a legitimate project that is being squashed by "the Man".
When I went off to college I thought I'd grow up to be a physicist. I loved the science, but half way through the first semester I was discovering that physics was not working for me. Struggling with calculus I was directed to a room filled with what I thought were tv screens. They were monitors hooked to a PDP 11/45 which had just been installed at the school, replacing the IBM mainframe.
In that moment, sitting in front of that terminal and working my first program, I fell in love with computers. I loved how I could imagine something, then create it. Working on the PDP introduced me to the mini world, programming, and my career. While never knowing the man, the mind that conceived and created the DEC PDP family will be one I certainly honor and respect.
I did, and I regret to inform you that because of shrinking profits and budget constraints, your position in the company has been eliminated. Sadly your pension fund was slashed last year so there will be no compensation or retirement options, but HR will be glad to help you with all the paperwork.
We're looking forward to seeing you at Thanksgiving.
Lets not be so padantic. Latin is not ebonics, and language has evolved over time so we can say that Latin is a language even if it did not have caps, spaces or punctuation. A simple google search would show that ebonics is not much more then a modified set of bastardized English.
So now, all our great works will be reduced to 140 characters with no caps, no punctuation, and hacked up spelling. ee cummings was way ahead of his time.
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What a waste of /. commenting. I look through the top 50 and the obsession with the fucking name is amazing. How about the fact they don't support stored procedures or triggers.
Fundamentally, stored procedures usually are not the correct architectural decision for applications that need to scale.
WTF? Stored Procs are the basis for enterprise development with a DB backend. It is the whole point of scalability. Hard coding commands is horrible for anything but small apps. I am also not a fan of Oracle, but until a better alternative is presented I will stick with MySql because it is free, and can scale much better then these guys. Sorry Drizzle, its too muddy for my tastes.
I am not buying this line of bull:
“I think it was too much one-party control in our state,” Powell answered.
“That's the way the Legislature runs,” he added, when asked to clarify. “It's terrible. It's an atrocious law,” he continued without prodding.
“It's the worst thing I've ever seen, not just in the time I've served, but in my lifetime in the Utah Legislature, but it's because of the way the party controls the Legislature.”
“So you voted against it?” Powell was asked.
“No. I'm a Republican,” he replied.
So if i understand this convoluted thought process,
1. The legislature runs via blackmail
2. He's think bi-partisan politics is better
3. This was a horrible, bad bill
4. --- (wtf???)
5. I voted for it because I'm republican (profit)
yeah, sure beats doing the right thing up front. So he's on record being against it, even though he voted for it (great for campaign sound bites), he doesn't have to lift a finger to change it because only the leadership can "do something" for all Utahites, and they law stands so he does not have to reveal any communications.....right, bad bill indeed, for the populous. That stinks worse then a dead fish rotting in the great salt lake during the middle of summer.
To make me a believer, rally your republicans, gain a majority of moderates in the party and make a fucking change instead of whining about blackmail....God they really are just assholes. (ex believer in the US of Ca)
Seriously, you forget Christine O'Donnell? The Party hearty wiccan from New Castle County that put the republican party of DE under a spell and had them vote out a moderate candidate for her?
There was the President allowing the media to document the unloading of KIA soldiers at Dover AFB, big stink when they couldn't do it, now not even a glance...such honor the news gives...
Then there is Joseph Biden himself, the ex senator, now VP of the US of A who's humble comments proceed him...
(ex Delawarean)
ftfa,
Do note that several thousand layers of many Cassini photographs were animated to make the fly-through work without any 3D CGI. The saturation is off due to lack of Flash Player ICM support.
The initial article makes a similar statement. These are photos that have been taken by Cassini over the course of its tour of Saturn. The artist has made the effort to color match, light match, image match the thousands of shots to create the final product. From what I read (and yes, I did read both the articles) this has not been an easy process.
For myself, I am blow away by the beauty of the universe ,and the minds that not only put Cassini there to take these images, but the mind who could seen them pieced together. The only thing better would have been to be in a spacecraft that could fly around Saturn and show me even more. Simply beautiful.
I am not sure if you came up with those or they are actual headlines. if the former, your creative writing brought a great smile to my face today. if the latter, I still had a good laugh, but cry for the state of the media and editing in this day and age. If okay, I plan to pass this along to non /. friends (yes, they exist)
(Editors Lack Writing Skills, more news to come.)
Yes! and the receiver can store that so even if the GPS went out, it has that last known position. If the system queries and sees change it can then update the internal DB.
See, get enough smart people thinking of solutions and all sorts of things can be solved. Dang, I would love to have money to try this out. It is a cool idea and uses two disparate technologies in complement to support our systems.
This is where I disagree. GPS in phones in not accurate because business has not seen the need, nore the cost to build that level of capability into a device. With GSP, when you got three Sats back when it was a big deal to be /- 100 ft, today we pull many more signals and got accuracy down to tens of feet; enough for gps displays to adjust the visual to always keep you on the "road".
With the number of towers visible by a receiver, I would postulate that a dedicated receiver could multi-angulate to a rather precise position. It could even do this in 3D. We think 2D because that is all we are use too with cell *phones*. A cell positioning device could have more capability via programming to do the same thing as GPS. Besides, altitude with GPS is absolute, not relative to pressure which is how it is reported and designated on aviation maps. ( as I remember, one number tells you the altitude you'll hit the tower, the other tells you how far you'll fall).
Like anything these days, innovation is driven more by money or necessity, not curiosity. I freely admit I do not have the knowledge, capability, or capital to try this out, but in my gut, I know it would work and work accurately.
Nephew? I thought being in college you'd translate to the street address in real time. Guess all that edumacation aint what it use to be
God?
As a backup yes, but the genie is out of the bottle and if the FAA gets its way, you'll see VOR being phased out. What would be interesting is if we could get navigation via CPS, Cell Positioning System. Everyone one of those cell tower out there puts out radio waves. Why not a receiver that can triangulate on multiple towers to determine a position, ADF on steroids. It strikes me that the basic technology is out there to process the signals into a position. The receiver may need to have a database of tower locations, the towers would need to send out a ID signal, but with that I figure the accuracy would be damn good. As a long time inactive pilot I have not seen the inside of a GA airplane, but more and more panels are phasing out dials and nav radios.
I believe the correct term is Freedom Czar.
It could be based on perspective. Asimov wrote a couple of short stories with positronic brains making world decisions.
Given the nature of the human condition these days, perhaps the overused meme "I for one welcome our life decision making robots" is better then the current option, greedy, political, me oriented humans.
While I do agree that what these students said was wrong, I don’t believe they should be punished for what they did. They need to be disciplined, sure, but the school should not have a right to get involved. This is a very fine line we’re talking about.
So somehow discipline is not punishment? Tell that to my Mom when I did something stupid like talking back to her. Soap on the tongue sure felt like punishment to me.
Having read TFA, the issue I find most jarring is that the parents of these children are considering suing the school for their actions. Really? Now that's a grand way to teach children right and wrong. "Gee Johny, you called your teacher a pedophile and got suspended because it was a false claim? Lets sue the bastard instead.". I don't see the argument as being over whether the school had the right or not, the core issue is that kids now feel free enough to use words, to "ink" words like pedophile, rapist, bi-polar as weapons. "Ha, you can't touch me because I am protected". Instead of taking the school to task for taking action to protect their employees, how about we take to task the parents that create children with little to know awareness of basic respect to adults. I may not have liked my English teacher in high school, I certainly may have said to friends, I cannot stand that lady, but had I called her a rapist, my parents would have applauded the school and added further "discipline" to make their "punishment" seem kind.
Are you taking lessons from BadAnalogyGuy?
Are you sure you have a current geek card? Have you boned up and passed the test for required /. memes? Do you live in a basement?
Try this, "I for one welcome our FAR seeing overlords". If that makes sense then contact cowboy neal and demand access. If not, keep studying.
I was horrified, I was electrified, I was shocked!!!! Even worse, now I want to watch the whole documentary on space aliens and their impact on Earth humans, especially the sultry ones, with some popcorn on a raining day. Damn you for infecting my brain with such horror.
Judicial Watch, Inc., a conservative, non-partisan educational foundation,
Somehow the words conservative and non-partisan do not go well together. I took a look at the web site and was willing to give some believe that they had no agenda, even though nine of the ten most wanted are democrats. When I saw they were representing "Joe the Plumber" they lost the credibility for non-partisan. With all the lucre flying around, it would stand to reason that more then one republican would have the same level of corruption as these top ten.
If Judicial Watch has all this evidence then please, work to get indictments, bring these people to justice and stop wasting time on Joe the plumber. However, if all you have is innuendo, conspiracy theories, rumors, and circumstantial evidence then please Shut The Fuck Up. Accusing my neighbor of being an extraterrestrial means nothing unless I got a picture of him or her climbing into a spaceship. Barring evidence I would be considered a loon and crazy. Currently, the conservative, non-partisan education foundation looks like the crazy neighbor...prove it, in court.
(God I am so sick of this shit. From Rush, to Glenn, to who on the left...making shit up and spewing it out makes for bad entertainment and clouds any chance to attempts to find out the real truth)
I listened/watched the video (which I figure was part of why you posted a link, not just to complain about piracy), and found her to have a voice and sound I could listen too. So is the only path to stardom through a label? Does she tour, work at small gigs, or otherwise advertise her wares? Is there a (gasp) myspace site where more music is heard? Is there a fan web site to distribute concert info, merchandise, song samples?
She may have gone unsigned for 10 years, because she did not use the "free" media to get her name out there, to get a following that big labels will latch on too for money. Personally speaking, I wish she'd not sign a label, but use the tools out there today to get her name, and her music out there to the masses. Hell, you just did it here using /. as a free promotion. If she's good enough, people will listen, word will spread, she gets noticed.
back when it was radio stations or television, labels played the part of shill for the musicians. They had access to the people who decided what was and was not played over the air. They also had the machine to help promote an artist including marketing and distribution. Today, as another posted mentioned, an artist can go to a local studio and record good quality music (or buy software and run a board themselves). They can start a web site,or get a Facebook/myspace account, and of course start touring, even if it is local pubs and coffee houses. If you are good, they will come. Signing with a label these days is really playing with the devil. I wish her the best and as I said, I'd buy an album from her.
Other then greed, why do this? I listened to Pandora since almost its birth. I followed the struggles with royalty payments, I slightly complained, but quickly accepted the ads and today they seem to be doing well, growing and producing a good product. This will be good for the owners, but my experience shows that when you sell (or sell-out) it typically does not end well for the employee.
I wish them luck, but in a way, the creators have lost my respect and with that, it is easier for me to walk away for now they will think of the share holder, not the customer (and spare me the this is good for consumer crap. /.'ers have said time and time again that CEO are beholding to the stockholder first).
I read through the web page and I am confused. If this is such a good technology, and it was tested successfully; why was the program/project stopped and set to inactive? Either this is a BS way to get people to link to a site for clicks, or y'all got bad marketing folks. To my eye this project does not need research dollars, it needs VC money to get it in the market place. So which is it, bogus site for clicks and giggles or a legitimate project that is being squashed by "the Man".
When I went off to college I thought I'd grow up to be a physicist. I loved the science, but half way through the first semester I was discovering that physics was not working for me. Struggling with calculus I was directed to a room filled with what I thought were tv screens. They were monitors hooked to a PDP 11/45 which had just been installed at the school, replacing the IBM mainframe.
In that moment, sitting in front of that terminal and working my first program, I fell in love with computers. I loved how I could imagine something, then create it. Working on the PDP introduced me to the mini world, programming, and my career. While never knowing the man, the mind that conceived and created the DEC PDP family will be one I certainly honor and respect.
Dear Dad,
I did, and I regret to inform you that because of shrinking profits and budget constraints, your position in the company has been eliminated. Sadly your pension fund was slashed last year so there will be no compensation or retirement options, but HR will be glad to help you with all the paperwork.
We're looking forward to seeing you at Thanksgiving.
Take care,
Your Son
(CEO, Uncaring Corporation)
(baby boomers changed the world...for themselves)
Lets not be so padantic. Latin is not ebonics, and language has evolved over time so we can say that Latin is a language even if it did not have caps, spaces or punctuation. A simple google search would show that ebonics is not much more then a modified set of bastardized English.
Perhaps, but Ebonics is considered a subset of English and not a language in its own right.
This is like saying Ebonics is a language.
So now, all our great works will be reduced to 140 characters with no caps, no punctuation, and hacked up spelling. ee cummings was way ahead of his time.