They ARE the lables. They are the policing, enforcement, and lobbying arm of the lables. Intead of each label doing these things seperately, they pool thier money into the RIAA to work together on these things.
I wouldn't be so quick to jump on the **AA (OK you probably should), but it may not be them. Yesterday, I posted a link http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=217180&c id=17633124 to OSX on ISOHunt in the story about Apple sueing for posting links to the iPhone skins.
My bad ISOHunt! I didn't realize Apple monitored/. that closely. Sorry!!!!
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psssst! BSD isn't licenced under the GPL. The name of the license BSD is under escapes me right now, but I'm pretty sure it isn't GPL (or any other license you were thinking of which requires releasing source code). (end sarcasam).
The handling of BLOBS isn't really all that bad anymore in many RDMS. Now certinaly speciallized DBs for this could do better I'm sure, but the old maxims about "never store BLOBS in a DB" don't really hold anymore. Since you mention SQL Server, consider that SharePoint Server uses SQL Server as its data store. We have an install of SharePoint with roughly 150GB of documents and scanned archival PDFs with over 100 users accessing those documents pretty much continuously (not all 100 users but it is very activly used). The performance of opening documents in SharePoint are not (noticeably to a human at least) any slower than opening the documents from a network file share.
Now obviously MS probably had some top of the line DBAs tuning this to get that type of performance, but it doesn't seem that BLOBs are a direct limitation in SQL Server any more as much as limitation of the DBAs trying to get the performance out of the system perhaps if others are still having issues with this.
That being said, our current application is only dealing with roughly 100 users on the local LAN. In the next 6 months we will be testing exposing this on the internet to 10s of thousands of users. We'll see how if it still holds up;-)
It certinaly is a knockoff, but normally knockoffs are perfectly legal. The only reason knockoffs can really get in trouble is patents, trademarks, etc. So unless the Taiwanese Gov gave Apple a patent on white plastic and play/pause/next/last buttons it probably fine legally (as thier high court said). There is nothing inherently bad or illegal at least about knockoffs.
Since Vista is locking down the secure media paths, and degrades paths or shuts them down at the kernel level, I don't think I would want to be in the middle of a Skype call and visit a website with a protected content video of the latest news broadcast that degrades or shuts off the analog hole.
Since OSX Lepord can play video, I don't hink I would wan to be in the middle of a Skype call with my mom and also playing a dirty porn. What if Lepord messes up these audio streams and sends the porn audio to my mom?
Is there any reason to thing this is a reasonable fear? Of course not, but I still need to try to convince everyone they should be worried about it because I don't like OSX and want to see if fail.
OK, so I'm being a bit sarcastic but both cases are basically the same and both are classic cases of FUD.
Another way to do this which has helped me tons, is to get away from using phones;-) Our help desk would recieve requests via phone, email, IM, or just stoping by in person. Performance matrix weren't an issue, but just keeping track of all the tasks was a nightmare and I was too busy to be logging everything properly.
I just created a system instituted a policy so every request must be logged in an intranet help-desk application by the person making a request before it would be handled. Now there are nice logs of everything and users can even search previous requests to find the solutions for themselves.
10 times as dense means the developers are 10 times as productive. Since programmers are reasonably expensive needing 1/10th as many is a good thing.
That sounds great for little one-off scripts. However, if you are working on an application with any decent expected lifespan, well than that is just wrong. Say your average application will be in production use for 5 years (I'd think this is a pretty low estimate). In that case I'd guess your intial development costs would be a fraction of your support costs over the life of the product.
By your logic whenever designing a database you should always just name tables as A, B, C, D, E,... and the columns within those tables as a, b, c, d, etc. Also, any comments in code are just a frivilous waste of money.
As much of a pain as writing verbose code can seem at times, it certainly does have its merits.
Also interesting about Mark Myers the new head of the USGS (from Nature 441, 266 (18 May 2006))
"Who is Mark Myers?
That's what many US geologists are asking in the wake of an announcement that President George W. Bush will nominate Myers to head the US Geological Survey (USGS)....Myers has a PhD in geology and has spent much of his career in Alaska, working for oil companies and for the state -- sometimes alone in remote locations, armed with a shotgun in case of grizzly bears...If confirmed by the Senate, Myers would be the first USGS director in decades to come neither from academia nor from within the agency....Myers worked most recently as head of Alaska's Division of Oil and Gas. In the past he has supported drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- a protected region of Alaska. And this has spooked some environmentalists. But if he gets the USGS job, Myers says, he would stay out of any decision making: "My job is strictly to provide the data, to help people understand the data and its limitations."
Yes... and no. They all have free trials. So if you just want a little fix of Froger, Pac Man, Street Fighter, etc without needing to play all the way through (just the first couple levels), then you can play for free. I tend to do that with lots of the games. They are fun and nice to have on hand, but don't really care to buy the whole thing (how long until MS puts a time limit on the demo versions I wonder?).
Anyway, yes you have to pay to download the full games but then the question would be "Is game xxxx worth it?" not "Is Live Arcade worth it?" as Live Arcade (just the distribution system and interface) is free (with a 360 and internet connection). So I'm with the OP. Just not sure what the heck they are asking.
Agreed, but this seems a bit more than JUST renaming. On the other hand its also not exactly new. There are many OS GUI interfaces which have tried similar things. Even MS had something that at least sounds similar from a high level (Microsoft Bob). Since OLPC is aimed at children around the world who may not even know what a "folder" is and not businesses, this "more friendly metaphores" could work well.
Anyway, seems a bit more than just renaming but certainly not new.
Not even Microsoft has the resources to continue the desktop Windows line. The costs are ballooning.
Yet it does still generate billions of profit every year. Higher costs certainly are the goal but even if a product costs 10 trillion to produce, as long revenue from the product exceeds that amount the company will be happy to continue it until they can find another method which will promise even more profit.
Because Haliburtain, Lockhead, Boeing, or any other multi-billion defense contractor doesn't make it?
Now if Lockhead could create something which does the same thing but use lots of exotic process and chemicals so they can charge $5,000 per can, then the government may be interested.
1/5th of the Americans, from country that gets the most television time in the world
That may well be the problem. After reading this, it seems the creators of this "museum" think that the cartoon The Flintstones is some kind of historically acurate documentary.
You really need to update! I'm currently running Web 6.3.12.004 and its been running great. Well there was that one time my toaster and web server conspired to kill me, but besides that its been smooth sailing!
I'm tired of this chic always complaining for more documentation. Anyone want to pitch in with me to just bite the bullet and buy here a MSDN and Technet subscription?
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They ARE the lables. They are the policing, enforcement, and lobbying arm of the lables. Intead of each label doing these things seperately, they pool thier money into the RIAA to work together on these things.
99.9% of the time the lables are the owner of the music not the artists.
Opps, ignore me. I didn't realize they were talking about old SCSI. Mine are SAS (serial attached SCSI).
... becuase last week I ordered a server from HP with 2.5" 15k drives HP.
I wouldn't be so quick to jump on the **AA (OK you probably should), but it may not be them. Yesterday, I posted a link http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=217180&c id=17633124 to OSX on ISOHunt in the story about Apple sueing for posting links to the iPhone skins.
/. that closely. Sorry!!!!
My bad ISOHunt! I didn't realize Apple monitored
A lot of people swear by it
;-)
Let me fix that for you.
A lot of people swear at it
There, thats better
psssst! BSD isn't licenced under the GPL. The name of the license BSD is under escapes me right now, but I'm pretty sure it isn't GPL (or any other license you were thinking of which requires releasing source code). (end sarcasam).
The handling of BLOBS isn't really all that bad anymore in many RDMS. Now certinaly speciallized DBs for this could do better I'm sure, but the old maxims about "never store BLOBS in a DB" don't really hold anymore. Since you mention SQL Server, consider that SharePoint Server uses SQL Server as its data store. We have an install of SharePoint with roughly 150GB of documents and scanned archival PDFs with over 100 users accessing those documents pretty much continuously (not all 100 users but it is very activly used). The performance of opening documents in SharePoint are not (noticeably to a human at least) any slower than opening the documents from a network file share.
;-)
Now obviously MS probably had some top of the line DBAs tuning this to get that type of performance, but it doesn't seem that BLOBs are a direct limitation in SQL Server any more as much as limitation of the DBAs trying to get the performance out of the system perhaps if others are still having issues with this.
That being said, our current application is only dealing with roughly 100 users on the local LAN. In the next 6 months we will be testing exposing this on the internet to 10s of thousands of users. We'll see how if it still holds up
Net neutrality *actually* means everyone pays the same for net use, regardless of how much they use the net.
Really? I pay $40 per month. I'd always assumed Google paid a bit more than that.
(end sarcasam) Dumb-ass!
It certinaly is a knockoff, but normally knockoffs are perfectly legal. The only reason knockoffs can really get in trouble is patents, trademarks, etc. So unless the Taiwanese Gov gave Apple a patent on white plastic and play/pause/next/last buttons it probably fine legally (as thier high court said). There is nothing inherently bad or illegal at least about knockoffs.
Since Vista is locking down the secure media paths, and degrades paths or shuts them down at the kernel level, I don't think I would want to be in the middle of a Skype call and visit a website with a protected content video of the latest news broadcast that degrades or shuts off the analog hole.
Since OSX Lepord can play video, I don't hink I would wan to be in the middle of a Skype call with my mom and also playing a dirty porn. What if Lepord messes up these audio streams and sends the porn audio to my mom?
Is there any reason to thing this is a reasonable fear? Of course not, but I still need to try to convince everyone they should be worried about it because I don't like OSX and want to see if fail.
OK, so I'm being a bit sarcastic but both cases are basically the same and both are classic cases of FUD.
...and HP's internal audit shows spying on its board by the chair woman was all done legally.
My weekly tuesday rant.
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pssst!.... its Wednesday
Another way to do this which has helped me tons, is to get away from using phones ;-) Our help desk would recieve requests via phone, email, IM, or just stoping by in person. Performance matrix weren't an issue, but just keeping track of all the tasks was a nightmare and I was too busy to be logging everything properly.
I just created a system instituted a policy so every request must be logged in an intranet help-desk application by the person making a request before it would be handled. Now there are nice logs of everything and users can even search previous requests to find the solutions for themselves.
10 times as dense means the developers are 10 times as productive. Since programmers are reasonably expensive needing 1/10th as many is a good thing.
... and the columns within those tables as a, b, c, d, etc. Also, any comments in code are just a frivilous waste of money.
That sounds great for little one-off scripts. However, if you are working on an application with any decent expected lifespan, well than that is just wrong. Say your average application will be in production use for 5 years (I'd think this is a pretty low estimate). In that case I'd guess your intial development costs would be a fraction of your support costs over the life of the product.
By your logic whenever designing a database you should always just name tables as A, B, C, D, E,
As much of a pain as writing verbose code can seem at times, it certainly does have its merits.
Looks like they are running DotNetNuke. If you can overlook its use of ASP.NET, it is a great (and open source) little web portal app.
Also interesting about Mark Myers the new head of the USGS (from Nature 441, 266 (18 May 2006))
...Myers has a PhD in geology and has spent much of his career in Alaska, working for oil companies and for the state -- sometimes alone in remote locations, armed with a shotgun in case of grizzly bears...If confirmed by the Senate, Myers would be the first USGS director in decades to come neither from academia nor from within the agency....Myers worked most recently as head of Alaska's Division of Oil and Gas. In the past he has supported drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- a protected region of Alaska. And this has spooked some environmentalists. But if he gets the USGS job, Myers says, he would stay out of any decision making: "My job is strictly to provide the data, to help people understand the data and its limitations."
"Who is Mark Myers? That's what many US geologists are asking in the wake of an announcement that President George W. Bush will nominate Myers to head the US Geological Survey (USGS).
HP also offers at least two choices on most computers. XP Home and XP Professional ;-)
Yes... and no. They all have free trials. So if you just want a little fix of Froger, Pac Man, Street Fighter, etc without needing to play all the way through (just the first couple levels), then you can play for free. I tend to do that with lots of the games. They are fun and nice to have on hand, but don't really care to buy the whole thing (how long until MS puts a time limit on the demo versions I wonder?).
Anyway, yes you have to pay to download the full games but then the question would be "Is game xxxx worth it?" not "Is Live Arcade worth it?" as Live Arcade (just the distribution system and interface) is free (with a 360 and internet connection). So I'm with the OP. Just not sure what the heck they are asking.
Agreed, but this seems a bit more than JUST renaming. On the other hand its also not exactly new. There are many OS GUI interfaces which have tried similar things. Even MS had something that at least sounds similar from a high level (Microsoft Bob). Since OLPC is aimed at children around the world who may not even know what a "folder" is and not businesses, this "more friendly metaphores" could work well.
Anyway, seems a bit more than just renaming but certainly not new.
Not even Microsoft has the resources to continue the desktop Windows line. The costs are ballooning.
Yet it does still generate billions of profit every year. Higher costs certainly are the goal but even if a product costs 10 trillion to produce, as long revenue from the product exceeds that amount the company will be happy to continue it until they can find another method which will promise even more profit.
Because Haliburtain, Lockhead, Boeing, or any other multi-billion defense contractor doesn't make it?
Now if Lockhead could create something which does the same thing but use lots of exotic process and chemicals so they can charge $5,000 per can, then the government may be interested.
1/5th of the Americans, from country that gets the most television time in the world
That may well be the problem. After reading this, it seems the creators of this "museum" think that the cartoon The Flintstones is some kind of historically acurate documentary.
You really need to update! I'm currently running Web 6.3.12.004 and its been running great. Well there was that one time my toaster and web server conspired to kill me, but besides that its been smooth sailing!
I'm tired of this chic always complaining for more documentation. Anyone want to pitch in with me to just bite the bullet and buy here a MSDN and Technet subscription?