Just get the bits out of whatever you're trying to archive and chisel the ones and zeros into stone tablets. In 25 years, dig them up, run some OCR on them and reconvert them into electrical bits rather than rock bits.
I don't think that comment was calling out the number of tables as being bad by itself, but rather the number of tables combined with the fact that in order to get data out of those tables, you have to write SQL.
Select *
From A, B, C, D, E....ZZZ
Where A.foo = B.bar
And...
I'm so goddamn tired of this argument. Sure, you can say "Well, I make $50/hour at work so every hour of my time is worth that much."
If you have the want and ability to work as many hours as you can, then sure, your argument is valid. I, however, am salaried. If I do the math, I'm worth about $35/hour, but no matter how many hours I spend here, I still get the same at the end of the week. Even if I was hourly, my employer sure as hell isn't going to let me work very much over 40. So after I've worked my 40 hours, I can either a)work another hour, getting the stink eye from my boss or b)drive to a far grocery store to save money. Normally, option A isn't really even an option. Therefore, I can drive to a close, expensive store, and spend my hour sitting on my ass at home, or I can spend my hour driving to the store, effectively 'earning' money.
I think it's more about "How can we actively stop our sick bastard pedophile users from doing this?" rather than "Oh how can we keep Timmy from stumbling across some kiddie porn when all he wants is Go, Diego, Go?"
The latter goal would just require an *optional* proxy as you put it, but it would be pointless towards the actual goal, which I belive is the first one.
Ok, fine, 90% of the people commenting on this article went to college (proof by reading the replies that say "...when I went to college..." or "...I graduated college and still don't know what I want to do...").
As far as free college in Florida, tuition's covered if you hang on to a B average. If you don't, it's ~$1500/semester. I'd say that's at least 'remotely' free. Living expenses don't count, because you have them no matter what. If you're talking about one of the many private schools, well...yeah. I hope you're getting more out of your $15,000/year education than I got out of my $3,000/year one, but I doubt it.
You guys all assume that this is for the kids going to college. There are a LOT of high schoolers (even in Florida, where college is practically free) who will never go to college. They will barely graduate high school (because they don't care), never leave their hometown, and will make less than $15/hr for the rest of their life. This program is for them.
Everyone on here talks about "that would never work for me" and that's because 90% of Slashdot folks went to college. Not only that, but are -smart- geeks. I think that if these kids pick a "major" with the intent of going to college later, that won't pigeon hole them. I had to pick one as soon as I enrolled at UF, but they told me it didn't really matter. For the kids NOT going to college, I think it will be beneficial.
You can either buy something called the 'Action Replay' which allows you to load gamesaves onto a memory card from a USB port on your PC (think current-gen Game Genie), or you can get a cheap-o memory slot USB adapter and use any old flash drive to load the save. It's a beautiful thing.
You probably should have chosen the school a couple hours north...;)
Same accents on the engineering profs, but at least they make their own powerpoints!
This reminds me of an old small bit from George Carlin:
"I had a friend who knew his phone was being tapped, so he always answered 'F*** Hoover...'"
Great stuff.
Because your local "PC clone" vendor will probably charge you $180 for XP. That's why. Dell, HP, IBM can charge $30 for Windows because that what MS charges them, but ONLY because they practically make you get it with their PCs. It's not totally a bulk thing, but more of a guaranteed sale. A guaranteed sale raises market share, making it more profitable to sell other MS products. Even if Dell still sold a million PCs with Windows each year, but then also sold a million PCs without Windows, I have a funny feeling that MS would get a little angry and jack up Dell's cost of Windows...maybe even to what it costs your local vendor, who honestly probably gets his copies from Sam's Club.
Good thing you posted as anonymous...dick.
Do you have any idea how many hams actually USE computers WITH their radios? How often they use satellites to increase their transmission distance? Their waves, and yes I do mean THEIR waves, are the only efficient places to meet new and interesting people from around the world. You'll say "But what about the Internet? Why don't they just get with the times and communicate over the Internet?" The Internet with chat rooms full of pedophiles, pre-pubescent teens and/.ers? That sounds great.
Nothing beats sitting in your house with a little radio and talking to someone on the complete opposite side of the globe, all wirelessly. When did you first get to use anything wireless for YOUR communication? A few years ago on your computer? Oh wait, that still goes back to an electricity dependent land-line. Cell phone? Try again.
Don't knock something just because you're too ignorant to understand what it really is. Ham radio may be becoming less and less popular, but I've had my license since I was 18 and I'll be enjoying the waves until the FCC sells them off (or until BPL moves into my area.)
Just look in your manual. I just got a headset and surprise surprise..."your passkey to input to your phone/computer will be '0000'" When I first saw that I figured it was a dumb idea...just had it proven to myself.
I believe I heard a figure not too long ago that bids had already reached the hundred billion dollar mark for certain frequencies once they're free. While I like that the gov't will bank on this, I'm not keen on paying someone else to use the frequencies that used to be free (for cell phones or WiFi or whatever else cancer wave generators use them). At least I'll get 4 different UPNs now! Hooray!
Cobol has been retired? I don't know how many Fortune 500 companies you've worked with, but I can tell you that the 6 that I've had experience with all use Cobol. Not only use it, but breathe it. Nobody likes to admit it, but Cobol, regardless of its age, works. It works better than Java, better than C, and better than VB. When it comes to processing transactions, moving them from mainframe to warehouse, etc, Cobol is still the king. If you dig around enough, you'll see that Cobol and JCL use in corporate America is here now, and I think here to stay. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Not to mention the fact that any MBA program worth it's salt will require 3-7 years of work experience before they'll admit you.
Just get the bits out of whatever you're trying to archive and chisel the ones and zeros into stone tablets. In 25 years, dig them up, run some OCR on them and reconvert them into electrical bits rather than rock bits.
I don't think that comment was calling out the number of tables as being bad by itself, but rather the number of tables combined with the fact that in order to get data out of those tables, you have to write SQL.
Select *
From A, B, C, D, E....ZZZ
Where A.foo = B.bar
And...
Good god.
I'm so goddamn tired of this argument. Sure, you can say "Well, I make $50/hour at work so every hour of my time is worth that much." If you have the want and ability to work as many hours as you can, then sure, your argument is valid. I, however, am salaried. If I do the math, I'm worth about $35/hour, but no matter how many hours I spend here, I still get the same at the end of the week. Even if I was hourly, my employer sure as hell isn't going to let me work very much over 40. So after I've worked my 40 hours, I can either a)work another hour, getting the stink eye from my boss or b)drive to a far grocery store to save money. Normally, option A isn't really even an option. Therefore, I can drive to a close, expensive store, and spend my hour sitting on my ass at home, or I can spend my hour driving to the store, effectively 'earning' money.
I think it's more about "How can we actively stop our sick bastard pedophile users from doing this?" rather than "Oh how can we keep Timmy from stumbling across some kiddie porn when all he wants is Go, Diego, Go?" The latter goal would just require an *optional* proxy as you put it, but it would be pointless towards the actual goal, which I belive is the first one.
Ok, fine, 90% of the people commenting on this article went to college (proof by reading the replies that say "...when I went to college..." or "...I graduated college and still don't know what I want to do..."). As far as free college in Florida, tuition's covered if you hang on to a B average. If you don't, it's ~$1500/semester. I'd say that's at least 'remotely' free. Living expenses don't count, because you have them no matter what. If you're talking about one of the many private schools, well...yeah. I hope you're getting more out of your $15,000/year education than I got out of my $3,000/year one, but I doubt it.
You guys all assume that this is for the kids going to college. There are a LOT of high schoolers (even in Florida, where college is practically free) who will never go to college. They will barely graduate high school (because they don't care), never leave their hometown, and will make less than $15/hr for the rest of their life. This program is for them. Everyone on here talks about "that would never work for me" and that's because 90% of Slashdot folks went to college. Not only that, but are -smart- geeks. I think that if these kids pick a "major" with the intent of going to college later, that won't pigeon hole them. I had to pick one as soon as I enrolled at UF, but they told me it didn't really matter. For the kids NOT going to college, I think it will be beneficial.
You can either buy something called the 'Action Replay' which allows you to load gamesaves onto a memory card from a USB port on your PC (think current-gen Game Genie), or you can get a cheap-o memory slot USB adapter and use any old flash drive to load the save. It's a beautiful thing.
You probably should have chosen the school a couple hours north... ;)
Same accents on the engineering profs, but at least they make their own powerpoints!
This reminds me of an old small bit from George Carlin: "I had a friend who knew his phone was being tapped, so he always answered 'F*** Hoover...'" Great stuff.
Because your local "PC clone" vendor will probably charge you $180 for XP. That's why. Dell, HP, IBM can charge $30 for Windows because that what MS charges them, but ONLY because they practically make you get it with their PCs. It's not totally a bulk thing, but more of a guaranteed sale. A guaranteed sale raises market share, making it more profitable to sell other MS products. Even if Dell still sold a million PCs with Windows each year, but then also sold a million PCs without Windows, I have a funny feeling that MS would get a little angry and jack up Dell's cost of Windows...maybe even to what it costs your local vendor, who honestly probably gets his copies from Sam's Club.
You mean like FSU's med school? ;)
Just kidding folks...you can't expect a Gator to pass up one like that!
Good thing you posted as anonymous...dick. Do you have any idea how many hams actually USE computers WITH their radios? How often they use satellites to increase their transmission distance? Their waves, and yes I do mean THEIR waves, are the only efficient places to meet new and interesting people from around the world. You'll say "But what about the Internet? Why don't they just get with the times and communicate over the Internet?" The Internet with chat rooms full of pedophiles, pre-pubescent teens and /.ers? That sounds great.
Nothing beats sitting in your house with a little radio and talking to someone on the complete opposite side of the globe, all wirelessly. When did you first get to use anything wireless for YOUR communication? A few years ago on your computer? Oh wait, that still goes back to an electricity dependent land-line. Cell phone? Try again.
Don't knock something just because you're too ignorant to understand what it really is. Ham radio may be becoming less and less popular, but I've had my license since I was 18 and I'll be enjoying the waves until the FCC sells them off (or until BPL moves into my area.)
And I'm sure that in 7 years we will have progressed to not even being able to spell computer right.
Just look in your manual. I just got a headset and surprise surprise..."your passkey to input to your phone/computer will be '0000'" When I first saw that I figured it was a dumb idea...just had it proven to myself.
I believe I heard a figure not too long ago that bids had already reached the hundred billion dollar mark for certain frequencies once they're free. While I like that the gov't will bank on this, I'm not keen on paying someone else to use the frequencies that used to be free (for cell phones or WiFi or whatever else cancer wave generators use them). At least I'll get 4 different UPNs now! Hooray!
Cobol has been retired? I don't know how many Fortune 500 companies you've worked with, but I can tell you that the 6 that I've had experience with all use Cobol. Not only use it, but breathe it. Nobody likes to admit it, but Cobol, regardless of its age, works. It works better than Java, better than C, and better than VB. When it comes to processing transactions, moving them from mainframe to warehouse, etc, Cobol is still the king. If you dig around enough, you'll see that Cobol and JCL use in corporate America is here now, and I think here to stay. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.