I suppose you've taken history classes at some point. The cost of the U.S. becoming an isolationist nation again would be far greater than dealing with threats before they get out of hand. Should we have let Sadam Husein's power continue to grow unchecked, or even encourage it like France and Germany and others did? We learned after the Iran/Iraq War in the 80's that this guy wasn't a player we wanted on our team even if he was also an enemy of Iran. I'm glad we took care of him now rather than waiting until he became an even bigger threat to the region and to his own people.
Also, it's too bad theShadow's comment was marked as flaimbait, NASA could use some management reorganization.
ugh... Why do these trolls come out on every scientific thread that's on/.? And why do they always get modded insightful? The current administration doesn't deny that there is global warming, their stance is that there is insufficient evidence to link global warming to specific human activities. I believe this is well demonstrated by the fact that every month there seems to be a new scientific study that points out a previously unknown or misrepresented or misunderstood aspect in the complex system that is the earth's ecosystem. There is also doubt about if the effects some claim will happen are exagerated or overstated, and what to do to fix the problem.
The credit card companies have always been paranoid. Even before Patriot Act, my credit card was flagged once because I went to 2 different music stores within 15 minutes of each other. Well, store A typically had lower prices, but they didn't have everything I wanted, so I also went to store B. Had to spend almost half an hour on the phone with the credit card company that same afternoon (they called me at home, this was a Saturday) trying to convince them that it was a proper charge.
I thought that plants do need oxygen, as they respirate at nitetime simmilar to the way animals do. They still produce alot more oxygen in a 24 hour period than they consume though.
actually no, it was XP Pro, Service Pack 2. We disabled all firewalls on the laptop, both Symantec and Microsoft's, went through a whole series of tests and config changes still couldn't figure it out. I'm not that ignorant that I would have tried joining XP Home edition to a domain.
I know Thinkpad support is out of Atlanta, I spent 2 hours on the phone with them last night trying to get a brand new Z60t laptop to be able to join a domain. Still couldn't do it, the only option they left me with was a $45 per incident helpline, that they said probably wouldn't be able to solve the problem either. At least the guy tried to be helpfull though, and he actually had network training.
I say bring those kinds of jobs to Ohio, or any other part of the US that has a large number of qualified people, and a lowwer cost of living than California. Doesn't the internet make physical location less relevant? I don't get why companies want to locate in an area where they are going to have to pay people 50% more for doing the same job. Building out there not only forces higher payrolls, but makes the people move to the job, causing even more expenses. Put the jobs where the people are.
::clap clap clap clap:: Yes! Someone else gets it! I've been trying to tell people this for over a decade. My wife thinks I'm nuts though when I get on my soapbox and talk about this kind of stuff. What has made the suburbs even worse over the last 30 years is that second teir suburbs have sprung up past the inner core suburbs, and they tend to pass zoning legislation that limits the number of housing units that can be built per acre. (some even require multiple acres per house)
So developers have to build more expensive houses in order to make a profit on their land investment, making it harder for people to find affordable housing. Of course the mortgage companies let people overbuy housing, making people believe they can afford more, but just causes them to be more reliant on credit for other day to day expenses. All these problems, and people think they are better off for it.
I for one welcome our new urbanesque planning overlords!
The problem is that the term communism is used to justify a totalitarian government. True communist philosophy didn't envision an all powerfull government controlling every aspect of its people's lives. Instead of the working class rising up to overthrow the oppressive aristocracy, a new aristocracy came along and said "oh by the way, you're going to be communist now", and slapped the word People's in front of everything.
Actually I'm suprised that North Korea is not in that list. http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2792.htm Their spending is about 25% of GDP, and has 1.2 million people in the armed forces. Maybe the numbers we have weren't acurate enough for the report cited above.
How can one company determine that another company's pricing is artificially high? I thought pricing was driven more by market forces. If the prices were too high, more businesses would have standardized on competing products. There was a time when products like Word Perfect and Lotus 123 dominated their segment of office productivity programs. What Microsoft managed to do in the 90's was put together a whole suite of programs that complimented and worked well enough that people considered their software suite instead of buying several different products from different vendors that coudn't offer a complete solution. The other companies tried to play catchup over time, but ended up staying in small niches.
Now what I find a problem with the Microsoft philosophy is the planned obsolescence they design everything arround. Then they pressure customers with tactics like not having a service pack 5 for Windows 2000, cutting off support of products that aren't really obsolete, etc.
So if people can't resell the stuff, I'm willing to bet alot of it will end up in the garbage. And I'm sure most of what ends up in the garbage won't be disposed of properly.
I doubt the legislation would have much if any effect. The opposite legislation that you propose wouldn't have much effect either. With the internet, physical location has very little meaning. The server could be in Silicon Valley California, in Podunk Iowa, or Shanghai China. China will find a way to block the content it wants to block.
AAAAHHHHH!!!! I've tried to forget about my PCjr. It was actually my second computer, after I complained that the whopping 4K of memory on my TI99 4/A kept getting filled up by even some of the more simple BASIC programs I wrote on it. OK, so maybe for it's time it wasn't all that bad, but the 1/2" thick boxes that were slapped onto the side of it to expand the memory felt a little klunky after a while. Was neat that it had 16 colors though even before EGA became popular.
The "NT" style operating systems by their nature take up more resources by default. Yes, you could tweak 98 so that it only took 5 or 6 meg of RAM, leaving your other 250 meg for applications. It's not really possible to tweak 2000 Pro below 50 meg RAM, without risking it becoming unstable, and XP is difficult to get it below 64 meg. And these figures are just the base bare bones of the operating system.
A better bet about Oracle loosing marketshare is not MySQL, but EnterPriseDB (based on PostgreSQL) http://www.enterprisedb.com/ There's also Oracle compatibility modules for Ingres and even Firebird. Those will take on alot of SMB clients and MS SQL Server 2005 actually becoming a more mature enterprise product also challenges Oracle in the mid-sized database field.
As someone who's worked with Oracle databases for 8 years, if you really need something that big, it makes more sense to use a CLOB anyway instead of taking up so much of a data block with just one field. If the data starts small and grows up to 4000 bytes then it is even worse as will probably result in alot of chained rows across multiple blocks.
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I suppose you've taken history classes at some point. The cost of the U.S. becoming an isolationist nation again would be far greater than dealing with threats before they get out of hand. Should we have let Sadam Husein's power continue to grow unchecked, or even encourage it like France and Germany and others did? We learned after the Iran/Iraq War in the 80's that this guy wasn't a player we wanted on our team even if he was also an enemy of Iran. I'm glad we took care of him now rather than waiting until he became an even bigger threat to the region and to his own people.
Also, it's too bad theShadow's comment was marked as flaimbait, NASA could use some management reorganization.
ugh... Why do these trolls come out on every scientific thread that's on /.? And why do they always get modded insightful? The current administration doesn't deny that there is global warming, their stance is that there is insufficient evidence to link global warming to specific human activities. I believe this is well demonstrated by the fact that every month there seems to be a new scientific study that points out a previously unknown or misrepresented or misunderstood aspect in the complex system that is the earth's ecosystem. There is also doubt about if the effects some claim will happen are exagerated or overstated, and what to do to fix the problem.
Jack Johnson: I believe my opponent's 3% tax increase goes too far! John Jackson: And I believe my opponent's 3% tax increase doesn't go far enough!
The credit card companies have always been paranoid. Even before Patriot Act, my credit card was flagged once because I went to 2 different music stores within 15 minutes of each other. Well, store A typically had lower prices, but they didn't have everything I wanted, so I also went to store B. Had to spend almost half an hour on the phone with the credit card company that same afternoon (they called me at home, this was a Saturday) trying to convince them that it was a proper charge.
I think it's obvious that it means fake coffee requires fewer servers.
I thought that plants do need oxygen, as they respirate at nitetime simmilar to the way animals do. They still produce alot more oxygen in a 24 hour period than they consume though.
actually no, it was XP Pro, Service Pack 2. We disabled all firewalls on the laptop, both Symantec and Microsoft's, went through a whole series of tests and config changes still couldn't figure it out. I'm not that ignorant that I would have tried joining XP Home edition to a domain.
I know Thinkpad support is out of Atlanta, I spent 2 hours on the phone with them last night trying to get a brand new Z60t laptop to be able to join a domain. Still couldn't do it, the only option they left me with was a $45 per incident helpline, that they said probably wouldn't be able to solve the problem either. At least the guy tried to be helpfull though, and he actually had network training.
do arcades still exist?)
Get thee to a Dave & Busters!!!
I say bring those kinds of jobs to Ohio, or any other part of the US that has a large number of qualified people, and a lowwer cost of living than California. Doesn't the internet make physical location less relevant? I don't get why companies want to locate in an area where they are going to have to pay people 50% more for doing the same job. Building out there not only forces higher payrolls, but makes the people move to the job, causing even more expenses. Put the jobs where the people are.
::clap clap clap clap:: Yes! Someone else gets it! I've been trying to tell people this for over a decade. My wife thinks I'm nuts though when I get on my soapbox and talk about this kind of stuff. What has made the suburbs even worse over the last 30 years is that second teir suburbs have sprung up past the inner core suburbs, and they tend to pass zoning legislation that limits the number of housing units that can be built per acre. (some even require multiple acres per house)
So developers have to build more expensive houses in order to make a profit on their land investment, making it harder for people to find affordable housing. Of course the mortgage companies let people overbuy housing, making people believe they can afford more, but just causes them to be more reliant on credit for other day to day expenses. All these problems, and people think they are better off for it.
I for one welcome our new urbanesque planning overlords!
The problem is that the term communism is used to justify a totalitarian government. True communist philosophy didn't envision an all powerfull government controlling every aspect of its people's lives. Instead of the working class rising up to overthrow the oppressive aristocracy, a new aristocracy came along and said "oh by the way, you're going to be communist now", and slapped the word People's in front of everything.
Actually I'm suprised that North Korea is not in that list. http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2792.htm Their spending is about 25% of GDP, and has 1.2 million people in the armed forces. Maybe the numbers we have weren't acurate enough for the report cited above.
...and you've got to have a really big cupholder in your car to hold that thing!
960x540 HD is still higher resolution than 720x480 DVD, people will still copy them if they want to
well, I suppose Viagra could be good for a server if it helps keep it up
How can one company determine that another company's pricing is artificially high? I thought pricing was driven more by market forces. If the prices were too high, more businesses would have standardized on competing products. There was a time when products like Word Perfect and Lotus 123 dominated their segment of office productivity programs. What Microsoft managed to do in the 90's was put together a whole suite of programs that complimented and worked well enough that people considered their software suite instead of buying several different products from different vendors that coudn't offer a complete solution. The other companies tried to play catchup over time, but ended up staying in small niches. Now what I find a problem with the Microsoft philosophy is the planned obsolescence they design everything arround. Then they pressure customers with tactics like not having a service pack 5 for Windows 2000, cutting off support of products that aren't really obsolete, etc.
So if people can't resell the stuff, I'm willing to bet alot of it will end up in the garbage. And I'm sure most of what ends up in the garbage won't be disposed of properly.
I doubt the legislation would have much if any effect. The opposite legislation that you propose wouldn't have much effect either. With the internet, physical location has very little meaning. The server could be in Silicon Valley California, in Podunk Iowa, or Shanghai China. China will find a way to block the content it wants to block.
AAAAHHHHH!!!! I've tried to forget about my PCjr. It was actually my second computer, after I complained that the whopping 4K of memory on my TI99 4/A kept getting filled up by even some of the more simple BASIC programs I wrote on it. OK, so maybe for it's time it wasn't all that bad, but the 1/2" thick boxes that were slapped onto the side of it to expand the memory felt a little klunky after a while. Was neat that it had 16 colors though even before EGA became popular.
The "NT" style operating systems by their nature take up more resources by default. Yes, you could tweak 98 so that it only took 5 or 6 meg of RAM, leaving your other 250 meg for applications. It's not really possible to tweak 2000 Pro below 50 meg RAM, without risking it becoming unstable, and XP is difficult to get it below 64 meg. And these figures are just the base bare bones of the operating system.
It could be opportunism by SBC to cash in a little on their investment of buying AT&T.
A better bet about Oracle loosing marketshare is not MySQL, but EnterPriseDB (based on PostgreSQL) http://www.enterprisedb.com/ There's also Oracle compatibility modules for Ingres and even Firebird. Those will take on alot of SMB clients and MS SQL Server 2005 actually becoming a more mature enterprise product also challenges Oracle in the mid-sized database field.
See this? It's the world's tinyest violin playing just for you.
As someone who's worked with Oracle databases for 8 years, if you really need something that big, it makes more sense to use a CLOB anyway instead of taking up so much of a data block with just one field. If the data starts small and grows up to 4000 bytes then it is even worse as will probably result in alot of chained rows across multiple blocks.