"That was a global campaign in the traditional sense, with half a dozen ads pretty much the same in different countries," Lucero said. "We had to get very local."
Showing the same thing in different countries is "getting local"? Eh?
I've installed it on about 7-8 different machines and it's done great on all of them.
Solaris isn't intended as a multimedia, gaming, or use-my-latest-bleeding-edge-tech-toys OS, it's intended to provide a stable platform in order to get work done.
If you put it on a generic workstation or server box, it pretty much kicks butt.
What's germane to the current discussion is that MySQL for Windows does exist, runs fine and fast, and MySQL AB provide both unofficial and official support for it same as for MySQL on most other platforms.
The MySQL win32 mailing list and forum are plenty active, and MySQL AB are generally quite happy to sell you paid support for your servers running their product regardless of the OS that happens to be on them. Even if it's Windows.;)
MySQL works pretty much the same on Windows as it does anywhere else, the one major exception to this being MySQL Cluster, which is currently supported on Linux, Solaris, and OS X only.
I'd personally rather see people switch to an OSS operating system and run MySQL on that, but that's just my 2 öre. But if you really want to run it on Windows - go for it.
W3C never did any such thing. In order for the BLINK tag to be deprecated, it would have had to be part of the HTML specification at some point in time, which it never was.
OP claimed it was a fact that wearing corrective lenses weakens your eyes.
I disproved that assertion by pointing out that after 30+ years of wearing glasses, my eyesight's now better than it was 10 years ago. OP's contention was stated in such a manner that it required only one counterexample to prove it wrong. I provided one. OP was wrong.
You were told to do eye exercises or you'd have to wear glasses. I don't dispute this. (And yes, I'm familiar with "lazy eye" - my kid brother had to do those exercises, too.) I've no need to dispute it, since - though it may be fact - it has nothing whatsoever to do either with the OP's claim or my rebuttal of said claim.
This is what's sometimes known as a non sequitur (Latin for "it does not follow").
In other words, you just wasted your time trying to disprove a statement that I didn't make. Thanks for playing, though.
Those of you who modded the parent insightful really should have read this first:
Our aim is to support the full ANSI/ISO SQL standard, but without making concessions to speed and quality of the code.
This is not just wind in sails. In fact, MySQL AB have on staff (and have had for a couple of years now) several highly knowledgeable and qualified individuals whose primary job is to work with the developers to maximise MySQL's SQL:2003 compliance, and changes in this direction occur with each release. (Yes, I said "maximise" - nobody implements all of SQL:2003 completely.)
If you run the server in Traditional or Strict mode, I think you might be surprised. (The reason this isn't the default behaviour is due to all the legacy apps out there that expect the old non-compliant behaviour.)
The parent is either (a) ignorant of this, or (b) aware of it and thus trolling.
It's a well-known fact that wearing corrective lenses causes the eye to learn to depend on the lense, causing the eye to weeken and need a higher perscription.
It's nothing of the sort - it's complete and utter codswallop, as I can tell you from personal experience.
I've always been quite nearsighted, and have had to wear corrective lenses since age 6. The last two times I've needed a new prescription, it's been to get a weaker one, because the natural tendency to become farsighted as one ages has actually improved my vision a bit.
This is exactly what I was told by the practitioner in both cases - one being an optometrist in the USA, and the other an opthamologist in Australia.
So please quit spreading disinformation. Thank you.
I'm not sure that I can agree with your oil-and-water viewpoint, which is based on an unequal comparison ("A requires this, B does that"). Nevertheless, it's a step in the right direction, because we do need to distinguish between the two.
I think it's possible (sometimes) both to educate and entertain. My daughter (not quite 3) seems to have learnt quite a bit from some of the videos and TV shows she's watched - letters, numbers, names of things, etc.
And what people find entertaining varies from person to person. For example, I find noodling about with various scripting languages to be a great diversion (currently I've been learning a bit of bash in this way, and it's already proved useful in my work).
However, it is also true that education and entertainment are not always the same thing, and we should quit trying to pretend that they are. And we should quit encouraging our kids to believe that they are.
You'll have to pardon me if I prefer to err on the side of caution in this regard.
I am still of the view that fission power is inherently dangerous and deadly, not just to us and our neighbours, but to our posterity and its environment as well. Why invest so much time and effort in trying to make it "safe" and rationalising that we can make it so when there are much less hazardous alternatives?
A coal-fired power plant explodes, you might have a few dozen deaths and maybe a couple hundred injured. A nuclear plant goes critical, you've half a continent growing three-eyed frogs for the next couple hundred years.
Coal is more or less non-toxic, whereas the fatal dose for plutonium is less than a microgramme.
A terrorist with a truckload of coal can burn down or blow up a building. A terrorist with a rucksack full of refined uranium or plutonium can level a city - or turn an average-sized US state into a giant cancer ward.
Given a choice between the two, I'll take coal.
Although I'd prefer to see biomass/hydrogen, solar, hydro, and wind predominate - the potential of these sources hasn't yet begun to be tapped. Or maybe fusion - heaps of power without the potential for all those fissionables to get loose.
I am glad to hear that your readership disapprove of this article as strongly as I. As a loyal reader and paying subscriber, I abhor the implication that Slashdot.org is a haven for cannibalism.
It is well known that we now have the problem relatively under control, and that it is Kuro5hin.org who now suffer the largest casualties in this area.
And what do you think the Argylls ate in Aden. Arabs?
Yours etc. Zontar T. Mindless (in a white wine sauce with shallots, mushrooms and garlic)
The key to any of the low end hardware and ANY OS is RAM. You can get by with a 400mhz Server as long as you have 256mb minimal RAM in it depending on your environment and load.
I would argue that most "normal" users don't need a GB of RAM to surf the 'Net, check email, chat with their buddies, and listen to mp3s - or even watch DVDs. I don't see why anyone who's not a gamer, developer, or involved in multimedia content creation would need more than 512 or even 256.
That being said... My old 800MHz Celeron had 384 MB RAM and ran pretty well. That machine just died (IDE controller crapped itself and took the system drive with it), and my "new" Windows testing platform is a 433 MHz Pentium-2 with 768 MB.
Guess what? The 433MHz machine with the extra memory actually runs Win2K Server faster and with much better response than the 800 MHz box did. It's a passable desktop (FreeBSD+WindowMaker was faster on that machine) although I use it mostly as a test server.
(Software set on both the old and new boxes includes: Apache 1.3, FileZilla server, MySQL 5.1, PHP 5, Perl 5.8, Python 2.4, Tcl8.4, the latest Cygwin, Firefox, VNC server, ClamAV, MSIE 6.0, Acrobat 6.0 Pro, UltraEdit 11.)
I'm pretty sure it was version 7.0. When I tried to install it, I got a message saying something like, "You cannot use the free edition on a server operating system". According to their FAQ, "AVG Free Edition cannot be installed on server operating systems (such as Windows Server 2003), nor can it be used for the scanning of network drives."
I should perhaps mention that I was happy with AVG until I switched that machine from 2000 Pro to 2000 Server and ran up against the issue I've described.
In any case, ClamAV seems to be working just fine for me. Since that's a WAMP testing machine which doesn't see much actual desktop usage - I don't use it for email/IM at all, or to surf unknown/untrusted sites, and MSIE gets used only for Windows Update - the scan-before-you-run thing is not a showstopper for me.
My Windows box would require a commercial AVG licence - they want to charge me simply because I run Win2K Server instead of Pro, regardless of what I actually use it for. So I use the Clam instead.
Of course, my other 5 machines run Linux or FreeBSD, and this isn't an issue for them.:)
(Spelling Nazi Alert: It's Norton, for crying out loud. Geeez.)
like when they reported that all 12 minors were alive and well
I didn't realise all those miners were under 18. (I thought kids weren't allowed to work in dangerous occupations.) In any case, I think it was the mining company that said all the miners were alive, and then later said that there'd been a misunderstanding of a message from the rescue team.
What you're saying is analogous to, "Bill told Mary that his new baby was a boy, and that's what Mary told me, therefore it's Mary's fault I sent Bill a blue blanket instead of a pink one, even though the child is actually a girl." It's a total non sequitur.
when they pulled out that 1967 signed document created with Word 2000
How can you tell which word processor a printed doc was created with?
In any case, you're trying to obfuscate the facts that (a) an advisor in the Bush Administration was responsible for exposing Valerie Plame, and (b) that Bush believes it's okay to spy on any and all Americans for pretty much any reason - or even for no reason at all - and is seeking a scapegoat to pin the "leak" of this info which Americans have every right to know about their leader.
And of course, there's your implication that anybody who doesn't like Bush has a murderous hatred of all Republicans and/or supports terrorism, both of which are ludicrous.
I'm glad I didn't read your high school's history textbook, then, because it appears to be wrong.
Austria was NOT "re-annexed" by Germany in the 1940s.
Austria was never part of Germany before the Anschluss of 1938, when Nazi Germany annexed Austria (for the first and only time). This union endured until the Allies conquered Germany in early 1945 and set up a separate provisional government for Austria under its pre-1938 borders.
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Showing the same thing in different countries is "getting local"? Eh?
*head explodes*
What driver problems?
I've installed it on about 7-8 different machines and it's done great on all of them.
Solaris isn't intended as a multimedia, gaming, or use-my-latest-bleeding-edge-tech-toys OS, it's intended to provide a stable platform in order to get work done.
If you put it on a generic workstation or server box, it pretty much kicks butt.
I use KDE apps in WindowMaker all the time.
What was your point again?
SuSE already have patches for this. I would imagine all the other major distros do, too.
Wine's been patched for the WMF thing as well.
And before anybody else says something silly about JavaScript, there's a patch for a Perl buffer overflow, too.
What's germane to the current discussion is that MySQL for Windows does exist, runs fine and fast, and MySQL AB provide both unofficial and official support for it same as for MySQL on most other platforms.
;)
The MySQL win32 mailing list and forum are plenty active, and MySQL AB are generally quite happy to sell you paid support for your servers running their product regardless of the OS that happens to be on them. Even if it's Windows.
MySQL works pretty much the same on Windows as it does anywhere else, the one major exception to this being MySQL Cluster, which is currently supported on Linux, Solaris, and OS X only.
I'd personally rather see people switch to an OSS operating system and run MySQL on that, but that's just my 2 öre. But if you really want to run it on Windows - go for it.
W3C never did any such thing. In order for the BLINK tag to be deprecated, it would have had to be part of the HTML specification at some point in time, which it never was.
That's the good news. The bad news is here.
Okay, let's review:
OP claimed it was a fact that wearing corrective lenses weakens your eyes.
I disproved that assertion by pointing out that after 30+ years of wearing glasses, my eyesight's now better than it was 10 years ago. OP's contention was stated in such a manner that it required only one counterexample to prove it wrong. I provided one. OP was wrong.
You were told to do eye exercises or you'd have to wear glasses. I don't dispute this. (And yes, I'm familiar with "lazy eye" - my kid brother had to do those exercises, too.) I've no need to dispute it, since - though it may be fact - it has nothing whatsoever to do either with the OP's claim or my rebuttal of said claim.
This is what's sometimes known as a non sequitur (Latin for "it does not follow").
In other words, you just wasted your time trying to disprove a statement that I didn't make. Thanks for playing, though.
This is not just wind in sails. In fact, MySQL AB have on staff (and have had for a couple of years now) several highly knowledgeable and qualified individuals whose primary job is to work with the developers to maximise MySQL's SQL:2003 compliance, and changes in this direction occur with each release. (Yes, I said "maximise" - nobody implements all of SQL:2003 completely.)
If you run the server in Traditional or Strict mode, I think you might be surprised. (The reason this isn't the default behaviour is due to all the legacy apps out there that expect the old non-compliant behaviour.)
The parent is either (a) ignorant of this, or (b) aware of it and thus trolling.
*yawn*
Wrong.
That's what I thought, too, and that may be what some folks (even some working for DIMIA) try to tell you, but it is not necessarily so.
I became a permanent resident in Australia in July 2005, 14 months after having obtained an Australian work permit (in May 2004).
It's nothing of the sort - it's complete and utter codswallop, as I can tell you from personal experience.
I've always been quite nearsighted, and have had to wear corrective lenses since age 6. The last two times I've needed a new prescription, it's been to get a weaker one, because the natural tendency to become farsighted as one ages has actually improved my vision a bit.
This is exactly what I was told by the practitioner in both cases - one being an optometrist in the USA, and the other an opthamologist in Australia.
So please quit spreading disinformation. Thank you.
I'm not sure that I can agree with your oil-and-water viewpoint, which is based on an unequal comparison ("A requires this, B does that"). Nevertheless, it's a step in the right direction, because we do need to distinguish between the two.
I think it's possible (sometimes) both to educate and entertain. My daughter (not quite 3) seems to have learnt quite a bit from some of the videos and TV shows she's watched - letters, numbers, names of things, etc.
And what people find entertaining varies from person to person. For example, I find noodling about with various scripting languages to be a great diversion (currently I've been learning a bit of bash in this way, and it's already proved useful in my work).
However, it is also true that education and entertainment are not always the same thing, and we should quit trying to pretend that they are. And we should quit encouraging our kids to believe that they are.
So you mod me a troll, and snigger at me because you think I'm wrong?
Have you considered things like earthquakes, or attacks by the military or terrorists?
Can you really predict the future with certainty? I can't, and I don't pretend that I can, either. Speaking of the future...
Have you considered the fact that nuclear waste disposal requires that the stuff be stored for 10,000 years or more? Can you guarantee that there won't be geological shifts or that somebody won't dig it up during that time? Can you even design a sign that is absolutely certain to communicate to your descendants 50 or 60 centuries hence, "Don't excavate here, what you dig up can kill you and everybody in your vicinity and make it uninhabitable for generations"?
You'll have to pardon me if I prefer to err on the side of caution in this regard.
I am still of the view that fission power is inherently dangerous and deadly, not just to us and our neighbours, but to our posterity and its environment as well. Why invest so much time and effort in trying to make it "safe" and rationalising that we can make it so when there are much less hazardous alternatives?
Hmmm....
A coal-fired power plant explodes, you might have a few dozen deaths and maybe a couple hundred injured. A nuclear plant goes critical, you've half a continent growing three-eyed frogs for the next couple hundred years.
Coal is more or less non-toxic, whereas the fatal dose for plutonium is less than a microgramme.
A terrorist with a truckload of coal can burn down or blow up a building. A terrorist with a rucksack full of refined uranium or plutonium can level a city - or turn an average-sized US state into a giant cancer ward.
Given a choice between the two, I'll take coal.
Although I'd prefer to see biomass/hydrogen, solar, hydro, and wind predominate - the potential of these sources hasn't yet begun to be tapped. Or maybe fusion - heaps of power without the potential for all those fissionables to get loose.
Right. Try telling that to the folks who used to live in Chernobyl.
Dear Sir,
I am glad to hear that your readership disapprove of this article as strongly as I. As a loyal reader and paying subscriber, I abhor the implication that Slashdot.org is a haven for cannibalism.
It is well known that we now have the problem relatively under control, and that it is Kuro5hin.org who now suffer the largest casualties in this area.
And what do you think the Argylls ate in Aden. Arabs?
Yours etc.
Zontar T. Mindless (in a white wine sauce with shallots, mushrooms and garlic)
The "box" is the idea that what we can do with our computers is determined by corporations making (closed) software.
With Linux (and other FOSS), there is no box, and this is exactly what Microsoft do not wish people to realise.
I would argue that most "normal" users don't need a GB of RAM to surf the 'Net, check email, chat with their buddies, and listen to mp3s - or even watch DVDs. I don't see why anyone who's not a gamer, developer, or involved in multimedia content creation would need more than 512 or even 256.
That being said... My old 800MHz Celeron had 384 MB RAM and ran pretty well. That machine just died (IDE controller crapped itself and took the system drive with it), and my "new" Windows testing platform is a 433 MHz Pentium-2 with 768 MB.
Guess what? The 433MHz machine with the extra memory actually runs Win2K Server faster and with much better response than the 800 MHz box did. It's a passable desktop (FreeBSD+WindowMaker was faster on that machine) although I use it mostly as a test server.
(Software set on both the old and new boxes includes: Apache 1.3, FileZilla server, MySQL 5.1, PHP 5, Perl 5.8, Python 2.4, Tcl8.4, the latest Cygwin, Firefox, VNC server, ClamAV, MSIE 6.0, Acrobat 6.0 Pro, UltraEdit 11.)
I'm pretty sure it was version 7.0. When I tried to install it, I got a message saying something like, "You cannot use the free edition on a server operating system". According to their FAQ, "AVG Free Edition cannot be installed on server operating systems (such as Windows Server 2003), nor can it be used for the scanning of network drives."
I should perhaps mention that I was happy with AVG until I switched that machine from 2000 Pro to 2000 Server and ran up against the issue I've described.
In any case, ClamAV seems to be working just fine for me. Since that's a WAMP testing machine which doesn't see much actual desktop usage - I don't use it for email/IM at all, or to surf unknown/untrusted sites, and MSIE gets used only for Windows Update - the scan-before-you-run thing is not a showstopper for me.
It is good that we have alternatives, though.
My Windows box would require a commercial AVG licence - they want to charge me simply because I run Win2K Server instead of Pro, regardless of what I actually use it for. So I use the Clam instead.
:)
Of course, my other 5 machines run Linux or FreeBSD, and this isn't an issue for them.
(Spelling Nazi Alert: It's Norton, for crying out loud. Geeez.)
I didn't realise all those miners were under 18. (I thought kids weren't allowed to work in dangerous occupations.) In any case, I think it was the mining company that said all the miners were alive, and then later said that there'd been a misunderstanding of a message from the rescue team.
What you're saying is analogous to, "Bill told Mary that his new baby was a boy, and that's what Mary told me, therefore it's Mary's fault I sent Bill a blue blanket instead of a pink one, even though the child is actually a girl." It's a total non sequitur.
How can you tell which word processor a printed doc was created with?
In any case, you're trying to obfuscate the facts that (a) an advisor in the Bush Administration was responsible for exposing Valerie Plame, and (b) that Bush believes it's okay to spy on any and all Americans for pretty much any reason - or even for no reason at all - and is seeking a scapegoat to pin the "leak" of this info which Americans have every right to know about their leader.
And of course, there's your implication that anybody who doesn't like Bush has a murderous hatred of all Republicans and/or supports terrorism, both of which are ludicrous.
Exactly. Any language used for file and text processing can be used to process ODF.
And since it's XML, you can also use XSLT, XPath, and DOM processing.
[Uncertainly:] Whoosh, then.
I'm glad I didn't read your high school's history textbook, then, because it appears to be wrong.
Austria was NOT "re-annexed" by Germany in the 1940s.
Austria was never part of Germany before the Anschluss of 1938, when Nazi Germany annexed Austria (for the first and only time). This union endured until the Allies conquered Germany in early 1945 and set up a separate provisional government for Austria under its pre-1938 borders.
Heh. I too enjoy the cruel and heartless vivisection of words from time to time. ;)
The fact that both of my posts got modded up should lead those of you still in 2005 to suspect that, in 2006, the mods are still on crack.
Cheers.