I dare you to list one single reason why a modern society _needs_ to _hunt_ for _food_. There are none.
Are you arguing against hunting or gardens? People do both for the same reasons -- enjoyment, connectedness with nature, knowing what's actually *in* their food, even tradition. Just because you don't see a reason doesn't mean there aren't any.
Besides, the domain name makes sense from a different context: the viewer's. When a viewer in his district goes there, it would be ostensibly be *their* congressman. It's like "MyFreeCreditReport.com" or "MyCorporation.com" or whatever. They're not claiming ownership -- they're offering service for the viewer, with a name relative to the viewer.
Should we sue Intuit because they're claiming ownership of corporations created at mycorporation.com?
Damn, they ARE doing well. They made 211% of their income in 2007, WITHOUT counting XP/Vista or Office! I bet if they include those, it'd be a zillion.
Ahmm. You mean the land we paid $15M for after we'd won the war? How often do you see that happen? If it were anyone else, the land would simply have been taken, tough luck, so sorry.
The place I work has taken it a step further in that the machines have unofficial names that aren't in DNS. The machines actually have names like (dept)(purpose)(location)(number)(product), which is admittedly hard to remember, let alone call out. Unfortunately, our two QA boxes were dubbed "Laurel" and "Hardy" in a casual conversation about their "personalities," and the names stuck for people who were privy to the conversation. Of course, this was before I started working there, so I was confused as hell when someone told me to log into Laurel, which isn't an actual server name. WTF?
People continue to talk about aliens at Area 51 for 2 reasons:
1. They are mentally incapable of stopping. (And need help.) 2. They enjoy it, and think it's entertaining. 3. They just don't know any better.
People continue to talk about aliens at Area 51 for 3! 3 reasons:
1. They are mentally incapable of stopping. (And need help.) 2. They enjoy it, and think it's entertaining. 3. They just don't know any better. 4. They have been abducted by aliens at Area 51
The 4 reasons people continue to talk about aliens at Area 51 are:
Having been on a few sinking ships, I haven't found that to be the case. What I've seen, oddly, is the opposite. People get nicer once the realize there's no future in it for anyone. At that point, it becomes about who remembers you and how, and whether they can get you into wherever they land next.
At a certain point, it just becomes collecting your paycheck until its your turn. No point in being a dick about it.
There's a lot to this. Sometimes people are doing what they do, not because they enjoy it, but because it's a stable source of income and they don't want to jeopardize it. A layoff can be painful, but a smart, positive-thinking person can use it as the kick in the ass they need to do what they've been wanting to do, now that the old gig is gone no matter what.
Which misses the point of this article: Mirroring is not a backup solution. Replication is essentially mirroring, but via the database instead of on the disk/controller level. If someone issues a "delete from important_table" on your database, it'll be replicated down to the slaves. Replication solves the problem of availability -- not the problem of data backups.
Databases are all about consistency, and your concerns about snapshots are unwarranted if your app is correctly using transactions. The backup process will not see partial transactions -- only complete ones. The in-flight changes will be picked up in the next snapshot. Every database worth its salt has a way of dumping internally-consistent (committed) data to a file for later restoration.
You're right. No sane woman would see the difference between full nudity and breasfeeding. It truly is black and white issue to women. Thank you for helping us to better understand this "woman" creature we've so often heard of.
In fact, I've seen several times in this discussion where people claim that breastfeeding does not evoke a sexual response in observers, so I'm glad to hear that completely naked women would not evoke a sexual response either. This being the case, I vote to allow women to completely disrobe in public.
You gotta draw the line somewhere. For most people, allowing public breastfeeding is an accommodation afforded to nursing mothers. That doesn't mean that women don't see the difference between breastfeeding and nudity, or could not reasonably draw a distinction between the two.
You start by telling me I'm arguing against human progress (WTF?), and then proceed to apologize for a group of people whose behavior was obviously and apologetically out of line for the better part of a year, and even call their work "credible." You then suggest that more people of this caliber are necessary, ignoring the fact that more people will not diffuse the laziness or alleviate the stretched budgets you claim are the source of the problem.
No, the problem is groupthink, editors who refuse to run stories contrary to their political views, and news stations who position their organization for ratings rather than their informational value.
Yes, I'm saying that simple, unfiltered data is preferable to lies and spin. The fact that reporters spin and lie to fit their personal and organizational agendas is well-known. To call them on their dishonesty is never "stale."
They are inadequate on their own. Unfortunately, many "reporters" have gone outside of their charge of "getting to the meat of the issue" and have become propagandists and king makers. When that happened, their value was lost and the simple transcript is of greater informational value.
Real reporters dig in no matter who is the center of the controversy - not just when it's someone they don't agree with. They don't ask political figures loaded questions and insult them, they chase the truth. They don't push agendas, they tell you what all of the agendas are and tell you the implications with an even hand.
Modern reporters are closer to tabloid writers and publicists, and their value is on par with those professions.
I don't see how a failed discussion site about general technology has anything to do with "failing with Linux." I went to his site a few times, but found that it was missing a sort of critical mass that is necessary to make it an interesting discussion.
Yes, I know I'm feeding the trolls. They just look so cute and I'm still in the holiday spirit, I guess.
This stuff doesn't happen overnight, assuming it happens at all. If we're talking a hundred years, people move around. If Manhattan starts having flooding problems, people will sell off and leave it. Not really a big deal -- certainly no different than has happened countless times in other former boomtowns. Honestly, the idea of fitting 3 million people on an island is a little wacky to begin with.
Also kind of strange how the climate does not cycle over 11yrs in tune with the cosmic rays from sunspots.
Why is that strange? You've got two phenomena, oscillating at different frequencies. Earth's cycles don't affect those of the sun's, and the sun's don't affect the Earth's so drastically as to force a significant change in the Earth's rhythm.
So what happens? I'd hazard a guess that they add up. When the cycles both peak, you get a particularly hot year. When they're both low, you get a cold year. Most of the time they're out of sync, where a low sun cycle cools off a high point in the Earth's cycle, or a high sun cycle warms up what would have normally been a particularly cold winter.
When I can get home in 45 minutes, why would I take a train where I have to stand around for an hour before the damn thing even leaves the station? Have you ever lived on a train line where the train runs once every hour and hit the platform just as the train was pulling away?
I live in suburbia and work in the NYC Metro area, and there's mass transit a-plenty. Unfortunately, it's so badly run that I won't take it if I don't have to. If I'm working in NYC, I take the train because there's little option. Anywhere else and I'm driving.
Maybe, but the hardest part will always be dealing with the general public due to the long tail on car ownership. People are still running cars from 15-20 years ago, and it's tough to tell them to buy a new one.
No, it's better to start moving them over now so that the tail begins shortening as soon as possible. You can worry about the generation concurrently, but never consider it a blocker to get people moved over to the new model.
Another point to consider is that if you start moving people over sooner than later, there's an incentive for private enterprise to start building out the infrastructure. It also forces providers to address the infrastructure instead of just idly speculating about capacity/pollution/etc.
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My Linux laptop can move from one building to another without rebooting.
Now with that trivial criterion met, we can declare that it's officially the Year of Linux on the Desktop! w00t!
Indeed. I would hope it wouldn't be lost on these generations of black youth that it was predominantly *white* people who voted for him. Every black person in the country could have voted for him and he still wouldn't have won if racism and oppression was as rampant as many people claim.
Racial healing? Reality check? The removal of an excuse? All of those things, I'd hope.
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I dare you to list one single reason why a modern society _needs_ to _hunt_ for _food_. There are none.
Are you arguing against hunting or gardens? People do both for the same reasons -- enjoyment, connectedness with nature, knowing what's actually *in* their food, even tradition. Just because you don't see a reason doesn't mean there aren't any.
Besides, the domain name makes sense from a different context: the viewer's. When a viewer in his district goes there, it would be ostensibly be *their* congressman. It's like "MyFreeCreditReport.com" or "MyCorporation.com" or whatever. They're not claiming ownership -- they're offering service for the viewer, with a name relative to the viewer.
Should we sue Intuit because they're claiming ownership of corporations created at mycorporation.com?
"Relational." "Rational" isn't a word that's often applied to MySQL.
Damn, they ARE doing well. They made 211% of their income in 2007, WITHOUT counting XP/Vista or Office! I bet if they include those, it'd be a zillion.
Ahmm. You mean the land we paid $15M for after we'd won the war? How often do you see that happen? If it were anyone else, the land would simply have been taken, tough luck, so sorry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Cession
Face it, Hater. The United States have always been gracious winners.
The place I work has taken it a step further in that the machines have unofficial names that aren't in DNS. The machines actually have names like (dept)(purpose)(location)(number)(product), which is admittedly hard to remember, let alone call out. Unfortunately, our two QA boxes were dubbed "Laurel" and "Hardy" in a casual conversation about their "personalities," and the names stuck for people who were privy to the conversation. Of course, this was before I started working there, so I was confused as hell when someone told me to log into Laurel, which isn't an actual server name. WTF?
You have no idea how right you are:
http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2008/12/02/2008-12-02_it_took_90_minutes_for_daily_news_to_ste.html
No biggie. Just reminded me of that skit is all. :)
People continue to talk about aliens at Area 51 for 2 reasons:
1. They are mentally incapable of stopping. (And need help.)
2. They enjoy it, and think it's entertaining.
3. They just don't know any better.
People continue to talk about aliens at Area 51 for 3! 3 reasons:
1. They are mentally incapable of stopping. (And need help.)
2. They enjoy it, and think it's entertaining.
3. They just don't know any better.
4. They have been abducted by aliens at Area 51
The 4 reasons people continue to talk about aliens at Area 51 are:
No, wait, start over...
Having been on a few sinking ships, I haven't found that to be the case. What I've seen, oddly, is the opposite. People get nicer once the realize there's no future in it for anyone. At that point, it becomes about who remembers you and how, and whether they can get you into wherever they land next.
At a certain point, it just becomes collecting your paycheck until its your turn. No point in being a dick about it.
There's a lot to this. Sometimes people are doing what they do, not because they enjoy it, but because it's a stable source of income and they don't want to jeopardize it. A layoff can be painful, but a smart, positive-thinking person can use it as the kick in the ass they need to do what they've been wanting to do, now that the old gig is gone no matter what.
Which misses the point of this article: Mirroring is not a backup solution. Replication is essentially mirroring, but via the database instead of on the disk/controller level. If someone issues a "delete from important_table" on your database, it'll be replicated down to the slaves. Replication solves the problem of availability -- not the problem of data backups.
Databases are all about consistency, and your concerns about snapshots are unwarranted if your app is correctly using transactions. The backup process will not see partial transactions -- only complete ones. The in-flight changes will be picked up in the next snapshot. Every database worth its salt has a way of dumping internally-consistent (committed) data to a file for later restoration.
You're right. No sane woman would see the difference between full nudity and breasfeeding. It truly is black and white issue to women. Thank you for helping us to better understand this "woman" creature we've so often heard of.
In fact, I've seen several times in this discussion where people claim that breastfeeding does not evoke a sexual response in observers, so I'm glad to hear that completely naked women would not evoke a sexual response either. This being the case, I vote to allow women to completely disrobe in public.
You gotta draw the line somewhere. For most people, allowing public breastfeeding is an accommodation afforded to nursing mothers. That doesn't mean that women don't see the difference between breastfeeding and nudity, or could not reasonably draw a distinction between the two.
That should be "obviously and unapologetically."
Wow. I don't even know where to start.
You start by telling me I'm arguing against human progress (WTF?), and then proceed to apologize for a group of people whose behavior was obviously and apologetically out of line for the better part of a year, and even call their work "credible." You then suggest that more people of this caliber are necessary, ignoring the fact that more people will not diffuse the laziness or alleviate the stretched budgets you claim are the source of the problem.
No, the problem is groupthink, editors who refuse to run stories contrary to their political views, and news stations who position their organization for ratings rather than their informational value.
Yes, I'm saying that simple, unfiltered data is preferable to lies and spin. The fact that reporters spin and lie to fit their personal and organizational agendas is well-known. To call them on their dishonesty is never "stale."
They are inadequate on their own. Unfortunately, many "reporters" have gone outside of their charge of "getting to the meat of the issue" and have become propagandists and king makers. When that happened, their value was lost and the simple transcript is of greater informational value.
Real reporters dig in no matter who is the center of the controversy - not just when it's someone they don't agree with. They don't ask political figures loaded questions and insult them, they chase the truth. They don't push agendas, they tell you what all of the agendas are and tell you the implications with an even hand.
Modern reporters are closer to tabloid writers and publicists, and their value is on par with those professions.
I don't see how a failed discussion site about general technology has anything to do with "failing with Linux." I went to his site a few times, but found that it was missing a sort of critical mass that is necessary to make it an interesting discussion.
Yes, I know I'm feeding the trolls. They just look so cute and I'm still in the holiday spirit, I guess.
Nuke the Pacific! Sounds like a plan! We'll get right on that. We'll even use clean uranium.
This stuff doesn't happen overnight, assuming it happens at all. If we're talking a hundred years, people move around. If Manhattan starts having flooding problems, people will sell off and leave it. Not really a big deal -- certainly no different than has happened countless times in other former boomtowns. Honestly, the idea of fitting 3 million people on an island is a little wacky to begin with.
Why is that strange? You've got two phenomena, oscillating at different frequencies. Earth's cycles don't affect those of the sun's, and the sun's don't affect the Earth's so drastically as to force a significant change in the Earth's rhythm.
So what happens? I'd hazard a guess that they add up. When the cycles both peak, you get a particularly hot year. When they're both low, you get a cold year. Most of the time they're out of sync, where a low sun cycle cools off a high point in the Earth's cycle, or a high sun cycle warms up what would have normally been a particularly cold winter.
It has nothing to do with "me first."
When I can get home in 45 minutes, why would I take a train where I have to stand around for an hour before the damn thing even leaves the station? Have you ever lived on a train line where the train runs once every hour and hit the platform just as the train was pulling away?
I live in suburbia and work in the NYC Metro area, and there's mass transit a-plenty. Unfortunately, it's so badly run that I won't take it if I don't have to. If I'm working in NYC, I take the train because there's little option. Anywhere else and I'm driving.
Maybe, but the hardest part will always be dealing with the general public due to the long tail on car ownership. People are still running cars from 15-20 years ago, and it's tough to tell them to buy a new one.
No, it's better to start moving them over now so that the tail begins shortening as soon as possible. You can worry about the generation concurrently, but never consider it a blocker to get people moved over to the new model.
Another point to consider is that if you start moving people over sooner than later, there's an incentive for private enterprise to start building out the infrastructure. It also forces providers to address the infrastructure instead of just idly speculating about capacity/pollution/etc.
My Linux laptop can move from one building to another without rebooting.
Now with that trivial criterion met, we can declare that it's officially the Year of Linux on the Desktop! w00t!
Indeed. Why do I care about the crash performance of my car, when I've never been in a crash in 15 years of driving?
Indeed. I would hope it wouldn't be lost on these generations of black youth that it was predominantly *white* people who voted for him. Every black person in the country could have voted for him and he still wouldn't have won if racism and oppression was as rampant as many people claim.
Racial healing? Reality check? The removal of an excuse? All of those things, I'd hope.