Second, Tesco can adjust its shelves to suit the profile of the local area, or even the time of day. Tesco in Brixton, an area of south London settled by immigrants from the Caribbean, sells plantains, a kind of savoury banana that can also be found for sale on market stalls outside. Tesco stores in central London do not, but are instead designed around selling sandwiches to office workers at lunchtime and then ready-meals to them in the evening.
A database isn't needed for this. If the two Tescos were instead simply two unrelated corner shops, they'd still be selling different things. Local shops tend to do that - sell things that are in demand instead of things that are not in demand. No special database needed.
It's useful for other stuff though, like the article says, customer profiles means you can send a specific set of discount vouchers to each customer based on their preferences. You could get a similar effect by shipping all vouchers to all customers, but I suspect this would be less effective as most people are more likely to use a couple of vouchers that they find interesting rather than look through a booklet of dozens of vouchers to find ones that are interesting to them.
The dust jacket of a book that was to be sold in-store was recently altered because a Tesco buyer did not like it.
That's a bit silly, really. It leads to bland stuff that has been toned down to not offend anybody. Sure, if it offends a whole bunch of people, it might make sense to alter it, but one person?
In this case, we'd freeze the pages whose quality is undisputed..." The question is, however, how do you determine when something is undisputed.
Good point. An edit is by its very nature somebody who is 'disputing' the current content of an article, so really, restricting the editing of pages because they are undisputed is never necessary - if they were undisputed, there wouldn't be any edits to restrict.
Stargate SG1, while being sci-fi, does try to adhere to real science and real scientific theory in many ways. Granted, some aspects can't simply to maintain the story.
Three words: Out. Of. Phase. Apparently you can pass through concrete walls, but the concrete floor is still as solid as ever.
The reason that bugs me is because the stuff that they get halfway accurate is way above kids' heads - so much so that it might as well be complete nonsense - but the basic stuff, that kids can easily spot as being bogus, they get wrong.
Granted, they redeem themselves slightly by taking the piss out of it in a later episode, but still, let's not hold SG-1 up as some sort of shining example.
I hear people say that things aren't so bad with the current state of desktop computing. After all, Windows rarely crashes anymore and you can surf the web, play games, read email, etc.
You know something is crap when "it doesn't get all fucked up when you try to use it" is considered a feature and not the bare minimum to be expected.
'What has Microsoft given us? It has given us Windows, sure, it was buggy earlier and a lot of things didn't work like they were supposed to (plug and play springs to mind) but it was a pioneering effort.
From the dictionary:
pioneer: One who opens up new areas of thought, research, or development
In what sense was Windows ever a "pioneering effort"?
The whole article reads as if it were written by a not-terribly-bright teenager who thinks he's a computer expert because he's managed to install Power Toys. Take a look at an early paragraph:
I love Microsoft. Absolutely adore it and what's more, I hate Linux. I think it's the most over rated piece of software ever built and survives simply out of spite and not because it is terribly good at doing something because it is not!
Anybody else get the impression that if the author read it out loud, he'd tack on "...so THERE!" and stick his tongue out?
Is it wrong to love Microsoft? It's about as wrong as Michael Jackson love. Next question.
There's more information about the Data Protection Act from the Information Commissioner's Office website. Generally speaking, a sensible bit of legislation, one which the USA should look into implementing. Basically, it protects citizen's privacy. There are all sorts of loopholes and things (hey, it's the law), but the general idea is a good one.
He's making a legally binding statement that the data is what was asked for and not something he decided to make up on the spot. I fail to see what your omission of IPs from your logs has to do with that. For that matter, the ease in which it's possible to find the logs in the file system is irrelevant too. What are you getting at?
You would like to think that companies would consult with their lawyers that could advise them on their legal rights and responsibilities before they took drastic, unnecessary steps like turning a lot of personal/private documentation over to the police.
Indeed. If I were a Rackspace customer, I'd be looking for a new host right about now. Who wants a host that gives you a week of downtime for absolutely no good reason? What business can afford a week of downtime? That's essentially what you are risking when you go with Rackspace, because they have just demonstrated that they don't have a proper process in place for handling subpoenas and that their employees aren't smart enough to handle them without adult supervision.
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Ah, gotcha. That's terrible wording though.
Come off it. There's no shortage of idiots in the world.
A database isn't needed for this. If the two Tescos were instead simply two unrelated corner shops, they'd still be selling different things. Local shops tend to do that - sell things that are in demand instead of things that are not in demand. No special database needed.
It's useful for other stuff though, like the article says, customer profiles means you can send a specific set of discount vouchers to each customer based on their preferences. You could get a similar effect by shipping all vouchers to all customers, but I suspect this would be less effective as most people are more likely to use a couple of vouchers that they find interesting rather than look through a booklet of dozens of vouchers to find ones that are interesting to them.
That's a bit silly, really. It leads to bland stuff that has been toned down to not offend anybody. Sure, if it offends a whole bunch of people, it might make sense to alter it, but one person?
I, for one, hope women will welcome me as their new remote-control-weilding overlord.
Isn't that forwards compatible?
Good point. An edit is by its very nature somebody who is 'disputing' the current content of an article, so really, restricting the editing of pages because they are undisputed is never necessary - if they were undisputed, there wouldn't be any edits to restrict.
Stargate SG1, while being sci-fi, does try to adhere to real science and real scientific theory in many ways. Granted, some aspects can't simply to maintain the story.
Three words: Out. Of. Phase. Apparently you can pass through concrete walls, but the concrete floor is still as solid as ever.
The reason that bugs me is because the stuff that they get halfway accurate is way above kids' heads - so much so that it might as well be complete nonsense - but the basic stuff, that kids can easily spot as being bogus, they get wrong.
Granted, they redeem themselves slightly by taking the piss out of it in a later episode, but still, let's not hold SG-1 up as some sort of shining example.
On the other hand, less honourable kids might watch it, thump Billy and steal his test tubes.
You are referring to USA laws. Pick a hosting company that isn't subject to USA laws.
You know something is crap when "it doesn't get all fucked up when you try to use it" is considered a feature and not the bare minimum to be expected.
From the dictionary:
In what sense was Windows ever a "pioneering effort"?
The whole article reads as if it were written by a not-terribly-bright teenager who thinks he's a computer expert because he's managed to install Power Toys. Take a look at an early paragraph:
Anybody else get the impression that if the author read it out loud, he'd tack on "...so THERE!" and stick his tongue out?
Is it wrong to love Microsoft? It's about as wrong as Michael Jackson love. Next question.
There's more information about the Data Protection Act from the Information Commissioner's Office website. Generally speaking, a sensible bit of legislation, one which the USA should look into implementing. Basically, it protects citizen's privacy. There are all sorts of loopholes and things (hey, it's the law), but the general idea is a good one.
He's making a legally binding statement that the data is what was asked for and not something he decided to make up on the spot. I fail to see what your omission of IPs from your logs has to do with that. For that matter, the ease in which it's possible to find the logs in the file system is irrelevant too. What are you getting at?
Information wants to be free, but the FBI took it into custody.
Indeed. If I were a Rackspace customer, I'd be looking for a new host right about now. Who wants a host that gives you a week of downtime for absolutely no good reason? What business can afford a week of downtime? That's essentially what you are risking when you go with Rackspace, because they have just demonstrated that they don't have a proper process in place for handling subpoenas and that their employees aren't smart enough to handle them without adult supervision.