huh, documentation problems in POSTGRES??? wtf, their html documentation is the most comprehensive I have ever seen in my life. They even go so far as to explain how the internals of the db work. why not just try installing postgres and looking at//postgres-8.0.4/html/index.html
Also, why would anyone ever use PHP with postgres when PyGreSQL works so much better.
especially with auto vacuuming, postgres has bcome awesome. Now if only PyGreSQL functions were re-entrant, that would be heaven. Still, I have yet to find something as awesome as psql in any RDBMS.
Democracy isn't really the panacea that people hope for. It is simply a shift in power from the ruling king/lords/aristocrats to the "majority." Its funny that the advocates of democracy all for some reason unknown to me assume that the "majority" always HAS to be right...
In practicality a normal democracy follows the path of the US. First, the system works (albeit a bit slowly than its couterpart the monarchy/dictatorship) but then later on, minority groups figure out that they can get the government to do things for them to the detriment of everybody else as long as they have enough people. At this point democracies start to fall apart. The congress in the US is filled to the brim with idiotic politicians who are motivated only by how many votes they get in their home state. The large amounts of earmarks and lobying for campaign funds is clearly descriptive of that. Like Plato said, "Democracies are the rule of the incompetent average." and we (technically advvanced) are seeing the average carry out its stupid actions. This is a classic case of differing goals and incentives. The goal of the US government itself is to ensure the safety of its citizens, and ensure a minimum level of order required for economic conditions etc. However, the goal of the people who run this organization (bureacrats and politicans) have completely different goals. The bureacrat (the ultimate level of mediocraty) wants only the saftey of his position. Thus they try to add in as many positions as necessary, form networks and set up an environment where they can not be fired. Never mind that removal of redundancies is a nessecity for any organization whether it be corporate or federal. The politicians are supposed to watch this behaviour of the bureacrats and atleast keep a semblnce of efficiency in the system. But... the politician has absolutely no incentive to do that. Politicians care only for votes so that they can get more power. Reducing bureacratic crap does not get easy votes. Wasting the government's money on crap projects like aiding a local company of building a railway track so that poeple can have transport at the cost of everybody else does. Thus, the US government never really gets around to doing what its suppose to.
NO KIDDING. Talk about using the wrong tool for he task. Spreadsheets were never designed for data storage, databases were (and still are). Spreadsheets are designed for calculation, simple quick simulation type calculations. If the spreadsheet is going into more than ~100 lines, it si time to move to a database or dedicated application. I am ammazed people still use spreadsheets because with languages like python, scilab, bash etc. as in specialized scripting languages, designing algorithms is so easy that the calculation function of spreadsheets becomes useless and the data storage function was crap to begin with. So... why do people use spreadsheets anyway.
probably something with the learning curve but you'd think that accountants would be trained to use the best tools for the job (ie. data storage and management and thus databases).
BUT... Can you really call yourself a gentooer until you try emerge -e world seven or eight times trying to figure out if -O5 is stable or you have to drop back down to -O4...
what happens when the code the computer so dearly cares about gets a bug because the idiot who designed the code doesn't even know what a cockpit looks like? No matter how hard somebody tries, they can never replace the experience pilots come with. Airbus may think that code cannot make mistakes but it fails to realize that the code is also incapable of taking care of unaccounted situations or using experience or the understanding that a pilot has of airplanes.
agreed. When it comes to flying planes, its the pilots who are actually flying the plane (and have over 1500 hours of flight experience) who should be making the decisions, not a computer program written up by a team which has never even been in cockpit before. Oh well, we have seen this kind of crap with Airbus before when it implemented its fly-by-wire system even the pilots specifically requested that it keep the old hydraulic systems. Hmm. maybe I should start paying attention to what kind of plane I am flying in from here on now.
what would be really good is if we could find a way to also upgrade the ram. in the console, there is unlikely to be much dedicated RAM and that would kill performance. so if we coul grab the power of the cell and increase RAM in the xbox, that would be good. Personally, I think a better alternative would be to grab one of those blade servers and turn it into a slave computer.
I would have to disagree with trying to learn java for a starting language. It si too limited in ficus and there is nothing special about objects. They are just records: things people had back in the 1985 but never used until 1990 in c++. Objects only became popular with java because they were an easy marketing tool.
The basics of programing are not in objects or syntactical structures but that is what java will try to teach you. The basics of programming are in telling the computer what to do in a simple and organized manner. The forced object oriented nature of java and the variable typing just get in the way and cause a headache. In a corparate environment, this is a secondary concern and the way java forced inept programmers of write decent code is more important (that and the fact that it already is popular helps minimize feature copies and ensures that you won't be fired if you suggest java no matter how stupid a decision it is) but for learning, it is possibly the worst language you can think of.
For example: java does not have several useful capabilities like function pointers, advanced types (think python dictionaries) and most of the reflection capabilities are locked up in the obscure reflection libraries which are not even supposed to be used by anybody other than java IDEs and debuggers etc. even though these techniques are very useful. (if anybody thinks function pointers are not useful, just try writting a GUI program in JAVA and you will suddenly wish that you had them).
Start with an advanced language like Python and LISP. Both these languages have interactive interpretters which means that you can try out your code on the fly, are well documented, and come with every Linux distribution out there. These languages also have very advanced capabilities and do not force the programmer to use a certain style and let the programmer do what suits them best.
I agree. When CFCs were accused of causing the ozone hole, the main CFC hit upon was freon. Now, I do not know if freon can really destroy large amounts of ozone molecules but what I do know is that freon is HEAVIER than air. there is no way that it could be responsible for the destruction of the ozone layer because it would never get up there.
Gentoo stable is actually MUCH more upto date than Debian stable-outdated branch (infact it is often one of the first distributions to get some updates). In many cases, it varies based on the program and who is managing the ebuild but that happens for everything. DO NOT use the packages in the ~ branch unless you check up on them first. they usually have some serious bugs to be there.
Quirks you should know about:
Picking between stage 1/2/3/ 3/1 etc... I would advise stage 1 but then I am also called insane in some cases.
Also, modding use flags for your conveniance is a MUST.
Be good at looking at config files. there is generally very little problm here since the documentation at gentoo.org, forums.gentoo.org and gentoo-wiki.org is very very good.
If you do a stage 1, be sure to mod the USE flags and cflags because they can usually use some improvements.
Lastly, in gentoo, everything is compiled from source and the install process is very low level (there is a GTK installer included in the live CD but I would advise against that since the installation process gets the user used to gentoo and how it does things). Read up on the install docs very well and expect to spend ~10 min more per package (once again depending on package) compiling. Other than that, portage is awesome. It is one of the best (along with apt-get and the like) package managers I have seen.
Well, now I know I made the right decision when I started using LaTeX for all my presentation documents and flat textfiles w/i postgres databases for all my data storage needs.
actually, the Indian government is sadly even stupider than that.
It is actively pursuing affirmative action for ~50% of the workforce. basically, companies will be forced to waste half their HR budget on hiring idiots because the people in the India parliament have a vacuum for a brain.
Try enforcing that one...
Politicians (which are the ones making up democratic governments. Them and beuracrats) are best defined as anything wih 2 legs and no brain
telling them to do something sensible once in a while is pretty hard and doing something to force them to do things in a sensible/ethical way usually fails (just look at the effort at ethical lobying in the US and how it is a miserable faliure)
You seem to completely ignore the main reason for using a microkernel -- the ability to prove (even mathematically) that the kernel is correct.
Even if it is possible to prove that the core kernel is mathematically correct, that does not mean that it is possible to prove that all the associated daemons such as those for memory manegemet, file access, and device drivers are. Furthermore, even if somebody does manage to prove that all those are mathematically correct, it still does nothing to prove the whole system as a whole doe to communication, deadlock, and multithereading problems.
It is like saying that a small bug in the mouse driver will freeze and crash the system with a monolithic kernel. Good thing if the system was only running Doom at the time and not controlling a reactor, or administering a drug. If the same happens in the microkernel system, the kernel will reload the driver, raise an alarm, or in general -- be able to take the system to a predictable predetermined state.
WRONG. If the bug is in the interrupt handler, it will freeze any AMD64 or x86 system due to architecture limitations (only the interrupt handler code is running with no scheduler support during interrupts). If the bug is in the bottom half (ie. any portion of teh driver code not in the interrupt handler) of the driver, any monolithic kernel with modularization support (like the Linux kernel, any other *NIX kernel but not the win32 kernel) will be able to force unload the module and reload it, just like the microkernel design but much faster (since the different portions of the kernel don't have to waste time with the overhead of message passing and can communicate with direct function calls).
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Also, why would anyone ever use PHP with postgres when PyGreSQL works so much better.
especially with auto vacuuming, postgres has bcome awesome. Now if only PyGreSQL functions were re-entrant, that would be heaven. Still, I have yet to find something as awesome as psql in any RDBMS.
Democracy isn't really the panacea that people hope for. It is simply a shift in power from the ruling king/lords/aristocrats to the "majority." Its funny that the advocates of democracy all for some reason unknown to me assume that the "majority" always HAS to be right...
In practicality a normal democracy follows the path of the US. First, the system works (albeit a bit slowly than its couterpart the monarchy/dictatorship) but then later on, minority groups figure out that they can get the government to do things for them to the detriment of everybody else as long as they have enough people. At this point democracies start to fall apart. The congress in the US is filled to the brim with idiotic politicians who are motivated only by how many votes they get in their home state. The large amounts of earmarks and lobying for campaign funds is clearly descriptive of that. Like Plato said, "Democracies are the rule of the incompetent average." and we (technically advvanced) are seeing the average carry out its stupid actions. This is a classic case of differing goals and incentives. The goal of the US government itself is to ensure the safety of its citizens, and ensure a minimum level of order required for economic conditions etc. However, the goal of the people who run this organization (bureacrats and politicans) have completely different goals. The bureacrat (the ultimate level of mediocraty) wants only the saftey of his position. Thus they try to add in as many positions as necessary, form networks and set up an environment where they can not be fired. Never mind that removal of redundancies is a nessecity for any organization whether it be corporate or federal. The politicians are supposed to watch this behaviour of the bureacrats and atleast keep a semblnce of efficiency in the system. But... the politician has absolutely no incentive to do that. Politicians care only for votes so that they can get more power. Reducing bureacratic crap does not get easy votes. Wasting the government's money on crap projects like aiding a local company of building a railway track so that poeple can have transport at the cost of everybody else does. Thus, the US government never really gets around to doing what its suppose to.
probably something with the learning curve but you'd think that accountants would be trained to use the best tools for the job (ie. data storage and management and thus databases).
BUT... Can you really call yourself a gentooer until you try emerge -e world seven or eight times trying to figure out if -O5 is stable or you have to drop back down to -O4...
what happens when the code the computer so dearly cares about gets a bug because the idiot who designed the code doesn't even know what a cockpit looks like? No matter how hard somebody tries, they can never replace the experience pilots come with. Airbus may think that code cannot make mistakes but it fails to realize that the code is also incapable of taking care of unaccounted situations or using experience or the understanding that a pilot has of airplanes.
agreed. When it comes to flying planes, its the pilots who are actually flying the plane (and have over 1500 hours of flight experience) who should be making the decisions, not a computer program written up by a team which has never even been in cockpit before. Oh well, we have seen this kind of crap with Airbus before when it implemented its fly-by-wire system even the pilots specifically requested that it keep the old hydraulic systems. Hmm. maybe I should start paying attention to what kind of plane I am flying in from here on now.
what would be really good is if we could find a way to also upgrade the ram. in the console, there is unlikely to be much dedicated RAM and that would kill performance. so if we coul grab the power of the cell and increase RAM in the xbox, that would be good. Personally, I think a better alternative would be to grab one of those blade servers and turn it into a slave computer.
Amen to that. Especially with the intrepretter, learning this language is a breaze.
The basics of programing are not in objects or syntactical structures but that is what java will try to teach you. The basics of programming are in telling the computer what to do in a simple and organized manner. The forced object oriented nature of java and the variable typing just get in the way and cause a headache. In a corparate environment, this is a secondary concern and the way java forced inept programmers of write decent code is more important (that and the fact that it already is popular helps minimize feature copies and ensures that you won't be fired if you suggest java no matter how stupid a decision it is) but for learning, it is possibly the worst language you can think of.
For example: java does not have several useful capabilities like function pointers, advanced types (think python dictionaries) and most of the reflection capabilities are locked up in the obscure reflection libraries which are not even supposed to be used by anybody other than java IDEs and debuggers etc. even though these techniques are very useful. (if anybody thinks function pointers are not useful, just try writting a GUI program in JAVA and you will suddenly wish that you had them).
Start with an advanced language like Python and LISP. Both these languages have interactive interpretters which means that you can try out your code on the fly, are well documented, and come with every Linux distribution out there. These languages also have very advanced capabilities and do not force the programmer to use a certain style and let the programmer do what suits them best.
I agree. When CFCs were accused of causing the ozone hole, the main CFC hit upon was freon. Now, I do not know if freon can really destroy large amounts of ozone molecules but what I do know is that freon is HEAVIER than air. there is no way that it could be responsible for the destruction of the ozone layer because it would never get up there.
Now, what else has had this for the last 30 years...
Oh yeah, UNIX and any other close/variant/derivative of it. Its about time M$ software start using some sensible design principles.
Gentoo stable is actually MUCH more upto date than Debian stable-outdated branch (infact it is often one of the first distributions to get some updates). In many cases, it varies based on the program and who is managing the ebuild but that happens for everything. DO NOT use the packages in the ~ branch unless you check up on them first. they usually have some serious bugs to be there. Quirks you should know about: Picking between stage 1/2/3/ 3/1 etc... I would advise stage 1 but then I am also called insane in some cases. Also, modding use flags for your conveniance is a MUST. Be good at looking at config files. there is generally very little problm here since the documentation at gentoo.org, forums.gentoo.org and gentoo-wiki.org is very very good. If you do a stage 1, be sure to mod the USE flags and cflags because they can usually use some improvements. Lastly, in gentoo, everything is compiled from source and the install process is very low level (there is a GTK installer included in the live CD but I would advise against that since the installation process gets the user used to gentoo and how it does things). Read up on the install docs very well and expect to spend ~10 min more per package (once again depending on package) compiling. Other than that, portage is awesome. It is one of the best (along with apt-get and the like) package managers I have seen.
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Well, now I know I made the right decision when I started using LaTeX for all my presentation documents and flat textfiles w/i postgres databases for all my data storage needs.
actually, the Indian government is sadly even stupider than that. It is actively pursuing affirmative action for ~50% of the workforce. basically, companies will be forced to waste half their HR budget on hiring idiots because the people in the India parliament have a vacuum for a brain.
too late. our fat and laziness has already put us several places from real first.
Try enforcing that one... Politicians (which are the ones making up democratic governments. Them and beuracrats) are best defined as anything wih 2 legs and no brain telling them to do something sensible once in a while is pretty hard and doing something to force them to do things in a sensible/ethical way usually fails (just look at the effort at ethical lobying in the US and how it is a miserable faliure)