Well the brothers Coen average around 25 million a movie YMMV bu their movies have never told a story with the kind of scope like Titanic. I really don't think you could tell that story without being grandiose and giving it the correct feel.
As to selling out... That is pretty much a very very subjective judgement. Was Kate Winslet selling out, Leo DiCaprio ? I really don't think so, neither of them make movies they don't want to make.
While this is somewhat proper according to SQL-92 and on what is the failure mode? Personally, I believe it violates the atomic nature of an sql statement.
insert into users (fname,lname) values ( ('bill','smith'),('larry','jones'),('sally','brown'),('3lmer','fudd') ) );
Now given a constraint that specifically only allows 'a'..'z' and 'A'..'Z' into the column lname, what part of this transaction fails? All of it or only (fred 3lmer) ? And if the entire transaction does not fail how does one determine which insert failed? "Insert" is an inherently atomic transaction and should, at least in my opinion, not be overloaded in this manner.
Nope you are wrong. In Oracle you can alter a table while the entire system is in full use and transactions are flying like mad, no locks, no break in service no sweat. Oracle simply updates the data dictionary and as statements come through older records are modified on the fly and new records are simply, well, inserted.
Someone much wiser then myself once said, "You have to completely understand a set of rules before you can break them". I mention this in reference to data normalization.
The people who are the best coder / data monkey combination have the innate ability to think in structures. This is not to say it cannot be learned, but it really is a way of thinking that is left & right brain.
Realize that data is NOT TRIVIAL. Data is why we write code. Data drives code, not the other way around. If you need further proof other then my word go look at the source code for Linux. There are 10's of thousands of data structures that make it work and the code is designed to keep them updated and provide access to that data.
Build a non-trivial set of linked lists, then write the code that manipulates it without modifying the data structures. This will be illustrative of the importance of data. Keep working until you can't get any farther. When you have reached that point, throw away all the code and then go and find the errors in your data structures because that is where the fault will be located and then perhaps the light will turn on.
You obviously have no idea what it takes to a get a movie from concept to the theater.
Take Titanic, at the time for most expensive movie ever made. The costs for building the full scale models of the titanic? I mean that took a small army of engineers, CAD Monkey's, carpenters, painters, set designers, set decorators, not to mention the huge fucking tank they used to make the waves, wind, spray and whatnot look like it was actually in the North Atlantic.
DEV: We should use MongoDB
DBA: Really? Here, have a nice big frosty glass of shut the fuck up. Now go back to your toy scripting languages and leave the data to those of us who actually understand data storage.
That should be the end of the discussion right then and there. The problem with these script kiddies is that 99.5% of them don't fucking have a clue about data. They are the ones who still embed SQL statements, log in credentials and the like in their php/python/rails/whatever.scripting.language.is.popular.this.week code. They have never even heard of stored procedures and views and wouldn't know a constraint from a hole in the ground. Sadly, it is not really their fault. MySQL ruined many a dev because it was so utterly primitive for so many versions that they never had to take the time to learn a proper database like Postgres, Oracle, DB2, MS-SQL which would have forced them to actually learn about data storage and retrieval.
MongoDB one of those fine databases that have managed to turn simple into complex eg:
--- simple --- insert into users values('bob','123 Main Street','Springfield','NY');
-- a mess of curly braces, colons, commas and quotes --- { "username" : "bob", "address" : { "street" : "123 Main Street", "city" : "Springfield", "state" : "NY" } }
No, the better question is why should we as a society tolerate infringement of copyrighted material?
The law provides that the right to copy and distribute material that falls under the provisions of the law is exclusively granted to the owner of said material, not some dickhead who thinks that copyright means they have the right to copy anything.
I bet you love FOOS as well. Ever look at the copyright notices that are all over 99% of the code? Unless something is expressly submitted to the public domain then those works are controlled by the author for the period of time for the copyright. Ever look at the terms and conditions for distributing said works? There are lots and lots of very specific controls on what you can and cannot do. If you are in doubt go and read the Apache web server terms and conditions.
Groovy baby! That is the business model they chose.
Does everyone want to choose that? Obviously the answer is NO or their would be no record companies.
People sign with record labels for whatever reason they do, they know the contracts are oppressive and pretty much downright theft, but they do sign on the bottom line and that is the agreement they enter into, no one forced them.
No you are clueless about cause and effect. Why do you think they have armies of lawyers out to nail everyone's ass to the wall regardless of degree of guilt?
Because Sherlock WE have forced them into that position. I am guessing you are one of those people that gets your kicks or want other people to think you are cool by Burning Copies and giving them away or ripping movies and putting them up as a torrent. Guess what that removes sales you idiot and that costs those people a lot of money.
Their scorched earth policy is a direct result of people stealing their content.
You want to know why there is DRM garbage all over everything? Look in the mirror and there is your answer.
LOL! I don't feel bad in the least. This is serious code not for the faint at heart. I was happy just to be able to even understand what they were talking about and my understanding is incomplete. I mean even the guy who found it wasn't sure if they should ignore everything he said about the proposed fix or even the problem. Trust me I feel like I am in pretty damn good company.
I have been actively working at trying to grasp the the kernel code for 2 years now and while I feel comfortable with some of it I STILL like a complete noob!
Ok, from my reading of the patch which could be WAY the fuck wrong BTW, I think it is a race condition between the unlinking of a file and returning the inode to the pool AND the CP command ( copy a file ) traversing the inode list. In other words the CP command was trying to stat a file that was partially unlinked do to the update of the node list still being in progress.
If you still don't understand that don't feel bad, I had to read and re-read the note like 10 times before I probably got this explanation wrong.
Meanwhile video content is still DRM infested and digital books seem headed in that direction as well.
Gosh I wonder why? Hmmm could it be that ANY business model where you publish something, sell it ONCE and then 400.000 people now have a copy of it and they don't need to buy will absolutely fail might have something to do with it.
You want DRM free content? Try not giving it away and instead tell your friends, "Hey man I am glad you like it, but if you want it you have to go and buy your own copy because I don't pirate content because I want DRM free content that I can use on my device(s) for my own personal use."
No, they really don't, why because it really has no practical net effect on their bottom line.
What does have a net effect on their bottom line are people who firmly that if they go and buy one copy of a CD that they can then rip it to MP3 and then post it for everyone to download for free.
With a music title you are talking perhaps 50 to 100 thousand invested by the record companies to produce the final product. With movies you are talking 50 to 100 MILLION invested by studios to produce the final product.
Both of these are a serious gamble because they both rely on the very fickle listening and viewing tastes of audiences. If you think record companies and movie studios make bank on everything they do you are seriously deluded as more often then not they lose money and no not fancy Hollywood accounting losses, I mean real losses or little or no profit for the money invested.
They also really don't care if you load it up and invite a bunch of friends over because chances are your taste in movies and music are much like that of your friends so chances are that your friends will go out and purchase a copy of something they liked because they would like to listen and or watch that same thing again. But if you as the person who invited all those friends over decides to have already burned 14 copies to hand out to your friends as they leave have just taken 14 potential sales away from the company that footed the bill to get the title made. If you put it on a server and then put a l;ink on TPB you have just taken away perhaps millions of potential sales.
When you go out and buy a copy for yourself and keep it for yourself that is good, they make money you get a movie or set of music you like and everyone wins. When you put it on a torrent for everyone I guess you get to think your cool, the other people who download it get it for free but the loser is the one carrying the load of the investment of making all that stuff you like. If that happens to much more often they don;t invest anymore and everyone else eventually loses.
When the industry starts giving people what they want - DRM-free stuff they can 'own' and use whichever way they like, at a reasonable price - then piracy will go down.
Once again you and people like you are utterly clueless. You can go and buy DVD's, CD's and whatnot today AND you can use them for your own personal and private use pretty much any way you would like.
What you cannot do is decide to share them with the world by putting them on the net for anyone to download for free and that is what they have their panties in a bunch about.
My wife just loves John Mayer's music. We but it, she puts a copy on her iPod ( which she uses while bike riding and at the gym) through iTunes, we burn a copy of the CD and put on in the CD changer in the car and the original gets put into the CD collection. Guess what, the EVIL record companies don;t give a shit about that.
The EVIL record companies would take us to court if I set up a server, burned everything to MP3 and then connected it to the net, then advertised it on TPB!
The device is fine. The speed at which they are being adopted is blinding. If you have ever worked in health care then you know this already.
Those windows apps are going to fall by the wayside faster then you can imagine. The iPad been on the market less then a year and it is taking the computing world by storm. The iPad 2 will further fuel this technology and drive it further and further into every aspect of every business. I predict that within one year that you will see your doctor charting you on one at any major medical facility and within two years you will see even small practice general practitioners using them. This is THE device for doctors.
Basically, Apple tried to sell iPhones and iPads as enterprise devices. IT departments looked at them and laughed, pointing out that they need to be able to deploy custom in-house apps to them.
Dude stop smoking crack OK? Crack Kills your brain.
Medical organizations are mobilizing on the iPad. This is their dream device. A doc can walk around with it, take notes, show patients X-Rays, write prescriptions on it, write orders on it and all in a very nicely organized standardized way. And you know that little connector on the bottom of it? Well think dongle. Think credential holder. Think all kinds of things and when the new one with an HD display is ready you can bet that radiologists with be reading x-rays pretty much anywhere and sending back their findings.
Oh and the part about writing prescriptions on it? since it is hooked into the hospital database it can do reasonableness checks on the med's the doc is prescribing and put up a little flag that says, "Are You SURE you want to dose a 10 year kid that weighs 22 kilos like you would an adult that weighs 80 kilos?" Lots of medicine is prescribed in mg's per kilo
The iPad sold like hotcakes, is selling like hotcakes and will continue to sell like hotcakes, to everyone.
Funny you should mention. My wife is a serious cyclist and I will ONLY buy Michelin tires and tubes. She rides a Waterford ( made in the USA in Wisconsin, steel frame 24 pounds fully rigged ) and is regularly going down hill at 40 to 50 mph. One day she thought she would save some money and purchased some off brand tires which I tossed in the trash after taking some kitchen shears to them. She was outraged and I told her that I would weld her bike to a pole in the ground if she ever did that again. Fuck K-Mart and fuck the shoddy goods from China.
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While this is really cool, it simply cannot scale to 747 size.
Really???
JP4 has an energy density of 42.8 MJ/kg A fully loaded 747 carries 139200 kg of JP4.
That is 5,957,760 MJ of energy. Got a fuel cell that can do that?
Just for fun lets say you use VERY cool propellers and you get 20% bump in efficiency, that is still not going to come anywhere even close.
Well the brothers Coen average around 25 million a movie YMMV bu their movies have never told a story with the kind of scope like Titanic. I really don't think you could tell that story without being grandiose and giving it the correct feel.
As to selling out... That is pretty much a very very subjective judgement. Was Kate Winslet selling out, Leo DiCaprio ? I really don't think so, neither of them make movies they don't want to make.
A perfect illustration why good DBA's are worth having on staff.
While this is somewhat proper according to SQL-92 and on what is the failure mode? Personally, I believe it violates the atomic nature of an sql statement.
Now given a constraint that specifically only allows 'a'..'z' and 'A'..'Z' into the column lname, what part of this transaction fails? All of it or only (fred 3lmer) ? And if the entire transaction does not fail how does one determine which insert failed? "Insert" is an inherently atomic transaction and should, at least in my opinion, not be overloaded in this manner.
Nope, now all that has to be converted into some sort of escaped string do to all the bloody text.
Nope you are wrong. In Oracle you can alter a table while the entire system is in full use and transactions are flying like mad, no locks, no break in service no sweat. Oracle simply updates the data dictionary and as statements come through older records are modified on the fly and new records are simply, well, inserted.
A fair question so here is a fair answer.
I am assuming ( yes, yes I know... ) of course you have some knowledge of basic tables and indexs, etc.
Start by reading and understanding Database Normalization
Someone much wiser then myself once said, "You have to completely understand a set of rules before you can break them". I mention this in reference to data normalization.
The people who are the best coder / data monkey combination have the innate ability to think in structures. This is not to say it cannot be learned, but it really is a way of thinking that is left & right brain.
Realize that data is NOT TRIVIAL. Data is why we write code. Data drives code, not the other way around. If you need further proof other then my word go look at the source code for Linux. There are 10's of thousands of data structures that make it work and the code is designed to keep them updated and provide access to that data.
Build a non-trivial set of linked lists, then write the code that manipulates it without modifying the data structures. This will be illustrative of the importance of data. Keep working until you can't get any farther. When you have reached that point, throw away all the code and then go and find the errors in your data structures because that is where the fault will be located and then perhaps the light will turn on.
You obviously have no idea what it takes to a get a movie from concept to the theater.
Take Titanic, at the time for most expensive movie ever made. The costs for building the full scale models of the titanic? I mean that took a small army of engineers, CAD Monkey's, carpenters, painters, set designers, set decorators, not to mention the huge fucking tank they used to make the waves, wind, spray and whatnot look like it was actually in the North Atlantic.
No, it should go...
DEV: We should use MongoDB
DBA: Really? Here, have a nice big frosty glass of shut the fuck up. Now go back to your toy scripting languages and leave the data to those of us who actually understand data storage.
That should be the end of the discussion right then and there. The problem with these script kiddies is that 99.5% of them don't fucking have a clue about data. They are the ones who still embed SQL statements, log in credentials and the like in their php/python/rails/whatever.scripting.language.is.popular.this.week code. They have never even heard of stored procedures and views and wouldn't know a constraint from a hole in the ground. Sadly, it is not really their fault. MySQL ruined many a dev because it was so utterly primitive for so many versions that they never had to take the time to learn a proper database like Postgres, Oracle, DB2, MS-SQL which would have forced them to actually learn about data storage and retrieval.
MongoDB one of those fine databases that have managed to turn simple into complex eg:
Indeed, right between our legs.
No, the better question is why should we as a society tolerate infringement of copyrighted material?
The law provides that the right to copy and distribute material that falls under the provisions of the law is exclusively granted to the owner of said material, not some dickhead who thinks that copyright means they have the right to copy anything.
I bet you love FOOS as well. Ever look at the copyright notices that are all over 99% of the code? Unless something is expressly submitted to the public domain then those works are controlled by the author for the period of time for the copyright. Ever look at the terms and conditions for distributing said works? There are lots and lots of very specific controls on what you can and cannot do. If you are in doubt go and read the Apache web server terms and conditions.
Groovy baby! That is the business model they chose.
Does everyone want to choose that? Obviously the answer is NO or their would be no record companies.
People sign with record labels for whatever reason they do, they know the contracts are oppressive and pretty much downright theft, but they do sign on the bottom line and that is the agreement they enter into, no one forced them.
No you are clueless about cause and effect. Why do you think they have armies of lawyers out to nail everyone's ass to the wall regardless of degree of guilt?
Because Sherlock WE have forced them into that position. I am guessing you are one of those people that gets your kicks or want other people to think you are cool by Burning Copies and giving them away or ripping movies and putting them up as a torrent. Guess what that removes sales you idiot and that costs those people a lot of money.
Their scorched earth policy is a direct result of people stealing their content.
You want to know why there is DRM garbage all over everything? Look in the mirror and there is your answer.
LOL! I don't feel bad in the least. This is serious code not for the faint at heart. I was happy just to be able to even understand what they were talking about and my understanding is incomplete. I mean even the guy who found it wasn't sure if they should ignore everything he said about the proposed fix or even the problem. Trust me I feel like I am in pretty damn good company.
I have been actively working at trying to grasp the the kernel code for 2 years now and while I feel comfortable with some of it I STILL like a complete noob!
Ok, from my reading of the patch which could be WAY the fuck wrong BTW, I think it is a race condition between the unlinking of a file and returning the inode to the pool AND the CP command ( copy a file ) traversing the inode list. In other words the CP command was trying to stat a file that was partially unlinked do to the update of the node list still being in progress.
If you still don't understand that don't feel bad, I had to read and re-read the note like 10 times before I probably got this explanation wrong.
That's IT! You are off Linus's Christmas list for sure buddy!
Meanwhile video content is still DRM infested and digital books seem headed in that direction as well.
Gosh I wonder why? Hmmm could it be that ANY business model where you publish something, sell it ONCE and then 400.000 people now have a copy of it and they don't need to buy will absolutely fail might have something to do with it.
You want DRM free content? Try not giving it away and instead tell your friends, "Hey man I am glad you like it, but if you want it you have to go and buy your own copy because I don't pirate content because I want DRM free content that I can use on my device(s) for my own personal use."
Really? iTunes sees to be proving you wrong
No, they really don't, why because it really has no practical net effect on their bottom line.
What does have a net effect on their bottom line are people who firmly that if they go and buy one copy of a CD that they can then rip it to MP3 and then post it for everyone to download for free.
With a music title you are talking perhaps 50 to 100 thousand invested by the record companies to produce the final product. With movies you are talking 50 to 100 MILLION invested by studios to produce the final product.
Both of these are a serious gamble because they both rely on the very fickle listening and viewing tastes of audiences. If you think record companies and movie studios make bank on everything they do you are seriously deluded as more often then not they lose money and no not fancy Hollywood accounting losses, I mean real losses or little or no profit for the money invested.
They also really don't care if you load it up and invite a bunch of friends over because chances are your taste in movies and music are much like that of your friends so chances are that your friends will go out and purchase a copy of something they liked because they would like to listen and or watch that same thing again. But if you as the person who invited all those friends over decides to have already burned 14 copies to hand out to your friends as they leave have just taken 14 potential sales away from the company that footed the bill to get the title made. If you put it on a server and then put a l;ink on TPB you have just taken away perhaps millions of potential sales.
When you go out and buy a copy for yourself and keep it for yourself that is good, they make money you get a movie or set of music you like and everyone wins. When you put it on a torrent for everyone I guess you get to think your cool, the other people who download it get it for free but the loser is the one carrying the load of the investment of making all that stuff you like. If that happens to much more often they don;t invest anymore and everyone else eventually loses.
When the industry starts giving people what they want - DRM-free stuff they can 'own' and use whichever way they like, at a reasonable price - then piracy will go down.
Once again you and people like you are utterly clueless. You can go and buy DVD's, CD's and whatnot today AND you can use them for your own personal and private use pretty much any way you would like.
What you cannot do is decide to share them with the world by putting them on the net for anyone to download for free and that is what they have their panties in a bunch about.
My wife just loves John Mayer's music. We but it, she puts a copy on her iPod ( which she uses while bike riding and at the gym) through iTunes, we burn a copy of the CD and put on in the CD changer in the car and the original gets put into the CD collection. Guess what, the EVIL record companies don;t give a shit about that.
The EVIL record companies would take us to court if I set up a server, burned everything to MP3 and then connected it to the net, then advertised it on TPB!
The device is fine. The speed at which they are being adopted is blinding. If you have ever worked in health care then you know this already.
Those windows apps are going to fall by the wayside faster then you can imagine. The iPad been on the market less then a year and it is taking the computing world by storm. The iPad 2 will further fuel this technology and drive it further and further into every aspect of every business. I predict that within one year that you will see your doctor charting you on one at any major medical facility and within two years you will see even small practice general practitioners using them. This is THE device for doctors.
Basically, Apple tried to sell iPhones and iPads as enterprise devices. IT departments looked at them and laughed, pointing out that they need to be able to deploy custom in-house apps to them.
Dude stop smoking crack OK? Crack Kills your brain.
Medical organizations are mobilizing on the iPad. This is their dream device. A doc can walk around with it, take notes, show patients X-Rays, write prescriptions on it, write orders on it and all in a very nicely organized standardized way. And you know that little connector on the bottom of it? Well think dongle. Think credential holder. Think all kinds of things and when the new one with an HD display is ready you can bet that radiologists with be reading x-rays pretty much anywhere and sending back their findings.
Oh and the part about writing prescriptions on it? since it is hooked into the hospital database it can do reasonableness checks on the med's the doc is prescribing and put up a little flag that says, "Are You SURE you want to dose a 10 year kid that weighs 22 kilos like you would an adult that weighs 80 kilos?" Lots of medicine is prescribed in mg's per kilo
The iPad sold like hotcakes, is selling like hotcakes and will continue to sell like hotcakes, to everyone.
Funny you should mention. My wife is a serious cyclist and I will ONLY buy Michelin tires and tubes. She rides a Waterford ( made in the USA in Wisconsin, steel frame 24 pounds fully rigged ) and is regularly going down hill at 40 to 50 mph. One day she thought she would save some money and purchased some off brand tires which I tossed in the trash after taking some kitchen shears to them. She was outraged and I told her that I would weld her bike to a pole in the ground if she ever did that again. Fuck K-Mart and fuck the shoddy goods from China.
lets start with print out a string. Lets introduce a variable and a loop then lets go directly to screwing around with images.
WTF!