Posts by Deadlock Victim
78 posts • joined Monday 23rd November 2009 18:37 GMT
And this is why...
...I'm a Comcast customer who will stay on his own hardware thankyouverymuch.
Skeptical DBA is skeptical.
Backups?
Can you take a transactionally consistent backup without locking the entire database yet?
Re: Get honest, Lewis!
I don't even bother reading the Lewis Page global warming articles anymore, I just skip to the comments.
Wait... Wait...
So she goes to a science and engineering school, but objects to the RFID on wacky religious grounds?
How about expulsion for not believing in science?
Re: So, it's official
Downvote, because we all know that Canada is the 51st state/
Re: Holier-than-Thou Non-Believers
No no, remember. Those people are idiots and get absolutely no value for their subscription and are mindless Micro$oft drones. Or something like that...
Re: "The end of Windows"
"Gaming geeks (will move to Linux if they can)"
Because you speak for all gaming geeks everywhere?
I'm a gaming geek, I don't want to move to Linux. For that matter, I don't want to take my nifty high resolution PC games and put them on my TV either.
Do not want
That is all. I do not want or need another console. I certainly don't want to develop for another platform.
Re: "Here's an example of what the new 'internet economy' really looks like, in practice."
"Pathetic, eh? OK, what frameworks does Windows have for running Mac games?"
It doesn't need one.
I'm officially offering my services as the new CEO of Groupon at 80% off the rate the current CEO makes.
Expires Apr 3, 2013
Limit 1 per person, may buy 2 additional as gifts. Must sign waiver. Must be 18 or older. See the rules that apply to all deals.
No, just no Mr. Nielsen. How are those micropayments working out for you?
Re: "Here's an example of what the new 'internet economy' really looks like, in practice."
IIRC there is also a restore partition and another system partition that total up to about 15 gig on a new surface.
Re: "Here's an example of what the new 'internet economy' really looks like, in practice."
This is not change, this is a company whose business model can't function in the current economy trying to alter the economy via legislation.
Re: laws are necessary in a free society
So it should be OK to just steal whatever media you want? No.
The judgement amount is way out of whack with reality, but there needs to be some kind of penalty. Something like best estimate of actual damages plus punitive damages based on the defendant's ability to pay would be fair. We all know that what is eventually going to happen is that she's not going to be able to pay a $220,000 judgement, will file for bankruptcy, and her life will be slightly more annoying for 7 years 'till the bankruptcy clears. -- Assuming she has a house and car, she'll probably be able to keep those.
So...
So is .jihad available?
Watched it live
And thanks to Ian for being one of the few journalists to ask an intelligent question at the press conference.
Re: @Titus
Better yet, why not not ditch all of the conspiracy theories and just back out of the treaties that allow the US to do this sort of thing?
Hey look!
If you factor out two things that kill a lot of fat people, they die less than skinny people. Brilliant. If you also factor out cancer, do cancer patients live longer than healthy people?
Re: Quote the FBI!
"Who do they think they are?"
People who have treaties with other nations that allow them to police the world.
Re: Hmm.
No, there aren't any cases of being tried and convicted twice, that would violate the 5th amendment to the US Constitution. This sort of thing is mainly used (IIRC) to prosecute citizens that commit crimes abroad that generally aren't punished in the country of commission. e.g.: American men going to Thailand to have sex with child prostitutes.
And this is why...
...here in Las Vegas we have a shop called the "Zombie Apocalypse Store"
Re: metacritic bonuses
It's pretty common but not common to talk about it.
And Microsoft's new social website wants me to log in with Facebook... Derp?
Re: LEGO
Informal survey around the office says "Legos." We have a lot of the little bricks here, mostly Star Wars sets.
To quote Gandpa Simpson
"The metric system is the tool of the devil. My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!"
Re: How do you tax foreign nationals?
The tax in question is on US based income. The US already taxes capital gains like dividends and interest of foreign nationals that is earned in the US.
Competitive?
"The agency model is the one that offers consumers the prospect of an open and competitive market for e-books"
How is a market competitive if they're all selling the same thing for the same price?
I used to work in the same building as Newt
Right after he left congress. I'd bump into him in the elevator or on the way to the lunch counter. He just exuded this aura of disgust. I don't think we're in any danger of him being elected and trying to seize the moon in the name of 'merica.
Easy to get around...
Every retailer who cares to keep up with it just gives a "cash discount". As long as the posted price is the credit price or the credit price is posted first, it's a perfectly acceptable alternative to visa/mc.
Innodb? Popular?
It's not the most popular transactional engine for MySQL. It's the only one that's production ready.
Easily affordable by most any middle class American
Just take out a mortgage to pay for it. Not that you ever have any intent in paying the mortgage back, what with the end of the world and all...
Posted in Germany warns surfers against Firefox
This has been said a thousand times..
"I was running Firefox 3.6 and last night I clicked to open up a page on ThePirateBay and got immediately rooted."
But, I'd call that poetic justice.
Posted in Jobcentre ejects Jedi Knight
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"Regarding burqas and the like, Jarvis protested: 'I was just standing up for my beliefs. Muslims can walk around in whatever religious gear they like, so why can't I?'"
Because Islam is a real religion.
Like a referee...
...and you can whine to them for attention.
Posted in Senators to NASA: Get your ass to Mars
How about no...
NASA can have more money once every US citizen has health care.
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They just need to bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish...
The real question is...
...why was Kevin Smith, who arguably has more than a few dollars to his name, flying on the dirt-cheap value airline/flying bus?
Buzz is just too damn creepy
A link and an icon show up in Gmail one day. I click it. I notice that I somehow already have 6 people following me. Preemptive stalking? Lolwut?
Not so much with the radio...
"So are they also going to give up on radio as well? Idiots they have just given up on selling to the next generation of music listeners."
Radio is not the equivalent of streaming Internet music in most cases. Spotify lets you listen to what you want, when you want it, correct? No radio station on Earth works like that.
I live in RTP...
...within walking distance of the IBM compound. No kidding, it's a compound. A good portion of it is behind a razor wire fence, guarded by armed security. It makes perfect sense for IBM to build here. Laws are very business friendly and they already have something like 11,000 employees here.
As for power, most of RTP is hooked up to Duke or Progress Energy, both of whom operate nuclear plants in the area.
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I think Amazon just realized that they are not Apple and can't dictate terms to their content providers.
I think he forgot about Informix
It can do OLTP clustering. Of course, IBM seems to have forgotten about Informix...
Posted in MS dismisses IIS zero-day bug reports
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Holy shit! If my webserver is insecure and vulnerable, there's a bug that will make it insecure and vulnerable. Stop the presses! This is the exact same sort of issue as the SQL Server slammer "worm" which required a blank administrator password in order to propagate...
I like cake
That's one less criminal idiot on the streets. Well, for a few days anyway...
and?
And so now it will suck at high speed?
Posted in Apple iPad to launch January 26 (maybe)
The Onion already beat El Reg to the scoop...
"you'll be surprised by how you interact with the tablet"
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary
Posted in Google: Do no evil, pay no tax
Don't be stupid
"Now tell me, is taxation moral"
Yes. Yes it is. Paying taxes is a moral obligation. If you don't want to pay taxes, you're (usually) free to move elsewhere.
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Brilliant. They'd need to add a third comment for the browser wars though. Something like "Blah Opera, blah blah Jesus blah blah independent blah blah irrelevant."
