Posts by Destroy All Monsters

Not only that but...

It was thought that the planets were flung out of galaxies before embarking upon their lonely interstellar journey.

Flung out of SOLAR SYSTEMS not GALAXIES. Good look flunging them out of Galaxies.

Please Reg writers --- STOP PHONING IT IN OR TEXTING FROM THE BUS STOP.

Imminent Reg Tombstone predicted AGAIN (because the Marissa Mayer headline is still spelled as Marissa Meyer 8 hours after release)

Re: This isn't very new really.

I hear France Télécom does the same thing, at least in some cases. Unless workers stressed out by privatization choose to defenestrate themselves.

Re: >>You're assuming the people from GCHQ are in some way competent

I rather fancy their chances of reading your emails than the other way round, for instance.

Hmmm..... arguing that one has the bigger means of being a bully does not speak for competency much.

Hmm... this success makes me hungy!

I'm sure the phones are ringing off the hooks in representative's offices and fat bills are being generated (then put under IBM's "contract-generating expenses") in excellent restaurants of Washington D.C.

Re: Achtung

> bailing out failing countries

It's just the banking system that failed. The countries were all right. No bailouts were needed either. Iceland got back on its feet by itself. The southern state-handout-and-devaluation-addicted guys just moaned and bitched while rolling on the ground though. A pox on them.

Re: Since they are going to be trying to tax mostly drug income...

They use Tide detergent as currency too, so why not?

As has been widely reported recently [beginning of 2012], an unlikely crime wave has rapidly spread throughout the United States and has taken local law-enforcement officials by surprise. The theft of Tide liquid laundry detergent is pandemic throughout cities in the United States. One individual alone stole $25,000 worth of Tide detergent during a 15-month crime spree, and large retailers are taking special security measures to protect their inventories of Tide. For example, CVS is locking down Tide alongside commonly stolen items like flu medications. Liquid Tide retails for $10–$20 per bottle and sells on the black market for $5–$10. Individual bottles of Tide bear no serial numbers, making them impossible to track. So some enterprising thieves operate as arbitrageurs buying at the black-market price and reselling to the stores, presumably at the wholesale price. Even more puzzling is the fact that no other brand of detergent has been targeted.

What gives here? This is just another confirmation of Menger's insight that the market responds to the absence of sound money by monetizing highly salable commodities. It is clear that Tide has emerged as a subsidiary local currency for black-market, especially drug, transactions — but for legal transactions in low-income areas as well. Indeed police report that Tide is being exchanged for heroin and methamphetamine and that drug dealers possess inventories of the commodity that they are also willing to sell. But why is laundry detergent being employed as money, and why Tide in particular?

Blitzkrieg, aka. German-style "Shock and Awe"

" ich hatte dann 'ne fiese Mail in der Inbox, daß man ja sowas nicht macht"

Mach's einfach. Der Tommy schluckt das schon!

Re: @condiment

"Just because you reside and operate in one country does not mean that you can not violate the laws of another."

Imma eating pork during ramadan!

Re: Mainframe yes.. Website no.

a diabolically bad choice for Internet use

This is like saying internal combustion engines are a diabolically bad choice for automotive devices because then people will crash them, drive while being drunk or text their friends.

Re: Relational ignored in 1976

Ok, in "Computer Data-Base (sic) Organization" by James Martin ("The most up-to-date and thorough guide to the techniques of data base organization"), 1975 by Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-165506-X, (printed on excellent paper in black and pink) we read:

Part I (Logical Organization) Chapter 13: Relational Data Bases (pp 149-168)

"Data-base systems run the danger of becoming cumbersome, inflexible and problematic. The logical linkages tend to multiply as new applications are added and as users request that new forms of query be answerable with the data. A high level of complexity will build up in many data-base systems. Unless the designers have conceptual clarity they will weave a tangled web. It is possible to avoid the entanglements that build up in tree and plex structures, by a technique called normalization. Normalization techniques have been designed and advocated by E.F. Codd. ... The enthusiasts of normalization have a vocabulary of their own and a tendency to dress up a basically simple subject in confusing language. The table, like that in Fig. 5.3, is referred to as a relation. A data base constructed using relations is referred to as a relational data base."

There is also chapter 14: "Third Normal Form" ...

Re: NoSQL

Ni SQL?

NI NI NI!

Re: reminds me of the Soviet propaganda tracts I had to study at university

But Soviet database are always CORRECT by order of the party

Re: There's much to be said on sql

The main thing to be said about SQL is that persons interested in learning about relational databases could do worse than check out Tutorial D.

Dragooned by Greenery

In truth, the recurrent panic spasms about "nucular energy" that can be reliably detected in Germany, Austria and Luxembourg are an interesting sociological phenomenon; what are are the historical reasons for them?

Re: From out of that room came the future.

"Nobody really knows what happened in the rooms."

Apple Reservoir Dogs?

Re: Duh!

Errr... wrong thread?

Ban, tax, fine. Index, regulate, stimulate. Fight, impose, control.

ban

Always these statist cuss words.

Re: Only half the equation

If the paper price won't hold you back, the ink cartridge price will.

And we didn't even need a "paper sin tax" for that.

Re: Is that all?

Don't enumerate your devices, just take a look at your smart meter and tell us what it says.

Re: Got to hand it to Microsoft Research

I look for the inevitable downvotes from idiots who say "modems are prior art" because they don't understand the first thing about how patents are supposed to work or what they're for

Have a hearty downvote for:

1) Being whiney

2) Taking the psychological cop-out of calling others idiots before things even start

3) Thinking you are so superior on your gouty high horse

It's not hard to understand how patents are "supposed" to work (ha ha!) and what they are for. It's just very non-evident that they bring anything to the table except retard development of whole branches of industry for the benefit of a few - mainly lawyers and rent-seekers.