I think that is really a design consideration. I can as an example write to a lookup table upon every insert and rely upon the unique restraint - and know what caused that exact failure. If that cancelled my transaction, I would instead have to first do a select and then an insert if that particular key-value was not in the lookup table. Which solution is most efficient?
And checking the outcome of all queries is absolutely best practice if you want an application that works as expected and that documents its failures.
MySQL is already ACID. Unlike PostgreSQL, MySQL supports several storage engines - with InnoDB, DBD and Cluster providing ACID. MySQL has indeed supported ACID, subqueries and such since 2005.
It's disheartening to see these kinds of posts get modded as insightful in 2008. Aren't we supposed to be dynamic, informed folks?
Once the company has stopped earning money on a format, they should open it up under an appropriate license. (Patents might play a part, in an ideal world they would not but let's play in this world for now). Microsoft does not make any money on Excel97. Why on earth be so mean to their previously paying customers that they refuse to open that obsolete standard?
It's amusing how people who complain about other people's grammar always make a mess making their point. "bloddy". What exactly is that? Do I want to know?
Your dad explained to you that he doesn't see so well anymore. His old TV set was obviously becoming too small for his aging eyes. While it looked perfectly clear to you, he could not see the picture on his old TV. While the current TV looks perfectly clear to him, it looks mottled to you. Get it?
It's worse. The buyers encourage overengineering. They want that advanced TV - for bragging rights.
Ya know, I think I might as well start my own business, creating user-friendly, gorgeous electronics products that interface through an open standard. Kinda like the squeezebox. Hands up everyone that would buy one!
I don't know. However, everyone can reason. I bet all the jailbreaks has convinced Apple that people really would like access to third-party apps. And Apple already supplied XCode for free, so I don't really see why there should be much of a premium on releasing apps for the iPhone. Perhaps a few bucks for an encryption signature for your application?
Watch "Full Metal Jacket" and tell me that's empty entertainment. I'll venture this far: If it empty entertainment to you (you think the comments by the drill instructor is cool and that's about it), then you really need to use more time on exercising your brain and your emotions.
BTW - I'm not saying you should kill professional sports because I hate it. I say you should kill professional sports because there is so much money in it that it encourages cheating, plus it has little value outside of the fact that some people like it (and some black people see it as their way out of poverty, however so many try and fail when they should be in college, that I would argue professional sports is a negative influence on African-Americans).
And it's great fun to participate in sports. I like to swim, go off-road biking in the woods, cross-country skiing and I do martial arts twice a week.
Oh yeah. I would love it if all my devices had a simple bluetooth interface that would pop up on my non-existent universal remote.
Steve Jobs - you can do this using the iPhone (technolgy). You have all the components needed. Just make a really sexy unit with multitouch and an IR port, and then make it interface with all kinds of units. Make it work with Apple TV and frontrow too, while you're at it. And Windows Media watchacallit too, if possible.
There is so much money in professional sports that there is an inherent incentive to use sophisticated performance-enhancing drugs that non-professional competitors would not be able to afford. After all, if someone is not doping themselves, they will have a huge disadvantage and will therefore not attract sponsor money. They might not even make it into professional sports due to lacking performance.
The solution is simple: Kill professional sports, or allow doping. Since doping is harmful to the athletes on the long term, we should kill professional sports.
Disclaimer: I think professional sports is a travesty. Grow the hell up, nobody should make their livelihood doing unproductive play. (No, standup comedians do not fall under this category, neither to artists. The arts as a whole contribute positively to society, while watching sports is empty entertainment)
If your security software doesn't take this into account, then you need to change your security software. I mean, what if someone made a popular web page, and then changed it to redirect to a malware infector website?
Well, those smaller carriers carry fewer planes too. Also, they can't launch the same planes as a full-sized carrier can. So you would need several small carriers that would not be able to put up the electronics warfare planes (I forget what they are called). I'll grant you that a lucky hit has much less consequence if there are several carriers within the same group, though.
All computers can emulate all computers. The big question is how efficiently.. Anyhow, I bet a very poor hardware emulation layer will make Multics fly compare to that multi-million dollar hardware it ran on back in the days when I was not even conceived.
The point of a carrier fleet is not limited to naval warfare. A bunch of smaller ships will not yet have the primary capability of a carrier - to deploy warplanes. Of course, the US military machine is working towards a military with fewer men with their pesky morals and g-force limitations, replacing as many men as possible with disposable, autonomous machines - so I guess you'll end up winning this argument in 15 years.:)
I was going to say pretty much the same thing: Oracle Unbreakable Linux is positioned to compete with Solaris for database hotels. Will this be a cheaper database hotel solution than a Sun/Solaris solution? Does anyone know?
Why on earth would you need to put a carrier fleet into constrained waters? It's got warplanes on boar, its entire purpose is launching warplanes.
I agree that an aircraft carrier is a very valueable target, but it is also a very valuable asset. And it appears to be well defended, although I've to hear about a credible response to cavitation missiles..
My feeling is that these large applications are cluttered and bulky *because* they are designed to work in an integrated way. Instead, the functionality should be separated and the *user* should choose what they want to see and when. If the user wants a "photo touch up" mode then the user can create a mode for it and put all the "photo touch up" tools in it.
In fact, Photoshop has several different modes and I believe they can be modified and new modes can be added. Those modes remove certain functionality and alters what is immediately available. But that alone is not enough - there is still a lot of wasted screen estate and things are harder, less efficient and less intuitive to do than they should be.
That's not ironic. That's the core of human progress. Seriously. We're lazy and smart. That means we try to reproduce using the least energy possible. That also mean we understand the word "investment". Work hard for a few days, and hey presto you have a much better hut that requires less maintenance. It's the lazy, smart people who stayed indoors reading and studying as much as possible rather than being out in the fields working hard..
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I think that is really a design consideration. I can as an example write to a lookup table upon every insert and rely upon the unique restraint - and know what caused that exact failure. If that cancelled my transaction, I would instead have to first do a select and then an insert if that particular key-value was not in the lookup table. Which solution is most efficient?
And checking the outcome of all queries is absolutely best practice if you want an application that works as expected and that documents its failures.
Which MySQL do you use?
Read up. Disable autocommits, issue a BEGIN TRANSACTION, and make sure you check the success of all queries before you perform that COMMIT.
MySQL is already ACID. Unlike PostgreSQL, MySQL supports several storage engines - with InnoDB, DBD and Cluster providing ACID. MySQL has indeed supported ACID, subqueries and such since 2005.
It's disheartening to see these kinds of posts get modded as insightful in 2008. Aren't we supposed to be dynamic, informed folks?
Oh come on!
Once the company has stopped earning money on a format, they should open it up under an appropriate license. (Patents might play a part, in an ideal world they would not but let's play in this world for now). Microsoft does not make any money on Excel97. Why on earth be so mean to their previously paying customers that they refuse to open that obsolete standard?
.. except that you don't look or feel like an idiot while using it.
Oh man, I love Apple. (Irony or honest opinion? I'm not sure myself..)
It's amusing how people who complain about other people's grammar always make a mess making their point. "bloddy". What exactly is that? Do I want to know?
Your dad explained to you that he doesn't see so well anymore. His old TV set was obviously becoming too small for his aging eyes. While it looked perfectly clear to you, he could not see the picture on his old TV. While the current TV looks perfectly clear to him, it looks mottled to you. Get it?
Me too. Guess I'll have to check it out on my MacBook at home after work.. (Oh, I know, it will be slow)
Agreed. Too many customization options indicates an immature algorithm.
It's worse. The buyers encourage overengineering. They want that advanced TV - for bragging rights.
Ya know, I think I might as well start my own business, creating user-friendly, gorgeous electronics products that interface through an open standard. Kinda like the squeezebox. Hands up everyone that would buy one!
I don't know. However, everyone can reason. I bet all the jailbreaks has convinced Apple that people really would like access to third-party apps. And Apple already supplied XCode for free, so I don't really see why there should be much of a premium on releasing apps for the iPhone. Perhaps a few bucks for an encryption signature for your application?
Watch "Full Metal Jacket" and tell me that's empty entertainment. I'll venture this far: If it empty entertainment to you (you think the comments by the drill instructor is cool and that's about it), then you really need to use more time on exercising your brain and your emotions.
BTW - I'm not saying you should kill professional sports because I hate it. I say you should kill professional sports because there is so much money in it that it encourages cheating, plus it has little value outside of the fact that some people like it (and some black people see it as their way out of poverty, however so many try and fail when they should be in college, that I would argue professional sports is a negative influence on African-Americans).
And it's great fun to participate in sports. I like to swim, go off-road biking in the woods, cross-country skiing and I do martial arts twice a week.
Oh yeah. I would love it if all my devices had a simple bluetooth interface that would pop up on my non-existent universal remote.
Steve Jobs - you can do this using the iPhone (technolgy). You have all the components needed. Just make a really sexy unit with multitouch and an IR port, and then make it interface with all kinds of units. Make it work with Apple TV and frontrow too, while you're at it. And Windows Media watchacallit too, if possible.
There is so much money in professional sports that there is an inherent incentive to use sophisticated performance-enhancing drugs that non-professional competitors would not be able to afford. After all, if someone is not doping themselves, they will have a huge disadvantage and will therefore not attract sponsor money. They might not even make it into professional sports due to lacking performance.
The solution is simple: Kill professional sports, or allow doping. Since doping is harmful to the athletes on the long term, we should kill professional sports.
Disclaimer: I think professional sports is a travesty. Grow the hell up, nobody should make their livelihood doing unproductive play. (No, standup comedians do not fall under this category, neither to artists. The arts as a whole contribute positively to society, while watching sports is empty entertainment)
We can hope they watch so many Hollywood movies they're dissuaded from invading. "Look at them. What use can they possibly be?"
If your security software doesn't take this into account, then you need to change your security software. I mean, what if someone made a popular web page, and then changed it to redirect to a malware infector website?
That's cuz shitty Windows Laptops have such small touchpads. And you can't touch with two fingers to enable two-dimensional scrolling. :)
Seriously, as long as we keep buying the laptops with inferior touchpads, they will keep getting built. It's as easy as that.
Well, those smaller carriers carry fewer planes too. Also, they can't launch the same planes as a full-sized carrier can. So you would need several small carriers that would not be able to put up the electronics warfare planes (I forget what they are called). I'll grant you that a lucky hit has much less consequence if there are several carriers within the same group, though.
All computers can emulate all computers. The big question is how efficiently.. Anyhow, I bet a very poor hardware emulation layer will make Multics fly compare to that multi-million dollar hardware it ran on back in the days when I was not even conceived.
The point of a carrier fleet is not limited to naval warfare. A bunch of smaller ships will not yet have the primary capability of a carrier - to deploy warplanes. Of course, the US military machine is working towards a military with fewer men with their pesky morals and g-force limitations, replacing as many men as possible with disposable, autonomous machines - so I guess you'll end up winning this argument in 15 years. :)
I was going to say pretty much the same thing: Oracle Unbreakable Linux is positioned to compete with Solaris for database hotels. Will this be a cheaper database hotel solution than a Sun/Solaris solution? Does anyone know?
Pardon me?
Why on earth would you need to put a carrier fleet into constrained waters? It's got warplanes on boar, its entire purpose is launching warplanes.
I agree that an aircraft carrier is a very valueable target, but it is also a very valuable asset. And it appears to be well defended, although I've to hear about a credible response to cavitation missiles..
In fact, Photoshop has several different modes and I believe they can be modified and new modes can be added. Those modes remove certain functionality and alters what is immediately available. But that alone is not enough - there is still a lot of wasted screen estate and things are harder, less efficient and less intuitive to do than they should be.
That's not ironic. That's the core of human progress. Seriously. We're lazy and smart. That means we try to reproduce using the least energy possible. That also mean we understand the word "investment". Work hard for a few days, and hey presto you have a much better hut that requires less maintenance. It's the lazy, smart people who stayed indoors reading and studying as much as possible rather than being out in the fields working hard..
That's biological warfare. Call the department of homeland security!