Now I don't want to get into an MS bashing contest here, I do use SQL Server and I like it. But it's main strength over its competitors is its tools. Enterprise Manager is a GREAT tool! Query Analizer is good although it could take some ques from TOAD. The name really stinks too. I know that sounds small, but try Googling for answers to "SQL Server questions and you get all kinds of things you don't want.:)
Oracle on the other hand really out performs SQL Server in its (Oracle specific granted) SQL extensions, Stored Procedure functionality and clustering capabilities. But Oracle lacks the tools to make it easy for a new user to get started running the database. TOAD is the closest thing out there and it runs an additional $800!
MySQL has a pretty good tool in phpMyAdmin and it is a great little database for simple things but the SQL available to it is lacking some key features like sub-selects and a scripting language. There are lots of threads on the pros and cons of MySQL.
I haven't used PostgreSQL yet, but I understand there's a phpMyAdmin like interface for it as well. It seems to have the perfect match of price and functionality out of all of these. The biggest drawback that I know of is that it's not as readily supported on hosting sites and it's not quite as easy to find support.
Well, what started out as a rebuttle to your praise of SQL Server turned into a review of several options for the questioner. I hope that helps.
Will manufacturing the units domestically lower their price? I would hope so since the shipping costs will be significantly lower. The article states that it currently costs $8-9K to setup the average US home with solar power. This is a lot less than I had thought and if you bring it down another couple $K your looking at almost a 5 year ROI for anyone with serious usage.
This will hurt Microsoft. Since IIS has the largest market share on web servers, they will be hit hardest when these security breaches come to light. People will realize that Linux is a more secure, easier-to-maintain alternative.
I like your thinking, but your logic is screwed up. Since everyone, everyone intelligent to consider switching to Linux, knows that IIS is the market leader, they'll just chalk up the large number of break ins on IIS to their market share. At least that's how your logic makes it sound. Plus with that logic, Apache would be reporting the most breakins of all!
Do monitors and CRTs emit alpha or beta particles? I'm not too familar with any of this, but someone was saying tha the alphas are harmless while the article said betas were harmless. Which do the displays emit? I wonder what the battery really emits.
I agree. What is the actual particle type? This quote is also a little concerning. "We are focusing our attention to very small sources," said Lal. "The amount of radioactivity is so miniscule that you don't have to worry about it as much." (emphasis me)
There is a generic email form for all house members. It doesn't say anything about needing a certain browser and I'm pretty sure that I've emailed my congress critter through this form several times.
But unless you want to listen to the same music everyday, and both to and from work, you'll have to be always changing out the music. For $200 more, (granted not cheap) you can get 100 times the music plus more functionality! That's 100 times the space/function for twice the cost. Seems like a real bargain to me. But to each his own.
This really doesn't seem like enough room for any kind of serious travel. I don't want to have to load it up with new songs every time I go out, and this won't hold more than what, an hour? I really see these "little" MP3 players going away fast and the IPod like players coming in. I don't want to bring along A CD, I want to bring my whole jukebox!
I've had no problems on Windows other than handling a few pages that are coded IE specific. The inital load time is a little slower, but how many times are you opening and closing your browser? With the quick start, which IE has built in, Mozilla loads pretty quick anyway. I haven't used the Mac or Linux versions, but I like my Windows Moz.
I just recently bought a Toshiba Satelite 1200 and have been pretty happy with the performance. It has a power managment console that allows you tell it what mode to run in. In the full power mode you run your processor at full power. One of the default modes is power conserve mode where you processor runs at lower and lower speeds as the power drains. However you can run the full power mode when running on just batteries, you just don't get as much battery life. I still find I get close to the advertised 3 hours. My two biggest complaints about the Toshiba is that the bottom tends to get hot, and there is no docking station port. All in all, really happy.
Since this display relys on the interference of light, would it work in the dark? With no light to interact with it wouldn't display. A backlight wouldn't seem to do the trick since the refraction has to be toward the user? I'm not a display guru by any stretch of the imagination, so maybe someone can explain this to me.
Sooooo... You're basing your assumption of Rumsfeld's inteligence as a military planner not on something he himself said, but on a qoute from some guy who obviously doesn't like Rumsfeld?
I hate to be a troll, but how does a story like this end up on/.? What do the Sex Pistols have to do with anything else on the site? I sure hope/. doesn't become the new Tiger Beat.
I'm sure they've thought of this, but will this affect frame pages where the browser requests multiple pages at the same time? How about scripting and stylesheet includes which are made as seperate requests, usually right on the heels of the original page? I hope they've handled this. It seems like the number should be set higher. Maybe 10 requests a second is a better point. That's probably adjustable though. I suppose I should RTFM.
No. You will keep writing code and getting cool programing jobs. That much is true. They will be promoted to management because someone has to be a manager and you're to valuable as a coder. They will make more money than you, have more power than you, and give you stupid assignments based on their limited technical knowledge. You can avoid this however. Don't focus solely on learning technical things. Broaden your mind and learn to see the business aspects of a product and why this or that idea does or does not make sense from a business standpoint. We may like to ridicule the business side of tech, but without it we don't get paid.
I especially like that last bit you have about the kbps. That is what shows a "bandwidth hog" off more than the amount of data they use over the course of a month. If you set that kind of a cap you can easily limit abuses while still allowing knowlegdable power users to do what they have to do and only bump up into the "bandwidth hog" category when they need lots of pipe right now.
Except that this article had nothing to do with policing the traffic for law breakers. It was about being charged more money for larger amounts of bandwidth. It's been said before but, read the article.
Really this doesn't look that different from the Toshiba I bought. Except my toshiba doesn't have a metalic case. Therefor I save some $s and upgrade the RAM. Seems kind of silly to me whatever OS you're running.
GF might have simply chosen what computer would benefit students the most.
Not to stomp on the Gate's foundaton, but they didn't choose this technology. They dontated money for educational computers and Maine decided to go with Apple.
IBM gave out the specs to their hardware for PC allowing everyone to clone it, while Apple did not.
I would argue that IBM gained from that move. Take a look at how the IBM PC market grew because of that openess. While Apple grew, it was not at the same rate. Granted IBM's PC division is now not that much to write about, but that's because they didn't keep up. We may look back and see this as a big plus day for MS.
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And browser makers responsibility to make their tools easy for "average" parents to use.
I want my flying car!!! I can pay cash.
Now I don't want to get into an MS bashing contest here, I do use SQL Server and I like it. But it's main strength over its competitors is its tools. Enterprise Manager is a GREAT tool! Query Analizer is good although it could take some ques from TOAD. The name really stinks too. I know that sounds small, but try Googling for answers to "SQL Server questions and you get all kinds of things you don't want. :)
Oracle on the other hand really out performs SQL Server in its (Oracle specific granted) SQL extensions, Stored Procedure functionality and clustering capabilities. But Oracle lacks the tools to make it easy for a new user to get started running the database. TOAD is the closest thing out there and it runs an additional $800!
MySQL has a pretty good tool in phpMyAdmin and it is a great little database for simple things but the SQL available to it is lacking some key features like sub-selects and a scripting language. There are lots of threads on the pros and cons of MySQL.
I haven't used PostgreSQL yet, but I understand there's a phpMyAdmin like interface for it as well. It seems to have the perfect match of price and functionality out of all of these. The biggest drawback that I know of is that it's not as readily supported on hosting sites and it's not quite as easy to find support.
Well, what started out as a rebuttle to your praise of SQL Server turned into a review of several options for the questioner. I hope that helps.
Ahhhhh. Any idea how many "units" it takes to power a typical (geek) house?
Will manufacturing the units domestically lower their price? I would hope so since the shipping costs will be significantly lower. The article states that it currently costs $8-9K to setup the average US home with solar power. This is a lot less than I had thought and if you bring it down another couple $K your looking at almost a 5 year ROI for anyone with serious usage.
This will hurt Microsoft. Since IIS has the largest market share on web servers, they will be hit hardest when these security breaches come to light. People will realize that Linux is a more secure, easier-to-maintain alternative.
I like your thinking, but your logic is screwed up. Since everyone, everyone intelligent to consider switching to Linux, knows that IIS is the market leader, they'll just chalk up the large number of break ins on IIS to their market share. At least that's how your logic makes it sound. Plus with that logic, Apache would be reporting the most breakins of all!
That's a great idea. Too bad the bill is already passed.
Do monitors and CRTs emit alpha or beta particles? I'm not too familar with any of this, but someone was saying tha the alphas are harmless while the article said betas were harmless. Which do the displays emit? I wonder what the battery really emits.
I agree. What is the actual particle type? This quote is also a little concerning.
"We are focusing our attention to very small sources," said Lal. "The amount of radioactivity is so miniscule that you don't have to worry about it as much." (emphasis me)
What exactly does not worry "as much" mean?
There is a generic email form for all house members. It doesn't say anything about needing a certain browser and I'm pretty sure that I've emailed my congress critter through this form several times.
But unless you want to listen to the same music everyday, and both to and from work, you'll have to be always changing out the music. For $200 more, (granted not cheap) you can get 100 times the music plus more functionality! That's 100 times the space/function for twice the cost. Seems like a real bargain to me. But to each his own.
This really doesn't seem like enough room for any kind of serious travel. I don't want to have to load it up with new songs every time I go out, and this won't hold more than what, an hour? I really see these "little" MP3 players going away fast and the IPod like players coming in. I don't want to bring along A CD, I want to bring my whole jukebox!
I've had no problems on Windows other than handling a few pages that are coded IE specific. The inital load time is a little slower, but how many times are you opening and closing your browser? With the quick start, which IE has built in, Mozilla loads pretty quick anyway. I haven't used the Mac or Linux versions, but I like my Windows Moz.
I just recently bought a Toshiba Satelite 1200 and have been pretty happy with the performance. It has a power managment console that allows you tell it what mode to run in. In the full power mode you run your processor at full power. One of the default modes is power conserve mode where you processor runs at lower and lower speeds as the power drains. However you can run the full power mode when running on just batteries, you just don't get as much battery life. I still find I get close to the advertised 3 hours. My two biggest complaints about the Toshiba is that the bottom tends to get hot, and there is no docking station port. All in all, really happy.
Since this display relys on the interference of light, would it work in the dark? With no light to interact with it wouldn't display. A backlight wouldn't seem to do the trick since the refraction has to be toward the user? I'm not a display guru by any stretch of the imagination, so maybe someone can explain this to me.
Sooooo... You're basing your assumption of Rumsfeld's inteligence as a military planner not on something he himself said, but on a qoute from some guy who obviously doesn't like Rumsfeld?
Riiiight.
Sheesh
Yeah, so it's not precisely topical
/.? What do the Sex Pistols have to do with anything else on the site? I sure hope /. doesn't become the new Tiger Beat.
I hate to be a troll, but how does a story like this end up on
I'm sure they've thought of this, but will this affect frame pages where the browser requests multiple pages at the same time? How about scripting and stylesheet includes which are made as seperate requests, usually right on the heels of the original page? I hope they've handled this. It seems like the number should be set higher. Maybe 10 requests a second is a better point. That's probably adjustable though. I suppose I should RTFM.
You mean a generic term like "SQL Server"?
No. You will keep writing code and getting cool programing jobs. That much is true. They will be promoted to management because someone has to be a manager and you're to valuable as a coder. They will make more money than you, have more power than you, and give you stupid assignments based on their limited technical knowledge. You can avoid this however. Don't focus solely on learning technical things. Broaden your mind and learn to see the business aspects of a product and why this or that idea does or does not make sense from a business standpoint. We may like to ridicule the business side of tech, but without it we don't get paid.
I especially like that last bit you have about the kbps. That is what shows a "bandwidth hog" off more than the amount of data they use over the course of a month. If you set that kind of a cap you can easily limit abuses while still allowing knowlegdable power users to do what they have to do and only bump up into the "bandwidth hog" category when they need lots of pipe right now.
Except that this article had nothing to do with policing the traffic for law breakers. It was about being charged more money for larger amounts of bandwidth. It's been said before but, read the article.
Really this doesn't look that different from the Toshiba I bought. Except my toshiba doesn't have a metalic case. Therefor I save some $s and upgrade the RAM. Seems kind of silly to me whatever OS you're running.
GF might have simply chosen what computer would benefit students the most.
Not to stomp on the Gate's foundaton, but they didn't choose this technology. They dontated money for educational computers and Maine decided to go with Apple.
IBM gave out the specs to their hardware for PC allowing everyone to clone it, while Apple did not.
I would argue that IBM gained from that move. Take a look at how the IBM PC market grew because of that openess. While Apple grew, it was not at the same rate. Granted IBM's PC division is now not that much to write about, but that's because they didn't keep up. We may look back and see this as a big plus day for MS.