With SQL is even easier. BEGIN TRANSACTION, run the command, and check how many rows it deleted/updated/inserted. If not the number expected, ROLLBACK.
Connected to what? becAuse if it connected to your phone I have to wonder at the waste of money. The phone has a clock, gps, alarms, what ever else you are using the garmin watch for.
I'm using my Garmin watch things like day-long hikes, or runs, or swims, or ski days. Without consuming my phone battery, which I keep for emergencies. When your smartphone can give you swim statistics, or be able to have GPS on for 8-10 hours, then yes, the Garmin watch will be "a waste of money".
I don't know of any such phone, so I'll ask differently: what do you use the smartphone outdoors for?
You mention seeing who calls and reading texts; that I can do very well on my (non-smart but connected) Garmin Fenix watch, which is very readable outdoors (the downside being the large number of software bugs). If you're looking at maps/routing, there are quite good GPS devices with transreflective displays (so the sunnier the better).
If you get the Latest and greatest GPU you have features that Game makers will not publish in decades, Thus you will have less of of an overall benefit from the upgrade.
Decades, really? A couple of years a most.
In terms of raw power your PC is almost always superior to the console. However Consoles tend to have better quality games because it can take advantage on what it has. Because not all gamers will shell out $10,000 for the ultimate gaming system that will be out of date next year.
What? What are you smoking? First, a very solid PC (much better than a console) doesn't cost $10K, second, it's definitely not out of date next year, and third, opposite to consoles, a PC doesn't get obsolete "at once". You can upgrade components piece-wise, and keep your PC at whatever distance you want from the top of line.
Either you're a troll or you don't understand the economics and IT aspects of PCs
"Humanity is about to face perhaps its greatest challenge ever, which is finding meaning in life after the end of 'in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread'".
What? Meaning in life without work? Yep, that'd be a hard problem indeed. Let's see, which of my hobbies would get promoted to main hobby?
I was put off from buying the game because of the Metacritic comments and other "high-profile" review sites.
However, after reading conversations on reddit about how the gameplay actually is, I bought the game and I'm not sorry at all.
Yep, it's a bit buggy (crashes sometimes), and the controls are not perfect. But, it's a Dragon Age, and it's tons better than DA2. It's not DA:O, but I'll take this any day over no more Dragon Age.
To me it almost look like all the people saying bad things about the game and claiming positive reviews are EA-payed are actually payed to write bad reviews. The game is definitely not *that bad*, and is quite fun - unless you want an expansion for DA:O, which - the truth is - you won't get.
I am worrying about the rising number of diesel cars. Much more soot is coming of their exhaust, and about 20% more CO_2 compared to traditional engine.
Soot and NOx yes, but AFAIK diesel engines produce less CO_2 than gas/petrol.
You seem to believe that all hacks are due to finding flaws in listening daemons/open services. That's definitely not the case, and the era when any complex network could be thought as separated into inside, DMZ and external parts is long over. Your browser has many vulnerabilities, yet it doesn't "listen" on a port.
Any such a drone would have sensors that process incoming data (visual, IR, radar, GPS, etc.). Simply by the fact that it processes external data makes such a sensor potentially vulnerable to external threats; it doesn't have an open port that you can firewall, it simply has to read external data and it is in theory vulnerable.
For example, imagine finding a flaw in the image recognition software; "hacking" the drone could simply mean showing it an appropriate picture (which can easily be done remotely). Yes, doing a full 'gain-control' hack is hard, but we're talking here about state-actors with enough resources.
The problem is that US went in and replaced the security structure (policy, army, etc.) of the Iraqi state with its own troops. However, in the process of doing so, they provided this only for some parts of the country.
Look at it this way: before US went in, Iraqi police (probably) protected the universities. After US went in, noone did. Yes, of course, the looters are the ones that actually stole the stuff, but US has its own part to blame in this, IMHO.
So I can't relate to your situation, but what got me out of being bored with my project and in general with writing code was learning something entirely new. In my case, it was *finally* learning functional programming, and starting on an associated path to (re)learning some math concepts.
Whether that works for other people, I have no idea, but it did work for me, and made me enthusiastic again about simply writing code.
They are pretty much using the 'current solution' everywhere
Sure, but that's exactly what I was referring to---the ability to catch up to the 'current solution', across many fields; I didn't mean to say they are advancing above the current solution, not at all.
Even for just catching up, I think they've done a good job at it, and my point is that maybe there is a relation between this and not having NIH. That was what I trying to say:)
Folks in Asia have almost zero "not-invented-here" issues, whereas it's pretty prevalent all over the U.S.'
Hmm, could this explain how Asia was able to move so quickly in the past decades? Yes, it means that you steal (either figuratively or literaly) ideas more often, but it also means that you'll always try to use what it's best, without being hang-up on the current solution.
Anyway, I thought about the relation/contrast between being "liberal" with other peoples ideas and having a NIH syndrome, and I find this interesting.
Sorry, indeed realised after posting. I'm still surprised about the original parent's statement though (.net and JVM in relation to OCaml and Haskell??)
Not sure what you mean by "native code". Haskell and Ocaml can both be compiled down to native code. What exactly do you want and is lacking in these two?
They have that whole mass-energy conservation bullshit, but both fission and fusion apparently produce tons of energy.
Wrong. Fission of elements heavier than iron produces energy, but their fusion would consume it. Fission of elements lighter than iron consumes energy, but their fusion produces energy.
PNG can be lossless, if you choose 0 for compression level - then the image is basically a bitmap when it comes to file-size (except png inherently supports Alpha-channel transparency).
Uh... PNG is *always* lossless, the compression level only affects the tradeoff between compression/decompression level and savings achieved (a la gzip -1..9). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics for more details.
So I see these benchmarks between expensive SSDs and cheaper harddrives, but I'm yet to see a benchmark between some more appropriate price configurations: SDDs versus mechanical harddrives in RAID with battery-backed NVRAM, where the random write penalty is much much lower. Does anyone know of any?
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'cause it definitely looks so. Why does Microsoft ruin the whatever small goodwill they managed to acquire in the last few years?
With SQL is even easier. BEGIN TRANSACTION, run the command, and check how many rows it deleted/updated/inserted. If not the number expected, ROLLBACK.
It's clear this was shot down by aliens. What discoveries did they want to prevent, I wonder? /s
" (non-smart but connected) Garmin Fenix watch"
Connected to what? becAuse if it connected to your phone I have to wonder at the waste of money. The phone has a clock, gps, alarms, what ever else you are using the garmin watch for.
I'm using my Garmin watch things like day-long hikes, or runs, or swims, or ski days. Without consuming my phone battery, which I keep for emergencies. When your smartphone can give you swim statistics, or be able to have GPS on for 8-10 hours, then yes, the Garmin watch will be "a waste of money".
I don't know of any such phone, so I'll ask differently: what do you use the smartphone outdoors for?
You mention seeing who calls and reading texts; that I can do very well on my (non-smart but connected) Garmin Fenix watch, which is very readable outdoors (the downside being the large number of software bugs). If you're looking at maps/routing, there are quite good GPS devices with transreflective displays (so the sunnier the better).
If you get the Latest and greatest GPU you have features that Game makers will not publish in decades, Thus you will have less of of an overall benefit from the upgrade.
Decades, really? A couple of years a most.
In terms of raw power your PC is almost always superior to the console. However Consoles tend to have better quality games because it can take advantage on what it has. Because not all gamers will shell out $10,000 for the ultimate gaming system that will be out of date next year.
What? What are you smoking? First, a very solid PC (much better than a console) doesn't cost $10K, second, it's definitely not out of date next year, and third, opposite to consoles, a PC doesn't get obsolete "at once". You can upgrade components piece-wise, and keep your PC at whatever distance you want from the top of line.
Either you're a troll or you don't understand the economics and IT aspects of PCs
"Humanity is about to face perhaps its greatest challenge ever, which is finding meaning in life after the end of 'in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread'".
What? Meaning in life without work? Yep, that'd be a hard problem indeed. Let's see, which of my hobbies would get promoted to main hobby?
I was put off from buying the game because of the Metacritic comments and other "high-profile" review sites.
However, after reading conversations on reddit about how the gameplay actually is, I bought the game and I'm not sorry at all.
Yep, it's a bit buggy (crashes sometimes), and the controls are not perfect. But, it's a Dragon Age, and it's tons better than DA2. It's not DA:O, but I'll take this any day over no more Dragon Age.
To me it almost look like all the people saying bad things about the game and claiming positive reviews are EA-payed are actually payed to write bad reviews. The game is definitely not *that bad*, and is quite fun - unless you want an expansion for DA:O, which - the truth is - you won't get.
Most people don't need fully kitted out laptops any more than you need an amphibious tank, or your own private GPS satellite network..
An amphibious tank, connected to my own private GPS satellite network? Awesome, where do I sign up?
I am worrying about the rising number of diesel cars. Much more soot is coming of their exhaust, and about 20% more CO_2 compared to traditional engine.
Soot and NOx yes, but AFAIK diesel engines produce less CO_2 than gas/petrol.
This. Where are my mod points when I need them? Mod parent up!
You seem to believe that all hacks are due to finding flaws in listening daemons/open services. That's definitely not the case, and the era when any complex network could be thought as separated into inside, DMZ and external parts is long over. Your browser has many vulnerabilities, yet it doesn't "listen" on a port.
Any such a drone would have sensors that process incoming data (visual, IR, radar, GPS, etc.). Simply by the fact that it processes external data makes such a sensor potentially vulnerable to external threats; it doesn't have an open port that you can firewall, it simply has to read external data and it is in theory vulnerable.
For example, imagine finding a flaw in the image recognition software; "hacking" the drone could simply mean showing it an appropriate picture (which can easily be done remotely). Yes, doing a full 'gain-control' hack is hard, but we're talking here about state-actors with enough resources.
My argument was not that the US intervention was wrong (or right). That's a very complex issue.
I was simply responding to the GP which seemed to put the blame fully on the looters - that, I believe, is wrong.
That's not quite right.
The problem is that US went in and replaced the security structure (policy, army, etc.) of the Iraqi state with its own troops. However, in the process of doing so, they provided this only for some parts of the country.
Look at it this way: before US went in, Iraqi police (probably) protected the universities. After US went in, noone did. Yes, of course, the looters are the ones that actually stole the stuff, but US has its own part to blame in this, IMHO.
So I can't relate to your situation, but what got me out of being bored with my project and in general with writing code was learning something entirely new. In my case, it was *finally* learning functional programming, and starting on an associated path to (re)learning some math concepts.
Whether that works for other people, I have no idea, but it did work for me, and made me enthusiastic again about simply writing code.
Sure, but that's exactly what I was referring to---the ability to catch up to the 'current solution', across many fields; I didn't mean to say they are advancing above the current solution, not at all.
Even for just catching up, I think they've done a good job at it, and my point is that maybe there is a relation between this and not having NIH. That was what I trying to say :)
Hmm, could this explain how Asia was able to move so quickly in the past decades? Yes, it means that you steal (either figuratively or literaly) ideas more often, but it also means that you'll always try to use what it's best, without being hang-up on the current solution.
Anyway, I thought about the relation/contrast between being "liberal" with other peoples ideas and having a NIH syndrome, and I find this interesting.
Sorry, indeed realised after posting. I'm still surprised about the original parent's statement though (.net and JVM in relation to OCaml and Haskell??)
Not sure what you mean by "native code". Haskell and Ocaml can both be compiled down to native code. What exactly do you want and is lacking in these two?
They have that whole mass-energy conservation bullshit, but both fission and fusion apparently produce tons of energy.
Wrong. Fission of elements heavier than iron produces energy, but their fusion would consume it. Fission of elements lighter than iron consumes energy, but their fusion produces energy.
Really, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion describes it pretty clearly, no need to speculate.
PNG can be lossless, if you choose 0 for compression level - then the image is basically a bitmap when it comes to file-size (except png inherently supports Alpha-channel transparency).
Uh... PNG is *always* lossless, the compression level only affects the tradeoff between compression/decompression level and savings achieved (a la gzip -1..9). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics for more details.
regards,
iustin
So pray tell me, what does the GPL *force* you to do?
So I see these benchmarks between expensive SSDs and cheaper harddrives, but I'm yet to see a benchmark between some more appropriate price configurations: SDDs versus mechanical harddrives in RAID with battery-backed NVRAM, where the random write penalty is much much lower. Does anyone know of any?
iustin
Ah, but a "third party security audit" is all it takes for you to feel safe?
Given my experience with such audits, please, keep external auditors as far away as possible.
Look at the fmask and dmask mount options for the fat/ntfs family.
regards,
iustin