Doesn't the same go for many games today? Mindless stuff that only survives on Gfx and Sound effects... Probably 90% of today's games can't keep up with many old C64 games' gameplay and fun...
Apple expects each and every one of their customers to wait patiently for a new HW release, then run out (either physically or virtually via the 'net) in time to pick up their new and improved version of the (iPhone|iPod|iPad) as soon as it's availability is announced... why would any Apple follower even think of using an outdated product, if a new, more perfect version has been released?
I guess Futurama got it right dead on in Ep3 of the new season;)
What do you mean, they had to tell all the Apple fanboys and -girls to buy accessories? As far as I can tell, all the iTampon buyers willingly and freely decide to get all sort of junk for it without being told to...
This looks like a C&D letter from Steve is on its way... I bet the iPad EULA has something on there that specifically forbids attaching a non-Apple car to the iPad...
... compared to the possible consequences of GPS degradation, losing your TV signals is soooo much more far-reaching... who could imagine living without TV?
No, not only MySQL... PostgreSQL also... If you think a DB engine is fast, try doing joins and stuff between tables... an optimizer can only be of limited efficiency, as it won't know what to expect... e.g., doing a join of two large tables might result in either a very small result set, medium (many results from one part, few results from the other) or a very large result... depending on the indexes etc. the wrong optimization may be _very_ costly...
People complaining about SQL performance are most likely either using incorrectly scaled machines for the job, or believe they can throw a four-line SQL statement at the database and expect it to work out the optimization on its own... query optimizers may be able to do a decent job on average, but once you go large databases (multi-million dataset tables), planing the query structure will go a long way preserving performance. Yes one can write complicated queries to return exactly what you want in one query, but in many cases doing some logic around it and using smart grouping/loops will outperform the complex query...
You can multiple mobile pre-paid cards in Germany... just check at any supermarket (Aldi, Lidl, etc.), they have cheap stuff out there... e.g. Fonic has a 2,50 daily flatrate (pay as you go, no charge on days you don't use it) that you can use up to 1Gig (slowed down to GPRS over 1G), Blau.de as was mentioned above...
Anyway, it seems to be lot more common and readily available here than in the US - I've been trying to find an affordable, non-contract (or short-term contract, 1month) mobile data sim (preferably for use in my G1), but even if I'm willing to pay upward of $70 for a month of access, they add setup-fees and stuff to it, pushing it well beyond 100$ quickly...
a) Apple wants all its fan-boys and -girls to run out and get their WLAN iTampon once it's out... then after the 3G version is released, they want the same people to go out and buy the new one (along with the version 2 that will be released a year from then as well as the "S" version that comes along a year later, which then contains half of the features hoped for or desired during the first releases)
b) seeing the revenue Apple is getting from mobile carriers for their exclusive contracts, of course they'll make sure to build the devices exactly the way the carriers want them, so you better make sure to pick up half a dozen mobile data cards for your phone, GPS, iTampon, mobile data stick etc.... can't really expect the carriers to make a deficit due to the "unlimited data" transfer they already sold you on your phone, can you?
I reckon we won't see a Squid app for the iPhone on the app store any time soon...
... see hordes of clueless gamers carry their crappy Ubisoft-games back to the stores demanding their money back? I doubt it... most consumers are too nice to actually do something about being abused and f@cked in their @sses...
If the government wasn't consisting of 101% of bought-out lobbying supporters, there might even be laws ensuring consumers' rights instead of just big business...
So a few weeks later, a lady calls me. A customer survey drone wanting to know about my "experience". I tell her how frustrating the whole thing was. How does she conclude the call?
By asking if I'd consider a package deal to have my telephone run through their modem too.
You do know those sales droids don't actually listen to anything you say up to the point where you're expected to say "Of course I would like to order the service upgrade from you, right now, for twice of what I'm currently paying" so that they can get their nice little bonus, don't you?
After all, the root of the problem is in the massive holes in the system's design (as well as application software)... Also, let me guess - M$ would graciously offer certain service (for pay) to remove virus/worm/malware infections?
Sorry, but at the way the UK (as well as other countries around the globe) are evolving way beyond Orwell's '84, you didn't really believe them, did you? Honestly?
Winters like this (and the last) are more like the winters 30 years ago - we usually had snow from mid October through late March, with much more snow than now...
Back then, climate models predicted that a human-made climate change was causing a new ice age...
When we had no "real" winter for several years, global warming was causing the non-existent winter.
Now, global warming is causing "extreme" winters (which still have quite a way to go until they're back to what winter was in the 70s) because there is more moisture in the air. Yet, droughts don't suffer the same fate of too much moisture in the air... WTF?
D@mn, scientists have learned a lot from politicians, namely that people's memory hardly ever extends beyond 1-2 years back (if that far).
In the case of "poison" links, at least you see that you're at the wrong place... and, as someone else stated, you can still copy the verbose link (i.e. text) from the google page... still, just because Google uses JS to hide their clicktracking, Firefox isn't at fault for using the actual link... one could maybe add another context-menu-entry in such cases to allow for copying either the HREF or the JS link...
And that is the fault/error on the side of Firefox why? Sorry, but Firefox goes that extra mile because webpages might lead you somewhere else than they actually pretend to lead you... complain to Google about doing that, or write a Greasemonkey script to clean up that click-tracking... (I wouldn't wonder if such a script already existed...)
for keeping Android up to date... seeing that it had been rumored that anything beyond 1.5 might not be available due to (flash) memory size, we're up to a partial 2.0 release, with many of the 2.0 fixes and enhancements already available... at least for the geeks that have managed (or dared) to root their device... otherwise, I don't know how long it would take to see anything newer than 1.6, if any at all...
So, your card is "working flawlessly", and yet you still have to update it twice per week? Wonder why...
On I side note, the last nVidia I had was a mayor PITA... several games (actually, all, which isn't many) always froze up within a couple minutes of gameplay, unless I cleanly rebooted my XP machine first... (and that was after a fresh install, too!) Switched to an ATI card which was less power-hungry, only slightly slower, passively cooled, and cheaper, and haven't had any problems since... and that is without the need to update the drivers constantly in the hope if finally getting the stuff to work...
As for Mac notebooks - we have a total of 5 in our company as of current, all 2 years old or newer (rest is Dell Notebooks, and I have a Samsung NC10 additionally)... of those 5 Macs, three have had at least minor problems, including some display problems on of them (the newest one, incidentally) Over the last ~5 years, we've had about 20+ Dell notebooks, for which we've had about 2 or 3 support calls, all of which were fixed on-site at our company (in contrast to the Mac problems, which all had to be sent off... not sure if there's a decent, affordable on-site service available) So much for "more expensive is better quality" - all of the Macs were significantly more expensive than same-performance (as far as Hardware goes) Dells... Oh, and no problem with my Samsung to date, and I carry it back and forth with me every day...
> I don't know... why don't you have these problems? What is your secret? > > In my experience, if you have a real, live system and you upgrade Windows, you can expect everything non-MS to break. Critical > registry entries get deleted, DLLs go missing, directories get moved and everything goes to hell in a hand-basket.
You answered it yourself... "real, live system"... the post you answered said he had Vista Ultimate x64... now, doesn't that imply that he at least one of your presumptions, possibly two, weren't given? "real" being a system that had working applications, and "live" one that actually lets one do anything meaningful apart from reboots/crashes/system using up 100% resources...
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Didn't a US court just recently rule that it was lawful for a user to jailbreak a phone?
'If you can't make it good, make it 3-D.'
Doesn't the same go for many games today? Mindless stuff that only survives on Gfx and Sound effects ... ...
Probably 90% of today's games can't keep up with many old C64 games' gameplay and fun
You're doing it wrong! FAIL!
Apple expects each and every one of their customers to wait patiently for a new HW release, then run out (either physically or virtually via the 'net) in time to pick up their new and improved version of the (iPhone|iPod|iPad) as soon as it's availability is announced ... why would any Apple follower even think of using an outdated product, if a new, more perfect version has been released?
I guess Futurama got it right dead on in Ep3 of the new season ;)
What do you mean, they had to tell all the Apple fanboys and -girls to buy accessories? As far as I can tell, all the iTampon buyers willingly and freely decide to get all sort of junk for it without being told to ...
This looks like a C&D letter from Steve is on its way ... I bet the iPad EULA has something on there that specifically forbids attaching a non-Apple car to the iPad ...
... compared to the possible consequences of GPS degradation, losing your TV signals is soooo much more far-reaching ... who could imagine living without TV?
No, not only MySQL ... PostgreSQL also ... ... an optimizer can only be of limited efficiency, as it won't know what to expect ... e.g., doing a join of two large tables might result in either a very small result set, medium (many results from one part, few results from the other) or a very large result ... depending on the indexes etc. the wrong optimization may be _very_ costly ...
If you think a DB engine is fast, try doing joins and stuff between tables
People complaining about SQL performance are most likely either using incorrectly scaled machines for the job, or believe they can throw a four-line SQL statement at the database and expect it to work out the optimization on its own ... query optimizers may be able to do a decent job on average, but once you go large databases (multi-million dataset tables), planing the query structure will go a long way preserving performance. ...
Yes one can write complicated queries to return exactly what you want in one query, but in many cases doing some logic around it and using smart grouping/loops will outperform the complex query
You can multiple mobile pre-paid cards in Germany ... just check at any supermarket (Aldi, Lidl, etc.), they have cheap stuff out there ... e.g. Fonic has a 2,50 daily flatrate (pay as you go, no charge on days you don't use it) that you can use up to 1Gig (slowed down to GPRS over 1G), Blau.de as was mentioned above ...
Anyway, it seems to be lot more common and readily available here than in the US - I've been trying to find an affordable, non-contract (or short-term contract, 1month) mobile data sim (preferably for use in my G1), but even if I'm willing to pay upward of $70 for a month of access, they add setup-fees and stuff to it, pushing it well beyond 100$ quickly ...
a) Apple wants all its fan-boys and -girls to run out and get their WLAN iTampon once it's out ... then after the 3G version is released, they want the same people to go out and buy the new one (along with the version 2 that will be released a year from then as well as the "S" version that comes along a year later, which then contains half of the features hoped for or desired during the first releases)
b) seeing the revenue Apple is getting from mobile carriers for their exclusive contracts, of course they'll make sure to build the devices exactly the way the carriers want them, so you better make sure to pick up half a dozen mobile data cards for your phone, GPS, iTampon, mobile data stick etc. ... can't really expect the carriers to make a deficit due to the "unlimited data" transfer they already sold you on your phone, can you?
I reckon we won't see a Squid app for the iPhone on the app store any time soon...
... see hordes of clueless gamers carry their crappy Ubisoft-games back to the stores demanding their money back? I doubt it ... most consumers are too nice to actually do something about being abused and f@cked in their @sses ...
If the government wasn't consisting of 101% of bought-out lobbying supporters, there might even be laws ensuring consumers' rights instead of just big business ...
So a few weeks later, a lady calls me. A customer survey drone wanting to know about my "experience". I tell her how frustrating the whole thing was. How does she conclude the call? By asking if I'd consider a package deal to have my telephone run through their modem too.
You do know those sales droids don't actually listen to anything you say up to the point where you're expected to say "Of course I would like to order the service upgrade from you, right now, for twice of what I'm currently paying" so that they can get their nice little bonus, don't you?
This kind of copy protection has been outdated for quite some while and should have died with floppy disks ...
After all, the root of the problem is in the massive holes in the system's design (as well as application software) ...
Also, let me guess - M$ would graciously offer certain service (for pay) to remove virus/worm/malware infections?
No thank you ...
Sorry, but at the way the UK (as well as other countries around the globe) are evolving way beyond Orwell's '84, you didn't really believe them, did you? Honestly?
After all it's been through, I reckon the fluid sensors are still "ok", or?
This just in: New Windows uses more RAM than previous version! Experts are surprised!
Is it just a dejavu I'm having, or was this the standard behavior for every single version of windows?
Winters like this (and the last) are more like the winters 30 years ago - we usually had snow from mid October through late March, with much more snow than now ...
Back then, climate models predicted that a human-made climate change was causing a new ice age ...
When we had no "real" winter for several years, global warming was causing the non-existent winter.
Now, global warming is causing "extreme" winters (which still have quite a way to go until they're back to what winter was in the 70s) because there is more moisture in the air. Yet, droughts don't suffer the same fate of too much moisture in the air ... WTF?
D@mn, scientists have learned a lot from politicians, namely that people's memory hardly ever extends beyond 1-2 years back (if that far).
For many things, child porn will suffice. For everything else there's terrorist ...
In the case of "poison" links, at least you see that you're at the wrong place ... and, as someone else stated, you can still copy the verbose link (i.e. text) from the google page ... still, just because Google uses JS to hide their clicktracking, Firefox isn't at fault for using the actual link ... one could maybe add another context-menu-entry in such cases to allow for copying either the HREF or the JS link ...
And that is the fault/error on the side of Firefox why? Sorry, but Firefox goes that extra mile because webpages might lead you somewhere else than they actually pretend to lead you ... complain to Google about doing that, or write a Greasemonkey script to clean up that click-tracking ... (I wouldn't wonder if such a script already existed ...)
for keeping Android up to date ... seeing that it had been rumored that anything beyond 1.5 might not be available due to (flash) memory size, we're up to a partial 2.0 release, with many of the 2.0 fixes and enhancements already available ... at least for the geeks that have managed (or dared) to root their device ... otherwise, I don't know how long it would take to see anything newer than 1.6, if any at all ...
So, your card is "working flawlessly", and yet you still have to update it twice per week? Wonder why ...
On I side note, the last nVidia I had was a mayor PITA ... several games (actually, all, which isn't many) always froze up within a couple minutes of gameplay, unless I cleanly rebooted my XP machine first ... (and that was after a fresh install, too!) Switched to an ATI card which was less power-hungry, only slightly slower, passively cooled, and cheaper, and haven't had any problems since ... and that is without the need to update the drivers constantly in the hope if finally getting the stuff to work ...
As for Mac notebooks - we have a total of 5 in our company as of current, all 2 years old or newer (rest is Dell Notebooks, and I have a Samsung NC10 additionally) ... of those 5 Macs, three have had at least minor problems, including some display problems on of them (the newest one, incidentally) ... not sure if there's a decent, affordable on-site service available) ... ...
Over the last ~5 years, we've had about 20+ Dell notebooks, for which we've had about 2 or 3 support calls, all of which were fixed on-site at our company (in contrast to the Mac problems, which all had to be sent off
So much for "more expensive is better quality" - all of the Macs were significantly more expensive than same-performance (as far as Hardware goes) Dells
Oh, and no problem with my Samsung to date, and I carry it back and forth with me every day
> I don't know ... why don't you have these problems? What is your secret?
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> In my experience, if you have a real, live system and you upgrade Windows, you can expect everything non-MS to break. Critical
> registry entries get deleted, DLLs go missing, directories get moved and everything goes to hell in a hand-basket.
You answered it yourself ... "real, live system" ... the post you answered said he had Vista Ultimate x64 ... now, doesn't that imply that he at least one of your presumptions, possibly two, weren't given? "real" being a system that had working applications, and "live" one that actually lets one do anything meaningful apart from reboots/crashes/system using up 100% resources ...