MySQL with INNODB tables supports foreign keys
I know I shouldn't get mad about this, because hey, this is slashdot, and so I shouldn't expect anyone to do any research whatsoever, so I'm doing it for you. (It's days like this when I really wish there was a "-1 WRONG" mod option)
But if I bought from there, I would be supporting ravers. I don't think I can bring myself to do that.
Remember kids: Keep America Beautiful, Stab Ravers In The Face.
I like the look of that theme, no fake-3d looking buttons, just nice, plain and simple. Somday, we will be able to get rid of everything being grey but until that day I'll be happy using this theme. (sure, it's not a lickable OSX interface, but this one is real quiet and just sticks to business)
It's simple, really, all you need to do is explain that most software patents are on shakey ground, as soon as someone bothers to write an implementation of the patent in Haskell (which is nothing more than Lamda calculus), it has then been implemented as a mathmatical algorythm and is no longer a valid patent. Having companies rely on such a shakey ground could mean disaster for the economy if someone were to rock the boat just a little to hard.
Secondly, software patents go beyond the original idea of patents, in that if you designed something different enough, it would get it's own patent, but in the software world you must build your program in almost the same way in order to maintain compatibility. Otherwise, the company that patented the thing in question could have a stranglehold on the computer world for twenty years.
Actually, it just looks like they created a new streaming file format, which is good, because avi has some serious flaws, and.qt/.mov isn't really supported by anyone but Apple.
However, the codec is just plain-old VP3 which you yourself can get the source for: www.vp3.com, which also happens to be what OGG Targus is going to be based on.
Eye candy is not a necessary feature of OS X. Eye candy is not what makes OS X great. What makes OS X great is that it is an extremely stable platform, with a great set of libraries and application programming standards so that everything works. That is what makes OS X so great, everything works, it's all easy to configure and setup, and you normally would never need to really touch anything. Being a UNIX just makes it all the better, and for those times that you want to go beyond what the happy-little configuration things will let you do, you have all of the power of UNIX to help you on your way.
So remember boys and girls, OS X is about being a stable and simple platform, the eye candy is marketing, how else would you get everybody to rewrite all of their applications?
There is actually a great reason why X isn't dead. Extensions are that reason. The entire X rendering model was designed with no intention of surviving any more than five years, the original creators figured that by then, people would have subplanted their rendering model with a completely different one. This is a great plan, and allows for unlimited flexibilty later on, unfortunately, their original design worked well enough that noone has really bothered to change it. It has aged quite well, but needs to be replaced with a new rendering engine in order to even catch up with what is going on in the Apple world. I personally would like a complete widget set on the server side, programmers, being lazy, would use the built in widgets, and all of the sudden X would have widgets that all looked and felt the same.
Mind you, I'm a pretty big fan of OS X, but that windowmanager in there is an abomination against mankind. With no virtual desktop support (except for third party kludges), windows constantly pile up, and digging through them is a pain. Hiding the icons for minimize, maximize and close until you mouse over the title bar is also something that Apple heavily recommends against in their style guide. The cheezy effects in OS X are nice for the first week, and afterwards, you just get sick of them, fortunatly you can turn most of them off.
The thing I hate most about Quartz (even more than it's bloat) is the widgets. I don't want semi-transparent, gigantic pulsating buttons to work with, I want simple, flat and slightly tinted buttons, like Java has, give me that, and I'll be an even more happy OS X user (oh, and speed Macromedia Flash up to a reasonable speed, Apple's are supposed to be good at graphics, remember?).
Oh no, it's a stored procedure guy. There is a reason that most applications do as much processing as possible on the client end, it's because client's always have more processing power than servers. Why do client's always have more processing power than servers, it's because for any one server, you could have tens to hundreds of clients, part of building an extremely scalable system is distributing as much processing as possible to the client. This is why you should almost never use stored procedures in a scalable system, unless you get some heavy-duty replication going you are almost always guaranteed to only have one SQL server avaliable, whereas you may have fifty to a hundred clients. There are good uses for stored procedures, espically the bank example you posted, but remember, anything done on the server costs you when it comes to scalability.
I have a Dell Inspiron 5000e, with the UXGA screen (1600x1200), and it also is developing a crack on the left hand side, right next to the hinge. I was kind of baffled, but I do abuse this machine a bit, so I just wrote it off as that. Then I realized what really caused this, I was looking at how I adjusted the LCD, it was always with my right hand on the top right corner of the LCD, which should put quite a bit of tork on that corner. I adjust the screen quite frequently (I can't sit still), so it looks like this is my reward.
In order for a patent to apply, all of it's claims must be met. On this patent, even though one of those claims (the table-based huffman coding) is valid, and applies to the JPEG algorithmn, the rest of the patent deals with claims around compression between video frames, which JPEG does not have. M-JPEG may be a tougher fight though.
I remember a while ago, hearing about the MPEG-4 licencing schemes. Wasn't it like two cents per minute of live broadcast video? Since Quicktime's MPEG-4 implementation is the ISO standard, they can't even claim that they aren't using the standard specified so that they don't have to pay licensing fees. I guess MPEG-4 is going the same way as MP3, that there is someone out there who you (technically) owe money too, but nobody really cares. Sometimes I really wonder where the money is made in codecs, and remind myself that they don't always, thank you vorbis.
Well, I don't know about you, but a 60's vette, or Jaguar E-Type still seems to be the best looking car out there. So it looks like all the cool looking design skills were also lost back then too. It's a shame too, those were some nice looking cars.
Linux, always know for it's fast context switches, is faster that Windows, which is pretty slow at context switches, as far as OS's go. Is faster doing a minimal load multi-threaded application. Well, it's not quite a shocker, but glad to know that we are still ahead.
My recommendation to you is to use eDonkey2000, use P2P for what P2P is supposed to do. eDonkey2000 uniquely identifies each and every file on the network with a MD4 sum and a filesize. You could just put a bunch of ed2k:// links on your site to replace the current downloads, and make sure the server is running edonkey2000 and serving up those files (So that there always is at least one good place to get the files, even though edonkey2000 will go for multiple hosts with the same file at the same time). To even be more helpful, you could always connect to a specific listing server, and give people that address. At 140GB/month, you could actually bring a good amonut of legimiate traffic to this P2P network.
Bah, shows how much you know. What happened to Vivo? it was the favorite of the porn formats, and is now gone. (Most of slashdot will cheer along with me, that this horible format is gone)
As any true administrator knows, anytime you can automate something and eliminate the chance of user error, do it. What you need is a fully automated backup system. There is an open-source one availible, that the last time I used it was extremely reliable, and did it's thing without getting in anyone's way.
It's called Amanda developed by the University of Maryland, and very slowly evolving it works well. The only problem is that setup is a true bitch. It's as bad as sendmail, but don't worry, because after you set it up, you can totally forget about it as it just goes about it's business and sends you emails telling you how swell everything is (or isn't).
Use it, don't let user error destroy your backups.
The difference between the GPL and a standard EULA is one of the rights you have. If you don't read and/or agree to the GPL, that is perfectly fine, because you are held to the copyright law. The GPL only grants extra rights over standard copyright law (those extra rights come with some heavy restrictions, but if you don't accept the restrictions, you don't get the extra rights) whereas EULA's restrict you beyond the point of copyright. The GPL only needs to be agreed to and complied with if you choose to go beyond the restrictions of copyright, which is why the GPL has a great amount more legal footing to stand on than any EULA
Hey, I was noticing in an earlier comment that you can find off-site work at 40-80/hr, let me tell you that my rates are just as good and I have actual real world experience, but my resume reads like a graveyard, I havn't been able to pick the right companies, and noone around here (Salt Lake City, Ut) seems to be hiring for anything other than VB work. So, don't go offshore, hire me! r.a.w.b@r.a.w.b.dot.o.r.g
You definitely want a screen (it will be pretty expensive, but worth it), projecting against a white wall vs a screen is an amazing difference, a screen as reflective properties that most paints don't (and for good reason). So if you are planning on doing this, definitely invest the extra bucks for a nice screen.
Uhm... that looks all image to me. Have you ever actually used a G4 tower? you just pull one lever and you have complete and easy access to all your cards, and to the drives themselves (which are sitting on the panel you just folded out.)
This one looks just short of completely impossible to add or remove cards/drives.
I wholeheartidly agree, just because people like something, doesn't mean it is horrible. There are plenty of thingsoutthere that aren't popular, but that doesn't mean that they are any good.
Remember this one thing, committee's can't program, I've noticed a trend that any open source project that starts with over four team members seem to just sit around and talk, and never accomplish anything. All of the successful projects started with one guy doing something because he wanted to, and others helping him along the way.
Discussion is good, but remember, talking design all day doesn't actually build anything.
A radio station I work for needs to get it's broadcasts to the top of the transmitter towers, and also to the top of all the repeater stations, so instead of laying down some massive cable (the primary tower is around 120miles from the studio, and on top of a mountain), we just have some hardware that emulates a frame-relay connection over a wireless link. Works really great, they have no problems making the distances with some good antanneas, and we used a gas station along the way as a relay ( you need power from somewhere ), so you could probably do that without any problem of even getting close to your budget (The antennas are about 1k a piece, and the relays/transmitters are around 5k, it all runs on the unlicensed frequencies here in the US, so you would probably find a similar product up there and not have to pay for licencing.)
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MySQL with INNODB tables supports foreign keys
I know I shouldn't get mad about this, because hey, this is slashdot, and so I shouldn't expect anyone to do any research whatsoever, so I'm doing it for you. (It's days like this when I really wish there was a "-1 WRONG" mod option)
But if I bought from there, I would be supporting ravers. I don't think I can bring myself to do that.
Remember kids: Keep America Beautiful, Stab Ravers In The Face.
I like the look of that theme, no fake-3d looking buttons, just nice, plain and simple. Somday, we will be able to get rid of everything being grey but until that day I'll be happy using this theme. (sure, it's not a lickable OSX interface, but this one is real quiet and just sticks to business)
It's simple, really, all you need to do is explain that most software patents are on shakey ground, as soon as someone bothers to write an implementation of the patent in Haskell (which is nothing more than Lamda calculus), it has then been implemented as a mathmatical algorythm and is no longer a valid patent. Having companies rely on such a shakey ground could mean disaster for the economy if someone were to rock the boat just a little to hard.
Secondly, software patents go beyond the original idea of patents, in that if you designed something different enough, it would get it's own patent, but in the software world you must build your program in almost the same way in order to maintain compatibility. Otherwise, the company that patented the thing in question could have a stranglehold on the computer world for twenty years.
Actually, it just looks like they created a new streaming file format, which is good, because avi has some serious flaws, and .qt/.mov isn't really supported by anyone but Apple.
However, the codec is just plain-old VP3 which you yourself can get the source for: www.vp3.com, which also happens to be what OGG Targus is going to be based on.
I strongly disagree.
Eye candy is not a necessary feature of OS X. Eye candy is not what makes OS X great. What makes OS X great is that it is an extremely stable platform, with a great set of libraries and application programming standards so that everything works. That is what makes OS X so great, everything works, it's all easy to configure and setup, and you normally would never need to really touch anything. Being a UNIX just makes it all the better, and for those times that you want to go beyond what the happy-little configuration things will let you do, you have all of the power of UNIX to help you on your way.
So remember boys and girls, OS X is about being a stable and simple platform, the eye candy is marketing, how else would you get everybody to rewrite all of their applications?
There is actually a great reason why X isn't dead. Extensions are that reason. The entire X rendering model was designed with no intention of surviving any more than five years, the original creators figured that by then, people would have subplanted their rendering model with a completely different one. This is a great plan, and allows for unlimited flexibilty later on, unfortunately, their original design worked well enough that noone has really bothered to change it. It has aged quite well, but needs to be replaced with a new rendering engine in order to even catch up with what is going on in the Apple world. I personally would like a complete widget set on the server side, programmers, being lazy, would use the built in widgets, and all of the sudden X would have widgets that all looked and felt the same.
Mind you, I'm a pretty big fan of OS X, but that windowmanager in there is an abomination against mankind. With no virtual desktop support (except for third party kludges), windows constantly pile up, and digging through them is a pain. Hiding the icons for minimize, maximize and close until you mouse over the title bar is also something that Apple heavily recommends against in their style guide. The cheezy effects in OS X are nice for the first week, and afterwards, you just get sick of them, fortunatly you can turn most of them off.
The thing I hate most about Quartz (even more than it's bloat) is the widgets. I don't want semi-transparent, gigantic pulsating buttons to work with, I want simple, flat and slightly tinted buttons, like Java has, give me that, and I'll be an even more happy OS X user (oh, and speed Macromedia Flash up to a reasonable speed, Apple's are supposed to be good at graphics, remember?).
Oh no, it's a stored procedure guy. There is a reason that most applications do as much processing as possible on the client end, it's because client's always have more processing power than servers. Why do client's always have more processing power than servers, it's because for any one server, you could have tens to hundreds of clients, part of building an extremely scalable system is distributing as much processing as possible to the client. This is why you should almost never use stored procedures in a scalable system, unless you get some heavy-duty replication going you are almost always guaranteed to only have one SQL server avaliable, whereas you may have fifty to a hundred clients. There are good uses for stored procedures, espically the bank example you posted, but remember, anything done on the server costs you when it comes to scalability.
I have a Dell Inspiron 5000e, with the UXGA screen (1600x1200), and it also is developing a crack on the left hand side, right next to the hinge. I was kind of baffled, but I do abuse this machine a bit, so I just wrote it off as that. Then I realized what really caused this, I was looking at how I adjusted the LCD, it was always with my right hand on the top right corner of the LCD, which should put quite a bit of tork on that corner. I adjust the screen quite frequently (I can't sit still), so it looks like this is my reward.
In order for a patent to apply, all of it's claims must be met. On this patent, even though one of those claims (the table-based huffman coding) is valid, and applies to the JPEG algorithmn, the rest of the patent deals with claims around compression between video frames, which JPEG does not have.
M-JPEG may be a tougher fight though.
I remember a while ago, hearing about the MPEG-4 licencing schemes. Wasn't it like two cents per minute of live broadcast video? Since Quicktime's MPEG-4 implementation is the ISO standard, they can't even claim that they aren't using the standard specified so that they don't have to pay licensing fees. I guess MPEG-4 is going the same way as MP3, that there is someone out there who you (technically) owe money too, but nobody really cares. Sometimes I really wonder where the money is made in codecs, and remind myself that they don't always, thank you vorbis.
Well, I don't know about you, but a 60's vette, or Jaguar E-Type still seems to be the best looking car out there. So it looks like all the cool looking design skills were also lost back then too. It's a shame too, those were some nice looking cars.
Linux, always know for it's fast context switches, is faster that Windows, which is pretty slow at context switches, as far as OS's go. Is faster doing a minimal load multi-threaded application. Well, it's not quite a shocker, but glad to know that we are still ahead.
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ML donkey homepage (my preferred Linux client)
Bah, shows how much you know. What happened to Vivo? it was the favorite of the porn formats, and is now gone. (Most of slashdot will cheer along with me, that this horible format is gone)
As any true administrator knows, anytime you can automate something and eliminate the chance of user error, do it. What you need is a fully automated backup system. There is an open-source one availible, that the last time I used it was extremely reliable, and did it's thing without getting in anyone's way.
It's called Amanda developed by the University of Maryland, and very slowly evolving it works well. The only problem is that setup is a true bitch. It's as bad as sendmail, but don't worry, because after you set it up, you can totally forget about it as it just goes about it's business and sends you emails telling you how swell everything is (or isn't).
Use it, don't let user error destroy your backups.
The difference between the GPL and a standard EULA is one of the rights you have. If you don't read and/or agree to the GPL, that is perfectly fine, because you are held to the copyright law. The GPL only grants extra rights over standard copyright law (those extra rights come with some heavy restrictions, but if you don't accept the restrictions, you don't get the extra rights) whereas EULA's restrict you beyond the point of copyright.
The GPL only needs to be agreed to and complied with if you choose to go beyond the restrictions of copyright, which is why the GPL has a great amount more legal footing to stand on than any EULA
I'll third that opinion, and the measure passes.
Hey, I was noticing in an earlier comment that you can find off-site work at 40-80/hr, let me tell you that my rates are just as good and I have actual real world experience, but my resume reads like a graveyard, I havn't been able to pick the right companies, and noone around here (Salt Lake City, Ut) seems to be hiring for anything other than VB work. So, don't go offshore, hire me! r.a.w.b@r.a.w.b.dot.o.r.g
You definitely want a screen (it will be pretty expensive, but worth it), projecting against a white wall vs a screen is an amazing difference, a screen as reflective properties that most paints don't (and for good reason). So if you are planning on doing this, definitely invest the extra bucks for a nice screen.
Uhm... that looks all image to me. Have you ever actually used a G4 tower? you just pull one lever and you have complete and easy access to all your cards, and to the drives themselves (which are sitting on the panel you just folded out.)
This one looks just short of completely impossible to add or remove cards/drives.
I wholeheartidly agree, just because people like something, doesn't mean it is horrible. There are plenty of things out there that aren't popular, but that doesn't mean that they are any good.
Remember this one thing, committee's can't program, I've noticed a trend that any open source project that starts with over four team members seem to just sit around and talk, and never accomplish anything. All of the successful projects started with one guy doing something because he wanted to, and others helping him along the way.
Discussion is good, but remember, talking design all day doesn't actually build anything.
A radio station I work for needs to get it's broadcasts to the top of the transmitter towers, and also to the top of all the repeater stations, so instead of laying down some massive cable (the primary tower is around 120miles from the studio, and on top of a mountain), we just have some hardware that emulates a frame-relay connection over a wireless link. Works really great, they have no problems making the distances with some good antanneas, and we used a gas station along the way as a relay ( you need power from somewhere ), so you could probably do that without any problem of even getting close to your budget (The antennas are about 1k a piece, and the relays/transmitters are around 5k, it all runs on the unlicensed frequencies here in the US, so you would probably find a similar product up there and not have to pay for licencing.)
Actually, the clustering part is wrong. It does clustering, currently in master-slave situations, master-master "works", but I wouldn't trust it yet.
Sorry, looks like slashcode isn't used to my url's, I seem to like to quote things: http://www.tuxscreen.net
Try that one...