Many people do not know how to cook interesting food for cheap. Yes, it's something that they should learn, but it is entirely as much of a skill as algebra. It takes time to develop, is not really taught in schools, and if not taught at home is going to require a lot of self-motivation to pick up.
couldn't agree more. my attempt at learning found some good info online.
Thanks for the link.
I was just checking over their service - sounds great until on their feature comparison page, I see the NO for linux support. Anyone know what the deal is with that? Just no native client? Have to use a few creative workarounds to work on linux?
What I wonder is how long it will be before these phones *are* your computer and you just plug in a fullblown screen and keyboard wherever you want to sit and work.
It depends. If the man you are discussing, is for instance a paedophile, Nazi, or terrorist, you are required to have a problem with them not just with their argument.
And if the "paedophile, Nazi, or terrorist" finds the answer to life, the universe, and Everything, you will reject his answer automatically?
If they can't afford to make it commercially viable on their own, they shouldn't look to do it on the taxpayer dime.
Long-term, I agree.
However, this is a great example of a short-term subsidy that can help jump start the process until it _is_ commercially viable on it's own.
As it stands, the cost of the environmental impact is an externality to GM and the car buyer. By making cars (such as the Volt) that can drastically lower this impact, the cost is incorporated into the purchase price. Especially being new technology, this will initially have a much higher price point until efficiencies of scale/better production methods can eliminate the need for the subsidy.
Same here, been with Sprint since 1999, not too many problems. Coverage for me has always been great - though I'm always close to 'bigger' cities and along interstates.
Oddly enough, compared to many peoples' complaints about shitty Sprint Customer Service, I've had no hellish situations, and the single best customer service experience I've had was w/ a Sprint rep. I called up their normal CS number once to change my plan I believe. The guy that answered was extremely nice, knowledgeable, and discussed various options to get me the best priced plan. The thing about the call that really stuck in my mind was that he sounded like an older guy, not the typical 20/30ish rep that's clearly not happy working the phones. He spoke well and *conversed* with me, rather than spit out lines on a script. I've always suspected I got some guy who wasn't normally on the phones all day everyday, as if there was some program where high-level management took a few CS calls every now and again, just to stay connected w/ their customer base.
Look at it as how much money you wasted...
$20 for a couple months of Netflix (or similar) vs. $200 purchasing.
That's a $180 difference - in your favor.
Screamer II was the epitomy of insane graphics - no PC on the market at the time of its release was fast enough to run it in its highest resolution and all the extras turned on. By the time computers caught up with it, it wouldn't run on them because it was a DOS game and running it in DOS mode had no sound.
IMO the PC gaming companies are insane. They write these games for rich kids, and rich kids only - you have to have thousands of dollars worth of equipment, then pay $60 and up for the game itself. It's madness. They should write for today's top end machines, not tomorrow's. They should write the games so that if you have a video card that costs twice what an Xbox costs you'll get the graphics, yet if you have a normal $50 video card the game will still play.
And they should sell them for a far lower price. A movie costs from millions to hundreds of millions of dollars to produce, but I can buy a DVD for between five and twenty bucks. It is a rare game that has a production budget of over ten million, yet they sell for three times what the most expensive DVD costs.
So am I the only one who thinks it's great that games might be designed with the ability to scale its graphics as new hardware comes out after the release of the game?
I mean, I understand where you're coming from about cost and target market re: rich kids. But 1) your numbers are outdated, you can get a screaming gaming machine for under $1k, and 2) that target market you mention is made of people for whom half the fun is building and overclocking their pc.
Poorly written/optimized code aside, it's not like you *have to* run a game with all the graphics options set to UltraHigh to enjoy it. At least if it's a game worth playing.
So are you just joking/trolling now? You certainly can't believe that monopolies are the sole creation of government?!?
Government certainly can create a monopoly, and it explicitly does in certain circumstances, but it is also government regulation that ensures a fair marketplace, i.e. prevents monopolization.
This would destroy the sites that makes any money based on advertising, or have them go to BT for their ad revenue.
this is the biggest problem with an ISP switching ads to their own. In the end, it's a destructive practice:
1) advertisers will start to understand that ads they pay for on site x are being over-ridden
2) advertisers start paying ISPs for advertising
3) site x, now not able to support its costs through advertising, closes up shop
4) rinse, repeat, until
5) there's no longer any sites that users want to visit, and ISPs are getting less money from advertisers, and are loosing subscribers cause there's less demand
Do you have a specific reference for that, or are you just making an assumption? Because as far as I'm aware, a private business has the right to refuse service to anyone they want, for any reason that they want. They just have to be prepared to suffer the repercussions of such refusal, which may include losing some people's business.
good point.
but I'd say that, in the context of the Visa transaction, while refusing the sale is OK as far as vendor-purchaser relations go, it's not OK as far as vendor-visa relation. So repercussions would also include whatever Visa defines for violation of that rule.
It seems to be pretty powerful, and good for easily graphing results from large datasets, etc.
Doesn't Excel have a 65k row limit? At least my version of Excel does.
Or when you say large dataset - which always means different things to different people - would the 65k row max not limit you?
as a DBA, I'd definitely encourage use of any of the databases out there. I would say a db would offer the best of both worlds of using Excel and a procedural language. GUIs for easily working with (including simple importing) are getting way better, and you then have extremely powerful ways of working with your data, using SQL and the various procedural languages that can be used on various databases (eg plsql in Oracle, tsql in MS SQL, I believe there's someone doing plsql compatible in postgres, etc).
I don't know that I have anything solid to base this on, but I've always guessed that the real cost per copy that larger systems makers have to pass on to Microsoft is more in the $30 range.
creating views limited to their data is a great, easy solution for limiting rows within the same table.
looking at it from a longer term perspective, if you think that this ability is something many of your customers would use, you can look in to what oracle calls Virtual Private Database (VPD). VPD allows you to set rules on tables that, on the server, adds a predicate to all SQL ran against that table. Essestially, it forces a WHERE clause of your choosing for all select, insert, update, delete statements.
if you tie that to a lookup table, say of logged on user's CompanyID#, any statement they send can only ever affect that subset of rows.
'delete * from orders' from Ted@Acme Inc (ComanyID#=5) would turn into: 'delete * from orders where companyid#=5'
The dumb thing is, we've already proven that we are the world leader in unleashing the "hard kill" smackdown on information infrastructure.
Just putting effort into the software side would only add to that threat, and doing what the NSA does and just smirking and saying, "That's classified" when anyone asks them about their cyber crap would only make the threat more credible.
to me, the software side seems to be better suited to intellgence, rather than force. I would think in times of actual war, it would be better to be able to secretly infiltrate, rather than deny enemy capability outright.
maybe as a last resort, or a diversion, would software attacks shift to denial of service.
I've met a number of CIA people. Analysts, of course-- wouldn't know the covert people, since after all they're covert. "Gifted rule breakers" is not the phrase I'd use. Academically-inclined, diligent, slightly smug preppies would be a more accurate description. The reason we have organizations like the CIA is to evade accountability, not because they are somehow more gifted than military people.
Anyway, hacking is more likely to be the domain of No Such Agency.
it's kinda funny that slashdot's negative response to this is really only because it's the Air Force. It must be the mark of coders/engineers that we (myself included) obviously think it's an architecture flaw; a different part of the system should be tasked with this responsibility.
If rumor got out that the NSA had active plans for this, we'd all put our armchair hacker hats on and be posting ways to make it better.
Because a botnet lets you do a DDOS attack more effectively since it comes from multiple points. There was a Slashdot article about it last week.
absolutely, and this seems like the only part of the desire on their part to have botnet like capability that makes sense.
while they could certainly do far better in term of cpu power on their own, being able to attack from every possible vector (ie many different nodes in a given network) seems like a requirement for effective use. otherwise it would be too easy for the target to cut single/low # of input nodes.
yeah, and the 10 commandments was actually a one-time pad key, which has been passed from pope to pope. this enables the pope (and only he) to decrypt the communications.
There are a lot of people out there using Oracle because that was one of the only real options five years ago, but don't really need it's high-end features, and certainly don't want its high-end price. EnterpriseDB is a very good choice for them. In the last couple years, Oracle has been going after the smaller markets to some extent... I saw the release of their Express Edition database as targeting those who would otherwise defer to MySQL/PostgreSQL because of $$$. Express Edition is free, supports all the core Oracle features (though with some limitations like 4GB db size and 1GB mem usage max).
It's a pretty good option in many applications.
Then (before?) they did a licensing option (Standard Edition One) that seems to be targeted at MS SQL I think. Much cheaper than the $40k/CPU Enterpise Edition.
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Many people do not know how to cook interesting food for cheap. Yes, it's something that they should learn, but it is entirely as much of a skill as algebra. It takes time to develop, is not really taught in schools, and if not taught at home is going to require a lot of self-motivation to pick up.
couldn't agree more. my attempt at learning found some good info online.
my wife makes fun of me, but I love this site: http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/
Thanks for the link. I was just checking over their service - sounds great until on their feature comparison page, I see the NO for linux support. Anyone know what the deal is with that? Just no native client? Have to use a few creative workarounds to work on linux?
obviously the better solution
...at the time the 360 didn't have the hard drive install option and the drive noise drove me nuts when I was playing the games...
someone is obviously in need of a stereo that goes to 11 ;)
What I wonder is how long it will be before these phones *are* your computer and you just plug in a fullblown screen and keyboard wherever you want to sit and work.
Or this plus a built-in projector Maybe throw in a virtual keyboard for good measure.
I've got nothing to add. Just wanted to thank you for the great post!
It depends. If the man you are discussing, is for instance a paedophile, Nazi, or terrorist, you are required to have a problem with them not just with their argument.
And if the "paedophile, Nazi, or terrorist" finds the answer to life, the universe, and Everything, you will reject his answer automatically?
If they can't afford to make it commercially viable on their own, they shouldn't look to do it on the taxpayer dime.
Long-term, I agree.
However, this is a great example of a short-term subsidy that can help jump start the process until it _is_ commercially viable on it's own.
As it stands, the cost of the environmental impact is an externality to GM and the car buyer. By making cars (such as the Volt) that can drastically lower this impact, the cost is incorporated into the purchase price. Especially being new technology, this will initially have a much higher price point until efficiencies of scale/better production methods can eliminate the need for the subsidy.
At least, that's how it _could_ work :)
Same here, been with Sprint since 1999, not too many problems. Coverage for me has always been great - though I'm always close to 'bigger' cities and along interstates.
Oddly enough, compared to many peoples' complaints about shitty Sprint Customer Service, I've had no hellish situations, and the single best customer service experience I've had was w/ a Sprint rep. I called up their normal CS number once to change my plan I believe. The guy that answered was extremely nice, knowledgeable, and discussed various options to get me the best priced plan. The thing about the call that really stuck in my mind was that he sounded like an older guy, not the typical 20/30ish rep that's clearly not happy working the phones. He spoke well and *conversed* with me, rather than spit out lines on a script. I've always suspected I got some guy who wasn't normally on the phones all day everyday, as if there was some program where high-level management took a few CS calls every now and again, just to stay connected w/ their customer base.
Win + L to lock the screen is one I try and use everytime I leave my office.
Look at it as how much money you wasted... $20 for a couple months of Netflix (or similar) vs. $200 purchasing. That's a $180 difference - in your favor.
Screamer II was the epitomy of insane graphics - no PC on the market at the time of its release was fast enough to run it in its highest resolution and all the extras turned on. By the time computers caught up with it, it wouldn't run on them because it was a DOS game and running it in DOS mode had no sound.
IMO the PC gaming companies are insane. They write these games for rich kids, and rich kids only - you have to have thousands of dollars worth of equipment, then pay $60 and up for the game itself. It's madness. They should write for today's top end machines, not tomorrow's. They should write the games so that if you have a video card that costs twice what an Xbox costs you'll get the graphics, yet if you have a normal $50 video card the game will still play.
And they should sell them for a far lower price. A movie costs from millions to hundreds of millions of dollars to produce, but I can buy a DVD for between five and twenty bucks. It is a rare game that has a production budget of over ten million, yet they sell for three times what the most expensive DVD costs.
So am I the only one who thinks it's great that games might be designed with the ability to scale its graphics as new hardware comes out after the release of the game?
I mean, I understand where you're coming from about cost and target market re: rich kids. But 1) your numbers are outdated, you can get a screaming gaming machine for under $1k, and 2) that target market you mention is made of people for whom half the fun is building and overclocking their pc.
Poorly written/optimized code aside, it's not like you *have to* run a game with all the graphics options set to UltraHigh to enjoy it. At least if it's a game worth playing.
So are you just joking/trolling now? You certainly can't believe that monopolies are the sole creation of government?!? Government certainly can create a monopoly, and it explicitly does in certain circumstances, but it is also government regulation that ensures a fair marketplace, i.e. prevents monopolization.
er.... loses. damn sticky 'o'
this is the biggest problem with an ISP switching ads to their own. In the end, it's a destructive practice:
1) advertisers will start to understand that ads they pay for on site x are being over-ridden
2) advertisers start paying ISPs for advertising
3) site x, now not able to support its costs through advertising, closes up shop
4) rinse, repeat, until
5) there's no longer any sites that users want to visit, and ISPs are getting less money from advertisers, and are loosing subscribers cause there's less demand
6) everybody looses
good point.
but I'd say that, in the context of the Visa transaction, while refusing the sale is OK as far as vendor-purchaser relations go, it's not OK as far as vendor-visa relation. So repercussions would also include whatever Visa defines for violation of that rule.
Doesn't Excel have a 65k row limit? At least my version of Excel does.
Or when you say large dataset - which always means different things to different people - would the 65k row max not limit you?
as a DBA, I'd definitely encourage use of any of the databases out there. I would say a db would offer the best of both worlds of using Excel and a procedural language. GUIs for easily working with (including simple importing) are getting way better, and you then have extremely powerful ways of working with your data, using SQL and the various procedural languages that can be used on various databases (eg plsql in Oracle, tsql in MS SQL, I believe there's someone doing plsql compatible in postgres, etc).
I don't know that I have anything solid to base this on, but I've always guessed that the real cost per copy that larger systems makers have to pass on to Microsoft is more in the $30 range.
creating views limited to their data is a great, easy solution for limiting rows within the same table.
looking at it from a longer term perspective, if you think that this ability is something many of your customers would use, you can look in to what oracle calls Virtual Private Database (VPD). VPD allows you to set rules on tables that, on the server, adds a predicate to all SQL ran against that table. Essestially, it forces a WHERE clause of your choosing for all select, insert, update, delete statements.
if you tie that to a lookup table, say of logged on user's CompanyID#, any statement they send can only ever affect that subset of rows.
'delete * from orders' from Ted@Acme Inc (ComanyID#=5) would turn into: 'delete * from orders where companyid#=5'
fun stuff
to me, the software side seems to be better suited to intellgence, rather than force. I would think in times of actual war, it would be better to be able to secretly infiltrate, rather than deny enemy capability outright.
maybe as a last resort, or a diversion, would software attacks shift to denial of service.
it's kinda funny that slashdot's negative response to this is really only because it's the Air Force. It must be the mark of coders/engineers that we (myself included) obviously think it's an architecture flaw; a different part of the system should be tasked with this responsibility.
If rumor got out that the NSA had active plans for this, we'd all put our armchair hacker hats on and be posting ways to make it better.
absolutely, and this seems like the only part of the desire on their part to have botnet like capability that makes sense.
while they could certainly do far better in term of cpu power on their own, being able to attack from every possible vector (ie many different nodes in a given network) seems like a requirement for effective use. otherwise it would be too easy for the target to cut single/low # of input nodes.
yeah, and the 10 commandments was actually a one-time pad key, which has been passed from pope to pope. this enables the pope (and only he) to decrypt the communications.
If that was all there was to it, why wouldn't they have stopped using Windows already?
Notes linux client wasn't released all that long ago. I'm sure that was one of the biggest roadblocks in Linux dekstop/workstation adoption.It's a pretty good option in many applications.
Then (before?) they did a licensing option (Standard Edition One) that seems to be targeted at MS SQL I think. Much cheaper than the $40k/CPU Enterpise Edition.