Elapsed time, including cigarettes & pillowtalk: less than a second. PS: According to this nifty page at NASA, Mach 7.1 is about 5406 MPH, whereas 260 ft, per 0.03 seconds, is about 5909 MPH."
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Reminds me of the last time I was stopped for speeding. Officer said I was travelling 80 MPH in a 30 MPH zone. I answered, "But officer, that's impossible!" Puzzled, he asked me to explain. "I've only been driving for 5 minutes!"
Right. This is not back to the "Battle of Britian" as MSFT hoped, but, rather, back to "Potsdam". The war is over, the victor has triumphed, only the terms of peace have to be decided.
Since MSFT shares the same vision as Hitler's Third Reich (world domination)...may they share the same end.
It would take a while for the corporate culture to accept the breakup, so don't expect that MSFTOS to release Office for Linux anytime soon after such a breakup.
Actually, Jackson's did. His proposal would have limited MS' ability to enter the middleware market -- the OS of the 'net -- at the behest of the government lawyers, I believe. That goes to the core of.NET.
Basically, it keeps application logic within the DB.
One benefit, as you mentioned, is reduced data transfer out of the DB into the application over either a system bus or network connection (which can be a SERIOUS performance problem, especially if that network connection is thin or the application resides on a low-memory, slow CPU client).
Secondly, this allows business-rule enforcement at the DBMS, instead of relying on the application logic to do the same. This second reason is perhaps more important than the performance benefit.
The problem with SPs are: breaks n-tier model and increases processing strain on DB server (possible performance hit -- and increasing CPUs usually raises license cost of proprietary DBMSes), ties the application to the DBMS perhaps inextricably.
Really? Since using a 13.3" TFT LCD (on a Toshiba 2805) I've hated switching back to CRTs. In fact, I use my laptop at work rather than a company-provided desktop w/ CRT. (And until Ricochet died I would often not plug in to the company network, but that's another story.)
What an unfortunate modifier to use in a story about AIDS. Unfortunate because of the juxtaposition between the disease and the most common method of spreading/contracting it.
What I've never understood is that, depending on context, a certain "life-style community" associates itself with or dis-associates itself from this disease. In fact, the contexts in which the switch occurs are criticism and funding. If you criticize this "lifestyle community" for their actions which spread/contract AIDS, the response is "AIDS isn't our disease." Yet, when it comes time to push funding to Find A Cure, the same "lifestyle community" leads the charge and calls the ones not gung-ho for this effort as "lifestyle community"-phobic.
I think AIDS: the first disease to be political. Sad.
Hotmail is predictable. Down, insecure, loses messages. You can count on it to fail you. I've been using Hotmail for a few years now and cannot remember a time when it was as bad as it is now! Slow, lost Body portions of the messages...cannot connect...
I'm glad for Onebox and my regular email accounts.
Sure, some would say, "It's free; shut up!" But: MS is __still__ claiming to provide a service even though there is no direct cost to me. That there's no cost doesn't mean I don't expect the service to be useable. My recourse is to leave. Is that what MS wants?
Oh, as an aside, I hope the message #292192399 bug is never fixed - "Imagine if there's no First Posts...It's easy if you try..."
I want to buy *internet service* period. Charge me for extra bandwidth if you want (if I use it).. but don't tell me i "can't have listening TCP sockets'.
What I _don't_ hear people saying is "what happens when Code Red VII scans multiple ports and not just port 80"? The filtering of a single port is a Band-Aid(TM) and does not address the real problem: shoddy system administration.
In fact, I'm beginning to believe that the TOS should be enforced: no public servers on non-business broadband connections. Why? Because securing your computer is a serious job that is more than the @"lookie I've got a web site"Home user can/will handle.
Of course, I'm using my home system as a temporary back-up server (our main hosting service is experiencing trouble) while a new product gets demonstrated to potential investors/customers. I'm on an AT&T Broadband cable modem connection (fast enough for the demos) so when they filtered port 80 I reconfigured Apache to listen on 8081. No big deal. Oh, they also left 443 open, so those home users running ecommerce web apps at home (!) should have not even noticed the change. TOS? What TOS?
On second thought, restricting a whole class of Internet users to read-only violates the Internet Way. Toss the TOS.
Reminds me of 1990...
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The University of North Texas Business Department decided that every student taking a business class (any business class) would receive a free floppy diskette for each business class they take. One twist: each diskette would be labeled for the student and class for which they were receiving this diskette. These labels were to be hand-applied. To each diskette.
Now, UNT (watch those radio call-letter jokes, folks) has a good population and more than Marketing and Accounting fall under business. Many students from various disciplines take classes from the Business department. I know...now.
Yeah, it's not as bad as having to configure BearShare for the hapless, but tedious, laborious work it was, nonetheless.
To pass the time the group of us (working in Technical Support for the B-Dept) would try to find out which female would be looking to get married soon -- ranked, of course, by the madien name and how "unfortunate" it was. Then, we chose which males would be most unlikely to marry, based, again, on the unfortunate nature of there last names. Thousands of little diskettes...all hand labeled...I'm sure the bosses wondered why we'd suddenly burst out laughing...
One other incident - a student continued to access the campus BBS (run on the Univeristy's VAX) with phony names and would troll the boards. (Gee...why does this sound familar?...) Anyway, we warned him that it was against system policy to sign in as a psuedonym once you were found to break etiquitte, especially. ("Carl Marks" was one...not real bright this troll). Anyway, one night he logs in under a psuedonym (we traced the connection to his dorm room) so we thought we should teach him a lesson. We called the residence hall and spoke to the resident assistant and told him that this student was improperly accessing the BBS, and would he go to his room and tell him to stop breaking the rules (the phone was busy -- dial-up access back then). The RA misunderstood the severity of the situation and called campus police who raided the poor guy's room, shouting, "Hands off the keyboard -- step away from the computer." Don't know if the guns were drawn... Wow. They thought he was hacking into the administration system or something. Hilarious, but not at all what we intended. Sadly, he withdrew from the University after this incident.
(maybe he's lurking Slashdot now...Hello? Carl? you there?)
I did this through PayPal. Sent a developer US$100 for not only producing a useful Free program but also for personally helping solve a problem I ran into while using it (I submitted a bug report and he wrote back to me with the fix).
Funny, the non-Free software competitor costs c. US$50. I only wish I could have afforded to pay more.
Mozilla.09.3 is superfast on my Toshiba 2805 Celeron 650 with 192MB. Markedly faster than IE 5.5 or 6 beta. Very nice. Oh, I am using the "preload" feature (so does IE).
Too bad it still doesn't render advanced DOM1 and CSS1/2 stuff correctly. For all the touts abouts standards compliance...where's the beef?
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No, but would be a ding in your quest to run the Dept of Public Works.
Yes, but I did not know he had a similar joke. Does he?
Since MSFT shares the same vision as Hitler's Third Reich (world domination)...may they share the same end.
It would take a while for the corporate culture to accept the breakup, so don't expect that MSFTOS to release Office for Linux anytime soon after such a breakup.
Actually, Jackson's did. His proposal would have limited MS' ability to enter the middleware market -- the OS of the 'net -- at the behest of the government lawyers, I believe. That goes to the core of .NET.
Why are you mad at me? Be mad at your clueless co-worker.
One benefit, as you mentioned, is reduced data transfer out of the DB into the application over either a system bus or network connection (which can be a SERIOUS performance problem, especially if that network connection is thin or the application resides on a low-memory, slow CPU client).
Secondly, this allows business-rule enforcement at the DBMS, instead of relying on the application logic to do the same. This second reason is perhaps more important than the performance benefit.
The problem with SPs are: breaks n-tier model and increases processing strain on DB server (possible performance hit -- and increasing CPUs usually raises license cost of proprietary DBMSes), ties the application to the DBMS perhaps inextricably.
Amen! MS SQL is "Access Enterprise" compared to Oracle or DB2...or Informix, for that matter.
It *would* make more sense for Intel to release the compiler either free or Free if not only to foster Pentium 4 acceptance.
Really? Since using a 13.3" TFT LCD (on a Toshiba 2805) I've hated switching back to CRTs. In fact, I use my laptop at work rather than a company-provided desktop w/ CRT. (And until Ricochet died I would often not plug in to the company network, but that's another story.)
What I've never understood is that, depending on context, a certain "life-style community" associates itself with or dis-associates itself from this disease. In fact, the contexts in which the switch occurs are criticism and funding. If you criticize this "lifestyle community" for their actions which spread/contract AIDS, the response is "AIDS isn't our disease." Yet, when it comes time to push funding to Find A Cure, the same "lifestyle community" leads the charge and calls the ones not gung-ho for this effort as "lifestyle community"-phobic.
I think AIDS: the first disease to be political. Sad.
I'm glad for Onebox and my regular email accounts.
Sure, some would say, "It's free; shut up!" But: MS is __still__ claiming to provide a service even though there is no direct cost to me. That there's no cost doesn't mean I don't expect the service to be useable. My recourse is to leave. Is that what MS wants?
Oh, as an aside, I hope the message #292192399 bug is never fixed - "Imagine if there's no First Posts...It's easy if you try..."
Ok, so you're saying there's a fixed number of "alive"s before "dead."
My only question is: How can I lenghten the polling on that status check?
This link is just for grins.
But I've been wrong before...wait...well, shoot, I just broke my streak...
With this I agree.
Just move your services to different ports
In fact, I'm beginning to believe that the TOS should be enforced: no public servers on non-business broadband connections. Why? Because securing your computer is a serious job that is more than the @"lookie I've got a web site"Home user can/will handle.
Of course, I'm using my home system as a temporary back-up server (our main hosting service is experiencing trouble) while a new product gets demonstrated to potential investors/customers. I'm on an AT&T Broadband cable modem connection (fast enough for the demos) so when they filtered port 80 I reconfigured Apache to listen on 8081. No big deal. Oh, they also left 443 open, so those home users running ecommerce web apps at home (!) should have not even noticed the change. TOS? What TOS?
On second thought, restricting a whole class of Internet users to read-only violates the Internet Way. Toss the TOS.
Now, UNT (watch those radio call-letter jokes, folks) has a good population and more than Marketing and Accounting fall under business. Many students from various disciplines take classes from the Business department. I know...now.
Yeah, it's not as bad as having to configure BearShare for the hapless, but tedious, laborious work it was, nonetheless.
To pass the time the group of us (working in Technical Support for the B-Dept) would try to find out which female would be looking to get married soon -- ranked, of course, by the madien name and how "unfortunate" it was. Then, we chose which males would be most unlikely to marry, based, again, on the unfortunate nature of there last names. Thousands of little diskettes...all hand labeled...I'm sure the bosses wondered why we'd suddenly burst out laughing...
One other incident - a student continued to access the campus BBS (run on the Univeristy's VAX) with phony names and would troll the boards. (Gee...why does this sound familar?...) Anyway, we warned him that it was against system policy to sign in as a psuedonym once you were found to break etiquitte, especially. ("Carl Marks" was one...not real bright this troll). Anyway, one night he logs in under a psuedonym (we traced the connection to his dorm room) so we thought we should teach him a lesson. We called the residence hall and spoke to the resident assistant and told him that this student was improperly accessing the BBS, and would he go to his room and tell him to stop breaking the rules (the phone was busy -- dial-up access back then). The RA misunderstood the severity of the situation and called campus police who raided the poor guy's room, shouting, "Hands off the keyboard -- step away from the computer." Don't know if the guns were drawn... Wow. They thought he was hacking into the administration system or something. Hilarious, but not at all what we intended. Sadly, he withdrew from the University after this incident.
(maybe he's lurking Slashdot now...Hello? Carl? you there?)
Funny, the non-Free software competitor costs c. US$50. I only wish I could have afforded to pay more.
Taco: how about auctioning off that other historical gem of the Internet Era: the Slashdot Cruiser? Where did that thing end up, anyway?
Too bad it still doesn't render advanced DOM1 and CSS1/2 stuff correctly. For all the touts abouts standards compliance...where's the beef?