MySQL 3.22 is for example not very good for mixed inserts + selects on the same table and that is also the only thing we ever have seen PostgreSQL users test in their previous tests when PostgreSQL comes outs as the better.
And of course, in the real world, nobody ever actually inserts and selects at the same time.
Try to find legitimate things to complain about.
If you can't (or don't feel like) building one yourself, go nuts and get one.
Tim Higgins has some wonderful reviews and resources.
I myself have a Linksys 4 port 10/100 router.
The ONLY thing that sucks about it is that @home's DHCP server bites, so having the thing update itself sometimes takes a while. But it's worth it. (I'm using rogers@home in Toronto area)
Try this.
Block all the 'nasty' words.
Then, put huge signs up explaining that for standard decency, certain sites are blocked based on the criteria of having certain words or phrases in them. The list of words is available to anybody over the age of 16/18/12/whatever.
The signs would then point out, in even bigger words, that if somebody is trying to get to a 'legitimate' site and is being blocked, they can come talk to you, and you'll fix things as required.
That way, it doesn't matter that 'Breast Cancer Homesite' is being accidently blocked until such time as somebody actually needs to look at it.
Or the fact that these are the same people who claim that honest-to-the-Gods 'backups' are illegial.
Or do things like use non-standard disk formats that mean you simply cannot copy them.
And it may sound paranoid, but I'm convinced that commercial floppys were designed to self-corrupt after x uses.
Hell, how about the fact that it's getting somewhat difficult to find 5 1/2 inch floppy drives that work?
Ya know, this sounds kinda like they took VB and VC and mashed them together. Based merely on the above article. I haven't read any of the C# docs or anything.
I find the best way is to pick a big, over-reaching project. Then teach by sections. You don't even need to tell the kids that they're doing little bits of a big picture.
One example that I've used, is, and I've seen it below, a physics-accurate space ship modeler. Start out with simple programming techniques. First, hardcode a distance, and a mass, and prints them out. Then it runs them through an acceleration formula, and prints the results. This shows basic flow, variables, and printf. Next, get distance and mass from the keyboard. This teaches, scanf, and equivalents. Next, get distance and mass, and use a loop structure to display velocity at every interval. Go from there. Eventually, you can add all sorts of neat things, until you manage to get what is basically a fairly accurate working simulation of the solar system, and a basic navigation system for ships. Then you add in the networking protocols, ship statistics, and combat models.... The important thing is, though, not to teach concepts. Write programs. From programming, learn concepts.
So....if an MP3 file is not a copy of a digital musical recording, WHAT THE HELL IS IT???
It's a condensed file. It's a precis. Look at it this way. A raw WAV file, 16 bit, 44 khz, which is going to clock in at 300-400 megs for a typical four minute song, is a digital musical recording. It's the whole damn thing. An MP3, on the other hand, is an approximation. It's 1/12th of a digital music recording. It's kinda the equivalent of a 'digital text recording' being the entire first chapter of A Tale Of Two Cities; "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times", and so on. The entire chapter, in ASCII, would be like a WAV, or a perfect copy, and copyright infringement. The MP3 equivalent here would be a text file saying "The author describes that the period was very unstable; between caste differences, socio-political upheavel and an uncertain economic future, people were frightened and worried." Not the best analogy in the world, and possibly fully of holes. The better one might be "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Several other contradictory phrases are here, to indicate blah blah blah blah." Point being, an MP3 sounds like a digital recording, but it isn't. It's a representation.
Well, I'm in the market for a new computer, so maybe I'll do the intelligent thing and buy the fastest damn thing I can now, and make sure it's upgrade-capable, so in two years, I'm not feeling too inferior to the 2.5 ghz procs.
This is absolutely correct. It is legal for me to tell you "If you pick up this knife, and slit a man's throat from ear to ear, you will open both the carotid artery and the jugular vein, blood will spurt six feet, and he'll die within two minutes at the longest." Now, if I say that exact same thing, then point to a man across the room and say "why don't you go try it?" then I'm guilty of conspiricy to commit murder.
Also, you get nice GUI tools to help you if you don't know a heck about databases.
If you don't know 'a heck about databases', which I assume means 'a heck of a lot about databases', you shouldn't be implementing databases. That's like saying 'This medical textbook has lots of pictures, so it's great if you need to operate, but don't know a heck of a lot about surgery.' And as far as a corporation is concerned, a database is far more important than you are.;-)
Sony is a lot better equipped than most companies to walk into an office and say "Hmmm, we'd like you to port, say, Maya over to our new Playstation-on-steroids. How much cash would you like in return?"
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Also, IIRC, any one of the baby bells is raking in FAR more than AT&T ever did. Microsoft might take note. Now, every time I'm weak, words scream from my arm.
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Actually, as I recall, they did volunteer to do it. Of course, the gov't would have made them do it *eventually*, but I believe they saw the writing on the wall, and made the only logical move, which is, in my most humble opinion, pretty damn smart.
1: This thing is HUGE. Your floor might not hold it up. 2: Heat. 3: It's power requirements are probably sufficient that you can't use it in a residential zone. 4: Even if you tried, it probably draws more than your wall outlet will put out.
since Philip K. Dick, the only real author of the story and the only one who could make such a claim, is dead.
Negative function, chummer. P.K.D. could be the only person who could so say about the character from "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep." The movie, while based on the book, is a different animal. Ultimately, however, I think it comes down to the watcher, not the director. To butcher some ancient philosophy, was Decker a replicant who thought he was a man, or a man who thought he might be a replicant?
Yup. With the NES at least, towards the end, quite literally every major cart that was produced used on-cart hardware, and did things that could not run on only the NES hardware. If you want, I'll do some research and give you some real specifics. Mail me.
Actually, Nintendo tends to design their hardware so that the carts can replace major sections of functionality. Remember how Star Fox for the Super Nintendo was hyped as having the FX chip, an onboard math coprocessor? Well, that's the first time they hyped it, not the first time they did it. In it's heydey, the 8 bit NES, on average, was doing at least half of it's processing on the cart itself, and not in hardware.
Not so. In a computer, you need tons of RAM, plus tons of video memory, because the texture needs to be copied from the one to the other. In something like this, you read it from disk, and boom, there it is. Also saves CPU cycles when you're not doing memory copies. And regardless, in the next year that this thing is in development, how difficult is it going to be for somebody to eras '64' and scribble in '128' or the like? And don't forget, you're not devoting RAM to services, TSRs, drivers, polling the com ports every three seconds to see if you've plugged something in, etc etc etc.
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MySQL isn't a database. It's a filesystem with a SQL frontend. Hence, the benchmarks are worthless anyway.
Yes, there is, because then you have NO incentive to continue creating 'superior' products.
There's a COM object you can drop into your favorite COM compatible app and go nuts with. I did this when I web enabled the mindstorms set I got for my birthday a year or two ago.
If you can't (or don't feel like) building one yourself, go nuts and get one. Tim Higgins has some wonderful reviews and resources. I myself have a Linksys 4 port 10/100 router. The ONLY thing that sucks about it is that @home's DHCP server bites, so having the thing update itself sometimes takes a while. But it's worth it. (I'm using rogers@home in Toronto area)
Try this. Block all the 'nasty' words. Then, put huge signs up explaining that for standard decency, certain sites are blocked based on the criteria of having certain words or phrases in them. The list of words is available to anybody over the age of 16/18/12/whatever. The signs would then point out, in even bigger words, that if somebody is trying to get to a 'legitimate' site and is being blocked, they can come talk to you, and you'll fix things as required. That way, it doesn't matter that 'Breast Cancer Homesite' is being accidently blocked until such time as somebody actually needs to look at it.
You can. I believe it's MasterCard that sells pre-paid small-amount charge cards (as opposed to credit cards) that validate like a regular card.
Or the fact that these are the same people who claim that honest-to-the-Gods 'backups' are illegial. Or do things like use non-standard disk formats that mean you simply cannot copy them. And it may sound paranoid, but I'm convinced that commercial floppys were designed to self-corrupt after x uses. Hell, how about the fact that it's getting somewhat difficult to find 5 1/2 inch floppy drives that work?
Ya know, this sounds kinda like they took VB and VC and mashed them together. Based merely on the above article. I haven't read any of the C# docs or anything.
I find the best way is to pick a big, over-reaching project. Then teach by sections. You don't even need to tell the kids that they're doing little bits of a big picture.
One example that I've used, is, and I've seen it below, a physics-accurate space ship modeler. Start out with simple programming techniques. First, hardcode a distance, and a mass, and prints them out. Then it runs them through an acceleration formula, and prints the results. This shows basic flow, variables, and printf. Next, get distance and mass from the keyboard. This teaches, scanf, and equivalents. Next, get distance and mass, and use a loop structure to display velocity at every interval. Go from there. Eventually, you can add all sorts of neat things, until you manage to get what is basically a fairly accurate working simulation of the solar system, and a basic navigation system for ships. Then you add in the networking protocols, ship statistics, and combat models.... The important thing is, though, not to teach concepts. Write programs. From programming, learn concepts.Well, I'm in the market for a new computer, so maybe I'll do the intelligent thing and buy the fastest damn thing I can now, and make sure it's upgrade-capable, so in two years, I'm not feeling too inferior to the 2.5 ghz procs.
This is absolutely correct. It is legal for me to tell you "If you pick up this knife, and slit a man's throat from ear to ear, you will open both the carotid artery and the jugular vein, blood will spurt six feet, and he'll die within two minutes at the longest." Now, if I say that exact same thing, then point to a man across the room and say "why don't you go try it?" then I'm guilty of conspiricy to commit murder.
Sony is a lot better equipped than most companies to walk into an office and say "Hmmm, we'd like you to port, say, Maya over to our new Playstation-on-steroids. How much cash would you like in return?"
Also, IIRC, any one of the baby bells is raking in FAR more than AT&T ever did. Microsoft might take note. Now, every time I'm weak, words scream from my arm.
Actually, as I recall, they did volunteer to do it. Of course, the gov't would have made them do it *eventually*, but I believe they saw the writing on the wall, and made the only logical move, which is, in my most humble opinion, pretty damn smart.
1: This thing is HUGE. Your floor might not hold it up. 2: Heat. 3: It's power requirements are probably sufficient that you can't use it in a residential zone. 4: Even if you tried, it probably draws more than your wall outlet will put out.
Yup. With the NES at least, towards the end, quite literally every major cart that was produced used on-cart hardware, and did things that could not run on only the NES hardware. If you want, I'll do some research and give you some real specifics. Mail me.
Actually, Nintendo tends to design their hardware so that the carts can replace major sections of functionality. Remember how Star Fox for the Super Nintendo was hyped as having the FX chip, an onboard math coprocessor? Well, that's the first time they hyped it, not the first time they did it. In it's heydey, the 8 bit NES, on average, was doing at least half of it's processing on the cart itself, and not in hardware.
Not so. In a computer, you need tons of RAM, plus tons of video memory, because the texture needs to be copied from the one to the other. In something like this, you read it from disk, and boom, there it is. Also saves CPU cycles when you're not doing memory copies. And regardless, in the next year that this thing is in development, how difficult is it going to be for somebody to eras '64' and scribble in '128' or the like? And don't forget, you're not devoting RAM to services, TSRs, drivers, polling the com ports every three seconds to see if you've plugged something in, etc etc etc.
Try setting max uploads to '0' and see what it says.