Most households have a DVD player hooked up to their TVs already, and those that don't yet can get one at K-Mart for under $30 now. It's not worth Nintendo's time to add the feature. It would be a nice addition for people who are out of input plugs on either their TV or their receiver. When I bought my Wii, I still had an ancient TV with the DVD player on an RF converter box (which went into the RF plug on the TV, which was its only input). To add the Wii, I had to plug both it and the DVD player into a switchbox, which then went into the the RF converter.
It wasn't a dealbreaker, but it was a big nuisance (basically, half a day to figure out what I needed, partly because I also started looking at new TVs) and it basically raised the price of the Wii $40 even though I already had a DVD player. It also pushed me on the way toward getting a HDTV not long after, and *that* led to the PS3 I installed last week. That probably wasn't in Nintendo's interest even if I mostly intended it as a Blu-Ray player -- for one thing, my son has been playing Rachet and Clank constantly.
Maybe that's not typical, but figuring out what plugs you can match to what, what's left over for device Y once device X uses up a certain plug, etc., is getting to be awfully complicated. I just gave my parents my old RF converter so they could plug their new DVR into the VCR the same way as their old cable box, so they didn't have to figure out a whole new setup.
HDTV will accelerate convergence of PC and TV in the living room. I love how you can look at 24 and 28 inch 1920*1080 LCD monitors on NewEgg and then 32" and up 1080p LCD TVs on Amazon, and they're clearly the same thing -- at some size they just start calling it a TV instead of a monitor.
Were these individuals, or businesses? I don't think most individuals I knew had Windows 95 much before 1998 (most went directly to 95c), and I didn't get Win9x at work until late 1998 (I was mostly doing DOS programming before that, though).
Remember the operating system it was running on for most users - Windows 95. Windows 3.11 was probably more popular than 95 for as long as NetScape had a lead over IE. Ah, Trumpet Winsock...
T-SQL always used to annoy me with it's fussiness about the order you specified tables when using JOIN's I wasn't good enough to notice when I was using SQL Server 6.5, but I've never noticed such a thing in 7, 2000 or 2005.
On the one project I used MySQL for, I was relieved to discover that it finally supported subqueries, but they ended up being unusably slow because the optimizer couldn't seem to do any optimization between the inner and outer queries. I ended up using Java code for what I would've just done with a subquery in SQL Server. Of course, now I'm mainly working in Oracle, and I have an almost opposite complaint; subqueries (and frequently several of them) seem to be the only way to accomplish a lot of things that wouldn't have taken much thought in SQL Server.
T-SQL always had the edge by allowing you bypass its annoyances by using stored procedures and views but this has now changed since MySQL 5. I've only done stored procedures in SQL Server, Oracle, and barely in Informix. Informix procedures just suck unreservedly. Oracle PL/SQL is a decent procedural language, but the interface to regular SQL can be a bit awkward, and there's entirely too much iterative code needed for my taste. T-SQL is rather limited as a procedural language, but seems to do a lot better at letting you stay within set-based logic. What are MySQL procedure like?
Does anything but MySQL have a Limit keyword? Oracle has a rownum pseudocolumn, but you have to put everything in a subquery if you also want to specify the order.
I wish there was more talk shows and various educational stuff on the radio instead. If we're being all judgmental about it, *listening* to text is asinine. It's ten times faster to read it, and you can listen to music while you're doing it.
When a thread goes rogue, their machine does not grind to a halt. That's the immediate gain from a second core. I think that second one pretty much takes care of it, though. Beyond that, you're looking more at new features. More aggressive virus scanning, and on-the-fly encryption and/or compression spring to mind as possible early steps.
Unfortunately, the idiots are winning, and eventually the incorrect usage may take over simply due to excessive incorrect usage. What do you mean "eventually"? Unless context makes it very clear you're talking about circular arguments, "begs the question" now means "demands that the question be asked". It's annoying, but it's too late to complain, sorry.
Missiles use rocket motors, so they're faster than the airplane. They come off the rails at Mach 2+ and accelerate. I would think they come off the rails at whatever speed the plane is going.
the ugly truth about molestation is that much if it continues or is unreported because the victim likes it. How is that ugly? We can't let it be legal because consent is so fuzzy, adults may talk themselves into thinking it was the kids idea, etc. However, when it does happen, if it turns out no one was harmed, that can only be good.
Yes, we can. This is the USA. We, the people, make the laws. Dude, have you *ever* taken any sort of government class? We do not have a pure democracy because pure democracies do appalling things like immediately executing suspected criminals. Most of the work that went into the U.S. Constitution was in trying to avoid authoritarian democracy.
Ex-post-facto laws are explicitly banned in the constitution. Sex offender notification laws were challenged on those grounds (for old offenses, only -- no one ever said it was unconstitutional for new offenses, only stupid), and upheld in a very narrow supreme court ruling that said that yes, the added punishment was verboten, but the law was more about caution than extra punishment.
If you disagree, ask yourself how you would feel if YOU No. Even if I didn't know what the rest of the post was even about, no. Personalizing is never constructive.
If you could insure the whole "philosopher king" thing, make sure you have a person as absolute ruler who is both capable and worthy of it, then that would be by far the best system. Since you can't, we go with democracy, not because it's in any way better, but because it limits the possible harm that can come out of government toward the people. However democracy can't save the people from their own shortsightedness, and it's just damn inefficient.
If you're seriously interested in such things, read Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy. If not, the gist is, looking at the history of ancient civilizations, especially Rome, it appears that the most successful societies maintain aspects of democracy, monarchy and aristocracy, with all three constantly pushing for more power vs. the others. From there, you get to Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws (which isn't remotely as interesting to read), and then the debates at the U.S. Constitutional Convention and the arguments for ratification in The Federalist Papers.
But I'm becoming increasingly convinced that Machiavelli's view was better than the follow-on work.
And should a vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease be mandatory anyway? I'd be okay with people opting out on their own, but when it's not mandatory, parents can opt their children out of it.
Now take linux/mysql. I use this combo ALL OVER THE PLACE. Any time i need to throw a database down, its a linux box with Mysql. Every. Single. Time. This is why SQL Server, Oracle and DB2 now all have Express editions that are free for real production use, as long as your database is small enough. You can use the free version on Windows or (except SQL Server) Linux, and then when you outgrow it, upgrading to their paid version is the natural choice. Maybe you can't use an AS/400, but you can use DB2.
And, alternately, Blu-ray is what Playstation 3 supports, which I think is more like what thier real motivation is - Xbox vs PS3. Don't forget, Blu-Ray includes Java support, too. That's probably what made MS pick their side in the first place.
If you eliminate PS/3s from the equation Why would you do that? I wouldn't count them as much as a dedicated player, but they do play Blu-Ray, and they cut into the numbers of people who would have bought a dedicated player. I bought a 40GB PS3 on Sunday, and the clerk at Circuit City wasn't remotely surprised when I said I would probably get Oblivion sometime, but I was mainly buying it as a Blu-Ray player. He'd clearly seen that before.
In America, 100 years is a long time. In England, 100 miles is a long way.
My wife lived in Germany for 12 years growing up when her dad was in the army, and she said a popular saying around the base was "Americans shower once a day and go grocery shopping once a week, while the Germans shower once a week and go grocery shopping once a day."
you've never lived in a big city where armed gangs spray the houses of witnesses with bullets, I take it I live in Detroit and I've never heard of such a thing here. Maybe New Orleans...
Is there a single American business guy who is fundementally against George W. Bush and successful? I seem to recall Donald Trump speaking pretty forcefully against Bush.
I always heard PostScript was basically like Forth, but more specialized. Maybe not...
I worked for a phone company, all of the phone bills were done in PostScript, and I was the main billing programmer from late 1997 (21 years old) onward. There was a hand-coded library, and then the individual bills were very small files that just called the library routines; to print or run through Distiller, they were just concatenated into one file. The small individual files were important because there were probably a few million pages per month going out at the high point.
I had to convince a series of network administrators that I really did want to connect directly to the printers, and no, I wasn't an idiot for thinking I didn't need a print driver.
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Most households have a DVD player hooked up to their TVs already, and those that don't yet can get one at K-Mart for under $30 now. It's not worth Nintendo's time to add the feature.
It would be a nice addition for people who are out of input plugs on either their TV or their receiver. When I bought my Wii, I still had an ancient TV with the DVD player on an RF converter box (which went into the RF plug on the TV, which was its only input). To add the Wii, I had to plug both it and the DVD player into a switchbox, which then went into the the RF converter.
It wasn't a dealbreaker, but it was a big nuisance (basically, half a day to figure out what I needed, partly because I also started looking at new TVs) and it basically raised the price of the Wii $40 even though I already had a DVD player. It also pushed me on the way toward getting a HDTV not long after, and *that* led to the PS3 I installed last week. That probably wasn't in Nintendo's interest even if I mostly intended it as a Blu-Ray player -- for one thing, my son has been playing Rachet and Clank constantly.
Maybe that's not typical, but figuring out what plugs you can match to what, what's left over for device Y once device X uses up a certain plug, etc., is getting to be awfully complicated. I just gave my parents my old RF converter so they could plug their new DVR into the VCR the same way as their old cable box, so they didn't have to figure out a whole new setup.
Someone will say something about the USSR, Natalie Portmen, a Beowolf cluster, or CowboyNeal and be modded "+5 funny"
Wait, so does your post count?
HDTV will accelerate convergence of PC and TV in the living room.
I love how you can look at 24 and 28 inch 1920*1080 LCD monitors on NewEgg and then 32" and up 1080p LCD TVs on Amazon, and they're clearly the same thing -- at some size they just start calling it a TV instead of a monitor.
Were these individuals, or businesses? I don't think most individuals I knew had Windows 95 much before 1998 (most went directly to 95c), and I didn't get Win9x at work until late 1998 (I was mostly doing DOS programming before that, though).
Remember the operating system it was running on for most users - Windows 95.
Windows 3.11 was probably more popular than 95 for as long as NetScape had a lead over IE. Ah, Trumpet Winsock...
Yes, it does. It just also has an older meaning from philosophy.
T-SQL always used to annoy me with it's fussiness about the order you specified tables when using JOIN's
I wasn't good enough to notice when I was using SQL Server 6.5, but I've never noticed such a thing in 7, 2000 or 2005.
On the one project I used MySQL for, I was relieved to discover that it finally supported subqueries, but they ended up being unusably slow because the optimizer couldn't seem to do any optimization between the inner and outer queries. I ended up using Java code for what I would've just done with a subquery in SQL Server. Of course, now I'm mainly working in Oracle, and I have an almost opposite complaint; subqueries (and frequently several of them) seem to be the only way to accomplish a lot of things that wouldn't have taken much thought in SQL Server.
T-SQL always had the edge by allowing you bypass its annoyances by using stored procedures and views but this has now changed since MySQL 5.
I've only done stored procedures in SQL Server, Oracle, and barely in Informix. Informix procedures just suck unreservedly. Oracle PL/SQL is a decent procedural language, but the interface to regular SQL can be a bit awkward, and there's entirely too much iterative code needed for my taste. T-SQL is rather limited as a procedural language, but seems to do a lot better at letting you stay within set-based logic.
What are MySQL procedure like?
Does anything but MySQL have a Limit keyword? Oracle has a rownum pseudocolumn, but you have to put everything in a subquery if you also want to specify the order.
I wish there was more talk shows and various educational stuff on the radio instead.
If we're being all judgmental about it, *listening* to text is asinine. It's ten times faster to read it, and you can listen to music while you're doing it.
When a thread goes rogue, their machine does not grind to a halt.
That's the immediate gain from a second core. I think that second one pretty much takes care of it, though. Beyond that, you're looking more at new features. More aggressive virus scanning, and on-the-fly encryption and/or compression spring to mind as possible early steps.
Unfortunately, the idiots are winning, and eventually the incorrect usage may take over simply due to excessive incorrect usage.
What do you mean "eventually"? Unless context makes it very clear you're talking about circular arguments, "begs the question" now means "demands that the question be asked". It's annoying, but it's too late to complain, sorry.
Missiles use rocket motors, so they're faster than the airplane. They come off the rails at Mach 2+ and accelerate.
I would think they come off the rails at whatever speed the plane is going.
And it's a verb.
the ugly truth about molestation is that much if it continues or is unreported because the victim likes it.
How is that ugly? We can't let it be legal because consent is so fuzzy, adults may talk themselves into thinking it was the kids idea, etc. However, when it does happen, if it turns out no one was harmed, that can only be good.
Yes, we can. This is the USA. We, the people, make the laws.
Dude, have you *ever* taken any sort of government class? We do not have a pure democracy because pure democracies do appalling things like immediately executing suspected criminals. Most of the work that went into the U.S. Constitution was in trying to avoid authoritarian democracy.
Ex-post-facto laws are explicitly banned in the constitution. Sex offender notification laws were challenged on those grounds (for old offenses, only -- no one ever said it was unconstitutional for new offenses, only stupid), and upheld in a very narrow supreme court ruling that said that yes, the added punishment was verboten, but the law was more about caution than extra punishment.
If you disagree, ask yourself how you would feel if YOU
No. Even if I didn't know what the rest of the post was even about, no. Personalizing is never constructive.
If you could insure the whole "philosopher king" thing, make sure you have a person as absolute ruler who is both capable and worthy of it, then that would be by far the best system. Since you can't, we go with democracy, not because it's in any way better, but because it limits the possible harm that can come out of government toward the people. However democracy can't save the people from their own shortsightedness, and it's just damn inefficient.
If you're seriously interested in such things, read Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy . If not, the gist is, looking at the history of ancient civilizations, especially Rome, it appears that the most successful societies maintain aspects of democracy, monarchy and aristocracy, with all three constantly pushing for more power vs. the others. From there, you get to Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws (which isn't remotely as interesting to read), and then the debates at the U.S. Constitutional Convention and the arguments for ratification in The Federalist Papers.
But I'm becoming increasingly convinced that Machiavelli's view was better than the follow-on work.
And should a vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease be mandatory anyway?
I'd be okay with people opting out on their own, but when it's not mandatory, parents can opt their children out of it.
Now take linux/mysql. I use this combo ALL OVER THE PLACE. Any time i need to throw a database down, its a linux box with Mysql. Every. Single. Time.
This is why SQL Server, Oracle and DB2 now all have Express editions that are free for real production use, as long as your database is small enough. You can use the free version on Windows or (except SQL Server) Linux, and then when you outgrow it, upgrading to their paid version is the natural choice. Maybe you can't use an AS/400, but you can use DB2.
And, alternately, Blu-ray is what Playstation 3 supports, which I think is more like what thier real motivation is - Xbox vs PS3.
Don't forget, Blu-Ray includes Java support, too. That's probably what made MS pick their side in the first place.
If you eliminate PS/3s from the equation
Why would you do that? I wouldn't count them as much as a dedicated player, but they do play Blu-Ray, and they cut into the numbers of people who would have bought a dedicated player. I bought a 40GB PS3 on Sunday, and the clerk at Circuit City wasn't remotely surprised when I said I would probably get Oblivion sometime, but I was mainly buying it as a Blu-Ray player. He'd clearly seen that before.
If they were in the states, they'd get sued for stuff like this.
They are in the states. A friend of mine starts her new job there in a few weeks.
In America, 100 years is a long time.
In England, 100 miles is a long way.
My wife lived in Germany for 12 years growing up when her dad was in the army, and she said a popular saying around the base was "Americans shower once a day and go grocery shopping once a week, while the Germans shower once a week and go grocery shopping once a day."
you've never lived in a big city where armed gangs spray the houses of witnesses with bullets, I take it
I live in Detroit and I've never heard of such a thing here. Maybe New Orleans...
Is there a single American business guy who is fundementally against George W. Bush and successful?
I seem to recall Donald Trump speaking pretty forcefully against Bush.
I always heard PostScript was basically like Forth, but more specialized. Maybe not...
I worked for a phone company, all of the phone bills were done in PostScript, and I was the main billing programmer from late 1997 (21 years old) onward. There was a hand-coded library, and then the individual bills were very small files that just called the library routines; to print or run through Distiller, they were just concatenated into one file. The small individual files were important because there were probably a few million pages per month going out at the high point.
I had to convince a series of network administrators that I really did want to connect directly to the printers, and no, I wasn't an idiot for thinking I didn't need a print driver.