I think you're ignoring all the complexities of such a system. Payroll, changing tax laws across several states, deductions, healthcare, security, privacy. I think you're ignoring that a lot of those don't apply because these are local systems handling people doing a fairly small list of jobs. Granted, PeopleSoft has to support all the regional differences, but something custom wouldn't. On the technical side, portability becomes a non-issue, so you could actually lean on the particular strengths of the database system you pick (being realistic, it would probably be Oracle, SQL Server or DB2).
But please don't imagine that you and your friends can put together a comprehensive system in a few weeks. Nobody said a few weeks. That Chicago system was $17 million. For maybe half that, you could put together good production and QA database servers, a good backup system, a few web servers, a permanent administrator, a permanent support programmer, a team of 10 or so programmers/DBAs and their tools for the project duration (say, two years to do a good, careful job, maybe with fewer people at the beginning while doing requirements and database design) and overtime for the business/admin people to talk to the IT staff as necessary.
But I really don't know what you guys are looking at. In every head to head picture the DX10 looks far superior. Probably the thumbnails. Many of the DX9 thumbnails do look a lot better, but then the full-size pictures looks better in DX10.
What's wrong with Prussian style system? What's wrong with repetition, pouring down facts and memorizing? For one thing, many of the kids never realize that math isn't really the obnoxious algorithmic/memorization work they suffered through in elementary school, and they might actually like it and be good at it if they gave it another chance. I think I was in algebra 2, with a really good teacher, before it sunk in that I really do like math. If I hadn't had Mr. Seifert and wasn't interested in science, I might well not have gone any further than that.
Better yet, just stop forcing those kids to attend. It shouldn't come as a surprise that you'll have a better learning environment if the only students there are the ones who want to learn.
Alternately, make the mandate be actually finishing, not age. If you never graduate, you're never legally an adult, and can never stop going. That should be fairly motivating.
There's a separate piezo pickup used to get the individual string frequencies. When you pull up on one of the knobs, the current is sent over the strings to the servo motors to tune the strings. Very clever! Sure, but unnecessary. Wouldn't it have made more sense just to put this on a headless guitar that had piezio pickups, anyway?
Its a Gibson, not a Fender. Its always gonna be a shorter scale neck, and almost always without vibrato. Don't forget two-and-a-half times the price of a comparable Fender.
They said that with the price of copper, it would be recycled and it would keep it from being stolen since it wasn't being used anymore. That's certainly plausible. Phone service frequently goes out in half the city here when somebody steals the lines for the copper. I think the mayor is actually trying to sue AT&T to force them to handle more of the route with fiber to prevent it.
If you shrink this ultra hi def oled screen to the size of a pair of glasses you can take your "40 inch" screen wherever you go and you only need one for every room in your house! You live alone, don't you?
But seriously you might never even have thought that bears are evil had you not encountered that language (even if at 2nd hand). No, I have, but only due to The Colbert Report.
The only hurdles come when someone tries to do something that's grossly inappropriate. That notion comes from finance people who love it and try to do everything with it.
That's because they have complicated analysis to do, and tend to think an awful lot like programmers do, but really have no training in appropriate tools to use for such things (or, frequently, the tools themselves). An "advanced" spreadsheet is a really good idea, but I think it should targeted toward accountants as much as programmers. With a little hand-holding from the software (mainly, making things visible that we programmers are used to thinking of in the abstract, which spreadsheets are good at, anyway), something on the border between spreadsheet formulas and functional programming could be a big help for them.
Christians need only hear the word "jihad" to be convinced Muslims don't worship the God Who Loves Everyone(tm) I expect many Muslims feel the same about "crusade".
In related news, failure to check for a buffer overflow causes software bugs. Checking for overflows is a band-aid. Use of null-terminated strings is the root cause.
I think that's less of a factor than the way the attorneys get to knock out anyone who has any education, and the juries aren't allowed to do their own research or call witnesses.
Do not use floating point for financial calculations. Doing so is always a bug. What's the appropriate way to do this in Java, anyway? Use an integer for cents or whatever fraction of cents you care about?
You show me how to represent 0.1 with perfect accuracy in floating point, and I'll write you a new spreadsheet app that doesn't need to fudge numbers. It's easy as long as you don't insist on using the wrong base. Microsoft has a 96-bit decimal floating point type (32 bit exponent, 64 bit mantissa) in.Net (and I think SQL Server) that wouldn't have that problem; as long as Excel displays numbers as decimal, it should be computing them as decimal.
You don't use floating point numbers for financial calculations. They need to use "decimal". The decimal type is floating point, just not binary. But yes, that's the type to use, because the problem isn't the floating point, but the base conversions.
The transistor was supposedly "Invented" in 1947 by Bell Labs shortly after roswell, LOL. Boy what an exciting year. In the several years prior, jet engines first became practical, digital computers were first invented, digital computers switched from relays to vacuum tubes (which are frequently derided these days as glass field-effect transistors), some of the first plastics became available, the German Type XXI completely changed how submarines would work going forward, both cruise and ballistic missiles were invented, radars became small enough to put in bullets, and oh yeah, The Bomb. I think penicillin was invented in there, too.
Technology was moving fast then, in very visible ways.
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obviously dot Indians not Casino Indians
Wow, that was in poor taste. And the dots are called bindis.
I think you're ignoring all the complexities of such a system. Payroll, changing tax laws across several states, deductions, healthcare, security, privacy.
I think you're ignoring that a lot of those don't apply because these are local systems handling people doing a fairly small list of jobs. Granted, PeopleSoft has to support all the regional differences, but something custom wouldn't. On the technical side, portability becomes a non-issue, so you could actually lean on the particular strengths of the database system you pick (being realistic, it would probably be Oracle, SQL Server or DB2).
But please don't imagine that you and your friends can put together a comprehensive system in a few weeks.
Nobody said a few weeks. That Chicago system was $17 million. For maybe half that, you could put together good production and QA database servers, a good backup system, a few web servers, a permanent administrator, a permanent support programmer, a team of 10 or so programmers/DBAs and their tools for the project duration (say, two years to do a good, careful job, maybe with fewer people at the beginning while doing requirements and database design) and overtime for the business/admin people to talk to the IT staff as necessary.
But I really don't know what you guys are looking at. In every head to head picture the DX10 looks far superior.
Probably the thumbnails. Many of the DX9 thumbnails do look a lot better, but then the full-size pictures looks better in DX10.
What's wrong with Prussian style system? What's wrong with repetition, pouring down facts and memorizing?
For one thing, many of the kids never realize that math isn't really the obnoxious algorithmic/memorization work they suffered through in elementary school, and they might actually like it and be good at it if they gave it another chance. I think I was in algebra 2, with a really good teacher, before it sunk in that I really do like math. If I hadn't had Mr. Seifert and wasn't interested in science, I might well not have gone any further than that.
And I could probably put a satellite in orbit today given Google and enough money
Google probably has enough money, doesn't it?
Better yet, just stop forcing those kids to attend. It shouldn't come as a surprise that you'll have a better learning environment if the only students there are the ones who want to learn.
Alternately, make the mandate be actually finishing, not age. If you never graduate, you're never legally an adult, and can never stop going. That should be fairly motivating.
There's a separate piezo pickup used to get the individual string frequencies. When you pull up on one of the knobs, the current is sent over the strings to the servo motors to tune the strings. Very clever!
Sure, but unnecessary. Wouldn't it have made more sense just to put this on a headless guitar that had piezio pickups, anyway?
Its a Gibson, not a Fender. Its always gonna be a shorter scale neck, and almost always without vibrato.
Don't forget two-and-a-half times the price of a comparable Fender.
If you're flying with kids, I'd agree with you. If it's just you, read a book.
They said that with the price of copper, it would be recycled and it would keep it from being stolen since it wasn't being used anymore.
That's certainly plausible. Phone service frequently goes out in half the city here when somebody steals the lines for the copper. I think the mayor is actually trying to sue AT&T to force them to handle more of the route with fiber to prevent it.
or even why it's called a demarc box.
Since when is a NID called a demark box?
If you shrink this ultra hi def oled screen to the size of a pair of glasses you can take your "40 inch" screen wherever you go and you only need one for every room in your house!
You live alone, don't you?
But seriously you might never even have thought that bears are evil had you not encountered that language (even if at 2nd hand).
No, I have, but only due to The Colbert Report.
Why object-oriented? Spreadsheets are closest to a functional model.
The only hurdles come when someone tries to do something that's grossly inappropriate. That notion comes from finance people who love it and try to do everything with it.
That's because they have complicated analysis to do, and tend to think an awful lot like programmers do, but really have no training in appropriate tools to use for such things (or, frequently, the tools themselves). An "advanced" spreadsheet is a really good idea, but I think it should targeted toward accountants as much as programmers. With a little hand-holding from the software (mainly, making things visible that we programmers are used to thinking of in the abstract, which spreadsheets are good at, anyway), something on the border between spreadsheet formulas and functional programming could be a big help for them.
Christians need only hear the word "jihad" to be convinced Muslims don't worship the God Who Loves Everyone(tm)
I expect many Muslims feel the same about "crusade".
yes, s/contractors/mercenaries/g like blackwater..
No. They're mostly just civil servants.
In related news, failure to check for a buffer overflow causes software bugs.
Checking for overflows is a band-aid. Use of null-terminated strings is the root cause.
The control system has to communicate with the "business" network (for record-keeping, among other reasons)
Not via wire it doesn't. Use tapes.
I think that's less of a factor than the way the attorneys get to knock out anyone who has any education, and the juries aren't allowed to do their own research or call witnesses.
Do not use floating point for financial calculations. Doing so is always a bug.
What's the appropriate way to do this in Java, anyway? Use an integer for cents or whatever fraction of cents you care about?
You show me how to represent 0.1 with perfect accuracy in floating point, and I'll write you a new spreadsheet app that doesn't need to fudge numbers. .Net (and I think SQL Server) that wouldn't have that problem; as long as Excel displays numbers as decimal, it should be computing them as decimal.
It's easy as long as you don't insist on using the wrong base. Microsoft has a 96-bit decimal floating point type (32 bit exponent, 64 bit mantissa) in
You don't use floating point numbers for financial calculations.
They need to use "decimal".
The decimal type is floating point, just not binary. But yes, that's the type to use, because the problem isn't the floating point, but the base conversions.
I've heard that Vista has issues with Hibernation and Sleep mode with some laptops.
Perhaps, but so does XP.
The transistor was supposedly "Invented" in 1947 by Bell Labs shortly after roswell, LOL. Boy what an exciting year.
In the several years prior, jet engines first became practical, digital computers were first invented, digital computers switched from relays to vacuum tubes (which are frequently derided these days as glass field-effect transistors), some of the first plastics became available, the German Type XXI completely changed how submarines would work going forward, both cruise and ballistic missiles were invented, radars became small enough to put in bullets, and oh yeah, The Bomb. I think penicillin was invented in there, too.
Technology was moving fast then, in very visible ways.