I guess there ain't enough space for a good camera inside a phone, because the optics ain't small enough. It depends on how big the phone is, doesn't it?
My major complaint about cell phones these days is that they're just too small. The RAZR is the only model since the original Treo's (the flips -- I had a 180 until it croaked) that I've found that can almost reach my ear and my mouth at the same time. If I'm putting it on a belt clip, anyway, I wouldn't mind making it a little thicker for a bigger battery, better optics, an optical zoom, and a removable flash RAM card.
Good. The desired results change too often to put them in the data model.
It's been my experience that the best database designs come from focusing on a layout that makes sense. Aside from recursive hierarchys (which are a special case because they don't fit into the relational model very well), you should only need to look much at the actual queries you expect to run when you're deciding on indexes.
Since people were looking for a name which reflected the parallel with 'AJAX', they were forced to select another name which made you want to stab yourself.
I have no mod points here, but kudos on the Illiad reference.
Does it just note what categories you're interested in, or does it actually compare your ratings with other people and figure out that you tend to rate things similarly to UserX and might like other things that s/he does? The second should be far more powerful, but I haven't quite figured out the data structures it would take to do it efficiently on a large scale.
Yes, TiVo can figure out that I'm interested in science, history, cooking and comedy, but I could've told it that directly.
Parlimentary systems increase the power of fringe minority groups. Under the US system, the moderates are more powerful, as they are swing voters and will be pandered too. This of course is 'not cool' to young radical types, but having a stable moderate government is quite desirable to everyone (except the indymedia types who want fast and radical change.)
Yes, I agree that there's a major value in stability, but excluding the smaller groups from representation is not the only way to achieve it. Requiring a supermajority for any law change would have a similar effect.
Physical calculators and the other postfix calculator programs that I've seen don't show the contents of the stack and let you rearrange them like RPN does. If I want an equivilant on another platform, I'm probably going to have to write it.
But when the basic (and most important) functions are unreliable, all the features and 3rd-party addons in the world don't matter.
What's most important is different for different people. Personally, I have no use for a PDA that doesn't run the calculator program that I paid $15 for in 1999 (RPN).
A computer does not make anyone more organized. You need those skills for any type of profession and you cannot always depend upon a computer to make you smarter.
That's just not true. The organizational tools you have on a computer are completely different than the organizational tools you have for a stack of paper. And if you're a programmer, you pretty much always have a computer.
10 million members sounds like the size is due to it being a big company, not from the industry. I work for a phone company, and 100 million call records per month for about 50 thousand customers is fairly typical.
I would expect that my doctor's office, with 20 years of history for six doctors, probably has a couple hundred meg's worth of relational data.
MySQL is light, fast, forgiving, and pretty scalable. Forgiving is not something I want out of a database. I want my database to take every possible opportunity to reject bad data.
"Terrabytes" haven't been "big" for quite some time. Note that a terrabyte fits comfortably in even a workstation these days.
A terabyte may not be that big in terms of finding hardware that can hold it, but it's still a hell of a lot of data. Only very large companies and those in industries that naturally have a lot of data (telecom, biotech, credit card processing, etc.) are going to be able to find something useful to do with a terabyte of relational storage. I do expect that to go up, though, with RFID and inventory and POS systems that track specific items.
There are people who don't use them, and they usually aren't "idiots". They're generally part-time or former IE users who switched for security reasons, not ease-of-use, and treat the interface the same way they treated IE's.
Also, some of us just plain don't like the tabs. MDI interfaces had been on the decline for years, until they suddenly became the hot new thing in web browsers.
Grumman was trying to convince the navy to use F-14s for ground attack for years, and they just started to around the time we started bombing Afghanistan. The real problem is that the F-14s are being retired because they're worn out.
That, and PostgreSQL took longer to have a native Lose32 port. That was my problem. The last time I looked, the only Windows version required Cygwin, and even then, attempting to connect just gave me an error that told me absolutely nothing.
I would rather hand code PostScript to output reports before I would ever use this stinking pile of bloody stool ever again.
I actually have hand-coded PostScript to output reports, but that was for a lot higher volume than Crystal normally gets used for (phone bills). Anyway, I think the basic problem is that Crystal fundamentally isn't a tool for programmers. It's a tool for accountants and managers to put together reports against data whose source isn't going to change.
Personally I wish that MS would make access do a hard lock on the DB when one person it accessing it to stop this nightmare of access for us in IS/IT.
You're SOL if the app is actually running from the database you're accessing, but I've had a fair bit of success using DAO to open Access databases exclusively (in a retry loop), do whatever was needed as fast as possible, and then close them again. Of course, the only reason I didn't use SQL Server was that the Access database was an index of the directory it was stored in.
Other than that, Access is good for scratch space on the local drive. Once you're done with one segment of your work, you don't need to clean up your tables, you can just delete the.mdb file and make a new copy of the template. That's handy.
The output of any version of evolution is directed through natural selection. I'm talking about having the input directed, though, so that it's more like "Let's see how this works." than random mutations.
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I guess there ain't enough space for a good camera inside a phone, because the optics ain't small enough.
It depends on how big the phone is, doesn't it?
My major complaint about cell phones these days is that they're just too small. The RAZR is the only model since the original Treo's (the flips -- I had a 180 until it croaked) that I've found that can almost reach my ear and my mouth at the same time. If I'm putting it on a belt clip, anyway, I wouldn't mind making it a little thicker for a bigger battery, better optics, an optical zoom, and a removable flash RAM card.
3) What do we want to get back out of it.
Many people in designing systems pass over 3.
Good. The desired results change too often to put them in the data model.
It's been my experience that the best database designs come from focusing on a layout that makes sense. Aside from recursive hierarchys (which are a special case because they don't fit into the relational model very well), you should only need to look much at the actual queries you expect to run when you're deciding on indexes.
Yes, of course. I'm sorry, I didn't realize disenfranchisement was your goal; I'm just looking to avoid wild swings in the legal environment.
Since people were looking for a name which reflected the parallel with 'AJAX', they were forced to select another name which made you want to stab yourself.
I have no mod points here, but kudos on the Illiad reference.
Does it just note what categories you're interested in, or does it actually compare your ratings with other people and figure out that you tend to rate things similarly to UserX and might like other things that s/he does? The second should be far more powerful, but I haven't quite figured out the data structures it would take to do it efficiently on a large scale.
Yes, TiVo can figure out that I'm interested in science, history, cooking and comedy, but I could've told it that directly.
Parlimentary systems increase the power of fringe minority groups. Under the US system, the moderates are more powerful, as they are swing voters and will be pandered too. This of course is 'not cool' to young radical types, but having a stable moderate government is quite desirable to everyone (except the indymedia types who want fast and radical change.)
Yes, I agree that there's a major value in stability, but excluding the smaller groups from representation is not the only way to achieve it. Requiring a supermajority for any law change would have a similar effect.
Yes, I expect it'd be a quick job, except I'd need to learn how to do J2ME GUIs, first.
Physical calculators and the other postfix calculator programs that I've seen don't show the contents of the stack and let you rearrange them like RPN does. If I want an equivilant on another platform, I'm probably going to have to write it.
But when the basic (and most important) functions are unreliable, all the features and 3rd-party addons in the world don't matter.
What's most important is different for different people. Personally, I have no use for a PDA that doesn't run the calculator program that I paid $15 for in 1999 (RPN).
A computer does not make anyone more organized. You need those skills for any type of profession and you cannot always depend upon a computer to make you smarter.
That's just not true. The organizational tools you have on a computer are completely different than the organizational tools you have for a stack of paper. And if you're a programmer, you pretty much always have a computer.
Invading Afghanistan was pretty close.
10 million members sounds like the size is due to it being a big company, not from the industry. I work for a phone company, and 100 million call records per month for about 50 thousand customers is fairly typical.
I would expect that my doctor's office, with 20 years of history for six doctors, probably has a couple hundred meg's worth of relational data.
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Actually, you do see something like that in porn sometimes...
MySQL is light, fast, forgiving, and pretty scalable.
Forgiving is not something I want out of a database. I want my database to take every possible opportunity to reject bad data.
"Terrabytes" haven't been "big" for quite some time. Note that a terrabyte fits comfortably in even a workstation these days.
A terabyte may not be that big in terms of finding hardware that can hold it, but it's still a hell of a lot of data. Only very large companies and those in industries that naturally have a lot of data (telecom, biotech, credit card processing, etc.) are going to be able to find something useful to do with a terabyte of relational storage. I do expect that to go up, though, with RFID and inventory and POS systems that track specific items.
There are people who don't use them, and they usually aren't "idiots". They're generally part-time or former IE users who switched for security reasons, not ease-of-use, and treat the interface the same way they treated IE's.
Also, some of us just plain don't like the tabs. MDI interfaces had been on the decline for years, until they suddenly became the hot new thing in web browsers.
That and something cinematically georgous along the lines of "House of Flying Daggers" or "Hero".
Phantom of the Opera *is* cinematically gorgeous. Well, Emmy Rossum is, anyway.
Grumman was trying to convince the navy to use F-14s for ground attack for years, and they just started to around the time we started bombing Afghanistan. The real problem is that the F-14s are being retired because they're worn out.
That, and PostgreSQL took longer to have a native Lose32 port.
That was my problem. The last time I looked, the only Windows version required Cygwin, and even then, attempting to connect just gave me an error that told me absolutely nothing.
I would rather hand code PostScript to output reports before I would ever use this stinking pile of bloody stool ever again.
I actually have hand-coded PostScript to output reports, but that was for a lot higher volume than Crystal normally gets used for (phone bills). Anyway, I think the basic problem is that Crystal fundamentally isn't a tool for programmers. It's a tool for accountants and managers to put together reports against data whose source isn't going to change.
Personally I wish that MS would make access do a hard lock on the DB when one person it accessing it to stop this nightmare of access for us in IS/IT.
.mdb file and make a new copy of the template. That's handy.
You're SOL if the app is actually running from the database you're accessing, but I've had a fair bit of success using DAO to open Access databases exclusively (in a retry loop), do whatever was needed as fast as possible, and then close them again. Of course, the only reason I didn't use SQL Server was that the Access database was an index of the directory it was stored in.
Other than that, Access is good for scratch space on the local drive. Once you're done with one segment of your work, you don't need to clean up your tables, you can just delete the
Tannenbaum himself has disavowed such claims, though.
No, I'm not paranoid. I just hate debt.
Why not use a check card, then?
The output of any version of evolution is directed through natural selection. I'm talking about having the input directed, though, so that it's more like "Let's see how this works." than random mutations.
It is about evolution. Hot topic these days. It'll be banned in Churches around the country!
Or is it Intelligent Design? I can't really tell
Directed evolution. That's what I believed in back when I was still a Christian, and it's what my little sister, the Baptist biologist, believes in.