Why shouldn't they be allowed to tie-in their businesses? Because it's still anti-competitive behaviour; it's just less effective. Yes, it is legal, though.
No biggie. Jefferson *was* directly involved, he and Madison talked a lot, and Jefferson wrote most of The Declaration of Independance (I seem to remember hearing that Madison was just too young for that).
The guy that wrote the Constitution of the US (Thomas Jefferson) No. The constitutional convention was a fairly sizable group, and if any one person really stood out, it was Madison.
The Boy Scouts are like any private group and have certain requirements for membership. First and foremost is that you are male. Second, is that you acknowledge a divine creator is some form or other. They also have a restriction against homosexuals. Does this make the BSA a bunch of homophobes? More so than a bunch of bible-thumping women haters?
I think I missed how the fact that they discriminate in other ways was supposed to be a positive thing.
One of the main reasons that people (including myself I must say) bought the PlayStation 2 when it first came out was because of the fact that it could play DVD movies. At the time a DVD player was almost as much as a PS2 ($400.00). It seemed like a good deal to me at the time partially because of this.
I myself made the same decision. However, between the time I decided that, and the PS2 was actually released, DVD player prices dropped to $150 or so. Since I was never all that interested in a game console, I changed my mind.
Whether it's five, 10, 15, 20 years from now, the concept of driving to the store to buy a plastic disc with data on it and driving back and popping it in the drive will be ridiculous I saw an interview with Larry Ellison in 1997 where he said exactly the same thing. At the time, it sounded a bit far out, but now I think I download more software than I go to the store for.
What might be most damaging for Blu-Ray however, is Microsoft's direct support for HD-DVD. They've already announced that Longhorn will support HD-DVD, and the XBox360 will be recieving an HD-DVD addon.
I expect that's because the Blu-Ray spec calls for Java support in the players, to be used in building menus.
if MS didn't charge for their AV services, people would accuse them of price gauging Norton and McAfee. Price gouging is setting a price so high that people find it offensive. I think you mean dumping, which is an anti-competitive behaviour.
Chemistry is full of misnomers "Atom" is another good one. These days, people get confused by things like atomic transactions, because atoms are things that get split.
the DIY market it is much harder if not impossible to enforce DRM. To a degree, sure, but I still don't think they need to certify the entire PC. They ought to be able to certify, say, just an All-in-Wonder card.
I've bought Radio Shack headphones before, but I try not to plan on them lasting more than about four months. They sound good, but they're very fragile.
I used to buy the three year warranties, but then they started giving me crap about "abuse" when four consecutive pair of headphones broke in exactly the same way -- I call that a design flaw.
I just plug my SR125's into my computer here at work. If my ears are getting sore, I'll just set them on the desk and use them as little speakers, and the sound is never more than halfway up.
you get used to it. I've had my SR125's for a year now, and while they sound great, I can only wear them for about four hours before they start to hurt.
Excepting a pathologically poor stored procedure implementation, your "do it in the app server" approach if anything puts the same load on the DB regardless of how many app servers you have.
For updates, the app-server approach will put *more* load on the DB, because data has to be sent to the app server, and SQL coming back from it has to be parsed.
For reads, caching the data elsewhere can be a big gain. I've gotten 75% speedups in batch jobs by preloading data at the beginning of the process.
in the Real World businesses choose their databases carefully and stick with them for a long time, often forever. There are two very different cases, which tends to lead to people talking past each other. Basically, database portability is important to software companies (who don't want to restrict themselves to selling to Oracle shops), but not to companies working on in-house systems.
The real advantage to taking the business logic out of the db is: scalability. The db will always have much more limited scalability than the middle tier. It's much easier and less expensive to throw more app servers into production, than it is to throw more db servers in.
Yeah, but updates should still be propagated to all the other app servers, leading to the same basic problems as in the lower tier. I have to think that the only reason the middle tier is more scalable is that the data integrity standards are lower.
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Why shouldn't they be allowed to tie-in their businesses?
Because it's still anti-competitive behaviour; it's just less effective. Yes, it is legal, though.
No biggie. Jefferson *was* directly involved, he and Madison talked a lot, and Jefferson wrote most of The Declaration of Independance (I seem to remember hearing that Madison was just too young for that).
The guy that wrote the Constitution of the US (Thomas Jefferson)
No. The constitutional convention was a fairly sizable group, and if any one person really stood out, it was Madison.
The Boy Scouts are like any private group and have certain requirements for membership. First and foremost is that you are male. Second, is that you acknowledge a divine creator is some form or other. They also have a restriction against homosexuals. Does this make the BSA a bunch of homophobes? More so than a bunch of bible-thumping women haters?
I think I missed how the fact that they discriminate in other ways was supposed to be a positive thing.
One of the main reasons that people (including myself I must say) bought the PlayStation 2 when it first came out was because of the fact that it could play DVD movies. At the time a DVD player was almost as much as a PS2 ($400.00). It seemed like a good deal to me at the time partially because of this.
I myself made the same decision. However, between the time I decided that, and the PS2 was actually released, DVD player prices dropped to $150 or so. Since I was never all that interested in a game console, I changed my mind.
Dude. Nobody's saying the patent is invalid, just that it should have been brought up earlier.
The same thing happened with CBS. Viacom bought CBS a couple decades after CBS spun them off.
Whether it's five, 10, 15, 20 years from now, the concept of driving to the store to buy a plastic disc with data on it and driving back and popping it in the drive will be ridiculous
I saw an interview with Larry Ellison in 1997 where he said exactly the same thing. At the time, it sounded a bit far out, but now I think I download more software than I go to the store for.
I'm always afraid I'll be getting some weird censored version at a general-purpose discount store.
What the hell? Islam is a young religion?
Its been around for, what, 1500 years or so?
I believe more like 1,300 years. When Christianity was 1,300, the result was the dark ages.
Since then the average price of CDs has gone up and you are typically paiying $19-21 per new CD.
Stop buying your music at Borders. $14 is typical at Best Buy or Amazon.
What might be most damaging for Blu-Ray however, is Microsoft's direct support for HD-DVD. They've already announced that Longhorn will support HD-DVD, and the XBox360 will be recieving an HD-DVD addon.
I expect that's because the Blu-Ray spec calls for Java support in the players, to be used in building menus.
after decades of calling for the complete eradication of Jews
They're calling for the eradication of Israel, not Jews in general, aren't they?
There are a lot more than 1,000,001 Muslims in the world.
if MS didn't charge for their AV services, people would accuse them of price gauging Norton and McAfee.
Price gouging is setting a price so high that people find it offensive. I think you mean dumping, which is an anti-competitive behaviour.
Chemistry is full of misnomers
"Atom" is another good one. These days, people get confused by things like atomic transactions, because atoms are things that get split.
the DIY market it is much harder if not impossible to enforce DRM.
To a degree, sure, but I still don't think they need to certify the entire PC. They ought to be able to certify, say, just an All-in-Wonder card.
I've bought Radio Shack headphones before, but I try not to plan on them lasting more than about four months. They sound good, but they're very fragile.
I used to buy the three year warranties, but then they started giving me crap about "abuse" when four consecutive pair of headphones broke in exactly the same way -- I call that a design flaw.
I just plug my SR125's into my computer here at work. If my ears are getting sore, I'll just set them on the desk and use them as little speakers, and the sound is never more than halfway up.
you get used to it.
I've had my SR125's for a year now, and while they sound great, I can only wear them for about four hours before they start to hurt.
Excepting a pathologically poor stored procedure implementation, your "do it in the app server" approach if anything puts the same load on the DB regardless of how many app servers you have.
For updates, the app-server approach will put *more* load on the DB, because data has to be sent to the app server, and SQL coming back from it has to be parsed.
For reads, caching the data elsewhere can be a big gain. I've gotten 75% speedups in batch jobs by preloading data at the beginning of the process.
in the Real World businesses choose their databases carefully and stick with them for a long time, often forever.
There are two very different cases, which tends to lead to people talking past each other. Basically, database portability is important to software companies (who don't want to restrict themselves to selling to Oracle shops), but not to companies working on in-house systems.
The real advantage to taking the business logic out of the db is: scalability. The db will always have much more limited scalability than the middle tier. It's much easier and less expensive to throw more app servers into production, than it is to throw more db servers in.
Yeah, but updates should still be propagated to all the other app servers, leading to the same basic problems as in the lower tier. I have to think that the only reason the middle tier is more scalable is that the data integrity standards are lower.
Not if they write their own code generators.
At first glance, that looks like a good choice for a book to use when you're finished with the Head First book.