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You're forgetting an important part of the education market. College. College students would love these things, and they already buy a lot of Macs. The Mini is going over extremely well with college students, as it easily fits onto a cramped dorm room desk and looks cool. What if you then told them they could have an equal amount of get-laid-potential that they could carry around in their pocket? They'd buy it. Immediately.
Actually in all seriousness, it'd be fantastic to be able to take notes on one of these things, and knowing Apple's battery life abilities, this kind of thing would be the first thing to make that feasible if you have a long day. The reason they haven't done it is probably that they can't figure out how to cram a big enough battery into it. Just wait.
I've seen that, and it's kind of what I was talking about. It was extremely brief and didn't give general information. It doesn't describe how to submit data within a page, or how to interact with a database.
I was hoping this book would have some valuable information about the XmlHttpRequest object, which is used by Google Suggest, GMail, and other sites around the web. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of information about it available on the internet. The way I see it, unless your site is going to be very simple, this is a technology you should definitely be using for all future projects... I'm doing all I can with it, but there isn't any good info on it. Does anyone have links?
Much better to skip PHP and use Microsoft products instead. That way, you pay the $495 for the base product and don't have any options at all for fixing their myriad problems.
Why, exactly, don't you drop Windows and, thus, your problem?
Nota bene: I don't use PHP, I find it too clunky, and instead use a Python framework I rolled myself. Still, I think your complaints are unfounded.
My question is whether or not they also have support for Mac OS X. This device could be a godsend for someone setting up a Mac Mini as an HTPC. There have been numerous questions and doubts about the Mini's computational prowess (founded or otherwise, I'm not debating that here), and something like this that can encode DivX on the fly and just throw it to the computer through USB2.0 would be great for the Mini. Anybody have any info on this?
She said Justice also is urging employees to switch to Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser, which was the subject of the government's antitrust case.
The article also says that they were using Netscape up until a month ago, and are now switching to IE? Why? Why not stay off IE, if you're already off? Especially as a government agency of the same government that's deemed IE unsafe for use? What's going on here?
A simple question! Pressed for time at the moment, I'll answer this one. I wrote my framework in Python because I'm much more fluent in Python than in Ruby. If I were as good with Ruby as I am with Python, I might have updated ActiveRecord to work with my database, or considered some other Ruby-based solution. As it is, Python is my language of choice.
Basically Oracle isn't an option because we're trying to maximize cost-effectiveness, and thus are sticking with free, open source solutions. We chose Postgresql as the backend, and in a production setting it is competitive with Oracle, in features, stability, and speed. We used pl/pgsql to create the functions and triggers which create the tables. pl/pgsql is a clone of an Oracle language, and can basically be used in Oracle databases to achieve the same functionality.
The design of the database drew high praise from the inhabitants of the Postgres listhost, and it was their advice that led me to the decision to write my own framework to handle it. The information we got from them says that only the most advanced databases out there are using these techniques this extensively (yet), and most frontends that they've heard of can't handle it.
Yes, most of the data in the database is held in tables that are dynamically created based on the data entered into the database. This kind of architecture was basically required for the size and speed requirements we were under during the design phase. And before you demonstrate your lack of knowledge on the subject, not only is the database design rated Type 3 Normal, it's been lauded by many people responsible for the design and implementation of the largest databases used in hospitals and other mission-critical fields across the country.
Your DBA just realized he should read the Postgres manual a few more times.
I haven't looked at CherryPy at all, really, and the only packages I'm using but didn't write are cgi (comes with Python) and psycopg (for interaction with PGSQL). I wrote my own db class which creates objects that map to a table, with a dict variable where the keys are field names in the table and the values are the values of the corresponding field. I've written classes for each high level type of data, and am in the process of finalizing my sessions class.
I doubt I'll be able to open the code, for business reasons, which is unfortunate. I'll be selling the entire codebase to a company which will in turn sell services based on the accompanying application (which the framework is designed from the ground up to serve perfectly).
I don't mean to say that Rails has no uses. It definitely seemed to be wonderful for a certain subset of applications. However, the amount of work it would have taken to rewrite ActiveRecord such that it would be compatible with my database was roughly equivalent to the amount of work it would take to completely implement my own solution. I simply decided to do the latter. Perhaps I should have written an AR replacement that would have been enough for my database, because that certainly would have advanced Rails greatly. If someone else does that, my biggest complaint about Rails simply disappears.
Bear in mind, however, that it feels really good to implement an entire framework yourself. While developing my application, I feel like DHH must have while he was writing Basecamp. It's a great feeling.
I considered using Ruby on Rails for a large project I was doing, and found that though it was extremely easy to get started and do simple applications, it fails on more complicated databases. It does everything for you automatically, and you can easily write functions in Ruby that do the work of the database, but this is best only when the database isn't doing a whole lot itself except for holding data.
My database is in PostgreSQL, and uses a lot of dynamically named tables and schemas, as well as many trigger functions written in pl/pgsql. In order to get RoR to work, I found that I was going to have to edit the framework itself extensively, and would still be hampered by the slowness of Rails, which I found to be unforgivable.
I ended up having to design my own framework in Python, which can handle the most complicated databases without any more trouble than the simplest. The construction of the pages now takes a little more time than it did in Rails, but pages that used to take over a second to load are now instantaneous.
That said, I translated a small web app from Rails to my own framework, and the translation took less time than it did to write it in Rails in the first place and ran a lot faster, but that's because the design was done in Rails. I'd say that Rails is really good for prototyping small applications and getting them working really quickly, and then translating them to another framework for production becomes quite simple.
For non-trivial web applications, Rails has the problem of being optimized for ease of use, not for complete control. Note that I'm not trolling, or saying Rails has no use. Just that I found that it wasn't sufficiently capable for what I was trying to do with it.
Considering the fact that you only have ONE statistic, and that is that 50% of retail store sales are from switchers, why would you assume that exactly 0% of non-store sales are switchers? 10% is the minimum possible and EXTREMELY STATISTICALLY UNLIKELY guess. You can't make a reasonable guess, but guessing 0% is as stupid as guessing 100%. And if we did that, then 90% switchers is just as fair.
But in reality all we've just done is define the statistical range: at least 10% and at most 90% of Mac sales for last quarter were switchers. That's all that says.
There's been a lot of talk recently about this kind of thing, but there is also an almost unforgivable dearth of resources on the subject of XmlHttpRequest and its brethren.
Can anyone who's used it point out some links with APIs, tutorials, examples, etc that would help in the learning and use of XmlHttpRequest?
Thanks.
Does anyone else see this as an interesting side effect of the Mozilla public license? Yes, Firefox is open source, but the license states that a business can take the code, alter it, and not redistribute. So now we have Netscape doing exactly this... and some of the features are pretty cool. It would be very useful to be able to render certain sites with the IE engine; then there would be absolutely no reason to run IE ever again. Would it be possible to run Windows Update with the new Netscape?
I'm not saying that's a good or bad thing... they may not have done it if they had to open the source. But it still is interesting.
It's just that the rest of the buttons are exceptionally inconveniently located on the keyboard, most of them in the lower left quadrant!
Would you prefer that they be in the lower right quadrant? Putting them in the lower left quadrant makes it easy to use those button combos with your non-mousing hand without moving it across the keyboard. It's a reasonable thing to do if your mouse only has one button. And you couldn't reasonably expect them to release a mouse with 8 buttons and call it a machine for the masses.
No, it's exactly as I said. How's this for you: the richest people have plenty of tax loopholes, and therefore, instead of paying their share of the graduated tax that they are supposed to by law (sometimes over 30%), their rates go down well below the lowest tax bracket. Many of the wealthiest people (and corporations) pay far less than 5-10% in taxes, and end up not paying for the majority of taxes in a given state. There are a lot of poor people paying taxes.
And your argument isn't even logical, by the way. In states with a liberal majority, there's a tax surplus. Which means... states that have a lot of poor people vote Democrat and are economically successful enough to be able to give their money away to the states with a conservative majority that can't seem to make ends meet. Whine about states' rights all you want, but Republicans can't even run a state where everyone agrees with them without money the federal government (with the help of those blue states) gives them.
I was running Debian, with Gnome and several userland apps open as well as Apache & Postgresql... out of curiosity, what was running on your systems, that a normal P4 outperformed (barely) some Xeons with the same clockspeed?
Be as resentful as you want, conservatives, but you really do need those blue states. For example, the ten states that require the most federal aid are red states, and the ten states that offer the most federal aid (because they have the money to give) are blue. Without the liberals to leech off of, and to pay for your highways, and to give health care to your elderly, and education to your children, you'd be in a lot more trouble. You'd think you'd do those things yourselves...
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You're forgetting an important part of the education market. College. College students would love these things, and they already buy a lot of Macs. The Mini is going over extremely well with college students, as it easily fits onto a cramped dorm room desk and looks cool. What if you then told them they could have an equal amount of get-laid-potential that they could carry around in their pocket? They'd buy it. Immediately.
Actually in all seriousness, it'd be fantastic to be able to take notes on one of these things, and knowing Apple's battery life abilities, this kind of thing would be the first thing to make that feasible if you have a long day. The reason they haven't done it is probably that they can't figure out how to cram a big enough battery into it. Just wait.
I've seen that, and it's kind of what I was talking about. It was extremely brief and didn't give general information. It doesn't describe how to submit data within a page, or how to interact with a database.
I was hoping this book would have some valuable information about the XmlHttpRequest object, which is used by Google Suggest, GMail, and other sites around the web. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of information about it available on the internet. The way I see it, unless your site is going to be very simple, this is a technology you should definitely be using for all future projects ... I'm doing all I can with it, but there isn't any good info on it. Does anyone have links?
Much better to skip PHP and use Microsoft products instead. That way, you pay the $495 for the base product and don't have any options at all for fixing their myriad problems.
Why, exactly, don't you drop Windows and, thus, your problem?
Nota bene: I don't use PHP, I find it too clunky, and instead use a Python framework I rolled myself. Still, I think your complaints are unfounded.
GBTW?
... this is how rumors get started.
George Bush - Time Warner?
That could be even more interesting than their last merger. Be careful though
My question is whether or not they also have support for Mac OS X. This device could be a godsend for someone setting up a Mac Mini as an HTPC. There have been numerous questions and doubts about the Mini's computational prowess (founded or otherwise, I'm not debating that here), and something like this that can encode DivX on the fly and just throw it to the computer through USB2.0 would be great for the Mini. Anybody have any info on this?
She said Justice also is urging employees to switch to Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser, which was the subject of the government's antitrust case.
The article also says that they were using Netscape up until a month ago, and are now switching to IE? Why? Why not stay off IE, if you're already off? Especially as a government agency of the same government that's deemed IE unsafe for use? What's going on here?
A simple question! Pressed for time at the moment, I'll answer this one. I wrote my framework in Python because I'm much more fluent in Python than in Ruby. If I were as good with Ruby as I am with Python, I might have updated ActiveRecord to work with my database, or considered some other Ruby-based solution. As it is, Python is my language of choice.
Basically Oracle isn't an option because we're trying to maximize cost-effectiveness, and thus are sticking with free, open source solutions. We chose Postgresql as the backend, and in a production setting it is competitive with Oracle, in features, stability, and speed. We used pl/pgsql to create the functions and triggers which create the tables. pl/pgsql is a clone of an Oracle language, and can basically be used in Oracle databases to achieve the same functionality.
The design of the database drew high praise from the inhabitants of the Postgres listhost, and it was their advice that led me to the decision to write my own framework to handle it. The information we got from them says that only the most advanced databases out there are using these techniques this extensively (yet), and most frontends that they've heard of can't handle it.
Performance-wise, the thing absolutely flies.
Yes, most of the data in the database is held in tables that are dynamically created based on the data entered into the database. This kind of architecture was basically required for the size and speed requirements we were under during the design phase. And before you demonstrate your lack of knowledge on the subject, not only is the database design rated Type 3 Normal, it's been lauded by many people responsible for the design and implementation of the largest databases used in hospitals and other mission-critical fields across the country.
Your DBA just realized he should read the Postgres manual a few more times.
I haven't looked at CherryPy at all, really, and the only packages I'm using but didn't write are cgi (comes with Python) and psycopg (for interaction with PGSQL). I wrote my own db class which creates objects that map to a table, with a dict variable where the keys are field names in the table and the values are the values of the corresponding field. I've written classes for each high level type of data, and am in the process of finalizing my sessions class. I doubt I'll be able to open the code, for business reasons, which is unfortunate. I'll be selling the entire codebase to a company which will in turn sell services based on the accompanying application (which the framework is designed from the ground up to serve perfectly).
I don't mean to say that Rails has no uses. It definitely seemed to be wonderful for a certain subset of applications. However, the amount of work it would have taken to rewrite ActiveRecord such that it would be compatible with my database was roughly equivalent to the amount of work it would take to completely implement my own solution. I simply decided to do the latter. Perhaps I should have written an AR replacement that would have been enough for my database, because that certainly would have advanced Rails greatly. If someone else does that, my biggest complaint about Rails simply disappears.
Bear in mind, however, that it feels really good to implement an entire framework yourself. While developing my application, I feel like DHH must have while he was writing Basecamp. It's a great feeling.
I considered using Ruby on Rails for a large project I was doing, and found that though it was extremely easy to get started and do simple applications, it fails on more complicated databases. It does everything for you automatically, and you can easily write functions in Ruby that do the work of the database, but this is best only when the database isn't doing a whole lot itself except for holding data.
My database is in PostgreSQL, and uses a lot of dynamically named tables and schemas, as well as many trigger functions written in pl/pgsql. In order to get RoR to work, I found that I was going to have to edit the framework itself extensively, and would still be hampered by the slowness of Rails, which I found to be unforgivable.
I ended up having to design my own framework in Python, which can handle the most complicated databases without any more trouble than the simplest. The construction of the pages now takes a little more time than it did in Rails, but pages that used to take over a second to load are now instantaneous.
That said, I translated a small web app from Rails to my own framework, and the translation took less time than it did to write it in Rails in the first place and ran a lot faster, but that's because the design was done in Rails. I'd say that Rails is really good for prototyping small applications and getting them working really quickly, and then translating them to another framework for production becomes quite simple.
For non-trivial web applications, Rails has the problem of being optimized for ease of use, not for complete control. Note that I'm not trolling, or saying Rails has no use. Just that I found that it wasn't sufficiently capable for what I was trying to do with it.
Considering the fact that you only have ONE statistic, and that is that 50% of retail store sales are from switchers, why would you assume that exactly 0% of non-store sales are switchers? 10% is the minimum possible and EXTREMELY STATISTICALLY UNLIKELY guess. You can't make a reasonable guess, but guessing 0% is as stupid as guessing 100%. And if we did that, then 90% switchers is just as fair.
But in reality all we've just done is define the statistical range: at least 10% and at most 90% of Mac sales for last quarter were switchers. That's all that says.
nDarkSide
nEmpire
nDarthVader
Or maybe just nIntel?
Oh, and i also use firefox.
Not without a GUI you don't.
There's been a lot of talk recently about this kind of thing, but there is also an almost unforgivable dearth of resources on the subject of XmlHttpRequest and its brethren. Can anyone who's used it point out some links with APIs, tutorials, examples, etc that would help in the learning and use of XmlHttpRequest? Thanks.
Murderer.
It can't be worth the new server they have to buy after we turn their current one into a smoldering pile of ruin.
Does anyone else see this as an interesting side effect of the Mozilla public license? Yes, Firefox is open source, but the license states that a business can take the code, alter it, and not redistribute. So now we have Netscape doing exactly this ... and some of the features are pretty cool. It would be very useful to be able to render certain sites with the IE engine; then there would be absolutely no reason to run IE ever again. Would it be possible to run Windows Update with the new Netscape?
... they may not have done it if they had to open the source. But it still is interesting.
I'm not saying that's a good or bad thing
It's just that the rest of the buttons are exceptionally inconveniently located on the keyboard, most of them in the lower left quadrant!
Would you prefer that they be in the lower right quadrant? Putting them in the lower left quadrant makes it easy to use those button combos with your non-mousing hand without moving it across the keyboard. It's a reasonable thing to do if your mouse only has one button. And you couldn't reasonably expect them to release a mouse with 8 buttons and call it a machine for the masses.
Investors in this highway should beware of warping this law. The next property seized and given away might be their own.
No it won't. They're rich.
No, it's exactly as I said. How's this for you: the richest people have plenty of tax loopholes, and therefore, instead of paying their share of the graduated tax that they are supposed to by law (sometimes over 30%), their rates go down well below the lowest tax bracket. Many of the wealthiest people (and corporations) pay far less than 5-10% in taxes, and end up not paying for the majority of taxes in a given state. There are a lot of poor people paying taxes.
... states that have a lot of poor people vote Democrat and are economically successful enough to be able to give their money away to the states with a conservative majority that can't seem to make ends meet. Whine about states' rights all you want, but Republicans can't even run a state where everyone agrees with them without money the federal government (with the help of those blue states) gives them.
And your argument isn't even logical, by the way. In states with a liberal majority, there's a tax surplus. Which means
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... out of curiosity, what was running on your systems, that a normal P4 outperformed (barely) some Xeons with the same clockspeed?
I was running Debian, with Gnome and several userland apps open as well as Apache & Postgresql
Be as resentful as you want, conservatives, but you really do need those blue states. For example, the ten states that require the most federal aid are red states, and the ten states that offer the most federal aid (because they have the money to give) are blue. Without the liberals to leech off of, and to pay for your highways, and to give health care to your elderly, and education to your children, you'd be in a lot more trouble. You'd think you'd do those things yourselves ...