Anyone however believes in 100% security will always be a victim of a hack
Pretty off topic in my opinion. Companies are not equal when it comes to security, far from it. Two major distinctions: the way the company was hacked (e.g. SQL injection), and how fast the company fixes the security concern(s). Sony for instance was a good (i.e. bad) example in both categories.
This is so subjective. As an encyclopedia, I like Wikipedia as it is. Providing that much information, from so many fields, in a homogeneous and pleasantly readable way, keep up the good work... Of course some design enhancements may be welcome. But ugly? Definitely no.
Flash cards?? Attach all your documents to a Hotmail draft, use the same password as the one of your Sony PS, and you get yourself a safer solution.... compared to Flash.
I'm much less impressed by the 2k distance than the ability to control a device from the mind. The robot could be close to the student or - even better - on him [iron-man like], the achievement would be just as great.
Does somebody mind to explain why a particle that gives mass is... that heavy? (no pun intended, just my total ignorance. Intuitively I'd thought it'd be very light, since it's used to give mass to other particles)
So, two guys meet and churn out some code that cache most of the DB work in memory. Great. But MySQL has a MEMORY engine and is pretty well optimized (eg keep indexes in memory, does some caching as well)... the hardest part is probably its setup: setting the right options in MySQL to achieve top performance is not easy.
Besides, the "caching" or equivalent work is not the most difficult part of a DBMS, by far: What about the algorithms to "compile" queries in order to use indexes and perform the JOINS optimally. A good algorithm beats the architectural benefits of a "cache" oriented DBMS.
To be fair, and unfortunately, I receive sometimes MS office-made files that look different in Libre/Open Office. I don't really care on a personal touch (usually it's some slight design problems), but on the professional side the files often have to be the same, and I cannot complain (to a client) "don't use this feature" or "save as office 2003"...
The Google Code Jam competition - at least the event we are talking about here - is 100% in English, which emphasizes the Russians performance.
And don't count on the translation programs... the problems are pretty complex and an automated translation would generate many ambiguities (or even mistakes).
Regarding the performance itself, from Round 1 (after the qualifications round) the problems are very Math-oriented. A competitor with a background in mathematics is clearly having a huge advantage. Even the a programmer having strong algorithm knowledge, is likely to be beaten on time by the mathematicians.
So, Russians seem to be better at Maths.
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Oh, that was a joke...
Fine, have neither XP nor Vista. No mention of Ubuntu 12.04... meaning that's compatible probably?
Microsoft removed code from its Windows 95 operating system
Probably, just safer...
Anyone however believes in 100% security will always be a victim of a hack
Pretty off topic in my opinion. Companies are not equal when it comes to security, far from it. Two major distinctions: the way the company was hacked (e.g. SQL injection), and how fast the company fixes the security concern(s). Sony for instance was a good (i.e. bad) example in both categories.
This is so subjective. As an encyclopedia, I like Wikipedia as it is. Providing that much information, from so many fields, in a homogeneous and pleasantly readable way, keep up the good work ... Of course some design enhancements may be welcome. But ugly? Definitely no.
Do you mind elaborating on why?
POP3 is the standalone-ish way of handling mail. Microsoft misses that standalone time very much.
Best way for me to manage my multiple email accounts with multiple servers
Just fyi, several mail accounts (Gmail, Google accounts mail) can be opened simultaneously in different tabs, in the same browser.
Nothing goes faster than C
(besides assembly, but who does assembly?)
What? His wife committed adultery. She preferred ext4.
Flash cards?? Attach all your documents to a Hotmail draft, use the same password as the one of your Sony PS, and you get yourself a safer solution.... compared to Flash.
I'm much less impressed by the 2k distance than the ability to control a device from the mind. The robot could be close to the student or - even better - on him [iron-man like], the achievement would be just as great.
Yeah the problem was 100% human. On the contrary, nuclear technology is 100% safe.
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Does somebody mind to explain why a particle that gives mass is... that heavy? (no pun intended, just my total ignorance. Intuitively I'd thought it'd be very light, since it's used to give mass to other particles)
the bill would have counted one more digit...
Not sure about that. Since 2004 they sold at least a billion pricey products ; that makes a pretty juicy ROI.
So, two guys meet and churn out some code that cache most of the DB work in memory. Great. But MySQL has a MEMORY engine and is pretty well optimized (eg keep indexes in memory, does some caching as well)... the hardest part is probably its setup: setting the right options in MySQL to achieve top performance is not easy.
Besides, the "caching" or equivalent work is not the most difficult part of a DBMS, by far: What about the algorithms to "compile" queries in order to use indexes and perform the JOINS optimally. A good algorithm beats the architectural benefits of a "cache" oriented DBMS.
To be fair, and unfortunately, I receive sometimes MS office-made files that look different in Libre/Open Office. I don't really care on a personal touch (usually it's some slight design problems), but on the professional side the files often have to be the same, and I cannot complain (to a client) "don't use this feature" or "save as office 2003"...
Office Home + Student costs around $99 OEM version (includes Word + Excel + Powerpoint + OneNote). That seems like a pretty reasonable price.
You're used to it seemingly :-( Software took another turn recently... The new Mac OS Mountain Lion costs $20 for instance.
Likely to be F, ie ~8 C / K
Yes, because the site doesn't support ie6... thus the pages are likely to look ugly.
The Google Code Jam competition - at least the event we are talking about here - is 100% in English, which emphasizes the Russians performance.
And don't count on the translation programs... the problems are pretty complex and an automated translation would generate many ambiguities (or even mistakes).
Regarding the performance itself, from Round 1 (after the qualifications round) the problems are very Math-oriented. A competitor with a background in mathematics is clearly having a huge advantage. Even the a programmer having strong algorithm knowledge, is likely to be beaten on time by the mathematicians.
So, Russians seem to be better at Maths.
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Fortunately, nobody cares about your password :-)