... looks like its time to buy a travel ipod to go with that travel laptop.
Of course, pity the person who legally format shifted music they own in accordance with various fair use or national copyright doctrines around the world.
Or pity the person who legally purchased mp3's without drm; unless they carry all of their purchase reciepts with them!
...I carry my own means to do so. Wether that be a smartphone, iPod touch, PSP, laptop with wifi, wireless broadband or (a consideration when I am travelling in developing nations) a satellite modem...
IMO, the use of a public terminal for private purposes is the height of stupidity.
Ahh! Stomach ulcers; great example. The cure for this was discovered because someone, an Australian (so probably excluded from the chaps big pharma is lazy rant), discovered the CAUSE, making the development of a treatment trivial.
TFA is fundementally suggesting (IMO) that there is too much focus on what we think we know and not enough on what we don't, insufficient root cause research. Indeed, your example of the success of curing Stomach Ulcers is a clear case which SUPPORTS the Basic Research arguement.:) err! jak.
I dunno, building explosives and detonating trees in the sandhills and mailboxes in the neighbourhood kept me happily grounded for a lot of months when I was a kid. And since fireworks werent available readily in Australia when I grew up, we used chemistry sets to make it all...
And now kids are denied that joy! I wouldnt be the Engineer (and safety nazi) I am today without those experiences.
Once again the terrorists win a strategic victory against western society, yet another one given them with the explicit aid of a western government. In WWII we hung people for giving aid and comfort to the enemy...
I just cant see how this hurts google. Sure, entering a search and retrieving the result is generally VERY quick (maybe this is why its my search engine of choice)...
But for the very reason that I dont need to spend much time there and more often than not its 2 clicks to my result, one click on "search" and the next click on one of the first page search returns; I go there regularly as a starting point, resulting in a massive number of short visits.
If the measure is TOTAL time, google would still be number 1 followed closely by slashdot for me... Because 47 bazillion* one second page views per day is still 47 bazillion seconds of eyeball per day!
*the author realises that, as a complete idiot, he is prone to stupid exaggeration err! jak.
...And I apologise for the soapbox rant Im about to engage in.
Your forefathers, more than most, paid a dear price for the freedoms you so blithely dismiss. In a democratic society, we have a moral imperative to BE INFORMED about our choices and to VOTE based on this information. Not voting is a dangerous choice, it says you dont care how you are governed!
Sure, Im an aussie and voting is compulsory here (except for local government elections, and they perform little useful function); but it is compulsory for good reason, to remind us that not-voting isnt a choice that can be tolerated in a responsible society. Imagine, if you can, that a democratically elected government went on to overthrow democracy and institute a facist state that attemts to take over the world, imagine further if you DIDNT have a say in that election; its bad enough that people WANTED that government, worse if you stood passively by and let them have it...
If you have such an extreme case or merely a bad or ineffective government and you didnt vote, you are as responsible for the problem as someone who voted FOR that government. Also, if you choose not to vote, you cant then reasonably bitch about the outcome of an election (as noted, you are actually RESPONSIBLE for the outcome); if you dont want a say, you cant have a say. The old proverb of evil triumphing when good men do nothing is of particular relevance here.
Finally, if you inform yourself of all of the choices and dont like them enough to choose one; you can run yourself! Well, in a truly representative democracy you can...
Anyway, soapbox going away now... I just get fired up when people try to disguise ignorance and apathy as a valid choice, particularly when their country is so insistant that other countries adopt democracy; how can you sell a product you dont respect? If you dont all get your voice heard and weighed evenly, why bother?
Has anyone considered that the arguement is actually redundant?
It doesnt matter if it is correct or not. Safety critical engineering demands planning for the worst case, not the probable case. Seat belts and airbags dont exist because you will ALWAYS crash, but because you might crash.
If there is a miniscule chance of our resource useage methods leading to an ELE, then we must bloody well change so that such an outcome is of negligible possibility.
If it turns out we were wrong and there is not actually a problem, we are still using resources more efficiently and polluting less, so noone actually looses. Of course, this brings up the far greater issue of our using resources faster than they can be created, this also is a problem, because we will inevetably run out....
TFA states "If a virtual transaction has real world implications -- if it can be attributed a monetary value...." The point missed was by you Anonymous... the article clearly states that only transactions with real monetary value are taxed. If I buy in game money/item/asset for real money, taxable. If I buy in game money/item/asset with ingame money, not taxable.
The danger comes when there is enough "gold" trading online that the ATO can define ALL in game transactions as having a monetary value due to the prevalence of exchange... this is why we all need to hunt down and kill gold farmers.
Life is hard, in Australia we must pay tax on all income derived in Australia and abroad. This includes the net.
If I trade virtual services for virtual money, all good; If I convert those virtual services or monies into ACTUAL money or trade (vurtual services or money traded for a tangible good, such as a game "time card") it is subject to assessment.
If you have ANY business which generates more than 50,000 AUD (AUD, not wibblewubble dollars) income, you MUST register with the tax office.
This is just how our country works. Even if I sell something on ebay, I need to report that income if I got more for the item than I purchased it for, that MIGHT BE a "capital gain" and be taxable.
Once again, let us all shrink in horror that your income may be taxed by your government.
This is why I get involved in actively running down and helping ban goldfarmers in game; because if trading of in-game currency for real money becomes TOO prevalent, then the ATO will be within its rights to declare ALL in-game transactions as taxable. Such is the case with my Project Entropia account, fortunately I rarely make money, but my accountant includes my in-game transactions; converted to AUD at an appropriate exchange rate; in my declaration of foreign income. In fact, if a BUSINESS held the subscription, I could use my in-game losses to offset real life income for the business.
Always room for a seppo who doesnt mind the footy:) Course, we have to work on your questionable taste in beer, allow me to introduce you to the idea of "Coopers":)
I got no problem with dissent. I'd rather avoid becomming one of the wankers i'm trying to take the piss out of, myself; our first Prime Minister was called toby the tosspot for good reason... when you present a negative and frankly rather american sounding soapbox position and push that stereotype, I see exactly the same irony and lack of inclusiveness as you seem to in my own ridiculous stereotype. However, I'd rather a world that resembled my stereotype than yours.
Im rather pleased to note that at least one moderator saw the humour in my response... since you appear to have missed it. Hell, I even included a smiley at the end of my gross generalisation!! this wasnt a clue?
Oh! yeah, I never said I had a right to anything. No one has a right to do anything other than not being a dickhead to other folks IMHO, everything else is up to you. Not my place to tell others what to do, Ill just let you know my opinion... Im just making MY (you know, mine, not yours or anyone elses...) point. You are as free to ignore that as you are to turn down the beer I'd offer you if we were having this arguement in a pub (bullshitting about crap you cant influence over a beer being another aussie passtime I thorougly enjoy). Course, turning down a beer would make you a piker and even less of an aussie:)
aaaaaand Commence OT rant...
Mate, seriously, relax a little bit; you are absolutely right about our chronic water shortage and massive abuse of arible land. Focussing on that doesnt help fix it though, perhaps working on convincing those who count that very little infrastructure and basic grey water recycling would solve all of our capital city water issues. Problem is whingers (who dont want to drink recycled water). See, there is my issue, whingers create problems... you can complain all you like if you are being constructive.
Now, if you are so concerned that a bill of rights is important (ignoring the fact that we can use precedent all the way back to the Magna Carta if needs be), then run for office on that platform. Id also ask if you had read our constitution, but Im not one for futile gestures:)
Perhaps, though, this isnt the horrific place you would like us to infer that it is; you haven't left for somewhere better, so perhaps there are things about this land you love too? what about throwing in some good with the bad... Dont tell us whats wrong or what we cant do, tell us what we can do if we quit piking and pull our weight.
I had as big a whinge as the next man about the new counter terrorism laws stifling free speech, then I realised that it probably wasnt useful and got a bunch of mates to sign a reasonably written letter and sent it to a few ministers. It may do bugger all, but short of overthrowing the government; there is nothing to be done until the next election. Personally feel better about it if I take an approach that involves a little humour and doesnt get all defeatist and negative; you dont have to BE serious to do serious things, IMHO its better if you have a bit of fun, no one gets hurt...
OT rant over, sorry folks!:)
Seems *I* need to relax more too, might go do that...
And, frankly, we would rather have a pom who loves the country than the whinger who rekons life here is soooooo bad. Frankly, this is the side of the fence where the grass is greener.
Come to Australia, we have plenty of land; though we could stand some more water. But, please, only if you dont plan to sit around on your fat arse and whinge about everything. Cant stand bloody whingers. We all have to vote here, so any problem you have with your own reality is entirely your problem.
If you dont like it, fix it, if you cant fix it, deal with it, if you cant deal with it, piss off:)
...circumvented with the intention of gaining commercial advantage or profit to be an offence.
And our judges will require them to ACTUALLY BE TPM's; legal precedent here is already clear that region coding, for example, is *NOT* a TPM but rather an illegal barrier to trade.
There is still debate about the specific implementation, but the judicial review has clearly indicated that the offences "...which mimic the infringing acts identified above, but for the addition of the action being done "with the intention of obtaining a commercial advantage or profit"."
spelling nazi time... Interesting quote, was he quoting an idiot, because it makes no sense? I suspect "Shear-thickening liquid" is the accurate quote, which is both logical and an accurate description of what the fluid is doing.
If you are comparing high end CPU's, you dont include games at all using your logic and, indeed, this is my point... using 1024x768 or lower resolution is entirely unrepresentative, using 2+ year old games (Far Cry) even less useful.
Simply cpu's make NO meaningful difference for gaming, regardless of synthetic benchmarks suggesting otherwise.
But your point is accurate. Gaming is mostly GPU limited; my gaming system, an s939 amd64x2 3800+ with a pair of old GPU's (7800GTX 256MB) achieves equal or better gaming results than all of these.
I suppose the point is are such prices for CPUs currently justified when they wont have much impact on user experience?
No doubt the new entry level core 2 duo's seem to be the upgrade of choice to maintain near cutting edge; but a high end GPU seems to be a wiser spend than a new CPU for gamers.
As for video encoding et al, HardOCP had the same results in their "real world" testing as others, but at least they make an effort to simulate the way the "average" person might use the things; either way, I'll reserve judgement here until I see some 64bit results, since encoding in native 64bit will be the telling tale IMHO.
In any case, I think we are reaching the point of dimishing returns, a year old 2GHz processer already rips music as fast as the drive can deliver it, already transcodes video as fast as the drives can burn it etc... GPUs control gaming... It is nice to see intel returning to the game in a serious fashion and no doubt this will have positive results for the consumer if AMD try to match price performance. I was mainly trying to point out that the "benchmarks" aren't nescessarily useful in describing the performance of these beasts in operation.
"Real World" testing of the new core2 duo's over at HardOCP seems to suggest that the hype is, well, Bullshot (Penny Arcade).
He also savages... no, investigates, the other benchmarks with his normal subtle-but-robust manner:)
It seems that the top of the line Core2Duo just barely beats an FX-62 numerically in actual game performance; statistically there is no difference whatsoever...
As with all things, it comes down to perspective. I have no doubt that Intel are catching up to AMD, may indeed have caught up. However, I simply do not believe they have gone from lagging significantly to leading significantly at the same clock speed; Time, I suppose, will tell.
Well there you go. No, I hadn't personally used access for many years... I have only ever undone damage done to businesses caused by ID-10-T's using access inappropriately; and, in times past, confronted braindead design ideas like 2GB file size limits that broke databases, although a colleague has just informed me that this limit came from the OS...
That *IS* interesting and now I have another bloody tool to go and learn about! I suppose I should have realised it was possible for the product to evolve and you are dead right, I shouldnt confuse the capability of a tool with the competence of its user:)
AFAIK : The polyer used to make the "Jewel case" is PolyStyrene.
I DEFINATELY know that the material used to make CD's is PolyCarbonate (ok, occasionally PMMA) and that the back is an aluminium mirror... unless Im wrong:)
And thanks for the wikipedia reference earlier!! I really should have thought of looking there if it bothered me so much:)
Move them from Access to SQL or something. If you want to allow "rogue" data sets; I much prefer a spreadhseet; creating a macro to allow a pretty front end for data query and management is trivial and the underlying document data is *significantly* less fragile. Recovering data from them years after the fact is easier, converting the data into a manageable dataset within a "real" database is easier etc.. This is, of course, IMHO; but, I can see no meaningful arguement to ever allow MS Access to be used within a business of any size, I would personally question its utility to catalogue your DVD collection too!
My basic point is if they want to use a database, give them one to use that is made relatively easy but is also scaleable, manageable and network friendly; just in case.
If you are an USAmerican, Sarbanes-Oxley (however the fsck that is spelt) compliance might be a good idea too...
Slashdot Mirror
... looks like its time to buy a travel ipod to go with that travel laptop.
Of course, pity the person who legally format shifted music they own in accordance with various fair use or national copyright doctrines around the world.
Or pity the person who legally purchased mp3's without drm; unless they carry all of their purchase reciepts with them!
...I carry my own means to do so. Wether that be a smartphone, iPod touch, PSP, laptop with wifi, wireless broadband or (a consideration when I am travelling in developing nations) a satellite modem...
IMO, the use of a public terminal for private purposes is the height of stupidity.
Ahh! Stomach ulcers; great example. The cure for this was discovered because someone, an Australian (so probably excluded from the chaps big pharma is lazy rant), discovered the CAUSE, making the development of a treatment trivial.
:)
TFA is fundementally suggesting (IMO) that there is too much focus on what we think we know and not enough on what we don't, insufficient root cause research. Indeed, your example of the success of curing Stomach Ulcers is a clear case which SUPPORTS the Basic Research arguement.
err!
jak.
I dunno, building explosives and detonating trees in the sandhills and mailboxes in the neighbourhood kept me happily grounded for a lot of months when I was a kid. And since fireworks werent available readily in Australia when I grew up, we used chemistry sets to make it all...
And now kids are denied that joy! I wouldnt be the Engineer (and safety nazi) I am today without those experiences.
Once again the terrorists win a strategic victory against western society, yet another one given them with the explicit aid of a western government. In WWII we hung people for giving aid and comfort to the enemy...
err!
jak.
...they can *THINK* its stealing all they like.
:)
Push comes to shove it is at WORST, copyright infringement. This is not now nor will it ever be stealing.
The fact that any right thinking person can see that ripping CDs for personal use is clearly fair use is besides the point
err!
jak.
I just cant see how this hurts google. Sure, entering a search and retrieving the result is generally VERY quick (maybe this is why its my search engine of choice)...
But for the very reason that I dont need to spend much time there and more often than not its 2 clicks to my result, one click on "search" and the next click on one of the first page search returns; I go there regularly as a starting point, resulting in a massive number of short visits.
If the measure is TOTAL time, google would still be number 1 followed closely by slashdot for me... Because 47 bazillion* one second page views per day is still 47 bazillion seconds of eyeball per day!
*the author realises that, as a complete idiot, he is prone to stupid exaggeration
err!
jak.
...And I apologise for the soapbox rant Im about to engage in.
Your forefathers, more than most, paid a dear price for the freedoms you so blithely dismiss. In a democratic society, we have a moral imperative to BE INFORMED about our choices and to VOTE based on this information. Not voting is a dangerous choice, it says you dont care how you are governed!
Sure, Im an aussie and voting is compulsory here (except for local government elections, and they perform little useful function); but it is compulsory for good reason, to remind us that not-voting isnt a choice that can be tolerated in a responsible society. Imagine, if you can, that a democratically elected government went on to overthrow democracy and institute a facist state that attemts to take over the world, imagine further if you DIDNT have a say in that election; its bad enough that people WANTED that government, worse if you stood passively by and let them have it...
If you have such an extreme case or merely a bad or ineffective government and you didnt vote, you are as responsible for the problem as someone who voted FOR that government. Also, if you choose not to vote, you cant then reasonably bitch about the outcome of an election (as noted, you are actually RESPONSIBLE for the outcome); if you dont want a say, you cant have a say. The old proverb of evil triumphing when good men do nothing is of particular relevance here.
Finally, if you inform yourself of all of the choices and dont like them enough to choose one; you can run yourself! Well, in a truly representative democracy you can...
Anyway, soapbox going away now... I just get fired up when people try to disguise ignorance and apathy as a valid choice, particularly when their country is so insistant that other countries adopt democracy; how can you sell a product you dont respect? If you dont all get your voice heard and weighed evenly, why bother?
err!
jak.
Has anyone considered that the arguement is actually redundant?
It doesnt matter if it is correct or not. Safety critical engineering demands planning for the worst case, not the probable case. Seat belts and airbags dont exist because you will ALWAYS crash, but because you might crash.
If there is a miniscule chance of our resource useage methods leading to an ELE, then we must bloody well change so that such an outcome is of negligible possibility.
If it turns out we were wrong and there is not actually a problem, we are still using resources more efficiently and polluting less, so noone actually looses. Of course, this brings up the far greater issue of our using resources faster than they can be created, this also is a problem, because we will inevetably run out....
just my $0.02
err!
jak
TFA states "If a virtual transaction has real world implications -- if it can be attributed a monetary value ...." The point missed was by you Anonymous... the article clearly states that only transactions with real monetary value are taxed. If I buy in game money/item/asset for real money, taxable. If I buy in game money/item/asset with ingame money, not taxable.
The danger comes when there is enough "gold" trading online that the ATO can define ALL in game transactions as having a monetary value due to the prevalence of exchange... this is why we all need to hunt down and kill gold farmers.
This is so not news.
:)
Life is hard, in Australia we must pay tax on all income derived in Australia and abroad. This includes the net.
If I trade virtual services for virtual money, all good; If I convert those virtual services or monies into ACTUAL money or trade (vurtual services or money traded for a tangible good, such as a game "time card") it is subject to assessment.
If you have ANY business which generates more than 50,000 AUD (AUD, not wibblewubble dollars) income, you MUST register with the tax office.
This is just how our country works. Even if I sell something on ebay, I need to report that income if I got more for the item than I purchased it for, that MIGHT BE a "capital gain" and be taxable.
Once again, let us all shrink in horror that your income may be taxed by your government.
This is why I get involved in actively running down and helping ban goldfarmers in game; because if trading of in-game currency for real money becomes TOO prevalent, then the ATO will be within its rights to declare ALL in-game transactions as taxable. Such is the case with my Project Entropia account, fortunately I rarely make money, but my accountant includes my in-game transactions; converted to AUD at an appropriate exchange rate; in my declaration of foreign income. In fact, if a BUSINESS held the subscription, I could use my in-game losses to offset real life income for the business.
Swings and roundabouts
oh shit! didn't think of that...
:)
Bloody hell, we cant take a step without moving 46,000 british backpackers as it is. dammit!
Always room for a seppo who doesnt mind the footy :) Course, we have to work on your questionable taste in beer, allow me to introduce you to the idea of "Coopers" :)
:)
At least you didnt ask for a bloody fosters
I got no problem with dissent. I'd rather avoid becomming one of the wankers i'm trying to take the piss out of, myself; our first Prime Minister was called toby the tosspot for good reason... when you present a negative and frankly rather american sounding soapbox position and push that stereotype, I see exactly the same irony and lack of inclusiveness as you seem to in my own ridiculous stereotype. However, I'd rather a world that resembled my stereotype than yours.
:)
:)
:)
Im rather pleased to note that at least one moderator saw the humour in my response... since you appear to have missed it. Hell, I even included a smiley at the end of my gross generalisation!! this wasnt a clue?
Oh! yeah, I never said I had a right to anything. No one has a right to do anything other than not being a dickhead to other folks IMHO, everything else is up to you. Not my place to tell others what to do, Ill just let you know my opinion... Im just making MY (you know, mine, not yours or anyone elses...) point. You are as free to ignore that as you are to turn down the beer I'd offer you if we were having this arguement in a pub (bullshitting about crap you cant influence over a beer being another aussie passtime I thorougly enjoy). Course, turning down a beer would make you a piker and even less of an aussie
aaaaaand Commence OT rant...
Mate, seriously, relax a little bit; you are absolutely right about our chronic water shortage and massive abuse of arible land. Focussing on that doesnt help fix it though, perhaps working on convincing those who count that very little infrastructure and basic grey water recycling would solve all of our capital city water issues. Problem is whingers (who dont want to drink recycled water). See, there is my issue, whingers create problems... you can complain all you like if you are being constructive.
Now, if you are so concerned that a bill of rights is important (ignoring the fact that we can use precedent all the way back to the Magna Carta if needs be), then run for office on that platform. Id also ask if you had read our constitution, but Im not one for futile gestures
Perhaps, though, this isnt the horrific place you would like us to infer that it is; you haven't left for somewhere better, so perhaps there are things about this land you love too? what about throwing in some good with the bad... Dont tell us whats wrong or what we cant do, tell us what we can do if we quit piking and pull our weight.
I had as big a whinge as the next man about the new counter terrorism laws stifling free speech, then I realised that it probably wasnt useful and got a bunch of mates to sign a reasonably written letter and sent it to a few ministers. It may do bugger all, but short of overthrowing the government; there is nothing to be done until the next election. Personally feel better about it if I take an approach that involves a little humour and doesnt get all defeatist and negative; you dont have to BE serious to do serious things, IMHO its better if you have a bit of fun, no one gets hurt...
OT rant over, sorry folks!
Seems *I* need to relax more too, might go do that...
err!
jak.
And, frankly, we would rather have a pom who loves the country than the whinger who rekons life here is soooooo bad. Frankly, this is the side of the fence where the grass is greener.
:)
Come to Australia, we have plenty of land; though we could stand some more water. But, please, only if you dont plan to sit around on your fat arse and whinge about everything. Cant stand bloody whingers. We all have to vote here, so any problem you have with your own reality is entirely your problem.
If you dont like it, fix it, if you cant fix it, deal with it, if you cant deal with it, piss off
err!
jak.
...circumvented with the intention of gaining commercial advantage or profit to be an offence.
1 04554107 Groklaw had a good discussion of the exposure draft.
And our judges will require them to ACTUALLY BE TPM's; legal precedent here is already clear that region coding, for example, is *NOT* a TPM but rather an illegal barrier to trade.
There is still debate about the specific implementation, but the judicial review has clearly indicated that the offences "...which mimic the infringing acts identified above, but for the addition of the action being done "with the intention of obtaining a commercial advantage or profit"."
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060905
Panic is fun, but facts are better.
err!
jak.
spelling nazi time...
Interesting quote, was he quoting an idiot, because it makes no sense? I suspect "Shear-thickening liquid" is the accurate quote, which is both logical and an accurate description of what the fluid is doing.
err!
jak.
Another reply top anonymous...
If you are comparing high end CPU's, you dont include games at all using your logic and, indeed, this is my point... using 1024x768 or lower resolution is entirely unrepresentative, using 2+ year old games (Far Cry) even less useful.
Simply cpu's make NO meaningful difference for gaming, regardless of synthetic benchmarks suggesting otherwise.
transcoding into XVID normally, or shrinking to DVD+R... Im talking WRITE speed limiting for video, not READ speed :)
Responding to anonymous... I must be mad.
But your point is accurate. Gaming is mostly GPU limited; my gaming system, an s939 amd64x2 3800+ with a pair of old GPU's (7800GTX 256MB) achieves equal or better gaming results than all of these.
I suppose the point is are such prices for CPUs currently justified when they wont have much impact on user experience?
No doubt the new entry level core 2 duo's seem to be the upgrade of choice to maintain near cutting edge; but a high end GPU seems to be a wiser spend than a new CPU for gamers.
As for video encoding et al, HardOCP had the same results in their "real world" testing as others, but at least they make an effort to simulate the way the "average" person might use the things; either way, I'll reserve judgement here until I see some 64bit results, since encoding in native 64bit will be the telling tale IMHO.
In any case, I think we are reaching the point of dimishing returns, a year old 2GHz processer already rips music as fast as the drive can deliver it, already transcodes video as fast as the drives can burn it etc... GPUs control gaming... It is nice to see intel returning to the game in a serious fashion and no doubt this will have positive results for the consumer if AMD try to match price performance. I was mainly trying to point out that the "benchmarks" aren't nescessarily useful in describing the performance of these beasts in operation.
err!
jak
wow... mangled the formatting there, I look like a fucking fanboy.
Apologies all!
"Real World" testing of the new core2 duo's over at HardOCP seems to suggest that the hype is, well, Bullshot (Penny Arcade). He also savages... no, investigates, the other benchmarks with his normal subtle-but-robust manner :)
It seems that the top of the line Core2Duo just barely beats an FX-62 numerically in actual game performance; statistically there is no difference whatsoever...
As with all things, it comes down to perspective. I have no doubt that Intel are catching up to AMD, may indeed have caught up. However, I simply do not believe they have gone from lagging significantly to leading significantly at the same clock speed; Time, I suppose, will tell.
Of course, It would help if you asked a meaningful question;
Absent context, servers should be both and neither and something we havent invented yet.
What is the server for? is it serving a database to 27 hojillion simultaneous users?? serving a static intranet to 5?? filtering mail for AOL.com??
On suspects that each problem will have an optimum solution... so, as the first post noted, nothing to see here.
err!
jak.
Well there you go. No, I hadn't personally used access for many years... I have only ever undone damage done to businesses caused by ID-10-T's using access inappropriately; and, in times past, confronted braindead design ideas like 2GB file size limits that broke databases, although a colleague has just informed me that this limit came from the OS...
:)
:)
That *IS* interesting and now I have another bloody tool to go and learn about! I suppose I should have realised it was possible for the product to evolve and you are dead right, I shouldnt confuse the capability of a tool with the competence of its user
oops
ta.
jak!
AFAIK : The polyer used to make the "Jewel case" is PolyStyrene.
:)
:)
I DEFINATELY know that the material used to make CD's is PolyCarbonate (ok, occasionally PMMA) and that the back is an aluminium mirror... unless Im wrong
And thanks for the wikipedia reference earlier!! I really should have thought of looking there if it bothered me so much
Ahh! not quite.
Move them from Access to SQL or something. If you want to allow "rogue" data sets; I much prefer a spreadhseet; creating a macro to allow a pretty front end for data query and management is trivial and the underlying document data is *significantly* less fragile. Recovering data from them years after the fact is easier, converting the data into a manageable dataset within a "real" database is easier etc..
This is, of course, IMHO; but, I can see no meaningful arguement to ever allow MS Access to be used within a business of any size, I would personally question its utility to catalogue your DVD collection too!
My basic point is if they want to use a database, give them one to use that is made relatively easy but is also scaleable, manageable and network friendly; just in case.
If you are an USAmerican, Sarbanes-Oxley (however the fsck that is spelt) compliance might be a good idea too...