Never use select * from... for production queries if you can help it. It's bad style. If you change your schema to include more columns you can wind up returning more data to the front end than you need to. This caused errors in display at worst and wasted bandwidth at best.
If you have different developers working on the front end and the database, this will really make them hate each other. It also makes the query optimizer work harder than it needs to (the amount of cpu wasted this way is totally insignificant, but it's bad form anyway.
Also, if you're going to run select * from internet without a where clause, be prepared for an extremely long running query.
--Shoeboy
I have to address a point in the betanews article:
The Internet has become a place where images rule, and visually pleasing Web sites reign over the simpler, more text-based sites.
The man has obviously never been to asciiboner.com. Anne Marie should check this site out too, so as to get an idea of what to expect on our wedding night.
Will you have to sign a EULA before conceiving a child? Offtopic, but when I used to shrink wrap software for a living, I would to tape license agreement stickers over my fly.
By opening this package you agree to abide by the acceptable use policy defined by the manufacturer.
This product is intended for non-commercial use only. It still amazes me that I didn't get fired from that place.
--Shoeboy
Actually I am Anne Marie. I figured it would be faster to rev a new account up to 50 than bring my old account down - that's how much karma I have.
And yes, I do search for comments containing my nick.
--Shoeboy
I asked these people about the severe erectile dysfunction I began experiencing after switching to debian, but they were no help. They wouldn't even talk to me until I agreed to refer to it as my GNU/Penis.
Damn zealots.
--shoeboy
This is not news. I've been able to track people's localles over the internet for years now. All truly skilled hackers can.
I know where you live, where you work, when you sleep and what you fear.
I have only one thing to say to you:
Damn you're boring - why don't you get a life?
--Shoeboy
Way to completely misread a post.
Here's how it breaks down.
The GF2 is bandwidth constrained but very powerful.
The Radeon is not very powerful, but thanks to the hyper-z technology, it doesn't have nearly the bandwidth requirements.
That means that as more memory bandwidth arrives, the GF2 chip will be able to take advantage of it. Check the 1600x1200 high quality benchmarks on the GF2 ultras with 4ns DDR SDRAM if you don't believe me.
The radeon on the other hand can't push enough texels/pixels to use the extra bandwith, so ATI will need another chip to take advantage of higher memory bandwidth.
Take a remedial reading course before you start flaming.
--Shoeboy
TNT2 has been supported by XFree86 for a long time. How certain are you that you're getting the benefit of the nVidia-written drivers? I don't, but I wasn't making that arguement. All I was saying was that I was able to install the NVIDIA drivers without too much trouble. Since I can get acceptable frame rates, I assume that everything is working just fine.
Also, at the risk of sounding like the/. sheep, not having open-sourced drivers can make your life a lot more difficult if the closed-source drivers doesn't support your particular flavour of Linux. I went through this with a number of crappy hardware, and I'm no longer willing to do so again. Then again, with the number of games I play in Linux down near zero, I don't think it matters too much Ok, you've got a point there, and it's a perfectly valid reason to go Radeon over GF2. I only had a problem with the idea that the NVIDIA drivers were hard to install as that did not reflect my experience.
--Shoeboy
Well, maybe the kicking is the reason for the huge Pain In The Ass it is to get the card working under linux with those proprietary non-DRI drivers. I dunno, I found the install relatively painless for my TNT2.
Aptable debs of XFree86 4.0.1 are available, so I snagged those, grabbed the nvidia drivers, renamed some files, gunzipped and untarred the nvidia drivers and typed make.
Not hard at all. Not noticeably more difficult than getting my buddies i810 up and running.
--Shoeboy
Considering that the radeon has been getting reviewed since the 17th of July.
No matter how good ATI's architecture might be on paper, the simple fact of the matter is that ATI can't write drivers to save their lives and NVIDIA has the best driver dev team in the industry combined with a very mature and stable driver set.
Plus the GF2 kicks ass under linux.
As if that wasn't enough, the GF2 chip is bandwidth constrained, so as supplies of 4ns DDR SDRAM increase, GF2 ultras will become common. The Radeon doesn't have the horsepower to take advantage of these improvements in memory technology.
--Shoeboy
Palm is totally pulling a Microsoft here.
Think about it, where do you go to buy a palm without a copy of palmOS on it? You can't.
Basically, Palm gave away the software to establish a monopoly position, and now that you've got no choice but to get PalmOS on your Palm, they'll charge an arm and a leg for upgrades.
It's totally bogus.
I think the DOJ needs to get involved here.
--Shoeboy
Shoeboy (currently?) is a troll. Actually I'm just a jackass. I participate in the troll forums because they have intelligent discusions there. I'm certainly not in the same league as em, 80md, er or jsm.
I'm more of a prankster.
Apparently, as a protest to the 50 karma barrier, he is attempting to lose karma by posting trolls. I am protesting nothing, I'm just treating/. as a toy rather than as a community. Most long time readers have this attitude. Taco certainly does.
(Actually, I guess his karma is currently ~125, so he's trying to get it down to "normal.") Taking a peek at his User Info I'd say he's failing right now. But I wish him luck - Oddly enough karma has frozen again - so I'll be stuck at 62 until taco unfreezes it. I don't care what my karma is, I just like to post "Moderate this down - I need to lose 15 karma points by midnight" stuff to mess with people's heads and entertain them. Judging by the moderations I get, it seems to be working.
--Shoeboy
This is not "news for nerds" nor "stuff that matters."
Can't we please only get updates on important software.
It's not bind holds the entire net together or anything.
--Shoeboy
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Are we sure the gag order isn't still in effect?
--Shoeboy
The philosopher Robert Nozick made a fascinating argument on patents in his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"
The gist is that a patent is perfectly just as long as the idea is sufficiently non-obvious that nobody else would think of it for the duration of the patent.
1 click shopping wouldn't take 20 years to come up with, but vulcanized rubber is another matter entirely.
I think that 5 year patents for software are perfectly reasonable, it's the 20 year deal that makes it absurd. The industry just moves too fast.
What do you guys think?
--Shoeboy
I still have *160* to go. But I'm getting there... 1 flame at a time. In the pride and folly of my youth I decided to keep my karma between 120 and 150 rather than stockpile as much as I could.
I am older, sadder and wiser now.
--Shoeboy
Looks like someone wants to mess up the Karma Whore Fantasy League... The moderators got pissy this morning and took me down. I was doing some definite whoring too.
I figure since I can't get decent stats this week, I oughtta pull a Jerry Krause and get far enough under the karma cap to pick up some decent free agents.
--Shoeboy
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Never use select * from... for production queries if you can help it. It's bad style. If you change your schema to include more columns you can wind up returning more data to the front end than you need to. This caused errors in display at worst and wasted bandwidth at best.
If you have different developers working on the front end and the database, this will really make them hate each other. It also makes the query optimizer work harder than it needs to (the amount of cpu wasted this way is totally insignificant, but it's bad form anyway.
Also, if you're going to run select * from internet without a where clause, be prepared for an extremely long running query.
--Shoeboy
I have to address a point in the betanews article:
The Internet has become a place where images rule, and visually pleasing Web sites reign over the simpler, more text-based sites.
The man has obviously never been to asciiboner.com. Anne Marie should check this site out too, so as to get an idea of what to expect on our wedding night.
--Shoeboy
Will you have to sign a EULA before conceiving a child?
Offtopic, but when I used to shrink wrap software for a living, I would to tape license agreement stickers over my fly.
By opening this package you agree to abide by the acceptable use policy defined by the manufacturer.
This product is intended for non-commercial use only.
It still amazes me that I didn't get fired from that place.
--Shoeboy
If you want to study a very shallow and restricted gene pool you don't go to Tonga or Iceland, you go to Mississippi.
When will they learn?
--Shoeboy
Actually I am Anne Marie. I figured it would be faster to rev a new account up to 50 than bring my old account down - that's how much karma I have.
And yes, I do search for comments containing my nick.
--Shoeboy
I asked these people about the severe erectile dysfunction I began experiencing after switching to debian, but they were no help. They wouldn't even talk to me until I agreed to refer to it as my GNU/Penis.
Damn zealots.
--shoeboy
I feel the need to point out that these discussions deftly demonstrate the dynamic deviltry of this dueling demonic duo,
Yeah.
--Shoeboy
This is not news. I've been able to track people's localles over the internet for years now. All truly skilled hackers can.
I know where you live, where you work, when you sleep and what you fear.
I have only one thing to say to you:
Damn you're boring - why don't you get a life?
--Shoeboy
Which troll has the lowest user number?
Mholve does.
--Shoeboy
Did anyone miss me.
--Shoeboy
Way to completely misread a post.
Here's how it breaks down.
The GF2 is bandwidth constrained but very powerful.
The Radeon is not very powerful, but thanks to the hyper-z technology, it doesn't have nearly the bandwidth requirements.
That means that as more memory bandwidth arrives, the GF2 chip will be able to take advantage of it. Check the 1600x1200 high quality benchmarks on the GF2 ultras with 4ns DDR SDRAM if you don't believe me.
The radeon on the other hand can't push enough texels/pixels to use the extra bandwith, so ATI will need another chip to take advantage of higher memory bandwidth.
Take a remedial reading course before you start flaming.
--Shoeboy
TNT2 has been supported by XFree86 for a long time. How certain are you that you're getting the benefit of the nVidia-written drivers?
/. sheep, not having open-sourced drivers can make your life a lot more difficult if the closed-source drivers doesn't support your particular flavour of Linux. I went through this with a number of crappy hardware, and I'm no longer willing to do so again. Then again, with the number of games I play in Linux down near zero, I don't think it matters too much
I don't, but I wasn't making that arguement. All I was saying was that I was able to install the NVIDIA drivers without too much trouble. Since I can get acceptable frame rates, I assume that everything is working just fine.
Also, at the risk of sounding like the
Ok, you've got a point there, and it's a perfectly valid reason to go Radeon over GF2. I only had a problem with the idea that the NVIDIA drivers were hard to install as that did not reflect my experience.
--Shoeboy
Well, maybe the kicking is the reason for the huge Pain In The Ass it is to get the card working under linux with those proprietary non-DRI drivers.
I dunno, I found the install relatively painless for my TNT2.
Aptable debs of XFree86 4.0.1 are available, so I snagged those, grabbed the nvidia drivers, renamed some files, gunzipped and untarred the nvidia drivers and typed make.
Not hard at all. Not noticeably more difficult than getting my buddies i810 up and running.
--Shoeboy
Considering that the radeon has been getting reviewed since the 17th of July.
No matter how good ATI's architecture might be on paper, the simple fact of the matter is that ATI can't write drivers to save their lives and NVIDIA has the best driver dev team in the industry combined with a very mature and stable driver set.
Plus the GF2 kicks ass under linux.
As if that wasn't enough, the GF2 chip is bandwidth constrained, so as supplies of 4ns DDR SDRAM increase, GF2 ultras will become common. The Radeon doesn't have the horsepower to take advantage of these improvements in memory technology.
--Shoeboy
Palm is totally pulling a Microsoft here.
Think about it, where do you go to buy a palm without a copy of palmOS on it? You can't.
Basically, Palm gave away the software to establish a monopoly position, and now that you've got no choice but to get PalmOS on your Palm, they'll charge an arm and a leg for upgrades.
It's totally bogus.
I think the DOJ needs to get involved here.
--Shoeboy
Everytime I forget, my posting history is there to remind me.
--Shoeboy
Shoeboy (currently?) is a troll. /. as a toy rather than as a community. Most long time readers have this attitude. Taco certainly does.
Actually I'm just a jackass. I participate in the troll forums because they have intelligent discusions there. I'm certainly not in the same league as em, 80md, er or jsm.
I'm more of a prankster.
Apparently, as a protest to the 50 karma barrier, he is attempting to lose karma by posting trolls.
I am protesting nothing, I'm just treating
(Actually, I guess his karma is currently ~125, so he's trying to get it down to "normal.") Taking a peek at his User Info I'd say he's failing right now. But I wish him luck -
Oddly enough karma has frozen again - so I'll be stuck at 62 until taco unfreezes it. I don't care what my karma is, I just like to post "Moderate this down - I need to lose 15 karma points by midnight" stuff to mess with people's heads and entertain them. Judging by the moderations I get, it seems to be working.
--Shoeboy
This is not "news for nerds" nor "stuff that matters."
Can't we please only get updates on important software.
It's not bind holds the entire net together or anything.
--Shoeboy
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Are we sure the gag order isn't still in effect?
--Shoeboy
You owe me 35 karma points in royalty now for use of my name.
True karma can only be dispensed by the universe.
--Shoeboy
The philosopher Robert Nozick made a fascinating argument on patents in his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"
The gist is that a patent is perfectly just as long as the idea is sufficiently non-obvious that nobody else would think of it for the duration of the patent.
1 click shopping wouldn't take 20 years to come up with, but vulcanized rubber is another matter entirely.
I think that 5 year patents for software are perfectly reasonable, it's the 20 year deal that makes it absurd. The industry just moves too fast.
What do you guys think?
--Shoeboy
You left out the 1.1 ghz athlon:
fp base 311 peak 331
HARDWARE
--------
Hardware Vendor: Advanced Micro Devices
Model Name: Gigabyte GA-7ZM motherboard 1.1GHz Athlon processor
CPU: 1.1GHz AMD Athlon Processor A1100AMT3B
CPU MHz: 1100MHz
FPU: Integrated
CPU(s) enabled: 1
CPU(s) orderable: 1
Parallel: No
Primary Cache: 64KBI + 64KBD on chip
Secondary Cache: 256KB(I+D) on chip
L3 Cache: N/A
Other Cache: N/A
Memory: 256MB PC133 SDRAM CL2 Non-ECC
Disk Subsystem: IBM DPTA 372060 ATA-66
Other Hardware: Savage S4 video card
--Shoeboy
I still have *160* to go. But I'm getting there... 1 flame at a time.
In the pride and folly of my youth I decided to keep my karma between 120 and 150 rather than stockpile as much as I could.
I am older, sadder and wiser now.
--Shoeboy
Looks like someone wants to mess up the Karma Whore Fantasy League...
The moderators got pissy this morning and took me down. I was doing some definite whoring too.
I figure since I can't get decent stats this week, I oughtta pull a Jerry Krause and get far enough under the karma cap to pick up some decent free agents.
--Shoeboy
Obviously industry standard benchmarks are no match for an AC who claims to have a rendering package, but look here
--Shoeboy