The desktop may be bleeding-edge, but the server components are rock-solid.
I might have a tough time adjusting the volume or getting the desktop applets to work right, but the server implementations are stable and work right every time.
"the used sale market is still depriving of money because it gives consumers an all-too-easy alternative to buying a new "
This is the precise concept that motivates the First Sale Doctrine. You only get paid for selling something yourself. Why should you get paid when someone sells something that used to be yours? When you sell your used car, do you have to give a kickback to the person you bought it from? It makes no sense at all given the set of commerce rules that we have come to accept over the centuries.
Really there is no end of the negative consequences that result if you decide that First Sale is not a valid concept. You have to question the entire meaning of the word "sale" if you do this.
"Anyone can take the Android platform and add code or download it to create a mobile device without restrictions," Google said in an e-mail. "We look forward to seeing what contributions are made and how an open platform spurs innovation."
Apple is pushing this as a way for companies to invest in some software effort and gain some practical results, but how can you expect a company to commit resources to developing an iPhone app if it can be denied for such petty and silly reasons? The best-laid plans of an entire corporation can be wrecked by the petty actions of someone outside of their control? Really not a sound business strategy. Why not just develop for the Google phone where you don't need permission or clearance from anyone?
I worked on an ROV simulation back in the 90's and we needed to keep track of how many times the ROV turned around because twists accumulate in the cable. At some point you may have to sit in place and spin for a bit to undo the twists. Terrible things happen when the tether gets too twisted.
It doesn't tell you how to touch-type or tie your shoes either.
Use parameterized queries and you don't ever have to worry about SQL injection again.
If your development environment doesn't support them, it's a BUG, and you NEED to report it.
SQL is not a standard
on
SQL in a Nutshell
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
If it were, there would not need to be vendor-specific examples in every SQL book.
Why can't people just implement standard ANSI SQL and be done with it?
I am really tired of vendors (MySQL) and their non-standard SQL. I want my JDBC applications to just work and not have special-case code for each database.
My first Linux app was a UPS package tracker. It dialed up to UPS and tracked it over their direct modem line. I had to reverse-engineer their checksum algorithm. I wrote it as a finger server. My co-worker Don wrote a CGI interface to it. I think it was 1993 or 1994.
Boy it blew away the big shots at UPS when we demoed it to them. They went and wrote their own.
They had an opportunity, which they passed on. The locals struck out on their own. Now the corporation "changes its mind" after much money and investment. Is this fair?
What if a company comes along and says they want to offer water or sewer service? Is the town obliged to take it? What about snowplowing or filling potholes or any other city service? Where do you draw the line?
"either find a product that runs on it or tell the company that refuses to enable this that they just lost out xxK $ due to the fact that they don't support a Terminal Server environment."
Microsoft is not the only company to monopolize their sector.
There are plenty of software products out there with no real competition. They don't care about your power problems because they know you have no other choice.
How hard is it to have an admin web page where people can designate that they don't want their PC to be turned off tonight, because it's running a batch job?
And how hard is it to check to see if the computer is running a batch job before you turn it off?
Slashdot Mirror
The desktop may be bleeding-edge, but the server components are rock-solid.
I might have a tough time adjusting the volume or getting the desktop applets to work right, but the server implementations are stable and work right every time.
"the used sale market is still depriving of money because it gives consumers an all-too-easy alternative to buying a new "
This is the precise concept that motivates the First Sale Doctrine. You only get paid for selling something yourself. Why should you get paid when someone sells something that used to be yours? When you sell your used car, do you have to give a kickback to the person you bought it from? It makes no sense at all given the set of commerce rules that we have come to accept over the centuries.
Really there is no end of the negative consequences that result if you decide that First Sale is not a valid concept. You have to question the entire meaning of the word "sale" if you do this.
I bet you can find those Farallon dongles on ebay for real cheap.
My mother in law still has an appletalk-ethernet gateway on her shelf.
I don't post very often but that just kind of jumped out at me
"Anyone can take the Android platform and add code or download it to create a mobile device without restrictions," Google said in an e-mail. "We look forward to seeing what contributions are made and how an open platform spurs innovation."
Apple is pushing this as a way for companies to invest in some software effort and gain some practical results, but how can you expect a company to commit resources to developing an iPhone app if it can be denied for such petty and silly reasons? The best-laid plans of an entire corporation can be wrecked by the petty actions of someone outside of their control? Really not a sound business strategy. Why not just develop for the Google phone where you don't need permission or clearance from anyone?
I worked on an ROV simulation back in the 90's and we needed to keep track of how many times the ROV turned around because twists accumulate in the cable. At some point you may have to sit in place and spin for a bit to undo the twists. Terrible things happen when the tether gets too twisted.
You might as well have said,
"Our earth moving business took a big jump in productivity when we switched from ice-cream scoops to backhoes".
It doesn't tell you how to touch-type or tie your shoes either.
Use parameterized queries and you don't ever have to worry about SQL injection again.
If your development environment doesn't support them, it's a BUG, and you NEED to report it.
If it were, there would not need to be vendor-specific examples in every SQL book.
Why can't people just implement standard ANSI SQL and be done with it?
I am really tired of vendors (MySQL) and their non-standard SQL. I want my JDBC applications to just work and not have special-case code for each database.
What about people with more than one computer?
Do you want to know about only their "main" computer, or all of them?
If it's only their "main" computer, what about people who use two machines equally? One vote for one, no vote for the other? Half-votes?
If I can only vote once, how come, since I bought more than one computer?
If I get to vote more than once because I have more than one computer, how many votes do I get?
Do I get to vote for my old Sun3 that I haven't switched on in years?
My first Linux app was a UPS package tracker. It dialed up to UPS and tracked it over their direct modem line. I had to reverse-engineer their checksum algorithm. I wrote it as a finger server. My co-worker Don wrote a CGI interface to it. I think it was 1993 or 1994.
Boy it blew away the big shots at UPS when we demoed it to them. They went and wrote their own.
What a great idea. Let's get private companies to run the fire and police departments, too.
And while we are at it, why should the city government be run by the city? Let's just farm out the mayor's job to some corporation.
You really DON'T want to take this argument to its logical extreme.
They had an opportunity, which they passed on. The locals struck out on their own. Now the corporation "changes its mind" after much money and investment. Is this fair?
What if a company comes along and says they want to offer water or sewer service? Is the town obliged to take it? What about snowplowing or filling potholes or any other city service? Where do you draw the line?
Do my laundry and I'll set you up with a gmail account.
http://www.nar.org/NARmrsc.html
Extrapolating from their table of engine sizes, the "site dimensions" would need to be 68 miles across.
The "escape" clause for rockets of more than one pound seems like a recent addition. Was that there when I was a kid?
They treat this like it's a matter of national security.
For goodness sake, it's entertainment!
Why can't they focus this hard on things that actually matter to the health and success of their people?
Of course we in the US are just as guilty.
I find that the time my computer takes to boot is exactly equivalent to the time it takes for me to go get a cup of coffee.
Multitask, people!
Why don't you use a timed setup where the computer turns on 30 minutes before you show up in the morning?
If you are waiting for your computer, it's your fault, not the computer's.
"either find a product that runs on it or tell the company that refuses to enable this that they just lost out xxK $ due to the fact that they don't support a Terminal Server environment."
Microsoft is not the only company to monopolize their sector.
There are plenty of software products out there with no real competition. They don't care about your power problems because they know you have no other choice.
How hard is it to have an admin web page where people can designate that they don't want their PC to be turned off tonight, because it's running a batch job?
And how hard is it to check to see if the computer is running a batch job before you turn it off?
Not very.
Your IT department is just lame if they can't turn machines on remotely to do backups and updates.
If Wake-on-Lan doesn't work, then they need to push back at the companies they buy their systems from.
People will not even notice.
Save their sessions when they go home and turn off the computer.
Turn it back on remotely, 15 minutes before they show up for work in the morning.
When they get to work they don't even know that their computer has been off the entire time they have been gone.
Any excuses are just lame.
I guess you don't know about the 'Save this session' option.
That doesn't save much power. Drives and fans are still spinning. Peripherals are still powered.
I have an AMD machine with a watt meter on the UPS. Very little power is saved when the processor powers down.
There is no substitute for turning off the computer.