Cute but DB2 is a very powerful and stable database capable of handling the largest databases. Yes, it's still second to Oracle but it's a damn good product (especially when you consider the price).
The thing to keep in mind is not what your DB needs are now, but what they will be 2 - 5 years from now. Will SQL Server still be your best choice? Moving from one database to another can be very painful and extremely expensive.
And of course, there's always the "nobody gets fired for picking Oracle" argument.:)
"The whole ipod is killing this generation's hearing hysteria lately has been bugging me though. Loud music and earbuds were around long before the ipod..."
That's true but the iPod ships with in-ear style earbuds which have were recently found to be more dangerous than over-the-ear style headphones.
The only reason any of this is an issue is simply that people have no idea when they move into the dangerous volume territory. There's not even a simple answer to that since safe valumes vary depending on the duration that they are listened to. So, a given volume of say 94db may be safe but only for one hour at a time, etc.
"If you disregard ethics, you disregard a great deal of what makes us human."
Actually, the fact that we can disregard ethics (which is entirely a human conceived notion) is in fact what makes us human. Animals and insects are incapable of disregarding ethics since ethics don't apply to them. Like us, they can only be what they are.
I actually own a karma, so fuck off. My hand never "rattles". Are you a fucking skeleton? They designed for people with muscles and skin. And scrolling with the wheel never made the screen hard to read. If you're not a skeleton, I can only assume that either a) you've never actually used a karma, or b) you're just an idiot and don't know what you're doing. Of course, a AND b is another valid option.
Careful...don't ever say anything good about the Karma. Some iPod user (who of course use to use a karma) will come out and say how the harddrive in the player didn't work right and they almost always say how it took at least 2 replacements before it was resolved. Oh, and the little red knob would fall off.
Oh, and how dare you say the karma wheel interface was better! Blasphemy! Frankly, I'm stunned you haven't been properly chastised yet. Lord knows it happens to me whenever I make the mistake of bringing it up.
I've never had to smack my Karma to make it work. I won't say this didn't happen to some people but iPods are not immune to failures either (look at the support forums). As for lookups...stfu and time the difference of a lookup on a large library. Sorry but the Karma is faster. I've timed it using my karma and my friend's iPod. As for the wheel...umm, you can pretty much go through the entire alphabet with one full scroll -- no resetting of the thumb. As for the nub...not sure why it's there really since it isn't necessary. In any event, I haven't found it to be "fragile".
The interfaces is far more efficient than the iPod (time song lookups for a given album on both devices and the karma kicks the iPods ass), so I don't know how you can classify it as mediocre or terrible (less sexy, sure). As for the harddrive, I've heard about this problem but my Karma has worked perfectly from day 1. My understanding is that the harddrive problem was limited to the early runs of the device. Either way, that's not a Karma flaw that's the HD manufacturer's fuck-up.
"A neutral example may be with automatic versus manual transmissions."
I prefer manual transmissions as well. A couple of years ago I aquired a fairly large dog, so I had to dump my car and get an SUV so I could fit a rather large crate in it. Unfortunately it's near impossible to get an SUV with a manual transmission (in this country) because they apparently don't sell. My Pathfinder is very nice but it's still an automatic. I've considered moving to Europe just to avoid this kind of retardedness but I'm sure they would have their own "issues" that I would find just as annoying.
What you say is more or less true. However, I don't care if anyone "beats" Apple. I just want an updated verison of the Rio Karma which still beats Apple for battery life, interface efficiency (yes, I know you find that hard to believe but it's true), sound quality, and OGG and FLAC support. Unfortunately, the success of the iPod has killed pretty much all the competition so my modest needs will never be met. I was pretty happy about the success of the iPod initially. Competition is a good thing. Unfortunately all the iPod did was kill it entirely. For me, the iPod = the destruction of my ability to enjoy digital music. If Apple would ever support OGG and FLAC it would ease my pain at least but this will never happen.
I only hope that this same scenario doesn't repeat itself with the PC. If you think Microsoft was a tightassed and cruel master, you haven't seen anything yet...
Actually, it is believed that Merck knew about the death problem and ignored it. I don't know if it's true or not but the drug companies are evil so it wouldn't surprise me. Also, the real reason drugs cost so much is that drug companies spend over 60% of their income on marketing (which includes those little doctor boondoggles) and lobbying. Drugs should require very little marketing. I don't need to see the shit on t.v. since I can't just go get it from the drugstore.
My comment about Access is admittedly a bit of a stretch but everything else is spot on. It's a toy. Not there's anything wrong with toys just so long as the Rails fanatics are willing to admit it (which of course they aren't). I'm guessing most of them don't even understand what I was talking about in my original post.
Cool, and how well does Active Record's cache work in a clustered environment? Oh, nevermind...AR doesn't support database caching and lets not even get started on clusters. N+1 got you down? lol...sorry but this crap is so amatuer hour I don't know where to start. I can't wait for Rails enthusiasts to get their heads out of their asses. Have fun with your new toy!
Seriously, this tool existed a long time ago...it's called Microsoft Access. Access is better though. You can do drag and drop for your screens.
Given the huge numbers of people that buy gold in WoW, you have to either have TONS of time on your hands or buy it yourself to compete. Also, if you're not in one of the large raiding guilds that can take down the bosses in places like MC you have no choice but to get the best crap you can get from the AH (or waste an unbelievable number of hours in BGs) and that gets expensive fast. The design of the game makes this an easy choice imo: buy gold. Better yet: don't bother playing WoW at all. The game gets pretty lame fast.
Clearly you have poor reading comprehension. The point of my post is to show (in response of the previous poster) how the Repubs use word games to twist the truth. There's no such thing as a "death tax". It's called estate taxes. They've existed since time immemorial. They used the word "death" to make it sound really bad so that people would support it. After all, it's so mean to tax the dead! rofl We wouldn't want poor Biff to only get 30 million in inheritance when he can get 40 million. Imagine his suffering!
There is NO SUCH THING AS PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION. It's a made up phrase. Look it up goober.
Finally, I'm not a democrat so feel free to insult them all you like. I don't give a shit because I don't like them anymore than I like braindead and brainwashed replublicans (such as yourself).
There are no superpowers. We barely have enough military to deal with Iraq. Sure we can nuke the shit out of everything but that fucks us too. Economically we're still pretty strong but that's weakening as we go on. Asia is rising. It will be there time (again) in the sun soon. However, if we can pull off this shark thing and especially if we can get lasers on their freakin' heads, then we will still be a superpower afterall.
Of course, it makes me wonder if Bush is actually Dr. Evil but that's for another discussion...
Actually there's little reason to believe that their use of.com and.net would have any impact whatsoever since they will be using chinese characters. What does.com look like in chinese?
Pretty much everyone in corporation-land is greedy. The difference is in how many people they are willing to fuck over to get their hands on more money. Google, so far anyway, seems to be willing to earn its millions in a less dickish fashion than most other corporations. Of course, this means they are earning less than they could. It will be interesting to see if they keep that attitude.
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Cute but DB2 is a very powerful and stable database capable of handling the largest databases. Yes, it's still second to Oracle but it's a damn good product (especially when you consider the price).
The thing to keep in mind is not what your DB needs are now, but what they will be 2 - 5 years from now. Will SQL Server still be your best choice? Moving from one database to another can be very painful and extremely expensive.
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And of course, there's always the "nobody gets fired for picking Oracle" argument.
"The whole ipod is killing this generation's hearing hysteria lately has been bugging me though. Loud music and earbuds were around long before the ipod..."
That's true but the iPod ships with in-ear style earbuds which have were recently found to be more dangerous than over-the-ear style headphones.
The only reason any of this is an issue is simply that people have no idea when they move into the dangerous volume territory. There's not even a simple answer to that since safe valumes vary depending on the duration that they are listened to. So, a given volume of say 94db may be safe but only for one hour at a time, etc.
"If you disregard ethics, you disregard a great deal of what makes us human."
Actually, the fact that we can disregard ethics (which is entirely a human conceived notion) is in fact what makes us human. Animals and insects are incapable of disregarding ethics since ethics don't apply to them. Like us, they can only be what they are.
I actually own a karma, so fuck off. My hand never "rattles". Are you a fucking skeleton? They designed for people with muscles and skin. And scrolling with the wheel never made the screen hard to read. If you're not a skeleton, I can only assume that either a) you've never actually used a karma, or b) you're just an idiot and don't know what you're doing. Of course, a AND b is another valid option.
Careful...don't ever say anything good about the Karma. Some iPod user (who of course use to use a karma) will come out and say how the harddrive in the player didn't work right and they almost always say how it took at least 2 replacements before it was resolved. Oh, and the little red knob would fall off.
Oh, and how dare you say the karma wheel interface was better! Blasphemy! Frankly, I'm stunned you haven't been properly chastised yet. Lord knows it happens to me whenever I make the mistake of bringing it up.
I've never had to smack my Karma to make it work. I won't say this didn't happen to some people but iPods are not immune to failures either (look at the support forums). As for lookups...stfu and time the difference of a lookup on a large library. Sorry but the Karma is faster. I've timed it using my karma and my friend's iPod. As for the wheel...umm, you can pretty much go through the entire alphabet with one full scroll -- no resetting of the thumb. As for the nub...not sure why it's there really since it isn't necessary. In any event, I haven't found it to be "fragile".
The interfaces is far more efficient than the iPod (time song lookups for a given album on both devices and the karma kicks the iPods ass), so I don't know how you can classify it as mediocre or terrible (less sexy, sure). As for the harddrive, I've heard about this problem but my Karma has worked perfectly from day 1. My understanding is that the harddrive problem was limited to the early runs of the device. Either way, that's not a Karma flaw that's the HD manufacturer's fuck-up.
"A neutral example may be with automatic versus manual transmissions."
I prefer manual transmissions as well. A couple of years ago I aquired a fairly large dog, so I had to dump my car and get an SUV so I could fit a rather large crate in it. Unfortunately it's near impossible to get an SUV with a manual transmission (in this country) because they apparently don't sell. My Pathfinder is very nice but it's still an automatic. I've considered moving to Europe just to avoid this kind of retardedness but I'm sure they would have their own "issues" that I would find just as annoying.
Let me put it this way...they spend three times as much on marketing as they do R&D.
What you say is more or less true. However, I don't care if anyone "beats" Apple. I just want an updated verison of the Rio Karma which still beats Apple for battery life, interface efficiency (yes, I know you find that hard to believe but it's true), sound quality, and OGG and FLAC support. Unfortunately, the success of the iPod has killed pretty much all the competition so my modest needs will never be met. I was pretty happy about the success of the iPod initially. Competition is a good thing. Unfortunately all the iPod did was kill it entirely. For me, the iPod = the destruction of my ability to enjoy digital music. If Apple would ever support OGG and FLAC it would ease my pain at least but this will never happen.
I only hope that this same scenario doesn't repeat itself with the PC. If you think Microsoft was a tightassed and cruel master, you haven't seen anything yet...
Actually, it is believed that Merck knew about the death problem and ignored it. I don't know if it's true or not but the drug companies are evil so it wouldn't surprise me. Also, the real reason drugs cost so much is that drug companies spend over 60% of their income on marketing (which includes those little doctor boondoggles) and lobbying. Drugs should require very little marketing. I don't need to see the shit on t.v. since I can't just go get it from the drugstore.
My comment about Access is admittedly a bit of a stretch but everything else is spot on. It's a toy. Not there's anything wrong with toys just so long as the Rails fanatics are willing to admit it (which of course they aren't). I'm guessing most of them don't even understand what I was talking about in my original post.
Cool, and how well does Active Record's cache work in a clustered environment? Oh, nevermind...AR doesn't support database caching and lets not even get started on clusters. N+1 got you down? lol...sorry but this crap is so amatuer hour I don't know where to start. I can't wait for Rails enthusiasts to get their heads out of their asses. Have fun with your new toy!
Seriously, this tool existed a long time ago...it's called Microsoft Access. Access is better though. You can do drag and drop for your screens.
Given the huge numbers of people that buy gold in WoW, you have to either have TONS of time on your hands or buy it yourself to compete. Also, if you're not in one of the large raiding guilds that can take down the bosses in places like MC you have no choice but to get the best crap you can get from the AH (or waste an unbelievable number of hours in BGs) and that gets expensive fast. The design of the game makes this an easy choice imo: buy gold. Better yet: don't bother playing WoW at all. The game gets pretty lame fast.
"... but don't expect to go into CS and come out from any school other than an MIT or CMU and fetch high 70s."
Apparently you've never met anyone who came out of Caltech.
He can but he won't because he's in bed with these people.
Also, because the congress is dominated by republicans, he won't ever see any bills he won't sign. So he never vetos anything.
Clearly you have poor reading comprehension. The point of my post is to show (in response of the previous poster) how the Repubs use word games to twist the truth. There's no such thing as a "death tax". It's called estate taxes. They've existed since time immemorial. They used the word "death" to make it sound really bad so that people would support it. After all, it's so mean to tax the dead! rofl We wouldn't want poor Biff to only get 30 million in inheritance when he can get 40 million. Imagine his suffering!
There is NO SUCH THING AS PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION. It's a made up phrase. Look it up goober.
Finally, I'm not a democrat so feel free to insult them all you like. I don't give a shit because I don't like them anymore than I like braindead and brainwashed replublicans (such as yourself).
There are no superpowers. We barely have enough military to deal with Iraq. Sure we can nuke the shit out of everything but that fucks us too. Economically we're still pretty strong but that's weakening as we go on. Asia is rising. It will be there time (again) in the sun soon. However, if we can pull off this shark thing and especially if we can get lasers on their freakin' heads, then we will still be a superpower afterall.
Of course, it makes me wonder if Bush is actually Dr. Evil but that's for another discussion...
Actually there's little reason to believe that their use of .com and .net would have any impact whatsoever since they will be using chinese characters. What does .com look like in chinese?
Nice work on the "truth" pal. Now explain the following Republican creations: "Death Tax" and "Partial Birth Abortion".
k,thx,bye.
You must be kidding. Please explain to me how those to pages show java as being more complex.
As I understand it, FireFly is perma-dead. The movie didn't make enough money so they are just gonna let it go.
Pretty much everyone in corporation-land is greedy. The difference is in how many people they are willing to fuck over to get their hands on more money. Google, so far anyway, seems to be willing to earn its millions in a less dickish fashion than most other corporations. Of course, this means they are earning less than they could. It will be interesting to see if they keep that attitude.
That wouldn't work in the U.S. since we tax items only after the total purchase has been computed, not individually like you do with VAT taxes.