box as a target. This Integration guy I was working with told me a story of how it must have been a challenge for UPS because they would destroy anything. His company would ship a server, clearly marked and all and the box would be destroyed (thank god for insurance). Well they built a wooden crate that they would use, the very first time it was shipped it was destroyed. So they built another one covering the corners with steel. Same result. They ended up building a steel case with foam padding. Apparently UPS just couldn't destroy that one.
has gotten us all to believe that petroleum is safer then Hydrogen. Enough studies have been done to date that show hydrogen is much safer. The best quote was that if the fuel we used was initially hydrogen based, the arguement of what is safer would be flipped, but would be defended even more vehemently. Hydrogen is safer, it doesn't sit around and burn, you get a quick burn and it is gone, plus you need to have the right conditions for that to happen. With jet fuel, it doesn't seem possible to rupture a fuel cell without a fire.
I may be wrong in that there may be 1 or 2, but all airlines have been losing money for the longest time. There ARE no profitable routes. The government is continually giving the airlines money.
start--> run --> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/h andbook/install.html
Read, download, install. 1 simple patch.
At least where I work, it has been a complete joke recently, losing 1 or more days each time a new virus comes out because our sysadmin can lock the system down enough to not give any of us any sort of admin rights on our computers but not enough to stop the spread of all these virii. The fact that we don't have a good NA compounds the issue of MS products being rushed and barely usable at best. MS has written some good applications, but they have not QA'd them enough to release them. Maybe they will start looking into their release process.
Hate to dissappoint, but the whole RISC/CISC arguement is pretty much dead as PPC and Sun's Ultra are no longer RISC and haven't been anywhere near RISC for a while. Everyone in the home PC arena is working with CISC processors (if you want to even consider Sun Ultra Sparcs as home pcs). They can also compete as much as they want MHz for MHz but I doubt it will make any difference in terms of someone buying a G5 vs a P4. It is all about the software at this point unless you are a *nix person, but there are still limits in terms of NetBSD vs. FreeBSD etc... Plus, I would like to see a comparison of frame rates for Q3 or benchmarks for Office rather than the tired old photoshop benchmarks. The G4 is definitely fast, but Jobs is playing games with the MHz myth stuff and then looking at Photoshop. I want to see how it compares to a 1.4 GHz Athlon in compilation tests for some nasty c++ program (as kernel compilation probably won't be too good a benchmark with the different Linux/BSD OS's available).
You both have to be kidding, not using stored procedures is a really bad idea. Although you have PL/SQL and T-SQL and whatever other SQL's there may be, it is easy enough to write sql statements that can be used in both Oracle and SQL Server. In terms of them being an out of date thing, PUT THE CRACK PIPE DOWN!!!. They are faster than embeded sql. They are VERY useful in terms of code re-use. I don't think I can think of any problems with them other than maybe missing functionality like recursion but then that is a problem with SQL.
Stored procedures are MUCH faster than passing SQL strings into the db to be run. An execution plan has already been computed and the sql has been in essence, compiled. The weird thing is, building a dynamic sql string inside a stored procedure and executing it is even faster than passing sql in both MS SQL Server AND Oracle. I have no idea why that is true, but in testing it, it has been faster. It is also nicer design wise in that if you use the same sql statement in 30 different places and then you decide the calculation for one of the values is wrong, in a stored procedure, you change it once, with embedded sql, you have to change it 30 times (code re-use)
Actually, this is very useful. If you want to do say 6000 inserts using a comma delimited string or something along those lines, to open a connection and call a specific stored procedure is EXTREMELY slow compared to parsing the string internal to the stored procedure (recent test I did when designing some software showed an insert called 6000x took 16 seconds compared to 1.5 seconds parsing the string in the db). Now when you use a language like java or perl to do that internal to the db, it will drop that time even more as SQL design wise has string manipulation features but isn't meant to be doing it. I would much rather have a Java parser that I call inside my sp and have it take half a second versus 1.5 seconds to have PL/SQL parse my strings. If you actually did any development involving database interaction, this would be pretty obvious.
If they are making this much profit, other companies will come in and do the same as long as it is still profitable. The problem is, this money feeds right back into the company (maybe not all of it, but a good portion of it) to continue research. If you also looked around, revenue is expected to decline for the next year+. It sounds good to do something to save lives and people will be dancing in the streets about what a great move this is, but the fact is, if one country gets away with this, others will follow. In the end, their won't be any money in Pharmaceuticals and R&D will stop and more people will die. There are trade offs and this is not a good one. Human nature says that for the majority of people, "If I don't get something out of doing x, why would I do x?".
Good for Brazil, they have staged a great coup, unfortunately, they invalidate all patents and bend the world over to take it up the ass. I can now go steal the information on how to build a cleaner burning engine from Honda and build a cheaper car using their technology without paying any patents because I am saving lives by lowering pollution and decreasing carcinogens in the atmosphere.
I was lucky enough to have Verizon purchase information on me. I received an email from them with one of their files (and I have never purchased or inquired about any service from them). First they give away people's SSN's, Birthdates and CC#'s, now they are spreading virus'. Maybe there should be a new rule, if you are dumb enough to spread a virus, you should be shot dead. Perfect Darwinian solution:)
can you really do this:
java =.NET;
I don't think there is any current type cast for this. Maybe in.NET 2.0
does java ==.NET though? Probably not, now there is one conversion you may have missed:
if (c# ==.NET)
cout << "Duh...";
else
cerr << "core dump...equality test error.";
Ummm...didn't NASA just write something a month ago saything that it was actually most likely liquid nitrogen doing what they initially thought water jets where doing.
All this microsoft bashing is kind of funny in that ok, yes there are problems with it, but think about this: What if MacOS was the dominant OS on the market? What if *nix was the dominant OS on the market?
Let's look at Mac, hmmm...no protected memory for a while (from what I have heard, they finally have it in OS 9). Has anyone ever programmed in C or C++ here? Come on, you f*ck up one pointer and the system will most likely crash. It was always pleasant waiting for the mac to boot up for 5 minutes after messing up an array or pointer.
Also, the major reason for problems with windows showing up is that you end up having a bunch of morons using it. You put enough jack asses on a machine and they will find a way to take it down, I don't care what OS.
You people complaining about these features that you don't like, well let's look at your choice of OS's, *nix? Well if you leave yourself logged in, I can easily edit your login file with this line: alias ls 'rm -R *' That seems like a feature that shouldn't be available, but it is. It is because someone was stupid and didn't log out that that might happen, and it is because users are stupid and keep running this attatchment.
Down with Microsoft bashing, up with stupid user bashing. There should be courses that every user has to take before ever using a computer and a minimum IQ neccessary for using them. They have tests so that you can get your drivers license, why not computers:)
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off 1 month later. You are better with a fresh start rather then the possibility of being seen as not loyal.
box as a target. This Integration guy I was working with told me a story of how it must have been a challenge for UPS because they would destroy anything. His company would ship a server, clearly marked and all and the box would be destroyed (thank god for insurance). Well they built a wooden crate that they would use, the very first time it was shipped it was destroyed. So they built another one covering the corners with steel. Same result. They ended up building a steel case with foam padding. Apparently UPS just couldn't destroy that one.
Someone better mirror it quickly...slowing down.
has gotten us all to believe that petroleum is safer then Hydrogen. Enough studies have been done to date that show hydrogen is much safer. The best quote was that if the fuel we used was initially hydrogen based, the arguement of what is safer would be flipped, but would be defended even more vehemently. Hydrogen is safer, it doesn't sit around and burn, you get a quick burn and it is gone, plus you need to have the right conditions for that to happen. With jet fuel, it doesn't seem possible to rupture a fuel cell without a fire.
I may be wrong in that there may be 1 or 2, but all airlines have been losing money for the longest time. There ARE no profitable routes. The government is continually giving the airlines money.
start--> run --> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/h andbook/install.html
Read, download, install. 1 simple patch.
At least where I work, it has been a complete joke recently, losing 1 or more days each time a new virus comes out because our sysadmin can lock the system down enough to not give any of us any sort of admin rights on our computers but not enough to stop the spread of all these virii. The fact that we don't have a good NA compounds the issue of MS products being rushed and barely usable at best. MS has written some good applications, but they have not QA'd them enough to release them. Maybe they will start looking into their release process.
Hate to dissappoint, but the whole RISC/CISC arguement is pretty much dead as PPC and Sun's Ultra are no longer RISC and haven't been anywhere near RISC for a while. Everyone in the home PC arena is working with CISC processors (if you want to even consider Sun Ultra Sparcs as home pcs). They can also compete as much as they want MHz for MHz but I doubt it will make any difference in terms of someone buying a G5 vs a P4. It is all about the software at this point unless you are a *nix person, but there are still limits in terms of NetBSD vs. FreeBSD etc... Plus, I would like to see a comparison of frame rates for Q3 or benchmarks for Office rather than the tired old photoshop benchmarks. The G4 is definitely fast, but Jobs is playing games with the MHz myth stuff and then looking at Photoshop. I want to see how it compares to a 1.4 GHz Athlon in compilation tests for some nasty c++ program (as kernel compilation probably won't be too good a benchmark with the different Linux/BSD OS's available).
You both have to be kidding, not using stored procedures is a really bad idea. Although you have PL/SQL and T-SQL and whatever other SQL's there may be, it is easy enough to write sql statements that can be used in both Oracle and SQL Server. In terms of them being an out of date thing, PUT THE CRACK PIPE DOWN!!!. They are faster than embeded sql. They are VERY useful in terms of code re-use. I don't think I can think of any problems with them other than maybe missing functionality like recursion but then that is a problem with SQL.
Stored procedures are MUCH faster than passing SQL strings into the db to be run. An execution plan has already been computed and the sql has been in essence, compiled. The weird thing is, building a dynamic sql string inside a stored procedure and executing it is even faster than passing sql in both MS SQL Server AND Oracle. I have no idea why that is true, but in testing it, it has been faster. It is also nicer design wise in that if you use the same sql statement in 30 different places and then you decide the calculation for one of the values is wrong, in a stored procedure, you change it once, with embedded sql, you have to change it 30 times (code re-use)
Actually, this is very useful. If you want to do say 6000 inserts using a comma delimited string or something along those lines, to open a connection and call a specific stored procedure is EXTREMELY slow compared to parsing the string internal to the stored procedure (recent test I did when designing some software showed an insert called 6000x took 16 seconds compared to 1.5 seconds parsing the string in the db). Now when you use a language like java or perl to do that internal to the db, it will drop that time even more as SQL design wise has string manipulation features but isn't meant to be doing it. I would much rather have a Java parser that I call inside my sp and have it take half a second versus 1.5 seconds to have PL/SQL parse my strings. If you actually did any development involving database interaction, this would be pretty obvious.
If they are making this much profit, other companies will come in and do the same as long as it is still profitable. The problem is, this money feeds right back into the company (maybe not all of it, but a good portion of it) to continue research. If you also looked around, revenue is expected to decline for the next year+. It sounds good to do something to save lives and people will be dancing in the streets about what a great move this is, but the fact is, if one country gets away with this, others will follow. In the end, their won't be any money in Pharmaceuticals and R&D will stop and more people will die. There are trade offs and this is not a good one. Human nature says that for the majority of people, "If I don't get something out of doing x, why would I do x?".
Good for Brazil, they have staged a great coup, unfortunately, they invalidate all patents and bend the world over to take it up the ass. I can now go steal the information on how to build a cleaner burning engine from Honda and build a cheaper car using their technology without paying any patents because I am saving lives by lowering pollution and decreasing carcinogens in the atmosphere.
I was lucky enough to have Verizon purchase information on me. I received an email from them with one of their files (and I have never purchased or inquired about any service from them). First they give away people's SSN's, Birthdates and CC#'s, now they are spreading virus'. Maybe there should be a new rule, if you are dumb enough to spread a virus, you should be shot dead. Perfect Darwinian solution :)
can you really do this: .NET;
.NET 2.0
.NET though? Probably not, now there is one conversion you may have missed:
.NET)
java =
I don't think there is any current type cast for this. Maybe in
does java ==
if (c# ==
cout << "Duh...";
else
cerr << "core dump...equality test error.";
:p
Ummm...didn't NASA just write something a month ago saything that it was actually most likely liquid nitrogen doing what they initially thought water jets where doing.
All this microsoft bashing is kind of funny in that ok, yes there are problems with it, but think about this:
:)
What if MacOS was the dominant OS on the market?
What if *nix was the dominant OS on the market?
Let's look at Mac, hmmm...no protected memory for a while (from what I have heard, they finally have it in OS 9). Has anyone ever programmed in C or C++ here? Come on, you f*ck up one pointer and the system will most likely crash. It was always pleasant waiting for the mac to boot up for 5 minutes after messing up an array or pointer.
Also, the major reason for problems with windows showing up is that you end up having a bunch of morons using it. You put enough jack asses on a machine and they will find a way to take it down, I don't care what OS.
You people complaining about these features that you don't like, well let's look at your choice of OS's, *nix? Well if you leave yourself logged in, I can easily edit your login file with this line:
alias ls 'rm -R *'
That seems like a feature that shouldn't be available, but it is. It is because someone was stupid and didn't log out that that might happen, and it is because users are stupid and keep running this attatchment.
Down with Microsoft bashing, up with stupid user bashing. There should be courses that every user has to take before ever using a computer and a minimum IQ neccessary for using them. They have tests so that you can get your drivers license, why not computers