If you are a developer and don't understand basic database concepts, do everyone a favor and stop being a developer because you are not qualified for the job.
Or as I like to say: Those who cannot learn set theory are doomed to run slow reports.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned but it seems to me that confirming that a substance is not toxic and predicting how toxic it may be are two very different things.
No, you're not old-fashioned, because the old-fashioned people were well aware of the phrase: "The poison is in the dose.":)
A bit off topic, but I'm reminded of this old joke:
Two mathematicians were having dinner in a restaurant, arguing about the average mathematical knowledge of the American public. One mathematician claimed that this average was woefully inadequate, the other maintained that it was surprisingly high. "I'll tell you what," said the cynic, "ask that waitress a simple math question. If she gets it right, I'll pick up dinner. If not, you do". He then excused himself to visit the men's room, and the other called the waitress over. "When my friend comes back," he told her, "I'm going to ask you a question, and I want you to respond 'one third x cubed.' There's twenty bucks in it for you." She agreed. The cynic returned from the bathroom and called the waitress over. "The food was wonderful, thank you," the mathematician started. "Incidentally, do you know what the integral of x squared is?" The waitress looked pensive; almost pained. She stared at the ceiling for a bit and finally said, "Um, one third x cubed?" So the cynic paid the check. The waitress wheeled around, walked a few paces away, looked back at the two men, and muttered sarcastically, "...plus a constant."
But the moment you go to medium/large format films and cameras, film can give you something that would probably cost the same as a small car if you tried to find a matching digital camera.
About 5 years ago I did a close comparison of Fujichrome Provia 100f in a Pentax 67 (medium format film, "crop factor" = 0.5) with a Panasonic Lumix GH2 (micro four-thirds sensor, "crop factor" = 2), and found the results to be remarkably similar. Particularly regarding resolution. This was an outdoors environmental portrait shoot with nothing too challenging in dynamic range (which is even more of a challenge for slide film than for digital). That was the point at which I stopped arguing in favour of film with anyone. I still put a few rolls of slide film through my Pentax 67 every year, but I admit to myself that it's for the nostalgia and the challenge challenge, and to keep the old skills alive, not a quest for superior quality.
Increasingly I am seeing this apparently made-up (via back-formation) word "coronated". What's wrong with the proper English word for this action, which is "crowned"? During a coronation ceremony, the new regent is crowned.
... where your password is stored as plaintext in an ACCESS DATABASE!
Where did you get that impression from? The login information is stored in a file named config.xml and is certainly not plaintext. You can check it out for yourself.
If you're interested in stories like this, I recommend the TV series "The Bletchley Circle". Four ex-codebreaking women reunite in 1952 to uncover a serial killer, using the same skills they used to break encrypted messages during the war. They rediscover a lost sense of purpose and struggle to obey the Official Secrets act within their family relationships. (For those who don't know, the UK's Official Secrets act is pretty strong stuff.)
Really? You can draw on your laptop with a digitizer? What kind of laptop is it?
Dell Inspiron mini 1012 running Xubuntu, with a Wacom Bamboo Pen digitizer plugged into a USB port.
So what's the actual workflow then when people in your office leave their desks to go to a meeting? Undock the Dell and close it, unplug the Bamboo from the dock and carry them and the stylus to the meeting, open the Dell and plug in the Bamboo? Or undock the Dell with the Bamboo plugged into its USB port and carry them both to the meeting while tethered... either one sounds awkward. I'll keep my Surface, thanks, which as an added bonus comes with a handy place to carry my stylus. Or maybe you're talking about a different use case than this subthread is. I'm undocking at least 4 or 5 times a day, typically.
I'm having trouble understanding what the point of this product is. What useful niche does it fill?
In a fully managed enterprise environment, using OneNote to take handwritten notes in meetings - including creating quick To-Dos to send to Outlook, using handwriting to mark up Excel, Word, or PowerPoint files stored on a collaboration server so everyone's changes are synchronized, then go back to your desk and dock it so you have a full keyboard, mouse, external monitors (I have two), auto-switch from corporate WiFi to corporate LAN without losing mapped drives. In the enterprise space its competition is likely a Lenovo Helix model, not a Miix. For home users, it's probably overkill, unless maybe you do a lot of docking-and-undocking at home, but that's likely a niche market.
But if your company, like mine, allows a certain degree of personal use of the corporate device and allows you to take it home evenings and weekends, it's a lot lighter to carry and more fun to use than a traditional laptop. It's my laptop at work and my tablet at home (and yes, I know how to encrypt and back up my personal data in case my job suddenly disappears, and I still have a home PC as a second unit). It's the most satisfying and seamless personal computing experience I've ever had, and I've been in the business since the 1980's. This feels like the computer I've been waiting for all my life.
A couple of years ago I picked up a Pentax 67 with the personal commitment to put a few rolls of 120 through it every year. You can get great lenses for stupidly cheap prices if you keep an eye on that auction site. Provia for landscape/nature work - there's nothing like a big, brilliant transparency.
This will happen in Jan. 2038 anyway, for many devices, because of the Year 2038 Problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem. Anything keeping time using a signed, 32 bit integer that uses the Unix epoch of 1970-01-01 will be affected. I hope someone fixes that problem for pacemakers by the 2030's, just in case I need one.
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Or as I like to say: Those who cannot learn set theory are doomed to run slow reports.
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Who do you think is the reading audience here, that they would be so badly thrown off by using km? I think /. readers are smarter than that.
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How did they get that way? Discipline and practice; practice and discipline, more practice, more discipline.
Too often, Agile as applied to software development seems to mean the opposite of discipline, and I'm not sure where practice fits in.
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No, you're not old-fashioned, because the old-fashioned people were well aware of the phrase: "The poison is in the dose." :)
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So...Windows shouldn't be used by small or medium-sized business without IT workstation teams then?
You contract that stuff out to a local computer company. Doesn't have to be in-house.
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But the moment you go to medium/large format films and cameras, film can give you something that would probably cost the same as a small car if you tried to find a matching digital camera.
About 5 years ago I did a close comparison of Fujichrome Provia 100f in a Pentax 67 (medium format film, "crop factor" = 0.5) with a Panasonic Lumix GH2 (micro four-thirds sensor, "crop factor" = 2), and found the results to be remarkably similar. Particularly regarding resolution. This was an outdoors environmental portrait shoot with nothing too challenging in dynamic range (which is even more of a challenge for slide film than for digital). That was the point at which I stopped arguing in favour of film with anyone. I still put a few rolls of slide film through my Pentax 67 every year, but I admit to myself that it's for the nostalgia and the challenge challenge, and to keep the old skills alive, not a quest for superior quality.
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Increasingly I am seeing this apparently made-up (via back-formation) word "coronated". What's wrong with the proper English word for this action, which is "crowned"? During a coronation ceremony, the new regent is crowned.
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I don't think you understand the business model. These are not "script kiddies" (they don't exist any more). This is organized crime.
I was only 50th percentile.... I hated school. After the first 5 minutes of any given lecture, I could have taught the damn course.
This does not compute. Your professors didn't get where they were by being 50th percentile as undergrads.
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Where did you get that impression from? The login information is stored in a file named config.xml and is certainly not plaintext. You can check it out for yourself.
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Really? You can draw on your laptop with a digitizer? What kind of laptop is it?
Dell Inspiron mini 1012 running Xubuntu, with a Wacom Bamboo Pen digitizer plugged into a USB port.
So what's the actual workflow then when people in your office leave their desks to go to a meeting? Undock the Dell and close it, unplug the Bamboo from the dock and carry them and the stylus to the meeting, open the Dell and plug in the Bamboo? Or undock the Dell with the Bamboo plugged into its USB port and carry them both to the meeting while tethered... either one sounds awkward. I'll keep my Surface, thanks, which as an added bonus comes with a handy place to carry my stylus. Or maybe you're talking about a different use case than this subthread is. I'm undocking at least 4 or 5 times a day, typically.
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I'm having trouble understanding what the point of this product is. What useful niche does it fill?
In a fully managed enterprise environment, using OneNote to take handwritten notes in meetings - including creating quick To-Dos to send to Outlook, using handwriting to mark up Excel, Word, or PowerPoint files stored on a collaboration server so everyone's changes are synchronized, then go back to your desk and dock it so you have a full keyboard, mouse, external monitors (I have two), auto-switch from corporate WiFi to corporate LAN without losing mapped drives. In the enterprise space its competition is likely a Lenovo Helix model, not a Miix. For home users, it's probably overkill, unless maybe you do a lot of docking-and-undocking at home, but that's likely a niche market.
But if your company, like mine, allows a certain degree of personal use of the corporate device and allows you to take it home evenings and weekends, it's a lot lighter to carry and more fun to use than a traditional laptop. It's my laptop at work and my tablet at home (and yes, I know how to encrypt and back up my personal data in case my job suddenly disappears, and I still have a home PC as a second unit). It's the most satisfying and seamless personal computing experience I've ever had, and I've been in the business since the 1980's. This feels like the computer I've been waiting for all my life.
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I freaking love 68k assembly.
Agreed. It's the friendliest assembly language I've ever run across.
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Yes, and if you don't understand why, then you haven't gone deep enough into the science yet.
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You beat me to it. I was going to respond, "YOU'RE TOO LATE!!!!!"
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