Re:The main issue with XML is performance
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Effective XML
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How hard is it to call.Serialize and.Deserialize on objects
Ok, are your ints big-edian or little-edian?
How big IS your int, 32 bits, or 64 bits?
Serialising objects is fine if you are xfering between identical systems, but if you want your Windows box to get data from your mainframe, you need something better.
And yes you can bit-bash the data, but you need to build a bit-basher for EVERY different system (and s/w) which communicates.
XML is a general way of moving data around where the creator/parser is standarized.
. If average people want to vote for candidates that look good or say the right things, why should they be prevented from doing so?
So sizzle is better than steak? That is what scares me. If the cover looks good, then the book must be good?
I would prefer that people who vote use a better judgement call that just personality or the latest talking head opinion.
Some notion of the future would help too. My cat eats ALL of her food as soon as she can, not leaving any for later. The bad thing is that some people vote that way....
Tests are quite simply a bad idea. For everyone out there who keeps saying we need to institute some kind of qualifying exam, I'd like to hear some particulars from you.
You seem to think that the test must be oral or written. A means test is not that. It is some qualifying criteria. For instance, to borrow from a bank you need the ability to pay back the loan. The means test for a loan is being able to pay it back.
For voting a means test might be that you need to be a landowner (as mentioned earlier). You cannot cheat here. Either you own land or you do not. If you want to vote, then get out and buy some land! Sell it right after the vote if you want, but hey, you made an effort.
It might be some other criteria.
The point is that to vote, you need to make an effort of some sort.
R. Heinlien, in his book StarShip Troopers, created a society where to be able to vote you must first join the military, thus establishing your willingness to serve the public. So the means test there was public service.
I'm not saying that that is what it should be, it is just an example.
The mainstream picks their candidate based on likability and how attractive they are
Yup.
Otherwise the dear peepull would need to get off the couch and actually THINK!
It is much easier for the public to simply sit in front of the TV watching some talking head, who then tells them who to vote for.
This is known as "democracy".
There really should be a means test for voters. Not monetary, not intellectual, not age, but instead being able to discuss the important issues, or some such criteria.
Then we can have voting based on policy platfroms instead of platform shoes.
Of course, who decides what the criteria are (also known as who watches the watchers)?
how difficult is it for a company to have database for all domainnames they have, and a field "exp_date"? or do they have one and it's accesss based, written in VB?
They probably do.
But the expiry search only looks for today's date....
The real problem is that we have gone beyond the 8.3 file nameing constriction, yet MS comes out with a new extension still based on 8.3
Come on, let's get over it.
MSH -> MSShell
Re:moving towards bloatware or are these important
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C# 2.0 Spec Released
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The best thing to do is to "phase" out the undesired feature by not recommending it, not featuring it prominently in books, shifting features into optional components that must be installed, etc.
Yup. Java does this. It is called "deprecated". For instance parts of the Date class have methods which are deprecated. The method's functionality has been moved to the Calendar class.
It still works, but the compiler gives you a warning.
I use it because it is mandated at work. At home I use Mozilla.
And when it crashes, yes it does not take down Windows (well not always), but it DOES become more unstable for later uses. So the best recourse is to reboot, which has the same effect as a crash.
We hardly ever watch live TV anymore. We tape (well, record) it then watch it when WE want to watch it. If two shows are on at the same time, we record both, then watch at our leisure.
All this jockying for good prime time spots, and competition between stations to try to get me to watch ONLY their channel at a particular time is laughable. Who cares what time it is actually on (except to set the recording)?
I don't care that I don't watch it "as it happens" because, well, I don't care. As for commercials, skip. The pop-up commercials that appear in the middle of a show merely annoy me. They DON'T make me want to watch the show. If anything they make me want to boycott the show.
And the station bugs? Sooner or later someone will write some filter that will get rid of them. The really annoying ones hide text or sub-titles.
Blah, TV executives live in their own little ivory towers.
it must noisy in those IBM programming labs with all that shouting
Yes, but remember the background. Before the PC is was just the mainframe, where there was NO LOWER CASE. IF YOU TYPED IN LOWER CASE, THE EDITOR WOULD CHANGE IT TO UPPER CASE.
There will be no TIE fighters until we have friction in space. To be able to turn like an airplane in an atmosphere you need something to react against.
If you can save money on IT, maybe you can redirect it to health care or education or better unemployment benefits or debt reduction or even (*gasp*) lower taxes.
You just arrived on this planet didn't you....
If any savings ARE realized, then the politicians will vote themselves a raise, because they did a good job in lowering costs.
Too many revisionists around. Each spouting their own political version of history.
It is not too bad here, as there are many people which jump on obvious lies/fallacies. But then you read wrong history on news sites, such as "MicroSoft invented X".
Slashdot Mirror
How hard is it to call .Serialize and .Deserialize on objects
Ok, are your ints big-edian or little-edian?
How big IS your int, 32 bits, or 64 bits?
Serialising objects is fine if you are xfering between identical systems, but if you want your Windows box to get data from your mainframe, you need something better.
And yes you can bit-bash the data, but you need to build a bit-basher for EVERY different system (and s/w) which communicates.
XML is a general way of moving data around where the creator/parser is standarized.
pr0n on my harddrive
No way. I want FRESH pr0n.
Otherwise my hard drive gets all sticky.
Again, I'm seeing a lot of problems with coming up with a good/fair test and not a lot of well-explained motivation for creating one.
One other thing. You seem to have a big problem with imposing a means test.
You realize that one exists already, don't you? It is based on an arbitrary condition that a person has absolutely no control over.
It is called age.
other companies that travel around alot
Where you can get a car through, you cannot always get a truck through. Some of the routings have you go through alleys.
And forget about transport trucks! Driving a seventy-two feet long and 8 foott wide truck through a city takes REAL planning.
. If average people want to vote for candidates that look good or say the right things, why should they be prevented from doing so?
So sizzle is better than steak? That is what scares me. If the cover looks good, then the book must be good?
I would prefer that people who vote use a better judgement call that just personality or the latest talking head opinion.
Some notion of the future would help too. My cat eats ALL of her food as soon as she can, not leaving any for later. The bad thing is that some people vote that way....
Tests are quite simply a bad idea. For everyone out there who keeps saying we need to institute some kind of qualifying exam, I'd like to hear some particulars from you.
You seem to think that the test must be oral or written. A means test is not that. It is some qualifying criteria. For instance, to borrow from a bank you need the ability to pay back the loan. The means test for a loan is being able to pay it back.
For voting a means test might be that you need to be a landowner (as mentioned earlier). You cannot cheat here. Either you own land or you do not. If you want to vote, then get out and buy some land! Sell it right after the vote if you want, but hey, you made an effort.
It might be some other criteria.
The point is that to vote, you need to make an effort of some sort.
R. Heinlien, in his book StarShip Troopers, created a society where to be able to vote you must first join the military, thus establishing your willingness to serve the public. So the means test there was public service.
I'm not saying that that is what it should be, it is just an example.
The mainstream picks their candidate based on likability and how attractive they are
Yup.
Otherwise the dear peepull would need to get off the couch and actually THINK!
It is much easier for the public to simply sit in front of the TV watching some talking head, who then tells them who to vote for.
This is known as "democracy".
There really should be a means test for voters. Not monetary, not intellectual, not age, but instead being able to discuss the important issues, or some such criteria.
Then we can have voting based on policy platfroms instead of platform shoes.
Of course, who decides what the criteria are (also known as who watches the watchers)?
Well, hey, we have a five-way stop here. The normal X, plus one road at a 45 degree angle.
how difficult is it for a company to have database for all domainnames they have, and a field "exp_date"? or do they have one and it's accesss based, written in VB?
They probably do.
But the expiry search only looks for today's date....
As long as it's not a planetarium screen.....
Um, I was referring to the extension, you know, the .3 part? So a script cuold be named:
mywondefulscript.MSShell
The real problem is that we have gone beyond the 8.3 file nameing constriction, yet MS comes out with a new extension still based on 8.3
Come on, let's get over it.
MSH -> MSShell
The best thing to do is to "phase" out the undesired feature by not recommending it, not featuring it prominently in books, shifting features into optional components that must be installed, etc.
Yup. Java does this. It is called "deprecated". For instance parts of the Date class have methods which are deprecated. The method's functionality has been moved to the Calendar class.
It still works, but the compiler gives you a warning.
-- Convoy? Michael you're hanging around with a person who uses a collective term for a single object..
Sort of like multi-media. It SHOULD be multi-medium, or just media, by hey, you cannot argue with brain-dead talking heads....
What about a print-screen/snapshot of the entire email?
Or the ultimate un-stoppable copy device..... a camera.
paying a poultry sum
Sure, I can send in a chicken, but will the Post Office accept it for shipment?
I use it because it is mandated at work. At home I use Mozilla.
And when it crashes, yes it does not take down Windows (well not always), but it DOES become more unstable for later uses. So the best recourse is to reboot, which has the same effect as a crash.
'nuff said...
After crashing IE several times today, including losing the mouse cursor (only when I hover over IE), it is NOT funny, it is true.
We hardly ever watch live TV anymore. We tape (well, record) it then watch it when WE want to watch it. If two shows are on at the same time, we record both, then watch at our leisure.
All this jockying for good prime time spots, and competition between stations to try to get me to watch ONLY their channel at a particular time is laughable. Who cares what time it is actually on (except to set the recording)?
I don't care that I don't watch it "as it happens" because, well, I don't care. As for commercials, skip. The pop-up commercials that appear in the middle of a show merely annoy me. They DON'T make me want to watch the show. If anything they make me want to boycott the show.
And the station bugs? Sooner or later someone will write some filter that will get rid of them. The really annoying ones hide text or sub-titles.
Blah, TV executives live in their own little ivory towers.
Please, by all means, demonstrate this for me. Explain the steps I should take to reproduce this behavior.
1. Install Windows
2.
Well, there is no step 2
{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8- 444553540000}
I think you just told MicroSoft who you are.....
it must noisy in those IBM programming labs with all that shouting
Yes, but remember the background. Before the PC is was just the mainframe, where there was NO LOWER CASE. IF YOU TYPED IN LOWER CASE, THE EDITOR WOULD CHANGE IT TO UPPER CASE.
AHH HELP, THE CAPS LOCK IS STUCK!
Can TIE-fighters be far off?
There will be no TIE fighters until we have friction in space. To be able to turn like an airplane in an atmosphere you need something to react against.
If you can save money on IT, maybe you can redirect it to health care or education or better unemployment benefits or debt reduction or even (*gasp*) lower taxes.
You just arrived on this planet didn't you....
If any savings ARE realized, then the politicians will vote themselves a raise, because they did a good job in lowering costs.
Too many people have no sense of history!
Nope.
Too many revisionists around. Each spouting their own political version of history.
It is not too bad here, as there are many people which jump on obvious lies/fallacies. But then you read wrong history on news sites, such as "MicroSoft invented X".
Oh sorry, that would be "innovated".....