If you're re-installing your OS every 6 months, you're doing something terribly, terribly wrong. Hell, it's easy to have 6 months of uptime with any modern Windows OS.
Similarly, how many bachelor geeks have spent two hours doing dishes on an emergency basis before an important client or, god forbid, a member of the opposite sex is due to arrive.
Now come on... how many bachelor geeks have members of the opposite sex that aren't related by blood come over to their apartment/house? That's not a very realistic sitation. Besides, who uses "dishes" any more? All of the food I eat comes in disposable packaging.
Well, in my experience, it usually goes like this: 1) user installs some Linux distro, 2) user keeps Windows around just in case, 3) user ends up not using Windows anymore at all. Once in a blue moon at -most-.
In my experience it goes like this: 1) User installs some kind of Linux 2) User spends 15 minutes trying to change the resolution, or get sound working, or something else that should be trivial. 3) Users says "fuck this. I don't have time for this shit. This is unuseable". 4) User wipes Linux and boots back into Win 2K.
So then, are you a spy of some kind? A government operative? A patent attorney? What kind of super-secret things do you have in your PDA that somebody would want desparately enough to hack into your phone for? I always have to wonder when average joe-blow geek spouts off about "privacy". Maybe is it a vastly overblown sense of self-importance to think that somebody would want to know when your dentist appointment is, and what your mom is cooking you for dinner?
From what I've heard (here on/. included), quite a few people like O'Reilly's Safari subscription service. There may just not be a good reason to "own" the music if you're not going to be interested in it after a few months, or if you like a *lot* of music, and want to have that variety without paying for it. Personally, when I was in tech, I loved Safari. I'd probably like this new service too, if I had all of these new gadgets and broadband. I'll probably use something like it in a few years when the technologies mature.
I'm missing something here. What's this "store" thing of which you speak, and while I'm at it, why does money have to change hands for something as ubiquitous as pr0n?
It just sounds like a more time-consuming and expensive way to solve a problem Al Gore solved 20 years ago by taking the initiative in inventing the Internet.
You get what you pay for. You get better quality if you actually buy porn. And besides, most people still don't have broadband, so how else do you watch video?
That's just destruction. You can do whatever you want to money as long as it's still useable. I always write "For a good time, call (xxx) xxx-xxxx" on all of my money, putting my ex-wife's phone number in there. I just like to think that she gets calls from all kinds of people, all over the world looking for a "good time".
It absolutely is. And why pay people salaries when you can get gullible college kids to work for you for free? I wish that I could get gullible, wealthy college kids to work for my business for free. I'd can my employees, too.
That's asinine. That's like choosing a stereo based on where the rubber to make the wire insulation was harvested. I buy consumer products based on overall quality and value. I couldn't give a shit whether the device is being run by Linux or a box of hamsters.
Well, I think you're partially right... It'll do a full table scan without a where clause, but it'll do an *additional* one to get the column names/types. So doing a "Select * from tablename" would do at least two full table scans. true, adding a where with an indexed column is gonna drop one, but my point is that I'm pretty sure that the "*" automatically adds another pass. I'd have to pull up query analyzer to be sure, and I don't have that sitting in front of me right now.
But my point is, and I still stand by it, is that 99% of MySQL "Developers" don't know shit about data, which can make or break so many applications. I'd bet that most of 'em don't even know that with real databases, you can write complete apps that run at the command line (I have a secret love affair with SQL Plus)
I just gotta say that after all the "Why Buffy" whining yesterday, that as a geek, I can't fucking stand anime. Everything I've seen has been overly childish and effeminate. Yes, I'm gonna turn off the "anime" section, but I figured that it was only fair that I throw my $0.02 in. Anime sucks. It's designed for little Japanese girls, not grown men.
I'd like to see you make a perfect insane stunt with that one!:-)
Screw a perfect insane stunt. I want to shoot people on Segways, run them down with a car or garbage truck, or just knock 'em off and beat them to death.
A. I was being sarcastic. I've been a database developer for years.
B. You're wrong. That's not why you don't do "Select *". You don't do it because "select *" requires an extra full-table scan. Again, something that no MySQL developer that I've ever spoken to has any clue about.
Also, can one use Perl or PHP to link up to a non-SQL database such as Oracle?
Please. Get a book. Oracle was a "SQL" database as you say about 20 years before MySQL ever existed. MySQL isn't even a "real" database, in the technical meaning of the word.
As usual, this books is lacking on real database information because let's face it... 99% of MySQL users wouldn't know a database form a spreadsheet, and it shows. No triggers... no subselects, still?? Hell, if you don't really need a database, then there's nothing wrong with using an OLEDB connector to a CSV file.
Hehehe. Sorry to hear that. Just remember that you can't call (hell, even *think* of) clients & customers of idiots these days. They'll replace ya' in a heartbeat with someone who's more than happy to work with those 'idiots'.
According to George Costanza, the best way to fake it is to look and act annoyed. And, quite honestly, it works. Just sigh a lot and run your hands trough your hair (or lack thereof). People always think that you're working hard if you're annoyed.
The definition of competition, legally speaking, is that a producer has to consider the price of other producer's offerings when setting his own.
So then, a brilliantly-run comapny like MS doesn't consider price when they release a product? They jsut pick a random number out of a hat? That's why they'd set theirs to zero in some cases... to undercut the competition.
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Doesn't anybody still teach kids these days GIGO?
If you're re-installing your OS every 6 months, you're doing something terribly, terribly wrong. Hell, it's easy to have 6 months of uptime with any modern Windows OS.
Obviously you're not an author. I didn't understand a single sentence of your post.
Similarly, how many bachelor geeks have spent two hours doing dishes on an emergency basis before an important client or, god forbid, a member of the opposite sex is due to arrive.
Now come on... how many bachelor geeks have members of the opposite sex that aren't related by blood come over to their apartment/house? That's not a very realistic sitation. Besides, who uses "dishes" any more? All of the food I eat comes in disposable packaging.
I can use the metaphor of an open house, "why lock your home, what do you have that is valuable?".
That'd be a useful metaphor if I *did* lock my house. I don't. I don't have anything valuable in there.
Well, in my experience, it usually goes like this: 1) user installs some Linux distro, 2) user keeps Windows around just in case, 3) user ends up not using Windows anymore at all. Once in a blue moon at -most-.
In my experience it goes like this: 1) User installs some kind of Linux 2) User spends 15 minutes trying to change the resolution, or get sound working, or something else that should be trivial. 3) Users says "fuck this. I don't have time for this shit. This is unuseable". 4) User wipes Linux and boots back into Win 2K.
So then, are you a spy of some kind? A government operative? A patent attorney? What kind of super-secret things do you have in your PDA that somebody would want desparately enough to hack into your phone for? I always have to wonder when average joe-blow geek spouts off about "privacy". Maybe is it a vastly overblown sense of self-importance to think that somebody would want to know when your dentist appointment is, and what your mom is cooking you for dinner?
From what I've heard (here on /. included), quite a few people like O'Reilly's Safari subscription service. There may just not be a good reason to "own" the music if you're not going to be interested in it after a few months, or if you like a *lot* of music, and want to have that variety without paying for it. Personally, when I was in tech, I loved Safari. I'd probably like this new service too, if I had all of these new gadgets and broadband. I'll probably use something like it in a few years when the technologies mature.
I'm missing something here. What's this "store" thing of which you speak, and while I'm at it, why does money have to change hands for something as ubiquitous as pr0n?
It just sounds like a more time-consuming and expensive way to solve a problem Al Gore solved 20 years ago by taking the initiative in inventing the Internet.
You get what you pay for. You get better quality if you actually buy porn. And besides, most people still don't have broadband, so how else do you watch video?
That's just destruction. You can do whatever you want to money as long as it's still useable. I always write "For a good time, call (xxx) xxx-xxxx" on all of my money, putting my ex-wife's phone number in there. I just like to think that she gets calls from all kinds of people, all over the world looking for a "good time".
It absolutely is. And why pay people salaries when you can get gullible college kids to work for you for free? I wish that I could get gullible, wealthy college kids to work for my business for free. I'd can my employees, too.
That's asinine. That's like choosing a stereo based on where the rubber to make the wire insulation was harvested. I buy consumer products based on overall quality and value. I couldn't give a shit whether the device is being run by Linux or a box of hamsters.
Well, I think you're partially right... It'll do a full table scan without a where clause, but it'll do an *additional* one to get the column names/types. So doing a "Select * from tablename" would do at least two full table scans. true, adding a where with an indexed column is gonna drop one, but my point is that I'm pretty sure that the "*" automatically adds another pass. I'd have to pull up query analyzer to be sure, and I don't have that sitting in front of me right now.
But my point is, and I still stand by it, is that 99% of MySQL "Developers" don't know shit about data, which can make or break so many applications. I'd bet that most of 'em don't even know that with real databases, you can write complete apps that run at the command line (I have a secret love affair with SQL Plus)
I just gotta say that after all the "Why Buffy" whining yesterday, that as a geek, I can't fucking stand anime. Everything I've seen has been overly childish and effeminate. Yes, I'm gonna turn off the "anime" section, but I figured that it was only fair that I throw my $0.02 in. Anime sucks. It's designed for little Japanese girls, not grown men.
I'd like to see you make a perfect insane stunt with that one! :-)
Screw a perfect insane stunt. I want to shoot people on Segways, run them down with a car or garbage truck, or just knock 'em off and beat them to death.
And people don't need Oracle databases. Most of the free SQL flavors work just fine, thank you.
Give me PostgreSQL or MySQL any day over Oracle crap
Let me guess... you're 18 and haven't had your "introduction to Relation Databases" class yet, right? Kid, go away, you're bothering me.
A. I was being sarcastic. I've been a database developer for years.
B. You're wrong. That's not why you don't do "Select *". You don't do it because "select *" requires an extra full-table scan. Again, something that no MySQL developer that I've ever spoken to has any clue about.
Also, can one use Perl or PHP to link up to a non-SQL database such as Oracle?
Please. Get a book. Oracle was a "SQL" database as you say about 20 years before MySQL ever existed. MySQL isn't even a "real" database, in the technical meaning of the word.
select * from tablename
As usual, this books is lacking on real database information because let's face it... 99% of MySQL users wouldn't know a database form a spreadsheet, and it shows. No triggers... no subselects, still?? Hell, if you don't really need a database, then there's nothing wrong with using an OLEDB connector to a CSV file.
so do you think that all bicycles should be off the road? they can't keep up with traffic either.
Absolutely. Bikes on roads cause accidents, and even their riders are pretty darn likely to be killed.
Hehehe. Sorry to hear that. Just remember that you can't call (hell, even *think* of) clients & customers of idiots these days. They'll replace ya' in a heartbeat with someone who's more than happy to work with those 'idiots'.
and idiots are still sending them MS-only files.
They're not "idiots". They're customers. And let me guess, you're unemployed, aren't you?
According to George Costanza, the best way to fake it is to look and act annoyed. And, quite honestly, it works. Just sigh a lot and run your hands trough your hair (or lack thereof). People always think that you're working hard if you're annoyed.
The definition of competition, legally speaking, is that a producer has to consider the price of other producer's offerings when setting his own.
So then, a brilliantly-run comapny like MS doesn't consider price when they release a product? They jsut pick a random number out of a hat? That's why they'd set theirs to zero in some cases... to undercut the competition.
So you teach these people programming so they can do what, exactly...?