Yes Lotus Notes shines for some concepts like document work flows, for example it is possible to create a generic work flow application and add work flow to any other Lotus Notes application with a one line include. Imagine trying to add a generic work flow application to some random SQL database table, it would be a major problem.
However for large databases, speed, data integrity and transactions then Lotus Notes doesn't fair well in comparison.
I would have thought people should have realized by now that Microsoft never sticks with anything and you should never rely your business on anything that is dependent on support from Microsoft . The list is endless: Zune, PlayForSure, Visual J++, DDE, Visual Basic, WinG, Sidewinder, DirectInput e.t.c.
Your best bet is to only use core functions in Windows and some development environment not made by Microsoft.
Maybe the Unity developer should learn about some software engineering concepts like testing, QA and unit testing. Actually testing the product before releasing it to the public, is generally a good idea.
And you can not be held in a US prison indefinitely without an indictment
Of course you can be held indefinitely in a US prison, as long as you define the prison as a "detention camp".
And please don't use Guantanamo as your basis for your BS.
The Guantanamo prison is not bullshit, it is a real US prison that does not obey any US laws.
If he was going to Guantanamo they certainly would not let little things like warrants get in the way. If the US really wanted him they would already have him.
No they know that kidnapping him in a friendly country like UK and Sweden would be frowned upon, so they just wait until they can get him by "legal means".
It is amazing to see that you don't seem to think there is anything wrong with the idea of US kidnapping foreign people without any warrants. Do you really have no issues with your government ignoring human rights and the law?
Except this means that the Sweden authorities will extradite him to the US, and since US holds people in prisons indefinitely without trials he is basically finished.
I think the biggest problem with software patents is that you can patent a fundamental algorithm that is necessary for the function of a software. As an example let's take the mousetrap. If you get a patent on a specific mouse trap it doesn't mean other people can't create different mousetraps. However getting a patent on the idea of a mousetrap means that nobody can build any types of mousetraps. This is basically what a software patent is, it's the patent on the idea itself not the implementation.
This is of course brilliant, but the law itself is totally broken. This law means that a lot of people can avoid having license plates, including criminals.
But of course parking in a handicapped zone is the most douchebag thing to do. Steve Jobs was obviously a total jerk.
It seems USA is becoming more and more a police state with total disregard for human rights and law. People are being tortured and locked up indefinitely with no trial or jury and no one seems to think there is anything wrong with that, including the president or congress.
Ye sure, this is what always happens they promise some new and better stuff, and then they drop half the stuff and the OS is just crap. I wouldn't hold my breath for any of this. It's better to wait for the actual release. This is just hype talk.
Why are people still buying Sony products? I stopped after the rootkit fiasco and haven't bought a Sony product since 2005, and I always recommend not buying Sony products to all my friends and families. It must be so obvious now to anyone that the company is just greedy bastards who make mediocre products and just wants to fuck up it's customers for profit.
The liquid sizes I have never understood. What is there to stop the terrorist to combine their liquids? For example if there are five terrorists like on 9/11? Then you have about half a liter of explosives, so this arbitrary rule basically has no effect
Oh dear. So they are saying that technology that is designed to facility easy communications between people can be used for exactly that purpose but with evil intent. Well of course and what is the problem with that exactly?
Maybe UK should try to consider what the underlying problem is for the riots. Can it be that most of these people are unemployed? Maybe these morons in the UK government should consider that the solution is not to turn the country into a police state but to actually help people with social issues, like jobs, education and health care.
The best solution for strings I have seen is the implementation of "Long String" for Delphi. It has the best of both worlds. It has reference counting with copy on write, it has a 32-bit size length and is also null terminated. Since it also has a null terminator it is very easy to communicate with C code and the Windows API all you do is pass the pointer directly.
VISA and Mastercard already refused Wikileaks so it seems they have no problems refusing businesses when they are pressured from the USA government. They have no problems refusing businesses when they feel like it. Why shouldn't they then refuse to serve obvious fraudulent businesses?
The best solution would be if you could download a bootable CD from Microsoft which could check the checksum online against all valid system files including the hotfixed files and even replace the invalid ones with the correct ones. This would solve many problems with virus infections, rootkits and even a corrupted hard disk.
You can check all OS files against the original install disk. That way you know your OS is not infected. The rest of the user executable files can be checked with a standard virus program for the Rootkit. Problem solved.
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But won't the service provider see then 2 phones with the same IMEI? So they can then just blacklist the new SIM card of the thief.
That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage.
Yes Lotus Notes shines for some concepts like document work flows, for example it is possible to create a generic work flow application and add work flow to any other Lotus Notes application with a one line include. Imagine trying to add a generic work flow application to some random SQL database table, it would be a major problem. However for large databases, speed, data integrity and transactions then Lotus Notes doesn't fair well in comparison.
If I understand NoSQL correctly it looks to me like they just reinvented the Lotus Notes database concept.
I would have thought people should have realized by now that Microsoft never sticks with anything and you should never rely your business on anything that is dependent on support from Microsoft . The list is endless: Zune, PlayForSure, Visual J++, DDE, Visual Basic, WinG, Sidewinder, DirectInput e.t.c. Your best bet is to only use core functions in Windows and some development environment not made by Microsoft.
once all the bugs were ironed out!
Maybe the Unity developer should learn about some software engineering concepts like testing, QA and unit testing. Actually testing the product before releasing it to the public, is generally a good idea.
I believe the poster meant HDCP. Which is the DRM in HDMI
And you can not be held in a US prison indefinitely without an indictment
Of course you can be held indefinitely in a US prison, as long as you define the prison as a "detention camp".
And please don't use Guantanamo as your basis for your BS.
The Guantanamo prison is not bullshit, it is a real US prison that does not obey any US laws.
If he was going to Guantanamo they certainly would not let little things like warrants get in the way. If the US really wanted him they would already have him.
No they know that kidnapping him in a friendly country like UK and Sweden would be frowned upon, so they just wait until they can get him by "legal means". It is amazing to see that you don't seem to think there is anything wrong with the idea of US kidnapping foreign people without any warrants. Do you really have no issues with your government ignoring human rights and the law?
Except this means that the Sweden authorities will extradite him to the US, and since US holds people in prisons indefinitely without trials he is basically finished.
I think the biggest problem with software patents is that you can patent a fundamental algorithm that is necessary for the function of a software. As an example let's take the mousetrap. If you get a patent on a specific mouse trap it doesn't mean other people can't create different mousetraps. However getting a patent on the idea of a mousetrap means that nobody can build any types of mousetraps. This is basically what a software patent is, it's the patent on the idea itself not the implementation.
This is of course brilliant, but the law itself is totally broken. This law means that a lot of people can avoid having license plates, including criminals. But of course parking in a handicapped zone is the most douchebag thing to do. Steve Jobs was obviously a total jerk.
It seems USA is becoming more and more a police state with total disregard for human rights and law. People are being tortured and locked up indefinitely with no trial or jury and no one seems to think there is anything wrong with that, including the president or congress.
Ye sure, this is what always happens they promise some new and better stuff, and then they drop half the stuff and the OS is just crap. I wouldn't hold my breath for any of this. It's better to wait for the actual release. This is just hype talk.
Why are people still buying Sony products? I stopped after the rootkit fiasco and haven't bought a Sony product since 2005, and I always recommend not buying Sony products to all my friends and families. It must be so obvious now to anyone that the company is just greedy bastards who make mediocre products and just wants to fuck up it's customers for profit.
How about prosecuting banksters under the same laws used to target organized crime syndicates?
The liquid sizes I have never understood. What is there to stop the terrorist to combine their liquids? For example if there are five terrorists like on 9/11? Then you have about half a liter of explosives, so this arbitrary rule basically has no effect
Anybody who has been a long time in IT knows that the issue "terminals vs PC" have and always will swing back and forth at regular intervals
Oh dear. So they are saying that technology that is designed to facility easy communications between people can be used for exactly that purpose but with evil intent. Well of course and what is the problem with that exactly? Maybe UK should try to consider what the underlying problem is for the riots. Can it be that most of these people are unemployed? Maybe these morons in the UK government should consider that the solution is not to turn the country into a police state but to actually help people with social issues, like jobs, education and health care.
So this is basically the same as UDDI for WSDL?
How many times has the White House or the Pentagon been burgled? You can fix general security, it all depends on how much you want to spend on it.
The best solution for strings I have seen is the implementation of "Long String" for Delphi. It has the best of both worlds. It has reference counting with copy on write, it has a 32-bit size length and is also null terminated. Since it also has a null terminator it is very easy to communicate with C code and the Windows API all you do is pass the pointer directly.
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VISA and Mastercard already refused Wikileaks so it seems they have no problems refusing businesses when they are pressured from the USA government. They have no problems refusing businesses when they feel like it. Why shouldn't they then refuse to serve obvious fraudulent businesses?
The best solution would be if you could download a bootable CD from Microsoft which could check the checksum online against all valid system files including the hotfixed files and even replace the invalid ones with the correct ones. This would solve many problems with virus infections, rootkits and even a corrupted hard disk.
You can check all OS files against the original install disk. That way you know your OS is not infected. The rest of the user executable files can be checked with a standard virus program for the Rootkit. Problem solved.