What I have found is that no one likes to deal with the database, so they regulate it to the worst programmer.
Pity, since most performance issues with applications are bad SQL queries/database design at the backend. Table walks, using read/write when you just need read access, excessive data retrieval (where they then write code at the app level to toss out the unneeded data, rather than use SQL to return what they actually need)
What they should do is get a production quality DBA in to do all that for them, and figure out how to leverage him into the design phase so that they write code with DB optimization in mind. In other words, get some who LIKES databases to run your database instead of shanghaiing a programmer to do it.
Those projects that have that foresight do very well when it comes time to go live...
I remember the old days of the 70's before it was repealed. You had news, sports, and occasionally nutter shows that espoused crazy ideas. By crazy, I mean like Art Bell doesn't buy it crazy, the Truthers and Birthers of their day kind of crazy.
But the "public interest" of controversial ideas were rare. No radio station wanted to lose their license if they violated the Fairness Doctrine (that you must present an opposing view of a given subject) covering subjects of public interest. A Supreme Court decision granted "equal access" (requiring anyone wanting to rebut a topic access if an opposing view was not represented) under the Fairness rule, make it even more unlikely they would allow a talk show host cover an important issue.
While it never prevented free speech directly, it indirectly squashed it.
The OPOC engine shows more promise for a sudden breakthrough in fuel economy.
Lighter, less moving parts and runs on diesel.
Initial it is being designed for trucks and large vehicles, but coupled with a CVT or even as the engine of a hybrid, smaller models would be ideal for autos.
Quite frankly, it was kinda nice. Downtown had a decent coffeshop or two (no Starbucks!), and there was 2 bars visible from almost any street corner, and 3 bowling alleys. Food options were a bit limited, but everywhere I went was quite good, especially the steaks.
Heck, I don't think 3 are left in Sacramento now that Crestview closed!
One other interesting note: the local Holiday Inn where I stayed rolled out the well drinks cart, plus free beer and "wine", and let us have at every evening. Now THAT was proof I was not in Cali anymore.
I could have moved and got a promotion and a raise... but I turned it down. My wife would not move. A native San Diego girl, frozen water belongs in glasses and paper cones, not piled man high in streets.
A brick and mortar Uni was socially satisfying, met people and teachers I would not have met elsewhere (in person, in 1989 anyway =) today is different)
But the Online (UoP) was more like real life: 5 to 6 man project teams, relentless deadlines, 2 slackers, 2 people able to help, and 1 or 2 people actually driving the project.
Yep, EXACTLY like real life.
Go to a 2 year community/state college, then finish at an online or a big name state college. (Cal State, for example)
Unless you get a Ivy League or West Coast equiv, no one gives a shit where you went. You went, or you did not.
Not 43 yet, but I have reversed my political view significantly in 20 years.
And I have to give the OP some credit, his wonderfully snarky remark about the Professor and the Pipe proves he knows how ridiculous the whole study is.
You added "rushed", that was not the word used, nor did it say they stuck to them for no reason.
Exactly the point, you see it as detrimental, but a ER doctor/nurse with too much belly button gazing and being wishy-washy about what to do sounds like a bad idea...
Value judgments are just that: judgments. You can paint any of these attributes in a bad light.
I noticed you focused on the negative aspects of that article. How about the later paragraph:
The researchers--John Jost of NYU, Arie Kruglanski of the University of Maryland, and Jack Glaser and Frank Sulloway of Berkeley--found that conservatives have a greater desire to reach a decision quickly and stick to it, and are higher on conscientiousness, which includes neatness, orderliness, duty, and rule-following. Liberals are higher on openness, which includes intellectual curiosity, excitement-seeking, novelty, creativity for its own sake, and a craving for stimulation like travel, color, art, music, and literature.
I guess you could make a value judgment on those attributes, but they have equal value in a person.
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What I have found is that no one likes to deal with the database, so they regulate it to the worst programmer.
Pity, since most performance issues with applications are bad SQL queries/database design at the backend. Table walks, using read/write when you just need read access, excessive data retrieval (where they then write code at the app level to toss out the unneeded data, rather than use SQL to return what they actually need)
What they should do is get a production quality DBA in to do all that for them, and figure out how to leverage him into the design phase so that they write code with DB optimization in mind. In other words, get some who LIKES databases to run your database instead of shanghaiing a programmer to do it.
Those projects that have that foresight do very well when it comes time to go live...
I think they got it right.
I remember the old days of the 70's before it was repealed. You had news, sports, and occasionally nutter shows that espoused crazy ideas. By crazy, I mean like Art Bell doesn't buy it crazy, the Truthers and Birthers of their day kind of crazy.
But the "public interest" of controversial ideas were rare. No radio station wanted to lose their license if they violated the Fairness Doctrine (that you must present an opposing view of a given subject) covering subjects of public interest. A Supreme Court decision granted "equal access" (requiring anyone wanting to rebut a topic access if an opposing view was not represented) under the Fairness rule, make it even more unlikely they would allow a talk show host cover an important issue.
While it never prevented free speech directly, it indirectly squashed it.
The OPOC engine shows more promise for a sudden breakthrough in fuel economy.
Lighter, less moving parts and runs on diesel.
Initial it is being designed for trucks and large vehicles, but coupled with a CVT or even as the engine of a hybrid, smaller models would be ideal for autos.
http://www.autoinsane.com/2009/03/09/news/tech/video-revolutionary-opposed-cylinder-opposed-piston-engine/
It goes to 11^32, man!
out in the boonies.
Dubuque comes to mind. I spent a week out there.
Quite frankly, it was kinda nice. Downtown had a decent coffeshop or two (no Starbucks!), and there was 2 bars visible from almost any street corner, and 3 bowling alleys. Food options were a bit limited, but everywhere I went was quite good, especially the steaks.
Heck, I don't think 3 are left in Sacramento now that Crestview closed!
One other interesting note: the local Holiday Inn where I stayed rolled out the well drinks cart, plus free beer and "wine", and let us have at every evening. Now THAT was proof I was not in Cali anymore.
I could have moved and got a promotion and a raise... but I turned it down. My wife would not move. A native San Diego girl, frozen water belongs in glasses and paper cones, not piled man high in streets.
One has to wonder if he is upset because new virtual realities will replace the one he is CEO of.
Personally, I am just dying to unlock my "Penitent Sinner" deed.
Which is not saying much...
If you do use one, you have to be very careful around it,
it goes without saying.
I think Europe has had a lock on police states for a lot longer than America has existed.
The only thing that has changed is the tools, not the intent.
Don't worry, the IRS is staffing up to make up the difference.
The only truly effective security product is a pair of wire clippers, applied generously.
The brain was quoted as saying "Is there a draft in here?"
When he turns it on he discovers it is stuck in Holographic Princess Leia Pron mode.
Having done both, they both have their value.
A brick and mortar Uni was socially satisfying, met people and teachers I would not have met elsewhere (in person, in 1989 anyway =) today is different)
But the Online (UoP) was more like real life: 5 to 6 man project teams, relentless deadlines, 2 slackers, 2 people able to help, and 1 or 2 people actually driving the project.
Yep, EXACTLY like real life.
Go to a 2 year community/state college, then finish at an online or a big name state college. (Cal State, for example)
Unless you get a Ivy League or West Coast equiv, no one gives a shit where you went. You went, or you did not.
Won't do any good if they are archiving emails.
I hounded my family for months to stop sending me anything at work, including my wife.
It will never go away, it is forever archived on tape once it hits the mailserver.
And completely false argument.
No one has found anything we did not already know about Afghanistan and the war there.
US invaded Afghanistan? Check.
People died that were innocent bystanders? Check.
Foreign governments are interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs? Check.
Names and places of people who opposed the insurgents so they could be liquidated? Che... oh wait.
Yep, great service to humanity, to provide us with "proof" of things already proven.
you are still trolling, and setting up a false comparison. What is next?
Maybe a straw man or two?
Obvious troll trolls obviously.
Not hard to convince when you leave names and villages of people who provided information in the documents.
People who are being hunted and killed.
Julian Assange's response via the NYT?
- He claimed that many informers in Afghanistan were "acting in a criminal way" by sharing false information with Nato authorities.
- He insisted that any risk to informants' lives was outweighed by the overall importance of publishing the information.
So he is judge and jury, knows they were "acting in a criminal way", and let others execute so he does not have blood on his hands.
Yep, sounds like "justice" to me.
I would bet it would be for a overhead display or something like that, not Crysis.
Or you might have ended up in a Russian Gulag, a Chinese Reeducation Camp or the Killing Fields...
Not 43 yet, but I have reversed my political view significantly in 20 years.
And I have to give the OP some credit, his wonderfully snarky remark about the Professor and the Pipe proves he knows how ridiculous the whole study is.
I see what you did there! =)
You added "rushed", that was not the word used, nor did it say they stuck to them for no reason.
Exactly the point, you see it as detrimental, but a ER doctor/nurse with too much belly button gazing and being wishy-washy about what to do sounds like a bad idea...
Value judgments are just that: judgments. You can paint any of these attributes in a bad light.
I noticed you focused on the negative aspects of that article. How about the later paragraph:
The researchers--John Jost of NYU, Arie Kruglanski of the University of Maryland, and Jack Glaser and Frank Sulloway of Berkeley--found that conservatives have a greater desire to reach a decision quickly and stick to it, and are higher on conscientiousness, which includes neatness, orderliness, duty, and rule-following. Liberals are higher on openness, which includes intellectual curiosity, excitement-seeking, novelty, creativity for its own sake, and a craving for stimulation like travel, color, art, music, and literature.
I guess you could make a value judgment on those attributes, but they have equal value in a person.
I removed 90% of my VXVM licenses in a recent data center move/refresh.
you could hear the crying over the phone, we dropped 250+ licenses.