In effect, you have to keep running just in order to stay in the same place. (I believe there's a reference here to the Alice books of Lewis Carroll)
That is a condition known as "The Red Queen's Race":
Alice never could quite make out, in thinking it over afterwards, how it was that they began: all she remembers is, that they were running hand in hand, and the Queen went so fast that it was all she could do to keep up with her: and still the Queen kept crying "Faster!" but Alice felt she could not go faster, though she had no breath to say so. The most curious part of the thing was, that the trees and the other things round them never changed their places at all: however fast they went, they never seemed to pass anything. "I wonder if all the things move along with us?" thought poor puzzled Alice. And the Queen seemed to guess her thoughts, for she cried, "Faster! Don't try to talk!"
Not that Alice had any idea of doing that. She felt as if she would never be able to talk again, she was getting so out of breath: and still the Queen cried, "Faster! Faster!" and dragged her along. "Are we nearly there?" Alice managed to pant out at last.
"Nearly there!" the Queen repeated. "Why, we passed it ten minutes ago! Faster!" And they ran on for a time in silence, with the wind whistling in Alice's ears, and almost blowing her hair off her head, she fancied.
"Now! Now!" cried the Queen. "Faster! Faster!" And they went so fast that at last they seemed to skim through the air, hardly touching the ground with their feet, till suddenly, just as Alice was getting quite exhausted, they stopped, and she found herself sitting on the ground, breathless and giddy. The Queen propped her against a tree, and said kindly, "You may rest a little now."
Alice looked round her in great surprise. "Why, I do believe we've been under this tree all the time! Everything's just as it was!"
"Of course it is," said the Queen: "what would you have it?"
"Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else -- if you ran very fast for a long time, as we've been doing."
"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
-- Carrol, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Peter Pauper Press edition, Mount Vernon, New York 1940. 45-47.
So really, Damon shouldn't have been surprised when he came into the office one otherwise-normal Monday morning to find
his reward for all the office pranks.
And then they want to run enterprise level warehouse tracking, inventory, payroll and who knows what else from the little database they whipped up between Solitare games.
My last assignment at a Big Oil Company was to produce a list of files on the shared drive, grouped by person, age, and total size. As all work at the BOC was billed, and my project was budgeted only for my time, I was not allowed to have a DBA create either an Oracle or MS SQL DB (something that would've only taken 5 minutes). I had to use MS Access; suggesting the use of FOSS would be like saying you wanted to summon Satan to get your work done.
Things got interesting when I loaded all 2 million rows of data (one per file) into the poor POS Access DB. It took over 8 hours (I left it running and went home; it was still running when I got back. Lo and behold, it accepted every row. Trouble started when I discovered that trying to save a query or report would send the machine into la-la land. So, I had to dump the DB for every tweak of the report. After a week of messing around (time "well spent," as using Oracle/MS-SQL would have saved at least 4 days of waiting for row population), I finally got everything working, and turned in the report (something like a 500 page PDF).
Naturally, they wanted to change the criteria and group by something else. "Sorry, but today's my last day," I grinned. "And it takes at least one full day to make any changes, assuming you got it right the first time."
For years, the MySQL community told developers, "You don't need [transactions | foreign keys | triggers | stored procedures | subselects |...]! You can work around those limitations in your application code and be better off for it!"
Couple that with this quote from the article:
But MySQL's very simplicity made it so small and fast that it quickly won over small users who wouldn't even understand what they were missing and how to use the fancy features offered by "real" database engines.
And you get the problem of people using a RDBMS that have little idea what they are doing. Stored procedures for speed/security? Not needed. Normalization (3+)? Academic exercise only. And so on.
MySQL is good enough exactly because it is good enough. For enterprise-class applications, or systems that need to be maintained though several generations of DBAs/Developers, taking the "good enough" shortcuts will end up killing you in the end. Pushing the data integrity code to the app instead of asking the RDBMS to do all the heavy lifting will come to bite you in the arse when scalability becomes important.
If MySQL works for the majority of installations, so be it. You never get to be number one in your pack by following the pack. You have to innovate and do what you do really well. "Good enough" only gets you outsourced.
We can buy the Box Set of the originals (4-6), then in a few years we can buy 1-3, and THEN we can buy them all again (master set 1-6, plus bonus-never-before-seen-scenes!).
Boo hoo, I have to use a key to open my car door, house, bank deposit box, home safety, glove compartment, trunk.
How many people would give up they key to their house for a bar of chocolate?
As we learned in Econ 101, it probably comes down to value. Most people do not ascribe value to computer security; they see it as "something the IT guys make us do." Example: walk into any small shop and check out their security. It has been my experience that all passwords are taped to the monitor more times than not, or you can just ask the admin for them.
On the other hand, people ascribe much more value to the security of their home and/or car.
~ or even charged unless the police officer was monumentally brain damaged ~.
Dudley Hiibel: Am I under arrest? Deputy Lee Dove: I just need to see some identification. Hiibel: Why? Dove: Because I'm investigating an investigation. Hiibel: Investigating what? Dove: I'm investigating.
~ you wouldn't happen to know any good books or websites for basic maintenance stuff ~.
If you want basic, basic you can try something like Michael Gray's book. When you get past the "what is washer fluid?" "how do I read a dipstick?" questions, then you'll want the basic reference guide. Search Amazon for "Chilton's" and narrow it down to your make/model/year. They have excellent diagrams, pictures and descriptions. The first chapter always covers basic maintenance, such as changing oil, filters, brakes, etc.
Personally, I think every computer should ship with a 200-page book explaining the basic concepts and theory behind the computers.
First rule of software development: users will not read anything, ever. This applies to manuals, on-screen instructions, and message boxes.
This is one reason why many new cars (and lawn mowers, etc.) come with VHS tapes, but even those are ignored.
The trick is to make everything so simple that performing tasks are easy enough for the uninformed person to figure out quickly. To do that, you have to do lots of role analysis, use cases, and user testing.
"Great in theory, but there's a new (insert banal show title here) episode on Thursday."
They can always tape/Tivo it.
Here's the scary thing: the longer you go without watching, the more all the shows REALLY SUCK when you try to start again. I once swore off TV for a month (the second week was the hardest). When the month was over, I found that all the shows were stupid, the laugh-tracks were annoying, and there were no good, original stories. Since then, I pretty much only watch Discovery/History channels with a rare forray into the SciFi channel. When we move in the next few months, I won't be taking cable with me (except the Roadrunner part).
Makes me wonder why someone would use (pay for?) an application that renders poor code. That's like using MS Word to make web pages: it works, but makes pretty nasty, non-standard code.
The Constitution guarantees all free citizens (i.e., those who have not had their freedoms curtailed by legal process--e.g., convicted felons) the right to travel.
Please cite the appropriate article, section, para where this right is stated. (Betcha 5 jelly beans you can't.)
PRIVILEGE: "A peculiar right, advantage, exemption, power, franchise, or immunity held by a person or class, not generally possessed by others."
RIGHT: "Rights are defined generally as 'powers of free action.' And the primal rights pertaining to men are enjoyed by human beings purely as such, being grounded in personality, and existing antecedently to their recognition by positive law."
According to several US Supreme Court decisions (see U.S. v Guest, Shapiro v Thomson, et. al.), the right to travel freely is enjoyed by all citizens. As the primary purpose of driving is to travel from one point to another, it must therefore be a right. As far as I have been able to determine, there have been no USSC cases that, by abridging the right to drive, relegate it to "priviledge" status.
If you come up with a USSC case to the contrary, please post it.
You are right. They limit SMTP mail through the TWC server. As a "security measure" they block all mail originating from within the network destined for any TWC IP address that doesn't go through the SMTP server. So you can't spam a TWC person without using the offical server and hitting the limit.
I couldn't find any info about whether they port block or limit its use.
It would be even nicer if the guy knew a little bit about proper user interface design and didn't open the links in another window by default. Breaking the back button is a bit annoying.
Hell, if my grandmaw knows how to right click and choose "open in a new window," I think pretty much anyone can do it on their own if they so choose.
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The few people who fall into this sucker trap will quickly wake up when they discover that their ISP terminated their account for TOS violations.
I noticed recently while trying to diagnose an email problem that Time Warner Cable now limits its "unlimited service" to 1,000 emails sent per day. Obviously, you'll hit your limit well before that CPU-hour, so you'll never make more than $365/year and eliminate your ability to send any personal email.
You'd make more money hanging out at the street corner holding cardboard sign that says, "Will compute for food."
If it'a a matter of security for me and the people that I travel with, then they can share my data. I am sertainly not opposed to this, I dont want some shmuck who got through to blow up my airplane.
I'm saddend that you are willing to allow our government to discount the sacrifices that I and my fellow service members made to secure your freedom. I'm saddned that you think that security comes from removal of your sacred freedoms by government fiat.
The fact that you and many like you choose not to practice eternal vigilance, lazily stating "I have nothing to hide, so I'm not opposed to loss of my rights" as if that excuses the transformation of our Democratic Republic into a tyranny sickens me. You and our other fellow Americans who sit on their dead ass while the government murders our country are the real threats to our society.
Two last parting thoughts:
Capps actually weakens security; look at other countries who deal with terrorism on a continuous basis---what is their primary form of defense?
You are going to die some day, so you can either live your life in fear or accept the fact and do something productive. Crying that some bad man is going to blow you up in a plane is fantasy (and odds are effectively zero), whereas your odds of dying in an auto-wreck are higher than winning powerball. What is your priority?
If someone wants to broadcast 24/7 gay sex and they can afford to get into the market, let em. I just won't listen to it....
Won't you think of the CHILDREN who will be damaged by accidentally listening for hours, if not days, on end? They won't have a chance, and will turn into gay, pedophilic, perverted adults, thanks to the filth on the radio.
If you really cared, you would help remove all filth on radio to PROTECT OUR CHILDREN! Only when the perveyors of smut are removed from the airwaves, will our CHILDREN be safe! If CCU owned all stations, then they could take down the offensive crud, leaving only wholesome content for all!!!
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Things got interesting when I loaded all 2 million rows of data (one per file) into the poor POS Access DB. It took over 8 hours (I left it running and went home; it was still running when I got back. Lo and behold, it accepted every row. Trouble started when I discovered that trying to save a query or report would send the machine into la-la land. So, I had to dump the DB for every tweak of the report. After a week of messing around (time "well spent," as using Oracle/MS-SQL would have saved at least 4 days of waiting for row population), I finally got everything working, and turned in the report (something like a 500 page PDF).
Naturally, they wanted to change the criteria and group by something else. "Sorry, but today's my last day," I grinned. "And it takes at least one full day to make any changes, assuming you got it right the first time."
Suck. Ers.
MySQL is good enough exactly because it is good enough. For enterprise-class applications, or systems that need to be maintained though several generations of DBAs/Developers, taking the "good enough" shortcuts will end up killing you in the end. Pushing the data integrity code to the app instead of asking the RDBMS to do all the heavy lifting will come to bite you in the arse when scalability becomes important.
If MySQL works for the majority of installations, so be it. You never get to be number one in your pack by following the pack. You have to innovate and do what you do really well. "Good enough" only gets you outsourced.
We can buy the Box Set of the originals (4-6), then in a few years we can buy 1-3, and THEN we can buy them all again (master set 1-6, plus bonus-never-before-seen-scenes!).
As we learned in Econ 101, it probably comes down to value. Most people do not ascribe value to computer security; they see it as "something the IT guys make us do." Example: walk into any small shop and check out their security. It has been my experience that all passwords are taped to the monitor more times than not, or you can just ask the admin for them.
On the other hand, people ascribe much more value to the security of their home and/or car.
Rotisserie Importers of America?
Ever had curry? Chicken Vindaloo with a bit of mango chutney is pretty damn good. Much tastier than a SuperSized Combo #2.
Deputy Lee Dove
Hiibel
Dove
Hiibel
Dove
Verdict: Drain Bamage
*Click*
-=BANG=-
This is one reason why many new cars (and lawn mowers, etc.) come with VHS tapes, but even those are ignored.
The trick is to make everything so simple that performing tasks are easy enough for the uninformed person to figure out quickly. To do that, you have to do lots of role analysis, use cases, and user testing.
Here's the scary thing: the longer you go without watching, the more all the shows REALLY SUCK when you try to start again. I once swore off TV for a month (the second week was the hardest). When the month was over, I found that all the shows were stupid, the laugh-tracks were annoying, and there were no good, original stories. Since then, I pretty much only watch Discovery/History channels with a rare forray into the SciFi channel. When we move in the next few months, I won't be taking cable with me (except the Roadrunner part).
Makes me wonder why someone would use (pay for?) an application that renders poor code. That's like using MS Word to make web pages: it works, but makes pretty nasty, non-standard code.
PRIVILEGE: "A peculiar right, advantage, exemption, power, franchise, or immunity held by a person or class, not generally possessed by others."
RIGHT: "Rights are defined generally as 'powers of free action.' And the primal rights pertaining to men are enjoyed by human beings purely as such, being grounded in personality, and existing antecedently to their recognition by positive law."
According to several US Supreme Court decisions (see U.S. v Guest, Shapiro v Thomson, et. al.), the right to travel freely is enjoyed by all citizens. As the primary purpose of driving is to travel from one point to another, it must therefore be a right. As far as I have been able to determine, there have been no USSC cases that, by abridging the right to drive, relegate it to "priviledge" status.
If you come up with a USSC case to the contrary, please post it.
If you're still using OE, then may god have mercy upon your soul.
I couldn't find any info about whether they port block or limit its use.
Hell, if my grandmaw knows how to right click and choose "open in a new window," I think pretty much anyone can do it on their own if they so choose.
I noticed recently while trying to diagnose an email problem that Time Warner Cable now limits its "unlimited service" to 1,000 emails sent per day. Obviously, you'll hit your limit well before that CPU-hour, so you'll never make more than $365/year and eliminate your ability to send any personal email.
You'd make more money hanging out at the street corner holding cardboard sign that says, "Will compute for food."
The fact that you and many like you choose not to practice eternal vigilance, lazily stating "I have nothing to hide, so I'm not opposed to loss of my rights" as if that excuses the transformation of our Democratic Republic into a tyranny sickens me. You and our other fellow Americans who sit on their dead ass while the government murders our country are the real threats to our society.
Two last parting thoughts:
If you really cared, you would help remove all filth on radio to PROTECT OUR CHILDREN! Only when the perveyors of smut are removed from the airwaves, will our CHILDREN be safe! If CCU owned all stations, then they could take down the offensive crud, leaving only wholesome content for all!!!