These aren't awards? Then can you explain why the title of the page is "Scientific American: Explore!: SciTech Web Awards 2002"? Can you also explain why the giant graphic on the page reads "2002 Sci-Tech Web Awards"? Or perhaps why they say, "In this, our second annual Scientific American.com Sci/Tech Web Awards, the editors have again done the work of sifting through the virtual piles of pages to find the top sites for your browsing pleasure" if these aren't actually awards?
I get "free" cable through my apartment. Every apartment in the building does -- cable comes out of the wire and we don't pay anything for it.
Now, who's willing to bet that Time Warner is going to take a look at my building, see people with cable internet but not paying for basic cable TV, and start raising red flags? I wouldn't put it past them.
Gah! Someone did this to a terminal I tried logging in to once, but they only remapped one key. They remapped 'b' to '^H'. Needless to say, it made it impossible for me to login since my username was 'bcavanagh'.
After that one of my friends referred to me as "^Hrad".
Have you used Access, or are you just parrotting the usual FUD? How am I supposed to build a PostgreSQL database for a client when all they have is an NT4 server and don't want (or can't afford) another machine or spring for Cygwin? What if I'm doing financial database work that needs robust transaction support? Is MySQL's rudimentary transaction handling supposed to help? What should I say when transactions get wonky in a MySQL database? "Uh, sorry, but at least it's free software!"
MySQL has it's places. More often than not they're for ultra-speedy databases that don't need transaction support. PostgreSQL can't really compete with Access in a Windows-dominated world.
In case you're wondering, yes, I've used Access. I've used MySQL. I've used PostgreSQL. I've used Oracle. And I've even used old versions of FoxPro. They all have their places. Access is in no way "outclassed by its free software counterparts."
*heh* When our company was redesigning our website, something similar came up. But our boss said, "if they can't be bothered to upgrade their browsers, then we don't want them as clients." That's the sort of thing we need.:)
And I can't stand to develop on an NT/2k box.. Ugh!! No multiple desktops. I don't know how people alt-tab thru 10 or 12 different windows. Drives me nuts!!
Then go and download a window manager. They're not that tough to find. Try doing a search for VirtuaWin - it's GPL'ed and everything, and works quite nicely.
Hawking said in BHOT that someone told him that every equation in the book would cut the readership by half. IIRC, there was only one equation in the whole thing.
You obviously have no idea how things work. Hawking is a big name in physics. Just because you don't care for him (and, by the way, his name is Hawking, not Hawkins or Hawkings) doesn't mean that other people don't respect him and his theories.
Besides, BHOT wasn't meant as a textbook. Textbooks are useless without equations and mathematics. Books for the common people, as BHOT was, do worse by having equations in them.
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These aren't awards? Then can you explain why the title of the page is "Scientific American: Explore!: SciTech Web Awards 2002"? Can you also explain why the giant graphic on the page reads "2002 Sci-Tech Web Awards"? Or perhaps why they say, "In this, our second annual Scientific American.com Sci/Tech Web Awards, the editors have again done the work of sifting through the virtual piles of pages to find the top sites for your browsing pleasure" if these aren't actually awards?
I get "free" cable through my apartment. Every apartment in the building does -- cable comes out of the wire and we don't pay anything for it.
Now, who's willing to bet that Time Warner is going to take a look at my building, see people with cable internet but not paying for basic cable TV, and start raising red flags? I wouldn't put it past them.
So that's why it seems so much quicker today...
Gah! Someone did this to a terminal I tried logging in to once, but they only remapped one key. They remapped 'b' to '^H'. Needless to say, it made it impossible for me to login since my username was 'bcavanagh'.
After that one of my friends referred to me as "^Hrad".
(Not that you can really scuba dive in the South Pacific; it's much too deep.)
The entire South Pacific is too deep to scuba in? You mean you can't scuba in the top 50 feet of the ocean there because the top 50 feet is too deep?
at $200us windows shouldnt crash.
So by that rationale, because free software is, well, free, it should be really crappy software? The more expensive the better?
Wow, you're especially brilliant today, aren't you?
Have you used Access, or are you just parrotting the usual FUD? How am I supposed to build a PostgreSQL database for a client when all they have is an NT4 server and don't want (or can't afford) another machine or spring for Cygwin? What if I'm doing financial database work that needs robust transaction support? Is MySQL's rudimentary transaction handling supposed to help? What should I say when transactions get wonky in a MySQL database? "Uh, sorry, but at least it's free software!"
MySQL has it's places. More often than not they're for ultra-speedy databases that don't need transaction support. PostgreSQL can't really compete with Access in a Windows-dominated world.
In case you're wondering, yes, I've used Access. I've used MySQL. I've used PostgreSQL. I've used Oracle. And I've even used old versions of FoxPro. They all have their places. Access is in no way "outclassed by its free software counterparts."
*heh* When our company was redesigning our website, something similar came up. But our boss said, "if they can't be bothered to upgrade their browsers, then we don't want them as clients." That's the sort of thing we need. :)
And I can't stand to develop on an NT/2k box.. Ugh!! No multiple desktops. I don't know how people alt-tab thru 10 or 12 different windows. Drives me nuts!!
Then go and download a window manager. They're not that tough to find. Try doing a search for VirtuaWin - it's GPL'ed and everything, and works quite nicely.
What do you expect? They go to UBC and they're engineers! That's two strikes against them right there!
But as it is, I don't see where this is a slam-dunk for the geeks.
You better watch out, "slam-dunk" could be trademarked by the NBA.
Hawking said in BHOT that someone told him that every equation in the book would cut the readership by half. IIRC, there was only one equation in the whole thing.
You obviously have no idea how things work. Hawking is a big name in physics. Just because you don't care for him (and, by the way, his name is Hawking, not Hawkins or Hawkings) doesn't mean that other people don't respect him and his theories.
Besides, BHOT wasn't meant as a textbook. Textbooks are useless without equations and mathematics. Books for the common people, as BHOT was, do worse by having equations in them.