"If you're not sure what I mean, make a few mental notes of how much it might cost you to get that $1 CD onto the shelves at Target, along with a marketing budget that would be adequate to cause people to actually seek out and buy the CD once it's there."
Luckily, they take large portions of that marketing budget (video clips, artwork for CD's etc) from the artists share... generally, the small percentage that the musician actually gets from sales is spent on the marketing budget, or so I understand.
How exactly do you overuse a query cache? I mean, the more use of the cache, the better, no?
Query caches on my machines ( with an approximate read:write ratio of 20:1 ) get hit about 88% of the time. That's a pretty major speed enhancement, I can tell you that, coming from 3.23 only a few years ago.
All the oldest writings the find are only parts of the bible, most often in different languages ranging from greek, latin, vulgar latin, hebrew and aramaic and the like.
For anyone studying the bible from a non-religious perspective, it is obvious that the bible is a patchwork of stories written by different individuals at different times in different languages.
Some of these stories made the final cut, some did not and were forgotten, while others live on as semi-official religious works (I'm not sure of the correct term in english, but in university I studied a great work that tells about Jesus going to hell to pick up all the persons there who couldn't have known about the true belief because he did not yet spread it).
If you have been raised with a certain translation as reference and the notion that this is the word of god, I can imagine that accepting that god delivered his words piecemeal through different individuals and that some other individuals decided what was his word and what was not can be quite confronting.
"I remember the backlash when XP became mainstream and MSFT was everyone's favorite whipping boy because "Windows 98SE had better performance" and "Windows 2000 doesn't have a playskool theme." Now everyone swears by XP."
Did it occur to you then that people were right in both cases? That XP sucked when it was released and gradually improved into something useable?
That maybe the problem is with Microsofts release strategy?
Civilization is not only about comfort, you philistine! But whatever you're comfortable with...
Anyway, apart from the enviromental concerns on your car habits ( all the advantages you state do not require a SUV at all, leading to the conclusion that you yourself have no idea why you're driving such a thing or are not telling us ), they do have a nasty tendancy to cause much higher causualty rates, especially for persons not in it, or God forgive, pedestrians.
Please consider this before buying your next car, thank you.
Thats just the point GP is making I think. You describe the current optimal situation: centralized guided development of software ecosystems like Microsofts.
However, the level of complexity and interaction of different software systems is growing and we cannot:
A. expect one entity to coordinate interaction of everything with anything B. allow one entity to do this because of a too great culmination of power
It's true what you describe, the not-too-excellent interoperation of OSS projects, but I personally think this is something that will kind of evolve... different software projects will kind of meld into each other, someone will write a nifty piece of code for interoperation that everyone will adopt, a de facto standard will evolve.
It took microsoft some time too, to even get all of it's own products to interoperate decently... just boot your old copy of Windows 1.0 to get an idea...
Thank you. I'll up you one on that and actually never 'git in'.
Even my mother, who married in the states in '68 and lived there on numerous occassions, has reached her limit regarding the security checks at the airport.
I'm sorry for all you good guys over there, but this government paranoia is going to cost you big time, I'm not kidding.
Foreigners (read: trade partners, not terrorists) will stay away, choosing to conduct their business with a more open society.
Will XP be more expensive to get with a new computer than Vista? Because OEMs will now have to jump through hoops to get XP on a new machine, and Microsoft will probably be pushing Vista which means offering it cheaper.
That would be a strange day, when an OS maker is de facto asking higher prices for its old OS!
Hmmm... yes our production servers are SLES machines, but speaking for my laptop and enterprise focus... OpenSuSE 10.3 would not allow me to connect to a VPN via a cisco PIX (pptp) whilst it was no problem at all with Ubuntu.
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IIRC illegal copying rates of proprietary software is much higher in Europe too, I know for sure in the Netherlands that this is so.
American companies tend to charge more for software here, because they can.
European 'customers' tend to use more illegal copies here, because they can.
I know for one this price difference is no motivator for me to buy my software legally.
"If you're not sure what I mean, make a few mental notes of how much it might cost you to get that $1 CD onto the shelves at Target, along with a marketing budget that would be adequate to cause people to actually seek out and buy the CD once it's there."
Luckily, they take large portions of that marketing budget (video clips, artwork for CD's etc) from the artists share ... generally, the small percentage that the musician actually gets from sales is spent on the marketing budget, or so I understand.
Oh, is 1 GB of ram now a very small amount?
You must be kidding, I run loads of crap, including a virtual machine, on 1 gig, no problems.
I just don't run Windows, never mind which version, they're all resource hogs.
How exactly do you overuse a query cache? I mean, the more use of the cache, the better, no?
Query caches on my machines ( with an approximate read:write ratio of 20:1 ) get hit about 88% of the time. That's a pretty major speed enhancement, I can tell you that, coming from 3.23 only a few years ago.
"Just think how great it will be when all of the processing on every web page is done by php rather than in the database!"
I don't have to imagine that, you insensitive clod. Thanks for remembering me about what a messed-up crap my inherited code-base is.
... in a server meant for high concurrency use ... isn't that just shooting yourself in the foot or what?
All the oldest writings the find are only parts of the bible, most often in different languages ranging from greek, latin, vulgar latin, hebrew and aramaic and the like.
For anyone studying the bible from a non-religious perspective, it is obvious that the bible is a patchwork of stories written by different individuals at different times in different languages.
Some of these stories made the final cut, some did not and were forgotten, while others live on as semi-official religious works (I'm not sure of the correct term in english, but in university I studied a great work that tells about Jesus going to hell to pick up all the persons there who couldn't have known about the true belief because he did not yet spread it).
If you have been raised with a certain translation as reference and the notion that this is the word of god, I can imagine that accepting that god delivered his words piecemeal through different individuals and that some other individuals decided what was his word and what was not can be quite confronting.
"I remember the backlash when XP became mainstream and MSFT was everyone's favorite whipping boy because "Windows 98SE had better performance" and "Windows 2000 doesn't have a playskool theme." Now everyone swears by XP."
Did it occur to you then that people were right in both cases? That XP sucked when it was released and gradually improved into something useable?
That maybe the problem is with Microsofts release strategy?
but the Universities advocates cracked their shell and the judge clam-ped down on them ...
sorry ...
Civilization is not only about comfort, you philistine! But whatever you're comfortable with ...
Anyway, apart from the enviromental concerns on your car habits ( all the advantages you state do not require a SUV at all, leading to the conclusion that you yourself have no idea why you're driving such a thing or are not telling us ), they do have a nasty tendancy to cause much higher causualty rates, especially for persons not in it, or God forgive, pedestrians.
Please consider this before buying your next car, thank you.
Erm, Mr. STINKY wizzleteats, you sure that's a rat you're smelling?
The code being simple does not necessarily mean the though process of coming to those 15 lines was simple and/or straightforward.
"Apple is quite literally ripping off those who aren't able to upgrade hardware themselves."
They have been, and could, for decennia, because of their 'custom' hardware.
Newsflash: Apple is a company, it doesn't have ethics, it'll screw customers over if market forces or legislation won't stop it.
Yes, because it's absolutely obvious the Euro is good-for-nothing.
The last thing we need is jokers like you commenting on economics.
Maybe when the EU starts spending 600 B$ on its defense, or the US isn't capable of spending that much anymore?
You'd be surprised how much of international politics is simply powerplay wrapped in a lot of diplomacy and a smile.
Thats just the point GP is making I think. You describe the current optimal situation: centralized guided development of software ecosystems like Microsofts.
However, the level of complexity and interaction of different software systems is growing and we cannot:
A. expect one entity to coordinate interaction of everything with anything
B. allow one entity to do this because of a too great culmination of power
It's true what you describe, the not-too-excellent interoperation of OSS projects, but I personally think this is something that will kind of evolve ... different software projects will kind of meld into each other, someone will write a nifty piece of code for interoperation that everyone will adopt, a de facto standard will evolve.
It took microsoft some time too, to even get all of it's own products to interoperate decently ... just boot your old copy of Windows 1.0 to get an idea ...
Thank you. I'll up you one on that and actually never 'git in'.
Even my mother, who married in the states in '68 and lived there on numerous occassions, has reached her limit regarding the security checks at the airport.
I'm sorry for all you good guys over there, but this government paranoia is going to cost you big time, I'm not kidding.
Foreigners (read: trade partners, not terrorists) will stay away, choosing to conduct their business with a more open society.
Will XP be more expensive to get with a new computer than Vista? Because OEMs will now have to jump through hoops to get XP on a new machine, and Microsoft will probably be pushing Vista which means offering it cheaper.
That would be a strange day, when an OS maker is de facto asking higher prices for its old OS!
Hmmm ... yes our production servers are SLES machines, but speaking for my laptop and enterprise focus ... OpenSuSE 10.3 would not allow me to connect to a VPN via a cisco PIX (pptp) whilst it was no problem at all with Ubuntu.
... has been proven, what are Americans going to do to make sure the government and the military practices what they preach?
... oh boy, was I wrong!
I thought the plan was to export democracy, free speech, human rights and other such goodies
It shows the difficult part of ideas isn't dreaming them up, it's actually realizing them.
It doesn't say love thy neighbour to me, it's says I'm better than you, you stinking infidel.
.. haven't _ever_ worked with a woman programmer in my 10+ year career.
That's a bad thing.
However, compensating by ascribing generic traits to gender (tidyness, empathy, etc) is not going to help, and IMHO this is exactly what this VP does.
I'm glad I don't work for her. She seems quite sexist.