It is better because : a) I can backup the whole site (text AND images) in a single backup (mysqdump...) b) if I delete a picture, I just need to issue one "DELETE FROM..." query. c) Maintaining a link to a separate file mean that I have to keep the content of the pictures table and the pictures directory in sync. IE. with my solution I don't care about forgetting to erase pictures in the directory, because I can do a rm *.* on a regular basis and regenerate all pictures from the database.
Well for pictures I have a better scheme : I store original pictures into the database, along with mime type, dimensions, title, etc... then I generate files and thumbnails files from it so that they are really served as links, not from the database itself (much faster and easier on both MySQL and Apache). That way I have the power of storing my pics into a database (easy backups and better integrity) but the efficiency of regular file pictures:)
You could just store links to the pictures you know!
Sure - but now when I do a DB backup I get the complete site content in one big file. Text, pictures and infos all packed up in a neat package : I like this:) . Plus, integrity is better because erasing or adding a picture is a one operation (vs 2 operations with a link, since you have to erase/save the file after erasing/adding a row).
Wow - I'm amazed ! PostgreSQL managed to grow and be used by many people with rows limited to 8 K... I think this really cripple the database, my sites all have whole articles, pictures, etc... into a MySQL database. Limiting rows to 8K basically makes a database totally worthless !
Well, it's been a while I'm playing Zelda on my palm... in color too... wtih a real gamepad, sound and a better screen than the real gameboy color. No, wait, that is not on a wimpy Palm, that is on my Cassiopeia E105:)
32 Meg of RAM, a 131 Mhz RISC, a large high-res color screen, stereo sound and an integrated gamepad helps a lot for console emulators !
Let's make a good thing : send our unused MS software to a charitable organisation in Germany, where they could legaly sell the software and use the money for whatever good cause we support (suing MS, the RIAA or MPA for example:)
I've only had a short look to WAP, and it didn't looked so bad, except that it is quite different from HTML in the way it works, which means you need to learn everything again when coding WAP application.
But good or bad, millions of WAP enabled cell phones have been shipped over the world, many companies have a WAP accessible site or are working on it. Lots of Telecom companies (providers and equipement makers) in Europe are building their strategies around WAP services. It is based on XML, which is good - and there's no serious alternative standard to it around. So I can't really see how WAP could fail as a standard.
Now of course the concept might be flawed (ie "nobody wants to surf on a 100x80 pixel screen with no keyboard or pointing device"), but that has nothing to do with WAP itself.
That's because the 700 Mhz is a 100 Mhz bus CPU, while the 733 Mhz is on a 133 Mhz bus... so those two CPUs are for different platforms and are really two different product lines. The next big thing after the 700 is not 750, and after 733 it is 800.
This is getting so ridiculous, with a 10.5 multiplicator the CPU is totally starving for datas, but Intel is controlled by the marketing drones, and they said "we will differenciate the Celeron and Pentium III, and Celeron shall not have a bus faster than 66 Mhz".
Crypto is allowed with keys up to 128 bits - only the software used has to be registered with the gov (as is PGP). Crypto used to be limited to 40 bits keys only a while ago, and Netscape had a 40 bits key version available for France. But it still had crypto.
Another blow to the "industry self regulation" supporters. Maybe sometimes they'll understand that capitalism without limits is just crap. Some things need to be moderated : when it comes to the economic rules, only an elected organisation should set the rules, not the players of the game themselves (aka corporation).
Kinda - I'm not very well informed on this, but as far as I know the Ariane rockets were created, developped and funded by France, as an evolution from the first French rockets in the 60s. Nowadays Arians IV and V carry some other European nations flags, because some other nations are participating in the program, but ArianeEspace and the CNES are still French agencies, and still have a majority of French staff and the rockets are launched from French territory (and the countdown is in French too I think).
So in regards to these elements I guess one could call it a "French" rocket.
what rockets / market share are you speaking about?
Market share in term of incomes from private companies for space launching (100% of the times it is satelites). ArianeEspace has over 50% of that market (last time I checked some hard numbers it was even over 70% !!).
Most European capitals have booming Internet and IT sectors, except maybe for south Europe. So Paris, Francfurt/Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Bruxell, Stockolm, etc... are all fine, depending on what lifestyle you are looking for. Salaries are usually the same once you relate them to life cost (London is well paid bug extremely expensive while Paris is not as well paid but cheaper to live in, etc...). I'd said Milan might be good too.
Its about time the US got some competition in the space arena
Duh ? Ever heard of the Russians ? The French ? They both have very good space infrastructure - hell, the French even have a bigger market share than the US in term of commercial space launch ! The Russians have always been better than Nasa for manned missions (you can laugh at Mir problems, yet it did more than Nasa ever did). Even the Japanese and Chinese have some kind of space industry (yet quite small right now). The US always had some competition in the space industry, from the first Spoutnik to the modern Ariane V.
You remind me of what people said about developping an OS, before Linux became famous. "Developping an OS is a big business" said Microsoft or Sun. Well, experience proved they were wrong, and that any good hacker with guts can start writing his own OS.
This guy or another one will prove again that you can do big things with small means and money.
Well if your app need a GUI (which is often the case in Windows...) you might want to look at C++ Builder from Borland : it will let you reuse the core of your programs in C, and you can build an interface around it without much knowledge of the (ugly) Windows API. Although C++ Builder has the same wrappers as Delphi, which means you can do low level stuff (sockets etc...) without bothering with the details of Windows implementation.
If all RAM companies start paying Rambus - then Rambus will be able to pressure then to make the lame RDRAM instead of DDR-SDRAM. After all they already state that SDRAM licences are more expensive than Rambus ones.
Whatever the consumer choose, he will have to indirectly pay Rambus. I guess this is pretty bad news for us all:(
The screen shots are 240x320 resolution with colors - so it seems to be WindowsCE based PDA. Although with Gnome being a total bloated piece of software, only Windows CE PDA who have 16 or 32 MB of RAM and RISC CPUs can handle it.
The US economy is 1000 times more robust than European economies because we allow people with ideas to exploit them.
If such things was quantifiable (which it isn't), I really doubt it would be a 1000 ratio... Probably a 1 ratio, because as soon as the dot com bubble burst, the whole US economy will collapse.
As far as economic studies goes, countries like France, Germany or Finland have higher-productivity, higher computerised economy than US. Go into a Renault car factory and then go to a GM one in US. Notice the difference... It takes more than some SUV driving yuppies creating silly dot coms to make a "robust economy". Get out of your cubicle and visit other countries before crying "USA is da best in the world".
Well it is supported by Paint Shop Pro, which is really the graphic editor of most people who do web pages and can't afford Photoshop (or don't want to bother with the complexity of it). So it is already well supported on the creation side... now what is needed is support in IE. No support in IE = death.
isn't that the same thing that was supposed to take care of our privacy ? well will they learn that there's no such thing as "industry self-regulation" ?
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It is better because :
a) I can backup the whole site (text AND images) in a single backup (mysqdump...)
b) if I delete a picture, I just need to issue one "DELETE FROM..." query.
c) Maintaining a link to a separate file mean that I have to keep the content of the pictures table and the pictures directory in sync. IE. with my solution I don't care about forgetting to erase pictures in the directory, because I can do a rm *.* on a regular basis and regenerate all pictures from the database.
Well for pictures I have a better scheme : I store original pictures into the database, along with mime type, dimensions, title, etc... then I generate files and thumbnails files from it so that they are really served as links, not from the database itself (much faster and easier on both MySQL and Apache). That way I have the power of storing my pics into a database (easy backups and better integrity) but the efficiency of regular file pictures :)
You could just store links to the pictures you know!
:) . Plus, integrity is better because erasing or adding a picture is a one operation (vs 2 operations with a link, since you have to erase/save the file after erasing/adding a row).
Sure - but now when I do a DB backup I get the complete site content in one big file. Text, pictures and infos all packed up in a neat package : I like this
Wow - I'm amazed ! PostgreSQL managed to grow and be used by many people with rows limited to 8 K... I think this really cripple the database, my sites all have whole articles, pictures, etc... into a MySQL database. Limiting rows to 8K basically makes a database totally worthless !
Well, it's been a while I'm playing Zelda on my palm... in color too... wtih a real gamepad, sound and a better screen than the real gameboy color. No, wait, that is not on a wimpy Palm, that is on my Cassiopeia E105 :)
32 Meg of RAM, a 131 Mhz RISC, a large high-res color screen, stereo sound and an integrated gamepad helps a lot for console emulators !
Let's make a good thing : send our unused MS software to a charitable organisation in Germany, where they could legaly sell the software and use the money for whatever good cause we support (suing MS, the RIAA or MPA for example :)
or more specifically the game house who was called Origin and put out Ultima IX
I've only had a short look to WAP, and it didn't looked so bad, except that it is quite different from HTML in the way it works, which means you need to learn everything again when coding WAP application.
But good or bad, millions of WAP enabled cell phones have been shipped over the world, many companies have a WAP accessible site or are working on it. Lots of Telecom companies (providers and equipement makers) in Europe are building their strategies around WAP services. It is based on XML, which is good - and there's no serious alternative standard to it around. So I can't really see how WAP could fail as a standard.
Now of course the concept might be flawed (ie "nobody wants to surf on a 100x80 pixel screen with no keyboard or pointing device"), but that has nothing to do with WAP itself.
That's because the 700 Mhz is a 100 Mhz bus CPU, while the 733 Mhz is on a 133 Mhz bus... so those two CPUs are for different platforms and are really two different product lines. The next big thing after the 700 is not 750, and after 733 it is 800.
10.5 times - in the latest 700 Mhz Celeron.
This is getting so ridiculous, with a 10.5 multiplicator the CPU is totally starving for datas, but Intel is controlled by the marketing drones, and they said "we will differenciate the Celeron and Pentium III, and Celeron shall not have a bus faster than 66 Mhz".
And they don't have laws against bribery to gain foreign contracts, such as the US has for its companies.
No - they do have such laws ! It is even retro-active, which means lots of people in big corporations are burning their files right now.
Crypto is allowed with keys up to 128 bits - only the software used has to be registered with the gov (as is PGP). Crypto used to be limited to 40 bits keys only a while ago, and Netscape had a 40 bits key version available for France. But it still had crypto.
Another blow to the "industry self regulation" supporters. Maybe sometimes they'll understand that capitalism without limits is just crap. Some things need to be moderated : when it comes to the economic rules, only an elected organisation should set the rules, not the players of the game themselves (aka corporation).
By "French" you mean "European"?
Kinda - I'm not very well informed on this, but as far as I know the Ariane rockets were created, developped and funded by France, as an evolution from the first French rockets in the 60s. Nowadays Arians IV and V carry some other European nations flags, because some other nations are participating in the program, but ArianeEspace and the CNES are still French agencies, and still have a majority of French staff and the rockets are launched from French territory (and the countdown is in French too I think).
So in regards to these elements I guess one could call it a "French" rocket.
what rockets / market share are you speaking about?
Market share in term of incomes from private companies for space launching (100% of the times it is satelites). ArianeEspace has over 50% of that market (last time I checked some hard numbers it was even over 70% !!).
Most European capitals have booming Internet and IT sectors, except maybe for south Europe. So Paris, Francfurt/Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Bruxell, Stockolm, etc... are all fine, depending on what lifestyle you are looking for. Salaries are usually the same once you relate them to life cost (London is well paid bug extremely expensive while Paris is not as well paid but cheaper to live in, etc...). I'd said Milan might be good too.
Its about time the US got some competition in the space arena
Duh ? Ever heard of the Russians ? The French ? They both have very good space infrastructure - hell, the French even have a bigger market share than the US in term of commercial space launch ! The Russians have always been better than Nasa for manned missions (you can laugh at Mir problems, yet it did more than Nasa ever did). Even the Japanese and Chinese have some kind of space industry (yet quite small right now). The US always had some competition in the space industry, from the first Spoutnik to the modern Ariane V.
You remind me of what people said about developping an OS, before Linux became famous. "Developping an OS is a big business" said Microsoft or Sun. Well, experience proved they were wrong, and that any good hacker with guts can start writing his own OS.
This guy or another one will prove again that you can do big things with small means and money.
Well if your app need a GUI (which is often the case in Windows...) you might want to look at C++ Builder from Borland : it will let you reuse the core of your programs in C, and you can build an interface around it without much knowledge of the (ugly) Windows API. Although C++ Builder has the same wrappers as Delphi, which means you can do low level stuff (sockets etc...) without bothering with the details of Windows implementation.
If all RAM companies start paying Rambus - then Rambus will be able to pressure then to make the lame RDRAM instead of DDR-SDRAM. After all they already state that SDRAM licences are more expensive than Rambus ones.
:(
Whatever the consumer choose, he will have to indirectly pay Rambus. I guess this is pretty bad news for us all
The screen shots are 240x320 resolution with colors - so it seems to be WindowsCE based PDA. Although with Gnome being a total bloated piece of software, only Windows CE PDA who have 16 or 32 MB of RAM and RISC CPUs can handle it.
The US economy is 1000 times more robust than European economies because we allow people with ideas to exploit them.
If such things was quantifiable (which it isn't), I really doubt it would be a 1000 ratio... Probably a 1 ratio, because as soon as the dot com bubble burst, the whole US economy will collapse.
As far as economic studies goes, countries like France, Germany or Finland have higher-productivity, higher computerised economy than US. Go into a Renault car factory and then go to a GM one in US. Notice the difference... It takes more than some SUV driving yuppies creating silly dot coms to make a "robust economy". Get out of your cubicle and visit other countries before crying "USA is da best in the world".
More support than GIMP is needed I am afraid
Well it is supported by Paint Shop Pro, which is really the graphic editor of most people who do web pages and can't afford Photoshop (or don't want to bother with the complexity of it). So it is already well supported on the creation side... now what is needed is support in IE. No support in IE = death.
Have a look at http://freenet.sourceforge.net ... this is what you are looking for.
and what about industry self-regulation
isn't that the same thing that was supposed to take care of our privacy ? well will they learn that there's no such thing as "industry self-regulation" ?
Not only that, but most problems in life could be solved by the proper use of a rocket launcher too...