Why ? Because up to a few months ago things like BLOB had to be handled in a screwed up ways, because some types are missing, because indexes on 64 bit values seems to not work, etc...
postgreSQL is much more feature rich but not perfect, and the documentation is seriously not in sync with latest release (forcing you to dig thru mailling list archives to find how to use this or this feature)
I also can't understand why it takes so long for them to add subselects. It's easy to implement and a great much-needed feature. Why is it taking so long ?
In fact BeOS wasn't developped as a multimedia OS. It was developped as a nice, legacy free, new and highly multithreaded OS. Then Be tried to see how they could market the thing and found it BeOS was very good at multimedia (smooth handling of streamed data and low latency) and decided to brand it "the multimedia OS".
Well I'd say the same two, I used to be a die-hard fan of bulky and beefy PCs but now I've my second Dell laptop and love it. Dells are usually a bit pricy but they are loaded with equipment and luxuries, the best one being the gorgeous screens they put on. Just the 1400x1050 or 1600x1200 TFT screens are worth the price by themselves. As for the model, I tend to favor the big Insipron 8000, I never use my laptop in train or plane so battery life and weight are not an issue, and I'm more than ready to give up on those to get more power and larger screen:)
Also the support is good - make sure to get a 3 year warranty because under daily use those things tend to wear down and you just can't replace the keyboard for 10 $ like with a desktop PC.
Well I'm sure some places in Israelien territories are very fine and rather safe - but for one many interesting places are in Palestinian territories (and no tourist wants to be taken in a crossfire), and for two I would really hate to provide, with the money I would spend, support to a country who is organizing etchnic cleansing and conquest thru colonization. The same as I would not visit North Korea or Birmania.
Well the Palestinian have a clue about the whole thing. The Israelian can't win, as they are not facing an organised army but a population where every kid over 7 is a potential enemy. For Israel to win, they'd have to kill every Palestinian.
The Palestinian have nothing to loose, most of them are rather happy to die in this war, and the Israelian have everything to loose.
Well, most nations who had to fight Germany in the early WWII got all crushed and overwhelmed. It is not so much a matter of size but that Germany was using modern weapons with modern tactics. On the other side France for example was still into the WWI-style wars, with long endless fights and fixed positions. The Maginot line of defense was made for a WWI type of fight. When the Nazi tanks and bombers came along, this type of defense was totally inadequate (but when they found out, it was way too late).
I find it offensive when you suggest that if people are going to live in poverty anyway, it's better for them to live on welfare than work.
I never said so - I said that it won't magically make jobless people get a job. For one removing welfare doesn't create jobs, for two many people are just not fit to handle a job. Even McDonalds has productivity standards that many people in their 50s or above can't stick to (heck just look at the average age of people who work there).
What we should be doing is trying to improve the standard of living of those who do work, not encourage them not to work.
I agree with that - but people who oppose welfare (in other words most Repubicans) want to destroy it, not make the life of those who work on low paying jobs better (have yet to see the Republicans support raising the minimum wage by a significant value).
Well people are already locked into poverty without welfare - welfare doesn't change anything to that, it just makes poverty easier to live with.
Or are you one of those morroons who think the guys serving fries at McDonald will become a CEO somedays ? Do you know how many people work in restaurants, and how many CEO there are ?
Well they are successful because they are fundamentalist. When you are promised heaven if you die at war, and you believe so strongly in it, then you are not affraid of death and it makes you a better fighter. There's nothing more dangerous than a soldier who's not affraid to die.
If you played Alpha Centauri you know that because of their hard religious believes Sister Miriam & the believers get a bonus during fights (but a malus at science). Of course then, I always play as the University of Planets instead, research like crazy and then just crush everyone at the end with my powerful high-tech toys:)
The fact is the goverment control all of the Telephone services and montitoring is normal, the TV, Radio and Media a government controlled and thus no criticism is allowed and anyone who dares to stand up to them dies.
It's worse than that - TV and radio are not allowed. I dunno about printed newspaper. Soon this country will be back to cave age.
Why ? Simply because a lot of money and big businesses are at stake here over this problem. And where there's money... there are a lot of people ready to lie to get it (hello Mr Bush !!!).
You're not worse - but then why did you bought such an expensive oversized thing for which you have so little use ? Why not just a smaller car or even rent a SUV when you need it ?
They did look at how MP3 works and took "ideas" out of it. Ogg Vorbis uses a lot of concept pioneered by the MPEG audio codecs (MPEG Layer 3 and the ancestors Layer 1 & 2).
1600x1200 pixels are already on lots of laptops. They just managed to fit all those pixels in a 15" format and that's it. And oddly enough - it's very readable once you get used to the unusual smallness of letters and icons.
There are no more dead pixels appearing. I've owned a LCD for 2,5 years - it arrived perfect and is still perfect with all pixels 100% functionnals.
Depending of your PC :
- the screen : those things run from 70 to 150 Watts/hour depending of size, which is really huge. A flat panel will go 20 to 30 Watts.
- the CPU - if you have one of the latest beast (Athlon 1400/Pentium 4 1,7 Ghz) it can go above 50 Watts during intensive computations
- the graphic card can be a power drain - when the GeForce or Voodoo 5 arrived some motherboards had to be redesigned to provide enough power to the board.
- DVD-ROM, hard drives or sometimes fans (if you have 4 or 5 of them, it can stack up to over 10 Watts )
Windows 2000 won't work well on groovy game machines with highly tuned graphics cards, such as Diamond's AGP 550
Yeah - and that's the Windows 2000 "fan" who writes it ! Diamond is dead for a long while, and the Viper 550 is a quite old graphic card. Plus, Windows 2000 works like on charm on such hardware (it's nVidia chipset, and there's a good driver for all of them on Windows 2000)
Don't forget :
- violence : the US are really screwed up with violence (thanks to a nation wide love and fascination for guns and shooting).
- justice is pretty wacky too : frying peoples all year long and awarding 3 Billion dollar (Austin Powers pun not intended) to that smoker guy.
They say you can judge how advanced a civilization is by how well it treats it's prisonners and criminals...
Actually the monthly cap on cable is for upload bandwidth, download is unmettered. But most people (myself included) don't like the idea of having to pay for extra upload traffic (which they don't really control) and prefer and lower speed-unmettered upload with ADSL.
True - but then they can still pass laws that somehow makes moving your money thru the Bahamas and Monaco impossible. This is not a trade barrier, this is "money laundering control":)
I'd like to know your source. Because according to the Kyoto protocol, 90% of the earth countries seems to think global warming is a reality. Oddly enough, those countries who oppose are those whose economy rely heavily on coal and oil...
There are also a bunch of scientist saying Darwin was wrong and that the earth was created by God a few thousands years ago. That don't make Darwin wrong and/or Bible thumbers right. You'll always find lunatics claming the earth really is flat, or global warming is in your imagination (despite the very fact that everyone can see the climate changing). The scientific majority, including those scientist published in well respected magazines like Nature, say global warming is a reality. Those who claim otherwhise - and spread this message - are oil companies and oil producing countries... you simply cannot trust them - even if you like the fuzzy feeling nice message they are passing around : "everything is fine, the earth is safe, you can keep release billions of tons of CO in the air and nothing at all will ever happen". Those spin-doctors are the same who claimed tobacco was harmless, or that no, there's no worry to have about standing without protection 2 km away from a nuclear explosion (and they had scientist to back this crap too just like now).
And if you still aren't convince, apply the old principle "better safe than sorry".
No, your country is trying to pas international law to force all members of these international organizations to deny them business.
So ? There's no such thing as international laws. There are national laws and international treaties. Every country is free to sign or not both. If other countries than Europe agree to follow Europe on this issue, that's fair. No one is being forced into anything.
Oh so you have chosen to believe Al Gore?
Nope - choosen to believe what elderly, experienced and wise scientists are saying vs what Texaco and Bush say. I might be wrong, but those scientists seems to know better what they are talking about. Texaco has a huge vested interest in not fighting global-warming, and hence cannot be trusted, and Bush has always supported the oil industry so he can't be trusted either (that and the fact that he is a total idiot and a puppet)
And what gives you right to deny them this business?
I (my country) have no right to deny them business except business with my economy. As far as I know, Europe is free to refuse to do business with any country it wants.
You are not going to get poisoned. Please, be more serious here and rely on scientific data as opposed to hearsay
It's not hearsay - hormone-enhanced meat (beef/chicken/etc.) was allowed in Europe and then got banned during the 80s because a lots of medical studies discovered there was a correlation between those hormones and cancer. It's no more hearsay than global warming (despite what Bush and Texaco say).
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Why ? Because up to a few months ago things like BLOB had to be handled in a screwed up ways, because some types are missing, because indexes on 64 bit values seems to not work, etc...
postgreSQL is much more feature rich but not perfect, and the documentation is seriously not in sync with latest release (forcing you to dig thru mailling list archives to find how to use this or this feature)
I also can't understand why it takes so long for them to add subselects. It's easy to implement and a great much-needed feature. Why is it taking so long ?
In fact BeOS wasn't developped as a multimedia OS. It was developped as a nice, legacy free, new and highly multithreaded OS. Then Be tried to see how they could market the thing and found it BeOS was very good at multimedia (smooth handling of streamed data and low latency) and decided to brand it "the multimedia OS".
Well I'd say the same two, I used to be a die-hard fan of bulky and beefy PCs but now I've my second Dell laptop and love it. Dells are usually a bit pricy but they are loaded with equipment and luxuries, the best one being the gorgeous screens they put on. Just the 1400x1050 or 1600x1200 TFT screens are worth the price by themselves. As for the model, I tend to favor the big Insipron 8000, I never use my laptop in train or plane so battery life and weight are not an issue, and I'm more than ready to give up on those to get more power and larger screen :)
Also the support is good - make sure to get a 3 year warranty because under daily use those things tend to wear down and you just can't replace the keyboard for 10 $ like with a desktop PC.
Well I'm sure some places in Israelien territories are very fine and rather safe - but for one many interesting places are in Palestinian territories (and no tourist wants to be taken in a crossfire), and for two I would really hate to provide, with the money I would spend, support to a country who is organizing etchnic cleansing and conquest thru colonization. The same as I would not visit North Korea or Birmania.
Well the Palestinian have a clue about the whole thing. The Israelian can't win, as they are not facing an organised army but a population where every kid over 7 is a potential enemy. For Israel to win, they'd have to kill every Palestinian.
The Palestinian have nothing to loose, most of them are rather happy to die in this war, and the Israelian have everything to loose.
Well, most nations who had to fight Germany in the early WWII got all crushed and overwhelmed. It is not so much a matter of size but that Germany was using modern weapons with modern tactics. On the other side France for example was still into the WWI-style wars, with long endless fights and fixed positions. The Maginot line of defense was made for a WWI type of fight. When the Nazi tanks and bombers came along, this type of defense was totally inadequate (but when they found out, it was way too late).
I find it offensive when you suggest that if people are going to live in poverty anyway, it's better for them to live on welfare than work.
I never said so - I said that it won't magically make jobless people get a job. For one removing welfare doesn't create jobs, for two many people are just not fit to handle a job. Even McDonalds has productivity standards that many people in their 50s or above can't stick to (heck just look at the average age of people who work there).
What we should be doing is trying to improve the standard of living of those who do work, not encourage them not to work.
I agree with that - but people who oppose welfare (in other words most Repubicans) want to destroy it, not make the life of those who work on low paying jobs better (have yet to see the Republicans support raising the minimum wage by a significant value).
When you can write in my language as well as I write in yours, you'll be allowed to complain.
Well people are already locked into poverty without welfare - welfare doesn't change anything to that, it just makes poverty easier to live with.
Or are you one of those morroons who think the guys serving fries at McDonald will become a CEO somedays ? Do you know how many people work in restaurants, and how many CEO there are ?
Well they are successful because they are fundamentalist. When you are promised heaven if you die at war, and you believe so strongly in it, then you are not affraid of death and it makes you a better fighter. There's nothing more dangerous than a soldier who's not affraid to die.
:)
If you played Alpha Centauri you know that because of their hard religious believes Sister Miriam & the believers get a bonus during fights (but a malus at science). Of course then, I always play as the University of Planets instead, research like crazy and then just crush everyone at the end with my powerful high-tech toys
The fact is the goverment control all of the Telephone services and montitoring is normal, the TV, Radio and Media a government controlled and thus no criticism is allowed and anyone who dares to stand up to them dies.
It's worse than that - TV and radio are not allowed. I dunno about printed newspaper. Soon this country will be back to cave age.
Why ? Simply because a lot of money and big businesses are at stake here over this problem. And where there's money... there are a lot of people ready to lie to get it (hello Mr Bush !!!).
You're not worse - but then why did you bought such an expensive oversized thing for which you have so little use ? Why not just a smaller car or even rent a SUV when you need it ?
I don't dreak any alcohol. Does that mean I can't watch the beer-commercials with bikini babes ?
They did look at how MP3 works and took "ideas" out of it. Ogg Vorbis uses a lot of concept pioneered by the MPEG audio codecs (MPEG Layer 3 and the ancestors Layer 1 & 2).
Depending of your PC :
- the screen : those things run from 70 to 150 Watts/hour depending of size, which is really huge. A flat panel will go 20 to 30 Watts.
- the CPU - if you have one of the latest beast (Athlon 1400/Pentium 4 1,7 Ghz) it can go above 50 Watts during intensive computations
- the graphic card can be a power drain - when the GeForce or Voodoo 5 arrived some motherboards had to be redesigned to provide enough power to the board.
- DVD-ROM, hard drives or sometimes fans (if you have 4 or 5 of them, it can stack up to over 10 Watts )
Windows 2000 won't work well on groovy game machines with highly tuned graphics cards, such as Diamond's AGP 550
Yeah - and that's the Windows 2000 "fan" who writes it ! Diamond is dead for a long while, and the Viper 550 is a quite old graphic card. Plus, Windows 2000 works like on charm on such hardware (it's nVidia chipset, and there's a good driver for all of them on Windows 2000)
Don't forget :
- violence : the US are really screwed up with violence (thanks to a nation wide love and fascination for guns and shooting).
- justice is pretty wacky too : frying peoples all year long and awarding 3 Billion dollar (Austin Powers pun not intended) to that smoker guy.
They say you can judge how advanced a civilization is by how well it treats it's prisonners and criminals...
Actually the monthly cap on cable is for upload bandwidth, download is unmettered. But most people (myself included) don't like the idea of having to pay for extra upload traffic (which they don't really control) and prefer and lower speed-unmettered upload with ADSL.
True - but then they can still pass laws that somehow makes moving your money thru the Bahamas and Monaco impossible. This is not a trade barrier, this is "money laundering control" :)
I'd like to know your source. Because according to the Kyoto protocol, 90% of the earth countries seems to think global warming is a reality. Oddly enough, those countries who oppose are those whose economy rely heavily on coal and oil...
There are also a bunch of scientist saying Darwin was wrong and that the earth was created by God a few thousands years ago. That don't make Darwin wrong and/or Bible thumbers right. You'll always find lunatics claming the earth really is flat, or global warming is in your imagination (despite the very fact that everyone can see the climate changing). The scientific majority, including those scientist published in well respected magazines like Nature, say global warming is a reality. Those who claim otherwhise - and spread this message - are oil companies and oil producing countries... you simply cannot trust them - even if you like the fuzzy feeling nice message they are passing around : "everything is fine, the earth is safe, you can keep release billions of tons of CO in the air and nothing at all will ever happen". Those spin-doctors are the same who claimed tobacco was harmless, or that no, there's no worry to have about standing without protection 2 km away from a nuclear explosion (and they had scientist to back this crap too just like now).
And if you still aren't convince, apply the old principle "better safe than sorry".
No, your country is trying to pas international law to force all members of these international organizations to deny them business.
So ? There's no such thing as international laws. There are national laws and international treaties. Every country is free to sign or not both. If other countries than Europe agree to follow Europe on this issue, that's fair. No one is being forced into anything.
Oh so you have chosen to believe Al Gore?
Nope - choosen to believe what elderly, experienced and wise scientists are saying vs what Texaco and Bush say. I might be wrong, but those scientists seems to know better what they are talking about. Texaco has a huge vested interest in not fighting global-warming, and hence cannot be trusted, and Bush has always supported the oil industry so he can't be trusted either (that and the fact that he is a total idiot and a puppet)
And what gives you right to deny them this business?
I (my country) have no right to deny them business except business with my economy. As far as I know, Europe is free to refuse to do business with any country it wants.
You are not going to get poisoned. Please, be more serious here and rely on scientific data as opposed to hearsay
It's not hearsay - hormone-enhanced meat (beef/chicken/etc.) was allowed in Europe and then got banned during the 80s because a lots of medical studies discovered there was a correlation between those hormones and cancer. It's no more hearsay than global warming (despite what Bush and Texaco say).