good programmers are better than most people at thinking
anyone can be taught how to program, yes. that is basically telling them how to present their solution. that's not enough to call somebody a good programmer. the real performance is in the problem solving. and if your a well paid professional programmer, then you'r probably pretty good at solving problems.
adult biomechanical bodies will replace the automobile as social status statue and penis compensation (although the penis would be part of the body?)
some people would own more than one.. perhaps a model that is spefically designed to ski mountains and another ultra lightweight with wings designed to fly like a bird.
getting jacked for your ride would suck.. what can you do when you're just a brain in a box. homeless people would perish very quickly without any means to consume.
this would all have to happen before we realize that we can create even more efficient organic bodies thru DNA engineering. our vehicles would be some sort of animal that comfortably seats 4 on its back, eats waste and emits clean air and pure water.
homes would grow from the ground plummed with bathrooms and kitchens (the toilets will be some sort of mushroom that takes your shit and piss and turns it into hydrogen).
If I wanted low-level access to my data I could just choose to not use a database server.. I can implement my own balanced trees and indexes however I want, however that would be a lot of re-inventing for no good reason.
I know sql, very well in fact. I'm not asking for low-level access to my data I'm asking for low level access to my database server. Something native to my client language or my language of choice that would integrate with my code insight and IDE features, use enums, classes, variables, exceptions etc. Instead of a SQL reference and a billion static string resources.
I've written a few dozen GUI-on-top-of-big-ass-SQL-statement modules.. every single one was a PITA because of sql syntax naunce and high level bullshit.
Now, from a sql command line.. simply typing up the query to look at my data I think sql is fine. It could use a revision for some of its querks, but that shouldn't be the interface my client application uses to get the same data!
comparing assembly language to sql?! sql doesn't cut it because it's too high level. trying to do anything somewhat complicated in sql leads to headache and turmoil. the big problem is that there is no lower level interface to communicate to your database server with.. all you can do is hand it sql statements and get your results.
why bother writing a better sql? how about a low level object based api. use whatever language your client is already written in (so long as its oo). fuck learning another busted ass super high level language.. give me objects, methods, exceptions, etc.
I'm with you, fellow luddite..and shut the fuck up about quantum computers already! IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN! the whole concept is absurd! if god wanted us to compute at quantum speeds he would have given us bigger brains! just write your goddamn shareware and shutup!
there are also people who build and fly experimental aircraft. 10 hours sounds about right for an ultralight. a cessna requirs a ga license which requires 100 hours.
you should use the 400mhz system to do your programming on and use the dually for your photoshop/quark work.. you'll write better software, and photoshop/quark will make much better use of the horsepower
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why the hell would you want anything slower/smaller and why on earth would anyone complain about the quality of the low-end market being too great?
jesus the only car I can get for a dollar has 300hp and is insainly fuel efficient.. that is just TOO much car for me! I think I'll find something used at the junkyard
I actually have a T1 connection, my max upload is 200kb/sec.. I'm bitching because a single dsl connection is sucking it all away.
I guess nobody had the foresight when deciding to trade gobs of upstream for downstream with these damn'd home connections that they'd be creating an army of leaches. Actually I guess thats exactly what wanted to do.
Imagine the possibilities in P2P if all the leaches had 50/50 bandwidth
why do cable/dsl connections have shit for upstream bandwidth? it's like 300-500kb download and 30-50kb upload.. it pretty much makes everybody on a cable/dsl connection a leach.
I just installed DC++ I have 200kb upload and a single dsl connection is sucking it dry.. meanwhile I'm downloading an initial d episode at 10kb. why??
I searched thru the settings in dc++ and can't find any way to throttle the upstream.
you wouldn't really need to solve for why.. simply assume that if somebody else out there also happens to love mozart, saviour machine and the moulin rouge soundtrack that you two may be interested in each other's music collection.
oh and as for pirating, I pretty much agree with what you said. the problem I have in general isn't buying music, it's finding it. I'm not exactly a top40 person. When I hear a song I want at a club or party I usually set out on the internet with an artist name and a couple lyrics and the search can take forever. 9 times out of 10 I find the song I want on some compilation record in some music store in the uk or some shit.. if I can find it on p2p I'll download it, if not I buy what I have to (usually way more than a single track, and way more than $20 after shipping) to get what I want.
sitting on the sidelines and waiting for my wishlist.. it may not be such a bad thing. if many people are of the same mindset, if some company gets it right their business will explode as people rush to sign up and spend money thinking "finally".
ok I realize every-song-ever isn't going to happen. there is some music that is impossible to find even on the ed2k network. but a commercial site should be able to have MORE music than what you can find underground by signing record labels and artists and buying rights or whatever.
but as far as available music goes, the more the better.
also, it would be nice if the site could maintain a playlist for you. when purchasing music maybe you don't have to download the file, you just add it to your playlist and stream it from their site. also, if taste in music is any sign of your personality type and interests you could combine the site with some sort of blog community and make people's playlists available it would be a great way to meet friends, share music and discover new music you didn't know you liked
why don't more sites use a simple query tool like newegg's? just about every site tries to categorize everything into drill down categories that actually maximizing the amount of clicks it takes to find what you want.
here is what it will take for me to pay for music: 1) must host every song ever, available for immediate speedy download in more than a few different formats/bitrates 2) a query tool (genre, artist, date of release, lyrics, etc) at LEAST a simple search utility 3) when I select a song I want to see the list of "other people who selected this song also selected.."
thats it.. first site to implement these 3 features gets my money. I don't care what it costs.
the list goes on, there are about 200 more browsers (12mil records total). it seems there is just noway to post it here.. compression filter? who wrote this crap?
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good programmers are better than most people at thinking
anyone can be taught how to program, yes. that is basically telling them how to present their solution. that's not enough to call somebody a good programmer.
the real performance is in the problem solving. and if your a well paid professional programmer, then you'r probably pretty good at solving problems.
you can't compete with google. they've bought every single engineer with a phd in modern information retrieval.
the turbo button on my computer case could activate an actual turbo! fuckin awsome
586 followed by intel with Pentium
K8 followed by intel with P6
AMD64 followed by intel with EMT64
where's our transparent aluminum!
adult biomechanical bodies will replace the automobile as social status statue and penis compensation (although the penis would be part of the body?)
some people would own more than one.. perhaps a model that is spefically designed to ski mountains and another ultra lightweight with wings designed to fly like a bird.
getting jacked for your ride would suck.. what can you do when you're just a brain in a box. homeless people would perish very quickly without any means to consume.
this would all have to happen before we realize that we can create even more efficient organic bodies thru DNA engineering. our vehicles would be some sort of animal that comfortably seats 4 on its back, eats waste and emits clean air and pure water.
homes would grow from the ground plummed with bathrooms and kitchens (the toilets will be some sort of mushroom that takes your shit and piss and turns it into hydrogen).
If I wanted low-level access to my data I could just choose to not use a database server.. I can implement my own balanced trees and indexes however I want, however that would be a lot of re-inventing for no good reason.
I know sql, very well in fact. I'm not asking for low-level access to my data I'm asking for low level access to my database server. Something native to my client language or my language of choice that would integrate with my code insight and IDE features, use enums, classes, variables, exceptions etc. Instead of a SQL reference and a billion static string resources.
I've written a few dozen GUI-on-top-of-big-ass-SQL-statement modules.. every single one was a PITA because of sql syntax naunce and high level bullshit.
Now, from a sql command line.. simply typing up the query to look at my data I think sql is fine. It could use a revision for some of its querks, but that shouldn't be the interface my client application uses to get the same data!
comparing assembly language to sql?!
sql doesn't cut it because it's too high level. trying to do anything somewhat complicated in sql leads to headache and turmoil. the big problem is that there is no lower level interface to communicate to your database server with.. all you can do is hand it sql statements and get your results.
why bother writing a better sql? how about a low level object based api. use whatever language your client is already written in (so long as its oo). fuck learning another busted ass super high level language.. give me objects, methods, exceptions, etc.
I'm with you, fellow luddite ..and shut the fuck up about quantum computers already! IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN! the whole concept is absurd! if god wanted us to compute at quantum speeds he would have given us bigger brains! just write your goddamn shareware and shutup!
there are also people who build and fly experimental aircraft. 10 hours sounds about right for an ultralight. a cessna requirs a ga license which requires 100 hours.
holy shit 22 million lines of code? sounds like you need to switch to C# ;)
you should use the 400mhz system to do your programming on and use the dually for your photoshop/quark work.. you'll write better software, and photoshop/quark will make much better use of the horsepower
$56 Athlon 2400+
$32 GeForce4 MX 440 64mb
$37 256mb DDR400
$31 40gb HD
$72 17" CRT monitor
why the hell would you want anything slower/smaller and why on earth would anyone complain about the quality of the low-end market being too great?
jesus the only car I can get for a dollar has 300hp and is insainly fuel efficient.. that is just TOO much car for me! I think I'll find something used at the junkyard
I actually have a T1 connection, my max upload is 200kb/sec.. I'm bitching because a single dsl connection is sucking it all away.
I guess nobody had the foresight when deciding to trade gobs of upstream for downstream with these damn'd home connections that they'd be creating an army of leaches. Actually I guess thats exactly what wanted to do.
Imagine the possibilities in P2P if all the leaches had 50/50 bandwidth
why do cable/dsl connections have shit for upstream bandwidth? it's like 300-500kb download and 30-50kb upload.. it pretty much makes everybody on a cable/dsl connection a leach.
I just installed DC++ I have 200kb upload and a single dsl connection is sucking it dry.. meanwhile I'm downloading an initial d episode at 10kb. why??
I searched thru the settings in dc++ and can't find any way to throttle the upstream.
you wouldn't really need to solve for why.. simply assume that if somebody else out there also happens to love mozart, saviour machine and the moulin rouge soundtrack that you two may be interested in each other's music collection.
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oh and as for pirating, I pretty much agree with what you said. the problem I have in general isn't buying music, it's finding it. I'm not exactly a top40 person. When I hear a song I want at a club or party I usually set out on the internet with an artist name and a couple lyrics and the search can take forever. 9 times out of 10 I find the song I want on some compilation record in some music store in the uk or some shit.. if I can find it on p2p I'll download it, if not I buy what I have to (usually way more than a single track, and way more than $20 after shipping) to get what I want.
sitting on the sidelines and waiting for my wishlist.. it may not be such a bad thing. if many people are of the same mindset, if some company gets it right their business will explode as people rush to sign up and spend money thinking "finally".
ok I realize every-song-ever isn't going to happen. there is some music that is impossible to find even on the ed2k network. but a commercial site should be able to have MORE music than what you can find underground by signing record labels and artists and buying rights or whatever.
but as far as available music goes, the more the better.
also, it would be nice if the site could maintain a playlist for you. when purchasing music maybe you don't have to download the file, you just add it to your playlist and stream it from their site. also, if taste in music is any sign of your personality type and interests you could combine the site with some sort of blog community and make people's playlists available it would be a great way to meet friends, share music and discover new music you didn't know you liked
why don't more sites use a simple query tool like newegg's? just about every site tries to categorize everything into drill down categories that actually maximizing the amount of clicks it takes to find what you want.
here is what it will take for me to pay for music:
1) must host every song ever, available for immediate speedy download in more than a few different formats/bitrates
2) a query tool (genre, artist, date of release, lyrics, etc) at LEAST a simple search utility
3) when I select a song I want to see the list of "other people who selected this song also selected.."
thats it.. first site to implement these 3 features gets my money. I don't care what it costs.
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the list goes on, there are about 200 more browsers (12mil records total). it seems there is just noway to post it here.. compression filter? who wrote this crap?
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heres our ytd data from tracking links (mostly confirmation emails, some ads, pretty random)
IE 6.0 80.26 9228426
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