This same thing happened with Voltron. In the early 80's my parents bought me a Voltron (the lion version with actual metal lions instead of all plastic). It broke very quickly and ever since I wished I was more careful with it.
In 1999, my parents were living in Austrialia and they actually found the exact same Voltron but repackaged with updated graphics. It was the best Christmas present I ever got!
To me this doesn't say that the features aren't useful.
Definitely, that goes without saying. I just didn't want to be included on the bandwagon that says MySQL sucks because it doesn't have stored procedures. (Which in the past has seemed like a large bandwagon)
Our main application was originally on MySQL. Started off at around 3 million records spread across 78 taables. The largest table had around 575,000 records. Now we are much larger running on Oracle.
MySQL handled the load and all of our queries on multiple servers in our app cluster just fine. But when we needed more advanced things that MySQL doesn't provide (and won't for another decade or so) we moved to Oracle.
We defined "more advanced things" as master-master replication (that is easy to setup and maintain and is provided by the DB vendor), real DB clustering, Natural Language searching, complex sub-queries, recycling sequences (auto_increment keys), and a host of administration tools among other things. Granted, some of these MySQL is just now putting out there. But it certainly doesn't have all.
Notice, I never mentioned stored procedures, triggers, or views.
Its funny, way back when we were justifying using MySQL in a production enterprise environment, speed comaprisons against Oracle was a huge argument. But if MySQL ever throws in everything Oracle has feature wise, they will be just as slow if not slower.
I'm not sure what the article is talking about. As far as I know, there is no DRM in MHT files. If there is, MS is retrofitting some scheme to it.
MHT and MHTML files are actually really cool and its too bad other browsers don't support it. (Or in Mozilla's case, support it outside of the mail client.) I wonder if its just because MS came up with the idea? (AFAIK)
The format is *extremely* useful for things like demo'ing a web site or portions of a website on a frequent basis to different people. I work for a company where we are constantly updating our demo server with new accounts, constantly creating new subdomains, etc, just to allow a client to view the site in their browser securely. We need to be able to take premission away from them after the demo period is over, as well as, make sure unprivledged users don't see the content.
This could all be solved by storing the mhtml archive of the web content in our digital asset management system. Administering that is much easier that setting up new domains/users/etc.
My f**k'd up example was in Java not C++. The problems you bring up aren't present in Java. We are discussing Java, not C++. You do not seem to be knowledgable in Java, hence your statement, '...do braindead things like mutating objects in place...need to specify clone()'. Clone does not mutate any object. The need for it is to make a copy so that c won't be modified when someone modifies a.
I'm not going to get into another religious debate over something that has been argued since the dawn of time.
On top of that, someone could come along and change the code and forget to update the comment to reflect the change. Then you simply have more obfuscated code.
I always thought that Sun's decision to leave operator overloading out of java was a huge mistake. IIRC, Their argument being that it could lead to confusing code if programmers change the meaning of operators like + is really -. If you ask me that argument is ridiculous. A programmer could just as easily create a method called add() and have it perform like subtract.
All it does is make us have to type more and take a few hundred milliseconds more time to look at a line of code like
CrazyObjectNumber a = new CrazyObjectNumber(...);
CrazyObjectNumber b = new CrazyObjectNumber(...);
CrazyObjectNumber c = (a * b) + 53;
Which line 3 ends up being:
CrazyObjectNumber c = ((a = a.multiply(b)).add(53)).clone();
I'm sorry, but could someone please explain to me how graphic rendering can be done with something with such high latency as a network connection? Its bad enough when I have to use MAIN MEMORY.
About the racial comment, its not entirely true. I'm caucasian, wear normal clothes, and I've had to go through it 2 out of 5 flights since January.
Though it is the most frustrating thing to have happen to you. You entire privacy is completely violated and the process solves absolutely no problems.
The second time it happened to me in the Reno, Nevada airport (which is a freakin horrible airport) they lost my laptop and a $250 watch. How the hell do you do that?
Your first mistake is you are looking for work with employers/customers that want VB experience.
:)
And a more apt analogy would be someone telling you to use nails instead of screws. You are not selling them the tool you used to build the product (screwdriver in your example).
Sorry, I don't mean the extended form. I'm speaking of fees that are made up of # of views. If a song by band x is a spot that's played 10,000 times, they get paid more than if it was played 8,000 times.
I'm interested in how they handle other costs besides the purchase of a time slice. Things like, talent payments, music rights, etc. are all overhead that must be considered when airing a TV spot. If these are run more than what the company expected, they may be paying more money then wanted.
I have been campaigning mozilla for some time as a replacement to IE for our company of ~1200 Mac and PC users. The one stumbling block is that Oracle's application support under anything but IE sucks.
Its not about sharing. Its about getting what you want, when you want it. A.K.A., Now. File sharing was simply a piece to fill the void of online distributors. Look at iTunes. There is no sharing involved to distribute the files.
I'm actually glad the industries still don't get it. It means they may still be on their way out.
Its really pathetic when you think how well the Rings and Matrix trilogy turned out when compared to the ass load of time its taking lucas to do 1 film.
What I did was lamenate it and it went bad some months later (zenith TV's really suck apparently)
BS! You laminated a heat sensitive piece of paper? Did you even stop to think about what you just said? Good work considering you have to *MELT* plastic to laminate something.
I've used ImageMagick for a few years now, mostly for image processing on the backend of web application. It is great as far as the shear number of file formats it supports. I haven't seen any other 'free' application out there that does what ImageMagick does. Its speed is okay compared to commercial equivalents such as Image Alchemy.
But the downfall of Image Magick is the installation. It is the most god awful spaghetti mess of all time when it comes to its dependancies. You see, what they don't tell you right off the bat is ImageMagick doesn't actually work with the file formats internally. AFAIK, it relies on all of the format specific libraries out there. If your application is hosted by a virtual hosting provider, good luck getting all that installed.
Alright, I am a avid proponent of java. But come on guys, XP has been out for almost two year and they are just *now* releasing support for that look and feel?
That's just one more reason why people are flocking to SWT over Swing.
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I believe it went something like this...
In 1999, my parents were living in Austrialia and they actually found the exact same Voltron but repackaged with updated graphics. It was the best Christmas present I ever got!
When some of the prime features of the software don't work, you can't exactly say the app is supported.
But it is way cool that iTunes music store is working. Keep up the good work guys, but don't jump the gun on integration announcements.
Definitely, that goes without saying. I just didn't want to be included on the bandwagon that says MySQL sucks because it doesn't have stored procedures. (Which in the past has seemed like a large bandwagon)
Ditto.
Our main application was originally on MySQL. Started off at around 3 million records spread across 78 taables. The largest table had around 575,000 records. Now we are much larger running on Oracle.
MySQL handled the load and all of our queries on multiple servers in our app cluster just fine. But when we needed more advanced things that MySQL doesn't provide (and won't for another decade or so) we moved to Oracle.
We defined "more advanced things" as master-master replication (that is easy to setup and maintain and is provided by the DB vendor), real DB clustering, Natural Language searching, complex sub-queries, recycling sequences (auto_increment keys), and a host of administration tools among other things. Granted, some of these MySQL is just now putting out there. But it certainly doesn't have all.
Notice, I never mentioned stored procedures, triggers, or views.
Its funny, way back when we were justifying using MySQL in a production enterprise environment, speed comaprisons against Oracle was a huge argument. But if MySQL ever throws in everything Oracle has feature wise, they will be just as slow if not slower.
MHT and MHTML files are actually really cool and its too bad other browsers don't support it. (Or in Mozilla's case, support it outside of the mail client.) I wonder if its just because MS came up with the idea? (AFAIK)
The format is *extremely* useful for things like demo'ing a web site or portions of a website on a frequent basis to different people. I work for a company where we are constantly updating our demo server with new accounts, constantly creating new subdomains, etc, just to allow a client to view the site in their browser securely. We need to be able to take premission away from them after the demo period is over, as well as, make sure unprivledged users don't see the content.
This could all be solved by storing the mhtml archive of the web content in our digital asset management system. Administering that is much easier that setting up new domains/users/etc.
But alas, nobody supports it.
As stated in the article, if you go with Dish Network, you can do the same as cable and rent the device.
My f**k'd up example was in Java not C++. The problems you bring up aren't present in Java. We are discussing Java, not C++. You do not seem to be knowledgable in Java, hence your statement, '...do braindead things like mutating objects in place...need to specify clone()'. Clone does not mutate any object. The need for it is to make a copy so that c won't be modified when someone modifies a.
I'm not going to get into another religious debate over something that has been argued since the dawn of time.
CrazyObjectNumber c = a.clone();
c.multiply(b);
c.add(53);
For one, it would have to be:
CrazyObjectNumber c = a.clone();
c = c.multiply(b);
c = c.add(53);
Whether or not you break it up into multiple lines, its still a pain in the ass to type code so verbatim. c * b is just simpler than c.multiply(b).
On top of that, someone could come along and change the code and forget to update the comment to reflect the change. Then you simply have more obfuscated code.
All it does is make us have to type more and take a few hundred milliseconds more time to look at a line of code like
CrazyObjectNumber a = new CrazyObjectNumber(...);
CrazyObjectNumber b = new CrazyObjectNumber(...);
CrazyObjectNumber c = (a * b) + 53;
Which line 3 ends up being:
CrazyObjectNumber c = ((a = a.multiply(b)).add(53)).clone();
Which one is easier to read?
I'm sorry, but could someone please explain to me how graphic rendering can be done with something with such high latency as a network connection? Its bad enough when I have to use MAIN MEMORY.
Though it is the most frustrating thing to have happen to you. You entire privacy is completely violated and the process solves absolutely no problems.
The second time it happened to me in the Reno, Nevada airport (which is a freakin horrible airport) they lost my laptop and a $250 watch. How the hell do you do that?
And a more apt analogy would be someone telling you to use nails instead of screws. You are not selling them the tool you used to build the product (screwdriver in your example).
Sorry, I don't mean the extended form. I'm speaking of fees that are made up of # of views. If a song by band x is a spot that's played 10,000 times, they get paid more than if it was played 8,000 times.
I'm interested in how they handle other costs besides the purchase of a time slice. Things like, talent payments, music rights, etc. are all overhead that must be considered when airing a TV spot. If these are run more than what the company expected, they may be paying more money then wanted.
This is the best saturday EVER!!!! Woohooo!
Its not about sharing. Its about getting what you want, when you want it. A.K.A., Now. File sharing was simply a piece to fill the void of online distributors. Look at iTunes. There is no sharing involved to distribute the files.
I'm actually glad the industries still don't get it. It means they may still be on their way out.
The worst mistake I ever made.
Absolutely pathetic.
What I did was lamenate it and it went bad some months later (zenith TV's really suck apparently)
BS! You laminated a heat sensitive piece of paper? Did you even stop to think about what you just said? Good work considering you have to *MELT* plastic to laminate something.
He could freakin ski when he was blind??!! Sonny Bono is rolling over in his grave right now.
But the downfall of Image Magick is the installation. It is the most god awful spaghetti mess of all time when it comes to its dependancies. You see, what they don't tell you right off the bat is ImageMagick doesn't actually work with the file formats internally. AFAIK, it relies on all of the format specific libraries out there. If your application is hosted by a virtual hosting provider, good luck getting all that installed.
Once it *is* installed, however, IM rocks.
That's just one more reason why people are flocking to SWT over Swing.
I'm sorry, but why in the hell would I want to pay the premimum cash for the premium computer and *not* run the premium OS X.