If you ignore them, and you admit you're ignorant when it comes to them, why are you commenting on them, and providing advice regarding them? Maybe you'd be better off providing advice regarding platforms you're knowledgeable about?
except there are some non-standard SQL extensions that Microsoft has lovingly developed.
I'm not aware of a single database engine that complies with the SQL standard, and even if they did, the standard is vague and ambiguous. There are whole concepts the standard doesn't cover. The fact that a database engine has "extensions" isn't an argument for or against that engine, because that's how the SQL world works.
By the way, the "Entity Framework" isn't a SQL extension, and it isn't related to MSSQL. It's an ORM, just like Hibernate, ActiveRecord, or a bajillion others.
And furthermore, using.NET doesn't tie you to MSSQL, any more than using MSSQL ties you to.NET.
I've got a major line-of-business application here (handles millions of transactions per day around the world) that happily runs on MSSQL, Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite (ranked in order of performance there, FYI).
You have the right to build a press and publish a newspaper. You could also scratch your messages into stone you quarried out of the ground (on your land...). The right to free press doesn't the government has to provide you the means to publish your newspaper, just like your freedom to assemble doesn't mean the government has to provide you with tables and chairs to meet at.
Unless you're using some EXTREMELY narrow definition of "template", any system (such as ASP classic, PHP, or ASP.NET) that replaces special "tags" such as or is a templating engine.
Nah, if he was being paid to post, his information would at least be *accurate*.
ASP.NET always had a templating engine, just like old ASP classic did. It's how web pages are built, unless you're doing it with printf(). I believe what he's talking about is ASP.NET MVC, but that didn't come about until much later than "ASP.NET 2" whatever that is.
If I ever start drinking, I plan to drink myself straight into a homeless shelter. What's the point, otherwise?
As for cigarettes, I never saw the attraction. The calming effect is quite mild, and there's other commonly available substances that are much more effective if you're going to take part in an activity that is so clearly damaging.
Yet all it takes to kill a $4 million M1A1 is a $50 IED.
You may damage an M1A1 with an IED, but you're not going to "kill" it.
To disable a $4 billion aircraft carrier, a $1 million missile.
And something to launch it, and some way to get past the fleet of defensive and offensive ships, aircraft, and submarines protecting the carrier. And don't forget the CIWS. You'll want to defeat those somehow.
I do consider myself lucky, and not only for that reason. I've been here for more than eleven years, and that's only one of the reasons.
If the managers around here considered only ROI for each employee, there'd be a lot fewer employees around here. Heck, the guy sitting next to me had been trying to let an employee go for underperformance for nearly a year now, and only just got approval to do so.
Being neither an officer of Intel nor a shareholder, I haven't any clue why Intel sold it off. My point was that it wasn't exactly a failure as you implied.
While admirable, the problem with this line of thought is that the company does not care about you. Not a bit. If it benefited the company to let you go, you would be gone in a heartbeat without a thought to your loyalty.
Maybe at the company you work for. Here, we care about people. I know, from experience.
Single cores can get busy handling games or complex screen movements, leading to a laggy UI.
I know, right? The entire computer industry was plagued with these "laggy UI"s until multi-core processors were invented and saved us. If only someone had thought out a way to run multiple paths, or maybe call them "threads", of execution on a single CPU.
You know X-Scale was ARMv5, right? Intel was not blazing new trails there. They got the StrongARM technology from DEC, and followed it up with X-Scale. It's now owned by Marvell, and they're used all over (see Blackberry Torch and the Kindle, for examples...).
Uh, the GP most certainly IS talking about the NT line:
Every Windows release from the NT line
XP, Vista and Windows 7
I agree, reading comprehension fail. Windows NT DID run on MIPS and DEC Alpha, and I've heard rumours that every release since has had a supported RISC HAL, even though it was never available to the public. I don't have any actual information to indicate that's true, however.
I'd be shocked if some giant percentage of people couldn't find their preferred course of study in a close-to-home university. Universities tend to be in large population centers, which is convenient for most people, by definition.
Currently if someone were to login using your credentials, they would technically be in violation of the Act as it would be considered Unauthorized Access to a Computer or Network Device
Really? Even if you willingly gave them your credentials, knowing what they were going to do with them (I'm assuming the imagined application process indicated why the credentials were being requested)?
And Finally, the second any of those things were done there would be a court case challenging the practice on the grounds of Right to Free Association.
Your right to free association does not trump my right to make assumptions about you based on your associations. As far as I know.
That is at least $32000 over four years that is a direct cost of going to college somewhere far enough away from home that commuting is not a reasonable option.
I second that. I gave Eclipse a good, honest try. I made a serious attempt, and ended up with IDEA. Eclipse just isn't worth the effort, and IDEA is good. Not Visual Studio good, but good nonetheless.
So wait, is it really surprising that a program that is nearly 100% used for illegal downloading of copyrighted media is open-source? What commercial developer would go out and produce a BitTorrent client? There's not enough downloaders of Linux ISOs around to support that market.
There are some niches that can pretty much ONLY be served by open-source (or other noncommercial methods).
Other than XBMC, every one of those is an emulator. While the Bleem! lawsuits may have proven that this is legal, they also proved that Sony and the other entertainment giants have enough money to lawyer you right out of existence, even when you win. It's not surprising at all that emulation is not a hot area for commercial software houses.
I'll give you XBMC, though, as I personally prefer it to other options. There ARE highly-successful commercial options though, and many likely prefer them over the open-source ones.
It's not "bonus material" for my 3rd graders, it's taught directly in the curriculum. They call it "estimating", and they started doing it with addition instead of multiplication, but it's the exact same concept.
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If you ignore them, and you admit you're ignorant when it comes to them, why are you commenting on them, and providing advice regarding them? Maybe you'd be better off providing advice regarding platforms you're knowledgeable about?
except there are some non-standard SQL extensions that Microsoft has lovingly developed.
I'm not aware of a single database engine that complies with the SQL standard, and even if they did, the standard is vague and ambiguous. There are whole concepts the standard doesn't cover. The fact that a database engine has "extensions" isn't an argument for or against that engine, because that's how the SQL world works.
By the way, the "Entity Framework" isn't a SQL extension, and it isn't related to MSSQL. It's an ORM, just like Hibernate, ActiveRecord, or a bajillion others.
And furthermore, using .NET doesn't tie you to MSSQL, any more than using MSSQL ties you to .NET.
I've got a major line-of-business application here (handles millions of transactions per day around the world) that happily runs on MSSQL, Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite (ranked in order of performance there, FYI).
Maybe you have an Exchange server, and it won't run on Linux?
You have the right to build a press and publish a newspaper. You could also scratch your messages into stone you quarried out of the ground (on your land...). The right to free press doesn't the government has to provide you the means to publish your newspaper, just like your freedom to assemble doesn't mean the government has to provide you with tables and chairs to meet at.
Unless you're using some EXTREMELY narrow definition of "template", any system (such as ASP classic, PHP, or ASP.NET) that replaces special "tags" such as or is a templating engine.
Remember back when file uploads WERE complex stuff?
Ah, those were the days. Working in the call center replacing 14.4kbps modems, hardly a care in the world...
Nah, if he was being paid to post, his information would at least be *accurate*.
ASP.NET always had a templating engine, just like old ASP classic did. It's how web pages are built, unless you're doing it with printf(). I believe what he's talking about is ASP.NET MVC, but that didn't come about until much later than "ASP.NET 2" whatever that is.
If I ever start drinking, I plan to drink myself straight into a homeless shelter. What's the point, otherwise?
As for cigarettes, I never saw the attraction. The calming effect is quite mild, and there's other commonly available substances that are much more effective if you're going to take part in an activity that is so clearly damaging.
Yet all it takes to kill a $4 million M1A1 is a $50 IED.
You may damage an M1A1 with an IED, but you're not going to "kill" it.
To disable a $4 billion aircraft carrier, a $1 million missile.
And something to launch it, and some way to get past the fleet of defensive and offensive ships, aircraft, and submarines protecting the carrier. And don't forget the CIWS. You'll want to defeat those somehow.
I do consider myself lucky, and not only for that reason. I've been here for more than eleven years, and that's only one of the reasons.
If the managers around here considered only ROI for each employee, there'd be a lot fewer employees around here. Heck, the guy sitting next to me had been trying to let an employee go for underperformance for nearly a year now, and only just got approval to do so.
Why did they sell it, if it was doing so well?
Being neither an officer of Intel nor a shareholder, I haven't any clue why Intel sold it off. My point was that it wasn't exactly a failure as you implied.
While admirable, the problem with this line of thought is that the company does not care about you. Not a bit. If it benefited the company to let you go, you would be gone in a heartbeat without a thought to your loyalty.
Maybe at the company you work for. Here, we care about people. I know, from experience.
Single cores can get busy handling games or complex screen movements, leading to a laggy UI.
I know, right? The entire computer industry was plagued with these "laggy UI"s until multi-core processors were invented and saved us. If only someone had thought out a way to run multiple paths, or maybe call them "threads", of execution on a single CPU.
Oh well, too late for that.
Even X-Scale was not such a success, was it?
You know X-Scale was ARMv5, right? Intel was not blazing new trails there. They got the StrongARM technology from DEC, and followed it up with X-Scale. It's now owned by Marvell, and they're used all over (see Blackberry Torch and the Kindle, for examples...).
Uh, the GP most certainly IS talking about the NT line:
Every Windows release from the NT line
XP, Vista and Windows 7
I agree, reading comprehension fail. Windows NT DID run on MIPS and DEC Alpha, and I've heard rumours that every release since has had a supported RISC HAL, even though it was never available to the public. I don't have any actual information to indicate that's true, however.
I'd be shocked if some giant percentage of people couldn't find their preferred course of study in a close-to-home university. Universities tend to be in large population centers, which is convenient for most people, by definition.
Currently if someone were to login using your credentials, they would technically be in violation of the Act as it would be considered Unauthorized Access to a Computer or Network Device
Really? Even if you willingly gave them your credentials, knowing what they were going to do with them (I'm assuming the imagined application process indicated why the credentials were being requested)?
And Finally, the second any of those things were done there would be a court case challenging the practice on the grounds of Right to Free Association.
Your right to free association does not trump my right to make assumptions about you based on your associations. As far as I know.
That is at least $32000 over four years that is a direct cost of going to college somewhere far enough away from home that commuting is not a reasonable option.
There. Fixed that for you.
Just got your law degree, huh?
Uh, no, my only argument was that your examples of "good open source that isn't commercially backed" are all poor examples.
I second that. I gave Eclipse a good, honest try. I made a serious attempt, and ended up with IDEA. Eclipse just isn't worth the effort, and IDEA is good. Not Visual Studio good, but good nonetheless.
So wait, is it really surprising that a program that is nearly 100% used for illegal downloading of copyrighted media is open-source? What commercial developer would go out and produce a BitTorrent client? There's not enough downloaders of Linux ISOs around to support that market.
There are some niches that can pretty much ONLY be served by open-source (or other noncommercial methods).
Other than XBMC, every one of those is an emulator. While the Bleem! lawsuits may have proven that this is legal, they also proved that Sony and the other entertainment giants have enough money to lawyer you right out of existence, even when you win. It's not surprising at all that emulation is not a hot area for commercial software houses.
I'll give you XBMC, though, as I personally prefer it to other options. There ARE highly-successful commercial options though, and many likely prefer them over the open-source ones.
It's not "bonus material" for my 3rd graders, it's taught directly in the curriculum. They call it "estimating", and they started doing it with addition instead of multiplication, but it's the exact same concept.