Stored procedures break the three layer approach that many people is the most mature way to do application development. You have the presentation layer (the client facing app or web servers), the logic layer (middleware servers with the business logic), and the data layer (the SQL servers). This layout makes things easier to maintain and more independant. They may not perform optimally but they scale like nobodies business and given decent developers will perform pretty close to the optimized case.
It does have a tendancy to overheat some brands of NiMH cells though, if you touch a battery after about 30-45 minutes in the charger and it feels hot to the touch then you are probably significantly reducing the lifetime of the battery. Rayovac really should come out with a new model with a thermal backoff.
I don't know about that, NY Transit Authority is still burying their carbon fiber flywheels, of course only under a couple feet of concrete vs the huge amount they would have to with a metal flywheel.
The iPod uses a lithium polymer gel pack, despite what people claim it can eventually degrade enough that it exhibits similar symptoms to memory (I think this is mostly due to exposure to excessive heat). There is a company that sells a replacement for the battery in the series 1 and 2 iPod's that are actually higher mAh rated then the Apple origionals.
Looking through the list in the few instances where there is a real world impacting difference the change was made for reasons of sane implementation. Like the difference in kill, Linus tried it the POSIX way and people were not at all happy. Same thing with gets, it makes sense to make something that leads to so many bugs deprecated. There are some real issues there to be fair but I think Linux is about as POSIX compliant as anything. MS's NT4 POSIX subsystem sucks and is only compliant to an ancient version of POSIX. It was tacked on when the government required POSIX compliance for most contracts.
I can't believe that a conspiracy that large and which touched on interactions with that many other rival carriers could have possibly gone on for a decade unnoticed. Is the biling and routing that automatic or is it just so screwed up that the fraud was lost in the noise?
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Unless you are a political disident, or "one of them rable rousers", or perhaps a midlevel member of an oposing political party, or you work for a foreign corporation and they want to steal your companies secrets to give to a domestic comapany. None of those are theoretical, they have all happened in the last couple decades in the EU. Power WILL be abused.
Actually according to a couple of articles and at least one slashdot story that is sort of happening already. At least some students allow their IM shorthand to creap into their academic papers. Of course IM shorthand is just simplified geek where vowels are dropped and combined sounds are sometimes replaced with a like sounding symbol.
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There is no need to use another program unless you want to use say another OS like windows or OSX where KOffice won't run (at least I haven't seen an official port for either of those OS's).
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It crashes all the time, it doesn't import large iCal files well, publishing sucks, emailed notices don't work correctly at all, it can't do colaboritive meetings, shall I go on? Just check netscape.public.mozilla.calendar archives sometime and you will see all the basic problems people have with it. It's basically a one man show and unfortunatly he doesn't have a lot of time to devote to it from what I've seen and he admit's he's not that familiar with the Mozilla framework.
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iCal doesn't solve the real problem, it basically just solves the encapsulation of the appointment information problem but leaves the central storage and colaborative scheduling problems unsolved. Almost all programs support iCal but iCal doesn't gain you a whole lot.
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Mozilla's calandering SUCKS balls. Sorry but it does. I've been using it since it first got released and it isn't even stable or usefull enough for a single person yet, let alone as the frontend to a groupware package. Evolution would be nice IF it ran on windows, but it doesn't, and unfortunatly I have to run windows at my employer on at least one of my desktops because of various proprietary apps that don't run under WINE. Also it's not that we won't pay big bucks, we will, but there are tons of instances where I could save a company money and hassle by replacing Exchange with something less crash prone and which works with their current tools. Most of the time if you are going to pay for a new set of liscenses anyways it makes sense to go with a commercial package all they way because it isn't much more expensive (like say Oracle's product or the one that HP used to have). I know that the MAPI protocol can't be any more difficult than the SMB protocol so I guess I'm just hoping that one or more people stand up and start an open source project akin to SAMBA but to replace Exchange rather than windows file and print sharing.
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Nope, you still need a commercial connector to use Outlook with this. We have had the ability to do that for some time (things like the old HP Exchange alternative and the suite from Oracle, what most of us want is the equivilant of SAMBA, a free and FREE drop in replacement for Exchange that doesn't cost anything to implement so long as we don't need support.
So...
They are using the zip format (which is in the public domain per the origional author), and AES (which is in the public domain thanks to the fed governments mandate that the winner be made such) and combining them, and suddenly this is patent worthy..... I just LOVE the USPTO, NOT.
Actually they kind of already did, all the important stuff in Jurrasic Park was CG, it was so well done that you don't really notice it is CG, to me THAT is the best result you can possibly get.
They might use macs running OSX for the workstations and use IBM 4X PPC970 rackmount servers for the renderman farms, why pay for expensive things you don't need in a computer node like graphics cards? And of course rendering is one of those applications where more than 4GB of contiguous ram IS very usefull.
But by the same token you could be a great computer animator and be handicapped by the abilities of your computer. Raytracing takes a LOT of computer time at film resolutions, and the textures can be hundreds of megs per object in a scene. Right now animators often have to layout a scene at lower resolution and with more limited effects during the day and batch it out to the farm at night, if each animator had their own render farm and could get the batch back during the same day then they could tweak things if something looks wrong in the final render.
They are placed ads, the fact that someone who has read slashdot for any amount of time can't spot em (come on, even my 9 year old cousin smelled em) suprises me. I just wish they would be honest about it.
I wonder how the price of these things compares to a comperably equiped Featherlite coach?? The amenities sound almost exactly like what the Featherlite guy was rattling off on one of those Discovery channel bike week shows. Also anyone interested in extreme vehicles should check out Mercedes Unimogs, those things can do almost everything, from fire engines to light cranes, to railroad repair vehicles (those are equiped with a boom for unloading ties and steel wheels to travel down the tracks!). Also I have to throw in my favorite story that combines geekdom, survivalism, anti-government mentality, and extreme vehicles, The Consultant
Monster garage has NEVER completed a project for $3K, the vehicles are donated and most time 3/4 of the budget is donated. Look at the Cooper Mini episode, the brand new car was free and so were the snowmobile bases, all they had to buy was the glue parts. It's the one BS thing about the show I wish they would ditch, it's cool that they don't have an unlimited budget and that they only have a week to do what would normally be months of work, but they should be honest about the actual cost of the projects.
Macrovision on the tv-out and overlay mode for VGA that makes it near impossible to get a screen capture of the actual movie (you just get a grey box that is underneath the overlay). So other than defeating Macrovision (easy), or hacking the video driver to record the overlay (almost as easy), there isn't currently a lot to stop you if you REALLY want to, in the future they will have Palladium and encrypted HDTV firewire tunnels.
Sounds like on of my pranks from the BBS days, when someone would piss me off I would post an ad for a hot car at an unbelievable price on all the local BBS's and put down their phone number and contact hours of like 1am-4am, then I would go to the stores that had index card ad boards and do the same =)
Nope, OpenGL is not covered by the GPL, it is covered by an X style license now and was covered by several commercial licenses from SGI in the past. See This
Actually Mozilla is from scratch, no bought source here =) While the Mozilla project did start as an overhaul of the Communicator codebase it became apparant in the first year that the code was crap and that a from the ground rewrite was needed (for lords sake Communicator was based on nearly a decade of hacking at the NCSA code to try to keep up with the evolution of HTML from pre-standards to HTML 4). From that point on it has been a fresh start and has involved nearly as much code generated outside of Netscape/AOL as that from their paid developers, and almost all of the Q&A has been free from the community, which is normally nearly half the cost of a software project.
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Stored procedures break the three layer approach that many people is the most mature way to do application development. You have the presentation layer (the client facing app or web servers), the logic layer (middleware servers with the business logic), and the data layer (the SQL servers). This layout makes things easier to maintain and more independant. They may not perform optimally but they scale like nobodies business and given decent developers will perform pretty close to the optimized case.
It does have a tendancy to overheat some brands of NiMH cells though, if you touch a battery after about 30-45 minutes in the charger and it feels hot to the touch then you are probably significantly reducing the lifetime of the battery. Rayovac really should come out with a new model with a thermal backoff.
I don't know about that, NY Transit Authority is still burying their carbon fiber flywheels, of course only under a couple feet of concrete vs the huge amount they would have to with a metal flywheel.
The iPod uses a lithium polymer gel pack, despite what people claim it can eventually degrade enough that it exhibits similar symptoms to memory (I think this is mostly due to exposure to excessive heat). There is a company that sells a replacement for the battery in the series 1 and 2 iPod's that are actually higher mAh rated then the Apple origionals.
Looking through the list in the few instances where there is a real world impacting difference the change was made for reasons of sane implementation. Like the difference in kill, Linus tried it the POSIX way and people were not at all happy. Same thing with gets, it makes sense to make something that leads to so many bugs deprecated. There are some real issues there to be fair but I think Linux is about as POSIX compliant as anything. MS's NT4 POSIX subsystem sucks and is only compliant to an ancient version of POSIX. It was tacked on when the government required POSIX compliance for most contracts.
I can't believe that a conspiracy that large and which touched on interactions with that many other rival carriers could have possibly gone on for a decade unnoticed. Is the biling and routing that automatic or is it just so screwed up that the fraud was lost in the noise?
Unless you are a political disident, or "one of them rable rousers", or perhaps a midlevel member of an oposing political party, or you work for a foreign corporation and they want to steal your companies secrets to give to a domestic comapany. None of those are theoretical, they have all happened in the last couple decades in the EU. Power WILL be abused.
Actually according to a couple of articles and at least one slashdot story that is sort of happening already. At least some students allow their IM shorthand to creap into their academic papers. Of course IM shorthand is just simplified geek where vowels are dropped and combined sounds are sometimes replaced with a like sounding symbol.
There is no need to use another program unless you want to use say another OS like windows or OSX where KOffice won't run (at least I haven't seen an official port for either of those OS's).
It crashes all the time, it doesn't import large iCal files well, publishing sucks, emailed notices don't work correctly at all, it can't do colaboritive meetings, shall I go on? Just check netscape.public.mozilla.calendar archives sometime and you will see all the basic problems people have with it. It's basically a one man show and unfortunatly he doesn't have a lot of time to devote to it from what I've seen and he admit's he's not that familiar with the Mozilla framework.
iCal doesn't solve the real problem, it basically just solves the encapsulation of the appointment information problem but leaves the central storage and colaborative scheduling problems unsolved. Almost all programs support iCal but iCal doesn't gain you a whole lot.
Mozilla's calandering SUCKS balls. Sorry but it does. I've been using it since it first got released and it isn't even stable or usefull enough for a single person yet, let alone as the frontend to a groupware package. Evolution would be nice IF it ran on windows, but it doesn't, and unfortunatly I have to run windows at my employer on at least one of my desktops because of various proprietary apps that don't run under WINE. Also it's not that we won't pay big bucks, we will, but there are tons of instances where I could save a company money and hassle by replacing Exchange with something less crash prone and which works with their current tools. Most of the time if you are going to pay for a new set of liscenses anyways it makes sense to go with a commercial package all they way because it isn't much more expensive (like say Oracle's product or the one that HP used to have). I know that the MAPI protocol can't be any more difficult than the SMB protocol so I guess I'm just hoping that one or more people stand up and start an open source project akin to SAMBA but to replace Exchange rather than windows file and print sharing.
Nope, you still need a commercial connector to use Outlook with this. We have had the ability to do that for some time (things like the old HP Exchange alternative and the suite from Oracle, what most of us want is the equivilant of SAMBA, a free and FREE drop in replacement for Exchange that doesn't cost anything to implement so long as we don't need support.
So...
They are using the zip format (which is in the public domain per the origional author), and AES (which is in the public domain thanks to the fed governments mandate that the winner be made such) and combining them, and suddenly this is patent worthy..... I just LOVE the USPTO, NOT.
Actually they kind of already did, all the important stuff in Jurrasic Park was CG, it was so well done that you don't really notice it is CG, to me THAT is the best result you can possibly get.
They might use macs running OSX for the workstations and use IBM 4X PPC970 rackmount servers for the renderman farms, why pay for expensive things you don't need in a computer node like graphics cards? And of course rendering is one of those applications where more than 4GB of contiguous ram IS very usefull.
But by the same token you could be a great computer animator and be handicapped by the abilities of your computer. Raytracing takes a LOT of computer time at film resolutions, and the textures can be hundreds of megs per object in a scene. Right now animators often have to layout a scene at lower resolution and with more limited effects during the day and batch it out to the farm at night, if each animator had their own render farm and could get the batch back during the same day then they could tweak things if something looks wrong in the final render.
They are placed ads, the fact that someone who has read slashdot for any amount of time can't spot em (come on, even my 9 year old cousin smelled em) suprises me. I just wish they would be honest about it.
I wonder how the price of these things compares to a comperably equiped Featherlite coach?? The amenities sound almost exactly like what the Featherlite guy was rattling off on one of those Discovery channel bike week shows. Also anyone interested in extreme vehicles should check out Mercedes Unimogs, those things can do almost everything, from fire engines to light cranes, to railroad repair vehicles (those are equiped with a boom for unloading ties and steel wheels to travel down the tracks!). Also I have to throw in my favorite story that combines geekdom, survivalism, anti-government mentality, and extreme vehicles, The Consultant
Monster garage has NEVER completed a project for $3K, the vehicles are donated and most time 3/4 of the budget is donated. Look at the Cooper Mini episode, the brand new car was free and so were the snowmobile bases, all they had to buy was the glue parts. It's the one BS thing about the show I wish they would ditch, it's cool that they don't have an unlimited budget and that they only have a week to do what would normally be months of work, but they should be honest about the actual cost of the projects.
DVD-R drives are about as cheap as cdrw drives were about 2 years ago so that isn't much of a barrier.
Macrovision on the tv-out and overlay mode for VGA that makes it near impossible to get a screen capture of the actual movie (you just get a grey box that is underneath the overlay). So other than defeating Macrovision (easy), or hacking the video driver to record the overlay (almost as easy), there isn't currently a lot to stop you if you REALLY want to, in the future they will have Palladium and encrypted HDTV firewire tunnels.
Sounds like on of my pranks from the BBS days, when someone would piss me off I would post an ad for a hot car at an unbelievable price on all the local BBS's and put down their phone number and contact hours of like 1am-4am, then I would go to the stores that had index card ad boards and do the same =)
Nope, OpenGL is not covered by the GPL, it is covered by an X style license now and was covered by several commercial licenses from SGI in the past. See This
Actually Mozilla is from scratch, no bought source here =) While the Mozilla project did start as an overhaul of the Communicator codebase it became apparant in the first year that the code was crap and that a from the ground rewrite was needed (for lords sake Communicator was based on nearly a decade of hacking at the NCSA code to try to keep up with the evolution of HTML from pre-standards to HTML 4). From that point on it has been a fresh start and has involved nearly as much code generated outside of Netscape/AOL as that from their paid developers, and almost all of the Q&A has been free from the community, which is normally nearly half the cost of a software project.