...It's just the number of people that actually use MS Access is like 10000 times greater than the number of MS SQL implementers. Besides, if you know the SQL part of MS Access well enough, you'll already hit the ground running with MS SQL's T-SQL.
Oracle too is used alot more than MS SQL, but Oracle's PL-SQL is a different beast from T-SQL. Hence, you get 'reasonable' coverage of the SQL spectrum...
In an age where there's entire sections of bookstores dedicated to "Dummies" it's great to see authors giving due credit to their reader's intellect by showing them not just 'where to begin' but 'how far up you can go'.
This sounds like innovation and that just can't happen on non-M$ operating systems, can it?
Back down to earth, it's mega-wicked when good ideas are developed in FreeBSD (or Linux). Developments like these come the closest to the original intents and purposes of open sourced OSes.
...And so, as a "programmer and developer", doesn't it really hack you off when your clients tear up your work, even though it's the 'alpha' version (i.e. the very first try?)--
Lighten up Mr. "programmer and developer", brainstorming is good.
Cold-calling companies from overseas is completely useless-- you have to go there to get the work.
Go to London, pick up a "TNT" magazine, free at any downtown Tube station. Look in the employment section and call an agent. All the "best" jobs are managed through agencies-- the work terms are shorter but the remuneration is much much higher as the agent A) Sells you up, B) Employers don't have to pay the typical benefits (health, pension, etc.) because they don't expect you to work there for the rest of your life.
When I went, I didn't shoot for the top by any means. I was 24 and ready to be employed at anything. I started working in warehouses and when I got sick of that I went for office jobs. Telemarketing, data entry-- within a year I was working in IT and after three years I was consulting through a small IT solutions company for 200 Pounds/day.
But I never, ever got any job by sitting at home, sending emails or making phonecalls, I had to go to them _first_--
Here's a tip: if you're not ready go to where the work is, you're not that serious about it-- If you're not that serious about it, you'll never get the job.
Go for it, you'll have a blast, I know I did... One of the best options going would be work visas-- Alot of European countries are chomping-at-the-bit for skilled people.
I lived and worked in London for four years, 3 years in various levels of IT for various IT departments all around the city. For those that had the experience, contracting rates could go as high as 1000 Pounds/day (mainframe programmer). Americans can get a 1-year work visa, countries in the Commonwealth get 2 years or more if your parents or grandparents were British citizens.
For up to date details go to or write to your nearest British consulate or embassy.
The are lots of other countries that offer work visas as well, look in the travel section of your bookstore for ideas on working overseas, they'll have names and addresses to contact.
Since there's virtually no Linux software or hardware for me to buy down at the local computer shop, there's no way for me to _increase_ TCO on my Linux box anyway!
But CEOs are like dogs-- their bark is worse than their bite. He/she was all crossed up over this virus invading their system and they just vented all over you.
If that CEO really wanted to sue you, they never would have confronted you in the first place. You would have had some other 'suit' serve you papers out of the blue, putting that CEO at the advantage... Now that he/she's confronted you they've already played their hand.
Obviously the CEO's display has got you scared enough to think twice about messing with him (which is what he accused you of...) and that's probably all he really wants. Cross him off your list of contacts and delete his email address from Outlook and sleep tight knowing there's one fellow you *do not* owe any favours to!
Therefore, in order to produce better software and better games, developers had to learn how to write better code on their favourite platforms. They developed techniques and tricks to make every Hz count.
That may be true, but programmers were likelier to jump-ship when the next latest-and-greatest computer would come out-- VIC-20 killed development in the PET, C-64 killed the VIC-20 (and Atari 400/800).
There would have been alot more tangible incentives to jump in those days too, the leaps in changes were phenomenal: C-64 had a real synthesizer and 20X more RAM than the VIC, Amiga whomped C-64 with 20,000X more colours and stereo sound-- each advance was just as tantalizing to the developer as it was to the consumer.
Nowadays, we're so completely divorced from the actual computer, what with APIs and hardware-abstraction-layers, why would you bother trying to squeeze every MHz out of a machine when how well the machine operates is really up to the OS maker? (*cough* Microsoft *cough**cough* planned obsolesence *cough* conspiracy with chipmakers *cough*)
Exactly! That's why with a little "pride on the line" my hope is to see these development teams strive to go well beyond maintaining the status quo (i.e. Exchange interoperation and Outlook GUI)-- perhaps a new way to collaborate, some sexy new widgets, who's to say for sure!
But it's likelier to happen when there's *at least* two products have the same objectives to measure up each other, side-by-side.
Actually, when it comes to KDE and GNOME, you can't get redundant _enough_!
If we all stopped at the point where somebody says "It's been done before" we wouldn't have Linux, KDE or GNOME and I'd be posting to/. in IE.
Why not compete? I bet with a little pride on the line, Kroupware and Ximian could take turns leap-frogging each other, possibly resulting in having TWO products that outstrip Outlook!
The BEEB made a five-part serial of it over twenty years ago. The quality is Doctor Who circa 1970's quality so it's got zero chance of ever being shown on anything other than BBC, PBS or TVO but it's just perfect in my mind.
It's been about fifteen years since I saw it and from what I recollect it was fairly true to the original story, I seem to recall they stole some small bits from "Restaurant at the end of the Universe".
Personally, I don't think it should go through the Hollywood Bland-o-Mizer(tm). Douglas Adams just writes things into stories that you just can't act out-- like in "Mostly Harmless" where they find that guy on the beach 'who lives inside his house which is really outside of the rest of the world'-- it's just much much more fun to read.
It won't make any difference to me if they make a movie for HHGTTG becuase there is no way you could convince me it's better than reading the book!
It had been on the new partition for about a week IIRC. I did an fsck or whatever the XFS equivalent was and for all its scanning it couldn't locate the superblocks and blah, blah blah. If/when I go back to XFS I'll have a go at sync-ing the disk, is that like doing a COMMIT TRAN in SQL?
Unfortunate as this was recovery is not such a problem as I have backups on an arcane media format called "Audio CD"!
...maybe we need to assume that any given type of crypto is only temporary.
Well that's a serious problem if you ever, ever thought cryptography had any sort of permanence!
For one thing, an encrypted message is of no use to the receiver if they can't DE-crypt it, *poof* crypto is not permanent.
I'd recommend reading "The Code Book" by Simon Singh as the first two-thirds of the book are a history lesson that demonstates to me how cryptography endagers the lives/way of life of those who rely on it to protect themselves (in particular, Mary Queen of Scots and Enigma).
Every other academic institution that takes gates'ss's's money...
The fact of the matter is for every UW student that goes to work for Bill, his/her education was in part subsidized by the government of Canada... Therefore, the Canadian taxpayer has been indirectly subsidizing Micro$oft for years, and it's about time Gates started anteing up for the cost of developing some of his future employees!
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Actually, a "swan song" actually has to be something beautiful, which Corel Linux was not-- I believe the cliche you're looking for is: "death knell".
Oracle too is used alot more than MS SQL, but Oracle's PL-SQL is a different beast from T-SQL. Hence, you get 'reasonable' coverage of the SQL spectrum...
In an age where there's entire sections of bookstores dedicated to "Dummies" it's great to see authors giving due credit to their reader's intellect by showing them not just 'where to begin' but 'how far up you can go'.
Umm... 1993! Oh no wait, that's Microsoft, you wanted Mozilla.
It's Sunday morning! Don't be so serious over *everything*!
People like you give knee-jerk-reactionaries a bad name.
Back down to earth, it's mega-wicked when good ideas are developed in FreeBSD (or Linux). Developments like these come the closest to the original intents and purposes of open sourced OSes.
- how this would change the appearance of code that I can write?
- Would there be any difference at all?
- Would I need an entirely new programming language, replete with syntax to leverage asynchronous logic?
- Are there (sensible) examples of this for me to gawk at?
This really sounds interesting but being just a dumb programmer, I'd be interested in seeing this concept in terms I can understand (if it exists...).Lighten up Mr. "programmer and developer", brainstorming is good.
Source? That would be me.
Cold-calling companies from overseas is completely useless-- you have to go there to get the work.
Go to London, pick up a "TNT" magazine, free at any downtown Tube station. Look in the employment section and call an agent. All the "best" jobs are managed through agencies-- the work terms are shorter but the remuneration is much much higher as the agent A) Sells you up, B) Employers don't have to pay the typical benefits (health, pension, etc.) because they don't expect you to work there for the rest of your life.
When I went, I didn't shoot for the top by any means. I was 24 and ready to be employed at anything. I started working in warehouses and when I got sick of that I went for office jobs. Telemarketing, data entry-- within a year I was working in IT and after three years I was consulting through a small IT solutions company for 200 Pounds/day.
But I never, ever got any job by sitting at home, sending emails or making phonecalls, I had to go to them _first_--
Here's a tip: if you're not ready go to where the work is, you're not that serious about it-- If you're not that serious about it, you'll never get the job.
I lived and worked in London for four years, 3 years in various levels of IT for various IT departments all around the city. For those that had the experience, contracting rates could go as high as 1000 Pounds/day (mainframe programmer). Americans can get a 1-year work visa, countries in the Commonwealth get 2 years or more if your parents or grandparents were British citizens.
For up to date details go to or write to your nearest British consulate or embassy.
The are lots of other countries that offer work visas as well, look in the travel section of your bookstore for ideas on working overseas, they'll have names and addresses to contact.
Choices: You can select which security flaw to patch first.
Flexibility: Your choice of anti-virus program.
Since there's virtually no Linux software or hardware for me to buy down at the local computer shop, there's no way for me to _increase_ TCO on my Linux box anyway!
If that CEO really wanted to sue you, they never would have confronted you in the first place. You would have had some other 'suit' serve you papers out of the blue, putting that CEO at the advantage... Now that he/she's confronted you they've already played their hand.
Obviously the CEO's display has got you scared enough to think twice about messing with him (which is what he accused you of...) and that's probably all he really wants. Cross him off your list of contacts and delete his email address from Outlook and sleep tight knowing there's one fellow you *do not* owe any favours to!
Controlling robots with the mind? Pfft! I can levitate birds...
That may be true, but programmers were likelier to jump-ship when the next latest-and-greatest computer would come out-- VIC-20 killed development in the PET, C-64 killed the VIC-20 (and Atari 400/800).
There would have been alot more tangible incentives to jump in those days too, the leaps in changes were phenomenal: C-64 had a real synthesizer and 20X more RAM than the VIC, Amiga whomped C-64 with 20,000X more colours and stereo sound-- each advance was just as tantalizing to the developer as it was to the consumer.
Nowadays, we're so completely divorced from the actual computer, what with APIs and hardware-abstraction-layers, why would you bother trying to squeeze every MHz out of a machine when how well the machine operates is really up to the OS maker? (*cough* Microsoft *cough**cough* planned obsolesence *cough* conspiracy with chipmakers *cough*)
But it's likelier to happen when there's *at least* two products have the same objectives to measure up each other, side-by-side.
If we all stopped at the point where somebody says "It's been done before" we wouldn't have Linux, KDE or GNOME and I'd be posting to /. in IE.
Why not compete? I bet with a little pride on the line, Kroupware and Ximian could take turns leap-frogging each other, possibly resulting in having TWO products that outstrip Outlook!
What does M$ gain by "out-modding the modders"?
...Would spend $1 Billion dollars five times over to make his operating system "trustworthy"!
It's been about fifteen years since I saw it and from what I recollect it was fairly true to the original story, I seem to recall they stole some small bits from "Restaurant at the end of the Universe".
Personally, I don't think it should go through the Hollywood Bland-o-Mizer(tm). Douglas Adams just writes things into stories that you just can't act out-- like in "Mostly Harmless" where they find that guy on the beach 'who lives inside his house which is really outside of the rest of the world'-- it's just much much more fun to read.
It won't make any difference to me if they make a movie for HHGTTG becuase there is no way you could convince me it's better than reading the book!
It had been on the new partition for about a week IIRC. I did an fsck or whatever the XFS equivalent was and for all its scanning it couldn't locate the superblocks and blah, blah blah. If/when I go back to XFS I'll have a go at sync-ing the disk, is that like doing a COMMIT TRAN in SQL?
Unfortunate as this was recovery is not such a problem as I have backups on an arcane media format called "Audio CD"!
...I'm so 1986.
I survived powercuts and brownouts just fine when everything was on ReiserFS...
Well that's a serious problem if you ever, ever thought cryptography had any sort of permanence!
For one thing, an encrypted message is of no use to the receiver if they can't DE-crypt it, *poof* crypto is not permanent.
I'd recommend reading "The Code Book" by Simon Singh as the first two-thirds of the book are a history lesson that demonstates to me how cryptography endagers the lives/way of life of those who rely on it to protect themselves (in particular, Mary Queen of Scots and Enigma).
The fact of the matter is for every UW student that goes to work for Bill, his/her education was in part subsidized by the government of Canada... Therefore, the Canadian taxpayer has been indirectly subsidizing Micro$oft for years, and it's about time Gates started anteing up for the cost of developing some of his future employees!
..De Nero plays the webmaster for an Internet techie news forum run by organized crime, title: The Modfather.