The point of Antennagate is spin, to try and include all smartphones that had a demonstrable antenna problem into the same category thereby removing Apple from the spotlight and the story; moving the focus to a more general antenna issue. They're now trying to gain control over the propaganda war and the publics' perception of the problem. Even using '-gate' is part of it, it's such a cliché, it give the whole thing a more boring appearance, since everything these days now end's in '-gate'.
The problem is people want Apple's blood for some reason???
The smaller the data set the more Normalize the database can be structured without a noticeable loss in performance. Large data, (what large is depends on the DB software) lets say 10+ million, then the less normalization the better.
Come up with a naming convention and stick to it. Include a description of the table/fields use in the data dictionary, helps to keep stuff documented.
All tables should have a unique primary key.
Only use a single field as the primary key so table join are fast. Reverse order number PK indexes if the DB supports them.
Only add indexes based off real SELECT statements and not just for the sake of it.
Store the data and indexes on different drives, the same with the undo files or archive logs. This will help load balance IO performance.
Archiving is the key to keeping large data sets manageable.
Figure out the average size of a record in a table then configure the block storage to hold the most amount of them without creating fragmented records. Meaning a record stored in 2 db blocks is very cost to look up when it should be stored in just one. You also want to minimize the white space in a DB block so it doesn’t waist space.
Rebuild indexes regularly for tables that change a lot
Indexes on fields with low cardinality doesn't help much, unless you have bitmap indexes.
I've been running FF 3.6.4 for a 2 week now, download a beta, now the release one and on my laptop when I have a couple of YouTube videos open, if I put my laptop into sleep mode and when I come back all the pauses videos have frozen, they loop 4 frames.
Don't know if this is Flash or FF as both updated around the same time! It's very annoying
.. I won't shed a tear. As pointed out not, they have no games of worth. I enjoyed Assassin's Creed enough that'll I get the squeal. But they have no other titles of worth. Stop making games for the PC if you're worried about Piracy. But it's your lack of a good product that will be the death of you not the cold steal of the Pirate.
Short-term they should just sell it for the same price as a DVD. Or move all the Extra Features to the Blu-ray so there's more "value" to be gained by buying that version. This is a screw the customer move, but you'd expect that. But all this HD stuff is way over priced for the general consumer and is a luxury product.
I want to be able to setup a list of site I don't want included in my search and a list of sites to be given higher priority. This would be more much useful for me. Or even a word filter on site names, this way I can cut out a lot of crap when trying to find info.
0. Lack of cash, surprisingly simple reason for at least 80% of all Piracy. Why pay for something if you don't have to, it's capitalism in its purest form. Capitalism operates off the ability to pay the worker less then what the true value of the work done is worth. This discrepancy is the Profit margin. It's the same thing but in reverse. The investor hasn't protected their investment enough to stop these types of shenanigans, hence why software comes out with more and more elaborate copy-protection mechanisms. It's the same reason Banks' have really thick walls. The easies way to save money is not to spend it on things that don't have to be purchased. Make what you want of that last sentence.
1. Pre-releases. If you really know where to look sometimes you can get the game before it hits the selves (before you ask I don't know any of these places, but you read about them, e.g. Oink). So you have the elite factor of saying I've played it, its {great | crap} on the forums.
2. Like number 1, but staggered world release dates. A game comes out in the US but Europe has to wait a week. Would be Pirate thinks I want that game NOW! All my forum buddies are playing the game and I can't talk about it with them, why should I have to wait, feck it! download time.
3. Inconsistent world pricing policy of distributors. Metal Gear Solid 4 as an example US $59.99, Eur â59.99, GBP £39.99 now that again in US for Eur $90.04, GPB $76.81. Is the rest of the world subsidizing the US gamer? The âFree-market' isn't working right if you ask me. Regionalize of consoles' game distribution in order to rip the customer off, PC doesn't suffer from this, yet. DVD & Blu-Ray again have this problem; they also get pirated. For some reason Intellectual Property has different values in different parts of the world for no other reason then you can't import it from a cheaper source, this is caused by monopoly & cartel'ing.
4. Popularity, be the go to guy. There's always one who seem to have all the music, all the games, all the TV shows. It's a tool to win & expand his/her popularity in a peer-group.
5. Cheap Bandwidth; people will download all sorts of crap if it's free just to try it out because they're bored. Flavor of the month syndrome. But this would be more Music then Video Games.
What I think is interesting about Google is the potential to see what other people are thinking or looking for, we've all seen those words lists with different size fonts based off popular word searching phrases. Well link those Searches to countries, states, cities & towns. You could use this information to see if marketing / propaganda is working in a particular area. See what's hot & what's not. The data mining potential of what people are searching for is massive. From a sociologist perspective it's a goldmine of statistic to ponder over. Giving insights into private thoughts and desires, things people won't ask others about but that empty search box is your confidant.
I'm still waiting for the fundamentalists realize that the laws of physical dictate evolution as they must follow the same laws that govern the universe. Therefore whatever created the laws of physicals has also created the evolutionary process. God and evolution can co-exist; it's just Genesis's literal interpretation and evolution that are at odds.
If the US is losing jobs to out sourcing because lets says India / Middle East can do some task more economically thanks to the Internet why not just make the service unreliable? Big business then see India outsourcing as a possible risk jobs go back to the States.
Seems like they might have enough space on the top for solar panels. Now I'm not saying store the energy in batteries just use it went light is available backed up with more conventional generators.
Slashdot Mirror
that if you want to kept things private then you must have something to hide... Some of us are just paranoid!
The point of Antennagate is spin, to try and include all smartphones that had a demonstrable antenna problem into the same category thereby removing Apple from the spotlight and the story; moving the focus to a more general antenna issue. They're now trying to gain control over the propaganda war and the publics' perception of the problem. Even using '-gate' is part of it, it's such a cliché, it give the whole thing a more boring appearance, since everything these days now end's in '-gate'.
The problem is people want Apple's blood for some reason???
The smaller the data set the more Normalize the database can be structured without a noticeable loss in performance. Large data, (what large is depends on the DB software) lets say 10+ million, then the less normalization the better.
Come up with a naming convention and stick to it. Include a description of the table/fields use in the data dictionary, helps to keep stuff documented.
All tables should have a unique primary key.
Only use a single field as the primary key so table join are fast. Reverse order number PK indexes if the DB supports them.
Only add indexes based off real SELECT statements and not just for the sake of it.
Store the data and indexes on different drives, the same with the undo files or archive logs. This will help load balance IO performance.
Archiving is the key to keeping large data sets manageable.
Figure out the average size of a record in a table then configure the block storage to hold the most amount of them without creating fragmented records. Meaning a record stored in 2 db blocks is very cost to look up when it should be stored in just one. You also want to minimize the white space in a DB block so it doesn’t waist space.
Rebuild indexes regularly for tables that change a lot
Indexes on fields with low cardinality doesn't help much, unless you have bitmap indexes.
I've been running FF 3.6.4 for a 2 week now, download a beta, now the release one and on my laptop when I have a couple of YouTube videos open, if I put my laptop into sleep mode and when I come back all the pauses videos have frozen, they loop 4 frames.
Don't know if this is Flash or FF as both updated around the same time! It's very annoying
.. I won't shed a tear. As pointed out not, they have no games of worth. I enjoyed Assassin's Creed enough that'll I get the squeal. But they have no other titles of worth. Stop making games for the PC if you're worried about Piracy. But it's your lack of a good product that will be the death of you not the cold steal of the Pirate.
Sure you probably never bought them an way! XD
Battle House on the Prairie, the next chapter in BSG.
What about...
Double Dragon
Wolfenstein 3D
Operation Wolf, arguably the first FPS game! All be it a side scroller!
1942
Their list is crap because they want people to talk about how bad it is.
if they actually did a proper list no one would be talking about it.
This is all part of their cunning plan to get us to play the game on the Xbox!
enough said!
Skynet our savior!
Short-term they should just sell it for the same price as a DVD. Or move all the Extra Features to the Blu-ray so there's more "value" to be gained by buying that version. This is a screw the customer move, but you'd expect that. But all this HD stuff is way over priced for the general consumer and is a luxury product.
I want to be able to setup a list of site I don't want included in my search and a list of sites to be given higher priority. This would be more much useful for me. Or even a word filter on site names, this way I can cut out a lot of crap when trying to find info.
Damn that means I won't be able to find pr0n no more.
0. Lack of cash, surprisingly simple reason for at least 80% of all Piracy. Why pay for something if you don't have to, it's capitalism in its purest form. Capitalism operates off the ability to pay the worker less then what the true value of the work done is worth. This discrepancy is the Profit margin. It's the same thing but in reverse. The investor hasn't protected their investment enough to stop these types of shenanigans, hence why software comes out with more and more elaborate copy-protection mechanisms. It's the same reason Banks' have really thick walls. The easies way to save money is not to spend it on things that don't have to be purchased. Make what you want of that last sentence.
1. Pre-releases. If you really know where to look sometimes you can get the game before it hits the selves (before you ask I don't know any of these places, but you read about them, e.g. Oink). So you have the elite factor of saying I've played it, its {great | crap} on the forums.
2. Like number 1, but staggered world release dates. A game comes out in the US but Europe has to wait a week. Would be Pirate thinks I want that game NOW! All my forum buddies are playing the game and I can't talk about it with them, why should I have to wait, feck it! download time.
3. Inconsistent world pricing policy of distributors. Metal Gear Solid 4 as an example US $59.99, Eur â59.99, GBP £39.99 now that again in US for Eur $90.04, GPB $76.81. Is the rest of the world subsidizing the US gamer? The âFree-market' isn't working right if you ask me. Regionalize of consoles' game distribution in order to rip the customer off, PC doesn't suffer from this, yet. DVD & Blu-Ray again have this problem; they also get pirated. For some reason Intellectual Property has different values in different parts of the world for no other reason then you can't import it from a cheaper source, this is caused by monopoly & cartel'ing.
4. Popularity, be the go to guy. There's always one who seem to have all the music, all the games, all the TV shows. It's a tool to win & expand his/her popularity in a peer-group.
5. Cheap Bandwidth; people will download all sorts of crap if it's free just to try it out because they're bored. Flavor of the month syndrome. But this would be more Music then Video Games.
I'm sure there's more but I'm bored now.
What I think is interesting about Google is the potential to see what other people are thinking or looking for, we've all seen those words lists with different size fonts based off popular word searching phrases. Well link those Searches to countries, states, cities & towns. You could use this information to see if marketing / propaganda is working in a particular area. See what's hot & what's not. The data mining potential of what people are searching for is massive. From a sociologist perspective it's a goldmine of statistic to ponder over. Giving insights into private thoughts and desires, things people won't ask others about but that empty search box is your confidant.
The CIA thinks we're the center of the Universe or that everything revolves around US?
So how many Gamer Points will this "Significant Scientific" Achievement get me?
yes, an end to world religion, what a beautiful idea. It could be peace on earth
I'm still waiting for the fundamentalists realize that the laws of physical dictate evolution as they must follow the same laws that govern the universe. Therefore whatever created the laws of physicals has also created the evolutionary process. God and evolution can co-exist; it's just Genesis's literal interpretation and evolution that are at odds.
If the US is losing jobs to out sourcing because lets says India / Middle East can do some task more economically thanks to the Internet why not just make the service unreliable? Big business then see India outsourcing as a possible risk jobs go back to the States.
Seems like they might have enough space on the top for solar panels. Now I'm not saying store the energy in batteries just use it went light is available backed up with more conventional generators.
read up on things called Memes!
anybody we know thinking of building more Nuclear reactors?