Why can't the "help" system HELP YOU - with full screen pictorial help, even animated examples?)
Because that costs money and cameras are either low margin cheap things that go out of market in 6 months or DSLRs that are used by pros and hobbyists who don't want handholding.
Cameras still let lots of people try to use the flash when it's useless because the photographer is 50M from the subject.
As well they should. The camera's job is to do what I tell it. Now if you're arguing that it should be intelligent about disbaling flash, then sure, so long as I can disable that.
They could have built-in WiFi rather than requiring some kludgey flash slot after market WiFi thing to copy your pictures to your computer.
What for? Flash works fine, and I don't want to configure a WPA key on my freaking camera, or transfer 8G over wifi.
I had a coolpix that I tried that with - prefocus, wait, and when you go for the photo, it REFOCUSES THE PICTURE FOR 5 SECONDS!. I got rid of that piece of shit and went to a digital rebel, and now I'm happy, except when it can't do autofocus and just beeps at me.
I can stick 8 sockets of amd stuff in a 2u slot with supermicro stuff - get 2 and you have 16 sockets = 32 cores and 128G ram in 4u. That should be enough for quite a lot.
This is essentially a facetious concept, because (at least according to the MI police, who have a vested interest in being correct) the machines [used for testing BAC of blood] can be no more than.02 percent accurate.
What's fun is that women tend to blow high due to the way the device works, and diabetics get an extra.03 or so just from being diabetic.
If you don't like the business model either a) Quit shopping there or b) Open your own computer business and attempt to be profitable just selling computers. Just quit your bitching about it.
If your business model requires you to sell upgrades to every PC that walks out the door, you deserve to go out of business. Sorry, but your negative margin isn't my concern.
Alcohol related crashes are almost never when a drunk person cannot stay on the road and goes off and hits something/someone.
This is true: DUI crashes are a small minority of alcohol related crashes. Most alcohol related crashes happen when there is an accident and someone on the scene has a BAC. The number of DUI crashes can be estimated at 1000/year, but the actual number is not tracked nationally.
Someone not seeing the drunk driver or the other way around. All kinds of other risks are involved here and alcohol is just the one that seals the deal.
I can accept this, but look at what I said - I talked about the guys that cause the damage (read: crash and do damage/injury). They do start around.12, as this is when you are seriously impaired..08 is a bit high, but probably won't make you crash..15 and up is where you find the habitual offenders.
Well, I've been at.09 and I didn't stagger around and slur my speech. Of course, that's not really drunk - the guys that cause the actual damage start at around.12 and are usually.15 and up.
One president is afforded better treatment and respect because of the color of his skin
Nope, I shouldn't have to tell you this, but comparing blacks to monkeys is just dripping racism, so you can't use that slur without appearing racist. You can still mock him for being a slimy chicago politico or something - that's OK.
How about kids with dyslexia, dyscalculia, and/or dysgraphia?
Surely they have to learn how to accomodate their own problems? I've met a number of mild dyslexics in software.
How about your non-native-English speakers?
What about them? This isn't difficult compared to something like an english class - technical manuals are fairly simple to use and most technical material is english anyway
Additionally, think about what you want kids to get out of this class.
Presumably, they'll discover whether they like programming.
Oh look, an Obama troll. Listen up, troll, UK government isn't liberal, it's borderline fascist. You want liberals, go to vermont or new hampshire or something.
Re-factoring a database is a lot more involved - changing tables, stored procedures, maybe even the underlying database.
This particular case is easy: identify one form of data storage (for instance, a customer record) in the tables, build a schema, change the clients, and migrate the data. You will need a history of used queries if your codebase is murky to identify all the users of this data. Follow this process for 1-3 items at a time until you empty the old table.
If you have a dev environment, pull the table apart and identify all the uses of the table, make a schema that supports them, and migrate your code to use the DB. You'll probably break some obscure excel spreadsheet along the way, so do the actual migration in stages (as above) and don't worry if you can only shrink the table by 99% - making it an obscure minor thing is almost as good as killing it outright.Just don't let anyone add use cases to it.
What I would like you to do is to support your claims by pointing us to websites that have made the "mistake" of first running MySQL and later discovering the "light" in adopting PostgreSQL or otherwise.
It's a toy database because when things aren't set up properly, they don't fail. Instead, they succeed silently and corrupt data (see using the wrong file format for your tablespace). Also, the developers are a treat - "we don't need transactions, do integrity checks in the app", followed by "we now have transactions, aren't we cool". Do they have triggers yet? Meanwhile, I have postgres, which works just fine.
It's very naive to assume that Adobe took so long because of the burden of testing. Frequently, companies simply don't consider exploits a priority unless shamed by the press.
Well, since there isn't even a rise in knife crime, then even that isn't true - all you can say is that hysteria over knife crime causes video game taxes.
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But they didn't. They went from 4 to 8 MP, which doubles the image size.
Why can't the "help" system HELP YOU - with full screen pictorial help, even animated examples?)
Because that costs money and cameras are either low margin cheap things that go out of market in 6 months or DSLRs that are used by pros and hobbyists who don't want handholding.
Cameras still let lots of people try to use the flash when it's useless because the photographer is 50M from the subject.
As well they should. The camera's job is to do what I tell it. Now if you're arguing that it should be intelligent about disbaling flash, then sure, so long as I can disable that.
They could have built-in WiFi rather than requiring some kludgey flash slot after market WiFi thing to copy your pictures to your computer.
What for? Flash works fine, and I don't want to configure a WPA key on my freaking camera, or transfer 8G over wifi.
I had a coolpix that I tried that with - prefocus, wait, and when you go for the photo, it REFOCUSES THE PICTURE FOR 5 SECONDS!. I got rid of that piece of shit and went to a digital rebel, and now I'm happy, except when it can't do autofocus and just beeps at me.
Gotcha covered. mind, this isn't cheap or easy to cart around.
How about a shutter response faster than 500 ms?
How about a DSLR or a Fuji (found that one on dpreview)? I ditched my nikon because of the 3 second refocus BS that it pulled all the time.
What I don't want is cutesy bloatware software for legacy windows boxes... just gimme a SD or CF
All modern camera have SD or CF (sony has that memory stick thing - screw them). Why install the bloatware?
I want it silent for wedding/baptism photos or photos of pets/animals/hunting. Or at least a mostly inoffensive beep
So do I; I think it's there mostly to foil perverts that take pictures of things they shouldn't.
This is normal. When you double the resolution, you double it in 2 dimensions. (Height and Width) This results in a four-fold increase in data size.
That would be going from 4mp to 16mp. Going from 4 to 8mp should only double your image size on disk.
I can stick 8 sockets of amd stuff in a 2u slot with supermicro stuff - get 2 and you have 16 sockets = 32 cores and 128G ram in 4u. That should be enough for quite a lot.
They answered with the following: "Our client came to us with a need we hear often: he wanted a high performance machine, but wanted it quiet.
That's easy - stick the compute stuff in a rack in some other room and remote into it. rdesktop, X11, whatever.
Yeah, and it also started out as a .30 rifle. At least the modern variants are pretty good.
IT services are not the main mission of the armed forces
Does that mean that the Army and Navy have no interest in efficient operations? Seriously?
I thought that was mostly because of the lack of an issued cleaning kit on the M16A1.
This is essentially a facetious concept, because (at least according to the MI police, who have a vested interest in being correct) the machines [used for testing BAC of blood] can be no more than .02 percent accurate.
What's fun is that women tend to blow high due to the way the device works, and diabetics get an extra .03 or so just from being diabetic.
If you don't like the business model either a) Quit shopping there or b) Open your own computer business and attempt to be profitable just selling computers. Just quit your bitching about it.
If your business model requires you to sell upgrades to every PC that walks out the door, you deserve to go out of business. Sorry, but your negative margin isn't my concern.
nah, sharp edges tear the sock and leave marks. Go with the tried and true soap in a pillowcase.
Alcohol related crashes are almost never when a drunk person cannot stay on the road and goes off and hits something/someone.
This is true: DUI crashes are a small minority of alcohol related crashes. Most alcohol related crashes happen when there is an accident and someone on the scene has a BAC. The number of DUI crashes can be estimated at 1000/year, but the actual number is not tracked nationally.
Someone not seeing the drunk driver or the other way around. All kinds of other risks are involved here and alcohol is just the one that seals the deal.
I can accept this, but look at what I said - I talked about the guys that cause the damage (read: crash and do damage/injury). They do start around .12, as this is when you are seriously impaired. .08 is a bit high, but probably won't make you crash. .15 and up is where you find the habitual offenders.
Well, I've been at .09 and I didn't stagger around and slur my speech. Of course, that's not really drunk - the guys that cause the actual damage start at around .12 and are usually .15 and up.
how is comparing a black man (from Africa) to a monkey (from Africa) not a racial attack?
One president is afforded better treatment and respect because of the color of his skin
Nope, I shouldn't have to tell you this, but comparing blacks to monkeys is just dripping racism, so you can't use that slur without appearing racist. You can still mock him for being a slimy chicago politico or something - that's OK.
It may not go well for abstract free-spirits.
Sucks to be them. I'm sure they hate algebra.
How about kids with dyslexia, dyscalculia, and/or dysgraphia?
Surely they have to learn how to accomodate their own problems? I've met a number of mild dyslexics in software.
How about your non-native-English speakers?
What about them? This isn't difficult compared to something like an english class - technical manuals are fairly simple to use and most technical material is english anyway
Additionally, think about what you want kids to get out of this class.
Presumably, they'll discover whether they like programming.
finished students should help the ones who are really far behind.
Finished students should work on something more advanced.
Oh look, an Obama troll. Listen up, troll, UK government isn't liberal, it's borderline fascist. You want liberals, go to vermont or new hampshire or something.
Re-factoring a database is a lot more involved - changing tables, stored procedures, maybe even the underlying database.
This particular case is easy: identify one form of data storage (for instance, a customer record) in the tables, build a schema, change the clients, and migrate the data. You will need a history of used queries if your codebase is murky to identify all the users of this data. Follow this process for 1-3 items at a time until you empty the old table.
If you have a dev environment, pull the table apart and identify all the uses of the table, make a schema that supports them, and migrate your code to use the DB. You'll probably break some obscure excel spreadsheet along the way, so do the actual migration in stages (as above) and don't worry if you can only shrink the table by 99% - making it an obscure minor thing is almost as good as killing it outright.Just don't let anyone add use cases to it.
What I would like you to do is to support your claims by pointing us to websites that have made the "mistake" of first running MySQL and later discovering the "light" in adopting PostgreSQL or otherwise.
It's a toy database because when things aren't set up properly, they don't fail. Instead, they succeed silently and corrupt data (see using the wrong file format for your tablespace). Also, the developers are a treat - "we don't need transactions, do integrity checks in the app", followed by "we now have transactions, aren't we cool". Do they have triggers yet? Meanwhile, I have postgres, which works just fine.
It's very naive to assume that Adobe took so long because of the burden of testing. Frequently, companies simply don't consider exploits a priority unless shamed by the press.
Well, since there isn't even a rise in knife crime, then even that isn't true - all you can say is that hysteria over knife crime causes video game taxes.