American's are terrible energy wasters only because it's cheap. People in Phoenix, perhaps the driest place on earth, have cloth dryers (ok, maybe it's needed in winter). People take hot showers in their air-conditioned apartments with water heated from gas, while it's 40C outside. Compare that to Germans, on who automatically think about energy consumption for any appliance they buy. The difference in behaviour has nothing to do with a "green conscience", but everything to do with economics. Energy is much more expensive in Germany.
I'm no database expert, but it seems to me that normalization is an optimization to sacrifice time in favour of reduced disk space. Of course normalization also prevents errors. Just wondering what people's opinions are about this. For example, if we have an Employee table, should the Country be normalized? Should PostalCode be normalized? Many people have the first name "John", should FirstName be normalized too (prevent duplicate data)? Essentially, every column in the Employee table could be normalized so that it's just a table full of FKs. Of course that's extreme, but it has to stop somewhere... I've worked with "normalization extremists" who wish to normalize every column, but I'm of the thinking that normalization should not be taken too far.
SELECT * FROM MYTABLE t WHERE t.DATA =:par OR (:par IS NULL AND t.DATA IS NULL);
BARF! So, why exactly a an equals comparison to NULL always result to false? I understand this from the theoretical point of view, but in reality, it ONLY causes headaches.
In Germany, you are legally obligated to secure your wifi. There's a reason why the Pirate Party is receiving many votes in the state elections. If you're in Germany, a lot of YouTube videos (most of them are legit) are blocked because of GEMA (the German RIAA). I've heard that some bands aren't even allowed to post their OWN music on YouTube because GEMA won't allow this. My guess is that the old East German Stasi was just renamed to GEMA.
Robocalls redirecting non-conservative voters to the wrong location, so they cannot cast their vote, is election fraud. So you have no problem with this?
And you proved his point. You don't care who got more votes, but just that Bush won. If you were really for democracy, wouldn't you be outraged that someone won without getting the most votes? You only care that the Republicans won, no matter whether it was democratic or not.
The problem is that most people aren't informed, brainwashed, and/or don't give a shit. They just want to drive their SUVs, watch Jersey Shore, and eat McDonald's.
Is there a way for us to file a complaint to get a website shutdown on behalf of the RIAA? Lets shutdown every damn website on behalf of the RIAA, and make people wake up.
So when shit loans are packaged up, given a AAA stamp, then sold off to victims, this is not fraud? What's the difference between that and coating a bar of tungsten in gold, then selling it as if it was a pure gold?
After the 2008 crash, there was no deflation at all, which is what you would expect after a huge bubble bursts. The Fed pumped so much money into the system, the result was continued inflation rather than the deflation. And TARP was basically an extortion, which taxpayers will never get back in full. But who got this huge injection of printed money? The 1%. Basically, money was stolen from the 99%, via inflation, to further enrich the 1%. And take a look at the MF Global scandal, where $1.6B of customer money was STOLEN, with the order from the CEO, Jon Corzine. Guess who's not going to jail? I'm not saying there is a conspiracy, but when the rich are given a huge gift from the Fed and financial criminals are not prosecuted, something is seriously wrong with the system.
Since you're a patent attorney, maybe you can help me clarify this. Isn't a patent supposed to cover a specific implementation, not just the idea? Isn't this patent just an idea? I would bet that under the hood, iPhone is significantly different than this touchscreen device from 1997.
For example, I couldn't patent the idea "Creating Electricity from Sunlight". That would cover a huge range of implementations: solar panels, molten salt plants, etc. But I could patent a specific design of a solar panel that would do it. In fact, I wouldn't be able to successfully sue a competitor who makes a solar panel with a different technology (ie - silicon wafers vs glass), right?
Write method.
Write unit tests.
Fix until it works.
Write documentation.
I generally find that code documentation is a lot better if the document first approach is used. In the above approach, the method is done, and the documentation becomes a chore.
I've been looking into replacing my current laptop, which has a 1680x1050 resolution. But I see that MOST laptops nowadays have this crappy 1366x768 screen. What gives? Why isn't our screen resolution improving along with out CPU speed, RAM capacity, HD capacity, and virtually everything else???
If this were a banker who stole $1.2 billion of customer's money, there would be no prosecution. Jon Corzine, the CEO of the now bankrupt MF Global, "lost" (ie - stole) $1.2 billion of customer money, and is not is jail. But the Feds are throwing everything they have at Kim Dotcom.
The FCC should just stay out of the censoring business and just manage the RF spectrum. Look at the Howard Stern show. Why was he not allowed to talk about sexual topics that Oprah was allowed to talk about? The rules were not clear, and were selectively enforced because the guy at the top didn't like him. Why was Janet Jackson's boob accidentally popping out such a big deal for the FCC? Putting the FCC in the classroom is the worst possible idea ever.
What's happening to journalism? In the past years, I feel that the news is no longer news, in that you can't even trust the mainstream news anymore (maybe this was always the case). Either they report on only a part of the story, or are just flat out reporting lies. For example, I was reading a few news articles about Syria, and was wondering why the reaction to Syria was so different than Libya. From reading articles from the mainstream news, there was absolutely no answer. After doing a Google search, I found some plausible explanations and analysis on blogs. Isn't it the job of the news to do this as well?
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American's are terrible energy wasters only because it's cheap. People in Phoenix, perhaps the driest place on earth, have cloth dryers (ok, maybe it's needed in winter). People take hot showers in their air-conditioned apartments with water heated from gas, while it's 40C outside. Compare that to Germans, on who automatically think about energy consumption for any appliance they buy. The difference in behaviour has nothing to do with a "green conscience", but everything to do with economics. Energy is much more expensive in Germany.
I'm no database expert, but it seems to me that normalization is an optimization to sacrifice time in favour of reduced disk space. Of course normalization also prevents errors. Just wondering what people's opinions are about this. For example, if we have an Employee table, should the Country be normalized? Should PostalCode be normalized? Many people have the first name "John", should FirstName be normalized too (prevent duplicate data)? Essentially, every column in the Employee table could be normalized so that it's just a table full of FKs. Of course that's extreme, but it has to stop somewhere... I've worked with "normalization extremists" who wish to normalize every column, but I'm of the thinking that normalization should not be taken too far.
SELECT * FROM MYTABLE t WHERE t.DATA = :par OR (:par IS NULL AND t.DATA IS NULL);
BARF! So, why exactly a an equals comparison to NULL always result to false? I understand this from the theoretical point of view, but in reality, it ONLY causes headaches.
I'd trade GPU for CPU any day. My 5 year old laptop's CPU is good enough most of the time.
In Germany, you are legally obligated to secure your wifi. There's a reason why the Pirate Party is receiving many votes in the state elections. If you're in Germany, a lot of YouTube videos (most of them are legit) are blocked because of GEMA (the German RIAA). I've heard that some bands aren't even allowed to post their OWN music on YouTube because GEMA won't allow this. My guess is that the old East German Stasi was just renamed to GEMA.
In her defense, that question was loaded. The answer was obviously "nothing".
Because unlike America, election fraud is not common place in Canada.
Robocalls redirecting non-conservative voters to the wrong location, so they cannot cast their vote, is election fraud. So you have no problem with this?
And you proved his point. You don't care who got more votes, but just that Bush won. If you were really for democracy, wouldn't you be outraged that someone won without getting the most votes? You only care that the Republicans won, no matter whether it was democratic or not.
The problem is that most people aren't informed, brainwashed, and/or don't give a shit. They just want to drive their SUVs, watch Jersey Shore, and eat McDonald's.
Is there a way for us to file a complaint to get a website shutdown on behalf of the RIAA? Lets shutdown every damn website on behalf of the RIAA, and make people wake up.
Welcome to the USSA.
So when shit loans are packaged up, given a AAA stamp, then sold off to victims, this is not fraud? What's the difference between that and coating a bar of tungsten in gold, then selling it as if it was a pure gold?
After the 2008 crash, there was no deflation at all, which is what you would expect after a huge bubble bursts. The Fed pumped so much money into the system, the result was continued inflation rather than the deflation. And TARP was basically an extortion, which taxpayers will never get back in full. But who got this huge injection of printed money? The 1%. Basically, money was stolen from the 99%, via inflation, to further enrich the 1%. And take a look at the MF Global scandal, where $1.6B of customer money was STOLEN, with the order from the CEO, Jon Corzine. Guess who's not going to jail? I'm not saying there is a conspiracy, but when the rich are given a huge gift from the Fed and financial criminals are not prosecuted, something is seriously wrong with the system.
Since you're a patent attorney, maybe you can help me clarify this. Isn't a patent supposed to cover a specific implementation, not just the idea? Isn't this patent just an idea? I would bet that under the hood, iPhone is significantly different than this touchscreen device from 1997.
For example, I couldn't patent the idea "Creating Electricity from Sunlight". That would cover a huge range of implementations: solar panels, molten salt plants, etc. But I could patent a specific design of a solar panel that would do it. In fact, I wouldn't be able to successfully sue a competitor who makes a solar panel with a different technology (ie - silicon wafers vs glass), right?
I think most people to this:
Write method.
Write unit tests.
Fix until it works.
Write documentation.
I generally find that code documentation is a lot better if the document first approach is used. In the above approach, the method is done, and the documentation becomes a chore.
The Pentagon will develop the technology, and the porn industry will put it to use!
I've been looking into replacing my current laptop, which has a 1680x1050 resolution. But I see that MOST laptops nowadays have this crappy 1366x768 screen. What gives? Why isn't our screen resolution improving along with out CPU speed, RAM capacity, HD capacity, and virtually everything else???
Umm, some people are still struggling with the "earth is round" theory. This video from The View is really astounding. America is fucked.
Wow, that strategy is actually genius...
I just hope that copying files will work properly. in Vista, MS broke file copying. I guess it wasn't a useful enough feature to test properly.
If this were a banker who stole $1.2 billion of customer's money, there would be no prosecution. Jon Corzine, the CEO of the now bankrupt MF Global, "lost" (ie - stole) $1.2 billion of customer money, and is not is jail. But the Feds are throwing everything they have at Kim Dotcom.
The FCC should just stay out of the censoring business and just manage the RF spectrum. Look at the Howard Stern show. Why was he not allowed to talk about sexual topics that Oprah was allowed to talk about? The rules were not clear, and were selectively enforced because the guy at the top didn't like him. Why was Janet Jackson's boob accidentally popping out such a big deal for the FCC? Putting the FCC in the classroom is the worst possible idea ever.
What's happening to journalism? In the past years, I feel that the news is no longer news, in that you can't even trust the mainstream news anymore (maybe this was always the case). Either they report on only a part of the story, or are just flat out reporting lies. For example, I was reading a few news articles about Syria, and was wondering why the reaction to Syria was so different than Libya. From reading articles from the mainstream news, there was absolutely no answer. After doing a Google search, I found some plausible explanations and analysis on blogs. Isn't it the job of the news to do this as well?
You mean electrolytes?