If you don't sign up for the friends program you aren't being tracked publicly. The DRM is a non issue, you can run in offline mode without a problem.
And in a normal game you have a bigger problem when installing, the game most likely wants to contact some foreign host to check the key, with steam you have a lot of interests in keeping everything online, while the single game published might easily go under.
Steam had some teething problems in the early days, but I have had no problems with Steam in a long time - other than the fact they are overcharging Europeans for games.
No, it's about not having to wait for something. I want 100mbit/s, not because I need massive files transferred around the clock, but I don't want to wait for hours when I want an update to something.
Same goes for hard drives, faster is better. Most of the time I'm doing some low intensity stuff, but just once in a while I need to move a massive file around, extract data etc. and again, I don't want to sit around for hours waiting for it to complete.
Having 300MB/sec means I can shuffle a DVD around in 15 seconds, now that could come in handy.
Only if they come with a bloody huge sticker telling the customer to make sure this will have battery power. Imagine losing 1 GB of data during power loss....
In some environments you are forced to keep this info, we for example do just that because the user id can't be trusted.
You might end up with a situation where the information has been filled in by someone who is no longer with your organization, the information persists and you might need to know who made it.
The problem is you might by law not be allowed to keep all the user information you originally gathered - so how would you go about keeping information if you are required to delete the original user record?
Some accounting applications requires series to be ever incrementing with no holes, so yeah there are these requirements, they are however not very common.
GP is bit off his marbles, but your sequence can get "out of sync" if a transaction takes a value, makes an insert but decides to rollback - this means there will be a hole in the sequences issued. That is unless you define your sequence as dense, in which case the sequence id will be available again (do note however, using dense sequences means only one insert transaction can be open using that sequence at a time.)
At no point are you risking losing data over a sequence object, unless your application is really retarded and decides to guess what sequence is being issued for it.
LaTeX is free (Office can often be acquired pretty cheap in academia), however what would prevent me from switching is the fact that a.tex document is easily handled by SVN/CVS, while my experience with office (note earlier versions, 2010 might be different) is a nightmare.
Thats why my secret question when possible is a string of random characters with the answer always being another string of random chars (makepasswd --char=15).
Yes that means I won't be able to ever recover my password if forgotten, but neither will anyone else.
It's kind of poetic how stupid you come off trying to dis on the global warming people.
1. Pretty much everyone agrees that the term global warming is bad, since what is happening is global climate change, which is very real and a very big problem. 2. The amount of CO2 is not fixed as you claim, CO2 is a by product of chemical reactions. There are also reactions going the other way, but unfortunately we are producing way more CO2 than is being consumed, this is a problem. 3. While you are correct that the world will probably survive just fine as a whole, some of us are rather concerned about the amount of climate refuges we are going to see and in time the wars that will most likely follow.
It never cease to amaze me how hard it is to be an ordinary citizen in the US.
Here in Denmark we don't have the Miranda statue, when you get arrested it is pretty much along the line: "The time is now 14:06 and you are under arrest". When being confronted with evidence there is a thing called illegal evidence - but you will still be charged, having gained the evidence by illegal means just means the policeman will get a slap on the wrist.
Now this all sounds atrocious, but it (generally) works. No one blindly trusts the police in court, people get a mostly fair trial (we don't do the jury thing, we select people for lawmen (bad translation)).
Sure as hell hope I'm never pulled over if I visit the US.
Since I'm not an American I don't know how a drunk stop works, but here in Denmark, you get to blow on a mobile device, if it shows up as drunk you are taken to the hospital for a blood sample and only that blood sample will be used against you.
Are only the mechanical readings being used in the US?
No one can, you got several companies having their greased fingers involved, you got several different licensing systems for the same code base and the original developers all split into new forked projects.
Database 101 - the most important part of a database is to keep your data integrity, including telling you to go put your query where the sun don't shine if your data doesn't fit the schema.
Telling the program that the query you just submitted is fine and dandy and then changing the data is - if not the biggest nono in a database - a top 10 thing you just don't do.
People like you are undermining the industry. You straddle around claiming to be a database developer with x years under the belt, but you are in fact putting your clients data in grave danger and when shit finally hits the fan on your mysql installation you are going to wish you listened to the people who knew better.
I've never heard of this book, never had the need for this topic and I doubt many people actually do, so if sales are low its more likely because it is a very narrow topic with extremely few potential customers.
The fact that top 6 link for his book is pirate links just shows that there isn't that much interest in the book.
But $1.4B is chump change for governments. Intel might have another look at it, but when you are dealing with a couple of hundred million people $1B is only $4-5 per capita.
Really? So why is MS Windows now shipping with options for browsers? IE is shipping with options for what search engine you want to use. It seems MS is actually paying very close to how they behave in EU, they after all risk having all their EU assets ceased...
Interl is being sued for 1 billion euroes, that is chump change compared to the bailouts being issued. And as other siblings have said, EU is happily suing within own borders.
Want me to see ads? Bloody well host and screen them then. I use adblock because I'm sick and tired of waiting for some adtech.de server when loading a page. Also lately quite a few viruses has been spreading through ads.
One site I frequent, thedailywtf.com is hosting their ads themselves and are thus not blocked by my ad filter.
I own neither of those phones, but could someone explain to me why 35.000 is much more important than 20.000? With that many apps chances are you will have a harder time finding quality in the heap of binary junk.
The problem isn't education per se. Here in Denmark most people are well educated, but common sense is not on the agenda, while our housing situation isn't as bad as the US, it's still pretty rough for some home owners - the problem is people happily signed the contracts without reading them nor understanding them. If you don't get the numbers you call someone who does, people just blindly trusted the bank.
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You sound like you haven't actually tried steam.
If you don't sign up for the friends program you aren't being tracked publicly. The DRM is a non issue, you can run in offline mode without a problem.
And in a normal game you have a bigger problem when installing, the game most likely wants to contact some foreign host to check the key, with steam you have a lot of interests in keeping everything online, while the single game published might easily go under.
Steam had some teething problems in the early days, but I have had no problems with Steam in a long time - other than the fact they are overcharging Europeans for games.
Yeah, I can see how one or two of those boxes can compare in performance with what GP was using.
No, it's about not having to wait for something. I want 100mbit/s, not because I need massive files transferred around the clock, but I don't want to wait for hours when I want an update to something.
Same goes for hard drives, faster is better. Most of the time I'm doing some low intensity stuff, but just once in a while I need to move a massive file around, extract data etc. and again, I don't want to sit around for hours waiting for it to complete.
Having 300MB/sec means I can shuffle a DVD around in 15 seconds, now that could come in handy.
Only if they come with a bloody huge sticker telling the customer to make sure this will have battery power. Imagine losing 1 GB of data during power loss....
How dare you coming here ruining a perfectly good uninformed rant with facts!?!?!!
In some environments you are forced to keep this info, we for example do just that because the user id can't be trusted.
You might end up with a situation where the information has been filled in by someone who is no longer with your organization, the information persists and you might need to know who made it.
The problem is you might by law not be allowed to keep all the user information you originally gathered - so how would you go about keeping information if you are required to delete the original user record?
Some accounting applications requires series to be ever incrementing with no holes, so yeah there are these requirements, they are however not very common.
GP is bit off his marbles, but your sequence can get "out of sync" if a transaction takes a value, makes an insert but decides to rollback - this means there will be a hole in the sequences issued. That is unless you define your sequence as dense, in which case the sequence id will be available again (do note however, using dense sequences means only one insert transaction can be open using that sequence at a time.)
At no point are you risking losing data over a sequence object, unless your application is really retarded and decides to guess what sequence is being issued for it.
LaTeX is free (Office can often be acquired pretty cheap in academia), however what would prevent me from switching is the fact that a .tex document is easily handled by SVN/CVS, while my experience with office (note earlier versions, 2010 might be different) is a nightmare.
I'm staying with LaTeX.
Thats why my secret question when possible is a string of random characters with the answer always being another string of random chars (makepasswd --char=15).
Yes that means I won't be able to ever recover my password if forgotten, but neither will anyone else.
It's kind of poetic how stupid you come off trying to dis on the global warming people.
1. Pretty much everyone agrees that the term global warming is bad, since what is happening is global climate change, which is very real and a very big problem.
2. The amount of CO2 is not fixed as you claim, CO2 is a by product of chemical reactions. There are also reactions going the other way, but unfortunately we are producing way more CO2 than is being consumed, this is a problem.
3. While you are correct that the world will probably survive just fine as a whole, some of us are rather concerned about the amount of climate refuges we are going to see and in time the wars that will most likely follow.
It never cease to amaze me how hard it is to be an ordinary citizen in the US.
Here in Denmark we don't have the Miranda statue, when you get arrested it is pretty much along the line: "The time is now 14:06 and you are under arrest". When being confronted with evidence there is a thing called illegal evidence - but you will still be charged, having gained the evidence by illegal means just means the policeman will get a slap on the wrist.
Now this all sounds atrocious, but it (generally) works. No one blindly trusts the police in court, people get a mostly fair trial (we don't do the jury thing, we select people for lawmen (bad translation)).
Sure as hell hope I'm never pulled over if I visit the US.
Since I'm not an American I don't know how a drunk stop works, but here in Denmark, you get to blow on a mobile device, if it shows up as drunk you are taken to the hospital for a blood sample and only that blood sample will be used against you.
Are only the mechanical readings being used in the US?
No one can, you got several companies having their greased fingers involved, you got several different licensing systems for the same code base and the original developers all split into new forked projects.
Database 101 - the most important part of a database is to keep your data integrity, including telling you to go put your query where the sun don't shine if your data doesn't fit the schema.
Telling the program that the query you just submitted is fine and dandy and then changing the data is - if not the biggest nono in a database - a top 10 thing you just don't do.
People like you are undermining the industry. You straddle around claiming to be a database developer with x years under the belt, but you are in fact putting your clients data in grave danger and when shit finally hits the fan on your mysql installation you are going to wish you listened to the people who knew better.
I wanted to write the same.
I've never heard of this book, never had the need for this topic and I doubt many people actually do, so if sales are low its more likely because it is a very narrow topic with extremely few potential customers.
The fact that top 6 link for his book is pirate links just shows that there isn't that much interest in the book.
But $1.4B is chump change for governments. Intel might have another look at it, but when you are dealing with a couple of hundred million people $1B is only $4-5 per capita.
Really? So why is MS Windows now shipping with options for browsers? IE is shipping with options for what search engine you want to use. It seems MS is actually paying very close to how they behave in EU, they after all risk having all their EU assets ceased...
Are you trolling or just plain old retarded?
Interl is being sued for 1 billion euroes, that is chump change compared to the bailouts being issued. And as other siblings have said, EU is happily suing within own borders.
I'm going for a QNAP raid 6 when I get the time (ahrem, money), but you need to have several boxes to store the amount GP is talking about.
I have never had a drive fail within a month, what kind of cheap ass hardware are you buying?
Want me to see ads? Bloody well host and screen them then. I use adblock because I'm sick and tired of waiting for some adtech.de server when loading a page. Also lately quite a few viruses has been spreading through ads.
One site I frequent, thedailywtf.com is hosting their ads themselves and are thus not blocked by my ad filter.
I own neither of those phones, but could someone explain to me why 35.000 is much more important than 20.000? With that many apps chances are you will have a harder time finding quality in the heap of binary junk.
The problem isn't education per se. Here in Denmark most people are well educated, but common sense is not on the agenda, while our housing situation isn't as bad as the US, it's still pretty rough for some home owners - the problem is people happily signed the contracts without reading them nor understanding them. If you don't get the numbers you call someone who does, people just blindly trusted the bank.