Can you explain what exactly it is that makes it a lot harder? (And isn't a DBA paid to do his job?)
I am not actually a DBA, but as a programmer i actually need to create tables and maintain our website's database over time. While i like auto increment id's for non-composite primary keys, i don't like them very much for those tables that need composite keys. Maybe i am just too lazy, since indexes get created automatically for primary keys, even when they are composite.
An example: i work at an insurance company. All insurance policies are grouped in branches, for example autos, medical, transportation... Each one of those have a number. So each policy on the database is formed by a composite key, namely branch-policy number, like 31-6100236. Each policy has a receipt number, that changes each year the policy is renewed, so a receipt's key is actually something like 31-6100236-596847.
Do you think using an autoincrement id which adds nothing of value to the table actually helps?
Maybe i am wrong, but that's the way we do it down here. I would appreciate the comments.
Oh, sorry, i remember your minimum wage is expressed in hours, here it is monthly. So you need two months' worth of salary at the current minimum wage (a little more than 200$) to buy office legally.
Office professional 2007 is around 500$ here.
Software is sold about 33% more than in the united states. Hardware is a lot more expensive, since the wii costs 4 times more here. Apple doesn't have presence in Venezuela, so ipods are extremelly expensive. Most people here end up buying cheap chinese mp4 imitations.
Try crossing the Pond and buying stuff in euros or in UK pounds one of these days. You'll find that despite what the markets say, 1USD = 1GBP or 1EUR (at least, if not more).
You people in first world countries have it easy. In my third world country, buying ms office legally is twice the minimum wage. The nintendo wii is 1000$.
This group of people is the same that think that they don't need us in IT because they know how to turn on the computer, use Word and browse the net. They don't realize that software needs to be written and hardware needs to be designed, and that it is a hard job.
Most people i met in college went to study computer science "because they liked using computers" and when they found out about coding, moved out instantly.
I am not a registered user, but i browse wikipedia quite frequently, and when i spot a simple error, i usually modify it. I think that lots of the anonymous contributors have this same pattern, so i am not impressed with this study.
I have been dissapointed with Intel's two last motherboard releases. The P35 isn't any better than the P965 it is supposed to replace (check the article at techreport.com). They also have an article on the X38, and seems that the only difference is DDR3 (which at this time, it's SLOWER than DDR2 because of the high latency timings, despite the increased bandwidth, and of course, DD3 is double the price of DDR2 right now)
So, if you are building a new system, get a cheap full featured P965 for just 100$.
1) HP Vista laptops ship with recovery DVDs, there is no reason to create one.
Not true. I actually bought one last week, i am typing from it, pavilion dv6568, and it doesn't come with a recovery dvd. Even if you do burn one, you get vista with all of the preloaded crap on it. I removed all the crap and turned off some services and now vista is speedy.
While this could happen, IE on the mac was cancelled because Safari was developed, and much better to boot. The same is happening with Pages , Numbers and Keynote. I am waiting for microsoft to kill Office on the mac. Will they dare?
It isn't pretty in all of the rest of the world either. In latin america, all phones are locked to the carrier that provides them. While they don't cripple the phones as much as verizon (my v3 came with all features enabled), we can't choose carriers. GSM doesn't mean that the phone is free from carrier lockdown.
At the least, this will drive the price of SATA drive down. Maybe it will be the same like RAM, where DDR2 is actually cheaper than the old DDR memory standard.
I'm an American jackass spending $2k on phones because they can play H.264, have a nice UI, and won't crash, LOL.
Correction: you are an american jackass buying an apple 1.0 (meaning: it's unstable, as most apple 1.0 hardware/software). People are already having problems with their mail program crashing.
You are an american jackass buying a beautiful, lusty phone, but that doesn't have lots of standard features people expect on phones, such as:
No filesystem access: which means you can't download stuff with the browser, no attaching files in mail
No flash or java in safari
Crippled bluetooth: not even file transfer
You can't use the phone as a modem
No usb mass storage support
And even some of the features are badly implemented:
No copy and paste
No landscape mode outside safari
No junk mail filter
No IM
No GPS, a bummer on google maps
I am glad the phone won't be available ever in Venezuela. It is a pretty phone, the UI is mostly great, you have a great browser, but they could have made the phone better.
I don't know, but it seems to have become a little bit smaller recently.
This has been discussed a lot. The size is the same, but they did a heavily photoshopped ad where it had a different scale. The consensus is that the model of the ad just has bigger hands. The specs are the same.
Another "good" thing he is doing. 53 million lightbulbs have been replaced to fluorescent versions. An agreement with Vietnam was reached to start manufacturing the philips lightbulbs here. Vehicles will be able to run on natural gas soon, and the conversion will be free to users. They are testing solar panel use.
I hate the guy, but i want those programs to succeed.
Speak for yourself. I loved MI3, it's hilarious, good graphics. I hated MI4, not only because of the graphics but also the gameplay, since it was very difficult to control GT.
Favorite parts: the "muscle" trial against Haggis and the Banjo duel Favorite character: Murray. Oh come on, you gotta love Murray. He reminds me of HK-47
I don't understand what the problem is. This is within his right, and it's within the right of those who wish to continue their current parties, or form their own parties. Could you please clarify the issue for me?
He is in his right, it's not illegal. But diversity=good. Competition=good. Just one party is bad. This is against democracy, and a step further to total control, and you know it.
I don't have a problem with this as I am for nationalization under the context of allowing the people to generate the content, and be enabled to generate the content including the opposition and any other group provided they are not openly calling for violence.
Nobody in the opposition have "openly called for violence". If the channel showed people requesting to march, that isn't calling for violence. And the president has said "country, socialism or death" and has said "we must defend the revolution with our lives". Are you ok if i steal stuff that you bought with your money?
I believe that property is theft, and do not have any respect for private property myself.
What? So are you ok if i enter your house and kick you out of it, and steal everything you own? You should live in cuba. You lost all your credibility.
While everything you have said is true, it is not the whole truth. I am too lazy to search for links, and they would be in spanish anyway.
Some facts: -The electoral council was formed by 5 people. 3 of them have ties to the government. To this day, one is a judge for the maximum court, the other is now the country's vicepresident. The opposition denounced that they were not impartial, and sure they are now part of the goverment.
-The constitution was approved with less than 50% of the total voters.
-There were numerous complains about the machines used in the elections. Some printed a blank paper, some even switched the yes/no vote in the recall. The machine's software is closed source, and the goverment was part owner of the company that sold the machines.
-Very few political parties, the PSUV (partido socialista unido de venezuela) has joined all of the pro-chavez parties. What he says goes, so parties have to join to not be left outside the loop.
-No equality. I can't get a job inside the national oil industry because i signed the recall. My id renewal was even "lost" after this.
-Branches aren't autonomous at all. Chavez governs them all. The maximum court even assigned all of RCTV's station hardware so the new pro-chavez tv station could have the same availability all over the country.
-So there is no respect for private property. Chavez has said that venezuelans shouldn't have cars. There's a draft on a law that will decree that your home must be shared with someone else if it isn't fully occupied. Chavez has forced some land owners to sell their land. He has a big budget on food and clothing, although he has just said he will only keep 2 suits, some red shirts and 2 uniforms.
-Poverty is up, not down. Inflation is over 20% each year. The government calculates inflation on just a few products, so it look lower. A plantain imported in the netherlands is the same price here. You can't find meat, chicken, oil or sugar for example. The country's agriculture is ruined. We have to import most of our food.
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Can you explain what exactly it is that makes it a lot harder? (And isn't a DBA paid to do his job?)
I am not actually a DBA, but as a programmer i actually need to create tables and maintain our website's database over time. While i like auto increment id's for non-composite primary keys, i don't like them very much for those tables that need composite keys. Maybe i am just too lazy, since indexes get created automatically for primary keys, even when they are composite.
An example: i work at an insurance company. All insurance policies are grouped in branches, for example autos, medical, transportation... Each one of those have a number. So each policy on the database is formed by a composite key, namely branch-policy number, like 31-6100236. Each policy has a receipt number, that changes each year the policy is renewed, so a receipt's key is actually something like 31-6100236-596847.
Do you think using an autoincrement id which adds nothing of value to the table actually helps?
Maybe i am wrong, but that's the way we do it down here. I would appreciate the comments.
Oh, sorry, i remember your minimum wage is expressed in hours, here it is monthly. So you need two months' worth of salary at the current minimum wage (a little more than 200$) to buy office legally.
Office professional 2007 is around 500$ here.
Software is sold about 33% more than in the united states. Hardware is a lot more expensive, since the wii costs 4 times more here. Apple doesn't have presence in Venezuela, so ipods are extremelly expensive. Most people here end up buying cheap chinese mp4 imitations.
Try crossing the Pond and buying stuff in euros or in UK pounds one of these days. You'll find that despite what the markets say, 1USD = 1GBP or 1EUR (at least, if not more).
You people in first world countries have it easy. In my third world country, buying ms office legally is twice the minimum wage. The nintendo wii is 1000$.
Perhaps your love for Boucher will end when you find out he approved the war on iraq and opposes restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions
This group of people is the same that think that they don't need us in IT because they know how to turn on the computer, use Word and browse the net. They don't realize that software needs to be written and hardware needs to be designed, and that it is a hard job.
Most people i met in college went to study computer science "because they liked using computers" and when they found out about coding, moved out instantly.
Nothing new to see here, move along.
I am not a registered user, but i browse wikipedia quite frequently, and when i spot a simple error, i usually modify it. I think that lots of the anonymous contributors have this same pattern, so i am not impressed with this study.
I have been dissapointed with Intel's two last motherboard releases. The P35 isn't any better than the P965 it is supposed to replace (check the article at techreport.com). They also have an article on the X38, and seems that the only difference is DDR3 (which at this time, it's SLOWER than DDR2 because of the high latency timings, despite the increased bandwidth, and of course, DD3 is double the price of DDR2 right now)
So, if you are building a new system, get a cheap full featured P965 for just 100$.
Intel just made the P965 too good.
1) HP Vista laptops ship with recovery DVDs, there is no reason to create one.
Not true. I actually bought one last week, i am typing from it, pavilion dv6568, and it doesn't come with a recovery dvd. Even if you do burn one, you get vista with all of the preloaded crap on it. I removed all the crap and turned off some services and now vista is speedy.
I would guess that whatever your favorite non-bloat software is, it is most likely in Damn Small Linux...
I would second that, but then again, Firefox comes with DSL
While this could happen, IE on the mac was cancelled because Safari was developed, and much better to boot. The same is happening with Pages , Numbers and Keynote. I am waiting for microsoft to kill Office on the mac. Will they dare?
It isn't pretty in all of the rest of the world either. In latin america, all phones are locked to the carrier that provides them. While they don't cripple the phones as much as verizon (my v3 came with all features enabled), we can't choose carriers. GSM doesn't mean that the phone is free from carrier lockdown.
System Requirements
How far have we come?
Isohunt is now complying with the MPAA/RIAA. Don't use it.
What SSID will we wardrive for? I am going to miss all those "Linksys" being found so easily...
At the least, this will drive the price of SATA drive down. Maybe it will be the same like RAM, where DDR2 is actually cheaper than the old DDR memory standard.
Correction: you are an american jackass buying an apple 1.0 (meaning: it's unstable, as most apple 1.0 hardware/software).
People are already having problems with their mail program crashing.
You are an american jackass buying a beautiful, lusty phone, but that doesn't have lots of standard features people expect on phones, such as:
And even some of the features are badly implemented:
I am glad the phone won't be available ever in Venezuela. It is a pretty phone, the UI is mostly great, you have a great browser, but they could have made the phone better.
They did both things. The article was on Digg. They switched hand models and also photoshopped the phone and it had a different aspect ratio.p ic
Check out http://digg.com/apple/Did_the_iPhone_Get_Smaller_
I don't know, but it seems to have become a little bit smaller recently.
This has been discussed a lot. The size is the same, but they did a heavily photoshopped ad where it had a different scale. The consensus is that the model of the ad just has bigger hands. The specs are the same.
A Venezuelan article in /. that is NOT related to Chavez at all and it's actually science and technology?
I'm shocked!
Heh, i was actually going to put something like "See? We aren't all About Chavez down here!" but got chicken and decided to be mature.
Venezuelan here...
Another "good" thing he is doing. 53 million lightbulbs have been replaced to fluorescent versions. An agreement with Vietnam was reached to start manufacturing the philips lightbulbs here. Vehicles will be able to run on natural gas soon, and the conversion will be free to users. They are testing solar panel use.
I hate the guy, but i want those programs to succeed.
Speak for yourself. I loved MI3, it's hilarious, good graphics. I hated MI4, not only because of the graphics but also the gameplay, since it was very difficult to control GT.
Favorite parts: the "muscle" trial against Haggis and the Banjo duel
Favorite character: Murray. Oh come on, you gotta love Murray. He reminds me of HK-47
Try kubuntu. Kopete is much better than gaim, even supports webcam in msn.
I don't understand what the problem is. This is within his right, and it's within the right of those who wish to continue their current parties, or form their own parties. Could you please clarify the issue for me?
He is in his right, it's not illegal. But diversity=good. Competition=good. Just one party is bad. This is against democracy, and a step further to total control, and you know it.
I don't have a problem with this as I am for nationalization under the context of allowing the people to generate the content, and be enabled to generate the content including the opposition and any other group provided they are not openly calling for violence.
Nobody in the opposition have "openly called for violence". If the channel showed people requesting to march, that isn't calling for violence. And the president has said "country, socialism or death" and has said "we must defend the revolution with our lives". Are you ok if i steal stuff that you bought with your money?
I believe that property is theft, and do not have any respect for private property myself.
What? So are you ok if i enter your house and kick you out of it, and steal everything you own? You should live in cuba. You lost all your credibility.
While everything you have said is true, it is not the whole truth. I am too lazy to search for links, and they would be in spanish anyway.
Some facts:
-The electoral council was formed by 5 people. 3 of them have ties to the government. To this day, one is a judge for the maximum court, the other is now the country's vicepresident. The opposition denounced that they were not impartial, and sure they are now part of the goverment.
-The constitution was approved with less than 50% of the total voters.
-There were numerous complains about the machines used in the elections. Some printed a blank paper, some even switched the yes/no vote in the recall. The machine's software is closed source, and the goverment was part owner of the company that sold the machines.
-Very few political parties, the PSUV (partido socialista unido de venezuela) has joined all of the pro-chavez parties. What he says goes, so parties have to join to not be left outside the loop.
-No equality. I can't get a job inside the national oil industry because i signed the recall. My id renewal was even "lost" after
this.
-Branches aren't autonomous at all. Chavez governs them all. The maximum court even assigned all of RCTV's station hardware so the new pro-chavez tv station could have the same availability all over the country.
-So there is no respect for private property. Chavez has said that venezuelans shouldn't have cars. There's a draft on a law that will decree that your home must be shared with someone else if it isn't fully occupied. Chavez has forced some land owners to sell their land. He has a big budget on food and clothing, although he has just said he will only keep 2 suits, some red shirts and 2 uniforms.
-Poverty is up, not down. Inflation is over 20% each year. The government calculates inflation on just a few products, so it look lower. A plantain imported in the netherlands is the same price here. You can't find meat, chicken, oil or sugar for example. The country's agriculture is ruined. We have to import most of our food.
Well, CNN nad NBC are bad examples. During 2002 military coup RCTV reported that Chavez "denounced" his presidency when in fact he didn't.
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You say that like it was false. One of the top ranking military officers for his government announced that he was asked to resign, and that he accepted it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Rinc%C3%B3n_Ro