What happens when they tell the computer to automatically unenroll students that have 0 attendance for one month (again my mono example)?
In most states they can't do that. Most states have constitutional guaruntees saying that each and every person has a right to a HS education.
Also, I would imagine that if you really had Mono and were a good student up to that point you would inform the school and make some attempt to keep up with your work from home/hospital...
Isn't Gartner the same group that will say whatever you pay them to say? They've been on both sides of the windows sucks issue, both sides of the use linux issuse. They're the whore of the IT strategy world.
I say we all put $1 in a paypal account and then use the total to buy a report saying that slashcode should be extended into a viable app platform and used to deliver ALL web content.
Is nVidia and ATI. The new version of any game like this generates as much sales for them as it does for whoever put the game out I bet.
I'd also bet that AMD and Intel see a nice little spike when a new generation hallmark game comes out. Thats the kind of thing that everyone is waiting for to upgrade...
and I'm happy to see Intel have some real competition
Not to be a fanboy. But you're implying that AMD hasn't been real competition?
Seems like for roughly 3 of the last 4 years AMD was stomping Intel on a regular basis. Now they are in a lull between product lines and people completely write them off....
It's very easy for beginners to write erroneous SQL which will access every record in a table.
There are also lots of situations in SQL in which you legitimately need to access every row in a table, or in which the database does so on your behalf.
For example:
If you have a non-indexed table called Names. and
you do select * from names where last_name = 'Smith'. Every row will be looked at. Legitimately.
I'm sure if you really wanted to you could tear this thing apart and make it work for what you want. Kind of like when you buy a pen you could glue feathers to it and use it as a dart, even though thats not at all what bic had in mind.
I fail to see why the company is doing something bad by attempting to make you use the product for its intended purpose.
First of all I believe they're saving somewhere near 3 billion dollars...
Secondly I work for a department that supports a payroll system for about 10k Employees and I'd guess that for Developers alone we shell out about $250k a year to support the system. And this isn't even a home-rolled system, we're talking maintenance of a system that we pay for. With all liscenses included and hardware costs, I'm sure we're well over $500,000 a year.
Thats for 10k Employees, how many employees does the Japanese Govt. have?
Actually if YOU read the article you would know that that quote refers to an earlier prototype that piloted in the mid-late 80's and was scrapped. The current SEVIS system is not and was never a prototype, it is and always has been a full production system, albiet a crappy one.
I don't get it. It's $40 a month, that sounds like an awful lot just to say you're using VOIP. I pay $15 a month for local phone and use a Sams-Club $.03 a minute phone card for long distance, so unless I talk for more than 850 minutes a month long distance this makes no sense. And even if I do there are other issues.
In short, why is is great, or even good? What am I missing here?
Thats my point. In a language in which you don't need to declare variables if you press the shift key once, your program will compile and run fine, but it won't work. Because you said:
$Var = 'hello world!'
print $var
Which will run fine but print nothing.
In C/C++ you'll get something like this:
ERROR: Undefined variable (var) on line 32 of file "hello.c"
If your in visual C++ you will then be magically brought straight to line 32 to fix the problem. my argument is that this is much easier to figure out and fix.
Best to start with something where you don't have to trip over stupid things like case sensitivity or declaring variables.
Please tell me you're kidding. I'm a competent programmer with a 4 year CS degree and I STILL have problems when I use crappy languages without variable declaration (I even use strict in perl). Nothing like spending a day tracking down a bug that consisted of an obvious typo.
If I were to reccomend a language to a newbie it would be something with both variable declaration and case sensitivity, I would basically want the strictest compiler settings possible just to enforce the basics of good programming. Honestly I would probably reccomend something like C/C++ using Visual C++ just because the compiler is so good at pointing out stupid mistakes like forgotten ticks or semicolons.
So because you chose to be cheap in live in the country, those people still in cali having to pay oppressive mortgages on their 1 million dollar homes in order to live like you do should have to contribute extra for their phone and broadband so that you can pay less?
By the way, I just moderated and posted on the same thread. I thought that wasn't possible?
Yeah, buying locally is a terrible idea. We would all be much better of if everyone mail-ordered everything from Taiwan. Money wants to be free and LOVES to travel!
Ahh, the big glaring problem with this is that most modern electric cars are essentially built around the batteries. It's not like your t.v. remote, you don't just pop the battery out and throw in another.
So now you're talking about not only convincing big oil to support your exchange stations, you're also going to need everyone who makes an electric car to totally redesign their car to have not just removable batteries but your special type of removable batteries. Also, good luck making your battery packs compact and light enough that they can be easily changed out. Have you ever lifted a standard cheapo 12v car battery? Multiply that by 20 or so and tell me how feasable your idea is.
To continue raining on the parade, these expensive bulky batteries also have a very limited life span. So you can't really just swap one out for another like you would a propane tank, because they're worth many thousands of dollars (depending on the vehicle) and will have varying amounts of life left in them. So now you've got to convince big oil that it's ok to eat the cost of new batteries because every time someones goes tits up they're going to roll their car into the nearest station and swap their piece of crap battery out for a nice new one for the cost of a fill up. Good deal.
To sum up, when you come up with a cheap, lightweight, compact battery which meets all the power, durability, and safety needs of an automotive application send a letter to GM/Honda/Toyota and they'll get you that funding you need.
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Yes, but women are far too nice for that.
The jacket is designed for women only. Its small size and narrow armholes are intended to prevent men from using it as an offensive weapon. Whiton conceded that women could use it offensively, and that it would be hard for police to arrest anyone wearing one.
Men on the other hand, can't be trusted. Yet this isn't sexist somehow?
Funny, I seem to remember Toms Hardware being rabidly AMD fanboyish about 1.5 years ago when AMD still had the fastest processor. I'm not saying they aren't biased fanboys, what I'm saying is they're fairweather fans.
To keep it on-topic, I also seem to remember ATI doing the exact same thing nVidia is now doing with quake "optimization" for the 8500 cards... Do a google search for "quake quack"
Thats why their geeks. The thirst for knowledge need not be contained in any one discipline. I know I personally hop from new hobby to new hobby and become bored with things once I feel I have enough skill.
What school did you go to? I graduated 2 years ago and it was ALL about C/C++ and there was a required class in assembler (MIPS).
I was under the (possibly mistaken) impression that most CS schools were harping on C/C++ because if you knew them, you could learn almost any language quickly because >50% of them are based on C, use C syntax, use C++ object constructs, etc...
Roger Schmeckel, a grossly obese Sysadmin from the washington area was unable to function without his stolen segway.
Aparently once considered "only fat" by friends and colleagues, the complete cessation of any physical activity brought on the the purchase of the segway has caused Schmeckel to gain an astonishing 250lbs in 3 months. He is now unable to walk from his desk to the kitchen without assistance.
Schmeckel is quoted as saying -- "I'm just glad all my friends from the EQ community have banded together and helped me out during my time of need".
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Sure you can upgrade the ram in an x-serve, or the processor. But at what price?
From Pricewatch: G4 1.2GHZ upgrade: $465
Athlon XP 2100: $61
So it's about $400 cheaper to upgrade the X86 box...
What happens when they tell the computer to automatically unenroll students that have 0 attendance for one month (again my mono example)?
In most states they can't do that. Most states have constitutional guaruntees saying that each and every person has a right to a HS education.
Also, I would imagine that if you really had Mono and were a good student up to that point you would inform the school and make some attempt to keep up with your work from home/hospital...
Isn't Gartner the same group that will say whatever you pay them to say? They've been on both sides of the windows sucks issue, both sides of the use linux issuse. They're the whore of the IT strategy world.
I say we all put $1 in a paypal account and then use the total to buy a report saying that slashcode should be extended into a viable app platform and used to deliver ALL web content.
Is nVidia and ATI. The new version of any game like this generates as much sales for them as it does for whoever put the game out I bet.
I'd also bet that AMD and Intel see a nice little spike when a new generation hallmark game comes out. Thats the kind of thing that everyone is waiting for to upgrade...
these guys can put up a good fight... It'll keep the second years busy anyway.
and I'm happy to see Intel have some real competition
Not to be a fanboy. But you're implying that AMD hasn't been real competition?
Seems like for roughly 3 of the last 4 years AMD was stomping Intel on a regular basis. Now they are in a lull between product lines and people completely write them off....
I agree, the database example is especially bad.
It's very easy for beginners to write erroneous SQL which will access every record in a table.
There are also lots of situations in SQL in which you legitimately need to access every row in a table, or in which the database does so on your behalf.
For example:
If you have a non-indexed table called Names. and you do select * from names where last_name = 'Smith'. Every row will be looked at. Legitimately.
Lets see, local cable modem is $39.95 for 5 gigs and $10 a gig past that. So if you can ship 3 160GB HDD's for $30 thats:
160GBX3 = 480GB / $30 = 16 GB/Dollar
Cable modem = 1GB/$10 = 1/10 GB/Dollar
So the mail is cheaper. And probably faster if you consider how long it would take to DL 480GB @ 32KB/sec compared to next day or 2nd day air.
Amen,
I'm sure if you really wanted to you could tear this thing apart and make it work for what you want. Kind of like when you buy a pen you could glue feathers to it and use it as a dart, even though thats not at all what bic had in mind.
I fail to see why the company is doing something bad by attempting to make you use the product for its intended purpose.
First of all I believe they're saving somewhere near 3 billion dollars...
Secondly I work for a department that supports a payroll system for about 10k Employees and I'd guess that for Developers alone we shell out about $250k a year to support the system. And this isn't even a home-rolled system, we're talking maintenance of a system that we pay for. With all liscenses included and hardware costs, I'm sure we're well over $500,000 a year.
Thats for 10k Employees, how many employees does the Japanese Govt. have?
Yeah, and "Rinux" will save them 350 billion yen. Thats almost enough for a candy bar!
note: don't bother flaming, I know the exchange rate isn't that bad anymore....
Actually if YOU read the article you would know that that quote refers to an earlier prototype that piloted in the mid-late 80's and was scrapped. The current SEVIS system is not and was never a prototype, it is and always has been a full production system, albiet a crappy one.
I don't get it. It's $40 a month, that sounds like an awful lot just to say you're using VOIP. I pay $15 a month for local phone and use a Sams-Club $.03 a minute phone card for long distance, so unless I talk for more than 850 minutes a month long distance this makes no sense. And even if I do there are other issues.
In short, why is is great, or even good? What am I missing here?
upper limit is the batter's belt buckle
Actually it's "the numbers", rougly the nipples.
Thats my point. In a language in which you don't need to declare variables if you press the shift key once, your program will compile and run fine, but it won't work. Because you said:
$Var = 'hello world!'
print $var
Which will run fine but print nothing.
In C/C++ you'll get something like this:
ERROR: Undefined variable (var) on line 32 of file "hello.c"
If your in visual C++ you will then be magically brought straight to line 32 to fix the problem.
my argument is that this is much easier to figure out and fix.
Best to start with something where you don't have to trip over stupid things like case sensitivity or declaring variables.
Please tell me you're kidding. I'm a competent programmer with a 4 year CS degree and I STILL have problems when I use crappy languages without variable declaration (I even use strict in perl). Nothing like spending a day tracking down a bug that consisted of an obvious typo.
If I were to reccomend a language to a newbie it would be something with both variable declaration and case sensitivity, I would basically want the strictest compiler settings possible just to enforce the basics of good programming. Honestly I would probably reccomend something like C/C++ using Visual C++ just because the compiler is so good at pointing out stupid mistakes like forgotten ticks or semicolons.
Selling cigarettes or porn to a 12 year old who looks like they're 50 is still illegal. Quicky mart clerks have to check id, why shouldn't spammers?
So because you chose to be cheap in live in the country, those people still in cali having to pay oppressive mortgages on their 1 million dollar homes in order to live like you do should have to contribute extra for their phone and broadband so that you can pay less?
By the way, I just moderated and posted on the same thread. I thought that wasn't possible?
Yeah, buying locally is a terrible idea. We would all be much better of if everyone mail-ordered everything from Taiwan. Money wants to be free and LOVES to travel!
Ahh, the big glaring problem with this is that most modern electric cars are essentially built around the batteries. It's not like your t.v. remote, you don't just pop the battery out and throw in another.
So now you're talking about not only convincing big oil to support your exchange stations, you're also going to need everyone who makes an electric car to totally redesign their car to have not just removable batteries but your special type of removable batteries. Also, good luck making your battery packs compact and light enough that they can be easily changed out. Have you ever lifted a standard cheapo 12v car battery? Multiply that by 20 or so and tell me how feasable your idea is.
To continue raining on the parade, these expensive bulky batteries also have a very limited life span. So you can't really just swap one out for another like you would a propane tank, because they're worth many thousands of dollars (depending on the vehicle) and will have varying amounts of life left in them. So now you've got to convince big oil that it's ok to eat the cost of new batteries because every time someones goes tits up they're going to roll their car into the nearest station and swap their piece of crap battery out for a nice new one for the cost of a fill up. Good deal.
To sum up, when you come up with a cheap, lightweight, compact battery which meets all the power, durability, and safety needs of an automotive application send a letter to GM/Honda/Toyota and they'll get you that funding you need.
Yes, but women are far too nice for that.
The jacket is designed for women only. Its small size and narrow armholes are intended to prevent men from using it as an offensive weapon. Whiton conceded that women could use it offensively, and that it would be hard for police to arrest anyone wearing one.
Men on the other hand, can't be trusted. Yet this isn't sexist somehow?
Tom's Hardware and other Intel fanboysites alike
Funny, I seem to remember Toms Hardware being rabidly AMD fanboyish about 1.5 years ago when AMD still had the fastest processor. I'm not saying they aren't biased fanboys, what I'm saying is they're fairweather fans.
To keep it on-topic, I also seem to remember ATI doing the exact same thing nVidia is now doing with quake "optimization" for the 8500 cards... Do a google search for "quake quack"
Thats why their geeks. The thirst for knowledge need not be contained in any one discipline. I know I personally hop from new hobby to new hobby and become bored with things once I feel I have enough skill.
What school did you go to? I graduated 2 years ago and it was ALL about C/C++ and there was a required class in assembler (MIPS).
I was under the (possibly mistaken) impression that most CS schools were harping on C/C++ because if you knew them, you could learn almost any language quickly because >50% of them are based on C, use C syntax, use C++ object constructs, etc...
Roger Schmeckel, a grossly obese Sysadmin from the washington area was unable to function without his stolen segway.
Aparently once considered "only fat" by friends and colleagues, the complete cessation of any physical activity brought on the the purchase of the segway has caused Schmeckel to gain an astonishing 250lbs in 3 months. He is now unable to walk from his desk to the kitchen without assistance.
Schmeckel is quoted as saying -- "I'm just glad all my friends from the EQ community have banded together and helped me out during my time of need".
Tape at 11.