They could(should) set the database up differently. Rather than handing the spammers a list of email addys and saying go at it. The spammers should have to send their list, and get each address approved. Or alternately only give the spammers a MD5 hash of the addresses. Then make them compare against that.
The spammer will be able to tell if one of their addresses is on the list but not know what the list is.
Actually you can leave your MP3's on a fileserver and Xbox Media Player will play them from there. There are also ports of most major emulators for the Xbox, and yes the ROM's can be played off the network as well. The only thing you really need to have on the Xbox is executables. If you don't like the network option, swapping the HD with a bigger one is a simple process as well.
As far as modding goes, you don't even need to use a modchip or open your Xbox as long as you don't have the latest dashboard update from MS. Which unless you use Live, you don't have.
Ease of use is another thing. Most apps on the Xbox support the Xbox remote control, and have suprisingly polished interfaces. You can be playing a Movie on your xbox hit one button on the remote and the Xbox will hit IMDB, pull up info about the movie, and keep playing the movie in a little window in the corner.
Unless you're dead set on PVR functionality the Xbox is the way go. Trust me.
Actually I have a live-in girlfriend(gasp!). She's part of the problem. I was was one of the lucky ones who found an attractive geek girl. Rather than cooking she bugs me to play Super Smash Bros. with her, watch anime, and other extracurricular activities;-).
Do you trust someone to pick out the perfect melon or bunch of grapes?
I don't trust me to pick out the perfect melon or bunch of grapes. For that matter I can't even choose that I need melons or grapes.
How about noticing that the store brand is on sale this week and altering a purchase decision in real time?
Yes. At least I wouldn't see why not, when configuring the fridge it should give settings for what kind of price premium you'll pay for a specific brand of food. It could even learn this behavior over time by asking you "Should I have bought the Kroger sloppy joe mix instead of Manwich since it was $.50 cheaper per can." At which point you would tell it hell no I want my Manwich.
Internet-enabled refrigerators are nothing more than a solution looking for a problem.
Woohoo! I found the problem. I want a fridge that does my meal planning for me. I never have any idea what to eat for dinner. I'd like my fridge to suggest meals(with recipe's) based off a Tivo like format. Taking into account the time it takes to prepare and how recently I've eaten something like it. I want it to only suggest meals I have all the ingredients for. When I get low on ingredients it can place an order with the local grocery store that I can pick up every other Friday without having to wait in line because they've already pulled everything off the shelf and billed my credit card.
That would make my life not only easier, but would improve the quality of my meals as well as my enjoyment of them.
I would pay a thousand dollar premium over a regular fridge for this functionality.
"People that tear down others ideas for fun are called Devil's Advocates... or just fhwghads"
I always thought a "devils advocate" was someone you bounced your ideas off of so they could find problems with them and you could fix them before publishing, presenting, building, designing, coding, etc.
If I paid $5000 for 53" widescreen HDTV 8 months ago I'd be pissed too. I bought my 42" widescreen HDTV around the same time and paid $1250. The 53" inch version of my TV couldn't have cost much more than $2K.
I'm pretty sure the Nintendo 64 sold at a loss when it first came out. Not for long I imagine but for a little while. At least that's what EGM was saying a couple months before it came out. I can't give a reference obviously since I don't tend to keep gaming mags around for that long.
I've always heard.07 *cents* per song, which would be the $.0007 number.
If that's the case I'm just not sure what they're bitching about. If you figure the average song is 3 minutes long, there are 1440 minutes in a day. So that equals around 480 soungs a day for a webcast. At $.0007 a song that's $.336 dollars a day. That doesn't seem unreasonable to me, a little low actualy.
I doubt it. Nintendo has already said they'll only stop making consoles when they stop making games.
Remember Nintendo isn't nearly in the bad position Sega was. Sega had two major platforms flop in the span of one regular industry release cycle. The dreamcast was too late and wasn't nearly enough to make up for the disaster that was the Saturn.
But a list of procs is way more difficult to manage than a Java API (for example). Procs have no concept of package structure and as a result, they all end up in one big jumble with 3 or 4 different styles of naming (to get around the problem) competing for your visual attention.
Just like anything else there is a right and a wrong way to do anything. If you have poor naming standards and don't organize your stored procs they'll be a hassle. If you don't structure your Java API's correctly you won't be able to find anything in there either. I think it's easier to have *all* the stored procs in one place organized well rather than two places organized well. On a side note I think Oracle does allow you to group stored procs into packages.
I'm really having a hard time figuring out what you find is so difficult about managing stored procs in databases. Maybe you can tell me the difficulties you have and I can understand better.
Bandwidth internal to a network is nothing when it comes to SQL statements and optimizer time is negligable for most simple select, insert, and update queries. Most databases expect the little cases. It's the rare, big ones that test its metal.
I agree the difference is minimal. But when you're trying to run 2000 transactions per second through a database a small lag makes a big difference. Maybe not in most cases but definitely some. We have a database here that processes 500000 of our work units an hour. Add a few milliseconds to each of those querys and it drops signifigantly.
SQL is not code. It does not compile down to any form of CPU instructions. It is a data structure designed to look like english. All "compiling" procedures does is pre-parse the query and do some statistical analysis that would otherwise be done at runtime. This is great for really complex queries. However, 90% of the queries in most systems are not seriously affected by "compiling".
Agreed on the compiling semantics. I use the term compile since that's the term my RDBMS uses even though it's not a true compile. On the other hand those other 90% of calls you make I still belive need to be stored procs. The difference may not be much but what you save in network bandwidth, and optimizer time adds up. Besides it's not like it's hard to write a simple stored proc in *any* SQL language. It's only the complex ones, which you said need to be in sp's anyhow, that are difficult.
Also, it helps a lot to get the database done right the first time. It really isn't too hard, but some DBAs seem insistent on denormalizing this for performance or doing this fun new winding data structure, or other weird crap instead of just *doing* it. Get the database done right and in production and worry about performance characteristics later.
That sounds contradictory to me. At one point you're complaining about about DBA's insisting that things be done for performance reasons, at another you want it to just get done, and another you want it done right. These aren't things you can have all at the time, sometimes you can when I'm your DBA;). Much of the time the 'get it in production now' attitude is what leads to performance problems 2 years down the road when the new DBA (re: Me) takes over to fix the deadlocks, timeouts, and poor usage of DB resources.
No offence but that's heresy where I come from. Everything must be an SP here. Would you want to recompile every line of app code before you execute it(java devs don't answer that). It's the same way with stored procedures.
On top of that having stored procedures out where a good DBA can get at them in a moments notice so they can search them for dependencies, see their table usage, and analyze indexes without having to sort through a bunch of application code written in a language they may not understand.
Probably because you're blatantly hocking the product of the company you work for/own under a story that is only vaguely related to the story. Essentially it's the same as trying to sell spam blocking software in one of the many stories about spam.
Nope. Been in a car accident lately? I was and for the next two days I was called by no fewer than 10 lawyers, body shops, and chiropractors. The list will stop all those calls.
I hate to say this given the forum, but the reverse is also true. Open Source also does not equal quality. We have alot of people out there advocating solutions that maybe aren't the best option just because they're open source. If someone gets burned using a open source product that's not up to snuff it brands all of Open Source software. When you advocate make sure you're advocating good solutions not good licenses.
But if SCO isn't licensing 2.4 and they're just licensing UnixWare, which is a superset of the conflicting code in 2.4. Where does that leave us. Seems to me that having a UnixWare license + the GPL covers your ass in all circumstances. Buying a Unixware license in no(legal) way says you think SCO is right.
Nope. You can see Insider trades. Just go to Yahoo lookup 'SCOX' click the insider link and there it is. Last I checked there were no insider trades since the lawsuit.
They know better, if the executives are dumping stock don't you think people would notice? SCO is either hoping to be bought by IBM, or they actually belive they have a case.
Ruining shows? Nobody ruins shows anymore. Sure the stuff on TV is edited for content, but I can only think of maybe a half-dozen shows that aren't available on DVD here completely uncensored and with good subtitles.
That list would be:
PokeMon DigiMon DragonBall Z YuGi Oh Initial D(not sure whether the subtitled version was mangled)
Nope. It's "I don't give a rat's ass". Someone pointed out a couple years ago that that's not even close to the proper way to say it in Latin, but I don't give a rats ass.
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They could(should) set the database up differently. Rather than handing the spammers a list of email addys and saying go at it. The spammers should have to send their list, and get each address approved. Or alternately only give the spammers a MD5 hash of the addresses. Then make them compare against that.
The spammer will be able to tell if one of their addresses is on the list but not know what the list is.
Actually you can leave your MP3's on a fileserver and Xbox Media Player will play them from there. There are also ports of most major emulators for the Xbox, and yes the ROM's can be played off the network as well. The only thing you really need to have on the Xbox is executables. If you don't like the network option, swapping the HD with a bigger one is a simple process as well.
As far as modding goes, you don't even need to use a modchip or open your Xbox as long as you don't have the latest dashboard update from MS. Which unless you use Live, you don't have.
Ease of use is another thing. Most apps on the Xbox support the Xbox remote control, and have suprisingly polished interfaces. You can be playing a Movie on your xbox hit one button on the remote and the Xbox will hit IMDB, pull up info about the movie, and keep playing the movie in a little window in the corner.
Unless you're dead set on PVR functionality the Xbox is the way go. Trust me.
Actually I have a live-in girlfriend(gasp!). She's part of the problem. I was was one of the lucky ones who found an attractive geek girl. Rather than cooking she bugs me to play Super Smash Bros. with her, watch anime, and other extracurricular activities ;-).
Do you trust someone to pick out the perfect melon or bunch of grapes?
I don't trust me to pick out the perfect melon or bunch of grapes. For that matter I can't even choose that I need melons or grapes.
How about noticing that the store brand is on sale this week and altering a purchase decision in real time?
Yes. At least I wouldn't see why not, when configuring the fridge it should give settings for what kind of price premium you'll pay for a specific brand of food. It could even learn this behavior over time by asking you "Should I have bought the Kroger sloppy joe mix instead of Manwich since it was $.50 cheaper per can." At which point you would tell it hell no I want my Manwich.
Internet-enabled refrigerators are nothing more than a solution looking for a problem.
Woohoo! I found the problem. I want a fridge that does my meal planning for me. I never have any idea what to eat for dinner. I'd like my fridge to suggest meals(with recipe's) based off a Tivo like format. Taking into account the time it takes to prepare and how recently I've eaten something like it. I want it to only suggest meals I have all the ingredients for. When I get low on ingredients it can place an order with the local grocery store that I can pick up every other Friday without having to wait in line because they've already pulled everything off the shelf and billed my credit card.
That would make my life not only easier, but would improve the quality of my meals as well as my enjoyment of them.
I would pay a thousand dollar premium over a regular fridge for this functionality.
Oh yeah, P2P recipe sharing would be cool too.
"People that tear down others ideas for fun are called Devil's Advocates... or just fhwghads"
I always thought a "devils advocate" was someone you bounced your ideas off of so they could find problems with them and you could fix them before publishing, presenting, building, designing, coding, etc.
If I paid $5000 for 53" widescreen HDTV 8 months ago I'd be pissed too. I bought my 42" widescreen HDTV around the same time and paid $1250. The 53" inch version of my TV couldn't have cost much more than $2K.
It's a very nice Toshiba by the way.
I'm pretty sure the Nintendo 64 sold at a loss when it first came out. Not for long I imagine but for a little while. At least that's what EGM was saying a couple months before it came out. I can't give a reference obviously since I don't tend to keep gaming mags around for that long.
Oh yeah. We didn't have none of that stuff when I was a kid. We had to carry our packets 35 miles to the router with our bare hands.
I've always heard .07 *cents* per song, which would be the $.0007 number.
If that's the case I'm just not sure what they're bitching about. If you figure the average song is 3 minutes long, there are 1440 minutes in a day. So that equals around 480 soungs a day for a webcast. At $.0007 a song that's $.336 dollars a day. That doesn't seem unreasonable to me, a little low actualy.
I doubt it. Nintendo has already said they'll only stop making consoles when they stop making games.
Remember Nintendo isn't nearly in the bad position Sega was. Sega had two major platforms flop in the span of one regular industry release cycle. The dreamcast was too late and wasn't nearly enough to make up for the disaster that was the Saturn.
But a list of procs is way more difficult to manage than a Java API (for example). Procs have no concept of package structure and as a result, they all end up in one big jumble with 3 or 4 different styles of naming (to get around the problem) competing for your visual attention.
Just like anything else there is a right and a wrong way to do anything. If you have poor naming standards and don't organize your stored procs they'll be a hassle. If you don't structure your Java API's correctly you won't be able to find anything in there either. I think it's easier to have *all* the stored procs in one place organized well rather than two places organized well. On a side note I think Oracle does allow you to group stored procs into packages.
I'm really having a hard time figuring out what you find is so difficult about managing stored procs in databases. Maybe you can tell me the difficulties you have and I can understand better.
Bandwidth internal to a network is nothing when it comes to SQL statements and optimizer time is negligable for most simple select, insert, and update queries. Most databases expect the little cases. It's the rare, big ones that test its metal.
I agree the difference is minimal. But when you're trying to run 2000 transactions per second through a database a small lag makes a big difference. Maybe not in most cases but definitely some. We have a database here that processes 500000 of our work units an hour. Add a few milliseconds to each of those querys and it drops signifigantly.
SQL is not code. It does not compile down to any form of CPU instructions. It is a data structure designed to look like english. All "compiling" procedures does is pre-parse the query and do some statistical analysis that would otherwise be done at runtime. This is great for really complex queries. However, 90% of the queries in most systems are not seriously affected by "compiling".
;). Much of the time the 'get it in production now' attitude is what leads to performance problems 2 years down the road when the new DBA (re: Me) takes over to fix the deadlocks, timeouts, and poor usage of DB resources.
Agreed on the compiling semantics. I use the term compile since that's the term my RDBMS uses even though it's not a true compile. On the other hand those other 90% of calls you make I still belive need to be stored procs. The difference may not be much but what you save in network bandwidth, and optimizer time adds up. Besides it's not like it's hard to write a simple stored proc in *any* SQL language. It's only the complex ones, which you said need to be in sp's anyhow, that are difficult.
Also, it helps a lot to get the database done right the first time. It really isn't too hard, but some DBAs seem insistent on denormalizing this for performance or doing this fun new winding data structure, or other weird crap instead of just *doing* it. Get the database done right and in production and worry about performance characteristics later.
That sounds contradictory to me. At one point you're complaining about about DBA's insisting that things be done for performance reasons, at another you want it to just get done, and another you want it done right. These aren't things you can have all at the time, sometimes you can when I'm your DBA
No offence but that's heresy where I come from. Everything must be an SP here. Would you want to recompile every line of app code before you execute it(java devs don't answer that). It's the same way with stored procedures.
On top of that having stored procedures out where a good DBA can get at them in a moments notice so they can search them for dependencies, see their table usage, and analyze indexes without having to sort through a bunch of application code written in a language they may not understand.
Vaguely related to the product, is what I meant to say up there.
Probably because you're blatantly hocking the product of the company you work for/own under a story that is only vaguely related to the story. Essentially it's the same as trying to sell spam blocking software in one of the many stories about spam.
SCOPE_IDENTITY() gets you the right identity every time. It's only in SQL Server 2000 though.
Mal
I think 16x9 is the aspect ratio. Not the size.
Nope. Been in a car accident lately? I was and for the next two days I was called by no fewer than 10 lawyers, body shops, and chiropractors. The list will stop all those calls.
I hate to say this given the forum, but the reverse is also true. Open Source also does not equal quality. We have alot of people out there advocating solutions that maybe aren't the best option just because they're open source. If someone gets burned using a open source product that's not up to snuff it brands all of Open Source software. When you advocate make sure you're advocating good solutions not good licenses.
--Mal
But if SCO isn't licensing 2.4 and they're just licensing UnixWare, which is a superset of the conflicting code in 2.4. Where does that leave us. Seems to me that having a UnixWare license + the GPL covers your ass in all circumstances. Buying a Unixware license in no(legal) way says you think SCO is right.
So with the British naming scheme we'd have the USS Alzheimer's or USS Forgetful? No thanks, we'll stick with the presidents.
FYI. It's just a joke, I like Reagan.
Nope. You can see Insider trades. Just go to Yahoo lookup 'SCOX' click the insider link and there it is. Last I checked there were no insider trades since the lawsuit.
They know better, if the executives are dumping stock don't you think people would notice? SCO is either hoping to be bought by IBM, or they actually belive they have a case.
Ruining shows? Nobody ruins shows anymore. Sure the stuff on TV is edited for content, but I can only think of maybe a half-dozen shows that aren't available on DVD here completely uncensored and with good subtitles.
That list would be:
PokeMon
DigiMon
DragonBall Z
YuGi Oh
Initial D(not sure whether the subtitled version was mangled)
Nope. It's "I don't give a rat's ass". Someone pointed out a couple years ago that that's not even close to the proper way to say it in Latin, but I don't give a rats ass.
Kinda like a GameCube made by Panasonic?