But even in Vista, the first user created is an admin user, and it doesn't ask you to create another user, as you actual user acccount. It still prompts you to click on yes every time you want to perform an admin action, but under a regular user, you would actually have to type in the admin password.
The difference is that most people weren't going from Win2k to XP. Some of us geeks were, but not most people. Let's remember, Win2k didn't even have a home version, and I don't think it even could be bought in the retail home user market. Most people were switching from 98 (or ME, for the really unlucky) to XP. Even with the extra bloat added for XP, it was a welcome change. That's because it was actually a lot more stable, and didn't require that much more of a powerful computer. You could run XP on a computer quite well with only 256 MB of RAM. Most new computers at the time already had that. Vista requires around 2 GB of RAM to work well, yet they are still selling computers with 512 MB of RAM. That whole Vista capable thing really gave people a bad impression of Vista, because they bought a computer which was supposed to run Vista, and it was slower than molasses in January.
It is perfectly legal. That's the point I was making. But it was still frowned upon by many of the parents. Think about it this way. If you were a big boss at some company and liked to do nude portraits as a hobby, what do you think people would say if you started asking your employees to pose nude for you? Because the boss, and the teacher the other case, are in a position of authority it changes the social stigma about it. It's the same reason most universities have policies against teachers having relationships with students. There's nothing directly illegal about it, but it's just not a good idea. I'm not even saying he was wrong to do it. There were both of legal age, and girls do have the right to decline. But if he would have stopped to think about it for one second, he probably would have thought about just how bad of an idea it was. I mean, lying about your weight isn't illegal, but it's probably not a good idea to knock fifty pounds off your weight when they are setting up the bungee cord. Things won't end up good.
The G.E.D. only has as much power as the businesses let it have. If the businesses didn't accept the G.E.D. as an actual equivalency, and actual required that students had a real high school diploma, that the G.E.D. would not exist.
My highschool teachers (I'm from Ontario also) told us that the reason the OUAC exists is so that they can filter out the students based on marks. They know that certain districts/schools give higher marks and have easier curricula than other ones. He said not to worry that you only get 80-85% in his class, because it was equivalent to a 90-95% from many other less demanding schools.
An art teacher in my highschool got told to leave after he invited female students to pose nude for him. The students were over 18, so it wasn't technically illegal. However it was highly inappropriate. I think it's a good analogy, in case anybody was confused about your comment.
I'm not sure about the US but in Canada things seem to be different. Only the best students (of those that apply) get into teacher's college. For those that don't know, that's an extra 2 year of schooling past your bachelor's degree. There are a couple fast-track programs that you can do it all in 4 years (instead of 5, because you can only do it with a B.A.), but those are few and far between. As of 1999 when I graduated highschool, Trig functions and identities were probably grade 10 or 11 math. By grade 13 (sadly gone now), we were doing calculus, and some pretty advanced algebra. I think now they try to compress the same into the 4 years of high school.
But why start with OpenOffice? They would probably be much better off starting with KOffice. It shouldn't take much to get it working on Windows, Linux and MacOS, now that KDE4 is out, and it's a much better starting point than OpenOffice. OpenOffice is slow, huge, and from what I hear, has terrible code.
But the original post was talking about putting the actual programs and OS themselves on the SSD, not the swap file. Obviously it makes sense to put the swap file, and any other frequently and random accessed, files on the SSD.
Couldn't you just get a mirror cut to be the same size as the TV screen? Add some mounting brackets so you can hang it over the TV when it's not in use. Wouldn't be ideal, but it would be cheap, and nice to have around when company comes over.
Why would you bother putting the programs and operating system on SSD for a server? Once the files are loaded into memory, you'll never need to access them again. SSD only helps with OS and Programs when you are booting up, or opening new programs. This almost never happens on most servers.
So then why does MyISAM even exist? For large tables, you have to use InnoDB, because MyISAM doesn't handle lots of rows easily, and for samll numbers of rows, it doesn't make much of a difference, because both will be fast if you are only dealing with a small amount of data.
Yeah, well back here in the real world, people have to deal with applications that are 15 years old, and have tons of legacy code, a good portion of which wasn't "designed". It's nice to talk about how things should be in and ideal project, but in real life, things are usually not ideal.
All software should be tested and optimized for performance. I ran my web app through the profiler today, and found out it was doing tons extra work, which basically accomplished nothing, and which ended up slowing things down quite a bit. It's amazing how much things can be sped up just by running a profiler. All your unit tests may pass, and everthing may appear to be working correctly, but running through a profiler can fix some major bottlenecks quite quickly.
First you tell us you want a driving sim with precise control, and then you tell us you want to use a keyboard? Make up your mind. Couldn't you just get a Wiimote, and use that for a steering wheel. Works great for MarioKart.
I'm a big proponent of open source, but I have to admit. MS makes some good products. Their office suite is better than anything else out there. There isn't a whole lot of serious competition, but they do have the best. VS.Net is way better than any open source IDE i've ever tried, and I've used a lot of them. MS does have it's terrible products, like IE, Visual source safe, and Windows. But thay also make some really good ones.
Personally, I've had way less problems with hard disks than I have had with RAM chips, CPUs, video cards, motherboards, network cards. I've only ever had 1 hard drive die. I've had countless of the other devices die. Hard drives have very simple circuits, so it's very unlikely that the chips will overheat, or have any capacitors and such blow. The only thing left to fail is the mechanics. Since they are all sealed in a dust free chamber, the only thing to kill it is heat. Keep you hard disks properly cooled, and you really shouldn't have many problems with them. I really don't understand why people say hard drives are so problematic. Most computer problems I've experienced are due to faulty solid state hardware.
I'm going along with the other two guys. I can't see what application would need more than 1000 columns in a single table. What really gets my is the MS SQL Server 2000 maximum of 8 KB ( SQL Server 7 was 2 KB) in a single row. Now there's a limitation that's badly designed. Oh, and you can define a table with 15 Varchar(8000) fields, just don't try filling every field. 1000 columns I could do just fine with (SQL Server supports 2048?) but the big killer is that you can't even use 2000 columns, because if you did, you would run out of space in the row, unless the average field size was under 4 bytes.
Since you brought up the topic let me bite. I was just doing some testing today to see how certain queries we were running would run on MySQL, as compared to SQL server. Just to see if the query was so slow because of the size of the dataset, or because SQL Server is made by MS. Anyway I was in the process of transferring data, and I ran into this weird 4GB MyISAM table size limit. You can run a query and alter the table so that it can store more data, but what kind of DB in the year 2008 doesn't by default, out of the box, support storing more than 4GB of data in a single table. it's really not that much data anymore. Yes I realize that InnoDB doesn't have these crazy limitations, but MyISAM is much faster, and I don't require any of the transactional stuff for this table.
I have Visual Studio 2008 installed, because I'm a.Net developer. Still nothing beats firefox + web developer + firebug/venkman. It's much easier to just do all the development in Firefox, and then tweak for IE. Once you get used to the quirks of IE, you usually don't even have to do a lot of tweaking.
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But even in Vista, the first user created is an admin user, and it doesn't ask you to create another user, as you actual user acccount. It still prompts you to click on yes every time you want to perform an admin action, but under a regular user, you would actually have to type in the admin password.
The difference is that most people weren't going from Win2k to XP. Some of us geeks were, but not most people. Let's remember, Win2k didn't even have a home version, and I don't think it even could be bought in the retail home user market. Most people were switching from 98 (or ME, for the really unlucky) to XP. Even with the extra bloat added for XP, it was a welcome change. That's because it was actually a lot more stable, and didn't require that much more of a powerful computer. You could run XP on a computer quite well with only 256 MB of RAM. Most new computers at the time already had that. Vista requires around 2 GB of RAM to work well, yet they are still selling computers with 512 MB of RAM. That whole Vista capable thing really gave people a bad impression of Vista, because they bought a computer which was supposed to run Vista, and it was slower than molasses in January.
It is perfectly legal. That's the point I was making. But it was still frowned upon by many of the parents. Think about it this way. If you were a big boss at some company and liked to do nude portraits as a hobby, what do you think people would say if you started asking your employees to pose nude for you? Because the boss, and the teacher the other case, are in a position of authority it changes the social stigma about it. It's the same reason most universities have policies against teachers having relationships with students. There's nothing directly illegal about it, but it's just not a good idea. I'm not even saying he was wrong to do it. There were both of legal age, and girls do have the right to decline. But if he would have stopped to think about it for one second, he probably would have thought about just how bad of an idea it was. I mean, lying about your weight isn't illegal, but it's probably not a good idea to knock fifty pounds off your weight when they are setting up the bungee cord. Things won't end up good.
The G.E.D. only has as much power as the businesses let it have. If the businesses didn't accept the G.E.D. as an actual equivalency, and actual required that students had a real high school diploma, that the G.E.D. would not exist.
My highschool teachers (I'm from Ontario also) told us that the reason the OUAC exists is so that they can filter out the students based on marks. They know that certain districts/schools give higher marks and have easier curricula than other ones. He said not to worry that you only get 80-85% in his class, because it was equivalent to a 90-95% from many other less demanding schools.
If all students have to do is push buttons on calculators, they should be doing advanced calculus and algebra by the 7th grade.
An art teacher in my highschool got told to leave after he invited female students to pose nude for him. The students were over 18, so it wasn't technically illegal. However it was highly inappropriate. I think it's a good analogy, in case anybody was confused about your comment.
I'm not sure about the US but in Canada things seem to be different. Only the best students (of those that apply) get into teacher's college. For those that don't know, that's an extra 2 year of schooling past your bachelor's degree. There are a couple fast-track programs that you can do it all in 4 years (instead of 5, because you can only do it with a B.A.), but those are few and far between. As of 1999 when I graduated highschool, Trig functions and identities were probably grade 10 or 11 math. By grade 13 (sadly gone now), we were doing calculus, and some pretty advanced algebra. I think now they try to compress the same into the 4 years of high school.
But why start with OpenOffice? They would probably be much better off starting with KOffice. It shouldn't take much to get it working on Windows, Linux and MacOS, now that KDE4 is out, and it's a much better starting point than OpenOffice. OpenOffice is slow, huge, and from what I hear, has terrible code.
But the original post was talking about putting the actual programs and OS themselves on the SSD, not the swap file. Obviously it makes sense to put the swap file, and any other frequently and random accessed, files on the SSD.
Couldn't you just get a mirror cut to be the same size as the TV screen? Add some mounting brackets so you can hang it over the TV when it's not in use. Wouldn't be ideal, but it would be cheap, and nice to have around when company comes over.
Since when is CD/DVD low volatility?
Why would you bother putting the programs and operating system on SSD for a server? Once the files are loaded into memory, you'll never need to access them again. SSD only helps with OS and Programs when you are booting up, or opening new programs. This almost never happens on most servers.
So then why does MyISAM even exist? For large tables, you have to use InnoDB, because MyISAM doesn't handle lots of rows easily, and for samll numbers of rows, it doesn't make much of a difference, because both will be fast if you are only dealing with a small amount of data.
Yeah, well back here in the real world, people have to deal with applications that are 15 years old, and have tons of legacy code, a good portion of which wasn't "designed". It's nice to talk about how things should be in and ideal project, but in real life, things are usually not ideal.
All software should be tested and optimized for performance. I ran my web app through the profiler today, and found out it was doing tons extra work, which basically accomplished nothing, and which ended up slowing things down quite a bit. It's amazing how much things can be sped up just by running a profiler. All your unit tests may pass, and everthing may appear to be working correctly, but running through a profiler can fix some major bottlenecks quite quickly.
First you tell us you want a driving sim with precise control, and then you tell us you want to use a keyboard? Make up your mind. Couldn't you just get a Wiimote, and use that for a steering wheel. Works great for MarioKart.
I'm a big proponent of open source, but I have to admit. MS makes some good products. Their office suite is better than anything else out there. There isn't a whole lot of serious competition, but they do have the best. VS.Net is way better than any open source IDE i've ever tried, and I've used a lot of them. MS does have it's terrible products, like IE, Visual source safe, and Windows. But thay also make some really good ones.
Personally, I've had way less problems with hard disks than I have had with RAM chips, CPUs, video cards, motherboards, network cards. I've only ever had 1 hard drive die. I've had countless of the other devices die. Hard drives have very simple circuits, so it's very unlikely that the chips will overheat, or have any capacitors and such blow. The only thing left to fail is the mechanics. Since they are all sealed in a dust free chamber, the only thing to kill it is heat. Keep you hard disks properly cooled, and you really shouldn't have many problems with them. I really don't understand why people say hard drives are so problematic. Most computer problems I've experienced are due to faulty solid state hardware.
I'm going along with the other two guys. I can't see what application would need more than 1000 columns in a single table. What really gets my is the MS SQL Server 2000 maximum of 8 KB ( SQL Server 7 was 2 KB) in a single row. Now there's a limitation that's badly designed. Oh, and you can define a table with 15 Varchar(8000) fields, just don't try filling every field. 1000 columns I could do just fine with (SQL Server supports 2048?) but the big killer is that you can't even use 2000 columns, because if you did, you would run out of space in the row, unless the average field size was under 4 bytes.
Since you brought up the topic let me bite. I was just doing some testing today to see how certain queries we were running would run on MySQL, as compared to SQL server. Just to see if the query was so slow because of the size of the dataset, or because SQL Server is made by MS. Anyway I was in the process of transferring data, and I ran into this weird 4GB MyISAM table size limit. You can run a query and alter the table so that it can store more data, but what kind of DB in the year 2008 doesn't by default, out of the box, support storing more than 4GB of data in a single table. it's really not that much data anymore. Yes I realize that InnoDB doesn't have these crazy limitations, but MyISAM is much faster, and I don't require any of the transactional stuff for this table.
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I've never had it turned on. Not sure how I enabled the setting, but I'm still on web 1.0 mode.
I meant to reply to this comment. Don't know how that got messed up so bad.
I have Visual Studio 2008 installed, because I'm a .Net developer. Still nothing beats firefox + web developer + firebug/venkman. It's much easier to just do all the development in Firefox, and then tweak for IE. Once you get used to the quirks of IE, you usually don't even have to do a lot of tweaking.