Many businesses have been getting printers they way for a long time. The only difference is that this time it's the printer manufacturer that's getting the service contract, and not some third party company. In my opinion, this makes perfect sense. The company who made the product is probably the one most qualified to fix and service it. Granted, you probably won't be able to shop around, because if you want that printer, there's no competition, but you'll still be able to compare with other printer brands.
And what if it goes to some non-existent address? What then. Who's to say if the real person signed up for the credit card and redirected it to some other address so they could pretend it was a fraudulent card, or that it actually was fraudulent card, and the person signing up for the card didn't want to get caught?
Mandriva has the same options. You can either download the kitchen sink version, or the minimalist version. There are several minimalist versions depending on whether you want to run KDE, Gnome, 32-bit, 64-bit, and a couple other options. Personally, I download the kitchen sink version. Because I usually only download a new distro once per year, the extra time to download isn't really an issue, and I'd rather have too much than not enough.
They should just make it a lot more difficult to get a credit card. I have all the credit cards I need. I don't need any more. They should make it much harder to get a credit card account. Why should I have to monitor everything? How often should I get a report? Every Week? Because I'm pretty sure it's possible for someone to ruin my credit in less than a week.
What if it's not even your credit card? What if someone figured out your SSN, Birth Date, and a couple other key piece of information, and opened a credit card in your name. It would technically be your card, but you wouldn't even know you had it. How are you supposed to take responsiblity for a credit card that you don't even know you have.
Who would seriously by Child Porn on their own credit card? You'd have to be a really dumb person. If that's all these cops are going on, then the investigations should be shut down. It should be expected that the people purchasing are using stolen credit cards.
But it really comes down to how you define better. With Jewelry, there's very strict guidelines to determine color,clarity, etc of diamonds. It's very easy to define 14 K gold. It's another thing entirely with computer systems. How do you define security, stability, and other attributes? Sure there's metrics like MTTF,and MTBF, but those don't really define anything concrete. As far as I'm aware there's no real metrics for security, except looking at number of past exploits, and how long they took to fix, but a lot of companies don't give out that information.
I find the people in Marketing are terrible not only when you're buying a product, but also when you're the company making the product. Sometimes people in marketing make stuff up just to get a sale. I think it's in their blood. It hurts both sides because the customer is expecting to get something that doesn't exist, and the development team has to now build this thing that never existed. So often it gets cobbled together really fast, just so the customer thinks it works, but it reality it's only a half working solution.
You see, that's what I thought. There's a lot of good Linux distros out there. Ones I've noticed as being pretty good include Mandriva, Suses, Fedora, and Ubuntu. I just find it really weird that Ubuntu gets so much attention when it's not really that much better than most of the other distros. What I find even weirder is that Mandriva gets almost no attention, when they've been doing things well for many years.
I haven't had to deal with dependancies in a long time, thanks to my good friends PLF and URPMI. Thanks to them, I can install just about any program you can think of with a couple clicks of the mouse, or from the command line if you prefer that method. Mandriva's partition manager is probably the best thing available on any platform. I'm found that it includes a lot of packages on the CD(DVD) that aren't available from Ubuntu because Ubuntu fails to acknowledge that they should ship more than 1 CD. Mandriva has great GUI administration tools that make configuring a system very easy. The installation is very well laid out, giving you the option to configure everything, or just keep on clicking next and having it figure out everything for you.
I would like to know what's so seriously wrong with Paper ballots counted by people that we want to abandon them? People have used this system for hundreds(?) of years, without too many problems. I would like to know why so many places are trying to move to more expensive, more complex, less secure means of voting when a better method already exists. I'm all for using computers where they have a place, such as things like filing taxes, but I fail to see the need for computers in voting. It doesn't speed up the counting process. It doesn't make it any cheaper. And it doesn't put any extra security into the system. What's the major motivation behind moving to electronic/internet voting. It seems like just a way for government to hand out more money to corporations.
I can see the need too. Unfortunately I don't have all that much space at home. So, I have to have one computer that does absolutely everything I need. That means for right now, I'm running Windows. I would love to be able to run a Linux Server, A Windows Gaming machine, and have a Linux Media centre, and well, for office/internet, I don't care, either one is fine, so I'd probably go with Linux.
I really want to know what it is that makes people think Ubuntu is the best thing since sliced bread. I've tried it out, and it's not any better than a lot of other distros. Actually, I find that because they aim too much towards the home user, that it makes it difficult to do more advanced things. Personally, I use Mandriva. I have used it since version 7. I don't see Ubuntu doing anything that Mandriva (or Mandrake) wasn't doing 3 years ago.
Here's what we did. We bought a Mac Mini. We installed VNC. If you log in multiple users (we have 4) using fast user switching, and each user starts up a vnc server on a different port, then you have that many users that can connect simultaneously. It's fast enough for testing web applications. It's stable enough that it doesn't ever need to be rebooted. Rebooting is a bit of a pain, because you have to re-login all the users, but I have gotten to the point of having VNC Server automatically start once you get user logged in. So you just have 1 or 2 Macs that everyone can access, and since not everyone needs to be testing all the time, they can just share it. If you run out of sessions, just start up a new one, it might be a little slow if everyone's using if you try to cram too many users on it, but We've done 4 on 1 Mac easily enough.
This sounds just like the story of the M16 vs. the AK47. The M16 is a much better gun, designed to be much more sophisitcated. But in the end, it ends up being worse because tight tolerances cause it to jam up, and require cleaning all the time, where-as the AK47 will fire under just about any conditions. The AK47 is also heavier which is really nice when you get into hand-to-hand combat and you can just whack the other guy with it.
That's what they want you to think. Although I'll agree that data integrity is important, it's not the most important thing to everyone. RDBMS's are a very generic tool. And that is the reason that they are as complex as they are. They're basically the be-all-and-end-all data storage for programs. Apart from flat files, major RDBMS's are all we have, and it doesn't seem like there's much room for anything in between. Data Integrity is the most important part of many database dependant apps. However, I'm sure there's a lot of people out there who trade some data integrity for other functions.
In some instances, it really can speed things up. I would recommend that they not be used, except where speed is actually an issue. Most of the time you don't need it, and it definitely shouldn't be used for every query, but there are situations where it is necessary to keep the application at a usable speed.
I would like to know what slashdotters think is a good level of stuff to be putting into stored procedures. I've seen organizations where every single select query is put into a stored procedure. I've also seen places that avoid it like the plague. Personally I like to keep as much business logic as possible out of the database, but I realize it can speed up things considerably, so I use it where speed is critical. Is there any hope that stored procedures will become cross platform and work on all databases, at least to the level of SQL, so that there's some kind of standard, or do they just push us towards vendor lock-in?
It might be nice to have some intelligent content on the web for once. I go to the top 100 videos on Google video (via sageTV) once in a while. It's disappointing that at least 80% of it is half naked 16-24 year old girls and guys getting kicked in the balls. You'd think that people would get tired of watching that stuff after a while. I know I did. It would be nice to go to a site where the content is supposed to stimulate your brain. Other sites have their uses, but I think it's kind of depressing that nobody wants to do anything that requires thinking.
That is one of the biggest problems. Especially from the point of view of a web developer. I spend countless hours trying to work out differences between web developers. However, the biggest problem isn't the differences, it's the inability to debug the problem. The Web developer tools in FireFox, including Edit HTML and Edit CSS, make fixing these problems a breeze. Doing the same thing in any browser is a nightmare. Although some tools are available in other browsers, they aren't as good and complete as what's available in Firefox. I think that more companies, MS Especially, because of their large market share should look at their web browsers from an application platform standpoint, ant try to do what they can to improve the usability for those designing the web sites, instead of focusing on the person browsing the web.
Ok, I'm not sure if this was real or not, but there was a rumour going around that if you beat Tyson, you went onto more fights and eventually got to fight an alien. I doubt it was true though. Anyway, was anybody else annoyed that the Game Genie codes for no damage worked on everyone except Tyson?
This difference between the rich and the poor in China is staggering. I know people from China, and they say the rich people are very rich. They drive around in expensive cars, and send their kids to Canadian schools who charge tens of thousands of dollars a year in tuition. These children also have their own expensive cars. Even if there is only %0.01 rich people (it's probably much higher), that's still 100000 people. If you ask me, they aren't doing too well.
Our tax applications are usually free for those who make under $25000. I wish there was a free solution offered by the government, even if it was just webforms that looked like the paper forms. I chose to go with uFile this year because I picked up a wife and kid, and I wasn't familiar with the extra paperwork. In earlier years I just did it on paper, and it wasn't that hard. I only wish there was way to submit it online without paying some third party corporation.
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Many businesses have been getting printers they way for a long time. The only difference is that this time it's the printer manufacturer that's getting the service contract, and not some third party company. In my opinion, this makes perfect sense. The company who made the product is probably the one most qualified to fix and service it. Granted, you probably won't be able to shop around, because if you want that printer, there's no competition, but you'll still be able to compare with other printer brands.
And what if it goes to some non-existent address? What then. Who's to say if the real person signed up for the credit card and redirected it to some other address so they could pretend it was a fraudulent card, or that it actually was fraudulent card, and the person signing up for the card didn't want to get caught?
Mandriva has the same options. You can either download the kitchen sink version, or the minimalist version. There are several minimalist versions depending on whether you want to run KDE, Gnome, 32-bit, 64-bit, and a couple other options. Personally, I download the kitchen sink version. Because I usually only download a new distro once per year, the extra time to download isn't really an issue, and I'd rather have too much than not enough.
They should just make it a lot more difficult to get a credit card. I have all the credit cards I need. I don't need any more. They should make it much harder to get a credit card account. Why should I have to monitor everything? How often should I get a report? Every Week? Because I'm pretty sure it's possible for someone to ruin my credit in less than a week.
What if it's not even your credit card? What if someone figured out your SSN, Birth Date, and a couple other key piece of information, and opened a credit card in your name. It would technically be your card, but you wouldn't even know you had it. How are you supposed to take responsiblity for a credit card that you don't even know you have.
Who would seriously by Child Porn on their own credit card? You'd have to be a really dumb person. If that's all these cops are going on, then the investigations should be shut down. It should be expected that the people purchasing are using stolen credit cards.
But it really comes down to how you define better. With Jewelry, there's very strict guidelines to determine color,clarity, etc of diamonds. It's very easy to define 14 K gold. It's another thing entirely with computer systems. How do you define security, stability, and other attributes? Sure there's metrics like MTTF,and MTBF, but those don't really define anything concrete. As far as I'm aware there's no real metrics for security, except looking at number of past exploits, and how long they took to fix, but a lot of companies don't give out that information.
I find the people in Marketing are terrible not only when you're buying a product, but also when you're the company making the product. Sometimes people in marketing make stuff up just to get a sale. I think it's in their blood. It hurts both sides because the customer is expecting to get something that doesn't exist, and the development team has to now build this thing that never existed. So often it gets cobbled together really fast, just so the customer thinks it works, but it reality it's only a half working solution.
You see, that's what I thought. There's a lot of good Linux distros out there. Ones I've noticed as being pretty good include Mandriva, Suses, Fedora, and Ubuntu. I just find it really weird that Ubuntu gets so much attention when it's not really that much better than most of the other distros. What I find even weirder is that Mandriva gets almost no attention, when they've been doing things well for many years.
I haven't had to deal with dependancies in a long time, thanks to my good friends PLF and URPMI. Thanks to them, I can install just about any program you can think of with a couple clicks of the mouse, or from the command line if you prefer that method. Mandriva's partition manager is probably the best thing available on any platform. I'm found that it includes a lot of packages on the CD(DVD) that aren't available from Ubuntu because Ubuntu fails to acknowledge that they should ship more than 1 CD. Mandriva has great GUI administration tools that make configuring a system very easy. The installation is very well laid out, giving you the option to configure everything, or just keep on clicking next and having it figure out everything for you.
I would like to know what's so seriously wrong with Paper ballots counted by people that we want to abandon them? People have used this system for hundreds(?) of years, without too many problems. I would like to know why so many places are trying to move to more expensive, more complex, less secure means of voting when a better method already exists. I'm all for using computers where they have a place, such as things like filing taxes, but I fail to see the need for computers in voting. It doesn't speed up the counting process. It doesn't make it any cheaper. And it doesn't put any extra security into the system. What's the major motivation behind moving to electronic/internet voting. It seems like just a way for government to hand out more money to corporations.
I can see the need too. Unfortunately I don't have all that much space at home. So, I have to have one computer that does absolutely everything I need. That means for right now, I'm running Windows. I would love to be able to run a Linux Server, A Windows Gaming machine, and have a Linux Media centre, and well, for office/internet, I don't care, either one is fine, so I'd probably go with Linux.
I really want to know what it is that makes people think Ubuntu is the best thing since sliced bread. I've tried it out, and it's not any better than a lot of other distros. Actually, I find that because they aim too much towards the home user, that it makes it difficult to do more advanced things. Personally, I use Mandriva. I have used it since version 7. I don't see Ubuntu doing anything that Mandriva (or Mandrake) wasn't doing 3 years ago.
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Here's what we did. We bought a Mac Mini. We installed VNC. If you log in multiple users (we have 4) using fast user switching, and each user starts up a vnc server on a different port, then you have that many users that can connect simultaneously. It's fast enough for testing web applications. It's stable enough that it doesn't ever need to be rebooted. Rebooting is a bit of a pain, because you have to re-login all the users, but I have gotten to the point of having VNC Server automatically start once you get user logged in. So you just have 1 or 2 Macs that everyone can access, and since not everyone needs to be testing all the time, they can just share it. If you run out of sessions, just start up a new one, it might be a little slow if everyone's using if you try to cram too many users on it, but We've done 4 on 1 Mac easily enough.
This sounds just like the story of the M16 vs. the AK47. The M16 is a much better gun, designed to be much more sophisitcated. But in the end, it ends up being worse because tight tolerances cause it to jam up, and require cleaning all the time, where-as the AK47 will fire under just about any conditions. The AK47 is also heavier which is really nice when you get into hand-to-hand combat and you can just whack the other guy with it.
I did purchase Visual Studio (or at least my employer did). It doesn't in any way help me figure out rendering inconsistencies in Internet Explorer.
That's what they want you to think. Although I'll agree that data integrity is important, it's not the most important thing to everyone. RDBMS's are a very generic tool. And that is the reason that they are as complex as they are. They're basically the be-all-and-end-all data storage for programs. Apart from flat files, major RDBMS's are all we have, and it doesn't seem like there's much room for anything in between. Data Integrity is the most important part of many database dependant apps. However, I'm sure there's a lot of people out there who trade some data integrity for other functions.
In some instances, it really can speed things up. I would recommend that they not be used, except where speed is actually an issue. Most of the time you don't need it, and it definitely shouldn't be used for every query, but there are situations where it is necessary to keep the application at a usable speed.
I would like to know what slashdotters think is a good level of stuff to be putting into stored procedures. I've seen organizations where every single select query is put into a stored procedure. I've also seen places that avoid it like the plague. Personally I like to keep as much business logic as possible out of the database, but I realize it can speed up things considerably, so I use it where speed is critical. Is there any hope that stored procedures will become cross platform and work on all databases, at least to the level of SQL, so that there's some kind of standard, or do they just push us towards vendor lock-in?
It might be nice to have some intelligent content on the web for once. I go to the top 100 videos on Google video (via sageTV) once in a while. It's disappointing that at least 80% of it is half naked 16-24 year old girls and guys getting kicked in the balls. You'd think that people would get tired of watching that stuff after a while. I know I did. It would be nice to go to a site where the content is supposed to stimulate your brain. Other sites have their uses, but I think it's kind of depressing that nobody wants to do anything that requires thinking.
That is one of the biggest problems. Especially from the point of view of a web developer. I spend countless hours trying to work out differences between web developers. However, the biggest problem isn't the differences, it's the inability to debug the problem. The Web developer tools in FireFox, including Edit HTML and Edit CSS, make fixing these problems a breeze. Doing the same thing in any browser is a nightmare. Although some tools are available in other browsers, they aren't as good and complete as what's available in Firefox. I think that more companies, MS Especially, because of their large market share should look at their web browsers from an application platform standpoint, ant try to do what they can to improve the usability for those designing the web sites, instead of focusing on the person browsing the web.
Ok, I'm not sure if this was real or not, but there was a rumour going around that if you beat Tyson, you went onto more fights and eventually got to fight an alien. I doubt it was true though. Anyway, was anybody else annoyed that the Game Genie codes for no damage worked on everyone except Tyson?
This difference between the rich and the poor in China is staggering. I know people from China, and they say the rich people are very rich. They drive around in expensive cars, and send their kids to Canadian schools who charge tens of thousands of dollars a year in tuition. These children also have their own expensive cars. Even if there is only %0.01 rich people (it's probably much higher), that's still 100000 people. If you ask me, they aren't doing too well.
Our tax applications are usually free for those who make under $25000. I wish there was a free solution offered by the government, even if it was just webforms that looked like the paper forms. I chose to go with uFile this year because I picked up a wife and kid, and I wasn't familiar with the extra paperwork. In earlier years I just did it on paper, and it wasn't that hard. I only wish there was way to submit it online without paying some third party corporation.