From my understanding, RSync's job is made easier because it knows which files it's comparing. It looks at file A on location X, and compares it to file A on location Y. It looks for places where the file is the same, and doesn't transfer the data. It becomes a lot harder when you have a set of files A(1)-A(X) and you have to determine if any parts of A(n) exist in File B on the other system.
I'm not sure if this would work if you changed the byte offset though. Sure both ISOs may contain a lot of the same data, but I think it's very unlikely that the data would be at the same byte-offset in the file. I don't think that you'd be able to accomplish this for different byte offsets, because for a 100 MB File, assuming 5 MB chunks, You're looking at about 2,000,000,000 chunks to calculate (20 chunks, calculated at each byte offset).
With cell phone companies you lose either way. If you sign the contract, you get a free phone, and your monthly service costs $X. If you don't sign a contract, you have to pay $Y for the phone, and your monthly service still costs $X. So unless you plan on switching companies, and the cost to terminate your contract less than the cost of the phone ($Y) then you are better off getting the contract anyway. What I want to know is, if you plan on switching companies in the near future, then why are you signing up in the first place? The freedom to move between companies is nice, but I really don't want to be switching phone companies every 2 months. I don't sign up for a plan that I intend on switching from anyway. I would rather just sign the contract, and get the free phone, because in the end, your monthly service charges are the same, and I don't plan on switching companies anyway.
You aren't going to get a good shot of the document with a digital camera for a lot of reasons. First of all, the lighting is uneven. Then there's the problem with the lens distorting things. Then there's problems with getting it to focus properly. I'm sure lots of people would love to point out other problems with using a digital camera to capture documents. It may work fine for a human looking at the picture, but it's going to make the job of the OCR program a lot harder. Even things like dust can throw off "good" OCR programs.
That seems to be what I'm looking for, but why haven't I found it before? Nowhere in any tutorials do I see mention of this. Why do things like mysql_ even exist in the first place? The more I use PHP, the more I start to Love.Net, and Java with their wonderfully organized APIs. The again, most PHP tutorials I've found don't even use prepared queries, leaving open tons of sql injection attacks, so I don't find it completely surprising that most people recommend using a Database API that's tied to the database.
I'm glad that they still have the analog signal because it's really nice for recording shows with a TV Tuner or a VCR. I think that probably within the next 5 years they are going to get rid of analog completely. I'm pretty sure they don't offer analog cable to new customers, even for people getting the basic channels.
Does anybody else have problems with their cable company over-compressing the digital cable? I pay a lot of money for cable, and in the last few years the quality has degraded while they try to stuff more SD channels, HD Channels, OnDemand Channels, VOIP, and Internet over that same line. I'm not going to upgrade to HDTV until I can be guaranteed that I'm actually getting really good looking television and that the quality won't degrade as they try to put more content on the tubes. Has anybody else noticed the compression artifacts? Or am I just looking too closely. BTW, I'm on Rogers in Ottawa.
It's like they keep on calling Oracle "Unbreakable". Issue a challenge and the hackers will meet it. everybody who really knows what their doing keeps their databases behind firewalls so you can't access them from the outside. It doesn't matter if somebody says it's unbreakable, because it's not worth taking the risk.
Why not pick something that will last a bit longer. Instead of doing something along the lines of "that should hold them off for a couple months", or "it's 1/2 a step better than our competitors who have equally crappy security measures" or "it's not actually more secure, but our dumb users will think it is", they should be putting security measures in place that will actually make a difference, and won't be broken by crackers in a matter of weeks.
I would like to know my more banks don't offer more secure methods of authentication like RSA keytags and such. This would completely wipe out most of the problems with phishing. Instead they think up other useless methods like making you click on an onscreen keypad to enter your password, or asking you what your favourite movie is. I think that many people would pay for the keytag themselves if they were presented with the option, just for having the peace of mind knowing they are more secure. I know I would.
As long as people continue to click on links they get in emails, a not verify that they are actually at their bank's website, then there's going to be problems with phishing. It doesn't matter if the url ends in.com, or.ca, or.safe, or.xxx. If you're clicking on links in emails and getting scammed, then changing the domain name won't help anything. I'm surprised there's not more worms out there that change your hosts file, to show you a phishing site when you type in the actual url of your bank. I guess it really is that easy to get somebody to click on a link in an email, because they haven't resorted to more complicated methods.
Maybe the SQL itself isn't going to be database agnostic, but you should be able to run the query and get a result set back without having to call a function specific to the database..Net has a pretty good abstraction layer, such that I don't have to worry about which database I'm connecting to, and I can connect to Access, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Excel files, and others without calling functions specific to the database. There will always be little quirks, but I shouldn't have to call different functions to execute a simple select query on different database engines.
I would love to switch over to Postresql, but my hosting service doesn't support it. Also, my PHP code is littered with functions starting with mysqli_. Is there a good PHP database abstraction layer? Why are we still at a point when we're writing code against a particular database? I shouldn't have to write my own DB abstraction layer either.
PHP's user annotated reference manual is probably the best thing since the invention of the computer manual itself. How many times have you read the documentation only to still be completely lost as to how something actually works. Having real users put in comments means that after the first person figures out some neat trick, the rest of us don't have to.
How does anybody work in an environment such as this? I find tons of shortcuts for things I do at work on the internet. Stuff that would never be written down in any textbook. How does working without internet access affect your productivity?
That was my argument from the beginning. If they want to play the game of taxing money made from playing a game, then I'm sure the people playing the game won't mind playing the game of making writeoffs based on the costs incurred from playing the game, including time spent playing the game.
If you sell your OSS, (ala Redhat, MySQL) then you sure can write off the time you spent writing the software. If you provide a service to others to create scrapbooks from photos they gave you, or if you sold the scrapbooks you made (even with your own content) for money, then you should be able to count the time you spent making the scrap book. Could you not claim the time you spent writing a novel against income made by selling the novel? If you are making money off something, then it is a business. If your selling in-game items for real world money, then the activity is indeed for a profit, and I don't think that a lot of people would sit around letting the government charge taxes on the sales if they couldn't claim all the deductions as any other business could. If doesn't matter if you're selling corn, bicycles, mp3 downloads, or virtual swords in world of warcraft.
This may work, but can you count your time invested as a write off? Can you pay yourself a salary for the time you spent in the game, essentially negating all your profits? Maybe even put yourself at a loss to offset that you don't want to pay as much taxes on your real income from your real job. If they want people to pay taxes for stuff that they do in a video game, then the time spent on the video game should count as working, and should be deductible as such, as should the fees for playing said game, and the cost of the game, and the computer to run the game on, and the internet connection required for the game. See where I'm going with this?
But would listing this on your tax return give them a reason to go collect more evidence? Couldn't they start collecting more evidence so that they could just use that, and pretend that they never knew that you reported it on your taxes? Sure they couldn't search your house, but they could conveniently be in the right place at the right time (by following you) in order to catch you doing these illegal activities.
Changes in the compression format can only go so far. MPEG-2 has "pretty good" compression. H.264 has better compression, but it's not a magical codec that allows you to compress stuff down to nothing without losing any quality. 45 Minutes in 500 MB won't give you DVD quality, no matter which codec you use. Even 45 Minutes of 128 kb mp3/aac will take up about 45 MB, you can't expect to fit the video part of that feed into the remaining 450 MB while still maintaining DVD quality.
Expelled? I can't even remember what constituted expulsion when I was a kid. I think it must have been really serious, because I can't even remember a kid getting expelled. Maybe in high school, if you really had a problem with violence on a regular basis, they might kick you out, but I don't think that ever happened. Suspended yes, and usually only 3 days max, but never expulsion. And I knew some pretty bad kids. I don't know how they think that it's useful to remove a child from school completely. What if the child gets expelled from all the schools in the area? What happens then? Does the child not go to school at all? Must the parents quit their job, and home school the child. In almost all cases, they should make an effort to try and fix the problem. They shouldn't just kick the kid out, especially for saying a bad word. While I think discipline is good, removing the child from school is completely avoiding the problem, and admitting that the child cannot be dealt with.
That's what I hate about most of the stats they put out. They never put out the raw numbers. They always say that Blu-Ray sold X times more than HDDVD. But they never say that Blu-Ray sold 100 discs, while hddvd sold 20 discs. Because the numbers would be just to laugh at. The other argument is that Blu-Ray is doing a lot better then DVD was doing at the same point in it's life cycle. Well, DVD was the first real format to bring home movies to the masses. I don't really know anybody who owned more than 10 movies on VHS. People didn't buy movies for home when VHS was popular, because of the high price, and the fact that they degraded. Plus you could rent a movie for < $2 back then, which made buying them even more reason not to buy them. DVD was slow to catch on, because people weren't used to buying DVDs. Now I know people who buy a DVD every week, because the DVD only costs $15, and the rental costs $6, so you might as well buy it if you know you like it. Blu-Ray and HDDVD are flops because they have a very small percentage of the entire home movie business.
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From my understanding, RSync's job is made easier because it knows which files it's comparing. It looks at file A on location X, and compares it to file A on location Y. It looks for places where the file is the same, and doesn't transfer the data. It becomes a lot harder when you have a set of files A(1)-A(X) and you have to determine if any parts of A(n) exist in File B on the other system.
I'm not sure if this would work if you changed the byte offset though. Sure both ISOs may contain a lot of the same data, but I think it's very unlikely that the data would be at the same byte-offset in the file. I don't think that you'd be able to accomplish this for different byte offsets, because for a 100 MB File, assuming 5 MB chunks, You're looking at about 2,000,000,000 chunks to calculate (20 chunks, calculated at each byte offset).
With cell phone companies you lose either way. If you sign the contract, you get a free phone, and your monthly service costs $X. If you don't sign a contract, you have to pay $Y for the phone, and your monthly service still costs $X. So unless you plan on switching companies, and the cost to terminate your contract less than the cost of the phone ($Y) then you are better off getting the contract anyway. What I want to know is, if you plan on switching companies in the near future, then why are you signing up in the first place? The freedom to move between companies is nice, but I really don't want to be switching phone companies every 2 months. I don't sign up for a plan that I intend on switching from anyway. I would rather just sign the contract, and get the free phone, because in the end, your monthly service charges are the same, and I don't plan on switching companies anyway.
You aren't going to get a good shot of the document with a digital camera for a lot of reasons. First of all, the lighting is uneven. Then there's the problem with the lens distorting things. Then there's problems with getting it to focus properly. I'm sure lots of people would love to point out other problems with using a digital camera to capture documents. It may work fine for a human looking at the picture, but it's going to make the job of the OCR program a lot harder. Even things like dust can throw off "good" OCR programs.
That seems to be what I'm looking for, but why haven't I found it before? Nowhere in any tutorials do I see mention of this. Why do things like mysql_ even exist in the first place? The more I use PHP, the more I start to Love .Net, and Java with their wonderfully organized APIs. The again, most PHP tutorials I've found don't even use prepared queries, leaving open tons of sql injection attacks, so I don't find it completely surprising that most people recommend using a Database API that's tied to the database.
I'm glad that they still have the analog signal because it's really nice for recording shows with a TV Tuner or a VCR. I think that probably within the next 5 years they are going to get rid of analog completely. I'm pretty sure they don't offer analog cable to new customers, even for people getting the basic channels.
Does anybody else have problems with their cable company over-compressing the digital cable? I pay a lot of money for cable, and in the last few years the quality has degraded while they try to stuff more SD channels, HD Channels, OnDemand Channels, VOIP, and Internet over that same line. I'm not going to upgrade to HDTV until I can be guaranteed that I'm actually getting really good looking television and that the quality won't degrade as they try to put more content on the tubes. Has anybody else noticed the compression artifacts? Or am I just looking too closely. BTW, I'm on Rogers in Ottawa.
It's like they keep on calling Oracle "Unbreakable". Issue a challenge and the hackers will meet it. everybody who really knows what their doing keeps their databases behind firewalls so you can't access them from the outside. It doesn't matter if somebody says it's unbreakable, because it's not worth taking the risk.
Why not pick something that will last a bit longer. Instead of doing something along the lines of "that should hold them off for a couple months", or "it's 1/2 a step better than our competitors who have equally crappy security measures" or "it's not actually more secure, but our dumb users will think it is", they should be putting security measures in place that will actually make a difference, and won't be broken by crackers in a matter of weeks.
Only if I'm allowed to buy too.legit. :)
I would like to know my more banks don't offer more secure methods of authentication like RSA keytags and such. This would completely wipe out most of the problems with phishing. Instead they think up other useless methods like making you click on an onscreen keypad to enter your password, or asking you what your favourite movie is. I think that many people would pay for the keytag themselves if they were presented with the option, just for having the peace of mind knowing they are more secure. I know I would.
As long as people continue to click on links they get in emails, a not verify that they are actually at their bank's website, then there's going to be problems with phishing. It doesn't matter if the url ends in .com, or .ca, or .safe, or .xxx. If you're clicking on links in emails and getting scammed, then changing the domain name won't help anything. I'm surprised there's not more worms out there that change your hosts file, to show you a phishing site when you type in the actual url of your bank. I guess it really is that easy to get somebody to click on a link in an email, because they haven't resorted to more complicated methods.
More like, unless you live in the United States.
Maybe the SQL itself isn't going to be database agnostic, but you should be able to run the query and get a result set back without having to call a function specific to the database. .Net has a pretty good abstraction layer, such that I don't have to worry about which database I'm connecting to, and I can connect to Access, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Excel files, and others without calling functions specific to the database. There will always be little quirks, but I shouldn't have to call different functions to execute a simple select query on different database engines.
I would love to switch over to Postresql, but my hosting service doesn't support it. Also, my PHP code is littered with functions starting with mysqli_. Is there a good PHP database abstraction layer? Why are we still at a point when we're writing code against a particular database? I shouldn't have to write my own DB abstraction layer either.
PHP's user annotated reference manual is probably the best thing since the invention of the computer manual itself. How many times have you read the documentation only to still be completely lost as to how something actually works. Having real users put in comments means that after the first person figures out some neat trick, the rest of us don't have to.
How does anybody work in an environment such as this? I find tons of shortcuts for things I do at work on the internet. Stuff that would never be written down in any textbook. How does working without internet access affect your productivity?
That was my argument from the beginning. If they want to play the game of taxing money made from playing a game, then I'm sure the people playing the game won't mind playing the game of making writeoffs based on the costs incurred from playing the game, including time spent playing the game.
If you sell your OSS, (ala Redhat, MySQL) then you sure can write off the time you spent writing the software. If you provide a service to others to create scrapbooks from photos they gave you, or if you sold the scrapbooks you made (even with your own content) for money, then you should be able to count the time you spent making the scrap book. Could you not claim the time you spent writing a novel against income made by selling the novel? If you are making money off something, then it is a business. If your selling in-game items for real world money, then the activity is indeed for a profit, and I don't think that a lot of people would sit around letting the government charge taxes on the sales if they couldn't claim all the deductions as any other business could. If doesn't matter if you're selling corn, bicycles, mp3 downloads, or virtual swords in world of warcraft.
This may work, but can you count your time invested as a write off? Can you pay yourself a salary for the time you spent in the game, essentially negating all your profits? Maybe even put yourself at a loss to offset that you don't want to pay as much taxes on your real income from your real job. If they want people to pay taxes for stuff that they do in a video game, then the time spent on the video game should count as working, and should be deductible as such, as should the fees for playing said game, and the cost of the game, and the computer to run the game on, and the internet connection required for the game. See where I'm going with this?
But would listing this on your tax return give them a reason to go collect more evidence? Couldn't they start collecting more evidence so that they could just use that, and pretend that they never knew that you reported it on your taxes? Sure they couldn't search your house, but they could conveniently be in the right place at the right time (by following you) in order to catch you doing these illegal activities.
Changes in the compression format can only go so far. MPEG-2 has "pretty good" compression. H.264 has better compression, but it's not a magical codec that allows you to compress stuff down to nothing without losing any quality. 45 Minutes in 500 MB won't give you DVD quality, no matter which codec you use. Even 45 Minutes of 128 kb mp3/aac will take up about 45 MB, you can't expect to fit the video part of that feed into the remaining 450 MB while still maintaining DVD quality.
Expelled? I can't even remember what constituted expulsion when I was a kid. I think it must have been really serious, because I can't even remember a kid getting expelled. Maybe in high school, if you really had a problem with violence on a regular basis, they might kick you out, but I don't think that ever happened. Suspended yes, and usually only 3 days max, but never expulsion. And I knew some pretty bad kids. I don't know how they think that it's useful to remove a child from school completely. What if the child gets expelled from all the schools in the area? What happens then? Does the child not go to school at all? Must the parents quit their job, and home school the child. In almost all cases, they should make an effort to try and fix the problem. They shouldn't just kick the kid out, especially for saying a bad word. While I think discipline is good, removing the child from school is completely avoiding the problem, and admitting that the child cannot be dealt with.
That's what I hate about most of the stats they put out. They never put out the raw numbers. They always say that Blu-Ray sold X times more than HDDVD. But they never say that Blu-Ray sold 100 discs, while hddvd sold 20 discs. Because the numbers would be just to laugh at. The other argument is that Blu-Ray is doing a lot better then DVD was doing at the same point in it's life cycle. Well, DVD was the first real format to bring home movies to the masses. I don't really know anybody who owned more than 10 movies on VHS. People didn't buy movies for home when VHS was popular, because of the high price, and the fact that they degraded. Plus you could rent a movie for < $2 back then, which made buying them even more reason not to buy them. DVD was slow to catch on, because people weren't used to buying DVDs. Now I know people who buy a DVD every week, because the DVD only costs $15, and the rental costs $6, so you might as well buy it if you know you like it. Blu-Ray and HDDVD are flops because they have a very small percentage of the entire home movie business.