Nothing to stop you from using Java + MySQL/PostGres or.Net + MySQL/PostGres. I find there's way too many people who just choose Oracle or MS SQL because it's "part of the default stack" when using MySQL would save them a metric truckload of money. MySQL is actually a pretty good database and has come a long way since the days of "February 31" and other such shenanigans.
Especially since the cost of NetFlix is about $8 a month. That's about the cost of 2 movie rentals. Cable on demand movies and other online movie services that do offer blockbuster new releases cost about $5 jut to rent the movie for 24-48 hours. So even if Netflix doesn't have the newest blockbusters, they have quite a good deal for those people who don't have to watch a specific movie. I watch a lot of TV seasons on there. My only complaint is that if you're browsing on the Wii, it's almost impossible to see all the movies they have unless you search for them by name. There's actually quite a bit of content on there, but they make it really hard to find.
Android apps don't even work consistently between different phones and different versions of Android. I have no expectation that you could just hit recompile and have your app work flawlessly (or as well as it did on Android devices) on BlackBerry devices. It just isn't going to happen.
Does she put the diaper on by herself? Because once the potty training starts at our place, the diapers come off. Once they've had pee all over themselves a couple times they don't find going to the bathroom so inconvenient any more. We have some thicker underwear, and there's some with plastic outer liners to prevent a big mess, but it still makes the kid quite uncomfortable. Also, make them go to the potty every once in a while. Sometimes they tell you they don't have to go, but make them go every 1/2 hour for the first couple days. You can stretch it out as they start to figure it out. I'm not saying all kids are going to be as easy as mine were, but there are some things you can do to help the process along.
Yeah, in high school our first intro to programming was something like Hypercard, although ours ran on DOS. I remember having quite a bit of fun with that. We also learned quite a bit of "programming" through the use of Quattro Pro (spreadsheet) and FileMaker Pro (Database, like MS Access) The advantages of these is that they introduce you to programming while getting you acquainted with real world tools. Unlike Scratch, which (almost) nobody would use to create a real program. After that we moved on to QBasic and HTML. Yeah, we learned QBasic in 1998, because even the oldest computers in the school could run it, the teacher was familiar with it, and it could do just about everything a modern programming language could do. It didn't require an expensive IDE, or new computers. Most of us could even work at home.
Walking is a terrible form of exercise, because it's too easy. Unless you're doing olympic speed walking, in which case you might as well go jogging, you aren't getting your heart/respiration rate up high enough to really qualify as exercise. Sure if you're 200 lbs overweight, it can have some advantages, but for most people it's just not strenuous enough to qualify as exercise. A quick Google brought me to this chart. Walking at a moderate pace only burns about 60 calories more per hour than darts, billiards, or "sitting playing with animals". Some surprising things that burn more calories than walking are Tai-Chi, Hacky Sack, Stretching, and general house work. Cycling is actually quite good at burning calories, and it's the kind of activity that you can do for hours on end, as opposed to something like running an 8 minute mile (which in terms of calories burned equates to biking at 16-19 mph (25-30 km/h))
The market for PCs is dropping because for most people (not gamers) there hasn't been a need to upgrade your PC in the last 5 years. Nothing has changed. I know this because I have a PC that it 6 years old, and it works perfectly fine and I feed no need to upgrade it. I'll buy a new one when it dies, because having a full size PC is nice, but I won't spend more than $400 on it. Putting a 4K touch screen on PC might actually give me a reason to go out and buy something new.
I personally think a 4k computer is much better than a 4K TV. At least with a computer, you could play a game and it would be rendered at 4K (assuming it had enough processing power). But for a TV, there aren't any movies that you can buy at 4K, and there doesn't even exist any media to contain a 4K movie, short of hooking up computer and having the movie stored on the hard drive. Even then, the only way to obtain the hypothetical 4K movie would be to download it, which would use up quite a substantial amount of your download allowance.
I've lost 40 lbs (and gained 10 back, I was a little too thin) since I left university by doing two things. Biking a lot, and eating real food. Commuting by bicycle to work was probably a huge factor (was biking about 40 km a day when I was at my lightest, my commute has since gotten shorter), but I didn't lose a lot of the weight until I stopped eating so much fast food, and started eating mostly meals that I or my wife prepared from basic ingredients. I still eat quite a bit, and I don't worry about portion sizes too much, but eating real food does cut down on calories. It's really easy to go to burger king and eat 1500-2000 calories. It's a lot harder to do that when you're at home and have water to drink, along with a meal that's made from whole foods.
I have 3 kids, all finally potty trained. And it isn't really that hard. It takes a couple of days before they really get the hang of it, and some kids take longer to poop on the toilet, but I never understood why people have so much trouble with it. I have friends who give their kids big rewards every time they go to the bathroom. For my first two, they got a sticker on chart when they used the potty. And the third we didn't do that but I think he was easier because he understood that bigger kids did it. If they want something to do on the potty, just hand them a book, There's no way that mixing a $500 iPad and water is a good idea. Also, don't even use potties. Just get the special seat for the real toilet so they don't fall in. Otherwise, you have to teach them twice. Once to use the potty, and once to use the real toilet. Plus you don't have to clean out the plastic potty.
Yeah, but wouldn't it just be easier to have a regular laptop, or really powerful 10 inch tablet that you plug into a regular screen/keyboard/mouse when you want to get work done? There's very little point in carrying around a 20 inch screen, since a 20 inch screen won't be big enough for real work anyway, and most places where you want to work will probably have a suitable screen there already. Obviously, it's nice to carry around your hard drive, so your data and applications are with you, and carry around your computer (CPU, RAM, Video card, etc) because the applications/OS don't play nice when you just attach them to a completely different computer. But there is always no reason at all to carry around a very large monitor.
In Place, at least as I, and Wikipedia understand it, means that it uses a small, constant amount of extra space to do the algorithm. Otherwise, like you ended up doing, you algorithm has to resort to stupid little tricks that make code entirely unreadable. It's much more clear, and probably faster to just use the temporary variable.
Notebooks, while available, weren't something many students could afford. When I was in university (about 10 years ago), a good laptop cost around $2000. You could get really junky ones for $1000, but they really were horrible, and probably woudn't last you for your entire 4 years of university either. Now you can get a pretty decent laptop for about $400-$500. If they were that price when I was attending university, I definitely would have bought one. Tablets (if you ignore Apple) are even cheaper. The Nexus 7 is only $200. Most students could easily afford that. It's cheaper than some textbooks.
The cell phone also has a USB connection and recovery mode that enables the vendor to load new/fixed firmware onto the device. I'm guessing that guns with this technology will come with neither.
I think the problem is that if something is "less lethal" like a taser, there is a risk that people would use it in cases where they really don't need to. You'll find a lot of cases where authorities have used tasers on small children or old ladies because they think that they aren't supposed to kill people. Cases where they would have never once thought of taking out their gun they end up tasing people. Tasers are fine if you only use them where a gun was the only other alternative. But it seems like in a lot of cases, tasers are used as an alternative to the nightstick or pepper spray, which isn't such a good idea. Any of these weapons which are promoted as non-lethal will probably end up used as such.
The average person does own (or could easily buy) a computer and a printer, which is pretty much a printing press. It's actually better than a printing press, at least as they existed a hundred years ago.
Perhaps it depends who you are trying to stop. If you are trying to stop drug lords and mass terrorists who have many people in their organization who can easily disable the technology, then you're right, it probably won't stop them. If, on the other hand, you're trying to stop some guy who goes crazy and shoots up a school, such as in Newtown, Connecticut, it might not be such a bad deterrent. Instead of walking down to his local Walmart, or going online and legally purchasing a firearm, he would first have to seek out an illegal arms dealer. I've never tried this, but I don't think they'd be the easiest people to find. They definitely won't sell to just anyone, lest they turn out to be a cop. Also, the perspective buyer has to go with the possibility that the illegal arms dealer ends up being a cop who's ends up busting them in the process of trying to obtain the firearm.
That doesn't mean I think it's a great idea, as it would make guns needlessly expensive and prone to breakage for the people who want to use them for recreation (hunting, target practice). Also, it would only stop a very few number of incidents, as these occurrences of mass shootings by mentally deranged individuals only happen a few times a year. But that doesn't mean that such a system might not stop a few cases.
You got marked as flamebait, but I have to agree. I find it amazing that this is even possible in something like RAILs which is supposed to abstract away all the SQL for you. You'd think that they would only be using parameterized queries, and not doing stupid string concatenation when forming SQL statements. There's a lot of frameworks out there that try to abstract away the SQL. I really don't understand the need for such things. SQL is a pretty simple language (at least the part that most frameworks abstract away). There's not reason to hide something like this. I personally find it takes longer to develop, and you end up with much more unreadable code when you use these frameworks.
Sure, with the way they are designed currently, but I'm pretty sure that they could design a parachute that would get 50% of the people to the ground with only minor injuries (some broken bones and scrapes). which may not sound that great, but it's better than dying.
In university we played a lot of Quake II, even though Quake III was available, because it ran on almost anybody's computer. Lots of fun death matches there. One guy ran it on his laptop with a passive TFT. Terrible ghosting. I remember the day he got a full size PC. He kicked all our butts that day. Apparently when you're used to paying without being able to see anything, suddenly being able to see makes you a super player.
I bought a $500 PC 8 years ago and it still does fine I will upgrade it when it dies. Then I buy a new console once the latest tech comes out to $200. So over 8 years I've spent $900 (one pc and 2 consoles). $2000 is a lot to spend all at once, even if it lasts you for 10 years. At that price i could buy the newest console as soon as it comes out (usually around $400, sometimes less, sometimes more) 5 times over.
I wonder why they don't just put parachutes on a plane. In a catastrophic emergency going down on a parachute is much better than crashing into the ground. Even if some people break a leg, it's better than dying. Perhaps the space/weight trade off is too much for something that will almost never be used.
I guess one corollary of that is if you make your functions simple (trivial) enough, and treat each function as a separate program, then you can rid the system of bugs. Ok, in practice it won't work perfectly, but breaking you code into small trivial pieces can often help to reduce the number of bugs. Writing single functions that go on for hundreds or thousands of lines if often a way to get yourself in a lot of trouble.
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Nothing to stop you from using Java + MySQL/PostGres or .Net + MySQL/PostGres. I find there's way too many people who just choose Oracle or MS SQL because it's "part of the default stack" when using MySQL would save them a metric truckload of money. MySQL is actually a pretty good database and has come a long way since the days of "February 31" and other such shenanigans.
Especially since the cost of NetFlix is about $8 a month. That's about the cost of 2 movie rentals. Cable on demand movies and other online movie services that do offer blockbuster new releases cost about $5 jut to rent the movie for 24-48 hours. So even if Netflix doesn't have the newest blockbusters, they have quite a good deal for those people who don't have to watch a specific movie. I watch a lot of TV seasons on there. My only complaint is that if you're browsing on the Wii, it's almost impossible to see all the movies they have unless you search for them by name. There's actually quite a bit of content on there, but they make it really hard to find.
Android apps don't even work consistently between different phones and different versions of Android. I have no expectation that you could just hit recompile and have your app work flawlessly (or as well as it did on Android devices) on BlackBerry devices. It just isn't going to happen.
Does she put the diaper on by herself? Because once the potty training starts at our place, the diapers come off. Once they've had pee all over themselves a couple times they don't find going to the bathroom so inconvenient any more. We have some thicker underwear, and there's some with plastic outer liners to prevent a big mess, but it still makes the kid quite uncomfortable. Also, make them go to the potty every once in a while. Sometimes they tell you they don't have to go, but make them go every 1/2 hour for the first couple days. You can stretch it out as they start to figure it out. I'm not saying all kids are going to be as easy as mine were, but there are some things you can do to help the process along.
Yeah, in high school our first intro to programming was something like Hypercard, although ours ran on DOS. I remember having quite a bit of fun with that. We also learned quite a bit of "programming" through the use of Quattro Pro (spreadsheet) and FileMaker Pro (Database, like MS Access) The advantages of these is that they introduce you to programming while getting you acquainted with real world tools. Unlike Scratch, which (almost) nobody would use to create a real program. After that we moved on to QBasic and HTML. Yeah, we learned QBasic in 1998, because even the oldest computers in the school could run it, the teacher was familiar with it, and it could do just about everything a modern programming language could do. It didn't require an expensive IDE, or new computers. Most of us could even work at home.
Walking is a terrible form of exercise, because it's too easy. Unless you're doing olympic speed walking, in which case you might as well go jogging, you aren't getting your heart/respiration rate up high enough to really qualify as exercise. Sure if you're 200 lbs overweight, it can have some advantages, but for most people it's just not strenuous enough to qualify as exercise. A quick Google brought me to this chart. Walking at a moderate pace only burns about 60 calories more per hour than darts, billiards, or "sitting playing with animals". Some surprising things that burn more calories than walking are Tai-Chi, Hacky Sack, Stretching, and general house work. Cycling is actually quite good at burning calories, and it's the kind of activity that you can do for hours on end, as opposed to something like running an 8 minute mile (which in terms of calories burned equates to biking at 16-19 mph (25-30 km/h))
The market for PCs is dropping because for most people (not gamers) there hasn't been a need to upgrade your PC in the last 5 years. Nothing has changed. I know this because I have a PC that it 6 years old, and it works perfectly fine and I feed no need to upgrade it. I'll buy a new one when it dies, because having a full size PC is nice, but I won't spend more than $400 on it. Putting a 4K touch screen on PC might actually give me a reason to go out and buy something new.
I personally think a 4k computer is much better than a 4K TV. At least with a computer, you could play a game and it would be rendered at 4K (assuming it had enough processing power). But for a TV, there aren't any movies that you can buy at 4K, and there doesn't even exist any media to contain a 4K movie, short of hooking up computer and having the movie stored on the hard drive. Even then, the only way to obtain the hypothetical 4K movie would be to download it, which would use up quite a substantial amount of your download allowance.
I've lost 40 lbs (and gained 10 back, I was a little too thin) since I left university by doing two things. Biking a lot, and eating real food. Commuting by bicycle to work was probably a huge factor (was biking about 40 km a day when I was at my lightest, my commute has since gotten shorter), but I didn't lose a lot of the weight until I stopped eating so much fast food, and started eating mostly meals that I or my wife prepared from basic ingredients. I still eat quite a bit, and I don't worry about portion sizes too much, but eating real food does cut down on calories. It's really easy to go to burger king and eat 1500-2000 calories. It's a lot harder to do that when you're at home and have water to drink, along with a meal that's made from whole foods.
I have 3 kids, all finally potty trained. And it isn't really that hard. It takes a couple of days before they really get the hang of it, and some kids take longer to poop on the toilet, but I never understood why people have so much trouble with it. I have friends who give their kids big rewards every time they go to the bathroom. For my first two, they got a sticker on chart when they used the potty. And the third we didn't do that but I think he was easier because he understood that bigger kids did it. If they want something to do on the potty, just hand them a book, There's no way that mixing a $500 iPad and water is a good idea. Also, don't even use potties. Just get the special seat for the real toilet so they don't fall in. Otherwise, you have to teach them twice. Once to use the potty, and once to use the real toilet. Plus you don't have to clean out the plastic potty.
Yeah, but wouldn't it just be easier to have a regular laptop, or really powerful 10 inch tablet that you plug into a regular screen/keyboard/mouse when you want to get work done? There's very little point in carrying around a 20 inch screen, since a 20 inch screen won't be big enough for real work anyway, and most places where you want to work will probably have a suitable screen there already. Obviously, it's nice to carry around your hard drive, so your data and applications are with you, and carry around your computer (CPU, RAM, Video card, etc) because the applications/OS don't play nice when you just attach them to a completely different computer. But there is always no reason at all to carry around a very large monitor.
In Place, at least as I, and Wikipedia understand it, means that it uses a small, constant amount of extra space to do the algorithm. Otherwise, like you ended up doing, you algorithm has to resort to stupid little tricks that make code entirely unreadable. It's much more clear, and probably faster to just use the temporary variable.
Notebooks, while available, weren't something many students could afford. When I was in university (about 10 years ago), a good laptop cost around $2000. You could get really junky ones for $1000, but they really were horrible, and probably woudn't last you for your entire 4 years of university either. Now you can get a pretty decent laptop for about $400-$500. If they were that price when I was attending university, I definitely would have bought one. Tablets (if you ignore Apple) are even cheaper. The Nexus 7 is only $200. Most students could easily afford that. It's cheaper than some textbooks.
The cell phone also has a USB connection and recovery mode that enables the vendor to load new/fixed firmware onto the device. I'm guessing that guns with this technology will come with neither.
I think the problem is that if something is "less lethal" like a taser, there is a risk that people would use it in cases where they really don't need to. You'll find a lot of cases where authorities have used tasers on small children or old ladies because they think that they aren't supposed to kill people. Cases where they would have never once thought of taking out their gun they end up tasing people. Tasers are fine if you only use them where a gun was the only other alternative. But it seems like in a lot of cases, tasers are used as an alternative to the nightstick or pepper spray, which isn't such a good idea. Any of these weapons which are promoted as non-lethal will probably end up used as such.
The average person does own (or could easily buy) a computer and a printer, which is pretty much a printing press. It's actually better than a printing press, at least as they existed a hundred years ago.
Perhaps it depends who you are trying to stop. If you are trying to stop drug lords and mass terrorists who have many people in their organization who can easily disable the technology, then you're right, it probably won't stop them. If, on the other hand, you're trying to stop some guy who goes crazy and shoots up a school, such as in Newtown, Connecticut, it might not be such a bad deterrent. Instead of walking down to his local Walmart, or going online and legally purchasing a firearm, he would first have to seek out an illegal arms dealer. I've never tried this, but I don't think they'd be the easiest people to find. They definitely won't sell to just anyone, lest they turn out to be a cop. Also, the perspective buyer has to go with the possibility that the illegal arms dealer ends up being a cop who's ends up busting them in the process of trying to obtain the firearm. That doesn't mean I think it's a great idea, as it would make guns needlessly expensive and prone to breakage for the people who want to use them for recreation (hunting, target practice). Also, it would only stop a very few number of incidents, as these occurrences of mass shootings by mentally deranged individuals only happen a few times a year. But that doesn't mean that such a system might not stop a few cases.
You got marked as flamebait, but I have to agree. I find it amazing that this is even possible in something like RAILs which is supposed to abstract away all the SQL for you. You'd think that they would only be using parameterized queries, and not doing stupid string concatenation when forming SQL statements. There's a lot of frameworks out there that try to abstract away the SQL. I really don't understand the need for such things. SQL is a pretty simple language (at least the part that most frameworks abstract away). There's not reason to hide something like this. I personally find it takes longer to develop, and you end up with much more unreadable code when you use these frameworks.
Sure, with the way they are designed currently, but I'm pretty sure that they could design a parachute that would get 50% of the people to the ground with only minor injuries (some broken bones and scrapes). which may not sound that great, but it's better than dying.
In university we played a lot of Quake II, even though Quake III was available, because it ran on almost anybody's computer. Lots of fun death matches there. One guy ran it on his laptop with a passive TFT. Terrible ghosting. I remember the day he got a full size PC. He kicked all our butts that day. Apparently when you're used to paying without being able to see anything, suddenly being able to see makes you a super player.
I bought a $500 PC 8 years ago and it still does fine I will upgrade it when it dies. Then I buy a new console once the latest tech comes out to $200. So over 8 years I've spent $900 (one pc and 2 consoles). $2000 is a lot to spend all at once, even if it lasts you for 10 years. At that price i could buy the newest console as soon as it comes out (usually around $400, sometimes less, sometimes more) 5 times over.
I wonder why they don't just put parachutes on a plane. In a catastrophic emergency going down on a parachute is much better than crashing into the ground. Even if some people break a leg, it's better than dying. Perhaps the space/weight trade off is too much for something that will almost never be used.
I guess one corollary of that is if you make your functions simple (trivial) enough, and treat each function as a separate program, then you can rid the system of bugs. Ok, in practice it won't work perfectly, but breaking you code into small trivial pieces can often help to reduce the number of bugs. Writing single functions that go on for hundreds or thousands of lines if often a way to get yourself in a lot of trouble.
And often times the dead chickens are included in the pile of live chicken in the mass processing.