Which begs the question...what is an "improper" use? Does it cease to be "improper" once it has become ubiquitous?
It probably depends on the audience. I appreciate good grammar when I hear or read it, and expect it from journalists and formal writers. There are definitely people who will judge you as an uneducated hick for using too much slang but sometimes in casual conversation using proper grammar just makes a person sound like a pompous ass.
The fact is, if you care, just run narrower and harder tires.. Thus giving lower friction and
more economy, duh!
Ah, so that's why my mountain bike uses so little gas. Makes sense!
That's a pretty good analogy. Mountain bike tires are optimized for traction. Take a look at the bikes used for tour de france which are optimized for speed and reduced rolling resistance.
I wonder if the increased fuel efficiency is simply the result of creating a smaller contact patch for the tires and reducing the rolling resistance. Maybe the same result could be acheived by using skinnier tires...but they wouldn't look as cool.
In java/C/php not equal is expressed as != In Visual basic you might say "not equal to" In SQL you would use <>
=/= seems to be popular these days. Programming hasn't been a major function of my career for about 5 years so I am a little out of the loop. What language uses =/= to mean not equal?
In an age where many suppliers use web applications that our employees need to place orders, research part specifications and more blocking the web isn't very feasible, and white lists are way too much work compared to occasionally re-imaging a drive. However ever since we put in IPCop to track web usage the number of viruses and other malware decreased significantly. But it could be just a coincidence.
I'm not trying to troll here but how do you write anything without variables?
Or are you suggesting that some people will use too many variables like:
$FirstName
$MiddleName
$LastName
$BirthDate
$Gender
when they could have simplified their code with a single class called Person?
Yep, this one sounds like it might be even as tame as your average climategate discussion.
Speaking of rational discussions I haven't seen a good comparison of databases recently. I am building a database application. Which server should I use?
MySQL,
Oracle,
Firebird. or
Postgres?
Around 1999, 2000 we used to do an online radio show called MacShowLive. Every wednesday night we put together a show discussing new hardware, software and all things Mac related....it would stream live as the show was going on, and we archived each show so that people could download it later....
We long since stopped the show but I still have the hard drive from our BSD server, with all the shows archived.....That should probably count as prior art.
Damn - I shouldn't be replying to my own post but if one used Miles per kilo Watt Hour to compare both electric and gas vehicles he would be ignoring the fact that the power generator that created the electricity for the EV was not 100% efficient. Some say that a coal electricity plant is only about 40% efficient So the comparison isn't as easy as I first thought. You would have to take into account what sort of generators are used to create electricty in your neighbourhood, and how efficient the charging system is.
Interesting....
Where does this 33.6 kWh of energy figure come from? (Sorry but high school chemistry was about 18 years ago for me and I haven't used it since)
If it's true it provides a real easy way of comparing the efficiency of gasoline cars to electric vehicles. Just use miles per kilo Watt Hour for both.
Who in their right mind believes building a web app for $18 mil is a good price?
I agree. I read the article only because I was curious what kind of system you get for that money but sadly the article was lacking in details. However 18 million is not just for 'building a web app' it appears to be the budget for the project through to 2014.
Well partially true... Alberta has some vast reserves of oil and natural gas, but just like oil it is sold at international market rates. They don't sell it any cheaper to albertans just because its extracted here.
I live in Edmonton Alberta, Canada where 8 months of winter is fairly common. Here our old incandescent bulbs have 100% efficiency because the heat generated does not go to waste:-)
Simplifying code is also a good way to overcome 'writers block' In any large project there will always be a problem that has me stumped for a while...when this happens I like to go back over code I have already written and see if I can simplify it, and add comments that make it understandable to non programmers.
I never understood things like the zoom feature being the way they are. The only thing I can think of is that maybe they are trying to avoid a patent war with respect to the GUI controls.
What's wrong with the zoom feature?
On the tool bar it looks like a magnifying glass. . . which is a fairly standard icon across multiple applications.
In the Main menu it is View ->Zoom..
Or simply hold the control button and scroll the mouse wheel, same as autocad, firefox, and probably a dozen other apps
BTW I still stand behind the principle that having IE with Windows is not anti-competative. If that were the case then Red Hat, Apple OS, and others would be anti-competitive. ..car companies are anti-competative because they come bundled with radios,
You can remove and replace the stock radio from your car and it wont break the car. The problem with IE wasn't just that it was available for free but you could not remove it.
Indeed. What advantage would Windows 7 starter offer over Ubuntu Netbook Remix?
Also, about installing an OS from a flash drive, remember the advances we have seen in OS install programs in the last 10 years.
I am pretty sure there could be a program to sell cheap 1GB drives with different flavors of Linux preinstalled...
Like the Universal Netbook Installer? Plug in your thumb drive, select a linux distro, and the program downloads the image, and copies it to your usb stick. Reboot your computer, and install.
Not exactly. You have to pay tax if the seller is operating (or has operations) in your province. Otherwise it's free!
OK I agree my comment was over simplified. The seller is required to charge PST for the provinces in which it operates, then remit the taxes to the appropriate province.
However if you buy something from an out of province/country seller and were not charged sales tax then in some cases the purchaser is required to submit the tax themselves.
For example a few years ago I used to purchase all our company's computers in Alberta where there is no sales tax, configure them and then ship to other branches where there *is* a sales tax. I didn't think of the tax implication until a tax auditor looked at the purchase record, and noticed the unpaid taxes. ..unfortunately that was an expensive lesson.
With 3500 users how do you manage firefox through active directory? I looked into it for a little while but couldn't get the control we needed so we stay with IE and it just drives me nuts.
Even if you could convince management that you can create wonderful things with open source they are still going to worry what would happen when you are gone.
I encountered this when I offered to set up open source web filters in each of our locations and save significant money compared to other solutions. Management agreed ipcop did everything we need, and would save a lot of money but was still hesitant. When I located local contractors in my city who could make changes if I was ever "hit by a bus" they gave me the go ahead.
If you are looking at open source consider opencms which has commercial support that your company can use when you leave or get promoted to another position.
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Which begs the question...what is an "improper" use? Does it cease to be "improper" once it has become ubiquitous?
It probably depends on the audience. I appreciate good grammar when I hear or read it, and expect it from journalists and formal writers. There are definitely people who will judge you as an uneducated hick for using too much slang but sometimes in casual conversation using proper grammar just makes a person sound like a pompous ass.
The fact is, if you care, just run narrower and harder tires.. Thus giving lower friction and more economy, duh!
Ah, so that's why my mountain bike uses so little gas. Makes sense!
That's a pretty good analogy. Mountain bike tires are optimized for traction. Take a look at the bikes used for tour de france which are optimized for speed and reduced rolling resistance.
I wonder if the increased fuel efficiency is simply the result of creating a smaller contact patch for the tires and reducing the rolling resistance. Maybe the same result could be acheived by using skinnier tires...but they wouldn't look as cool.
In java/C/php not equal is expressed as !=
In Visual basic you might say "not equal to"
In SQL you would use <>
=/= seems to be popular these days. Programming hasn't been a major function of my career for about 5 years so I am a little out of the loop. What language uses =/= to mean not equal?
In an age where many suppliers use web applications that our employees need to place orders, research part specifications and more blocking the web isn't very feasible, and white lists are way too much work compared to occasionally re-imaging a drive. However ever since we put in IPCop to track web usage the number of viruses and other malware decreased significantly. But it could be just a coincidence.
I'm not trying to troll here but how do you write anything without variables? Or are you suggesting that some people will use too many variables like: $FirstName $MiddleName $LastName $BirthDate $Gender when they could have simplified their code with a single class called Person?
Yep, this one sounds like it might be even as tame as your average climategate discussion.
Speaking of rational discussions I haven't seen a good comparison of databases recently. I am building a database application. Which server should I use? MySQL, Oracle, Firebird. or Postgres?
Around 1999, 2000 we used to do an online radio show called MacShowLive. Every wednesday night we put together a show discussing new hardware, software and all things Mac related....it would stream live as the show was going on, and we archived each show so that people could download it later.... We long since stopped the show but I still have the hard drive from our BSD server, with all the shows archived.....That should probably count as prior art.
How have they actually attacked Linux?
Microsoft claimed that linux infringes on 235 MS patents but refused to say which ones
Did we forget about their suit against TomTom for the questionable FAT patent already?
Damn - I shouldn't be replying to my own post but if one used Miles per kilo Watt Hour to compare both electric and gas vehicles he would be ignoring the fact that the power generator that created the electricity for the EV was not 100% efficient. Some say that a coal electricity plant is only about 40% efficient So the comparison isn't as easy as I first thought. You would have to take into account what sort of generators are used to create electricty in your neighbourhood, and how efficient the charging system is.
Interesting.... Where does this 33.6 kWh of energy figure come from? (Sorry but high school chemistry was about 18 years ago for me and I haven't used it since) If it's true it provides a real easy way of comparing the efficiency of gasoline cars to electric vehicles. Just use miles per kilo Watt Hour for both.
Who in their right mind believes building a web app for $18 mil is a good price?
I agree. I read the article only because I was curious what kind of system you get for that money but sadly the article was lacking in details. However 18 million is not just for 'building a web app' it appears to be the budget for the project through to 2014.
Well partially true... Alberta has some vast reserves of oil and natural gas, but just like oil it is sold at international market rates. They don't sell it any cheaper to albertans just because its extracted here.
I live in Edmonton Alberta, Canada where 8 months of winter is fairly common. Here our old incandescent bulbs have 100% efficiency because the heat generated does not go to waste :-)
Simplifying code is also a good way to overcome 'writers block' In any large project there will always be a problem that has me stumped for a while...when this happens I like to go back over code I have already written and see if I can simplify it, and add comments that make it understandable to non programmers.
I never understood things like the zoom feature being the way they are. The only thing I can think of is that maybe they are trying to avoid a patent war with respect to the GUI controls.
What's wrong with the zoom feature?
On the tool bar it looks like a magnifying glass. . . which is a fairly standard icon across multiple applications.
In the Main menu it is View ->Zoom..
Or simply hold the control button and scroll the mouse wheel, same as autocad, firefox, and probably a dozen other apps
How did you find it? I still can't find C:\ on my linux distros ;-)
You can remove and replace the stock radio from your car and it wont break the car. The problem with IE wasn't just that it was available for free but you could not remove it.
Indeed. What advantage would Windows 7 starter offer over Ubuntu Netbook Remix?
Also, about installing an OS from a flash drive, remember the advances we have seen in OS install programs in the last 10 years. I am pretty sure there could be a program to sell cheap 1GB drives with different flavors of Linux preinstalled...
Like the Universal Netbook Installer? Plug in your thumb drive, select a linux distro, and the program downloads the image, and copies it to your usb stick. Reboot your computer, and install.
Not exactly. You have to pay tax if the seller is operating (or has operations) in your province. Otherwise it's free!
OK I agree my comment was over simplified. The seller is required to charge PST for the provinces in which it operates, then remit the taxes to the appropriate province.
However if you buy something from an out of province/country seller and were not charged sales tax then in some cases the purchaser is required to submit the tax themselves.
For example a few years ago I used to purchase all our company's computers in Alberta where there is no sales tax, configure them and then ship to other branches where there *is* a sales tax. I didn't think of the tax implication until a tax auditor looked at the purchase record, and noticed the unpaid taxes. . .unfortunately that was an expensive lesson.
Here in Canada we have always had to pay sales tax on internet purchases. The tax is based on the purchaser's province.
With 3500 users how do you manage firefox through active directory? I looked into it for a little while but couldn't get the control we needed so we stay with IE and it just drives me nuts.
They are just calling the next version firefox.NEXT not firefox.NET. I skimmed over the developer forum and didn't see anything about using .net.
I encountered this when I offered to set up open source web filters in each of our locations and save significant money compared to other solutions. Management agreed ipcop did everything we need, and would save a lot of money but was still hesitant. When I located local contractors in my city who could make changes if I was ever "hit by a bus" they gave me the go ahead.
If you are looking at open source consider opencms which has commercial support that your company can use when you leave or get promoted to another position.