Has it dawned on you that the 10 years of drinking fluoridated water CAUSED a weakening of your teeth resulting in the latter dental problems. That would have to be the case since fluoridated water has 0 impact on fully developed teeth
"Anyway, Latin already had a word viri, but it was the nominative plural not of virus (slime, poison, or venom), but of vir (man), which as it turns out is also a 2nd declension noun. I do not believe that writers of English who write viri are intentionally speaking of men"
There are some who consider man a virus upon the planet earth.
Have you ever had a dream, that you were so sure was real?
Am I really watching The Matrix or is it just a dream of me watching The Matrix.
You get out of B & W what you want. As a "god game" It took the genre to new heights and it did it quite well. I prefer RTS games and it would be great to have your units have a similair intelligence as your creature in B & W; ie, units which learn and follow the example you set. What about a FPS where the baddies learn your attack strageties and teach the other baddies if you let them get away.
"I hear that the *only* reason Ford sold Escorts is that by law the average gas milage on *all* cars a vendor sold had to average a certain gas milage. Ford sold Escorts to simply keep the average down so that they could sell more fat trucks. (This is why they had wimpy engines). They practically gave the things away and people *still* did not take them often enough. "
From 1982 to 1997, the Ford Escort was the worldwide sales leader in compact cars. They sold 5 million of these things and the fact that a compact car actually achieved 100k miles is a testament to their durability.
Yes CAFE standards are based on average fuel economy and the existence of the Escort made the V8 Ford Mustang possible. Trucks are not a factor in CAFE.
Yeah, the Escort and now the Focus suck, they are slow, wimpy, uncomfortable on long drives and really dont take too much abuse. Then again, they are not designed for any of this. They are designed as commuter cars. They do perform excellent for what they are designed for.
FYI, the resale value of a 1990 Toyota Tercel versus a 1990 Escort is the same. Both are pretty much worthless.
Disclaimer: I am not a wimpy car sympathizer, I own a v8 Camaro and a v8 Mustang, I would never buy a 4cyl FWD car. But that doesn't mean I cannot understand other peoples need for wimpy cars.
I hope you program something into your loops so that they also end. Perpetual loops of any type are a Bad Idea(TM) in any progrm.
Recursion is formally defined as:
http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=recursion&db= *
When a function (or procedure) calls itself. Such a function is called "recursive". If the call is via one or more other functions then this group of functions are called "mutually recursive".
Having an end is not a requirement for recursion. It might be a Bad Idea(TM) to not have an end, but it is not required. Recursion is a "recursive loop," or in other words a form of loop. The requirement is that the function or procedure calls itself.
Reading the manual is worthless if you do not FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS.
I have a Radeon AIW 8500DV, a Rage Fury Pro and a rage 2c card in my three home systems. I have 40 machines with Rage 128 boards in them at the office. Does this qualify me as having enough experience with ATI cards?
If you read the manual and install the drivers properly, you will have almost 0 problems, or at least no more problems than you have with any other card.
The manual explicitely states you MUST remove the older drivers and install a standard vga adapter driver. If an issue is encountered where a file is being copied that is older than one on the machine, you MUST copy the older file. If you follow this procedure every time and do it correctly, you will NOT have problesm with ATI drivers. Removing the drivers from the hardware manager is not acceptable, you must uninstall them from the system.
To say that ATI drivers suck is plain wrong. they may not be as user friendly as nvidia's drivers to install where you can install updated drivers over the old ones, but there is nothing wrong with ATI's drivers themselves. If there was, ATI would NOT have succeded in either the corporate market or with OEM's which is their bread and butter.
If you have ever installed an ATI driver over an existing ATI driver without first uninstalling the older drivers,you will have big problems with the system unless you install another physical video card and clean out all the ATI dll's, registry entries and INF files.
Blaming a product because you did not follow the directions is quite silly.
The Athlon's EV6 FSB has always been capable of running up to 400mhz (200 mhz x2). Combined with the latest thoroughbred revision, a 200(400) mhz fsb would yield a real 3.2 ghz Athlon or a PR 4.192 ghz. Given that the p4 is assumed scalable to 4 ghz, AMD really has nothing to worry about in regards to the true potential of the Athlon. do you really think it is a surprise that AMD somehow magically always seems to pull out a faster processor whcih compares favorably to the best Intel has to offer? A switch now to a 333 or 400 mhz FSB would kill the Athlon as it would require new motherboards, but given that 333 and 400 mhz Athlon motherboards are becomming prevelant, the potential for AMD to release 166(333) mhz and 200(400) mhz fsb Athlons transparantly to the motherboard is quickly becoming a reality. The cpu makers always sandbag the public because ther eis huge money to be made in incremental processor speeds. If AMD did release a 3.2 ghz Athlon with a PR of 4.19, it would blow both companies' loads until the next generation cpu came out. Don't think for one moment that AMD cannot volume produce 3.2 ghz Athlons or that Intel cannot volume produce 4 ghz p4's today if they wanted to. AMD's future is not worth the 5 minutes of glory in thrashing the Intel today and intels has the Hammer hanging over it's head so thrashing the Athlon today would probably only cause the hammer to come come down quicker. Intel will obviously remain the leader and AMD will continue to release "good enough" until, like the original Athlon, they have a poduct which can take and hold a substantial lead.
Apple is no different, until recently, their "good enough" strategy has worked well, but the g4 has reached it's peak potential and Apple has to move their platform forward with a more modern design, in particular a design supporting a faster bus and DDR capabilities. The g4 is no longer "good enough" to compete, no more than a k62 or cyrix mk2 is.
No company will ever be able to remove the "mhz = speed" from the consumers mind. MHZ Speed is sexy, "more work per cycle" is boring. Whoever can lead the mhz(ghz) race will win in the consumer mind, all others will have to produce "good enough" to compete.
Have you ever thought that the problem was a misconfiguration of the machine and OS. KDE2.x is sloooowwww if you do not optimize your system. Win XP is slooowwww on a p4 2.4 ghz if you do not have enough memory and have all the gee-gaws turned on. All computers can be extremely slow if you do not optimize them. A P3 700mhz laptop with sdr and shared video memory is useless for all but the most rudimentary computer tasks. You cannot BS anyone into believing you are playing any type of 3d games with decent fps or doing anything of a graphical nature on the machine.
Macs are not game machines, so it is not a surprise that they will perform poorly running games. Your comment in this area makes as much sense as saying an X-Box sucks because it cannot calculate a spreadsheet fast enough. I have often heard that IE is slow on os X, but that doesn't mean that all browsers are slow and FWIW, browsers can render a webpage in one of two ways. Incrementally, or all at once. IE originally overshot NN 4.xx in perceived speed because IE was faster at showing something on the screen first. IE showed the text of the document as it was downloaded and incrementally rendered tables, NN4.xx did not. However nn4.xx will still download and display a complete webpage FASTER than IE 5 as will opera, moz and konq. IE is fast on windows because it shares dll's(libraries) with the OS, Konq performs similiar on a kde system for pretty much the same reasons. Apple does need to wisen up and create their own optimized os embedded browser, but overall, it is a small price to pay for having a system with the power of bsd and the traditional usability of a Mac GUI.
If you are really disatisfied with your Apple, then you have a responsibility to all computer users to take your campaign to Apple. Whether you believe it or not, Apple will read your complaint and take it very seriously. Running around spreading what amounts to FUD does not help improve gaming or browsing on Macs, it only hurts the situation because for each lost sale, there is less money for apple to develop better apps and for Apple to spend on R&D.
Owning a non-mainstream computer comes with certain implied responsibilities and one of them is to take any flaws and try to fix them or to make them better. A strong and loyal userbase is the only way for any OS to compete with windows. The only reason Apple and Linux have actually survived the Windows onslaught is due to the kookery of their user base and their faith in the platform that any flaws will eventually be fixed. If you feel the compulsive need to bash Apple, then you are not mature enough nor ready enough to graduate from the windows platform.
When's the last time you saw a Jew blow themselves up along with women and small children?
The Israelis have much better weapons in which to kill Palestinian children with. Weapons supplied by the US to the tune of $3 billion a year. Now if we were to also give the Palestinians $3 billion a year, they wouldn't be using suicide bombers to kill Israelis, they would be killing Israelis from afar with F-16's.
Once you graduate grade school and are able to read, you will find that sharon is a butcher who has ordered the death of hundreds of Palestinian children. Sharon should be held accountable for his war crimes and tried before an international court. The UN has tried, but every attempt has been subverted by the US. What is the US covering up? Why the unconditional support of Israel? Why does the US condone the killing of Palestinian children by Israel?
The Palestinian suicide bombers might be bad, but not nearly as bad as the US sponsered slaughter of palestinian children.
That is because your soundcard is too slow for the format you chose to record at. You can run ATI's compatibility test to find out if the soundcard's up to par. The onboard sound of my msi kt266 is right on the fringe of acceptability. If I leave the downmix option on, the soundcard will not pass ATI's compatibility test, with it off it will.
and if you can manage to follow the needlessly complex driver install instructions, the card works without even rebooting!
I think this is the number one reason people have problems with ATI cards, they do not FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS. Installing the updated drivers on win 98 over old ones will cause headaches beyond belief and which can only be fully fixed by deleting all references to the ATI dll's and starting over. Obviously a little bit of RTFM goes a long way.
I have been using ATI cards for many years and have only had one problem. That was using an AIW 128 Pro on an old e-machines. It wasn't the cards fault, it was the Cyrix proc and the 42 mhz pci bus.
That e-machines was the only low end machine I ever bought. It came free with the monitor and printer. Right now I have an ATI Rage Fury pro in this machine and a Radeon AIW 8500DV on the other system. I have absolutely no problems with either and they run everything I throw at it. Bottom line is that ATI cards do not work well with crappy systems and crappy bioses. hell, even the p4 Gateways in the office have rage 128 pro cards in them and they all work flawlessley.
Call me crazy, but with over 50 machines running ATI cards in the office and half a dozen personal ones, having only one problem with an ATI card on an out of spec PCI bus does not equate to poor drivers or crappy cards.
There is more to a video card than just gaming. DVD playback is also important and a combinatioon of a Radeon or better card and the ATI DVD player 5 or better will give you absolutely stunning DVD playback, even when zoomed in 4x. ATI cards also give you a much sharper and clearer desktop out of the box while NVIDIA cards tend to look washed out. Obviously you can tweak the NVIDIA card to achieve the same quality on the desktop, but tweaking 50 machines so (l)users do not complain is a waste of my time, especially when there is a better product available.
Both views and stored procedures are very important facets of security in any modern RDBMS as they allow you to hide the internals of your database, and to only provide applications the ability to have certain constrained "I/O windows" into your database
Security and stored procedures should never be used in the same sentence, especially when used in web based applications. If anyone gets into hat DB even as a user, they can toast your DB by running your SP's. For web based applicatiosn, youa re always better off placing your code in a class or componant. For example in PHP you can check both the referring URL and the script name and a global var in the calling script before allowing any DB access to occur. That gives you three additional layers of security above that of the DB and webserver security
Transactions: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/ANSI_diff_Transactions.html
I guess having an equivilent feature and naming it someothing else confuses too many people.
Stored procedures are insecure and do not scale to well. The concept is to encapsulate the logic and make it easier for programmers to access the DB. This can just as easily be done with an ASP or PHP class or java bean and using any DB's getRows() function. The performance is FASTER this way because your scripts or programs do not have to wait for the DB to execue code and return results. Overall application performance in a multi user system is not just based upon the speed of the query, but on how quickly the DB connection is open and closed. Bottom line is that there is absolutely no need for stored procedures to exist and such a feature in MySQL would only add to bloat.
Subqueries: For the most part, a (self) join will be more efficient than a subquery and will perform the same task and return the same results.
Bottom line is that MySQL does EXACTLY as advertised, it stores data in a logical manner to be retrieved later. While it could be more robust, adding in features would only bloat it and ultimatley affect it's performance. In addition, the fact that you really cannot run arbitrary code on a MySQL database makes it much more secure than any DB which allows SP's and scripting of the DB.
Windows XP will automatically download and install updates. Win 98's update utility has switches which control the behavior. A little bit of RTFM http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=38125&op=Reply &threshold=0&commentsort=0&tid=109&mode=nested&pid =4086047 will show you that you can set each windows machine to automagically downlaod and isntall critical updates. You can also set up your own update server and download the updates which you want automagically installed to be distributed to all the clients.
It amazes me how so many super smart super linux geeks cannot even adminster a simple system like windows. How the hell can ytou expect to lock down a *nix network if you cannot add a simple/q switch to windows task manager?
I work on Solaris every day...where's the Microsoft software? I know that IE is available for Solaris, but I certainly wouldn't be so stupid as to actually install it.
Errr. IE!!!!! Oh wait you mentioned that,n well i guess you answered your own question.
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Has it dawned on you that the 10 years of drinking fluoridated water CAUSED a weakening of your teeth resulting in the latter dental problems. That would have to be the case since fluoridated water has 0 impact on fully developed teeth
That is what sets every career apart; the desire to learn that career.
Tolkien created a world, a mythology. That mythology IS the STORY. LOTR is one event which happened in Tolkiens world.
There are some who consider man a virus upon the planet earth.
Have you ever had a dream, that you were so sure was real?
Am I really watching The Matrix or is it just a dream of me watching The Matrix.
You get out of B & W what you want. As a "god game" It took the genre to new heights and it did it quite well. I prefer RTS games and it would be great to have your units have a similair intelligence as your creature in B & W; ie, units which learn and follow the example you set. What about a FPS where the baddies learn your attack strageties and teach the other baddies if you let them get away.
We all saw revenge of the nerds ... ogre... JK
"I hear that the *only* reason Ford sold Escorts is that by law the average gas milage on *all* cars a vendor sold had to average a certain gas milage. Ford sold Escorts to simply keep the average down so that they could sell more fat trucks. (This is why they had wimpy engines). They practically gave the things away and people *still* did not take them often enough. "
From 1982 to 1997, the Ford Escort was the worldwide sales leader in compact cars. They sold 5 million of these things and the fact that a compact car actually achieved 100k miles is a testament to their durability.
Yes CAFE standards are based on average fuel economy and the existence of the Escort made the V8 Ford Mustang possible. Trucks are not a factor in CAFE.
Yeah, the Escort and now the Focus suck, they are slow, wimpy, uncomfortable on long drives and really dont take too much abuse. Then again, they are not designed for any of this. They are designed as commuter cars. They do perform excellent for what they are designed for.
FYI, the resale value of a 1990 Toyota Tercel versus a 1990 Escort is the same. Both are pretty much worthless.
Disclaimer: I am not a wimpy car sympathizer, I own a v8 Camaro and a v8 Mustang, I would never buy a 4cyl FWD car. But that doesn't mean I cannot understand other peoples need for wimpy cars.
"It's a loop; recursion ends"
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I hope you program something into your loops so that they also end. Perpetual loops of any type are a Bad Idea(TM) in any progrm.
Recursion is formally defined as:
http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=recursion&db
When a function (or procedure) calls itself. Such a function is called "recursive". If the call is via one or more other functions then this group of functions are called "mutually recursive".
Having an end is not a requirement for recursion. It might be a Bad Idea(TM) to not have an end, but it is not required. Recursion is a "recursive loop," or in other words a form of loop. The requirement is that the function or procedure calls itself.
I have a Radeon AIW 8500DV, a Rage Fury Pro and a rage 2c card in my three home systems. I have 40 machines with Rage 128 boards in them at the office. Does this qualify me as having enough experience with ATI cards?
If you read the manual and install the drivers properly, you will have almost 0 problems, or at least no more problems than you have with any other card.
The manual explicitely states you MUST remove the older drivers and install a standard vga adapter driver. If an issue is encountered where a file is being copied that is older than one on the machine, you MUST copy the older file. If you follow this procedure every time and do it correctly, you will NOT have problesm with ATI drivers. Removing the drivers from the hardware manager is not acceptable, you must uninstall them from the system.
To say that ATI drivers suck is plain wrong. they may not be as user friendly as nvidia's drivers to install where you can install updated drivers over the old ones, but there is nothing wrong with ATI's drivers themselves. If there was, ATI would NOT have succeded in either the corporate market or with OEM's which is their bread and butter.
If you have ever installed an ATI driver over an existing ATI driver without first uninstalling the older drivers,you will have big problems with the system unless you install another physical video card and clean out all the ATI dll's, registry entries and INF files.
Blaming a product because you did not follow the directions is quite silly.
...has been invented thousands of years ago. It is called children.
Apple is no different, until recently, their "good enough" strategy has worked well, but the g4 has reached it's peak potential and Apple has to move their platform forward with a more modern design, in particular a design supporting a faster bus and DDR capabilities. The g4 is no longer "good enough" to compete, no more than a k62 or cyrix mk2 is.
No company will ever be able to remove the "mhz = speed" from the consumers mind. MHZ Speed is sexy, "more work per cycle" is boring. Whoever can lead the mhz(ghz) race will win in the consumer mind, all others will have to produce "good enough" to compete.
DYK that if you actually RTFM you would have 0 problems with ATI drivers.
Macs are not game machines, so it is not a surprise that they will perform poorly running games. Your comment in this area makes as much sense as saying an X-Box sucks because it cannot calculate a spreadsheet fast enough. I have often heard that IE is slow on os X, but that doesn't mean that all browsers are slow and FWIW, browsers can render a webpage in one of two ways. Incrementally, or all at once. IE originally overshot NN 4.xx in perceived speed because IE was faster at showing something on the screen first. IE showed the text of the document as it was downloaded and incrementally rendered tables, NN4.xx did not. However nn4.xx will still download and display a complete webpage FASTER than IE 5 as will opera, moz and konq. IE is fast on windows because it shares dll's(libraries) with the OS, Konq performs similiar on a kde system for pretty much the same reasons. Apple does need to wisen up and create their own optimized os embedded browser, but overall, it is a small price to pay for having a system with the power of bsd and the traditional usability of a Mac GUI.
If you are really disatisfied with your Apple, then you have a responsibility to all computer users to take your campaign to Apple. Whether you believe it or not, Apple will read your complaint and take it very seriously. Running around spreading what amounts to FUD does not help improve gaming or browsing on Macs, it only hurts the situation because for each lost sale, there is less money for apple to develop better apps and for Apple to spend on R&D.
Owning a non-mainstream computer comes with certain implied responsibilities and one of them is to take any flaws and try to fix them or to make them better. A strong and loyal userbase is the only way for any OS to compete with windows. The only reason Apple and Linux have actually survived the Windows onslaught is due to the kookery of their user base and their faith in the platform that any flaws will eventually be fixed. If you feel the compulsive need to bash Apple, then you are not mature enough nor ready enough to graduate from the windows platform.
Last time I looked, Britney was all woman and a damn good looking woman at that. She is young, beautiful and rich.
So do you hate her because she is young, because she is beautiful or because she is rich?
The Israelis have much better weapons in which to kill Palestinian children with. Weapons supplied by the US to the tune of $3 billion a year. Now if we were to also give the Palestinians $3 billion a year, they wouldn't be using suicide bombers to kill Israelis, they would be killing Israelis from afar with F-16's.
Once you graduate grade school and are able to read, you will find that sharon is a butcher who has ordered the death of hundreds of Palestinian children. Sharon should be held accountable for his war crimes and tried before an international court. The UN has tried, but every attempt has been subverted by the US. What is the US covering up? Why the unconditional support of Israel? Why does the US condone the killing of Palestinian children by Israel?
The Palestinian suicide bombers might be bad, but not nearly as bad as the US sponsered slaughter of palestinian children.
so this means that no Microsoft products can be patented because they are neither new or useful.
From what I have seen so far from 00 1.0, I might actually be able to bring this to the boss as a BETTER solution than MS Word.
That is because your soundcard is too slow for the format you chose to record at. You can run ATI's compatibility test to find out if the soundcard's up to par. The onboard sound of my msi kt266 is right on the fringe of acceptability. If I leave the downmix option on, the soundcard will not pass ATI's compatibility test, with it off it will.
I think this is the number one reason people have problems with ATI cards, they do not FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS. Installing the updated drivers on win 98 over old ones will cause headaches beyond belief and which can only be fully fixed by deleting all references to the ATI dll's and starting over. Obviously a little bit of RTFM goes a long way.
I have been using ATI cards for many years and have only had one problem. That was using an AIW 128 Pro on an old e-machines. It wasn't the cards fault, it was the Cyrix proc and the 42 mhz pci bus. That e-machines was the only low end machine I ever bought. It came free with the monitor and printer. Right now I have an ATI Rage Fury pro in this machine and a Radeon AIW 8500DV on the other system. I have absolutely no problems with either and they run everything I throw at it. Bottom line is that ATI cards do not work well with crappy systems and crappy bioses. hell, even the p4 Gateways in the office have rage 128 pro cards in them and they all work flawlessley. Call me crazy, but with over 50 machines running ATI cards in the office and half a dozen personal ones, having only one problem with an ATI card on an out of spec PCI bus does not equate to poor drivers or crappy cards. There is more to a video card than just gaming. DVD playback is also important and a combinatioon of a Radeon or better card and the ATI DVD player 5 or better will give you absolutely stunning DVD playback, even when zoomed in 4x. ATI cards also give you a much sharper and clearer desktop out of the box while NVIDIA cards tend to look washed out. Obviously you can tweak the NVIDIA card to achieve the same quality on the desktop, but tweaking 50 machines so (l)users do not complain is a waste of my time, especially when there is a better product available.
Why reinvent the wheel?
Security and stored procedures should never be used in the same sentence, especially when used in web based applications. If anyone gets into hat DB even as a user, they can toast your DB by running your SP's. For web based applicatiosn, youa re always better off placing your code in a class or componant. For example in PHP you can check both the referring URL and the script name and a global var in the calling script before allowing any DB access to occur. That gives you three additional layers of security above that of the DB and webserver security
Transactions: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/ANSI_diff_Transactions .html
I guess having an equivilent feature and naming it someothing else confuses too many people.
Stored procedures are insecure and do not scale to well. The concept is to encapsulate the logic and make it easier for programmers to access the DB. This can just as easily be done with an ASP or PHP class or java bean and using any DB's getRows() function. The performance is FASTER this way because your scripts or programs do not have to wait for the DB to execue code and return results. Overall application performance in a multi user system is not just based upon the speed of the query, but on how quickly the DB connection is open and closed. Bottom line is that there is absolutely no need for stored procedures to exist and such a feature in MySQL would only add to bloat.
Subqueries: For the most part, a (self) join will be more efficient than a subquery and will perform the same task and return the same results.
Bottom line is that MySQL does EXACTLY as advertised, it stores data in a logical manner to be retrieved later. While it could be more robust, adding in features would only bloat it and ultimatley affect it's performance. In addition, the fact that you really cannot run arbitrary code on a MySQL database makes it much more secure than any DB which allows SP's and scripting of the DB.
It amazes me how so many super smart super linux geeks cannot even adminster a simple system like windows. How the hell can ytou expect to lock down a *nix network if you cannot add a simple /q switch to windows task manager?
Errr. IE!!!!! Oh wait you mentioned that,n well i guess you answered your own question.