My dell laptop's power brick recently failed. Knowing what a disaster calling india on the phone would be, I went on line and submitted a ticket. I wrote in clear easy grammar and sentences about what had happened, what the symptoms were, what lights I saw and the laptop charged/showed a connection when docked. About 2 hours later the tech updated the ticket with "part(s) sent" and I had a new brick the next day.
I don't know if I fall under the fanboy sign in this case. I know the differences between postgres and mysql, and use mysql more frequently than postgres.
In any case, I never argued that those things were bad for performance, but I did argue this:
More often than not, subselects and triggers make people lazy and generally patch up cases where non normalized data should be fixed. They encourage things like db/app bleedover, not fully understanding joins, and not fully implementing data normalization (where appropriate).
Fairly often, and certainly less so in mysql (but probably now moreso), I run across cases where postgres and oracle queries used slower subselects, bad non-normalized data or should-have-been-the-applications-job triggers where they were completely inappropriate and really demonstrated a lack of knowledge of any RDBMS.
Now we might all agree that earth exploration is exceedingly exciting. But why on Eurasia would we want to go look for more continents? There's nothing there but trees and wierd animals. Now, lighthouses I understand and support. Those make sense as they get us a much better insight into what is out there and how it might have come to be. But ocean faring vessels with people on them to nowhere just to prove "we can do it"? It seems to me this kind of mission is designed purely for the publicity value. For the general public, stunts like these are much more interesting than some random ships sent to other continents that actually provide us with new and possibly new information.
And don't even get me started on the "we have to spread out humanity to other continents" argument. I'd rather die out as a species than to have to live on another continent, I tell you that.
--John II, King of Portugal, speaking to Christopher Columbus.
I don't blindly trust/., or even the domain name. I just use a username & password that I couldn't care less about getting out. Low risk, low return. S
SSL certs lend a little more trustworthiness, though by no means do I check them every time. I do make sure they're there, though. If I didn't take the risk (i.e. bank transfers, balance checks, paying cell bill, etc.), things would take a lot more time and effort on my end. To me, the risk is worth the return in that area.
With algorithms and eyes, you're going a bit outside of the scope I defined with the internet. The potential for abuse for whitelisting a search result is very high (msn's homepage could be compromised, company could get disingenous and ruin things for a while, etc), and doesn't really solve the problem we're trying to fix. It's just an ugly duct tape kludge that will ultimately cause more problems than it will fix. What are you gonna do? Hire thousands of people to whitelist and de-whitelist people all day long? Some search engine. Now it's biased on your employee's definitions of spammy.
Whitelist is the last place you want to go with this issue. This is essentially the same thing that's happening between spammers and mail admins, and we know explicit whitelists don't work there, and that's a larger scale "service" than web.
That's the stupidest thing I've heard in a while. Whitelisting? Are you crazy? Blindly trusting content?
Never, I repeat, never, whitelist anyone for anything on the internet. Everyone and everything should be considered unsafe and all mitigation techniques should apply to everything. If I've learned one thing from managing email for the past 10 years, being responsible for trillions of deliveries (current job @ 50m/day), I've learned that whitelisting is normally a kludge. The risk of whitelisting far, far, far outweighs the reward.
Maybe that could do it...Limit anonymous edits to changing +/50 characters or something.
Then you could have a Special page for all anonymous edits done, with a diff so it'd make it easy to find vandalism.
It still keeps the barrier to edit low so people can fix typos and bad grammar, but it doesn't let them post/remove entire articles/paragraphs. Also prevent page creation and deletion. Seems reasonable to me.
I did this exact same thing with my D800 bluetooth module. I didn't purchase it new because I had no need for it, and it was quite expensive. Recently, I picked it up for $30 and did it myself. They also sell things like video card upgrades and cdrom upgrades (to dvd-r, etc).
Despite all the bad things people say about dell, my next laptop will most certainly be dell. The D/dock I purchased for the D800 will even work for a new D820 or D620. That's $150 I don't need to spend.
My phone, mp3 player, gps, and camera all charge and interface using miniusb. Perhaps you should consider purchasing products a little less proprietary?
Except that real HA doesn't come with SPARC hardware because they can't even put ECC on the cpu's cache. This generally causes a reboot which introduces the potential for dataloss. Sometimes it will just be an error though, which only occasionally causes dataloss.
In any case, Buddha wasn't a son of a god. He was just a guy who wrote some guidelines. There are no buddist mantras about killing your enemies, killing nonbelievers, promising 72 virgins in heaven, forgiving suicide bombings, holy cities, etc.
You can believe in him or not, and still be buddhist.
Perhaps you should conjur up another religious avatar you can compare your bearded savior of man with?
I love it that java guys say java is so fast, small and lean on mobile devices, yet Mysaifu requires 11mb to install on my 6700 and ibm j9 needs 50+mb. Small, my ass. Don't get me started on speed.
For those needing the jvm for this or similiar devices, get one here:
I've had an innumerable amount of legos, not including the ones at my grandparents which were manufactured well before the 80s decade when I was playing with them, and I can't remember one specific incident of a "defective" lego piece.
Perhaps he's expecting too much from say, what one or two pegs can hold? In any case, it will help him distinguish the difference between support of 2 pegs and 4, etc, so he's learning some concepts quite early. Have you written lego? I'm confident they'll go to great lengths to correct your situation. This doesn't mean post on the godawful forums, but actually write them a postal mail or email. A non aggressive postal mail written by a child will probably get you the best results. If my daughter has defective toys, I (help) her write letters to the companies and she's usually _very_ happy with the result.
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I don't see anything wrong with blocking 25 for customers without static IPs. Assuming the ISP offers a good relay service, it shouldn't even matter.
This is more "funny" or "insightful" than troll.
Well, physicists can do this, but this would involve smashing Earth to pieces and looking at its debris.
BTW, and they would need about $10000000000000000000 funding for LEC (Large Earth Collider).
About the same requirements as the US military then, eh?
My dell laptop's power brick recently failed. Knowing what a disaster calling india on the phone would be, I went on line and submitted a ticket. I wrote in clear easy grammar and sentences about what had happened, what the symptoms were, what lights I saw and the laptop charged/showed a connection when docked. About 2 hours later the tech updated the ticket with "part(s) sent" and I had a new brick the next day.
I don't know if I fall under the fanboy sign in this case. I know the differences between postgres and mysql, and use mysql more frequently than postgres.
In any case, I never argued that those things were bad for performance, but I did argue this:
More often than not, subselects and triggers make people lazy and generally patch up cases where non normalized data should be fixed. They encourage things like db/app bleedover, not fully understanding joins, and not fully implementing data normalization (where appropriate).
Fairly often, and certainly less so in mysql (but probably now moreso), I run across cases where postgres and oracle queries used slower subselects, bad non-normalized data or should-have-been-the-applications-job triggers where they were completely inappropriate and really demonstrated a lack of knowledge of any RDBMS.
Now we might all agree that earth exploration is exceedingly exciting. But why on Eurasia would we want to go look for more continents? There's nothing there but trees and wierd animals. Now, lighthouses I understand and support. Those make sense as they get us a much better insight into what is out there and how it might have come to be. But ocean faring vessels with people on them to nowhere just to prove "we can do it"? It seems to me this kind of mission is designed purely for the publicity value. For the general public, stunts like these are much more interesting than some random ships sent to other continents that actually provide us with new and possibly new information.
And don't even get me started on the "we have to spread out humanity to other continents" argument. I'd rather die out as a species than to have to live on another continent, I tell you that.
--John II, King of Portugal, speaking to Christopher Columbus.
I don't do this very often, but: LOL
Now I have a pool of coffee soaking into my keyboard.
(2) get back a republican Congress so we can run budget surplusses again.
There, Fixed that for ya. The neocons can't help us now.
I don't blindly trust /., or even the domain name. I just use a username & password that I couldn't care less about getting out. Low risk, low return. S
SSL certs lend a little more trustworthiness, though by no means do I check them every time. I do make sure they're there, though. If I didn't take the risk (i.e. bank transfers, balance checks, paying cell bill, etc.), things would take a lot more time and effort on my end. To me, the risk is worth the return in that area.
With algorithms and eyes, you're going a bit outside of the scope I defined with the internet. The potential for abuse for whitelisting a search result is very high (msn's homepage could be compromised, company could get disingenous and ruin things for a while, etc), and doesn't really solve the problem we're trying to fix. It's just an ugly duct tape kludge that will ultimately cause more problems than it will fix. What are you gonna do? Hire thousands of people to whitelist and de-whitelist people all day long? Some search engine. Now it's biased on your employee's definitions of spammy.
Whitelist is the last place you want to go with this issue. This is essentially the same thing that's happening between spammers and mail admins, and we know explicit whitelists don't work there, and that's a larger scale "service" than web.
That's the stupidest thing I've heard in a while. Whitelisting? Are you crazy? Blindly trusting content?
Never, I repeat, never, whitelist anyone for anything on the internet. Everyone and everything should be considered unsafe and all mitigation techniques should apply to everything. If I've learned one thing from managing email for the past 10 years, being responsible for trillions of deliveries (current job @ 50m/day), I've learned that whitelisting is normally a kludge. The risk of whitelisting far, far, far outweighs the reward.
Maybe that could do it...Limit anonymous edits to changing +/50 characters or something.
Then you could have a Special page for all anonymous edits done, with a diff so it'd make it easy to find vandalism.
It still keeps the barrier to edit low so people can fix typos and bad grammar, but it doesn't let them post/remove entire articles/paragraphs. Also prevent page creation and deletion. Seems reasonable to me.
My bad, I didn't see that. Thanks for the update.
I would say that if MS is correct in asserting that vista won't need A/V software, which I highly doubt, that would justify an upgrade.
I have the 32mb version of this:G eForce-4200-Video-Card_W0QQitemZ110063239885QQihZ0 01QQcategoryZ74957QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZVie wItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-Inspiron-8500-8600-D800-
I can upgrade to the one linked above (64mb) , or to the quadro that come in the M series (M70, I think).
It's a bit of work, but a very nice option.
I did this exact same thing with my D800 bluetooth module. I didn't purchase it new because I had no need for it, and it was quite expensive. Recently, I picked it up for $30 and did it myself. They also sell things like video card upgrades and cdrom upgrades (to dvd-r, etc).
Despite all the bad things people say about dell, my next laptop will most certainly be dell. The D/dock I purchased for the D800 will even work for a new D820 or D620. That's $150 I don't need to spend.
My phone, mp3 player, gps, and camera all charge and interface using miniusb. Perhaps you should consider purchasing products a little less proprietary?
We're still waiting for your kernel. Just release it when it's perfect, that's fine with us.
Except that real HA doesn't come with SPARC hardware because they can't even put ECC on the cpu's cache. This generally causes a reboot which introduces the potential for dataloss. Sometimes it will just be an error though, which only occasionally causes dataloss.
HA? Sparc procs? Not bloodly likely.
Or, as the daily show famously put it: "A Neapolitan of ethnicity".
I think you're confusing Budha with Buddha.
In any case, Buddha wasn't a son of a god. He was just a guy who wrote some guidelines. There are no buddist mantras about killing your enemies, killing nonbelievers, promising 72 virgins in heaven, forgiving suicide bombings, holy cities, etc.
You can believe in him or not, and still be buddhist.
Perhaps you should conjur up another religious avatar you can compare your bearded savior of man with?
...false statements that they didn't bother checking...
Funny, coming from a guy who defends the bible and all.
Arggh, nevermind.
In fine, normal java tradition, Mysaifu the jvm is incompatible with java programs.
I love it that java guys say java is so fast, small and lean on mobile devices, yet Mysaifu requires 11mb to install on my 6700 and ibm j9 needs 50+mb. Small, my ass. Don't get me started on speed.
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For those needing the jvm for this or similiar devices, get one here:
http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~dat/java/project/jvm/
or
search ibm.com for WebSphere Everyplace Micro Environment (You need to register to download)
Lego Mindstorms offers you the ability to create a robot that can identify and pick up bricks! Just don't make it too smart, it might start evolving!
I've had an innumerable amount of legos, not including the ones at my grandparents which were manufactured well before the 80s decade when I was playing with them, and I can't remember one specific incident of a "defective" lego piece.
Perhaps he's expecting too much from say, what one or two pegs can hold? In any case, it will help him distinguish the difference between support of 2 pegs and 4, etc, so he's learning some concepts quite early. Have you written lego? I'm confident they'll go to great lengths to correct your situation. This doesn't mean post on the godawful forums, but actually write them a postal mail or email. A non aggressive postal mail written by a child will probably get you the best results. If my daughter has defective toys, I (help) her write letters to the companies and she's usually _very_ happy with the result.