"EXT2 was faster than FAT32 but forget my business. I couldn't trust my disposable personal system to it. Even I can't afford to waste time reloading an OS every few days."
You're blowing smoke out your backside. Clearly you've never even used an ext2 system so back under your bridge. I never once lost any data in the decade I used it. Not so Windows.
"Granted FAT didn't have any fancy features and you'd have to wait for a scandisk but you could power the system off unsafely every day for a year without doing any significant damage."
BS. It was/is the most unreliable PC filesystem around.
"I don't go uncleanly powering off my boxes intentionally but it still happens a couple times over the course of a month for various reasons (power flickers and the like)."
Where do you live, up a mountain? Anyway , you never heard of UPS's?
"because ext2 is the most destructible filesystem on earth."
Ah rubbish. All PC OS's from the 90s when linux started had filesystems you wouldn't trust a business with - thats why serious businesses used serious operating systems such as Solaris or HP-UX or AS/400. Try killing a Windows NT box using early NTFS or a Mac using HFS while its writing data and see how much of it is recovered on reboot.
Yes it makes sense up to a point , but it starts to suffer from the law of diminishing returns and at some point having to do complicated multi-table joins actually slows down your queries so much that it becomes simpler and faster to suffer duplicate data than normalise to the Nth degree.
If all your application is ever going to do is read and write to fixed sized record structured data with little relational (or any) attributes then COBOL will suit you fine as that's what it was designed for. Unfortunatly those sorts of apps are few and far between these days, but in its ever decreasing niche COBOL is still good.
It seems to be a knee jerk reaction amongst a lot of developers and designers that as soon as your app starts requiring persistent data beyond ini values a database is needed. Why? For large but simply structured data something like json or XML or even a flat csv file is perfectly adequate. Performance can be an issue during searches but if for example you have a fixed record size with key sorted data then finding a given key is simple (binary chop or similar).
It seems to me that reaching for a DB is the easy way out taken by a lot of oders and they end up paying for it in maintanability, bugs and support.
Am I the only person who used to prefer when you could slot the entire credit card sized card into the phone without taking the battery out? It was so much friggin easier - I used to have 3 cards which I could swap around as and when needed and it literally took seconds to change. Ok , some smartphones have gone back to that and now have a SIM slot on the outside but most STILL require you to disassemble the phones first. Why??
"My dad tried email once and he didn't see the point, so he went back to snail mail. Do you see a parallel here?"
There is no parallel. Both email and facebook are instantanious, except with facebook you can't write as much and you have to log in to the site first so its less convenient plus the other person has to go there to see you've sent them anything rather than the message just appearing in their inbox.
"Do we have to understand than you communicate with 6 people (your real friends) and never ever communicate with anyone else?"
Where did I say that? Do you think phones and email have a fixed number of people they can communicate with?
"Another hint: Facebook was never meant to replace all other means of communication."
Tell that to Zuckerberg.
"So I thought you'd understand the expression."
Understanding an expression doesn't stop it being a sad indictment of someone who doesn't get out enough.
"You mean that whenever I send you an email it is "real" but if I post on your Facebook wall it is not "real"? Looks like you never tried Facebook or that you never got how it works."
Tried it, didn't see the point. If I want to communicate using text I'll send email or an SMS.
"So every time there is something going on in your life, you phone EVERY one of your friends that might be interested by it? Every time?"
Yeah , oddly enough thats what normal do with *real* friends.
"Gosh, I guess you don't keep a lot of friends then"
I have about half a dozen real friends but is a lot better than having 100 pretend ones that merely stroke your ego on facebook.
"Facebook users also meet other persons in meat space. "
Yeah , you see calling the real world meat space really does make you sound like some nerd loser who hardly ever leaves his mums basement.
"If facebook (and other social networking sites such as G+, LinkedIn, etc.) would vanish overnight without warning, would you have a way of keeping in touch with EVERY last one of your contacts on facebook?"
If you don't have phone numbers for those contacts then they're obviously not real friends so they don't matter.
Facebook is a toy, its not a real way of keeping in touch with people. If you really want to keep in touch with someone you phone them occasionally or even - *gasp* - meet up. Yes, there's a radical idea , meeting in person. Who'd have thunk it?
"where you were contemplating suicide? I was once in that situation;"
Hopefully you'll be in that situation again and you'll do us all a favour and actually do it. Then we won't have to put up with your spam on here and the world won't miss a loser like you anyway.
Iceland has fuck all economy apart from fish and banking. Its like comparing the economy of the UK to that of a small town. The comparison doesn't work.
And if you want to talk about status and the concentration of wealth would you like to talk about the conditions of aborigines in australia?
No , didn't think so. You bunch of racists cunts treat the indigenous population like shit so don't give me a lecture on "the common people" shit.
With mars's current enviroment water on the surface in the summer at the equator would explosively boil away in seconds and even highly concetrated brine wouldn't last much longer. In the winter or at the poles its a toss up as to whether it would boil or freeze first. Either way liquid water cannot currently exist on the surface of mars.
... or is Putin getting crazier as he gets older? Is he heading down the mad old dictator route of many past soviet general secretaries?
Perhaps the west should carry out a pre-emptive strike on all those russian arms shipments to various unpleasent regimes around the planet (yes I know the west is hardly squeeky clean in that regard too but the russians well sell to pretty much anyone with a big enough wallet).
"Your country is a step up from Iceland and has a shittier economy to boot."
Really? I guess they haven't taught you how to use google down under yet. Not surprising considering as you say there are bugger all people and its all flies and dirt.
But just FYI the GDP of the UK is about $2 trillion, iceland is about $12 billion.
The british mainland is 800 miles long (1000 miles if you include the shetland and scilly isles) with 200 miles of mountains in scotland. While it may be small compared to the USA or russia its quite big compared to a lot of other countries.
I get a bit tired of my country being pigeonholed as some tiny little quaint island one step up from marthas vineyard or similar.
The sort of people who witter on about social benefits are the sort who spend their entire waking life on twitter or facebook. Most normal people treat the internet as an amusing distraction or somewhere they occasionally do online banking or book a holiday, nothing more.
That seems a hell of a lot for a 900lb pack that can take the plane 300 miles. And even if that is the case then the plane won't be going anywhere near as fast or high when the batery runs out and its running on 1.5L engine alone, because short of being turbo charged to within an inch of its life a la F1, it won't be producing anything like 600hp!
The irony of that statement is that parts of the Bible were probably the Harry Potter of their day. Self contained stories passed down, meant perhaps to educate but also entertain and certainly not literal truth. However it only takes a few idiots to believe them, stick them in a book and start a cult, the cult becomes a religion and the rest follows...
Dawkins used to reason with them. After years of getting nowhere he gave up and now resorts to insults. And I don't blame him. There's little to be gained by having a discussion with someone who's brain has had its critical reasoning ability turned off.
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Looks like a cut and paste from a standard issue left wing student debate.
Nothing to see here....
Read: A bunch of stupid glory hunting kids who have no concept of what real nazis were like or they wouldn't use such a poor taste name.
"EXT2 was faster than FAT32 but forget my business. I couldn't trust my disposable personal system to it. Even I can't afford to waste time reloading an OS every few days."
You're blowing smoke out your backside. Clearly you've never even used an ext2 system so back under your bridge. I never once lost any data in the decade I used it. Not so Windows.
"Granted FAT didn't have any fancy features and you'd have to wait for a scandisk but you could power the system off unsafely every day for a year without doing any significant damage."
BS. It was/is the most unreliable PC filesystem around.
"I don't go uncleanly powering off my boxes intentionally but it still happens a couple times over the course of a month for various reasons (power flickers and the like)."
Where do you live, up a mountain? Anyway , you never heard of UPS's?
"because ext2 is the most destructible filesystem on earth."
Ah rubbish. All PC OS's from the 90s when linux started had filesystems you wouldn't trust a business with - thats why serious businesses used serious operating systems such as Solaris or HP-UX or AS/400. Try killing a Windows NT box using early NTFS or a Mac using HFS while its writing data and see how much of it is recovered on reboot.
Yes it makes sense up to a point , but it starts to suffer from the law of diminishing returns and at some point having to do complicated multi-table joins actually slows down your queries so much that it becomes simpler and faster to suffer duplicate data than normalise to the Nth degree.
If all your application is ever going to do is read and write to fixed sized record structured data with little relational (or any) attributes then COBOL will suit you fine as that's what it was designed for. Unfortunatly those sorts of apps are few and far between these days, but in its ever decreasing niche COBOL is still good.
It seems to be a knee jerk reaction amongst a lot of developers and designers that as soon as your app starts requiring persistent data beyond ini values a database is needed. Why? For large but simply structured data something like json or XML or even a flat csv file is perfectly adequate. Performance can be an issue during searches but if for example you have a fixed record size with key sorted data then finding a given key is simple (binary chop or similar).
It seems to me that reaching for a DB is the easy way out taken by a lot of oders and they end up paying for it in maintanability, bugs and support.
Am I the only person who used to prefer when you could slot the entire credit card sized card into the phone without taking the battery out? It was so much friggin easier - I used to have 3 cards which I could swap around as and when needed and it literally took seconds to change. Ok , some smartphones have gone back to that and now have a SIM slot on the outside but most STILL require you to disassemble the phones first. Why??
"My dad tried email once and he didn't see the point, so he went back to snail mail. Do you see a parallel here?"
There is no parallel. Both email and facebook are instantanious, except with facebook you can't write as much and you have to log in to the site first so its less convenient plus the other person has to go there to see you've sent them anything rather than the message just appearing in their inbox.
"Do we have to understand than you communicate with 6 people (your real friends) and never ever communicate with anyone else?"
Where did I say that? Do you think phones and email have a fixed number of people they can communicate with?
"Another hint: Facebook was never meant to replace all other means of communication."
Tell that to Zuckerberg.
"So I thought you'd understand the expression."
Understanding an expression doesn't stop it being a sad indictment of someone who doesn't get out enough.
"You mean that whenever I send you an email it is "real" but if I post on your Facebook wall it is not "real"? Looks like you never tried Facebook or that you never got how it works."
Tried it, didn't see the point. If I want to communicate using text I'll send email or an SMS.
"So every time there is something going on in your life, you phone EVERY one of your friends that might be interested by it? Every time?"
Yeah , oddly enough thats what normal do with *real* friends.
"Gosh, I guess you don't keep a lot of friends then"
I have about half a dozen real friends but is a lot better than having 100 pretend ones that merely stroke your ego on facebook.
"Facebook users also meet other persons in meat space. "
Yeah , you see calling the real world meat space really does make you sound like some nerd loser who hardly ever leaves his mums basement.
"If facebook (and other social networking sites such as G+, LinkedIn, etc.) would vanish overnight without warning, would you have a way of keeping in touch with EVERY last one of your contacts on facebook?"
If you don't have phone numbers for those contacts then they're obviously not real friends so they don't matter.
Facebook is a toy, its not a real way of keeping in touch with people. If you really want to keep in touch with someone you phone them occasionally or even - *gasp* - meet up. Yes, there's a radical idea , meeting in person. Who'd have thunk it?
"where you were contemplating suicide? I was once in that situation;"
Hopefully you'll be in that situation again and you'll do us all a favour and actually do it. Then we won't have to put up with your spam on here and the world won't miss a loser like you anyway.
Iceland has fuck all economy apart from fish and banking. Its like comparing the economy of the UK to that of a small town. The comparison doesn't work.
And if you want to talk about status and the concentration of wealth would you like to talk about the conditions of aborigines in australia?
No , didn't think so. You bunch of racists cunts treat the indigenous population like shit so don't give me a lecture on "the common people" shit.
... as it remaining there for any length of time.
With mars's current enviroment water on the surface in the summer at the equator would explosively boil away in seconds and even highly concetrated brine wouldn't last much longer. In the winter or at the poles its a toss up as to whether it would boil or freeze first. Either way liquid water cannot currently exist on the surface of mars.
... or is Putin getting crazier as he gets older? Is he heading down the mad old dictator route of many past soviet general secretaries?
Perhaps the west should carry out a pre-emptive strike on all those russian arms shipments to various unpleasent regimes around the planet (yes I know the west is hardly squeeky clean in that regard too but the russians well sell to pretty much anyone with a big enough wallet).
"Your country is a step up from Iceland and has a shittier economy to boot."
Really? I guess they haven't taught you how to use google down under yet. Not surprising considering as you say there are bugger all people and its all flies and dirt.
But just FYI the GDP of the UK is about $2 trillion, iceland is about $12 billion.
The british mainland is 800 miles long (1000 miles if you include the shetland and scilly isles) with 200 miles of mountains in scotland. While it may be small compared to the USA or russia its quite big compared to a lot of other countries.
I get a bit tired of my country being pigeonholed as some tiny little quaint island one step up from marthas vineyard or similar.
The sort of people who witter on about social benefits are the sort who spend their entire waking life on twitter or facebook. Most normal people treat the internet as an amusing distraction or somewhere they occasionally do online banking or book a holiday, nothing more.
If I had mod points I don't know if I'd mod you +1 funny or insightful. Its so sadly true its not a joke.
"that's where a large portion of the users are at,"
Really? Got any evidence for that?
"t only makes sense that people using your software across devices will at least want a consistent UI"
No it doesn't. What works on a 4 inch screen doesn't necessarily work on a 19 inch monitor and vice verca.
"because those are all a big distraction"
Having a button for "back" or "reload" or a "Tools" menu is not a distraction. Unless you have some sort of dyslexia.
That seems a hell of a lot for a 900lb pack that can take the plane 300 miles. And even if that is the case then the plane won't be going anywhere near as fast or high when the batery runs out and its running on 1.5L engine alone, because short of being turbo charged to within an inch of its life a la F1, it won't be producing anything like 600hp!
"Its increadibly inconviniant,"
Oh get over it. If you can't go a few hours without phone or net access you need to see a shrink.
The irony of that statement is that parts of the Bible were probably the Harry Potter of their day. Self contained stories passed down, meant perhaps to educate but also entertain and certainly not literal truth. However it only takes a few idiots to believe them, stick them in a book and start a cult, the cult becomes a religion and the rest follows...
It doesn't work.
Dawkins used to reason with them. After years of getting nowhere he gave up and now resorts to insults. And I don't blame him. There's little to be gained by having a discussion with someone who's brain has had its critical reasoning ability turned off.
No one with any working braincells believes the world was created in 6 days , woman was created from a spare rib etc etc.