Does anyone even use mySQL when they have features like this? The only issue I have ever had with this DB was when I was trying to connect a.net app to it and it took me a while to find a workaround.
I live in the US and have looked at migrating to another country. Of course one that speaks english. I am a high skilled worked I guess (programmer/IT) and on paper it would appear many countries would value my skills even though I cannot speak the native language. However in practive I have found it incredibly difficult to do this. There is a metric shit ton of paperwork involved and unless you want to spend a lot of time dealing with it your employeer usually handles it. Also I live on the west side of the US and have been looking at getting a job on the east coast for a change of pace. I'm having trouble even getting a serious look because employers only seem to want to deal with local candidates. So I can't imagine dealing with another country in all practicality.
I could not get the installer to download with firefox. I had to switch over to IE to get it to run. Otherwise just clicking the download button refreshed the page and did nothing.
Are you serious? There should never just be one stop for detecting shit input. Code should check for it and the database shouldn't allow storing of it. At least if the database stops it and someone forgets to code it because they're obviously not as good as you are they're not completely fucked.
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I kind of responded to this below but yeah that was the point. I came from an Oracle background in a previous job and was dumbfounded by the SQL Server 2000 locking mechanisms. We had to re-code an entire application framework to deal with this issue. Upgrading simply wasn't available since the DoD wouldn't allow SQL Server 2005 on high side classified systems. Next time I'll make a bit better posting and not hit submit so fast;)
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The locking is our issue as well. IANADB but from what our DBA says SQL 2000 does whole table locking and unless your queries are ultra fast you get race conditions and timeouts left and right.
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I can feel my Karma burning here but in my office we run into this issue with a lot of MS products. SQL Server 2000........ Upgrading is not an option since the DoD just approved SQL Server 2005 for classified use. Apparently 2008 is the bees knees but come on 8 years to get your shit straight? And we've also run into massive problems getting asp.net applications to scale. We've found MS best practices while certainly easy are not very efficient behind the scenes and cause massive slowdown when used on a large scale. And after using their ajax toolkit I wouldn't touch that thing with a ten foot pole.
Now I might sounds like I'm bashing.net a bit. But.net products do have their time and place. I code in C# almost everyday. But for anything Enterprise I would think twice about it.
Take a look at this article. Half of those lodges get articles deleted all the time and that article itself gets nominated for deletion all the time. Yet articles about Penny Arcade while a very funny cartoon I enjoy stays? WTF, there notion of notable is quite honestly fucked. Yes there is a general article about Freemasonry but each state's Grand Lodge have a long history that is often interlinked to the founding of that state. My own state of Utah has a very long history with freemasons and the Grand Lodge of Utah has a very interesting histroy that can be verified quite easily. So a Lodge with 100+ years of history isn't notable but a comic strip is? Sorry but PA isn't Garfield or Peanuts. It's nothing but a popularity contest and the people with the most amount of time to waste win the notable contest unless and admin (biased quite heavily) does something.
I can choose Comcast (6Mbs) or Qwest (who the fuck knows, slower then comcast). If my town signed up for Utopia I could get good speed but Farmington has decided to not join in. It's been this way since I got high speed back in like 1999. All this lovely stuff for like 55 bucks a month. No new vendors, no break in price, nothing but high prices and poor customer service.
I had FF IX bit me in the ass on this one. I forgot to buy the super hard core magic spells while in the town. Later on in the game this town gets locked and you can no longer enter it. My mages were pretty much crippled from then on to the end of the game.
I just re-installed this on my laptop and noticed it. I hate not being able to resize the window I type my text in. Was it worth a fork? I dunno sounds like someone was being a total douche.
"According to a Microsoft blog, there are three choices for OpenGL implementation on Vista. An application can use the default implementation, which translates OpenGL calls into the Direct3D API and is frozen at OpenGL version 1.4, or an application can use an Installable Client Driver (ICD), which comes in two flavors: legacy and Vista-compatible. A legacy ICD, the kind already provided by independent hardware vendors targeting Windows XP, will disable the Desktop Window Manager, noticeably degrading user experience under Windows Aero. A Vista-compatible ICD takes advantage of a new API, and will be fully compatible with the Desktop Window Manager.[23] At least two primary vendors, ATI and NVIDIA, are expected to provide full Vista-compatible ICDs in the near future.[24] However, hardware overlay is not supported, because it is considered as an obsolete feature in Vista. ATI and NVIDIA strongly recommend using compositing desktop/FBOs for same functionality.[25]"
I don't know much about this vista-compatible ICD. So it would appear there is no good solution for openGL on windows vista.
I live in Farmington Utah which is in Davis County. I have two real broadband choices DSL via MSN/Qwest or Cable via Comcast. I pay roughly 50 bucks a month for a max of 6mbps downstream and a less then 1mbs upstream. Seems ok but talking to other people in different parts of the country they get better or worse speeds but they always pay less. Overseas is even worse, they always get better speeds for better prices. So I would say yes based on my anecdotal evidence the US is lagging behind nations with broadband coverage.
But as far as my complaining goes I don't know how to overcome this. Some places like Japan, Taiwain have very compact living arrangements making it easy to drop small amounts of cable giving large chunks of the population fast access. I think in the US we have a more distributed society and live farther away from each other. So while this can be overcome it means broadband companies have to lay more cable/fiber/wire which they don't want to do. I think what we need to do is get a little prodding/incentive from the federal government to wire up the country and make broadband more accessible and cheap.
So that's my 2 cents
I always found the relationship between Frodo and Sam somewhat creepy especially reading it as an adult. But I read some things that pointed out what you said. In tolkiens time this wasn't considered homo-erotic, men could be close friends without being called gay.
It's pretty much up to the copyright holder to report sellers. Unless they report the sellers as violations nothing gets done. Some companies spend a lot of time reporting copyright violations on ebay while others simply don't care. I got bit by microsoft a few years back selling an old copy of MS visual studio 6. After some back and forth with a rep via email I got a nice friendly letter from supposedly a lawyer at MS saying how sorry there were.
With this US administration's beliefs and attitudes towards this sort of thing I fully believe this is happening. Ahmed sending 50 bucks to Utah shouldn't matter. Bubba from Georgia sending thousands or more to a middle eastern country should. And the block shouldn't happen unless it's a very large amount of money for smaller amounts the transaction deserves a closer look by someone in black sunglasses.
Now I am not a hardcore Linux fanboy. I run Windows XP and for the most part enjoy it. I also make my living writing software using MS products. However my home windows installation has decided to say I am not genuine anymore. I quickly figured out how to disable the WGA software/nagware but I am losing critical updates to my box because of WGA being disabled. I know enough leaving unpatched boxes of any OS on the internet is bad. And since I am hooked to a cable modem this concerns me. I've never really been pissed of at MS before. But this is enough for me to tell them to kiss my big hairy american ass. I am seriously considering moving to one of the more user friendly Linux distros like Mandrake or Fedora. My only concern is I will loose my games and.net development tools. I know there are alternatives but I don't know how to use them on Linux. I can't imagine I'm not the only user who feels this way.
I'm sure there's a line in the EULA somewhere about how using that program gives M$ control of your everlasting soul (and your creative work). Of course what M$ would want with the half assed songs I would create with this software is beyond me.
My boss often says software is the only business where you get paid to fix your own fuck ups.
And I have to agree. Our customers (the USAF BTW) just want new features, new features, new features. Sure we fix a lot of bugs, make the app tighter, etc etc but all they care about are the exciting new features the next version will bring. The only exception to this is when a show stopper bug occurs, but those seem to be rare. There is a fine balancing act between software engineers and customers. Customers want it now and don't care much about the internals as long as it works. And software engineers want to create the best possible/elegant solution. At least this is how it is from my own experience as a programmer.
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Does anyone even use mySQL when they have features like this? The only issue I have ever had with this DB was when I was trying to connect a .net app to it and it took me a while to find a workaround.
I live in the US and have looked at migrating to another country. Of course one that speaks english. I am a high skilled worked I guess (programmer/IT) and on paper it would appear many countries would value my skills even though I cannot speak the native language. However in practive I have found it incredibly difficult to do this. There is a metric shit ton of paperwork involved and unless you want to spend a lot of time dealing with it your employeer usually handles it. Also I live on the west side of the US and have been looking at getting a job on the east coast for a change of pace. I'm having trouble even getting a serious look because employers only seem to want to deal with local candidates. So I can't imagine dealing with another country in all practicality.
I for one will volunteer heartily for this *ahem* study.
You used to be cool.
They better be careful, they don't want to go "plaid"
I could not get the installer to download with firefox. I had to switch over to IE to get it to run. Otherwise just clicking the download button refreshed the page and did nothing.
Are you serious? There should never just be one stop for detecting shit input. Code should check for it and the database shouldn't allow storing of it. At least if the database stops it and someone forgets to code it because they're obviously not as good as you are they're not completely fucked.
I kind of responded to this below but yeah that was the point. I came from an Oracle background in a previous job and was dumbfounded by the SQL Server 2000 locking mechanisms. We had to re-code an entire application framework to deal with this issue. Upgrading simply wasn't available since the DoD wouldn't allow SQL Server 2005 on high side classified systems. Next time I'll make a bit better posting and not hit submit so fast ;)
The locking is our issue as well. IANADB but from what our DBA says SQL 2000 does whole table locking and unless your queries are ultra fast you get race conditions and timeouts left and right.
I can feel my Karma burning here but in my office we run into this issue with a lot of MS products. SQL Server 2000 ........ Upgrading is not an option since the DoD just approved SQL Server 2005 for classified use. Apparently 2008 is the bees knees but come on 8 years to get your shit straight? And we've also run into massive problems getting asp.net applications to scale. We've found MS best practices while certainly easy are not very efficient behind the scenes and cause massive slowdown when used on a large scale. And after using their ajax toolkit I wouldn't touch that thing with a ten foot pole.
Now I might sounds like I'm bashing .net a bit. But .net products do have their time and place. I code in C# almost everyday. But for anything Enterprise I would think twice about it.
Take a look at this article. Half of those lodges get articles deleted all the time and that article itself gets nominated for deletion all the time. Yet articles about Penny Arcade while a very funny cartoon I enjoy stays? WTF, there notion of notable is quite honestly fucked. Yes there is a general article about Freemasonry but each state's Grand Lodge have a long history that is often interlinked to the founding of that state. My own state of Utah has a very long history with freemasons and the Grand Lodge of Utah has a very interesting histroy that can be verified quite easily. So a Lodge with 100+ years of history isn't notable but a comic strip is? Sorry but PA isn't Garfield or Peanuts. It's nothing but a popularity contest and the people with the most amount of time to waste win the notable contest unless and admin (biased quite heavily) does something.
else thought of Rendezvous with Rama? Or..... It's a smegging garbage pod!?!?!?!?!
I live in Utah.
I can choose Comcast (6Mbs) or Qwest (who the fuck knows, slower then comcast). If my town signed up for Utopia I could get good speed but Farmington has decided to not join in. It's been this way since I got high speed back in like 1999. All this lovely stuff for like 55 bucks a month. No new vendors, no break in price, nothing but high prices and poor customer service.
I had FF IX bit me in the ass on this one. I forgot to buy the super hard core magic spells while in the town. Later on in the game this town gets locked and you can no longer enter it. My mages were pretty much crippled from then on to the end of the game.
Or better yet actually run Windows Vista. Zing!
I just re-installed this on my laptop and noticed it. I hate not being able to resize the window I type my text in. Was it worth a fork? I dunno sounds like someone was being a total douche.
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"According to a Microsoft blog, there are three choices for OpenGL implementation on Vista. An application can use the default implementation, which translates OpenGL calls into the Direct3D API and is frozen at OpenGL version 1.4, or an application can use an Installable Client Driver (ICD), which comes in two flavors: legacy and Vista-compatible. A legacy ICD, the kind already provided by independent hardware vendors targeting Windows XP, will disable the Desktop Window Manager, noticeably degrading user experience under Windows Aero. A Vista-compatible ICD takes advantage of a new API, and will be fully compatible with the Desktop Window Manager.[23] At least two primary vendors, ATI and NVIDIA, are expected to provide full Vista-compatible ICDs in the near future.[24] However, hardware overlay is not supported, because it is considered as an obsolete feature in Vista. ATI and NVIDIA strongly recommend using compositing desktop/FBOs for same functionality.[25]"
I don't know much about this vista-compatible ICD. So it would appear there is no good solution for openGL on windows vista.
I live in Farmington Utah which is in Davis County. I have two real broadband choices DSL via MSN/Qwest or Cable via Comcast. I pay roughly 50 bucks a month for a max of 6mbps downstream and a less then 1mbs upstream. Seems ok but talking to other people in different parts of the country they get better or worse speeds but they always pay less. Overseas is even worse, they always get better speeds for better prices. So I would say yes based on my anecdotal evidence the US is lagging behind nations with broadband coverage. But as far as my complaining goes I don't know how to overcome this. Some places like Japan, Taiwain have very compact living arrangements making it easy to drop small amounts of cable giving large chunks of the population fast access. I think in the US we have a more distributed society and live farther away from each other. So while this can be overcome it means broadband companies have to lay more cable/fiber/wire which they don't want to do. I think what we need to do is get a little prodding/incentive from the federal government to wire up the country and make broadband more accessible and cheap. So that's my 2 cents
I can finally kick my habit of dirty nasty but delicious harry on ron on hermoine on snape fanfics and get into some real book reading?
I always found the relationship between Frodo and Sam somewhat creepy especially reading it as an adult. But I read some things that pointed out what you said. In tolkiens time this wasn't considered homo-erotic, men could be close friends without being called gay.
It's pretty much up to the copyright holder to report sellers. Unless they report the sellers as violations nothing gets done. Some companies spend a lot of time reporting copyright violations on ebay while others simply don't care. I got bit by microsoft a few years back selling an old copy of MS visual studio 6. After some back and forth with a rep via email I got a nice friendly letter from supposedly a lawyer at MS saying how sorry there were.
With this US administration's beliefs and attitudes towards this sort of thing I fully believe this is happening. Ahmed sending 50 bucks to Utah shouldn't matter. Bubba from Georgia sending thousands or more to a middle eastern country should. And the block shouldn't happen unless it's a very large amount of money for smaller amounts the transaction deserves a closer look by someone in black sunglasses.
Now I am not a hardcore Linux fanboy. I run Windows XP and for the most part enjoy it. I also make my living writing software using MS products. However my home windows installation has decided to say I am not genuine anymore. I quickly figured out how to disable the WGA software/nagware but I am losing critical updates to my box because of WGA being disabled. I know enough leaving unpatched boxes of any OS on the internet is bad. And since I am hooked to a cable modem this concerns me. I've never really been pissed of at MS before. But this is enough for me to tell them to kiss my big hairy american ass. I am seriously considering moving to one of the more user friendly Linux distros like Mandrake or Fedora. My only concern is I will loose my games and .net development tools. I know there are alternatives but I don't know how to use them on Linux. I can't imagine I'm not the only user who feels this way.
I'm sure there's a line in the EULA somewhere about how using that program gives M$ control of your everlasting soul (and your creative work). Of course what M$ would want with the half assed songs I would create with this software is beyond me.
And I have to agree. Our customers (the USAF BTW) just want new features, new features, new features. Sure we fix a lot of bugs, make the app tighter, etc etc but all they care about are the exciting new features the next version will bring. The only exception to this is when a show stopper bug occurs, but those seem to be rare. There is a fine balancing act between software engineers and customers. Customers want it now and don't care much about the internals as long as it works. And software engineers want to create the best possible/elegant solution. At least this is how it is from my own experience as a programmer.