The GP was talking about things that resmble more MS Access than what you thing as a database. With the added caveat that he was talking about some software that actualy works, not Access.
Now, that is a very important ninche, that isn't very well filled by software available for Linux (nor Windows). I'd sugest he try the Libre Office database, I don't know it, but it is intented to supply such thing. Very few people know it, tough.
I didn't understand it at first when the GP said that FreeBSD didn't complain. If he doesn't equate a warning with a complaint, what would he?
Also, -Werror is perfectly optional for me. When you don't consider keeping code that generates a warning, that flag will make no difference at all; and a few times you'll want code that generates warnings, altought for me that normaly happens with Java, and never happened with C/C++ code.
Unfortunately, it isn't just 1 line that frees the memory. If you ever have more than 1 step that could fail on your constructor, you'll need more deletes. And if you allocate some memory, you already have a line that can fail.
Yet, it is a long long way away from the mess that is C memory management. I agree with that.
But the right thing is to use type polymorphism here. You should declare different classes, so you can make "radians = degree + radians" and have the compiler do the right thing.
Well suitability to make an space elevator is tensile strenght, isn't it? That is measured in MPa. Anyway, the GP didn't care to clarify what kind of strength he was talking about, and I guess mixed all of them up.
As a side note, I'd be quite suspicious of a suspension bridge made of fiberglass...
Yet, it is correct. By using MS you can save on individual wages, with the downside that you'll need a much larger amount of men-hours for the same benefit. With the current environment where lots of businesspeople can't even add things up (business administration isn't an exact science, why should they learn math?) it is no wonder that they belive such kind of arguments.
Hum, no. If MS doesn't respond that is because you are not a threat, and they can safely ignore you. If MS does respond that is because you are enough of a treat that increasing your mindshare is a smaller problem than letting people paint you in a good light.
Libre Office (didn't you get the memo?) has Presenter, that should solve the same problem (whatever it is) as Power Point. I can't say what is better, since I didn't use them in a while. Last time I used, Presenter was very weak, but was getting better fast.
My main frustation with MS Office is that numbered lists simply don't work. It is a nightmare to put anything between itens, sometimes it is hard even to edit old itens. That said, OO write works quite well for me, but I can't stand using calc (luckly, my Linux computers have perl, R, Scilab, and lots of other replacements, so I don't miss Excell there). There is a long time since I have last used PowerPoint or Presenter, so I can't say what they are like now, and I have long replaced Draw (is there a MS Office equivalent?) with Inkscape, and never looked back.
I still hope to see Libre Office being stable, and including those usefull programs at the package, like Inkscape, and GIMP. Maybe even integrating them with the current tools. They are going into a nice path, but only time will tell if they'll go far enough into it.
You don't really need to fix it. After the support contract expires you can just keep using the machine, you only need a way to restore the service at another computer, and some amount of useable computing power (that should be somewhere capable of creating virtual machines if you need unique IPs).
That sounds like work, but you'll need a way to restore the service at another machine even if you have a support contract. You know, those contract don't guarantee that the computers won't fail... The only drawback is that you need the extra computing power, but even then, you won't need to offset all your services at once, so you don't need as much power as you have on unsupported machines. You just postpone buying for when the machines fail. That leads to some savings during your upgrade cycle.
Of course, there is simply no justification for keeping very old servers around. Just old ones.
I completely agree, but anyway, does somebody around here want to volunteer to support GNU truefalse? It simply didn't keep up with the users needs recently.
Ok, a source can be an arbitrary program, but I/O is pretty much limited to the original and dvi files. What harm can it do? It is a pretty tough sandbox.
Oh, came-on, you can make that calculation, no need to ask anybody. But, since it is such an interesting topic, I'll give it a go
The overall chaing stays with 10% of the revenue of paper books (let's call that 1 unit), but 97% of the revenue of e-books. Assuming the e-books are sold at a discount of 10% (I've never saw a discount as big as that), the chain gets 1 unit for paper books, and 97%*90%/10% = 8,73 units, or roughly, 8 units. That means that they'd get the same amount if they sold X units of paper books or X/8 = 12,5% of X of e-books (that means that e-books are nearly half as lucrative as paper books now).
I really doubt that somebody would want to eliminate paper books, since their hight cost is what keeps the publishing industry non-competitive, and thus keeps margins on both paper and e-books hight. But they probably want to increase sales of e-books, mainly so if they somehow can keep the customers captive and make other publishers work look somehow not official (what DRM is intended to do). Also, it is a bit precipitaded to atribute that interest to publishers or authors, somebody on the chain is getting that extra money, but there is no data indicating who.
If you had any idea on what you are talking about, you'd know that the UN couldn't pass a resolution doing anything to the US people. Only the US government can choose to take party on a treatry, forcing it upon their citizens.
Two thousand users making a commit every second means you'd get 170 milions of transaction per day. Of course, those 2000 users won't be playing the entire day, but your 37 milion transactions isn't even near. They also won't all make a commit every second, some may be faster.
Synchronizing over the database is the preferred way for creating web applications and other kind os systems with a low throughtput. That simply puts most of the work on the database developers, and your programmers can focus on solving problems that are specific to them. It just can't be done on this specific case.
Also, I've never played a MMORPG, but I can't in any way think a lot of people would be angry if you lose a minute or so of playing once in a while. An entire day is something different.
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The GP was talking about things that resmble more MS Access than what you thing as a database. With the added caveat that he was talking about some software that actualy works, not Access.
Now, that is a very important ninche, that isn't very well filled by software available for Linux (nor Windows). I'd sugest he try the Libre Office database, I don't know it, but it is intented to supply such thing. Very few people know it, tough.
Well, my first language was BASIC (old BASIC, with numbered lines), and I don't think it lets me solve problems in a logical or clean fashion.
I didn't understand it at first when the GP said that FreeBSD didn't complain. If he doesn't equate a warning with a complaint, what would he?
Also, -Werror is perfectly optional for me. When you don't consider keeping code that generates a warning, that flag will make no difference at all; and a few times you'll want code that generates warnings, altought for me that normaly happens with Java, and never happened with C/C++ code.
All of you complainind about C++ templates never played with the preprocessor, did you?
Unfortunately, it isn't just 1 line that frees the memory. If you ever have more than 1 step that could fail on your constructor, you'll need more deletes. And if you allocate some memory, you already have a line that can fail.
Yet, it is a long long way away from the mess that is C memory management. I agree with that.
Yes.
But the right thing is to use type polymorphism here. You should declare different classes, so you can make "radians = degree + radians" and have the compiler do the right thing.
Well suitability to make an space elevator is tensile strenght, isn't it? That is measured in MPa. Anyway, the GP didn't care to clarify what kind of strength he was talking about, and I guess mixed all of them up.
As a side note, I'd be quite suspicious of a suspension bridge made of fiberglass...
And, just notice that this site uses Javascript to calculate its result. The answer is by no means hard coded in it...
Hey, thanks. I'll try it next time I create a document.
Yet, it is correct. By using MS you can save on individual wages, with the downside that you'll need a much larger amount of men-hours for the same benefit. With the current environment where lots of businesspeople can't even add things up (business administration isn't an exact science, why should they learn math?) it is no wonder that they belive such kind of arguments.
Hum, no. If MS doesn't respond that is because you are not a threat, and they can safely ignore you. If MS does respond that is because you are enough of a treat that increasing your mindshare is a smaller problem than letting people paint you in a good light.
Libre Office (didn't you get the memo?) has Presenter, that should solve the same problem (whatever it is) as Power Point. I can't say what is better, since I didn't use them in a while. Last time I used, Presenter was very weak, but was getting better fast.
My main frustation with MS Office is that numbered lists simply don't work. It is a nightmare to put anything between itens, sometimes it is hard even to edit old itens. That said, OO write works quite well for me, but I can't stand using calc (luckly, my Linux computers have perl, R, Scilab, and lots of other replacements, so I don't miss Excell there). There is a long time since I have last used PowerPoint or Presenter, so I can't say what they are like now, and I have long replaced Draw (is there a MS Office equivalent?) with Inkscape, and never looked back.
I still hope to see Libre Office being stable, and including those usefull programs at the package, like Inkscape, and GIMP. Maybe even integrating them with the current tools. They are going into a nice path, but only time will tell if they'll go far enough into it.
You don't really need to fix it. After the support contract expires you can just keep using the machine, you only need a way to restore the service at another computer, and some amount of useable computing power (that should be somewhere capable of creating virtual machines if you need unique IPs).
That sounds like work, but you'll need a way to restore the service at another machine even if you have a support contract. You know, those contract don't guarantee that the computers won't fail... The only drawback is that you need the extra computing power, but even then, you won't need to offset all your services at once, so you don't need as much power as you have on unsupported machines. You just postpone buying for when the machines fail. That leads to some savings during your upgrade cycle.
Of course, there is simply no justification for keeping very old servers around. Just old ones.
I completely agree, but anyway, does somebody around here want to volunteer to support GNU truefalse? It simply didn't keep up with the users needs recently.
A general graph may not be planar, but this one surely is.
I was able to finish a CIV 1 game in one (entire) day. I've never done that with CIV 2.
No, probably not. But what sucessfull CEO has ever learned something recently? Learning and knowing is for the lower classes.
Ok, a source can be an arbitrary program, but I/O is pretty much limited to the original and dvi files. What harm can it do? It is a pretty tough sandbox.
Well, they can't also change DRM free e-books that you keep on a driver accessed by a free operating system.
That isn't a problem of e-books in general, but of what current retailers are trying to comercialize.
Oh, came-on, you can make that calculation, no need to ask anybody. But, since it is such an interesting topic, I'll give it a go
The overall chaing stays with 10% of the revenue of paper books (let's call that 1 unit), but 97% of the revenue of e-books. Assuming the e-books are sold at a discount of 10% (I've never saw a discount as big as that), the chain gets 1 unit for paper books, and 97%*90%/10% = 8,73 units, or roughly, 8 units. That means that they'd get the same amount if they sold X units of paper books or X/8 = 12,5% of X of e-books (that means that e-books are nearly half as lucrative as paper books now).
I really doubt that somebody would want to eliminate paper books, since their hight cost is what keeps the publishing industry non-competitive, and thus keeps margins on both paper and e-books hight. But they probably want to increase sales of e-books, mainly so if they somehow can keep the customers captive and make other publishers work look somehow not official (what DRM is intended to do). Also, it is a bit precipitaded to atribute that interest to publishers or authors, somebody on the chain is getting that extra money, but there is no data indicating who.
If you had any idea on what you are talking about, you'd know that the UN couldn't pass a resolution doing anything to the US people. Only the US government can choose to take party on a treatry, forcing it upon their citizens.
So, the entire computation did get to an end! I've never noticed it... That is probably why some people read several times the same book.
Two thousand users making a commit every second means you'd get 170 milions of transaction per day. Of course, those 2000 users won't be playing the entire day, but your 37 milion transactions isn't even near. They also won't all make a commit every second, some may be faster.
Synchronizing over the database is the preferred way for creating web applications and other kind os systems with a low throughtput. That simply puts most of the work on the database developers, and your programmers can focus on solving problems that are specific to them. It just can't be done on this specific case.
Also, I've never played a MMORPG, but I can't in any way think a lot of people would be angry if you lose a minute or so of playing once in a while. An entire day is something different.