Stored procedures are the fastest way to get data from a database
Not always, no. Sometimes stored procs do horrible things involving the repeated creation of temporary tables, in algorithms that could be done more efficiently externally. Triggers are generally safe, constraints are generally safe, but you need to remember to trace carefully what your SP's are doing to make sure you're not in that boat.
Horses for courses, mate. There are good arguments in either direction. Personally I tend to avoid stored procedures not for performance reasons but for pragmatic ones. For one, it's easier sometimes to get a change approved in an application than it is to talk someone into approving a change -- any change -- in the database schema, no matter how trivial, and for another it's easier to migrate or replicate a database to another platform's database (say, Oracle to DB2 for example) when you're only worried about transferring tables and views, not logic. And it is true that the simpler it is, the easier it is to scale. Databases tend to scale by lock-managed clustering, applications by horizontal means (sometimes simply adding another apps server). One tends to be easier than the other.
Sucking data out in bulk can be a good idea too, for safety reasons -- I've seen bank OLTP databases frozen because someone thought it would be safer to set a read-only lock on a report scan, not realising they were using the wrong consistency setting across the entire database & thus forcing the rest of the users (thousands of them) to operate off the DB's log file, then killing the job mid-way after a few hours only to discover he had to face a few hours rollback....
It's too bad these positions will, most definitely, be filled by military personnel.
Probably so. But I suspect also that the hiatus was due to "we've got a few top spots filled with the clued, now let's let them develop an architecture and write the job descriptions for the rest".
I hope the ethics hammered into the better class of military leaders (and I mean West Point, Annapolis, Air Force Academy graduates) are a part of those leading the group. I don't mean the Gitmo crew, I mean the old school for whom a class in civics is not an elective. People for whom "honor" is not negotiable. I hold this strange belief that such people still exist, despite the broad brush many people are willing to wield.
Yes, I suppose you really can do your own dentistry or legal analysis if you wish, but inasmuch as either one is likely to cause a lot of pain if you get it wrong, I'd rather spend to get someone who (a) spends all their professional time at it, and (b) has made most of their mistakes on other people first.
Nahdude812 pinned it. The market runs on irony. What I omitted was the third-order effect, that the sum of rational decisions based on the assumption of external irrationality, nets irrational swings in stock prices. It would take a far better mathematician than me to track these third-order effects (and a much richer one to prove them). But I'd love to have Marylin vos Savant or Scott Adams' take on this observation
I don't know that it necessarily has to do with shared genetic code anymore. The trick is in the definition of "tribe", really. In today's world, your tribe is whatever group with which you feel a strong affinity. I feel much closer to my group of friends than I do to my family, for example. so, while we may be hard-wired to ensure the survival of our tribe, I don't think this is limited to family anymore.
Balderdash! The nuclear family is still the bedrock of our society, and our borders are strongly drawn by the communities in which we serve.
In the meantime, do you want to join my guild on the Proudmoore server? We are a fun, family oriented group interested in helping each other, working toward occasional raids, and have two bank tabs with subsidised armour repair for n00bs...
More to the point, how do you handle the approach of MBA's? Do you just stand off and send in the pet, or drop a snake trap and wait for their approach? Can they be soloed? And why are the only tameable Auditors caster-stat?
...and his Diving Seacopter. I'm sure it was a product of Swift Enterprises.
I really did want to be Tom Swift Jr. when I was young. Unfortunately I ended up looking more like Chow Winkler.
I don't really know who were part of the team that was Victor Appleton III, but they came up with a lot of intriguing gadgets and ideas to wrap the book's formula around when I was in the 6th grade. Jet submarines, flying cars ("Ultrasonic Cycloplane", lovely great words you could chew on), giant robots, quite a range really. Think in terms of the more imaginative Modern Mechanix covers written to appeal to the impressionable grade school demographic, and you have a lot of mind food for the proto-geek.
The stock market is constantly looking for reasons to act irrationally
The market moves based on rational people forecasting when others will act irrationally. Given that this second-order phenomenon is always reasonably likely, this happens more or less continuously. By rational people. Yep.
Talk to a lawyer. Seriously. If what they're asking is non-enforceable, you want to know that. If it is enforceable, you'll want to know just exactly how enforceable it is. This is a *contract* you're talking about, and I'd see someone about it.
I'd no more do my own legal analysis than I'd do my own dentistry.
That was very biased. Can we call it the "Freedom Number"?
Actually there is a precedent. A decade ago there was an argument for a replacement to the "MIPS" processor performance statistic called the "MilliVAX". It was based on the MilliHelen, the argument being:
o _ Helen of Troy had beauty sufficient to launch 1000 ships. We call this amount of beauty "1 Helen".
o _ By extension, the MilliHelen is the amount of beauty sufficient to launch 1 ship.
Therefore it does appear to be known in common usage that a decimal fraction of a personal characteristic can be used as a clinical metric.
In Nixon's case (I presume you mean Richard, not Christine) the amount of integrity loss to a single political party's reputation caused by 1 person would be approx. 1:150,000,000.
Rounding this number to a convenient 1:1,000,000 ratio might give us (for example) the "MicroNixon", to point to the amount of reputation lost by 1 individual representative Republican.
Similar numbers could account for the emergence of the "NanoBush" for a particular country's international charisma, or perhaps (to underscore the fact that not all such metrics require fractional values) the MegaPalin, the amount of charisma necessary to offset one logical point during a national debate.
This sounds a little more enlightened than how you were coming across before. I still will bridle at over-fettering the users, but it sounds like you're just defending the white list method of securing your outside connections. Technically sound, and reasonably effective, although I'm sure a complete PITA to administer and a source of fear for users (all a matter of your balance of risk, again, ymmv).
I think with a little bit of spin i.e. being egregiously honest about the risk assessment etc. you could even make it half-way palatable to your user community. For example, we filter YouTube here at work, and everybody knows it's just because it's expensive on bandwidth and we all have to share the pipe. If people weren't told that reason, there would likely be a bit of backlash ("how am I going to distribute that training video?" or "they must think I'm having it off at work"). But as in all things, being up front and honest about an uncomfortable restriction is often the only defense.
Backflip? No, I just think we've moved the discussion away from a moral tone and on to technology and risk assessment, and I'm more comfortable with that.
Found the article, front page Google News today. Deakin is claiming 60-80km on a 60 litre air tank. I presume they're using thick walls and very high compression. They mention industrial air compressors, so a hybrid might indeed be out. Anyway here's the attribution:
Mr de Souza said the compressed air for the motor could be produced by large industrial-sized compressors powered by renewable energy.
The T2 would have a range of 60 to 80 kilometres on a 60-litre tank of compressed air.
The Deakin team was led by Dr Bernard Rolfe and included Greg Pitts, Stuart Hanafin and Mr de Souza.
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Stored procedures are the fastest way to get data from a database
Not always, no. Sometimes stored procs do horrible things involving the repeated creation of temporary tables, in algorithms that could be done more efficiently externally. Triggers are generally safe, constraints are generally safe, but you need to remember to trace carefully what your SP's are doing to make sure you're not in that boat.
Give me the candidate who loved the Constitution so much that he studied it, then taught it's beauty in a University setting.
This isn't 1930 and we aren't in Italy or Germany, nor are we discussing a far-left sociopolitical system of government control of private industry.
You are quite correct, this is 2008.
What's the appropriate term for a far-right sociopolitical system of private industry control over government?
Sun in the middle, Sun in the middle
Dyson Sphere's got the Sun in the middle, and a great big bubble all around.
Don't use stored procedures. They concentrate ...
You obviously have very little experience ...
Horses for courses, mate. There are good arguments in either direction. Personally I tend to avoid stored procedures not for performance reasons but for pragmatic ones. For one, it's easier sometimes to get a change approved in an application than it is to talk someone into approving a change -- any change -- in the database schema, no matter how trivial, and for another it's easier to migrate or replicate a database to another platform's database (say, Oracle to DB2 for example) when you're only worried about transferring tables and views, not logic. And it is true that the simpler it is, the easier it is to scale. Databases tend to scale by lock-managed clustering, applications by horizontal means (sometimes simply adding another apps server). One tends to be easier than the other.
Sucking data out in bulk can be a good idea too, for safety reasons -- I've seen bank OLTP databases frozen because someone thought it would be safer to set a read-only lock on a report scan, not realising they were using the wrong consistency setting across the entire database & thus forcing the rest of the users (thousands of them) to operate off the DB's log file, then killing the job mid-way after a few hours only to discover he had to face a few hours rollback....
Like I say, horses for courses...
Why does the porridge bird lay his eggs in the air?
Why does the Navy have its own pilots, for instance? Why can't they train Air Force pilots to work with the Navy?
Air Force runways stay put, for one thing.
It's too bad these positions will, most definitely, be filled by military personnel.
Probably so. But I suspect also that the hiatus was due to "we've got a few top spots filled with the clued, now let's let them develop an architecture and write the job descriptions for the rest".
I hope the ethics hammered into the better class of military leaders (and I mean West Point, Annapolis, Air Force Academy graduates) are a part of those leading the group. I don't mean the Gitmo crew, I mean the old school for whom a class in civics is not an elective. People for whom "honor" is not negotiable. I hold this strange belief that such people still exist, despite the broad brush many people are willing to wield.
I am extremely grateful to you for that link. Thanks!!
Yes, I suppose you really can do your own dentistry or legal analysis if you wish, but inasmuch as either one is likely to cause a lot of pain if you get it wrong, I'd rather spend to get someone who (a) spends all their professional time at it, and (b) has made most of their mistakes on other people first.
Advice? Buy low, sell high, and good luck.
I don't know that it necessarily has to do with shared genetic code anymore. The trick is in the definition of "tribe", really. In today's world, your tribe is whatever group with which you feel a strong affinity. I feel much closer to my group of friends than I do to my family, for example. so, while we may be hard-wired to ensure the survival of our tribe, I don't think this is limited to family anymore.
Balderdash! The nuclear family is still the bedrock of our society, and our borders are strongly drawn by the communities in which we serve.
In the meantime, do you want to join my guild on the Proudmoore server? We are a fun, family oriented group interested in helping each other, working toward occasional raids, and have two bank tabs with subsidised armour repair for n00bs...
More to the point, how do you handle the approach of MBA's? Do you just stand off and send in the pet, or drop a snake trap and wait for their approach? Can they be soloed? And why are the only tameable Auditors caster-stat?
I really did want to be Tom Swift Jr. when I was young. Unfortunately I ended up looking more like Chow Winkler.
I don't really know who were part of the team that was Victor Appleton III, but they came up with a lot of intriguing gadgets and ideas to wrap the book's formula around when I was in the 6th grade. Jet submarines, flying cars ("Ultrasonic Cycloplane", lovely great words you could chew on), giant robots, quite a range really. Think in terms of the more imaginative Modern Mechanix covers written to appeal to the impressionable grade school demographic, and you have a lot of mind food for the proto-geek.
The stock market is constantly looking for reasons to act irrationally
The market moves based on rational people forecasting when others will act irrationally. Given that this second-order phenomenon is always reasonably likely, this happens more or less continuously. By rational people. Yep.
We need to add biocapacitor cells as well. Eel + biocapacitors == Dragonball Z FTW!
IANALS but I was trying for "how many".
It starts small. It WILL be an ocean. AFTER it goes through the sea stage. Right now it's still just a "rift".
Better get that epic gear for your hunter then. Pet classes will rule.
Oh, wait...
I'd no more do my own legal analysis than I'd do my own dentistry.
I propose a measure, call it the "Nixon Number"
That was very biased. Can we call it the "Freedom Number"?
Actually there is a precedent. A decade ago there was an argument for a replacement to the "MIPS" processor performance statistic called the "MilliVAX". It was based on the MilliHelen, the argument being:
o _ Helen of Troy had beauty sufficient to launch 1000 ships. We call this amount of beauty "1 Helen".
o _ By extension, the MilliHelen is the amount of beauty sufficient to launch 1 ship.
Therefore it does appear to be known in common usage that a decimal fraction of a personal characteristic can be used as a clinical metric.
In Nixon's case (I presume you mean Richard, not Christine) the amount of integrity loss to a single political party's reputation caused by 1 person would be approx. 1:150,000,000.
Rounding this number to a convenient 1:1,000,000 ratio might give us (for example) the "MicroNixon", to point to the amount of reputation lost by 1 individual representative Republican.
Similar numbers could account for the emergence of the "NanoBush" for a particular country's international charisma, or perhaps (to underscore the fact that not all such metrics require fractional values) the MegaPalin, the amount of charisma necessary to offset one logical point during a national debate.
Quid errata demonstrandum.
"What we have here..." *THUMP* "...is a failure to communicate."
I think with a little bit of spin i.e. being egregiously honest about the risk assessment etc. you could even make it half-way palatable to your user community. For example, we filter YouTube here at work, and everybody knows it's just because it's expensive on bandwidth and we all have to share the pipe. If people weren't told that reason, there would likely be a bit of backlash ("how am I going to distribute that training video?" or "they must think I'm having it off at work"). But as in all things, being up front and honest about an uncomfortable restriction is often the only defense.
Backflip? No, I just think we've moved the discussion away from a moral tone and on to technology and risk assessment, and I'm more comfortable with that.
Sorry, forgot the link. Here: http://www.theage.com.au/national/threewheeler-is-motorings-air-apparent-20081002-4svg.html/
The car has some method for helping the robot locate the plug
Three or four LED's or reflective spots in a pattern around the socket would do it.
Mr de Souza said the compressed air for the motor could be produced by large industrial-sized compressors powered by renewable energy.
The T2 would have a range of 60 to 80 kilometres on a 60-litre tank of compressed air.
The Deakin team was led by Dr Bernard Rolfe and included Greg Pitts, Stuart Hanafin and Mr de Souza.