Yeah, and thats what I don't really like about frameworks in general. They have all of these awesome cool fast easy to use things built in. But sometimes you discover that your needs are too complex for the framework, and someone instantly replies " you don't have to use feature X". Well sooner or later you aren't using many of the cool features of the framework anymore. So why are you using the framework?
"If you denormalize, but add constraints to maintain integrity, then you've killed performance for no reason (however this is useful when transition from denormalized designs back to normalized designs)."
You can't say that will be the case 100% of the time. Most of the times denormalisation is chosen to improve the performance. In which case its faster to be denormailized, even with constraints. There are many different variables that come in to play when discussing database design that can't be accounted for with general rules. Yes, you should apply best practices and consult various rules of thumb, but nothing can replace testing the design with realistic data.
I'm pretty anti grammar Nazi ( and anti hyphen, but thats another diatribe), but it does warm my heart when fans say things like "Joss writes good." The Freudian slip of grammar in that statement is unbelievably awesome. I couldn't have said it gooder myself.
No, starting in 2006 the perl 6 community decided to implement perl 6 directly into their frontal lobes. Of course, reading the perl 6 newsletter summaries requires perl 6 to be installed. So first install gcc, then GHC, then pugs, then you can install perl 6 to your frontal lobes and read about whats happening in perl 6.
You are 99% correct. I would say that while developing for Ie, you should have a good idea of just how incompatible with firefox/ opera/safari, you're making it. You should really try to minimize incompatibility as much as possible, even if the client swears he'll never need anything other than ie. Its usually not any slower. But from your post I think you might have meant that. I'm just venting in a semi professional matter over a project I did that was soley targeting ie. Couldn't convince the other developers to even try to make a transition to alternatives easy. Then, once completed, some one changed their minds and wanted to target firefox as well. Guess what that means 40% of the site had to be recoded.
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Extra points for you for recognizing it was partially joking, but I'm going to have to dock you points for not understanding that the early tv stars started off on radio. There were Radio serials that people used to sit around and listen to. Once Tv's were invented all most all of that content moved to tv leaving only music and a few news talk shows on radio.
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Darn right, its like I've been telling the upstart RCA: People who don't like radio aren't going to come around if you put it on a screen. People who like radio like RADIOS.
Not saying I endorse him or his policies, but Huckabee has raised only 2 million and is actually ahead in some poles. I don't know about you, but I want a president that can do the most with the least. If Huckabee could run the government with the same financial prudence he has shown in his campaign, that would be awesome. I expect with the rise in polls that will most likely change. He probably won't turn down the money from anyone. But, it sort of shows what could be done.
I'm not confused at all. I just wrote that in a very confusing way. I'm not so sure you could sell a bricked iphone for more than a brick. I haven't disassembled it to see if any of the parts are really that useful. I sort of assumed based upon its proprietary nature and small form factor that there wouldn't be much of use inside. Maybe thats not the case with the iphone, but if an Ipod shuffle dies, I'm pretty sure there aren't any scavengable parts. Although, I'd love to see someone prove me wrong and build a webserver inside a shuffle. But you'd have to make it totally ignore the page request and just serve up a random page.
No, thats just stupid. A computer with a missing boot.ini is much more useful than a brick. Case in point, you can buy a bare bones computer with no OS for ~ $400. More than your average masonry brick. If people do sell it a state similar to its "bricked state" for more significantly more than a brick, then I would say its not bricked. Because, obviously, its more useful than a brick.
There are some that advertise legitimate products, herbal supplements,vitamins, mortgage refis, things of that nature, even most pr0n isn't strictly illegal. Plus most of the time the Spammers aren't the merchants selling the goods. Even the merchants are really just resellers, that never actually physically possess the products. So yeah, I'd say there is the need for additional laws that punish them for the method of advertising that causes problems people. But yeah, if they violate existing laws as well they should also be punished for those. If nothing else sticks, income tax evasion is an old trick that can put them away for a while.
To Brazenly Split Infinitives, is to purposely offend any English teachers, that in their ineptitude, have mistakenly wandered into this honorable den of free thinkers. If collateral damage were to waywardly hit a grammar Nazi of the non grammar teacher type, then that would have to cheerfully be accepted as well as welcomed.
I'm just really really really surprised that marketing allowed that. More likely they didn't see it as its on a development blog. I mean, Microsoft's marketing is one of the worst parts of the company, or perhaps just the most difficult job trying to convince people to upgrade software that works as good if not better than a new version would. So they have to create all of these product distinctions and names to convince people to do things they wouldn't otherwise.
I've always wanted a paradoxical/ accusational mission statement.
Our mission statement: " We would like to issue this statement, that, for the record, we have no mission. So if your business gets totally screwed by our business relationship,we probably didn't plan for it to happen. Furthermore, it will probably be your fault. If you do have a mission, and you got totally screwed then its definitely your fault for failing to execute the mission."
The temptation to cash out is just too great for most companies. The only reason why Slashdot isn't worse is because of Taco. I'm not sure why though. Does the contract that gives him full editorial control, fail to specify a system of bonuses based upon ad revenue? Or is he just that incorruptible? or I guess its possible that he just wants a fun solid job with a long term future, rather than a quick cash out. He mentioned the topic a bit during the anniversary hubabaloo, but the monetary link wasn't mentioned, although If I were him I wouldn't have mentioned it either.
Yeah, Lawyers can be awfully sneaky. They could convince me of almost anything. This is why you are entitled to one regardless of your ability to pay for one. You need both sides of a story to make a clear judgment. This is only one side. If there was a rebuttal, then I could agree with one of the two sides. As it is, its just one lawyers opinion which means nothing.
Or at least remove the necessity for layers. It seems like there was at least a good chance that Novell meant to sell the copyrights, and sco meant to buy them. Somehow, the contract written didn't say that, and they were never legally transfered. Whats the point of having a highly paid legal staff, if they don't pay attention to the legal details like the contract? I don't think I will be hiring any of them that were involved in the original APA agreement. At least, not the next time I decide to buy software copyrights.
Good point, if true. I do remember XP getting off to a slow start as well. I guess the difference at the time is that there weren't many real alternatives. Open Office and mozilla weren't any good, which really limited the use of any alternative operating system. So for users of 98 & me, Xp was the best solution and everyone eventually migrated. Now? I think the application stack for the alternative OS's has improved greatly. Its a much easier decision to not upgrade an existing XP machine ( than going form 98 or me to xp), and there are easier transitions to competitors. So, its not really the same. If this is the upgrade that people don't adopt for those reasons, microsoft is in serious trouble. So there is a hint of desperation around Vista. There is a sense that they aren't responsive to their large customers wishes. So this is a good move in that regard, but you have to wonder why they did it in the first place. Shouldn't they have know the reaction? Shouldn't they have consulted their corporate customers?
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Yeah, and thats what I don't really like about frameworks in general. They have all of these awesome cool fast easy to use things built in. But sometimes you discover that your needs are too complex for the framework, and someone instantly replies " you don't have to use feature X". Well sooner or later you aren't using many of the cool features of the framework anymore. So why are you using the framework?
"If you denormalize, but add constraints to maintain integrity, then you've killed performance for no reason (however this is useful when transition from denormalized designs back to normalized designs)."
You can't say that will be the case 100% of the time. Most of the times denormalisation is chosen to improve the performance. In which case its faster to be denormailized, even with constraints. There are many different variables that come in to play when discussing database design that can't be accounted for with general rules. Yes, you should apply best practices and consult various rules of thumb, but nothing can replace testing the design with realistic data.
I'm pretty anti grammar Nazi ( and anti hyphen, but thats another diatribe), but it does warm my heart when fans say things like "Joss writes good." The Freudian slip of grammar in that statement is unbelievably awesome. I couldn't have said it gooder myself.
No, starting in 2006 the perl 6 community decided to implement perl 6 directly into their frontal lobes. Of course, reading the perl 6 newsletter summaries requires perl 6 to be installed. So first install gcc, then GHC, then pugs, then you can install perl 6 to your frontal lobes and read about whats happening in perl 6.
You are 99% correct. I would say that while developing for Ie, you should have a good idea of just how incompatible with firefox/ opera/safari, you're making it. You should really try to minimize incompatibility as much as possible, even if the client swears he'll never need anything other than ie. Its usually not any slower. But from your post I think you might have meant that. I'm just venting in a semi professional matter over a project I did that was soley targeting ie. Couldn't convince the other developers to even try to make a transition to alternatives easy. Then, once completed, some one changed their minds and wanted to target firefox as well. Guess what that means 40% of the site had to be recoded.
Extra points for you for recognizing it was partially joking, but I'm going to have to dock you points for not understanding that the early tv stars started off on radio. There were Radio serials that people used to sit around and listen to. Once Tv's were invented all most all of that content moved to tv leaving only music and a few news talk shows on radio.
Darn right, its like I've been telling the upstart RCA: People who don't like radio aren't going to come around if you put it on a screen. People who like radio like RADIOS.
Dude, there aren't that many of us. I'll pick you up on my way up there. Don't worry my car's a two seater, plenty of room.
Not saying I endorse him or his policies, but Huckabee has raised only 2 million and is actually ahead in some poles. I don't know about you, but I want a president that can do the most with the least. If Huckabee could run the government with the same financial prudence he has shown in his campaign, that would be awesome. I expect with the rise in polls that will most likely change. He probably won't turn down the money from anyone. But, it sort of shows what could be done.
His making word nosies with his sound hole confirms it.
For those of us with dyslexia, proof erading doest'n always hepl.
I'm not confused at all. I just wrote that in a very confusing way. I'm not so sure you could sell a bricked iphone for more than a brick. I haven't disassembled it to see if any of the parts are really that useful. I sort of assumed based upon its proprietary nature and small form factor that there wouldn't be much of use inside. Maybe thats not the case with the iphone, but if an Ipod shuffle dies, I'm pretty sure there aren't any scavengable parts. Although, I'd love to see someone prove me wrong and build a webserver inside a shuffle. But you'd have to make it totally ignore the page request and just serve up a random page.
No, thats just stupid. A computer with a missing boot.ini is much more useful than a brick. Case in point, you can buy a bare bones computer with no OS for ~ $400. More than your average masonry brick. If people do sell it a state similar to its "bricked state" for more significantly more than a brick, then I would say its not bricked. Because, obviously, its more useful than a brick.
There are some that advertise legitimate products, herbal supplements,vitamins, mortgage refis, things of that nature, even most pr0n isn't strictly illegal. Plus most of the time the Spammers aren't the merchants selling the goods. Even the merchants are really just resellers, that never actually physically possess the products. So yeah, I'd say there is the need for additional laws that punish them for the method of advertising that causes problems people. But yeah, if they violate existing laws as well they should also be punished for those. If nothing else sticks, income tax evasion is an old trick that can put them away for a while.
To Brazenly Split Infinitives, is to purposely offend any English teachers, that in their ineptitude, have mistakenly wandered into this honorable den of free thinkers. If collateral damage were to waywardly hit a grammar Nazi of the non grammar teacher type, then that would have to cheerfully be accepted as well as welcomed.
I'm just really really really surprised that marketing allowed that. More likely they didn't see it as its on a development blog. I mean, Microsoft's marketing is one of the worst parts of the company, or perhaps just the most difficult job trying to convince people to upgrade software that works as good if not better than a new version would. So they have to create all of these product distinctions and names to convince people to do things they wouldn't otherwise.
I'm surprised he hasn't been fired yet for one of the suggestions
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: IE Desktop Online Web Browser Live Professional Ultimate Edition for the Internet (the marketing team really pushed for this one
emoticons aside, that pretty much sums up a lot of problems at microsoft. I guess as director he must have some real pull.
I've always wanted a paradoxical/ accusational mission statement.
Our mission statement: " We would like to issue this statement, that, for the record, we have no mission. So if your business gets totally screwed by our business relationship,we probably didn't plan for it to happen. Furthermore, it will probably be your fault. If you do have a mission, and you got totally screwed then its definitely your fault for failing to execute the mission."
The temptation to cash out is just too great for most companies. The only reason why Slashdot isn't worse is because of Taco. I'm not sure why though. Does the contract that gives him full editorial control, fail to specify a system of bonuses based upon ad revenue? Or is he just that incorruptible? or I guess its possible that he just wants a fun solid job with a long term future, rather than a quick cash out. He mentioned the topic a bit during the anniversary hubabaloo, but the monetary link wasn't mentioned, although If I were him I wouldn't have mentioned it either.
Yeah, Lawyers can be awfully sneaky. They could convince me of almost anything. This is why you are entitled to one regardless of your ability to pay for one. You need both sides of a story to make a clear judgment. This is only one side. If there was a rebuttal, then I could agree with one of the two sides. As it is, its just one lawyers opinion which means nothing.
Or at least remove the necessity for layers. It seems like there was at least a good chance that Novell meant to sell the copyrights, and sco meant to buy them. Somehow, the contract written didn't say that, and they were never legally transfered. Whats the point of having a highly paid legal staff, if they don't pay attention to the legal details like the contract? I don't think I will be hiring any of them that were involved in the original APA agreement. At least, not the next time I decide to buy software copyrights.
Yes, I know, I thought I corrected that. What was that about measuring once and cutting twice?
Good point, if true. I do remember XP getting off to a slow start as well. I guess the difference at the time is that there weren't many real alternatives. Open Office and mozilla weren't any good, which really limited the use of any alternative operating system. So for users of 98 & me, Xp was the best solution and everyone eventually migrated. Now? I think the application stack for the alternative OS's has improved greatly. Its a much easier decision to not upgrade an existing XP machine ( than going form 98 or me to xp), and there are easier transitions to competitors. So, its not really the same. If this is the upgrade that people don't adopt for those reasons, microsoft is in serious trouble. So there is a hint of desperation around Vista. There is a sense that they aren't responsive to their large customers wishes. So this is a good move in that regard, but you have to wonder why they did it in the first place. Shouldn't they have know the reaction? Shouldn't they have consulted their corporate customers?
Apparently the C stands for Copywrite. Huh, You learn something everyday. Disregard my previous post.
Why is it ironic that the MPAA drafted the DMCA? This was a violation of copyright, which existed prior to the millennium.