Actually, Ikea's "expensive" stuff is pretty good. I think I spent around US$90 for a large bookcase (74"x96"?). Three moves later, it's holding up just fine. Compare this to the local big box office retail bookcase I bought for US$25, that looks like crap (smudged finish, chipped corner). And it's only three months old!
Maybe that's what MySQL is trying to get at: if you spend the bux to get a high-end version, it's great, but if you stick with the low-end version, your tables will wobble:).
Mac Office lags slightly behind the Windows version
??? I thought that one of the "deals" that El Steve eked out of Bill was that Office would be released for the Mac first, with the Windows version following by a couple of months. Is that deal done (this was a few years back, when MS bought some nominal number of shares of Apple)?
Amen! You wouldn't believe how many times I've had to actually pull a team's head out of the clouds and point out that they really don't need a generic database abstraction layer, because the product is scheduled to go into production with the company's standard database product (which is almost always Oracle). Ironically, my first Java gig required such a layer, as we were writing a product that had to support both SQL Server and Oracle.
If the dev team wants to develop using a different DB than production (since Oracle DBAs tend to be pretty tight-assed and don't like developers creating their own schemas), then I'd be OK with a generic DB access layer, but I've never been on a team that's tried that.
OpenSolaris *is* free. I still doubt they'll switch (I wouldn't be surprised if they had some kernel tweaks or mods), but it's not a matter of price.
in the early 1980s all we had were cheap green-screen Televideo 9600 buad terminals
Whoa, TV 910s. I haven't thought about them in ages. Not as nice as the Ergo 301s we eventually wound up with, but anything beat the ADM-3As that were scattered about campus. Of course, the sweetest was the Tek 4010, although having to hit CLEAR when the scroll buffer was full was a bummer....
More likely the spell/grammar check code is transmitted to your computer, and cached so it won't get downloaded again unless it gets updated (or you flush the cache).
And speaking as someone who just realized that he forgot to copy his resume onto his new box before he decomissioned his old one, sometimes it would be nice to have a copy available on-line.
I might also suggest Firebird, the open-source version of Borland's InterBase product. It's licensed under a variant of the Mozilla Public License called the "InterBase Public License", but it doesn't seem too onerous. It's still a young product, but it looks like a good base, and I'm sure with a little spit and polish from Sun it could be a decent system.
There's also PostgreSQL's estranged mother, CA Ingres, the commercial version of Stonebreaker's original University Ingres. This is a well-vetted commercial-grade DBMS, although under another odd-wad license (the "Computer Associates Trusted Open Source License v1.1", see here).
That said, I would prefer to see them choose PostgreSQL.
the record labels aren't held accountable for some of the total garbage they put out in the interest of simply satisfying a contract.
Um, I think the finger has to point to the bands in this case. All the label can do is issue what the band puts out. If it's crap, then there's not much a label can do to fix it.
Not that I'm defending the labels -- I personally don't buy any A/V media.
You mean like this? It's nice, but you could get a cheaper box elsewhere. And people who are going to run their office apps as web applications really don't need a 64-bit Opteron...;)
OTOH, Sun is already offering these boxen for US$29.95/mo (actually three yearly installments of US$359.40), maybe they'll just raise the price a bit (say $5/mo) and include a subscription to whatever service they announce.
Yeah, I was really disappointed too. I had visions of the Grenville Bros et. al., in a return to the air rallies of the twenties and thirties. Lots of experimental, potentially dangerous designs. But no, it's more like NASCAR, everybody gets a standard airframe and gets to paint it whatever color they (or more likely their sponsors) want. I think this one's going to die on the vine.
As a child, I grew up (like many Cold-War kids) believing that the whole goddamn world would burn up in a massive nuclear apocalypse in my lifetime.
And then it didn't, and now I'm stuck trying to figure out what I'm going to do with this life I didn't figure I was going to have. Man, there's so much 8hit I would have done (or done differently) if I figured I was going to last this long...
Heh, sounds like my current gig. The three most common books to see around the farm are Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days, Enterprise Java Beans for Dummies and Programming Jakarta Struts. We've got an application with close to 100 JSPs with corresponding action forms, then they all funnel down into 14 action classes. Each action class has two corresponding EJBs: one to implement the SessionFacade pattern and one to do the actual work. It's like the worst part of the 70s all over again: big, monolithic modules held together with logical cohesion, and the performance you'd expect from such a system. But, since it's all based on Java and design patterns, it's golden and nobody dares criticize it.
Hell, there were better materials around when the shuttle was originally designed. I'm sure the complete story is available somewhere -- oh look, here's part of it now.
You're NOT ALLOWED to do things like this in most universities
Don't get me started on the list of things I did that "weren't allowed" when I went to school. Rewire this, repurpose that, all in a night's work....
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I hate strong-but-lame passwords. One site I have to use requires a password at least eight characters long, and you must have at least one digit and one uppercase character, but you can't use any non-alphanumeric characters. Why would anyone restrict the search space like that? Unless they're validating using javascript and can't be arsed to come up with a sufficiently capable RE.
If it were up to me, a password field would accept everything except enter and escape. Enter would process the password, and escape would reset the field. Anything else is fair game. Control characters, characters with accents/umlauts/cedilles, go for it. It would also be cool to have the ability to C&P images into the field, but I doubt that's of widespread usefulness. Still, how many people are going to have that picture of your dog handy to use to access your account?
Remember when PDAs first came out? We were paying $300+ for something with 8MB RAM and a black-and-white LCD.
Actually, I do remember when PDAs first came out. I even bought a second-generation Palm Pilot Personal (back when they were still "U.S. Robotics"). US$200, and it only had (has, actually -- I still use it) 512K of RAM. The original Palm Pilots only had 128K IIRC. Don't know where you got an 8MB model, maybe you were a little late to the party?
Wouldn't be the first time. Wasn't it Microsoft who had an ad campaign that featured Mozart's Requiem, and the lyrics in the ad were "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis", which translates to "The accursed are confounded, and cast into the flames of Hell"?
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Actually, Ikea's "expensive" stuff is pretty good. I think I spent around US$90 for a large bookcase (74"x96"?). Three moves later, it's holding up just fine. Compare this to the local big box office retail bookcase I bought for US$25, that looks like crap (smudged finish, chipped corner). And it's only three months old!
:).
Maybe that's what MySQL is trying to get at: if you spend the bux to get a high-end version, it's great, but if you stick with the low-end version, your tables will wobble
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Mac Office lags slightly behind the Windows version
??? I thought that one of the "deals" that El Steve eked out of Bill was that Office would be released for the Mac first, with the Windows version following by a couple of months. Is that deal done (this was a few years back, when MS bought some nominal number of shares of Apple)?
Amen! You wouldn't believe how many times I've had to actually pull a team's head out of the clouds and point out that they really don't need a generic database abstraction layer, because the product is scheduled to go into production with the company's standard database product (which is almost always Oracle). Ironically, my first Java gig required such a layer, as we were writing a product that had to support both SQL Server and Oracle.
If the dev team wants to develop using a different DB than production (since Oracle DBAs tend to be pretty tight-assed and don't like developers creating their own schemas), then I'd be OK with a generic DB access layer, but I've never been on a team that's tried that.
even if Solaris was FREE
OpenSolaris *is* free. I still doubt they'll switch (I wouldn't be surprised if they had some kernel tweaks or mods), but it's not a matter of price.
in the early 1980s all we had were cheap green-screen Televideo 9600 buad terminals
Whoa, TV 910s. I haven't thought about them in ages. Not as nice as the Ergo 301s we eventually wound up with, but anything beat the ADM-3As that were scattered about campus. Of course, the sweetest was the Tek 4010, although having to hit CLEAR when the scroll buffer was full was a bummer....
More likely the spell/grammar check code is transmitted to your computer, and cached so it won't get downloaded again unless it gets updated (or you flush the cache).
And speaking as someone who just realized that he forgot to copy his resume onto his new box before he decomissioned his old one, sometimes it would be nice to have a copy available on-line.
It's British for "Joe Six-Pack"
I might also suggest Firebird, the open-source version of Borland's InterBase product. It's licensed under a variant of the Mozilla Public License called the "InterBase Public License", but it doesn't seem too onerous. It's still a young product, but it looks like a good base, and I'm sure with a little spit and polish from Sun it could be a decent system.
There's also PostgreSQL's estranged mother, CA Ingres, the commercial version of Stonebreaker's original University Ingres. This is a well-vetted commercial-grade DBMS, although under another odd-wad license (the "Computer Associates Trusted Open Source License v1.1", see here).
That said, I would prefer to see them choose PostgreSQL.
the record labels aren't held accountable for some of the total garbage they put out in the interest of simply satisfying a contract.
Um, I think the finger has to point to the bands in this case. All the label can do is issue what the band puts out. If it's crap, then there's not much a label can do to fix it.
Not that I'm defending the labels -- I personally don't buy any A/V media.
You mean like this? It's nice, but you could get a cheaper box elsewhere. And people who are going to run their office apps as web applications really don't need a 64-bit Opteron... ;)
OTOH, Sun is already offering these boxen for US$29.95/mo (actually three yearly installments of US$359.40), maybe they'll just raise the price a bit (say $5/mo) and include a subscription to whatever service they announce.
...but I want a business card that says I work at "Cyber Space Laboratory"!
Who cares! Halloween is just around the corner! We'll store up enough to drive to Cincinnati!
Then we'll have the mother of all sugar crashes...
"Dude, relax and enjoy a cold one -- take off the backpack."
"No way, man -- I'm gonna get trashed tonight!"
I've always felt throwing small things would be the best method.
Which conjures up this vision of a space ship with a dozen baseball pitching machines pointed aft...
Yeah, I was really disappointed too. I had visions of the Grenville Bros et. al., in a return to the air rallies of the twenties and thirties. Lots of experimental, potentially dangerous designs. But no, it's more like NASCAR, everybody gets a standard airframe and gets to paint it whatever color they (or more likely their sponsors) want. I think this one's going to die on the vine.
I appreciate good conversation.
Man, you ARE old...
As a child, I grew up (like many Cold-War kids) believing that the whole goddamn world would burn up in a massive nuclear apocalypse in my lifetime.
And then it didn't, and now I'm stuck trying to figure out what I'm going to do with this life I didn't figure I was going to have. Man, there's so much 8hit I would have done (or done differently) if I figured I was going to last this long...
Heh, sounds like my current gig. The three most common books to see around the farm are Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days, Enterprise Java Beans for Dummies and Programming Jakarta Struts. We've got an application with close to 100 JSPs with corresponding action forms, then they all funnel down into 14 action classes. Each action class has two corresponding EJBs: one to implement the SessionFacade pattern and one to do the actual work. It's like the worst part of the 70s all over again: big, monolithic modules held together with logical cohesion, and the performance you'd expect from such a system. But, since it's all based on Java and design patterns, it's golden and nobody dares criticize it.
Yes, but GP was posted by Steven Hawking.
Hell, there were better materials around when the shuttle was originally designed. I'm sure the complete story is available somewhere -- oh look, here's part of it now.
Open is the new closed...
You're NOT ALLOWED to do things like this in most universities
Don't get me started on the list of things I did that "weren't allowed" when I went to school. Rewire this, repurpose that, all in a night's work....
I hate strong-but-lame passwords. One site I have to use requires a password at least eight characters long, and you must have at least one digit and one uppercase character, but you can't use any non-alphanumeric characters. Why would anyone restrict the search space like that? Unless they're validating using javascript and can't be arsed to come up with a sufficiently capable RE.
If it were up to me, a password field would accept everything except enter and escape. Enter would process the password, and escape would reset the field. Anything else is fair game. Control characters, characters with accents/umlauts/cedilles, go for it. It would also be cool to have the ability to C&P images into the field, but I doubt that's of widespread usefulness. Still, how many people are going to have that picture of your dog handy to use to access your account?
Remember when PDAs first came out? We were paying $300+ for something with 8MB RAM and a black-and-white LCD.
Actually, I do remember when PDAs first came out. I even bought a second-generation Palm Pilot Personal (back when they were still "U.S. Robotics"). US$200, and it only had (has, actually -- I still use it) 512K of RAM. The original Palm Pilots only had 128K IIRC. Don't know where you got an 8MB model, maybe you were a little late to the party?
Wouldn't be the first time. Wasn't it Microsoft who had an ad campaign that featured Mozart's Requiem, and the lyrics in the ad were "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis", which translates to "The accursed are confounded, and cast into the flames of Hell"?