I have a 16 gig usb key, which I bought for £17 including postage in the UK. You can pretty put the entire works of Stravinsky, lossless, on it. That's a whole guy's career - over 6 decades of pretty much daily work. 10 years of typing is nothing.
It was lucky that his lack of backups was in addition to not having encrypted data on his laptop. He also didn't look after the laptop very well. If I were him I'd be making a copy of the data on his usb key in case he loses that as well!
also the agent, between writer and publisher, who'll know all about the above plus handling stuff like merchandise/exclusivity deals/other markets etc. To write a book you need a pen and paper (or a pc and printer). To make a living from it you need a little more.
You're right. The headline should have named you, and quoted from your thoughts, because this is your blog, and your opinion is highly relevant to people other than your mother.
> there is a lot of legacy code that depends on it.
Like..you know, Linux, and Windows and stuff. Which language do you believe Operating Systems should be written in? Or drivers, games... you know, stuff that has to work, conform to meaningful standards, be fast, unencumbered with legal bullshit, etc?
It's a link to PC Pro - a crap, extremely pro-Microsoft magazine full of articles by `bubbly` excitable paid-by-the-word clowns. Nothing to see here, move along...
You're missing the point. They don't want a solution - they want to quickly look at some data, make a decision based on it, and move on. No-one's going to pay for/install an app; deploy stuff to a website etc. I can do the sql query, export to csv, import into Excel, spend 1 min on it and email it on. Done - on to my next task. Access is a piece of shit, and getting data from Oracle/SQL Server and putting it into Access is just bizarre, even if I could guarantee all end users would have it installed.
> Also, chances are, if you think any typical business data set is best represented by a spreadsheet, you are probably not qualified to make the call.
You're not qualified to make this call if you can't understand that I'm giving the users what they want, quickly and cheaply; they'd tell me if it wasn't any use. They want the numbers, not a "solution".
All hell didn't break lose in Holland, and that's not changed anything elsewhere. Well, people witter out about 'drug tourism' but of course that doesn't happen if people can buy it anywhere. And again, we HAVE drug tourism in the UK, because people go to (mainland) Europe to stock up on cheaper alcohol/tobacco.
Yeah, it's really handy sometimes to select a bunch of records from a database, then paste it into a spreadsheet, where it's much more natural to do number crunching on it than doing it in a select statement. It's trivial to tweak the spreadsheet so people can click on columns to sort/group by different columns. 65000 is a stupid limit when you're looking, for example, sales in a chain of shops on a given day.
Yeah, sort of like how millions of black people are in prison, unable to vote/find work etc because they have a conviction for using harmless drugs, and that this fact is utterly ignored and hardly even discussed in the media.
Seriously, why allow them? Just get a damn account. It takes seconds and you can use a pretend name if you're worried that people are going to sue you for leaking secrets or whatever. If people can't be bothered to get an account then they get to treat Slashdot as read only.
Yeah, the devs need to check out Dolphin HD. It needs to be better than that, not worse. Gestures, multi-tab, plug ins, flash etc etc, installable to SD, data saved on SD, multitouch.
It's amusing that this is coming out just as I'm giving up Firefox on the desktop (after about 8 years of using it) for Chrome.
Imagine the power of Microsoft's experience in insecure bloat, and Adobes undisputed skill in...owning Flash, we can look forward to bloated, insecure flash.
Also, this was speculated about elsewhere - has been for years. Does this guy have any proof? It's a great thing to claim, and may let NSA/GCHQ apologists experience a warm feeling that they're ahead of the curve, but back in real life they seem unable to prevent stuff like 9/11, or even predict Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
Orange sucks. I work in central london and there is no data most of the time. They're merging with TMobile so perhaps they'll sort out the masts, in case that helps at all.
There's a legal problem. They might sort it out. You never know - Skype might release an Android client that doesn't suck. How do I log out? How do I quit? Why is the app so big? Why can't I move it to the SD card? Why do the official versions of these sorts of things (Skype, Facebook, Twitter etc) always suck loads more than unofficial versions?
This is why it would be nice if there were a parallel internet existing on Wifi, fed from people's internet connections, but which would still contain a network of shared files which are obviously available even if the internet went away for a bit. You might as well make this a darknet, and make it available over the internet too so you'd get the best of both worlds.
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I have a 16 gig usb key, which I bought for £17 including postage in the UK. You can pretty put the entire works of Stravinsky, lossless, on it. That's a whole guy's career - over 6 decades of pretty much daily work. 10 years of typing is nothing.
It was lucky that his lack of backups was in addition to not having encrypted data on his laptop. He also didn't look after the laptop very well. If I were him I'd be making a copy of the data on his usb key in case he loses that as well!
Yes, they can choose which Android device they want, from £80 pay as you go phones through £400 HTC Desire-style high end smart phones, and tablets.
also the agent, between writer and publisher, who'll know all about the above plus handling stuff like merchandise/exclusivity deals/other markets etc. To write a book you need a pen and paper (or a pc and printer). To make a living from it you need a little more.
You're the DBA - do what you do best, and start Googling! :)
You're right. The headline should have named you, and quoted from your thoughts, because this is your blog, and your opinion is highly relevant to people other than your mother.
> there is a lot of legacy code that depends on it.
Like..you know, Linux, and Windows and stuff. Which language do you believe Operating Systems should be written in? Or drivers, games... you know, stuff that has to work, conform to meaningful standards, be fast, unencumbered with legal bullshit, etc?
It's a link to PC Pro - a crap, extremely pro-Microsoft magazine full of articles by `bubbly` excitable paid-by-the-word clowns. Nothing to see here, move along...
> But they had plenty of chances to lead.
They did the Kin, after all. Think of this as Kin 2!
> Funny, Adobe is one of the few companies worse at insecure bloat that Adobe. I'm not sure, but I think I'm frightened by this merger.
I'm not so sure - I think Adobe is far worse.
You're missing the point. They don't want a solution - they want to quickly look at some data, make a decision based on it, and move on. No-one's going to pay for/install an app; deploy stuff to a website etc. I can do the sql query, export to csv, import into Excel, spend 1 min on it and email it on. Done - on to my next task. Access is a piece of shit, and getting data from Oracle/SQL Server and putting it into Access is just bizarre, even if I could guarantee all end users would have it installed.
> Also, chances are, if you think any typical business data set is best represented by a spreadsheet, you are probably not qualified to make the call.
You're not qualified to make this call if you can't understand that I'm giving the users what they want, quickly and cheaply; they'd tell me if it wasn't any use. They want the numbers, not a "solution".
> The average North Korean doesn't have power, and isn't sure they'll have enough food to eat today.
Don't knock it, champ. Korean food is the dog's bollocks!
> This is not Facebook supporting weed.
Especially as neither of them work for Facebook.
All hell didn't break lose in Holland, and that's not changed anything elsewhere. Well, people witter out about 'drug tourism' but of course that doesn't happen if people can buy it anywhere. And again, we HAVE drug tourism in the UK, because people go to (mainland) Europe to stock up on cheaper alcohol/tobacco.
Yeah, it's really handy sometimes to select a bunch of records from a database, then paste it into a spreadsheet, where it's much more natural to do number crunching on it than doing it in a select statement. It's trivial to tweak the spreadsheet so people can click on columns to sort/group by different columns. 65000 is a stupid limit when you're looking, for example, sales in a chain of shops on a given day.
Yeah, sort of like how millions of black people are in prison, unable to vote/find work etc because they have a conviction for using harmless drugs, and that this fact is utterly ignored and hardly even discussed in the media.
Seriously, why allow them? Just get a damn account. It takes seconds and you can use a pretend name if you're worried that people are going to sue you for leaking secrets or whatever. If people can't be bothered to get an account then they get to treat Slashdot as read only.
Yeah, the devs need to check out Dolphin HD. It needs to be better than that, not worse. Gestures, multi-tab, plug ins, flash etc etc, installable to SD, data saved on SD, multitouch.
It's amusing that this is coming out just as I'm giving up Firefox on the desktop (after about 8 years of using it) for Chrome.
Imagine the power of Microsoft's experience in insecure bloat, and Adobes undisputed skill in...owning Flash, we can look forward to bloated, insecure flash.
Wait, what?
A single source? What would that prove?
It's self evident. Suppose you go and demonstrate that "most" employers either do pay adjustments at other intervals, or not at all?
Also, this was speculated about elsewhere - has been for years. Does this guy have any proof? It's a great thing to claim, and may let NSA/GCHQ apologists experience a warm feeling that they're ahead of the curve, but back in real life they seem unable to prevent stuff like 9/11, or even predict Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
Orange sucks. I work in central london and there is no data most of the time. They're merging with TMobile so perhaps they'll sort out the masts, in case that helps at all.
There's a legal problem. They might sort it out. You never know - Skype might release an Android client that doesn't suck. How do I log out? How do I quit? Why is the app so big? Why can't I move it to the SD card? Why do the official versions of these sorts of things (Skype, Facebook, Twitter etc) always suck loads more than unofficial versions?
I think, if the DVD comes with a either a raisin detre or a cinnamon whirl I'll be pretty happy.
This is why it would be nice if there were a parallel internet existing on Wifi, fed from people's internet connections, but which would still contain a network of shared files which are obviously available even if the internet went away for a bit. You might as well make this a darknet, and make it available over the internet too so you'd get the best of both worlds.