But it's true. Run VSS long enough, with enough files in it, maybe forget to do your weekly chkdsk (whatever that VSS utility is called, you know the one that can take all weekend to check a large database and fix some obscure internal inconsistencies) and VSS will eventually screw up and file lossage will ensue. It's happend to two different compaies where I have worked.
I've used Visual Source Safe and a couple of other source control systems. The argument to make is "should we use source control" and the answer is yes, it's one of the practices that separates a professional software developer from an amateur.
As for VSS, nice GUI, but the back end occasionally messes things up. The fundamental design of the system is that the back end is just a file share, the front end does all the work of interpreting all those bizarre little files stored on the server. So one bad client that crashes or goes haywire can mess the data store up for everybody. Very smart - not. The consequence for this is that if you run VSS on any significant scale, you have to use the test and fix utility at least once a week if you want to keep those files. Even then the database can get itself in such a mess that it cannot fix itself. If you're lucky all you'll lose is old version history on a few files. So if you 100% require the version history to be kept for ever, this is not the product for you.
Another consequence is that VSS cannot be used across the Internet like perforce or CVS. Subversion is the new shiny, try that.
It is because anyone has the potential to get rich
A highly questionable point of view.
and start expousing their views through any means that they have available to them
So, you don't see the difference between "you might have a voice in 20 years time with hard work and loads of luck, with a probablity of around 1 in a million" and "you have a voice". What is with that particularly American point of view?
broadcasting signals over the EM airwaves are not free speech, they are tightly regulated and licensed because not everyone can have their own channel
True. But even on cable or in print, big media and big business is heard a thousand times as loudly as othe folk. That's not freedom of speech, though for some strange reason it is seen as such in the USA.
Repeal all donation restrictions and dismantle the FEC. Allow anyone (including foreigners and corporations) to finance any candidate in any amount
So, what you're saying is that if it's legalised it's no longer corruption? Sounds barking mad to me. Name one country that sucessfully operates in this manner.
regulations encompassing the Internet, even ones just on advertising, would have a chilling effect on free speech
What is with this American idea handing over a new medium to those with the most money (big media, big business lobbying) constitutes "a chilling effect on free speech"
I mean, TV works that way, just look at Fox and CNN for how rubbish news can be under "free speech".
the severe risk-intolerance that afflicts our space program, we've become a society of cowards, insisting on safety above all.
Strapping yourself to tons of explosives is never going to be a safe way to travel, so the culture of safety-first, carefull engineering, testing and double-checking and rigurous design methods is what allows those things to fly at all. It is not cowardice, just ensuring for more than a pretty explosion from the billion-dollar investment.
So, what exactly is the point of going to the moon, staying a week and then coming back? There must be one but I don't know it. America gave up for lack of interest last time 30 years ago, so why is that not going to happen this time? What's different?
it is the range of the magnetic induction field coming out of the reader to power the card
This is true.
Anecdote: During the early trials of the Oyster RFID transport card in London, there was a problem with passing buses dinging the accounts of people waiting at the stop who didn't get on that bus. The Solution was to reduce the power of the reader on the bus.
Do what I did - read Onion for five minutes, and smile vauggely. Read some of the meaty articles in Uncyclopedia for the same length of time, and gibber convulsively. See "Kitten Huffing" for instance.
I sucessfully returned a CD (Kasabian) to Amazon.co.uk
My main argument in returning the CD was that the CD attempted to install unknown software onto my pc without my consent when I inserted it, and said software did not come with any way of unistalling - after taking advice from geeky friends, I uninstalled this driver by reverting to the last system restore point.
Also at the time there was no indication of any copy protection on Amazon's product page.
If everyone did that, they'd soon get the message.
So are the effects negligible, or do they just take some time to damage hearing? And is the 93 dB for 2 hours per day limit being followed by the iPod generation? In many cases, I doubt it.
This is a similar comparison to the thoery that cell phones might give you some kind of brain cancer. It's still highly disputed
No, it isn't.
The theory that cell phones might increase the risk of brain tumours is unproven ans speculative at best, and luddite scaremongering at worst.
The link between prolonged exposeure to loud noises and later deafness is rock-solid. It's not a question of if it occurs, it's just a question of how loud, for how long is needed to make it happen, and how severe it will be as a result.
That may be the case, but that's not what they said. You have to wonder if the submitters of articles like this are so imprecise in their code. If they are coding geeks at all.
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But it's true. Run VSS long enough, with enough files in it, maybe forget to do your weekly chkdsk (whatever that VSS utility is called, you know the one that can take all weekend to check a large database and fix some obscure internal inconsistencies) and VSS will eventually screw up and file lossage will ensue. It's happend to two different compaies where I have worked.
I've used Visual Source Safe and a couple of other source control systems. The argument to make is "should we use source control" and the answer is yes, it's one of the practices that separates a professional software developer from an amateur.
As for VSS, nice GUI, but the back end occasionally messes things up. The fundamental design of the system is that the back end is just a file share, the front end does all the work of interpreting all those bizarre little files stored on the server. So one bad client that crashes or goes haywire can mess the data store up for everybody. Very smart - not. The consequence for this is that if you run VSS on any significant scale, you have to use the test and fix utility at least once a week if you want to keep those files. Even then the database can get itself in such a mess that it cannot fix itself. If you're lucky all you'll lose is old version history on a few files. So if you 100% require the version history to be kept for ever, this is not the product for you.
Another consequence is that VSS cannot be used across the Internet like perforce or CVS. Subversion is the new shiny, try that.
So, what you're saying is that based on 1 somple, civil war is the likely result of that policy?
It is because anyone has the potential to get rich
A highly questionable point of view.
and start expousing their views through any means that they have available to them
So, you don't see the difference between "you might have a voice in 20 years time with hard work and loads of luck, with a probablity of around 1 in a million" and "you have a voice". What is with that particularly American point of view?
Money does not corrupt a politician. Corporations and/or the wealthy do not harm anyone.
Do you always start your posts off with blatantly, insanely wrong statemnts?
broadcasting signals over the EM airwaves are not free speech, they are tightly regulated and licensed because not everyone can have their own channel
True. But even on cable or in print, big media and big business is heard a thousand times as loudly as othe folk. That's not freedom of speech, though for some strange reason it is seen as such in the USA.
Trite but true: Someone, please mod parent up and grandparent down.
Haha! I'm not in the USA, and have no desire to change that.
Repeal all donation restrictions and dismantle the FEC. Allow anyone (including foreigners and corporations) to finance any candidate in any amount
So, what you're saying is that if it's legalised it's no longer corruption? Sounds barking mad to me. Name one country that sucessfully operates in this manner.
regulations encompassing the Internet, even ones just on advertising, would have a chilling effect on free speech
What is with this American idea handing over a new medium to those with the most money (big media, big business lobbying) constitutes "a chilling effect on free speech"
I mean, TV works that way, just look at Fox and CNN for how rubbish news can be under "free speech".
You don't get the illusion of motion, you get actual motion by running around the warehouse.
But yeah, the temptation to squash people would be great. perhaps there could be "bugs" in the layout code.
But there's no oil on the moon!
the severe risk-intolerance that afflicts our space program, we've become a society of cowards, insisting on safety above all.
Strapping yourself to tons of explosives is never going to be a safe way to travel, so the culture of safety-first, carefull engineering, testing and double-checking and rigurous design methods is what allows those things to fly at all. It is not cowardice, just ensuring for more than a pretty explosion from the billion-dollar investment.
So, what exactly is the point of going to the moon, staying a week and then coming back? There must be one but I don't know it. America gave up for lack of interest last time 30 years ago, so why is that not going to happen this time? What's different?
it is the range of the magnetic induction field coming out of the reader to power the card
This is true.
Anecdote: During the early trials of the Oyster RFID transport card in London, there was a problem with passing buses dinging the accounts of people waiting at the stop who didn't get on that bus. The Solution was to reduce the power of the reader on the bus.
Do what I did - read Onion for five minutes, and smile vauggely. Read some of the meaty articles in Uncyclopedia for the same length of time, and gibber convulsively. See "Kitten Huffing" for instance.
I sucessfully returned a CD (Kasabian) to Amazon.co.uk
My main argument in returning the CD was that the CD attempted to install unknown software onto my pc without my consent when I inserted it, and said software did not come with any way of unistalling - after taking advice from geeky friends, I uninstalled this driver by reverting to the last system restore point.
Also at the time there was no indication of any copy protection on Amazon's product page.
If everyone did that, they'd soon get the message.
So? .Net has those XML comments too, it's not the same thing. .Net was the first with attribute-based user-extensible run-time metadata.
According to the inventor he can produce the biodiesel fuel at the cost of about $0.30 (US) per liter.
That should read "$0.30 per litter". Typical slashdot editorial laxness!
Bite my shiny metal ass.
The "I did it and I'm Ok so it must be safe" attitude really is pretentious garbage. If you can't see that, get lost and go deaf already.
So are the effects negligible, or do they just take some time to damage hearing? And is the 93 dB for 2 hours per day limit being followed by the iPod generation? In many cases, I doubt it.
This is a similar comparison to the thoery that cell phones might give you some kind of brain cancer. It's still highly disputed
No, it isn't.
The theory that cell phones might increase the risk of brain tumours is unproven ans speculative at best, and luddite scaremongering at worst.
The link between prolonged exposeure to loud noises and later deafness is rock-solid. It's not a question of if it occurs, it's just a question of how loud, for how long is needed to make it happen, and how severe it will be as a result.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
And some submitters seem to work in fields that don't require any exactness or rigour at all, such as marketing and PR?
That may be the case, but that's not what they said. You have to wonder if the submitters of articles like this are so imprecise in their code. If they are coding geeks at all.