This only works if you are the only person touching the database. If you are working on any large scale application where multiple different programs use your database ensuring referential integrity is a must. Sure if only one application is touching your data you can forget about all the nice things that databases do, and gain a considerable speed advantage, but at that point why not just use flat files they are even faster.
The entire point of this argument though is that any competent developer already checks for all of the cases they can think of, so any unit test they write will automatically pass their code. You need someone with fresh ideas to write a test that actually has a chance of failing. On the other hand if you have incompetent programmers who write unit tests they know will fail because they didn't check for one series of events... why would they not fix the code before writing the test? Meaning that once again the only thing the unit tests will detect are things they have already anticipated.
The benefit I have found for unit tests is defensive programming. If I write a test that proves my code works, and some other person breaks it so my test doesn't pass then its not my fault. But, that sort of thinking leads to serious friction inside your department.
How do you guys consider the amendments and the judges and all that.
Mostly we don't. That is why political ads are so huge here most of the electorate don't take any time to decide how to vote.
My wife for instance votes for people she thinks have nice sounding names. As for amendments, etc. there is short summary of it on the ballot, I get the feeling that is all most people have read about it. I've often wondered if it would be possible to sneak through a really nasty amendment by making sure that the nasty parts of it aren't in the little summary.
However you then have the same problem that your record collection has. Lots of records, and no way to play them on modern equipment (Yes I realize they still make record players, even ones that use lasers instead of needles.) I can still use my old record player, and you can use your IPOD forever. However, new technology does obsolete old technology time to time.
Actually international law covers space. IANAL but no nation owns the space above them, just the air space. Though, there is no definition of where airspace stops and outerspace begins.
Because I like to drive long distances, for trips for instance. Right now, when my tank is empty I can fill it up in a few moments and drive on. If it takes to long to recharge, I'll have to stop for the night when my capacitor runs down.
But the whole point of the post that started this thread was that with the magically increased capacity of the new disks the xbox 360 would have just as much disk space as the PS3 and would therefore be able to have big games. This is not the case. For the foreseeable future the 360 will be forced to store games on DVD capacity media, and therefore will need to hae either smaller games OR multi-disk games. (Assumming games expand to fill all available room, which they ALWAYS have in the past, and so I assume will continue to.)
And to forstall 360 fan boys, yes I realize that procedural generation of textures, and new video compression codecs will allow much more complex games to be stored in the same amount of space... I don't care. I assume SOMETHING will appear to take up that space.
You didn't read it correctly. A DVD player (which is what the 360 has) will still only be able to read from the DVD layers of the disk. Since no 360's have HD-DVD players all of the current owners would need to buy new ones to take advatnage of this new space.
But the whole point is that the 360 can't read those high def layers no matter what you do UNLESS the 360 comes out with a new version (360-2) with an HD drive. In which case both would be able to read the same disks, etc. But, if you already own a 360 you will still need to buy a new one for HD content.
Of course if your really worried about CO2, then you really have nothing to worry about incenerators. If I burn a plant I just release the carbon it had stored in it when it died, the carbon it took out of the environment. This is the same carbon I would exhale if I ate it. Its all part of the carbon cycle. The only time you get a net increase in the amount of carbon is when you dig up carbon burried millions of years ago, and release it into the air, hence the problems with oil, and coal.
Ignoring the subtle personal attack, the point of my post is that medium sized businesses do not need to run VBA to live. Your example could also be done with a quick perl script. If your company did decide to migrate to MAC, and Open Office you could easily afford to have a coder spend the few hours it would take to bang up something that did your web submits, or you could contact the person who makes the web form and have them make there site more user friendly (my company actually did this, if someone values your business enough they will make your life easier).
I must not be in my right mind then, I have yet to see any compeling reason for VBA, other than a few Excel macros that don't really need to exist anyway (helping my users copy and paste for those days that dragging a mouse is to much for them). In a medium size bussiness (150 computer using emploees) macros simplyaren't that important.
The problem is that people will still call for support, and pretend that they never saw the warning / its the manufacturers fault for letting them do it, etc. I've seen people do it before and I will see it again.
But thats the point, IF google pays its ISP and I pay my ISP why should google also have to pay my ISP? In theory I have already payed for the bandwidth I am using why should Verizon get to charge google to use the bandwidth I payed for? This is where the lack of net neutrality falls down.
I have some great news for you them. There is a floor amount before the government sees anything. On a federal level that floor is at $2 million. State taxes vary from state to state b ut in New York, for example, the floor is $1 million. This article is one of the sources I found from a quick google search.
All high prices really do is create negative publicity for those, like myself, who work in the industry... subtract $20/barrel of oil or $2.00/mcfe gas and the industry still makes money, is still stable (read: not crashing), and the public doesn't hate us.
And that really is the point. It doesn't matter how much bad publicity the oil industry has, fo now it is the ONLY game in town, if you need to drive significantly you need gas.
I do currently dirve fuel efficent cars, and am saving up for a hybrid, but it still hurts the rest of the economy, until trucks are converted to run on something less expensive shipping costs will continue to rise, meaning goods for sale will continue to get more expensive.
The ill will felt twords the oil industry can be traced back to what you just said, if at $20.00 / barrel of oil they could still make a profit and have a stable industry, then the only reason they charge so much is to make more profits. That sucks for those of us trapped paying for it.
Democrats bitch about oil prices, yet their laws are the cause.
Who has a majority in the house and senate? Who controls the presidency? Who controls the scotus?
All in republican hands. So I would guess the only laws that exist anymore are Republican laws.
So yea we do get to bitch. Under Clinton life was very good, then the neo-cons came along and everything went to hell.
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Yes, but I assumed in that situation there is no DBA just people who are misusing a database.
This only works if you are the only person touching the database. If you are working on any large scale application where multiple different programs use your database ensuring referential integrity is a must. Sure if only one application is touching your data you can forget about all the nice things that databases do, and gain a considerable speed advantage, but at that point why not just use flat files they are even faster.
The entire point of this argument though is that any competent developer already checks for all of the cases they can think of, so any unit test they write will automatically pass their code. You need someone with fresh ideas to write a test that actually has a chance of failing. On the other hand if you have incompetent programmers who write unit tests they know will fail because they didn't check for one series of events... why would they not fix the code before writing the test? Meaning that once again the only thing the unit tests will detect are things they have already anticipated.
The benefit I have found for unit tests is defensive programming. If I write a test that proves my code works, and some other person breaks it so my test doesn't pass then its not my fault. But, that sort of thinking leads to serious friction inside your department.
How do you guys consider the amendments and the judges and all that.
Mostly we don't. That is why political ads are so huge here most of the electorate don't take any time to decide how to vote.
My wife for instance votes for people she thinks have nice sounding names. As for amendments, etc. there is short summary of it on the ballot, I get the feeling that is all most people have read about it. I've often wondered if it would be possible to sneak through a really nasty amendment by making sure that the nasty parts of it aren't in the little summary.
However you then have the same problem that your record collection has. Lots of records, and no way to play them on modern equipment (Yes I realize they still make record players, even ones that use lasers instead of needles.) I can still use my old record player, and you can use your IPOD forever. However, new technology does obsolete old technology time to time.
Its the time machine that The Doctor rides around in.
(Who is The Doctor? He is the main charatcter of the british Sci-Fi show, Doctor Who.)
More importantly maybe the cost that sony is cutting is the cost to pay immersion to use the patented technology.
People yes, but not this person.
Actually international law covers space. IANAL but no nation owns the space above them, just the air space. Though, there is no definition of where airspace stops and outerspace begins.
So now I have gigabytes of ram for storing uncompressed textures? Why not just use a higher capacity drive?
Because I like to drive long distances, for trips for instance. Right now, when my tank is empty I can fill it up in a few moments and drive on. If it takes to long to recharge, I'll have to stop for the night when my capacitor runs down.
But the whole point of the post that started this thread was that with the magically increased capacity of the new disks the xbox 360 would have just as much disk space as the PS3 and would therefore be able to have big games. This is not the case. For the foreseeable future the 360 will be forced to store games on DVD capacity media, and therefore will need to hae either smaller games OR multi-disk games. (Assumming games expand to fill all available room, which they ALWAYS have in the past, and so I assume will continue to.) And to forstall 360 fan boys, yes I realize that procedural generation of textures, and new video compression codecs will allow much more complex games to be stored in the same amount of space... I don't care. I assume SOMETHING will appear to take up that space.
You didn't read it correctly. A DVD player (which is what the 360 has) will still only be able to read from the DVD layers of the disk. Since no 360's have HD-DVD players all of the current owners would need to buy new ones to take advatnage of this new space.
But the whole point is that the 360 can't read those high def layers no matter what you do UNLESS the 360 comes out with a new version (360-2) with an HD drive. In which case both would be able to read the same disks, etc. But, if you already own a 360 you will still need to buy a new one for HD content.
Of course if your really worried about CO2, then you really have nothing to worry about incenerators. If I burn a plant I just release the carbon it had stored in it when it died, the carbon it took out of the environment. This is the same carbon I would exhale if I ate it. Its all part of the carbon cycle. The only time you get a net increase in the amount of carbon is when you dig up carbon burried millions of years ago, and release it into the air, hence the problems with oil, and coal.
Finally enough addressable RAM that you can have more than one virtual server with a decent amount of ram.
Ignoring the subtle personal attack, the point of my post is that medium sized businesses do not need to run VBA to live. Your example could also be done with a quick perl script. If your company did decide to migrate to MAC, and Open Office you could easily afford to have a coder spend the few hours it would take to bang up something that did your web submits, or you could contact the person who makes the web form and have them make there site more user friendly (my company actually did this, if someone values your business enough they will make your life easier).
I must not be in my right mind then, I have yet to see any compeling reason for VBA, other than a few Excel macros that don't really need to exist anyway (helping my users copy and paste for those days that dragging a mouse is to much for them). In a medium size bussiness (150 computer using emploees) macros simplyaren't that important.
The problem is that people will still call for support, and pretend that they never saw the warning / its the manufacturers fault for letting them do it, etc. I've seen people do it before and I will see it again.
But thats the point, IF google pays its ISP and I pay my ISP why should google also have to pay my ISP? In theory I have already payed for the bandwidth I am using why should Verizon get to charge google to use the bandwidth I payed for? This is where the lack of net neutrality falls down.
I have some great news for you them. There is a floor amount before the government sees anything. On a federal level that floor is at $2 million. State taxes vary from state to state b ut in New York, for example, the floor is $1 million. This article is one of the sources I found from a quick google search.
And that really is the point. It doesn't matter how much bad publicity the oil industry has, fo now it is the ONLY game in town, if you need to drive significantly you need gas.
I do currently dirve fuel efficent cars, and am saving up for a hybrid, but it still hurts the rest of the economy, until trucks are converted to run on something less expensive shipping costs will continue to rise, meaning goods for sale will continue to get more expensive.
The ill will felt twords the oil industry can be traced back to what you just said, if at $20.00 / barrel of oil they could still make a profit and have a stable industry, then the only reason they charge so much is to make more profits. That sucks for those of us trapped paying for it.
Who has a majority in the house and senate? Who controls the presidency? Who controls the scotus?
All in republican hands. So I would guess the only laws that exist anymore are Republican laws.
So yea we do get to bitch. Under Clinton life was very good, then the neo-cons came along and everything went to hell.
As an American IT worker who spent the last 8 years with fewer than 10 days off a week, I find it hard having any sympathy for you.