I've been working on some projects that will access multiple db servers and took a different approach to it. Since most db servers have different advanced commands, I decided to write specificly for each while making everything else the same. Basicly I create a different project for each db and using conditional defines I keep all access to the database in its own files. So if talking to ms sql I have a complete set of functionality that deals with ms sql. For oracle I have a different set of functionality, and so on for each server. I end up with a different program for each db server.
If you are never going to have a large set of users hitting the sql server at once then it should be ok to go generic, but if the user base is going to be larger then I don't see how you can avoid using db server specific commands to increase performance and minimise overworking the server.
I'm sure there are other easier ways to pull it off but I like quality and feel the extra work is justified to make it run well on every server I choose to support. Hope this gives you some help in figuring out what you want to do.
you know, its amazing. I walked outside of work and low and behold on the sidewalks of Baltimore, MD is thousands of black spots. I never noticed how many there were before.
But from the many times I've stepped in the chewing gum...I don't think there is any mystery here.
Actually they said shrinks over time. Supposedly, although they didn't show a pic of one, it starts at up to 6 inches and then goes down to the size of a half dollar coin.
Actually, I'm not saying it isn't happening, just that they talk about it on the sidewalk, but not on the cars, or getting on people. It was a bit week on details. But IF it was something that was falling from the sky then it should be on just about everything that isn't covered up.
First step in figuring any problem out is to determine what is and isn't possible. So if its not on the cars..isn't falling on people...ect. If its only on sidewalks (and I'm assuming the roads) then it would seem to be something that is either accumulating and condension on the ground, or being dropped by people.
Now what would be really cool is to integrate the Clear case with an aquarium....all the extra space not used could have a fish tank built in it...then the fish could be swimming in the working computer....
But what about subnet masks? and then there is a small issue of security. I would think that it would be easier to have a program that the users would run when at the hotel (provided by the hotel) that would make the configuration changes for the user and when the program was stoped it would revert the setting to the original...
Since allot of people run windows creating a windows program to save and set the tcp/ip settings shouldn't be that hard. And quiting the program would put the info back...
I think that would be a much easier solution since it would not harm the users machine and still allow them to use the internet with little to no hassles.
The artical was short, and missing one major detail...What is it? If it was considered unstable, but now seems to be stable, wonderfull, but does it have an usefull purposes? I want the modified sugar molecule that has the proper atoms reversed so the body doesn't process it....Now that would be usefull. We could have all the sweet things we crave and never gain weight for it.
If they figure that one out that would be worth a nobel prize.
Do you honestly think the head of the RIAA cares what the consumer or the musicians want? Their only concern is end line profits. CD single sales taking away from full cd sales....make them buy the whole thing.
Nothing about this is for the enjoyment of the consumer, just the increase in profits of the RIAA...so no one there will even care what we think. They will throw more money at legislation to get it to where they can put people in jail for not doing things thier way. Which is buying a separate cd for each device you want to us it in. If they really believe in the bs they are telling everyone then I should be able to go to my local music store with all my old vinal records and trade them in for cd's at minimal cost. But so far if I want a cd version of something I have on record then I have to pay full price for it.
So if I'm paying for content why do I keep having to pay for format also.
I just won't buy thier cd's anymore. I have over 400 audio cd's...I'll buy from the smaller lables, but not the big ones any more. There are about 6 cd's I'd like to have, but I'm not paying them $15 a piece for what cost them less than a $1 or two to make. The artist wouldn't get the money, so I'm not really hurting them. But I'll live without them before I buy something that I can't use. Right now I only have 1 audio cd player...a portable one. I listen to all my music ripped and on the computer. So if they protect it and I can't play it on the computer then it becomes worthless.
Cassette tapes cost $2 more to make than a cd. And cd's average about $5+ more than tapes. Why doesn't anyone bring that up when they are whining they might have lost a few million out of billions every quarter...
And now they want to make it so I can't play it on my computer. Really makes me want to go out and buy more audio cd's.
Hydrogen gas has been hailed as the ultimate clean fuel, as it produces only water when burned.
Am I the only one that finds fault in this statemtent? I'm not saying that burning H doesn't produce H2O....But where does the O (oxygen) come from? The air!....well, now I know we are not running out of air, but now lets just figure that if we reduce the ammount of air, and increase the ammount of water. Now having excess clean watter isn't a bad thing, but also think of how the weather and ecologies of any areas which would be drasticly changed by more excess mosture in the atmosphere. Not to mention the water levels would rise. Sound almost as self destructive as poluting the air.
well, since open source people are helping in developing protacols I'm waiting for one in a similar vein as vpn...but not so restrictive. Riding on the top of tcp/ip. Kind of a net within the net. Then it could be used for usefull things like email, irc, ect...but without all the commercialized crap that we deal with now. Even/. is thowing in pop up adds.
Besides, if M$ and the other big companies get their way and it puts me and millions of other programmers out of work because of the new laws, you don't think I'll be ammong the rest of the millions in the biggest class action suit in history?
Congressmen can be bought, but before it would ever get that bad I know it would go to the supreme court, and I doubt that locking out all other programmers from creating programs will be considered constitutional. Not to mention all the businesses that need the small contractors to create the custom software they need to perform their job better. The current project I'm working on is to replace an old dos paradox system that is 13 years old. And if you would have heard some of the backup plans they were comming up with to replace the dos system until the new program is done...well, lets just say that its a good thing I could bring it back to life for a while longer.
Most companies that handle thousands of clients with 20+ people can't create an access throw together and expect it to work. They are rather clueless when it comes to databases at all. So if the govt were to make it illegal for me to write software who would be using m$ sql server? Since it doesn't have a default system for data entry...it would be quite worthless. (actually its pretty worthless as it is, too bad it was paid for before I came allong)
Anyway, I can't believe that it will get quite that bad, and there will always be some way to get arround whatever mess they come up with. And I doubt they can arrest millions of programmers and not have some consequences from it.
3) The internet gets so bad, that the geeks create decentralised, efficient, free-floating network partially on top of the existing network, partially outside of it, and it all begins again
well, with p2p going so big, I think that is the first step to a new generation of networks riding on the top of the current one. But I'd bet there would be quite a few happen close to the same time, and with one or two becoming dominant.
Should prove to be interesting.
If ignorance is bliss, the world is full of blissfull people.
Well, I'd only be willing to use it if it was open source....for a completely different reason than most people would think. Now we all know from time to time there has been subliminal messages here and there to try and sell items to people. Now think of the marketing potential of a program that would flash stuff into peoples minds as they sat in front of the computer.
Very scary thought of someone being able to pump something into my mind I don't want...so I'd have to be able to see source of that so I would know it wasn't going to make me want to buy the latest version of windows xp....
just a note....dvd encryption has the decryption key at the front of the dvd. So basicly the only thing the encryption does is make the dvd player device work harder to play it, and it puts money into the hands of the people who hold the encryption license.
If you were to copy a dvd from original to a blank it would play just fine in most dvd players. but at $25 a blank its cheaper to buy the movie.
What if people took all the polititians email addresses from their web sites and put them in to every "win big" and other sites that you know sell and spam/abuse the information. If the lawmakers offices are continually flooded with spam and junk mail maybe then they would concider it worth stopping.
Just a though, but wouldn't personal info belong to the person, and by a company selling that information, wouldn't the person who owns that information (namely the person who's info is being sold) be entitled to royalties? I mean if a company took someones picture and used it in an add then that person could sue the company placing the add. Unless they got permission. So why is personal info so much difference than a picture, or a voice?
I'd like 20 cents for every time my name address and phone # has been sold...I could buy a couple new toys for my computer.
Thinner would be good...but cheaper too. I'd pay $20 for a 200-250 page book that was specific to a certain area. So instead of one monster book that doubles as a weapon or door stop...make it 4 or 5 books. But keep the price within reason of what it covers.
This would also alow people to buy the sections they actually want without the sections they already know or have no interest in. I have quite a few books that 1/4 of them are repetitive to the others of the same type. I really haven't done more than skimmed one or two of those sections.
If I could by books more towards what I want to learn or need to know...that would be nice.
"Windows XP" is something new, "Windows 5.1" is just another minor upgrade.
Actually, I'd call XP a downgrade. Adding bugs to a version of windows which came close to being stable could never be an upgrade.
If I want fancy themed window borders I'll jump over to linux and kde and have all I want. If I want to waste cpu time I've got plenty of utilities that will eat it and give me pretty little items to look at as it kills it. If I want things hidden from me I'll just turn on cspan and watch congress.
Done well, this has the potential to be really cool. I doubt it will be done well.
Currently I am developing an app (windows) that uses MS SQL 7 (the client had already paid for it). Now I've worked with oracle, and some small apps for interbase, and so I have a reasonable comparison between them.
Currently I work extra hard on the programming side to make up for the lack of functionality on the ms sql server side. And without some drastic changes to the way sql server handles bianary fields then it will never work well.
But if M$ wishes to slow down the filing system and add quite a bit of overhead...who am I to complain? I just won't use it.
SQL Server has a transaction log that if not properly maintained (reduced) will quickly exceed the actual size of the data in the database. I will say that a transaction log and the ability to undo a major screw up or crash would be nice, but how much hard drive space will be consumed to have that functionality?
After playing with XP, I'm not holding out any hope for the next version of windows. They might dream it...but the only way other people will agree with them is if they share whatever they took to get to those dreams. M$ os's make me a decent living, but it doesn't mean I have to love everything they do...actually w2k is about the only os they have made that I can deal with.
I wonder if they are planning on a 64bit version of it....will it crash harder and faster than a 32bit version?
This post is completely off topic, I just coun't leave it alone.
I'll make this one simple statement. M$ has copied, bought, stolen, most of the ideas they have. KDE & Gnome had fancy themes that could change the window borders...Oh look, xp now has themes with changable window borders. Innovation? Theft? Is stealling the idea illegal? In this case, probably not. But to give M$ credit for being wonderfull and they program so well. So why is it that, I, as a programmer, for windows, have so many problems working with M$ produced code. Is it my fault that thier COM control bombs out half the time using "well documented" fetures? Is it my fault that the latest update or version of office changes 5 of the api's I've been using and breaks my program? Of course according to M$ this should never be done, by me, but its ok for them.
Get off the "I love M$" kick. No one here is going to buy it. I think w2k is great but the actions of M$ are still wrong.
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I've been working on some projects that will access multiple db servers and took a different approach to it. Since most db servers have different advanced commands, I decided to write specificly for each while making everything else the same. Basicly I create a different project for each db and using conditional defines I keep all access to the database in its own files. So if talking to ms sql I have a complete set of functionality that deals with ms sql. For oracle I have a different set of functionality, and so on for each server. I end up with a different program for each db server.
If you are never going to have a large set of users hitting the sql server at once then it should be ok to go generic, but if the user base is going to be larger then I don't see how you can avoid using db server specific commands to increase performance and minimise overworking the server.
I'm sure there are other easier ways to pull it off but I like quality and feel the extra work is justified to make it run well on every server I choose to support. Hope this gives you some help in figuring out what you want to do.
you know, its amazing. I walked outside of work and low and behold on the sidewalks of Baltimore, MD is thousands of black spots. I never noticed how many there were before.
But from the many times I've stepped in the chewing gum...I don't think there is any mystery here.
Actually they said shrinks over time. Supposedly, although they didn't show a pic of one, it starts at up to 6 inches and then goes down to the size of a half dollar coin.
Actually, I'm not saying it isn't happening, just that they talk about it on the sidewalk, but not on the cars, or getting on people. It was a bit week on details. But IF it was something that was falling from the sky then it should be on just about everything that isn't covered up.
First step in figuring any problem out is to determine what is and isn't possible. So if its not on the cars..isn't falling on people...ect. If its only on sidewalks (and I'm assuming the roads) then it would seem to be something that is either accumulating and condension on the ground, or being dropped by people.
Of course it just might not like cars..eheh
well, if its something falling from the sky then it should realisticly be on everything, including cars. Actually it should be getting on people also.
Goldfish are cheap.
Now what would be really cool is to integrate the Clear case with an aquarium....all the extra space not used could have a fish tank built in it...then the fish could be swimming in the working computer....
That would be cool...hehe
But what about subnet masks? and then there is a small issue of security. I would think that it would be easier to have a program that the users would run when at the hotel (provided by the hotel) that would make the configuration changes for the user and when the program was stoped it would revert the setting to the original...
Since allot of people run windows creating a windows program to save and set the tcp/ip settings shouldn't be that hard. And quiting the program would put the info back...
I think that would be a much easier solution since it would not harm the users machine and still allow them to use the internet with little to no hassles.
The artical was short, and missing one major detail...What is it? If it was considered unstable, but now seems to be stable, wonderfull, but does it have an usefull purposes? I want the modified sugar molecule that has the proper atoms reversed so the body doesn't process it....Now that would be usefull. We could have all the sweet things we crave and never gain weight for it.
If they figure that one out that would be worth a nobel prize.
Do you honestly think the head of the RIAA cares what the consumer or the musicians want? Their only concern is end line profits. CD single sales taking away from full cd sales....make them buy the whole thing.
Nothing about this is for the enjoyment of the consumer, just the increase in profits of the RIAA...so no one there will even care what we think. They will throw more money at legislation to get it to where they can put people in jail for not doing things thier way. Which is buying a separate cd for each device you want to us it in. If they really believe in the bs they are telling everyone then I should be able to go to my local music store with all my old vinal records and trade them in for cd's at minimal cost. But so far if I want a cd version of something I have on record then I have to pay full price for it.
So if I'm paying for content why do I keep having to pay for format also.
I just won't buy thier cd's anymore. I have over 400 audio cd's...I'll buy from the smaller lables, but not the big ones any more. There are about 6 cd's I'd like to have, but I'm not paying them $15 a piece for what cost them less than a $1 or two to make. The artist wouldn't get the money, so I'm not really hurting them. But I'll live without them before I buy something that I can't use. Right now I only have 1 audio cd player...a portable one. I listen to all my music ripped and on the computer. So if they protect it and I can't play it on the computer then it becomes worthless.
Ok, don't ranting...
Cassette tapes cost $2 more to make than a cd. And cd's average about $5+ more than tapes. Why doesn't anyone bring that up when they are whining they might have lost a few million out of billions every quarter...
And now they want to make it so I can't play it on my computer. Really makes me want to go out and buy more audio cd's.
Hydrogen gas has been hailed as the ultimate clean fuel, as it produces only water when burned.
Am I the only one that finds fault in this statemtent? I'm not saying that burning H doesn't produce H2O....But where does the O (oxygen) come from? The air!....well, now I know we are not running out of air, but now lets just figure that if we reduce the ammount of air, and increase the ammount of water. Now having excess clean watter isn't a bad thing, but also think of how the weather and ecologies of any areas which would be drasticly changed by more excess mosture in the atmosphere. Not to mention the water levels would rise. Sound almost as self destructive as poluting the air.
well, since open source people are helping in developing protacols I'm waiting for one in a similar vein as vpn...but not so restrictive. Riding on the top of tcp/ip. Kind of a net within the net. Then it could be used for usefull things like email, irc, ect...but without all the commercialized crap that we deal with now. Even /. is thowing in pop up adds.
Besides, if M$ and the other big companies get their way and it puts me and millions of other programmers out of work because of the new laws, you don't think I'll be ammong the rest of the millions in the biggest class action suit in history?
Congressmen can be bought, but before it would ever get that bad I know it would go to the supreme court, and I doubt that locking out all other programmers from creating programs will be considered constitutional. Not to mention all the businesses that need the small contractors to create the custom software they need to perform their job better. The current project I'm working on is to replace an old dos paradox system that is 13 years old. And if you would have heard some of the backup plans they were comming up with to replace the dos system until the new program is done...well, lets just say that its a good thing I could bring it back to life for a while longer.
Most companies that handle thousands of clients with 20+ people can't create an access throw together and expect it to work. They are rather clueless when it comes to databases at all. So if the govt were to make it illegal for me to write software who would be using m$ sql server? Since it doesn't have a default system for data entry...it would be quite worthless. (actually its pretty worthless as it is, too bad it was paid for before I came allong)
Anyway, I can't believe that it will get quite that bad, and there will always be some way to get arround whatever mess they come up with. And I doubt they can arrest millions of programmers and not have some consequences from it.
3) The internet gets so bad, that the geeks create decentralised, efficient, free-floating network partially on top of the existing network, partially outside of it, and it all begins again
well, with p2p going so big, I think that is the first step to a new generation of networks riding on the top of the current one. But I'd bet there would be quite a few happen close to the same time, and with one or two becoming dominant.
Should prove to be interesting.
If ignorance is bliss, the world is full of blissfull people.
Well, I'd only be willing to use it if it was open source....for a completely different reason than most people would think. Now we all know from time to time there has been subliminal messages here and there to try and sell items to people. Now think of the marketing potential of a program that would flash stuff into peoples minds as they sat in front of the computer.
Very scary thought of someone being able to pump something into my mind I don't want...so I'd have to be able to see source of that so I would know it wasn't going to make me want to buy the latest version of windows xp....
just a note....dvd encryption has the decryption key at the front of the dvd. So basicly the only thing the encryption does is make the dvd player device work harder to play it, and it puts money into the hands of the people who hold the encryption license.
If you were to copy a dvd from original to a blank it would play just fine in most dvd players. but at $25 a blank its cheaper to buy the movie.
You could probably buy a couple more computers for your new toys as well.
I was trying to be moderate in my estimation. Thinking in realistic terms would just depress me...
There is a big cloud over my house....
...you know I really would have like to see my house from space.
What if people took all the polititians email addresses from their web sites and put them in to every "win big" and other sites that you know sell and spam/abuse the information. If the lawmakers offices are continually flooded with spam and junk mail maybe then they would concider it worth stopping.
Just a though, but wouldn't personal info belong to the person, and by a company selling that information, wouldn't the person who owns that information (namely the person who's info is being sold) be entitled to royalties? I mean if a company took someones picture and used it in an add then that person could sue the company placing the add. Unless they got permission. So why is personal info so much difference than a picture, or a voice?
I'd like 20 cents for every time my name address and phone # has been sold...I could buy a couple new toys for my computer.
Oh, how my heart bleeds for the deprived residents of Vermont.
So how do I get Maryland to deprive me of my "offers" I'll suffer for if I don't get them?
Thinner would be good...but cheaper too. I'd pay $20 for a 200-250 page book that was specific to a certain area. So instead of one monster book that doubles as a weapon or door stop...make it 4 or 5 books. But keep the price within reason of what it covers.
This would also alow people to buy the sections they actually want without the sections they already know or have no interest in. I have quite a few books that 1/4 of them are repetitive to the others of the same type. I really haven't done more than skimmed one or two of those sections.
If I could by books more towards what I want to learn or need to know...that would be nice.
"Windows XP" is something new, "Windows 5.1" is just another minor upgrade.
Actually, I'd call XP a downgrade. Adding bugs to a version of windows which came close to being stable could never be an upgrade.
If I want fancy themed window borders I'll jump over to linux and kde and have all I want. If I want to waste cpu time I've got plenty of utilities that will eat it and give me pretty little items to look at as it kills it. If I want things hidden from me I'll just turn on cspan and watch congress.
Done well, this has the potential to be really cool. I doubt it will be done well.
Currently I am developing an app (windows) that uses MS SQL 7 (the client had already paid for it). Now I've worked with oracle, and some small apps for interbase, and so I have a reasonable comparison between them.
Currently I work extra hard on the programming side to make up for the lack of functionality on the ms sql server side. And without some drastic changes to the way sql server handles bianary fields then it will never work well.
But if M$ wishes to slow down the filing system and add quite a bit of overhead...who am I to complain? I just won't use it.
SQL Server has a transaction log that if not properly maintained (reduced) will quickly exceed the actual size of the data in the database. I will say that a transaction log and the ability to undo a major screw up or crash would be nice, but how much hard drive space will be consumed to have that functionality?
After playing with XP, I'm not holding out any hope for the next version of windows. They might dream it...but the only way other people will agree with them is if they share whatever they took to get to those dreams. M$ os's make me a decent living, but it doesn't mean I have to love everything they do...actually w2k is about the only os they have made that I can deal with.
I wonder if they are planning on a 64bit version of it....will it crash harder and faster than a 32bit version?
This post is completely off topic, I just coun't leave it alone.
I'll make this one simple statement. M$ has copied, bought, stolen, most of the ideas they have. KDE & Gnome had fancy themes that could change the window borders...Oh look, xp now has themes with changable window borders. Innovation? Theft? Is stealling the idea illegal? In this case, probably not. But to give M$ credit for being wonderfull and they program so well. So why is it that, I, as a programmer, for windows, have so many problems working with M$ produced code. Is it my fault that thier COM control bombs out half the time using "well documented" fetures? Is it my fault that the latest update or version of office changes 5 of the api's I've been using and breaks my program? Of course according to M$ this should never be done, by me, but its ok for them.
Get off the "I love M$" kick. No one here is going to buy it. I think w2k is great but the actions of M$ are still wrong.