The promiry only matters if you are in the first couple of states that have theirs. Whether consiously or subconsiously, this effectivly decides who the rest of the states will choose.
While I agree with you post, I can't help but wonder how much of this electronic voting FUD is just fear-mongering or preperation by both sides to challange the result of the election.
I hope to God that the recount debacle of 2000 doesn't set a precident for all future elections. I fully expect something similar to occur in a few weeks.
HD-DVD sounds better. It takes two "technical" buzzwordish acronyms and combines them. The name alone tells what the product is.
Most people (including myself) wouldn't know what Blu-Ray is. Many initial adopters will buy it just because it's the latest and greatest and wouldn't take the time to research their format options. As far as they are concerned, HD-DVD is high definition DVD and you can't get any better then that.
Very true. I've looked at the html for secure pages before and some used some kind of "nocache" tag or somthing like this. Is this common? If it is then this shouldn't be a huge worry.
Bah... Pay no attention to the second paragraph. I didn't read the article and misread the part about the hardware being expensive. I still stand behind the first oen though.
He's a funny guy. How are they going to justify to customers that some general purpose software on $0.20 media costs more than a physical piece of hardware?
Oh please. That's going too far. Your aren't paying for the cd. You are paying for the time and skills of the hundreds or thousands of employees who wrote the software and maintain it.
It's all relative. There is logic to it. It appears to be expensive because the hardware is cheap. You don't put a $5000 stereo system in a $8000 Kia. At the same time, people who buy a $8000 Kia usually do so because they can't afford to spend more so they wouldn't spend the money on a stereo system anyway. I think both of those ideas play in here.
Integrating the OS and the worldwide search engine is a bad idea. It's even worse than the integration of IE and Windows, taking that mistake to its absurd conclusion. What happens when people learn to write Google viruses? The things could spread like fleas at a dog track.
I agree that it is a bad idea but I don't think viruses would be the reason. There'd be nothing to spread. You'd have centralized servers running the OS and all the client machines may or may not be affected. Google would just have to patch their servers in a timely manner. It'd be interesting to see how the clients would have to respond to this patching though. Would they force everyone to disconnect and "reboot" the os?
I was just using the terminology of the post I replied to. I'm not exactly sure what the standard is though I know MySQL has differences then the other implimentations that I have used.
All a sub-select does is instantiate a temporary table on the fly. You can, of course, instantiate a temporary table on the fly, so what is a sub-select buying you?
Can you? I seem to remember not being able to do that. It could just be the version I was using though. I meant that it is a huge thing for me because I use it very often.
You're showing your lack of depth here. By definition a system that lacks sub-selects lacks views (as views are just named sub-selects).
Perhaps so. I don't know the inner workings of it. That does make sense though.
That is huge. I used MySQL about 6 months ago (though it wasn't the most recent version.) I was very disappointed. I use subqueries extensively. Since these were not available, I ended up with messy and slow joins.
The non-standard SQL isn't too bad to figure out as long as you have google. There needs to be a SQL translator java applet or something.
In addition, the version that I used didn't support views. Is this fixed now?
Regardless, I gave it a chance. The next time I need database services for personal use I'm going with PostgreSQL.
I think this is a lot of the reason AMD is starting to pull ahead of intel. Intel was able to just increase the clock speed to make their chips "faster" than AMDs. AMD had to look for other methods to increase performance and perhaps they learned a bit along the way.
The CD thing is a neat idea. I wouldn't want to see it mailed out though. Perhaps send copies in bulk to computer stores and bookstores and get those stores to push the cds.
Getting 5% of the market is still a big piece of the pie for a small developer.
They aren't getting 5% of the market. No matter what they do, not all of their target audience will use the product.
Assume that you expect 20% (being generous) of the users in your target audience to use your product. Do it in Windows and have 19% of the total market or have 1% of the total market. It's not a hard choice.
Customer A needs to scan and OCR hard copy documents to upload them into our system. Of course they are not allowed to go down and buy a $200 HP scanner with this ability - instead they must wait for IS. IS has set up a $20,000 multi-fucntion scanner, but of course it does not do OCR. Of course there is an OCR program, but of course it is not certified for the current system image. 6 months on, over $30,000 in additional costs incurred - because IS can't provide OCR capability and won't allow a "renegade" install of a $200 HP scanner.
But of course....
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That Rob Pike dismissed the entire question out of hand leaves me with two more possible conclusions to yours: He's pro-IP patents...
That is indeed how I took it. Comparing them to nuclear weapons is extreme to him because he doesn't see them as a threat. I think he IS ansering the question in a short, yet distinct, manner. I doubt that he has any great fear of being flamed by several thousand geeks on a messageboard though.
If Linux isn't ready for the desktop, how did my otherwise computer illiterate ex-girlfriend start using it for web/email/AIM/wordproc? How do people who come over my house know how to use the 'weird' machine? How is it a more pleasant desktop experience than XP for most people who try it out on a managed (read: not the 'everything installed' default system)?
Unless she installed it, configured a late model ATI card, and maintains it then the point is moot. Anyone can sit down in front of a GUI and get somthing done. That's not the entire criteria for being ready for the desktop.
Yet there are sufficient examples of past Republican problems. So saying that people should be watching for CURRENT Republican problems is just fine. (and prudent)
I still disagree. I think it is wrong to single out one group here, whether it be the dems or pubs. I think it is very reasonable to make a broad statement saying to watch for any interference. Your reasoning just expand the rift between the political parties.
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The promiry only matters if you are in the first couple of states that have theirs. Whether consiously or subconsiously, this effectivly decides who the rest of the states will choose.
While I agree with you post, I can't help but wonder how much of this electronic voting FUD is just fear-mongering or preperation by both sides to challange the result of the election.
I hope to God that the recount debacle of 2000 doesn't set a precident for all future elections. I fully expect something similar to occur in a few weeks.
Just want to let you know that I thoroughly enjoyed that post.
What about ABC in the US?
HD-DVD sounds better. It takes two "technical" buzzwordish acronyms and combines them. The name alone tells what the product is.
Most people (including myself) wouldn't know what Blu-Ray is. Many initial adopters will buy it just because it's the latest and greatest and wouldn't take the time to research their format options. As far as they are concerned, HD-DVD is high definition DVD and you can't get any better then that.
you *never* have to give fingerprints in the UK unless you've been caught breaking the law...
Which is worse having a foreigners fingerprints taken when he enter the country or having cameras focused on all of your citizens in public places?
Well I'd rather deal with a loudmouth, annoying texan who at least has good intentions then someone like you.
Very true. I've looked at the html for secure pages before and some used some kind of "nocache" tag or somthing like this. Is this common? If it is then this shouldn't be a huge worry.
Bah... Pay no attention to the second paragraph. I didn't read the article and misread the part about the hardware being expensive. I still stand behind the first oen though.
He's a funny guy. How are they going to justify to customers that some general purpose software on $0.20 media costs more than a physical piece of hardware?
Oh please. That's going too far. Your aren't paying for the cd. You are paying for the time and skills of the hundreds or thousands of employees who wrote the software and maintain it.
It's all relative. There is logic to it. It appears to be expensive because the hardware is cheap. You don't put a $5000 stereo system in a $8000 Kia. At the same time, people who buy a $8000 Kia usually do so because they can't afford to spend more so they wouldn't spend the money on a stereo system anyway. I think both of those ideas play in here.
Integrating the OS and the worldwide search engine is a bad idea. It's even worse than the integration of IE and Windows, taking that mistake to its absurd conclusion. What happens when people learn to write Google viruses? The things could spread like fleas at a dog track.
I agree that it is a bad idea but I don't think viruses would be the reason. There'd be nothing to spread. You'd have centralized servers running the OS and all the client machines may or may not be affected. Google would just have to patch their servers in a timely manner. It'd be interesting to see how the clients would have to respond to this patching though. Would they force everyone to disconnect and "reboot" the os?
MySQL's SQL is quite standard
I was just using the terminology of the post I replied to. I'm not exactly sure what the standard is though I know MySQL has differences then the other implimentations that I have used.
All a sub-select does is instantiate a temporary table on the fly. You can, of course, instantiate a temporary table on the fly, so what is a sub-select buying you?
Can you? I seem to remember not being able to do that. It could just be the version I was using though. I meant that it is a huge thing for me because I use it very often.
You're showing your lack of depth here. By definition a system that lacks sub-selects lacks views (as views are just named sub-selects).
Perhaps so. I don't know the inner workings of it. That does make sense though.
No subselects
That is huge. I used MySQL about 6 months ago (though it wasn't the most recent version.) I was very disappointed. I use subqueries extensively. Since these were not available, I ended up with messy and slow joins.
The non-standard SQL isn't too bad to figure out as long as you have google. There needs to be a SQL translator java applet or something.
In addition, the version that I used didn't support views. Is this fixed now?
Regardless, I gave it a chance. The next time I need database services for personal use I'm going with PostgreSQL.
While OS X doesn't support DX9...
Apple needs to get its act together then. Seriously...
The GP never said nor implied that
In other words, Tom's site is worthless.
I was fine until there. One bad review or a bit of wrong information does not make a site worthless.
I think this is a lot of the reason AMD is starting to pull ahead of intel. Intel was able to just increase the clock speed to make their chips "faster" than AMDs. AMD had to look for other methods to increase performance and perhaps they learned a bit along the way.
The CD thing is a neat idea. I wouldn't want to see it mailed out though. Perhaps send copies in bulk to computer stores and bookstores and get those stores to push the cds.
That's true but money wasn't mentioned anywhere. The original poster was talking about getting a 5% marketshare. I just expanded on that.
Getting 5% of the market is still a big piece of the pie for a small developer.
They aren't getting 5% of the market. No matter what they do, not all of their target audience will use the product.
Assume that you expect 20% (being generous) of the users in your target audience to use your product. Do it in Windows and have 19% of the total market or have 1% of the total market. It's not a hard choice.
Customer A needs to scan and OCR hard copy documents to upload them into our system. Of course they are not allowed to go down and buy a $200 HP scanner with this ability - instead they must wait for IS. IS has set up a $20,000 multi-fucntion scanner, but of course it does not do OCR. Of course there is an OCR program, but of course it is not certified for the current system image. 6 months on, over $30,000 in additional costs incurred - because IS can't provide OCR capability and won't allow a "renegade" install of a $200 HP scanner.
But of course....
That Rob Pike dismissed the entire question out of hand leaves me with two more possible conclusions to yours: He's pro-IP patents...
That is indeed how I took it. Comparing them to nuclear weapons is extreme to him because he doesn't see them as a threat. I think he IS ansering the question in a short, yet distinct, manner. I doubt that he has any great fear of being flamed by several thousand geeks on a messageboard though.
Is this location customizable? If not, it wouldn't work very well for folks who partition their systems up and have a small C drive.
If Linux isn't ready for the desktop, how did my otherwise computer illiterate ex-girlfriend start using it for web/email/AIM/wordproc? How do people who come over my house know how to use the 'weird' machine? How is it a more pleasant desktop experience than XP for most people who try it out on a managed (read: not the 'everything installed' default system)?
Unless she installed it, configured a late model ATI card, and maintains it then the point is moot. Anyone can sit down in front of a GUI and get somthing done. That's not the entire criteria for being ready for the desktop.
Yet there are sufficient examples of past Republican problems. So saying that people should be watching for CURRENT Republican problems is just fine. (and prudent)
I still disagree. I think it is wrong to single out one group here, whether it be the dems or pubs. I think it is very reasonable to make a broad statement saying to watch for any interference. Your reasoning just expand the rift between the political parties.