I'm sorry, but why would you hold the dating services accountable at all?
Would you hold the ISPs that route scams (SPAM) through their routers?
It doesn't make any sense at all. The person responsible is the one committing the fraud. End of story. It doesn't matter what they used to help commit the crime. If you're so stupid as to wire money to someone you never met, thats really your own fault. These people need to get a brain.
To say that the regulations are not needed because the crimes are already illegal is a lot like saying that regulation of financial systems and institutions is irrelevant because tax evasion is already illegal. The point of regulating should be to help enforce what is already law (although I realise there are often other reasons for putting in regulations).
Wow, nice logical fallacy. There's a host of other financial crimes totally unrelated to tax evasion. Yet you attempt to lump all financial regulation together as something that is supposed to fight tax evasion. Come back when you have some kind of valid point, and can properly back it up.
It was released first (although Ingres/Postgres came before PostgreSQL, MySQL was released a year before PostgreSQL.)
Ok, so 'its working, why change.' Even though Postgres had many features required of a good relational database (ACID and all that jazz).
It has a better name.
Ya, there's a good reason. I'm going to buy that cell phone b/c its pretty, not because if has the features that I want.
PHP has always had great MySQL support.
When I first looked at PHP, it has Postgres Sql support... but thats was PHP3.
MySQL is simple, small, quick, and easy. Combining that with the PHP compatibility and it makes a perfect DB for smal Web apps, which are what more web apps are. Small.
If by web application you mean a discussion board, OK I'll concede that. But that wasn't the kind of site I spent a good portion of my career building.
Might as well use Access of FileMaker? Well,.. I don't know where to start to answer such an ignorant comment. So I won't.
Its valid comparison. Neither Access or Filemaker have transaction support, all three are based on flat files (which I think MySql just recently added support for other storage, but I believe you lose the 'fast' part of your argument). And just like Access and Filemaker, you trust MySql for data you don't really care about if you lose.
Cost HD Radio crucial time to market, while the satellite services snagged the early adopters and fans of niche formats.
People aren't just going to sat. for quality; they are going for commercial free music and access to content they can't get anywhere else. How HD radio changes the fact that terrestrial radio doesn't offer any niche formats is beyond me. There are no uncensored metal stations where I live; there are no trace stations where I live; its also nice to be able to listen to cnn, msnbc, fox news, and a host of others. Not to mention that any of the major markets I'm in, I KNOW where to go for traffic reports.
Is degrading existing terrestrial radio signals by decreasing signal range for FM and creating amazing levels of interference on adjacent frequencies.
Agreed this is a problem.
Doesn't entirely work. IBOC over AM is dead in the water (due to those interference issues combined with AM band propagation properties, the FCC is prohibiting IBOC (read digital) broadcasts in the AM band after dusk.
Last I heard, they had addresses the problems with AM. FWIW, AM stations already have to turn down the power at dusk.
The main downside to DAB is that it's new spectrum, and the terrestrial broadcasters didn't want to have to buy new spectrum.
One that I believe isn't even available to buy. Thats a pretty big show stopper if it can only work over that spectrum. The interfernce problems are mainly with the analog signals, and once those are phased out completely, there shouldn't be a problem.
Also, he does have to piss you know. Personally I have XM to listen to O&A, and I much rather have the commericals they have now compared to the commericals they used to have (and do have) on regular radio.
When they break, and those FreeFMers are listening to commerical after commerical, I hear few commericals (and better targeted ones) and some Worst Of.
So you'd rather go with a company that has less commerical free music channels, and a talentless hack shock jock (who cost them half a billion dollars, and only works 4 days a week)? One that doesn't even have a portable unit capable of receiving live broadcasts when undocked?
XM and Sirius music stations are *lower* quality than FM. This is widely known.
Funny, because XM sounds better than any FM channel I can get. most of the lower quailty complaints come from dopes that use the FM transmitter. The ideal solution is to hook the radio to the input of your head unit; I use the tape deck adapter, and it sounds great. I suspect this is because my deck understand Dolby, which the tape adpater outputs.
The sound quality is roughly on par with 96kbps MP3. Comparing to a 128kbps MP3 makes it obvious that the MP3 has higher sound quality.
Where exactly are you getting th 96kbps? Making it up i assume? Perhaps you haven't listened to either hooked up properly; that's usually the problem.
What many people do not know is that an alternative, High Definition Radio [GC], exists in most major US markets.
People aren't buying satillite for higher quality (although it IS), they are buying it for content (O&A, Stern, etc) and for commercial free music. Not just commerical free, but typically genres that are totally ignored by traditional radio and in a censor free format.
I wouldn't generalize so much. Your bank clients may not get it, but I did work on a project for Commerce Bank. They most certainly 'got it.' It was very refreshing. They actually demanded that we do all the 'right things' that we wanted to do anyway.
In a large organisation, with plenty of applications and developers, it becomes a DISADVANTAGE to have applications written in so many different languages. This is what annoys me about.NET. This is not an advantage, it creates a codebase where you have a collection of Jack of All Trade developers, and no consistency when it comes to support.
No, it doesn't creaet a codebase where you need to know multiple languages, you and your company do that. There's no reason you can't mandate C# for everything.
The advantage of so many languages is that developers from many different backgrounds can start.Net with a language they are already familiar with syntax-wise. All you need to do is learn about any differences and the framework.
A simple app that starts and stops services dosen't need something like.net. It doesn't even need VB6. A simple command script would do what you wanted.
No one is claiming you should write device drivers in.Net. Nor does it replace what can be done in a simple command script. But for applications which are complex and you must maintain, its an excellent choice.
Write a program, write it well, don't use a framework unless it actually benefits the program, not just because it's there. (Because who says it'll be on the client computer?)
You've obviously never used the.net framework, because it offers quote a bit that benefits the program.
And if users WANT to run your program, you'll make sure the framework is there. Or did you forget the time before which DX was included by default with the OS?
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Including managers? I'm not sure the new CFO would be required to do this. If they include high management, then certainly kudos are in order. Any idea if it truely applies to everyone?
"Documents and Settings" is supposed to be the/home equivelent. unfortunatly not all programs honor it, but most do. I think it was introduced in Win2k.
This is the model of software development that Microsoft has adopted from the start and customers can't seem to get enough of it.
Customers can't get enough of the fact that MS gave them exactly what they wanted. Speaking as a developer, their tools (VS) have improved steadly over the years, incorpating features I want and that make my job much easier. The same can be said for thier OS.
Security wasn't there because customers didn't want to pay for it. So MS gave them an insecure OS. Now customers realize security is important. So MS responds with more security. There's more security coming in Vista, and Win2k3 is pretty secure right out of the box, with jsut about everything extra disabled by default.
Your post is just MS bashing. MS gives customers what they want. Sometimes that's not good, because its not in the customers best interest (ie., no security..), but to say customers want crappy software is not accurate. They want good software that does what they want.
So you can't ever post if someone else has posted a viewpoint which agrees w/yours? Wow..
At any rate, I'm speaking from experience, having spent 7 years doing web applications exclusively. I no longer work for them (I left to move to another state), and although we were more expensive than some of our competition, we focused on 'doing it right.' Some customers left to come back later, others knew from day one that it was worth it to pay to do things right the first time.
I still talk to my friends their, and the company is doing very well. Your function as a vendor is not to give the customer exactly what they want, part of it is to educate them on why they should want something different (because in the end, it will work better). Its called 'managing the client.'
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I'm sorry, but why would you hold the dating services accountable at all?
Would you hold the ISPs that route scams (SPAM) through their routers?
It doesn't make any sense at all. The person responsible is the one committing the fraud. End of story. It doesn't matter what they used to help commit the crime. If you're so stupid as to wire money to someone you never met, thats really your own fault. These people need to get a brain.
To say that the regulations are not needed because the crimes are already illegal is a lot like saying that regulation of financial systems and institutions is irrelevant because tax evasion is already illegal. The point of regulating should be to help enforce what is already law (although I realise there are often other reasons for putting in regulations).
Wow, nice logical fallacy. There's a host of other financial crimes totally unrelated to tax evasion. Yet you attempt to lump all financial regulation together as something that is supposed to fight tax evasion. Come back when you have some kind of valid point, and can properly back it up.
It was released first (although Ingres/Postgres came before PostgreSQL, MySQL was released a year before PostgreSQL.)
.. I don't know where to start to answer such an ignorant comment. So I won't.
Ok, so 'its working, why change.' Even though Postgres had many features required of a good relational database (ACID and all that jazz).
It has a better name.
Ya, there's a good reason. I'm going to buy that cell phone b/c its pretty, not because if has the features that I want.
PHP has always had great MySQL support.
When I first looked at PHP, it has Postgres Sql support... but thats was PHP3.
MySQL is simple, small, quick, and easy. Combining that with the PHP compatibility and it makes a perfect DB for smal Web apps, which are what more web apps are. Small.
If by web application you mean a discussion board, OK I'll concede that. But that wasn't the kind of site I spent a good portion of my career building.
Might as well use Access of FileMaker? Well,
Its valid comparison. Neither Access or Filemaker have transaction support, all three are based on flat files (which I think MySql just recently added support for other storage, but I believe you lose the 'fast' part of your argument). And just like Access and Filemaker, you trust MySql for data you don't really care about if you lose.
Cost HD Radio crucial time to market, while the satellite services snagged the early adopters and fans of niche formats.
People aren't just going to sat. for quality; they are going for commercial free music and access to content they can't get anywhere else. How HD radio changes the fact that terrestrial radio doesn't offer any niche formats is beyond me. There are no uncensored metal stations where I live; there are no trace stations where I live; its also nice to be able to listen to cnn, msnbc, fox news, and a host of others. Not to mention that any of the major markets I'm in, I KNOW where to go for traffic reports.
Is degrading existing terrestrial radio signals by decreasing signal range for FM and creating amazing levels of interference on adjacent frequencies.
Agreed this is a problem.
Doesn't entirely work. IBOC over AM is dead in the water (due to those interference issues combined with AM band propagation properties, the FCC is prohibiting IBOC (read digital) broadcasts in the AM band after dusk.
Last I heard, they had addresses the problems with AM. FWIW, AM stations already have to turn down the power at dusk.
The main downside to DAB is that it's new spectrum, and the terrestrial broadcasters didn't want to have to buy new spectrum.
One that I believe isn't even available to buy. Thats a pretty big show stopper if it can only work over that spectrum. The interfernce problems are mainly with the analog signals, and once those are phased out completely, there shouldn't be a problem.
Sorry, I thought you were in Europe because you were whining that the US has a different HD radio format than Europe does.
I think my question still stands; why do you care if the US format is different than the European one?
Commerical free music != commerical free radio!
Also, he does have to piss you know. Personally I have XM to listen to O&A, and I much rather have the commericals they have now compared to the commericals they used to have (and do have) on regular radio.
When they break, and those FreeFMers are listening to commerical after commerical, I hear few commericals (and better targeted ones) and some Worst Of.
So you'd rather go with a company that has less commerical free music channels, and a talentless hack shock jock (who cost them half a billion dollars, and only works 4 days a week)? One that doesn't even have a portable unit capable of receiving live broadcasts when undocked?
Well, be my guest.
Actually XM may now reach Alaska, since XM also now broadcasts to Canada.
Can anyone confirm?
Why do you even care how the US broadcasts radio? Do you bring your radio from Europe to the US alot?
PostgreSQL is nice, but events leading up to now prevented it from being the de-facto standard over MySQL.
What events? Its something I never understood; might as well use Access or Filemaker.
XM and Sirius music stations are *lower* quality than FM. This is widely known.
Funny, because XM sounds better than any FM channel I can get. most of the lower quailty complaints come from dopes that use the FM transmitter. The ideal solution is to hook the radio to the input of your head unit; I use the tape deck adapter, and it sounds great. I suspect this is because my deck understand Dolby, which the tape adpater outputs.
The sound quality is roughly on par with 96kbps MP3. Comparing to a 128kbps MP3 makes it obvious that the MP3 has higher sound quality.
Where exactly are you getting th 96kbps? Making it up i assume? Perhaps you haven't listened to either hooked up properly; that's usually the problem.
What many people do not know is that an alternative, High Definition Radio [GC], exists in most major US markets.
People aren't buying satillite for higher quality (although it IS), they are buying it for content (O&A, Stern, etc) and for commercial free music. Not just commerical free, but typically genres that are totally ignored by traditional radio and in a censor free format.
Well, I'm sorry to hear you've worked with such short sighted clients then. My experience has mostly been the opposite though.
Really? c:\doc[tab]\user is hard to type?
OK, its not as simple as ~, so what? windows is a graphical OS, and most operations should be done via the GUI anyway.
Its rare that I need to drop to a command shell to do anything.
I wouldn't generalize so much. Your bank clients may not get it, but I did work on a project for Commerce Bank. They most certainly 'got it.' It was very refreshing. They actually demanded that we do all the 'right things' that we wanted to do anyway.
I have to ask, but, why not port to VB.Net? VB.Net isn't inherently evil.
I don't care for it, but in most respects, its not different than using C#. My dislikes of it are lack over overloading support and its 'wordiness.'
In a large organisation, with plenty of applications and developers, it becomes a DISADVANTAGE to have applications written in so many different languages. This is what annoys me about .NET. This is not an advantage, it creates a codebase where you have a collection of Jack of All Trade developers, and no consistency when it comes to support.
.Net with a language they are already familiar with syntax-wise. All you need to do is learn about any differences and the framework.
No, it doesn't creaet a codebase where you need to know multiple languages, you and your company do that. There's no reason you can't mandate C# for everything.
The advantage of so many languages is that developers from many different backgrounds can start
What a waste of time.
.net. It doesn't even need VB6. A simple command script would do what you wanted.
.Net. Nor does it replace what can be done in a simple command script. But for applications which are complex and you must maintain, its an excellent choice.
A simple app that starts and stops services dosen't need something like
No one is claiming you should write device drivers in
Who said anything about handhelds?
.Net framework for handhelds; the .Net Compact Framework.
FWIW, there is a
Write a program, write it well, don't use a framework unless it actually benefits the program, not just because it's there. (Because who says it'll be on the client computer?)
.net framework, because it offers quote a bit that benefits the program.
You've obviously never used the
And if users WANT to run your program, you'll make sure the framework is there. Or did you forget the time before which DX was included by default with the OS?
Including managers? I'm not sure the new CFO would be required to do this. If they include high management, then certainly kudos are in order. Any idea if it truely applies to everyone?
Why? Gates is a sniviling weasle that was an average programmer, at best.
"Documents and Settings" is supposed to be the /home equivelent. unfortunatly not all programs honor it, but most do. I think it was introduced in Win2k.
This is the model of software development that Microsoft has adopted from the start and customers can't seem to get enough of it.
Customers can't get enough of the fact that MS gave them exactly what they wanted. Speaking as a developer, their tools (VS) have improved steadly over the years, incorpating features I want and that make my job much easier. The same can be said for thier OS.
Security wasn't there because customers didn't want to pay for it. So MS gave them an insecure OS. Now customers realize security is important. So MS responds with more security. There's more security coming in Vista, and Win2k3 is pretty secure right out of the box, with jsut about everything extra disabled by default.
Your post is just MS bashing. MS gives customers what they want. Sometimes that's not good, because its not in the customers best interest (ie., no security..), but to say customers want crappy software is not accurate. They want good software that does what they want.
Maybe that's true for consumers, and possibly some companies. But I'm sure a fair number know that they get what they pay for.
Your more educated customers (the type of customer you want to have anyway) will realize that it IS better to pay more for higher quality.
So you can't ever post if someone else has posted a viewpoint which agrees w/yours? Wow..
At any rate, I'm speaking from experience, having spent 7 years doing web applications exclusively. I no longer work for them (I left to move to another state), and although we were more expensive than some of our competition, we focused on 'doing it right.' Some customers left to come back later, others knew from day one that it was worth it to pay to do things right the first time.
I still talk to my friends their, and the company is doing very well. Your function as a vendor is not to give the customer exactly what they want, part of it is to educate them on why they should want something different (because in the end, it will work better). Its called 'managing the client.'