But throwing my day-to-day operations and database to the cloud? I have no need, and I can provide the services to my company far cheaper than any external provider. Last time I priced it out, I could entirely re-do my entire computer infrastructure (Servers, desktops, switches, routers,etc) every 2 years for the extra cost of having it hosted for me. I'd be a fucking retard to do that.
Did you include the cost of administering those systems in your analysis? That's going to be a significant fraction of your budget.
If you're spanking your kids all it means is that you have failed in your role as a parent.
Bullshit. Kids vary widely in the sorts of things that they respond to. One of mine (we'll call him Bob) has always responded well to verbal remonstration and body language (the "look"). The other (Jim) does not. This has been the case for their entire lives. They're getting older now and removal of privileges usually suffices, but when they were little Jim could be punished by removal of toys, removal of privileges, removal of a desired activity and timeouts, but sometimes would just continue right on with the bad behavior. For him, attempting to exercise control over us by trying to make us angry was more important than avoiding punishment. When he really got up a head of steam, he became so single-minded that nothing would stop the behavior except a smack on the butt.
Now, you may be tempted to tell me that I didn't think of all of the alternatives, or that I didn't implement the ones that I tried correctly. The problem is that you don't know what you're talking about because you don't know my kid. I've talked to other parents who have kids like Jim, including some who know Jim, and they also hear this kind of nonsense all of the time. People assume that because they've been successful in using other techniques with their own children, that the success is due to the techniques. What they fail to comprehend is that the child's personality is a huge factor in which techniques actually work. This was a lesson that I had to learn the hard way. When Jim was little, I never thought that I'd spank him. We tried everything we could think of, including reading books, articles, blog posts, etc., getting advice from other parents, and experimenting with anything that we could think of. The bottom line was that none of it worked when he really got going.
As a contrast, Bob's bad behavior can usually be interrupted with a sharp word. In serious cases, raising our voices does the trick. Timeouts never fail to work with him, and he rarely takes it far enough to get one. Same parents, same gene pool, very, very different results.
My kid is probably an outlier in this regard, but he's not the only one that I know. If you've been able to find ways to discipline your kids without resorting to spanking, good for you. Don't be arrogant enough, however, to assume that your experience is representative of everyone else's.
This reminds me of a reference in a Shadow Run novel to people who ran around zapping any drones that they saw with the equivalent of a supercharged taser. This was in the context of a world where many such drones were seen daily, used by law enforcement, private companies, etc. If such usage becomes common in reality, might a section of the tin-foil hat crowd or "American Militia" movement behave similarly?
It would be nice to say these 10 pages help me when working on project X, and these 7 on project Y, and these 12 on project Z, so let me assign a button to each group so I only have the relevant tabs running at any one time and can close the rest down without facing a nightmare when I need to restart them.
You can use the Session Manager add-on to do this by saving groups of tabs as named sessions. If you need multiple sets open at once, you can put each session into a separate window.
If there was another place I could get computer parts and electronics locally (for times when waiting three or four days for Newegg isn't an option) I would never set foot inside their doors.
That's why I make it a point to buy from my local mom and pop computer shop whenever practical. I want them to stay in business so that I can stay out of Best Buy.
While the advantages you listed are true, traffic circles (what we call "roundabouts" here in the D.C. area) have cons as well.
We have quite a few of them in the District. I used to drive through Washington Circle (Google Map) every day on my way to work. They work well for areas with moderate traffic or where one of the streets has heavy traffic and the other(s) only light traffic. Unfortunately, that does not describe the traffic in the D.C. area, including Montgomery County. We have the second worst traffic in the country, after Los Angeles. We have traffic lights on some entry ramps for our highways to regulate entry so that the four and six lane highways don't get backed up as much. That's how bad it is.
Also, circles require more room than intersections. A lot of our major roads around here have three or four lanes going in each direction. A three or four lane circle would take up quite a bit of space and becomes more daunting to navigate.
Are circles better than unsynchronized traffic lights during a D.C. rush hour? Possibly. Are they better than synchronized traffic lights the other 360 days a year? I doubt it.
It was rated as funny because the g.p. used an unexpected twist to point out a fact that is often overlooked in the discussion of the results of slavery in Europe, the U.S. and Canada. That twist registers in the human brain as humor.
You're certainly entitled to resent and be angered by the treatment that your ancestors suffered as a result of slavery and that you and your family have suffered as a result of racism. IMO slavery may be the worst crime that humans have ever dreamed up to commit on one another.
Nonetheless, the point that the descendants of slaves living in Europe, the U.S. and Canada may be better off in terms of standard of living, health care and left expectancy isn't invalid. It's arguable (the life expectancy for African American men is appalling, for example) and in no way justifies the barbarity of slavery or the way that the U.S. has treated their descendants since[1], but it shouldn't be dismissed without consideration in an argument about reparations; one of the most frequent justifications for paying reparations now is the current social-economic status of the descendants of slaves relative to the rest of the population. If that's fair game, why not the g.p.'s point?
[1] I don't know enough about the issues in Canada or Europe to comment.
>When I write NOT NULL in a column, it doesn't necessarily mean I want to enforce that I MUST supply a value during any INSERT (and indeed then have to check that my INSERT actually worked and check for possible returned errors, coding exceptions etc). Therefore I always supply a DEFAULT value, that the DB can safely insert in that column, IF I haven't specified anything different during the INSERT.
That's lovely, but it's not a solution that covers all cases and I damned well don't want the RDBMS assuming that it does. As others have pointed out, there are cases where one might require a NOT NULL column with no default value. If I want a column to have a default value, I'll supply one. If I don't, it shouldn't go behind my back and add one like some sort of damned MS autocorrection feature.
They must be doing something right in Europe though because every country I've checked on the CIA's factbook has a higher life expectancy for both men and women and a lower rate of infant mortality than the US.
Why do you think that is solely due to medical care? There are a number of other factors, such as education, violence and immigration[1] that might also factor in.
[1] People to immigrate later in life from countries with poor medical care might skew the numbers somewhat by dying earlier as a result of that poor medical care, regardless of the care available to them in their new country of residence. No, I don't have any numbers; I'm speculating. It's still a plausible alternative to the parent's conclusion.
Insurance for my family (me, wife, 2 kids) through my employer would cost $1,200/month. I make 30k/yr. Do the math. That's half my salary BEFORE taxes.
That's a damned high number. I pay half of that for the same number of people, and I'm footing the whole bill as the owner of my own company. We live in the D.C. suburbs, which, while not the most expensive place to live, is certainly well above the national average.
It sounds to me like your situation is atypical. Is there a chronic disease involved that would explain that number?
Write everything important in a TrueCrypt file system, email it to those who you would want to have it. Then pay for a safe deposit box, in the box put the password(and keyfiles as you see fit). The executor of your estate will be able to gain access to the box and if you add them as a signer it would be trivial, just don't let them have the key until you are dead.
Note that how easily the executor can gain access to the box, even if they are a signatory, will depend on the laws of the jurisdiction. Check with an estate attorney before putting anything in the box that would be needed soon after your death.
FYI, the plural of "consumer" is "consumers", not "consumer's". The latter is the singular possessive (e.g. the consumer's purchase was not delivered).
Other than that, he points out a bunch of flaws in Win32 and implies that they "leak into.NET" but he fails to actually demonstrate any of them.
Off the top of my head we have, for example:
the entire crypto lib (including e.g. certificate handling as well as core crypto functions)
SSL handling equally has Windows-specific portions
SocketException (especially ErrorCode)
Socket.UseOverlappedIO
Socket.IOControl
check
System.ServiceProcess.* (this stuff should be in Microsoft.whatever, not System!)
System.Management.* (ditto)
This is a complaint about namespaces, not about Win32 showing through.
System.Data.SqlClient.*, System.Data.OracleClient.* ((a) the core interfaces should be better (b) the vendor-specific providers should not be in System)
This is another complaint about namespaces, paired with a complaint about quality. Neither of these has anything to do with Win32 leakage.
The "Handle" properties found in e.g. Socket, FileStream, and the aforementioned System.Windows.Forms
Large tracts of System.EnterpriseServices
By my count, 7 out of 10 of the items you mentioned are issues of Win32 showing through. The others are unrelated.
I'm not suggesting that such areas don't exist; I think you've identified a few. Your point isn't bolstered by unrelated complaints, though.
This idea doesn't take into account other types of copyrighted work. Take authors for example. Many types of books have a much longer shelf life than five years and, in cases where the author becomes widely read only after years of work, the peak income or at least significant income may come after five years. Not everyone has quick success the way that J.K. Rowling did. I just started reading Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series. If the proposed rule were in effect, he wouldn't have gotten any money for the first three books that I read (which were copyrighted in 2000 and 2001). They were good enough that I'm happy that he got a little of my money.
Also, it's not as if authors have an alternative income source from performances the way that musicians do. The same goes for song writers, T.V. and movie script writers, painters and others.
One may decide that one doesn't care about the creator's ability to earn income from the copyrights of their creations, or that technology will make it a moot point. Consider, however, that while people who create such things may do it for free if they can't make money from it, they won't be as prolific (due to having to work at something else for a living) and may not produce work of the same quality; book editors and record producers, among others, routinely polish rough creations into better versions of themselves.
Having said all of that, I think that life plus 120 years is clearly not in the spirit of the relevant constitutional provisions. A careful examination of the benefits to both the creators and society at large is in order. I'm not holding my breath, but perhaps it will happen in my lifetime.
Stored procedures can improve performance by reducing the amount of data that needs to be returned from the DB. Instead of getting a ton of data from the DB, the application can make a call and only get the data it wants. This simplifies application development and improves performance. You can think of things like MAX, MIN, etc... as stored procedures (I don't know if they are or not)
I have been at places were the DBAs have found very expensive calls to turn into stored procedures and the net result has always been an increase in performance and resulted in a simpler application.
Example:
Get all shoes
for each shoe {
get all skus for that particular shoe type (these would be different sizes/colors)
calculate the minimum and maximum price of the skus that are in stock
}
return shoe name, shoe desc, price range
(This might be a bad example, since good SQL and a good DB might be able to speed this up...but I'm not an expert)
What you're talking about can be easily done in a simple query:
SELECT shoe_name, shoe_desc, MIN(shoe_price), MAX(shoe_price) FROM shoes WHERE shoe_group = 3 GROUP BY shoe_name, shoe_desc
The large performance gain comes from using a query instead of ruby/perl/whatever code to iterate through a table, not from using a stored proc. Of course building a query like this in code can open the door to SQL injection, so it would be better to use a stored proc (though the same thing can be accomplished with parameterized queries, if the DB API supports them) for security reasons.
Any potential performance gains specifically related to a stored proc (as opposed to an ad hoc query) are likely to be due to the DB engine's ability to precompile or cache the stored proc, rather than in the size of the dataset sent back to the client.
Also, every instance of a "{" on its own line (presumably to line up vertically with the corresponding "}"), is an antiquated waste of space, since any decent programmer's editor or integrated development environment (IDE) can do brace matching automatically. Brace placement religion in a book review? Really? Brace placement, like editor choice, is a matter of taste and personal opinion. If you feel the need to expound on that topic, pop over to comp.lang.php; I'm sure you'll find a nice flame war there.
The only time you might use an apostrophe to pluralize is in the case of years or other numbers, but I still prefer not to. Like "90s" instead of "90's". And I still like using " CDs" instead of " CD's ".
In the case of "CD's", the apostrophe indicates a written (as opposed to verbal) contraction. CD (or more properly C.D.) is an acronym for compact disk, so "C.D.'s" is a contracted, acronymized[1] version of "compact disks". I rather suspect that many people have mistaken the purpose of the apostrophe, hence the recent trend toward using it for all plurals.
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But throwing my day-to-day operations and database to the cloud? I have no need, and I can provide the services to my company far cheaper than any external provider. Last time I priced it out, I could entirely re-do my entire computer infrastructure (Servers, desktops, switches, routers,etc) every 2 years for the extra cost of having it hosted for me. I'd be a fucking retard to do that.
Did you include the cost of administering those systems in your analysis? That's going to be a significant fraction of your budget.
If you're spanking your kids all it means is that you have failed in your role as a parent.
Bullshit. Kids vary widely in the sorts of things that they respond to. One of mine (we'll call him Bob) has always responded well to verbal remonstration and body language (the "look"). The other (Jim) does not. This has been the case for their entire lives. They're getting older now and removal of privileges usually suffices, but when they were little Jim could be punished by removal of toys, removal of privileges, removal of a desired activity and timeouts, but sometimes would just continue right on with the bad behavior. For him, attempting to exercise control over us by trying to make us angry was more important than avoiding punishment. When he really got up a head of steam, he became so single-minded that nothing would stop the behavior except a smack on the butt.
Now, you may be tempted to tell me that I didn't think of all of the alternatives, or that I didn't implement the ones that I tried correctly. The problem is that you don't know what you're talking about because you don't know my kid. I've talked to other parents who have kids like Jim, including some who know Jim, and they also hear this kind of nonsense all of the time. People assume that because they've been successful in using other techniques with their own children, that the success is due to the techniques. What they fail to comprehend is that the child's personality is a huge factor in which techniques actually work. This was a lesson that I had to learn the hard way. When Jim was little, I never thought that I'd spank him. We tried everything we could think of, including reading books, articles, blog posts, etc., getting advice from other parents, and experimenting with anything that we could think of. The bottom line was that none of it worked when he really got going.
As a contrast, Bob's bad behavior can usually be interrupted with a sharp word. In serious cases, raising our voices does the trick. Timeouts never fail to work with him, and he rarely takes it far enough to get one. Same parents, same gene pool, very, very different results.
My kid is probably an outlier in this regard, but he's not the only one that I know. If you've been able to find ways to discipline your kids without resorting to spanking, good for you. Don't be arrogant enough, however, to assume that your experience is representative of everyone else's.
This reminds me of a reference in a Shadow Run novel to people who ran around zapping any drones that they saw with the equivalent of a supercharged taser. This was in the context of a world where many such drones were seen daily, used by law enforcement, private companies, etc. If such usage becomes common in reality, might a section of the tin-foil hat crowd or "American Militia" movement behave similarly?
It would be nice to say these 10 pages help me when working on project X, and these 7 on project Y, and these 12 on project Z, so let me assign a button to each group so I only have the relevant tabs running at any one time and can close the rest down without facing a nightmare when I need to restart them.
You can use the Session Manager add-on to do this by saving groups of tabs as named sessions. If you need multiple sets open at once, you can put each session into a separate window.
[...] the fact that the SLAPP was not upheld is not permissible as evidence.
I think that you mean "admissible".
If there was another place I could get computer parts and electronics locally (for times when waiting three or four days for Newegg isn't an option) I would never set foot inside their doors.
That's why I make it a point to buy from my local mom and pop computer shop whenever practical. I want them to stay in business so that I can stay out of Best Buy.
That should be "which person to ..."
[...] being on the short list for the which hunt [...]
Would that be the hunt for which person person to blame? The one with the pointy nose and evil cackle, perhaps?
While the advantages you listed are true, traffic circles (what we call "roundabouts" here in the D.C. area) have cons as well.
We have quite a few of them in the District. I used to drive through Washington Circle (Google Map) every day on my way to work. They work well for areas with moderate traffic or where one of the streets has heavy traffic and the other(s) only light traffic. Unfortunately, that does not describe the traffic in the D.C. area, including Montgomery County. We have the second worst traffic in the country, after Los Angeles. We have traffic lights on some entry ramps for our highways to regulate entry so that the four and six lane highways don't get backed up as much. That's how bad it is.
Also, circles require more room than intersections. A lot of our major roads around here have three or four lanes going in each direction. A three or four lane circle would take up quite a bit of space and becomes more daunting to navigate.
Are circles better than unsynchronized traffic lights during a D.C. rush hour? Possibly. Are they better than synchronized traffic lights the other 360 days a year? I doubt it.
What do you think people would say about him if he said "Im the greatest of all time. Divide like a butterfly, add like a bee. Your all stupidheads!"
That he should learn the difference between possessive pronouns and contractions?
It was rated as funny because the g.p. used an unexpected twist to point out a fact that is often overlooked in the discussion of the results of slavery in Europe, the U.S. and Canada. That twist registers in the human brain as humor.
You're certainly entitled to resent and be angered by the treatment that your ancestors suffered as a result of slavery and that you and your family have suffered as a result of racism. IMO slavery may be the worst crime that humans have ever dreamed up to commit on one another.
Nonetheless, the point that the descendants of slaves living in Europe, the U.S. and Canada may be better off in terms of standard of living, health care and left expectancy isn't invalid. It's arguable (the life expectancy for African American men is appalling, for example) and in no way justifies the barbarity of slavery or the way that the U.S. has treated their descendants since[1], but it shouldn't be dismissed without consideration in an argument about reparations; one of the most frequent justifications for paying reparations now is the current social-economic status of the descendants of slaves relative to the rest of the population. If that's fair game, why not the g.p.'s point?
[1] I don't know enough about the issues in Canada or Europe to comment.
>When I write NOT NULL in a column, it doesn't necessarily mean I want to enforce that I MUST supply a value during any INSERT (and indeed then have to check that my INSERT actually worked and check for possible returned errors, coding exceptions etc). Therefore I always supply a DEFAULT value, that the DB can safely insert in that column, IF I haven't specified anything different during the INSERT.
That's lovely, but it's not a solution that covers all cases and I damned well don't want the RDBMS assuming that it does. As others have pointed out, there are cases where one might require a NOT NULL column with no default value. If I want a column to have a default value, I'll supply one. If I don't, it shouldn't go behind my back and add one like some sort of damned MS autocorrection feature.
Way to take a quotation out of context. Nothing like twisting someone else's words to make yourself feel better, huh?
They must be doing something right in Europe though because every country I've checked on the CIA's factbook has a higher life expectancy for both men and women and a lower rate of infant mortality than the US.
Why do you think that is solely due to medical care? There are a number of other factors, such as education, violence and immigration[1] that might also factor in.
[1] People to immigrate later in life from countries with poor medical care might skew the numbers somewhat by dying earlier as a result of that poor medical care, regardless of the care available to them in their new country of residence. No, I don't have any numbers; I'm speculating. It's still a plausible alternative to the parent's conclusion.
Insurance for my family (me, wife, 2 kids) through my employer would cost $1,200/month. I make 30k/yr. Do the math. That's half my salary BEFORE taxes.
That's a damned high number. I pay half of that for the same number of people, and I'm footing the whole bill as the owner of my own company. We live in the D.C. suburbs, which, while not the most expensive place to live, is certainly well above the national average.
It sounds to me like your situation is atypical. Is there a chronic disease involved that would explain that number?
"Samba" is a play on SMB, most likely with a nod to the dance Samba, though the wikipedia article on isn't specific about it.
Mr. Backstabber will have the boss's back right up until it's to his advantage not to. The boss in this scenario is playing with fire.
Write everything important in a TrueCrypt file system, email it to those who you would want to have it. Then pay for a safe deposit box, in the box put the password(and keyfiles as you see fit). The executor of your estate will be able to gain access to the box and if you add them as a signer it would be trivial, just don't let them have the key until you are dead.
Note that how easily the executor can gain access to the box, even if they are a signatory, will depend on the laws of the jurisdiction. Check with an estate attorney before putting anything in the box that would be needed soon after your death.
Like most consumer's, when given a choice ...
FYI, the plural of "consumer" is "consumers", not "consumer's". The latter is the singular possessive (e.g. the consumer's purchase was not delivered).
Consult a financial advisor that offers a flat rate for the meeting (Maybe around $300-400, be sure to confirm how they're compensated)
Here is one place to find "fee only" advisors: http://www.garrettplanningnetwork.com/.
By my count, 7 out of 10 of the items you mentioned are issues of Win32 showing through. The others are unrelated.
I'm not suggesting that such areas don't exist; I think you've identified a few. Your point isn't bolstered by unrelated complaints, though.
This idea doesn't take into account other types of copyrighted work. Take authors for example. Many types of books have a much longer shelf life than five years and, in cases where the author becomes widely read only after years of work, the peak income or at least significant income may come after five years. Not everyone has quick success the way that J.K. Rowling did. I just started reading Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series. If the proposed rule were in effect, he wouldn't have gotten any money for the first three books that I read (which were copyrighted in 2000 and 2001). They were good enough that I'm happy that he got a little of my money.
Also, it's not as if authors have an alternative income source from performances the way that musicians do. The same goes for song writers, T.V. and movie script writers, painters and others.
One may decide that one doesn't care about the creator's ability to earn income from the copyrights of their creations, or that technology will make it a moot point. Consider, however, that while people who create such things may do it for free if they can't make money from it, they won't be as prolific (due to having to work at something else for a living) and may not produce work of the same quality; book editors and record producers, among others, routinely polish rough creations into better versions of themselves.
Having said all of that, I think that life plus 120 years is clearly not in the spirit of the relevant constitutional provisions. A careful examination of the benefits to both the creators and society at large is in order. I'm not holding my breath, but perhaps it will happen in my lifetime.
Stored procedures can improve performance by reducing the amount of data that needs to be returned from the DB. Instead of getting a ton of data from the DB, the application can make a call and only get the data it wants. This simplifies application development and improves performance. You can think of things like MAX, MIN, etc... as stored procedures (I don't know if they are or not)
I have been at places were the DBAs have found very expensive calls to turn into stored procedures and the net result has always been an increase in performance and resulted in a simpler application.
Example: Get all shoesfor each shoe {
get all skus for that particular shoe type (these would be different sizes/colors)
calculate the minimum and maximum price of the skus that are in stock
}
return shoe name, shoe desc, price range
(This might be a bad example, since good SQL and a good DB might be able to speed this up...but I'm not an expert)
What you're talking about can be easily done in a simple query:
SELECT shoe_name, shoe_desc, MIN(shoe_price), MAX(shoe_price) FROM shoes WHERE shoe_group = 3 GROUP BY shoe_name, shoe_desc
The large performance gain comes from using a query instead of ruby/perl/whatever code to iterate through a table, not from using a stored proc. Of course building a query like this in code can open the door to SQL injection, so it would be better to use a stored proc (though the same thing can be accomplished with parameterized queries, if the DB API supports them) for security reasons.
Any potential performance gains specifically related to a stored proc (as opposed to an ad hoc query) are likely to be due to the DB engine's ability to precompile or cache the stored proc, rather than in the size of the dataset sent back to the client.
The only time you might use an apostrophe to pluralize is in the case of years or other numbers, but I still prefer not to. Like "90s" instead of "90's". And I still like using " CDs" instead of " CD's ".
In the case of "CD's", the apostrophe indicates a written (as opposed to verbal) contraction. CD (or more properly C.D.) is an acronym for compact disk, so "C.D.'s" is a contracted, acronymized[1] version of "compact disks". I rather suspect that many people have mistaken the purpose of the apostrophe, hence the recent trend toward using it for all plurals.
[1] Did I just make up a word?