If this is made illegal it _will_ make a dent. It will also significantly reduce the number of companies willing to advertise with a spyware vendor; if GAIN is made illegal no legitimate enterprise will buy ads on their network, which significantly reduces their potential profit.
It doesn't completely fix the problem, sure, but to say that it does nothing is simply not true.
Where Oracle... can return simple select queries or complex insert or joined select queries in.5 to 1.0 seconds each
If Oracle is taking.5 to 1.0 seconds to return 'simple select queries', you are doing something wrong. Very large unindexed tables, perhaps. Alternatively if Oracle is taking the same amount of time to return simple and complex queries, that might indicate that something is wrong with the connection between your app and Oracle.
Your 'code library' sounds an awful lot like what stored procedures tend to be useful for - presenting a stable external 'API' for accessing the database. If the database changes internally, you just change the stored procedures, and all applications using these procedures carry on as normal.
I don't need to have "good habits"... I don't need to have nth degree optimized queries.
Uh huh.
I agree completely that you don't need to 'swat a fly with a sledgehammer' and some applications genuinely only do need a simple database with a few simple tables.
But good habits come in useful, particularly if circumstances change and you have to scale up rapidly - your website becomes massively more popular, your HR application suddenly needs to incorporate new features, whatever. And in any case MySQL has been getting a lot more advanced database features lately, so it's no harm to know them. They might just come in handy.
As an other poster hinted, Windows 2000 server or 2003 server _would) be an interesting comparison. And Windows (albeit with SQL Server) does not do too badly when it comes to database performance, particularly when you consider Price/Performance.
I have a few external Maxtors, both 7200RPM and 5400RPM, and they seem to have comparable performance to each other but are both slower than an internal 5400RPM drive (also a Maxtor, identical with the external 5400RPM). Firewire (400) is the performance bottleneck here, not the drive; I don't know if there is that much of a point to even a 7200RPM external. (Might be a different story with Firewire 800, I don't know.)
On the cooling side, they seem to do this very well - they are fanless, but have aluminium casings that work in effect like a big heat sink.
...to offer "yourname.gsite.com" - you have full control over your own third-level names without having to do this. They would have become a registrar so that they can sell "yourname.com" to people.
You need to install the bulky iTunes to transfer. I wish I could just do it in windows explorer extension.
...it sounds like exactly what you need - your iPod appears as a drive in Windows Explorer and you just drag and drop to transfer music. I'm also not such a fan of iTunes, finding it too much for what I want to do.
Both Belkin and Griffin offer voice recorder attachments, but I don't think the quality would be comparable to minidisc recording - more suited to lectures than concerts. This review also mentions that there is a generic microphone adapter, but I think you may still be limited to low sample rate WAV recording.
...that the "Network Web Sites" ad revenue already surpasses "Google Web Sites" revenue (I'm presuming that this is AdSense revenue vs. google.com revenue?)
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...you know; they do have ~2k employees. By your logic, we wouldn't have Google News, GMail, G Groups, G Desktop, Froogle, Orkut, G Suggest, G Print, G Calculator, pdf/doc search, Picasa, etc. etc.*
Google employees get to spend a day a week working on a project that interests them - good for employee morale, and some of these pet projects have turned out very useful indeed.
*yes, I know some of these were originally purchases.
...with the site redesign, they were turning it on and off in Ireland for a few hours at a time a few months before they changed over. I even submitted a Slashdot story on it, but it was rejected.
While I ignore the Google ads when I'm searching for information, I do look at them when I'm looking for somewhere to buy a product. When I'm looking to *buy*, Adwords are often even more relevant than the search results themselves. I have clicked through, and I have bought from advertisers. It's a win-win situation.
We run Adwords ourselves, and are very careful to word the ads so that they appeal to the people searching, with clear facts about what we offer. Google further help the relevance themselves by automatically removing ads that don't get a certain minimum click-through (although this minimum is very low at 0.5%)
On your Finnish point - Google allows a high degree of geographical segmentation for the ads, further increasing their relevance. The ad you clicked on would have been running in Finland, but not elsewhere. We are limited to the geographical area of Ireland, and are very careful to mention that we are Irish in the ad. This really makes us stand out from all the irrelevant foreign advertisers, and indeed our domestic competitors who don't make their location clear (the product isn't one that tends to ship internationally.)
Result is a very high percentage click-through (up to 20%) and people find what they're looking for. A win-win situation.
...a framework that best fits with the available evidence - Newton's theory of gravitation, for example, fits very well, but was superceded by Einstein's relativity which fits just ever so slightly better. There are no 'facts' in science at all, in this sense, just theories that best fit the observations.
You can never prove something as unquestionably true (a 'fact') as new observations could come along later; you can however prove theories to be false if they don't fit with the observations (or more accurately, show them to be approximations - Newtonian physics is still immensely useful.)
The problem here is that most people reading this sticker on the cover will not have been introduced to this nature of the word 'theory' in the scientific sense, but in the more colloquial sense - a theory police are working on in an investigation for example. E.g. 'something that could very well be wrong'.
A more honest and correct sticker would not single out evolution as somehow special among scientific theories; instead they could have created a chapter that explained scientific method, the status of the word 'theory' in science, and how science differs from other human endeavours, including religion.
In particular it could explain why science tends to limit itself to statements that *can be falsified* by new observations, as that seems to be the crux of the conflict (the *literal* reading of Genesis being falsifiable, and most people would say, falsified.)
It's *probably* defined as 'three application windows at once' (I don't know, but it would make sense).
This may indeed be enough for many people; probably around 50% of the (completely non-technical) end users I deal with don't understand the concept of multi-tasking at all and always close a program before opening a new one (this happens when I am trying to explain to people how to copy an error message into an email, or check something in the filesystem - many think they have to close the foreground app first before they can do anything else.)
Of course none of this matters as MS aren't selling this to grannies in the US/Western Europe but rather are trying to undercut pirates in Russia/SE Asia. In this case the features aren't the issue, it's the price, and no matter how low they offer it, it's pretty difficult to compete with free. The only possible niche I can imagine is secretarial/clerical positions in companies that for some reason want to run legit software - perhaps local branches of multinationals.
Yeah, forget the tsunami: Several of my favorite shows have been cancelled or changed!
Funny (maybe), but not insightful: I think it's implied that the original poster was using 'worst thing that happened in ages' in a limited domain. It's not like just because something really bad happens, we immediately stop considering other, lesser bad things that might be happening - although many governments would like you to (I'm thinking War on Terror vs civil liberties here.)
"They were dipped into cola, put through a washing machine, dunked in coffee, trampled by a skateboard, run over by a child's toy car and given to a six-year-old boy to destroy."
I can't imagine that there is a 3.5" drive under the laptop CD drive in that image; besides, I think the drive options - 40gb or 80gb - sort of give away the fact that it's a 2.5". The lack of a fan is a further pointer.
...that's for keyboard and mouse. The Apple Store appears to have collapsed under the interest, so I can't check your link, $29 each for keyboard and mouse could be right I guess. I think you get free shipping on the Mac mini (and the keyboard if you buy it together) so that might be your best option.
...as a previous poster pointed out, at this size it almost certainly takes 2.5" drives, and there is already an 80gb option; the largest 2.5" drive currently available AFAIK is a (not particularly cheap) 100gb one. So you'd probably be best off just buying the 80gb option, which also gets you a faster processor 'for free'.
Heat probably wouldn't be too bad; it looks like the power supply is external and most of the other components are (low-heat) laptop ones.
14% unknown? What gives? What unkown OS is/are being used three times more then a mac?
It's not that it is some mysterious unknown operating system, just that *they* don't know what it is. People behind certain types of firewall or proxy that strip the browser agent, for example. The 'unknowns' are likely all using a roughly proportionate mix of the other operating systems featured.
You already need to pay a levy to sing a song under copyright in public. Famously, ASCAP threatened to sue the Girl Scouts of America over singing songs like "God Bless America" or even "Happy Birthday".
FTFA: The Wallflower incorporates a laptop-like screen (1024 by 768 pixels), the Linux operating system and a 40-gigabyte hard drive (which is, unfortunately, not completely silent).
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Such as GAIN (producers of Gator).
If this is made illegal it _will_ make a dent. It will also significantly reduce the number of companies willing to advertise with a spyware vendor; if GAIN is made illegal no legitimate enterprise will buy ads on their network, which significantly reduces their potential profit.
It doesn't completely fix the problem, sure, but to say that it does nothing is simply not true.
...'Ads by Goooooogle'
Where Oracle ... can return simple select queries or complex insert or joined select queries in .5 to 1.0 seconds each
.5 to 1.0 seconds to return 'simple select queries', you are doing something wrong. Very large unindexed tables, perhaps. Alternatively if Oracle is taking the same amount of time to return simple and complex queries, that might indicate that something is wrong with the connection between your app and Oracle.
... I don't need to have nth degree optimized queries.
If Oracle is taking
Your 'code library' sounds an awful lot like what stored procedures tend to be useful for - presenting a stable external 'API' for accessing the database. If the database changes internally, you just change the stored procedures, and all applications using these procedures carry on as normal.
I don't need to have "good habits"
Uh huh.
I agree completely that you don't need to 'swat a fly with a sledgehammer' and some applications genuinely only do need a simple database with a few simple tables.
But good habits come in useful, particularly if circumstances change and you have to scale up rapidly - your website becomes massively more popular, your HR application suddenly needs to incorporate new features, whatever. And in any case MySQL has been getting a lot more advanced database features lately, so it's no harm to know them. They might just come in handy.
As an other poster hinted, Windows 2000 server or 2003 server _would) be an interesting comparison. And Windows (albeit with SQL Server) does not do too badly when it comes to database performance, particularly when you consider Price/Performance.
I have a few external Maxtors, both 7200RPM and 5400RPM, and they seem to have comparable performance to each other but are both slower than an internal 5400RPM drive (also a Maxtor, identical with the external 5400RPM). Firewire (400) is the performance bottleneck here, not the drive; I don't know if there is that much of a point to even a 7200RPM external. (Might be a different story with Firewire 800, I don't know.)
On the cooling side, they seem to do this very well - they are fanless, but have aluminium casings that work in effect like a big heat sink.
I'm just being paraniod. I hope. :)
Given that DNS has nothing whatsoever to do with robots.txt, yes, you are.
...to offer "yourname.gsite.com" - you have full control over your own third-level
names without having to do this. They would have become a registrar so that they can sell "yourname.com" to people.
...it was posted so that we could have our weekly flame-fest over why *my* digital audio player is the best and all the others are crap...
EphPod is also a good alternative (and free).
Belkin external battery pack
Both Belkin and Griffin offer voice recorder attachments, but I don't think the quality would be comparable to minidisc recording - more suited to lectures than concerts. This review also mentions that there is a generic microphone adapter, but I think you may still be limited to low sample rate WAV recording.
...in case you didn't know; they pay no attention to the file name either. Don't know about other players.
...that the "Network Web Sites" ad revenue already surpasses "Google Web Sites" revenue (I'm presuming that this is AdSense revenue vs. google.com revenue?)
...you know; they do have ~2k employees. By your logic, we wouldn't have Google News, GMail, G Groups, G Desktop, Froogle, Orkut, G Suggest, G Print, G Calculator, pdf/doc search, Picasa, etc. etc.*
Google employees get to spend a day a week working on a project that interests them - good for employee morale, and some of these pet projects have turned out very useful indeed.
*yes, I know some of these were originally purchases.
...with the site redesign, they were turning it on and off in Ireland for a few hours at a time a few months before they changed over. I even submitted a Slashdot story on it, but it was rejected.
While I ignore the Google ads when I'm searching for information, I do look at them when I'm looking for somewhere to buy a product. When I'm looking to *buy*, Adwords are often even more relevant than the search results themselves. I have clicked through, and I have bought from advertisers. It's a win-win situation.
We run Adwords ourselves, and are very careful to word the ads so that they appeal to the people searching, with clear facts about what we offer. Google further help the relevance themselves by automatically removing ads that don't get a certain minimum click-through (although this minimum is very low at 0.5%)
On your Finnish point - Google allows a high degree of geographical segmentation for the ads, further increasing their relevance. The ad you clicked on would have been running in Finland, but not elsewhere. We are limited to the geographical area of Ireland, and are very careful to mention that we are Irish in the ad. This really makes us stand out from all the irrelevant foreign advertisers, and indeed our domestic competitors who don't make their location clear (the product isn't one that tends to ship internationally.)
Result is a very high percentage click-through (up to 20%) and people find what they're looking for. A win-win situation.
...a framework that best fits with the available evidence - Newton's theory of gravitation, for example, fits very well, but was superceded by Einstein's relativity which fits just ever so slightly better. There are no 'facts' in science at all, in this sense, just theories that best fit the observations.
You can never prove something as unquestionably true (a 'fact') as new observations could come along later; you can however prove theories to be false if they don't fit with the observations (or more accurately, show them to be approximations - Newtonian physics is still immensely useful.)
The problem here is that most people reading this sticker on the cover will not have been introduced to this nature of the word 'theory' in the scientific sense, but in the more colloquial sense - a theory police are working on in an investigation for example. E.g. 'something that could very well be wrong'.
A more honest and correct sticker would not single out evolution as somehow special among scientific theories; instead they could have created a chapter that explained scientific method, the status of the word 'theory' in science, and how science differs from other human endeavours, including religion.
In particular it could explain why science tends to limit itself to statements that *can be falsified* by new observations, as that seems to be the crux of the conflict (the *literal* reading of Genesis being falsifiable, and most people would say, falsified.)
It's *probably* defined as 'three application windows at once' (I don't know, but it would make sense).
This may indeed be enough for many people; probably around 50% of the (completely non-technical) end users I deal with don't understand the concept of multi-tasking at all and always close a program before opening a new one (this happens when I am trying to explain to people how to copy an error message into an email, or check something in the filesystem - many think they have to close the foreground app first before they can do anything else.)
Of course none of this matters as MS aren't selling this to grannies in the US/Western Europe but rather are trying to undercut pirates in Russia/SE Asia. In this case the features aren't the issue, it's the price, and no matter how low they offer it, it's pretty difficult to compete with free. The only possible niche I can imagine is secretarial/clerical positions in companies that for some reason want to run legit software - perhaps local branches of multinationals.
Yeah, forget the tsunami: Several of my favorite shows have been cancelled or changed!
Funny (maybe), but not insightful: I think it's implied that the original poster was using 'worst thing that happened in ages' in a limited domain. It's not like just because something really bad happens, we immediately stop considering other, lesser bad things that might be happening - although many governments would like you to (I'm thinking War on Terror vs civil liberties here.)
I take it you don't have children ;-)
The six tests mentioned in the article were:
"They were dipped into cola, put through a washing machine, dunked in coffee, trampled by a skateboard, run over by a child's toy car and given to a six-year-old boy to destroy."
I can't imagine that there is a 3.5" drive under the laptop CD drive in that image; besides, I think the drive options - 40gb or 80gb - sort of give away the fact that it's a 2.5". The lack of a fan is a further pointer.
...that's for keyboard and mouse. The Apple Store appears to have collapsed under the interest, so I can't check your link, $29 each for keyboard and mouse could be right I guess. I think you get free shipping on the Mac mini (and the keyboard if you buy it together) so that might be your best option.
...as a previous poster pointed out, at this size it almost certainly takes 2.5" drives, and there is already an 80gb option; the largest 2.5" drive currently available AFAIK is a (not particularly cheap) 100gb one. So you'd probably be best off just buying the 80gb option, which also gets you a faster processor 'for free'.
Heat probably wouldn't be too bad; it looks like the power supply is external and most of the other components are (low-heat) laptop ones.
14% unknown? What gives? What unkown OS is/are being used three times more then a mac?
It's not that it is some mysterious unknown operating system, just that *they* don't know what it is. People behind certain types of firewall or proxy that strip the browser agent, for example. The 'unknowns' are likely all using a roughly proportionate mix of the other operating systems featured.
You already need to pay a levy to sing a song under copyright in public. Famously, ASCAP threatened to sue the Girl Scouts of America over singing songs like "God Bless America" or even "Happy Birthday".
Another reference on this.
FTFA: The Wallflower incorporates a laptop-like screen (1024 by 768 pixels), the Linux operating system and a 40-gigabyte hard drive (which is, unfortunately, not completely silent).