We decide based on the reputation of the seller and look for the lowest price. for example, when I purchased my digital rebel last year, there was some for a really good price at Broadway Photo in New York, but they have they have a Poor rating and I walked away.
probably because it costs less money to pay out chargebacks and do nothing to help repair stolen credit compared to paying a swarm of lawyers to track down phishers
Bingo - I think you got it. The chargeback hits the merchant. The credit card company really pays nothing anyway AFAIK.
IMO, it's perfect. The purchase occurs, and the merchant pays the piper.
Imagine this economy for a second now:
1) Phishing scam begins 2) Customer CC#'s are stolen 3) Computer gear is purchased with stolen CC# 4) Phisher sells gear on black mkt 5) Phisher takes money from selling gear to buy cocaine 6) Cocaine dealer launders money 7) And on and on through money creation scheme...
Bring down Phishing, and you've collapsed a money making sector of your economy;)
Furthermore, in most web apps, you're already making a trip to the database on most pages to load data. If your connection is open, the trip to the database to select a small recordset from a table has low cost.
One feature I love about ColdFusion is that you can cache queries with a time limit. So if you have a busy app, you can cache the query for even 60 seconds and it'll make a difference.
And yes, I know you CAN do that in PHP and the same with the ADODB library too. (One lib I don't think any php dev should be without IMO)
Depends on what you use your internet connection for... I'd hardly consider it a luxury unless you use it for entertainment. If that's all you think of your connection you really aren't getting your money's worth IMO.
Moral justification? Give me a break. If the elected officials you voted for in city hall feel this is a wise investment for the city, deal with it or vote them out. No need for "moral justification".
The market for wireless access has been around for a while, and private industry has yet to step up to the plate.
Because private industry isn't always interested in getting into it. Sometimes it takes a kick in the pants from the public sector to get industry going on something.
What if the city puts them in, and the ISP leases them from the city? Then the city actually makes money off the AP's, and then you pay less taxes? JMO, but that sounds like a pretty sweet setup to me...
Guess I pissed off a mac fanboy with that comment... Jeesh - modding my comment down as a troll because I griped there were no pictures? A review of an OS's new features, without screenshots of the behaviour of those features is silly, and I get modded down as a troll for it.
I recall the last place I was a developer at, we tested our IT department like that a few times haha.... We'd "simulate" a hardware failure. Usually by pulilng the power, but sometimes we'd get a little more scientific with it... Or we'd simulate a database crash and ask for a backup from our IT department.
We were developers plagued with an IT department that wanted to take control of the application and add red tape to our deployment cycle. While we understood there was a place for it, we worked for a company bleeding red ink, and making it harder to adapt to site changes quickly added unnecessary costs to a cash-strapped org. We believed it to be a typical IT practice: bitch and moan to get control over the servers, and then bitch and moan when there's a lack of resources.
FWIW, I now work in a company that has an IT department blocking developer access. We need it here and it makes sense, but the response time is way slower than if I could do things myself. But we are profitable and I don't care. Much different situation than my last employer.
Anyway, we handed over control of the backups, and made four restore from backup requests to IT. Three were duds. So IT couldn't handle backing up a SQL server succesfully. A backup is useless if you cannot restore from it. IT should have done a restore from backup to validate them, and they failed to do so.
Then, with our "simulated" hardware crashes, IT was unable to get the sites up and running without our help. We had to walk them through all the steps to restore it, even though it was documented. Their excuse? It was IIS instead of Apache, and IIS is a piece of shit, so no one wanted to bother learning it because it was a piece of shit.
Validating a disaster recovery plan before you implement it is crucial. Sooner or later you'll have to do it...
What the hell? Have they been sitting under a rock for the last few years? I thought it was understood that programs that start with a K (especially where it doesn't belong) should be confined to KDE...
I followed the link expecting a KDE program instinctively haha.
It all depends on the statue of limitations in the jurisidction they are suing, whether the judge get his dose of fibre that morning, and who has the deeper pockets to fund the case I suppose...
Common knowledge doesn't necessarily prevail in cases like this I'd recon.
Yes, but when you have a trademark in a particular industry, no in that industry is allowed to use it. That seems fair. IMO no one will confuse Tiger Pizza, Tiger Anal Lube, with Tiger Direct.
I still would be if it wasn't for the X10 popups. I converted to Google because I got really, really annoyed.
I'd switch to something else now if it wasn't for google groups. IMO that's what keeps us nerds using it. I'd switch in a heartbeat to a google clone that had groups, and found a way to get past the keyword-spammers.
Slashdot Mirror
We decide based on the reputation of the seller and look for the lowest price. for example, when I purchased my digital rebel last year, there was some for a really good price at Broadway Photo in New York, but they have they have a Poor rating and I walked away.
Better indexing, faster lookups...
That's... about... it...
Object relational was the "new thing" that didn't really take off as well as they'd hoped.
Hell, I work with people who still can't handle compound keys and joins well...
probably because it costs less money to pay out chargebacks and do nothing to help repair stolen credit compared to paying a swarm of lawyers to track down phishers
;)
Bingo - I think you got it. The chargeback hits the merchant. The credit card company really pays nothing anyway AFAIK.
IMO, it's perfect. The purchase occurs, and the merchant pays the piper.
Imagine this economy for a second now:
1) Phishing scam begins
2) Customer CC#'s are stolen
3) Computer gear is purchased with stolen CC#
4) Phisher sells gear on black mkt
5) Phisher takes money from selling gear to buy cocaine
6) Cocaine dealer launders money
7) And on and on through money creation scheme...
Bring down Phishing, and you've collapsed a money making sector of your economy
(Maybe I'm being unrealistic here)
Furthermore, in most web apps, you're already making a trip to the database on most pages to load data. If your connection is open, the trip to the database to select a small recordset from a table has low cost.
One feature I love about ColdFusion is that you can cache queries with a time limit. So if you have a busy app, you can cache the query for even 60 seconds and it'll make a difference.
And yes, I know you CAN do that in PHP and the same with the ADODB library too. (One lib I don't think any php dev should be without IMO)
To support a subsidy on a luxury
Depends on what you use your internet connection for... I'd hardly consider it a luxury unless you use it for entertainment. If that's all you think of your connection you really aren't getting your money's worth IMO.
Moral justification? Give me a break. If the elected officials you voted for in city hall feel this is a wise investment for the city, deal with it or vote them out. No need for "moral justification".
The market for wireless access has been around for a while, and private industry has yet to step up to the plate.
Because private industry isn't always interested in getting into it. Sometimes it takes a kick in the pants from the public sector to get industry going on something.
What if the city puts them in, and the ISP leases them from the city? Then the city actually makes money off the AP's, and then you pay less taxes? JMO, but that sounds like a pretty sweet setup to me...
I never made the choice for IIS, but I didn't use that as an excuse not to know how to administer it, and neither should they.
Besides, there's many larger companies who use IIS than those guys...
AFAIK FF updates itself now... At least on Windowz.... FC gets its updates from YUM / up2date, so that shouldn't register either.
In fact, many distros include FF so that doesn't even count on the download numbers.
And that got modded down as troll too? Hahaha...
Well I have Karma to burn...
Again, an OS review without screenshots is retarded.
Guess I pissed off a mac fanboy with that comment... Jeesh - modding my comment down as a troll because I griped there were no pictures? A review of an OS's new features, without screenshots of the behaviour of those features is silly, and I get modded down as a troll for it.
Moderators on crack again I suppose.
I recall the last place I was a developer at, we tested our IT department like that a few times haha.... We'd "simulate" a hardware failure. Usually by pulilng the power, but sometimes we'd get a little more scientific with it... Or we'd simulate a database crash and ask for a backup from our IT department.
We were developers plagued with an IT department that wanted to take control of the application and add red tape to our deployment cycle. While we understood there was a place for it, we worked for a company bleeding red ink, and making it harder to adapt to site changes quickly added unnecessary costs to a cash-strapped org. We believed it to be a typical IT practice: bitch and moan to get control over the servers, and then bitch and moan when there's a lack of resources.
FWIW, I now work in a company that has an IT department blocking developer access. We need it here and it makes sense, but the response time is way slower than if I could do things myself. But we are profitable and I don't care. Much different situation than my last employer.
Anyway, we handed over control of the backups, and made four restore from backup requests to IT. Three were duds. So IT couldn't handle backing up a SQL server succesfully. A backup is useless if you cannot restore from it. IT should have done a restore from backup to validate them, and they failed to do so.
Then, with our "simulated" hardware crashes, IT was unable to get the sites up and running without our help. We had to walk them through all the steps to restore it, even though it was documented. Their excuse? It was IIS instead of Apache, and IIS is a piece of shit, so no one wanted to bother learning it because it was a piece of shit.
Validating a disaster recovery plan before you implement it is crucial. Sooner or later you'll have to do it...
What the hell? Have they been sitting under a rock for the last few years? I thought it was understood that programs that start with a K (especially where it doesn't belong) should be confined to KDE...
I followed the link expecting a KDE program instinctively haha.
There's no screenshots!!! I was kinda hoping to actually get to see that stuff being reviewed... IMO that's a piss poor review...
Don't get laid much do you?
You must be new around here...
A trailer for a DC Comic turned movie that looks good? What? I must be in some bizzaro world...
Let's see what happens when we get to see Superman Returns
A coworker bought a Fuji S7000 off tigerdirect.ca...
Funny thing was that this camera came with a USA warranty instead of a Canadian one. Grey market stuff..
He phoned and freaked out. He had a verbal "assurance" from the manager that they would honor the warranty if there was a problem.
Yeah, that was obvious ;)
I like the "it's a silent 'a'" response much better haha...
It all depends on the statue of limitations in the jurisidction they are suing, whether the judge get his dose of fibre that morning, and who has the deeper pockets to fund the case I suppose...
Common knowledge doesn't necessarily prevail in cases like this I'd recon.
I admit I haven't done that specifically in Ruby, but I can't imagine that the experience would be very different from the same exercise in Perl.
Doesn't Ruby give you the ability to pipe code blocks into functions? IMO that's pretty much what you're asking isn't it?
Forgive my ignorance - a Lisp programmer I am not.
Yes, but when you have a trademark in a particular industry, no in that industry is allowed to use it. That seems fair. IMO no one will confuse Tiger Pizza, Tiger Anal Lube, with Tiger Direct.
just a money grab probably hoping that apple will settle out of court for a few bucks
Don't you lose your trademark if you don't protect it?
Give me a break... I'd wager if that's true they didn't have much choice.
Not only that, but if you fail to protect your trademark you might lose it.
I suspect they have no choice but to sue. I don't think they're being litigious.
I mean, if they didn't, Apple could take away Tiger Direct's trade mark. Let's face it, we've all heard of Tiger Direct.
I used yahoo back then for my searches.
I still would be if it wasn't for the X10 popups. I converted to Google because I got really, really annoyed.
I'd switch to something else now if it wasn't for google groups. IMO that's what keeps us nerds using it. I'd switch in a heartbeat to a google clone that had groups, and found a way to get past the keyword-spammers.