I'll be as honest as I can. I'm as die hard a "geek" as the rest of us here, but I turn on Windows because it looks nice, the drivers (for me) have always just worked. Any software I care about works. Even with Windows 7, I can play games from just about any era of Windows. I boot Linux when I need to repartition a drive, or run a security scan. However, my play time on the computer involves more than firefox and fighting with idealism melodrama.
I see old women do this all of the time. Not making their own barcodes, mind you, but swapping the code from the seeded cucumbers to the unseeded ones, or switch the tag from a generic bible and put it onto the fancy one they have their eye on. I wish I wasn't serious.
It is all about money. I've lived for years in area, with a CO two houses away, DSL ready, but never available. I just moved from florida, where verizon had fibre ran to the building but "weren't offering services at this time"
If there is a learning curve using a GUI, I'm telling you, you are doing it wrong. Even when something isn't flat out obvious, in your face, my grandma should be able to say "If I had to guess how I would do this, I'd do it this way..." and be right most of the time.
It is much much more than just bug fixes. First you have DirectX 10/11. Then you have things being able to access a mapped drive from a different user (this really helps when logged in as myself, but run an admin backup script). I have games some wonderful windows games that work now, that would never work on anything but Windows 95, with REAL hardware of the era. GDI is hardware accelerated. You can boot straight to a VHD. I could go on and on, but I am satisfied with my point.
I found your post most appropriate to reply to, so forgive me if it seems misdirected. I currently get cable access through Atlantic Broadband. If you shuffle though the 3rd party contracts and open your eyes, it is pretty obvious they are a partner/subsidary of Comcast... as in, thet is where they get their content. When I called up for internet access they asked me about my usage. I told them I had 40 internet connected devices and had no intentions of using a real landline or TV service. They offered me a package that was twice what they seem to be offering everyone else, and I can run at full capacity at all times, always.
I'm sure you are wondering the relevance. As far as I can see, it is still Comcast's network, but people like me aren't "killing" it. It is more than obviously a money grab
He may be above the average now, but that doesn't mean he should get dinged. Forgoing cable/phone/XM service for pureky internet alternatives quickly smash the cap, which was the GP point. Just because that isn't common place doesn;t mean it is unreasonable.
Think about it. In 5-10 years, we won't have Cable, we'll have HD Video on Demand Networks, something like Hulu or Netflix instead.
The future is now. My house lives on Netflix and Vonage. We went to my fathers house to watch TV, and the kids couldn't understand why they kept missing their show because of these "commercial" things. And when their pappy said "I need to change the channel real quick to see the weather", the look of confusion on their face can only mildy be explained as hysterical.
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There should be no NULLs Then how do I, say, indicate the date of death for someone who hasn't died? An IsDead field? Really? (Yes, a NULL in a field is a shortcut for proper relationship, but a lack of relationship when using a linking table will still be represented by NULL)
there should be no natural ordering of "columns" Does it really matter? The natural ordering of columns is the order in which you added them to the table. Ignore it. It isn't important, and not in need of a "solution"
there should be no possibility of having duplicate rows Firstly, get to know your DISTINCT SQL keyword. Secondly, data in real life sometimes IS duplicate. What the hell should people do? Have a DuplicatedThisManyTimes field? Ugh.
possibility of inconsistent intermediate states in transactions That is a property of the database engine, not SQL.
Because SQL simply ignores the relation model and "does what IBM and Oracle always did". That's not the same thing as "implementing the relational model". Where do you get this shit? Are you telling me the function of foreign key constraints and referential integrity, and the good ol INNER/RIGHT/LEFT join keywords are just smoke and mirrors and everything is really just a chaotic bowl of soup? References please.
Body Weight. Although alcohol has a relatively high caloric value, 7.1 Calories per gram (as a point of reference, 1 gram of carbohydrate contains 4.5 Calories, and 1 gram of fat contains 9 Calories), alcohol consumption does not necessarily result in increased body weight. An analysis of data collected from the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES I) found that although drinkers had significantly higher intakes of total calories than nondrinkers, drinkers were not more obese than nondrinkers. In fact, women drinkers had significantly lower body weight than nondrinkers. As alcohol intake among men increased, their body weight decreased (17). An analysis of data from the second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES II) and other large national studies found similar results for women (18), although the relationship between drinking and body weight for men is inconsistent. Although moderate doses of alcohol added to the diets of lean men and women do not seem to lead to weight gain, some studies have reported weight gain when alcohol is added to the diets of overweight persons (19,20).
When chronic heavy drinkers substitute alcohol for carbohydrates in their diets, they lose weight and weigh less than their nondrinking counterparts (21,22). Furthermore, when chronic heavy drinkers add alcohol to an otherwise normal diet, they do not gain weight (21).
The world is a classroom without a teacher. We just REALLY hope that if things get out of hand, that the Principal will jump in.... and we really hope he is there
I was about to reply the same thing. Masterbation can keep you from being controlled by your hormones. Example: About to cheat on your wife? Beat the meat and see if you still think it is worth it.
Especially with plasma displays, the science is more complicated than "spray this buffer of cathodes onto a screen". Some of it has to do with copy protection mechanisms, too. But essentially, if you don't display at native resolution, the scaling artifacts would be unacceptable, so they only use native resolution
filestube is more or less a "parked domain" style aggregating site, providing search results from out of their ass straight to places that will infect you with malware disguised as legitimate products.
I'd personally like to hear what people THINK are good icons for these functions. What do you think is a good visual cue for you, to mean "save"? Why? What do you think is a good visual cue for people not like you, to mean "save"?
IP doesn't mean TCP/IP. The TCP half is what does the error control. Therefore, a ping wouldn't have error correction... just "appropriately replied/didn't reply appropriately"
But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, viticulture, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
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"linux" indeed. Watch what permissions are on attachments saved from Mozilla Thunderbird. You will be surprised.
I'll be as honest as I can. I'm as die hard a "geek" as the rest of us here, but I turn on Windows because it looks nice, the drivers (for me) have always just worked. Any software I care about works. Even with Windows 7, I can play games from just about any era of Windows. I boot Linux when I need to repartition a drive, or run a security scan. However, my play time on the computer involves more than firefox and fighting with idealism melodrama.
I see old women do this all of the time. Not making their own barcodes, mind you, but swapping the code from the seeded cucumbers to the unseeded ones, or switch the tag from a generic bible and put it onto the fancy one they have their eye on. I wish I wasn't serious.
It is all about money. I've lived for years in area, with a CO two houses away, DSL ready, but never available. I just moved from florida, where verizon had fibre ran to the building but "weren't offering services at this time"
If there is a learning curve using a GUI, I'm telling you, you are doing it wrong. Even when something isn't flat out obvious, in your face, my grandma should be able to say "If I had to guess how I would do this, I'd do it this way..." and be right most of the time.
It is much much more than just bug fixes. First you have DirectX 10/11. Then you have things being able to access a mapped drive from a different user (this really helps when logged in as myself, but run an admin backup script). I have games some wonderful windows games that work now, that would never work on anything but Windows 95, with REAL hardware of the era. GDI is hardware accelerated. You can boot straight to a VHD. I could go on and on, but I am satisfied with my point.
If I have to guess what to do, the GUI lost its purpose. May as well just go back to DOS
You can't really argue that you know better, when you don't capitalize the first letter of a sentence, or "I".
My mother always told me that I can't taste the Tuna in her chicken cassorole. I don't care WHO couldn't taste it, I could.
I found your post most appropriate to reply to, so forgive me if it seems misdirected. I currently get cable access through Atlantic Broadband. If you shuffle though the 3rd party contracts and open your eyes, it is pretty obvious they are a partner/subsidary of Comcast... as in, thet is where they get their content. When I called up for internet access they asked me about my usage. I told them I had 40 internet connected devices and had no intentions of using a real landline or TV service. They offered me a package that was twice what they seem to be offering everyone else, and I can run at full capacity at all times, always.
I'm sure you are wondering the relevance. As far as I can see, it is still Comcast's network, but people like me aren't "killing" it. It is more than obviously a money grab
He may be above the average now, but that doesn't mean he should get dinged. Forgoing cable/phone/XM service for pureky internet alternatives quickly smash the cap, which was the GP point. Just because that isn't common place doesn;t mean it is unreasonable.
Think about it. In 5-10 years, we won't have Cable, we'll have HD Video on Demand Networks, something like Hulu or Netflix instead.
The future is now. My house lives on Netflix and Vonage. We went to my fathers house to watch TV, and the kids couldn't understand why they kept missing their show because of these "commercial" things. And when their pappy said "I need to change the channel real quick to see the weather", the look of confusion on their face can only mildy be explained as hysterical.
Picard wakes up in a prison camp and it was all a dream
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There should be no NULLs
Then how do I, say, indicate the date of death for someone who hasn't died? An IsDead field? Really? (Yes, a NULL in a field is a shortcut for proper relationship, but a lack of relationship when using a linking table will still be represented by NULL)
there should be no natural ordering of "columns"
Does it really matter? The natural ordering of columns is the order in which you added them to the table. Ignore it. It isn't important, and not in need of a "solution"
there should be no possibility of having duplicate rows
Firstly, get to know your DISTINCT SQL keyword. Secondly, data in real life sometimes IS duplicate. What the hell should people do? Have a DuplicatedThisManyTimes field? Ugh.
possibility of inconsistent intermediate states in transactions
That is a property of the database engine, not SQL.
Because SQL simply ignores the relation model and "does what IBM and Oracle always did". That's not the same thing as "implementing the relational model".
Where do you get this shit? Are you telling me the function of foreign key constraints and referential integrity, and the good ol INNER/RIGHT/LEFT join keywords are just smoke and mirrors and everything is really just a chaotic bowl of soup? References please.
Take a look at http://alcoholism.about.com/cs/alerts/l/blnaa35.htm
A good little snippet to read:
Body Weight. Although alcohol has a relatively high caloric value, 7.1 Calories per gram (as a point of reference, 1 gram of carbohydrate contains 4.5 Calories, and 1 gram of fat contains 9 Calories), alcohol consumption does not necessarily result in increased body weight. An analysis of data collected from the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES I) found that although drinkers had significantly higher intakes of total calories than nondrinkers, drinkers were not more obese than nondrinkers. In fact, women drinkers had significantly lower body weight than nondrinkers. As alcohol intake among men increased, their body weight decreased (17). An analysis of data from the second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES II) and other large national studies found similar results for women (18), although the relationship between drinking and body weight for men is inconsistent. Although moderate doses of alcohol added to the diets of lean men and women do not seem to lead to weight gain, some studies have reported weight gain when alcohol is added to the diets of overweight persons (19,20). When chronic heavy drinkers substitute alcohol for carbohydrates in their diets, they lose weight and weigh less than their nondrinking counterparts (21,22). Furthermore, when chronic heavy drinkers add alcohol to an otherwise normal diet, they do not gain weight (21).
Alcohol is NOT "turned into fat". It turns to acetate, which the body will use as fuel before it burns anything else, including body fat.
The world is a classroom without a teacher. We just REALLY hope that if things get out of hand, that the Principal will jump in.... and we really hope he is there
I was about to reply the same thing. Masterbation can keep you from being controlled by your hormones. Example: About to cheat on your wife? Beat the meat and see if you still think it is worth it.
Especially with plasma displays, the science is more complicated than "spray this buffer of cathodes onto a screen". Some of it has to do with copy protection mechanisms, too. But essentially, if you don't display at native resolution, the scaling artifacts would be unacceptable, so they only use native resolution
filestube is more or less a "parked domain" style aggregating site, providing search results from out of their ass straight to places that will infect you with malware disguised as legitimate products.
I'd personally like to hear what people THINK are good icons for these functions. What do you think is a good visual cue for you, to mean "save"? Why? What do you think is a good visual cue for people not like you, to mean "save"?
IP doesn't mean TCP/IP. The TCP half is what does the error control. Therefore, a ping wouldn't have error correction... just "appropriately replied/didn't reply appropriately"
But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, viticulture, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?