I already can't buy a "base" model of anything. I actually, in amoment of insanity, considered a new car a few years ago.
Wanted a Subaru Forester, but couldn't buy one with: no power windows, keyless entry, and 200 other acceosories I didn't want. Plus, I couldn't find a dealer with a manual in stock.
I JUST WANT A FREAKIN' CAR! Maybe if you live in San Diego or something where you pay $500K for a house it's no big deal to drop $25 or $35k for a car which will be worth 1/3 of that in 5 years. But here where I live, three of those buy a decent house.
I agree with other comments. This is pretty basic, but then again you can't beleive some of the stuff people do SQL queries for. I started at one job, took over a web app that had a lot of forms with a "STATE" drop down. Every time they were going to a ref table to build the drop down. I gave them unbelievable crap.. "when's the last time we added a state to the U.S.?"
The point of stuff like this is, you can keep a dynamic page to generate the html and just make the damn thing an include. You can always regen the include if a reference table changes. Or build something fancier to check if data has changed and regen.
um, that's what the parent was talking about. Excel can do that. I've done it. A quick search on Microsoft office site turns it up (http://office.microsoft.com/training/training.asp x?AssetID=RC011831161033)
Since we didn't have money for a full OLAP solution (even crystal reports was really out of our budget -- hell, even taking time to write the reports oursleves was out of our time budget), our solution was to build SQL views that were simplified and set up ODBC source on managers machines and then offer a small class (a couple hours) on how to use it.
It gave the managers an interface they new (excel) and we knew they had right data. And if we changed stuff in the database, we could just redefine those views (with the same columun names), and there sheets would go right on working.
You wouldn't belive the stuff a bean counter who has been working in excel for years can churn out in minutes. Charts, graphs, interactive "what if" scenarios by driving formulas off the values in certain input cells.
Hell, I bash Microsoft Office all the time, but Excel rocks, even though I don't use it much.
Some nice features for comsumer level. Faxing (vastly simplified), pictures (rotating, resizing, etc), CD Burning, integrated.zip support are a few things I can think of. Granted, all of these things were available as addons/shareware, but now they are included. You may not think they are that big of deals, but don't pretend such things don't exist.
HHGG is really a parody of science fiction, or at least, science fiction written primarily for comdedic effect... or... really it's comedy that happens to be science fiction.
Ok, listen, it isn't really any of those things. It's a deep parable of man and his nonsensical attempts to control the uncontrollable universe.
And it has some good bits about robots and artificial inteligence.
Oh, fark it, just read the damn thing. If you've are somewhat intelligent and a sense of humor, you like it.
you know my favorite thing? THere's a grocery store near my house that requires a card to get the sale stuff (I know, I'd avoid them, but they are close for an occasional quick run). Anway, I not only filled out fake info, I've traded with people before, I HATE someone tracking my stuff.
PS 5.5 works fine on XP! I use it all the time. Of course, it's mainly because I got it free and don't want to pay for PS, but I agree, it has all the stuff I need.
No, people play. BIG time. Check out pokerpulse.com. there were 1.8 million estimaged real money players in February 2005.
The reason you see SO much poker spam is the major sites pay big referral fees, so you can make a lot of money getting referrrals. As a matter of a fact, you should sign up through a referral and get a bonus, like 20% deposit, or a percentage of your rake back, free chips, or something, because these guys will do a lot in the hope you play for years and they get big $$$, because they can, in some instances, get a percentage of your rake FOREVER! I would give you some signup links, but then I'd be blogspamming! Just search for "poker signup bonuses" or something.
(for the non-poker players, rake is the percentage of the pot the online poker sites take out of each pot. It's how they make their money. This led, incidentally, to one of the greatest movie lines ever in Rounders -- "In the poker game of like, women are the fucking rake!"
.net is free as in beer, by the way. You can download the sdk which can compile from the command line and edit the source files in your favorite text editor. Although, to be fair, you need a non-free platform (windows) to run the stuff on.
Yep, I looked at a friends' schedule C return "prepared" for him by a preparer affiliated with a nationally know firm because he knew I did my own. You wouldn't believe the liberties they took. They wrote off all kinds of things he didn't give them receipts for. we're talking LOTS of items, just made up as far as I can see. Everything written as 100% business use even though my friend them that it wasn't (more like 50% for all the computer stuff).
Ended up with a huge loss for his (very profitable) business. I told him "this, in my opinion, is a time bomb. If you write off losses on a shed. c year after year, you WILL get audited eventually.
It was horrible. I don't, frankly, understand people who put there fate in the hands of someone else. YOU are the one legally liable. You sign the return.
your first mistake (in relating to the average user) is your last sentence. Most user's don't understand what a "file system" is, let alone a well orgainized one.
That said, I don't see the point of Microsoft's offering. Look at google desktop search. THERE's your better find facility. It searches emails, files (including pdf's word docs, excel sheets), etc. really, really well. Microsoft, in my opinion, should build a better search function (re: steal google desktop) rather than change the underlying file system.
stored procedures... um, I know you can implement custom "sql finders" for a class. I don't see why that couldn't work, but you'd lose a lot of the great stuff that way.
MAC's can be modified. There are NICs that allow MACs to be modified, for instance. Also, My firewall allows it's MAC to be modified. It even has a handy function to clone the MAC from your nic..
Dan: hmmm, I'd find an itch to scratch. You can start by install rails and go thru the "todo list" tutorial web site. That's what I did. Maybe that will fire some ideas. Want to write a blog? write your own little blog site. It would be pretty trivial to do in rails.... I dunno.
My son spent $20 on a single card off ebay. But it was his money, he raked a bunch of leaves for that money.
He doesn't even really play the card game much and that card isn't even "tournament legal" or some such nonsense. I found the card (in it's case) sitting on top of the microwave last month:)
As a guy who has written db-driven web apps in ASP, asp.net ( alittle), perl CGI, plain JSP/Servlet and j2ee app server with EJB's (both with and without a persistence framerwork/Object-relational bridge), I can tell you ROR is my favorite. I've only been using it for two weeks on a part-time project. It's... beautiful. I can't think of any way to describe it. It. Just. Works.
And ruby is a really nice scripting language. You should check it out.
Dude, have you seen the enema that is Yugio? (maybe wrong spelling).
My son watches it... the show is.. them playing the card game that is sold in stores. That's it. The movie was, them playing the card game a long time.
Oh, there's some crap about ancient monsters becoming real and they have holographs for the duels so you don't just see a couple guys playing cards, but it's pretty much just them playing the game. It's brutal. The most blatant thing I've ever seen.
Even Pokemon (my son watched it too) at least had some stories and the card game was a GAME of the duels that took place on the show. The dudes on the game didn't use the cards and the EXACT same products.
That metric is completely useless. The IPC for each processor must be considered separately, and each chipset and memory configuration used with the processor must also be taken into account. You also have to consider integer, fpu, and simd performance separately. A G4 application that makes use of AltiVec, will do considerably better than a comparably clocked AthlonXP or P4, but in other areas the performance characteristics will be much different.
Secondly, the Mini does not come with an nVidia GPU, it comes with an ATi Radeon 9200 which is basically slower than a GeForce 2 MX. Its integrated video is practically worthless, so throw in a $35 budget card.
This was gonna be my point. The processor/video is , I think, comparable, with an XP + and and GeForce 2 MX. I've USED a powerbook that has a faster G4 and it "feels" for the ordinary, everyday task about the same as my machine at home (which is an athlon XP 2100 + like above) and a Geforec2 MX. Maybe all of OSX's eye candy sucks up that much stuff.
sometimes, I think apple folks don't understand how cheap PC hardware is.. similar to new PC's? WTF?... a quick pricewatch search shows a comparable mobo/cpu combo for $77 with an Athlon XP 1700+ 1.47GHZ cpu.
I'm in the same boat. I'd love to use OSx. I'd pay $100-$150 for it. But I'm not paying Apple for there outrageous hardware that I can't really upgrade. NO amount of delusion on your part can show that it isn't overpriced. It's simple market economics. there is so little price pressure on Apple compared to the pc world, where there are hundreds (thousands) of hardware companies competing on price/features.
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This makes we glad to live in a small midwest City (120K). We had one murder last year.
I already can't buy a "base" model of anything. I actually, in amoment of insanity, considered a new car a few years ago.
Wanted a Subaru Forester, but couldn't buy one with: no power windows, keyless entry, and 200 other acceosories I didn't want. Plus, I couldn't find a dealer with a manual in stock.
I JUST WANT A FREAKIN' CAR! Maybe if you live in San Diego or something where you pay $500K for a house it's no big deal to drop $25 or $35k for a car which will be worth 1/3 of that in 5 years. But here where I live, three of those buy a decent house.
I agree with other comments. This is pretty basic, but then again you can't beleive some of the stuff people do SQL queries for. I started at one job, took over a web app that had a lot of forms with a "STATE" drop down. Every time they were going to a ref table to build the drop down. I gave them unbelievable crap.. "when's the last time we added a state to the U.S.?"
The point of stuff like this is, you can keep a dynamic page to generate the html and just make the damn thing an include. You can always regen the include if a reference table changes. Or build something fancier to check if data has changed and regen.
um, that's what the parent was talking about. Excel can do that. I've done it. A quick search on Microsoft office site turns it up (http://office.microsoft.com/training/training.asp x?AssetID=RC011831161033)
Since we didn't have money for a full OLAP solution (even crystal reports was really out of our budget -- hell, even taking time to write the reports oursleves was out of our time budget), our solution was to build SQL views that were simplified and set up ODBC source on managers machines and then offer a small class (a couple hours) on how to use it.
It gave the managers an interface they new (excel) and we knew they had right data. And if we changed stuff in the database, we could just redefine those views (with the same columun names), and there sheets would go right on working.
You wouldn't belive the stuff a bean counter who has been working in excel for years can churn out in minutes. Charts, graphs, interactive "what if" scenarios by driving formulas off the values in certain input cells.
Hell, I bash Microsoft Office all the time, but Excel rocks, even though I don't use it much.
faster boot. System restore.
.zip support are a few things I can think of. Granted, all of these things were available as addons/shareware, but now they are included. You may not think they are that big of deals, but don't pretend such things don't exist.
Some nice features for comsumer level. Faxing (vastly simplified), pictures (rotating, resizing, etc), CD Burning, integrated
HHGG is really a parody of science fiction, or at least, science fiction written primarily for comdedic effect... or... really it's comedy that happens to be science fiction.
Ok, listen, it isn't really any of those things. It's a deep parable of man and his nonsensical attempts to control the uncontrollable universe.
And it has some good bits about robots and artificial inteligence.
Oh, fark it, just read the damn thing. If you've are somewhat intelligent and a sense of humor, you like it.
all good points. maybe you could farm 'em.... imagine a beowulf cluster of..
never mind.
Xbox could probably run MSDE (the desktop version of sqlserver -- also the db engine behind access in new versions) with no problemo.
you know my favorite thing? THere's a grocery store near my house that requires a card to get the sale stuff (I know, I'd avoid them, but they are close for an occasional quick run). Anway, I not only filled out fake info, I've traded with people before, I HATE someone tracking my stuff.
PS 5.5 works fine on XP! I use it all the time. Of course, it's mainly because I got it free and don't want to pay for PS, but I agree, it has all the stuff I need.
Hmm, we can make fun of this guy, but W does the same thing and if the media points it out they are "biased liberals"... whatever.
umm, i'm not getting this comment....?
Ie turned into netscape, then java?
No, people play. BIG time. Check out pokerpulse.com. there were 1.8 million estimaged real money players in February 2005.
The reason you see SO much poker spam is the major sites pay big referral fees, so you can make a lot of money getting referrrals. As a matter of a fact, you should sign up through a referral and get a bonus, like 20% deposit, or a percentage of your rake back, free chips, or something, because these guys will do a lot in the hope you play for years and they get big $$$, because they can, in some instances, get a percentage of your rake FOREVER! I would give you some signup links, but then I'd be blogspamming! Just search for "poker signup bonuses" or something.
(for the non-poker players, rake is the percentage of the pot the online poker sites take out of each pot. It's how they make their money. This led, incidentally, to one of the greatest movie lines ever in Rounders -- "In the poker game of like, women are the fucking rake!"
.net is free as in beer, by the way. You can download the sdk which can compile from the command line and edit the source files in your favorite text editor. Although, to be fair, you need a non-free platform (windows) to run the stuff on.
have you not heard of bayesian filtering? I don't get spam. Check out spambayes
Yep, I looked at a friends' schedule C return "prepared" for him by a preparer affiliated with a nationally know firm because he knew I did my own. You wouldn't believe the liberties they took. They wrote off all kinds of things he didn't give them receipts for. we're talking LOTS of items, just made up as far as I can see. Everything written as 100% business use even though my friend them that it wasn't (more like 50% for all the computer stuff).
Ended up with a huge loss for his (very profitable) business. I told him "this, in my opinion, is a time bomb. If you write off losses on a shed. c year after year, you WILL get audited eventually.
It was horrible. I don't, frankly, understand people who put there fate in the hands of someone else. YOU are the one legally liable. You sign the return.
your first mistake (in relating to the average user) is your last sentence. Most user's don't understand what a "file system" is, let alone a well orgainized one.
That said, I don't see the point of Microsoft's offering. Look at google desktop search. THERE's your better find facility. It searches emails, files (including pdf's word docs, excel sheets), etc. really, really well. Microsoft, in my opinion, should build a better search function (re: steal google desktop) rather than change the underlying file system.
stored procedures... um, I know you can implement custom "sql finders" for a class. I don't see why that couldn't work, but you'd lose a lot of the great stuff that way.
MAC's can be modified. There are NICs that allow MACs to be modified, for instance. Also, My firewall allows it's MAC to be modified. It even has a handy function to clone the MAC from your nic..
Dan: hmmm, I'd find an itch to scratch. You can start by install rails and go thru the "todo list" tutorial web site. That's what I did. Maybe that will fire some ideas. Want to write a blog? write your own little blog site. It would be pretty trivial to do in rails.... I dunno.
My son spent $20 on a single card off ebay. But it was his money, he raked a bunch of leaves for that money.
:)
He doesn't even really play the card game much and that card isn't even "tournament legal" or some such nonsense. I found the card (in it's case) sitting on top of the microwave last month
As a guy who has written db-driven web apps in ASP, asp.net ( alittle), perl CGI, plain JSP/Servlet and j2ee app server with EJB's (both with and without a persistence framerwork/Object-relational bridge), I can tell you ROR is my favorite. I've only been using it for two weeks on a part-time project. It's ... beautiful. I can't think of any way to describe it. It. Just. Works.
And ruby is a really nice scripting language. You should check it out.
Dude, have you seen the enema that is Yugio? (maybe wrong spelling).
My son watches it... the show is.. them playing the card game that is sold in stores. That's it. The movie was, them playing the card game a long time.
Oh, there's some crap about ancient monsters becoming real and they have holographs for the duels so you don't just see a couple guys playing cards, but it's pretty much just them playing the game. It's brutal. The most blatant thing I've ever seen.
Even Pokemon (my son watched it too) at least had some stories and the card game was a GAME of the duels that took place on the show. The dudes on the game didn't use the cards and the EXACT same products.
I'll quote the AC to get him more visible:
That metric is completely useless. The IPC for each processor must be considered separately, and each chipset and memory configuration used with the processor must also be taken into account. You also have to consider integer, fpu, and simd performance separately. A G4 application that makes use of AltiVec, will do considerably better than a comparably clocked AthlonXP or P4, but in other areas the performance characteristics will be much different.
Secondly, the Mini does not come with an nVidia GPU, it comes with an ATi Radeon 9200 which is basically slower than a GeForce 2 MX. Its integrated video is practically worthless, so throw in a $35 budget card.
This was gonna be my point. The processor/video is , I think, comparable, with an XP + and and GeForce 2 MX. I've USED a powerbook that has a faster G4 and it "feels" for the ordinary, everyday task about the same as my machine at home (which is an athlon XP 2100 + like above) and a Geforec2 MX. Maybe all of OSX's eye candy sucks up that much stuff.
sometimes, I think apple folks don't understand how cheap PC hardware is.. similar to new PC's? WTF?... a quick pricewatch search shows a comparable mobo/cpu combo for $77 with an Athlon XP 1700+ 1.47GHZ cpu.
I'm in the same boat. I'd love to use OSx. I'd pay $100-$150 for it. But I'm not paying Apple for there outrageous hardware that I can't really upgrade. NO amount of delusion on your part can show that it isn't overpriced. It's simple market economics. there is so little price pressure on Apple compared to the pc world, where there are hundreds (thousands) of hardware companies competing on price/features.