While it may seem obvious now (given how ubiquitous HD-based digital music players are now), there was a time when MP3 players did not have navigation menus. I have owned a few MP3 players and a MP3CD player, none of which displayed any information more than the song number, and the only buttons available were play/pause, stop, previous, and next.
(The MP3 players in question were a SoulMate and a Rio 600. The SoulMate was a piece of junk with poor audio quality and connected to the computer via parallel cable)
Access is the single and ONLY worst DB than MySQL (It's bad enough that I could make a 600 page rant about it -it's by FAR MS' worst product - heck, I'd rather admit I use MS Bob and love the office paperclip thing and search assistant dog!). And that's coming from what most ppl here would call a "Microsoft Shill" and fanboy (C# coder, using.NET 2.0, SQL Server extensively, and looking forward to Vista - imagine that!) It has a easy mechanism to build "GUIs", but that's about it. The underlying DB itself is crap (and that's borderline insulting crap)
He'd be better off with a *REAL* RDBMS, be it MSSQL, Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL, Firebird, and even MySQL (don't like it much, but *anything* is a step up from Access, in terms of security, scalability, performance, availability, features, etc).
I think your information on Access is a little out of date. It is true that the JET database engine was a poor excuse for an RDBMS, but since Access 2000, it has used MSDE (Microsoft SQL Desktop Engine) as the default. If you are not aware, MSDE is a version of MSSQL that is optimized for fewer users than the standard MSSQL versions. These databases are actually quite scalable. Additionally, Access does not only open Access databases. In fact it can open any ODBC database. For the many faults that Access has, it presents a decent GUI for database work. I don't personally use it myself (since I have SQL Server Enterprise Manager and SQL Query Analyzer). It could be worse though. It could be FoxPro.
In regards to the original question... Why are you letting users make their own databases? Even if they must make their own databases, use whatever database solution provides the features needed and help them use Access to manage them (via ODBC). If a web-based solution is what you are after (for user-level interaction) there is always FrontPage (which I know is horrendous to work with, but it does simplify ODBC connections when used with IIS, and if the users are running rampant with Access, who cares what the interface looks like.)
It could be worse. Frequently when I type, the words I write come out like speech recognition output. The words have no relation to what I'm trying to type, but when read aloud, it is similar to what I was trying to type.
Mid-October, mid-day Thursday was the departure from Midway (We did arrive at least 2 hours prior to the flight and sat around for ages). The following Monday we flew back. That flight was also a mid-day flight.
I can accept that I just got lucky. I'd much rather have to wait in line for an hour and a half, if my luck could be applied towards something like winning the lottery though.
Odd... When I flew to SF a couple of years ago (but still after 9/11) from Chicago (Midway), it took about 2 minutes to get through security. On the return flight it took about 10 (due to my wife brushing the metal detector, thus setting it off). Are there really people who wait hours to go through security because I've never seen it.
"The Last Unicorn" can be found at most video retailers for about $10 USD. I don't know about the leprechaun's gold or centaurs though (but I think I saw some in "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe").
There are some devices that already use capacitors as battery replacements (sort of). Sony alarm clocks come to mind. Rather than having a 9V battery to maintain the clock in the event of a power failure, it uses a large electrolytic capacitor (in the range of.5 farad) instead.
I'm imagining some really scary situations with capacitors though. The larger of the little ones that you normally see commonly, can be dangerous if they explode (and those are rated at about 10,000 microfarads). Imagine a gigafarad capacitor exploding.
Considering that an adapter exists to connect CompactFlash media to an IDE interface cable, I'd say that you can get a flash drive to show up as a regular IDE drive. There are even existing products that do the same thing prepackaged as IDE devices. To save you some time, here is a link to the Google search: Keywords: Non-Volatile Solid State IDE Drive
The problems we have are always in the SBC-owned lines. Oddly enough though, it's never on the T1 going to our connection to the backbone (Technically, we are our own ISP). It's always on either the voice PRIs or the point-to-point T1s. The problem is always a physical problem in the lines between our building and the origin of the lines (which is at the Motorola HQ a couple blocks away) Sometimes they just switch some pairs around. Other times it requires a new cable run.
At least one of our PRI lines will go down for a day or two once a year. Maybe it doesn't count for the "carrier-grade" services when it's a problem with the physical media. SBC generally has to replace the cable run once per year (although I'm not sure why).
This is simply a case of CYA on the part of Yahoo. Yahoo does business in China, therefore Yahoo must abide by Chinese law when dealing with Chinese matters or face consequences.
People seem to forget that each country makes their own laws, and anyone wishing to do business in those countries must abide by the local laws.
Yes, the Chinese laws are bad, but I cannot change them, Yahoo and Google cannot change them, and certainly the UK Journalists cannot change them.
Hmmm... Let me know when someone finds a "carrier-grade" carrier. I have yet to find any carrier with 5 minutes or less of downtime per year. Our current carrier is at approximately 24 hours of downtime per quarter-year.
It's not so much that you can do that in GTA since you could actually do that in real-life. But you are right, if stuff like that was occurring constantly it would use up the "credibility".
The part that uses up the credibility is that unlike in GTA, doing that in real-life won't result in you appearing outside the nearest hospital with less money in your pocket.
That sounds like the Indexing Service doing it's job. Windows' Indexing Service is a joke (I've noticed no loss in performance after disabling it). The job is much better done with a 3rd party tool such as Google Desktop.
I had never heard of Endless Forest before... I just looked it up and Google and found some reviews and screenshots. Beautiful graphics, but the concept has given me an aneurysim...
Where I work, we use both VB6 and VB.NET (although we do have the full studio for both). VB6 is for quick projects, VB.NET is for heavier-duty projects.
I'm not sure why anyone would go to C#... Before C# there were basically two MS camps, VB and C++. VB devs move to VB.NET, C++ Devs move to the.NET implementation of C++. From what I've seen of C#, it's essentially the same as VB, but with brackets.
At the end of the day VB and C# will compile to the same code. Managed C++ will likely compile to that same code as well. Unmanaged C++ is a different story though.
In practice, VB.NET is not suitable for simple apps (i.e. Small-scale database apps reading and writing a handful of tables), because of the long load times we experience (not to mention that the.NET framework isn't widely deployed and configured throughout the enterprise).
VB6 may not be supported by Microsoft anymore, but it hasn't outlived its usefulness yet. There are a number of programs that we have that we have looked at porting to VB.NET, but VB.NET doesn't support some of the features that VB6 does.
VB.NET exposes a lot more of Windows to the developer than VB6 did, but VB.NET closed some doors too. One of my former co-workers was working on converting a project of his own to VB.NET and one of the API calls he needed was not exposed in.NET and was not available. The documentation simply said that with.NET you shouldn't need to call the API.
Serious developers DO use VB, and any development shops that don't understand that seriously need their heads examined.
"Friends"? What the hell are "friends"? They seem like something I'd be interested in. Where can I get some of these "friends"? Are they available at the local drugstore?
Seriously though, the few friends that I have aren't interested in MMORPGs. I "meet" plenty of other players in-game though. Sure I don't "really" know them, and they don't "really" know me, but they recognize my character.
as long as they trust the editor to catch their mistakes, they'll never actually learn to avoid them; they'll simply let the IDE be their guide and never learn it.
At the same time, the IDE will also catch and point out mistakes (not just blindly fix them) that would not be readily apparent. If there is a bug in your code that will only occur if conditions are just right, you might not catch it during the regular debugging tests, and I believe this is the situation that almost every post-release bugfix repairs. I'm not saying that an IDE will catch these bugs, but they might.
I started out with AppleBASIC programming, and I'm a VB6/VB.NET dev now. I learned C++ in college, but I could not use it today. (Write a program in 8 hours in VB or 2 weeks in C++, and the end result is the same... I'll go with 8 hours.)
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While it may seem obvious now (given how ubiquitous HD-based digital music players are now), there was a time when MP3 players did not have navigation menus. I have owned a few MP3 players and a MP3CD player, none of which displayed any information more than the song number, and the only buttons available were play/pause, stop, previous, and next.
(The MP3 players in question were a SoulMate and a Rio 600. The SoulMate was a piece of junk with poor audio quality and connected to the computer via parallel cable)
Access is the single and ONLY worst DB than MySQL (It's bad enough that I could make a 600 page rant about it -it's by FAR MS' worst product - heck, I'd rather admit I use MS Bob and love the office paperclip thing and search assistant dog!). And that's coming from what most ppl here would call a "Microsoft Shill" and fanboy (C# coder, using .NET 2.0, SQL Server extensively, and looking forward to Vista - imagine that!) It has a easy mechanism to build "GUIs", but that's about it. The underlying DB itself is crap (and that's borderline insulting crap)
He'd be better off with a *REAL* RDBMS, be it MSSQL, Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL, Firebird, and even MySQL (don't like it much, but *anything* is a step up from Access, in terms of security, scalability, performance, availability, features, etc).
I think your information on Access is a little out of date. It is true that the JET database engine was a poor excuse for an RDBMS, but since Access 2000, it has used MSDE (Microsoft SQL Desktop Engine) as the default. If you are not aware, MSDE is a version of MSSQL that is optimized for fewer users than the standard MSSQL versions. These databases are actually quite scalable. Additionally, Access does not only open Access databases. In fact it can open any ODBC database. For the many faults that Access has, it presents a decent GUI for database work. I don't personally use it myself (since I have SQL Server Enterprise Manager and SQL Query Analyzer). It could be worse though. It could be FoxPro.
In regards to the original question... Why are you letting users make their own databases? Even if they must make their own databases, use whatever database solution provides the features needed and help them use Access to manage them (via ODBC). If a web-based solution is what you are after (for user-level interaction) there is always FrontPage (which I know is horrendous to work with, but it does simplify ODBC connections when used with IIS, and if the users are running rampant with Access, who cares what the interface looks like.)
It could be worse. Frequently when I type, the words I write come out like speech recognition output. The words have no relation to what I'm trying to type, but when read aloud, it is similar to what I was trying to type.
"Open the iPod and play 'The Doors', HAL."
Mid-October, mid-day Thursday was the departure from Midway (We did arrive at least 2 hours prior to the flight and sat around for ages). The following Monday we flew back. That flight was also a mid-day flight. I can accept that I just got lucky. I'd much rather have to wait in line for an hour and a half, if my luck could be applied towards something like winning the lottery though.
Odd... When I flew to SF a couple of years ago (but still after 9/11) from Chicago (Midway), it took about 2 minutes to get through security. On the return flight it took about 10 (due to my wife brushing the metal detector, thus setting it off). Are there really people who wait hours to go through security because I've never seen it.
"The Last Unicorn" can be found at most video retailers for about $10 USD. I don't know about the leprechaun's gold or centaurs though (but I think I saw some in "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe").
There are some devices that already use capacitors as battery replacements (sort of). Sony alarm clocks come to mind. Rather than having a 9V battery to maintain the clock in the event of a power failure, it uses a large electrolytic capacitor (in the range of .5 farad) instead.
I'm imagining some really scary situations with capacitors though. The larger of the little ones that you normally see commonly, can be dangerous if they explode (and those are rated at about 10,000 microfarads). Imagine a gigafarad capacitor exploding.
Considering that an adapter exists to connect CompactFlash media to an IDE interface cable, I'd say that you can get a flash drive to show up as a regular IDE drive. There are even existing products that do the same thing prepackaged as IDE devices. To save you some time, here is a link to the Google search: Keywords: Non-Volatile Solid State IDE Drive
That's Hedley!
Sorry, couldn't resist. It's not every day that that name appears.
The problems we have are always in the SBC-owned lines. Oddly enough though, it's never on the T1 going to our connection to the backbone (Technically, we are our own ISP). It's always on either the voice PRIs or the point-to-point T1s. The problem is always a physical problem in the lines between our building and the origin of the lines (which is at the Motorola HQ a couple blocks away) Sometimes they just switch some pairs around. Other times it requires a new cable run.
At least one of our PRI lines will go down for a day or two once a year. Maybe it doesn't count for the "carrier-grade" services when it's a problem with the physical media. SBC generally has to replace the cable run once per year (although I'm not sure why).
This is simply a case of CYA on the part of Yahoo. Yahoo does business in China, therefore Yahoo must abide by Chinese law when dealing with Chinese matters or face consequences.
People seem to forget that each country makes their own laws, and anyone wishing to do business in those countries must abide by the local laws.
Yes, the Chinese laws are bad, but I cannot change them, Yahoo and Google cannot change them, and certainly the UK Journalists cannot change them.
Hmmm... Let me know when someone finds a "carrier-grade" carrier. I have yet to find any carrier with 5 minutes or less of downtime per year. Our current carrier is at approximately 24 hours of downtime per quarter-year.
Nah, it'll be a "BlackBerry Newton" All they need to do is get a license to use the name from Nabisco.
But how many are "gun-related"? I can think of a 3 letter word that would precede "shot" that would account for that number of hits.
It's not so much that you can do that in GTA since you could actually do that in real-life. But you are right, if stuff like that was occurring constantly it would use up the "credibility".
The part that uses up the credibility is that unlike in GTA, doing that in real-life won't result in you appearing outside the nearest hospital with less money in your pocket.
That sounds like the Indexing Service doing it's job. Windows' Indexing Service is a joke (I've noticed no loss in performance after disabling it). The job is much better done with a 3rd party tool such as Google Desktop.
I had never heard of Endless Forest before... I just looked it up and Google and found some reviews and screenshots. Beautiful graphics, but the concept has given me an aneurysim...
Where I work, we use both VB6 and VB.NET (although we do have the full studio for both). VB6 is for quick projects, VB.NET is for heavier-duty projects.
.NET implementation of C++. From what I've seen of C#, it's essentially the same as VB, but with brackets.
.NET framework isn't widely deployed and configured throughout the enterprise).
.NET and was not available. The documentation simply said that with .NET you shouldn't need to call the API.
I'm not sure why anyone would go to C#... Before C# there were basically two MS camps, VB and C++. VB devs move to VB.NET, C++ Devs move to the
At the end of the day VB and C# will compile to the same code. Managed C++ will likely compile to that same code as well. Unmanaged C++ is a different story though.
In practice, VB.NET is not suitable for simple apps (i.e. Small-scale database apps reading and writing a handful of tables), because of the long load times we experience (not to mention that the
VB6 may not be supported by Microsoft anymore, but it hasn't outlived its usefulness yet. There are a number of programs that we have that we have looked at porting to VB.NET, but VB.NET doesn't support some of the features that VB6 does.
VB.NET exposes a lot more of Windows to the developer than VB6 did, but VB.NET closed some doors too. One of my former co-workers was working on converting a project of his own to VB.NET and one of the API calls he needed was not exposed in
Serious developers DO use VB, and any development shops that don't understand that seriously need their heads examined.
"Friends"? What the hell are "friends"? They seem like something I'd be interested in. Where can I get some of these "friends"? Are they available at the local drugstore?
Seriously though, the few friends that I have aren't interested in MMORPGs. I "meet" plenty of other players in-game though. Sure I don't "really" know them, and they don't "really" know me, but they recognize my character.
Namco...
I just had this sudden image in my head of a Pac-Man MMORPG.
(And now you just did too!)
WII = W2
I knew it! It's a subliminal message to Americans to convince them to spend their tax returns on Nintendo products!
I'll play devil's advocate.
as long as they trust the editor to catch their mistakes, they'll never actually learn to avoid them; they'll simply let the IDE be their guide and never learn it.
At the same time, the IDE will also catch and point out mistakes (not just blindly fix them) that would not be readily apparent. If there is a bug in your code that will only occur if conditions are just right, you might not catch it during the regular debugging tests, and I believe this is the situation that almost every post-release bugfix repairs. I'm not saying that an IDE will catch these bugs, but they might.
I started out with AppleBASIC programming, and I'm a VB6/VB.NET dev now. I learned C++ in college, but I could not use it today. (Write a program in 8 hours in VB or 2 weeks in C++, and the end result is the same... I'll go with 8 hours.)
Wouldn't your contact list be your own private social network as well?
True, true... But I'll keep my non-gadget oriented technology, thanks. I prefer my techonology in the non-commoditized form.
you won't even need a PC to download music to your iPod
Isn't this technically possible via FireWire already?