Odd, I know two people in unions.. One is a plumber, the otheris in general construction... Both make well in excess of $100k per year, and one quite often gets paid to do nothing while making that $100k+.
The very first sub-$1000 CD-ROM Writer was released by HP (4020i) in 1995. Sub $100 burners weren't around in 1996, infact they weren't even sub-$100 in 2000. Closer, but still not there.
I am afraid it doesn't work that way. Just because you have a DVD doesn't give you permission to do whatever you want with it. Perhaps you should read the big disclaimer that appears on every commercial DVD that you can't bypass.
No, it would be the equivalent of ~28.4 of your home monitors, and the computational power to do 3D modelling of the universe at that resolution at better than real time.
Unfortunately, auto-incrementing keys are very bad for performance in quite a few scenarios. Every insert requires a table-wide lock (No concurrent inserts). In many cases it also causes problems with replicated tables (many master), or partitioned tables. Better would be uuid/guid for these scenarios.
I do believe that most DBS (SQL Server, Oracle, DB2) would optimize that out back into a standard query anyhow, even if you wrote it that way or MySQL.
Not sure what "VSYNC" is, I'm guessing that you just remembered it wrong, or made it up. Perhaps you are thinking of optimistic and pessimistic locking currency?
As for a data adapter, that's what you would use to convert an in memory table representation (or subset of) (AKA disconnected dataset) like in a dataset to generate the necessary data statements to do mass update/insert/deletes to physical table in the database. One of the best features of a dataset is it's ability to do batch updates, which only does a real physical commit every n-th record. As the real commits are what are most expensive, you can easily do updates that take 1/n-th the amount of time as generating a n updates. This works well if you expect that the vast majority of updates will have no conflicts, but performance suffers if you have a large number of conflicts and you need to rollback the batch, and then figure out how to handle the partially committed dataset,
Mostly correct, not just FAT based, but it used the same technique for storing long file names in a FAT file system that Microsoft patented. If TomTom would have stuck with 8.3 filenames they would have been ok.
You don't have to be a monopoly to have enough money to have a good legal team. Your statement "This is why monopolies are not such a good thing" is false. It's unrelated.
Of course if you meant to say, this is why companies who make money are not such a good thing that would be related, but I think most people would agree that companies that make money are generally a good thing.
Ok, how about things like... "Invisible" Braces, Cell Phones, Ball Point pens, water filters, smoke detectors, long distance telecommunications, ear thermometers, weather satellites, laptops (portable battery technologies), kidney dialysis machines, CAT scanners, freeze dried foods, car mufflers, cordless power tools, MRI machines, etc etc.
By your logic, if.de was a german domain, then companies outside Germany would not have a.de domain, but they do. I have one.
The.com domain was started by the US Department of Defense (US based, lol), and is currently run by Verisign (a US based company). It's meant to allow any commercial company in the world to be able to register there, but to deny where it started and who runs it is silly. It's world wide because the US says so. The internet didn't just invent itself.
Sorry NotBorg, but some of these issues actually had real life impacts for both me and the guys at my office. So while it may not seem important to you, I can assure you that a browser impacting our ability to actually get stuff done DOES MATTER.
Firebug not working caused me to switch to another browser to do development work for the day. Many of the guys I work with similarly had to switch to using Chrome and Safari for the day, and I had to field questions on how to use those browser's dev tools instead of getting my own stuff done in the middle of a crunch time. So yeah, it was kind of a "big deal" to me.
HTML Validator - 160,000 users is a "small niche"?
IE Tab BTW is listed as the 19th most popular add-on for firefox, and yes, I use to log into a intranet site to do time reporting, and yes, I had to switch to IE since firefox 5 broke the add-on. Again, a PITA. With 5 million downloads, I wouldn't consider this a "small niche".
Yes, skype, that's obviously a niche too. Oh wait, let's blame it on Microsoft even though Microsoft hasn't made a single change/release to the code since they bought it, it's still obviously their fault. Oh, it's the same code that has been there for 2 years, and suddenly the same week Microsoft buys it, firefox decides to block the add-on, LOL! That's some interesting timing.
As for AVG, that's odd because it says that it is fully up to date. I am guessing that it does not auto-update the firefox plug in, and only does so if you reinstall. So I guess I'll uninstall AVG, go grab the latest one, reinstall it. Another 30 minutes of my life wasted on a firefox update. Can I send you my bill for time wasted if it's not that big of a deal?
I'm glad AMD is around, but seriously you don't need to exaggerate things to make a point, especially when the exaggeration is obviously false.
Yes, Intel would have chips that cost less than $1000 if AMD weren't around. They had them BEFORE AMD was around, and that hasn't changed. They quite often do have their highest speed desktop processor right around the $1000 price, with another running at 90% of it's speed at $600, and continuing down the line. I don't suspect that will be changing any time soon.
Sorry "dude", but go back to your psychotherapy. You obviously need it after your rant. If you are going to go on trying to insult others on slashdot, you should at least appear to know what you are talking about, and understand simple programming concepts.
Not every problem is a "race condition", and your abuse of the term shows you know nothing. Calling IE/Trident spaghetti code without having looked at the source code shows you don't even know what the term means. Bad code is bad code, and has nothing to do with spaghetti code, and spaghetti code can even perform without error and work better (faster, more memory efficient, or both) than well structured and well documented code.
Trying to associate trident with a tool of the devil, now that one just made me laugh. I hate IE 6 as much as the next guy (actually probably more), but IE 7 was better (but still sucked), where as IE 8 is pretty darn good and I have rarely an issue with it (standards wise, it is still missing current features). IE 9 finally puts it back into the competition with Firefox/Chrome, and IE 10 promises to be even better.
And unlike you, I'm not an anonymous coward. What I say is my opinion, you may not agree with it, and you may not like it, but it's mine and I'm not afraid to tell it how I see it.
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Odd, I know two people in unions.. One is a plumber, the otheris in general construction... Both make well in excess of $100k per year, and one quite often gets paid to do nothing while making that $100k+.
The very first sub-$1000 CD-ROM Writer was released by HP (4020i) in 1995. Sub $100 burners weren't around in 1996, infact they weren't even sub-$100 in 2000. Closer, but still not there.
I am afraid it doesn't work that way. Just because you have a DVD doesn't give you permission to do whatever you want with it. Perhaps you should read the big disclaimer that appears on every commercial DVD that you can't bypass.
WTB Mod points.
I haven't seen $5 shots for a long time. Even the dives around here are $8+ shots, go somewhere nice, and you're up around $12-$15.
No, it would be the equivalent of ~28.4 of your home monitors, and the computational power to do 3D modelling of the universe at that resolution at better than real time.
That is essentially what the stimulus checks are... "reduced taxes", and it works everytime... to some extent.
Afraid of getting co.ck blocked are ya?
Facebook is, itself, the proof that your point is invalid.
While I find you post mostly insightful, the one problem with your argument is that you make the assumption that facebook is not a toy.
Unfortunately, auto-incrementing keys are very bad for performance in quite a few scenarios. Every insert requires a table-wide lock (No concurrent inserts). In many cases it also causes problems with replicated tables (many master), or partitioned tables. Better would be uuid/guid for these scenarios.
I do believe that most DBS (SQL Server, Oracle, DB2) would optimize that out back into a standard query anyhow, even if you wrote it that way or MySQL.
Well except for the whole GUI part of access, and stored procedures.
Not sure what "VSYNC" is, I'm guessing that you just remembered it wrong, or made it up. Perhaps you are thinking of optimistic and pessimistic locking currency?
As for a data adapter, that's what you would use to convert an in memory table representation (or subset of) (AKA disconnected dataset) like in a dataset to generate the necessary data statements to do mass update/insert/deletes to physical table in the database. One of the best features of a dataset is it's ability to do batch updates, which only does a real physical commit every n-th record. As the real commits are what are most expensive, you can easily do updates that take 1/n-th the amount of time as generating a n updates. This works well if you expect that the vast majority of updates will have no conflicts, but performance suffers if you have a large number of conflicts and you need to rollback the batch, and then figure out how to handle the partially committed dataset,
Mostly correct, not just FAT based, but it used the same technique for storing long file names in a FAT file system that Microsoft patented. If TomTom would have stuck with 8.3 filenames they would have been ok.
You don't have to be a monopoly to have enough money to have a good legal team. Your statement "This is why monopolies are not such a good thing" is false. It's unrelated.
Of course if you meant to say, this is why companies who make money are not such a good thing that would be related, but I think most people would agree that companies that make money are generally a good thing.
Ok, how about things like... "Invisible" Braces, Cell Phones, Ball Point pens, water filters, smoke detectors, long distance telecommunications, ear thermometers, weather satellites, laptops (portable battery technologies), kidney dialysis machines, CAT scanners, freeze dried foods, car mufflers, cordless power tools, MRI machines, etc etc.
By your logic, if .de was a german domain, then companies outside Germany would not have a .de domain, but they do. I have one.
The .com domain was started by the US Department of Defense (US based, lol), and is currently run by Verisign (a US based company). It's meant to allow any commercial company in the world to be able to register there, but to deny where it started and who runs it is silly. It's world wide because the US says so. The internet didn't just invent itself.
.com is not a US domain name
You are mistaken.
Cool, where can I download the source to google.com?
Sorry NotBorg, but some of these issues actually had real life impacts for both me and the guys at my office. So while it may not seem important to you, I can assure you that a browser impacting our ability to actually get stuff done DOES MATTER.
Firebug not working caused me to switch to another browser to do development work for the day. Many of the guys I work with similarly had to switch to using Chrome and Safari for the day, and I had to field questions on how to use those browser's dev tools instead of getting my own stuff done in the middle of a crunch time. So yeah, it was kind of a "big deal" to me.
HTML Validator - 160,000 users is a "small niche"?
IE Tab BTW is listed as the 19th most popular add-on for firefox, and yes, I use to log into a intranet site to do time reporting, and yes, I had to switch to IE since firefox 5 broke the add-on. Again, a PITA. With 5 million downloads, I wouldn't consider this a "small niche".
Yes, skype, that's obviously a niche too. Oh wait, let's blame it on Microsoft even though Microsoft hasn't made a single change/release to the code since they bought it, it's still obviously their fault. Oh, it's the same code that has been there for 2 years, and suddenly the same week Microsoft buys it, firefox decides to block the add-on, LOL! That's some interesting timing.
As for AVG, that's odd because it says that it is fully up to date. I am guessing that it does not auto-update the firefox plug in, and only does so if you reinstall. So I guess I'll uninstall AVG, go grab the latest one, reinstall it. Another 30 minutes of my life wasted on a firefox update. Can I send you my bill for time wasted if it's not that big of a deal?
Firebug (Not auto updated - Manual for first day)
HTML Validator (Fixed Yesterday)
IE Tab Plus (Fixed Today)
FiddlerHook (Still broke)
AVG Safe Search (Still broke)
LogMeIn Remote Access Plugin (Still broke)
Skype extension for firefox (Still broke)
Logitech Device Detection (Still broke)
I'm glad AMD is around, but seriously you don't need to exaggerate things to make a point, especially when the exaggeration is obviously false.
Yes, Intel would have chips that cost less than $1000 if AMD weren't around. They had them BEFORE AMD was around, and that hasn't changed. They quite often do have their highest speed desktop processor right around the $1000 price, with another running at 90% of it's speed at $600, and continuing down the line. I don't suspect that will be changing any time soon.
That isn't proof of it being spaghetti code. I can write well structured and well documented code that crashes on that quite easily.
Sorry "dude", but go back to your psychotherapy. You obviously need it after your rant. If you are going to go on trying to insult others on slashdot, you should at least appear to know what you are talking about, and understand simple programming concepts.
Not every problem is a "race condition", and your abuse of the term shows you know nothing.
Calling IE/Trident spaghetti code without having looked at the source code shows you don't even know what the term means. Bad code is bad code, and has nothing to do with spaghetti code, and spaghetti code can even perform without error and work better (faster, more memory efficient, or both) than well structured and well documented code.
Trying to associate trident with a tool of the devil, now that one just made me laugh. I hate IE 6 as much as the next guy (actually probably more), but IE 7 was better (but still sucked), where as IE 8 is pretty darn good and I have rarely an issue with it (standards wise, it is still missing current features). IE 9 finally puts it back into the competition with Firefox/Chrome, and IE 10 promises to be even better.
And unlike you, I'm not an anonymous coward. What I say is my opinion, you may not agree with it, and you may not like it, but it's mine and I'm not afraid to tell it how I see it.
You are linefeeding it wrong.