but you're paying for more functionality, not less, and a phone that can't make calls is by definition less functional.
I hate to tell you this, mate, but a phone that can't make phone calls is, by definition, not a phone.
While I understand your sentiment, you are incorrect, just as back in the day when people used to buy hardwired phones for their house, they were phones from the time they were built right up until they were brought home and plugged in. They didnt magically become phones only after Ma Bell managed to bring service to the house and the owner plugged in the phone.
Before that or after that (working phone line, or signal in the case of cell), they were useless phones (at least for making calls), but phones nonetheless. If your engine seizes in your car, it is still a car, even though it no longer drives.
... and those hard-wired phones would have been just as useless in this case - a car accident.
... and good luck calling 911 from outside your house to report that your house is on fire.
I didn't care to look it up, but if it happened on a highway, there are phone booths for emergency calls every kilometre or so.
In case of a fire - that's what neighbours are for. They will call 911 unless they want their house to burn down next.
No, no there are not. It depends on the highway and area. It is not a given (at least in the US). For instance, in NY, on I87 (the Northway, above Albany - not the NY Throughway south of Albany), emergency phones dont start until roughly exit 23 (or 45 miles north of Albany) - at which point, they are two miles away (or, inotherwords, if you pick the correct direction to walk, less than a mile - incorrect direction means up to two miles).
Anyway, the point being, like I87 (in New York alone) with over 200 miles of highway WITHOUT emergency phones, and often exits 10-30 miles apart, there is no such guarantee of finding such a phone, or even being near enough to an exit to walk to someplace that has one.
Or maybe you are right... in which case my apologies. Though there are other sections that also seem to cover this. As well as lawyers on various legal forums who seem to think the section I quoted applies.
But, as I am not a lawyer, I've got no clue other than what the lawyer said. So, I am willing to cede this point to you.
As a musician myself, I find, in my subjective opinion, that Lady Gaga has quite a bit of musical talent, and she is stifling it to make simpler, more catchy, radio playable songs. If, when Lady Gaga is done making money in the pop circle, starts making really really good music, color me unsurprised. I could be wrong.
Or... you could have written "If whatever label currently owns her lets her make her own music - or if she ever gets out of whatever contract she is beholden to them for, then I think she'll make some really really good musc"
I've heard too many horror stories from bands and artists who complain about having been dictated what they need to write and play under the rules of their contract - such as Stabbing Westward during their "suck" stage. Others, like Iron Maiden, who had no such worries, still got approached by their publishing company - who presented them such mandates. Maiden fortunately, owns their music and told them they could "fuck themselves" and did what they want.
There may be quite a few talented artists who fell into that trap, and it's sad. What is worse is, it in no way changes whether they will be remembered or not. The only thing that will change that is whether or not they get out of their contract while still popular and manage to do what they want - all while losing some or all of the support of their label. That's what makes things even more sad.
Again, the law does not specify the difference. It simply states:
11 USC 523 Exceptions to Discharge...
(a)(19)(B)(iii) any court or administrative order for any damages, fine, penalty, citation, restitutionary payment, disgorgement payment, attorney fee, cost, or other payment owed by the debtor.
> And wrong on the second part as well - you cannot escape a *legal* judgment by declaring bankruptcy. This isn't a debt. It's a court ordered judgment for violating a civil law.
Relevant snippet:
The general rule is that bankruptcy discharges all judgments. However, bankruptcy does not discharge judgments for family support obligations, government-imposed fines or penalties, or taxes.
---linuxrocks123
Ah... I see.
Oh, wait, I dont - because even the section that YOU pointed out says YOU are wrong and I am correct (see bolded). Perhaps you should read THIS section, which goes into more detail (ie: the actual LAW regarding it):
11 USC 523 Exceptions to Discharge...
(a)(19)(B)(iii) any court or administrative order for any damages, fine, penalty, citation, restitutionary payment, disgorgement payment, attorney fee, cost, or other payment owed by the debtor.
So, you are saying that because someone is capable of selling their house and car to pay $67,000 for sharing 24 songs, that it is a reasonable expectation?
You're abusing what the parent said, a person can "reasonably pay" that sum without making unreasonable assumptions like winning the lottery, that doesn't say anything about whether it's a reasonable penalty or not. If it was $675k then any normal person can just declare bankruptcy right away, they'd never manage to pay it back.
Wrong, I am not in any way abusing that. If selling one's house is the way to "reasonably pay" such a fine, then explain what is reasonable about it?
And wrong on the second part as well - you cannot escape a *legal* judgment by declaring bankruptcy. This isn't a debt. It's a court ordered judgment for violating a civil law.
It's more than most people have liquid but it's certainly not more than most people can reasonably pay. After all, most adults have a house, a car, and if necissary wages for the next 10 years.
So, you are saying that because someone is capable of selling their house and car to pay $67,000 for sharing 24 songs, that it is a reasonable expectation?
It's not like they expect you to write out a check the day after the trial is over.
Are you sure about that? Most companies I have ever seen (ones far less evil than the RIAA) expect, on determination of a judgment amount, that you will do exactly that or they take other measures to collect said judgment - all while adding exorbitant interest and fees (legal, collection and otherwise) to the amount. As a matter of fact, such practices were part of the reason for the Homestead law in Florida (and similar ones elsewhere) because such "collection" activities often included going after such personal property as one's house and car.
Yes, it's still wildly disproportionate, but at least it I am mentally capable of imagining it is an amount the people who wrote the law might have expected; something that I can't say about the original award.
Well, I am sure that the people who lobbied for and/or sponsored those penalties as defined in the law (the RIAA and MPAA and their members) definitely imagined and hoped for such amounts - and obviously more (based on the original judgment amount) when they pushed for this. I suspect that those who wrote the law went in to it fully expecting such amounts as well, fully knowing what the **AA's expectations were on the matter. That has nothing to do with whether either judgment fits the "crime" though. So... I guess I concede that point to you.;-)
It's worse than that. If you look at the things that eat their profits away, it is things like distribution and such. Meaning, piracy helps them. They would lose more money if they distributed more copies, since the distribution charges seem to exceed the profit margin.
Hope someone points that out to Congress or the courts to shoot down the MPAA.
That's why I always pay by credit card from a reputable bank. You just dispute the payment and they cancel it for you. Some vendors have disputed my disputes after a quick call they have always refunded bad charges. Cash is so outdated and easy to lose.
Define reputable bank. When the idiot Lypozene scam kept charging my card, after I'd notified them to stop (in writing even), the cc company did "investigate" and reversed the charges - then added back the charges, even though I cited the fraud charges against them, simply because they claimed the Lypozene people claimed their website said what they were doing was ok.
What was not mentioned in the article is that some of this may be caused by the hotel staff. The folks who work the night shift are frequently underpaid and have a bunch of spare time to browse through the credit card numbers and transactions of the folks who have checked in that evening.
New York has enacted legislation to help prevent some of this type of fraud, by making it illegal to print whole CC numbers on receipts or to store them in the terminal (meaning immediate processing, with batches being done by transaction number IDs and not the CC number).
Problem is, I have STILL walked into places where the whole CC number and exp date are printed - even though it's in violation of the law. Makes it pretty easy to print out a list of the day's cc receipts, whole credit card numbers and expiration dates intact.
Hopefully, (1) other states (or the Feds - c'mon Feds, be useful) will jump on similar legislation, and (2) they will start enforcing it with the merchant services providers, since many dont seem to care around here (while others, such as BoA, sent one of our customers a letter telling them they were going to remotely disable their terminal if they didnt bring it in for software upgrade).
Yeah, no one said that people can't strangle themselves and do foolish stuff. Big production apps need to be written by people that know what they're doing.
But your citations are at the edge of the curve. You're a black belt, and your stuff better run fast and cleanly or your creds are dirt. These are civilians. They learn, and hopefully know when it's time to get a pro into the equation before they hurt themselves.
Some won't, but the same can be said for car repair and even nuclear physics (viz the LHC forehead slappers).
Your kewl self knows this stuff cold. Let other people learn, even if they get hurt. If they have to pay to get stuff fixed, it's a risk that they likely knowingly take from the onset.
I wish there were real tools with real front ends that you could give to a civilian, knowing they couldn't hurt themselves. But like a chainsaw, you have to hope that when they fire things up, they know a little about what they're doing.
LoL... agreed. Problem is people who claim to be experts in the stuff are using these things (yeah, I wasnt very good at making my point above) - like CompUSA and Siebel (who claims mastery of such things). Ah well...
One advantage of Access is that you can export its tables to something else more rational. Unless you were weaned on Codd and Date, then you learn one step at a time. Yes, there are messes. That's what backups are for. Soon people learn what real data processing is, and how to protect data, make it usable, and deal with its maintenance.
The thing about Access that it, plus HyperCard and other junior RDBMS apps is-- they're approachable by civilians. People need that.... as well as training and experience.
People DONT need that... except a small subset doing small apps at home or for their small (and not going to get much larger) business. As for exporting Access tables... I have went that route, because two clients of mine hired someone who knew nothing about databases and used Access as their back-end. It was a nightmare, as what they were storing is a relatively complex data set. ONE HUNDRED TWENTY SIX tables (yes, 126) for what I have accomplished in 7 tables that actually store MORE data. He used Microsoft's design tools and built a custom program with them, and let it build the databases/tables.
Performance was abysmal. Five to ten minutes for reports that, though complex, takes a back end WEB SCRIPT (back end - not client side) of mine 21 seconds to complete. What's worse is this, he had the data split by years, meaning while my web scripts were handling a 5 year data set to find records for a specific year and calculate reports from it (in 21 seconds or less), Access and his app were taking 5-10 minutes while looking at 1/8 the data (only one year (1/5 the data), and a smaller data set (the remaining difference in amount of data)).
Simple reports we'd have to run (via Siebel and MSSQL and such) when I worked at CompUSA used to take so long that we'd start them, go for breakfast and come back to check to see if they were done.
These tools "approachable by civilians" make a nightmare for those who need to write something with any form of performance while maintaining and importing the datasets created by said tools.
or uses it as a tool to push people to.NET instead
.NET in the browser only with Silverlight, and that already had normal sockets.
Not even commenting on the fragmentation issue that.NET functionality will have for other platforms if MS has their way (and follows their standard planbook), why would.NET, with it's plethora of security issues since day one till now, be a viable solution? And what about.NET makes it truly cross platform like HTML5 is planned on being? Can one use all of the.NET capabilities and functions on MacOSX and Linux and eComStation? And of those capabilities that can be used, for how much longer before Microsoft changes something and loses interest in other platforms? Their consent decree (forcing them to release info on how to interoperate with these communications protocols) has expired. Or did anyone think it was some sort of altruism on their part, or some sort of real effort to support the open source community?
We have some tables that have million of rows, and I'd like to know the best method of designing these tables.
I'm a developer, not a database expert. But it seems that every now and then I have to get my hands dirty with data modeling. "The best method" is probably a really vague concept. If you have serious hardware constraints than the best method changes from an easily maintainable system to something more complex. There's give and take in database design and I guess a million rows is really something that a traditional relational database should be able to handle. So I'd suggest any book that teaches data modeling will suit you here.
eldavojohn makes some excellent points and gives some great suggestions. Keep in mind, like elda suggests, nothing is cut and dry. Configuration, resources, numbers of connections for specific data, etc; all will have an impact (or should) on what you should do and how you should design.
No. Web Sockets was added specifically to address the shortcomings of XMLHTTPRequest.
(That wouldn't have taken you long to find out if you tried, but I guess you were too busy telling Slashdot how much smarter than everyone else you are.)
And hopefully wont create a lot more when a certain web browser improperly (if at all) supports it, or uses it as a tool to push people to.NET instead (Embrace, Extend... yeah, you know the rest).
Every time some new advance comes out for the web, I get scared something like that will happen, that, at the least, will make any web developer's life a nightmare. So far, Microsoft has not let me down.
If they could sell that for under $10,000 I would be first in line to buy one. I have a feeling if it ever gets to market it's going to be just too expensive though. If it's 20 grand or around there I'd rather just get one of VW's larger models like the Golf or Jeta.
Even at $20K, I'd take it. 300 miles cost me $30 right now (10 gallons). Or about $5 with that car. I drive about 12,000 miles a year... meaning I spend about $1,200 a year - instead of $200 a year. That means I save (in a ten year lifespan) $10,000 - meaning it more than justifies the price tag.
Now... I used to drive about 36,000 miles a year (commuting to White Plains - no easy or affordable mass transit to there from here). That's $3,000 a year savings in gas. In ten years (360,000 miles, which I have had multiple cars reach with simple, regular maintenance such as oil changes and such), it means I have saved (again assuming gas prices stay the same and dont go up) $30,000 in gas and paid $20,000 on the car.
In that scenario, $20K is a decent price to me, since my gas savings alone are 1.5 times the cost of the car.
It's also almost never H264 first but MJPEG/XVid/MPEG2/etc and NOT H264. For a start, encoders for mobile phones don't have the power to encode H264 live. So the OP assertion is obviously and trivially wrong.
Really? My team works with a lot of Prosumer cameras that output H264. There's a quickly growing amount of content on YouTube and elsewhere that's filmed on such cameras, or even their lower end brethren - which also often output in H264.
These guys will have looked at what they could potentially invent before they started a business, way before Microsoft would consider accommodating their inquiries. There's good documentation readily available in reasonably digestible formats for OSS. If I'm all about making something new work, I want to know how the system I base it upon works and the easiest way to know that is to base it on an open platform.
Exactly, and with the advent of the Internet, and college kids' exposure to everything, it is also likely that they will base their decisions on perceived market trends (Linux making headway in various areas), finding the correct or best tool to get the job done (pick a LAMP solution, and be sure it will run on just about anything... need to go Windows at some point? Or eComStation? Or some other flavor of Unix? No problem... AMP has been ported to them all...
Now, the reverse isnt necessarily true without a lot of extra work. Need to go from IIS/MSSQL to an AMP setup? Well... have fun.
Then of course, there's preformance. Again, Windows loses on the same box.
And like the ready availability of documentation in the *nix world, there's also the higher likelihood of fixes, updates and so on coming out - or one can roll their own. Not so much in the Windows world, also making MS less relevant.
But it doesnt stop there. One can select a variety of Linux programming tools, and cross-compile their code for Windows or a variety of other operating systems. One cannot (easily, if at all) choose a Microsoft IDE and do the same. What you write will be locked to Windows unless you jump through a lot of hoops.
Frankly, with more educated students, I would suspect that they'd choose something that serves their purposes while leaving their options open for easy migration elsewhere if the need arises - or for easy co-development for more than one platform with basically the same underlying code.
This is yet another area where Microsoft has shot themselves in the foot with their proprietary methods, tools and so on. At one time, it was a wonderful way of them controlling the market, because they dominated it and had little serious competition (yeah, there were better things out there - but they didnt exactly either have the market coverage or backing to compete, especially in light of Microsoft's Anti-Trust violations). Nowadays, with the Internet being what it is, and with a lot more people having computers, they cant use those methods as leverage anymore... and oddly dont understand why the "same ol" tactics just arent working. It definitely is NOT that college kids dont have exposure to Windows - in reality, it's that they DO have exposure to Windows, and a lot of alternatives that Microsoft wishes they didnt.
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, based in Hong Kong, is a wholly owned subsidiary and the founding member of the HSBC Group, which is traded on several stock exchanges as HSBC Holdings plc.
Slashdot Mirror
I hate to tell you this, mate, but a phone that can't make phone calls is, by definition, not a phone.
While I understand your sentiment, you are incorrect, just as back in the day when people used to buy hardwired phones for their house, they were phones from the time they were built right up until they were brought home and plugged in. They didnt magically become phones only after Ma Bell managed to bring service to the house and the owner plugged in the phone.
Before that or after that (working phone line, or signal in the case of cell), they were useless phones (at least for making calls), but phones nonetheless. If your engine seizes in your car, it is still a car, even though it no longer drives.
I didn't care to look it up, but if it happened on a highway, there are phone booths for emergency calls every kilometre or so. In case of a fire - that's what neighbours are for. They will call 911 unless they want their house to burn down next.
No, no there are not. It depends on the highway and area. It is not a given (at least in the US). For instance, in NY, on I87 (the Northway, above Albany - not the NY Throughway south of Albany), emergency phones dont start until roughly exit 23 (or 45 miles north of Albany) - at which point, they are two miles away (or, inotherwords, if you pick the correct direction to walk, less than a mile - incorrect direction means up to two miles).
Anyway, the point being, like I87 (in New York alone) with over 200 miles of highway WITHOUT emergency phones, and often exits 10-30 miles apart, there is no such guarantee of finding such a phone, or even being near enough to an exit to walk to someplace that has one.
Or maybe you are right... in which case my apologies. Though there are other sections that also seem to cover this. As well as lawyers on various legal forums who seem to think the section I quoted applies.
But, as I am not a lawyer, I've got no clue other than what the lawyer said. So, I am willing to cede this point to you.
Wrong... either you put the OR in the wrong place, or the place you quoted did.
Read it here:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/11/523.html
As a musician myself, I find, in my subjective opinion, that Lady Gaga has quite a bit of musical talent, and she is stifling it to make simpler, more catchy, radio playable songs. If, when Lady Gaga is done making money in the pop circle, starts making really really good music, color me unsurprised. I could be wrong.
Or... you could have written "If whatever label currently owns her lets her make her own music - or if she ever gets out of whatever contract she is beholden to them for, then I think she'll make some really really good musc"
I've heard too many horror stories from bands and artists who complain about having been dictated what they need to write and play under the rules of their contract - such as Stabbing Westward during their "suck" stage. Others, like Iron Maiden, who had no such worries, still got approached by their publishing company - who presented them such mandates. Maiden fortunately, owns their music and told them they could "fuck themselves" and did what they want.
There may be quite a few talented artists who fell into that trap, and it's sad. What is worse is, it in no way changes whether they will be remembered or not. The only thing that will change that is whether or not they get out of their contract while still popular and manage to do what they want - all while losing some or all of the support of their label. That's what makes things even more sad.
Again, the law does not specify the difference. It simply states:
11 USC 523 Exceptions to Discharge...
(a)(19)(B)(iii) any court or administrative order for any damages, fine, penalty, citation, restitutionary payment, disgorgement payment, attorney fee, cost, or other payment owed by the debtor.
> And wrong on the second part as well - you cannot escape a *legal* judgment by declaring bankruptcy. This isn't a debt. It's a court ordered judgment for violating a civil law.
You are dead wrong about this: http://www.ehow.com/facts_5689609_can-bankruptcy-after-court-judgment_.html
Relevant snippet: The general rule is that bankruptcy discharges all judgments. However, bankruptcy does not discharge judgments for family support obligations, government-imposed fines or penalties, or taxes.
---linuxrocks123
Ah... I see.
Oh, wait, I dont - because even the section that YOU pointed out says YOU are wrong and I am correct (see bolded). Perhaps you should read THIS section, which goes into more detail (ie: the actual LAW regarding it):
11 USC 523 Exceptions to Discharge...
(a)(19)(B)(iii) any court or administrative order for any damages, fine, penalty, citation, restitutionary payment, disgorgement payment, attorney fee, cost, or other payment owed by the debtor.
So, you are saying that because someone is capable of selling their house and car to pay $67,000 for sharing 24 songs, that it is a reasonable expectation?
You're abusing what the parent said, a person can "reasonably pay" that sum without making unreasonable assumptions like winning the lottery, that doesn't say anything about whether it's a reasonable penalty or not. If it was $675k then any normal person can just declare bankruptcy right away, they'd never manage to pay it back.
Wrong, I am not in any way abusing that. If selling one's house is the way to "reasonably pay" such a fine, then explain what is reasonable about it?
And wrong on the second part as well - you cannot escape a *legal* judgment by declaring bankruptcy. This isn't a debt. It's a court ordered judgment for violating a civil law.
It's more than most people have liquid but it's certainly not more than most people can reasonably pay. After all, most adults have a house, a car, and if necissary wages for the next 10 years.
So, you are saying that because someone is capable of selling their house and car to pay $67,000 for sharing 24 songs, that it is a reasonable expectation?
It's not like they expect you to write out a check the day after the trial is over.
Are you sure about that? Most companies I have ever seen (ones far less evil than the RIAA) expect, on determination of a judgment amount, that you will do exactly that or they take other measures to collect said judgment - all while adding exorbitant interest and fees (legal, collection and otherwise) to the amount. As a matter of fact, such practices were part of the reason for the Homestead law in Florida (and similar ones elsewhere) because such "collection" activities often included going after such personal property as one's house and car.
Yes, it's still wildly disproportionate, but at least it I am mentally capable of imagining it is an amount the people who wrote the law might have expected; something that I can't say about the original award.
Well, I am sure that the people who lobbied for and/or sponsored those penalties as defined in the law (the RIAA and MPAA and their members) definitely imagined and hoped for such amounts - and obviously more (based on the original judgment amount) when they pushed for this. I suspect that those who wrote the law went in to it fully expecting such amounts as well, fully knowing what the **AA's expectations were on the matter. That has nothing to do with whether either judgment fits the "crime" though. So... I guess I concede that point to you. ;-)
...but I've pitched quite a few tents with my meat... ;-)
It's worse than that. If you look at the things that eat their profits away, it is things like distribution and such. Meaning, piracy helps them. They would lose more money if they distributed more copies, since the distribution charges seem to exceed the profit margin.
Hope someone points that out to Congress or the courts to shoot down the MPAA.
That's why I always pay by credit card from a reputable bank. You just dispute the payment and they cancel it for you. Some vendors have disputed my disputes after a quick call they have always refunded bad charges. Cash is so outdated and easy to lose.
Define reputable bank. When the idiot Lypozene scam kept charging my card, after I'd notified them to stop (in writing even), the cc company did "investigate" and reversed the charges - then added back the charges, even though I cited the fraud charges against them, simply because they claimed the Lypozene people claimed their website said what they were doing was ok.
The bank was Chase, btw.
What was not mentioned in the article is that some of this may be caused by the hotel staff. The folks who work the night shift are frequently underpaid and have a bunch of spare time to browse through the credit card numbers and transactions of the folks who have checked in that evening.
New York has enacted legislation to help prevent some of this type of fraud, by making it illegal to print whole CC numbers on receipts or to store them in the terminal (meaning immediate processing, with batches being done by transaction number IDs and not the CC number).
Problem is, I have STILL walked into places where the whole CC number and exp date are printed - even though it's in violation of the law. Makes it pretty easy to print out a list of the day's cc receipts, whole credit card numbers and expiration dates intact.
Hopefully, (1) other states (or the Feds - c'mon Feds, be useful) will jump on similar legislation, and (2) they will start enforcing it with the merchant services providers, since many dont seem to care around here (while others, such as BoA, sent one of our customers a letter telling them they were going to remotely disable their terminal if they didnt bring it in for software upgrade).
Yeah, no one said that people can't strangle themselves and do foolish stuff. Big production apps need to be written by people that know what they're doing.
But your citations are at the edge of the curve. You're a black belt, and your stuff better run fast and cleanly or your creds are dirt. These are civilians. They learn, and hopefully know when it's time to get a pro into the equation before they hurt themselves.
Some won't, but the same can be said for car repair and even nuclear physics (viz the LHC forehead slappers).
Your kewl self knows this stuff cold. Let other people learn, even if they get hurt. If they have to pay to get stuff fixed, it's a risk that they likely knowingly take from the onset.
I wish there were real tools with real front ends that you could give to a civilian, knowing they couldn't hurt themselves. But like a chainsaw, you have to hope that when they fire things up, they know a little about what they're doing.
LoL... agreed. Problem is people who claim to be experts in the stuff are using these things (yeah, I wasnt very good at making my point above) - like CompUSA and Siebel (who claims mastery of such things). Ah well...
One advantage of Access is that you can export its tables to something else more rational. Unless you were weaned on Codd and Date, then you learn one step at a time. Yes, there are messes. That's what backups are for. Soon people learn what real data processing is, and how to protect data, make it usable, and deal with its maintenance.
The thing about Access that it, plus HyperCard and other junior RDBMS apps is-- they're approachable by civilians. People need that.... as well as training and experience.
People DONT need that... except a small subset doing small apps at home or for their small (and not going to get much larger) business. As for exporting Access tables... I have went that route, because two clients of mine hired someone who knew nothing about databases and used Access as their back-end. It was a nightmare, as what they were storing is a relatively complex data set. ONE HUNDRED TWENTY SIX tables (yes, 126) for what I have accomplished in 7 tables that actually store MORE data. He used Microsoft's design tools and built a custom program with them, and let it build the databases/tables.
Performance was abysmal. Five to ten minutes for reports that, though complex, takes a back end WEB SCRIPT (back end - not client side) of mine 21 seconds to complete. What's worse is this, he had the data split by years, meaning while my web scripts were handling a 5 year data set to find records for a specific year and calculate reports from it (in 21 seconds or less), Access and his app were taking 5-10 minutes while looking at 1/8 the data (only one year (1/5 the data), and a smaller data set (the remaining difference in amount of data)).
Simple reports we'd have to run (via Siebel and MSSQL and such) when I worked at CompUSA used to take so long that we'd start them, go for breakfast and come back to check to see if they were done.
These tools "approachable by civilians" make a nightmare for those who need to write something with any form of performance while maintaining and importing the datasets created by said tools.
Not even commenting on the fragmentation issue that .NET functionality will have for other platforms if MS has their way (and follows their standard planbook), why would .NET, with it's plethora of security issues since day one till now, be a viable solution? And what about .NET makes it truly cross platform like HTML5 is planned on being? Can one use all of the .NET capabilities and functions on MacOSX and Linux and eComStation? And of those capabilities that can be used, for how much longer before Microsoft changes something and loses interest in other platforms? Their consent decree (forcing them to release info on how to interoperate with these communications protocols) has expired. Or did anyone think it was some sort of altruism on their part, or some sort of real effort to support the open source community?
Bait may be used to lure more than animals... Looks to me like he is trapping for Microsofties. I am really curious what type of bait he uses.
Silly question!!!! Hype, FUD and Vaporware of course!!! ;-)
We have some tables that have million of rows, and I'd like to know the best method of designing these tables.
I'm a developer, not a database expert. But it seems that every now and then I have to get my hands dirty with data modeling. "The best method" is probably a really vague concept. If you have serious hardware constraints than the best method changes from an easily maintainable system to something more complex. There's give and take in database design and I guess a million rows is really something that a traditional relational database should be able to handle. So I'd suggest any book that teaches data modeling will suit you here.
eldavojohn makes some excellent points and gives some great suggestions. Keep in mind, like elda suggests, nothing is cut and dry. Configuration, resources, numbers of connections for specific data, etc; all will have an impact (or should) on what you should do and how you should design.
And fortunately, Microsoft is onboard with this:
For the client side, WebSocket is implemented in Firefox 4, Google Chrome 4, and Safari 5.
Internet Explorer 9 is supposed to feature Web Sockets at some point according to Microsoft (before the stable release).
Waiting with baited breath.
No. Web Sockets was added specifically to address the shortcomings of XMLHTTPRequest.
(That wouldn't have taken you long to find out if you tried, but I guess you were too busy telling Slashdot how much smarter than everyone else you are.)
And hopefully wont create a lot more when a certain web browser improperly (if at all) supports it, or uses it as a tool to push people to .NET instead (Embrace, Extend... yeah, you know the rest).
Every time some new advance comes out for the web, I get scared something like that will happen, that, at the least, will make any web developer's life a nightmare. So far, Microsoft has not let me down.
If they could sell that for under $10,000 I would be first in line to buy one. I have a feeling if it ever gets to market it's going to be just too expensive though. If it's 20 grand or around there I'd rather just get one of VW's larger models like the Golf or Jeta.
Even at $20K, I'd take it. 300 miles cost me $30 right now (10 gallons). Or about $5 with that car. I drive about 12,000 miles a year... meaning I spend about $1,200 a year - instead of $200 a year. That means I save (in a ten year lifespan) $10,000 - meaning it more than justifies the price tag.
Now... I used to drive about 36,000 miles a year (commuting to White Plains - no easy or affordable mass transit to there from here). That's $3,000 a year savings in gas. In ten years (360,000 miles, which I have had multiple cars reach with simple, regular maintenance such as oil changes and such), it means I have saved (again assuming gas prices stay the same and dont go up) $30,000 in gas and paid $20,000 on the car.
In that scenario, $20K is a decent price to me, since my gas savings alone are 1.5 times the cost of the car.
It's also almost never H264 first but MJPEG/XVid/MPEG2/etc and NOT H264. For a start, encoders for mobile phones don't have the power to encode H264 live. So the OP assertion is obviously and trivially wrong.
Really? My team works with a lot of Prosumer cameras that output H264. There's a quickly growing amount of content on YouTube and elsewhere that's filmed on such cameras, or even their lower end brethren - which also often output in H264.
...Either way, you can see why it's more attractive.
Yes, no dull throbbing pain in my head like the one I now have... ;-)
Seriously though, excellent points, and in full agreement!
Gonna go run and find some aspirin now...
These guys will have looked at what they could potentially invent before they started a business, way before Microsoft would consider accommodating their inquiries. There's good documentation readily available in reasonably digestible formats for OSS. If I'm all about making something new work, I want to know how the system I base it upon works and the easiest way to know that is to base it on an open platform.
Exactly, and with the advent of the Internet, and college kids' exposure to everything, it is also likely that they will base their decisions on perceived market trends (Linux making headway in various areas), finding the correct or best tool to get the job done (pick a LAMP solution, and be sure it will run on just about anything... need to go Windows at some point? Or eComStation? Or some other flavor of Unix? No problem... AMP has been ported to them all...
Now, the reverse isnt necessarily true without a lot of extra work. Need to go from IIS/MSSQL to an AMP setup? Well... have fun.
Then of course, there's preformance. Again, Windows loses on the same box.
And like the ready availability of documentation in the *nix world, there's also the higher likelihood of fixes, updates and so on coming out - or one can roll their own. Not so much in the Windows world, also making MS less relevant.
But it doesnt stop there. One can select a variety of Linux programming tools, and cross-compile their code for Windows or a variety of other operating systems. One cannot (easily, if at all) choose a Microsoft IDE and do the same. What you write will be locked to Windows unless you jump through a lot of hoops.
Frankly, with more educated students, I would suspect that they'd choose something that serves their purposes while leaving their options open for easy migration elsewhere if the need arises - or for easy co-development for more than one platform with basically the same underlying code.
This is yet another area where Microsoft has shot themselves in the foot with their proprietary methods, tools and so on. At one time, it was a wonderful way of them controlling the market, because they dominated it and had little serious competition (yeah, there were better things out there - but they didnt exactly either have the market coverage or backing to compete, especially in light of Microsoft's Anti-Trust violations). Nowadays, with the Internet being what it is, and with a lot more people having computers, they cant use those methods as leverage anymore... and oddly dont understand why the "same ol" tactics just arent working. It definitely is NOT that college kids dont have exposure to Windows - in reality, it's that they DO have exposure to Windows, and a lot of alternatives that Microsoft wishes they didnt.
Michael Geoghegan, Chairman
Peter Wong, CEO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hongkong_and_Shanghai_Banking_Corporation
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, based in Hong Kong, is a wholly owned subsidiary and the founding member of the HSBC Group, which is traded on several stock exchanges as HSBC Holdings plc.