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how they calculate which year belong to which animal ?-mahesh2k (February 03, 2011, 04:25 PM)
With a cowculator-timns (February 03, 2011, 04:38 PM)
due to graphics or some other reason ?-mahesh2k (February 03, 2011, 08:36 AM)
If that comes in form of tablets then i'm sure many folks will ditch apple ipad.-mahesh2k (February 03, 2011, 03:55 AM)
What happened to microsoft surface devices ? (finally managed to remember the name). I think these devices are competent enough to stand against ipad(despite long beta period).
-mahesh2k (February 03, 2011, 12:01 AM)
yes, you're right. That was a bit of an exaggerated response on my part. I shouldn't say that the e-ink is bullshit, i have no grounds for that, and a lot of people agree that it is a more pleasant reading experience. Here's what I really intended to say: the kindle and other purely e-readers are going to die quickly when the other tablet manufacturers start offering a lot of decent tablets. Why would you get a pure e-reader, when you can get the same type of screen (the Adam comes to mind) but with an OS that allows other software also (iOS, Android, Windows). So if the screen was the same, why would I choose a kindle over an ipad? It's like paying for a portable video player that can't play mp3's. Why would i do that, when I can just get the thing that plays everything? I may be wrong here if the price differences between the readers and fully featured tablets are significant. Anyhoo...i didn't put much thought into that. Sorry.I wish there was a way to like a reply. Renegade's sums up my feelings
A huge resounding +1-Josh (February 02, 2011, 08:30 AM)
3 drinks in on an empty stomach and I start to express my true inner feelings. All warm and fuzzy and unicorns and rainbows. Apple, Sony and a few others just tend to force my unicorns to start impaling people and turning the rainbows to beautifully gasoline covered ponds. The warm comes from them throwing a lit match on the pond. The fuzzy then comes from what happens to my vision as my eyes begin to melt.-Renegade (February 02, 2011, 07:12 PM)-superboyac (February 02, 2011, 10:20 PM)
Part of the fun-Bamse (February 02, 2011, 10:12 PM)
It's entirely about just not having time... Which kind of pisses me off, because I know that at some level there has to be some weirdness that I could solve. WP works all over the place, and I've used it many times before with success. This time though, it's being a bit of a pig, and I just don't have the time for it. You have my deepest sympathies.
I've done a lot of work with custom browsers and whatnot. I really think it's a better direction than staying with an outdated browser. If you need something specific as an application, you really shouldn't be going browser-specific because browsers just get out-dated. If you can spin it all off into a custom browser, then you're set -- a dedicated purpose browser that doesn't interfere with your main browser. Sigh... Just my $0.02 on the subject.-Renegade (February 02, 2011, 07:56 PM)
yeah, but why go to the trouble of sourcing or developing a dedicated browser when there are already plenty of choices available
I always thought browsers were supposed to be (more or less) content agnostic, so the idea of a a developer tying their app to a single version of a single browser seems somewhat, errrm, 'short sighted'...(then again, maybe not...)-Target (February 02, 2011, 08:29 PM)
I've got a better one - company I work for still uses IE6
and they can't 'upgrade' because some of the apps they've developed are incompatible with other browsers(including other versions of IE...)-Target (February 02, 2011, 07:48 PM)
@Renegade - Just for the record, I designed and wrote the entire system...From the db, to the UI ... So the shooting option is out...
But to be fair:
I seldom use joins.
all the critical stuff is indexed.
and I haven't a clue what denormalizing is/does. ...And I suspect it's rather unlikely that I've already done it by accident.-Stoic Joker (February 02, 2011, 10:45 AM)
Anyhow, here's the thing... While I could, with agonizing care, try restructuring the report queries. I'm not entirely convinced that that will truly give me net effect I'm looking. I say this because of the following reasons:
- as I mentioned before 99% of the time everything runs just fine
- Sometimes a large query really is just that: 5,000+ clients, Several thousand items (seasoned with pricing/quantity info that gets tallied & totaled on multiple levels), data set is for the last many years... (Yada yada)
- It is only the large reports (that should be CPU hogging, yet are not) that are taking time to run
- The server the queries are run against never shows more that 20% (per core) usage during the query.
- There are no hardware based reasons (tons of memory available, no disk contention, etc.) for it to take that long.
- I know that I used the conservative resource settings back when I originally deployed the rig.
So... I'm looking for more of a "Let Loose the Reins!" type of solution so the MySQL server service can have have a better crack at the CPU's "time". I just don't want to over do it because there are a few other things the box does/needs to be handling also.-Stoic Joker (February 02, 2011, 10:45 AM)
“And occasionally you may learn something. Whether it’s games, videos or films we can suggest what you should be watching because we know what you care about. So you don’t have to worry so much about the choices – we figure it out for you.
He’s really pushing this one. Repeat after me. You don’t have to think for yourself any more. You don’t have to make choices for yourself any more. Google will do it for you.
I should be doing the important stuff~! 
I wish there was a way to like a reply. Renegade's sums up my feelings
A huge resounding +1-Josh (February 02, 2011, 08:30 AM)
The site is small -- a dozen pages or so. I basically just need a CMS to do all the heavy lifting for me. At the moment I'm playing with WordPress. But I'm borderline ditching it because it's simply not working properly and I'm having to go in and start messing with the internals. (At the moment I'm screaming inside about some database issues.)-Renegade (February 02, 2011, 01:44 AM)
What is it you're trying to do that is forcing you to mess with the internals? It doesn't seem like what you're doing would require anything anywhere near complex enough to not be do-able within simple page templates. Feel free to pm or e-mail me if you want to discuss it outside this thread.-allen (February 02, 2011, 05:05 PM)
(see attachment in previous post)
http://www.wired.com...cut-of-e-book-sales/
Apple has responded to the furor over its supposed App Store policy changes that many believe could affect the popular Kindle, Nook and Sony Reader apps. The company claims it has not changed any of its guidelines given to developers, but it indirectly confirms that accessing content purchased elsewhere could be a no-no if that content isn’t also available to be purchased through Apple’s own system. Buzz began Tuesday morning when The New York Times said that Sony’s e-reader app had been rejected, citing Apple’s restriction on in-app book purchases. This in itself was not a new policy — Apple doesn’t allow apps to sell content to users unless that content passes through the official Apple ecosystem, where Apple gets a 30 percent cut. Apple also allegedly told Sony that the app couldn’t access content purchased on other Sony Reader devices, which is where most of the outrage was focused. Amazon’s Kindle app and Barnes & Noble’s Nook app are both popular mechanisms for users to download and read books that they have purchased from the respective stores. Many feared that this supposed change in Apple policy would take their e-books away from their iPads, iPhones and iPod touches.
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If Amazon and Sony don't understand they have the upper hand here, then they're idiots. Apple merely wants to have it all and control it all and make money off of every single point of their gadgets. Why anyone would want Apple's money-sucking devices are beyond me.-zridling (February 02, 2011, 08:10 AM)
If Google's good enough for Microsoft, then it's good enough for me. Google's response should have been: "But wait, I thought we sucked! Never mind."-zridling (February 02, 2011, 05:44 AM)
Not sure I agree with his morality. Given that lotteries prey on the hopes of those who most need the cash -- and who can least afford to part with what little they have -- Srivastava should have at least tried to make a million or two just to "confirm" his results.-zridling (February 02, 2011, 05:47 AM)
Reminds me of Windows 95. . .-Deozaan (February 01, 2011, 10:33 PM)
I was thinking WinME.-app103 (February 02, 2011, 04:00 AM)
some may fail to notice "page 2" of your second link, like I did at first:
Did this actually say that security staff in cell/mobile phone companies have no understanding of what security procedures/techs are needed?
-Curt (February 02, 2011, 04:57 AM)
Attacks on DNS networks and mobile networks -- both of which are often left unprotected by end-user companies that assume their service providers can take care of it -- are both extremely vulnerable, the report found.
There really are no ready made defenses for that, at least on the mobile front, largely because security and management tools are not advanced enough to provide the kind of visibility in them that are taken for granted on wired networks, the report found.
