Posts by Ian 3

More to database architecture than performance? Won't someone think of the data modellers?

The motion is about providing a 'significant advantage' but only raw read/write query performance advantages seem to be used in support. For use cases with a lot of many-to-many relationships and objects that can be linked to the same other objects for different reasons at the same, the significant advantage isn't performance but ability to model with reasonable clarity, and I'm sometimes very happy to sacrifice performance for that (especially when performance is still perfectly reasonable). The way real world things relate to other real world things is rarely a neat, hierarchical relational model with nice foreign keys, and sometimes modelling as a graph has a 'significant advantage'. (And before someone mentions it, if your RDBMS model is full of FK to FK mapping tables with added relationship meta-data, then you've just built a graph, and your SQL will be 'interesting' and hard to manage)

How can so many government funded projects be so awful, and rather than anyone admit they've made a mistake, would rather keep shoveling money in, denying there's a problem, making the mistake bigger and repeating until a new government can scrap it completely. Over and over it happens. The people responsible are almost impossible to pin down, and when you do they just lie and/or talk about something different. It boggles my mind just how much inept fuck-buggery goes on, all hiding behind policies and processes that were intended, once, to be useful, but are in fact just screens for incompetence.

Blimey...

$70,000 per hour and a one month rebuild *every* 300 hours flying time? Lockheed really saw them coming didn't they.

Er, hang on...

Are you sure you're not getting all Daily Mail with your numeric reporting?

If he was 0.3% blood alcohol and the UK limit is 0.08% then he was just under 4 times the UK limit - 7 pints(ish). Hardly a fatal or particulary extraordinary amount of booze, just more than you should drive after. The Polish must have very low limits.

All bad?

If it helps stop morons from cloggin up the NHS, and demanding rather expensive medicine and treatments, is it really such a bad idea? I'm all for protecting the vulnerable from exploitative swindle-merchants, but there comes a point when you have to wonder if we're really so short of religous morons that we really have to try to save them all. I'm sure they all quite keen to join their maker in paradise, surely we shouldn't try to delay their ultimate happiness?

But isn't...

...c++0x just an attempt to make c++ a bit more like c#?

/me runs away.

Demands for a retrial?

So, even when the Judge pointed out how stupid they were, CPS sought a retrial?

It seems like madness to my poor naive brain that CPS need a conviction to prove material is extreme porn or child abuse, so one poor bugger gets a very nasty criminal record and everyone else (if they are paying attention) can learn from this and dispose of the material. That really sucks. Surely in any sane country there should be a mechanism where the police or CPS or some specific censor agency could go to the courts and get a ruling on the material, rather than needing to prosecute the owners/publishers.

But then people would know the law, and could sneak and weasel out of prosecution by cowardly not breaking it, and that would never do.

So...

Does this mean anyone using the 'holds after nudges' exploit, that worked on nearly every fruit machine in the 90's is a l33t criminal hacker?

I've had one for a week...

... and it's rather nice.

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The battery life is about 4 days if you remember to turn off the WIFI but still have email/facebook synchronising on 3G. You can set it to 2G only and switch off the account synchronising. It supports IMAP email quite nicely too.

I like that I can vaguely keep up with friends on facebook without going to the website, I'm not a big fan, but quite of few of my friends (and strangely, my parents) seem to be.

I'm very pleased with it.

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