(Dunno if Sun has a preferred SQL DB to go on the far side of those JDBC connections, but I prefer PostgreSQL to MySQL.)
Apparently so does Sun, as they're shipping PostgreSQL on Solaris 10 and they even offer a support contract for the same.
I have this sneaking suspicion that the way that Oracle licenses it's RDBMS is eating into Sun's hardware sales and they're looking to offset this. Or maybe they'd rather that people bought their app server rather than Oracle's offering. Either way, I'm hoping that we'll get the direction to go with PostgreSQL rather than MySQL at work...
J. Gordon Edwards, professor of entomology at San Jose State University in California, has taught biology and entomology there for 43 years. He is a long-time member of the Sierra Club and the Audubon Society and is a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences.
Now Dr. Edwards had peculiar ways of making his point. He would eat a teaspoon of DDT in front of the students in his chemistry class to make a point about how harmless DDT is to humans. Moreover, he would eat DDT in front of members of the media to drive home the point that they have the story, on DDT, all wrong.
The SUV was not invented in the 80s. The classic American SUV, the Chevy Suburban, has essentially been in continuous production since 1935 (GM didn't create any 'new' models during WW2).
What created the SUV craze was this crazy idea that you could enact a patchwork quilt of laws that would simultaneously reduce dependence on foreign oil and protect blue-collar jobs in Detroit from foreign (read: Japanese) competition while ignoring the laws of thermodynamics. The end result was that congress, via CAFE, created a loophole large enough to drive an H1 through. SUVs were regulated as trucks for the purposes of taxes, fuel economy, and safety standards. This made them cheaper than the equivalently sized car. The cars that people want to buy (moderately sized, multirole vehicles with some additional power) are now called trucks. And that's how we have such an awful collective fleet economy.
The ABM treaty was fairly worthless in that the Soviet Union ignored the terms pretty much before the ink was dry. Once the Soviet Union fell it was absolutely worthless because it was intended to prevent an event that would never happen (massive nuclear with the Soviets) and it would have prevented development of worthwhile systems (limited systems which could reduce or eliminate a small launch by a rogue state).
I'm still bitter about that one. By the time it was rectified we'd already paid off most of the interest and were hitting principal, hence a mostly worthless deduction.
This brings to mind the (probably apocryphal) story about Jack Welch and GE.
As I heard it, the story goes like this:
Some Saudi prince is given a tour of a GE plant and he arrives by helicopter. After the tour is over he asks why the roof of the plant says "Fuck you Jack".
The idea is that at the time the only person that would have shown up by helicopter at a GE plant was Jack Welch.
Our company has used the MS Office support contract. We were seeing awful performance with some XML functionality in Excel and wanted some satisfaction. We eventually got a response from an engineer on the Excel team.
as long as you've got line of sight, which I'm guessing would be the main limitation
How is that a limitation? If the sniper is shooting at you, he's got line of sight to you and hence you've got line of sight to him (or at least, where he is when he pops up). Very few snipers take the ballistic approach to sniping...
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Several previous voting stories have also mentioned suspicions that the paper ballotting has been "sanitized" as well.
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Just to establish where I'm coming from: George W. Bush is arguably the worst president in American history. He took America into a war of choice against a nation that posed no immediate threat, and plunged both Iraq and the U.S. military into the middle of a vicious civil war, a mistake that will cost the U.S. 1-2 trillion dollars. In the wake of 9/11, his administration managed to turn America from a nation which was united and had the sympathy of the world, into a nation which was bitterly divided and hated the world over. In the name of freedom, his administration has implemented domestic spying on a previously unheard-of scale, detained people without trial, and tortured people. He's destroying the U.S. Army. On top of it all, Osama bin Laden is still out there. He might not be the worst president of all time, but he's unquestionably in the running.
Do you remember that day in junior high when they taught you how to write essays? Tell 'em what you're going to tell them, tell them, tell them what you told them. However, when I read this, you say in the first sentence he's arguably the worst. But by the end you say he's probably not the worst.
So, let me ask this question. He's bad because he took us into a war we didn't need to enter, he's detaining people without trial, he's inflicting casualties on Americans and he's implemented domestic spying programs, no?
Let me direct your attention to the 16th president of the U.S.
1) He provoked the CSA into attacking Fort Sumter by promising over and over that it would not be resupplied. He then broke that promise after his military advisors told him in no uncertain terms that a ship carrying supplies to Fort Sumter would be fired upon.
2) Lincoln suspended habeas corpus nationwide and imprisoned civilians in military prisons even when the front lines were hundreds of miles away. What kind of offenses brought about this imprisonment? Expressing opposition to the president's policies. Printing newspaper editorials critical of the president or the war.
3) The Union Army illegally destroyed civilian infrastructure, looted, and killed civilians.
4) There were 620,000 battlefield deaths during the civil war. That excludes the thousands of civilians killed during illegal and immoral bombardments of civilian targets.
5) Lincoln implemented a program in which people were encouraged to "inform" on their neighbors. Those who had been "informed" on had their assets illegally seized by the government, who would then cut the "informer" in on a share of the proceeds.
All those acts equal or exceed the acts of George W. Bush. And yet Bush is derided as a moron, a "chimp", and the worst president ever while Lincoln is a hero.
Maybe it's because I was trying to make a point. That, and I actually have some reading comprehension skills:
Exact definitions vary, but an assault weapon is most frequently defined as a semi-automatic rifle, shotgun, or pistol with a combination of any or all the following characteristics, which are largely based on appearance rather than function It's generally understood that assault weapons is a term used by people who know nothing about guns, don't want people to have scary looking guns, and think that it's trivial to convert a civilian model semi-automatic rifle into a fully automatic model.
You aren't kidding.
True story: The city of Scottsdale installed radar-controlled traffic cameras on a state highway. I'm driving on this highway when someone who has obviously played too much Pole Position is coming up fast from behind*. I signal for a lane change when the guy swerves into the right lane to pass me. Then, as he drives by the traffic camera (at about 85-90), he flips down his sun visor so that his face is not visible to the camera. Of course, that limits him to a tiny viewport about 8-10" across.
*This is not about people who driver slower than me being idiots and people driving faster being maniacs. I've got no problem with people driving 90 as long as they do so in the far left lane and don't endanger others.
Libertarians only stand for what Libertarians think of as "freedom", which is generally on the opposite side of common sense (like selling off the national parks, as one small example). It'd also be nice if the Libertarian party read the Ninth Amendment some time.
I know what you mean. Ending the war on drugs? Pulling out of Iraq? Allowing consenting adults to do whatever they'd like in the privacy of their own homes? Getting the.gov out of the recognizing marriage business? Jesus-H-Tapdancing-Christ! That's crazy talk!
The government needs to be involved. They need to push car makers to increase the MPG of cars, and promote Hybrid technology on all cars. In fact, they should mandate 90% of cars being made to be hybrid by that time. We're in this mess because somebody thought it would be a good idea to make manufacturers responsible for making buyers responsible. Unfortunately, at the same time these same somebodies didn't want to eviscerate their union base and so they wrote some very fucked up laws. As a result, they created the market for ginormous SUVs. The law of unintended consequences is a bitch!
What would you say if the EPA wrote up a policy that said that it was okay to pollute as much as you wanted if you were dumping in poor people's back yards? What would you say if OSHA said that you could disregard every other safety guideline if the workers were making minimum wage? I know what you'd say -- you'd scream bloody murder. Yet you're doing the same thing here by mandating hybrids and ultra-high fuel economy. Who drives older cars? Poor people. Who drives new ultra-compacts? Poor people. Increasing the cost of new cars means the working poor will wind up with older, less safe cars. Besides, new car sales is a piss-poor mechanism for improving the overall fleet economy and decreasing pollution. It would be far more cost effective to phase out cars @ 10-15 years (with exemptions for low-mileage per year collector cars) and offer some sort of subsidy for low income folks to get clean, safe, new(er) cars.
And actually, unless you're talking about the right to have assault weapons
When you say "assault weapons" what do you mean? Weapons that can be used to assault people? Is that something like a baseball bat? A knife? A taser?
Or did you mean to say assault rifle?
Reading this story I gotta relate a story about my grandfather:
My grandfather was, if anything, an "idea" man. And he had this idea that he could stretch his food budget by raising rabbits. He fed them greens and stuff the kids didn't eat. So he raised the rabbits but he'd never actually butchered a rabbit. So there he is in the kitchen, guide book on rabbit butchering open on the counter. And of course he fucks it up the first time -- he didn't exert enough force and the relaxed rabbit's eyes fucking bug out of it's skull. He finally kills the thing but now all the kids have seen what's going on and they're up in arms. He had to give it (and the other living ones) to the neighbors who knew what to do with them.
Last I checked (and this was pre-bankruptcy) you could download the m stream dists for (current release - 3) for nothing
more than signing up for a free online account.
I'd also add that back in the day SGI had a much more rational licensing policy for the OS -- a perpetual license for the OS version the machine shipped with. I still remember the day I called Sun to get the RTU licensing cost (i.e. didn't include media) for Solaris 8 for my then-ancient SS20. As it was capable of operating with 4 CPUs the RTU was $1200 for one year. That's not support. That's not media. That's right to use on a machine that even at the time was turning up in dumpsters.
Good luck with that. In addition to being the 2nd most incompetent tire guys I've ever seen*, I had to curse at the service manager for 30 minutes and threaten nasty-grams to the BBB and Ford corporate to get him to credit me the cost of a half-ass balance job. It turns out they then swapped the tires so that the side that says "This side out" was facing in. The tires were ruined and I had to buy four new ones at Discount Tire out of pocket. Ford claims they don't cover tires under the warranty.
*The all time crown for worst tire service goes to my local Midas. Took my car there for an oil change and as a "convenience" they checked the tire pressure. The moron responsible filled all four tires up to 45 psi -- 10 psi over the max listed on the sidewall and 17 psi over the factory recommendation.
If every moderator rates a comment as -1 Troll or the comment contains yet another ASCII art version of the penis bird, is there really any reason to archive it for posterity?
"Would you have any suggestions on how I could improve my interview or any areas of expertise that could increase my desirability as an {IT,developer,Crack Dealer}?"
There's a similar suggestion in "Ace the Interview" (or something like that). The recommendation is to ask the hiring manager (assuming you're talking to the hiring manager) if they have any reservations about your skills/qualifications/etc. The idea is that: 1) This shows good communication skills -- you're going to ask for appropriate feedback and act on it 2) You're a thoughtful candidate -- most people stutter "Er, no questions." at the end of the interview 3) If you're really close but there are some second thoughts then you can correct misunderstandings.
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(Dunno if Sun has a preferred SQL DB to go on the far side of those JDBC connections, but I prefer PostgreSQL to MySQL.) Apparently so does Sun, as they're shipping PostgreSQL on Solaris 10 and they even offer a support contract for the same. I have this sneaking suspicion that the way that Oracle licenses it's RDBMS is eating into Sun's hardware sales and they're looking to offset this. Or maybe they'd rather that people bought their app server rather than Oracle's offering. Either way, I'm hoping that we'll get the direction to go with PostgreSQL rather than MySQL at work...
So I'd like to get a LAMP -> LAPP migrator Is that something like a LAPP dance?
http://www.karendecoster.com/blog/archives/002060
(I've heard the story many times -- that's just the most convenient link via Google)
The SUV was not invented in the 80s. The classic American SUV, the Chevy Suburban, has essentially been in continuous production since 1935 (GM didn't create any 'new' models during WW2).
What created the SUV craze was this crazy idea that you could enact a patchwork quilt of laws that would simultaneously reduce dependence on foreign oil and protect blue-collar jobs in Detroit from foreign (read: Japanese) competition while ignoring the laws of thermodynamics.
The end result was that congress, via CAFE, created a loophole large enough to drive an H1 through. SUVs were regulated as trucks for the purposes of taxes, fuel economy, and safety standards. This made them cheaper than the equivalently sized car. The cars that people want to buy (moderately sized, multirole vehicles with some additional power) are now called trucks. And that's how we have such an awful collective fleet economy.
The ABM treaty was fairly worthless in that the Soviet Union ignored the terms pretty much before the ink was dry. Once the
Soviet Union fell it was absolutely worthless because it was intended to prevent an event that would never happen (massive nuclear with
the Soviets) and it would have prevented development of worthwhile systems (limited systems which could reduce or eliminate a small
launch by a rogue state).
I'm still bitter about that one. By the time it was rectified we'd already paid off most of the interest and were hitting principal, hence a mostly worthless deduction.
This brings to mind the (probably apocryphal) story about Jack Welch and GE.
As I heard it, the story goes like this:
Some Saudi prince is given a tour of a GE plant and he arrives by helicopter. After the tour is
over he asks why the roof of the plant says "Fuck you Jack".
The idea is that at the time the only person that would have shown up by helicopter at a GE plant was Jack Welch.
It doesn't have to be pistols -- it could be mortars.
Our company has used the MS Office support contract. We were seeing awful performance with some XML functionality in Excel and wanted
some satisfaction. We eventually got a response from an engineer on the Excel team.
as long as you've got line of sight, which I'm guessing would be the main limitation
How is that a limitation? If the sniper is shooting at you, he's got line of sight to you and hence you've got line of sight to him (or at least, where he is when he pops up). Very few snipers take the ballistic approach to sniping...
Several previous voting stories have also mentioned suspicions that the paper ballotting has been "sanitized" as well.
Just to establish where I'm coming from: George W. Bush is arguably the worst president in American history. He took America into a war of choice against a nation that posed no immediate threat, and plunged both Iraq and the U.S. military into the middle of a vicious civil war, a mistake that will cost the U.S. 1-2 trillion dollars. In the wake of 9/11, his administration managed to turn America from a nation which was united and had the sympathy of the world, into a nation which was bitterly divided and hated the world over. In the name of freedom, his administration has implemented domestic spying on a previously unheard-of scale, detained people without trial, and tortured people. He's destroying the U.S. Army. On top of it all, Osama bin Laden is still out there. He might not be the worst president of all time, but he's unquestionably in the running. Do you remember that day in junior high when they taught you how to write essays? Tell 'em what you're going to tell them, tell them, tell them what you told them. However, when I read this, you say in the first sentence he's arguably the worst. But by the end you say he's probably not the worst. So, let me ask this question. He's bad because he took us into a war we didn't need to enter, he's detaining people without trial, he's inflicting casualties on Americans and he's implemented domestic spying programs, no? Let me direct your attention to the 16th president of the U.S. 1) He provoked the CSA into attacking Fort Sumter by promising over and over that it would not be resupplied. He then broke that promise after his military advisors told him in no uncertain terms that a ship carrying supplies to Fort Sumter would be fired upon. 2) Lincoln suspended habeas corpus nationwide and imprisoned civilians in military prisons even when the front lines were hundreds of miles away. What kind of offenses brought about this imprisonment? Expressing opposition to the president's policies. Printing newspaper editorials critical of the president or the war. 3) The Union Army illegally destroyed civilian infrastructure, looted, and killed civilians. 4) There were 620,000 battlefield deaths during the civil war. That excludes the thousands of civilians killed during illegal and immoral bombardments of civilian targets. 5) Lincoln implemented a program in which people were encouraged to "inform" on their neighbors. Those who had been "informed" on had their assets illegally seized by the government, who would then cut the "informer" in on a share of the proceeds. All those acts equal or exceed the acts of George W. Bush. And yet Bush is derided as a moron, a "chimp", and the worst president ever while Lincoln is a hero.
You aren't kidding. True story: The city of Scottsdale installed radar-controlled traffic cameras on a state highway. I'm driving on this highway when someone who has obviously played too much Pole Position is coming up fast from behind*. I signal for a lane change when the guy swerves into the right lane to pass me. Then, as he drives by the traffic camera (at about 85-90), he flips down his sun visor so that his face is not visible to the camera. Of course, that limits him to a tiny viewport about 8-10" across. *This is not about people who driver slower than me being idiots and people driving faster being maniacs. I've got no problem with people driving 90 as long as they do so in the far left lane and don't endanger others.
I know what you mean. Ending the war on drugs? Pulling out of Iraq? Allowing consenting adults to do whatever they'd like in the privacy of their own homes? Getting the
What would you say if the EPA wrote up a policy that said that it was okay to pollute as much as you wanted if you were dumping in poor people's back yards? What would you say if OSHA said that you could disregard every other safety guideline if the workers were making minimum wage? I know what you'd say -- you'd scream bloody murder. Yet you're doing the same thing here by mandating hybrids and ultra-high fuel economy. Who drives older cars? Poor people. Who drives new ultra-compacts? Poor people. Increasing the cost of new cars means the working poor will wind up with older, less safe cars. Besides, new car sales is a piss-poor mechanism for improving the overall fleet economy and decreasing pollution. It would be far more cost effective to phase out cars @ 10-15 years (with exemptions for low-mileage per year collector cars) and offer some sort of subsidy for low income folks to get clean, safe, new(er) cars.
And actually, unless you're talking about the right to have assault weapons When you say "assault weapons" what do you mean? Weapons that can be used to assault people? Is that something like a baseball bat? A knife? A taser? Or did you mean to say assault rifle?
I just finished my embedded system based on 6.1. ding. ding. Serenity now!
Reading this story I gotta relate a story about my grandfather: My grandfather was, if anything, an "idea" man. And he had this idea that he could stretch his food budget by raising rabbits. He fed them greens and stuff the kids didn't eat. So he raised the rabbits but he'd never actually butchered a rabbit. So there he is in the kitchen, guide book on rabbit butchering open on the counter. And of course he fucks it up the first time -- he didn't exert enough force and the relaxed rabbit's eyes fucking bug out of it's skull. He finally kills the thing but now all the kids have seen what's going on and they're up in arms. He had to give it (and the other living ones) to the neighbors who knew what to do with them.
Last I checked (and this was pre-bankruptcy) you could download the m stream dists for (current release - 3) for nothing more than signing up for a free online account. I'd also add that back in the day SGI had a much more rational licensing policy for the OS -- a perpetual license for the OS version the machine shipped with. I still remember the day I called Sun to get the RTU licensing cost (i.e. didn't include media) for Solaris 8 for my then-ancient SS20. As it was capable of operating with 4 CPUs the RTU was $1200 for one year. That's not support. That's not media. That's right to use on a machine that even at the time was turning up in dumpsters.
Good luck with that. In addition to being the 2nd most incompetent tire guys I've ever seen*, I had to curse at the service manager for 30 minutes and threaten nasty-grams to the BBB and Ford corporate to get him to credit me the cost of a half-ass balance job. It turns out they then swapped the tires so that the side that says "This side out" was facing in. The tires were ruined and I had to buy four new ones at Discount Tire out of pocket. Ford claims they don't cover tires under the warranty. *The all time crown for worst tire service goes to my local Midas. Took my car there for an oil change and as a "convenience" they checked the tire pressure. The moron responsible filled all four tires up to 45 psi -- 10 psi over the max listed on the sidewall and 17 psi over the factory recommendation.
If every moderator rates a comment as -1 Troll or the comment contains yet another ASCII art version of the penis bird,
is there really any reason to archive it for posterity?
"Would you have any suggestions on how I could improve my interview or any areas of expertise that could increase my desirability as an {IT,developer,Crack Dealer}?"
There's a similar suggestion in "Ace the Interview" (or something like that). The recommendation is to ask the hiring manager (assuming you're talking to the hiring manager) if they have any reservations about your skills/qualifications/etc. The idea is that:
1) This shows good communication skills -- you're going to ask for appropriate feedback and act on it
2) You're a thoughtful candidate -- most people stutter "Er, no questions." at the end of the interview
3) If you're really close but there are some second thoughts then you can correct misunderstandings.
They were suing a critic who had insinuated that they were associated in some way with the Jeff Bridges version
Harris Telemacher: Call Mom.
Telephone: Calling Pizza Bob's.
Harris Telemacher: Call Mom.
Telephone: Calling Pizza Bob's.