You forgot (4): a stockbroker who hedges a stake in IBM with a stake in SCO. It's officially called 'risk spreading' and it's a tactic deployed by people who want to profit from the general upward trend of stock-markets, but still want to trade on the middle-short term. You buy on both sides of stocks that generally behave like they're on both sides of a scale. So you buy airlines _and_ oilcompanies (if that's your area of expertise); that way, when the price of oil goes up, the oilcompany-stock goes up, but the airlines go down. You win a little, or lose a little, and if you're smart, you make sure that your portfolio is heavy on the side you're expecting to win.
COBOL is just a very small part of an (IBM) puzzle; you say COBOL, but you mean COBOL, CICS, OS/390 architecture, mainframe terminals, that protocol that goes in between them, that horrible tree-based database architecture, MQ-server etc. etc. etc.
Like interact with my CD drive, or with my printer, or my USB drive to access photos on a flash drive ? Like play windows games that come off a freshly christmas given CD ? Drag the aforementioned photos into MSN messenger ? And here I'm just giving you the easy shit. I run Linux, and I think I have pretty clear idea of what users want. I can't even provide for some of the stuff that my wife and children want to do, and I pretty much doubt that any given web-'OS' can.
10+ years ? Are you one of those people that advertise for java developers - must have 10+ years experience ? Java was still called 'oak' 10+ years ago, and all you could do with it was hack a few native gui widgets together. I know - I was there.
In IP tech, email is just an implementation of a protocol accross several hosts. If tomorrow we decide (finally!) to get rid of internet mail and replace it with something called goobledegook, which is spam-free, encrypted on demand, and uses the little green men protocol to ensure delivery, then all of a sudden we'd need new legislation to protect it. The internet and its associated tech are just too much of a moving target for privacy legislation. (That is of course aside from the current fad among legislators to consider privacy a quaint thing from the past.) Until the time that the government itself officially relies on something, there is no need for legislation around it. It's our own fault in a way - we should have specced out SMTP in a better way to begin with. Just think for yourself - if email was to be officially regulated, it (the technology) couldn't ever change again. So do you like your current levels of spam ?
You don't have to transcribe it from the original. Transcribing it from any transcription more than a hundred years old (which is when there was already a lot of consensus on the 'final' notation of a lot of pieces) will do.
Ok. Bullshit. If x/0=x*nullity, and x*nullity*0=x, then nullity*0=1, or nullity=1/0. If x/a=x*nullity when a=0, then x*nullity*a=x, but then nullity becomes variable; always the inverse of what you're multiplying with. Sorry.
I haven't RTFA, but I find it already perfectly usefull - if not a bit simple. If x/0=x nullity (it has to be, otherwise there'd be no way to invert the equation), then x nullity * 0 = x. So nullity is, in fact, the cancellation of a multiplication by zero (nullity * 0 = 1). Perfectly usefull as a function if you don't know what you're multiplying with, but _don't_ want to end up with zero if it's zero.
Yeah but those people have been dead for over 350 years, I think we can broaden the term.
1) 350 years ? Nope. Read up on history; it wasn't 1656. 2) Slavery never ended. In the US it may have, but slavery as a worldwide phenomenon fitting the GP description never ended.
You hear that sound ? That's the sound of something that's just an illustrative example flying way over your head. It would be even more efficient, don't you think, if you could build all of these babies on the equator, at more than one place (always sunshine) around the world.
They should use the predictive capability of markets instead. Set up a little in-prison pool of money on who might kill; whoever trades highest, is most likely to kill at a given moment. It'll work great !
It's weapons. Hand-weapons mostly, and stuff you can make improvised bombs out of - if you take out a dictator, and there are more than one peoples trapped inside the same nation, forced to mingle, then everything can still work out. Provided you can stop _any_influx_of_weaponry_in_the_country_. Then, after the shock is over, people will adjust to their new leadership and go on with their lives as they had before under the dictator.
Of course, Syria and Iran were not going to let that happen, if only because individual arms traders were making big bucks. Make no mistake - I thought the invasion of Iraq by the US was a huge blunder, but also consider this: if the US would have been able to seal the border (using millions of soldiers, and therefore impossible) after the invasion, order a big weapons destruction raid, then things would have been a lot better.
But, as I said, it is and was an impossible situation to wish for. This is something that should have been realised from the start.
But.. where do I get an _annotated_ version of the bible then that tells me what to take literally, what to skip, and what to interpret in some way or another, so that I can be a true Christian ? Because I find that this is the trouble with the 234542348534 versions of Christianity out there, and when one such proselytizer comes to my door they'll say, thumping a small, black book: 'This is all you need'. At which point I'll retort: 'Fine, are you wearing underwear of mixed cloth ? Don't you know that that is a horror in the eyes of the lord ?' Then they'll say: 'Ah - but wait. You have to skip that passage.'. 'Working on a Saturday ?'. 'That too.'. 'Oh well fuck off then, you can't get your story straight.'. It's mindblowingly frustrating. Some people will say: 'But you have to come to church - there's a nice pastor there who'll explain it all for you.'. But I don't want someone else to read a book selectively for me; the risk of him/her skipping things that are important for me is too great. The risk of personal bias is too great. The risk of stupidity on the other end is too great. These christian subsects should all print their own bibles, with their own name on the cover, and the parts they don't believe in (Numeri or something) in really small lettering. The parts they want changed in real big red bold letters. The parts they think are metaphorical, or just plain nonsense, in pink. And the parts they find offensive removed. That'll create some clarity. And then you can come to my door again.
I've been on morphine once, in a hospital right after an operation. I found it very boring; it just made me fuzzy. I don't see why junkies would have such a good time with it.
Hey man - I live in Europe and I tell you; every time I cross the city line, I have to make a formal request, on paper (but we're getting internet now) in three copies to the local authorities and the country government. The thing is, the supermarket outside the city is the best place for deals on my food-coupons. Which is the only way to get any food. Of course, chocolate rations are always up (or not down anyway), and on fridays I'm allowed to drink a beer. That is, after I've been to the local police station and, after I've identified myself with my fingerprints (how come the police always have these nice computers ? We have to make do with commodore 64s !), have filled in those thirty questions or so on a paper form. You see, I like to do things in a timely manner; that form is for next friday's beer. Usually I can have the one I filed for last friday, on the day itself, in a closed cell, of course. It only takes an hour or so. But it's nice though. And then - back to the house to watch some state propaganda on television. Making faces before the government camera's in the house - hey - nobody every watches these ! That's how we do things here in Europe. And I love it.
My father, who is a doctor, had something to add to this as well, when I spoke about it with him. He said that the 'surge' (because it's not really that big a surge, but an upswing nonetheless) in asthma in very young children might be related to this as well; you see, most stomach reflux doesn't really make it all the way to the mouth, but might make it to the back of the throat. When you lie your child on its back, little bits of stomach acid might then trickle into its lungs. The etching causes damage to the lungs overtime. Putting a child on its belly doesn't create this problem either.
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You forgot (4): a stockbroker who hedges a stake in IBM with a stake in SCO. It's officially called 'risk spreading' and it's a tactic deployed by people who want to profit from the general upward trend of stock-markets, but still want to trade on the middle-short term. You buy on both sides of stocks that generally behave like they're on both sides of a scale. So you buy airlines _and_ oilcompanies (if that's your area of expertise); that way, when the price of oil goes up, the oilcompany-stock goes up, but the airlines go down. You win a little, or lose a little, and if you're smart, you make sure that your portfolio is heavy on the side you're expecting to win.
It's just not called SQL driven RDBMS. It's called Sleepycat.
I have reached the conclusion that Allah and God simply cannot be the same deity, regardless of what anyone else says.
Then why argue ? Their arguments are all theological, yours is touchy-feely, you cannot possibly reconcile that.
COBOL is just a very small part of an (IBM) puzzle; you say COBOL, but you mean COBOL, CICS, OS/390 architecture, mainframe terminals, that protocol that goes in between them, that horrible tree-based database architecture, MQ-server etc. etc. etc.
Is it april already ?
Like interact with my CD drive, or with my printer, or my USB drive to access photos on a flash drive ? Like play windows games that come off a freshly christmas given CD ? Drag the aforementioned photos into MSN messenger ? And here I'm just giving you the easy shit. I run Linux, and I think I have pretty clear idea of what users want. I can't even provide for some of the stuff that my wife and children want to do, and I pretty much doubt that any given web-'OS' can.
10+ years ? Are you one of those people that advertise for java developers - must have 10+ years experience ? Java was still called 'oak' 10+ years ago, and all you could do with it was hack a few native gui widgets together. I know - I was there.
In IP tech, email is just an implementation of a protocol accross several hosts. If tomorrow we decide (finally!) to get rid of internet mail and replace it with something called goobledegook, which is spam-free, encrypted on demand, and uses the little green men protocol to ensure delivery, then all of a sudden we'd need new legislation to protect it. The internet and its associated tech are just too much of a moving target for privacy legislation. (That is of course aside from the current fad among legislators to consider privacy a quaint thing from the past.) Until the time that the government itself officially relies on something, there is no need for legislation around it. It's our own fault in a way - we should have specced out SMTP in a better way to begin with. Just think for yourself - if email was to be officially regulated, it (the technology) couldn't ever change again. So do you like your current levels of spam ?
You don't have to transcribe it from the original. Transcribing it from any transcription more than a hundred years old (which is when there was already a lot of consensus on the 'final' notation of a lot of pieces) will do.
Ok. Bullshit. If x/0=x*nullity, and x*nullity*0=x, then nullity*0=1, or nullity=1/0.
If x/a=x*nullity when a=0, then x*nullity*a=x, but then nullity becomes variable; always the inverse of what you're multiplying with.
Sorry.
I haven't RTFA, but I find it already perfectly usefull - if not a bit simple. If x/0=x nullity (it has to be, otherwise there'd be no way to invert the equation), then x nullity * 0 = x. So nullity is, in fact, the cancellation of a multiplication by zero (nullity * 0 = 1). Perfectly usefull as a function if you don't know what you're multiplying with, but _don't_ want to end up with zero if it's zero.
Yeah but those people have been dead for over 350 years, I think we can broaden the term.
1) 350 years ? Nope. Read up on history; it wasn't 1656.
2) Slavery never ended. In the US it may have, but slavery as a worldwide phenomenon fitting the GP description never ended.
You hear that sound ? That's the sound of something that's just an illustrative example flying way over your head. It would be even more efficient, don't you think, if you could build all of these babies on the equator, at more than one place (always sunshine) around the world.
This guy claims that this:
<element name="addressBook" xmlns="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0">
<zeroOrMore>
<element name="card">
<element name="name">
<text/>
</element>
<element name="email">
<text/>
</element>
</element>
</zeroOrMore>
</element>
is easier to read than this:
<!DOCTYPE addressBook [
<!ELEMENT addressBook (card*)>
<!ELEMENT card (name, email)>
<!ELEMENT name (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT email (#PCDATA)>
]>
WTF ?!
evolutionism, homosexualism - they're all new, and evil ! Better stick to the good old isms such as religionism, wifebeatism and alcoholism.
They should use the predictive capability of markets instead. Set up a little in-prison pool of money on who might kill; whoever trades highest, is most likely to kill at a given moment. It'll work great !
It's weapons. Hand-weapons mostly, and stuff you can make improvised bombs out of - if you take out a dictator, and there are more than one peoples trapped inside the same nation, forced to mingle, then everything can still work out. Provided you can stop _any_influx_of_weaponry_in_the_country_. Then, after the shock is over, people will adjust to their new leadership and go on with their lives as they had before under the dictator.
Of course, Syria and Iran were not going to let that happen, if only because individual arms traders were making big bucks. Make no mistake - I thought the invasion of Iraq by the US was a huge blunder, but also consider this: if the US would have been able to seal the border (using millions of soldiers, and therefore impossible) after the invasion, order a big weapons destruction raid, then things would have been a lot better.
But, as I said, it is and was an impossible situation to wish for. This is something that should have been realised from the start.
Jihadwatch ?! Now _there_ is a reliable source !
Start posting at his friend's blogs. A lot.
But.. where do I get an _annotated_ version of the bible then that tells me what to take literally, what to skip, and what to interpret in some way or another, so that I can be a true Christian ? Because I find that this is the trouble with the 234542348534 versions of Christianity out there, and when one such proselytizer comes to my door they'll say, thumping a small, black book: 'This is all you need'. At which point I'll retort: 'Fine, are you wearing underwear of mixed cloth ? Don't you know that that is a horror in the eyes of the lord ?' Then they'll say: 'Ah - but wait. You have to skip that passage.'. 'Working on a Saturday ?'. 'That too.'. 'Oh well fuck off then, you can't get your story straight.'. It's mindblowingly frustrating. Some people will say: 'But you have to come to church - there's a nice pastor there who'll explain it all for you.'. But I don't want someone else to read a book selectively for me; the risk of him/her skipping things that are important for me is too great. The risk of personal bias is too great. The risk of stupidity on the other end is too great. These christian subsects should all print their own bibles, with their own name on the cover, and the parts they don't believe in (Numeri or something) in really small lettering. The parts they want changed in real big red bold letters. The parts they think are metaphorical, or just plain nonsense, in pink. And the parts they find offensive removed. That'll create some clarity. And then you can come to my door again.
I've been on morphine once, in a hospital right after an operation. I found it very boring; it just made me fuzzy. I don't see why junkies would have such a good time with it.
I thought slate had an article saying that democrats were better investors recently ? Too lazy to search, sorry.
HIV can fight HIV.
Hey man - I live in Europe and I tell you; every time I cross the city line, I have to make a formal request, on paper (but we're getting internet now) in three copies to the local authorities and the country government. The thing is, the supermarket outside the city is the best place for deals on my food-coupons. Which is the only way to get any food. Of course, chocolate rations are always up (or not down anyway), and on fridays I'm allowed to drink a beer. That is, after I've been to the local police station and, after I've identified myself with my fingerprints (how come the police always have these nice computers ? We have to make do with commodore 64s !), have filled in those thirty questions or so on a paper form. You see, I like to do things in a timely manner; that form is for next friday's beer. Usually I can have the one I filed for last friday, on the day itself, in a closed cell, of course. It only takes an hour or so. But it's nice though. And then - back to the house to watch some state propaganda on television. Making faces before the government camera's in the house - hey - nobody every watches these ! That's how we do things here in Europe. And I love it.
My father, who is a doctor, had something to add to this as well, when I spoke about it with him. He said that the 'surge' (because it's not really that big a surge, but an upswing nonetheless) in asthma in very young children might be related to this as well; you see, most stomach reflux doesn't really make it all the way to the mouth, but might make it to the back of the throat. When you lie your child on its back, little bits of stomach acid might then trickle into its lungs. The etching causes damage to the lungs overtime. Putting a child on its belly doesn't create this problem either.