I like Postgres in some ways, but it has some significant deviations from standard SQL syntax, and other idiosyncracies.
Strange you would mention that, one of the reasons I've switched to PostgreSQL (and never looked back) is because it more closesly follows the SQL standard and has many less "gotchas" and bugs than MySQL (boolean is actually an int field, reset counter on increment, etc).
When people complain about Postgres' "non-standard SQL", this usually comes from those that have only used MySQL and think it's the standard.
About the only technical advantage MySQL has over Postgres is an easier setup, and generally better performance out of the box (before any tuning).
The French revolution is probably the worst example for arguing violent overthrow of the governement. It goes something like this:
1. Overthrow the government, kill the royal family. 2. Kill a bunch of aristocrats, a bunch of priests, desecrate tombs 3. Kill a bunch of people that don't agree with all the killing 4. Put a Corsican in charge, eventually becoming an Emperor 5. More killing, war all over Europe 6. A couple heirs to the Emperor here and there 7. Put the kings back in place from time to time
... All in all, it took over 80 years for a real, permanent republic to be put in place (3rd time's the charm it seems), and THAT was mainly after the military defeat of the 1870's.
When you hear about the Western spying programs (US, UK, France, etc) all over the news, when a country is undergoing huge changes, and when said western powers have been meddling in the region for decades, it's not completly unexpected for this sort of thing to happen.
I just feel bad for the poor stork that is still locked up.
You are describing glacial retreat caused by global warming, which is not the same thing. As temperatures rise, the ice melts and retreats higher in elevation where it is colder. Also as a result of the warming effect, plants are able to take up residence in land formerly occupied by the ice sheet. In areas with permafrost, some of it will melt, leading to sinking and fractures in infrastructure. Climate change can happen very quickly, as we are seeing.
An example of glacial rebound would be a fishing village in medieval times now being far from the coast, even though sea levels have risen since. Or of a sound being locked by rising land and turned into a lake. Rebound typically is not measurable within the frame of a single lifespan, more like hundreds to thousands of years. We are still experiencing effects from the melting of the last ice age.
There is a major difference though: the Internet's population has increased by connecting the rest of humanity to it, not only by the children of the early Internet.
A better model would be communes, where people join on the basis of religion, philosphy or purpose. In many cases the children born in these communes stay and continue the exmple set forth by their parents.
You must have missed the last sentence of the article:
"The team are now looking for industry partners to commercialise this ground-breaking new technology."
So they are thinking about finishing the product, and making it accessible outside the research field. I can see a company like IBM showing interest in this.
I seriously doubt Turkey will be made into a bad guy. They're a NATO member and the only muslim majority country in the region with a healthy economy and political stability. They are also a needed conter-weight to Iran and are crucial in resolving the civil war in Syria. Never mind that Erdogan was democratically elected.
France's income tax is indeed usually lower than in the US, but that's not the whole picture.
You also have to look at sales tax (VAT), which is much higher in France at 19.6% vs around 7-8% in most US states.
Then there is the taxe d'habitation, which simply doesn't exist in the U.S. for renters.
All in all, you wind up paying more in France. The value, however, is much better in France, given all the various services and aid which are provided.
I'm not a big gamer, but the ones I do play, mainly 0Ad, Oil Rush, & Civ5 all work fine on my Q6600 (no overclock).
But mainly I enjoy having a bunch of applications open all at the same time without any problems: Netbeans, postgreSql admin & server, Gimp, LibreOffice, Firefox with a bunch of tabs, etc... and being able to play a quick game of 0ad without closing out of anything. Not bad for a 6 year old proc & mobo.
I've added memory, and updated the video card twice, it's an AMD 5350 now, but the most measurable upgrade was actually the SSD drive. Running Enlightenement DE also helps, at least when compared to Gnome3 or Unity, maybe only a little better or the same as Gnome2.
English is a mix of languages, essentially of Germanic origin (mainly Anglo-Saxon) and of Latin origin (mainly French). Germanic is the core of the language, the grammar is derived from it, as is the "basic" vocabulary. French and in some cases Latin directly were added later on, and most of the "extended" vocabulary derives from it, or in some cases, from Greek.
The pronunciation of the "G" is therefore largely dictated by the etymology of the word. You'll see that in the most common words: girl, get, together, gift, etc. the "G" is always hard. However, for words borrowed from French, Latin and Greek (often technical, scientific, legal, etc), the "G" follows the French pronunciation: in front of the vowels "e", "i", and "y" it is soft, otherwise it is hard:
Exceptions: gynecologist, gibbon...and a favorite topic of debate: giga-, where the logical (heh there's another one from French) pronunciation is "jiga", however the hard version is heard more often.
Back to GIF: both ways of pronouncing it are correct, and indeed I have heard both styles. Although anecdotally, the soft version is used more often by people over 35-40.
Middle class families in the US don't have the same level of financial assistance from the government in case of layoffs as in Europe. Even for someone with a good position, losing a job is going to be a major problem much sooner than "within a year". More like a 2-3 months at best.
When implementing RESTful APIs, I've found this Firefox plugin to be quite useful. It allows you to use DELETE and PUT requests (amongst others) from your browser.
You forgot District 9, which I would recommend. Good plot: actually gives the viewer some things to think about, as opposed to "aliens bad, people good" type stuff. Good visuals: special effects and CGI believable, also the camera switching technique was interesting.
That's all very nice, and I follow most of those guidelines, and try to do the others.
But the reality is that even if, say, ALL of Europe was magically CO2 free -- that is none whatsoever, not a gram released from transport, food production, heating, electricity production, etc -- at the snap of the fingers, it would only be a little more than half of what China produces each year (currently 4.3 vs 7.7 million tonnes).
This is something much much bigger than one person, or even one average-sized country. Really the only way anything will get done is by world leaders agreeing to do something about it: setting up treaties, regulatory bodies, carbon markets, reforestation programs and the like. And properly funding all of this.
Fat fucking chance of that happening I'm afraid.
With the US actively stopping any such talk for a decade or more to "protect the economy" (and then most decidely NOT protecting the world economy, but that's a different story), things were already moving extremely slowly, "we've decided to not decide on anything just yet" meeting after meeting. And now China is another major obstacle.
Future generations will hate us for what we are doing, leading our world on a path of famine, drought and war, while at the same time having the knowledge and ability to prevent it.
Well some things don't change much throughout history.
The tactics employed by Genghis Khan are still applicable on a modern battlefield. The way Julius Cesar used the rivalries of the various tribes to conquer Gaul is very similar to what the British (and later the Americans) did in North America, 1700 years later.
Speaking of the ancient Romans, many of their political critiques could easily have been written in our time.
But technology is another matter. While Khan and Cesar would be able to understand and recognize the tactics and strategies of later wars of conquest, the same could not be said of the weapons used. There is very little in common with a horse archer and a Abraham tank in that regard (though they are used in roughly the same manner).
So now the question is, do interfaces have more in common with weapons technology or battle strategy?
That's exactly what KDE 4 does, you can choose the workspace based on the type of device you are using. Some applications will also change their layout based on the workspace.
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I like Postgres in some ways, but it has some significant deviations from standard SQL syntax, and other idiosyncracies.
Strange you would mention that, one of the reasons I've switched to PostgreSQL (and never looked back) is because it more closesly follows the SQL standard and has many less "gotchas" and bugs than MySQL (boolean is actually an int field, reset counter on increment, etc).
When people complain about Postgres' "non-standard SQL", this usually comes from those that have only used MySQL and think it's the standard.
About the only technical advantage MySQL has over Postgres is an easier setup, and generally better performance out of the box (before any tuning).
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The French revolution is probably the worst example for arguing violent overthrow of the governement. It goes something like this:
1. Overthrow the government, kill the royal family.
2. Kill a bunch of aristocrats, a bunch of priests, desecrate tombs
3. Kill a bunch of people that don't agree with all the killing
4. Put a Corsican in charge, eventually becoming an Emperor
5. More killing, war all over Europe
6. A couple heirs to the Emperor here and there
7. Put the kings back in place from time to time
When you hear about the Western spying programs (US, UK, France, etc) all over the news, when a country is undergoing huge changes, and when said western powers have been meddling in the region for decades, it's not completly unexpected for this sort of thing to happen.
I just feel bad for the poor stork that is still locked up.
You are describing glacial retreat caused by global warming, which is not the same thing. As temperatures rise, the ice melts and retreats higher in elevation where it is colder. Also as a result of the warming effect, plants are able to take up residence in land formerly occupied by the ice sheet. In areas with permafrost, some of it will melt, leading to sinking and fractures in infrastructure. Climate change can happen very quickly, as we are seeing.
An example of glacial rebound would be a fishing village in medieval times now being far from the coast, even though sea levels have risen since. Or of a sound being locked by rising land and turned into a lake. Rebound typically is not measurable within the frame of a single lifespan, more like hundreds to thousands of years. We are still experiencing effects from the melting of the last ice age.
There is a major difference though: the Internet's population has increased by connecting the rest of humanity to it, not only by the children of the early Internet.
A better model would be communes, where people join on the basis of religion, philosphy or purpose. In many cases the children born in these communes stay and continue the exmple set forth by their parents.
Apple seems to be losing much of the gains they made during the initial trial. Not even at appeal yet and already getting patents invalidaded.
Hopefully this is part of a trend, where these ridiculous patents get thrown out, or even better, never granted in the first place.
You must have missed the last sentence of the article:
"The team are now looking for industry partners to commercialise this ground-breaking new technology."
So they are thinking about finishing the product, and making it accessible outside the research field. I can see a company like IBM showing interest in this.
Not sure if you're trolling, but Turkey absolutely is a secular state.
I seriously doubt Turkey will be made into a bad guy. They're a NATO member and the only muslim majority country in the region with a healthy economy and political stability. They are also a needed conter-weight to Iran and are crucial in resolving the civil war in Syria. Never mind that Erdogan was democratically elected.
Coke still has sugar and not HFCS in some other countries.
France's income tax is indeed usually lower than in the US, but that's not the whole picture.
You also have to look at sales tax (VAT), which is much higher in France at 19.6% vs around 7-8% in most US states.
Then there is the taxe d'habitation, which simply doesn't exist in the U.S. for renters.
All in all, you wind up paying more in France. The value, however, is much better in France, given all the various services and aid which are provided.
So we can expect an imminent Apple lawsuit then?
I'm not a big gamer, but the ones I do play, mainly 0Ad, Oil Rush, & Civ5 all work fine on my Q6600 (no overclock).
But mainly I enjoy having a bunch of applications open all at the same time without any problems: Netbeans, postgreSql admin & server, Gimp, LibreOffice, Firefox with a bunch of tabs, etc... and being able to play a quick game of 0ad without closing out of anything. Not bad for a 6 year old proc & mobo.
I've added memory, and updated the video card twice, it's an AMD 5350 now, but the most measurable upgrade was actually the SSD drive. Running Enlightenement DE also helps, at least when compared to Gnome3 or Unity, maybe only a little better or the same as Gnome2.
English is a mix of languages, essentially of Germanic origin (mainly Anglo-Saxon) and of Latin origin (mainly French). Germanic is the core of the language, the grammar is derived from it, as is the "basic" vocabulary. French and in some cases Latin directly were added later on, and most of the "extended" vocabulary derives from it, or in some cases, from Greek.
The pronunciation of the "G" is therefore largely dictated by the etymology of the word. You'll see that in the most common words: girl, get, together, gift, etc. the "G" is always hard. However, for words borrowed from French, Latin and Greek (often technical, scientific, legal, etc), the "G" follows the French pronunciation: in front of the vowels "e", "i", and "y" it is soft, otherwise it is hard:
giant (French "géant")
gentle (French "gentil")
gymnasium (Latin)
engine (French "engin")
vagina (Latin)
gyroscope (French from Greek words)
-ogy and -gist (French / Latin): biology, biologist, archeology, archaeologist, etc
-gyn- (meaning "woman", from Greek): misogyny, androgyny, gynoid, etc
Exceptions: ...and a favorite topic of debate: giga-, where the logical (heh there's another one from French) pronunciation is "jiga", however the hard version is heard more often.
gynecologist, gibbon
Back to GIF: both ways of pronouncing it are correct, and indeed I have heard both styles. Although anecdotally, the soft version is used more often by people over 35-40.
Middle class families in the US don't have the same level of financial assistance from the government in case of layoffs as in Europe. Even for someone with a good position, losing a job is going to be a major problem much sooner than "within a year". More like a 2-3 months at best.
Perri-air, fresh from Druidia, will always be the best.
WindowsQT exists, in a way...
No change needed, the short "a" version is an accepted prononciation of the name, and in fact is closer to the original Latin.
When implementing RESTful APIs, I've found this Firefox plugin to be quite useful. It allows you to use DELETE and PUT requests (amongst others) from your browser.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/restclient
After seeing I robot, I simply can't trust him to do science fiction.
You forgot District 9, which I would recommend. Good plot: actually gives the viewer some things to think about, as opposed to "aliens bad, people good" type stuff. Good visuals: special effects and CGI believable, also the camera switching technique was interesting.
That's all very nice, and I follow most of those guidelines, and try to do the others.
But the reality is that even if, say, ALL of Europe was magically CO2 free -- that is none whatsoever, not a gram released from transport, food production, heating, electricity production, etc -- at the snap of the fingers, it would only be a little more than half of what China produces each year (currently 4.3 vs 7.7 million tonnes).
This is something much much bigger than one person, or even one average-sized country. Really the only way anything will get done is by world leaders agreeing to do something about it: setting up treaties, regulatory bodies, carbon markets, reforestation programs and the like. And properly funding all of this.
Fat fucking chance of that happening I'm afraid.
With the US actively stopping any such talk for a decade or more to "protect the economy" (and then most decidely NOT protecting the world economy, but that's a different story), things were already moving extremely slowly, "we've decided to not decide on anything just yet" meeting after meeting. And now China is another major obstacle.
Future generations will hate us for what we are doing, leading our world on a path of famine, drought and war, while at the same time having the knowledge and ability to prevent it.
Well some things don't change much throughout history.
The tactics employed by Genghis Khan are still applicable on a modern battlefield. The way Julius Cesar used the rivalries of the various tribes to conquer Gaul is very similar to what the British (and later the Americans) did in North America, 1700 years later.
Speaking of the ancient Romans, many of their political critiques could easily have been written in our time.
But technology is another matter. While Khan and Cesar would be able to understand and recognize the tactics and strategies of later wars of conquest, the same could not be said of the weapons used. There is very little in common with a horse archer and a Abraham tank in that regard (though they are used in roughly the same manner).
So now the question is, do interfaces have more in common with weapons technology or battle strategy?
That's exactly what KDE 4 does, you can choose the workspace based on the type of device you are using. Some applications will also change their layout based on the workspace.