This is the key that sucks with SQL, once you commit to one vendor, its hard to escape.
This is laughably false if you stick to ANSI/ISO SQL. SQL is itself vendor-agnostic, it's a promise for an api.
Don't use vendor specific queries and you'll be completely portable.
This article, along with my own experience with Oracle, suggests this is frequently impossible due to vendor-specific quirks. Have you tried a comparison involving an empty string, for instance? Or case-sensitive and case-insensitive string comparisons?
Indeed, the flexibility is a major selling point. I'm a moderately talented programmer: not exceptional among the Slashdot crowd by any means, but better than most entry level developers, if my self-assessment is accurate. Yet for medical reasons I cannot keep fixed daily work hours, and I lack the business skills to make it as a freelancer. It was surprisingly difficult to find a job without a fixed daily schedule even before the economic downturn. Recently, despite the CS degree and roughly 3 years of database programming experience, the only job I could find offering enough flexibility of work hours paid $10/hour with no benefits. And I accepted that job, because it put an end to my employment gap.
Most adults will suffer third-degree burns if exposed to 150 degree water for two seconds. Burns will also occur with a six-second exposure to 140 degree water or with a thirty second exposure to 130 degree water.
It's funny you should mention Scrubs--in one episode Dr. Cox teaches a lesson about exactly that.
J.D.: So, judging from the ataxia dysarthia and the mental status change, I've concluded that Mr. Yeager is suffering from...Kuru. Dr. Cox: Kuru? J.D.: Kuru. Dr. Cox: Kuru. J.D.: Yes, Kuru. Dr. Cox: Wow. I'd actually never thought of that. J.D.: Hell, yeah. Dr. Cox: Were you aware that the only documented cases of Kuru were members of a cannibalistic tribe in eastern Papua New Guinea? J.D.: I was not. Mr. Yeager: Actually, Doc, I was in New Guinea just last week. J.D.: Really? Mr. Yeager: No. Dr. Cox: Newbie, do you happen to know what a zebra is? J.D.: That patient just mocked me! Dr. Cox: It's a diagnosis of a ridiculously obscure disease when it's much more likely that the patient has a common illness presenting with uncommon symptoms. In other words, if you hear hoof-beats, you just go ahead and think horsies -- not zebras. Mm'kay, Mr. Silly Bear?
I wouldn't mind paying a national sales tax or VAT tax on everything I buy. The caveat is that the income tax goes away. Taxing consumption seems fair to me.
This would result in the poor and middle class shouldering a greater tax burden than they currently do, since consumption is not proportional to income.
It's all about using the right tool for the right job. CFLs are much better than incandescent bulbs for most lights that need to be left on for long periods of time. Incandescent bulbs are better for lights that are usually off but frequently turned on for short periods of time. Think bathroom lighting, for example. And there are other factors that can make different types of light sources more appropriate for a given situation.
How do I describe the guy in the office next to mine who happens to be of African decent?
How about "he has dark skin"? That at least turns it into a "he has" statement instead of a "he is" statement, which sidesteps the question of whether he considers race to be an important part of identity.
In 1998 I was given a demonstration of a virtual reality system at Cornell University, consisting of 3D glasses with head tracking support, two walls lit by projectors using polarized light, and what might be loosely described as a "magic wand" for interacting with the environment. I recall manipulating 3D windows by pointing with this wand.
Since you brought up Sarah Palin (I'd have been happy to let sleeping dogs lie), how important are your Constitutional rights to you?
Would you really have preferred a Vice President that doesn't even understand the First Amendment?
"If they convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations, then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media."
And apparently it wasn't just a one-time thing--she continues to believe that private citizens can somehow deny other private citizens the right to freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22511.html
My post was entirely serious; I wasn't talking about the cynical view of dating as an exchange of money for sex, or anything like that. "Roses required", "generous", and "donation" in this context appear to be code for "payment required". Note the #1 definition on urbandictionary for roses: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=roses
They'll probably just move back into the personals ads on Craigslist.
They've been there all along, even with the availability of erotic services sections. Check ads in the personals sections for phrases like "roses required" or "seeking generous man".
99.9% (for example) can be a major improvement over 95%. Reducing a program's defect rate from 1 flaw in every 20 lines to 1 flaw in every 1000 lines is a major improvement: a 98% reduction in flaws. Decreasing a web service's downtime from over 1 hour per day to under 1.5 minutes per day is a major improvement.
If you want "a little more" than a simple flat file, perhaps SQLite is the answer? The people on the Firefox team seem to think so, for example.
SQLite has been a pleasure to use for a small personal project involving a few Perl scripts. Granted my background is with SQL Server and Oracle, so perhaps I'm not the target audience, but I found it extremely easy to use and surprisingly efficient--and I didn't need to set up a server or anything. I didn't even need to explicitly create a database!
I believe it's done like this, assuming you have a process already identified: (1) Call OpenProcess to get a handle (2) Use VirtualQueryEx to get the memory map for the process (3) Use ReadProcessMemory and WriteProcessMemory to (surprise!) read from and write to that process's memory
Perhaps it would help--for some of us, at least--if browsers indicated how many sections of the domain matched (with the comparison performed from right to left)? After all, the browser won't be fooled by such trickery.
In the submitter's case: Cert: onlinebanking.capitalone.com Site: servicing.capitalone.com 2 sections match, this is probably safe (but proceed cautiously)
In the parent's case: Cert: onlinebanking.capitalone.com Site: onlinebanking.capitalone.com/login/.tsdk.cn Danger! 0 sections match. This is probably not safe!
(Pretend that the bolded portions are also highlighted in bright red, or something.)
If commercial games are set up like homebrew games, the ARM7 CPU is normally used for collecting input--since the touchscreen and some buttons are only connected to this processor--and a few other tasks like sound, while the main processing for the game is done on the ARM9 CPU. I think there is a separate GPU (conceptually if not physically, since it's possible to have a CPU and GPU on a single chip) that handles the actual 3D rendering. The rendering is certainly done in hardware rather than software in any case.
Freezepop was one of the highest profile groups to give blanket permission to Flash Flash Revolution to use their songs, granted back in 2006: http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=50599 (FFR is, as you might expect, a rhythm game written in Flash patterned after Dance Dance Revolution, except you use arrow keys instead of your feet. It's more fun than it sounds.)
MIPS can stand for either: "Millions of Instructions Per Second", a measure of processor speed "Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages", a processor architecture--"ISA" might stand for "instruction set architecture"--developed by MIPS Technologies (presumably named after the architecture).
From the use of "MIPS" in "while FPGAs are cheap, they're still not as cheap as MIPS on a modern, mass-market Intel or AMD chip", I had initially guessed that you were referring to the architecture (it's plausible on some level that Intel and AMD could make MIPS-based processors in addition to their x86 ones). With your clarification, I see you meant that for tasks that don't parallelize well, you can get more computational power per dollar with a mass-market Intel/AMD x86 processor than with FPGAs.
Some kids these days need phones.When they're done with their after-school activities, they need to call their parents, and the prevalence of cell phones has made it so that pay phones basically no longer exist.
Then they can keep the phones in their lockers until the end of the school day rather than bringing them to class.
While in high school I read "Mazes for the Mind: Computers and the Unexpected" by Clifford A. Pickover. It ties math to a wide variety of topics, and should be entertaining and mostly accessible even if a little of the math goes over their heads. And it's full of pretty pictures!
Apparently he has written a number of books since then. I haven't read any of them, so I wouldn't know which to recommend.
(As mentioned a number of times already, I'd recommend Godel, Escher, Bach as well.)
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This article, along with my own experience with Oracle, suggests this is frequently impossible due to vendor-specific quirks. Have you tried a comparison involving an empty string, for instance? Or case-sensitive and case-insensitive string comparisons?
Indeed, the flexibility is a major selling point. I'm a moderately talented programmer: not exceptional among the Slashdot crowd by any means, but better than most entry level developers, if my self-assessment is accurate. Yet for medical reasons I cannot keep fixed daily work hours, and I lack the business skills to make it as a freelancer. It was surprisingly difficult to find a job without a fixed daily schedule even before the economic downturn. Recently, despite the CS degree and roughly 3 years of database programming experience, the only job I could find offering enough flexibility of work hours paid $10/hour with no benefits. And I accepted that job, because it put an end to my employment gap.
Unless your baths are less than six seconds long, no you don't.
It's funny you should mention Scrubs--in one episode Dr. Cox teaches a lesson about exactly that.
This would result in the poor and middle class shouldering a greater tax burden than they currently do, since consumption is not proportional to income.
When did three cases become "many"?
It's all about using the right tool for the right job.
CFLs are much better than incandescent bulbs for most lights that need to be left on for long periods of time.
Incandescent bulbs are better for lights that are usually off but frequently turned on for short periods of time. Think bathroom lighting, for example.
And there are other factors that can make different types of light sources more appropriate for a given situation.
Can you store a red toaster in the same location as your silver toaster, just because it has a different color?
How about "he has dark skin"?
That at least turns it into a "he has" statement instead of a "he is" statement, which sidesteps the question of whether he considers race to be an important part of identity.
Or Cornell?
In 1998 I was given a demonstration of a virtual reality system at Cornell University, consisting of 3D glasses with head tracking support, two walls lit by projectors using polarized light, and what might be loosely described as a "magic wand" for interacting with the environment. I recall manipulating 3D windows by pointing with this wand.
Since you brought up Sarah Palin (I'd have been happy to let sleeping dogs lie), how important are your Constitutional rights to you?
Would you really have preferred a Vice President that doesn't even understand the First Amendment?
And apparently it wasn't just a one-time thing--she continues to believe that private citizens can somehow deny other private citizens the right to freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22511.html
My post was entirely serious; I wasn't talking about the cynical view of dating as an exchange of money for sex, or anything like that. "Roses required", "generous", and "donation" in this context appear to be code for "payment required". Note the #1 definition on urbandictionary for roses:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=roses
There have been a number of what appear to be prostitution offers (and "sugar daddy" requests) posted in the personals sections of Craigslist, frequently using those phrases. Random examples that haven't been flagged yet (most of the obvious ones do get flagged quickly):
http://albany.craigslist.org/cas/1140993582.html
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/mld/w4m/1168295593.html
And one of the more explicit ads, actually containing the phrase "escort service" (along with potentially NSFW images):
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/cas/1169942282.html
Better yet, since the ads remain indexed by Google even after they're flagged:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acraigslist.org+%22roses+required%22+-ers+-adg
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acraigslist.org+%2Bdonation+%2Bw4m+-ers+-adg
They've been there all along, even with the availability of erotic services sections. Check ads in the personals sections for phrases like "roses required" or "seeking generous man".
99.9% (for example) can be a major improvement over 95%. Reducing a program's defect rate from 1 flaw in every 20 lines to 1 flaw in every 1000 lines is a major improvement: a 98% reduction in flaws. Decreasing a web service's downtime from over 1 hour per day to under 1.5 minutes per day is a major improvement.
200W to get a signal to Earth from where? The Voyager probes are transmitting data to Earth from the heliosheath--well beyond Pluto--using only 20W.
If you want "a little more" than a simple flat file, perhaps SQLite is the answer? The people on the Firefox team seem to think so, for example.
SQLite has been a pleasure to use for a small personal project involving a few Perl scripts. Granted my background is with SQL Server and Oracle, so perhaps I'm not the target audience, but I found it extremely easy to use and surprisingly efficient--and I didn't need to set up a server or anything. I didn't even need to explicitly create a database!
I believe it's done like this, assuming you have a process already identified:
(1) Call OpenProcess to get a handle
(2) Use VirtualQueryEx to get the memory map for the process
(3) Use ReadProcessMemory and WriteProcessMemory to (surprise!) read from and write to that process's memory
Perhaps it would help--for some of us, at least--if browsers indicated how many sections of the domain matched (with the comparison performed from right to left)? After all, the browser won't be fooled by such trickery.
In the submitter's case:
Cert: onlinebanking.capitalone.com
Site: servicing.capitalone.com
2 sections match, this is probably safe (but proceed cautiously)
In the parent's case:
Cert: onlinebanking.capitalone.com
Site: onlinebanking.capitalone.com/login/.tsdk.cn
Danger! 0 sections match. This is probably not safe!
(Pretend that the bolded portions are also highlighted in bright red, or something.)
If commercial games are set up like homebrew games, the ARM7 CPU is normally used for collecting input--since the touchscreen and some buttons are only connected to this processor--and a few other tasks like sound, while the main processing for the game is done on the ARM9 CPU. I think there is a separate GPU (conceptually if not physically, since it's possible to have a CPU and GPU on a single chip) that handles the actual 3D rendering. The rendering is certainly done in hardware rather than software in any case.
Freezepop was one of the highest profile groups to give blanket permission to Flash Flash Revolution to use their songs, granted back in 2006:
http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=50599
(FFR is, as you might expect, a rhythm game written in Flash patterned after Dance Dance Revolution, except you use arrow keys instead of your feet. It's more fun than it sounds.)
Full list of artists (mostly independent, to go along with the GGP's point) that have given blanket permission to use their songs to FFR:
http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=68438
MIPS can stand for either:
"Millions of Instructions Per Second", a measure of processor speed
"Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages", a processor architecture--"ISA" might stand for "instruction set architecture"--developed by MIPS Technologies (presumably named after the architecture).
From the use of "MIPS" in "while FPGAs are cheap, they're still not as cheap as MIPS on a modern, mass-market Intel or AMD chip", I had initially guessed that you were referring to the architecture (it's plausible on some level that Intel and AMD could make MIPS-based processors in addition to their x86 ones). With your clarification, I see you meant that for tasks that don't parallelize well, you can get more computational power per dollar with a mass-market Intel/AMD x86 processor than with FPGAs.
Then they can keep the phones in their lockers until the end of the school day rather than bringing them to class.
That's because smallpox has been eradicated, thanks to vaccination.
Google is not a government entity. Freedom of speech doesn't apply.
While in high school I read "Mazes for the Mind: Computers and the Unexpected" by Clifford A. Pickover. It ties math to a wide variety of topics, and should be entertaining and mostly accessible even if a little of the math goes over their heads. And it's full of pretty pictures!
Apparently he has written a number of books since then. I haven't read any of them, so I wouldn't know which to recommend.
(As mentioned a number of times already, I'd recommend Godel, Escher, Bach as well.)