Except that for SQL, that divergence his at insanely low levels--like the spelling of TIMESTAMP . . .
And the divergent features offer performance--so avoiding them means more or more powerful servers, just to keep your options open.
There are standards such as Posix that are reasonably tight, allowing at least straightforward adaptation, and there are those like SQL, which don't seem to mean much more than that developers from one will mostly be able to read the code of another . . .
If you're using an OS that supports SQL Server for a commercially important project, you've got much bigger problems than which DB you're using, and should be firing a CTO who is ignorant of the last 25 years of OS security issues . . .
I carried a pocket knife daily from getting my first one early in cub scouts until they put in the metal detectors at there courthouses, and it was too much hassle to check in the knife, and check it back out, three times a day. (They can't be checked anymore, anyway).
In the 1970s, there was nothing unusual or noteworthy about a little boy with a knife in his pocket at school; it was the norm.
Say, by revealing that 30% of the time, that the wives, sisters, and mothers of ISIS recruits are raped while gone? That their sons are frequently subject to homosexual rape and captured to raise swine? And that ISIS leadership is hiding this from the world?
How will its followers react when an expose shows that the actual source of their financing is from, say, pork farms or trading? That a certain leader is Jewish, or female? That a jihadi's home village was just destroyed that other tribe, after recruiters tricked him and his fellow tribesmen into leaving?
There is *plenty* that can be done with mere information, true or not.
And the use of "doctor" in the western world predates the medical usurpation of the term by millennia . .
The moder MD is a "watered down" doctorate: in the classical use of "doctor," it referred to someone who had both acquired and contributed to knowledge. The MD dropped the latter.
The tradeoff is that an MD is far less likely to kill you than their predecessors . . .
The MD stating that "I am a real doctor" is merely amusing and shows his lack of education . . .
Given the emissions requirements for a '59, I'm skeptical.
Kind of like naming the coal exports from North America---in 1491 . . .
(for those of you younger than the cars I prefer to drive, a '59 isn't exempt from emissions for being old enough; it doesn't have to, as there *were* no emissions standards or tests until a few years later. [now, if he put in an engine from a later year, he has to meet *those* emissions, but then the year of manufacture is irrelevant. ])
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you want legal advice from me, pay my retainer. If you get legal advice on slashdot, may God have mercy on your soul.
Most (I believe almost all) other english speaking countries tend to follow the English Rule where it diverges from the American Rule. They may have areas which are largely changed, but I think the US is pretty much alone in the variations on defamation, contingency fees, and loser pays.
Not because it was effective, but because it was inert.
Going to a homeopath meant that you weren't getting killed by establishment medicine.
Then the 19th century rolled around, the AMA and the like concocted the modern MD, which had one of the two distinguishing features of what it meant to be a "Doctor", and displaced what existed before. (It requires acquiring significant knowledge in a field, but not contributing, distinguishing it from "real doctors." Oddly, they have that phrase backwards.)
Anyway, homeopathy was an historically important safe place, whose time has come and gone.
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Except that for SQL, that divergence his at insanely low levels--like the spelling of TIMESTAMP . . .
And the divergent features offer performance--so avoiding them means more or more powerful servers, just to keep your options open.
There are standards such as Posix that are reasonably tight, allowing at least straightforward adaptation, and there are those like SQL, which don't seem to mean much more than that developers from one will mostly be able to read the code of another . . .
hawk
So?
640k should be good enough for anybody! :)
hawk
If you're using an OS that supports SQL Server for a commercially important project, you've got much bigger problems than which DB you're using, and should be firing a CTO who is ignorant of the last 25 years of OS security issues . . .
hawk
>Big difference.
Only in that it spreads the same amount among multiple school districts in the form of future payments--plus a bit of overhead, etc. . . .
hawk
Obviously not true, as he is white, and only racism causes arrests for such things . . . :(
hawk
It was a different world.
I carried a pocket knife daily from getting my first one early in cub scouts until they put in the metal detectors at there courthouses, and it was too much hassle to check in the knife, and check it back out, three times a day. (They can't be checked anymore, anyway).
In the 1970s, there was nothing unusual or noteworthy about a little boy with a knife in his pocket at school; it was the norm.
hawk
On the bright side, few Zune users will be affected:
This little zune user went to market,
and this little zune user stayed home.
This little zune user ate roast beef,
and . . . .
awe, nuts. It's five *piggies*; there weren't that many zune users . .
hawk
It is generally conceded that General Dolittle's raid was quite valuable . . .
hawk
>interfere with their social media recruiting,
Say, by revealing that 30% of the time, that the wives, sisters, and mothers of ISIS recruits are raped while gone? That their sons are frequently subject to homosexual rape and captured to raise swine? And that ISIS leadership is hiding this from the world?
hawk
Far more useful on hacking those computers would be to change intelligence or orders, such that they attack fortified and prepared positions, or . . .
hawk
Nothing effective?
How will its followers react when an expose shows that the actual source of their financing is from, say, pork farms or trading? That a certain leader is Jewish, or female? That a jihadi's home village was just destroyed that other tribe, after recruiters tricked him and his fellow tribesmen into leaving?
There is *plenty* that can be done with mere information, true or not.
hawk
According to this afternoon's news, ISIS has 118 less oil trucks than they did two days ago . . .
hawk
>it still includes features that Firefox users have come to expect,
The primary thing I expect from Netscape, err, Mozilla, err, Seamonkey, err, Firefox is to be able to block plinky-things.
*Everything* else is secondary.
hawk
Watch now for the litigation for this horrendous DMCA violation, which ruined the business model of the pirates^H^H^H^H^H^H^H entrepreneurs . . .
hawk
that's going to be one heck of a refund . . ..
"Hey, anyone have change for a quarter?"
hawk
We always made sure we had cars & trucks & shovels & such for our daughters. but they didn't get used much.
One day we saw them playing with the garage & cars, and got closer.
"This is the mama truck" said one.
And her sister picked up another, and replied, "This is the baby truck"
we gave up.
hawk
And the use of "doctor" in the western world predates the medical usurpation of the term by millennia . .
The moder MD is a "watered down" doctorate: in the classical use of "doctor," it referred to someone who had both acquired and contributed to knowledge. The MD dropped the latter.
The tradeoff is that an MD is far less likely to kill you than their predecessors . . .
The MD stating that "I am a real doctor" is merely amusing and shows his lack of education . . .
hawk, a real doctor, not a physician.
>The worst was whether or not a stone kicked by a .357
>lawnmower would have the same power as a
>magnum pistol round.
There are definitely other candidates. Like the 5 second rule . . . *culture* the dropped chip's bacteria?
Uhh, yeah, right. How about waiting five seconds, putting it a solution with the acidity of stomach acid, and seeing what you get . . .
haw
>I guess the cut-back-on-staff-to-improve-profitibility(ratings) experiment didn't work.
Or, tivo-type data disclosed just how many of us would fast forward or skip over the jv portion, which tended to be due and stupid . . .
hawk
Of course, Hotmail wasn't running linux . . .
It could have, but it would have needed more servers, though not as many as to switch to windows.
Hotmail was on FreeBSD, and stayed so for years
hawk
Given the emissions requirements for a '59, I'm skeptical.
Kind of like naming the coal exports from North America---in 1491 . . .
(for those of you younger than the cars I prefer to drive, a '59 isn't exempt from emissions for being old enough; it doesn't have to, as there *were* no emissions standards or tests until a few years later. [now, if he put in an engine from a later year, he has to meet *those* emissions, but then the year of manufacture is irrelevant. ])
hawk
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you want legal advice from me, pay my retainer. If you get legal advice on slashdot, may God have mercy on your soul.
Most (I believe almost all) other english speaking countries tend to follow the English Rule where it diverges from the American Rule. They may have areas which are largely changed, but I think the US is pretty much alone in the variations on defamation, contingency fees, and loser pays.
hawk, esq.
>I'm building useful skills,
useful???
The overwhelming majority of the population gets through their entire lives without finding jumping out of a perfectly good airplane "useful" . . . :)
hawk
Two centuries ago, it was wonderful.
Not because it was effective, but because it was inert.
Going to a homeopath meant that you weren't getting killed by establishment medicine.
Then the 19th century rolled around, the AMA and the like concocted the modern MD, which had one of the two distinguishing features of what it meant to be a "Doctor", and displaced what existed before. (It requires acquiring significant knowledge in a field, but not contributing, distinguishing it from "real doctors." Oddly, they have that phrase backwards.)
Anyway, homeopathy was an historically important safe place, whose time has come and gone.
hawk
>Basically, this was the option open to the principal, knock it over to the police.
When your lightsaber is in the shop for repairs, calling the police is the only way to deal with a blaster . . .
hawk, reminding everyone to engage in preventative maintenance