Yeah, similar thing happened to me. I had a database luddite for a lecturer and he failed me for using temporary views to solve a certain problem as he'd rather I did subselects, even though my SQL was simpler to read, and scaled a lot better for huge datasets.
As this was part of the final project, of course I failed the subject...
The Ironic part was, my solution turned out to be be THE ONLY way to do some complex data mining in MySQL 3.something for my first IT job. Imagine the lulz that were had by my boss when he found out that the solution that got the CFO off his back was also responsible for me failing databases 1001...
All of which is quite scary, but to be honest with you, something that scares and annoys me more is the fact that our idiotic (Australian) federal government literally jumped at the opportunity to go to Afghanistan and Iraq.
No offence to our military, but on the world scale, our military might is equivalent to a slightly miffed lunch-lady with a rolling pin. So effectively we stuck our big fat noses into two wars that not only mean nothing to us, but that we also can have almost no impact on, apart from causing domestic unrest in the form of heightened racial and religious tension.
Examples:
Cronulla Riots Sikhs being bashed in the streets because red-neck westies think anyone in a turban is a terrorist Synagogues being torched
I disagree.....we don't need "Big Brother" watching us, to protect us from the "terrorists or the criminals or the boogie monster", they only need to be watching the terrorists, the criminals or the boogie monsters. Unfortunately I think the tricky thing is that it is almost impossible to discern a 'terrorist' from 'us', up until the very last minute. Don't confuse terrorists with hostile nations, they are very different things.
Also keep in mind that people are very rarely born a terrorist or a criminal, they generally start out as one of 'us', and then become one of 'them'...
This is a very tricky topic, and neither side (either the social libertarians, nor the prudent conservatives) really has all the answers.
To be perfectly honest the level of paranoia and human rights/privacy violations that are currently happening in the US scare the bejeesus out of me, but at the same time I look at it this way:
If I was in charge of the most economically powerful, and previously untouchable country in the world, and all of a sudden 9/11 happened how would I react? I have no idea. I might start implementing ultra paranoid and reactionary national security policies too...
For the record, I'm Australian, and (somewhat) a leftie. Last election I voted Greens and the Secular party.
My only gripe about TF2 has nothing to do with the game, and everything to do with the players. I always end up being a medic because nobody else will do it. I don't get it. Medic is by far the easiest class to play. You'd expect the noobs to gravitate to it, just like they do in CS to the AWP (the easiest gun in the game, since it's the only one that shoots straight). Yet they choose probably the hardest class -- scout -- for some reason.
Easily explained. Most people playing online shooters do it for the crazy action and carnage. Noobs don't want to play something as unglamorous as a medic.
Unfortunately Scandinavian countries have allow almost no immigration, and just take a very minimal amount of skilled temporary workers and refugees. Sigh...
I have (had) two friends who are (were) hardcore heroin junkies.
I (now) have two friends who are hardcore WoW and SL junkies.
I find their behaviour patterns disturbingly similar, and it scares the shit out of me, examples:
1. spending all free time in pursuit of X
2. spend all resources to maintain X in their life
3. steal from friends and family to afford X
4. repeatedly lose jobs because they keep cutting work because of X
5. grow heavily depressed, aggressive and compulsive because of X
6. rapidly develop health problems because of over-consumption of X
7. social circle shift exclusively to those who are users of X
where X can be either heroin or a paid account of WoW or SL.
Next time, before you make some infantile statements about subjects you know nothing about, grow some balls, move out of your mom's basement and get a first life, fucktard.
No I don't work for the government, and no, I don't see anything inherently wrong with the recreational use of _some_ drugs, but I do see something wrong with statements like yours, especially since I had two friends die from heroin, and it didn't have anything to do with issues of government control or availability, but rather what repeated heavy use of strong opiates does to a person's mental and physical health when for them heroin becomes more precious than food/medicine.
Yup, that's fine, mod me as flamebait. It's just a pity that when Linus posts similar flamebait, large (otherwise rational) chunks of the OSS community do the real life equivalent of modding it +5 insightful...
Please mod parent up. I agree, this whole discussion is silly. You can run any KDE app in Gnome if you have the libraries installed, and vice-versa.
All this psycho right wing DE advocacy is nothing but a childish pissing contest, and is symptomatic of the fact that people need to feel like they belong to something special, and that everyone who disagrees with them needs to have their brains bashed out with a rock.
Sheesh, we're no better than fricking cavemen with cool gadgets and nukes...
That's funny, that's exactly the same rational argument I heard people say to Linus, until he blasted them with the Linus equivalent of 'stuf GNOME n00b you suxor KDE ro0xoR I'm teh leet coz I'm Linus'... What a douchebag...
That's just like how Sony puts Blu-Ray drives in some of its Vaio laptops even though the max screen resolution is something like 1440x900. Am I missing something here?
Probably so people can read blu-ray data disks. I already know a couple of companies using blu-ray for backups (goodness knows why though)
Fair enough. Lets agree to disagree. You see Linux being flogged as a cheap $200 'bargain bin' OS as damaging to it's image, and indicative of it not being ready for prime time if it is touted as such, whereas I see this a boon for Linux and computing in general where computing (and Linux) has just become that little bit more accessible to the masses.
And MY point is that it doesn't matter if the user doesn't know what OS they are using...
Analogy: a person driving a car shouldn't be able to tell what brand and model it is when he is behind the wheel, right? And guess what? 99.9% of people can't tell you what it is from just the feel of it, only freaks and psycho enthusiasts can tell you the make and model from the stock gear timings.
The same should apply to computers. A computer is a tool, and it'd be better for linux if it was just usable, instead of distinctive purely for the sake of being distinctive.
A user not knowing if they are linux when in fact they are has absolutely no reflection on whether it is ready for the masses or not.
I'm not actually sure what your point is. If they buy it, have no idea (or even care) what it is, and it does all the things they want to do, who cares?
What I'd dearly like to know, is whether people like the AC above genuinely believe what they say, or whether they are just spreading inflammatory shite just for trolling purposes.
I'm not feeding the trolls, I just would like to know...
And go straight to electronic tagging? Better yet, lock them up in school like battery hens... I'm sure a frighteningly large percentage of parents would approve, what with focus groups scaring the bejeesus out of parents on a daily basis with alarmist bullshit.
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Not sure if you're being facetious or not, but that's what it was originally called... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Firefox#Naming
Yeah, similar thing happened to me. I had a database luddite for a lecturer and he failed me for using temporary views to solve a certain problem as he'd rather I did subselects, even though my SQL was simpler to read, and scaled a lot better for huge datasets.
As this was part of the final project, of course I failed the subject...
The Ironic part was, my solution turned out to be be THE ONLY way to do some complex data mining in MySQL 3.something for my first IT job. Imagine the lulz that were had by my boss when he found out that the solution that got the CFO off his back was also responsible for me failing databases 1001...
oh the humanity
All of which is quite scary, but to be honest with you, something that scares and annoys me more is the fact that our idiotic (Australian) federal government literally jumped at the opportunity to go to Afghanistan and Iraq.
No offence to our military, but on the world scale, our military might is equivalent to a slightly miffed lunch-lady with a rolling pin. So effectively we stuck our big fat noses into two wars that not only mean nothing to us, but that we also can have almost no impact on, apart from causing domestic unrest in the form of heightened racial and religious tension.
Examples:
Cronulla Riots
Sikhs being bashed in the streets because red-neck westies think anyone in a turban is a terrorist
Synagogues being torched
Also keep in mind that people are very rarely born a terrorist or a criminal, they generally start out as one of 'us', and then become one of 'them'...
This is a very tricky topic, and neither side (either the social libertarians, nor the prudent conservatives) really has all the answers.
To be perfectly honest the level of paranoia and human rights/privacy violations that are currently happening in the US scare the bejeesus out of me, but at the same time I look at it this way:
If I was in charge of the most economically powerful, and previously untouchable country in the world, and all of a sudden 9/11 happened how would I react? I have no idea. I might start implementing ultra paranoid and reactionary national security policies too...
For the record, I'm Australian, and (somewhat) a leftie. Last election I voted Greens and the Secular party.
Oh, and btw, TFA is quite intriguing.
Easily explained. Most people playing online shooters do it for the crazy action and carnage. Noobs don't want to play something as unglamorous as a medic.
You're kidding? Wow, that's cool. Last I heard it was nearly impossible, but looks like I was misinformed. What about Norway?
Unfortunately Scandinavian countries have allow almost no immigration, and just take a very minimal amount of skilled temporary workers and refugees. Sigh...
I certainly hope not, as (sorry to re-iterate an oft flogged point) HD-DVD has less DRM; most importantly no region locking.
This for me makes a big difference, and so I hope HD-DVD will win.
What??!?!!!1onenenone I always though IANAL means he takes it up the pooper
I have (had) two friends who are (were) hardcore heroin junkies.
I (now) have two friends who are hardcore WoW and SL junkies.
I find their behaviour patterns disturbingly similar, and it scares the shit out of me, examples:
1. spending all free time in pursuit of X
2. spend all resources to maintain X in their life
3. steal from friends and family to afford X
4. repeatedly lose jobs because they keep cutting work because of X
5. grow heavily depressed, aggressive and compulsive because of X
6. rapidly develop health problems because of over-consumption of X
7. social circle shift exclusively to those who are users of X
where X can be either heroin or a paid account of WoW or SL.
Next time, before you make some infantile statements about subjects you know nothing about, grow some balls, move out of your mom's basement and get a first life, fucktard.
No I don't work for the government, and no, I don't see anything inherently wrong with the recreational use of _some_ drugs, but I do see something wrong with statements like yours, especially since I had two friends die from heroin, and it didn't have anything to do with issues of government control or availability, but rather what repeated heavy use of strong opiates does to a person's mental and physical health when for them heroin becomes more precious than food/medicine.
Hmmm. Sounds awfully like a heroin addict's rant about how they're in control and no-one can judge them unless they are on heroin too.
Yup, that's fine, mod me as flamebait. It's just a pity that when Linus posts similar flamebait, large (otherwise rational) chunks of the OSS community do the real life equivalent of modding it +5 insightful...
Please mod parent up. I agree, this whole discussion is silly. You can run any KDE app in Gnome if you have the libraries installed, and vice-versa.
All this psycho right wing DE advocacy is nothing but a childish pissing contest, and is symptomatic of the fact that people need to feel like they belong to something special, and that everyone who disagrees with them needs to have their brains bashed out with a rock.
Sheesh, we're no better than fricking cavemen with cool gadgets and nukes...
That's funny, that's exactly the same rational argument I heard people say to Linus, until he blasted them with the Linus equivalent of 'stuf GNOME n00b you suxor KDE ro0xoR I'm teh leet coz I'm Linus'... What a douchebag...
:(
Man, I love everything about OSS, except Linus
You mean Prince ISN'T the goatse guy?? :(
Probably so people can read blu-ray data disks. I already know a couple of companies using blu-ray for backups (goodness knows why though)
Fair enough. Lets agree to disagree. You see Linux being flogged as a cheap $200 'bargain bin' OS as damaging to it's image, and indicative of it not being ready for prime time if it is touted as such, whereas I see this a boon for Linux and computing in general where computing (and Linux) has just become that little bit more accessible to the masses.
Deal?
And MY point is that it doesn't matter if the user doesn't know what OS they are using...
Analogy: a person driving a car shouldn't be able to tell what brand and model it is when he is behind the wheel, right? And guess what? 99.9% of people can't tell you what it is from just the feel of it, only freaks and psycho enthusiasts can tell you the make and model from the stock gear timings.
The same should apply to computers. A computer is a tool, and it'd be better for linux if it was just usable, instead of distinctive purely for the sake of being distinctive.
A user not knowing if they are linux when in fact they are has absolutely no reflection on whether it is ready for the masses or not.
I'm not actually sure what your point is. If they buy it, have no idea (or even care) what it is, and it does all the things they want to do, who cares?
And we still don't even have Ubuntu Dells, let alone retail linux boxes.... :(
For the love of pepsi, please use paragraphs!! If you don't know how to use html, post in plain text, it is wysiwyg.
Well sweetie, that counts as duress...
What I'd dearly like to know, is whether people like the AC above genuinely believe what they say, or whether they are just spreading inflammatory shite just for trolling purposes.
I'm not feeding the trolls, I just would like to know...
One man's flamebait is another man's bleak pessemistic outlook on the awesome of modern life...
And go straight to electronic tagging? Better yet, lock them up in school like battery hens... I'm sure a frighteningly large percentage of parents would approve, what with focus groups scaring the bejeesus out of parents on a daily basis with alarmist bullshit.