I didn't have to lay them side by side. As far as I can tell, most people here didn't. But apparently some people have a harder time recognizing the problems, and for them I recommend laying side by side to acheive enlightenment. One could argue that the inability to recognize the difference lies with the observer....:-)
Y'all seem to have missed the new edition, "Managing and Using MySQL". Buy a copy, lay the two side-by-side, and tell us which one is more useful. My bet is you'll become enlightened as to how poorly organized and unfocussed the first book is.
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The newer edition, Managing and Using MySQL goes a long way to correcting the sins of the first book. I haven't read these others to compare directly, but I find the new edition a lot more clear and useful than its precursor.
So I should hit the brakes in the aforementioned mountain driving scenario, esp given that an oncoming car is going to be approaching a lot faster than my breaking distance will allow for? Sounds like a massive safety hazard to me.
Even if we ignore the difficulty of sorting from what should be avoided and what need not be, what happens when some idiot without "crash detection" rams my rear end because the brakes came on too suddenly? Unless every car (and I mean EVERY car, not just every NEW car) is mandated to have such a system, there is NO WAY this could be safe, and even if they were, I'm still pretty skeptical.
The FA, which I did R, was all about how Sun is on its last legs. That only helps fuel rumors that we're going to try and find some sugar daddy or momma to save us. Which all of it is BS.
I think that there's a much higher likelihood of you being in a situation where you want to write but don't have the appropriate electronic device to be able to communicate with (you want to leave a note on some asshole's car, for example--you can't leave your damn palm there with a message on it, can you?) than all pencils & papers disappearing.
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um....nope.
I can still fit more useful content on my desk than I can on a single visible desktop.
Even if you ignore the fact that he was claiming to want to use only off the shelf equipment, geez! The article has NO CONTENT of any importance. He could have summarized it in 5 words: buy lots of airport WAPs.
To repeat what I said lower down (reading with threading anyway): I was responding to a post about being able to "hand write", which seems not to be the same thing as "writing cursive".
The Universal Service Fund is SUPPOSED to be about providing universal PHONE service.
These assholes already have forced my DSL provider to bill me for this, never mind that there's no phone service going over my data line (right now). To force this for cable as well is insane.
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Nothing like having half a dozen browser windows/tabs open at the same time, trying to fix/write your web page app. Give me a book any time, realspace makes it a lot more convenient to arrange references around me, IMNSHO. That said, I do appreciate the web references, they're good backfill when nothing else seems to solve the problem. Most of the time. Sometimes googling for answers is like finding a needle in a haystack.
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I didn't have to lay them side by side. As far as I can tell, most people here didn't. But apparently some people have a harder time recognizing the problems, and for them I recommend laying side by side to acheive enlightenment. One could argue that the inability to recognize the difference lies with the observer.... :-)
Nobody EVER got whiplash from being rear ended, nope. And whiplash is SO easy to recover from. If it causes a collision, it's not safe. Period.
Y'all seem to have missed the new edition, "Managing and Using MySQL". Buy a copy, lay the two side-by-side, and tell us which one is more useful. My bet is you'll become enlightened as to how poorly organized and unfocussed the first book is.
The newer edition, Managing and Using MySQL goes a long way to correcting the sins of the first book. I haven't read these others to compare directly, but I find the new edition a lot more clear and useful than its precursor.
Perhaps because many of us have seen it fail miserably despite glowing claims?
Even if we ignore the difficulty of sorting from what should be avoided and what need not be, what happens when some idiot without "crash detection" rams my rear end because the brakes came on too suddenly? Unless every car (and I mean EVERY car, not just every NEW car) is mandated to have such a system, there is NO WAY this could be safe, and even if they were, I'm still pretty skeptical.
The FA, which I did R, was all about how Sun is on its last legs. That only helps fuel rumors that we're going to try and find some sugar daddy or momma to save us. Which all of it is BS.
Sun is not getting bought out, and no amount of press misrespresentations are going to change that.
It's beyond most young hackers today to download the JDK.
They didn't say unemployment payments.
I think that there's a much higher likelihood of you being in a situation where you want to write but don't have the appropriate electronic device to be able to communicate with (you want to leave a note on some asshole's car, for example--you can't leave your damn palm there with a message on it, can you?) than all pencils & papers disappearing.
I can still fit more useful content on my desk than I can on a single visible desktop.
An ink pen has a longer useful life than most UPS'.
Can you get me one of those infinite UPS' while you're at it?
Even if you ignore the fact that he was claiming to want to use only off the shelf equipment, geez! The article has NO CONTENT of any importance. He could have summarized it in 5 words: buy lots of airport WAPs.
Because after all, we never have power outages in the DAY TIME.
To repeat what I said lower down (reading with threading anyway): I was responding to a post about being able to "hand write", which seems not to be the same thing as "writing cursive".
yeah, I have one right here in my back pocket...next to my pen, which I've forgotten how to use.
What I was replying to said "write by hand". That is not the same as "cursive"
So if the kids are stuck in a power outage and need to leave a message for someone, how exactly do you propose they do it?
And read this post about where the money really goes. Not to those people, unless they happen to be using the incumbent monopoly.
These assholes already have forced my DSL provider to bill me for this, never mind that there's no phone service going over my data line (right now). To force this for cable as well is insane.
Nothing like having half a dozen browser windows/tabs open at the same time, trying to fix/write your web page app. Give me a book any time, realspace makes it a lot more convenient to arrange references around me, IMNSHO. That said, I do appreciate the web references, they're good backfill when nothing else seems to solve the problem. Most of the time. Sometimes googling for answers is like finding a needle in a haystack.
Most settlements include clauses to prevent this, which is why they're "settlements".
sshhhhhhh :-)