They remove baggage of passengers that don't board here in the states as well. Waiting for the baggage to be unloaded can be quite annoying as they hunt for it.
Well, hellfire.. irrational fears aside it does kind of make you go HMMN and what if. I am a firm believer in the scientific process and real proof not just anecdotal evidence, but some of the time you just have to go 'hmmn'. To put this in another light.. there doesn't have to be scientific evidence for something to exist. Thus there always exists the chance that these pilots are correct. I have heard/seen to many stories here today on/. about people being asked to turn off their devices and then stuff just 'working' again. Sure it is anecdotal, but do you REALLY want to chance it in a 30ton vehicle cruising along at 500+mph?
The risk is the human lives on the plane versus chatting on the phone or watching a DVD on your laptop. It doesn't seem to hard, that until we have real proof one way or another to take it safe does it?
Do you ask for scientifically and statistically proven data for every last detail of your life just to be sure someone isn't unjustly inconveniencing you? If you don't I would just say sit back and 'enjoy' the flight. I have done it many times.. amazingly I never suffered any ill effects just reading a book instead of playing with my laptop of cell phone;)
From the article: Not surprisingly, specification wise Mandrake Linux 9.1 is pretty much on par with the rest of the industry. For those of you wanting a few details, the following are included: Linux version 2.4.21, glibc 2.3.1, XFree86 4.3, KDE 3.1.0, and Gnome 2.2.0. In other words, pretty much everything is similar to the other distributions that came out this spring. Jeremy
I would love to see how those dual processors help in something like a game...
And what about integer performance...? That wasn't even brought up, but it is an important part of almost all modern applications. Sure, if we are going to try and build a comparable Intel system for doing floating point processing only it might be a little more costly, but that ignores several important factors. It is easy to ignore the less than stellar aspects of something to see it in a particular light.
I think it is one thing to use a name that is from a completely different market segment. Firebird = Automotive, FirebirdSQL = Technology, Firebird Browser = Technology.
Well.. he entered into a scenario that he thought he could not win. He thought the entire effort was deletrious for his guys and hopefully for the Enemy. But in essence it was the mother of all suicide attacks.
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Specifically selecting the columns you need so that the SQL server does not have to determine what the columns are. SELECT * isn't even really a performance hit in most modern RDBMS, though. In terms of data set size it still makes sense to select only the data columns you need. WHen you perform a query your application server software will have the entirety of that dataset available in memory usually, which means if you selected !needed columns you end up using more memory and being less efficient than possible.
I wouldn't use such strong wording about whether or not the war should never have happened. I do agree the war should not have happened the way it did. I am worried deeply about the international crisis that has come of it, but what can any of us do now?
Throwing all politics aside I like to think about this war in the good done for the people of Iraq versus the potential harm. Are the American lives lost, and the billions of dollars spent, worth getting rid of Saddam and his Sons? Is it right for America to declare another government a "regime" and "remove" them? Is this war on a moral high ground, doing something good. Are we saving hundreds of thousands of children by bringing them back to the modern age. Or are we just being huge bullies, showing off all of our "toys" to no real positive effect. In a kind of cosmic-balance sense are more lives being made worse or better for this war? I have pretty strong opinions and answers for these statements and questions.
Then to factor in the damage to the overall stability and ability of the UN to have any real authority, is it still worth it? Does the removal of authority from the UN damage more lives than we are saving by doing what we are? Has the UN really made a positive effect in the world, and now that they have been "lessened" by our actions is their ability to effect positive change lessened?
I feel that some of these questions can only be answered by philosophy. I feel that the concrete things, like hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children dying and mortality rates 10 times higher than than US all being caused by one person and his direct co-horts are things that can and should be changed. Maybe people aren't being thrown into ovens, but if his people are dying all the same.
I don't think enough people have attacked these questoins objectively or with an open mind. I don't think enough people have moved past their blind animosity to the administration that started the war to really view this as anything other than wrong.
I never felt war without proper UN process was the right decision. I still feel the decision and situation could have been handled better. The UN could see us coming after Saddam due to 9/11 a mile away. We didn't even go into this situation preparing for diplomatic success. We went in with a pugilistic and bullyish approach and I agree, the results are *NOT* good for the international community at large.
I was vehemently opposed to slapping the UN around like we did. It isn't right.
That said, I think Iraq has broken enough resolutions for long enough that the war is "justified" to a large extent. And I am not opposed to this war, just how we got there. And since the war has started crying over spilled milk needs to wait until it is over. I am just tired of all the idiotic anarchist and their protests funded by the marxist/socialists taking any opportunity they can to jab America in the eye.
I don't know, and I never used WMD as my argument for getting rid of him. Killing their own olympic contestants, feeding their people to plastic shredders because they were displeased... and a past history of using WMD.. the list goes on and on and on.. that is plenty of justification for me. See my previous post, here. I have a personal stake in this. When it comes to human life I never take what is spoon fed to me. I learn as much as I can to fully understand as much involved as I can possibly learn.
I was in the reserves for four years, and was activated and sent overseas once. I completely and fully understand the sacrifice and duty involved.
I still have many friends who are active duty and overseas right now on the front lines. I know the weight of having loved ones overseas, and being the one overseas. Please don't assume so much about people you don't know. It is quite offensive to be insulted and told I can't understand something when I know firsthand.
The reserves was a nice way to lighten the load of college debt and let me learn about things most people will only see, and not understand, on TV during times like this.
Now to answer your question, "what if there are no WMD". I can't pull myself from the news for more than a few hours because *I* have people I care about putting their neck on the line for a decision our president made. Bush Jr. has made his choices and regardless of what many people think or call him I don't think anyone, but Bush himself, truly understands the weight and gracity of his decision to send our servicemen and women into harms way. We can't know because we have never done it before, and I hope I never have to. It is hard enough having loved ones in harms way, but to be the one to sends them?
If there are no WMD the world is still a better place having deposed Saddam and his sons. The atrocities they have commited reach beyond what a reasonable person should be able to stand. I served my nation, and if I am recalled I would gladly give all. To know that the world is a better place, and that people suffer dramatically less for my individual loss if it comes to that. I can bear that cost, can you?
I see many people focus on WMD. When they are found will it radically alter your entire opinion of the effort?
You use it as a supporting argument for your US-Hating stance, but would it actually change anything?
I think people don't even really care of Saddam and his sons have WMD, they are just using it to toot their horns, and in the political arena gain popular opinion.
That said I don't think war was necesarilly the exactly right choice, but I don't think it is as wrong as many believe. This should have happened 12 years ago. We are just cleaning up our messes now.
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I just have a hard time swalloing someone, or some group of people, had such a lack of regard for human life that they could let thousands of our own people be slaughtered. I don't believe it. I can swallow us targetting oil fields, maybe, but letting our own people get hit?
Isn't interfacing with a library by definition "plumbing" though?
I did find the SAX API (In Java) a little tedious to work with for maybe a few days, but after I got used to the idiom it was pretty straight-forward. The interfacing with the library was not really a lot of "extra" code. Most of my SAX parsing code spends it's time in a content handler firing of events based on XML it is processing.
I still cleanly separated the XML interfacing from the server. Once the plumbing is set up, my server doesn't even have to know it is there for the most part. And I rarely have to deal with the interfacing to the library after the initial separation. I either go below the parser level via filter streams or above it, but the XML parser just does it's job.
It is a tough question to answer, but doesn't having a certain level of configurability necessitate some level of compexity? I think C# does a decent job at keeping the XML processing more simple while still giving the configurability, but to tap into that configurability there is still complexity involved. I think that the problem is easy to identify and the solution will take many more brain cycles to find:)
I have a 10 slot bookshelf to Safari because... the average useful lifetime of the books I read is not very great.
Certain topics change rapidly. Shelling out 50 bucks for a book that will be out-dated in a year is annoying.
I have a well-worn C Reference manual that has served me well over the past 7 years. The content in the book is still perfectly relevant and useful.
I have Java books that are good for making a fire, and little else.
I read a lot of programming books, some of the time on more esoteric/fast moving topics. Being able to have the book for a month and then drop it after it has gotten me started/further with a topic is a godsend. I then only need the books for reference. Usually I can live without a book as a reference since most of the libraries/languages I work with have some sort of reference materials. I really just like books for filling in knowledge gaps.
I calculated it. I would have spent at least 500 dollars on books in the last 4 months without Safari. With Safari I spent maybe 45 bucks(the first month was free... I was hooked after that). The knowledge and benefit to me was exactly the same. It makes it difficult to justify the spendings when Safari fits very well with my programming and learning style.
Some people like to cozy up to a good ole dead tree. I like to also. But when the knowledge is to be had cheaper, I can't refuse the cheaper solution. (With an LCD monitor my eyes no longer get the frying in place feeling, reading a book online doesn't bother me now).
Anyhow, that is my draw to Safari.
(Not to mention the Safari people have been real responsive when I find bugs in the service:)
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Flash 2004, FINALLY untying Flash "movies" from the ungodly timeline method.
More VB like.. more software developer friendly.. less learning curve for software developers to use it for "Rich Media" applications.
Jeremy
They remove baggage of passengers that don't board here in the states as well. Waiting for the baggage to be unloaded can be quite annoying as they hunt for it.
Jeremy
Well, hellfire.. irrational fears aside it does kind of make you go HMMN and what if. I am a firm believer in the scientific process and real proof not just anecdotal evidence, but some of the time you just have to go 'hmmn'. To put this in another light.. there doesn't have to be scientific evidence for something to exist. Thus there always exists the chance that these pilots are correct. I have heard/seen to many stories here today on /. about people being asked to turn off their devices and then stuff just 'working' again. Sure it is anecdotal, but do you REALLY want to chance it in a 30ton vehicle cruising along at 500+mph?
;)
The risk is the human lives on the plane versus chatting on the phone or watching a DVD on your laptop. It doesn't seem to hard, that until we have real proof one way or another to take it safe does it?
Do you ask for scientifically and statistically proven data for every last detail of your life just to be sure someone isn't unjustly inconveniencing you? If you don't I would just say sit back and 'enjoy' the flight. I have done it many times.. amazingly I never suffered any ill effects just reading a book instead of playing with my laptop of cell phone
Jeremy
From the article:
Not surprisingly, specification wise Mandrake Linux 9.1 is pretty much on par with the rest of the industry. For those of you wanting a few details, the following are included: Linux version 2.4.21, glibc 2.3.1, XFree86 4.3, KDE 3.1.0, and Gnome 2.2.0. In other words, pretty much everything is similar to the other distributions that came out this spring.
Jeremy
It does work.
I have used PostgreSQL-CygWin for development on a XP Pro system for quite a while with no real problems...
Jeremy
On my workstation Word loads more or less instataneously. The splash appears for maybe 200ms and then word is loaded.
:-)
Jeremy
-1 (Not Paying Attention) for me :)
Jeremy
That might be true, but it is still no excuse.
The operating system should be fault tolerant and not fail when a foreign(read: third party) application does some unexpected behavior.
Jeremy
Yeah, for some tasks.
I would love to see how those dual processors help in something like a game...
And what about integer performance...? That wasn't even brought up, but it is an important part of almost all modern applications. Sure, if we are going to try and build a comparable Intel system for doing floating point processing only it might be a little more costly, but that ignores several important factors. It is easy to ignore the less than stellar aspects of something to see it in a particular light.
Jeremy
Felony = very bad crime that follows you around for the rest of your life. It is a criminal offense.
Jeremy
Software, not technology. Sorry.
You never know... Mozilla could have a RDBMS lurking in it somewhere. ;)
I think it is one thing to use a name that is from a completely different market segment. Firebird = Automotive, FirebirdSQL = Technology, Firebird Browser = Technology.
Jeremy
Well.. he entered into a scenario that he thought he could not win. He thought the entire effort was deletrious for his guys and hopefully for the Enemy. But in essence it was the mother of all suicide attacks.
Jeremy
I got a nice 18" from Wal-Mart
Jeremy
Specifically selecting the columns you need so that the SQL server does not have to determine what the columns are. SELECT * isn't even really a performance hit in most modern RDBMS, though. In terms of data set size it still makes sense to select only the data columns you need. WHen you perform a query your application server software will have the entirety of that dataset available in memory usually, which means if you selected !needed columns you end up using more memory and being less efficient than possible.
Jeremy
I wouldn't use such strong wording about whether or not the war should never have happened. I do agree the war should not have happened the way it did. I am worried deeply about the international crisis that has come of it, but what can any of us do now?
Throwing all politics aside I like to think about this war in the good done for the people of Iraq versus the potential harm. Are the American lives lost, and the billions of dollars spent, worth getting rid of Saddam and his Sons? Is it right for America to declare another government a "regime" and "remove" them? Is this war on a moral high ground, doing something good. Are we saving hundreds of thousands of children by bringing them back to the modern age. Or are we just being huge bullies, showing off all of our "toys" to no real positive effect. In a kind of cosmic-balance sense are more lives being made worse or better for this war? I have pretty strong opinions and answers for these statements and questions.
Then to factor in the damage to the overall stability and ability of the UN to have any real authority, is it still worth it? Does the removal of authority from the UN damage more lives than we are saving by doing what we are? Has the UN really made a positive effect in the world, and now that they have been "lessened" by our actions is their ability to effect positive change lessened?
I feel that some of these questions can only be answered by philosophy. I feel that the concrete things, like hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children dying and mortality rates 10 times higher than than US all being caused by one person and his direct co-horts are things that can and should be changed. Maybe people aren't being thrown into ovens, but if his people are dying all the same.
I don't think enough people have attacked these questoins objectively or with an open mind. I don't think enough people have moved past their blind animosity to the administration that started the war to really view this as anything other than wrong.
Anyway, back to work.
I never felt war without proper UN process was the right decision. I still feel the decision and situation could have been handled better. The UN could see us coming after Saddam due to 9/11 a mile away. We didn't even go into this situation preparing for diplomatic success. We went in with a pugilistic and bullyish approach and I agree, the results are *NOT* good for the international community at large.
I was vehemently opposed to slapping the UN around like we did. It isn't right.
That said, I think Iraq has broken enough resolutions for long enough that the war is "justified" to a large extent. And I am not opposed to this war, just how we got there. And since the war has started crying over spilled milk needs to wait until it is over. I am just tired of all the idiotic anarchist and their protests funded by the marxist/socialists taking any opportunity they can to jab America in the eye.
Jeremy
I don't know, and I never used WMD as my argument for getting rid of him. Killing their own olympic contestants, feeding their people to plastic shredders because they were displeased... and a past history of using WMD.. the list goes on and on and on.. that is plenty of justification for me. See my previous post, here. I have a personal stake in this. When it comes to human life I never take what is spoon fed to me. I learn as much as I can to fully understand as much involved as I can possibly learn.
Jeremy
I was in the reserves for four years, and was activated and sent overseas once. I completely and fully understand the sacrifice and duty involved.
I still have many friends who are active duty and overseas right now on the front lines. I know the weight of having loved ones overseas, and being the one overseas. Please don't assume so much about people you don't know. It is quite offensive to be insulted and told I can't understand something when I know firsthand.
The reserves was a nice way to lighten the load of college debt and let me learn about things most people will only see, and not understand, on TV during times like this.
Now to answer your question, "what if there are no WMD". I can't pull myself from the news for more than a few hours because *I* have people I care about putting their neck on the line for a decision our president made. Bush Jr. has made his choices and regardless of what many people think or call him I don't think anyone, but Bush himself, truly understands the weight and gracity of his decision to send our servicemen and women into harms way. We can't know because we have never done it before, and I hope I never have to. It is hard enough having loved ones in harms way, but to be the one to sends them?
If there are no WMD the world is still a better place having deposed Saddam and his sons. The atrocities they have commited reach beyond what a reasonable person should be able to stand. I served my nation, and if I am recalled I would gladly give all. To know that the world is a better place, and that people suffer dramatically less for my individual loss if it comes to that. I can bear that cost, can you?
Jeremy
I see many people focus on WMD. When they are found will it radically alter your entire opinion of the effort?
You use it as a supporting argument for your US-Hating stance, but would it actually change anything?
I think people don't even really care of Saddam and his sons have WMD, they are just using it to toot their horns, and in the political arena gain popular opinion.
That said I don't think war was necesarilly the exactly right choice, but I don't think it is as wrong as many believe. This should have happened 12 years ago. We are just cleaning up our messes now.
I just have a hard time swalloing someone, or some group of people, had such a lack of regard for human life that they could let thousands of our own people be slaughtered. I don't believe it. I can swallow us targetting oil fields, maybe, but letting our own people get hit?
Jeremy
Isn't interfacing with a library by definition "plumbing" though?
:)
I did find the SAX API (In Java) a little tedious to work with for maybe a few days, but after I got used to the idiom it was pretty straight-forward. The interfacing with the library was not really a lot of "extra" code. Most of my SAX parsing code spends it's time in a content handler firing of events based on XML it is processing.
I still cleanly separated the XML interfacing from the server. Once the plumbing is set up, my server doesn't even have to know it is there for the most part. And I rarely have to deal with the interfacing to the library after the initial separation. I either go below the parser level via filter
streams or above it, but the XML parser just does it's job.
It is a tough question to answer, but doesn't having a certain level of configurability necessitate some level of compexity? I think C# does a decent job at keeping the XML processing more simple while still giving the configurability, but to tap into that configurability there is still complexity involved. I think that the problem is easy to identify and the solution will take many more brain cycles to find
Jeremy
Sig Comment, I love Dylan Thomas.
That poem was one of my favorites along with Thanatopsis.
Jeremy
I have a 10 slot bookshelf to Safari because... the average useful lifetime of the books I read is not very great.
:)
Certain topics change rapidly. Shelling out 50 bucks for a book that will be out-dated in a year is annoying.
I have a well-worn C Reference manual that has served me well over the past 7 years. The content in the book is still perfectly relevant and useful.
I have Java books that are good for making a fire, and little else.
I read a lot of programming books, some of the time on more esoteric/fast moving topics. Being able to have the book for a month and then drop it after it has gotten me started/further with a topic is a godsend. I then only need the books for reference. Usually I can live without a book as a reference since most of the libraries/languages I work with have some sort of reference materials. I really just like books for filling in knowledge gaps.
I calculated it. I would have spent at least 500 dollars on books in the last 4 months without Safari. With Safari I spent maybe 45 bucks(the first month was free... I was hooked after that). The knowledge and benefit to me was exactly the same. It makes it difficult to justify the spendings when Safari fits very well with my programming and learning style.
Some people like to cozy up to a good ole dead tree. I like to also. But when the knowledge is to be had cheaper, I can't refuse the cheaper solution. (With an LCD monitor my eyes no longer get the frying in place feeling, reading a book online doesn't bother me now).
Anyhow, that is my draw to Safari.
(Not to mention the Safari people have been real responsive when I find bugs in the service
Jeremy