Dr. Pepper is weird. Here in Detroit, it is delivered to stores by Coke distributors (at least, it was when I last worked stock). In Kalamazoo, it's delivered by the A&W/7-Up distributor. Taco Bell carried it, even when the chain was owned by Pepsi.
Most of the compact cars I looked at with a stickshift and a ~2.0 liter four cylinder were rated at about 27mpg and 120 horsepower. Kias are listed at more like 23mpg and 90 horsepower.
Meanwhile, at the beginning of the year I had to show kids in Trigonometry how to do long division, square roots, and exponents before I could even begin to touch on sin, cos, and tan.
Um, why? They should understand roots and exponents, but there's really no reason to compute them by hand.
You meant this as sarcasm, but I see it as truth. Students should not need a calculator in a math class. It's that simple. A few family members of mine are in grade school and high school now, and cannot do simple math without a calculator.
I was not allowed to use a calculator until the second half of ninth grade, in Algebra 1, and do you want to know the effect of that? Nearly everyone in my school stopped taking any math classes after the two that were required (usually Algebra 1 and Geometry), because eight and a half years of arithmetic classes had taught them, more than anything else, that they didn't like math, and the weren't any good at it. The remaining year and a half was not enough to change their minds.
And Bluetooth PDAs. I imagine the wireless synching would be nice.
Bluetooth PDAs don't really get interesting, though, until they're paired with Bluetooth cell phones. Then they can use the cell phone for internet access, while the phone is still in your pocket. Unfortunately, there are only a few such phones so far, and they all seem to be GSM.
Then you have to get a wife who wouldn't object to your spending $5000 on masturbation. Mine would have a coniption if I did that, but I have her blessing to screw nearly anyone I want to.
Sure, that's why india produces some of the world's most respected mathematicians right?
When there are that many people, some of them are bound to be good despite the school system, aren't they?
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You can treat second level elements as tables, the third level elements under them as rows, and the attributes on those as columns (including some that function as primary and foreign keys), leaving you with a structure that is more-or-less relational.
I've been drifting this way lately, and it works quite well with XSLT. Rather than following hierarchies that are actually in the XML, I do nested for-each's. For instance, if I wanted a hierarchy in the output of customer and then orders, I would do a for-each on/root/Customers/Customer, get a CustomerID, and then do a loop on/root/Orders/Order[@CustomerID=$CustID].
Hindsight is 20/20. If Marc Andreesen said the code sucked, and needed a rewrite, then it sucked and needed a rewrite. How long would it have taken to add all the latest features to the old code base?
You know, it's possible to make incremental improvements. I heard about the Gecko rendering engine being finished about six months (maybe a year) after NetScape was open-sourced.
A better question would be this: How long would it have taken to attach Gecko to the NetScape 4.7 UI and networking code, to release NetScape 5.0?
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Those of us working in CIS know that you usually don't even know the problem before you have to start, much less the solution.
Of course, I'm also a C.S. major. If I was a C.I.S. major, though, it would kind of undercut my claim of experience equivilant to a C.I.S. degree.
"so son, notice you've been looking at a lot of sex pages..Do you think all women are like that?
All women are like what? You're pushing a virgin/whore dichotomy, here. A fair number of women (and probably more men) *are* like that, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Yes, that woman on the screen is hot, and either is a very sexual person (and an exhibitionist), or made a poor choice of job. Enjoy looking, masturbating, and whatever else you like. Do not, however, presume that she is stupid, or has poor self-esteem or no other life ambitions.
I've known them all, and honor students, giften musicians and (in Canada) Air/Army/Sea Cadets or Boy/Girl scouts get just as drunk and have just as much sex as every other teenager.
In that case, though, the sex and the drinking clearly aren't interfering with their responsibilities. More power to them.
They may not appreciate it at the time (I certainly didn't), but God willing, they may eventually come to be thankful for all those hours and all that effort.
I am thankful that my parents basically figured that by the time I was a teenager, their influence on what kind of person I would be was finished, and they mostly stuck to dealing with any specific problems.
Have you ever noticed, whenever a new chip is announced, the process size used to produce it is listed, too. x86 is always one and sometimes two generations ahead of anyone else in the manufacturing process (almost certainly due to volumes) -- the last time I was paying attention, some sort of P4s and Athlons were being made on a.13 micron process (I'm sure it's smaller now), and SPARCs were being made on a.25 micron process.
That's a major handicap for SPARC (and Alpha and everyone else), and just about makes up for the x86 Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that's almost 30 years old, and didn't even make much sense then.
When you throw in the fact that the volume involved in x86 lets Intel and AMD throw a lot more money into fine-tuning their chips, it makes sense that they'd be in the lead.
Since your referring to a large group of people with varied backgrounds and belief systems. The most important being the one that goverment or in this case corporations, do not have the right to infringe on personal liberty, & my ability to make personal decisions.
And the sites being blocked are generally those in agreement that the government does not have the right to infringe on personal rights. That is generally a position that liberals share, but gun control is an exception to the party line
First, if you consider yourself liberal then I'm not talking about you, as my comment was about libertarians (personally, I'm somewhere between liberal and libertarian).
Second, where exactly was I bashing anyone?
Third, what group do you think I'm talking about?
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Just so long as we don't see "Dr. Atkins Balance Improving Diet" published posthumously.
The database is generally the most expensive resource in an application, and is the most difficult to distribute.
Yes, but...
1. It may very well be less work for the database to do the necessary work than to return enough information for the client to do the work.
2. Putting the logic in the database allows you to use various clients without repeating logic *and* without getting into some baroque N-tier architecture (I guess DB/web server/browser is 3 tier, but you know what I mean.) complete with a ton of middleware.
No, it isn't. In a Turing test, someone tries to determine if a computer or a person is on the other end. When you automate it, a computer is trying to determine if a computer or person is on the other end. The goal is the same.
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Watch out. The 35 hours you get in the DirecTV/Tivo combo unit runs out real fast.
Dr. Pepper is weird. Here in Detroit, it is delivered to stores by Coke distributors (at least, it was when I last worked stock). In Kalamazoo, it's delivered by the A&W/7-Up distributor. Taco Bell carried it, even when the chain was owned by Pepsi.
I don't like SUVs, but have looked at compacts.
Most of the compact cars I looked at with a stickshift and a ~2.0 liter four cylinder were rated at about 27mpg and 120 horsepower. Kias are listed at more like 23mpg and 90 horsepower.
Meanwhile, at the beginning of the year I had to show kids in Trigonometry how to do long division, square roots, and exponents before I could even begin to touch on sin, cos, and tan.
Um, why? They should understand roots and exponents, but there's really no reason to compute them by hand.
You meant this as sarcasm, but I see it as truth. Students should not need a calculator in a math class. It's that simple. A few family members of mine are in grade school and high school now, and cannot do simple math without a calculator.
I was not allowed to use a calculator until the second half of ninth grade, in Algebra 1, and do you want to know the effect of that? Nearly everyone in my school stopped taking any math classes after the two that were required (usually Algebra 1 and Geometry), because eight and a half years of arithmetic classes had taught them, more than anything else, that they didn't like math, and the weren't any good at it. The remaining year and a half was not enough to change their minds.
And Bluetooth PDAs. I imagine the wireless synching would be nice.
Bluetooth PDAs don't really get interesting, though, until they're paired with Bluetooth cell phones. Then they can use the cell phone for internet access, while the phone is still in your pocket. Unfortunately, there are only a few such phones so far, and they all seem to be GSM.
Then you have to get a wife who wouldn't object to your spending $5000 on masturbation. Mine would have a coniption if I did that, but I have her blessing to screw nearly anyone I want to.
Sure, that's why india produces some of the world's most respected mathematicians right?
When there are that many people, some of them are bound to be good despite the school system, aren't they?
You can treat second level elements as tables, the third level elements under them as rows, and the attributes on those as columns (including some that function as primary and foreign keys), leaving you with a structure that is more-or-less relational.
/root/Customers/Customer, get a CustomerID, and then do a loop on /root/Orders/Order[@CustomerID=$CustID].
I've been drifting this way lately, and it works quite well with XSLT. Rather than following hierarchies that are actually in the XML, I do nested for-each's. For instance, if I wanted a hierarchy in the output of customer and then orders, I would do a for-each on
Hindsight is 20/20. If Marc Andreesen said the code sucked, and needed a rewrite, then it sucked and needed a rewrite. How long would it have taken to add all the latest features to the old code base?
You know, it's possible to make incremental improvements. I heard about the Gecko rendering engine being finished about six months (maybe a year) after NetScape was open-sourced.
A better question would be this: How long would it have taken to attach Gecko to the NetScape 4.7 UI and networking code, to release NetScape 5.0?
Those of us working in CIS know that you usually don't even know the problem before you have to start, much less the solution.
Of course, I'm also a C.S. major. If I was a C.I.S. major, though, it would kind of undercut my claim of experience equivilant to a C.I.S. degree.
Remember they don't have to sell.
When it's a hostile takeover, yes, they do. Oracle is attempting to takeover Peoplesoft so that they don't have to compete with them.
for being brutal to the competitors while staying within ethical limits
Like buying out a competitor to avoid competing
with their product? I think we have different ideas about ethical limits.
"so son, notice you've been looking at a lot of sex pages..Do you think all women are like that?
All women are like what? You're pushing a virgin/whore dichotomy, here. A fair number of women (and probably more men) *are* like that, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Yes, that woman on the screen is hot, and either is a very sexual person (and an exhibitionist), or made a poor choice of job. Enjoy looking, masturbating, and whatever else you like. Do not, however, presume that she is stupid, or has poor self-esteem or no other life ambitions.
I've known them all, and honor students, giften musicians and (in Canada) Air/Army/Sea Cadets or Boy/Girl scouts get just as drunk and have just as much sex as every other teenager.
In that case, though, the sex and the drinking clearly aren't interfering with their responsibilities. More power to them.
They may not appreciate it at the time (I certainly didn't), but God willing, they may eventually come to be thankful for all those hours and all that effort.
I am thankful that my parents basically figured that by the time I was a teenager, their influence on what kind of person I would be was finished, and they mostly stuck to dealing with any specific problems.
Have you ever noticed, whenever a new chip is announced, the process size used to produce it is listed, too. x86 is always one and sometimes two generations ahead of anyone else in the manufacturing process (almost certainly due to volumes) -- the last time I was paying attention, some sort of P4s and Athlons were being made on a .13 micron process (I'm sure it's smaller now), and SPARCs were being made on a .25 micron process.
That's a major handicap for SPARC (and Alpha and everyone else), and just about makes up for the x86 Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that's almost 30 years old, and didn't even make much sense then.
When you throw in the fact that the volume involved in x86 lets Intel and AMD throw a lot more money into fine-tuning their chips, it makes sense that they'd be in the lead.
No problem.
Since your referring to a large group of people with varied backgrounds and belief systems. The most important being the one that goverment or in this case corporations, do not have the right to infringe on personal liberty, & my ability to make personal decisions.
And the sites being blocked are generally those in agreement that the government does not have the right to infringe on personal rights. That is generally a position that liberals share, but gun control is an exception to the party line
Just what the fuck are you talking about?
First, if you consider yourself liberal then I'm not talking about you, as my comment was about libertarians (personally, I'm somewhere between liberal and libertarian).
Second, where exactly was I bashing anyone?
Third, what group do you think I'm talking about?
Just so long as we don't see "Dr. Atkins Balance Improving Diet" published posthumously.
Other "nannyware" software in the past has been shown to block access to liberal political sites, now here's one that blocks conservative ones.
Notice that in both cases, the sites being blocked are generally sites that Libertarians would agree with.
How would they present clear and convincing evidence that there is no prior art? They might just not know about it.
The database is generally the most expensive resource in an application, and is the most difficult to distribute.
Yes, but...
1. It may very well be less work for the database to do the necessary work than to return enough information for the client to do the work.
2. Putting the logic in the database allows you to use various clients without repeating logic *and* without getting into some baroque N-tier architecture (I guess DB/web server/browser is 3 tier, but you know what I mean.) complete with a ton of middleware.
No, it isn't. In a Turing test, someone tries to determine if a computer or a person is on the other end. When you automate it, a computer is trying to determine if a computer or person is on the other end. The goal is the same.
That's called an automated Turing Test.