I've been an oracle dev/dba for coming up for 20 years and I find what "locks" people into oracle is the features in the db. I've used most of the popular dbs and oracle still out-features them all. Less code for me to write and that's a good thing. It's horses for courses and for some jobs oracle is the way to go. I may no comment about Oracle's non-db products as a lot of them are rubbish.
I daresay this will be another US-only release. I just wish everything was global, but it's still so dreadfully segmented. Of course it'll be available by other means on the days it is released.
I've got a couple of labels that start with an asterisk (*), so they sort to the top of a labels list, but although I have messages with these labels, the messages don't get retrieved. Has anyone else seen this?
What if google offered a watermarking app that allowed you to easily watermark an image that flagged it for do not index ? It would need to resist removal.
Could skype make a version that is only available in the US and is tappable ? There's no reason when I call here from Australia to some other Non-US country that the us feds should be listening to me. For years we've had NONUS sections in debian etc... This shouldn't be any different ?
Compared to any offerings we have for this country, (Yes, I'm talking to you Whereis) Google Maps is sorely needed. Can anyone recommend an Aussie site that's better than whereis ?
Call me a Star Trek nerd, but how many sports would an android of Commander Data's ability be awesome at ? I can't think of too many individual sports he could be beaten at... (maybe swimming ??) and he'd be invaluable at the team level. Plus he'd be too altruistic to accept money and he'd just play for your team for free.
Here in Gold Coast AU, this comet is entirely unimpressive in my 120mm refractor. Kind of like a diffuse ball of light with a slightly brighter center. Believe me if you miss this "naked eye" comet, don't lose any sleep !
I wonder if they search for asteroids that could possibly hit the moon ? If "the big one" hits the moon and causes it to break up, it will suck for us down here anyway.
If you lived in Australia, then Christmas Songs are not strange at all on hot summer days. Christmas day is typically one of the hottest days of the year here.
And add to this, anyone from outside the US who gets to watch stuff 6-12 months later. IIRC, the Friends finale hasn't actually aired here in.au yet. With bittorrent and a rss scraper, I get all the tv I need, ad-free and when I want to watch it.
I'm an Australian and for the most part we simply can't afford to speed. The speed cameras are very prevalant, and I could easily drive 60km on the highway, driving at 120 kph and lose my licence because of them. And in some states they actually double the fines and loss of points on your licence during certain holiday periods. So on the wrong day of the week driving 30 kph over the limit could cost you 8 points (we have 12 points on our licence) and $600 ! Speed limits are just very well enforced here !
OK.. This isn't really serious and didn't cost me $$$ but freaked me at the time. I had just taken ownership of a new Dell laptop when I managed to spill a small portion of coke on the keyboard. Not knowing how easy it was to remove the keys and wanting to get the coke out ASAP, I scanned the room looking for something to use. I spotted a VACUUM CLEANER. So I put the vacuum cleaner on maximum suck and aimed it at the coke affected area. It sucked the coke out and then, much to my horror, it sucked the capslock key right off ! After the immediate shock, I turned off the vacuum cleaner and managed to find the bits inside the bag - undamaged - and put it back together. Moral of the story: Vacuum cleaners and laptop keyboard DO NOT mix !
I actually did take him to the vet, crazy I know paying $30 for the vet to look at a $15 bird, but hey.. The vet said there was nothing wrong, barring a small bump on one of his bones. The bird is dead now, so maybe it did kill him slowly.
I had a budgie once that cleverly flew into a ceiling fan and was flung across the room and slammed into a wall. After recovering from the shock he was no worse for wear and lived on for a few more years.
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I've been an oracle dev/dba for coming up for 20 years and I find what "locks" people into oracle is the features in the db. I've used most of the popular dbs and oracle still out-features them all. Less code for me to write and that's a good thing. It's horses for courses and for some jobs oracle is the way to go. I may no comment about Oracle's non-db products as a lot of them are rubbish.
I daresay this will be another US-only release. I just wish everything was global, but it's still so dreadfully segmented. Of course it'll be available by other means on the days it is released.
I've got a couple of labels that start with an asterisk (*), so they sort to the top of a labels list, but although I have messages with these labels, the messages don't get retrieved. Has anyone else seen this?
What if google offered a watermarking app that allowed you to easily watermark an image that flagged it for do not index ? It would need to resist removal.
Could skype make a version that is only available in the US and is tappable ? There's no reason when I call here from Australia to some other Non-US country that the us feds should be listening to me. For years we've had NONUS sections in debian etc... This shouldn't be any different ?
Compared to any offerings we have for this country, (Yes, I'm talking to you Whereis) Google Maps is sorely needed. Can anyone recommend an Aussie site that's better than whereis ?
Call me a Star Trek nerd, but how many sports would an android of Commander Data's ability be awesome at ? I can't think of too many individual sports he could be beaten at... (maybe swimming ??) and he'd be invaluable at the team level. Plus he'd be too altruistic to accept money and he'd just play for your team for free.
The client actually has a "torture test" option for this very reason. You can test against known results and don't actually contribute to the project.
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Here in Gold Coast AU, this comet is entirely unimpressive in my 120mm refractor. Kind of like a diffuse ball of light with a slightly brighter center. Believe me if you miss this "naked eye" comet, don't lose any sleep !
Looks like the odds have changed again. Down to 1 in 56,000 - It's even a zero on the torino scale now. Check it out here.
I wonder if they search for asteroids that could possibly hit the moon ? If "the big one" hits the moon and causes it to break up, it will suck for us down here anyway.
If you lived in Australia, then Christmas Songs are not strange at all on hot summer days. Christmas day is typically one of the hottest days of the year here.
And add to this, anyone from outside the US who gets to watch stuff 6-12 months later. IIRC, the Friends finale hasn't actually aired here in .au yet. With bittorrent and a rss scraper, I get all the tv I need, ad-free and when I want to watch it.
I'm an Australian and for the most part we simply can't afford to speed. The speed cameras are very prevalant, and I could easily drive 60km on the highway, driving at 120 kph and lose my licence because of them. And in some states they actually double the fines and loss of points on your licence during certain holiday periods. So on the wrong day of the week driving 30 kph over the limit could cost you 8 points (we have 12 points on our licence) and $600 ! Speed limits are just very well enforced here !
Let me just say it for the whole country.
If the dentists supplied headphones for their patients could that be legal ?
OK.. This isn't really serious and didn't cost me $$$ but freaked me at the time. I had just taken ownership of a new Dell laptop when I managed to spill a small portion of coke on the keyboard. Not knowing how easy it was to remove the keys and wanting to get the coke out ASAP, I scanned the room looking for something to use. I spotted a VACUUM CLEANER. So I put the vacuum cleaner on maximum suck and aimed it at the coke affected area. It sucked the coke out and then, much to my horror, it sucked the capslock key right off ! After the immediate shock, I turned off the vacuum cleaner and managed to find the bits inside the bag - undamaged - and put it back together. Moral of the story: Vacuum cleaners and laptop keyboard DO NOT mix !
Well then just tell me quickly, without using any external aid, how many feet are there in 82 123 miles? ;)
Surely we'll be able to see the Big Bang Burger Bar soon.
I always thought it was pronounced slow-lar-is.
Being the US's lapdog pays off once again for us Aussies ! I can't wait for Aussie companies to go wild with the .au DMCA.
I actually did take him to the vet, crazy I know paying $30 for the vet to look at a $15 bird, but hey.. The vet said there was nothing wrong, barring a small bump on one of his bones. The bird is dead now, so maybe it did kill him slowly.
I had a budgie once that cleverly flew into a ceiling fan and was flung across the room and slammed into a wall. After recovering from the shock he was no worse for wear and lived on for a few more years.
Unfortunately, no one can be told what Mac OS X is, you have to see it for yourself.