If a man should get 12 years to life for making meth, because of the social damage of meth, then, should not Ken Lay get death?
What about any CEO that causes a loss of jobs and all of that social dislocation through incompetence or fraud? Sounds like a swinging offense to me.
Oh, jeez, Republicans are so good at talking about accountability but yet they don't want business leaders to go jail for anything, or be sued for anything. It's wrong to get rich selling dope in the Republican world, but, it's ok to get rich stealing old people's pensions.
Oh, and while we are at it, there was an Activision drawing program for the Atari 800 that let you load and save images... if it nested them would that not be prior art?
Would VB1 itself be prior art? The form itself could be thought of as a browser.
Sans plug ins, the whole standards based model of everything as proposed by the W3C is to have a massive browser that can essentially render everything.
This sucks.
The one hopeful thing about the internet is that operating sytems will now have to launch different browsers based on mime types. Is that such a huge drawback?
One of the telltale signs of a SQL Server installation is the frequent "deadlock" messages. I would say that if you are going to complain about transaction handling in MySQL, even the standard version that doesn't have it, you should probably complain about the transaction handling in SQL Server. If it deadlocks, and does not deadlock avoid, then it ain't an enterprise solution.
INSERT INTO TABLE XYZ DELETE FROM TABLE QRT ROLLBACK
and keep the state of XYZ and QRT consistent with respect to other tables?
I think I could make the argument that if you are running a database that never crashes on top of an operating system that never fails, you can be innately ACID if you do your middle tier correctly... but THAT is for another time.
I include any of the individual efforts.
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Beatles Bite Apple
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You had a bit of a late 80's surge by George Harrison, but since then, nothing great by any of the fab four. And, Lennon's last album was wrecked by that meddling bimbo of his!
Aren't all the Beatles dead yet?
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I mean, cut me a break. It's been more than 10 years since any of the fab four made an arguably great album.
I like their stuff, but then again, I'm older, and it's easy to see that in a decade or so that band will be completely forgotten.
a highly modified version of the Gloucester Meteor...
The only thing these two animals will have in common is the lifting body shape, which all comes from NASA's lifting body research of the 1950s anyway. And even that would change.
It has come to our attention that D McBride is using this SCO product to build file sharing technolgy at a mega level. He has secretly assembled a complete catalog of some 472,000 songs that he will offer via his web site.
Dear SCO,
It has come to our attention that Capitol Records is using 4500 copies of Linux to run their offices with.
Ought to deal with Scientologists the same way. If their work is so secret that they cannot have it published, then perhaps they are consorting with Baphomet too!
Tale of Two Cities made me want shoot all the French people! It's his fault that I voted for Bush!
Absolutely must fund JIMO
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Goodbye, Galileo
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JIMO, or Jupiter Icy Moons Orbitor, is the planned successor to Galileo. It will carry with it a nuclear electric propulsion plant. With this much power on board, the spacecraft will not only be able to get to Jupiter much more quickly, it will be able to bounce powerful radar waves off of Europa and measure the thickness of Europa's icy crust.
Nuclear power in space is important, and will allow us to get to other planets quickly.
While we are all in a foment over SCO lying about its extent of owning everything, should we even really be surprised?
Can you name one corporation that actually seems like it ALWAYS tells the truth? By truth I mean, through its communications never seeks to misrepresent the reality of a situation.
Make big cheap rockets. Heck, even Jet engines are not that reusable.
Ah you missed the point innovation invention
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The Innovators' Ball
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The point of the article was that innovation was a corporate metaphor for playing politics, cheating and stealing, and invention was just invention. He said that Microsoft was an innovator, not an inventor.
The real problem with the grid is that the midwest and the south have not modernized their --people- systems. The PJM grid and to some extent NEPOOL have been moving to a more RTO model that allows for a good balance between a clear market and the command and control necessary to avert disasters.
First Energy made the wrong decisions during the blackout. Let us recall the sequence of events.
a) High voltage lines from Canton to Cleveland drop off line b) Cleveland begins pulling power from the rest of the grid c) Normally outbound power from the midwest begins to "flow" back to the midwest. d) This causes power plants in Michigan to trip off line... by this time the regional disaster was largely guaranteed.
The correct move for First Energy would have been to disconnect Cleveland from the grid off line, immediately.
Even better, had First Energy had a decent vegetation removal program, the transmission line would not failed in the first place.
So basically, had First Energy kept the lines clean and been willing to bounce Cleveland from the grid, their would have been no wider blackout.
But they didn't. They are a utility, not a regional grid operator.
Had this happened to say some power lines from some place to Philadelphia, PJM would have yanked Philly from the grid, told the utility to fix the lines, and there would be no wider blackout.
And, by the way, PJM has a more transparent networking market. Just look at the whose got the better web site, PJM or Midwest ISO?
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If a man should get 12 years to life for making meth, because of the social damage of meth, then, should not Ken Lay get death?
What about any CEO that causes a loss of jobs and all of that social dislocation through incompetence or fraud? Sounds like a swinging offense to me.
Oh, jeez, Republicans are so good at talking about accountability but yet they don't want business leaders to go jail for anything, or be sued for anything. It's wrong to get rich selling dope in the Republican world, but, it's ok to get rich stealing old people's pensions.
Republicans should all be shot.
an Active X control plugged into Word?
When was Magellan, the mid 1980s?
Oh, and while we are at it, there was an Activision drawing program for the Atari 800 that let you load and save images... if it nested them would that not be prior art?
Would VB1 itself be prior art? The form itself could be thought of as a browser.
Sans plug ins, the whole standards based model of everything as proposed by the W3C is to have a massive browser that can essentially render everything.
This sucks.
The one hopeful thing about the internet is that operating sytems will now have to launch different browsers based on mime types. Is that such a huge drawback?
One of the telltale signs of a SQL Server installation is the frequent "deadlock" messages. I would say that if you are going to complain about transaction handling in MySQL, even the standard version that doesn't have it, you should probably complain about the transaction handling in SQL Server. If it deadlocks, and does not deadlock avoid, then it ain't an enterprise solution.
Can MySQL as of yet do this:
INSERT INTO TABLE XYZ
DELETE FROM TABLE QRT
ROLLBACK
and keep the state of XYZ and QRT consistent with respect to other tables?
I think I could make the argument that if you are running a database that never crashes on top of an operating system that never fails, you can be innately ACID if you do your middle tier correctly... but THAT is for another time.
You had a bit of a late 80's surge by George Harrison, but since then, nothing great by any of the fab four. And, Lennon's last album was wrecked by that meddling bimbo of his!
I mean, cut me a break. It's been more than 10 years since any of the fab four made an arguably great album.
I like their stuff, but then again, I'm older, and it's easy to see that in a decade or so that band will be completely forgotten.
Certainly didn't help MS to be number 2 to Lotus, Novell, Apple.... etc...
Did you lose your job to India?
We're Pakistanis and we have something in common! You think your upset about India taking our job! They took part of our country!
Help us improve our weapon's systems, and, when reduce India to ashes for stealing Kashmir from us, you'll benefit with better wages!
That is by far Raymond's best work as a writer. It's way better than the Cathedral and the Bazaar.
a highly modified version of the Gloucester Meteor...
The only thing these two animals will have in common is the lifting body shape, which all comes from NASA's lifting body research of the 1950s anyway. And even that would change.
Dear RIAA,
It has come to our attention that D McBride is using this SCO product to build file sharing technolgy at a mega level. He has secretly assembled a complete catalog of some 472,000 songs that he will offer via his web site.
Dear SCO,
It has come to our attention that Capitol Records is using 4500 copies of Linux to run their offices with.
Ought to deal with Scientologists the same way. If their work is so secret that they cannot have it published, then perhaps they are consorting with Baphomet too!
Where a bunch of kids would assasinate their bosses in an effort to make the Stork their King.
Could I blame that on Mattel's B-17 Bomber?
Or Microprose 50 Mission Crush?
zombie like -- must restore B-17 and Bomb Berlin.
It makes me want to shoot the king and overthrow the government...
"When in the course of human events it becomes necessary...
Play that sweet home alabama and start blasting away!
Tale of Two Cities made me want shoot all the French people! It's his fault that I voted for Bush!
JIMO, or Jupiter Icy Moons Orbitor, is the planned successor to Galileo. It will carry with it a nuclear electric propulsion plant. With this much power on board, the spacecraft will not only be able to get to Jupiter much more quickly, it will be able to bounce powerful radar waves off of Europa and measure the thickness of Europa's icy crust.
Nuclear power in space is important, and will allow us to get to other planets quickly.
Let's see, the Rich and Famous are always in favor of having power until someone has more power than them, then they start to lie.
No surprises here. Damn I'm in a cynical mood. Mostly because I quit smoking and the utility I work at is letting go lots of people.
While we are all in a foment over SCO lying about its extent of owning everything, should we even really be surprised?
Can you name one corporation that actually seems like it ALWAYS tells the truth? By truth I mean, through its communications never seeks to misrepresent the reality of a situation.
There are not any out there.
An American industry tries to legislate in advantages for itself using a supposed social good as an excuse, and this is news?
What industry doesn't try to go that. Go ahead all you fans of honest industry, find a company that DOESN'T lobby the Congress.
They are all liars and they lie so often it should not even be news!
Make big cheap rockets. Heck, even Jet engines are not that reusable.
The point of the article was that innovation was a corporate metaphor for playing politics, cheating and stealing, and invention was just invention. He said that Microsoft was an innovator, not an inventor.
The real problem with the grid is that the midwest and the south have not modernized their --people- systems. The PJM grid and to some extent NEPOOL have been moving to a more RTO model that allows for a good balance between a clear market and the command and control necessary to avert disasters.
First Energy made the wrong decisions during the blackout. Let us recall the sequence of events.
a) High voltage lines from Canton to Cleveland drop off line
b) Cleveland begins pulling power from the rest of the grid
c) Normally outbound power from the midwest begins to "flow" back to the midwest.
d) This causes power plants in Michigan to trip off line... by this time the regional disaster was largely guaranteed.
The correct move for First Energy would have been to disconnect Cleveland from the grid off line, immediately.
Even better, had First Energy had a decent vegetation removal program, the transmission line would not failed in the first place.
So basically, had First Energy kept the lines clean and been willing to bounce Cleveland from the grid, their would have been no wider blackout.
But they didn't. They are a utility, not a regional grid operator.
Had this happened to say some power lines from some place to Philadelphia, PJM would have yanked Philly from the grid, told the utility to fix the lines, and there would be no wider blackout.
And, by the way, PJM has a more transparent networking market. Just look at the whose got the better web site, PJM or Midwest ISO?