Never give anyone PP. Give them PDF. Not perfect, but a good first-level protection against change.
-- "I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases or oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed inter-state commerce." -- J Edgar Hoover
From which it should be clear that it is a book of poems they are looking for, not prose.
-- A Copy of Verses kept in the Cabinet, and only shewn to a few Friends, is like a Virgin much sought after and admired;
but when printed and published, is like a common Whore, whom any body may purchase for half a Crown (Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects)
99% of the small web sites which are built around MySQL don't need it.
I don't know about 99%, but there are certainly plenty of sites built by developers whose only knowledge of data storage is "database", and who therefore use one for everything, regardless.
They're not warranties. They don't warrant anything at all. They're just insurance. Once you get that clear, it's a straight choice on the basis of cost vs benefit. A real warranty penalises the manufacturer for shoddy goods or inadequate service by making them make good the deficit. That is not the case here.
I think the problem here is the razor-thin window edges.
The trouble is that the implementations of X seem to conflate the visible border of the window (possibly 1px wide) with the grabbable area that ought to cause the cursor to change to the "i can move this" double-arrow. That needs to be several pixels thick for most people to grab it. The designers of Unity and other windowing systems appear to place more emphasis on "looking pretty" than on "working well".
Collectively speaking, we Americans have had the luxury of eating premier proteins (beef, chicken, pork) for so long that we've become spoiled and will have a hard time getting over the 'yuck factor' involved here.
It's not just the yuck factor, it's that snails taste like shit.
Not to mention pesticides people put down to control them. This is a problem with a lot of wild foods. A plant that is perfectly safe when harvested from a remote mountainside is something you'd want to give a pass if it came from the side of a highway.
Particularly if it came from the side of a highway. During the era of leaded gasoline, lead was deposited in roadside terrain and herbiage, and it's still there, and not going away any time soon.
...common sense went out the window with this generation of uber-morons.
No, common-sense went out the window with this (and the previous) generation of judges. You know, the ones who award millions in damages for trivial foolishness that the subject was too stupid to avoid, and deny proper damages in cases of genuine suffering because some company paid them to look the other way.
Small business may not have all the smarts that big businesses can buy, but they're way too canny to splurge on advertising in an unproven medium which could sink without trace tomorrow. Businesses like 4[] who want their cash are going to have to offer a MUCH better deal to attract them.
It was first announced for Mosaic 2.5b2 and Netscape B09 in October 1994 (thread "HTML").
I criticised it for putting cuteness above all else, and Marc Andreesen justified it by claiming "professional" content providers wanted it, which I disputed, and then it got messy.
TeX works fine until you try to use it with more than just text. The second you try to add any images or floats it becomes retarded it does stupid things like put images in wrong chapters, makes large areas of blank space, renders text overlapping with images, etc...
Only if you do things like trying to put a figure into a space too small for it (hey! guess what? it won't fit). Even then all it does is move it to the next page. LaTeX will never put a figure into the wrong chapter. Yes, the float settings for the default document classes suck, but I don't know anyone who uses them, and they're the work of 30 seconds to fix.
Seriously? XML? You really have to be joking. It's an authoring disaster. Just horrible to work with, it gets in your way, and soaks your mind away from what you should be thinking about -- content.
Like several earlier posters, you are seriously confusing XML with the editor (interface) you use to write it. No-one in their right mind writes XML with Notepad: if your interest is the content, as it should be, use a proper XML editor, with a near-WYSIWYG interface: there are a dozen or more to choose from.
The publishing landscape has changed. There are now many more types of document (help files, web pages, books, articles, owner's manuals, laws, contracts) that people want to write, and the TeX family is inconvenient for many of them.
No, it's the editors which are inconvenient. If they properly hid the markup and behaved more like (ahem) Word (there! I said it!) you'd have no further problem. LyX is clever, but WYSIWYG it ain't. I'm just finishing my thesis on editors for structured documents; mail me for details.
The drawback of DocBook and XML in general is that installation is a nightmare. So far, there's no "one package install" that gets the author up and running.
Indeed. Every system has its own idea of what is "right". I know what I use, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone except another Emacs user:-)
For example, see how long it takes you to install DocBook 5.x on a windows system.
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Worse is the suits picking up your Pooperpoint...
Never give anyone PP. Give them PDF. Not perfect, but a good first-level protection against change.
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"I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases or oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed inter-state commerce." -- J Edgar Hoover
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A Copy of Verses kept in the Cabinet, and only shewn to a few Friends, is like a Virgin much sought after and admired; but when printed and published, is like a common Whore, whom any body may purchase for half a Crown (Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects)
Does PostgreSQL have a command-line option similar to MySQL's -X which returns the data to stdout in XML format?
99% of the small web sites which are built around MySQL don't need it.
I don't know about 99%, but there are certainly plenty of sites built by developers whose only knowledge of data storage is "database", and who therefore use one for everything, regardless.
They're not warranties. They don't warrant anything at all. They're just insurance. Once you get that clear, it's a straight choice on the basis of cost vs benefit. A real warranty penalises the manufacturer for shoddy goods or inadequate service by making them make good the deficit. That is not the case here.
No question about it, the science in Larry Niven's Ringworld series boggles most people's minds and opens up all kinds of interesting questions.
Grow up
I think the problem here is the razor-thin window edges.
The trouble is that the implementations of X seem to conflate the visible border of the window (possibly 1px wide) with the grabbable area that ought to cause the cursor to change to the "i can move this" double-arrow. That needs to be several pixels thick for most people to grab it. The designers of Unity and other windowing systems appear to place more emphasis on "looking pretty" than on "working well".
Any two can reproduce together, they can easily overrun an area.
No shit, Sherlock. Just like humans...
It's the duck liver that's the best part.
Collectively speaking, we Americans have had the luxury of eating premier proteins (beef, chicken, pork) for so long that we've become spoiled and will have a hard time getting over the 'yuck factor' involved here.
It's not just the yuck factor, it's that snails taste like shit.
>Be my guest. Personally, I think snails are disgusting.
Overcome your food phobia. Snails taste delicious.
No, they taste disgusting.
Garlic and butter are the traditional cooking medium but I had them cooked in a bacon gravy at Morel's restaurant in Vegas and they were superb.
Wrong. The garlic butter and the bacon gravy are superb. The snails are still disgusting.
Not to mention pesticides people put down to control them. This is a problem with a lot of wild foods. A plant that is perfectly safe when harvested from a remote mountainside is something you'd want to give a pass if it came from the side of a highway.
Particularly if it came from the side of a highway. During the era of leaded gasoline, lead was deposited in roadside terrain and herbiage, and it's still there, and not going away any time soon.
It's a rhetorical device called litotes, a form of irony. Not for the first time on /...
Drive pickups and vote republican?
Nope. Prius, and Democrat. Because, if they will swallow a buckyball, they will swallow anything.
No, that's definitely Republicans. They're not allowed to suck in Florida, Texas, and some other states, let alone swallow :-)
...common sense went out the window with this generation of uber-morons.
No, common-sense went out the window with this (and the previous) generation of judges. You know, the ones who award millions in damages for trivial foolishness that the subject was too stupid to avoid, and deny proper damages in cases of genuine suffering because some company paid them to look the other way.
In fact, it's just as fucking stupid as current gun laws: any imbecile can obtain a gun and ammo and kill anyone they like.
Small business may not have all the smarts that big businesses can buy, but they're way too canny to splurge on advertising in an unproven medium which could sink without trace tomorrow. Businesses like 4[] who want their cash are going to have to offer a MUCH better deal to attract them.
It was first announced for Mosaic 2.5b2 and Netscape B09 in October 1994 (thread "HTML"). I criticised it for putting cuteness above all else, and Marc Andreesen justified it by claiming "professional" content providers wanted it, which I disputed, and then it got messy.
TeX works fine until you try to use it with more than just text. The second you try to add any images or floats it becomes retarded it does stupid things like put images in wrong chapters, makes large areas of blank space, renders text overlapping with images, etc...
Only if you do things like trying to put a figure into a space too small for it (hey! guess what? it won't fit). Even then all it does is move it to the next page. LaTeX will never put a figure into the wrong chapter. Yes, the float settings for the default document classes suck, but I don't know anyone who uses them, and they're the work of 30 seconds to fix.
Does Visio not provide PDF export of images? Sounds like a crap system to me if it doesn't.
You're 20 years out of date. Nowadays images are PDF and embed perfectly.
Seriously? XML? You really have to be joking. It's an authoring disaster. Just horrible to work with, it gets in your way, and soaks your mind away from what you should be thinking about -- content.
Like several earlier posters, you are seriously confusing XML with the editor (interface) you use to write it. No-one in their right mind writes XML with Notepad: if your interest is the content, as it should be, use a proper XML editor, with a near-WYSIWYG interface: there are a dozen or more to choose from.
The publishing landscape has changed. There are now many more types of document (help files, web pages, books, articles, owner's manuals, laws, contracts) that people want to write, and the TeX family is inconvenient for many of them.
No, it's the editors which are inconvenient. If they properly hid the markup and behaved more like (ahem) Word (there! I said it!) you'd have no further problem. LyX is clever, but WYSIWYG it ain't. I'm just finishing my thesis on editors for structured documents; mail me for details.
The drawback of DocBook and XML in general is that installation is a nightmare. So far, there's no "one package install" that gets the author up and running.
Indeed. Every system has its own idea of what is "right". I know what I use, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone except another Emacs user :-)
For example, see how long it takes you to install DocBook 5.x on a windows system.
*shudder*