The code base for Microsoft SQL Server originated in Sybase SQL Server, and was Microsoft's entry to the enterprise-level database market, competing against Oracle, IBM, and Sybase. Microsoft, Sybase and Ashton-Tate teamed up to create and market the first version named SQL Server 4.2 for OS/2 (about 1989) which was essentially the same as Sybase SQL Server 4.0 on Unix, VMS, etc. Microsoft SQL Server for NT v4.2 was shipped around 1992 (available bundled with Microsoft OS/2 version 1.3) and was a simple port from OS/2 to NT. Microsoft SQL Server v6.5 was the first version of SQL Server that was architected for NT and did not include any direction from Sybase.
About the time Windows NT was coming out, Sybase and Microsoft parted ways and pursued their own design and marketing schemes. Microsoft negotiated exclusive rights to all versions of SQL Server written for Microsoft operating systems. Later, Sybase changed the name of its product to Adaptive Server Enterprise to avoid confusion with Microsoft SQL Server. Until 1994 Microsoft's SQL Server carried three Sybase copyright notices as an indication of its origin.
But yeah, I've found that MS SQL Server performs acceptibly for the small-scale deployments I've worked on. Not sure I'd want to find out what happens in a full-scale transaction-intensive environment, though.
>I think a device would be needed here [for] raw material capture and containment
What, no kleenex on board?
Yeah, I can picture it now. NASA spends millions studying the problem and comes up with a 'device' to ensure the containment of seminal emissions and develops the thing at a cost of millions more.
The russians just jack off into kleenex like everyone else.
yeah, you have to take MythBusters for what it is: television entertainment
although:
>They change things from time to time that they say isn't going to have an effect, such as the drag of a car with windows open at a slower speed, which obvious will have a profound effect.
In the case of the AC vs windows open, they did come back to that one just last night. They admitted that their tests were flawed because the point at which drag increases to the point where it impacts fuel efficiency more than AC is right between 45 and 55 mph, just beyond the speed at which they tested.
Yes, they revisit myths and try to correct valid issues that are brought up. Most prominent was the frozen bird strikes myth. They went through 4 or 5 different tests until they were satisfied that they were measuring the right thing (across three episodes and two seasons), which turned out to be penetrating force.
Overall, I find the show highly entertaining and I recognize that they have limited time and budget to do their tests and some of their assumptions and methods are flawed. The thing I find most intersting is that they read their email from fans and take it seriously enough to devote entire episodes to going back and trying to fix problems with their previous tests.
Yeah, except for the guy that went back to the rental place to try to get his $400 deposit back after the truck was used to try to blow up the world trade center.
Mohammed Salameh, who had rented the truck and reported it stolen, kept calling the rental office to get back his $400 deposit. The FBI arrested him there on March 4, 1993.
I'd love to have heard that conversation.
<thick-middleeastern-accent> Yes, I rented your truck last week, I want the security deposit back. Where is the truck? Yes, well... funny thing is it was stolen. Well, I stopped to buy some donuts and when I came out it was gone. Where did this happen? Lower Manhattan. No, I didn't file a police report. Yes, I understand that, but... No, I can't file a report -- it was your truck, maybe _you_ should file this report. Look, I just want my money... Yes, I'll be there tomorrow morning! </thick-middleeastern-accent>
yah, wasn't there a story on/. a while back about an online casino site being targeted and extorted and how he fought back instead of paying. Really pissed off the attacker, he was used to just getting paid and not having to expend that much effort beyond a demonstration.
>The thing to note is no never talk to the cops. Ever. Let your lawyer say what needs to be said.
Boy, if there's one thing I've learned from watching Law and Order, you _never_ volunteer anything to the cops, even if you didn't do anything. Being cooperative and answering their questions without a lawyer present only benefits the police and works against you.
You never see "Ok, thank you for coming down and clearing this up. Have a nice day".
I learned this long time ago on a traffic stop. It was snowy and I had spun out trying to avoid someone who slid into my lane.
"How fast were you going?"
"I don't know. It was really coming down and I was going pretty slow. He was changing lanes and lost traction and started sliding towards me. I stepped on the brakes, and before I could do anything I started to slide too and spun out into the ditch here."
<pointless nitpick>Only, the Relativistic time dilation happens when approaching the speed of light, right? </pointless nitpick>
Zonk is actually accelerating towards the speed of light. Calculation of his velocity as he approaches the speed of light based on the number of duplicate slashdot stories posted is left as an exercise to the reader.
Well, I think this reveals a lot on the whole slashdot dupe thingy.
In his mind, it was the other day or some other fuzzy timeframe. That's how far removed from a few hours ago it is. Can you imagine how long ago a few days or even a week or more must seem if time is this badly distorted?
Disclaimer: I tried blocking stories posted by Zonk -- it was an intesting experience for a couple of days. Guess I never realized that most of the stories posted during the workday were by Zonk, therefore the front page looked like it hadn't had anything added all day. At the same time, my firefox rss bookmark thingy obviously doesn't know about my preference settings, and all the stories were showing up there.
"The charges handed down today by the U.S. attorney prove that forensic markings on screeners and early copies of movies are doing their job in locating movie pirates," said Dan Glickman, chief executive officer of the Motion Picture Association of America.
MPAA got the Feds moving on this, oh yes.
Federal prosecutors said Albert Valente, 28, of Lakewood, took a copy of the movie from a post-production facility where he worked and gave it to a friend, Jessie Lumada, 28, of Long Beach.
See, Federal prosecutors!! No, Lucas didn't hire a PI to take pictures and then file suit in civil court on his own dime. This is a fucking federal case!
A person is 'entrapped' when he is induced or persuaded by law enforcement officers or their agents to commit a crime that he had no previous intent to commit; and the law as a matter of policy forbids conviction in such a case.
Basically, providing an opportunity to break the law and then busting you is not entrapment (ie cop posing as drug buyer).
Approaching John DeLorean and talking him into trafficing cocaine in order to bail out his failing business is the best example of entrapment I can think of offhand.
Slashdot Mirror
wow, yeah, and only 5 minutes apart :-)
moderators: please observe the timestamp before dinging me for being redundant.
could have something to do with the fact that MS licensed and incorportated portions of Sybase into it's product?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SQL_Server
The code base for Microsoft SQL Server originated in Sybase SQL Server, and was Microsoft's entry to the enterprise-level database market, competing against Oracle, IBM, and Sybase. Microsoft, Sybase and Ashton-Tate teamed up to create and market the first version named SQL Server 4.2 for OS/2 (about 1989) which was essentially the same as Sybase SQL Server 4.0 on Unix, VMS, etc. Microsoft SQL Server for NT v4.2 was shipped around 1992 (available bundled with Microsoft OS/2 version 1.3) and was a simple port from OS/2 to NT. Microsoft SQL Server v6.5 was the first version of SQL Server that was architected for NT and did not include any direction from Sybase.
About the time Windows NT was coming out, Sybase and Microsoft parted ways and pursued their own design and marketing schemes. Microsoft negotiated exclusive rights to all versions of SQL Server written for Microsoft operating systems. Later, Sybase changed the name of its product to Adaptive Server Enterprise to avoid confusion with Microsoft SQL Server. Until 1994 Microsoft's SQL Server carried three Sybase copyright notices as an indication of its origin.
But yeah, I've found that MS SQL Server performs acceptibly for the small-scale deployments I've worked on. Not sure I'd want to find out what happens in a full-scale transaction-intensive environment, though.
>I think a device would be needed here [for] raw material capture and containment
What, no kleenex on board?
Yeah, I can picture it now. NASA spends millions studying the problem and comes up with a 'device' to ensure the containment of seminal emissions and develops the thing at a cost of millions more.
The russians just jack off into kleenex like everyone else.
>Its futile, and it just draws attention to the repression.
Help, help! I'm being repressed!
Come see the violence inherent in the system!
*Bloody peasant*
Hey, could be the start of a new baby-boom, just like the end of WWII when all the sailors and soldiers came home and started families.
yeah, you have to take MythBusters for what it is: television entertainment
although:
>They change things from time to time that they say isn't going to have an effect, such as the drag of a car with windows open at a slower speed, which obvious will have a profound effect.
In the case of the AC vs windows open, they did come back to that one just last night. They admitted that their tests were flawed because the point at which drag increases to the point where it impacts fuel efficiency more than AC is right between 45 and 55 mph, just beyond the speed at which they tested.
Yes, they revisit myths and try to correct valid issues that are brought up. Most prominent was the frozen bird strikes myth. They went through 4 or 5 different tests until they were satisfied that they were measuring the right thing (across three episodes and two seasons), which turned out to be penetrating force.
Overall, I find the show highly entertaining and I recognize that they have limited time and budget to do their tests and some of their assumptions and methods are flawed. The thing I find most intersting is that they read their email from fans and take it seriously enough to devote entire episodes to going back and trying to fix problems with their previous tests.
Plus, Kari is my perfect ideal of a geek girl.
Echelon?
Yeah, except for the guy that went back to the rental place to try to get his $400 deposit back after the truck was used to try to blow up the world trade center.
3 .htm
http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch
Mohammed Salameh, who had rented the truck and reported it stolen, kept calling the rental office to get back his $400 deposit. The FBI arrested him there on March 4, 1993.
I'd love to have heard that conversation.
<thick-middleeastern-accent>
Yes, I rented your truck last week, I want the security deposit back. Where is the truck? Yes, well... funny thing is it was stolen. Well, I stopped to buy some donuts and when I came out it was gone. Where did this happen? Lower Manhattan. No, I didn't file a police report. Yes, I understand that, but... No, I can't file a report -- it was your truck, maybe _you_ should file this report. Look, I just want my money... Yes, I'll be there tomorrow morning!
</thick-middleeastern-accent>
Thanks!
yah, wasn't there a story on /. a while back about an online casino site being targeted and extorted and how he fought back instead of paying. Really pissed off the attacker, he was used to just getting paid and not having to expend that much effort beyond a demonstration.
uh, yeah -- you can probably pick up one up real cheap now
>The thing to note is no never talk to the cops. Ever. Let your lawyer say what needs to be said.
Boy, if there's one thing I've learned from watching Law and Order, you _never_ volunteer anything to the cops, even if you didn't do anything. Being cooperative and answering their questions without a lawyer present only benefits the police and works against you.
You never see "Ok, thank you for coming down and clearing this up. Have a nice day".
I learned this long time ago on a traffic stop. It was snowy and I had spun out trying to avoid someone who slid into my lane.
"How fast were you going?"
"I don't know. It was really coming down and I was going pretty slow. He was changing lanes and lost traction and started sliding towards me. I stepped on the brakes, and before I could do anything I started to slide too and spun out into the ditch here."
"How fast?"
"I really don't know... thirty, thirty-five?"
*scribble-rip*
"here you go"
"what's this?"
"citation -- travelling too fast for conditions"
Immediately thought that too, at first.
... go ahead and ... sort-of ... disagree with you there, Ted. I'm just not sure about that right now.
Yeah, ummm... I'm going to have to
Think it was a TPS (Test Procedure Specification) report, though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPS_report
So, Bill, how much time, would you say, you spend dealing with these TPS reports?
>peace on Friday.
Bono?
>inventor creating an infinite food supply, won't the population grow
;-)
not if the infinite food supply makes you sterile
Children of Israel, I give you these fifteen... *crash*
</melbrooks>
Yeah, anytime you get people involved, the information becomes suspect.
That's why it's best to just talk to him directly.
Funny, I was thinking the same thing.
<pointless nitpick>Only, the Relativistic time dilation happens when approaching the speed of light, right?
</pointless nitpick>
Zonk is actually accelerating towards the speed of light. Calculation of his velocity as he approaches the speed of light based on the number of duplicate slashdot stories posted is left as an exercise to the reader.
Well, I think this reveals a lot on the whole slashdot dupe thingy.
In his mind, it was the other day or some other fuzzy timeframe. That's how far removed from a few hours ago it is. Can you imagine how long ago a few days or even a week or more must seem if time is this badly distorted?
Disclaimer: I tried blocking stories posted by Zonk -- it was an intesting experience for a couple of days. Guess I never realized that most of the stories posted during the workday were by Zonk, therefore the front page looked like it hadn't had anything added all day. At the same time, my firefox rss bookmark thingy obviously doesn't know about my preference settings, and all the stories were showing up there.
Eww, noooo! My eyes!
>only two groups
;-)
>I use Linux on my desktop and I have a PowerBook
Ok, there is a third, fourth and maybe fifth group. They are just really, really small.
> it's probably a civil lawsuit
When the U.S. attorney is involved? Doubt it.
"The charges handed down today by the U.S. attorney prove that forensic markings on screeners and early copies of movies are doing their job in locating movie pirates," said Dan Glickman, chief executive officer of the Motion Picture Association of America.
MPAA got the Feds moving on this, oh yes.
Federal prosecutors said Albert Valente, 28, of Lakewood, took a copy of the movie from a post-production facility where he worked and gave it to a friend, Jessie Lumada, 28, of Long Beach.
See, Federal prosecutors!! No, Lucas didn't hire a PI to take pictures and then file suit in civil court on his own dime. This is a fucking federal case!
http://www.lectlaw.com/def/e024.htm
A person is 'entrapped' when he is induced or persuaded by law enforcement officers or their agents to commit a crime that he had no previous intent to commit; and the law as a matter of policy forbids conviction in such a case.
Basically, providing an opportunity to break the law and then busting you is not entrapment (ie cop posing as drug buyer).
Approaching John DeLorean and talking him into trafficing cocaine in order to bail out his failing business is the best example of entrapment I can think of offhand.
"Hi, I can't get to a website, it appears to be blocked"
"Ok, what is it?"
"Slyck.com"
"What is that?"
"File sharing news and info -- there was an article linked from slashdot I couldn't get to"
"Um, ok -- I'll get right on that then." *click*
doh! guess I should have checked to make sure this still works before posting -- it doesn't
deuglify slashdot:
: \/\/.*\.slashdot\.org\/[a-z]+\/([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+)\ /([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+).shtml.*/gi;newurl=url.replace( regExp2, 'http://hireadesigner.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid= $1/$2/$3/$4');if(url!=newurl) {top.location.href=newurl;} else {regExp=/http:\/\/.*\.slashdot\./gi;newurl=url.rep lace(regExp,'http://hireadesigner.slashdot.');if(u rl!=newurl) {top.location.href=newurl;}}
javascript:url=window.location.href;regExp2=/http
(forgot where I got this so apologies for posting someone else's code)