I have asked this question before and never got any real answer:
What resources are currently available for someone who's interested in learning Cobol? It seems that most books are long out-of-print.
It may be an easy language to learn, but some comprehensive documentation would be nice to have. Opencobol is available with a simple "yum install" on Fedora Linux. But... what comes next?
This article, originally printed in the Regina Leader Post (in Saskatchewan, Canada) bring up the issue of the application of the Patriot Act to email sent by Sask Tel customers if the email was outsourced to a company in the USA.
Whoever moderated my initial comment "flamebait" is wrong. It's a legitimate issue that's of concern to ISPs and their customers outside of the USA.
Did you ever stop to think that there might be something fundamentally wrong with a financial system where fortunes are made and lost based on a split-millisecond of "trading time"?
After all, the actual value is entirely created by some farmer raising hogs in Iowa and someone else mining nickel in Sudbury.
I have what has become a fair-sized database program that I wrote in a version of Basic several years ago. There were good reasons for doing it that way at the time, mostly related to cross-platform requirements, available hardware and a limited set of options at the time, all of which have since become pretty much irrelevant as the years went by. However, the program keeps cranking and has grown and been expanded and added to (by me) into what now amounts to a "management suite" for the business that I wrote it for.
More and more lately, I've been thinking that while this Rube Goldberg contraption is currently working fine, it might be smart to move it onto a real database. So I'm thinking about rewriting the whole thing over the course of time, and the little that I know about Postgresql makes it seem to be just exactly the tool for the job. The whole business runs on Centos Linux now, anyway.
Accordingly, I guess I should get started learning Postgresql. I've been writing programs for 30 years but the only real database I have ever worked with before was dBase and I haven't touched that for years either. Accordingly, I would appreciate recommendations for relevant books, websites, tutorials, whatever.
of course you have to take into account the cost of the scanner, internet connectivity, consumables (tags), it IS a lot of administrative burden.
The article says that the scanning would happen at the feedlot or auction market, not on the farm premises. Nobody will have to scan cows as they get loaded on the truck, and the feedlot/sales lot has to keep track of the cows anyway. So the only additional cost is the tags, and farmers already buy ear tags for their cattle and put them on each calf. So the additional cost (and labour) involved compared to what's happening today anyway is pretty close to zero.
I've had several Letters to the Editor published with my name. I've never had the editor contact me to verify my identity.
That must be peculiar to certain papers. Any letter-to-the-editor that I've ever written gets me a phone call from the paper to verify that I'm the one who sent it.
It looks like it was filmed digitally and then they put the film "look" back in.
That's exactly what they did.
They used a "super imposition chroma key" technique to replicate the look of the original comic book. So it looks a bit odd -- that's the way it's supposed to look.
70mm? Are you sure it's not 35mm film? To the best of my knowledge, there are only a very few movies on 70mm film because there aren't too many theatres with a 70mm projector.
In Canada, many spots in doctors' waiting rooms and hospital emergency rooms are taken up by people who are not actually sick. They are lonely and they know that someone will (eventually) pay attention to them if they go to the doctor.
For a long time now, I have advocated the $20 medical system. Every visit to the doctor, whether your local GP or a brain surgeon, should cost $20. Period.
If you're not "$20 worth of sick", you're not sick enough to be seeing the doctor. And if you really are sick, you should be able to come up with $20, somehow.
Exceptions may need to be made for people with certain chronic conditions or, perhaps, very poor people with some kind of a screening system to prevent abuse. But generally, I think the $20 medical system would go a long way to cutting waiting times at doctors offices and eliminate a lot of waste in the system generally. (Not to mention that a certain amount of additional revenue would be injected in to the system, $20 at a time.)
Neither Acanac or Unlimitel offer a phone number outside of certain large cities. For example, there is no phone number offered in Saskatchewan at all.
Do you really want to make everyone who calls you dial a long distance number in a different city or province (or pay 5c per minute for incoming 1-800 calls) to contact you?
Music isn't a required subject, and doesn't apply. If a student doesn't "get" music, they can drop it and take something else that they do get, like drawing or woods. Math is not the same; you need to know how to manipulate numbers at least somewhat.
That depends on where (and when) you went to school. I went to school in the 60's and 70's, music was a required class, and since I have no musical or artistic ability (I'm not "creative" in that way, what I can do is write words) the music class mostly taught me to hate it.
The same thing that happens to them if they can't function inside a creative literary atmosphere, a creative scientific atmosphere, or a creative athletic atmosphere.
Everyone has abilities and weaknesses. If I excel at literary projects, should I be expected to bench-press the same weight as Big Lou in gymnastics? Why should Big Lou get to set the agenda in English Lit?
Remember back a year or so, when the.alt newsgroup was taken down because something like 1% of the newsgroups in that domain had child pornography on them?
Actually no, I don't.
My ISP includes unlimited newsgroup access for all subscribers as part of its service -- they have some kind of a contract or arrangement with Supernews to provide their service to IP addressed owned by this ISP. Of course, the vast majority of their subscribers don't know about or care about newsgroup access but it's been available for years and hasn't shown any sign of being discontinued.
And all of the alt newsgroups are available, as far as I've ever noticed.
You don't want Windows, GO GET A MAC OR A LINUX PC...
I wanted a good netbook. The Acer Aspire One met my requirements, but to get one with a hard drive in it I had to buy the one that came with Windows XP. I didn't want Windows XP and, in fact, immediately reformatted it and installed Fedora 10 on it. (Just updated it to Fedora 11 last night, in fact.)
So in order to buy the hardware that I wanted I had to pay Microsoft for an operating system that I didn't want, didn't use, and immediately deleted.
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All advertising is lying in one form or another.
That's an exaggerated view of the situation.
"Don's Lawn Mowing Service - We mow your lawn for $15 (plus taxes)!" isn't a lie. And there are lots of ads of that type around.
I have asked this question before and never got any real answer:
What resources are currently available for someone who's interested in learning Cobol? It seems that most books are long out-of-print.
It may be an easy language to learn, but some comprehensive documentation would be nice to have. Opencobol is available with a simple "yum install" on Fedora Linux. But... what comes next?
Who needs Pandora?
AOL Radio has a ton of marvellous channels, believe it or not.
This article, originally printed in the Regina Leader Post (in Saskatchewan, Canada) bring up the issue of the application of the Patriot Act to email sent by Sask Tel customers if the email was outsourced to a company in the USA.
Whoever moderated my initial comment "flamebait" is wrong. It's a legitimate issue that's of concern to ISPs and their customers outside of the USA.
There's really no reason for small and medium businesses to run their own mail servers anymore.
unless you're outside of the USA and don't want your email subject to warrantless Patriot Act intercepts.
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book. - Mickey Spillane
Did you ever stop to think that there might be something fundamentally wrong with a financial system where fortunes are made and lost based on a split-millisecond of "trading time"?
After all, the actual value is entirely created by some farmer raising hogs in Iowa and someone else mining nickel in Sudbury.
I have what has become a fair-sized database program that I wrote in a version of Basic several years ago. There were good reasons for doing it that way at the time, mostly related to cross-platform requirements, available hardware and a limited set of options at the time, all of which have since become pretty much irrelevant as the years went by. However, the program keeps cranking and has grown and been expanded and added to (by me) into what now amounts to a "management suite" for the business that I wrote it for.
More and more lately, I've been thinking that while this Rube Goldberg contraption is currently working fine, it might be smart to move it onto a real database. So I'm thinking about rewriting the whole thing over the course of time, and the little that I know about Postgresql makes it seem to be just exactly the tool for the job. The whole business runs on Centos Linux now, anyway.
Accordingly, I guess I should get started learning Postgresql. I've been writing programs for 30 years but the only real database I have ever worked with before was dBase and I haven't touched that for years either. Accordingly, I would appreciate recommendations for relevant books, websites, tutorials, whatever.
of course you have to take into account the cost of the scanner, internet connectivity, consumables (tags), it IS a lot of administrative burden.
The article says that the scanning would happen at the feedlot or auction market, not on the farm premises. Nobody will have to scan cows as they get loaded on the truck, and the feedlot/sales lot has to keep track of the cows anyway. So the only additional cost is the tags, and farmers already buy ear tags for their cattle and put them on each calf. So the additional cost (and labour) involved compared to what's happening today anyway is pretty close to zero.
It's a bum rap, guv!
I've had several Letters to the Editor published with my name. I've never had the editor contact me to verify my identity.
That must be peculiar to certain papers. Any letter-to-the-editor that I've ever written gets me a phone call from the paper to verify that I'm the one who sent it.
The editors don't do any verification of the identity of people sending in letters
Any time I've written a letter-to-the-editor, I always get a phone call from the paper to verify that I sent it before they do anything with it.
They appear to be releasing this licensed as GPL v2, but they have a "terms of service" click-through, according to their screenshot.
That doesn't give me great confidence that they really understand the GPL....
The technology looks pretty cool, though.
It looks like it was filmed digitally and then they put the film "look" back in.
That's exactly what they did.
They used a "super imposition chroma key" technique to replicate the look of the original comic book. So it looks a bit odd -- that's the way it's supposed to look.
70mm? Are you sure it's not 35mm film? To the best of my knowledge, there are only a very few movies on 70mm film because there aren't too many theatres with a 70mm projector.
(I own a movie theatre.)
Plus, I personally have never heard of Amish drunk driving.
http://townhall.com/Common/PrintPage.aspx?g=6db7f947-3093-40b0-b99b-8198ab770d00&t=c
http://swartzamish.blogspot.com/2008/07/watsontown-police-amish-buggy-driver.html
In Canada, many spots in doctors' waiting rooms and hospital emergency rooms are taken up by people who are not actually sick. They are lonely and they know that someone will (eventually) pay attention to them if they go to the doctor.
For a long time now, I have advocated the $20 medical system. Every visit to the doctor, whether your local GP or a brain surgeon, should cost $20. Period.
If you're not "$20 worth of sick", you're not sick enough to be seeing the doctor. And if you really are sick, you should be able to come up with $20, somehow.
Exceptions may need to be made for people with certain chronic conditions or, perhaps, very poor people with some kind of a screening system to prevent abuse. But generally, I think the $20 medical system would go a long way to cutting waiting times at doctors offices and eliminate a lot of waste in the system generally. (Not to mention that a certain amount of additional revenue would be injected in to the system, $20 at a time.)
Neither Acanac or Unlimitel offer a phone number outside of certain large cities. For example, there is no phone number offered in Saskatchewan at all.
Do you really want to make everyone who calls you dial a long distance number in a different city or province (or pay 5c per minute for incoming 1-800 calls) to contact you?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-texas-profiling_wittmar10,0,6051682.story
Music isn't a required subject, and doesn't apply. If a student doesn't "get" music, they can drop it and take something else that they do get, like drawing or woods. Math is not the same; you need to know how to manipulate numbers at least somewhat.
That depends on where (and when) you went to school. I went to school in the 60's and 70's, music was a required class, and since I have no musical or artistic ability (I'm not "creative" in that way, what I can do is write words) the music class mostly taught me to hate it.
The same thing that happens to them if they can't function inside a creative literary atmosphere, a creative scientific atmosphere, or a creative athletic atmosphere.
Everyone has abilities and weaknesses. If I excel at literary projects, should I be expected to bench-press the same weight as Big Lou in gymnastics? Why should Big Lou get to set the agenda in English Lit?
Hello, tech support:
http://www.prometheus-music.com/audio/techsupt.mp3
Don't ask me why the last two sentences turned bold. They looked fine in the preview before I hit submit...
Remember back a year or so, when the .alt newsgroup was taken down because something like 1% of the newsgroups in that domain had child pornography on them?
Actually no, I don't.
My ISP includes unlimited newsgroup access for all subscribers as part of its service -- they have some kind of a contract or arrangement with Supernews to provide their service to IP addressed owned by this ISP.
Of course, the vast majority of their subscribers don't know about or care about newsgroup access but it's been available for years and hasn't shown any sign of being discontinued.
And all of the alt newsgroups are available, as far as I've ever noticed.
You don't want Windows, GO GET A MAC OR A LINUX PC...
I wanted a good netbook. The Acer Aspire One met my requirements, but to get one with a hard drive in it I had to buy the one that came with Windows XP. I didn't want Windows XP and, in fact, immediately reformatted it and installed Fedora 10 on it. (Just updated it to Fedora 11 last night, in fact.)
So in order to buy the hardware that I wanted I had to pay Microsoft for an operating system that I didn't want, didn't use, and immediately deleted.