It is only valid Microsoft Access SQL, or any variant of SQL that I have used, only if votes is defined as a string.
Actually, the error is that the code example uses double-quotes instead of single-quotes around the character literal values.
According to SQL spec, text literals must be enclosed in single-quotes. Double-quotes are object identifiers, often used to create column aliases or enable case-sensitivity in object names.
Also, some RDBMS's will do implicit typecasting if you do an operation involving different datatypes, so comparing a number to a string as in the example may not necessarily cause an error.
In actuality, you need to figure how long it takes to unload all the tapes from the truck
In ACTUAL actuality, you have to take into account the time required to write data onto the tapes at the source and the time required to read data off the tapes at the destination. Not to mention media swapping times.
All of a sudden your bottleneck is the I/O buses on the computers on each end.
Once you develop a game system to the point where you have so much character control and facial expression that it rivals cgi films I think you've probably made a CGI development environment and not a game engine.
Game engines are interactive, CGI development environments are pre-scripted. That's the only difference that matters.
Can you name all of the states in the US? Without any help? Go for it.
Who cares?
No really, who cares. If I need to know the names of all 50 states, I go crack open a reference book. Same thing if I need any information on foreign countries.
Rote memorization is not education, and being able to recall facts is not knowledge. It stuns me that otherwise smart people who are many years out of school still don't recognize the difference.
(I'm just glad I studied Eastern European geography in the late 1980's, when there were a lot fewer countries to memorize than there are now...)
The RFID tags can be read through clothing. Bar codes cannot. Why does nobody on/. get this?
I get it, I just don't see why I should care about the difference, when RFID tags are not being attached to or read by anything outside of a warehouse.
So, theoretically, a store could have a scanner by the door that'll turn on a light somewhere when someone with a large amount of cash walks in so the salespeople can treat them extra nice.
As opposed to the way it works now, where a person working at a store uses devices called "eyeballs" to get an idea of how much money someone has by their "clothing" and "behavior"...
Still, I don't see what that has to do with (I quote parent poster) "anonymous cash transactions".
RFID's are tracking numbers. Just like bar codes, or those dot-matrixes that FedEx puts on their shipping labels, but the technology for reading them is a little different.
I don't think Wal-Mart would implement RFID tracking throughout their distribution system just to try and catch Johnny Warehouse sneaking a pallette of tube socks out the loading bay into his pickup truck.
The other interesting thing this brings up is the student's right to earn a living and do what he enjoys vs. the national security implications of this.
He has a right to earn a living.
He has a right to do what he enjoys.
He does NOT have an inalienable right to the combination of the two.
I enjoy picking my nose, but I don't have a right to make a career out of nosepicking, nor should I expect to be able to.
Tell them that the higher the number of MegaHertz, the more responcive the computer will be - it will act faster.
Why would you tell them something like that? It's not even true.
Given today's gigahertz-plus processor clock speeds, most tasks will reach an I/O bottleneck before the processor is ever taxed. A faster processor won't make your downloads any faster if your network connection maxes out at x kbps. A faster processor won't give your game a higher frame rate if your 3D accelerator can only handle x polygons per second. It probably WILL make your Photoshop filters happen (slightly?) faster, so if that's important to you, consider a faster processor.
The significance of all the "jargon" in computer specs depends on what the consumer intends to use the machine for. I would blame salespeople for not asking this crucial question, but I suspect they are, and are getting responses of "Uh, I dunno..." If you don't know what you want a computer for, why are you buying a computer?
The DVD-R of this title has literally been floating around the internet for months....literally?
Who wants to wait?
If a book has to be translated into every language it will ever be released in before it is released anywhere, then EVERYONE will wait.
There could be several reasons "28 Days Later" came out 238 days later. I think it's rather foolish of you to assume that it was just for "marketing purposes".
No, bad business is letting someone who has no rights to work with your property, be they "school boys" or anyone else, undermine your copyright (literally, "right to copy") and usurp your publishing market.
For fans who whine that they don't want to get sued: DON'T VIOLATE COPYRIGHT LAW, and you won't. It's actually very simple.
Changing the source formatting to reduce the number of lines of code would INCREASE the defect density. The numerator stays the same, the denominator decreases... the solved expression increases.
No WONDER Microsoft code has such a high bug/line ratio!
Sadly, this encouraging count of zero doesn't actually reflect the number of potential respondants to spam. For that, we'd need to know if anyone called any of the telephone or fax numbers they list....repeatedly, until the phone bills drive the spam senders out of business.
Most Gator installations are done without the knowledge of the person who has it altering their desktop. (Remember, the general populace will click YES to anything)
That makes the general populace idiots, but it doesn't put Gator on the wrong side of the law. They DO give the user a chance to say no...
The people advertising on the (insert site here) site paid for that space.
No, they paid for the right to have their ad code delivered to the user. If they were guaranteed that a pair of human eyes would see their ad for each and every pageview, then (insert site here)'s Ad Sales department needs a clue.
I think it should be illegal, it's like your glasses modifying the newspaper you read so that (for example) near an article on Linux you see a blatant ad for M$.
Then it would also be illegal for your glasses to modify the paper so that instead of the regular ads showing up, NO ads show up.
If Gator and WhenU were illegal on the grounds that they unlawfully modify the contents of a web site, than every ad and popup blocker would be just as illegal.
make the body out of glass, and we'd see an end to road rage as we know it.
You give people WAY to much credit.
Do you think the average road-raging asshole driver is thinking "I might get in an accident, but my car will take the damage for me so that's okay"?
People are stupid when they don't think through to the consequences of their actions. Making those consequences more grave isn't going to change the typical stupid person's behavior.
The problem is, newspapers (good ones at least) don't just relay the facts of the latest news stories. They also do investigative reporting and provide locally-tailored coverage that you would be hard-pressed to find from a television station or web site. Additionally, newspapers serve as a much more permanent record of events than TV or the Internet -- I doubt you'll ever see year-old CNN.com homepages in the microfiche section of your library.
This is a great example of the power of judges in our system. The first judge to encounter a new case says "I can judge this." or "I cannot judge this."
Are you talking about recusal? If so, the scenario is more like the default is that the judge is able to preside over a case... UNLESS he or she knows of or discovers circumstances that would reasonably affect his or her impartiality (owning stock in a company that's a party to a suit, being the godmother of the defendant, etc...)
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It is only valid Microsoft Access SQL, or any variant of SQL that I have used, only if votes is defined as a string.
Actually, the error is that the code example uses double-quotes instead of single-quotes around the character literal values.
According to SQL spec, text literals must be enclosed in single-quotes. Double-quotes are object identifiers, often used to create column aliases or enable case-sensitivity in object names.
Also, some RDBMS's will do implicit typecasting if you do an operation involving different datatypes, so comparing a number to a string as in the example may not necessarily cause an error.
Is Ethical Al related to Weird Al in some way?
Ethical Al probably refuses to do parodies of popular songs because doing so would imply support for the RIAA's practices.
In actuality, you need to figure how long it takes to unload all the tapes from the truck
In ACTUAL actuality, you have to take into account the time required to write data onto the tapes at the source and the time required to read data off the tapes at the destination. Not to mention media swapping times.
All of a sudden your bottleneck is the I/O buses on the computers on each end.
RMS is physically unattractive enough when clothed, I certainly don't want to see him GNUde...
Once you develop a game system to the point where you have so much character control and facial expression that it rivals cgi films I think you've probably made a CGI development environment and not a game engine.
Game engines are interactive, CGI development environments are pre-scripted. That's the only difference that matters.
Can you name all of the states in the US? Without any help? Go for it.
Who cares?
No really, who cares. If I need to know the names of all 50 states, I go crack open a reference book. Same thing if I need any information on foreign countries.
Rote memorization is not education, and being able to recall facts is not knowledge. It stuns me that otherwise smart people who are many years out of school still don't recognize the difference.
(I'm just glad I studied Eastern European geography in the late 1980's, when there were a lot fewer countries to memorize than there are now...)
The RFID tags can be read through clothing. Bar codes cannot. Why does nobody on /. get this?
I get it, I just don't see why I should care about the difference, when RFID tags are not being attached to or read by anything outside of a warehouse.
So, theoretically, a store could have a scanner by the door that'll turn on a light somewhere when someone with a large amount of cash walks in so the salespeople can treat them extra nice.
As opposed to the way it works now, where a person working at a store uses devices called "eyeballs" to get an idea of how much money someone has by their "clothing" and "behavior"...
Still, I don't see what that has to do with (I quote parent poster) "anonymous cash transactions".
Wired is reporting that the EU may implant RFID tags into the Euro, basically eliminating the anonymous cash transaction.
So previously, Euro bills did not have serial numbers?
RFIDs are nothing more than electronic serial numbers.
Protecting? PROTECTING???
RFID's are tracking numbers. Just like bar codes, or those dot-matrixes that FedEx puts on their shipping labels, but the technology for reading them is a little different.
I don't think Wal-Mart would implement RFID tracking throughout their distribution system just to try and catch Johnny Warehouse sneaking a pallette of tube socks out the loading bay into his pickup truck.
The other interesting thing this brings up is the student's right to earn a living and do what he enjoys vs. the national security implications of this.
He has a right to earn a living.
He has a right to do what he enjoys.
He does NOT have an inalienable right to the combination of the two.
I enjoy picking my nose, but I don't have a right to make a career out of nosepicking, nor should I expect to be able to.
Tell them that the higher the number of MegaHertz, the more responcive the computer will be - it will act faster.
Why would you tell them something like that? It's not even true.
Given today's gigahertz-plus processor clock speeds, most tasks will reach an I/O bottleneck before the processor is ever taxed. A faster processor won't make your downloads any faster if your network connection maxes out at x kbps. A faster processor won't give your game a higher frame rate if your 3D accelerator can only handle x polygons per second. It probably WILL make your Photoshop filters happen (slightly?) faster, so if that's important to you, consider a faster processor.
The significance of all the "jargon" in computer specs depends on what the consumer intends to use the machine for. I would blame salespeople for not asking this crucial question, but I suspect they are, and are getting responses of "Uh, I dunno..." If you don't know what you want a computer for, why are you buying a computer?
Microsoft's only crime was that it brought computing to the "common man", bypassing the high priests of tech.
That, and the whole "repeated violations of antitrust law" thing...
Besides which, if anyone deserves credit for bringing computing to the common man, it's Messrs. Jobs and Wozniak.
The DVD-R of this title has literally been floating around the internet for months. ...literally?
Who wants to wait?
If a book has to be translated into every language it will ever be released in before it is released anywhere, then EVERYONE will wait.
There could be several reasons "28 Days Later" came out 238 days later. I think it's rather foolish of you to assume that it was just for "marketing purposes".
slashdot shows its extremism
What extremism? I'm browsing at +3, and the comments favoring the publisher outnumber the comments favoring the translators by about two to one...
No, bad business is letting someone who has no rights to work with your property, be they "school boys" or anyone else, undermine your copyright (literally, "right to copy") and usurp your publishing market.
For fans who whine that they don't want to get sued: DON'T VIOLATE COPYRIGHT LAW, and you won't. It's actually very simple.
Changing the source formatting to reduce the number of lines of code would INCREASE the defect density. The numerator stays the same, the denominator decreases... the solved expression increases.
No WONDER Microsoft code has such a high bug/line ratio!
Sadly, this encouraging count of zero doesn't actually reflect the number of potential respondants to spam. For that, we'd need to know if anyone called any of the telephone or fax numbers they list. ...repeatedly, until the phone bills drive the spam senders out of business.
Most Gator installations are done without the knowledge of the person who has it altering their desktop. (Remember, the general populace will click YES to anything)
That makes the general populace idiots, but it doesn't put Gator on the wrong side of the law. They DO give the user a chance to say no...
The people advertising on the (insert site here) site paid for that space.
No, they paid for the right to have their ad code delivered to the user. If they were guaranteed that a pair of human eyes would see their ad for each and every pageview, then (insert site here)'s Ad Sales department needs a clue.
I think it should be illegal, it's like your glasses modifying the newspaper you read so that (for example) near an article on Linux you see a blatant ad for M$.
Then it would also be illegal for your glasses to modify the paper so that instead of the regular ads showing up, NO ads show up.
If Gator and WhenU were illegal on the grounds that they unlawfully modify the contents of a web site, than every ad and popup blocker would be just as illegal.
make the body out of glass, and we'd see an end to road rage as we know it.
You give people WAY to much credit.
Do you think the average road-raging asshole driver is thinking "I might get in an accident, but my car will take the damage for me so that's okay"?
People are stupid when they don't think through to the consequences of their actions. Making those consequences more grave isn't going to change the typical stupid person's behavior.
The problem is, newspapers (good ones at least) don't just relay the facts of the latest news stories. They also do investigative reporting and provide locally-tailored coverage that you would be hard-pressed to find from a television station or web site. Additionally, newspapers serve as a much more permanent record of events than TV or the Internet -- I doubt you'll ever see year-old CNN.com homepages in the microfiche section of your library.
I'll never understand why you people say that you don't have to play by the rules if you don't have money..
I don't recall anyone saying that in this thread. Stop being silly!
This is a great example of the power of judges in our system. The first judge to encounter a new case says
"I can judge this." or "I cannot judge this."
Are you talking about recusal? If so, the scenario is more like the default is that the judge is able to preside over a case... UNLESS he or she knows of or discovers circumstances that would reasonably affect his or her impartiality (owning stock in a company that's a party to a suit, being the godmother of the defendant, etc...)
I don't think Hormel has done anything in the past to protect the trademark against this use.
That's because you either haven't been paying attention, or are too lazy to do a little research...
http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm