Actually, a lot of US debt is owed to foreign countries, not to US citizens. Japan and China are the biggest lenders to the US. So US deficits are not "paid by US citizens to US citizens". They are more like "paid by US citizens to China and Japan".
writing wrapper code or an isolation layer or interface library has been a Best Practice since the late 70s. You shouldn't call a stored procedure directly, you should always call a library routine that calls the stored procedure for you.
Writing wrapper code to abstract away stored procedure calls is only half the problem. The stored procedures trap your "business logic" in non-portable code!
no, he says the PHP core code is thread-safe, but many of the third-party libraries CALLED by the PHP core code are NOT thread-safe. If PHP was actually thread-safe, they would only call thread-safe libraries OR write thread-safe wrappers for unsafe libraries.
I would love to know what the wireless gadget does differently in different countries. Maybe if I select an unregulated country, my wireless router will BLAST a stronger signal. I googled around, but I couldn't find any definitive answers..
Social Security is currently "invested" in US Treasury bonds. If Social Security is privitized and all those US Treasury bonds are called as people make their own investment choices, how will paying off that US Treasury bond debt affect the US dollar? Maybe this is GWB's way to control the declining US dollar.
Maybe building a device with custom hardware and having to pay developers to tweak an OS that does not support it is a bad business decision. Even if Linux is k-rad.
Actually, you WANT your SSID to show up in your neighbors' lists of available networks. When your neighbors see your SSIS on channel 6 or whatever, they (if they care) can set their wireless network to use a different channel.
Unfortunately, my NetGear SuperG 802.11g only works on channel 6, so I have to share the channel with a bunch of neighbors on the same channel..:(
but if the BBC reports on something the British government doesn't like, the BBC (theoretically) risks losing funding and/or changes to its charter. The BBC is suckling at the British government's teet. They cannot be independent.
5 chopsticks would be useful if you had 2, but 1 broke. If you could buy odd lots, you would not have to throw out the perfectly good unmatched chopstick!:)
I don't understand why there is a (political?) fight about who gets to rebuild the WTC. Who owned the WTC building and real estate on 9/11? Why would anyone other than the owners get any say??
I was debating hydrogen with a Green Party person once. He claimed that hydrogen WAS an energy source and that if you hook two hydrogren "batteries" together, they will create even MORE energy. Needless to say, I ended the conversation there.
This is the same Green Party person who later told me that: "sure, fascism sounds scary, but it might be just what we need to save the earth from ourselves."
You can produce Hydrogen with nuclear power or renewable energy source, which both (debatable of course) are far safer that burning fossil fuels (which cause acid rain, CO2 emissions, Middle East wars...) to get equal amount of energy.
but where are these nuclear and renewable energy sources? Unfortunately, the only currently viable energy source from making hydrogen is fossil fuel. So switching to "clean" hydrogen cars would produce MORE fossil fuel pollution (because of the added inefficiencies in the hydrogen creation/distribution/conversion process).
Brooks' Law differs from Werner Von Braun's comment. Sure, nine women cannot make a baby in one month, but the extra eight do not make the first woman's baby take LONGER than nine months. Brooks' Law says that adding more developers can make a project LATER because of increased communication overhead.
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but if you leave your wireless access point open, then (eventually) YOUR internet costs will be raised by your internet provider.
To see an actually cool GUI built with Flash and Python, see 2Entwine's Gush RSS reader "environment".
7. Profit!!1!
Thanks for the link. Those graphs were very instructive.
Actually, a lot of US debt is owed to foreign countries, not to US citizens. Japan and China are the biggest lenders to the US. So US deficits are not "paid by US citizens to US citizens". They are more like "paid by US citizens to China and Japan".
writing wrapper code or an isolation layer or interface library has been a Best Practice since the late 70s. You shouldn't call a stored procedure directly, you should always call a library routine that calls the stored procedure for you.
Writing wrapper code to abstract away stored procedure calls is only half the problem. The stored procedures trap your "business logic" in non-portable code!
no, he says the PHP core code is thread-safe, but many of the third-party libraries CALLED by the PHP core code are NOT thread-safe. If PHP was actually thread-safe, they would only call thread-safe libraries OR write thread-safe wrappers for unsafe libraries.
I would love to know what the wireless gadget does differently in different countries. Maybe if I select an unregulated country, my wireless router will BLAST a stronger signal. I googled around, but I couldn't find any definitive answers..
At least you would have multiple choices of charities. There is only one government and if their welfare programs turn you down, what can you do?
And how much would the 2042-era $1 be worth after 38 years of inflation compared to today's $1?? squat!
Social Security is currently "invested" in US Treasury bonds. If Social Security is privitized and all those US Treasury bonds are called as people make their own investment choices, how will paying off that US Treasury bond debt affect the US dollar? Maybe this is GWB's way to control the declining US dollar.
It also is going to be a windfall for the stock market, big banks and investment companies that are the Republican's best friends.
Note to self: when Social Security is privitized, invest my Social Security savings in the financial sector!! <:)
Maybe building a device with custom hardware and having to pay developers to tweak an OS that does not support it is a bad business decision. Even if Linux is k-rad.
Actually, you WANT your SSID to show up in your neighbors' lists of available networks. When your neighbors see your SSIS on channel 6 or whatever, they (if they care) can set their wireless network to use a different channel.
Unfortunately, my NetGear SuperG 802.11g only works on channel 6, so I have to share the channel with a bunch of neighbors on the same channel..
but if the BBC reports on something the British government doesn't like, the BBC (theoretically) risks losing funding and/or changes to its charter. The BBC is suckling at the British government's teet. They cannot be independent.
What happened? Don't leave us hanging!1!
5 chopsticks would be useful if you had 2, but 1 broke. If you could buy odd lots, you would not have to throw out the perfectly good unmatched chopstick!
What happened? Don't leave us hanging!1
Actually, I think mere possession of lock picking tools is illegal in California (unless you are a licensed locksmith).
I don't understand why there is a (political?) fight about who gets to rebuild the WTC. Who owned the WTC building and real estate on 9/11? Why would anyone other than the owners get any say??
I never understood why an interpreted language was a good idea for slow mobile devices. Do any J2ME JVMs do JIT compilation?
And J2ME JVMs are so broken and incompatible that JAMDAT has support something like 70 different builds of the "same" game to support different JVMs!
I was debating hydrogen with a Green Party person once. He claimed that hydrogen WAS an energy source and that if you hook two hydrogren "batteries" together, they will create even MORE energy. Needless to say, I ended the conversation there.
This is the same Green Party person who later told me that: "sure, fascism sounds scary, but it might be just what we need to save the earth from ourselves."
You can produce Hydrogen with nuclear power or renewable energy source, which both (debatable of course) are far safer that burning fossil fuels (which cause acid rain, CO2 emissions, Middle East wars...) to get equal amount of energy.
but where are these nuclear and renewable energy sources? Unfortunately, the only currently viable energy source from making hydrogen is fossil fuel. So switching to "clean" hydrogen cars would produce MORE fossil fuel pollution (because of the added inefficiencies in the hydrogen creation/distribution/conversion process).
Brooks' Law differs from Werner Von Braun's comment. Sure, nine women cannot make a baby in one month, but the extra eight do not make the first woman's baby take LONGER than nine months. Brooks' Law says that adding more developers can make a project LATER because of increased communication overhead.
I would read that blog.