I'm convinced it's actually air that causes cancer, and it gives us a hell of a lot of false positives. It's the only way to explain the extremely weird range of things that cause it.
He had me going until the gun discussion. Up until that point he made some excellent arguments that, while I don't agree with all of them, seemed at least logical.
Then he started prattling on about how "gun nuts" have "managed to terrorize Congress into maintaining loose gun laws with no equivalent in the rest of the civilized world". It's understandable that he falls on one particular side of the gun issue, but he's reverted to the name-calling and childishness he accuses RMS of. I personally will never own a gun, but if that's his way of showing me that guns are absurd, he'll have to find someone else to convince me.
I haven't even read the rest of the article, it's just not worth it.
Not a secret anymore. They announced their new "cling-on" processors at Cannes yesterday, and had some of Victoria's Secret's models wear them to cover their naughtybits on the catwalk.
> I haven't looked at Postgres SQL specifically, > but the mySQL API was designed to look just > like the mSQL API. Most likely, they would have > to change a lot of stuff around to make it > compatible with any other database besides > mSQL, and of course mSQL has been an inferior > product to mySQL for quite some time now.
But, they're using Perl with the DBI interface, which is a completely uniform interface to various databases. For the most part, all they would have to do is change the DBI->connect() statement to a different DBD module and it'd be switched. Considering for the most part MySQL's SQL language is a subset of other RDBMs, they probably wouldn't have to change their SELECTs and such either.
I expect it's because MySQL is quite a bit faster, and it's usage seems to be more common than PostgreSQL. (...therefore, possibly more stable?)
> It's not my choice, but the Market has decided > that's what it wants, and I have to respect > that.
Wait a minute. You're in marketing, you should be perfectly positioned to know that most of the stuff marketing makes up is over-hyped and/or completely untrue. So why would you respect what the market decides is the defacto standard?:)
I guess I should have been more specific. The MacOS GUI is pretty nice, the internals are mostly as much swiss cheese as Windows is by now.
I'm just glad to see them move to a more stable base and updating their APIs. I've thought about getting a mac on and off, but it always went back to "I'll only ever end up using Linux on it", and if I were to do that, why pay more for the mac hardware? Now I can have a decent platform to have UNIX *and* MacOS compatibility if I need it.
Apple has done nothing to substantially improve the Mac platform where it really counts. The defining quality that makes a Mac a Mac is the Operating System.
Funny, I've always thought just the opposite. Mac hardware rocks, but I just wish they'd get rid of the OS.:)
I've had the opportunity to play with OS X just a little bit, and I was quite impressed. Never got to really *push* it, but it seemed snappy and it was nice to see *NIX on Mac hardware while retaining the ability to run all the old MacOS software.
Percents are part of the CSS spec, and you can (at least could, don't recall if it still is "official") do height="100%" on tables and such, and it will fill the browser window. Of course, if you have something like:
<html> You suck! <p> <table height="100%"><tr><td> This will make a scrollbar on a mostly empty page. </td></tr></table> </html>
the Hubble expansion: when we look at distant galaxies, they are all moving away from us with a speed that is directly proportional to their distance.
I always thought it was because the Earth was like a slum no one wants to get near, and all of the other celestial bodies were trying to get away from us.:)
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Then he started prattling on about how "gun nuts" have "managed to terrorize Congress into maintaining loose gun laws with no equivalent in the rest of the civilized world". It's understandable that he falls on one particular side of the gun issue, but he's reverted to the name-calling and childishness he accuses RMS of. I personally will never own a gun, but if that's his way of showing me that guns are absurd, he'll have to find someone else to convince me.
I haven't even read the rest of the article, it's just not worth it.
I can't wait for the race to reduce die size. :)
Uhh... yeah.
:)
:)
> but the mySQL API was designed to look just
> like the mSQL API. Most likely, they would have
> to change a lot of stuff around to make it
> compatible with any other database besides
> mSQL, and of course mSQL has been an inferior
> product to mySQL for quite some time now.
But, they're using Perl with the DBI interface, which is a completely uniform interface to various databases. For the most part, all they would have to do is change the DBI->connect() statement to a different DBD module and it'd be switched. Considering for the most part MySQL's SQL language is a subset of other RDBMs, they probably wouldn't have to change their SELECTs and such either.
I expect it's because MySQL is quite a bit faster, and it's usage seems to be more common than PostgreSQL. (...therefore, possibly more stable?)
Pining for the fjords.
> that's what it wants, and I have to respect
> that.
Wait a minute. You're in marketing, you should be perfectly positioned to know that most of the stuff marketing makes up is over-hyped and/or completely untrue. So why would you respect what the market decides is the defacto standard?
I guess I should have been more specific. The MacOS GUI is pretty nice, the internals are mostly as much swiss cheese as Windows is by now.
I'm just glad to see them move to a more stable base and updating their APIs. I've thought about getting a mac on and off, but it always went back to "I'll only ever end up using Linux on it", and if I were to do that, why pay more for the mac hardware? Now I can have a decent platform to have UNIX *and* MacOS compatibility if I need it.
Ahhhh... :)
Everything is deprecated. Please use Everything2.
Funny, I've always thought just the opposite. Mac hardware rocks, but I just wish they'd get rid of the OS. :)
I've had the opportunity to play with OS X just a little bit, and I was quite impressed. Never got to really *push* it, but it seemed snappy and it was nice to see *NIX on Mac hardware while retaining the ability to run all the old MacOS software.
That's a spicy meat-a-ball!
You've never done ANSI art, have you? :)
<html>
You suck!
<p>
<table height="100%"><tr><td>
This will make a scrollbar on a mostly empty page.
</td></tr></table>
</html>
Remember when news used to be reported instead of created?
I think this one little slip is the scariest thing I've seen so far related to the whole "hellmouth" incident.
I always thought it was because the Earth was like a slum no one wants to get near, and all of the other celestial bodies were trying to get away from us. :)
yeah.
Yeah. Damn those jerks for actually believing they'll get the high bandwidth they payed the cable company for. :P
How is it that downloading something is "abuse"? I'm paying for 1.5Mbit DSL, if I'm paying for it, I'm gonna max it.
I know cable users are on one big segment, and that's why I'm paying a bit more for DSL, I'm more likely to get the bandwidth I'm rated for.
You get what you pay for.
Either the programmer's a liar, or he reviews and changes his code as he writes it so it's understandable later.
Any programmer who doesn't understand all his own code is sloppy. That's why there are such things as /* #comments */.