It's almost like the people who were killed in the World Trade Center... their cell phone voice mailboxes were kept running by their loved ones so they could hear their voice one more time...
The 'phone rang once, the 'phone rang twice, Then I heard her say:
Hello, this Joannie, I'm sorry that I'm not home But if you leave me your name and number I promise soon as I get home I'll 'phone
Stephenson makes great use of speculative history. He postulates some great "what if" scenarios arising from past events and uses them to weave an alternative present.
They are OK, I think, but not great. For the absolute best I've come across in alternate present novels, check out Pavane by Keith Roberts, who sadly died in 2000.
WTF are you talking about? Wal-Mart owns Asda, one of the biggest supermarket chains in the UK, and they also operate under the Wal*Mart name in Germany.
Not directly relevant to your comment, but apposite all the same, outside Europe, they list stores in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Korea, Mexico and Puerto Rico.
I think it's good that they're scoping out features. This will allow the developers to concentrate on making the existing codebase actually work, rather than squandering resources to cram in a feature that works like ass and is rife with security holes.
I very much doubt that the features are really being dropped so that their poor bloody developers can actually try to fix things: I think it is far mor likely that they have finally had the realisation beaten into them that there is *no* *frickin'* *way* that they can make all this stuff work together, and they are being forced to cut their losses just to plan to get something out the door at an acceptably early point in time...
All versions of Oracle took days to install, and I found tuning information to be very difficult to find and comprehend via free or paid-for resources (Google, O'Reilly and OTN in that order). 8i was unable to even complete my performance tests without dying due to fragmentation problems. 9i and 10g were able to complete the tests, but at half the speed of MS or PG. Perhaps if we'd hired a consultant they'd have been able to get better numbers, but no one was willing to pay to find out when we had two perfectly good platforms which cost much less.
Jeez, what a pathetic troll. Instllation of Oracle (any version fron 8i on) takes less than three hours from CD in drive to database up and running. And the silly statement about fragmentation: how jejune...
I was just about to suggest this one myself, so mod me -1 redundant if you wish. However, feel free to balance the mods as I give the link to the BitScope. A great instrument...
If SCO tries to temporise again, I think that that run a serious risk of pissing of Judge Cindy Wells. In the hearing on 5 December, the first thing that the judge said in the courtroom was:
Judge: Intention is to grant IBM's motion to compel delivery (interrogatives 12 and 13) . Plaintiff to file responses within 30 days. Postpone discovery until compliance achieved. There is a protective order in place (taken from court minutes).
It appears from the transcript (which you can find - along with the usual excellent discussion - on Groklaw that Judge Wells' patience with SCO is growing thin. It is reported on that page (admittedy by a probably biased observer) that:
Judge Wells seemed to have little patience for the filibuster She stated that the proceedings needed to conclude before noon (probably lunchtime!), but with both sides having a chance to state their case. She interrupted McBride several times to help focus him back on the point of the hearing. She was very fair and direct. She gave McBride every chance to convince her that she should not grant IBM's motions. She brought up several points that weren't directly addressed during arguments, indicating that she had read and absorbed the material, and noticed some of SCO's antics. She especially did not seem impressed about handing over the code on paper, rather than in a useable format. McBride remarked that he believed they had resolved that problem.
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From what I've seen, certifications for programmers matter little, but they do for DBAs.
What sort of DBAs? I have never seen an Oracle DBA job posting (in the US) that mentions certification as a requirement, and precious few of them even list it in the "nice to have" category. Speaking with recruiters/headhunters etc. most of them who specialise in Oracle say that that certification is not worth while: it doesn't translate into higher salaries or more offers in their experience.
If I found an Oracle DBA advertisement that listed certification as a requirement, I would be very wary of that company, as it basically means that they don't have any real idea of what they want, and are simply ticking boxes.
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On this screenshot you can clearly see what Microsoft's attitude to our money is...
Sweet: a link to the OLD version in a story about the new version. +1 Confusing.
It's almost like the people who were killed in the World Trade Center... their cell phone voice mailboxes were kept running by their loved ones so they could hear their voice one more time...
The 'phone rang once, the 'phone rang twice,
Then I heard her say:
Hello, this Joannie, I'm sorry that I'm not home
But if you leave me your name and number
I promise soon as I get home I'll 'phone
so don't download any N*Sync whilst sailing!
Not even if I yvan eht nioj?
I'm 20 miles from claiming my lottery ticket on my way to marrying Britney Spears . You could say I'm bitter.
I'd say you should feel lucky, not bitter...
Stephenson makes great use of speculative history. He postulates some great "what if" scenarios arising from past events and uses them to weave an alternative present.
They are OK, I think, but not great. For the absolute best I've come across in alternate present novels, check out Pavane by Keith Roberts, who sadly died in 2000.
kind of drawn out, mediocre, masturbatory adjective-slinging, twaddle that my teachers were so fond of.
Please tell me you're being ironical here...
Wal-Mart doesn't even exist in Europe
WTF are you talking about? Wal-Mart owns Asda, one of the biggest supermarket chains in the UK, and they also operate under the Wal*Mart name in Germany.
Not directly relevant to your comment, but apposite all the same, outside Europe, they list stores in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Korea, Mexico and Puerto Rico.
I think it's good that they're scoping out features. This will allow the developers to concentrate on making the existing codebase actually work, rather than squandering resources to cram in a feature that works like ass and is rife with security holes.
I very much doubt that the features are really being dropped so that their poor bloody developers can actually try to fix things: I think it is far mor likely that they have finally had the realisation beaten into them that there is *no* *frickin'* *way* that they can make all this stuff work together, and they are being forced to cut their losses just to plan to get something out the door at an acceptably early point in time...
All versions of Oracle took days to install, and I found tuning information to be very difficult to find and comprehend via free or paid-for resources (Google, O'Reilly and OTN in that order). 8i was unable to even complete my performance tests without dying due to fragmentation problems. 9i and 10g were able to complete the tests, but at half the speed of MS or PG. Perhaps if we'd hired a consultant they'd have been able to get better numbers, but no one was willing to pay to find out when we had two perfectly good platforms which cost much less.
Jeez, what a pathetic troll. Instllation of Oracle (any version fron 8i on) takes less than three hours from CD in drive to database up and running. And the silly statement about fragmentation: how jejune...
I predict sales of the British classic Beowulf will increase by epic proportions.
Hmmm, that's odd: I thought Beowulf was a Saxon poem, not British at all.
But 0! (zero factorial) is equal to 1, so what's your problem?
If you meant RFC0, I'm working on that right now, and it will be published in 1967 as soon as I can get this flux capacitor to work...
Are you saying that You read the article, registered to download source code, browsed through it, and still managed to get FP?
/. subscriber...
No problem: he's the
How would you like it if you died and a badger installed linux in you?!
In Soviet Russia this happens!!!
By drinking coffee you actually dehydrate your body, because the coffee has a higher electrolyte concentration
No. Coffee will dehydrate you because caffeine reduces absorption of water in the Loops of Henle (in the glomerular capsules of the nephrons in your kidney and hence is s diuretic. The fact that it reduces the absorption by affecting the electrolyte balance has nothing to do with the electrolyte concentration in the coffee itself: taking a caffeine-containing pill like Pro-Plus will have the same effect.
Europe has to take charge to deal with our own rouge company/monopolies
Yeah, that's right: if Mary Kay isn't a monopoly, I don't know what is!!
I was just about to suggest this one myself, so
mod me -1 redundant if you wish. However, feel free to balance the mods as I give the link to the BitScope. A great instrument...
He who doesn't break things to find out what it is isn't a geek.
But the real geek motto is:
"If it isn't broken, fix it until it is!"
... is the NSA web site running on IIS?
(Yes, yes, I know that the web site will be totally physically separated from the spooks' computers...)
Bart: Hey Lis', check it out, Pogo Stilts. These were banned in all 50 states
[they fly off his feet and hit Homer]
Homer: Oooow!! Ow! What happened!?
Car, one mistightened nut, and you're in traction.
That's why some cars come with traction control...
Yawn. These type of jokes are so boring now, but given the poster's web site name, it's not really surprising...
It appears from the transcript (which you can find - along with the usual excellent discussion - on Groklaw that Judge Wells' patience with SCO is growing thin. It is reported on that page (admittedy by a probably biased observer) that:
inflated stock
It's looking a little less inflated right now.
From what I've seen, certifications for programmers matter little, but they do for DBAs.
What sort of DBAs? I have never seen an Oracle DBA job posting (in the US) that mentions certification as a requirement, and precious few of them even list it in the "nice to have" category. Speaking with recruiters/headhunters etc. most of them who specialise in Oracle say that that certification is not worth while: it doesn't translate into higher salaries or more offers in their experience.
If I found an Oracle DBA advertisement that listed certification as a requirement, I would be very wary of that company, as it basically means that they don't have any real idea of what they want, and are simply ticking boxes.