1) Tiny amount of money would be saved by tort reform, all so that corporations and governments could get away with outrageous injustices with just a slap on the wrist. Most anyone affected by tort has insurance for it anyway.
2) A teacher acting in self defense against a student will not be punished under the law. What crime are they supposedly being locked up for? Also, this happens to a tiny fraction of teachers. Corporal punishment is a totally different thing, but it is not what you brought up (I do not think it is what you meant, even though you did use the word "punish". wtf does it mean to "punishes a student for acting in self-defense")
3) I do not want kids to be disrupting class, but do we really want a mob of street kids who got expelled when they were 11 and now have no purpose in life? I don't think so.
4) So what do we do with people who keep failing? Clearly we need a tiered system where dummies get put with dummies, regulars get put with regulars, and geniuses get put with geniuses. Match the material accordingly so that we do not end up with blocks in the system where kids can never graduate or geniuses being spoon fed nursery rhymes in their senior year of high school. By the way, this is how practically every school in the US is already operated. Some of those high school AP classes are pretty damn difficult. If a student is really that far ahead of their peers, then they should be switched to the more difficult classes. You would have to be 3 standard deviations above average for the AP classes not to provide any challenge, and at that point you can probably graduate early and go be a Doogie Houser because you are a class A genius.
Seriously, most people are not going to be using STEM skills on a daily basis. Everyone requires some degree of communication skills though. I happen to be a consultant to many Fortune 500 type companies, usually dealing C-level types. The lack of basic grammar and literacy in their emails is shocking. A good third of the requests I get make absolutely zero grammatical sense, to the point where I have to pick of the phone and ask for clarification. Of course, their response usually goes something like "I put this in the email to you, right where I said 'The thnig with header go to 3rd spot aggregate the sum up of hte totals'".
The parents do not even have to understand. Kids will do fine when they have full stomachs through out the day, go to sleep at an appropriate hour, and do not have to listen to daddy hitting mommy in the kitchen every night. Kids will excel when they have stability and their basic needs met. A horrifying number of children do not have anything close to this.
We need to get rid of the lot of them and elect conservatives
Where is the conservative who I can actually vote for in the real world again? Mittens Romney is what a conservative looks like in the US today. Denying this is nothing more than an Only A True Scotsman fallacy.
That is not what was being described. Both field1 and field 2 have a group by in your code. What we are talking about is SELECT field1, field2 FROM myTable GROUP BY field1
Why would they want to buy it for even a dollar? The system is probably a steaming pile of $#1t compared to anything they already have or could build from scratch.
Love the trolls on this one. "M$ abandoned Windows (98) years ago. It is really like they are not even trying to make Windows (98) compete as a modern operating system. Windows (98) cannot hold a candle to Ubuntu or Lion. It has been years since they even bothered to give Windows (98) a security patch."
Microsoft has not publicly abandoned WP7. I see the commercials everyday still. Not to mention, they are about to release the next fucking version! Under what definition of "abandoned" are you working? The one where they continue to pour millions of dollars into advertising and constantly pushing developers onto the platform? I am not saying they are succeeding; clearly they are not, but they are making an effort to push WP.
Imagine a tool that cuts paper called scissors. You now have scissor hands. You are a monster! Imagine walking on stilts. You now have 6 foot peg legs. The horror! Imagine using a pen. You spew ink everywhere! You are a God Damned SQUID!!!
Cmon, is this a joke? Just because you have a tool, does not mean that said tool is a part of you. Let's just turn down the Kurt Vonnegut vision for a minute and cool off.
As any TRUE old timer will tell you, SQL makes things slow and complicated and NoSQL sounds like the name of a boy band. Ditch them both and go back to tab delimited text files! Nothing beats a flat file!
The ORMs make life easier in loads of cases. I had been using Linq to SQL and EF for a couple years, when a few GIS projects came my way. Linq has no SQL Spatial report, so I had to do it the old school way. It has been about a year now and I still find it to be a complete PITA compared to a nice dragndrop ORM.
Sort of. If you are on a MS.Net style stack, then you are going to go with the T-SQL solution pretty much any day of the week, since the data connectors are best with that stack. Typically your DB is chosen by some proprietary software that you just have to have and only works with X or Y.
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2) A teacher acting in self defense against a student will not be punished under the law. What crime are they supposedly being locked up for? Also, this happens to a tiny fraction of teachers. Corporal punishment is a totally different thing, but it is not what you brought up (I do not think it is what you meant, even though you did use the word "punish". wtf does it mean to "punishes a student for acting in self-defense")
3) I do not want kids to be disrupting class, but do we really want a mob of street kids who got expelled when they were 11 and now have no purpose in life? I don't think so.
4) So what do we do with people who keep failing? Clearly we need a tiered system where dummies get put with dummies, regulars get put with regulars, and geniuses get put with geniuses. Match the material accordingly so that we do not end up with blocks in the system where kids can never graduate or geniuses being spoon fed nursery rhymes in their senior year of high school. By the way, this is how practically every school in the US is already operated. Some of those high school AP classes are pretty damn difficult. If a student is really that far ahead of their peers, then they should be switched to the more difficult classes. You would have to be 3 standard deviations above average for the AP classes not to provide any challenge, and at that point you can probably graduate early and go be a Doogie Houser because you are a class A genius.
I think he means something along the lines of "Do not lock teachers up for defending themselves from violent students"
Seriously, most people are not going to be using STEM skills on a daily basis. Everyone requires some degree of communication skills though. I happen to be a consultant to many Fortune 500 type companies, usually dealing C-level types. The lack of basic grammar and literacy in their emails is shocking. A good third of the requests I get make absolutely zero grammatical sense, to the point where I have to pick of the phone and ask for clarification. Of course, their response usually goes something like "I put this in the email to you, right where I said 'The thnig with header go to 3rd spot aggregate the sum up of hte totals'".
The parents do not even have to understand. Kids will do fine when they have full stomachs through out the day, go to sleep at an appropriate hour, and do not have to listen to daddy hitting mommy in the kitchen every night. Kids will excel when they have stability and their basic needs met. A horrifying number of children do not have anything close to this.
We need to get rid of the lot of them and elect conservatives
Where is the conservative who I can actually vote for in the real world again? Mittens Romney is what a conservative looks like in the US today. Denying this is nothing more than an Only A True Scotsman fallacy.
This judge is in it purely for the lulz.
That is not what was being described. Both field1 and field 2 have a group by in your code. What we are talking about is SELECT field1, field2 FROM myTable GROUP BY field1
Why would they want to buy it for even a dollar? The system is probably a steaming pile of $#1t compared to anything they already have or could build from scratch.
What's wrong with a hacker using a mac? If it's good enough for Otacon, it's good enough for any hacker.
They are still basically the same thing and can be used interchangeably, correct? BTW, you forgot to say "Get off my lawn!"
Love the trolls on this one. "M$ abandoned Windows (98) years ago. It is really like they are not even trying to make Windows (98) compete as a modern operating system. Windows (98) cannot hold a candle to Ubuntu or Lion. It has been years since they even bothered to give Windows (98) a security patch."
Microsoft has not publicly abandoned WP7. I see the commercials everyday still. Not to mention, they are about to release the next fucking version! Under what definition of "abandoned" are you working? The one where they continue to pour millions of dollars into advertising and constantly pushing developers onto the platform? I am not saying they are succeeding; clearly they are not, but they are making an effort to push WP.
Sir, let me google that for you... http://lmgtfy.com/?q=dogpile.com
Every book reviewed on /. gets 8/10.
Imagine a tool that cuts paper called scissors. You now have scissor hands. You are a monster! Imagine walking on stilts. You now have 6 foot peg legs. The horror! Imagine using a pen. You spew ink everywhere! You are a God Damned SQUID!!!
Cmon, is this a joke? Just because you have a tool, does not mean that said tool is a part of you. Let's just turn down the Kurt Vonnegut vision for a minute and cool off.
As any TRUE old timer will tell you, SQL makes things slow and complicated and NoSQL sounds like the name of a boy band. Ditch them both and go back to tab delimited text files! Nothing beats a flat file!
The ORMs make life easier in loads of cases. I had been using Linq to SQL and EF for a couple years, when a few GIS projects came my way. Linq has no SQL Spatial report, so I had to do it the old school way. It has been about a year now and I still find it to be a complete PITA compared to a nice dragndrop ORM.
Would that make any difference to me, the developer? Probably not.
Sort of. If you are on a MS .Net style stack, then you are going to go with the T-SQL solution pretty much any day of the week, since the data connectors are best with that stack. Typically your DB is chosen by some proprietary software that you just have to have and only works with X or Y.
SQL that allows 'group by' in a select with more than one column and no aggregate functions is not an SQL to be taken seriously.
Does MySQL really allow you to do that??? Here in T-SQL land, you will promptly receive and error message and a kick in the teeth.
Thank you. Jesus F'ing Christ, every time someone criticizes relational databases, they seem to spew out ignorance on the subject.
The txters are elitists and the VSers are morons. I spend half my time in VS and half my time in VS, therefore I am both. It's great being the best.
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So so called "Social Medial Experts" really are crooks? I knew it!
Correct. As any Slashdotter knows, no current of former tech support person has ever RTFA.