Well, you pays your money (or not, in the case of freeserve), you takes your choice:)
Personally, I prefer to pay my ISP direct; that way I know they are working for me, and not for whatever telco they are getting their revenues from.
It's a shame they've had to take this action - but AFAIK the guy has won at least one of his lawsuits already, and demon would be foolish not to protect themselves.
The newer offerings of the commercial vendors also offer query facilities using the OQL (Object Query Language) - approximately a superset of SQL, I believe. There are relevant standards for OQL and various language bindings
What's the point? If you own a trademark that's important enough to be on the list, you already have the legal resources to defend / reclaim your domain name.
So the net benefit of this proposal is what, exactly?
Well, I agree to a degree: There is much more violence in the media than there used to be, and I am not sure that this is a good thing. I never did understand why people seem so keen to censor sex in the media while allowing graphic brutality - but that's a different matter. Anyway, I'm not in favour of censorship for adults, but we should certainly keep some of the violence away from kids.
I also agree with you on the propaganda issues; what I disagree with is the gun issue: Regardless of how f**cked up a youngster is, without a gun it will be difficult to start shooting people. Simple as that. Without easy access to guns, this would not have happened.
Did guns protect your freedom of expression under McCarthy?
Thought not.
Britain - where I live now - has been a democracy for a lot longer than the US has existed. And guess what - very very few people have access to guns. Firearms are neither sufficient nor necessary for protecting democracy.
Funnily enough, we don't have many random shootings in Britain either. Could there be a cause / effect relationship here? Oh, and by the way, the Nazis were elected into power; it seems highly unlikely that having guns would have prevented anything.
strcmp is also a standard C function... compare_string is not.
Knowing the language doesn't stop at the syntax - you should also make use of the standard libraries, rather than rewriting the same tools all the time.
Yes, large systems are difficult to write - whatever the language. But not all systems are large systems. And for small, fast, throwaway projects, VB is not that bad. It also makes a good prototyping tool - as, I'm sure, do lots of other tools.
I agree on the problems of the RAD concept though - to a degree. Sometimes quick and dirty is the right approach; sometimes careful design is. It depends on the application and the requirements.
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because americans have the inalienable right to keep and arm bears ... or something along those lines.
Well, you pays your money (or not, in the case of freeserve), you takes your choice:)
Personally, I prefer to pay my ISP direct; that way I know they are working for me, and not for whatever telco they are getting their revenues from.
It's a shame they've had to take this action - but AFAIK the guy has won at least one of his lawsuits already, and demon would be foolish not to protect themselves.
The newer offerings of the commercial vendors also offer query facilities using the OQL (Object Query Language) - approximately a superset of SQL, I believe. There are relevant standards for OQL and various language bindings
http://www.odmg.org/ would be the place to look
What's the point? If you own a trademark that's important enough to be on the list, you already have the legal resources to defend / reclaim your domain name.
So the net benefit of this proposal is what, exactly?
Interesting stuff in here, some of which I agree with. And some which I disagree with:
:)
For one, I believe gun control is useful - but then I'm not American
Secondly, the death penalty doesn't work, has never worked, and will never work.
Especially not against people who are planning to kill themselves at the end of their crime spree anyway.
Also, do you really think that people think about the consequences of their actions? If so, would there be so many murders, so much drunk driving etc?
True, guns don't kill people, people kill people.
With guns, usually.
Well, I agree to a degree: There is much more violence in the media than there used to be, and I am not sure that this is a good thing.
I never did understand why people seem so keen to censor sex in the media while allowing graphic brutality - but that's a different matter. Anyway, I'm not in favour of censorship for adults, but we should certainly keep some of the violence away from kids.
I also agree with you on the propaganda issues; what I disagree with is the gun issue:
Regardless of how f**cked up a youngster is, without a gun it will be difficult to start shooting people. Simple as that. Without easy access to guns, this would not have happened.
Did guns protect your freedom of expression under McCarthy?
Thought not.
Britain - where I live now - has been a democracy for a lot longer than the US has existed. And guess what - very very few people have access to guns. Firearms are neither sufficient nor necessary for protecting democracy.
Funnily enough, we don't have many random shootings in Britain either. Could there be a cause / effect relationship here?
Oh, and by the way, the Nazis were elected into power; it seems highly unlikely that having guns would have prevented anything.
strcmp is also a standard C function... compare_string is not.
Knowing the language doesn't stop at the syntax - you should also make use of the standard libraries, rather than rewriting the same tools all the time.
Horses for courses.
Yes, large systems are difficult to write - whatever the language. But not all systems are large systems. And for small, fast, throwaway projects, VB is not that bad. It also makes a good prototyping tool - as, I'm sure, do lots of other tools.
I agree on the problems of the RAD concept though - to a degree. Sometimes quick and dirty is the right approach; sometimes careful design is. It depends on the application and the requirements.