Given that comets are currently thought of as having a coating of dark carboniferous goo IIRC, it doesn't seem too unlikely that if one hit a small moon, it could leave a black residue, if the impact wasn't sufficient to vaporise and degrade whatever the goo is.
I saw "The Messiah" in the mid-80's, performed by Desmond "Olivier" Dingle and his sidekick, who at the time was played by Jim Broadbent (since of The Borrowers and other movies).
They have also done such epics as Lawrence of Arabia and IIRC The Old Testament.
As might be expected, the mechanics of the production and ego of the director seem to get in the way of the story as often as not...
In fact, there is an Asimov short story in which a character who has spent a long time working on Titan (IIRC) makes a mistake about which gas is flammable/explosive.
The firmware updates on my US Robotics modem never did work properly.
Now I know why.
Circuit hobbyists ... from first principles.
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With no disrepect to the author, this kind of circuit has been discussed and printed in hobbyist magazines ever since I got into electronics over 20 years ago, and a good deal earlier, I imagine.
Next up - how I built my own CPU ?!
But seriously, we still need those people who are prepared to sometimes try things for themselves from first principles, rather than using all-packaged solutions.
The insights gained can be invaluable; the learning process and sense of achievement, gratifying.
The point is that the SAP organisation seems to have a vested interest in maintaining its air of exclusivity, every bit as much as the consultants have an interest in maintaining their salary rates.
It can appeal to its clients' snobbery, and position itself as some kind of privileged club.
Of course, once the clients are "in", they too have an interest in keeping the exclusivity, to justify costs.
I'm not saying it's a bad product (I wouldn't know - I've never been anywhere near it due to aforementioned barriers;-)
SQL was indeed originally called SEQUEL; the name was an acronym for Structured English (not "English-like") Query Language. The name was subsequently changed for legal reasons.
I presume that the "legal reasons" might have been unhappy if they'd changed the spelling but kept the pronunciation !
A quotation from my (old!) 2nd edition of Date's An Introduction to Database Systems Chapter 7, The Data Sublanguage SEQUEL
The original version of SEQUEL... was based on an earlier language called SQUARE...
This book also contains some comments on QUEL, a query sublanguage based on relational calculus.
Plus, if you've got anything with "SAP" on your CV/resume, you can get a higher-paid job.
One of my colleagues has this theory that packages with (very) high entry costs - such as SAP - attract higher pay for experience than those with low/zero entry cost - such as most open source stuff and MySQL, which anyone and their dog can download for free & run on a $100 Linux box.
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Despite SQL guru (and number 2 to Ted Codd) Chris Date stating that it's pronounced S-Q-L, because "SEQUEL" was an earlier database language ?
I emailed Archos with the suggestion about a time-record feature last year. Got an email back saying 'someone would contact me'.
Never heard anything.
Some companies don't see a good idea when it's staring them in the face !
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... someone's noticed !
In any case, wasn't Conway's original Life written to run on a PDP-7 ?
I did write some s/w for that very machine - in BCPL - had to take the paper tape down to the machine room containing said PDP-7 and a couple of Data General Novas (Novae).
Its attraction was that it had a vector graphics display, presumably why Conway used it to run Life.
Rather than specifying a particular plugin model (COM etc.) it goes without saying that you should read and enjoy the classic "Design Patterns" (Gamma,Helm,Johnson,Vlissides pub Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-63361-2).
This will give some insight into component architectures in general, and the way that different approaches are applicable to different modes of use.
One apparent reason for the coder->architect shift is purely financial.
But it fallacious to conclude that since coders are "ten-a-penny", their rates of remuneration should always be lower than someone deemed "an architect".
Following this economy slowdown, look at the rates offered for 'developers' versus 'architects' - even though the most thoroughly experienced coders would probably be good in an architecture role if given the chance.
A troll is just a "gigantic ogre-like creature", and that's what I have in mind when I see a/. reference to a troll !
The alternative definition is "(to take a) prowl, wander or cruise. This alternative form of 'trawl' has existed since the 15th century. It acquired the sexual sense in the 1930s and was a vogue gay term of the 1960s"
Well, for a start I would suggest you improve your design/code reviewing and testing, if there really are that many bugs getting out into the field in the first place.
Not only from the software point of view - it would make available a commodity-priced PowerPC motherboard, something which seems to be rather thin on the ground at the moment.
BTW, you aren't restricted to Mac OS for PowerPC - I got a set of AIX 5L CDs by being a signed-up "Solution Partner".
Given the amount of grief these events cause to power lines, there must be a fair amount of electromagnetic energy available at the Earth's surface.
Does anyone know how easy, or cost-effective it would be to collect and store some of the energy from solar activity, either on a national/state scale, or just over a few hundred metres ?
I realise that suitable events might be infrequent, but they might be a useful renewable energy resource if the amount were significant, even if it just reduced the load on conventional systems for a few days every so often.
There is enough big business out there - including IBM - that does not want to see Linux outlawed.
And since an interactive digital device:
The term "interactive digital device" means any machine, device, product, software, or technology, whether or not included with or as part of some other machine, device, product, software, or technology, that is designed, marketed or used for the primary purpose of, and that is capable of, storing, retrieving, processing, performing, transmitting, receiving, or copying information in digital form
could encompass a wristwatch, microwave oven, burglar alarm, child's toy... it seems unlikely that such a loose specification would be legislated for, since it would make an unenforceable law.
Perhaps the bill's proposers should state what they're really trying to stop - namely, copying of copyrighted material.
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Given that comets are currently thought of as having a coating of dark carboniferous goo IIRC, it doesn't seem too unlikely that if one hit a small moon, it could leave a black residue, if the impact wasn't sufficient to vaporise and degrade whatever the goo is.
If you ever get the chance to see these guys ...
...
I saw "The Messiah" in the mid-80's, performed by Desmond "Olivier" Dingle and his sidekick, who at the time was played by Jim Broadbent (since of The Borrowers and other movies).
They have also done such epics as Lawrence of Arabia and IIRC The Old Testament.
As might be expected, the mechanics of the production and ego of the director seem to get in the way of the story as often as not
marital_status = 'divorced' ?
...
So what does 'marital_status' get set to if a divorced person marries - they're still 'divorced', but now 'married' ?
Maybe just 'marital_status' = 'single' would do - the 'divorce_date' clause would only be true if there had been a recent divorce.
Maybe I should get a life
FYI - both series now out on DVD. Check out on Amazon etc.
...), Nigel Hawthorne (Madness of King George and many others), among others.
Starring the late greats Paul Eddington (Good Life, a Prisoner episode
In fact, there is an Asimov short story in which a character who has spent a long time working on Titan (IIRC) makes a mistake about which gas is flammable/explosive.
Come on, Albert doesn't deserve to be associated with such profanity, here or anywhere else. He's just this guy.
The Daleks, Lt-Cdr. Data, IIRC the new models in the recent film ... where did this orthodoxy originate ?
The firmware updates on my US Robotics modem never did work properly.
Now I know why.
With no disrepect to the author, this kind of circuit has been discussed and printed in hobbyist magazines ever since I got into electronics over 20 years ago, and a good deal earlier, I imagine.
Next up - how I built my own CPU ?!
But seriously, we still need those people who are prepared to sometimes try things for themselves from first principles, rather than using all-packaged solutions.
The insights gained can be invaluable; the learning process and sense of achievement, gratifying.
"The Firebird" is a fairy story ...
(ballet suite by Stravinsky)
The point is that the SAP organisation seems to have a vested interest in maintaining its air of exclusivity, every bit as much as the consultants have an interest in maintaining their salary rates.
;-)
It can appeal to its clients' snobbery, and position itself as some kind of privileged club.
Of course, once the clients are "in", they too have an interest in keeping the exclusivity, to justify costs.
I'm not saying it's a bad product (I wouldn't know - I've never been anywhere near it due to aforementioned barriers
SQL was indeed originally called SEQUEL; the name was an acronym for Structured English (not "English-like") Query Language. The name was subsequently changed for legal reasons.
I presume that the "legal reasons" might have been unhappy if they'd changed the spelling but kept the pronunciation !
A quotation from my (old!) 2nd edition of Date's An Introduction to Database Systems Chapter 7, The Data Sublanguage SEQUEL
The original version of SEQUEL ... was based on an earlier language called SQUARE ...
This book also contains some comments on QUEL, a query sublanguage based on relational calculus.
Plus, if you've got anything with "SAP" on your CV/resume, you can get a higher-paid job.
One of my colleagues has this theory that packages with (very) high entry costs - such as SAP - attract higher pay for experience than those with low/zero entry cost - such as most open source stuff and MySQL, which anyone and their dog can download for free & run on a $100 Linux box.
Despite SQL guru (and number 2 to Ted Codd) Chris Date stating that it's pronounced S-Q-L, because "SEQUEL" was an earlier database language ?
I emailed Archos with the suggestion about a time-record feature last year. Got an email back saying 'someone would contact me'.
Never heard anything.
Some companies don't see a good idea when it's staring them in the face !
... someone's noticed !
In any case, wasn't Conway's original Life written to run on a PDP-7 ?
I did write some s/w for that very machine - in BCPL - had to take the paper tape down to the machine room containing said PDP-7 and a couple of Data General Novas (Novae).
Its attraction was that it had a vector graphics display, presumably why Conway used it to run Life.
Kids of today ? Don't know they're born !
This must have left CDC6xxx programmers confused, ...
what with 18-bit address registers and 60-bit operand registers, and 6-bit characters
Rather than specifying a particular plugin model (COM etc.) it goes without saying that you should read and enjoy the classic "Design Patterns" (Gamma,Helm,Johnson,Vlissides pub Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-63361-2).
This will give some insight into component architectures in general, and the way that different approaches are applicable to different modes of use.
One apparent reason for the coder->architect shift is purely financial.
But it fallacious to conclude that since coders are "ten-a-penny", their rates of remuneration should always be lower than someone deemed "an architect".
Following this economy slowdown, look at the rates offered for 'developers' versus 'architects' - even though the most thoroughly experienced coders would probably be good in an architecture role if given the chance.
Surely they mean "trawling" ?!
/. reference to a troll !
A troll is just a "gigantic ogre-like creature", and that's what I have in mind when I see a
The alternative definition is "(to take a) prowl, wander or cruise. This alternative form of 'trawl' has existed since the 15th century. It acquired the sexual sense in the 1930s and was a vogue gay term of the 1960s"
(From xrefer.com)
Well, for a start I would suggest you improve your design/code reviewing and testing, if there really are that many bugs getting out into the field in the first place.
Don't fix them - avoid them in the first place.
;-)
Not only from the software point of view - it would make available a commodity-priced PowerPC motherboard, something which seems to be rather thin on the ground at the moment.
BTW, you aren't restricted to Mac OS for PowerPC - I got a set of AIX 5L CDs by being a signed-up "Solution Partner".
Given the amount of grief these events cause to power lines, there must be a fair amount of electromagnetic energy available at the Earth's surface.
...?
Does anyone know how easy, or cost-effective it would be to collect and store some of the energy from solar activity, either on a national/state scale, or just over a few hundred metres ?
I realise that suitable events might be infrequent, but they might be a useful renewable energy resource if the amount were significant, even if it just reduced the load on conventional systems for a few days every so often.
Or would the "Wh" not be worth the hassle
For the two which rock, I suggest you check that the feet underneath the box are all the same height.
For the one which sucks, check the fan wiring - it should BLOW.
And since an interactive digital device:
could encompass a wristwatch, microwave oven, burglar alarm, child's toyPerhaps the bill's proposers should state what they're really trying to stop - namely, copying of copyrighted material.