Neither of these normalize vendor specific dialects...
Minor nitpick, but that should be "Neither of these completely normalize vendor specific dialects." ODBC function substitution (e.g. "{fn CONCAT(x,y)}") normalizes out some basic things, but probably won't cover everything you might want to do.
There are a ton of differences that are not normalized away by ODBC, including really basic functionality like the SQL code to drop or add multiple columns (and the need by some to manually drop indexes before dropping the columns, or the need to do a REORG TABLE after dropping columns). And, in spite of how incredibly old the ODBC standard is, ODBC drivers still don't implement some things or implement them incorrectly, so you really can't expect things to work with different DBMSs without testing.
Wouldn't our smartphones be capable of everything of what a calculator can do?
Yes, and more, like allowing a student to text an answer to another student during a test. Still, it is impressive that they think they can charge so much for a device whose only selling point is that it is too hobbled to cheat with.
The plasma.active.org homepage renders fine for me in Seamonkey 2.3.3. The only noticeable difference between it and Firefox 15.0.1 or Chrome 22.0.1229.94m on Windows is that it displays with a sans-serif font instead of a serif font. Are you looking at something other than the homepage, or did they maybe fix it after your post?
The bottom of the first page in Phoronix's benchmarks says "The disk drive being used for all testing was a high-end 160GB Intel SSD." Since different filesystems are optimized for different things, it seems such benchmarks could be completely irrelevant for anyone using hard drives (where seek times are very significant compared to SSD).
Those guys at Best Buy ripped me off. They said it was a wireless router but I still need to plug it in! WTF?!?!?!
Best Buy didn't make it clear that there were wires involved? What is the name of the sales associate who failed to offer you a Monster power cable for your router? He must be fired!
Slashdot linked to the blog's homepage instead of the specific blog entry with the video, so the link isn't going to give the right result if they post anything else to the blog.
authorities will be able to integrate all kinds of services, such as traffic tickets
Remember the bad old days, when police inconvenienced you with long stops while they wrote you a ticket just when you most urgently needed to get somewhere? Well, those days are gone! Now, a pile of tickets will arrive in your mail each day without you ever being held up by those pesky police. We hope you appreciate the convenience we've brought you while you're speeding off to your destination.
Sensorly.com provides coverage maps from user-generated data. I don't know how good the quality of the data is, but it allows you to compare many different carriers and avoids relying on the carriers themselves.
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ODBC? JDBC?
Neither of these normalize vendor specific dialects...
Minor nitpick, but that should be "Neither of these completely normalize vendor specific dialects." ODBC function substitution (e.g. "{fn CONCAT(x,y)}") normalizes out some basic things, but probably won't cover everything you might want to do.
There are a ton of differences that are not normalized away by ODBC, including really basic functionality like the SQL code to drop or add multiple columns (and the need by some to manually drop indexes before dropping the columns, or the need to do a REORG TABLE after dropping columns). And, in spite of how incredibly old the ODBC standard is, ODBC drivers still don't implement some things or implement them incorrectly, so you really can't expect things to work with different DBMSs without testing.
Apparently SUSE Enterprise Linux thinks so, as of last week.
The i7 3770K has a TDP of 95W
Intel's website says 77 W while various websites say the retail packaging says 95 W. Weird.
iPad Mini Commercial (Jimmy Kimmel)
You're welcome.
Wouldn't our smartphones be capable of everything of what a calculator can do?
Yes, and more, like allowing a student to text an answer to another student during a test. Still, it is impressive that they think they can charge so much for a device whose only selling point is that it is too hobbled to cheat with.
Yep. She just called me on Nov 2 at 3:53pm Eastern. I sometimes get the impression that our government is completely ineffective.
I meant to mention that I'm running Seamonkey on Linux.
The plasma.active.org homepage renders fine for me in Seamonkey 2.3.3. The only noticeable difference between it and Firefox 15.0.1 or Chrome 22.0.1229.94m on Windows is that it displays with a sans-serif font instead of a serif font. Are you looking at something other than the homepage, or did they maybe fix it after your post?
Good God man....that won't even pay for the pizza, much less the Mountain Dew!
Pizza and Mountain Dew? Grad students are so spoiled these days...
A 1.8 dollar project. Man. NASA must really love those budget cuts
The "team of researchers" is actually a bunch of grad students -- they'll have money left over when the project is completed.
Callcentric apparently had a single datacenter in NYC with no backup power generator. Lots of discussion here.
Callcentric has no backup power, so their phone service is down nationwide.
Yes, really, by a large margin.
That kid is Eric Cartman (audio is NSFW).
The bottom of the first page in Phoronix's benchmarks says "The disk drive being used for all testing was a high-end 160GB Intel SSD." Since different filesystems are optimized for different things, it seems such benchmarks could be completely irrelevant for anyone using hard drives (where seek times are very significant compared to SSD).
Those guys at Best Buy ripped me off. They said it was a wireless router but I still need to plug it in! WTF?!?!?!
Best Buy didn't make it clear that there were wires involved? What is the name of the sales associate who failed to offer you a Monster power cable for your router? He must be fired!
What am I missing here?
64% for Romney
41% for Obama
105% total
No I haven't read the article to see if those numbers in the summary match...
-5% for Ron Paul
I know nothing about Diaspora, but I'm sure it's a hell of a lot more than you have ever done.
How can you be so sure? S/He's an AC, just like you.
He is sure because he is replying to himself.
Slashdot linked to the blog's homepage instead of the specific blog entry with the video, so the link isn't going to give the right result if they post anything else to the blog.
authorities will be able to integrate all kinds of services, such as traffic tickets
Remember the bad old days, when police inconvenienced you with long stops while they wrote you a ticket just when you most urgently needed to get somewhere? Well, those days are gone! Now, a pile of tickets will arrive in your mail each day without you ever being held up by those pesky police. We hope you appreciate the convenience we've brought you while you're speeding off to your destination.
Sincerely,
Big Brother
Sensorly.com provides coverage maps from user-generated data. I don't know how good the quality of the data is, but it allows you to compare many different carriers and avoids relying on the carriers themselves.
And the motorcycles.
It's all about our narcissistic society. "Hey look at me! I'm special!"
Yep. South Park did an episode on it, and nailed it as usual.
My comment was intended to address the issue raised in the post I was replying to, nothing else.