...because swapping DB engines is a sign of maturity. I don't know your situation.
I work with a big ole AS400 (really, one of the larger ones around, and yes, I know this isn't the epitome of computing) and a clustered MS SQL-2000 DB.
I doubt I'll walk in tomorrow and find we've been converted to Oracle. Internal software isn't focused on conversion, it's focused on getting the most out of a platform.
Did they tie you down, drug you, and threaten your family while forcing you to sign that contract? Hindsight on your part isn't the same as oppresion on their part.
No. If one of the things they add is a processor then there are now multiple processors. This isn't an additional ALU, extra cache, etc. It is an entire processor sharing the same physical package.
I write software for a company that handles $45,000,000+ of client cash every week. A mistake I made in May (discovered this very day, by yours truly) had backed up about $400,000 per week.
Did I get stomped? No.
A bottleneck had been identified, repaired, and eliminated! Behold the power of positive thinking.
You hated working in an office but money earned working in an office is easily come by? Work is work, man. I've worked in cotton fields, on barges, in warehouses, even the occasional office. They've all been hard, just in different ways.
...show you people that have similar tastes as you...
Oh goody. I'll be given a list of things people like me have consumed and so I'll be coerced into acting like people like me. For fuck's sake, people are already sensitive to the choices of the group. Why not codify it and bend serendipity over the coffee table?
I'm that third type. I run a website that is used by about 2,000 people per day. My unobfuscated email address is at the bottom of every page. So I get a tremendous amount of spam along with a decent amount of real mail. I use the Spam Bayes Outlook plugin and it works as well as I need it to. It sorts my mail into Spam, Possible Spam, and Inbox. Anything with a score below 5% remains in the Inbox. Anything with a score of 5% to 97% is sent to possible (usually about 20 emails per day). Anything with a score above 97% is sent to Spam (usually about 160 emails per day). At some point during the day I'll check out the Possibles and either delete them as Spam or return them to the Inbox. Every couple of days I'll scan through the Spambox and delete all Spam. I've only ever caught one misclassified "good" message, and that was what prompted me to raise my threshold to 97% (it had been at 92%). I get a lot of very short emails with mangled syntax, and that looks spammish ('How do I join ur site?' is typical).
In the Beginning was the Command Line is a short book / long essay by Neal Stephenson, available for download here. It deals with many things, mainly with the power of detail over abstraction.
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...am I on crack?
No idea.
Got modpoints?
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An -- em-ploy-ee -- is -- an -- a-sset -- like -- fur-ni-ture.
...because swapping DB engines is a sign of maturity.
I don't know your situation.
I work with a big ole AS400 (really, one of the larger ones around, and yes, I know this isn't the epitome of computing) and a clustered MS SQL-2000 DB.
I doubt I'll walk in tomorrow and find we've been converted to Oracle.
Internal software isn't focused on conversion, it's focused on getting the most out of a platform.
What about where 240v AC isn't concerned?
Did they tie you down, drug you, and threaten your family while forcing you to sign that contract?
Hindsight on your part isn't the same as oppresion on their part.
So you gave her the means to go far, far away?
Gallant is offering your home and your services, not just your services.
RYS::As someone on this very forum replied: dildo.
That reminds me...ever play an arcade game called Afterburner?
I did, after swimming in the Atlantic.
Wet salty skin, big metal handle...it tingled.
...yet the last time I was on a jury, the newscaster next to me in the pool was struck...
No.
If one of the things they add is a processor then there are now multiple processors.
This isn't an additional ALU, extra cache, etc.
It is an entire processor sharing the same physical package.
Not really.
Some nuns have money.
Too right!
Although not technically a blowjob, felching is close.
Skirt the limits, men, skirt the limits.
I write software for a company that handles $45,000,000+ of client cash every week.
A mistake I made in May (discovered this very day, by yours truly) had backed up about $400,000 per week.
Did I get stomped?
No.
A bottleneck had been identified, repaired, and eliminated!
Behold the power of positive thinking.
...then you'll have the runs for life.
Seems more penance, less solution.
You hated working in an office but money earned working in an office is easily come by?
Work is work, man.
I've worked in cotton fields, on barges, in warehouses, even the occasional office.
They've all been hard, just in different ways.
RYS::You forgot "to the death"
Dilettante
WRT the fanboy enema: is lubricant available as an accessory, totally unneeded, or completely overlooked until the drugs wear off?
And God knows Apple doesn't have any money
...show you people that have similar tastes as you...
Oh goody.
I'll be given a list of things people like me have consumed and so I'll be coerced into acting like people like me.
For fuck's sake, people are already sensitive to the choices of the group.
Why not codify it and bend serendipity over the coffee table?
Mod parent sideways!!!!!1!!111!111!1111
+1 reference to Secret Knowledge
Find your own TRON
I'm that third type.
I run a website that is used by about 2,000 people per day.
My unobfuscated email address is at the bottom of every page.
So I get a tremendous amount of spam along with a decent amount of real mail.
I use the Spam Bayes Outlook plugin and it works as well as I need it to.
It sorts my mail into Spam, Possible Spam, and Inbox.
Anything with a score below 5% remains in the Inbox.
Anything with a score of 5% to 97% is sent to possible (usually about 20 emails per day).
Anything with a score above 97% is sent to Spam (usually about 160 emails per day).
At some point during the day I'll check out the Possibles and either delete them as Spam or return them to the Inbox.
Every couple of days I'll scan through the Spambox and delete all Spam.
I've only ever caught one misclassified "good" message, and that was what prompted me to raise my threshold to 97% (it had been at 92%).
I get a lot of very short emails with mangled syntax, and that looks spammish ('How do I join ur site?' is typical).
In the Beginning was the Command Line is a short book / long essay by Neal Stephenson, available for download here.
It deals with many things, mainly with the power of detail over abstraction.
Don't try to patent it.
I've got video of prior art.
I work with a bunch of RPG programmers.
I used to work with a bigger bunch of RPG programmers, but they keep killing themselves.
I wonder what a batch-processed mass suicide looks like?