You have cars on blocks in your yards? BAH! Try going to Maine where most rural homes (except for the trophy houses on the coast) not only have old cars rotting in the weeds but also have every water heater they have ever owned sitting in the front yard. If you are a woman over the age of 70 then you are required to maintain a huge collection of the tackiest yard ornaments known to man. Rotting wood shingles and missing roof shingles add that special touch of class!
(In Maine's defense though the state is gorgeous, Baxter SP and Arcadia NP are amazing, and I always stop at Moody's Diner in Waldoboro for wild blueberry pie.)
I had to go to so many interviews for one job that my boss at the time finally said "Either you have really bad teeth or you are looking for another job." Lets just say I had good teeth.
I guess you equate death, fear, and misery with freedom. Now they can write letters to the editor of the local paper from the rubble that used to be their home (assuming the US doesn't shut the paper down). Lucky them!
"$147,000,000,000..."
I hope you don't bitch about your taxes come April. Don't complain about run down national parks, your grandma's medicare, rotten VA hospitals, and everything else that money could've gone to. For someone so patriotic you seem to put more importance in Iraq than you do in the US.
"but at least I know my country _did_ something"
Taking pride in pointless violence! Good for you! Sometimes the "solution" is worse than the problem.
Really? I've installed Oracle 9i at least a dozen times in the last year and the install process has been relatively painless and I'm certainly not an expert admin. The documentation is light because most of the work is at the OS level (we put it on Linux) getting the environment setup for it and even that is something you'd have to do for any software package.
"most corporate customers think "Database" = "Oracle" and never really go out there to investigate the alternatives"
Oracle has a large resource in experienced developers and admins you can hire to run things. Oracle is also far more scalable than MySQL and can be tweaked to the nth degree. You have a large variety of 3rd party management tools, processing (Informatica), and backup (Veritas) to choose from. There is also the simple matter of Oracle having a proven track record and that the org may already have an Oracle system and doesn't want to wade through the muck of changing to another.
Like other posters have said, MySQL has a place, it is just different from Oracle's.
You hit on an intersting idea, the phone as a universal remote. Maybe they could stick an infrared transmitter on the end of it and put in a library of electronic control codes (TVs, stereos, etc). The phone could become a real "swiss army knife" electronic device.
Plus you could use the infrared device for transfering info between phones (contact info) but Bluetooth obviously can do that also.
Phones can get too small though. Many of the phones now are so short they barely reach from my ear to my mouth. No wonder people have to yell into the things!
Start rolling out the "She is hot" and "I'd like her to play with my joystick" comments.
One more thing, can Slashdot's editors please stop whining about NYT's registration? To read their news for free just for filling in some info seems like a generous trade.
Personally, I think Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle is just a limit of technology, not something that should be made into a Law. Just because we can't see quanta without affecting them now doesn't mean we never will.
HUP isn't an engineering rule it is a physical limit. Unless you can find a way to observe something without interacting with it somehow then you'll never escape HUP. It is a fundamental limitation of our universe.
No company likes to have knowledge of its plans to discontinue a product released early since no one wants to buy a product that is going to be orphaned. I'm sure Sony doesn't want sales of its plasma screens to die off before it is ready to announce it so it can clear out its inventory and current orders and contracts.
"The statistical risk of humans getting wiped out in the next 100 years due to a super volcano or asteroid or comet impact is 1 in 455. How does that relate? You're 10 times more likely to get wiped out by a civilization-ending event in the next 100 years than you are getting killed in a commercial airline crash."
John Young has determined however that this can only be avoided by doubling NASA's budget.
If that is the case then I agree that 9 years is overkill. Maybe they are being singled out to "make an example of them". Hopefully they can appeal for a fairer sentence.
Agreed, these guys would have ripped off a EFF card carrying Slashdotter as quickly as the head of the RIAA. They tried to screw over innocent people. As to whether they deserved 9 years though, I'd say 9 years for this crime alone is too harsh but I have a feeling that they had a long history of felonies that finally broke the camel's back.
They could just monitor the phone call or put some sort of electronic delay in his transmissions so they'd have a chance to block something like that (as long as they warn him first). Television censors delay transmissions all the time.
It isn't up to the police to arbitrarily suspend basic rights. We're all one false accusation away from being in the same situation ourselves.
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Climbing the phone pole worked on Green Acres.
You have cars on blocks in your yards? BAH! Try going to Maine where most rural homes (except for the trophy houses on the coast) not only have old cars rotting in the weeds but also have every water heater they have ever owned sitting in the front yard. If you are a woman over the age of 70 then you are required to maintain a huge collection of the tackiest yard ornaments known to man. Rotting wood shingles and missing roof shingles add that special touch of class!
(In Maine's defense though the state is gorgeous, Baxter SP and Arcadia NP are amazing, and I always stop at Moody's Diner in Waldoboro for wild blueberry pie.)
I wonder how he came up with the money to make bail? Hmmm...
Wait until you see where I'm putting an ad (+product demo) for Viagra!
"Of course, .50 cal might be a better and cheaper option, but would be easier to spot due to noise."
Easier to spot? As opposed to a very bright beam (due to atmospheric diffusion) running straight back to the source?
I'm sure that the plastic "spokes" are exposed only as a cut-away demonstration of the tire's construction.
I had to go to so many interviews for one job that my boss at the time finally said "Either you have really bad teeth or you are looking for another job." Lets just say I had good teeth.
I haven't seen anyone make the obvious joke yet:
"I told her I was going to make the earth move last night, and I sure did baby!"
Ba-dum-dum!
I guess you equate death, fear, and misery with freedom. Now they can write letters to the editor of the local paper from the rubble that used to be their home (assuming the US doesn't shut the paper down). Lucky them!
"$147,000,000,000..."
I hope you don't bitch about your taxes come April. Don't complain about run down national parks, your grandma's medicare, rotten VA hospitals, and everything else that money could've gone to. For someone so patriotic you seem to put more importance in Iraq than you do in the US.
"but at least I know my country _did_ something"
Taking pride in pointless violence! Good for you! Sometimes the "solution" is worse than the problem.
Look into what? Where?
To increase funding to themselves by 200% by 2006 even if it means resorting to Fox News-esque scare tactics.
Really? I've installed Oracle 9i at least a dozen times in the last year and the install process has been relatively painless and I'm certainly not an expert admin. The documentation is light because most of the work is at the OS level (we put it on Linux) getting the environment setup for it and even that is something you'd have to do for any software package.
"most corporate customers think "Database" = "Oracle" and never really go out there to investigate the alternatives"
Oracle has a large resource in experienced developers and admins you can hire to run things. Oracle is also far more scalable than MySQL and can be tweaked to the nth degree. You have a large variety of 3rd party management tools, processing (Informatica), and backup (Veritas) to choose from. There is also the simple matter of Oracle having a proven track record and that the org may already have an Oracle system and doesn't want to wade through the muck of changing to another.
Like other posters have said, MySQL has a place, it is just different from Oracle's.
You hit on an intersting idea, the phone as a universal remote. Maybe they could stick an infrared transmitter on the end of it and put in a library of electronic control codes (TVs, stereos, etc). The phone could become a real "swiss army knife" electronic device.
Plus you could use the infrared device for transfering info between phones (contact info) but Bluetooth obviously can do that also.
Phones can get too small though. Many of the phones now are so short they barely reach from my ear to my mouth. No wonder people have to yell into the things!
"just ask my husband"
I'd say you are too late.
"To submit your views for free, without filling out some info"
/. account as opposed to going as an AC.
Actually I did fill out some info when I started this
Start rolling out the "She is hot" and "I'd like her to play with my joystick" comments.
One more thing, can Slashdot's editors please stop whining about NYT's registration? To read their news for free just for filling in some info seems like a generous trade.
HUP isn't an engineering rule it is a physical limit. Unless you can find a way to observe something without interacting with it somehow then you'll never escape HUP. It is a fundamental limitation of our universe.
No company likes to have knowledge of its plans to discontinue a product released early since no one wants to buy a product that is going to be orphaned. I'm sure Sony doesn't want sales of its plasma screens to die off before it is ready to announce it so it can clear out its inventory and current orders and contracts.
"The statistical risk of humans getting wiped out in the next 100 years due to a super volcano or asteroid or comet impact is 1 in 455. How does that relate? You're 10 times more likely to get wiped out by a civilization-ending event in the next 100 years than you are getting killed in a commercial airline crash."
John Young has determined however that this can only be avoided by doubling NASA's budget.
I wonder what else he has hidden up his ass?
If that is the case then I agree that 9 years is overkill. Maybe they are being singled out to "make an example of them". Hopefully they can appeal for a fairer sentence.
I plan on carrying around a picture of my cat's face for holding up to the camera in just such situations.
"Sir, this package was clearly sent by a group of radical tabbys!"
Agreed, these guys would have ripped off a EFF card carrying Slashdotter as quickly as the head of the RIAA. They tried to screw over innocent people. As to whether they deserved 9 years though, I'd say 9 years for this crime alone is too harsh but I have a feeling that they had a long history of felonies that finally broke the camel's back.
They could just monitor the phone call or put some sort of electronic delay in his transmissions so they'd have a chance to block something like that (as long as they warn him first). Television censors delay transmissions all the time.
It isn't up to the police to arbitrarily suspend basic rights. We're all one false accusation away from being in the same situation ourselves.