I watched the first few seasons - it was... serviceable, not bad, not great. Some review awhile ago called it "Your basic meat and potatoes escapism", I think that's pretty spot on.
I stopped watching mostly because Michael Shanks' character annoys the hell out of me, and the storylines became increasingly about stroking his, um, ego. I mean how many episodes do you really need centered around his whining: "We should totally do the right thing, you guys!" then saving the team, some ancient civilization, the earth and in fact the entire galaxy with some brilliant discovery and/or single-handedly taking out all the baddies in a sudden burst of masculine prowess. All the while all the other characters stare at each other blankly and randomly walk into walls: "Save us Daniel! Save us with your unwavering morals and your massive intellect!"
I mean geez, they made him a god for a season, wtf?
The puppets were one of the best parts of the show. Maybe it's just me, but I've always found suspension of disbelief came easier with good animatronics than with CGI stuff. Maybe it's because with the puppets the actors have something more substantial than a blue-screen to interact with. Cheesy as it may be, Pilot on the set is the same Pilot we see onscreen.
I've done a few fun things with XML-RPC myself, especially came in handy for getting Perl and Java to talk to each other. I was just wondering what SOAP offers over and above XML-RPC that justifies its awesome bloat.
A related question - has anyone actually figured out a way to do something useful with SOAP, where the benefits outweigh the gigantic PITA of developing and debugging with SOAP? Oh, and with acceptable performance?
Out of curiousity, could you be more specific about the "bloat" in Apache?
I have a few apache reverse proxies going here for various purposes and it seems like they are plenty fast and have quite a tiny footprint (and took all of about 5 minutes to set up).
Of course it could be because all my actual apps are in mod_perl and it's only by comparison that "vanilla" apache seems small?
Voting with your wallet means you buy something or you don't. The fact that you choose to take it anyway is separate.
Not exactly, I'd say that "voting with your wallet" is the more general process of altering your purchasing habits in hopes that it will attract the attention of the corporation(s) whose products/services you are dissatisfied with. Sure they'll chalk it up to greed on my part, but that doesn't mean that their outmoded distribution model kept in place by oligopoly power isn't part of my decision process. Oh, and please don't read any sort of justification into this, I'm merely making a few observations.
The term "vote" caries certain positive connentations in this society.
I wouldn't be so quick to speak for the entire society (whichever one you mean). I'd say voting is simply the expression of your support for one of several presented options; there is nothing intrinsicaly noble about it, no guarantee that your vote will be consulted or that it was even solicited. And certainly no guarantee that it's cast with pure motives. Yes, it's the more general meaning of 'vote' (as you've noted with your examples), but "vote with your wallet" isn't exactly a strict and technical phrase.
So, I am greatly dissatisfied with the current state of affairs, there is no legitimate option for me to throw my wallet behind, so I am choosing the option which will, most likely, force the issue at some point and change the status quo, one way or the other. To me, that fits the meaning of he quoted phrase, I certainly wasn't trying to elevate myself.
Just for the record, if you're such a proponent of free stuff, exactly what have you contributed back to the public?
Well, I thought I was posting at least a half-funny joke, but apparently I was wrong.
This isn't really about "free stuff", anyway. Why should the entire creative corpus of our generation be controlled by a few companies, and something as culturally pervasive as music be traded on a quid pro quo basis? There are far better means of compensating the actual artists far more fairly, and the only thing standing in the way of progress in this area is corporate greed. Well, personal greed seems like the perfect weapon against that.
I've consistently seen 10-15 minutes of TV ads before the previews, depends on where you live I suppose. Some are significantly longer than 30 seconds.
Don't really mind the previews though, all too often they end up being much more fun than the movie itself.
If it's a tall illuminated tower, it's not very natural.
"Natural" is quite a loaded term - they co-inhabit an environment with a species that puts up giant illuminated towers; those birds that do not immediately see that as an invitation to fly into the towers and kill themselves are more fit for the environment and will be selected for.
And lets face it, we are going to be putting up a lot of tall shiny crap. The faster the birds learn to adapt to that, the better off they will be in the long run. There is no point in trying to mess with nature.
Um yeah, they pretty much have been for the last four years, and sure as hell will for the next four. There's really not much more that the Democrats need to do to let them, they've rolled over a long time ago.
Sorry, but the verb is transitive in both cases and "the question" is the direct object for both meanings.
I am sure I'll get yelled at for repeating the explanation again, but both (unrelated) meanings of 'aiteisthai' - 'beg' and 'assume' would be transitive in this case, it's just that the more confusing one was chosen when translating the phrase.
You know, I generally agree with you, I just can't stand the idiotic "popular" use of 'begs the question' (and no, the vast majority of people don't know the correct meaning).
There's already a perfectly serviceable phrase that means 'raises the question', why on earth would you want to substitute a cool and useful phrase like 'begs the question' as just another variant of the boring pedestrian one?
If I take 'begs the question' to mean 'raises the question' then what would you suggest I use to mean 'begs the question'?
If you happen to be a U.S. citizen or resident, it is unlawful for the U.S. government to monitor your communications without a warrant.
This was true at some point (roughly before 2001) which is why they needed the giant loophole of international spying, but they pretty much don't have to bother with loopholes anymore.
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See 'tablefunc' in the 'contrib' directory of the postgres source. It's trivial to install and, among other things, provides the connectby() function.
I haven't had need to use this in a real application, but it does work quite well with a non-trivial test dataset.
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Is there a database that manages many-to-many joins without some sort of intermediate table? Wow...that would be cool to see!
I think this would be cool only until you started using it in a real project.
If you really wanted to abstract the linking table out, the proper place to do it is probably in the app, not the database. Hibernate does this for you, but as they themselves point out, it's probably a bad idea, not the least reason for which is that in all but the most trivial apps, you eventually start to want to put extra data into that linking table.
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Of course. Most programming languages implement much functionality as extensions, which are not part of the "core" language - doesn't really mean that SQL needs to be replaced. If you mean that MySQL isn't broken for not implementing them, that's true also; it's broken because it doesn't implement many features which are part of the SQL spec (or are so common as to be de facto standards).
Though I would argue that they are not in fact all that incompatible: the syntax is different but they accomplish the same thing, you should only see the difference in your persistence layer (which would have many other, but still mostly syntactical differences).
I am not a big fan of either one really, this was just brought up as an example by the OP.
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You forgot the one where Microsoft products spontaniously cure cancer, while open source sporadically rapes your dog.
I stopped watching mostly because Michael Shanks' character annoys the hell out of me, and the storylines became increasingly about stroking his, um, ego. I mean how many episodes do you really need centered around his whining: "We should totally do the right thing, you guys!" then saving the team, some ancient civilization, the earth and in fact the entire galaxy with some brilliant discovery and/or single-handedly taking out all the baddies in a sudden burst of masculine prowess. All the while all the other characters stare at each other blankly and randomly walk into walls: "Save us Daniel! Save us with your unwavering morals and your massive intellect!"
I mean geez, they made him a god for a season, wtf?
The puppets were one of the best parts of the show. Maybe it's just me, but I've always found suspension of disbelief came easier with good animatronics than with CGI stuff. Maybe it's because with the puppets the actors have something more substantial than a blue-screen to interact with. Cheesy as it may be, Pilot on the set is the same Pilot we see onscreen.
I've been getting TV over my DSL connection for a long time now... well, until suprnova went down at least.
I've done a few fun things with XML-RPC myself, especially came in handy for getting Perl and Java to talk to each other. I was just wondering what SOAP offers over and above XML-RPC that justifies its awesome bloat.
A related question - has anyone actually figured out a way to do something useful with SOAP, where the benefits outweigh the gigantic PITA of developing and debugging with SOAP? Oh, and with acceptable performance?
I have a few apache reverse proxies going here for various purposes and it seems like they are plenty fast and have quite a tiny footprint (and took all of about 5 minutes to set up).
Of course it could be because all my actual apps are in mod_perl and it's only by comparison that "vanilla" apache seems small?
Seems it needs to screw with your registry to do it - after I denied the change it wanted just an empty windows came up (no content, no controls).
Not exactly, I'd say that "voting with your wallet" is the more general process of altering your purchasing habits in hopes that it will attract the attention of the corporation(s) whose products/services you are dissatisfied with. Sure they'll chalk it up to greed on my part, but that doesn't mean that their outmoded distribution model kept in place by oligopoly power isn't part of my decision process. Oh, and please don't read any sort of justification into this, I'm merely making a few observations.
The term "vote" caries certain positive connentations in this society.
I wouldn't be so quick to speak for the entire society (whichever one you mean). I'd say voting is simply the expression of your support for one of several presented options; there is nothing intrinsicaly noble about it, no guarantee that your vote will be consulted or that it was even solicited. And certainly no guarantee that it's cast with pure motives. Yes, it's the more general meaning of 'vote' (as you've noted with your examples), but "vote with your wallet" isn't exactly a strict and technical phrase.
So, I am greatly dissatisfied with the current state of affairs, there is no legitimate option for me to throw my wallet behind, so I am choosing the option which will, most likely, force the issue at some point and change the status quo, one way or the other. To me, that fits the meaning of he quoted phrase, I certainly wasn't trying to elevate myself.
Just for the record, if you're such a proponent of free stuff, exactly what have you contributed back to the public?
Well, I thought I was posting at least a half-funny joke, but apparently I was wrong.
This isn't really about "free stuff", anyway. Why should the entire creative corpus of our generation be controlled by a few companies, and something as culturally pervasive as music be traded on a quid pro quo basis? There are far better means of compensating the actual artists far more fairly, and the only thing standing in the way of progress in this area is corporate greed. Well, personal greed seems like the perfect weapon against that.
Tits, mostly.
Well, technically it's taking someone's work without someone else's permission.
And weather or not you approve of it, it is voting with my wallet - I voted for free stuff copied from others.
Though I don't think I was claiming any sort of "moral high ground", you just kinda made that part up, didn't you?
Don't really mind the previews though, all too often they end up being much more fun than the movie itself.
I thought I was!
But apparently suprnova is now going to get sued because of it.
"Natural" is quite a loaded term - they co-inhabit an environment with a species that puts up giant illuminated towers; those birds that do not immediately see that as an invitation to fly into the towers and kill themselves are more fit for the environment and will be selected for.
And lets face it, we are going to be putting up a lot of tall shiny crap. The faster the birds learn to adapt to that, the better off they will be in the long run. There is no point in trying to mess with nature.
Again with the birds! Birds will fly into just about anything over 5 feet tall - it's called "natural selection".
Yeah, but they can show tits on TV.
Um yeah, they pretty much have been for the last four years, and sure as hell will for the next four. There's really not much more that the Democrats need to do to let them, they've rolled over a long time ago.
I am sure I'll get yelled at for repeating the explanation again, but both (unrelated) meanings of 'aiteisthai' - 'beg' and 'assume' would be transitive in this case, it's just that the more confusing one was chosen when translating the phrase.
There's already a perfectly serviceable phrase that means 'raises the question', why on earth would you want to substitute a cool and useful phrase like 'begs the question' as just another variant of the boring pedestrian one?
If I take 'begs the question' to mean 'raises the question' then what would you suggest I use to mean 'begs the question'?
How does being a "AAA title" comport with sucking? Doom3 was very pretty, but it was just about the most generic game ever made.
I'm sure I've seen those smileys used on IRC...
This was true at some point (roughly before 2001) which is why they needed the giant loophole of international spying, but they pretty much don't have to bother with loopholes anymore.
I haven't had need to use this in a real application, but it does work quite well with a non-trivial test dataset.
I think this would be cool only until you started using it in a real project.
If you really wanted to abstract the linking table out, the proper place to do it is probably in the app, not the database. Hibernate does this for you, but as they themselves point out, it's probably a bad idea, not the least reason for which is that in all but the most trivial apps, you eventually start to want to put extra data into that linking table.
Though I would argue that they are not in fact all that incompatible: the syntax is different but they accomplish the same thing, you should only see the difference in your persistence layer (which would have many other, but still mostly syntactical differences).
I am not a big fan of either one really, this was just brought up as an example by the OP.