Err... I'm going to assume that you're saying I'm stupid, rather than agreeing with me. If you were in fact agreeing with me, then you can ignore all the rest of this, but maybe try and find something better to do than writing "me too" posts on Slashdot (although, arguably, the same could be said about any posting on Slashdot, particularly what follows:-).
From the article: "Currently the game has been released to North America, Canada, South Korea, and Australia". In a list like this, the commas mean "and", which, combined with the fact that, as you so perceptively note, Canada is part of North America, makes the sentence a tautology. My original post was a brief and possibly even mildly amusing note to that effect.
Maybe someone should take English.
Incidentally, for future reference, you'll notice that I finished my post with "Eh?". This is an almost-witty device commonly used by people making comments about Canada who have a vague idea about what goes on there. The "two languages" refers to the fact that Canada has in fact two official languages - another sign that maybe I know where Canada is on the map. In fact, there are even people whose families have been here for centuries and who don't speak any English at all! Amazing, Eh?
:-). But maybe a more appropriate title for this comment would have been "Finer points of living on a diverse planet for ethnocentric Americans". In the restoftheEnglishspeakingworld, we have no problems with Celsius.
Sadly that's a little too close to what actually may have happened in the fantastically free and fair elections that the west has managed to organise in Afghanistan
Which made me wonder whether when, during the third debate, President's Bush boasted that, "the first person to vote in that election was a 19 year old girl", he might also have been correct to say that she was the second person, and the third person...
Nice story, but was this man really "dumb" too? You say that he used some noises, which suggests that he wasn't.
People often append "... and dumb" to "deaf" without really thinking about it. It's usually an inaccurate description. Most deaf people can speak, although lots prefer to use a sign language if possible.
"Dumb" also carries with it the pejorative meaning of "stupid", which makes it particularly worth avoiding using inaccurately (some would suggest never using it at all).
By all means develop this kind of stuff as a stand alone library (although, as the previous poster suggested, it should be based on a language independent standard to be of any real use) but putting it in the Java spec is like mandating that every car in North America should come with a spare set of snow tyres.
Snow tyres are very useful if you live in Quebec, but an unnecessary pain in the arse to have to store if you never leave Florida. In general, Quebecers are pretty good at heading down to Canadian Tyre when the white stuff starts settling in for the winter. Java developers can similarly be expected to know what they need in their classpaths.
I did misinterpret you, but that was because the following statement didn't seem all that relevant:
Changing one SP inherently does not change another SP. In order to create the SP you the server does a check against data constraints on all tables/views involved. Again, this is the same for both Oracle and MS SQL
On the other hand, maybe I'm also not so arrogant that I to think that I'll get it all right the first time. And even if I do manage to get it right first time, maybe I'm imaginative enough to think that maybe there will be future requirements or changes in business processes that I couldn't possibly anticipate at the moment.
Are you seriously suggesting that once you've designed the DB you'll never have to go back in there and change things?
10) They make team development hard. When I'm writing java or C++, or whatever, I can usually build and run whatever application I'm writing locally, so I can develop new functionality without affecting other people in the team. Most projects that I've worked on use 1 or 2 development databases. This means that if you're developping stored procs, you have the following choices:
Risk breaking something that someone else is relying on whilst you debug your code.
Create a replica db to develop your stored procs in. But this can be a pain if your application requires sensible data to be in the db.
Piss around creating duplicately named stored procs in the main dev DB.
None of which are particularly great.
I'm actually unsure what the hell you mean by version control
That much is clear.
Version control means CVS, RCS, Perforce, Clearcase, Sourcesafe, or the like. Strictly speaking, the original poster is wrong, in the sense that it's quite possible to check your stored procs into a version control system. However, they're also on the right lines, in the sense that publishing stored procs from the version control system to the db is usually more of a pain to manage than building source code.
This is an updated verson of a very old (middle ages) tradition of monastaries doing some specialized task (and doing it well) and using thier product to sell or barter for needed supplies, food, etc...
McCoy and his main monk helper, Brother Matthew Ludick, dabbled in a bit of in-house manufacturing before realizing they couldn't keep up with demand nor guarantee top-flight work.
McCoy then negotiated with a number of contract manufacturers to outsource orders
Interestingly, what they're specialising in is the monk brand. They don't do any of the manufacture, and they outsource the fulfillment and the customer management too.
Now, all they need to do is learn from the other very old Christian tradition of excellent franchise management...
This could be analogous to two people in moderate shape being able to pile more wood in total, than a single person who's in great shape
Could be, but isn't. A better analogy would be two people using the same narrow corridor to perform to chop and pile wood. If one piles wood, whilst the other chops, then they perform better than one person. If they both chop wood, and then both pile wood then they waste lots of time trying to squeeze past each other and accidentally hitting each other with axes.
Okay, so it's not that much better an analogy. But it least it bears some relevance to HyperThreading.
What I wrote is incorrect. The chart is showing dollar value of transfers.
However, the chart only shows data for conventional weapons - and complete conventional weapons systems at that. So actually, the 3 points are still accurate. The supergun isn't counted. More importantly, chemical weapons aren't counted.
Probably the most important thing to say about the chart, however, is that the suggestion that France and Russia opposed the war in Iraq purely because they supported Saddam Hussain and that they supported Saddam because they sold him weapons is ridiculous. Does the US oppose the Intifada because it sells Israel weapons, or because it believes that an armed response against Israel is the wrong thing to do?
I also appear to have written "failed" rather than "fairly". Sorry.
Good point. He clearly can't be put on trial in any international court. Partly because the US doesn't recognise the only one that we have, but mostly because he hasn't committed any obvious war-crimes.
However, he can be put on trial by the people of Iraq. The interesting thing is establishing the legitimacy of a court and fulfilling any punishment imposed.
If he's tried by an Iraqi court, and lets assume that the death penalty doesn't get imposed (because of international pressure from Europe), what on earth is the US going to do when he gets let out at the end of his sentence? Or when a more Arab-nationalist government is elected and frees him. This is assuming it's possible to convict him in the first place.
Turn your foil hat up to ultra-paranoid and you'll understand that it's not actually SH that's been captured. It's a double. The US is lying about the DNA evidence so that they can put a stooge that will say the right things under cross examination on trial.
Meanwhile, the real SH is sitting down to dinner with Bin Laden and GW as they discuss the next steps in world domination...
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Maybe someone should take geography...
Err ... I'm going to assume that you're saying I'm stupid, rather than agreeing with me. If you were in fact agreeing with me, then you can ignore all the rest of this, but maybe try and find something better to do than writing "me too" posts on Slashdot (although, arguably, the same could be said about any posting on Slashdot, particularly what follows :-).
From the article: "Currently the game has been released to North America, Canada, South Korea, and Australia". In a list like this, the commas mean "and", which, combined with the fact that, as you so perceptively note, Canada is part of North America, makes the sentence a tautology. My original post was a brief and possibly even mildly amusing note to that effect.
Maybe someone should take English.
Incidentally, for future reference, you'll notice that I finished my post with "Eh?". This is an almost-witty device commonly used by people making comments about Canada who have a vague idea about what goes on there. The "two languages" refers to the fact that Canada has in fact two official languages - another sign that maybe I know where Canada is on the map. In fact, there are even people whose families have been here for centuries and who don't speak any English at all! Amazing, Eh?
Two languages, two releases eh?
no i didn't.
Although I did forget a few other African countries, and New Zealand.
:-). But maybe a more appropriate title for this comment would have been "Finer points of living on a diverse planet for ethnocentric Americans". In the rest of the English speaking world, we have no problems with Celsius.
Which made me wonder whether when, during the third debate, President's Bush boasted that, "the first person to vote in that election was a 19 year old girl", he might also have been correct to say that she was the second person, and the third person ...
People often append "... and dumb" to "deaf" without really thinking about it. It's usually an inaccurate description. Most deaf people can speak, although lots prefer to use a sign language if possible.
"Dumb" also carries with it the pejorative meaning of "stupid", which makes it particularly worth avoiding using inaccurately (some would suggest never using it at all).
I learned to spell in Britain. Hence "arse" aswell.
Snow tyres are very useful if you live in Quebec, but an unnecessary pain in the arse to have to store if you never leave Florida. In general, Quebecers are pretty good at heading down to Canadian Tyre when the white stuff starts settling in for the winter. Java developers can similarly be expected to know what they need in their classpaths.
I did misinterpret you, but that was because the following statement didn't seem all that relevant:
Changing one SP inherently does not change another SP. In order to create the SP you the server does a check against data constraints on all tables/views involved. Again, this is the same for both Oracle and MS SQL
Are you seriously suggesting that once you've designed the DB you'll never have to go back in there and change things?
Risk breaking something that someone else is relying on whilst you debug your code.
Create a replica db to develop your stored procs in. But this can be a pain if your application requires sensible data to be in the db.
Piss around creating duplicately named stored procs in the main dev DB.
None of which are particularly great.
That much is clear.
Version control means CVS, RCS, Perforce, Clearcase, Sourcesafe, or the like. Strictly speaking, the original poster is wrong, in the sense that it's quite possible to check your stored procs into a version control system. However, they're also on the right lines, in the sense that publishing stored procs from the version control system to the db is usually more of a pain to manage than building source code.
It's probably not even the message on it's own that won it for him. Rather, Disney's unwillingness to distribute the film with that message.
Don't know anything about it - just followed the links.
Won't work in the summer, but you'll be too busy trying to scrape mosquitos out of your cooling fan to care.
FOSS license Exception. Scroll down for the table.
They don't even sound the same when you say them out loud. Or should that be outlawed?
Not nested though, so there's still a mountain there to climb.
Interestingly, what they're specialising in is the monk brand. They don't do any of the manufacture, and they outsource the fulfillment and the customer management too.
Now, all they need to do is learn from the other very old Christian tradition of excellent franchise management...
Could be, but isn't. A better analogy would be two people using the same narrow corridor to perform to chop and pile wood. If one piles wood, whilst the other chops, then they perform better than one person. If they both chop wood, and then both pile wood then they waste lots of time trying to squeeze past each other and accidentally hitting each other with axes.
Okay, so it's not that much better an analogy. But it least it bears some relevance to HyperThreading.
However, the chart only shows data for conventional weapons - and complete conventional weapons systems at that. So actually, the 3 points are still accurate. The supergun isn't counted. More importantly, chemical weapons aren't counted.
Probably the most important thing to say about the chart, however, is that the suggestion that France and Russia opposed the war in Iraq purely because they supported Saddam Hussain and that they supported Saddam because they sold him weapons is ridiculous. Does the US oppose the Intifada because it sells Israel weapons, or because it believes that an armed response against Israel is the wrong thing to do?
I also appear to have written "failed" rather than "fairly". Sorry.
Where's Jack Ruby?
However, he can be put on trial by the people of Iraq. The interesting thing is establishing the legitimacy of a court and fulfilling any punishment imposed.
If he's tried by an Iraqi court, and lets assume that the death penalty doesn't get imposed (because of international pressure from Europe), what on earth is the US going to do when he gets let out at the end of his sentence? Or when a more Arab-nationalist government is elected and frees him. This is assuming it's possible to convict him in the first place.
This graphic seems to get quoted failed often. It's rather misleading in that it focusses on arms transfers by volume. This means that:
1 AK47 = 1 supergun
Money provided to buy weapons isn't taken any account of
Intelligence aid isn't reflected at all
Meanwhile, the real SH is sitting down to dinner with Bin Laden and GW as they discuss the next steps in world domination...