The best thing I can say about Magic is that I no longer work for the company that uses it.
It's been 3+ years since I worked there and we didn't use a web interface but it was gawd awful. All of the screens had like 100 fields. There was no logical grouping and the screens were differentiated by their pastel colors.
Some of the 'Enterprise Software' used by major corporations is just so damn shitty it's hard to explain to people who are not familiar with it.
Where can find detailed information about all candidates down to the county level? Positions on issues, voting record, etc. would be great. I know the positions of all of the National and most of the State candidates. I do not have a party affiliation and usually vote for the candidate whose platform most closely resembles mine.
I live outside Atlanta. The Atlanta Paper(Get login from bugmenot.com) has Great information about all of the candidates in the 'Metro' Atlanta area. I'm 2 houses away from that area in Newton County, GA. My cable providor is from an adjacent county, so I haven't been able to see any ads about the ones in my county. The local paper is useless.
Dual 21" Here. I have my main one and the other has a 4port KVM.
The second monitor is either:
1)A second monitor for my main system when I'm programming(I keep documentation and compile results in that window)
2)My email machine with TV Tuner and DVArchive so I can watch shows off my ReplayTV
3)Windows 2000 Development Server
4)Redhat Development Server - although I do not have X on this system and frequently use this port for connecting other peoples systems that I might be fixing
I've had this setup for a couple of years now and could not imagine going back to single monitor.
One thing I always wondered was if there was a way to make a table that had a different number of columns for each row. For instance, if you wanted to insert ids from another table, but the number of ids each row would need is a variable ranging from zero to god knows what... Can SQL do that in a way that doesn't involve making a huge table with tons of columns or one big structure holding the ids separated by colons?
Yuck, you would never Want to do that. That's what relationships and foreign keys are for. You wouldn't populate your id's across columns, you put them in a new table, one row each, with an foreign key linking them back to main table.
My original post post was just in fun and, well, this one is too; but a true story and off topic(maybe?).
Last spring I came downstairs into my kitchen in the morning and was treated to quite a ruckus. It seems my cat had caught a bird and brought it inside through the cat door.
I was having a hard time catching the bird as it was now flying around in the house running into everything. I ran out to the overhang on the side of my shed to retrieve my fish net. When I got out there I heard some chirping and noticed a nest full of baby birds just 2 feet off the ground in a tray I had set there and not touched since the previous summer. I placed the tray full of nest and baby birds in the rafters. Then I grabbed the net went in the house and caught the bird. I brought it out to the shed and it flew straight up to the nest in the rafters.
Job done, I was feeling really good about my self. Reflecting later, however, I wondered if I might have affected evolution. I was promoting urban dwelling, ground breeding birds. That bird family I saved may spawn dozens of urban dwelling, ground breeding chicks in just a couple of generations. That is if the cats do not get them all first.
Most other gemstones (emeralds come to mind) are much rarer
I've read about the true scarcity of Diamonds and how DeBeers controls the world market.
I do doubt, however, that Emeralds are more rare. Just take a look at their price on ebay. Additionally I am right now looking at a jar of 20 of them(from tiny to ~3 carats) that my wife, son, father and myself found just yesterday in the North Carolina mountains in a little over 2 hours.
Idiot A Minnesota teenager known online as "teekid" was arrested and placed on electronic monitoring Friday for allegedly unleashing a version of the "Blaster" computer worm that infected thousands of computers.
First for writing the damn thing in the first place
Idiot Parson apparently took few steps to disguise his identity. As a byproduct of each infection, every victim's computer sent signals back to the "t33kid.com" Web site that Parson had registered in his own name, listing his home address
Second for putting in a direct trace back to himself
Idiot In court, the high school senior wore a T-shirt that read "Big Daddy" on the front and "Big and Bad" with a grizzly bear on the back. He sported a metal stud under his lip and his hair was dyed blond on top and shaved close around the sides and back
-Terrain navigation
-Obstacle navigation
-Other short races that highlight various systems and their proficiencies
-An overall skill winner
-And THEN the race
Each of the teams would be able to see and learn from the other various technologies and make changes/improvements in the coming years.
This thing was just a joke this year with many of the vehicles crashing before they could display their skills.
How about creating a custom solitaire that Loses Every Time. The boss would become frustrated. Seething in anger he would blurt it out at status meetings, thus outing himself.
Don't be assinine. A modern production environment is running at least 100MBit Ethernet, if not 1GBit. A HUGE query, say 2500 characters, is 2.5KBytes. Gee, thats pretty rough.
What kind of shop are you working in? 2.5k is HUGE? Try 500+ users all hitting a database with queries and reports that average 100-200k or more. And that's With highly optimized queries and stored procedures.
If your using a web server or some other application server, you could have them connected via a separate backplane and generally not have any ill effects on the network at large. If, however, you are using some sort of client side front end(Either application or something linke Crystal Reports) then it is definately better to offload the processing to the db server.
Easy to learn isn't an argument for or against a technology. That aside, relatively portable is logically equivalent to completely fucking unportable when translated from Marketing into English.
That may be true for a lot of technolgies, but I've been working with SQL(DB2, Oracle, MS, MySQL, Postgres) for 15 years and with a few exceptions it is a very portable language. I worked on it on OS/390's, HP/UX, Solaries, Linux and Windows.
I was pretty certain that we didn't have to pay anything for radio. I did a search and it depends on the situation.
With the rest of your comment I definately agree.
When opening your own business that are invariably unforseen costs. Imagine our surprise when we get a letter only a few weeks after getting our federal tax id. And the costs turn out to be $3000, that's a real drain when opening a business on a shoestring. I think they scan the SIC codes for new businesses and attack right away.
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The best thing I can say about Magic is that I no longer work for the company that uses it.
It's been 3+ years since I worked there and we didn't use a web interface but it was gawd awful. All of the screens had like 100 fields. There was no logical grouping and the screens were differentiated by their pastel colors.
Some of the 'Enterprise Software' used by major corporations is just so damn shitty it's hard to explain to people who are not familiar with it.
Is that all calls or just the 1-900's? ;)
I live outside Atlanta. The Atlanta Paper(Get login from bugmenot.com) has Great information about all of the candidates in the 'Metro' Atlanta area. I'm 2 houses away from that area in Newton County, GA. My cable providor is from an adjacent county, so I haven't been able to see any ads about the ones in my county. The local paper is useless.
Infinately cooler than the video. And it doesn't even move. How many gigs of bandwidth were wasted on the video?
repetitive and dull and repetitive
Look for an 8 x 2 KVM. I'd Love one of these, but they are pricey. 4x the price of a descent 4 x 1.
The second monitor is either:
1)A second monitor for my main system when I'm programming(I keep documentation and compile results in that window)
2)My email machine with TV Tuner and DVArchive so I can watch shows off my ReplayTV
3)Windows 2000 Development Server
4)Redhat Development Server - although I do not have X on this system and frequently use this port for connecting other peoples systems that I might be fixing
I've had this setup for a couple of years now and could not imagine going back to single monitor.
I've always used the term TSQL interchangeably with T-SQL or Transact-SQL. Microsoft's SQL implementation as opposed to PL/SQL which is Oracle's.
Yuck, you would never Want to do that. That's what relationships and foreign keys are for. You wouldn't populate your id's across columns, you put them in a new table, one row each, with an foreign key linking them back to main table.
Try this miraculous Peridot generated alterative
Last spring I came downstairs into my kitchen in the morning and was treated to quite a ruckus. It seems my cat had caught a bird and brought it inside through the cat door.
I was having a hard time catching the bird as it was now flying around in the house running into everything. I ran out to the overhang on the side of my shed to retrieve my fish net. When I got out there I heard some chirping and noticed a nest full of baby birds just 2 feet off the ground in a tray I had set there and not touched since the previous summer. I placed the tray full of nest and baby birds in the rafters. Then I grabbed the net went in the house and caught the bird. I brought it out to the shed and it flew straight up to the nest in the rafters.
Job done, I was feeling really good about my self. Reflecting later, however, I wondered if I might have affected evolution. I was promoting urban dwelling, ground breeding birds. That bird family I saved may spawn dozens of urban dwelling, ground breeding chicks in just a couple of generations. That is if the cats do not get them all first.
Yea, sounds nice, but you will kill all the birds and ruin the million dollar view
Bleem said Colorado has "lots of great wind" that could be used for wind power.
Here's the same list with explanations.
I've read about the true scarcity of Diamonds and how DeBeers controls the world market.
I do doubt, however, that Emeralds are more rare. Just take a look at their price on ebay. Additionally I am right now looking at a jar of 20 of them(from tiny to ~3 carats) that my wife, son, father and myself found just yesterday in the North Carolina mountains in a little over 2 hours.
A Minnesota teenager known online as "teekid" was arrested and placed on electronic monitoring Friday for allegedly unleashing a version of the "Blaster" computer worm that infected thousands of computers.
First for writing the damn thing in the first place
Idiot
Parson apparently took few steps to disguise his identity. As a byproduct of each infection, every victim's computer sent signals back to the "t33kid.com" Web site that Parson had registered in his own name, listing his home address
Second for putting in a direct trace back to himself
Idiot
In court, the high school senior wore a T-shirt that read "Big Daddy" on the front and "Big and Bad" with a grizzly bear on the back. He sported a metal stud under his lip and his hair was dyed blond on top and shaved close around the sides and back
Third for showing no humility in court
-Terrain navigation
-Obstacle navigation
-Other short races that highlight various systems and their proficiencies
-An overall skill winner
-And THEN the race
Each of the teams would be able to see and learn from the other various technologies and make changes/improvements in the coming years.
This thing was just a joke this year with many of the vehicles crashing before they could display their skills.
You could have this custom solitaire log every single game played to a log file. Much more accurate than timed screenshots.
How about creating a custom solitaire that Loses Every Time. The boss would become frustrated. Seething in anger he would blurt it out at status meetings, thus outing himself.
What kind of shop are you working in? 2.5k is HUGE? Try 500+ users all hitting a database with queries and reports that average 100-200k or more. And that's With highly optimized queries and stored procedures.
If your using a web server or some other application server, you could have them connected via a separate backplane and generally not have any ill effects on the network at large. If, however, you are using some sort of client side front end(Either application or something linke Crystal Reports) then it is definately better to offload the processing to the db server.
Easy to learn isn't an argument for or against a technology. That aside, relatively portable is logically equivalent to completely fucking unportable when translated from Marketing into English.
That may be true for a lot of technolgies, but I've been working with SQL(DB2, Oracle, MS, MySQL, Postgres) for 15 years and with a few exceptions it is a very portable language. I worked on it on OS/390's, HP/UX, Solaries, Linux and Windows.
known internationally for the degrading chain gangs and other harsh policies introduced by its infamous sheriff
'degrading chain gangs'?!? Boo-effing-hoo, their criminals they should work to pay off their debt to society.
As for the webcam lawsuit, that was in 2001 and I couldn't find anything about it's current status.
And there's this rebutting most of the rest.
I especially like this:
The same is true for his chain gangs which work six days a week contributing thousands of dollars of free labor to the community.
That's actually a very good idea.
With the rest of your comment I definately agree.
When opening your own business that are invariably unforseen costs. Imagine our surprise when we get a letter only a few weeks after getting our federal tax id. And the costs turn out to be $3000, that's a real drain when opening a business on a shoestring. I think they scan the SIC codes for new businesses and attack right away.