On that same subject I was in a Wendy's the other day and 2 girls walked in who were roughly 18-23. Not unattractive, but not supermodels either. I overheard part of their conversation which went something like "I wanna be a night elf Druid", "I wanna be a Tauren shaman", etc.
The article mentions all this. Traditional gas powered navy ships have two sets of turbines, one for propulsion the other for electric. The ships that will be carrying the rails guns will have turbines that power electric motors, the guns, and the rest of the ship. Sounds like it couldn't fire while moving but I doubt they'd really need to.
Additionally, it's a lot cheaper and safer to drop shells on an enemy from 250 miles away than it is to send an aircraft. Even though these shells are ballistic the do have guidance systems that let them control their 'fall'. They should be just as accurate as a cruise missle.
The rate of fire is slower than with traditional artillery(6 per minute), but their time to target is faster. So they can drop the same amount of rounds in a 15 minute engagement.
They won't replace carriers, but may lighten the load for the pilots. If we can take out the radar sites with these before sending in the planes it will save some lives.
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Makes me wonder. If someone wrote a virus, that also happened to have a piece of patented code in it, say IBM's. Could IBM then sue everyone who was infected?
The MTBF of a PS2 is only about 3 years though. Anyone who bought a PS2 in the first year of release has probably had theirs break already, if not it will break soon. Then they'll need a new one, or a PSX.
Why does everyone seem to think that if a do-not-spam list was created. They'd just hand it over in plain text to the spammers. To do it right, they'd either distribute a list of MD5 hashes, or setup a system where the spammers sent their list and the feds told them which ones were ok to spam.
Everything can be funny. It may not be tasteful or right, but it is funny. I find it hard to believe you've never laughed at a joke making fun of someone because of their handicap, religion, or race. Those 3 things make up about 50% of all comedy.
Not really, but given the content of the article I assume it's a problem.
I don't doubt there may be more examples of bad ASP in the wild, but that has more to do with developer skills than anything else. PHP developers as a whole are probably more skilled than their MS counterparts. That's not the fault of the language though, and it's certainly not the fault of the RDBMS. ASP against any other database server would be just as bad.
Why do you hate SQL Server so much?
Here's an example of "Bind variables" courtesy of MS. Not what I'd call hard, but it is a little more involved than your example above. JSP does it in much the same way.
Dim cn As New ADODB.Connection Dim cmdPrep1 As New ADODB.Command Dim prm1 As New ADODB.Parameter Dim prm2 As New ADODB.Parameter Dim strCn As String
strCn = "Server=MyServerName;Database=pubs;Trusted_Connect ion=yes" cn.Provider = "sqloledb" cn.Open strCn Set cmdPrep1.ActiveConnection = cn cmdPrep1.CommandText = "UPDATE titles SET type=? WHERE title_id =?" cmdPrep1.CommandType = adCmdText cmdPrep1.Prepared = True
Set prm1 = cmdPrep1.CreateParameter("Type", adChar, adParamInput, 12, "New Bus") cmdPrep1.Parameters.Append prm1
Set prm2 = cmdPrep1.CreateParameter("ProductID", adInteger, adParamInput, 4, 3) cmdPrep1.Parameters.Append prm2
Amen. Knowing how to edit an fstab file, etc. Are the things I needed to learn about Linux. The red hat\mandrake installs are of no help later when I want to install a second hard drive. Gentoo taught me how.
The what is my greatest weakness question always ends up with someone taking something good and making it sound bad. For instance "My greatest weakness is that I'm too much of a perfectionist."
A better question is "What was your biggest professional catastrophe." It's fun to hear about how someone seriously fucked up, and nearly everyone has at least once.
Why does everyone knock on Gentoo claiming it's hard to use. I'm a linux newbie and have been for about 5 years. I tried Caldera, couldn't get the hang of it. Tried Red Hat didn't like it either. Tried Gentoo, I love it. It's the first distro that didn't leave me confused after the install. Sure Red Hat and Caldera installed easier, but Gentoo was better documented, and since I had to do many things manually I learned what would need done in the future if I needed to change something. For instance under Red Hat I didn't know what I needed to do to add another hard drive to my system, or to change network cards.
With Gentoo during the install I learned how to create filesystems, configure and compile the kernel, and lots of other stuff. It takes more work, but I wouldn't call it difficult. Grandma couldn't do it, but my dad or my 13 year old cousin probably could.
He isn't even the head developer (Andrew Morton is now...) so basically, he's just the face.
Yes he is. He just turned 2.6 development over to Andrew Morton. Just like when he turned 2.4 over to Marcello. Now Linux will go back into a development stage with 2.7, then cut over to 2.8 at which time Linus will have some other person maintain it. Just like when he turned 2.4 over to Marcello.
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On that same subject I was in a Wendy's the other day and 2 girls walked in who were roughly 18-23. Not unattractive, but not supermodels either. I overheard part of their conversation which went something like "I wanna be a night elf Druid", "I wanna be a Tauren shaman", etc.
Unless you have 3 roommates who also play. In that case it's one big competition to level fastest.
So will Tim Allen. He did Santa Clause 2.
The article mentions all this. Traditional gas powered navy ships have two sets of turbines, one for propulsion the other for electric. The ships that will be carrying the rails guns will have turbines that power electric motors, the guns, and the rest of the ship. Sounds like it couldn't fire while moving but I doubt they'd really need to.
Additionally, it's a lot cheaper and safer to drop shells on an enemy from 250 miles away than it is to send an aircraft. Even though these shells are ballistic the do have guidance systems that let them control their 'fall'. They should be just as accurate as a cruise missle.
The rate of fire is slower than with traditional artillery(6 per minute), but their time to target is faster. So they can drop the same amount of rounds in a 15 minute engagement.
They won't replace carriers, but may lighten the load for the pilots. If we can take out the radar sites with these before sending in the planes it will save some lives.
Makes me wonder. If someone wrote a virus, that also happened to have a piece of patented code in it, say IBM's. Could IBM then sue everyone who was infected?
It's ok though, because it fits next to my dreamcast side by side.
Nope, sorry. A team from a state with no natural ice just beat Calgary Flames for the Cup.
The MTBF of a PS2 is only about 3 years though. Anyone who bought a PS2 in the first year of release has probably had theirs break already, if not it will break soon. Then they'll need a new one, or a PSX.
FYI, That wimpy "you-can-spam" law was the one that gave the FCC the power to create a do-not-spam list.
Why does everyone seem to think that if a do-not-spam list was created. They'd just hand it over in plain text to the spammers. To do it right, they'd either distribute a list of MD5 hashes, or setup a system where the spammers sent their list and the feds told them which ones were ok to spam.
Losing a lawsuit and owing $170,000+ to Monsanto is generally considered to be the difference between eating and going hungry.
Everything can be funny. It may not be tasteful or right, but it is funny. I find it hard to believe you've never laughed at a joke making fun of someone because of their handicap, religion, or race. Those 3 things make up about 50% of all comedy.
Sure there is:
70 MPH in a 65MPH zone.
Downloading music online.
Thumping someone over the head with a block of ice while they're swimming.
Not really, but given the content of the article I assume it's a problem.
t ion=yes"
I don't doubt there may be more examples of bad ASP in the wild, but that has more to do with developer skills than anything else. PHP developers as a whole are probably more skilled than their MS counterparts. That's not the fault of the language though, and it's certainly not the fault of the RDBMS. ASP against any other database server would be just as bad.
Why do you hate SQL Server so much?
Here's an example of "Bind variables" courtesy of MS. Not what I'd call hard, but it is a little more involved than your example above. JSP does it in much the same way.
Dim cn As New ADODB.Connection
Dim cmdPrep1 As New ADODB.Command
Dim prm1 As New ADODB.Parameter
Dim prm2 As New ADODB.Parameter
Dim strCn As String
strCn = "Server=MyServerName;Database=pubs;Trusted_Connec
cn.Provider = "sqloledb"
cn.Open strCn
Set cmdPrep1.ActiveConnection = cn
cmdPrep1.CommandText = "UPDATE titles SET type=? WHERE title_id =?"
cmdPrep1.CommandType = adCmdText
cmdPrep1.Prepared = True
Set prm1 = cmdPrep1.CreateParameter("Type", adChar, adParamInput, 12, "New Bus")
cmdPrep1.Parameters.Append prm1
Set prm2 = cmdPrep1.CreateParameter("ProductID", adInteger, adParamInput, 4, 3)
cmdPrep1.Parameters.Append prm2
cmdPrep1.Execute
cn.Close
If it's so easy to use BIND variables why are there so many SQL injectionable PHP websites around?
Is this really the biggest? I heard somewhere Larry Ellison had an inground pool in his basement that he had turned into a subwoofer.
I haven't played it either but I can venture a guess.
Viking vs. Vampire Hunter vs. Ninja.
Ninja wins.
Amen. Knowing how to edit an fstab file, etc. Are the things I needed to learn about Linux. The red hat\mandrake installs are of no help later when I want to install a second hard drive. Gentoo taught me how.
Give a man a fish, and all that.
I doubt it's true. That bastard Jobs still owes me $5 from high school.
Lucas was going to wait longer, but realized if he did it would have to be released on HDDVD and he'd lose the opportunity to sell it to you twice.
They would lose less money if you didn't buy one since they'd just make one less.
The what is my greatest weakness question always ends up with someone taking something good and making it sound bad. For instance "My greatest weakness is that I'm too much of a perfectionist."
A better question is "What was your biggest professional catastrophe." It's fun to hear about how someone seriously fucked up, and nearly everyone has at least once.
Why does everyone knock on Gentoo claiming it's hard to use. I'm a linux newbie and have been for about 5 years. I tried Caldera, couldn't get the hang of it. Tried Red Hat didn't like it either. Tried Gentoo, I love it. It's the first distro that didn't leave me confused after the install. Sure Red Hat and Caldera installed easier, but Gentoo was better documented, and since I had to do many things manually I learned what would need done in the future if I needed to change something. For instance under Red Hat I didn't know what I needed to do to add another hard drive to my system, or to change network cards.
With Gentoo during the install I learned how to create filesystems, configure and compile the kernel, and lots of other stuff. It takes more work, but I wouldn't call it difficult. Grandma couldn't do it, but my dad or my 13 year old cousin probably could.
It's not much smaller. It's .4" thinner and .6" shorter. Not notably thinner.
He isn't even the head developer (Andrew Morton is now...) so basically, he's just the face.
Yes he is. He just turned 2.6 development over to Andrew Morton. Just like when he turned 2.4 over to Marcello. Now Linux will go back into a development stage with 2.7, then cut over to 2.8 at which time Linus will have some other person maintain it. Just like when he turned 2.4 over to Marcello.