SQL most definitely was shore for Structured Query Language, and was offered by IBM as part of DB2.
Back in 1970s when SQL was introduced, my boss at the time was sure it would be pronounced as squirrel - he never saw sequel as a more obvious sounding choice.
The episode in question involved two races in the same solar system who had been at war for 500 years. The war was waged by computer, with casualties calculated based on simulated damage. Those individuals deemed to have been killed were notified and they voluntarily stepped into disintegration booths.
Aside fron the death of individuals - there was none of the horror or destruction usually associated with conflict and therefore no desire to end the war. Each side was afrain that if they stopped the "game" the other would retaliate with real weapons.
Also the gp had one mistake - the crisis was precipitated when the Enterprise - in orbit around the planet over the objections of the inhabitants, was deemed to have been destroyed in an attack. The natives ordered Kirk to have his people beam down so they could be disintegrated. The foxy chick (usual feature of ST) was a casualty on the ground.
The gp was right in that the ggp had it wrong - the war contniued despite the loss of life, because there was no physical discomfort for the survivors, No mess, no destruction/dislocation.
I don't know about Canadian policy on private schooling, and I can't speak for everywhere in the states, but Icknow first hand that there's no federal deduction, and no local or state deduction in New York.
I pay taxes to support the public education system, because that's the way the system works. The service is there if I want to use it.
It's my choice to send my kids to private school, and therefore my financial burden as well.
The CD tax is something else entirely, it's an assumption of guilt on the part of the purchaser. An ssumption that all CD-R buyers are going to be used to make illegal copies of copywritten works.
The point you miss is that the purchase of more expensive property - closer to the major highway is not usually a transaction between a business and the road builder.
The purchase of a prime location is the equivalent of buying highspeed connections. The content providers already do this, as does every other broadband user.
What the telcos are suggesting is that in addition to the access fees already paid, is that the providers pay protection money to insure that too many hops or low speed segments are not placed between themselves and the consumers.
Fromthe consumer point of view, the telcos are proposing something akin to paying a toll to get on a highspeed interchange and then being forced to use the service road, because the manufacturer of your vehicle hasn't paid a corresponding sur-charge, required because this brand is more popular, and more vehicles of this type are trying to gain access to the road. In this scenario it doesn't matter (to the consumer) what level of access they've paid for - the conection to their preferred site will be downgraded.
It's not a proper model, since I, the consumer have already paid for the bandwidth, and the provider has paid for a certain level of service as well.
Actually there's plenty of incentive.
My current employer recently began to move our disaster recovery, support and some of our development, from NYC and Princeton NJ, to the suburbs of Raleigh/Durham NC. (Note to critics: I realise Raliegh is not rural, but it's also not NYC).
Staff members who were affected were offered positions in the new data center, with a hefty cut in pay (30-40%), but with benefits intact and some of the reloc expenses covered.
If you take the difference in cost of living into account (particulary income tax, property tax and housing), the folks who took the move may actually come out ahead despite the cut.
The company comes out ahead, since they retain a good portion of the existing workforce, with reduced cost. There's no chance of retaining this staff if they offshore. There's also plenty of well educated locals to hire, and yes it definitely avoids the PR issues.
When you consider that:
1. The company is a multinational.
2. Not headquartered in the US.
3. Already has facilities in the far east.
They could have cloaked offshoring as an expansion of operations in China, India and Singapore (places they already do business and have local development/support centers), there had to be some pretty powerful incentives to keep these functions in the US.
9/11 trashed the economy in the NE, but not forever.
I live just across the river from Ground Zero, and worked about 25 blocks uptown at the time. 9/11 wasted my company and I was unemployed for 6 months afterwards. You'll note the past tense. I've survived a layoff since then as well. You need to know when to jump. If you've got the skills and experience you eventually find work - as long as you make an effort to stay current while you're out of work.
Actually engineers existed long before the steam engine. The title of Civil Engineer was created to differentiate the practioners from the Military Engineers - the most common and probably the oldest usage of the title of engineer.
You're correct that the US Code states the seal is not to be used in connection with commercial ventures, etc.
But the seal is routinely used on the cover of texts, novels and other punlications. In the case of the Onion, the seal wasn't used in in an ad, it has been used in parody articles, ones the present administration doesn't appreciate.
It shouldn't be an issue of taste or support. If the government wishes to enforce against the Onion, they need to enforce against all "unauthorized, commercial or illegal" use of the seal, supportive or not.
Gosh danged whippersnappers...back in the days before Newton, we didn't need to turn our packs upside down to get things out, hell we needed to keep em that way to keep the stuff in!
Open your pack and get konked in the face by your stuff - watch it all fly away. Then that darn Newton came along and everything just fell on the floor....
Stella Liebeck was found to be partially responsible for her own injuries by the jury.
While there were 700 burn incidents, that was out of over 23 million cups of coffee - not a significant fraction.
And last but not least: The temperature of the coffee served by McDonalds was below the temperature recommended by the National Coffee Association - it wasn't too hot.
Actually, the lawyers of middle-earth were the creation of Morgoth - Sauron wasn't nearly evil enough to create a lawyer, even the Balrogs feared the lawyers.
Besides, who do you think gave Sauron the idea of the rings in the first place?
If Gandalf had faced one of the lawyers instead of the Balrog, it would've been the end of the tale...
Where do these heartless luddites get off protesting clothes meant for truly size-challenged individuals. There's always some new form of bigotry. We ought to organize a counter protest (clothed of course) to support these poor diminutive folk, so sorely in need of nano-pants...
Actually the article does not imply that intelligence cannot be achieved through hard work, or that in general, intelligence is linked to defects.
The Study was on a very small population and supposedly demonstrates how social pressure can influence evolution, expressed in this case as intelligence. For the population as a whole it does not mean much, although it does attempt to illustrate the genetic pitfalls of the selection process.
As for the roles we play being based on the perception of others I would agree to a certain degree.
As to the political correctness of belittling fat and intelligent people, I have to agree that this sorry state seems to have no end in sight.
Not using the OS is not always a desireable alternative.
There are ways to better support the consumer without compromising security, an implementation as invasive as this one should be optional.
Personally I could drop MS without a care. I use various flavors of *nix and MS for personal use, and if this feature gets in, no new MS for me.
BUT...My employer has millions of dollars invested MS based apps (as well as *nix). To convert the MS apps to other OSes would be prohibitive, but if this "feature" makes it in as a required component, government and industry regulations will most likely force us to another OS, at great expense. Complaining is truly justified in this case. MS needs consider the facts, but they won't know if no-one yells at them or sounds off in public forum. If no-one complains, then MS will feel there's no opposition, or need for an alternative.
I'm not whining, I'm excercisng my right to express my opinion. If enough users do so, MS may get the idea. They do back down once in a while.
OK Turn off the sarcasm switch. Black boxes usually don't record credit card accounts, passwords or the contents of work in progress. It's one thing to record information that's useful in assisting you as a consunmer, but the kind of black box they're indicating would capture information inputted into your system. Even if the cache is limited and cycled, just think of the opportunity for a backdoor. For those who handle valuable or sensitive information this is a nightmare. Just the existance of this feature may violate some of the accountability laws and regulations that some industies operate under. I'm not even considering how it might compromise personal privacy, that's another issue altogether. Unless someone can make sure nothing sensitive is included in the dump - it's a risk.
Actually the Addams were supposed to be alive although ghoulish. I hate to say it, but the Munsters theme (ripoff that they were...) would be more appropriate, Herman was a re-animated corpse, his wife and father-in-law were undead.
You are entitled to your belief and opinion. You are not entitled to inflict them on others whose beliefs and opinions differ from your own. I come from a religeous background as well, but mine does not include an intolerance for Gays or Lesbians. Why should your religeous belief trump mine?
Gays and Lesbians are not asking for special treatment, they are asking for equal treatment under the law.
If you replace Gay/Lesbian with Black, Oriental, Jewish, Moslem, Buddhist, Christian, etc., you should see my point.
You don't need to change your view. You need to realize that not everyone shares it, and that even if you are the majority, you live in a society that should aspire to protect its minorities.
Intolerance has lead to more grief in this world than anything else.
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SQL most definitely was shore for Structured Query Language, and was offered by IBM as part of DB2.
Back in 1970s when SQL was introduced, my boss at the time was sure it would be pronounced as squirrel - he never saw sequel as a more obvious sounding choice.
The episode in question involved two races in the same solar system who had been at war for 500 years. The war was waged by computer, with casualties calculated based on simulated damage. Those individuals deemed to have been killed were notified and they voluntarily stepped into disintegration booths.
Aside fron the death of individuals - there was none of the horror or destruction usually associated with conflict and therefore no desire to end the war. Each side was afrain that if they stopped the "game" the other would retaliate with real weapons.
Also the gp had one mistake - the crisis was precipitated when the Enterprise - in orbit around the planet over the objections of the inhabitants, was deemed to have been destroyed in an attack. The natives ordered Kirk to have his people beam down so they could be disintegrated. The foxy chick (usual feature of ST) was a casualty on the ground.
The gp was right in that the ggp had it wrong - the war contniued despite the loss of life, because there was no physical discomfort for the survivors, No mess, no destruction/dislocation.
I don't know about Canadian policy on private schooling, and I can't speak for everywhere in the states, but Icknow first hand that there's no federal deduction, and no local or state deduction in New York. I pay taxes to support the public education system, because that's the way the system works. The service is there if I want to use it. It's my choice to send my kids to private school, and therefore my financial burden as well. The CD tax is something else entirely, it's an assumption of guilt on the part of the purchaser. An ssumption that all CD-R buyers are going to be used to make illegal copies of copywritten works.
More like Grinding Nemo...
Quit carping - I thought it was pretty good.
The point you miss is that the purchase of more expensive property - closer to the major highway is not usually a transaction between a business and the road builder.
The purchase of a prime location is the equivalent of buying highspeed connections. The content providers already do this, as does every other broadband user.
What the telcos are suggesting is that in addition to the access fees already paid, is that the providers pay protection money to insure that too many hops or low speed segments are not placed between themselves and the consumers.
Fromthe consumer point of view, the telcos are proposing something akin to paying a toll to get on a highspeed interchange and then being forced to use the service road, because the manufacturer of your vehicle hasn't paid a corresponding sur-charge, required because this brand is more popular, and more vehicles of this type are trying to gain access to the road. In this scenario it doesn't matter (to the consumer) what level of access they've paid for - the conection to their preferred site will be downgraded.
It's not a proper model, since I, the consumer have already paid for the bandwidth, and the provider has paid for a certain level of service as well.
They could have cloaked offshoring as an expansion of operations in China, India and Singapore (places they already do business and have local development/support centers), there had to be some pretty powerful incentives to keep these functions in the US.
In South Korea only old people Digg....
I've got to take some issue with this.
9/11 trashed the economy in the NE, but not forever.
I live just across the river from Ground Zero, and worked about 25 blocks uptown at the time. 9/11 wasted my company and I was unemployed for 6 months afterwards. You'll note the past tense. I've survived a layoff since then as well. You need to know when to jump. If you've got the skills and experience you eventually find work - as long as you make an effort to stay current while you're out of work.
Actually engineers existed long before the steam engine. The title of Civil Engineer was created to differentiate the practioners from the Military Engineers - the most common and probably the oldest usage of the title of engineer.
You're correct that the US Code states the seal is not to be used in connection with commercial ventures, etc.
But the seal is routinely used on the cover of texts, novels and other punlications. In the case of the Onion, the seal wasn't used in in an ad, it has been used in parody articles, ones the present administration doesn't appreciate.
It shouldn't be an issue of taste or support. If the government wishes to enforce against the Onion, they need to enforce against all "unauthorized, commercial or illegal" use of the seal, supportive or not.
Gosh danged whippersnappers...back in the days before Newton, we didn't need to turn our packs upside down to get things out, hell we needed to keep em that way to keep the stuff in!
Open your pack and get konked in the face by your stuff - watch it all fly away. Then that darn Newton came along and everything just fell on the floor....
Lets get the facts straight.
Here's a link to the facts on Liebeck vs. McDonald's: http://www.stellaawards.com/stella.html
You'll note:
Stella Liebeck was found to be partially responsible for her own injuries by the jury.
While there were 700 burn incidents, that was out of over 23 million cups of coffee - not a significant fraction.
And last but not least: The temperature of the coffee served by McDonalds was below the temperature recommended by the National Coffee Association - it wasn't too hot.
Actaully manned is correct - since the first mission would only be for observations....
Actually, the lawyers of middle-earth were the creation of Morgoth - Sauron wasn't nearly evil enough to create a lawyer, even the Balrogs feared the lawyers.
Besides, who do you think gave Sauron the idea of the rings in the first place?
If Gandalf had faced one of the lawyers instead of the Balrog, it would've been the end of the tale...
...the country will be at peace and all political prisoners will be released... when the servers controlling them experience the BSOD... :)
Where do these heartless luddites get off protesting clothes meant for truly size-challenged individuals. There's always some new form of bigotry. We ought to organize a counter protest (clothed of course) to support these poor diminutive folk, so sorely in need of nano-pants...
Actually the article does not imply that intelligence cannot be achieved through hard work, or that in general, intelligence is linked to defects.
The Study was on a very small population and supposedly demonstrates how social pressure can influence evolution, expressed in this case as intelligence. For the population as a whole it does not mean much, although it does attempt to illustrate the genetic pitfalls of the selection process.
As for the roles we play being based on the perception of others I would agree to a certain degree.
As to the political correctness of belittling fat and intelligent people, I have to agree that this sorry state seems to have no end in sight.
Not using the OS is not always a desireable alternative.
There are ways to better support the consumer without compromising security, an implementation as invasive as this one should be optional.
Personally I could drop MS without a care. I use various flavors of *nix and MS for personal use, and if this feature gets in, no new MS for me.
BUT...My employer has millions of dollars invested MS based apps (as well as *nix). To convert the MS apps to other OSes would be prohibitive, but if this "feature" makes it in as a required component, government and industry regulations will most likely force us to another OS, at great expense. Complaining is truly justified in this case. MS needs consider the facts, but they won't know if no-one yells at them or sounds off in public forum. If no-one complains, then MS will feel there's no opposition, or need for an alternative.
I'm not whining, I'm excercisng my right to express my opinion. If enough users do so, MS may get the idea. They do back down once in a while.
OK Turn off the sarcasm switch.
Black boxes usually don't record credit card accounts, passwords or the contents of work in progress.
It's one thing to record information that's useful in assisting you as a consunmer, but the kind of black box they're indicating would capture information inputted into your system. Even if the cache is limited and cycled, just think of the opportunity for a backdoor. For those who handle valuable or sensitive information this is a nightmare.
Just the existance of this feature may violate some of the accountability laws and regulations that some industies operate under.
I'm not even considering how it might compromise personal privacy, that's another issue altogether.
Unless someone can make sure nothing sensitive is included in the dump - it's a risk.
If you read The Onion, or more specifically the Savage Love column in their A.V. Club, you wouldn't need to google for the definition.
Sen. Santorum rated this honor for some of his past comments and deeds.
For this one he deserves a liberal dousing of the stuff.
Actually the Addams were supposed to be alive although ghoulish. I hate to say it, but the Munsters theme (ripoff that they were...) would be more appropriate, Herman was a re-animated corpse, his wife and father-in-law were undead.
Do you actually listen to yourself? You say:
"I have not said that I am intolerant."
and then go on to:
"...but I STILL would tell a gay person to their face that what they do is wrong, please change your ways."
Your comments are full of intolerance. Do you tell members of other religeons that they're beliefs are wrong when they conflict with yours?
And if you truly believe and are not just saying:
"...a gay person should the right to do anything that I can do."
Then you would support legislation to give gays complete protection under the law, regardless of our personal beliefs.
You are entitled to your belief and opinion. You are not entitled to inflict them on others whose beliefs and opinions differ from your own. I come from a religeous background as well, but mine does not include an intolerance for Gays or Lesbians. Why should your religeous belief trump mine?
Gays and Lesbians are not asking for special treatment, they are asking for equal treatment under the law.
If you replace Gay/Lesbian with Black, Oriental, Jewish, Moslem, Buddhist, Christian, etc., you should see my point.
You don't need to change your view. You need to realize that not everyone shares it, and that even if you are the majority, you live in a society that should aspire to protect its minorities.
Intolerance has lead to more grief in this world than anything else.
In Korea only onld people use frozen light....