You may want to read Al Franken's book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. It actually has some insight as to what Clinton actually accomplished during his presidency... although I can almost guarantee that if you like George W. Bush, Karl Rove, Ann Coulter, Bob O'Rielly, or Sean Hannity, you will hate this book.
Here is a preliminary summary of the file of messages, including domain name registration forms, received by the IANA since Septermber 1995.
Can you please point out to me the part of that email that says when they were planning on granting these TLDs, and which entity was being granted the TLDs in the case of TLDs that had multiple applications?
Oh, that's right, you can't... because this email is just a list of messages they'd received from September 14, 1995 through November 26, 1996. Perhaps you have another source that backs up your statement, but until then, this argument falls flat.
The UK was responsible for creation of the telephone, not the Internet, which itself would not have existed were it not for the telephone.
Your point?
Should the UK have the ultimate say in how phone numbers are dished out?
From everything I've heard, the telephone was invented by Antonio Meucci, an Italian, who invented it while living in the Americas. The sources I've seen seem to diagree on whether he invented while living in Cuba or in New York, but one thing is clear: It wasn't invented in the UK.
Actually, the grandparent is wrong. Wizards of the Coast bought the entirety of TSR, not just Dungeons and Dragons, as shown on the page that the parent linked to.
They don't want to keep paying large fees to U.S. corporations for a naming service that was free before the big corporations got involved and can be free, or nearly free again.
This is a moot point, though. Everything that's been said on this matter has had nothing to do with the TLDs, but rather with the root servers, the ones that tell you which TLDs exist and the IPs for the master DNS servers for each TLD.
It is an excellent game.
I just wish that LucasArts had realized, in 1995, no one wants to go through the hassle of DOS to play games. Luckily, they wised up and included a Windows 95 version of The Dig in The LucasArts Archives Vol. 3 in 1997.
Of course, that doesn't matter any more. The open-source ScummVM project can play The Dig on most computer systems these days. The only problem that remains is finding the game.
Pronunciation: 'pä-pl&r
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English poplere, from Middle French pouplier, from pouple poplar, from Latin populus 1a : any of a genus (Populus) of slender catkin-bearing quick-growing trees (as an aspen or cottonwood) of the willow family b : the wood of a poplar 2 : TULIP TREE 1
SELECT * FROM address, transaction, lineitem where lineitem.cost > 200 and address.city = 'New New York' and lineitem.transaction_id = transaction.transaction_id and transaction.address_id = address.address_id
That's still too complicated. JOIN and ON/USING makes it much easier to read:
SELECT * FROM address a JOIN transaction t USING(address_id) JOIN lineitem l USING(transaction_id) WHERE l.cost > 200 AND a.city = 'New New York'
As to the grandparents query, you should never ever use
SELECT *
in an application. Adding an additional row to any of the involved tables generally does bad things to the application's output.
However, I really wrote this to say what it is not an advantage. I have two words for you: Outer Joins.
First of all, an Outer Join (of which LEFT JOIN is the most common) is used to get information from two tables, whether or not the information in one table has matching information in the other table. A real world example would be a list of customers and the number of orders they've placed with your business. With a normal (inner) join, customers who have never placed an order would not be listed.
The Simple method on that page is what I believe is referred to as the "1+N" problem. 1 Query becomes 1+N queries, where N is the number of results in the first query's result set. Needless to say, this doesn't scale well.
The Efficient method is actually much more complicated than the SQL to do the query, and it still takes 2 queries to boot.
This is why you'll never see a large business relying on an SQL builder to build queries. In the hands of someone who knows what they're doing, hand written queries are optimized much better than generated ones.
I'm sure TIVO had a "we can modify the terms at any time" clause in the contract somewhere.
IANAL, but I'm fairly sure it's illegal to add "services" to a contract without a signed contract amendment... which would include anything they're charging money for.
A long time ago, when.net was new, there was this new processor called the "Itanium" that was not backwards compatible with ia32 processing instructions.
Microsoft was building a version of Windows XP that would run on the Itanium chip.
Windows would have been truely multi-platform again (which stopped after Windows NT 4.0 for Alpha)..NET applications would run on all versions of XP, while compiled C++ applications would only run on the system they were compiled for.
Of course, now that Windows XP for the Itanium has died...
I do some Perl programming, and I try to avoid the "I can do that in fewer keystrokes!" mindset. The only exception to that is using the ternary operator to set variables that could only have two possible values based on a condition.
Another thing I hate seeing in perl is this:
sub change_it() { s/something/nothing/i; return chomp; }
This sub is oversimplified, but it isn't immediately obvious to a non-Perl coder that the substitution and chomp are happening on the first argument to the function.
The same goes for the "diamond" operator <>. It's not immediately obvious that an empty diamond operator works on STDIN... unless @ARGV is populated, in which case it works on those instead. Which probably isn't what the author intended.
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You may want to read Al Franken's book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. It actually has some insight as to what Clinton actually accomplished during his presidency... although I can almost guarantee that if you like George W. Bush, Karl Rove, Ann Coulter, Bob O'Rielly, or Sean Hannity, you will hate this book.
http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/ 00990.html is an interesting document. I feel like quoting a section of it, from the very top:
Can you please point out to me the part of that email that says when they were planning on granting these TLDs, and which entity was being granted the TLDs in the case of TLDs that had multiple applications?
Oh, that's right, you can't... because this email is just a list of messages they'd received from September 14, 1995 through November 26, 1996. Perhaps you have another source that backs up your statement, but until then, this argument falls flat.
Your point?
Should the UK have the ultimate say in how phone numbers are dished out?
From everything I've heard, the telephone was invented by Antonio Meucci, an Italian, who invented it while living in the Americas. The sources I've seen seem to diagree on whether he invented while living in Cuba or in New York, but one thing is clear: It wasn't invented in the UK.
Have you ever thought about the security ramifications of what you're suggesting?
Actually, the grandparent is wrong. Wizards of the Coast bought the entirety of TSR, not just Dungeons and Dragons, as shown on the page that the parent linked to.
You mean, like this?
This is a moot point, though. Everything that's been said on this matter has had nothing to do with the TLDs, but rather with the root servers, the ones that tell you which TLDs exist and the IPs for the master DNS servers for each TLD.
Of course, that doesn't matter any more. The open-source ScummVM project can play The Dig on most computer systems these days. The only problem that remains is finding the game.
Source: The Open Group's POSIX FAQ
Pronunciation: 'pä-pl&r
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English poplere, from Middle French pouplier, from pouple poplar, from Latin populus
1 a : any of a genus (Populus) of slender catkin-bearing quick-growing trees (as an aspen or cottonwood) of the willow family b : the wood of a poplar
2 : TULIP TREE 1
Oh, wait, that's poplar .
It makes it easier for the programmer.
However, I really wrote this to say what it is not an advantage. I have two words for you: Outer Joins.
First of all, an Outer Join (of which LEFT JOIN is the most common) is used to get information from two tables, whether or not the information in one table has matching information in the other table. A real world example would be a list of customers and the number of orders they've placed with your business. With a normal (inner) join, customers who have never placed an order would not be listed.
I keep seeing people mentioned SQLObject, so I'll pull up a selected reference to the SQLObject FAQ: "How can I do a LEFT JOIN?."
The Simple method on that page is what I believe is referred to as the "1+N" problem. 1 Query becomes 1+N queries, where N is the number of results in the first query's result set. Needless to say, this doesn't scale well.
The Efficient method is actually much more complicated than the SQL to do the query, and it still takes 2 queries to boot.
This is why you'll never see a large business relying on an SQL builder to build queries. In the hands of someone who knows what they're doing, hand written queries are optimized much better than generated ones.
I haven't used much of Ruby on Rails, or Ruby in particular, but doesn't ActiveRecord do all this stuff for you?
I'm just going to assume you mean symmetric, rather than synchronous.
IANAL, but I'm fairly sure it's illegal to add "services" to a contract without a signed contract amendment... which would include anything they're charging money for.
The correct mime type for XHTML is application/xhtml+xml. Parsers should also recognize the generic XML mime-types: application/xml and text/xml.
Here's the Bill's webpage and the final version signed by Governor Granholm at 11:58am EDT today.
It sounds like the program generates each instrument's part separately, then juxtapositions them with no consideration for how they'd sound together.
This is something a human composer would catch, but a program generally doesn't.
*chooses the Gator character*
Incidently, PostgreSQL also conforms to most of the SQL 2003 standard as well.
Java isn't
That's right, there's no open source Java solutions. You also can't download the source code.
Oh wait...
A long time ago, when .net was new, there was this new processor called the "Itanium" that was not backwards compatible with ia32 processing instructions.
.NET applications would run on all versions of XP, while compiled C++ applications would only run on the system they were compiled for.
Microsoft was building a version of Windows XP that would run on the Itanium chip.
Windows would have been truely multi-platform again (which stopped after Windows NT 4.0 for Alpha).
Of course, now that Windows XP for the Itanium has died...
You are aware that other languages also have FastCGI bindings, and thus will run under lighthttpd, right?
Eep, ignore that. I just found out that my timezone on my /. settings was 7 hours off (-12 instead of -5).
Actually, it was afternoon in Europe when he posted it. It just wasn't in the Americas, Eastern Asia, and Australia. ;)