Bill Werbeniuk, a professional snooker player in the 1970s and 1980s used to drink six pints of beer before a match for the same reason. He was ranked as high as 8th in the world too. He drank a lot more pints during and after the matches too. Of course the heavy drinking eventually turned on him, causing heart problems which eventually killed him.
The TacSat-4 (or tactical microsatellite) lets the hundreds of thousands of military handheld radios currently in use communicate directly with an antenna orbiting in the most convenient spot imaginable: all that space overhead.
In a few years, just about any country with any sort of technological capability will be able to shoot down satellites. Satellite radios are all fine and dandy, but I think it would be best if those radios can also switch to a "PRC-117 Mode".
If there are lot of tables being joined the optimizer might not always do what you want it to do. Indexes can be ignored if there isn't a high enough degree of selectivity in the column(s) they are on. etc. In the former case, at least some databases will (or have in the past... e.g. Postgres) start grouping join statements and then amalgamating the groups in order not to have the optimizer be a limiting step in the process. In the latter, if an index isn't used there likely won't be statistics on the columns so how is it to know what approach to use... generally it will revert to full table scan. In these cases the RDBMS can use the order of the joins or be helped with query hints. Now that may not be the case any more, but it wouldn't surprise me if database optimizers still choke a little if you have a lot of tables in the query (like more than ten). And yes, I know generally speaking that you might have more issues going on if you need that many tables (or decide to use that many tables) in a query. But sometimes it is necessary. Just not a good idea to do it all the time.:)
In most database systems the join order matters, especially if you use ansi style syntax. This is a known way to improve query performance. Order the joins to so that you limit as much as possible the number of rows returned early on; and as simply as possible using highly selective queries where the columns involved in the join has either unique or a high percentage of unique values (>90%). Then place the more complex/less selective joins (i.e. on columns with less unique values) or any necessary subqueries following. I'm surprise you never noticed this in MySQL, or perhaps you were using non-ansi style queries.
When training us about "confined space entries" at one chemical company I worked at (before switching to writing business software... as opposed to chemical process modelling), they told us about a contractor who entered a confined space at one of our plants without a confined space entry permit where nitrogen lines were vented (over-pressure vents or something like that). Before he entered, the lines vented a lot of nitrogen, displacing all the oxygen. From what I heard, the investigators figured the guy walked in the room and dropped unconscious almost immediately, and died very, very soon thereafter. Very quick and painless. i.e.He didn't know what hit him.
The rule at the place (following OSHA guidelines) was that to enter a confined space required authorization from someone trained and authorized to sign the permits. The permits were always time based never lasting more than a half shift (e.g. if you got a permit in the morning, you needed another one to either continue working more than four hours, or to go back in after you took any sort of break). And you always had to have a spotter/safety person, and be roped off, and have breathing and/or other required safety gear. This was always explained to all workers and contractors. As part of the authorization, O2 levels, explosive gas levels, poison gas levels are measured in the confined space either by monitors permanently mounted in the room/confined space, or by probes pushed into the space. Gas lines would be capped/locked out, dangerous equipment locked out etc. Notices posted and operations personal warned not to start up equipment in the space (even though the equipment is locked out anyway... redundancy and communication). This guy was authorized to work in that room in the morning. The permit expired, and the vent lines opened after they left at lunch during some operations activities. Without authorization the guy came back after lunch and thought it would be OK to just go in for a minute to retrieve something he forgot inside without asking for a permit (which hey, would take too much time for just ducking in and out of the room). But like I said, the room had no oxygen in it. He walked in without proper authorization and dropped pretty much on the spot. Just because you might take 4 minutes to die if you stop breathing, doesn't mean you won't pass out really fast, or die fast if you displace the oxygen in your lungs.
But the guy probably didn't feel any distress... or very little since they found him just inside the doorway. That is, he didn't last long inside the room. Poor guy. And FWIW, I consider that company to be very good on safety and it had a very low lost time injury count compared to many others. This was a clear incident of not following standard safety practices.
I used to work for a company that makes and is marketing a GPS tracking system exactly for this purpose. It includes their proprietary GPS tracking device and firmware, and server side software to store the data and do preliminary analysis (but the insurance companies mostly just care about the raw data and will do their own processing). And the insurance companies are very interested in buying data on where and how you drive. So this is pretty much a sure bet. I have to say that I wasn't very comfortable working for a company making 'big brother' devices.
Another use for this kind of data is for road charging programs for the government. Governments get a lot of their money for upkeep of the roadways from fuel taxes. But as fuel economy goes up, the relative tax revenue for miles driven (which translates to wear and tear on the roads) goes down. So many governments are looking to charging for road use. i.e. pay for the amount of miles/kilometers driven, based on the type of road (expressway, interstate/motorway, two lane blacktop, city cores, etc), time of day (peak/off peak hours), and type of vehicle. Something like Onstar technology fits in nicely with this too.
Yep. The only reason I don't use IE on Windows now is lack of adblock. I don't like constant updates, especially when they often screw up one of the only other reasons I use FF, which is the ad-ons. And BTW, I really, really hate the way ad-ons work now. I preferred ad-ons a la FF3. Simple and to the point. The way they made it look 'cool' makes it harder to use in my books.
IANAL. There are provisions in U.S. law for restitution from perpetrators of fraud if fraud is proven (just Google for restitution from/for fraud). I don't know what international jurisdiction has to do with it. If the crime took place in the U.S., U.S. law handles it. People will need to contact a lawyer to work through it. You make it sound like the U.S. government should be responsible for getting your money back. If you make deals with private individuals or companies, what has the U.S. government to do with it? You are making bigoted remarks about the United States saying they are crooks, but what has the United States to do with this other than this is where the crime may have been perpetrated? It is a really fucking stupid thing to say. Would you say the same thing if someone stole your wallet in France? Gee someone stole my wallet in France, I want France to give me my money back otherwise they are crooks. Catch the criminal and get the money back from them. Holy fuck.
There is an excellent SciFi book called The Prefect, by Alastair Reynolds where something like this plays a key role, but in an even grander scale. People chose what they want to look like in augmented reality, and most everyone have implants that pick this up and automatically route the image into their brain without having to look elsewhere like a smart phone screen (at least that is how I read it). People could walk around looking like they had horns, or were fauns or satyrs, etc. The lead character(s) who were a form of police had to wear special glasses since they could not afford to have artificial implants in their brain that could be hacked. But the augmented reality also hooked everyone in the society together (in ten thousand habitats orbiting a planet around a distant star from earth). It was an interesting take on how technology might impact reality in the future. Anyways, FWIW Reynolds writes some interesting stuff.
I saw a crash at an airshow before. The plane (a Fairey Firefly... WWII British carrier fighter/bomber) was flying and something fucked up and the plane went in a weird direction did a kind of roll turn up and then literally straight down into Lake Ontario just off the Ontario Place jetty by the marina. The pilot died and we saw them pull his body out of the water an hour later. The point is, I learned that going at a high rate of speed the distances on the ground that you think are big are absolutely nothing. And when something fucks up, the plane can go in any direction really fast. And in fact, in many directions really fast. The worst part is when it comes to a sudden stop.
FWIW, In the last ten years I also lived in Seattle for a while (a year and a bit). Before 2000, not included in the six years I mentioned in the above post, I also spent a little under a year in Rhode Island, and did some short term project work (couple months each) in California and Illinois. So yeah, I know a bit about the United states.
I lived in the U.S. for a little more than six years (got back to Canada 3 years ago).
To compare apples to apples plans, Rogers has a plan with 150 GB cap with a bandwidth of "up to" 32Mbps down (and how many sites will let you capitalize on that?) and "up to" 1 Mbps up, and costs $70 per month before taxes (13% sales tax in Ontario), etc. ($1 CDN is about $1.01 U.S. as of today). The evil empire AT&T has a plan with a 150 Gigabyte cap with a 12 Mbps (good enough for me anyway) down and 800 kbps up for 30 dollars a month with no contract. (I just looked up the prices for the place I used to live in Saint Louis. I chose these two plans because when looking up the ATT prices, this was the fastest package available in that area.)
ATT charges 10 dollars for every 50 GB overages in cap (20 cents per Gigabyte). On the plan in question, Rogers charges $1.25 per Gigabyte overage (or $62.50 for every 50 GB over the cap).
Rogers does have a 250 Gigabyte plan if it is available in your area that costs $100 per month and has "up to" 50 Mbps down (again, I don't know any web site that I go to that makes that worth anything). The overage "only" costs 50 cents per GB (or $25 dollars per 50 GB).
Up to a few months ago, the highest cap plan I saw for Rogers was around 80 GB, and I suspect these newer higher caps are the result of a huge amount of consumer complaints when they grossly reduced caps when Netflix was introduced to Canada either late last year or early this year.
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Yeah, I know... I used to use the PRC-25 set. :D Ahm old(ish)
I actually have mod points right now, but I can't find the one to mark you "+1 Recursive".
Bill Werbeniuk, a professional snooker player in the 1970s and 1980s used to drink six pints of beer before a match for the same reason. He was ranked as high as 8th in the world too. He drank a lot more pints during and after the matches too. Of course the heavy drinking eventually turned on him, causing heart problems which eventually killed him.
The TacSat-4 (or tactical microsatellite) lets the hundreds of thousands of military handheld radios currently in use communicate directly with an antenna orbiting in the most convenient spot imaginable: all that space overhead.
In a few years, just about any country with any sort of technological capability will be able to shoot down satellites. Satellite radios are all fine and dandy, but I think it would be best if those radios can also switch to a "PRC-117 Mode".
If there are lot of tables being joined the optimizer might not always do what you want it to do. Indexes can be ignored if there isn't a high enough degree of selectivity in the column(s) they are on. etc. In the former case, at least some databases will (or have in the past... e.g. Postgres) start grouping join statements and then amalgamating the groups in order not to have the optimizer be a limiting step in the process. In the latter, if an index isn't used there likely won't be statistics on the columns so how is it to know what approach to use... generally it will revert to full table scan. In these cases the RDBMS can use the order of the joins or be helped with query hints. Now that may not be the case any more, but it wouldn't surprise me if database optimizers still choke a little if you have a lot of tables in the query (like more than ten). And yes, I know generally speaking that you might have more issues going on if you need that many tables (or decide to use that many tables) in a query. But sometimes it is necessary. Just not a good idea to do it all the time. :)
In most database systems the join order matters, especially if you use ansi style syntax. This is a known way to improve query performance. Order the joins to so that you limit as much as possible the number of rows returned early on; and as simply as possible using highly selective queries where the columns involved in the join has either unique or a high percentage of unique values (>90%). Then place the more complex/less selective joins (i.e. on columns with less unique values) or any necessary subqueries following. I'm surprise you never noticed this in MySQL, or perhaps you were using non-ansi style queries.
Ragging on people using the words 'all' or 'everyone' when everyone knows it is a euphemism for 'most', is anal retentive.
Where will a cheap made in India or China lawbot will get you in Texas.
a) Death row;
b) Death row,
c) Death row;
d) All of the above
I think a greater benefit would be to design a renewable love sponge.
I don't know why but this reminded me of that stupid joke: Have you ever smelled moth balls? ...
When training us about "confined space entries" at one chemical company I worked at (before switching to writing business software... as opposed to chemical process modelling), they told us about a contractor who entered a confined space at one of our plants without a confined space entry permit where nitrogen lines were vented (over-pressure vents or something like that). Before he entered, the lines vented a lot of nitrogen, displacing all the oxygen. From what I heard, the investigators figured the guy walked in the room and dropped unconscious almost immediately, and died very, very soon thereafter. Very quick and painless. i.e.He didn't know what hit him.
The rule at the place (following OSHA guidelines) was that to enter a confined space required authorization from someone trained and authorized to sign the permits. The permits were always time based never lasting more than a half shift (e.g. if you got a permit in the morning, you needed another one to either continue working more than four hours, or to go back in after you took any sort of break). And you always had to have a spotter/safety person, and be roped off, and have breathing and/or other required safety gear. This was always explained to all workers and contractors. As part of the authorization, O2 levels, explosive gas levels, poison gas levels are measured in the confined space either by monitors permanently mounted in the room/confined space, or by probes pushed into the space. Gas lines would be capped/locked out, dangerous equipment locked out etc. Notices posted and operations personal warned not to start up equipment in the space (even though the equipment is locked out anyway... redundancy and communication). This guy was authorized to work in that room in the morning. The permit expired, and the vent lines opened after they left at lunch during some operations activities. Without authorization the guy came back after lunch and thought it would be OK to just go in for a minute to retrieve something he forgot inside without asking for a permit (which hey, would take too much time for just ducking in and out of the room). But like I said, the room had no oxygen in it. He walked in without proper authorization and dropped pretty much on the spot. Just because you might take 4 minutes to die if you stop breathing, doesn't mean you won't pass out really fast, or die fast if you displace the oxygen in your lungs.
But the guy probably didn't feel any distress... or very little since they found him just inside the doorway. That is, he didn't last long inside the room. Poor guy. And FWIW, I consider that company to be very good on safety and it had a very low lost time injury count compared to many others. This was a clear incident of not following standard safety practices.
Buyer Beware.
... and then wonder when you get home why you just got laid off and why they are shipping your job to China.
I used to work for a company that makes and is marketing a GPS tracking system exactly for this purpose. It includes their proprietary GPS tracking device and firmware, and server side software to store the data and do preliminary analysis (but the insurance companies mostly just care about the raw data and will do their own processing). And the insurance companies are very interested in buying data on where and how you drive. So this is pretty much a sure bet. I have to say that I wasn't very comfortable working for a company making 'big brother' devices.
Another use for this kind of data is for road charging programs for the government. Governments get a lot of their money for upkeep of the roadways from fuel taxes. But as fuel economy goes up, the relative tax revenue for miles driven (which translates to wear and tear on the roads) goes down. So many governments are looking to charging for road use. i.e. pay for the amount of miles/kilometers driven, based on the type of road (expressway, interstate/motorway, two lane blacktop, city cores, etc), time of day (peak/off peak hours), and type of vehicle. Something like Onstar technology fits in nicely with this too.
the people around you can look like anything at all
LOL, we already do that with ugly women via beer goggles.
Yep. The only reason I don't use IE on Windows now is lack of adblock. I don't like constant updates, especially when they often screw up one of the only other reasons I use FF, which is the ad-ons. And BTW, I really, really hate the way ad-ons work now. I preferred ad-ons a la FF3. Simple and to the point. The way they made it look 'cool' makes it harder to use in my books.
IANAL. There are provisions in U.S. law for restitution from perpetrators of fraud if fraud is proven (just Google for restitution from/for fraud). I don't know what international jurisdiction has to do with it. If the crime took place in the U.S., U.S. law handles it. People will need to contact a lawyer to work through it. You make it sound like the U.S. government should be responsible for getting your money back. If you make deals with private individuals or companies, what has the U.S. government to do with it? You are making bigoted remarks about the United States saying they are crooks, but what has the United States to do with this other than this is where the crime may have been perpetrated? It is a really fucking stupid thing to say. Would you say the same thing if someone stole your wallet in France? Gee someone stole my wallet in France, I want France to give me my money back otherwise they are crooks. Catch the criminal and get the money back from them. Holy fuck.
There is an excellent SciFi book called The Prefect, by Alastair Reynolds where something like this plays a key role, but in an even grander scale. People chose what they want to look like in augmented reality, and most everyone have implants that pick this up and automatically route the image into their brain without having to look elsewhere like a smart phone screen (at least that is how I read it). People could walk around looking like they had horns, or were fauns or satyrs, etc. The lead character(s) who were a form of police had to wear special glasses since they could not afford to have artificial implants in their brain that could be hacked. But the augmented reality also hooked everyone in the society together (in ten thousand habitats orbiting a planet around a distant star from earth). It was an interesting take on how technology might impact reality in the future. Anyways, FWIW Reynolds writes some interesting stuff.
Doesn't this just entail keeping your genes on?
What's odd in this case is there there's so little respect for science and the scientists that do it.
The first clue would be that less than 40% of Americans believe in 'the natural selection of the species' (a.k.a. evolution). If people reject something that is so widely accepted in the scientific community, it isn't surprising that they will willingly choose to ignore scientists in other areas when it suites them. Especially if the people they elect (e.g. George W. Bush) are proud of the fact that they are uninformed or selective in what they want to hear.
I saw a crash at an airshow before. The plane (a Fairey Firefly... WWII British carrier fighter/bomber) was flying and something fucked up and the plane went in a weird direction did a kind of roll turn up and then literally straight down into Lake Ontario just off the Ontario Place jetty by the marina. The pilot died and we saw them pull his body out of the water an hour later. The point is, I learned that going at a high rate of speed the distances on the ground that you think are big are absolutely nothing. And when something fucks up, the plane can go in any direction really fast. And in fact, in many directions really fast. The worst part is when it comes to a sudden stop.
A point in every direction, is the same as no point at all. -- The pointed man. The Point
FWIW, In the last ten years I also lived in Seattle for a while (a year and a bit). Before 2000, not included in the six years I mentioned in the above post, I also spent a little under a year in Rhode Island, and did some short term project work (couple months each) in California and Illinois. So yeah, I know a bit about the United states.
I lived in the U.S. for a little more than six years (got back to Canada 3 years ago).
To compare apples to apples plans, Rogers has a plan with 150 GB cap with a bandwidth of "up to" 32Mbps down (and how many sites will let you capitalize on that?) and "up to" 1 Mbps up, and costs $70 per month before taxes (13% sales tax in Ontario), etc. ($1 CDN is about $1.01 U.S. as of today). The evil empire AT&T has a plan with a 150 Gigabyte cap with a 12 Mbps (good enough for me anyway) down and 800 kbps up for 30 dollars a month with no contract. (I just looked up the prices for the place I used to live in Saint Louis. I chose these two plans because when looking up the ATT prices, this was the fastest package available in that area.)
ATT charges 10 dollars for every 50 GB overages in cap (20 cents per Gigabyte). On the plan in question, Rogers charges $1.25 per Gigabyte overage (or $62.50 for every 50 GB over the cap).
Rogers does have a 250 Gigabyte plan if it is available in your area that costs $100 per month and has "up to" 50 Mbps down (again, I don't know any web site that I go to that makes that worth anything). The overage "only" costs 50 cents per GB (or $25 dollars per 50 GB).
Up to a few months ago, the highest cap plan I saw for Rogers was around 80 GB, and I suspect these newer higher caps are the result of a huge amount of consumer complaints when they grossly reduced caps when Netflix was introduced to Canada either late last year or early this year.