I'd never even heard of R.P. until I left Brummagem, nor had I seen a Waitrose. Oh those were the days.
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Structured Query Language is a misnomer, as it is not a complete language, just a small syntax, it is not limited to queries, and anybody who has used it will agree it's not structured.
For example, if you want to change data you use a different command to changing database structure.
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I think most people are pronouncing it.eu if they're into domain hacks, eg fuck.eu, screw.eu, sacrebl.eu, and so on, but in the UK at least I see it becoming E-U.
It was called Win32S, and actually worked amazingly well. I only ever had 1 programme not work, and that was a quiz programme called "You don't know Jack". This americanism confused me greatly, and I was very annoyed that I couldn't run it and find out who Jack was.
How about some pseudo-TLDs, like.com.18.com.16.com.15.com.21, etc. Then, allow domains to have a date of birth selector to calculate your age, managed by the parents or the company involved to filter the content.
Say you visit www.cum-guzzling-monkeys.com.14 you'll see "I'm sorry, this website has specified that you must be at least 18 to view it"
Of course, this would allow all products to be filtered, so teenagers can't see alcohol and related websites if required. It would require sites to opt-in though.
Initial assumption:
A being called "Jesus" exists that can do anything.
Can he microwave a burrito (whatever that is) so hot that he can't eat it?
In order to be able to do this, he needs to create a situation where he can't do something. Contradiction.
If this isn't possible, he can't microwave it to that temperature. Contradiction.
There is a logical problem with the initial assumption, no being could exhibit those properties.
> The word you want is DUCT as in DUCT tape. Of course there is a company > called "Duck" that makes "Duck Tape" which is actually duct tape, which no > doubt adds to the confusion. > > Yes, Duct tape can contain nucular explosions. Duct tape can be used for > anything*! > > > * except taping ducts; it's no good at all for that.
Although co-incidentally it's perfect for taping ducks.
Oh come on, do you honestly think this was a selfless act? You used a situation where we needed help to profit. If you hadn't you'd have been next. Seriously, think before you speak.
It is pretty damn simple, some organisations decided to sell third level domains, some second level. This allows the same name to be used in different contexts. The.uk options that I know of are:
.co.uk
COmmercial
.org.uk
ORGanisation
.me.uk
Personal site (clever name, eh?)
.plc.uk
Public Limited Company
.ltd.uk
LimiTeD liability Company
.mod.uk
Ministry Of Defense (Includes all armed forces)
.police.uk
Police, obviously
.gov.uk
Government
.ac.uk
ACademic institutions
.sch.uk
SCHool (this one is broken down more to schoolname.localeducationauthority.sch.uk, so my secondary school was barrbeacon.walsall.sch.uk)
.nhs.uk
National Health Service
Why shouldn't there be a logical distinction between the hospitals in Birmingham and the government in Birmingham? It just makes sense to me, you wouldn't want birmingham-council.uk, birmingham-nhs.uk, as you wouldn't have a restrictive pattern to ensure uniformity. I once surprised somebody by going to a police website without googling...
"How did you know the URL?"
"Err.. it's the name of the force, followed by.police.uk..."
The IOCCC winner for this year "Chia" sums up Java for me. It is a java programme to count the length of each line in a text file, and output it to STDOUT. It is preceeded by some #defines, where the real fun lies
It couldn't have been blood from birds, as avian blood cells are nucleated. Mammalian blood, on the other hand, does not contain nucleated red blood cells, so would match this. The NS article does recognise that a meteor airburst in a flock of bats could have caused this, but there were 50 tonnes of cells released, and nobody has found a big ol' pile of wings yet.
The device will, of course, need to process USB requests for power. Will it provide more than 500mA? Excellent idea if you ask me, although I do agree with the first poster that this should be implemented in bluetooth (N.B.: Some future, very fast bluetooth, 2.0 can't hack it).
Ok, everyone change your links to ping="http://www.microsoft.com". How long will they keep up with this additional traffic? How long will it take for microsoft to sue somebody?
Not long.
I contacted the BBC not long after they posted this story with a "factual correction". Here is their response:
Dear Mattew,
It's pretty mind-boggling isn't it. Actually a couple of people have wondered about this sentence. But physicists/philosophers do think you would notice at least SOME of the changes made by meddling time travellers. What if, for example, you were having a drink with your friend Joe and someone went back and murdered him last week? He couldn't be sitting opposite you anymore so something would happen...... and why do you assume you wouldn't have any memory of him? Or, as the classic paradox goes, what if someone went back today and murdered your mother before you were born - what would happen to you NOW?
Hope this helps,
With best wishes,
Julianna
I emailed back pointing out the logical errors in their argument, and recieved the following:
Matthew
I wouldn't get hung too tight on all of this. This entire field is
theoretical and highly speculative. Dan Greenberger has seen what we
have written; he made one suggested change, but that was not to this
sentence.
With thanks for your mail, time and interest.
Jonathan Amos
Assistant Editor, Science and Nature
I think that goes to show that for science articles you should link to NewScientist, not the BBC, if you want it to look as though it wasn't written by a 14 year old.
This phone is nothing but a fashion item for the European teens. For those of you familiar with the Nokia phone system, it is a Series 40 phone (Like the 7210), and not a Series 60 (7650, 3650, N-Gage, etc) or a Series 80 (9110, 9210, 9210i) which are the PDA style phones.
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I'd never even heard of R.P. until I left Brummagem, nor had I seen a Waitrose. Oh those were the days.
Structured Query Language is a misnomer, as it is not a complete language, just a small syntax, it is not limited to queries, and anybody who has used it will agree it's not structured.
For example, if you want to change data you use a different command to changing database structure.
I say we gaol people for using americanisms.
Web 2.0 - Feeding the bubble.
I think most people are pronouncing it .eu if they're into domain hacks, eg fuck.eu, screw.eu, sacrebl.eu, and so on, but in the UK at least I see it becoming E-U.
It was called Win32S, and actually worked amazingly well. I only ever had 1 programme not work, and that was a quiz programme called "You don't know Jack". This americanism confused me greatly, and I was very annoyed that I couldn't run it and find out who Jack was.
I've got that for SWF. I used to call them S-W-F, but from working with a flash developer I now call them swifs.
How about some pseudo-TLDs, like .com.18 .com.16 .com.15 .com.21, etc. Then, allow domains to have a date of birth selector to calculate your age, managed by the parents or the company involved to filter the content.
Say you visit www.cum-guzzling-monkeys.com.14 you'll see "I'm sorry, this website has specified that you must be at least 18 to view it"
Of course, this would allow all products to be filtered, so teenagers can't see alcohol and related websites if required. It would require sites to opt-in though.
I'd guess TBL.
Well, neither in a computer science department or commercial firms have I ever heard it called sequel, I think it's not in common use in the U.K..
True, but if I did that there would be a good number of people who replied in sheer confusion.
Initial assumption: A being called "Jesus" exists that can do anything. Can he microwave a burrito (whatever that is) so hot that he can't eat it? In order to be able to do this, he needs to create a situation where he can't do something. Contradiction. If this isn't possible, he can't microwave it to that temperature. Contradiction. There is a logical problem with the initial assumption, no being could exhibit those properties.
> The word you want is DUCT as in DUCT tape. Of course there is a company
> called "Duck" that makes "Duck Tape" which is actually duct tape, which no
> doubt adds to the confusion.
>
> Yes, Duct tape can contain nucular explosions. Duct tape can be used for
> anything*!
>
>
> * except taping ducts; it's no good at all for that.
Although co-incidentally it's perfect for taping ducks.
Oh come on, do you honestly think this was a selfless act? You used a situation where we needed help to profit. If you hadn't you'd have been next. Seriously, think before you speak.
It is pretty damn simple, some organisations decided to sell third level domains, some second level. This allows the same name to be used in different contexts. The .uk options that I know of are:
.police.uk..."
.co.uk COmmercial .org.uk ORGanisation .me.uk Personal site (clever name, eh?) .plc.uk Public Limited Company .ltd.uk LimiTeD liability Company .mod.uk Ministry Of Defense (Includes all armed forces) .police.uk Police, obviously .gov.uk Government .ac.uk ACademic institutions .sch.uk SCHool (this one is broken down more to schoolname.localeducationauthority.sch.uk, so my secondary school was barrbeacon.walsall.sch.uk) .nhs.uk National Health Service Why shouldn't there be a logical distinction between the hospitals in Birmingham and the government in Birmingham? It just makes sense to me, you wouldn't want birmingham-council.uk, birmingham-nhs.uk, as you wouldn't have a restrictive pattern to ensure uniformity. I once surprised somebody by going to a police website without googling...
"How did you know the URL?"
"Err.. it's the name of the force, followed by
The IOCCC winner for this year "Chia" sums up Java for me. It is a java programme to count the length of each line in a text file, and output it to STDOUT. It is preceeded by some #defines, where the real fun lies
Highly recommended.
It couldn't have been blood from birds, as avian blood cells are nucleated. Mammalian blood, on the other hand, does not contain nucleated red blood cells, so would match this. The NS article does recognise that a meteor airburst in a flock of bats could have caused this, but there were 50 tonnes of cells released, and nobody has found a big ol' pile of wings yet.
I'm disgusted by some of the responses I've read to this story. Grow up.
I'm disturbed you use sexy to describe humans, n'hey, n'hey.
The device will, of course, need to process USB requests for power. Will it provide more than 500mA? Excellent idea if you ask me, although I do agree with the first poster that this should be implemented in bluetooth (N.B.: Some future, very fast bluetooth, 2.0 can't hack it).
Ok, everyone change your links to ping="http://www.microsoft.com". How long will they keep up with this additional traffic? How long will it take for microsoft to sue somebody? Not long.
Or use the Mac version that nobody has. I certainly don't.
I contacted the BBC not long after they posted this story with a "factual correction". Here is their response:
Dear Mattew,
It's pretty mind-boggling isn't it. Actually a couple of people have wondered about this sentence. But physicists/philosophers do think you would notice at least SOME of the changes made by meddling time travellers. What if, for example, you were having a drink with your friend Joe and someone went back and murdered him last week? He couldn't be sitting opposite you anymore so something would happen...... and why do you assume you wouldn't have any memory of him? Or, as the classic paradox goes, what if someone went back today and murdered your mother before you were born - what would happen to you NOW?
Hope this helps,
With best wishes,
Julianna
I emailed back pointing out the logical errors in their argument, and recieved the following:
Matthew
I wouldn't get hung too tight on all of this. This entire field is theoretical and highly speculative. Dan Greenberger has seen what we have written; he made one suggested change, but that was not to this sentence.
With thanks for your mail, time and interest.
Jonathan Amos
Assistant Editor, Science and Nature
I think that goes to show that for science articles you should link to NewScientist, not the BBC, if you want it to look as though it wasn't written by a 14 year old.
This phone is nothing but a fashion item for the European teens. For those of you familiar with the Nokia phone system, it is a Series 40 phone (Like the 7210), and not a Series 60 (7650, 3650, N-Gage, etc) or a Series 80 (9110, 9210, 9210i) which are the PDA style phones.