Ooooh, I've got some too!
Their silly, non-standards-compliant alternative INSERT syntax that breaks when the SQL is ported to a different DBMS, i.e., INSERT INTO table [field = value],.... Or how about type inferencing that encourages lazy SQL code... which breaks when ported to a different DBMS (numbers in strings literals, ahoy!). Or, my favorite, how MySQL will truncate strings instead of throwing an error if the string overflows the field you're inserting it into.
MySQL is crap. If you want a good database on the cheap, use Postgres. Fast, reliable, predictable, relatively simple, adheres to standards, supports a slew of languages for stored procedures, blah blah blah.... It's a shame MySQL is so popular when Postgres is so much better.
If that is indeed that case, that he wasn't wearing a helmet, it would be truly insulting to the man and his memory for us not to learn a valuable lesson from this tragedy. The vast majority of drivers are idiots, and you need all the safety measures you can (practically) pile on to protect yourself. Helmets can be the difference between life and death, and a minor inconvenience and a bit of discomfort is a small price to pay for your continued existence.
Here's to you, Rob, for being a cool dude and fostering a great community.
Consider this: do you suppose that these guys will ever need to collect on social security or medicare/medicaid/medi-whatever? If not, why should they have to pay for something they don't use?
I wouldn't get the wide 20.1" monitor, go for the normal aspect monitor instead. You get more total resolution (1600x1200 as opposed to 1680x1050) with the normal aspect ratio, and you don't have to put up with the widescreen monitor's awful backlight bleeding.
Aren't there treaties that are supposed to prevent this sort of thing from happening? I understand that it hasn't been ratified, but as supporters of CTBT, I think we should at least make an attempt to honor it.
Hopefully speeches such as Gates's, coupled with the phenomenon described in TFA will bring some attention to our dire need for better education. Let's face it, education in the US sucks, and it needs a dramatic improvement.
I'm not trying to be a pessimistic weiner here... but I am a college student, and the crap I see every day really pisses me off.
I'm not sure why people are having trouble with this... without any tweaking/modification of any kind, I upgraded to 1.0.6 and was still able to fire up Mozilla Hypnopelican without any trouble.
Is my Firefox weird, or is there really a problem with extensions following upgrades?
The reporter was chagrined that the last press tour focused more on the CFO (Chief Food Officer) and the monthly pasta consumption (500 lbs) than products or financial performance of the company.
I think this is also a reflection of the attitudes of the guys in charge. Google is not interested in running a corporate hell, Google is interested in producing quality services, and having a good time doing so. They're making scads upon assloads of money in the process because their formula is so attractive to most people.
Furthermore, being able to sell the product commercially is completely irrelevant. Samba never has been and probably will never be a commercial project. The problem is that Samba will be effectively dead if this is allowed to pass. If they release information about their Samba implementation, Microsoft has but to say "hey, those Samba guys are using our information in an open-source project!" and Samba would be no more in Europe.
I agree that they could *technically* pull it off indefinitely.... But would they really do it? Eventually, forking over more than a billion dollars per year starts to look bad for customers and investors alike.
I wondered about the validity of their claim as well, so I went on a hunt for information about Lupus. One apparent cause of Lupus is UV radiation, which leads me to believe that shorter-wavelength radiation could cause it as well (link)
I'm not trying to contradict you or anything (it still sounds a bit fishy to me), but I suppose it could be plausible.
Actually, Jet-A is kerosene. The difference is subtle, but diesel is 0.78 kg/L whereas kerosene is 0.82 kg/L. That makes a huge difference over the volume that the Global Flyer uses.
Congratualations on coming out of the closet with your utter stupidity.
This is not merely an attempt to get in the record books, it's an achievement in air travel. I'm sure there were a few people like yourself who said the same thing about the Wright brothers a century ago, but the consequence of their work should be fairly evident now. Even if 10 years down the road the only noticable result of the Global Flyer mission is eliminating a few connections on long-distance flights, that's a small victory for air travel.
I'm going out on a very long limb here, because I don't know how much it costs to maintain Yucca Mountain and its support resources. I'd imagine it's well into the billions of dollars, but again, I don't know.
Anyway, supposing a multi-billion dollar budget, why not just launch the waste at the sun? If it already costs loads of money to stuff the crap in the ground, why not spend loads of money do develop/construct rockets to get nuclear waste way the hell out sight? As long as you get the rocket into space and pointed in the right general direction, gravity takes over. Granted, you run into big problems if your rocket laden with nuclear waste doesn't make it out of the atmosphere, but for the most part, the world's aerospace technologies have been extremely reliable.
Humans couldn't produce enough waste in a million years to impact the sun even a tiny bit. Maybe I'm optimistic, but I don't see why it isn't a reasonable option. Yeah, depleted uranium is heavy, and yeah, rockets are expensive, but with privately owned aerospace programs operating on relatively small budgets (SpaceShipOne, for instance), I think it could happen.
The same sort of policy is in place at my school (Kansas State). If they find you have an AP, they confiscate it and you get slapped on the wrist.
Furthermore, they require every machine on the network to be personally inspected by a representative of the university in order to be allowed on the network. This inspection includes installing Microsoft's SUS and a managed version of Symantec AV. Linux users are of course exempt from the software hassles:).
An aquaintance who complained to the cretins that drafted this policy was reportedly told that "if he didn't like it, he could go to another school." Just the image a large university should be propagating....
Personally, I think that something needs to be done about schools dictating more and more fascist policies about their networks. Universities seem to be having more and more network/security related issues cropping up, while you rarely hear about ISPs having the same problems. I can't think of anything off the top of my head that could be done, but the fact remains that schools are contorting "fair use" to mean whatever they think it should.
I don't give a shit what my school is legally allowed to do, it comes down to a matter of being civil to the students.
I may be a bit picky here, but I absolutely DETEST the Edit/Preferences method of getting to the browser options. I much prefer going to Tools/Options. I don't know if everyone (or anyone) feels the same way, but there you have it. I noticed that in 0.9 (I think; could be mistaken) the browser options were moved to Edit/Preferences, and then in 0.9.1 it was moved back to Tools/Options.
There have been many good suggestions posted so far, but doing a careful balance of all of them is your best bet.
Scholarships are wonderful, but you shouldn't be afraid to look for other sources of money, especially if your grades aren't so hot. I graduated from high school with a good enough GPA to get a $3000 university scholarship, with extra money every semester that I kept a 3.5 GPA. I only had the scholarship for one year because I wasn't able to maintain my performance for that long. One of the problems you're going to run into with scholarships is that you're going to be expected to perform. If you aren't absolutely confident in your ability to put up the grades, don't place your better on riding through college on scholarhip money, because a lot of the scholarships out there will expect you to put on a show all the way through school.
Don't balk at loans either. A few people have expressed negative opinions of loans, but if you need the money, you don't have much choice. Besides, if you have a good head on your shoulders (and/or some luck), you'll land a job out of school and be on the road to repaying them. Don't expect to live in the fast lane right out of school.
Whatever you do, DON'T let anyone discourage you from getting a job. For one, having a job will let you earn money, and it will adjust you to working under a tight schedule. If you can avoid it, don't work off campus. Campus jobs are very flexible (in my experience) with respect to your classes. If your lucky like me, you can get a job working in some computing department on campus. I started working my second semester on a network tech support team, now I'm an applications programmer in the same office. I take stuff from the classroom right into the office. You'll have to be careful not to work too much and get in the way of your studies, but on the other hand it's a good way to gain some "real-world" experience.
I hope that helps. The simplest advice I can give is if you work your ass off, you can expect to reap some benefits.
Slashdot Mirror
Ooooh, I've got some too! Their silly, non-standards-compliant alternative INSERT syntax that breaks when the SQL is ported to a different DBMS, i.e., INSERT INTO table [field = value], .... Or how about type inferencing that encourages lazy SQL code... which breaks when ported to a different DBMS (numbers in strings literals, ahoy!). Or, my favorite, how MySQL will truncate strings instead of throwing an error if the string overflows the field you're inserting it into.
MySQL is crap. If you want a good database on the cheap, use Postgres. Fast, reliable, predictable, relatively simple, adheres to standards, supports a slew of languages for stored procedures, blah blah blah.... It's a shame MySQL is so popular when Postgres is so much better.
If that is indeed that case, that he wasn't wearing a helmet, it would be truly insulting to the man and his memory for us not to learn a valuable lesson from this tragedy. The vast majority of drivers are idiots, and you need all the safety measures you can (practically) pile on to protect yourself. Helmets can be the difference between life and death, and a minor inconvenience and a bit of discomfort is a small price to pay for your continued existence.
Here's to you, Rob, for being a cool dude and fostering a great community.
Consider this: do you suppose that these guys will ever need to collect on social security or medicare/medicaid/medi-whatever? If not, why should they have to pay for something they don't use?
!@%$&@#$%*@!Barbara Streisand!!!
I wouldn't get the wide 20.1" monitor, go for the normal aspect monitor instead. You get more total resolution (1600x1200 as opposed to 1680x1050) with the normal aspect ratio, and you don't have to put up with the widescreen monitor's awful backlight bleeding.
Bad idea indeed.
Aren't there treaties that are supposed to prevent this sort of thing from happening? I understand that it hasn't been ratified, but as supporters of CTBT, I think we should at least make an attempt to honor it.
This isn't an opinion, it's bona-fide fact.
The sun should be directly between sunrise and sunset at noon on any day of the year, no questions asked. This DST crap has got to go.
Hopefully speeches such as Gates's, coupled with the phenomenon described in TFA will bring some attention to our dire need for better education. Let's face it, education in the US sucks, and it needs a dramatic improvement.
I'm not trying to be a pessimistic weiner here... but I am a college student, and the crap I see every day really pisses me off.
I'm not sure why people are having trouble with this... without any tweaking/modification of any kind, I upgraded to 1.0.6 and was still able to fire up Mozilla Hypnopelican without any trouble.
Is my Firefox weird, or is there really a problem with extensions following upgrades?
The reporter was chagrined that the last press tour focused more on the CFO (Chief Food Officer) and the monthly pasta consumption (500 lbs) than products or financial performance of the company.
I think this is also a reflection of the attitudes of the guys in charge. Google is not interested in running a corporate hell, Google is interested in producing quality services, and having a good time doing so. They're making scads upon assloads of money in the process because their formula is so attractive to most people.
I think it's easier to say that this study has a 33% chance of being innacurate.
Precisely.
Furthermore, being able to sell the product commercially is completely irrelevant. Samba never has been and probably will never be a commercial project. The problem is that Samba will be effectively dead if this is allowed to pass. If they release information about their Samba implementation, Microsoft has but to say "hey, those Samba guys are using our information in an open-source project!" and Samba would be no more in Europe.
I agree that they could *technically* pull it off indefinitely.... But would they really do it? Eventually, forking over more than a billion dollars per year starts to look bad for customers and investors alike.
... they would have a few months to figure out what they wanted to do about it.
I wondered about the validity of their claim as well, so I went on a hunt for information about Lupus. One apparent cause of Lupus is UV radiation, which leads me to believe that shorter-wavelength radiation could cause it as well (link)
I'm not trying to contradict you or anything (it still sounds a bit fishy to me), but I suppose it could be plausible.
I wasn't aware Microsoft had a choice regarding which demands they would accept and would not accept.
I'd stay in. I hear it's going to rain Google Gulp through the night.
Honestly, this crap is getting old. I'm sure there is some real news to talk about. Most of the rest of the world has not stopped for April Fools Day.
Actually, Jet-A is kerosene. The difference is subtle, but diesel is 0.78 kg/L whereas kerosene is 0.82 kg/L. That makes a huge difference over the volume that the Global Flyer uses.
Congratualations on coming out of the closet with your utter stupidity.
This is not merely an attempt to get in the record books, it's an achievement in air travel. I'm sure there were a few people like yourself who said the same thing about the Wright brothers a century ago, but the consequence of their work should be fairly evident now. Even if 10 years down the road the only noticable result of the Global Flyer mission is eliminating a few connections on long-distance flights, that's a small victory for air travel.
I'm going out on a very long limb here, because I don't know how much it costs to maintain Yucca Mountain and its support resources. I'd imagine it's well into the billions of dollars, but again, I don't know.
Anyway, supposing a multi-billion dollar budget, why not just launch the waste at the sun? If it already costs loads of money to stuff the crap in the ground, why not spend loads of money do develop/construct rockets to get nuclear waste way the hell out sight? As long as you get the rocket into space and pointed in the right general direction, gravity takes over. Granted, you run into big problems if your rocket laden with nuclear waste doesn't make it out of the atmosphere, but for the most part, the world's aerospace technologies have been extremely reliable.
Humans couldn't produce enough waste in a million years to impact the sun even a tiny bit. Maybe I'm optimistic, but I don't see why it isn't a reasonable option. Yeah, depleted uranium is heavy, and yeah, rockets are expensive, but with privately owned aerospace programs operating on relatively small budgets (SpaceShipOne, for instance), I think it could happen.
The same sort of policy is in place at my school (Kansas State). If they find you have an AP, they confiscate it and you get slapped on the wrist.
:).
Furthermore, they require every machine on the network to be personally inspected by a representative of the university in order to be allowed on the network. This inspection includes installing Microsoft's SUS and a managed version of Symantec AV. Linux users are of course exempt from the software hassles
An aquaintance who complained to the cretins that drafted this policy was reportedly told that "if he didn't like it, he could go to another school."
Just the image a large university should be propagating....
Personally, I think that something needs to be done about schools dictating more and more fascist policies about their networks. Universities seem to be having more and more network/security related issues cropping up, while you rarely hear about ISPs having the same problems. I can't think of anything off the top of my head that could be done, but the fact remains that schools are contorting "fair use" to mean whatever they think it should.
I don't give a shit what my school is legally allowed to do, it comes down to a matter of being civil to the students.
I may be a bit picky here, but I absolutely DETEST the Edit/Preferences method of getting to the browser options. I much prefer going to Tools/Options. I don't know if everyone (or anyone) feels the same way, but there you have it. I noticed that in 0.9 (I think; could be mistaken) the browser options were moved to Edit/Preferences, and then in 0.9.1 it was moved back to Tools/Options.
They are options, damnit, not preferences!!!
There have been many good suggestions posted so far, but doing a careful balance of all of them is your best bet. Scholarships are wonderful, but you shouldn't be afraid to look for other sources of money, especially if your grades aren't so hot. I graduated from high school with a good enough GPA to get a $3000 university scholarship, with extra money every semester that I kept a 3.5 GPA. I only had the scholarship for one year because I wasn't able to maintain my performance for that long. One of the problems you're going to run into with scholarships is that you're going to be expected to perform. If you aren't absolutely confident in your ability to put up the grades, don't place your better on riding through college on scholarhip money, because a lot of the scholarships out there will expect you to put on a show all the way through school. Don't balk at loans either. A few people have expressed negative opinions of loans, but if you need the money, you don't have much choice. Besides, if you have a good head on your shoulders (and/or some luck), you'll land a job out of school and be on the road to repaying them. Don't expect to live in the fast lane right out of school. Whatever you do, DON'T let anyone discourage you from getting a job. For one, having a job will let you earn money, and it will adjust you to working under a tight schedule. If you can avoid it, don't work off campus. Campus jobs are very flexible (in my experience) with respect to your classes. If your lucky like me, you can get a job working in some computing department on campus. I started working my second semester on a network tech support team, now I'm an applications programmer in the same office. I take stuff from the classroom right into the office. You'll have to be careful not to work too much and get in the way of your studies, but on the other hand it's a good way to gain some "real-world" experience. I hope that helps. The simplest advice I can give is if you work your ass off, you can expect to reap some benefits.