It is already everywhere, just like Mercury. Thorium and Uranium are released from coal power plants in quite large amounts - we are not talking pounds but tons and tons. 2-3 parts in a million of coal is Uranium and I think Thorium is around 4-5 parts per million.
Most people don't even know that the lakes and oceans poisoned with mercury and those tuna advisories are all thanks to coal power plants. But then we better have coal or even the so called "clean coal" instead of nuclear power.
Ruby on Rails will *replace* ? with the my_test that it escapes! I have no idea what they were thinking. And I do agree with you that parameterized queries are the only safe way, and should be the ONLY way to actually query databases. Heck, it is faster for recurring queries because all you have to do is pass the parameters and the query is already parsed and ready for execution.
Sometimes the DB layer is too restrictive (load balancing,data logging,etc.) so you end up with another API "layer". For example,
DB backend <--> DB API on app server #1 <--> Apps on app server #2 <--> GUI/web/whatever
The DB API is the general glue between your apps and the server. But then on most apps you can just stick that in the DB as stored procedures, as you've done.
For reference, see the current food prices and how these are liked in the developing world. Biofuel mania has something to do with it, but increased consumption by people and animals people eat is the major problem.
But I don't think you'll even look up the numbers. Is it so difficult?
Keep your guns. They do nothing but give you false comfort. Maybe you can conjure up your own reality to live in with them. Maybe a place where 6 billion people means room for all, infinite supply of fish in oceans, most large animals not going or being extinct. Where people in such numbers don't impact the planet at all. But then the planet would have to be 10x the size.
Hell, I'm not even a leftist. I'm a rationalist - if there is such a thing anymore. But I guess you have to be a "leftist" to "believe" in reality these days, or a "rightist" to "believe" in fair taxation.
Oh, and if you get cancer or heart disease, make sure to save taxpayer money and just pray. I'm sure it will just go away for you. But then again only bad people get diseases like that - it's god's punishment, eh?
NASA is the core of exploring the unknown outside this planet. They are the key in developing new technology not just in space for flight. Without NASA US would just be a second league country without anything inspiring in it. The day NASA is closed down is the day US stops being a nation that is of any importance to the future of this planet.
Remain where you are, like the Italians did in late 1500s, and other nations will step up and take and expand. The Moon, Mars, and other places are right there. But I guess some people would rather nurture their claustrophobic vision of the future. A future without hope or aspirations. Without a place to expand to, like the current situation of people on Earth, we are doomed to decay into a petty wars that will waste the remaining resources and move us back to stone age. Space is the only hope we have to continue this civilization. Bu I guess some are too blind to see simple truths.
Liver stores *6 year supply* of Vitamin B12. And it is not from animal meat but bacteria. Animals just store their own supply and we "eat it" (the supply) while eating the animals. Today, all of the B12 you get at a stores is made from bacteria cultures. And since your body retains lots of it, you don't need to eat the supplement all the time. Just once a week, a month or whatever. You can get those 1000mcg pills and take once a month and never have any problems. That way you'll get more B12 than meat eating people anyway.
From wikipedia:
"Vitamin B-12 cannot be made by plants or animals[5] as only bacteria have the enzymes required for its synthesis"
"The total amount of vitamin B-12 stored in body is about 2,000-5,000 mcg in adults. Around 80% of this is stored in the liver[2]. 0.1 % of this is lost per day by secretions into the gut as not all these secretions are reabsorbed. How fast B-12 levels change depends on the balance between how much B-12 is obtained from the diet, how much is secreted and how much is absorbed. B-12 deficiency may arise in a year if initial stores are low and genetic factors unfavourable or may not appear for decades."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12
As a side node, I'm not a vegan. But B12 deficiency takes *years*, and does not happen overnight because you stopped eating meat. Hell, you can eat termites or even dirt with B12 bacteria and you'll get enough B12.
Errr, the worst gun sellers are (in no particular order),
* Russians * Chinese * Americans (US)
US sells the most arms based on "value". Secondly, US has more guns than people and more people die in the US from gun crime and "accidents" than rest of the world aside from war zones.
On another note, it doesn't even matter one shit if you have guns or not. If you do not have access to real information (like in China and to some extend rest of the world), you cannot make any decisions anyway. Your guns are useless.
If you still believe guns can rule a country like China or even the US, you are delusional. It is all about information. If you *believe* you are free, as most Chinese do, you will even take up arms to protect your authoritarian regime. Similarly in the US, even if the government screwed your children lives by its actions like it is doing (debt, global warming, environment, etc), you will still defend it.
Hint: You are allowed to keep your guns in the US as a way to keep you content while rest of the *real* rights are stripped away, one by one. You can even swear "you'll use the damn guns to change corrupt gov't", but trust me, you never will.
I'm making one. Just post your name, phone number, your mother's maiden name and your SSN number and name of your first born. This information will be used strictly to leave you alone.
Wow! These guys look great. I wish I had a company like that in my area. Sadly, none offer IPv6 over DSL here. "No Bull Shit" sign - I like it. Regular telecoms just cater to the lowest common denominator without any regard to what a real ISPs should provide. Competing on price alone just sucks and Virgin is an example of what happens when they push that even further.
Shame on Virgin. I wish there were a real, reliable ISP where I live..
And to people complaining they are "expensive", shove packet filtering and throttling up your arses. The/GB costs are only during peak office hours anyway.
If you were going the legal limit, which was 90km/h, you would not have run the yellow and you would have been able to stop. So, speeding through a yellow light.
Again, first you say, "110 km/h (@ 70 mph) limit which I was obeying" and then you say "posted to slow to 90 km/h through the intersection". So, you were *speeding*. Period. It is not to "slow down through an intersection". It is a speed limit for that part of the road which happens to have an intersection. You were *NOT* obeying the posted speed limit.
Follow the damn rules. You will not get there any faster by tailgating and speeding, which from what you write seem you are doing.
You know how they got the traffic jam? Because idiots kept going at 85 until they got across these people which became the bottleneck. If everyone was going 55, there would be no traffic jam. No backup. Would there be a giant backup of traffic if some people chose to go 85 on that road while the rest went 100 or 120? Same shit.
Safe following distance is 2 *seconds*. At 60mph that's about 5 car length. Not exactly that huge now, is it?
Cameras are not dangerous. Tailgaters like you are. "Drivers" eating, talking on call phones, watching TV, reading emails on their blueberries and drunks are the cause of most deaths and crashes.
Yes. Up here in Manitoba, Canada the camara is only triggered if and only if you enter an intersection on the red. Your entire car must be at the stop like when entering intersection and a picture it taken. Then when you are leaving intersection, another picture is taken. So, you end up with a ticket if,
1. you go through on a solid red 2. you speed through intersection (on red or otherwise).
I haven't noticed yellow being any quicker. It seems the other way around here, light stays yellow for 2-4 seconds. The faster the road, the longer the yellow.
They did put pressure on app developers. Remember the DLL hell? Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 now uses SxS (Side-By-Side) DLLs, even for C library. And you have to provide a valid manifest or the app will run in legacy mode (virtlized registry and file system "reflection" and other BS).
UAC sucks because there is no admin-only, locked down account and user account. There is just one account with elevation. Installing and other admin tasks should be done with admin account. An account where DirectX, browser plugins, and other crap is disabled.
But then again Windows users would bitch that they can't install things and it is too hard to click the Window button + L to switch users to do admin tasks.
There are ways to limit bandwidth. For example, limit to 64k and an email warning of charges after some preset amount used, as per user preferences.
Bills can be monitored in real time. ISPs do that. Users should have access to it. And for people saying that ISPs don't have resources - so they have resources for deep packet inspection and but for SNMP enabled gateways?
Regardless, advertising "unlimited bandwidth" and not providing it should be illegal.
So what? Back in the early 1900s people may not have realized what a kWh is. Then they paid for it through their bills and learned the hard way. The same thing applies to the Internet. It is not "unlimited", it is very limited. You pay for what you use and if you don't understand it, you'll learn on your first, second or 10th bill.
How about charging the way you charge for normal utilities like electricity? You get a charge like,
$10 - base charge (infrastructure maintenance, etc.)
$2/GB - first 10GB
$1/GB - next 100GB
$0.75/GB - anything over 110GB usage
There ya go. Cheap for people using low bandwidth. Not exuberant for people using lots of bandwidth. Adjust prices accordingly per region and then don't bitch (either customer or ISP) that they don't have money for bandwidth.
Going back on topic, BBC *pays* for the use of bandwidth on their side. If ISP "can't cope with demand", it is not BBC's problem. And BBC should post blacklisting messages for customers connecting from ISPs that throttle their service, and suggest ones that do not. But then UK has one of the crappiest service from what I can read on forums like for EVE Online. Like people wanting to play a low bandwidth game like EVE can't connect because Tiscani choses to shaft them - http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=553090
That's dumb. Copy the email info to backup once a day and the spam backscatter you are *creating* is no longer an issue. IF you can't do that, shut down the backup. Mail can be undeliverable for *days* before the source gives up.
Slashdot Mirror
Endless, in any meaning, is not compatible with this universe.
It is already everywhere, just like Mercury. Thorium and Uranium are released from coal power plants in quite large amounts - we are not talking pounds but tons and tons. 2-3 parts in a million of coal is Uranium and I think Thorium is around 4-5 parts per million.
Most people don't even know that the lakes and oceans poisoned with mercury and those tuna advisories are all thanks to coal power plants. But then we better have coal or even the so called "clean coal" instead of nuclear power.
How I wish Ruby on Rails actually did parameters, but all it does is stupid escaping. Even for parameterized queries like,
:first, :conditions => [ "test_column=?", my_test ])
find(
Ruby on Rails will *replace* ? with the my_test that it escapes! I have no idea what they were thinking. And I do agree with you that parameterized queries are the only safe way, and should be the ONLY way to actually query databases. Heck, it is faster for recurring queries because all you have to do is pass the parameters and the query is already parsed and ready for execution.
Sometimes the DB layer is too restrictive (load balancing,data logging,etc.) so you end up with another API "layer". For example,
DB backend <--> DB API on app server #1 <--> Apps on app server #2 <--> GUI/web/whatever
The DB API is the general glue between your apps and the server. But then on most apps you can just stick that in the DB as stored procedures, as you've done.
Good old fashion starvation and disease.
For reference, see the current food prices and how these are liked in the developing world. Biofuel mania has something to do with it, but increased consumption by people and animals people eat is the major problem.
I for one welcome all new weirdos from basements in aluminum hats to slashdot.
Everyone, adjust your rectal probes to the right for best reception of dark matter electromagnetic transmissions from Alpha Centauri!
What a stupid, stupid fool you are. :(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry
But I don't think you'll even look up the numbers. Is it so difficult?
Keep your guns. They do nothing but give you false comfort. Maybe you can conjure up your own reality to live in with them. Maybe a place where 6 billion people means room for all, infinite supply of fish in oceans, most large animals not going or being extinct. Where people in such numbers don't impact the planet at all. But then the planet would have to be 10x the size.
Hell, I'm not even a leftist. I'm a rationalist - if there is such a thing anymore. But I guess you have to be a "leftist" to "believe" in reality these days, or a "rightist" to "believe" in fair taxation.
Oh, and if you get cancer or heart disease, make sure to save taxpayer money and just pray. I'm sure it will just go away for you. But then again only bad people get diseases like that - it's god's punishment, eh?
Then you are a fool to think the way you do.
NASA is the core of exploring the unknown outside this planet. They are the key in developing new technology not just in space for flight. Without NASA US would just be a second league country without anything inspiring in it. The day NASA is closed down is the day US stops being a nation that is of any importance to the future of this planet.
Remain where you are, like the Italians did in late 1500s, and other nations will step up and take and expand. The Moon, Mars, and other places are right there. But I guess some people would rather nurture their claustrophobic vision of the future. A future without hope or aspirations. Without a place to expand to, like the current situation of people on Earth, we are doomed to decay into a petty wars that will waste the remaining resources and move us back to stone age. Space is the only hope we have to continue this civilization. Bu I guess some are too blind to see simple truths.
Liver stores *6 year supply* of Vitamin B12. And it is not from animal meat but bacteria. Animals just store their own supply and we "eat it" (the supply) while eating the animals. Today, all of the B12 you get at a stores is made from bacteria cultures. And since your body retains lots of it, you don't need to eat the supplement all the time. Just once a week, a month or whatever. You can get those 1000mcg pills and take once a month and never have any problems. That way you'll get more B12 than meat eating people anyway.
From wikipedia:
"Vitamin B-12 cannot be made by plants or animals[5] as only bacteria have the enzymes required for its synthesis"
"The total amount of vitamin B-12 stored in body is about 2,000-5,000 mcg in adults. Around 80% of this is stored in the liver[2]. 0.1 % of this is lost per day by secretions into the gut as not all these secretions are reabsorbed. How fast B-12 levels change depends on the balance between how much B-12 is obtained from the diet, how much is secreted and how much is absorbed. B-12 deficiency may arise in a year if initial stores are low and genetic factors unfavourable or may not appear for decades."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12
As a side node, I'm not a vegan. But B12 deficiency takes *years*, and does not happen overnight because you stopped eating meat. Hell, you can eat termites or even dirt with B12 bacteria and you'll get enough B12.
Freaking FUD about stupid B12.
Errr, the worst gun sellers are (in no particular order),
* Russians
* Chinese
* Americans (US)
US sells the most arms based on "value". Secondly, US has more guns than people and more people die in the US from gun crime and "accidents" than rest of the world aside from war zones.
On another note, it doesn't even matter one shit if you have guns or not. If you do not have access to real information (like in China and to some extend rest of the world), you cannot make any decisions anyway. Your guns are useless.
If you still believe guns can rule a country like China or even the US, you are delusional. It is all about information. If you *believe* you are free, as most Chinese do, you will even take up arms to protect your authoritarian regime. Similarly in the US, even if the government screwed your children lives by its actions like it is doing (debt, global warming, environment, etc), you will still defend it.
Hint: You are allowed to keep your guns in the US as a way to keep you content while rest of the *real* rights are stripped away, one by one. You can even swear "you'll use the damn guns to change corrupt gov't", but trust me, you never will.
Like the Intel's quad code offering (two dual-core chips)? It may not be so bad after all.
I like the way they label the detonation as "radiological accident". Classic.
I'm making one. Just post your name, phone number, your mother's maiden name and your SSN number and name of your first born. This information will be used strictly to leave you alone.
Thanks!
Wow! These guys look great. I wish I had a company like that in my area. Sadly, none offer IPv6 over DSL here. "No Bull Shit" sign - I like it. Regular telecoms just cater to the lowest common denominator without any regard to what a real ISPs should provide. Competing on price alone just sucks and Virgin is an example of what happens when they push that even further.
/GB costs are only during peak office hours anyway.
Shame on Virgin. I wish there were a real, reliable ISP where I live..
And to people complaining they are "expensive", shove packet filtering and throttling up your arses. The
It is not 2 car length. It depends on speed. 2 car length is incorrect for anything over 40km/h. (25mph).
If you were going the legal limit, which was 90km/h, you would not have run the yellow and you would have been able to stop. So, speeding through a yellow light.
Again, first you say, "110 km/h (@ 70 mph) limit which I was obeying" and then you say "posted to slow to 90 km/h through the intersection". So, you were *speeding*. Period. It is not to "slow down through an intersection". It is a speed limit for that part of the road which happens to have an intersection. You were *NOT* obeying the posted speed limit.
Follow the damn rules. You will not get there any faster by tailgating and speeding, which from what you write seem you are doing.
You know how they got the traffic jam? Because idiots kept going at 85 until they got across these people which became the bottleneck. If everyone was going 55, there would be no traffic jam. No backup. Would there be a giant backup of traffic if some people chose to go 85 on that road while the rest went 100 or 120? Same shit.
Safe following distance is 2 *seconds*. At 60mph that's about 5 car length. Not exactly that huge now, is it?
Cameras are not dangerous. Tailgaters like you are. "Drivers" eating, talking on call phones, watching TV, reading emails on their blueberries and drunks are the cause of most deaths and crashes.
Yes. Up here in Manitoba, Canada the camara is only triggered if and only if you enter an intersection on the red. Your entire car must be at the stop like when entering intersection and a picture it taken. Then when you are leaving intersection, another picture is taken. So, you end up with a ticket if,
1. you go through on a solid red
2. you speed through intersection (on red or otherwise).
I haven't noticed yellow being any quicker. It seems the other way around here, light stays yellow for 2-4 seconds. The faster the road, the longer the yellow.
They did put pressure on app developers. Remember the DLL hell? Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 now uses SxS (Side-By-Side) DLLs, even for C library. And you have to provide a valid manifest or the app will run in legacy mode (virtlized registry and file system "reflection" and other BS).
UAC sucks because there is no admin-only, locked down account and user account. There is just one account with elevation. Installing and other admin tasks should be done with admin account. An account where DirectX, browser plugins, and other crap is disabled.
But then again Windows users would bitch that they can't install things and it is too hard to click the Window button + L to switch users to do admin tasks.
There are ways to limit bandwidth. For example, limit to 64k and an email warning of charges after some preset amount used, as per user preferences.
Bills can be monitored in real time. ISPs do that. Users should have access to it. And for people saying that ISPs don't have resources - so they have resources for deep packet inspection and but for SNMP enabled gateways?
Regardless, advertising "unlimited bandwidth" and not providing it should be illegal.
Yippie-kai-ey, motherf****ers!
(if you don't get it, see last Die Hard!)
WiX is OpenSource and sponsored by Microsoft.
see http://wix.sf.net
But they may not want to offer open source that directly conflicts with their business interest. But that is common sense now.
So what? Back in the early 1900s people may not have realized what a kWh is. Then they paid for it through their bills and learned the hard way. The same thing applies to the Internet. It is not "unlimited", it is very limited. You pay for what you use and if you don't understand it, you'll learn on your first, second or 10th bill.
How about charging the way you charge for normal utilities like electricity? You get a charge like,
$10 - base charge (infrastructure maintenance, etc.)
$2/GB - first 10GB
$1/GB - next 100GB
$0.75/GB - anything over 110GB usage
There ya go. Cheap for people using low bandwidth. Not exuberant for people using lots of bandwidth. Adjust prices accordingly per region and then don't bitch (either customer or ISP) that they don't have money for bandwidth.
Going back on topic, BBC *pays* for the use of bandwidth on their side. If ISP "can't cope with demand", it is not BBC's problem. And BBC should post blacklisting messages for customers connecting from ISPs that throttle their service, and suggest ones that do not. But then UK has one of the crappiest service from what I can read on forums like for EVE Online. Like people wanting to play a low bandwidth game like EVE can't connect because Tiscani choses to shaft them - http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=553090
That's dumb. Copy the email info to backup once a day and the spam backscatter you are *creating* is no longer an issue. IF you can't do that, shut down the backup. Mail can be undeliverable for *days* before the source gives up.