And Oracle in version 7 had a character based installer that didn't require X. And there's still no good reason for Oracle to require X for installation and installation alone.
She's not supposed to be looking at the camera. She's supposed to be being interviewed, and in a teevee interview, one generally looks at the interviewer, whether that interviewer is in- or out-of-frame, not the camera.
The eyes did move. Not always correctly -- there were a few moments, while watching critically, where they appeared to be focused on two different things, but they did move.
Kindly note the existence of the EXEC SQL / END EXEC. block in COBOL. Systems which use exclusively VSAM/ISAM are not nearly as prevalent as they once might have been, for a couple of reasons; DB2 is little more than a transactional wrapper around VSAM/ISAM, and DB2's generally a sunk cost in most z/OS or OS/390 shops. I've certainly never heard of a mainframe environment without DB2 on it.
It is, if not trivial, generally as easy to read/update/delete from an RDBMS (specifically, DB2 and Oracle, but there may be precompilers for others) in COBOL as it is from a language like Java. Heck, COBOL's data types are generally more database friendly from one perspective -- they have to be declared with precision and scale, whereas your average Java jockey simply starts using integers or floats -- and then financial mathematics start getting tricky. The absence of date and datetime types is a pain, but once one's written proper modules for dealing with it, it's possible to work with them.
Also, how is a class/object with multiple properties different than a C structure or a COBOL table?
Similarly, if you want a scheduled, repeatable process on a Unix, you'll end up writing parameterized scripts that end up being functionally equivalent to JCL.
COBOL isn't the modern programmer's enemy unless they've been completely brainwashed by OO concepts; it's the entire mainframe environment (and let's be honest, there isn't all that much COBOL running on other OSes) regarding JCL, CICS, TSO, and all the rest. COBOL isn't any better or any worse than any other language; it's the culture that's so radically different that your average born-in-Java developer simply has no choice but to run screaming.
Oracle's "low-level black magic" is multi-version concurrency control, where it's segregated redo and undo operations, eliminating locks as a scarce resource in the system.
And Oracle tracks clustering factor of every index. If you really want data to be clustered about an index in Oracle, one creates the table with the clause ORGANIZATION INDEX and the table is physically created as a B-tree index structure.
Really? Most of us would call recursive SQL "looping" SQL, and something like this in Oracle is recursive:
SELECT LPAD(' ', 2*LEVEL, ' ' ) || ename empName, dname, job, sys_connect_by_path( ename, '/' ) cbp FROM emp e, dept d WHERE e.deptno = d.deptno CONNECT BY PRIOR empno = mgr ORDER SIBLINGS BY job;
Heck, even ANSI finally got into recursive SQL using the WITH clause:
with TransClosedEdges (tail, head) as ( select tail, head from Edges union all select e.tail, ee.head from Edges e, TransClosedEdges ee where e.head = ee.tail ) select distinct * from TransClosedEdges;
Now let's imagine queries with multiple levels of nesting using such clauses - after all, any SELECT statement can generally be used in any FROM clause.
Now, perhaps you're Chris Date or Fabian Pascal and are truly concerned with the completeness of SQL as implementing the relational model. For the rest of us, however, recursive SQL can answer interesting questions without getting into the nastiness of procedural code.
Oh, and considering the default join in virtually any SQL database is a nested-loop join, I'd say all databases loop by default. And a statement as innocuous as:
select * from a, b, c;
Can absolutely crater cpu and I/O performance. If each has 1,000 rows and there's not enough memory, there's 1,000,001 table scans. Hope your disk is fast.
... and if this is about acquirers (merchants and those working on their behalf) reporting their detailed transactions, I have no problem with it. However, that's predicated on their being no issuer (cardholders) data *at all* being on those records. So if Joe's Equine Necrophilia Emporium.com sells a video about such a topic, fine, report it to the government. Who they sold it to needs to be available only under subpoena. (Of course, anyone who doesn't pay cash for such has simply compounded a questionable decision.)
Besides, all of this data for Visa/MasterCard already lives in the acquirer's systems anyway for generally a minimum of 180 days (in the US, can be longer elsewhere) to support dispute lifecycles. Visa and MasterCard members already have to report highly aggregated data regarding how much volume they did, both issuer- and acquirer-side, to the Visa and MasterCard associations sliced up a bunch of ways.
The government doesn't enjoy the right to know what I purchased, or who I purchased it from. However, under it's authority to regulate interstate commerce, it does have the right to know how much dollar volume a particular business or person generates through commerce.
Hate to be the one to break it to you, but that's exactly what they intended. It's not like the Senate wasn't selected by state legislators or that voting rights were to be originally extended only to property owners, or anything like that, perish the thought.
Having read the remainder of this thread, I have a few conclusions:
1. If you've not read the entirety of the work, how can you make an informed judgement regarding them?
"I have not read the whole Harry Potter..." "Harry Potter certainly will never be a literary classic..."
2. You use your own, specific definition of literature, which you fail to define, and then criticize those who don't agree with or use your own specific definition as populist, anti-eletist cretins.
Your definition apparently excludes the relevance of theme, focusing solely on the textual elements, never the subtextual ones, which is not consistent with how most of us populist cretins think of literature. Well-written, well-crafted novels or other works of art which fail to capture thematic depth fail to inspire deeper study, and fail to achieve the timelessness of the popular definition.
3. You're not a fan, so what do you care?
Given your ignorance, bias, and crippling inability to communicate, I can't come to any other conclusion than that you're trolling.
Incidentally, the only troll I can recall was in the first book and movie.
Perhaps you're using a different, snootier version of literature than I'm using; mine, I think is the commonly accepted vernacular: "creative writing of recognized artistic value." I'd add the parenthetical that most of us educated in the US consider literature "the collection of works we were subjected to in English and/or English/American Literature classes, specifically for examination of plot, theme, and archetype" and damned few didn't get exposed to both Dickens or Hemingway between 8th grade and a bachelor's degree.
And kindly get your strawmen correct; I was addressing Hemingway's prose style as being insufficiently elegant, as it borders on retarded doggerrel at points, missing only the rhyme. Are you serious that Hemingway is enjoyable for its writing? It's freaking painful! The million chimps with the million typewriters will burn through all of Hemingway's canon before they ever get to Shakespeare.
The Dickensian strawman was that some will reject popular and/or serial works as too commercial for literary pretension, whereas Dickens was wildly popular as a serial author in his time. You may not like Dickens, you may not think his works are insufficiently complex, artsy, or somehow otherwise fail to meet your criteria for literari-ness; however, you appear to be swimming upstream on that one.
I think, in time, the Harry Potter novels will be considered literature. That time is obviously not now, but I don't think they deserve to be dismissed out of hand due to either their commercial success or potentially inelegant prose, as I've demonstrated that neither is excludes a novel from being considered literature in time. I definitely think they're better crafted and have more thematic elements than other contemporary popular wordsmiths like Clancy, Grisham, Koontz, or King. I've been subjected to modern "literature," and I can safely say that the Rowlings' novels are better reads and better explorations of theme than what I've been subjected to by the likes of Barbara Kingsolver.
If you want current fantastic/sfnal works that qualify for being great stories as well as beautiful words and phrases, look up Lois McMaster Bujold.
Having "plain and unintereresting writing" sure worked against Hemingway.
Also, people thought Dickens was a hack back in his day; fer chrissakes, he sold some of the novels he wrote as serials!
There is a perception perpetrated by the literati that popularity and quality are orthogonal; at the risk of writing "plainly and uninterestingly," that's elitist crap.
Banks have to collect Social Security numbers, because interest paid is income, and until sometime in the 70's/80's, all interest -- including credit card interest -- was deductible. Haven't you ever gotted a 1099-INT?
You may as well advocate the elimination of private property while you're at it.
The difference is that VeriSign's your merchant processor. The merchant processor has the responsibility to keep that information throughout the transaction's life cycle.
TJ Maxx is their own merchant processor. Therefore, they needed to keep all the information relevant for the transaction.
Now, did they keep information they didn't need to keep longer than they should? It certainly seems that way.
There is a gigantic difference between "managing your own accounts" and "processing your own transactions."
One involves issuing payment instruments. One involves being responsible for accepting those transactions and settling with whomever did issue that payment instrument.
It is frequently worthwhile for large, national merchants to maintain their own relationships to the issuing associations; they control all the data, and they don't have to pay a merchant processor a cut. Tater's Toe Service may only have Visa/MC transactions per day; TJMaxx likely has (had) millions.
Also, a gift card is not a credit instrument, it's a debit instrument. Whoever issues you such an instrument isn't lending you money, they already have it. There is a gigantic difference between a, for example, JCPenney (or any other "private label") credit card and a JCPenney gift card -- the only real similarity is that either can only be used at JCPenney.
Oh, and like hell private label isn't regulated; it's regulated exactly the same way Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and any other is.
In short, you have demonstrated that not only do you not know what you're talking about, but you managed to jump into unrelated areas... where you still didn't know what you're talking about.
You mean like Oracle, where if you specify a column as NUMBER, INTEGER, SMALLINT, or otherwise don't specify precision and scale -- not bits, but total digits and digits right of mantissa -- you get a number field that's 38 positions wide?
is a loss leader for Oracle, and it hurts Microsoft. Oh, and will make it cheaper for Oracle to buy them later, if they want to, which they do, because Larry's pissed at RedHat's CEO for buying JBoss.
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And Oracle in version 7 had a character based installer that didn't require X. And there's still no good reason for Oracle to require X for installation and installation alone.
Perhaps, however, they did play:
Ultima III;
Ultima IV;
Ultima VI;
Ultima VII (parts one and two); and
Ultima VIII.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_British#Assassination_of_Lord_British
I think it would be good to bring back capital gains taxes on profits that are made on short term investments.
Last I checked, short-term (assets held under one year) capital gains are taxed as regular income, whereas long-term capital gains are capped at 28%.
Yes -- and we all know that PageRank is perfect at separating wheat from chaff and gold from dross.
It's one thing to find data; it's another thing to find information.
Oracle: asktom.oracle.com for technique/problem solving with SQL.
technet.oracle.com or tahiti.oracle.com for documentation.
She's not supposed to be looking at the camera. She's supposed to be being interviewed, and in a teevee interview, one generally looks at the interviewer, whether that interviewer is in- or out-of-frame, not the camera.
The eyes did move. Not always correctly -- there were a few moments, while watching critically, where they appeared to be focused on two different things, but they did move.
Kindly note the existence of the EXEC SQL / END EXEC. block in COBOL. Systems which use exclusively VSAM/ISAM are not nearly as prevalent as they once might have been, for a couple of reasons; DB2 is little more than a transactional wrapper around VSAM/ISAM, and DB2's generally a sunk cost in most z/OS or OS/390 shops. I've certainly never heard of a mainframe environment without DB2 on it.
It is, if not trivial, generally as easy to read/update/delete from an RDBMS (specifically, DB2 and Oracle, but there may be precompilers for others) in COBOL as it is from a language like Java. Heck, COBOL's data types are generally more database friendly from one perspective -- they have to be declared with precision and scale, whereas your average Java jockey simply starts using integers or floats -- and then financial mathematics start getting tricky. The absence of date and datetime types is a pain, but once one's written proper modules for dealing with it, it's possible to work with them.
Also, how is a class/object with multiple properties different than a C structure or a COBOL table?
Similarly, if you want a scheduled, repeatable process on a Unix, you'll end up writing parameterized scripts that end up being functionally equivalent to JCL.
COBOL isn't the modern programmer's enemy unless they've been completely brainwashed by OO concepts; it's the entire mainframe environment (and let's be honest, there isn't all that much COBOL running on other OSes) regarding JCL, CICS, TSO, and all the rest. COBOL isn't any better or any worse than any other language; it's the culture that's so radically different that your average born-in-Java developer simply has no choice but to run screaming.
Oracle's "low-level black magic" is multi-version concurrency control, where it's segregated redo and undo operations, eliminating locks as a scarce resource in the system.
And Oracle tracks clustering factor of every index. If you really want data to be clustered about an index in Oracle, one creates the table with the clause ORGANIZATION INDEX and the table is physically created as a B-tree index structure.
Heck, even ANSI finally got into recursive SQL using the WITH clause:
Now let's imagine queries with multiple levels of nesting using such clauses - after all, any SELECT statement can generally be used in any FROM clause.
Now, perhaps you're Chris Date or Fabian Pascal and are truly concerned with the completeness of SQL as implementing the relational model. For the rest of us, however, recursive SQL can answer interesting questions without getting into the nastiness of procedural code.
Oh, and considering the default join in virtually any SQL database is a nested-loop join, I'd say all databases loop by default. And a statement as innocuous as :
Can absolutely crater cpu and I/O performance. If each has 1,000 rows and there's not enough memory, there's 1,000,001 table scans. Hope your disk is fast.
... and if this is about acquirers (merchants and those working on their behalf) reporting their detailed transactions, I have no problem with it. However, that's predicated on their being no issuer (cardholders) data *at all* being on those records. So if Joe's Equine Necrophilia Emporium.com sells a video about such a topic, fine, report it to the government. Who they sold it to needs to be available only under subpoena. (Of course, anyone who doesn't pay cash for such has simply compounded a questionable decision.)
Besides, all of this data for Visa/MasterCard already lives in the acquirer's systems anyway for generally a minimum of 180 days (in the US, can be longer elsewhere) to support dispute lifecycles. Visa and MasterCard members already have to report highly aggregated data regarding how much volume they did, both issuer- and acquirer-side, to the Visa and MasterCard associations sliced up a bunch of ways.
The government doesn't enjoy the right to know what I purchased, or who I purchased it from. However, under it's authority to regulate interstate commerce, it does have the right to know how much dollar volume a particular business or person generates through commerce.
Hate to be the one to break it to you, but that's exactly what they intended. It's not like the Senate wasn't selected by state legislators or that voting rights were to be originally extended only to property owners, or anything like that, perish the thought.
Look up Wing Commander: Kilrathi Saga.
Having read the remainder of this thread, I have a few conclusions:
1. If you've not read the entirety of the work, how can you make an informed judgement regarding them?
"I have not read the whole Harry Potter..."
"Harry Potter certainly will never be a literary classic..."
2. You use your own, specific definition of literature, which you fail to define, and then criticize those who don't agree with or use your own specific definition as populist, anti-eletist cretins.
Your definition apparently excludes the relevance of theme, focusing solely on the textual elements, never the subtextual ones, which is not consistent with how most of us populist cretins think of literature. Well-written, well-crafted novels or other works of art which fail to capture thematic depth fail to inspire deeper study, and fail to achieve the timelessness of the popular definition.
3. You're not a fan, so what do you care?
Given your ignorance, bias, and crippling inability to communicate, I can't come to any other conclusion than that you're trolling.
Incidentally, the only troll I can recall was in the first book and movie.
Perhaps you're using a different, snootier version of literature than I'm using; mine, I think is the commonly accepted vernacular: "creative writing of recognized artistic value." I'd add the parenthetical that most of us educated in the US consider literature "the collection of works we were subjected to in English and/or English/American Literature classes, specifically for examination of plot, theme, and archetype" and damned few didn't get exposed to both Dickens or Hemingway between 8th grade and a bachelor's degree.
And kindly get your strawmen correct; I was addressing Hemingway's prose style as being insufficiently elegant, as it borders on retarded doggerrel at points, missing only the rhyme. Are you serious that Hemingway is enjoyable for its writing? It's freaking painful! The million chimps with the million typewriters will burn through all of Hemingway's canon before they ever get to Shakespeare.
The Dickensian strawman was that some will reject popular and/or serial works as too commercial for literary pretension, whereas Dickens was wildly popular as a serial author in his time. You may not like Dickens, you may not think his works are insufficiently complex, artsy, or somehow otherwise fail to meet your criteria for literari-ness; however, you appear to be swimming upstream on that one.
I think, in time, the Harry Potter novels will be considered literature. That time is obviously not now, but I don't think they deserve to be dismissed out of hand due to either their commercial success or potentially inelegant prose, as I've demonstrated that neither is excludes a novel from being considered literature in time. I definitely think they're better crafted and have more thematic elements than other contemporary popular wordsmiths like Clancy, Grisham, Koontz, or King. I've been subjected to modern "literature," and I can safely say that the Rowlings' novels are better reads and better explorations of theme than what I've been subjected to by the likes of Barbara Kingsolver.
If you want current fantastic/sfnal works that qualify for being great stories as well as beautiful words and phrases, look up Lois McMaster Bujold.
Having "plain and unintereresting writing" sure worked against Hemingway.
Also, people thought Dickens was a hack back in his day; fer chrissakes, he sold some of the novels he wrote as serials!
There is a perception perpetrated by the literati that popularity and quality are orthogonal; at the risk of writing "plainly and uninterestingly," that's elitist crap.
Not having seen the survey, if the survey was "pick one", then there's potentially no middle to be excluded.
Regardless, it's not defensible to subdivide Oracle by version and not subdivide any other RDBMS system.
I guess we're lucky that they didn't differentiate between 9i Release 1 and 2, and 10g Release 1 and 2.
This seems more like "Oh! Streetcar!
Banks have to collect Social Security numbers, because interest paid is income, and until sometime in the 70's/80's, all interest -- including credit card interest -- was deductible. Haven't you ever gotted a 1099-INT?
You may as well advocate the elimination of private property while you're at it.
The difference is that VeriSign's your merchant processor. The merchant processor has the responsibility to keep that information throughout the transaction's life cycle.
TJ Maxx is their own merchant processor. Therefore, they needed to keep all the information relevant for the transaction.
Now, did they keep information they didn't need to keep longer than they should? It certainly seems that way.
There is a gigantic difference between "managing your own accounts" and "processing your own transactions."
One involves issuing payment instruments. One involves being responsible for accepting those transactions and settling with whomever did issue that payment instrument.
It is frequently worthwhile for large, national merchants to maintain their own relationships to the issuing associations; they control all the data, and they don't have to pay a merchant processor a cut. Tater's Toe Service may only have Visa/MC transactions per day; TJMaxx likely has (had) millions.
Also, a gift card is not a credit instrument, it's a debit instrument. Whoever issues you such an instrument isn't lending you money, they already have it. There is a gigantic difference between a, for example, JCPenney (or any other "private label") credit card and a JCPenney gift card -- the only real similarity is that either can only be used at JCPenney.
Oh, and like hell private label isn't regulated; it's regulated exactly the same way Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and any other is.
In short, you have demonstrated that not only do you not know what you're talking about, but you managed to jump into unrelated areas... where you still didn't know what you're talking about.
You mean like Oracle, where if you specify a column as NUMBER, INTEGER, SMALLINT, or otherwise don't specify precision and scale -- not bits, but total digits and digits right of mantissa -- you get a number field that's 38 positions wide?
is a loss leader for Oracle, and it hurts Microsoft. Oh, and will make it cheaper for Oracle to buy them later, if they want to, which they do, because Larry's pissed at RedHat's CEO for buying JBoss.
DosBox with D-Fend.
Done.
Programmer shot the Dew!