Someone who used one for hunting would probably be extremely offended if you told him (or her) their gun was "only for killing people". If it were me (I don't claim to own one; this is purely hypothetical) I would probably punch you in the nose for that.
followed by
I understand that you mean well, but your ideas are not just unworkable, but actively dangerous
shows that you at least feel fine about using non-lethal violence as a response to someone mis-classifying a weapon you own to your face. If you, an intelligent, forward-thinking individual who interacts well with society would indeed have such a physical response to a verbal observation, what does that say about the more thuggish aspects of society? If they had such a weapon at hand, would they shoot the offender in a non-lethal place just to prove them wrong that it's "only for killing people"?
Not saying that current firearms control measures are at all useful, but with human beings having such responses to emotional attacks by reflex, weapons whose only purpose is to rapidly kill/maim/destroy at a distance (when used by trained practitioners or by fluke) do need some sort of attention levied on them.
Furthermore,
And learn to live with it. I understand that you mean well, but your ideas are not just unworkable, but actively dangerous.
Go north of the 49th parallel, and you'll find an entire country that has been in agreement with his ideas for the country's entire existence. Doesn't seem to be actively dangerous there (although the population density is such that there's really no way to compare effectiveness of firearms control policies, unless you compare Toronto/Buffalo and Vancouver/Seattle specifically, for example).
While current gun control seems somewhat silly as a means to the desired outcome, most arguments about why the right to bear arms, as outlined in the US constitution is at all relevant to today's society, fall flat: the right to bear arms was designed to protect citizens of the state against foreign military influence and against military abuse (police or otherwise) by the state. Using an AR-15 to do either of those things these days is laughable. Unless you live in a state that gives you the inalienable right to bear arms against trespassers on your property, firearms aren't even all that useful against other citizens, as you've pointed out (and this is not a basic intent of the right as outlined in the constitution by most modern readings). Better that people learn how to effectively protect themselves from harassment and physical abuse than that they buy a gun as the "magic bullet" that will protect them by being locked away in a gun safe with the ammo on the other side of the house.
Hell, most states can't even properly decide a driver's competence. I wouldn't trust them a bit with guns.
I'd trust a state with gun competence over car competence personally; I'm more likely to be seriously injured or killed by a car than by a gun.
That said, they're both potentially lethal tools; using either on public property (or someone else's property unless prior consent is given by the property owner) without strict training and certification should be a criminal act. Just like smoking:D
OMFG, this is such a bad idea! They've just publicly announced, for every felon nearby, which homes to search for a weapon!
It's going to be like the Walmart of guns! "Bob, age 32, drives to work every day at 9 AM...has a dog, Mr. Scruffles...leaves his garage door unlocked. Well, we know he has a gun, probably in the closet or under his pillow. Let's pick it up after he leaves for work, I feel naked walking around without a gun after prison..."
Why don't you publish the names, addresses, and photos of children in the local area whose parents get home late! It's about that level of FAIL.
They've single-handedly just increased the number of gun deaths and home invasions. *golf clap* Well played, well played.
Well, the police records are also public, so let's see in a few months whether gun-related thefts and home invasions have increased.
If they have, we know that knowledge of who owns a gun is dangerous. If they haven't, we'll know it isn't. Interestingly, many other commonly touted arguments for owning a gun will be proved wrong if they haven't, which makes owning a gun dangerous no matter the outcome (who'da thunk?). Remember; guns don't kill people; people kill people. And anyone with access to a gun (including an attacker) can be one of those people.
Of course, this interactive list is only for handguns as someone pointed out. It says nothing about my sword, shruikens, throwing knives, bowie knife, my guillotine, poison-tipped blow darts or crossbow. Nor about my baseball bat, hockey stick, soapstone lampstand, portable flood light, frayed electrical wire, piano wire, fishing net, can of mace, halon fire retardant system, dog, bottle of bleach, fire extinguisher, or other at-hand weapons that can injure/kill from a distance or up close.
Since guns don't kill people, anyone handling them (or anything else) should be trained in proper use to use the object intentionally as deterrent, non-lethal weapon or lethal weapon. Unfortunately, the list also provides useful indicators as to how likely the potential victims are to have such training.
Yeah; I'd be much more interested in a "summary" function. Most things that people say can be concisely summarized in under 2 minutes, no matter how long they talk for.
She had 2 handguns, completely reasonable for self defense. A standard.223 carbine... standard rifle you can get at walmart, fun to shoot and then a shotgun, pretty typical for hunting small game.
Logical; I don't see a problem with that. Of course, I see no reason to own guns at all unless you need them for hunting, but that's a different issue. I see no need to go after the mother for owning ready-made lethal weapons -- everyone has them in one form or another.
The problem here was this guy went nutz, and there was no way for him to get help. He wanted the world to know about his rage and the media gives him a relatively easy way to get the world to hear about it as long as he does something worse than the last guy.
People don't live in a vaccuum. The problem here is that the guy wanted to be noticed, and felt that everyone was ignoring him. He kept escalating his cries for attention until they reached a level that we would consider "insane". To me that speaks of intense depression, loneliness and desperation. Not saying this in any way excuses what he does, but it provides some context.
If there's any industry to blame here it's the news media for sensationalizing this and the medical industry for not providing the help he needs.
The news media is just as much a weapon as the gun. The news media doesn't kill people (usually). The medical industry DOES provide the help he needed -- the problem is that there was no bridge from his own social circles to the medical attention he needed.
If you want to kill a lot of people, making guns illegal isn't going to stop you. They are simply the most accessible means right now. Make them less accessible and he would have picked up a truckload of fertilizer and diesel fuel... and probably taken out the whole school. An Ammonium nitrate is REALLY easy to get.
This misses the point I think. The issue here is that as a society, we don't care for each other -- it's one of the nasty side effects of humanism (which also has a lot of benefits, such as modern science). The side effect of this is that being depressed and wanting to draw attention to his situation, he went for an *image* to present. Guns in the US have a flashy image. The rest of his gear goes along with this. Blowing up himself and a school with ammonium nitrate wouldn't have the same effect, because our society doesn't glamourize such things.
I mean really... if I wanted to make a statement by killing a bunch of innocent people, I wouldn't even need ammonium nitrate; a large bucket of bleach and ***** into the ventilation system would work just as well.
However, you don't see Rambo fighting for our freedom with chlorine gas; instead, we point out (here comes Godwin) the evil Germans and Hussein using it underhandedly. Therefore, anyone doing this is going to get the WRONG sort of attention.
So what's the answer? Not gun control; the only reason *most* people have guns is that they've been conditioned by their society into thinking guns are good and make them more important/safe (just like diamonds). "Controlling" guns won't change this. The answer is to actually change how society portrays weapons use in general, and guns in particular. Make the consequences to mis-use societal. Request that the entertainment industry lay off the guns (I mean, these days most premeditated incidents of this nature would use RPGs if most people could get their hands on them) and show people using more inventive and socially-related methods of causing mayhem and destruction. Make the popular methods of causing death at a distance be ones that, in real life, provide lots of early 'tells'. The problem with guns is that they are readily available in inert form, and then can suddenly cause a LOT of damage. Unless you live on a farm, building fertilizer bombs is going to flag some databases as soon as you attempt to purchase/steal th
By rights and ethics, you should get paid on the schedule. However, as anyone can tell you who has done bookkeeping and invoicing, the real world is a bit messier. It's been like this as long as mercantilism has been around; this is nothing new. There are books and seminars out there on how to get your invoices covered with the least amount of effort in the shortest amount of time.
In situations like this, what I've done in the past really depended on the situation and my relationship with the customer. In this case, it sounds like you have virtually no relationship with the current customer. So, the GP has a point -- re-get to know your customer -- who ISN'T the multinational; it's the branch office that actually processes payments and the branch office that wants your goods. Get these two groups to help you out, and you'll see if you can salvage the situation. If you can't, don't do business with them anymore, but let them know that once they've cleaned up their act, you'll consider it again. You can also file a complaint with the BBB, but you'd want a lawyer to CYA on this one first.
I'd suggest a new sales drive to contact their competitors and see if they'd be willing to consider you as a supplier. If this goes against their contract with you, you may want to notify them first that their contract is void, as they have shown continual intent to breach contract (again, CYA with a lawyer on this letter). No need to sue, just let them know that they're not legally protected anymore, and you're now free to do whatever you want. Behave responsibly, don't try to scare or bully them, just let them know how their actions are affecting your working relationship with them and let their lawyers know that accounting's actions are invalidating their lawyer's hard work. Lawyers generally don't like that and will try to make the situation better (or terminate the relationship, which may be the best thing for all involved in this case, even if it's not good for the pocketbook).
The problem is that SQL is all about the query language formalized structure. It says nothing about the procedures or how to control the backing server.
Think about SWL (structured written language). There are a few standards, one of which is the Roman standard. Using this standard, we can use the same character set to represent many different spoken languages. We can store meaning using the Roman SWL and anyone else who knows the structure can extract it.
However, the transforms and functions, cliches and linguistic interlinks all exist outside of that structure. As a result, a lexicon is also required in order to put in IItalian and have it usable by someone in the Philippines. The information stores just fine, but updating and making sense of what you've retrieved takes more work.
Annoyingly (to me anyway), almost every SQL server vendor out there has hard-coded a way of handling this extra meta-data and interfacing it with the data itself. Some of their solutions are similar enough that ODBC and OLE DB can handle basic procedure calls -- but anything written to take advantage specifically of the strengths of a specific SQL-backed service tends to be incompatible.
So yes, you can connect SQL to SQL in any form, but actually managing the data and preserving context in a way an existing application wants to... that's another kettle of fish altogether.
Of course, once it's done, it's done -- so someone could easily re-tool a Postgres DB to act enough like a MySql DB *for a specific DB instance* that the samba service should function "mostly" as expected -- and the actual structured data should migrate just fine once the re-tooling and testing is complete.
So how long before this modified "HIV" virus escapes the little girl (virii have a way of finding novel ways of doing unexpected things) and spreads to others?
hmm... I'd guess the next time someone does a T-Cell extraction?
You do realize that there's no HIV "virus" in her bloodstream, but that they're using the retrovirus to reprogram the T-Cells to fight cancer in the lab and then re-injecting her modified T-cells, right?
He says he's dumped them all (made copies), and now is looking to sell them. Doesn't anyone see the legal issue here?
Depends on where he lives; this is perfectly legal in some places, but not the US. In many countries it's kosher to make a copy and sell the original. The trick is that you can't sell or distribute the copy -- personal use only.
Or, a new ipad is better specs and a mature marketplace for a similar price balanced by the lack of a USB port or SD card slot.
The rest of this comment is spot on; just thought I'd point out that the iPad does bi-directional (can be host or slave) USB with an adapter, so the real difference is the added SD card slot. Can't say that I've missed SD cards all that much since I drank the "wirelessly networked devices" kool-aid.
So yes; it's not that the Surface or Windows RT are horrid, it's just that they don't really have anything in them compelling enough to switch from the other mature platforms. Kind of like switching from a Windows PC to an Apple Mac in the '90's. You lose the mature software and accessory bases and gain nothing of note.
Actually, while this is true, most productivity gain goes to the investors -- which can be anyone who thought to take a risk on that company.
The other side is, this means that previously, IT jobs were overvalued, and have now stabilized (face it: when everyone's using IT, productivity gains approach nil year-over-year).
The other thing this fails to point out is that "IT" is about as specific as "blue collar" -- meaning I bet the curve isn't the same for people working in a repair shop, people maintaining complex machinery, people managing an enterprise network, geek squad employees, industry analysts, systems architects, people selling apps on the app store, facebook employees, etc. Some things have become commoditized jobs, while others are still niche and creating a unique curve.
Indeed, such a fine officer. Taking the best bucket, brush and the best soap money can buy and applying some elbow grease to scrub that computator until it shines as brand spanking new. And then taking a new photograph with a camera from a top tier camera builder - or re-imaging as the youngsters would call it these days... And this fine man would leave spyware on that thing? I simply can't believe it.
No, no, he's as innocent as the children he was monitoring^H^H^H^H^H^H protecting.
Nah... re-imaging is when news like this gets out and they have to spin really hard to change people's perceptions....
That's running Qt on OS X -- he's running Linux on a Retina Mac. Big difference. Of course, the bug may rear its head in there too, but since a completely different compositor and windowing system is being used, it's probably not.
You forgot the major ones: since all students have RFID, it could be provided to insurance agencies and healthcare providers... "to care for the children". Goodbye student discount cards; we've got state-issued RFID now.
Hey; your RFID could even stay with you when you leave school! Who needs a SSN or even a driver's license, when every child already has an ID?
Sounds improbable, but then so do invisibility cloaks.
What if a criminal wants to know your location so they can commit a crime against you?
This is a school. I don't know what it was like for the rest of you, but my life would have turned out very differently if my school had depended on these... bullies stealing my transponder to force me to "skip class" -- kids putting up their own tracking devices or breaking into the school system so that they knew when a victim was out of class/in the bathroom/etc., kids experimenting with the transponders to increase range/burn out victims' transponders etc.
Kids can be nasty, no matter how much zero-tolerance bullying policy is floating around.
someone could even set up an antenna that would notify them whenever the cards showed up at specific locations off school grounds. Where would kids get the antennas etc? Need you ask? They're lying all over school property.
But an incompetent Linux admin can cause far worse damage than an incompetent windows one.
What are you talking about?
An incompetent admin on any system can lead to a total outage and a lack of access to your data and software. If your admin re-formats the drives or otherwise renders your system unusable, no matter the platform, you're still dead in the water.
In what way can a Linux admin break a machine more than a Windows admin can?
I've seen the results of incompetent admins in multiple contexts -- and no matter the underlying platform, they can still screw stuff up to the point of being costly and time consuming to fix.
Incompetent Linux admins usually show their hands pretty quickly, as you need to be competent to make things function reasonably. Incompetent Windows admins can keep the system limping along for years while data leaks out the back door and productivity suffers, but not enough to point to the admin doing a _bad_ job (because "everyone knows" that managing backups/printers/network shares on Windows just sucks).
Like... I had cable, and I dumped it in favor of higher bandwidth for WoW, but right now I want to watch something that will make me forget the fact that my existence is defined by my patterns of consumption which Google knows intimately and can therefore extrapolate from their database that which will fulfill my dream state for the evening?
Like that kind of context?
No, like context extracted in this manner: technologizer.com/2010/08/22/worst-google-voice-transcription-errors/
I've used this for years. Hold the book up to the camera to ID it. Easiest way to do this is via ISBN -- you can always create your own barcodes for the books that don't have them, and affix these somehow (I affix inside with acid-free glue, this may be sacrilegious to some). Otherwise, you can use an image recognition module. Contains complete check in/out functionality and is open source.
I've been thinking that there should be some way to add a plugin for Calibre that can do all of this too, but Books already does everything I want.
This is actually very interesting... in the NA market, phone contracts are so expensive that the cost of a phone doesn't really play into it all that much -- as a result, iOS devices do well for people who realize this, and Android devices do well for people looking only at the ticket price (and missing the contract price).
People willing to pay more up front are also more likely to want to spend more on add-ons, surprisingly. The Freemium market takes care of the rest.
The market is then further segmented by language -- English apps aren't going to sell that well in China, and Chinese apps aren't going to sell that well in the US. This goes deeper than localisation, as the overall experience of an app and the task it is designed to accomplish are actually quite culturally-based.
I agree with your argument but I would also add that because the Constitution also secures a right to assemble, its clear to me at least that an Organization is a first class entity just like an individual. The right of individuals to express themselves by forming an organization and acting as unit should be protected.
Does this mean that I have the right to assemble any source code I come across? Would that be free speech?:)
"Where the hell is your footage between 11am and 12:30pm? You were scheduled on shift, so where were you?"
Schoolkids figured this out years ago... you don't turn the footage off; you just set the glasses somewhere/give them to someone doing something unremarkable for the period you "step out" for.
Are they supposed to wear them when visiting the rest room? It seems to me there have to be short bits of "downtime".
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While I agree with your main point,
Someone who used one for hunting would probably be extremely offended if you told him (or her) their gun was "only for killing people". If it were me (I don't claim to own one; this is purely hypothetical) I would probably punch you in the nose for that.
followed by
I understand that you mean well, but your ideas are not just unworkable, but actively dangerous
shows that you at least feel fine about using non-lethal violence as a response to someone mis-classifying a weapon you own to your face. If you, an intelligent, forward-thinking individual who interacts well with society would indeed have such a physical response to a verbal observation, what does that say about the more thuggish aspects of society? If they had such a weapon at hand, would they shoot the offender in a non-lethal place just to prove them wrong that it's "only for killing people"?
Not saying that current firearms control measures are at all useful, but with human beings having such responses to emotional attacks by reflex, weapons whose only purpose is to rapidly kill/maim/destroy at a distance (when used by trained practitioners or by fluke) do need some sort of attention levied on them.
Furthermore,
And learn to live with it. I understand that you mean well, but your ideas are not just unworkable, but actively dangerous.
Go north of the 49th parallel, and you'll find an entire country that has been in agreement with his ideas for the country's entire existence. Doesn't seem to be actively dangerous there (although the population density is such that there's really no way to compare effectiveness of firearms control policies, unless you compare Toronto/Buffalo and Vancouver/Seattle specifically, for example).
While current gun control seems somewhat silly as a means to the desired outcome, most arguments about why the right to bear arms, as outlined in the US constitution is at all relevant to today's society, fall flat: the right to bear arms was designed to protect citizens of the state against foreign military influence and against military abuse (police or otherwise) by the state. Using an AR-15 to do either of those things these days is laughable. Unless you live in a state that gives you the inalienable right to bear arms against trespassers on your property, firearms aren't even all that useful against other citizens, as you've pointed out (and this is not a basic intent of the right as outlined in the constitution by most modern readings). Better that people learn how to effectively protect themselves from harassment and physical abuse than that they buy a gun as the "magic bullet" that will protect them by being locked away in a gun safe with the ammo on the other side of the house.
Hell, most states can't even properly decide a driver's competence. I wouldn't trust them a bit with guns.
I'd trust a state with gun competence over car competence personally; I'm more likely to be seriously injured or killed by a car than by a gun.
That said, they're both potentially lethal tools; using either on public property (or someone else's property unless prior consent is given by the property owner) without strict training and certification should be a criminal act. Just like smoking :D
OMFG, this is such a bad idea! They've just publicly announced, for every felon nearby, which homes to search for a weapon!
It's going to be like the Walmart of guns! "Bob, age 32, drives to work every day at 9 AM...has a dog, Mr. Scruffles...leaves his garage door unlocked. Well, we know he has a gun, probably in the closet or under his pillow. Let's pick it up after he leaves for work, I feel naked walking around without a gun after prison..."
Why don't you publish the names, addresses, and photos of children in the local area whose parents get home late! It's about that level of FAIL.
They've single-handedly just increased the number of gun deaths and home invasions. *golf clap* Well played, well played.
Well, the police records are also public, so let's see in a few months whether gun-related thefts and home invasions have increased.
If they have, we know that knowledge of who owns a gun is dangerous. If they haven't, we'll know it isn't. Interestingly, many other commonly touted arguments for owning a gun will be proved wrong if they haven't, which makes owning a gun dangerous no matter the outcome (who'da thunk?). Remember; guns don't kill people; people kill people. And anyone with access to a gun (including an attacker) can be one of those people.
Of course, this interactive list is only for handguns as someone pointed out. It says nothing about my sword, shruikens, throwing knives, bowie knife, my guillotine, poison-tipped blow darts or crossbow. Nor about my baseball bat, hockey stick, soapstone lampstand, portable flood light, frayed electrical wire, piano wire, fishing net, can of mace, halon fire retardant system, dog, bottle of bleach, fire extinguisher, or other at-hand weapons that can injure/kill from a distance or up close.
Since guns don't kill people, anyone handling them (or anything else) should be trained in proper use to use the object intentionally as deterrent, non-lethal weapon or lethal weapon. Unfortunately, the list also provides useful indicators as to how likely the potential victims are to have such training.
Yeah; I'd be much more interested in a "summary" function. Most things that people say can be concisely summarized in under 2 minutes, no matter how long they talk for.
Ridiculous visions and promises that are certain not to see the light of day. :-)
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She had 2 handguns, completely reasonable for self defense. A standard .223 carbine... standard rifle you can get at walmart, fun to shoot and then a shotgun, pretty typical for hunting small game.
Logical; I don't see a problem with that. Of course, I see no reason to own guns at all unless you need them for hunting, but that's a different issue. I see no need to go after the mother for owning ready-made lethal weapons -- everyone has them in one form or another.
The problem here was this guy went nutz, and there was no way for him to get help. He wanted the world to know about his rage and the media gives him a relatively easy way to get the world to hear about it as long as he does something worse than the last guy.
People don't live in a vaccuum. The problem here is that the guy wanted to be noticed, and felt that everyone was ignoring him. He kept escalating his cries for attention until they reached a level that we would consider "insane". To me that speaks of intense depression, loneliness and desperation. Not saying this in any way excuses what he does, but it provides some context.
If there's any industry to blame here it's the news media for sensationalizing this and the medical industry for not providing the help he needs.
The news media is just as much a weapon as the gun. The news media doesn't kill people (usually).
The medical industry DOES provide the help he needed -- the problem is that there was no bridge from his own social circles to the medical attention he needed.
If you want to kill a lot of people, making guns illegal isn't going to stop you. They are simply the most accessible means right now. Make them less accessible and he would have picked up a truckload of fertilizer and diesel fuel... and probably taken out the whole school. An Ammonium nitrate is REALLY easy to get.
This misses the point I think. The issue here is that as a society, we don't care for each other -- it's one of the nasty side effects of humanism (which also has a lot of benefits, such as modern science). The side effect of this is that being depressed and wanting to draw attention to his situation, he went for an *image* to present. Guns in the US have a flashy image. The rest of his gear goes along with this. Blowing up himself and a school with ammonium nitrate wouldn't have the same effect, because our society doesn't glamourize such things.
I mean really... if I wanted to make a statement by killing a bunch of innocent people, I wouldn't even need ammonium nitrate; a large bucket of bleach and ***** into the ventilation system would work just as well.
However, you don't see Rambo fighting for our freedom with chlorine gas; instead, we point out (here comes Godwin) the evil Germans and Hussein using it underhandedly. Therefore, anyone doing this is going to get the WRONG sort of attention.
So what's the answer? Not gun control; the only reason *most* people have guns is that they've been conditioned by their society into thinking guns are good and make them more important/safe (just like diamonds). "Controlling" guns won't change this. The answer is to actually change how society portrays weapons use in general, and guns in particular. Make the consequences to mis-use societal. Request that the entertainment industry lay off the guns (I mean, these days most premeditated incidents of this nature would use RPGs if most people could get their hands on them) and show people using more inventive and socially-related methods of causing mayhem and destruction. Make the popular methods of causing death at a distance be ones that, in real life, provide lots of early 'tells'. The problem with guns is that they are readily available in inert form, and then can suddenly cause a LOT of damage. Unless you live on a farm, building fertilizer bombs is going to flag some databases as soon as you attempt to purchase/steal th
By rights and ethics, you should get paid on the schedule. However, as anyone can tell you who has done bookkeeping and invoicing, the real world is a bit messier. It's been like this as long as mercantilism has been around; this is nothing new. There are books and seminars out there on how to get your invoices covered with the least amount of effort in the shortest amount of time.
In situations like this, what I've done in the past really depended on the situation and my relationship with the customer. In this case, it sounds like you have virtually no relationship with the current customer. So, the GP has a point -- re-get to know your customer -- who ISN'T the multinational; it's the branch office that actually processes payments and the branch office that wants your goods. Get these two groups to help you out, and you'll see if you can salvage the situation. If you can't, don't do business with them anymore, but let them know that once they've cleaned up their act, you'll consider it again. You can also file a complaint with the BBB, but you'd want a lawyer to CYA on this one first.
I'd suggest a new sales drive to contact their competitors and see if they'd be willing to consider you as a supplier. If this goes against their contract with you, you may want to notify them first that their contract is void, as they have shown continual intent to breach contract (again, CYA with a lawyer on this letter). No need to sue, just let them know that they're not legally protected anymore, and you're now free to do whatever you want. Behave responsibly, don't try to scare or bully them, just let them know how their actions are affecting your working relationship with them and let their lawyers know that accounting's actions are invalidating their lawyer's hard work. Lawyers generally don't like that and will try to make the situation better (or terminate the relationship, which may be the best thing for all involved in this case, even if it's not good for the pocketbook).
The problem is that SQL is all about the query language formalized structure. It says nothing about the procedures or how to control the backing server.
Think about SWL (structured written language). There are a few standards, one of which is the Roman standard. Using this standard, we can use the same character set to represent many different spoken languages. We can store meaning using the Roman SWL and anyone else who knows the structure can extract it.
However, the transforms and functions, cliches and linguistic interlinks all exist outside of that structure. As a result, a lexicon is also required in order to put in IItalian and have it usable by someone in the Philippines. The information stores just fine, but updating and making sense of what you've retrieved takes more work.
Annoyingly (to me anyway), almost every SQL server vendor out there has hard-coded a way of handling this extra meta-data and interfacing it with the data itself. Some of their solutions are similar enough that ODBC and OLE DB can handle basic procedure calls -- but anything written to take advantage specifically of the strengths of a specific SQL-backed service tends to be incompatible.
So yes, you can connect SQL to SQL in any form, but actually managing the data and preserving context in a way an existing application wants to... that's another kettle of fish altogether.
Of course, once it's done, it's done -- so someone could easily re-tool a Postgres DB to act enough like a MySql DB *for a specific DB instance* that the samba service should function "mostly" as expected -- and the actual structured data should migrate just fine once the re-tooling and testing is complete.
So how long before this modified "HIV" virus escapes the little girl (virii have a way of finding novel ways of doing unexpected things) and spreads to others?
hmm... I'd guess the next time someone does a T-Cell extraction?
You do realize that there's no HIV "virus" in her bloodstream, but that they're using the retrovirus to reprogram the T-Cells to fight cancer in the lab and then re-injecting her modified T-cells, right?
...and every game has been professionally cleaned...
**Random dude blows dust off of cartridge contacts.
"Cleaned. That will be twenty bucks."
That's a LOT of hot air.
He says he's dumped them all (made copies), and now is looking to sell them. Doesn't anyone see the legal issue here?
Depends on where he lives; this is perfectly legal in some places, but not the US. In many countries it's kosher to make a copy and sell the original. The trick is that you can't sell or distribute the copy -- personal use only.
Or, a new ipad is better specs and a mature marketplace for a similar price balanced by the lack of a USB port or SD card slot.
The rest of this comment is spot on; just thought I'd point out that the iPad does bi-directional (can be host or slave) USB with an adapter, so the real difference is the added SD card slot. Can't say that I've missed SD cards all that much since I drank the "wirelessly networked devices" kool-aid.
So yes; it's not that the Surface or Windows RT are horrid, it's just that they don't really have anything in them compelling enough to switch from the other mature platforms. Kind of like switching from a Windows PC to an Apple Mac in the '90's. You lose the mature software and accessory bases and gain nothing of note.
That could reveal that we illegally shared information with foreign nations!
Actually, they did nothing wrong. The fact that foreign nations downloaded the information is not GCSB's fault. /sarcasm
State secrets don't fall under copyright for obvious reasons.
Actually, while this is true, most productivity gain goes to the investors -- which can be anyone who thought to take a risk on that company.
The other side is, this means that previously, IT jobs were overvalued, and have now stabilized (face it: when everyone's using IT, productivity gains approach nil year-over-year).
The other thing this fails to point out is that "IT" is about as specific as "blue collar" -- meaning I bet the curve isn't the same for people working in a repair shop, people maintaining complex machinery, people managing an enterprise network, geek squad employees, industry analysts, systems architects, people selling apps on the app store, facebook employees, etc. Some things have become commoditized jobs, while others are still niche and creating a unique curve.
Indeed, such a fine officer. Taking the best bucket, brush and the best soap money can buy and applying some elbow grease to scrub that computator until it shines as brand spanking new. And then taking a new photograph with a camera from a top tier camera builder - or re-imaging as the youngsters would call it these days... And this fine man would leave spyware on that thing? I simply can't believe it.
No, no, he's as innocent as the children he was monitoring^H^H^H^H^H^H protecting.
Nah... re-imaging is when news like this gets out and they have to spin really hard to change people's perceptions....
That's running Qt on OS X -- he's running Linux on a Retina Mac. Big difference. Of course, the bug may rear its head in there too, but since a completely different compositor and windowing system is being used, it's probably not.
You forgot the major ones: since all students have RFID, it could be provided to insurance agencies and healthcare providers... "to care for the children". Goodbye student discount cards; we've got state-issued RFID now.
Hey; your RFID could even stay with you when you leave school! Who needs a SSN or even a driver's license, when every child already has an ID?
Sounds improbable, but then so do invisibility cloaks.
After all it's hard arguing your point if you don't know what you're talking about.
You're new here, aren't you?
What if a criminal wants to know your location so they can commit a crime against you?
This is a school. I don't know what it was like for the rest of you, but my life would have turned out very differently if my school had depended on these... bullies stealing my transponder to force me to "skip class" -- kids putting up their own tracking devices or breaking into the school system so that they knew when a victim was out of class/in the bathroom/etc., kids experimenting with the transponders to increase range/burn out victims' transponders etc.
Kids can be nasty, no matter how much zero-tolerance bullying policy is floating around.
someone could even set up an antenna that would notify them whenever the cards showed up at specific locations off school grounds. Where would kids get the antennas etc? Need you ask? They're lying all over school property.
What are you talking about?
An incompetent admin on any system can lead to a total outage and a lack of access to your data and software. If your admin re-formats the drives or otherwise renders your system unusable, no matter the platform, you're still dead in the water.
In what way can a Linux admin break a machine more than a Windows admin can?
I've seen the results of incompetent admins in multiple contexts -- and no matter the underlying platform, they can still screw stuff up to the point of being costly and time consuming to fix.
Incompetent Linux admins usually show their hands pretty quickly, as you need to be competent to make things function reasonably. Incompetent Windows admins can keep the system limping along for years while data leaks out the back door and productivity suffers, but not enough to point to the admin doing a _bad_ job (because "everyone knows" that managing backups/printers/network shares on Windows just sucks).
Like... I had cable, and I dumped it in favor of higher bandwidth for WoW, but right now I want to watch something that will make me forget the fact that my existence is defined by my patterns of consumption which Google knows intimately and can therefore extrapolate from their database that which will fulfill my dream state for the evening?
Like that kind of context?
No, like context extracted in this manner:
technologizer.com/2010/08/22/worst-google-voice-transcription-errors/
legacy.audacious-software.com/products/books/
I've used this for years. Hold the book up to the camera to ID it. Easiest way to do this is via ISBN -- you can always create your own barcodes for the books that don't have them, and affix these somehow (I affix inside with acid-free glue, this may be sacrilegious to some). Otherwise, you can use an image recognition module. Contains complete check in/out functionality and is open source.
I've been thinking that there should be some way to add a plugin for Calibre that can do all of this too, but Books already does everything I want.
This is actually very interesting... in the NA market, phone contracts are so expensive that the cost of a phone doesn't really play into it all that much -- as a result, iOS devices do well for people who realize this, and Android devices do well for people looking only at the ticket price (and missing the contract price).
People willing to pay more up front are also more likely to want to spend more on add-ons, surprisingly. The Freemium market takes care of the rest.
The market is then further segmented by language -- English apps aren't going to sell that well in China, and Chinese apps aren't going to sell that well in the US. This goes deeper than localisation, as the overall experience of an app and the task it is designed to accomplish are actually quite culturally-based.
We'll see how it all shakes down.
I agree with your argument but I would also add that because the Constitution also secures a right to assemble, its clear to me at least that an Organization is a first class entity just like an individual. The right of individuals to express themselves by forming an organization and acting as unit should be protected.
Does this mean that I have the right to assemble any source code I come across? Would that be free speech? :)
"Where the hell is your footage between 11am and 12:30pm? You were scheduled on shift, so where were you?"
Schoolkids figured this out years ago... you don't turn the footage off; you just set the glasses somewhere/give them to someone doing something unremarkable for the period you "step out" for.
Are they supposed to wear them when visiting the rest room? It seems to me there have to be short bits of "downtime".
We'll see how things turn out I guess.