-CLI client totally crippled: the user has to type go after each command, no line-editing, no history, poor output formatting. Fortunately, sqsh, mentioned on parent, is a nice replacement.
Guess what? that's the way the CLIs are.
Oracle is that way (sqlplus).
MS SQL Server is that way (isql/osql).
etc.
You ate a little too much red herring for breakfast.
No, "My Documents" is the windows quasi-equivalent to $HOME/docs.
Too bad MS needed to assume that computers only have one hard drive with one partition. While it is possible to hack one's registry to sort of do things the way Unix/Linux does, including creating symbolic links to different partitions rather invisibly, they just do what they can to make this a non-feature, unfortunately.
NT/XP system mamangement would be SOOOOOO much easier if the OS could be protected on a single partition, and ALL applications and their libraries be stored on another partition. Why? Since you probably can't move the Registry, a corrupt registry would, in an ideal world, simply necessitate recovering the Windows partition, either from backup or reinstallation. Then, an installation log on the applications partition could be consulted, which would effectively reinstall applications w/o having to find the original media, etc. Your documents (My Documents), spreadsheets, etc., would be stored on yet another partition (actually, C:\winnt\profiles), with the possibility of migrating user directories as needed, just like a Linux/Unix system.
But, no. $50 billion in cash, and arguably a good chunk of most of the best programmers and tech writers (PPT slide show developers...) in the world, it's not sexy or cool enough. Instead, one of the uber-geeks there comes up with something else, and gets SteveB and BillG to buy off on it.
Heck, they could probably even buy iFS from Oracle for some chump change and make 2006.
But iFS sort of has been a big flop, hasn't it, and it's NIH anyways.
Until the system can extract reasonable and meaningful metadata about the contents of files and documents, then it will still always be up to the user to do the bulk of this.
For better or worse, the most (only) "meta" tag 99.5% people use is the file name. Word has a very flexible metadata ability, but it is never used. It was turned on by default in Word 97, but probably quickly turned off by all users. Same for Excel, PPT, etc. This is one of the things that the Office Search (Find Office Files quickly!) keeps indexed. But of course, that is usually quickly turned off, also, because no one really uses it.
It's a user-space problem, not a system problem.
They should just instead include 'awk' or 'perl' (something a little more sophisticated than 'find -i') on the system, with some sort of natural language-to-regexp converter front-end for them.
Oh bullhucky. MS had licensed SQL Server from Sybase right around that time. MS SQL Server came out with NT 3.5. It was just a straight port of Sybase SQL Server at that time.
Of course, Sybase SQL Server is now Sybase ASE. Its Sybase Personal Edition was, IIRC, the old Watcom SQL database.
No. It's just about all winter wheat fields there (Palouse region). Sure, there are people who do raise cows or sheep in the area, but for the most part they're not on rangeland.
Maybe they do track their combines, anhydrous ammonia tanks and tractors with GPS, though.
Well, look at all the uproar when a US service member does something bad in a host country (or on base to a local).
No, it is not enough to submit the sucker to the UCMJ court systems.
Just read up on "USMC" and "Okinawa".
Of course, some of these things are covered by Status of Forces Agreements between the US and the host country.
The US pays out a good sum to German citizens for moving its troops around various training ranges. The US simply pays the claims. At least the Germans aren't TOO unreasonable about their claims. Just don't tell them that their next SoFA should insist on the US court of record be in Mississippi instead!
...also, in Canada, they sell "222" (tylenol, codeine and something else) OTC, but because codeine is a controlled substance, you can get seriously arrested at the border if they search you (they don't have to have probable cause to do so at the border), and other various stuff as well.
Oh well. I just feel bad enough for injecting Ivomec into my sheep (it's not labelled for sheep) instead of drenching them.
The only thing I can think of would be if Starbucks opened a shop in Amsterdam and also sold marijuana products in the same store, and Herr Shultz gets busted in the US, for somehow "trafficing" in marijuana.
Well, in that case, the Courts of the Sea apply, which is a whole 'nother ball of wax.
A more common case is: you go on a cruise. You decide you're gonna pimp out a little bit, so you have some of your bling bling jewelry with you. When the ship is in international waters, you come back to your 3rd-class cabin to discover your bling bling is gone. Who ya gonna go after? What if the perp is a crewmember (from some other country)?
Blah blah blah.
It made noise a few years ago because women were being raped on a couple of particular ships with some frequency, and there was mass confusion about what to do (which was not a whole heck of a lot).
actually, the extradition treaty probably spells out what kind of crimes and conditions to extradite people.
The US is constrained by many treaties to ask US courts to not try for death penalty in murder cases, even if the person is a US citizen who successfully flees into Mexico to avoid prosecution. Unless the court does not try for the death sentence, the person is relatively free in Mexico...
This kind of thing kept that asshole Einhorn alive in France for quite some time. The US should have blackbagged that fuck a long time ago.
...'tis no different for how Americans tend to fare in the courts of other countries. The US border town papers are probably a good source for stories about Americans who "have rights, dammit!" who get bent over royally in foreign court systems.
We especially love the Napoleonic Mexican courts (guilty until proven innocent or you post a brib^h^h^hond) for simple traffic accidents. Especially for the dorks who drive their own cars into Mexico w/o getting Mexican car insurance.
not necessarily. A good number of the abstracts are sucked from the journals this thread is about. As such, the journal has to be contacted to get reprints, not the author(s).
Also, the medical libraries I'm familiar with, while you might be able to read the journals, you have to be a member (i.e., have a library card) to get reprints, etc.
Oh I don't know. Why not go read "Player Piano" by Kirk Vonnegut to get a glimpse at what corporate socialism (where the US economy is probably really at) is?
In the US, large corporations are really running the show.
Somehow, with all this tripe about socialism, etc., there are still quite a few companies in "socialist" countries that do quite well on the world stage. They may not be #1 in their areas, but they do quite well despite being HQ'd in socialistic countries.
Socialism works good for the highway/street system.
And, as far as I can tell, the existance of, or lack there of, a good surface road system does tend to have a major impact on the local economies...
Besides, everyone complains about the US helthcare system, but honestly, how many people in the US actually have any first-hand experience with the healthcare systems of other countries? Anyone? Not really.
Medical Tort reform won't fix it, unfortunately. A few bad doctors (and a medical association that protects the screw-up doctors...much like the Roman Catholic Church!) and a few bad patients (with a lot of screwed up contingency-based lawyers) have screwed up the system for everyone.
funny, though, when my daughter was born, she had a "left posterier cerebral artery blockage" (aka stroke), that wiped out her left temporal lobe.
Well, in my geeky nature, I was very glad to find the free Medline portal at the NIH website, and actually find out that one of the neurologists handling the case had submitted a case study with some similarities to my wife and daughter, as well as find out some other stats on neo-/perinatal stroke outcomes.
Very lucky for us, the ensuing seizures my daughter was having were caught in time (her presentation was apnea...), and she didn't have any ischemic damage due to lack of oxygen to the rest of her brain (hence, no cerebral palsy), nor any permanent effects from the anti-seizure drugs she was on for a year.
All in all, she's now a rather normal 4-yr old girl. We do count our blessings every day.
But find this kind of stuff out on Johns Hopkins' website, WebMD, etc.? Yeah, right!
Also helping us talk to the doctors involved, my wife is/was a nurse, and we both know enough general anatomy, etc., especially my wife's knowledge of drugs, etc., and I occupied my brain by scanning the big book of neonatal neurology, that we weren't totally in a fog when talking to the doctors, and could ask relatively intelligent questions and understand their answers and not be freaked out by the unknown, and be understanding when it was time to leave her in the NICU so they could draw blood from her.
So, yes, if a family member gets some weird cancer or other disease, guess where I'm going, if only to fill in the gaping holes on most diseases and conditions that are in "consumer" medical databases/websites/books?
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no, MySQL is a special category all by itself: red-headed stepchild.
Republicans vs. Democrats:
Tweedledee vs. tweedledum (or vice versa).
-CLI client totally crippled: the user has to type go after each command, no line-editing, no history, poor output formatting. Fortunately, sqsh, mentioned on parent, is a nice replacement.
Guess what? that's the way the CLIs are.
Oracle is that way (sqlplus).
MS SQL Server is that way (isql/osql).
etc.
You ate a little too much red herring for breakfast.
...but Oracle *DID* ship iFS with Oracle 8i, which offered some of the same basic premises and solution set as WinFS.
No, "My Documents" is the windows quasi-equivalent to $HOME/docs.
Too bad MS needed to assume that computers only have one hard drive with one partition. While it is possible to hack one's registry to sort of do things the way Unix/Linux does, including creating symbolic links to different partitions rather invisibly, they just do what they can to make this a non-feature, unfortunately.
NT/XP system mamangement would be SOOOOOO much easier if the OS could be protected on a single partition, and ALL applications and their libraries be stored on another partition. Why? Since you probably can't move the Registry, a corrupt registry would, in an ideal world, simply necessitate recovering the Windows partition, either from backup or reinstallation. Then, an installation log on the applications partition could be consulted, which would effectively reinstall applications w/o having to find the original media, etc. Your documents (My Documents), spreadsheets, etc., would be stored on yet another partition (actually, C:\winnt\profiles), with the possibility of migrating user directories as needed, just like a Linux/Unix system.
But, no. $50 billion in cash, and arguably a good chunk of most of the best programmers and tech writers (PPT slide show developers...) in the world, it's not sexy or cool enough. Instead, one of the uber-geeks there comes up with something else, and gets SteveB and BillG to buy off on it.
Heck, they could probably even buy iFS from Oracle for some chump change and make 2006.
But iFS sort of has been a big flop, hasn't it, and it's NIH anyways.
Until the system can extract reasonable and meaningful metadata about the contents of files and documents, then it will still always be up to the user to do the bulk of this.
For better or worse, the most (only) "meta" tag 99.5% people use is the file name. Word has a very flexible metadata ability, but it is never used. It was turned on by default in Word 97, but probably quickly turned off by all users. Same for Excel, PPT, etc. This is one of the things that the Office Search (Find Office Files quickly!) keeps indexed. But of course, that is usually quickly turned off, also, because no one really uses it.
It's a user-space problem, not a system problem.
They should just instead include 'awk' or 'perl' (something a little more sophisticated than 'find -i') on the system, with some sort of natural language-to-regexp converter front-end for them.
Oh bullhucky. MS had licensed SQL Server from Sybase right around that time. MS SQL Server came out with NT 3.5. It was just a straight port of Sybase SQL Server at that time.
Of course, Sybase SQL Server is now Sybase ASE. Its Sybase Personal Edition was, IIRC, the old Watcom SQL database.
It did a few years ago have a bunch of Ikonos sat photographs (where the USGS did not have any imagery).
What is kind of interesting now is that Terraserver has 1-meter resolution shots. Aerial, Satellite, whatever. It's all the same, really.
...will digest small children who venture forth too far from their parents.
...but wasn't that kind of the plot line of Pinocchio?
"Come heeeere, leetle girl! Do you want some candy?"
Hmm... I got wireless broadband here finally (http://www.onlinemac.com).
It's symmetrical and fixed IP, and no onerous terms of service agreement or forced to use MSN for ISP...
No. It's just about all winter wheat fields there (Palouse region). Sure, there are people who do raise cows or sheep in the area, but for the most part they're not on rangeland.
Maybe they do track their combines, anhydrous ammonia tanks and tractors with GPS, though.
Don't hate the playa, hate the game...
Well, look at all the uproar when a US service member does something bad in a host country (or on base to a local).
No, it is not enough to submit the sucker to the UCMJ court systems.
Just read up on "USMC" and "Okinawa".
Of course, some of these things are covered by Status of Forces Agreements between the US and the host country.
The US pays out a good sum to German citizens for moving its troops around various training ranges. The US simply pays the claims. At least the Germans aren't TOO unreasonable about their claims. Just don't tell them that their next SoFA should insist on the US court of record be in Mississippi instead!
Perhaps OBL should be tried at The Hague, that is, if Kenya, Bali, et al. can get their cases presented together. But that won't happen.
You mean, like Jerry Lee Lewis?
The city you need to google on is Colorado City, Utah...
...also, in Canada, they sell "222" (tylenol, codeine and something else) OTC, but because codeine is a controlled substance, you can get seriously arrested at the border if they search you (they don't have to have probable cause to do so at the border), and other various stuff as well.
Oh well. I just feel bad enough for injecting Ivomec into my sheep (it's not labelled for sheep) instead of drenching them.
The only thing I can think of would be if Starbucks opened a shop in Amsterdam and also sold marijuana products in the same store, and Herr Shultz gets busted in the US, for somehow "trafficing" in marijuana.
...it also depends on who you boned.
If it was some random girl (or boy), probably no big deal.
But if it was one of GW's daughters...
Well, in that case, the Courts of the Sea apply, which is a whole 'nother ball of wax.
A more common case is: you go on a cruise. You decide you're gonna pimp out a little bit, so you have some of your bling bling jewelry with you. When the ship is in international waters, you come back to your 3rd-class cabin to discover your bling bling is gone. Who ya gonna go after? What if the perp is a crewmember (from some other country)?
Blah blah blah.
It made noise a few years ago because women were being raped on a couple of particular ships with some frequency, and there was mass confusion about what to do (which was not a whole heck of a lot).
actually, the extradition treaty probably spells out what kind of crimes and conditions to extradite people.
The US is constrained by many treaties to ask US courts to not try for death penalty in murder cases, even if the person is a US citizen who successfully flees into Mexico to avoid prosecution. Unless the court does not try for the death sentence, the person is relatively free in Mexico...
This kind of thing kept that asshole Einhorn alive in France for quite some time. The US should have blackbagged that fuck a long time ago.
...'tis no different for how Americans tend to fare in the courts of other countries. The US border town papers are probably a good source for stories about Americans who "have rights, dammit!" who get bent over royally in foreign court systems.
We especially love the Napoleonic Mexican courts (guilty until proven innocent or you post a brib^h^h^hond) for simple traffic accidents. Especially for the dorks who drive their own cars into Mexico w/o getting Mexican car insurance.
not necessarily. A good number of the abstracts are sucked from the journals this thread is about. As such, the journal has to be contacted to get reprints, not the author(s).
Also, the medical libraries I'm familiar with, while you might be able to read the journals, you have to be a member (i.e., have a library card) to get reprints, etc.
Oh I don't know. Why not go read "Player Piano" by Kirk Vonnegut to get a glimpse at what corporate socialism (where the US economy is probably really at) is?
In the US, large corporations are really running the show.
Somehow, with all this tripe about socialism, etc., there are still quite a few companies in "socialist" countries that do quite well on the world stage. They may not be #1 in their areas, but they do quite well despite being HQ'd in socialistic countries.
Socialism works good for the highway/street system.
And, as far as I can tell, the existance of, or lack there of, a good surface road system does tend to have a major impact on the local economies...
Besides, everyone complains about the US helthcare system, but honestly, how many people in the US actually have any first-hand experience with the healthcare systems of other countries?
Anyone? Not really.
Medical Tort reform won't fix it, unfortunately. A few bad doctors (and a medical association that protects the screw-up doctors...much like the Roman Catholic Church!) and a few bad patients (with a lot of screwed up contingency-based lawyers) have screwed up the system for everyone.
Hmm... I think that there is an equivalent to "other duties as assigned" that is in just about every freakin' job description in the world, right?
Besides, you have left off one more box, the SCOTUS box.
If you feel that a given entity of the government is beyond its constitutional mandate, then build your case through the court system.
funny, though, when my daughter was born, she had a "left posterier cerebral artery blockage" (aka stroke), that wiped out her left temporal lobe.
Well, in my geeky nature, I was very glad to find the free Medline portal at the NIH website, and actually find out that one of the neurologists handling the case had submitted a case study with some similarities to my wife and daughter, as well as find out some other stats on neo-/perinatal stroke outcomes.
Very lucky for us, the ensuing seizures my daughter was having were caught in time (her presentation was apnea...), and she didn't have any ischemic damage due to lack of oxygen to the rest of her brain (hence, no cerebral palsy), nor any permanent effects from the anti-seizure drugs she was on for a year.
All in all, she's now a rather normal 4-yr old girl. We do count our blessings every day.
But find this kind of stuff out on Johns Hopkins' website, WebMD, etc.? Yeah, right!
Also helping us talk to the doctors involved, my wife is/was a nurse, and we both know enough general anatomy, etc., especially my wife's knowledge of drugs, etc., and I occupied my brain by scanning the big book of neonatal neurology, that we weren't totally in a fog when talking to the doctors, and could ask relatively intelligent questions and understand their answers and not be freaked out by the unknown, and be understanding when it was time to leave her in the NICU so they could draw blood from her.
So, yes, if a family member gets some weird cancer or other disease, guess where I'm going, if only to fill in the gaping holes on most diseases and conditions that are in "consumer" medical databases/websites/books?