The hoops you have to go through to get simple SQL stuff done in Python/Perl/Ruby.
I have yet to see one of these "rapid-prototyping" languages in which SQL is as easy to use as it is in C, COBOL or PL/I. You see, in a proper language, one just writes:
EXEC SQL sql-statements
in the middle of one's code, and stuff gets done. Okay, so there are a few hoops to jump through to make sure the EXEC SQL translator knows about your variables; but it isn't difficult.
Now, a question: do PostgreSQL, MySQL et al support this, or is it still the big boys (DB2, Oracle and friends') back-yard?
The JFS which is currently in OS/2, AIX and Linux was an OS/2 feature first. It was ported to AIX from OS/2. It was subsequently ported from OS/2 to Linux. It's not even that it went AIX->OS/2->Linux.
The 28mm lens on my camera can focus on objects as close as 0.29 metres. Long (800mm and up) lenses typically have trouble focusing on things which are closer than 1 metre.
Now look at hubble. It's essentially got a huuuuuuge telephoto lens with the focus fixed at infinity. You could point it at the moon, but the best you'd get is a blurry grey blob covering the entire imaging area.
If you could create a wave, with the same wavefront, pi radians (180 degrees) out of phase with the original it would cancel it out. I have no idea how practical it is to do that.
Perhaps if we install a huge hydraulic piston arrangement: the falling rock lands on the master piston pushes a concentric ring of slave pistons up to generate the required anti-wave. It would be difficult to get the timing right...
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Or they've licensed MVS.
...IBM has never issued letters of support for a non-IBM platform which does not yet exist. Why should that be different for Solaris 10?
If you asked most people in Europe to rank governments in decreasing order of hostility, the US would be above China.
Phil
Why not use the money you saved by warezing photoshop to buy more RAM?
Because it cuts YOU and the people you point it at.
Sheesh.
The hoops you have to go through to get simple SQL stuff done in Python/Perl/Ruby.
I have yet to see one of these "rapid-prototyping" languages in which SQL is as easy to use as it is in C, COBOL or PL/I. You see, in a proper language, one just writes:
EXEC SQL sql-statements
in the middle of one's code, and stuff gets done. Okay, so there are a few hoops to jump through to make sure the EXEC SQL translator knows about your variables; but it isn't difficult.
Now, a question: do PostgreSQL, MySQL et al support this, or is it still the big boys (DB2, Oracle and friends') back-yard?
Phil
Called "Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" and the preview release works pretty well. I'm able to play Medieval:Total War on it quite happily.
Phil
This is so OffTopic it isn't even funny.
Then you have to write COBOL.
Phil
You can use it to write man pages. It's better than texinfo anyway.
I agree, troff ain't bad. Although I suspect you were joking.
The JFS which is currently in OS/2, AIX and Linux was an OS/2 feature first. It was ported to AIX from OS/2. It was subsequently ported from OS/2 to Linux. It's not even that it went AIX->OS/2->Linux.
Phil
That's fine, so long as it's not an illegal copy of a brand-name gun.
> The US should outlaw all forms of thought
Fox are working on it.
-1, buzzword-infested-middle-manager.
The 28mm lens on my camera can focus on objects as close as 0.29 metres. Long (800mm and up) lenses typically have trouble focusing on things which are closer than 1 metre.
Now look at hubble. It's essentially got a huuuuuuge telephoto lens with the focus fixed at infinity. You could point it at the moon, but the best you'd get is a blurry grey blob covering the entire imaging area.
Phil
Because they would be sued under antitrust law. It's happened to IBM in the past, and Microsoft more recently. Intel know they're not immune to it.
Phil
Why the hell did you use your eye to open your case in the first place? Screwdrivers work better, trust me on this.
Phil
Nope, but some ill-tempered mutated sea-bass were seen leaving the area shortly after the incident.
You weren't.
I don't currently have a printer, and thought "Crap I'm stuck with an inkjet" on reading the headline.
Phil
Never!
This is slashdot.
Oracle would have been a lot easier to port than most games.
It is easier to take something which is ported to 14 platforms and add a 15th than it is to go from 1 to 2.
Most games are single-platform win32.
Regular household wirecutters on your network cable should do it. If it can't connect to their tracking site you don't have a problem.
Of course, you could just unplug while playing suspect files. Or get MP3s instead. Or buy the album. Or listen to the radio.
The options are limitless...
Phil
Or would it?
If you could create a wave, with the same wavefront, pi radians (180 degrees) out of phase with the original it would cancel it out. I have no idea how practical it is to do that.
Perhaps if we install a huge hydraulic piston arrangement: the falling rock lands on the master piston pushes a concentric ring of slave pistons up to generate the required anti-wave. It would be difficult to get the timing right...
Phil
Assuming you're right, that's 1 millisecond per year, or 1/10 of a second per century.
Therefore it'll be 789041 centuries before all the geostationary satellites are lined up again...
Seriously though, how far off can they be before (say) satellite TV stops working?
Phil
Article is useless, and indeed meaningless without the _what_ filled in...
Phil