I didn't start drinking coffee until I was 26. Then, it was because I stopped drinking a liter or two of Mountain Dew every day. Well, soon I was up to two pots, about a half gallon or so, every day.
Well, the anxiety attacks started kicking in pretty hard core, so I switched to decaf for about five years.
When I went cold turkey last November, I had the worst case of passing out at my desk. Two, Three times a day. Decaffeinated coffee is anything but!
But three weeks, and I kicked it. Now I have maybe one cup a week, if that.
Still drinking Diet Coke - when I stop drinking that, I'll probably have another crash, but then it'll be all over.
I blame Verizon for betting on CDMA and not GMS like the "REST OF THE FUCKING PLANET!":-)
Thank you.
You're never going to get newfangled devices on Verizon. I'd be interested to know what Verizon offered RIM to get the Storm to try and stop the hemorrhage of subscribers to AT&T and the iPhone.
If you want a ride bouncier than the storm chasers in KC10s you can do about 22-25 mph in a Ford 555 (80's vintage backhoe). And that's on a decently paved street. You hit a decent pothole and you better have your feet on the posi button because when your steering wheels hit ground again, you're likely to zoom into traffic or onto the sidewalk.
It's why I only ever did over-street travel in ours at night. Then again, backhoe's are naturally overbalanced to the rear, I never did try to get our straight farm tractor up to speed on surface streets.
I've popped a wheelie in exactly two tractors in my day, one a backhoe, another a dozer. Sort of frightening when you do it for the first time and aren't expecting it.
If you're thinking "those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it", I think you're simplifying my point.
I can tell you how scary and/or exciting skydiving is until I'm blue in the face, but until you jump out of an airplane and try it, you really don't have any idea what I'm talking about (assuming you're not into bungy jumping or Olympic trampolining or something that involves free-fall at slightly less deadly altitudes).
Remembering vividly the smell of burnt bodies, the concussion of artillery and the screams of the dying is not think as reading about it. I honestly didn't have a clue what D-Day might have been like until I saw Saving Private Ryan - and even that (I imagine) was a pale comparison to the real thing.
I don't think they are. I think what they're counting on is that orphaned works have no interested owner, and if one does show up, they'll address it then, perhaps with royalties on accessed material. If they make a best-effort attempt, they can (possibly) be absolved of willful infringement.
Which is why they are doing this. To be taken seriously. Because if you're a government some part of the world doesn't like, you need nuclear weapons to have a seat at the bargaining table.
How much of that is the existing memory of the results of total-war waged upon that continent? The millions of people still alive who remember the burning fields, the firebombing, those who remember the sounds of artillery shells turning their cities into wastelands.
Soon those memories will be gone - war might not seem so unacceptable again.
<quote> a city firefighter who lives two blocks away, said he came to the scene and heard "hundreds, just hundreds of shots." </quote>
I heard that audio. The fact that three cops were killed, and that they "have the suspect in custody" is either a testament to the self-restraint of the Pittsburg police that they didn't turn the whole neighborhood into Swiss cheese trying to kill this guy, or their ineptitude that they couldn't.
The guy should lose his job at best, at worst, spend some time in jail for subverting the democratic process...
How about a three strikes law of my own (equally applicable to lawmakers here in the US): if a law you voted for is subsequently struck down in appeals courts or the Supreme Court, three times, you go to jail, with no possibility of parole.
But even libertarians acknowledge that if something is in public view, and can be see by the human eye, there's nothing wrong with remembering what you see (either via camera, or via your human brain). </quote>
Not defending them, but like Google and Microsoft blurring out military installations, by giving Street View, you give the criminals an extra tool to remain unseen until they strike. Used to be they'd have to canvas a neighborhood before making their strike, and giving the police several incidents to catch them beforehand. Now you eliminate that. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
<quote> You have a right to protest, but you don't have a right to block a public street. That's a crime and every one of those persons should be jailed for one night. If they wanted to protest they should have held a gigantic sign in front of their home that read "google sucks pussy" or something similar. Do it legally. </quote>
Do it legally. I can whole-heartedly agree with that. What if the driver panicked and flattened someone? What then? Think, morons! [not the poster, the protestors].
You don't have media companies controlling the media distribution networks who control the Internet broadband/access networks either. It's a sorry state of affairs here in the U.S. for broadband.
Once upon a time, maybe 6 or 8 years ago now, I got to sit down with the CEO of APC and basically told him I wanted battery backed in-computer power-supplies, something small yet efficient. I wanted functionality like my laptop does, unplug PC, move it, plug it back in. Same for my servers (might have been when that whole Netshelter product line started up.
Ah, too bad I kept no notes, no logs, could have made a fortune suing Google.:-)
It's Kino. It should know what the problem is, and throw an appropriate error up, perhaps with links to websites demonstrating how to fix the problem, rather than a generic error (x doesn't work) like 90% of the software in the world does.
(Not saying that is or is not what it does, but a LOT of software just chucks generic errors without any explanation of why - JBoss is my #1 pet peeve doing this at the moment.)
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* Archive
* Archive & Sign
* Archive & Encrypt <- implies signing
* Decrypt Files
* Start a slideshow
* Open terminal here
Bam, 5 options.:-) Nice, neat ordering. Let the filechooser decide what to encrypt.
Yeah, good point. It's more of that "Scratch my itch" vs. "Clean, Consistent, UI design"
This is semantically different from '' or 0 or 0000-00-00 or 000-00-0000
Using the SSN example, from a customer table, a NULL entry tells me that the user might not be an American, which is valid, but not necessarily valid. A 000-00-0000 might only tell me that the user managed to trick my web entry form to enter and invalid SSN. It's splitting hairs in this example, but that doesn't eliminate it's value.
They're not saying that at all. They are saying that when they ABSOLUTELY want for there to be a NOT NULL and also valid value, that the database enforce that.
NOT NULL DEFAULT '' and NOT NULL DEFAULT NULL
Are two separate and different beasts. Both are valid for different use cases, but if I *WANT* the semantics of the second, then the first fails to implement them.
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I didn't start drinking coffee until I was 26. Then, it was because I stopped drinking a liter or two of Mountain Dew every day. Well, soon I was up to two pots, about a half gallon or so, every day.
Well, the anxiety attacks started kicking in pretty hard core, so I switched to decaf for about five years.
When I went cold turkey last November, I had the worst case of passing out at my desk. Two, Three times a day. Decaffeinated coffee is anything but!
But three weeks, and I kicked it. Now I have maybe one cup a week, if that.
Still drinking Diet Coke - when I stop drinking that, I'll probably have another crash, but then it'll be all over.
Is this something supported in the IM client configuration? Or does postini use jabber/gtalk?
Color me ignorant, but what do Pidgin and Trillian (IM) have to do with Postini (email)?
Just wonderin' is all.
It's why I'm convinced advertising is the curse of the 20th Century and the bane of the new millennium.
I blame Verizon for betting on CDMA and not GMS like the "REST OF THE FUCKING PLANET!" :-)
Thank you.
You're never going to get newfangled devices on Verizon. I'd be interested to know what Verizon offered RIM to get the Storm to try and stop the hemorrhage of subscribers to AT&T and the iPhone.
If you want a ride bouncier than the storm chasers in KC10s you can do about 22-25 mph in a Ford 555 (80's vintage backhoe). And that's on a decently paved street. You hit a decent pothole and you better have your feet on the posi button because when your steering wheels hit ground again, you're likely to zoom into traffic or onto the sidewalk.
It's why I only ever did over-street travel in ours at night. Then again, backhoe's are naturally overbalanced to the rear, I never did try to get our straight farm tractor up to speed on surface streets.
I've popped a wheelie in exactly two tractors in my day, one a backhoe, another a dozer. Sort of frightening when you do it for the first time and aren't expecting it.
Oh! haha, I missed the nuance of your carefully crafted response. What an ass I feel like. :-)
Bravo.
If you're thinking "those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it", I think you're simplifying my point.
I can tell you how scary and/or exciting skydiving is until I'm blue in the face, but until you jump out of an airplane and try it, you really don't have any idea what I'm talking about (assuming you're not into bungy jumping or Olympic trampolining or something that involves free-fall at slightly less deadly altitudes).
Remembering vividly the smell of burnt bodies, the concussion of artillery and the screams of the dying is not think as reading about it. I honestly didn't have a clue what D-Day might have been like until I saw Saving Private Ryan - and even that (I imagine) was a pale comparison to the real thing.
I don't think they are. I think what they're counting on is that orphaned works have no interested owner, and if one does show up, they'll address it then, perhaps with royalties on accessed material. If they make a best-effort attempt, they can (possibly) be absolved of willful infringement.
Which is why they are doing this. To be taken seriously. Because if you're a government some part of the world doesn't like, you need nuclear weapons to have a seat at the bargaining table.
How much of that is the existing memory of the results of total-war waged upon that continent? The millions of people still alive who remember the burning fields, the firebombing, those who remember the sounds of artillery shells turning their cities into wastelands.
Soon those memories will be gone - war might not seem so unacceptable again.
I love, quote:
<quote>
a city firefighter who lives two blocks away, said he came to the scene and heard "hundreds, just hundreds of shots."
</quote>
I heard that audio. The fact that three cops were killed, and that they "have the suspect in custody" is either a testament to the self-restraint of the Pittsburg police that they didn't turn the whole neighborhood into Swiss cheese trying to kill this guy, or their ineptitude that they couldn't.
Revolution?
The guy should lose his job at best, at worst, spend some time in jail for subverting the democratic process...
How about a three strikes law of my own (equally applicable to lawmakers here in the US): if a law you voted for is subsequently struck down in appeals courts or the Supreme Court, three times, you go to jail, with no possibility of parole.
But even libertarians acknowledge that if something is in public view, and can be see by the human eye, there's nothing wrong with remembering what you see (either via camera, or via your human brain).
</quote>
Not defending them, but like Google and Microsoft blurring out military installations, by giving Street View, you give the criminals an extra tool to remain unseen until they strike. Used to be they'd have to canvas a neighborhood before making their strike, and giving the police several incidents to catch them beforehand. Now you eliminate that. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
<quote>
You have a right to protest, but you don't have a right to block a public street. That's a crime and every one of those persons should be jailed for one night. If they wanted to protest they should have held a gigantic sign in front of their home that read "google sucks pussy" or something similar. Do it legally.
</quote>
Do it legally. I can whole-heartedly agree with that. What if the driver panicked and flattened someone? What then? Think, morons! [not the poster, the protestors].
G'day
No shit. How long did it take them to finally kill OS/2 support? 10 years?
You don't have media companies controlling the media distribution networks who control the Internet broadband/access networks either. It's a sorry state of affairs here in the U.S. for broadband.
Which is the REAL Clinton/Bush legacy. Letting the entertainment networks buy the communication infrastructure. :-/
No, you'll just have a brick with your battery dangling from the end of your laptop.
Ahem... speaking as a user and as one of the aforementioned priests of the Temple, those fuckers still aren't gone. Grrrrr.
Once upon a time, maybe 6 or 8 years ago now, I got to sit down with the CEO of APC and basically told him I wanted battery backed in-computer power-supplies, something small yet efficient. I wanted functionality like my laptop does, unplug PC, move it, plug it back in. Same for my servers (might have been when that whole Netshelter product line started up.
:-)
Ah, too bad I kept no notes, no logs, could have made a fortune suing Google.
It's Kino. It should know what the problem is, and throw an appropriate error up, perhaps with links to websites demonstrating how to fix the problem, rather than a generic error (x doesn't work) like 90% of the software in the world does.
(Not saying that is or is not what it does, but a LOT of software just chucks generic errors without any explanation of why - JBoss is my #1 pet peeve doing this at the moment.)
* Archive
:-) Nice, neat ordering. Let the filechooser decide what to encrypt.
* Archive & Sign
* Archive & Encrypt <- implies signing
* Decrypt Files
* Start a slideshow
* Open terminal here
Bam, 5 options.
Yeah, good point. It's more of that "Scratch my itch" vs. "Clean, Consistent, UI design"
Something Linux in general lacks.
Sadly enough, I managed to go my entire career without ever dealing with COBOL (and I worked in some funky places)...
Well, my current job just dropped me straight into Cobol integration messiness.
Who knew!?
No, and why would it? It tells me it's NULL.
This is semantically different from '' or 0 or 0000-00-00 or 000-00-0000
Using the SSN example, from a customer table, a NULL entry tells me that the user might not be an American, which is valid, but not necessarily valid. A 000-00-0000 might only tell me that the user managed to trick my web entry form to enter and invalid SSN. It's splitting hairs in this example, but that doesn't eliminate it's value.
They're not saying that at all. They are saying that when they ABSOLUTELY want for there to be a NOT NULL and also valid value, that the database enforce that.
NOT NULL DEFAULT '' and
NOT NULL DEFAULT NULL
Are two separate and different beasts. Both are valid for different use cases, but if I *WANT* the semantics of the second, then the first fails to implement them.