Every once in a while I like to read the subjects of mail in my spam folder for my own amusement. My favorite so far was what seemed to be a McCain pro-war spam crossed with a Viagra ad.
He said he wanted a flat-file database. Why, on this Earth, would he ever need "standard SQL including joins." SQL is designed for relational databases and, in particular, joins are only EVER used in a multi-table, relational database. In fact, the guy even said "SQL is overkill".
Joins can be used to join a single table to itself. It is called a self join when used in this way.
IMO, SQL is not overkill. It can be much more useful and faster than flat files.
While I was in college, my computer science department was a member of the Microsoft Academic Alliance. This allowed me as a student to download all of Microsoft's development tools including: Server 2003, Visual Studio Professional, SQL Server 2005, XP Pro, Vista... I think the only thing I couldn't get through there was Office because it was not a development tool.
Fox recently released their free online Fox On Demand service. It requires you to install some software but the whole thing is web based and I have nothing but good experiences with it. New episodes appear on the service a few days after they air.
When I took the Advanced Placement exam as a high school senior in 2002 it was in C++. When I got into college, the intro courses were all C++ based. I took some time off from school last year and am now finishing up my degree. Last week was the beginning of the spring semester and when I got back to the computer science department, it is now all java based. The base level courses and some of the upper level courses had switched during my leave of absence. When I inquired about the change I found that the department had switched mainly due to the AP exam switching languages. It is hard to test out of an intro level course if the exam you take uses a different language then the course you are testing out of. The only downside is I now have to learn Java for this one course, which was originally C++ based a year ago, so I can graduate in May.
I've got two 2007WFP (20") monitors and they are awesome. If I had the money I would probably upgrade to the 3007WFP. The only complaint I have with the 2007WFP is that when the monitor goes to sleep, the USB ports lose power. The USB ports on the side of the monitor are very convenient. Last night I was copying some large files to my thumb drive and turned off the monitor so I could go to bed. I forgot that the files wouldn't copy if the monitor was off.
'Deliberately disabling a desirable feature of a computer product is known as crippling a product, and software that does this is known as crippleware.'
So DRM is a desirable feature now?
Seriously, there are plenty of music players out there that do and don't support WMA. It should be up to the company what features they want to include on their product. My portable music device broke a few months back, it was an old Archos Jukebox that I purchased before iPods were even a twinkle in Apple's eye. I loved that thing to death for 7 years, it only supported wav and mp3. I didn't care, my music is all mp3 format. When it came time to buy something new, I did some research and even though I was originally anti-apple because they were trendy and Apple fanboys piss me off, I got an iPod. Why? Excellent battery life, mp3 support, and iTunes could keep my music organized in a way that was compatible with my OCD ways. Now let's say for a minute that my entire music collection, for some reason, was in WMA format. Would I have bought an iPod. No, because they didn't support a format that was important to me. Apple is succeeding because they support formats that are important to their customers. How many more customers do you think Apple would gain by including the WMA format? WalMart and Amazon, two of the biggest online music retailers besides iTunes both support mp3. And if you were really really craving DRM on your music WalMart serves up WMA in addition to mp3.
I would love an eBook reader if I could get access to my O'Reilly Safari account through it. With the Kindle running on wireless, having the entire O'Reilly library at your fingertips in portable format would be awesome.
Why do photo's 1 and 7 both have signs that say "Geographic South Pole", when in the background of one photo is nothing but snow and in the background of the other there is a big building. Can't there only be one geographic South Pole? Both photos have pole markers.
Consequently, OOXML does not support, to use Chinese characters within a Web address.' This would be problematic for many languages, not just Chinese."
You don't know how many times in a day I need to put Chinese characters in my web addresses...
Seriously how many other languages besides Chinese need to use Chinese characters in web addresses.
I think I remember hearing about a distribution that was going to start including these codecs as part of the default install when you purchased the OS. It may have been SuSE, but I can't remember.
I had an absolute nightmare setting up Comcast's online service for a friend. The experience still causes me to have nightmares. I will never again setup someone's Comcast, and never recommend their service to anyone.
I just picked up one of these color lasers a few weeks ago because I was spending so much on ink. I can't run out to the store and buy new ink every month. After MIR this printer was under $300. I also had a coupon for 10% off which put the price at $235. You can't beat that. Sure toner may be expensive, but with a toner cartridge lasting a lot longer than an ink cartridge I think it is a good investment.
I believe that to a point Linux is ready for musicians, but not totally ready yet. As mentioned in an earlier post, composing and arranging is still lacking. I am a total Linux nut, microsoft sucks, bow before the penguin, etc. I also arrange music for high school marching bands and there is nothing on Linux that rivals Sibelius or Finale. I personally use Sibelius and other software such as Virtual Drumline, and it is the only reason I still dual boot my primary desktop. I have tried getting my windows composition software working under wine and virtual environments but it has always been a complete failure. I don't mind dual booting, and I am sure that as Linux becomes more mainstream maybe some of these software companies will start porting their software to the Linux platform.
LTS stands for Long Term Support. Dapper Drake, the current LTS release, will be supported for 3 years on the Desktop and 5 years on the server. If you want long term stability and support, and don't need to be on the cutting edge with brand new releases every 6 months, LTS is the way to go.
Two weeks ago, the situation grew so dire that the team switched from software provided by Computer Associates, whose suite of security programs sat on the team's internal server, to a dedicated antispam server from Barracuda Networks, which gets regular updates from Barracuda's offices in Silicon Valley.
Mr. Nakamura said the new system had greatly improved the situation. On a single day last week, the team received 5,000 e-mail messages and the Barracuda spam appliance blocked all but 300.... While the majority of the article was quite well written. The end seemed to a big advertisement for Barracuda Networks.
I once called a computer manufacturer on an issue regarding an EULA, they claimed it didn't apply to me because the EULA for Windows was between Microsoft and them.
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On the October 6th, 2008 "This Week in Tech", Kevin Mitnik talks about how he now deals with taking his laptops in and out of the country.
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McCain says "I want to invade your vaginas"
Joins can be used to join a single table to itself. It is called a self join when used in this way.
IMO, SQL is not overkill. It can be much more useful and faster than flat files.
I wondered why I couldn't find any Xenu or Anti-Scientology items on ebay.
While I was in college, my computer science department was a member of the Microsoft Academic Alliance. This allowed me as a student to download all of Microsoft's development tools including: Server 2003, Visual Studio Professional, SQL Server 2005, XP Pro, Vista... I think the only thing I couldn't get through there was Office because it was not a development tool.
Fox recently released their free online Fox On Demand service. It requires you to install some software but the whole thing is web based and I have nothing but good experiences with it. New episodes appear on the service a few days after they air.
When I took the Advanced Placement exam as a high school senior in 2002 it was in C++. When I got into college, the intro courses were all C++ based. I took some time off from school last year and am now finishing up my degree. Last week was the beginning of the spring semester and when I got back to the computer science department, it is now all java based. The base level courses and some of the upper level courses had switched during my leave of absence. When I inquired about the change I found that the department had switched mainly due to the AP exam switching languages. It is hard to test out of an intro level course if the exam you take uses a different language then the course you are testing out of. The only downside is I now have to learn Java for this one course, which was originally C++ based a year ago, so I can graduate in May.
I've got two 2007WFP (20") monitors and they are awesome. If I had the money I would probably upgrade to the 3007WFP. The only complaint I have with the 2007WFP is that when the monitor goes to sleep, the USB ports lose power. The USB ports on the side of the monitor are very convenient. Last night I was copying some large files to my thumb drive and turned off the monitor so I could go to bed. I forgot that the files wouldn't copy if the monitor was off.
But will it have a cool visual display that I can't stop staring at like the Zomie Infection Simulator?
I would love an eBook reader if I could get access to my O'Reilly Safari account through it. With the Kindle running on wireless, having the entire O'Reilly library at your fingertips in portable format would be awesome.
After Googling around for the past half hour (what else am I going to do at work) I found that South pole moves around 32 feet per year.
Why do photo's 1 and 7 both have signs that say "Geographic South Pole", when in the background of one photo is nothing but snow and in the background of the other there is a big building. Can't there only be one geographic South Pole? Both photos have pole markers.
I assume if you were cleared for your original flight that switching to a different flight wouldn't void your clearance.
You didn't see the link to the book on Amazon that was included with the summary?
I think I remember hearing about a distribution that was going to start including these codecs as part of the default install when you purchased the OS. It may have been SuSE, but I can't remember.
I had an absolute nightmare setting up Comcast's online service for a friend. The experience still causes me to have nightmares. I will never again setup someone's Comcast, and never recommend their service to anyone.
I just picked up one of these color lasers a few weeks ago because I was spending so much on ink. I can't run out to the store and buy new ink every month. After MIR this printer was under $300. I also had a coupon for 10% off which put the price at $235. You can't beat that. Sure toner may be expensive, but with a toner cartridge lasting a lot longer than an ink cartridge I think it is a good investment.
I believe that to a point Linux is ready for musicians, but not totally ready yet. As mentioned in an earlier post, composing and arranging is still lacking. I am a total Linux nut, microsoft sucks, bow before the penguin, etc. I also arrange music for high school marching bands and there is nothing on Linux that rivals Sibelius or Finale. I personally use Sibelius and other software such as Virtual Drumline, and it is the only reason I still dual boot my primary desktop. I have tried getting my windows composition software working under wine and virtual environments but it has always been a complete failure. I don't mind dual booting, and I am sure that as Linux becomes more mainstream maybe some of these software companies will start porting their software to the Linux platform.
LTS stands for Long Term Support. Dapper Drake, the current LTS release, will be supported for 3 years on the Desktop and 5 years on the server. If you want long term stability and support, and don't need to be on the cutting edge with brand new releases every 6 months, LTS is the way to go.
I once called a computer manufacturer on an issue regarding an EULA, they claimed it didn't apply to me because the EULA for Windows was between Microsoft and them.