I used to work with someone named Yves Bunn, although he was only 7 inches tall, wrote in crayon, and had cotton for brains. Come to think of it, he didn't sleep either. I'll need a different forum though to discuss why a stuffed animal was the attendance officer for our group, or why he was writing specs for our projects.
When is the last time North Korea did something more provocative
There is plenty of interesting reading on North Korea and the threat it poses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_North_Kor ea
I'd like to especially point out "The North has an estimated 1.08 million armed personnel, compared to about 686,000 South Korean troops, plus 17,000 US troops in South Korea." and "Military spending is estimated at 20%-25% of GNP, which would mean that the DPRK spends the largest proportion of its GNP on its military in the world"
China is still ruled an oppresive regime. Don't get fooled thinking the population there is better off. There is still censorship, there is still unjustified imprisonment, there is still government control of the press, government control of religion, and more. China still supports rogue states such as it has with North Korea where it publicly says no-no with one hand and then gives them rewards with the other. Bread and Circus may keep the population happy for now, but it doesn't mean they are better off.
Economic sanctions aren't going to hurt him, they're just going to make the poor poorer.
It is not the sanctions that have made North Korean people poor, it is the terrible mismanagement of the nation by its government. Why should we reward the tyranical government of North Korea with trade that will only benefit the elite aristocracy of that country and the army.
did anyone else get a picture in their head of a picture of a bakery pie on a cell phone saying "don't I look delicious? I'm dutch apple you know! Select which slice of pie you would like to eat by touching the screen"
Unfortunately most places that have given me some sort of tech-test by giving problems to solve do give poor problems. I had a miserable 4 hour interview/problem solving session at a software company called PreEmptive that consisted of separate technical interview and interview with a manager which led me to believe they had conflicting ideas of what skills and talents the candidate should have, followed by a test consisting of a misworded logic problem, a question on how to do something that shouldn't have ever been done to begin with, and a group of questions about a poorly designed database schema.
I'm sure there is a motion in the UN general assembly somewhere about this, but since the motion has nothing to do with condeming Israel, it will get sidetracked and will never be heard about again.
LAMP is the Access of the decade. Do you really want to suggest people to sidegrade their application? Upgrade! From Access, SQL Server will be the easiest to convert to, as other people have mentioned.
Lake Erie and the other Great Lakes have been a mixed success. While regulations and cleanup helped, some of the polution was also absorbed by the intrusion of a foreign species, the zebra mussel. The native fish didn't eat the mussel so they continued to filter polutants while some fish benefited from cleaner water, others suffered from trying to compete with the zebra mussels in the food chain. Then the intrusion of another foreign species, the goby. At least one of the two types of goby does eat the zebra mussels, and they are eatten by some native fish so the toxins have spread. There's a reason there are suggested limmits on how much Lake Erie fish people should eat.
some related reading:
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/Programs/ais/
I live in Northeast Ohio. The investigation found that the problems had nothing to do with the voting machines themselves, but was a result of poorly trained polling station workers, and some ballots where printed by a different company that didn't meet the specifications of what the machines were able to read.
The primary election 2006 was the first time these electronic voting machines were used in Ohio, so this doesn't have an impact on prior elections. Also, other counties in Ohio used the same machines but used ballots printed by a company that better met the specifications of the machines, so they didn't have the problems Cuyahoga County did.
USA shouldn't shout to loud in this regard, since it's often *they* that contribute in a major way to make the UN inept and incompetent
So I suppose it's the US that has organized all the secret meetings that Arab representatives had in the past on UN grounds to plot against Israel? I suppose it's the US that keeps threatening to veto security council resolutions against rouge states and tyranical governments? I suppose it's the US that put violating countries in charge of human rights commissions? I suppose it's the US that doesn't want to follow through on enforcing resolutions that do pass but are ignored? How has the US made the UN inept???
storing XML as blob in the DB - no need to call the DBA when you change the data format
That's probably the worst reason to use XML. What makes a database powerfull is that it can represent all relationships of data, not just the primary hierarchy of the data. XML does have a purpose, when you need to represent hierarchical data in a non-propriatary format that needs to be human readable or easily transferred between systems. Storing XML in the database directly is like driving to work 40 miles on the highway in your hybrid car, yes it works, but you loose some of the advantages that way.
I know someone who 3 years ago tried to get a job at a conveniece store as a cashier, they wouldn't take her though because they were in a union, and she had left a grocery store 11 years before that and they said she had to pay 11 years in back dues to the union. What did the union do for her those 11 years? diddly squat!
The experience really varies from store chain to store chain. While I haven't used it at Home Depot, I've regularly used it at Giant Eagle grocery stores with rarely a problem. On the other hand, I tried to use self checkout at a Topps grocery store, the process felt awkward and didn't flow the way you'd expect, and the instructions were so confusing it seemed to be telling me the exact opposite of what it really wanted me to do. Fortunately all the Topps stores are shutting down so won't have to worry about that any longer.
NE Ohio Wal-Mart lines go alot faster than at Marc's though... you have to admit! (though they don't carry.45 and paper targets)
Point being (for non NE Ohio people), the only thing worse than self checkout lanes is trying to checkout at a discount store that insists on using 1970's era cash registers instead of scanning UPCs, and where people regularly try to slip through the express lane with a cartfull of crap.
we could combine elector reform with this professor's last big idea and have a scratch off lottery type of ballot for president. Considering I (and a number of other people) don't trust either of the 2 big political parties anymore, maybe a random election wouldn't be too bad.
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what length men will go to to get the hell out of Ohio
sounds like my new Sig line...
I used to work with someone named Yves Bunn, although he was only 7 inches tall, wrote in crayon, and had cotton for brains. Come to think of it, he didn't sleep either. I'll need a different forum though to discuss why a stuffed animal was the attendance officer for our group, or why he was writing specs for our projects.
When is the last time North Korea did something more provocative
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I'd like to especially point out "The North has an estimated 1.08 million armed personnel, compared to about 686,000 South Korean troops, plus 17,000 US troops in South Korea." and "Military spending is estimated at 20%-25% of GNP, which would mean that the DPRK spends the largest proportion of its GNP on its military in the world"
There is plenty of interesting reading on North Korea and the threat it poses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_North_Ko
China is still ruled an oppresive regime. Don't get fooled thinking the population there is better off. There is still censorship, there is still unjustified imprisonment, there is still government control of the press, government control of religion, and more. China still supports rogue states such as it has with North Korea where it publicly says no-no with one hand and then gives them rewards with the other. Bread and Circus may keep the population happy for now, but it doesn't mean they are better off.
Economic sanctions aren't going to hurt him, they're just going to make the poor poorer.
It is not the sanctions that have made North Korean people poor, it is the terrible mismanagement of the nation by its government. Why should we reward the tyranical government of North Korea with trade that will only benefit the elite aristocracy of that country and the army.
Swords danced until his heart pierced.
Boats traversed seas, riding windy waves.
Fighting the dragon he once befriended.
Erie light enchanted children in graveyards.
Alright, you have enraged the gazebo!
What, no Pinky and the Brain jokes? Slashdot must be slipping.
did anyone else get a picture in their head of a picture of a bakery pie on a cell phone saying "don't I look delicious? I'm dutch apple you know! Select which slice of pie you would like to eat by touching the screen"
All I can see through all this vapor is an IBM processor. Wake me up when Sony know's what they are even going to make.
Unfortunately most places that have given me some sort of tech-test by giving problems to solve do give poor problems. I had a miserable 4 hour interview/problem solving session at a software company called PreEmptive that consisted of separate technical interview and interview with a manager which led me to believe they had conflicting ideas of what skills and talents the candidate should have, followed by a test consisting of a misworded logic problem, a question on how to do something that shouldn't have ever been done to begin with, and a group of questions about a poorly designed database schema.
Thin client, smart client, whatever you want to call it, won't last. We'll all be back in cleint/server mode in a few years.
I'm surprised the UN hasn't weighed in on this
I'm sure there is a motion in the UN general assembly somewhere about this, but since the motion has nothing to do with condeming Israel, it will get sidetracked and will never be heard about again.
do so using single-precision floating point and the wrong rounding mode sounds like Microsoft SQL Server if you ask me
LAMP is the Access of the decade. Do you really want to suggest people to sidegrade their application? Upgrade! From Access, SQL Server will be the easiest to convert to, as other people have mentioned.
Lake Erie and the other Great Lakes have been a mixed success. While regulations and cleanup helped, some of the polution was also absorbed by the intrusion of a foreign species, the zebra mussel. The native fish didn't eat the mussel so they continued to filter polutants while some fish benefited from cleaner water, others suffered from trying to compete with the zebra mussels in the food chain. Then the intrusion of another foreign species, the goby. At least one of the two types of goby does eat the zebra mussels, and they are eatten by some native fish so the toxins have spread. There's a reason there are suggested limmits on how much Lake Erie fish people should eat. some related reading: http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/Programs/ais/
I live in Northeast Ohio. The investigation found that the problems had nothing to do with the voting machines themselves, but was a result of poorly trained polling station workers, and some ballots where printed by a different company that didn't meet the specifications of what the machines were able to read. The primary election 2006 was the first time these electronic voting machines were used in Ohio, so this doesn't have an impact on prior elections. Also, other counties in Ohio used the same machines but used ballots printed by a company that better met the specifications of the machines, so they didn't have the problems Cuyahoga County did.
So does 2 million virtual pirates support the theory of a virtual flying spaghetti monster?
USA shouldn't shout to loud in this regard, since it's often *they* that contribute in a major way to make the UN inept and incompetent
So I suppose it's the US that has organized all the secret meetings that Arab representatives had in the past on UN grounds to plot against Israel? I suppose it's the US that keeps threatening to veto security council resolutions against rouge states and tyranical governments? I suppose it's the US that put violating countries in charge of human rights commissions? I suppose it's the US that doesn't want to follow through on enforcing resolutions that do pass but are ignored? How has the US made the UN inept???
Watch Stargate the Series! It's Farscape with 50% less muppets!
Why did I just picture Fozzie Bear as the new general in charge of the SGC?
storing XML as blob in the DB - no need to call the DBA when you change the data format
That's probably the worst reason to use XML. What makes a database powerfull is that it can represent all relationships of data, not just the primary hierarchy of the data. XML does have a purpose, when you need to represent hierarchical data in a non-propriatary format that needs to be human readable or easily transferred between systems. Storing XML in the database directly is like driving to work 40 miles on the highway in your hybrid car, yes it works, but you loose some of the advantages that way.
I know someone who 3 years ago tried to get a job at a conveniece store as a cashier, they wouldn't take her though because they were in a union, and she had left a grocery store 11 years before that and they said she had to pay 11 years in back dues to the union. What did the union do for her those 11 years? diddly squat!
make eye contact with the human cashier
hey... if the cashier is cute maybe you want to make eye contact with her
The experience really varies from store chain to store chain. While I haven't used it at Home Depot, I've regularly used it at Giant Eagle grocery stores with rarely a problem. On the other hand, I tried to use self checkout at a Topps grocery store, the process felt awkward and didn't flow the way you'd expect, and the instructions were so confusing it seemed to be telling me the exact opposite of what it really wanted me to do. Fortunately all the Topps stores are shutting down so won't have to worry about that any longer.
NE Ohio Wal-Mart lines go alot faster than at Marc's though... you have to admit! (though they don't carry .45 and paper targets)
Point being (for non NE Ohio people), the only thing worse than self checkout lanes is trying to checkout at a discount store that insists on using 1970's era cash registers instead of scanning UPCs, and where people regularly try to slip through the express lane with a cartfull of crap.
we could combine elector reform with this professor's last big idea and have a scratch off lottery type of ballot for president. Considering I (and a number of other people) don't trust either of the 2 big political parties anymore, maybe a random election wouldn't be too bad.