Oh that is cool, MFN!
What should I do, then? Send her a gift? Sacrifice? … Unholy fruit basket?
Angel ,'Just Rewards (2)'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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javachik - Oct 23, 2010 8:52:46 pm PDT #15306 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.
Jessica - Oct 24, 2010 5:25:46 am PDT #15307 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
YES.
Gris - Oct 25, 2010 4:08:41 am PDT #15308 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Yay! That will make it easier to get books to my mother-in-law.
ETA: Now, if only they will support Adobe ePubs for library use then I won't have any reason to be tempted by the Nook. (Also, I hope the lending feature lets you lend the book more than once)
Dana - Oct 25, 2010 5:41:58 am PDT #15309 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yeah, remember how I said I hadn't had any problems with my phone? Scratch that. No big deal, it was only NO NOTIFICATION of THREE CALLS AND THREE VOICEMAILS FOR AN IMPORTANT WORK THING.
Fuck.
t /vent
tommyrot - Oct 25, 2010 7:01:47 am PDT #15310 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Sorry, just babbling/rambling here....
So my boss and I were just joking that some of our code is not Y3K compliant. My boss is like, "Well, we won't be around in 1000 years." and I'm like, "Well, in 1000 years computers will be smart enough to find and fix issues like that."
This is a bit of the SQL criteria code that made me think about the issue:
if isnull(tE.terminationdate,cast('12/31/3000' as datetime))>=tW.EndDate
So it's saying, "return records where the employee's termination date is greater than (after) tW.EndDate, or if the termination date is null (meaning they're active employees) then just return the employee."
Obviously that could be rewritten to get rid of the YK3 issue, but here's a place where SQL could use a built-in variable for positive infinity, like some languages do.
§ ita § - Oct 25, 2010 7:11:11 am PDT #15311 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jon, how are you liking Opera Mini? The touchscreen functionality is dodgy on mine, but I was surprised to discover mousing.
Jon B. - Oct 25, 2010 7:16:58 am PDT #15312 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I haven't used been using a browser that much -- so far it's been mostly gmail, facebook, mapping and various photo apps. What do you mean by mousing?
§ ita § - Oct 25, 2010 7:20:48 am PDT #15313 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have a pointer arrow. The screen works for scrolling, but only sometimes for clicking on links. Then I hit my...trackball thingy, and got a pointer on the screen, which I've never seen on another app.
I'm using it right now because I'm logged in to a bunch of stuff on Dolphin. It's irritating because the text corrections don't work in it, so I have to do my own capitalisation and punctuation. Very fiddly.
Jon B. - Oct 25, 2010 8:21:13 am PDT #15314 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Ahh, my tracking thingie doesn't work very well, so I hadn't used it. But I just tried and, yeah, pointer arrow! How odd.
I'll download Dolphin and try that out for awhile.
tommyrot - Oct 25, 2010 9:25:19 am PDT #15315 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Interface Message Processor (IMP) – The First Internet Router
Steve Jurvetson shot this photo of a Interface Message Processor (IMP) made by BBN, which was as used as a router by APRANET to create one of the first nodes Internet in 1969. It is part of an upcoming exhibition at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.