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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)
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.
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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.
Jon, how are you liking Opera Mini? The touchscreen functionality is dodgy on mine, but I was surprised to discover mousing.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Nothing to see.
No, it's not the place. You need to pursue that sort of hacking on the down low, not here on the board.