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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Sort of, but I'm not sure I'd quite agree with your history. Prost and Senna were alone toe-to-toe for 3 years, 1988-90. Senna wasn't a realistic threat before then (neither was Prost in '87), while '86-87 the dominant battle was between Ma
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Monaco, compare the Grand Hotel hairpin with the tunnel; very different performance characteristics and diff requirements, I'd suspect. Silverstone, look at the Becketts complex and compare it to Luffield. Spa Francorchamps, compare the req
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Just a little thing, but Windows Live Messenger seems to support leaving video messages for people. I've never used it, but the option is there in the interface.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
.... and, the incident at Fukushima was magnified by the safety features' reliance on active, powered cooling. Current reactor designs are capable of passive cooling, without external power, and would cause even less damage than this.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
I may be a spectacularly inconsiderate communicator, but for me the answer is multitasking. I can and do do a wide range of tasks while having an audio phone call with people. At home I can do basic housework, prepare meals, wander round fo
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Yes, completely. The story was fundamentally predicated on the assumption that the precognitive telepaths worked as advertised, but that the director's knowledge of their data combined with a data error causing them to take each others' out
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
And, because they're paid by those they certify, they have an economic incentive to have certification standards as low as they can without the public rejecting them completely; not a good idea. We have much the same situation with examinat
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
If Novartis has put on 50% or 15B, how is Microsoft doing better by putting on 22% or 11B? Now, I'm not fully convinced that companies on that scale are really delivering the best market value to either shareholders or wider society compare
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Agreed. The CONVERT syntax is rubbish, but the output is so much more powerful. I'd rather have an equivalent of Date.ToString("YYYY-mmm-DD hh:mi:ss.ssss") in SQL but, sadly.... It could be written as a UDF but I'm not sure performance woul
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Y'know, I got so fed up with memorising those numbers at an old job that I built a view that enumerated all the valid ones against GETDATE() :-)
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Odd. From memory, the safest format to use is actually yyyymmdd (without the hyphens) though, which is apparently supposed to be interpreted unambiguously by SQL Server.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
I'm British, I've worked with a large number of clients' SQL Server installs. I think I've only twice seem yyyy-dd-mm as a default behaviour, yyyy-mm-dd was far more common.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
No, but a better input device than a touchscreen can certainly make creating easier. When I'm creating text content, a keyboard is a fast and efficient means of data entry. When I'm creating images or doing graphic design work, I want preci
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Would you like to try creating extensive content on a touchscreen? I love my netbook, it goes almost everywhere with me. I can touch type on it fast enough to take notes in meetings or from church sermons, I can write music on it, I can eve
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
No; the larger sensor size of the Mamiya as a medium format camera will give less depth of field for a given aperture than the 35mm Nikon. Otherwise you're right, so in the odd circumstance the poster has a Nikkor 50/1.4 medium format or Ma
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
I know how to use my SLR, I regularly use it in full manual tuning every last exposure variable in manual focus, sometimes with multiple manual flashes too. Yet, I still try to remember to leave the camera in P when I put it away and often
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
I have to admit an interest in this as I work for them, but the Open University ( http://www.open.ac.uk/ ) do have quite a lot of material online.... http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ http://open.edu/itunes/ http://www.youtube.com/user/ou
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
... and, lest anyone think that losing seats to the LibDems just means it's the LibDems' self-interest driving their wish to change, look at the comparison of the vote and seat percentages. At the last election, for every LibDem MP elected
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
For a decent subset of the procedures I've worked on, yes, I am, from experience. I've had app performance killed by excessive string concatenation before, so my inclination to repeat identical jobs at runtime which I know from experience c
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
But, if the code is being generated in that way, you're also doing a lot of identical string concatenation at runtime, when identical results with higher performance can be achieved by doing it at an earlier point - compile, design, whateve
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
But.... every single CRUD is normally not a huge amount of code and relatively simple to generate from the information schema if you know a bit of SQL Server. Do it that way and you've got your sprocs just sitting there for later use, prima
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Yes, bad table designs and poor practice will make your code slow regardless. Still though, while I don't dispute that SPs (frankly, databases in general) have issues with version control and deployment management, there are still options f
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
That would be coal; oil adds the property that they vanish completely (from the user's perspective anyway) when they're flat, so you've got zero disposal issues.
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
While I'm not at all surprised to see this happening, I'm still astonished that the USA continues to try to stamp out gambling through legislation. I remember growing up being astonished at the number of references on USA TV shows to illega
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I'm not sure this is a question someone outside the Indian culture can really answer. In the UK, we're used to Saturdays off; you'd get the most bonus here from doing just that and giving people the day free every week. But, cultural expect
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Well, to a degree, they personally didn't get a bailout. (Speaking more for the UK as I'm here so know it better.) Their business model was flawed, they went bust, we bought them up quickly to protect their customers , which ends up impo
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
The planar mode graphics had been a benefit in the more memory restricted days before; it was starting to become a problem but still, at that point Amigas tended to play the games of the day better than PCs costing 3x as much until Doom pus
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
probably 10x more eco-friendly I don't claim to have done the numbers myself, but during the volcanic shutdown last year, More Or Less' ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd ) presenter was stranded on the far side of Europe and calc
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I don't claim to have the answers; I do claim to have empathy. What you're describing isn't far off what I lived through around your age, though you sound like you're managing better academically with it than I did. Well done for that. For
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
In all seriousness, I would rather see a market designed explicitly around the barring of high frequency trades. All trades taking a fixed and relatively long period (say, 30 minutes) to complete. This sort of investment strategy doesn't

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