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According to a new survey of 2001 Americans ages 18 years and older, roughly 21 percent of U.S. adults now report that they go online “almost constantly.” An even larger number – 42 percent – responded that they go online several times a day. I'm not online all the time, I occasionally need to reboot
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm not online all the time, I occasionally need to reboot
I also go offline and leave my computer room at least once a day to download logs. 
Quote: 13 percent of people say they go online several times a week or less often. (We are curious to meet these people! We bet they’re very interesting.)
I doubt I'd use that last word to describe my grandfather (never online?) or mom (few times a week). 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I just looked over the list of books I read this year, and I noticed a pattern. A lot of them touch on a theme that I would call “how things work.” You may not have his bank account, but you can read like His Billness
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Isn't it a bit soon to be announcing that? There are another 23 reading days left this year, so there's still time to read a better book than any on the list so far. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Maybe His Billness is taking the rest of the year off? He's such a slacker.
TTFN - Kent
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Bloomberg Business, Dec. 8: "Why 2015 Was a Breakthrough Year in Artificial Intelligence"
Some interesting charts, and, imho, intelligent commentary: [^].
Also of interest: in terms of sensors that combine digital technology with elements taken from biological entities: [^]
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Even before Microsoft officially launched Windows 10 back in July, the Redmond based company made its intentions clear: it wanted its latest OS running everywhere. *NOW* they're getting aggressive? {where's that boggle emoji?}
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Quote: Microsoft begins a more aggressive push to get users upgraded to Windows 10
And they wonder why some people don't like them.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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When I talk some oracle db adiminstrators, the says oracle db is the best. Oracle db is ferrari ms sql is standart car. Our db is too much improved. And they get more money than a lot of develpers.
What is the oracle's facts?
modified 8-Dec-15 7:29am.
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That's not news, but a question. This forum is reserved for news-items.
..Oracle once held the best database-server software. They still have that reputation because people do not change idols quickly.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Why? Because their tools suck, so you have to become an expert at 3rd party tools like TOAD that are, granted, decent and can be quite powerful, but have their klunky aspects, not that SQL Server doesn't, but in my experience with TOAD, its klunkiness gets in the way with normal usage, while SQL Server's klunkiness manifests mostly in backup/restore processes.
Marc
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solid, heavy, and old-fashioned.
"even last year's laptops look clunky"
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Oh yeah and then there's the largely unspoken weirdness that I learned about using TOAD to actually compile procs/triggers/packages, particularly when going back and forth between TOAD and SQL*Plus... I wound up with a lot of erratic proc behavior due to "half-compiled/mangled" PL/SQL. 
... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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You don't even begin to realise how high the hourly rate works out to.
Consider that all database reorganisations require days and days of computer time when no other work can be done.
This means that the DBAs work only during long holidays, such as Memorial Day, Labor Day or Thanksgiving and the rest of the year they are twiddling their thumbs.
Consider that even on these days the work consists of starting the Unload process, twiddling thumbs for a day and starting the Reload process and twiddling thumbs for the next two days.
The hourly rates are astronomical.
Nice job if you can get it.
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A controversial experiment has indicated that the universe is not a hologram. Researchers from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) have taken it upon themselves to test one of the cornerstones of string theory and quantum gravity. "It's all part of my fantasy"
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Come-on! You are not joking?
And what if the 'mainframe' so advanced that can just fake the results of such 'experiment' to prevent from us to see the truth?
(But the truth is that in certain places there are certain people so bored, that anything will do to occupy them)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: (But the truth is that in certain places there are certain people so bored, that anything will do to occupy them)
And an even greater truth: they got paid for their time, and probably more than you or I would be paid.
Hag Sameach, chaveri.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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The Universe was also probably not created by a sneeze of the Great Green Arkleseizure and will probably not be destroyed by the "Coming of the Great White Handkerchief"
Until the string theorists can come up with a prediction that is truly falsifiable, their work should be classified as abstract mathematics, not as physics.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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... this has already happened.
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... and no one noticed!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I prefer Pascal's version [1]: "The Universe is a fearful [2] sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference is nowhere."
[1] The ancient lineage of this quote traced in this wonderful essay by Jorge Borges: [^]
[2] Borges discovered that the common translation of Pascal's quote into English mistakenly translated the French "effroyable" as "infinite;" it's correct translation is "fearful."
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
modified 8-Dec-15 10:10am.
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What difference would it make? How would it affect people's daily lives?
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To make it easier to develop cross-platform code that works well for both Windows and other platforms, we’ve released an additional compiler toolset for Visual Studio called Clang with Microsoft CodeGen. C program compile. C program run. Run program run.
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