"Probably not too surprising that we watch the same stuff! :)
That's funny, in my head I had read that Terminator had already been picked up for another season, but upon a little further searching, that was apparently just wishful thinking. Sigh. Ultimately, though, I'd be bummed but not overly worked up if it didn't make it back.
Yeah, Friends definitely suffered that drama part, but most of them do. I think Seinfeld was one of the very few that avoided the pitfall. Although it was less funny at the end still.
Ah well, I'll be curious to hear what you think of Sanctuary, I really want to like it!" - felix
I liked but didn't love the Aeron, love my Celle - would really like to sit on one of these bad boys and see what they've done. :) - felix
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"Earth2marsh, definitely. Split offers some pretty interesting options as well. I like your pipe, very cool work. I had started playing around with that type of thing to try and create an if/then type of module - but lost patience along the way. :)" - felix
"Laurence, huh, it would be interesting if Apple took that clicky screen from Blackberry. I really want to try it, though, because one of the things I love about the soft screen is that it allows for such a really light touch - I barely have to grip the phone at all to hold and press the keyboard. Time will tell!" - felix
"That's an excellent point. Although, with that recent suit that disputed Apple's lock in with AT, I wonder if that'll change soonish. That would kick ass." - felix
Sigh. I agree John. What a lame ad. The hype from Microsoft is that this is going to be a big PDC. But ads like this make me think that Microsoft is tone deaf and out of ideas. Why not just do an aspirational video where you tease me with what we're going to learn at PDC? I'm seriously considering not going. The economy is crappy and they are putting out stupid stuff like this. Sigh. - Robert Scoble
You completely missed the point. This is viral marketing... Whether you liked the ad or not, you are now aware of PDC and, better still, you are letting everybody in your network know about it. Until 5 minutes ago I had no idea what PDC meant. I didn't know it existed! Besides, if you watched the whole thing you might even have appreceiated the second degree humour in this ad... - Francois Auerbach
Guys- this is intended to be humorous. There has always been a focus on humor and fun at the PDC. If you don't like it, don't watch. If you're not interested, don't go. :) - Randy Holloway
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I thought this was stupid until I realized it's a parody. Awesome. - Ambar Pansari
Randy: the thing is this was not funny. I think Microsofties need to go to a comedy club. - Robert Scoble
actually the crickets and "leave the coffee" line at the end saved the whole thing. LULZ! - Cameron Reilly
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You don't get it. The objective is to reach as many people as possible. Far more people watch/discuss crap on Youtube than the amazing HD creations on Vimeo. - Jérôme Flipo
feels like you have been rubbing a mixture of Ajax and cocaine into them for the past week. With a wire brush. - precious! - Nice Fish Films
Am I the only one that enjoys corny humor and think that the commercial is hilarious? - possible248
Just because it's parody doesn't make it good... - felix
Robert, looks like we're outside of the demographic PDC is aiming for. Oh, well. Lots of other things to do. - Loren Heiny
So it's a really bad parody about a another really bad Windows ad? Sigh. That might go down well with the teeny bopper MySpace crowd, but agree with Robert that was lame beyond belief and doesn't inspire me with Windoze 7. - Sally Church
The cringe factor is high, even knowing there's going to be a catch at the end. But the effect is totally lost and is quite lame. There's a simple formula in comedy that the payoff better be worth the wait. Not here. After spending my formative years in Redmond, I just wanna cry. It reminded me of the type of skit 4th graders write for summer camp. - Todd
The first guy to start singing reminds me of Bruce Campbell...if he were Mexican....and a Douche. - Sean McGee
Robert- for something that isn't humorous it sure seems to get a lot of attention. Why not just ignore it? That said, let loose the trolls! ;) - Randy Holloway
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very disappointing; and the "leave the coffee Brian" line is good but not good enough to redeem the previous 200 seconds. If this is where they are going, I want billg and seinfeld back ;-) - Antoine Bertier
the boy band went on too long - but who cares. At the end of the day windows 7 will have to be fast and f#$%ing awesome or else PC sales will be in trouble... or a mass exudus to OSX or ubuntu. These ads are doing one good thing for MS. We are suckers, we are talking about it - duh! - DC Crowley
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I miss this candy so much. It was probably laden with lead but who cares? It was so damn tasty. Now, I want to track some down. - Faboo Mama
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Akiva, what the hell was wrong with you - you missed out on some extra cavities! - Kaia is done being sick.
The stick might have been the best part! - AJ Kohn
And I always love the germ-sharing photo on the package. Me? I was like "Hell no, 'we can't share!' Get your own bag!" - Faboo Mama
In all fairness, Akiva, I've only recently convinced my husband that the gum in the middle of a Blow Pop is edible. But he's a foreigner, so has an excuse. - Faboo Mama
omg . . . this post is hilarious. You guys win the internetz! - Lindsey Smith
Totally no sharing. It was ALL mine. Get your own for sure. - AJ Kohn
Anytime you post about candy, you'll find me there. :D - Andrew Baron
Faboo, I like how the kid on the left looks like he's about to stab the Fun Dip. 'Take THAT, Fun Dip!' - Akiva Moskovitz
“Good on Amazon for lowering their S3 storage prices! That's rare these days unless they're trying to drum up more customers, but it doesn't appear to me that they're desperate for new business.”
Yeah, Amazon's been very good at consistently lowering prices across their AWS offerings. Those guys know what's up. :) - felix
Everything I've heard from them is that they're really pricing the AWS stuff at Cost + FixedProfitMargin and when Cost changes, the final price does as well. - J Wynia
"No big deal! See? That's why it's a big deal. Here, at least. :)
What's the highest floor they would deliver too? (also I wonder if your downstairs neighbor ever received some free copies of the paper!" - felix
"Woven using 25,000 stainless steel threads that are three times thinner than a piece of paper --.001"--this is the only wallet with a hand as smooth as silk and the strength that surpasses leather. Impervious to stretching or staining, and without sharp corners or the inherent bulk of other wallets, the stainless steel is the same metal screen found in the architecture, aerospace, and automotive industries, resulting in a thin profile that allows it to fit into a front pocket. Resistant to corrosive materials such as salts, acids, and seawater, the tightly woven steel also passively resists radio-frequency hacking--the latest identity theft technique that attempts to scan newer credit cards. The wallet has three credit card slots, two internal pockets, an ID window, and one large pocket for bills. 4 1/4" L x 3 1/2" W x 1/4" D. (4 3/4 oz.)
$89.95" - Cee Bee
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I love those stewart stand wallets - mine's been going strong longer than any other wallet I've had. - felix
I'd like to see the data on how good of a Faraday cage stainless steel makes in practice against RFIDs. Copper has electrical resistivity of 16.78 nΩ·m at 20°C. Stainless steel has between 6.9E-07 and 7.5E-07 Ω·m, depending on grade. - £ogical €xtremes
SQL is piece of cake and can be a lot of fun. You'll love it - RAPatton
I've never regretted my investment on database design, admin and programming. Almost all real-life apps have databases and they are often the biggest bottle-necks (due to bad design and lazy SQL etc) - Jemm
So, suggestions? Where, what, how? I'm leaning towards learning PostgreSQL first, but will be made to switch with just a single good argument ;) - Yuvi
SQL is easy. I remember way back in the day, I was starting to do things slightly more complex and was slinging DBM's around and doing crazy contortions, finally decided to bite the bullet. It was a like a new world opened up before my eyes. :) Remember, it's only hard until you know it! - felix
The only difficult part can be the syntax, as the logic behind the queries is almost always very apparent. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
@Felix: same here - flinging from ORM to ORM, desperate to avoid SQL ;) - Yuvi
I'd start with either Postgre or MySQL as there are a plethora of OpenSource webapps using both (I learn better when I'm playing with a working example). Install a development only webserver package on your box and tada: you can peek around in all the queries, see how they work, and play with them on the back end. For what it's worth, though, you can install a fully working copy evaluation copy of Oracle from their site... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Definitely a good idea, Yuvi! In general, I think it's good to have a good understanding of the underlying technology that frameworks (of any sort) allow you to bypass. It will let you use them better. :) - felix
More important than syntax are database normalization and designing scalable data structures. Real programmers design to sixth normal form. - Mark Trapp
I agree about database design with Mark. The better designed the db is, the easier also the SQL is (and probably faster). It is also important not to over-normalize it to the last bit as it will increase the amount of joins or sub-queries (causing again slowness and complicated queries). - Jemm
So, mySQL or Postgres or SQL Server? If I don't get a response, I'll go with SQL Server Expres.... :D - Yuvi
SQL Server Express is a good way to learn SQL. - RAPatton
Probably SQL Server for you, Yuvi, since you're all into that .NET crap. :-P MySQL and PostgreSQL have purer forms of SQL that conform better to the standards: outside of the Microsoft ecosystem, MySQL has far, far, far greater support. - Mark Trapp
Yuvi - SQL Server is easily my favorite MS product. (And don't learn SQL by looking at what web apps do. Most web apps have horrible, horrible, horrible SQL.) - James Williams (willia4)
I plan to parse out the English Wikipedia into a database and in the process learn 'bout databases. Might put SQL Server Express outta my reach though, since it's limited to 4 gigs of Data :( - Yuvi
Yuvi - Are you doing it just as a learning exercise? Because Wikipedia already provides MySQL dumps of its data. - James Williams (willia4)
@James: Err, they _used_ to provide mySQL data dumps. They provide XML dumps now. - Yuvi
Nevermind. It looks like those dumps haven't been updated in several months. - James Williams (willia4)
@James: Those are three month old XML dumps. SQL dumps went away a long, long back... - Yuvi
The SQL of MySQL or PostgreSQL is not "purer" than the T-SQL of SQL Server. Each have varying level of support for ANSI SQL and each have their own extensions to the standard. Even quite simple SQL statements can cause lock-in to any DB-product. On the other hand, it would be inefficient not to use all the power of the RDBMS of your choice. Rarely the DB is switched from one product to another during the life of an app, anyway. - Jemm
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SQL is good to know. But, as others have pointed out, it's much more important to learn about database design than just the query language syntax. Fundamentally, computer applications (including web apps) are driven by the database design: it limits what the application can do, how it can do it, and how hard it is to modify. A bad DB design can, quite literally, kill a company. Learn when to normalize, and when not to. Too many programmers use MySQL like a filesystem and nothing more. - You Betcha Glen Campbell
I've been pouring through SQL and PHP textbooks for the past three weeks--Its starting to make sense - Terence Washington
