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[2004-11-24 09:45:29] - Craig: I'm still thinking about it, but it seems like the only people who are going are either people I don't care about seeing or people that I can hang out with otherwise (they live around here) without the hassle of a crowded and noisy bar. -Paul
[2004-11-24 09:43:19] - a: I guess that just goes to show you how much I know. -Paul
[2004-11-24 00:51:55] - paul: I not terribly keen on the idea of being back in high school land for a few hours either, but you should come if you have the time. It'd be good to see you again. - Craig
[2004-11-24 00:49:51] - glad to hear you guys are going. I'll be there after work on friday (I work in DC). - Craig
[2004-11-24 00:20:11] - paul: the president of my company found one of his (now) vicepresidents on a plane. ~a
[2004-11-23 17:53:24] - http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=3NLA2QOCRUTXCCRBAEOCFFA?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=6895620 And this sounds like a not so great idea for meeting people. -Paul
[2004-11-23 17:51:53] - http://www.matchflick.com/ Interesting concept for combining dating with the movies. -Paul
[2004-11-23 13:27:35] - *** vinnie says me
[2004-11-23 11:06:45] - Probably not me. -Paul
[2004-11-23 11:04:11] - me. - mig
[2004-11-23 10:55:25] - me - aaron
[2004-11-23 10:53:27] - me. - pierce
[2004-11-23 10:41:41] - me. ~a
[2004-11-23 10:07:50] - hehe, caught me ... so who's going to this TJ reunion thing?
[2004-11-23 10:06:39] - Craig3456 is bored
[2004-11-23 09:52:48] - http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/textbookdisclaimers/ hehehe. - pierce
[2004-11-22 18:35:48] - mig: when you're the only person on a sub-project, it makes no sense to have a member of each company that's a client for the project. five managers+one engineer = five managers+one dead engineer ~a
[2004-11-22 18:04:07] - a: yes, that's right. we have a pseudo-customer on site for our project. - mig
[2004-11-22 16:04:22] - well i think othodox xp requires a client to be onsite. that's one of the few crazy things i know about. ~a
[2004-11-22 16:02:38] - a: Yeah, some of those ideas didn't seem too weird. I just got visions of some crazy new-age guy chanting "think outside the box" for some reason.
-Paul[2004-11-22 15:59:15] - not everybody has the message board to relax with. i love you message board. ~a
[2004-11-22 15:58:24] - aaron&mig: maybe they're taking a break. ~a
[2004-11-22 15:57:17] - paul: xp has a bunch of crazy (and often not-so-good) concepts. sometimes people pull out a few of the better ideas from xp and use them. . . . like continuous integration and smaller development loops. ~a
[2004-11-22 15:07:37] - Travis: That sounds really horrible. And I can't help but chuckle every time I read "extreme programming". Such a cheesy name. -Paul
[2004-11-22 15:03:57] - aaron: yeah i don't know what everyone is doing in there. i mean, mike can't be doing something that exciting. i guess no one's got anything better to do.... - mig
[2004-11-22 15:00:02] - i think most of the developers at my work knew what it meant when it was mentioned at a meeting but not all of them - travis
[2004-11-22 14:59:18] - paul: google returns 631,000 results with "extreme programming" as a phrase, there's info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_programming - travis
[2004-11-22 14:55:20] - Travis: Ah, ok. Is "eXtreme Programming" a common term? -Paul
[2004-11-22 14:52:07] - paul: i'm guessing he's using XP to stand for "extreme programming" not whatever it stands for in WindowsXP - travis
[2004-11-22 14:47:14] - Aaron: XP? -Paul
[2004-11-22 14:40:18] - In my office right now there are currently six developers at two computers; and only one of them is actually typing. It's like, a new XP record - aaron
[2004-11-22 14:07:03] - "The promo for Monday Night Football between the Chiefs and Patriots will include Kansas City quarterback Trent Green and tight end Tony Gonzalez. The pair will reportedly be joined by Alias star Jennifer Garner, but she'll be tough to recognize since she'll be clad head-to-toe in a tasteful burka." A joke, but one I thought was funny. -Paul
[2004-11-22 13:55:35] - heh neat - vinnie
[2004-11-22 13:55:24] - aaron, a: sent by co-worker - vinnie
[2004-11-22 13:33:56] - (and yes, that was new behavior . . . \s*[,.][,.\s]* is now valid) ~a
[2004-11-22 13:25:27] - vinnie . . . where did you find that? ~a
[2004-11-22 12:30:45] - vinnie: btw are you back at work? - aaron
[2004-11-22 12:20:27] - vinnie: I'd love it to be, like, a sci-fi thriller about the starship "Anal Massage", and for the whole plotline to be completely non-sexual - aaron
[2004-11-22 12:17:22] - aaron: I'd like to think it's the real thing. I like how it's only available in 4-8 weeks though - vinnie
[2004-11-22 12:14:35] - vinnie: Is it a picture book? - aaron
[2004-11-22 12:12:14] - http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/sr=8-4/qid=1100735515/ref=sr_8_4/602-7698566-2337421?_encoding=UTF8&asin=B0002KPIBO wtf?? - vinnie
[2004-11-22 11:37:27] - see you guys later - weekend
[2004-11-22 10:42:09] - Travis: Hunting people. -Paul
[2004-11-22 09:28:55] - http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/3937883/detail.html hunter kills five. wonder if he swore he only bought the assault rifle for "hunting" - travis
[2004-11-20 09:58:53] - don't tell tim that
~a[2004-11-19 18:11:20] - a: I think it's because I see Ryan as having a more robust social life than Tim. -Paul
[2004-11-19 18:08:24] - hmmm. and for some reason the tim thing didn't surprise me at all. ~a
[2004-11-19 17:56:15] - a: Less surprised then I was to hear that Tim was engaged.
-Paul[2004-11-19 17:53:28] - you aren't? ~a
[2004-11-19 17:44:01] - a: Why are you surprised? -Paul
[2004-11-19 17:38:07] - wtf?! ryan green is living/working in california. and he's engaged! ~a
[2004-11-19 17:23:10] - whats up - weekend
[2004-11-19 15:48:16] - Mig: Wow, they changed their layout. I like it. -Paul
[2004-11-19 15:44:07] - http://www.antiwar.com/jamail/?articleid=4004 help, help, i'm being repressed! - mig
[2004-11-19 15:38:08] - http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B03FDF5EB%2D079D%2D4C61%2DB053%2DB6575C53BA36%7D&siteid=mktw&dist= china likely to revalue the yen ~10% -dave
[2004-11-19 14:33:09] - Mig: Probably has to do with the whole ammendment to allow him to run. -Paul
[2004-11-19 14:26:13] - interesting how they don't really explain how Arnie wants to destroy the US constitution. - mig
[2004-11-19 14:07:00] - http://arnoldexposed.com/ Anti-Arnold website. -Paul
[2004-11-19 13:38:33] - Dave: I'm sure it's a number he just pulled out of his ass. -Paul
[2004-11-19 13:38:00] - paul: I'm impressed, 70% ^_^ -dave
[2004-11-19 13:36:22] - http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2004/11/18/Arts/TheEvilDead041118.html 'The Evil Dead' to be remade -Paul
[2004-11-19 13:35:19] - http://www.ncbuy.com/news/2004-11-19/1011124.html Class Helps Goody Two-Shoes Get Laid -Paul
[2004-11-19 13:33:55] - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6530925 -Paul
[2004-11-19 13:29:29] - http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/19/library.jail.ap/index.html library offenders could go to jail -dave
[2004-11-19 13:27:54] - oops, that was me. I'm at CAE right now so I should be home as scheduled. - pierce
[2004-11-19 13:27:36] - vinnie: glad you're feeling better
[2004-11-19 13:23:25] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61083-2004Nov18.html interesting commentary on the fall of the US dollar and also some about the trade deficit -dave
[2004-11-19 13:01:45] - http://servihoo.com/channels/kinews/v3news_details.php?id=60146&CategoryID=47 house votes to raise the debt ceiling. way to go, fiscal conservatives! - mig
[2004-11-19 12:59:00] - haha that title is cleverer than I thought. they're all words! (kind of) - vinnie
[2004-11-19 12:46:44] - dave: true enough. I definitely think I have the energy even now to work from home though, so I have nothing to worry about - vinnie
[2004-11-19 12:36:06] - vinnie: or if you go in, it'll only have to be for 2 days -dave
[2004-11-19 12:35:37] - vinnie: and even if you have to take all next week off, that would only be 3 days instead of 5 -dave
[2004-11-19 12:06:35] - Vinnie: Well, at least you'll have the weekend to heal up and see how you feel before deciding what you want to do. -Paul
[2004-11-19 12:03:02] - paul: yeah, I think my company does that, or my manager would let me do that. actually, all this computer usage makes me think I can probably work from home... - vinnie
[2004-11-19 11:58:07] - Some places will let you go into the negative in sick days for a little bit and you just earn them back. -Paul
[2004-11-19 11:57:58] - dave: today is my last
- vinnie[2004-11-19 11:57:36] - mig: so they can make you take unpaid days even if you're on salary? -dave
[2004-11-19 11:57:13] - dave: typically you either take vacation days or unpaid leave if you don't have any sick days to use. - mig
[2004-11-19 11:54:54] - vinnie: hehe, how do you take sick days when you don't have anymore? How many did you get to start with? -dave
[2004-11-19 11:54:47] - aaron: yeah, no driving yet, although I feel up to it. I'm having no problems sitting like I was yesterday - vinnie
[2004-11-19 11:54:44] - Vinnie: I think that's how a lot of sick days get used up. My dad had a bunch saved when he had his first heart attack and it came in handy then. -Paul
[2004-11-19 11:53:37] - dave: yeah, taking sick days. and I'm out! it's so weird, I rarely get sick but all days got used up this year. not so surprisingly, I guess... - vinnie
[2004-11-19 11:52:33] - Travis: Yeah, they came in rapid succession. Which is why I thought it was an interesting coincidence. -Paul
[2004-11-19 11:51:40] - and i didn't even see the save the last dance comment when i wrote my othello, it was probably posted while i was writing mine - travis
[2004-11-19 11:50:51] - paul: look at imdb, it has soooo many basketball players - travis
[2004-11-19 11:50:36] - vinnie: sorry - too slow!
- aaron[2004-11-19 11:50:16] - vinnie: So no driving yet? How long do the aftereffects of this kind of surgery usually last? - aaron
[2004-11-19 11:49:58] - Travis: Geez, I really need to see this movie. It has everybody in it. -Paul
[2004-11-19 11:49:19] - Vinnie: So no basketball today?
-Paul[2004-11-19 11:48:15] - vinnie: well that's good that you're feeling better. Just don't overdo it too early and wear yourself out. You having to take sick days? -dave
[2004-11-19 11:48:11] - paul: oh, on a related note, chasey lain and jill kelly were in he got game, so that's why the sports guy said he'd been in a movie with them - travis
[2004-11-19 11:47:55] - I never saw Save the Last Dance, but I find it ironic that Travis mentions Othello and Julia Stiles was in 'O', which I think was a modern version of Othello. -Paul
[2004-11-19 11:47:11] - dave: my mom said two weeks before I'm really back to normal, but I feel a lot better already. I'm hoping I can go back to work on Monday - vinnie
[2004-11-19 11:46:39] - travis: coupled with the fact that most people probably have never seen a movie about it etc ^_^ -dave
[2004-11-19 11:46:13] - ie, unless a difference in race/culture/ethnicity is a central part in whatever I'm watching, I don't think I tend to notice or care who is hooking up with whom. -Paul
[2004-11-19 11:46:03] - vinnie: did they say how long it would probably take you to recover? -dave
[2004-11-19 11:45:36] - man, you'd think since people have had 500 years since othello hooked up with desdemona they'd be used to the idea of a black man with a white woman, or maybe that caused the problem what with the tragic ending and all - travis
[2004-11-19 11:45:15] - ack, than if it had been a white guy -dave
[2004-11-19 11:45:01] - Paul: like Julia Stiles in Save the Last Dance. She hooks up with a black guy, and it felt less satisfying than if it had been a black guy. Not that I have any problem with it (shrug) -dave
[2004-11-19 11:42:32] - Dave: I don't think I notice very often unless attention is brought to it by somebody or something else. -Paul
[2004-11-19 11:40:21] - Paul: you know what else is kinda funky? I don't seem to have any problems with asian,indians,caucasions hooking up with each other in movies, but I will confess that when black people hookup with other people in movies it seems kinda out of place or odd -dave
[2004-11-19 11:38:33] - Paul: I agree, I think some minorities do care, and care a great deal. -dave
[2004-11-19 11:21:44] - Vinnie: Well, I'm sure no energy was better than not having the painkillers. Glad to hear you're feeling better than you were on Wednesday at least. -Paul
[2004-11-19 11:20:32] - my mom told me, that is - vinnie
[2004-11-19 11:19:53] - oh god yes. tuesday and wednesday were kind of hellish. my told me I was getting a constant low supply of painkillers through my IV as well, which was why I had no energy - vinnie
[2004-11-19 11:18:39] - Vinnie: Hurray! Vinnie's back! Feeling better than you were Wednesday I hope? -Paul
[2004-11-19 11:18:01] - Dave: But I do think that race is a big deal for a lot of people, particularly for minorities. -Paul
[2004-11-19 11:17:30] - also, I'm out of the hospital and at home for anyone who hadn't heard. I still feel very sore and non-movy - vinnie
[2004-11-19 11:17:03] - it only checks non-null values - vinnie
[2004-11-19 11:16:57] - Dave: But I suppose I promised to answer people's questions if they asked, so I'll say no, I don't think race played a big part in the outrage over the commercial. -Paul
[2004-11-19 11:16:48] - mig: I assume you probably had this answered by now, but yes, you can have a foreign key field be null even if there isn't a null row in the table it references - vinnie
[2004-11-19 11:13:38] - dave: it must be a slow news day. - mig
[2004-11-19 11:12:55] - Dave: So never assume I support or agree with something just because I post it. -Paul
[2004-11-19 11:12:36] - Dave: All I'm going to say is that I very often post things that I don't tend to agree with, but which I think is interesting (ie, something I don't hear too often). -Paul
[2004-11-19 11:11:41] - Dave: Nice try, but you're not going to sucker me into that firestorm.
-Paul[2004-11-19 11:08:47] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61016-2004Nov18.html I don't get the big deal -dave
[2004-11-19 11:00:24] - moynahan -dave
[2004-11-19 10:59:22] - wasn't will smith with bridget mohnahan in i robot? I suppose they didn't kiss -dave
[2004-11-19 10:56:02] - Paul: do you really think the race thing is that big a deal? ...I don't...but I could have my head in the sand -dave
[2004-11-19 10:48:37] - http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/jeffri_chadiha/11/18/chadiha.to/index.html -Paul
[2004-11-19 10:37:06] - Now both stocks are way up and I hardly benefit from it.
-Paul[2004-11-19 10:36:51] - Dave: That's cool. The only problem is that I have very few shares of nVidia stock. I'm kinda irked, because I wanted to buy a bunch more nVidia and AMD stock when it was low a couple months ago but I didn't have the money. -Paul
[2004-11-19 10:35:30] - Paul: yay! hehe. Then you'd also be glad to know that I read that nVidia has the jump on ATI to a certain extent because ATI still doesn't have a PCIe to AGP adapter chip for its boards...won't till 2005 sometime. nVidia already does and is selling a buncha cards because of it -dave
[2004-11-19 10:27:46] - Dave: Heh, at least I still own nVidia stock.
-Paul[2004-11-19 10:23:30] - http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.aspx?i=23401 nVidia acquires Intel license...to make nForce boards for Pentium 4 in 2005 -dave
[2004-11-19 10:22:56] - Paul:
-dave[2004-11-19 09:50:56] - argh, why is it that vim insists as copying tab characters as individual spaces on a paste
! - mig[2004-11-19 09:45:39] - Dave: (I sold my Sirius stock about a week ago, right when it started skyrocketing). -Paul
[2004-11-19 09:45:11] - Dave: Shut up.
-Paul[2004-11-19 09:42:57] - http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B570B9BD4%2DE202%2D4AAC%2DA551%2D7ACF66456E15%7D&siteid=mktw&dist= Sirius stock surges 16.5% after news that Viacom CEO Karmazin is moving to Sirius -dave
[2004-11-19 09:22:44] - I read several webpages that had steps on how to do it, and I followed them all, but for some reason it's not showing up in the list of certificates to apply when the tutorials say it should -dave
[2004-11-19 09:22:04] - I created a self-signed certificate using openssl and imported it into the certificate library using MMC (both personal folder and trusted root server folder). But for some reason when I go into the 'assign existing certificate' section for the 'default webpage' in IIS, it doesn't show up. Anyone have any ideas? -dave
[2004-11-19 09:20:04] - do any of you guys use IIS 5.1 (winxp) ?
[2004-11-19 08:30:42] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61168-2004Nov18.html Battered wife wins suit against matchmaking website -dave
[2004-11-19 08:18:43] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61463-2004Nov18.html Puffy Shirt from Seinfeld donated by Seinfeld to Smithsonian -dave
[2004-11-19 08:01:57] - Dave: hence the discussion topic. nice response. - pierce
[2004-11-19 07:58:09] - http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/11/18/mum.reporter.ap/index.html reporter may go to jail for not revealing source -dave
[2004-11-19 07:52:00] - Pierce: I completely understand what you are saying, in that it might not be good for a law to be passed on the sole grounds that it was a religious belief, but I think it becomes extremely difficult to separate the reasons behind issues -dave
[2004-11-19 07:50:31] - pierce: abortion is another example. Should the US be barred from making abortion illegal just because most people who are against it are against it because of religious beliefs? -dave
[2004-11-19 07:48:58] - Pierce: in short, since religion is the basis for many people's belief systems, I'm not sure you can entirely separate what people think should be law from their religion -dave
[2004-11-19 07:46:51] - pierce: or rather the law making murder illegal. -dave
[2004-11-19 07:45:49] - pierce: for example, it could be argued that murder was originally grounded in religious beliefs -dave
[2004-11-19 07:44:38] - pierce: because defining exactly where a law is 'grounded' in is rather ambiguous and sometimes difficult to codify -dave
[2004-11-19 07:43:56] - pierce: what exactly are you encompassing in separation of church and state? -dave
[2004-11-18 22:47:26] - I guess what I was more referring to was the separation of church principles from state principles. Like an equivalent of "Congress shall pass no law grounded primarily in religious beliefs.", only something actually enforceable. Or do you think there would be no way to define such a thing in an enforceable way? - pierce
[2004-11-18 20:59:25] - exactly. does scientology count as a religion? how about atheism? ~a
[2004-11-18 20:45:25] - pierce: I think it would be too difficult to concretely define "religion" - aaron
[2004-11-18 18:23:22] - Discussion topic: without respect to whether it would be possible to get the votes to support it, would it be a good idea to amend the constitution to explicitly define the separation of church and state? - pierce
[2004-11-18 15:04:56] - a: Yup, that's the one. -Paul
[2004-11-18 14:56:02] - the "join most of us" quote came from the poster version of that advertisement. ~a
[2004-11-18 14:55:21] - travis&paul&mig: http://aporter.org/pics/camera/2001/.thumb/drinking-m.jpg ~a
[2004-11-18 13:34:49] - Travis: It was mocking the "51% of us don't binge drink every night" stats. We were going to put up the one showing that most people wouldn't help out somebody being sexually assaulted. -Paul
[2004-11-18 13:34:01] - Travis: Careful, it's starting to sound like you're expressing a political opinion.
-Paul[2004-11-18 13:28:30] - now i can't even remember the stat we were going to make fun of... - travis
[2004-11-18 13:28:01] - that's totally ridiculous, isn't stuff like that what the first amendment is made to protect? - travis
[2004-11-18 12:35:45] - Mig: Yeah, considering that my idea was a lot more offensive than his... -Paul
[2004-11-18 12:28:10] - Yeah, I can only imagine what kind of firestorm a "join most of us" flier would have caused. - mig
[2004-11-18 10:48:07] - Aaron: Yeah, not good PR for that college. -Paul
[2004-11-18 10:37:07] - paul: Geez, the college did a great job of making the kid look like a totally innocent victim - aaron
[2004-11-18 10:23:26] - Travis: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41435 Maybe it's a good idea we never went through with that idea. -Paul
[2004-11-18 09:49:08] - http://www6.tomshardware.com/game/200411131/index.html hehe, apparently Halo 2 earned 125 mil in the first 24 hours, the best in all of entertainment (not just gaming) -dave
[2004-11-18 09:42:51] - http://www.amendus.org people trying to make a valient effort to make ah-nold eligible to run for president. - mig
[2004-11-18 08:24:56] - the definitions of indecent material and obscenity is very vague and arbitrary. In practice it appears like the FCC just makes judgements on what's what -dave
[2004-11-18 08:24:14] - http://www.fcc.gov/parents/content.html explains some what the laws are. apparently obscenity cannot be broadcast at any time, and indecent material can be broadcast outside of certain hours -dave
[2004-11-18 08:23:27] - pierce: like you want to know what the laws are? or how the laws came about? or what? -dave
[2004-11-18 08:21:50] - pierce: what kind of reason are you looking for? -dave
[2004-11-18 08:10:27] - dave: I understand the fact that it's illegal, what I'm unsure about is the explicit reason it's illegal. - pierce
[2004-11-18 07:58:19] - pierce: and they posted the requisite warnings -dave
[2004-11-18 07:58:07] - pierce: I'm not sure, but the article said something about the story being compliant with the law because it was outside the 6-10pm range. -dave
[2004-11-18 07:53:10] - pierce: thx a bunch! so it seems like I can create a self-signed certificate to test it out? -dave
[2004-11-18 07:46:26] - just out of curiosity, does anyone know the legal basis for nudity being considered obscene/objectionable/unfit for public broadcast? I mean, I understand the religious objection some people have, but since we ostensibly have a separation of church and state I would assume we have another reason. - pierce
[2004-11-18 07:39:57] - http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/17/nude.newswoman.ap/index.html news anchor appears nude in story about an art -dave
[2004-11-18 07:37:15] - dave: yes, you can set yourself up as a certifying authority and create your own certificates, but you'll have to tell your system to trust itself as a CA. If you're using a java environment, check out keytool for that purpose. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/tooldocs/win32/keytool.html - pierce
[2004-11-18 07:36:14] - dave: yes to the first question and i dunno to the second question. ~a
[2004-11-18 07:31:29] - hehe Owens caught three touchdowns in the Eagles' 49-21 win over Dallas. Afterward, he said, "I don't know how my acting skills were, but I can't play football forever.", Asked if he has ever watched "Desperate Housewives," Owens said, "I will now." -dave
[2004-11-18 04:37:43] - is it possible to test out SSL without buying a certificate or having a machine with windows server edition? -dave
[2004-11-17 17:34:52] - dave: i don't think they were referring to the ads. ~a
[2004-11-17 13:40:18] - http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?slug=ap-minoritycoaches&prov=ap&type=lgns Study: Lack of minority football coaches mirrors lack of minority campus and conference leaders -Paul
[2004-11-17 11:34:52] - hehe, I saw this posted in someone's office "Vegetarian - Primitive word for lousy hunter" -dave
[2004-11-17 10:42:09] - travis: well, I missed some interesting news on my days off, so I posted it now ^_^ -dave
[2004-11-17 10:13:09] - http://msn.foxsports.com/story/3170106 Maybe this explains why ESPN is always so glowing about the SEC. -Paul
[2004-11-17 10:11:00] - Travis: Until you started talking.
-Paul[2004-11-17 09:46:27] - so i guess you guys are making up for missing yesterday now
- travis[2004-11-17 09:01:25] - http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5443812.html crybabies from mpaa and riaa are trying to get the supreme court to overturn the ruling that p2p software is legal to distribute. - mig
[2004-11-17 08:36:34] - dave: doesn't matter if you're customer base is all white. remember, diversity is good. diversity is good. diversity is good. diversity is good. oh, and did i mention that diversity is good? - mig
[2004-11-17 08:29:48] - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20041115-4401.html companies buying ads on P2P networks leave music industry fuming -dave
[2004-11-17 08:18:10] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56417-2004Nov17.html Russia developing new nuclear missiles....supposedly they can avoid the US missile defense that is being put into place -dave
[2004-11-17 08:15:00] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55667-2004Nov16.html Verizon may relocate headquarters to VA...or New Jersey...or stay in New York where it is presently -dave
[2004-11-17 08:09:44] - apparently the jobs are mostly in IT as well -dave
[2004-11-17 08:09:07] - anyone looking for a new job? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55655-2004Nov16.html four companies planning to each hire 10k employees in VA...mostly in northern va it looks like -dave
[2004-11-17 08:06:13] - I wonder, does that mean, that if you can show that your consumer base is almost all white male, that you still have to have diverse ads? -dave
[2004-11-17 08:05:33] - http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/11/16/abercrombie.lawsuit.ap/index.html Abercrombie settles diversity class action case for $40M -dave
[2004-11-17 08:01:27] - seller claims the sandwich is 10 years old and has never sprouted any mold -dave
[2004-11-17 08:01:09] - http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/16/ebay.sandwich.ap/index.html cheese sandwich, purpoted to have a picture of the virgin mary on it, reaches ebay bid ofr $16k. -dave
[2004-11-17 07:59:24] - you'd think the animals might eventually get the idea and avoid the area around the remote-controlled rifle -dave
[2004-11-17 07:59:00] - http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/16/life.hunting.reut/index.html shoot at animals from the internet....for real -dave
[2004-11-17 07:57:10] - http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/football/nfl/11/16/bc.fbn.mnf.apology.ap/index.html?cnn=yes ABC apologises for steamy MNF intro -dave
[2004-11-17 07:53:24] - http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/11/16/scramjet.delay/index.html NASAs X45-A appears to successfully have reached Mach 10 -dave
[2004-11-17 07:49:31] - inside the article was this quote "At the height of the war, about 46,000 British troops were in Iraq. About 8,500 remained in late October." -dave
[2004-11-17 07:48:52] - http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/17/iraq.hassan/index.html So how does the apparently killing of Hassan figure into the terrorist hypothesis that was discussed earlier? This seems directed at a more global audience -dave
[2004-11-17 07:42:31] - http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/17/news/fortune500/sears_kmart/index.htm?cnn=yes Kmart and Sears to merge. Think they'll be able to survive the walmart onslaught together? -dave
[2004-11-17 07:41:22] - significant diff. between what's in Iraq now, and what is normally in a 'global effort conflict' -dave
[2004-11-17 07:40:46] - mel: what might be an interesting and perhaps helpful comparison is the stats for the troop breakdown in a publicly accepted 'global effort' place, like Afghanistan etc. I believe US troops make up the vast majority of most of those conflicts, but there may still be a significant diff. -dave
[2004-11-17 07:38:52] - mig: hehe, srry. I took the day off work to study for a test -dave
[2004-11-16 18:06:02] - http://www.bocaratonnews.com/index.php?src=news&category=Local%20News&prid=10210 Psychologists blast Rush Limbaugh for mocking traumatized Kerry voters -Paul
[2004-11-16 17:09:58] - a: So if you have a StudentID and a TestID, the record of how a certain student did on a certain test would be listed by a new key (RecordID) which is a combination of their StudentID and the TestID. The StudentID and TestID in this case are foreign keys for the records table. -Paul
[2004-11-16 17:08:33] - a: A foreign key is basically a primary key of some table which is used in combination with another key to form a new key for a different table. -Paul
[2004-11-16 16:47:49] - paul: yeah i thought so too, but i asked a few of the people at work here and getting "not sure" or "maybe". - mig
[2004-11-16 16:45:37] - mig: I'm not sure I totally understand the question, though. The key for this table is a combination of a foreign key and some other field? -Paul
[2004-11-16 16:44:33] - mig: I'm not terribly good with SQL, but I would imagine that a foreign key could never be null. -Paul
[2004-11-16 16:41:24] - what's a foreign key? ~a
[2004-11-16 16:14:07] - question for anyone with good knowledge of sql: if you have a column in your table that is a foreign key from another table, can it be null if there isn't a null value for that column in the referenced table? - mig
[2004-11-16 09:47:27] - Travis: Yes, I'm redesigning and I'm doing it bits and pieces at a time. My bio page still has all it's color.
-Paul[2004-11-16 09:33:38] - paul: is your journal supposed to be missing all of its color? - travis
[2004-11-15 17:10:34] - http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/11/14/super.pill.ap/index.html pill might stop drug abuse - aaron
[2004-11-15 17:09:38] - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/11/15/national1631EST0650.DTL powell resigns. kind of disturbing because he was one of the few sane people in the bush administration. - mig
[2004-11-15 15:50:01] - Mel: My mistake. -Paul
[2004-11-15 15:49:43] - Mel: Ok, I guess by system requirements you were talking about stuff like PHP, Apache and MySQL and not hardware requirements. -Paul
[2004-11-15 15:44:14] - Paul: I am just trying this out somewhat experimentally. It will be small and I only need access for maybe 5-10 people -mel
[2004-11-15 15:43:46] - mig: cool, thanks. I'll check on vqwiki -mel
[2004-11-15 13:59:08] - Mel: Probably depends a great deal on how many people will be using it and how big it is. -Paul
[2004-11-15 13:33:06] - we use vqwiki which requires tomcat though mysql is optional. - mig
[2004-11-15 13:09:38] - mig: cool. I am trying to set one up at work too. It seems to need PHP, Apache, and MySQL... does that sound right? -mel
[2004-11-15 13:03:33] - mel: it can't be too hard, we have one set up at work and it didn't take the guy very long to set it up. maybe 1/2 hr at most. - mig
[2004-11-15 12:59:53] - Paul: thanks.
I'm trying to figure out how hard this is implement and what the system requirements are... -mel[2004-11-15 12:54:41] - Mel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki ? -Paul
[2004-11-15 12:53:58] - ok, the answer seems to be http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki -mel
[2004-11-15 12:46:24] - does anyone have any tips for sites to check out about how to start your own wiki? -mel
[2004-11-15 12:44:48] - pierce: well I remain amused and impressed.
-mel[2004-11-15 10:33:03] - mig: As am I. -Paul
[2004-11-15 09:28:11] - what? it's 9:30 already and there are no daily links from dave. i am outraged. - mig
[2004-11-13 00:08:36] - mel: I put up that title, I've heard it reiterated on a number of sites I read and I think it's become a pseudocliche on fark.com. - pierce
[2004-11-12 20:23:23] - Mel: Ah, ok. I didn't remember it as a quote from the debates. -Paul
[2004-11-12 20:05:53] - US troops in Iraq (approx): 142,000 -mel
[2004-11-12 20:03:50] - Paul: I didn't realize that anyone really paid attention to this quote from the debate. It has become a saying now in Poland but I haven't heard anyone mention it over here. -mel
[2004-11-12 20:02:55] - non US troops in Iraq (approx): United Kingdom (8,361), Italy (3,085), Poland (2,800), South Korea (2,800)... -mel
[2004-11-12 20:02:08] - Mel: I figured a bunch of you would like it. I didn't put that title up, but why are you amusd and impressed? -Paul
[2004-11-12 19:57:15] - hey, who put that title? I am amused and impressed. -mel
[2004-11-12 19:55:06] - Paul: haha. I like the site. Somehow I'm sure you knew I would. -mel
[2004-11-12 16:45:13] - http://sorryeverybody.com/ -Paul
[2004-11-12 15:33:26] - Speaking of which, I wonder if I'm the only person in the world who liked Wil Wheaton when I only knew him as Wesley but dislike him more now that I know more about him.
-Paul[2004-11-12 15:22:53] - Travis: Actually, I'm surprised by how few comments a lot of journals online seem to get. Wil Wheaton's doesn't seem to get as much as I would think considering the popularity of it, and neither does Peter David's (of course I might be biased there). -paul
[2004-11-12 15:18:19] - and the actual livejournal entry is about EA employees bad working conditions - travis
[2004-11-12 15:17:29] - http://www.livejournal.com/users/ea_spouse/ 1175 comments! and we thought we did well getting over 100 on miguel's
- travis[2004-11-12 15:16:53] - paul: they're releasing the XBox PC a year after the first two versions... - travis
[2004-11-12 15:13:57] - Travis: At least they would be releasing them all at the same time so somebody doesn't buy one version and then want the newer and better version that gets released a year later. -Paul
[2004-11-12 15:10:14] - http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19615 and paul complains about multiple editions of dvds
- travis[2004-11-12 13:43:57] - I don't remember. I have to find the link to the guy's interview again. - mig
[2004-11-12 13:05:00] - Mig: I guess my question is what exactly did he know? I think some people suspect that he might've even known exactly when and where the attack was coming and therefore could've done something specifically to defend against it. -Paul
[2004-11-12 13:02:18] - I believe that he knew that the japanese were going to attack somewhere, but he didn't really do anything about it. - mig
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