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Comment Re:Not creepy (Score 1) 106

by smittyoneeach on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @03:19AM (#47454769) Attached to: Seat Detects When You're Drowsy, Can Control Your Car

Yeah, and, after you check out of the hospital?
Does the machine that goes 'ping' follow you around and stand by to neutralize you in traffic when that machine, inevitably, gets hacked?

Comment Re:Nothing will change... (Score 1) 34

by smittyoneeach on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @03:16AM (#47454755) Attached to: 1k words

I think a read of the Old Testament histories will show that history is more of a sinusoid, prior to His return, and the Really Big Dip at the end.

Comment Re:The shoes are us (Score 1) 34

by smittyoneeach on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @03:14AM (#47454747) Attached to: 1k words

So, you're going with the Alinsky Rule #12 play? Really? That's it? Are you really so bereft of imagination?

Journal Journal: 1k words 34

Journal by smittyoneeach on Sunday July 13, 2014 @10:46PM

I think this more or less captures matters:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-13/picturing-march-tyranny

Comment Re:What? (Score 3, Insightful) 753

by smittyoneeach on Sunday July 13, 2014 @10:34PM (#47446117) Attached to: Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills

At the cost of anonymity for those who want to frequent such establishments without so much log file trail.
And there are plenty of other use-cases for people wanting their name decoupled from their deeds.
Not all of them are exactly bad, either.

Comment At least (Score 1) 4

by smittyoneeach on Sunday July 13, 2014 @08:00PM (#47445405) Attached to: GMO Corn Can Cause Damage to Liver and Kidneys, and Severe Hormonal Disruption

At least it didn't cause global warming

Comment Re:What's the point? (Score 3, Insightful) 129

by smittyoneeach on Sunday July 13, 2014 @08:18AM (#47442045) Attached to: Nano-Pixels Hold Potential For Screens Far Denser Than Today's Best

I mean, really: Emacs looks great in character mode and 80 columns. Why all this other faffing about?

Comment We could jam in Joe's Garage (Score 1) 2

by smittyoneeach on Sunday July 13, 2014 @04:43AM (#47441497) Attached to: You know what happens when you play that Rock and Roll Music?

. . .his momma was screamin', his dad was mad. . .

Comment Re:Haven't done T-SQL in years (Score 1) 11

by smittyoneeach on Sunday July 13, 2014 @04:42AM (#47441493) Attached to: Fun with SQL Server 2012

Precisely. In lazy evaluation, (and Haskell is the poster child for this) a value is only acquired when needed. So if you write SQL that lets the server off the hook for one fetch, while still adhering to the letter of the law, then (if this theory is true) that's what's happening.

Comment Re:Betteridge answers (Score 1) 381

by smittyoneeach on Saturday July 12, 2014 @06:22PM (#47439833) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: Do You Want a Smart Watch?

++no

Submission + - The bane of restaurants - Smartphones (craigslist.org)

Submitted by Strudelkugel on Saturday July 12, 2014 @04:28PM

Strudelkugel writes: A restaurant in Manhattan compared video from 2004 and 2014 to see why service was slower than before. A few observations listed in the article:
2004:
Customers walk in.
They gets seated and are given menus, out of 45 customers 3 request to be seated elsewhere.
Customers on average spend 8 minutes before closing the menu to show they are ready to order...
2014:
Customers walk in.
Customers get seated and is given menus, out of 45 customers 18 requested to be seated elsewhere.
Before even opening the menu they take their phones out, some are taking photos while others are simply doing something else on their phone (sorry we have no clue what they are doing and do not monitor customer WIFI activity).

Comment Re:Haven't done T-SQL in years (Score 1) 11

by smittyoneeach on Saturday July 12, 2014 @01:58PM (#47438631) Attached to: Fun with SQL Server 2012

Again, invoking a subquery is going to let the database engine know: "OK, get all that stuff first, and THEN work on the rest of the query."
If he simple function call is giving you a more lazy evaluation evaluation, that might explain what's occurring.

Comment Haven't done T-SQL in years (Score 1) 11

by smittyoneeach on Friday July 11, 2014 @06:42PM (#47435071) Attached to: Fun with SQL Server 2012

Is there a threat (even a theoretical one) of the server going into an infinite loop based upon what you're doing?
It may be that the database engine requires the subquery to break the possibility of a cycle in the code, and sequence the computation.

Comment Re:Kudos? (Score 1) 8

by smittyoneeach on Friday July 11, 2014 @06:36PM (#47435015) Attached to: I blame Captain Splendid

Take a couple pilz and call me in the morning.

Journal Journal: These secular priests just keep slicing on the drive 30

Journal by smittyoneeach on Friday July 11, 2014 @03:06AM

It's almost as though we should just quit privileging these guys, or something:
This scientific journal just had to retract 60 papers. How does that even happen?

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