Great trolling!
There are, of course, plenty of non-major label bands that can keep time, play in tune, and sing awesome. I won't go on and on, but The Arcade Fire, Spoon, Grizzly Bear, The Books, Patrick Wolf, Okkervil River
But really, great job.
That may or may not be true, but they weren't really using AutoTune on Mickey Mouse Club recordings.
Also, to be technical, here is Britney singing live (and with a fairly awesome, if untrained, voice):
Really, you're gonna say that, when we've had
No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Up, Ratatouille, Children of Men, Milk, In The Mood For Love, Lord of the Rings, The Incredibles, Dark Knight, Inglorious Basterds, Wall-E, Brick, The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, Gone Baby Gone, Amores Perros, Babel, Pan's Labyrinth, A History of Violence, Eastern Promsies, You Can Count On Me, Adaptation., Boy A, Black Hawk Down, Finding Nemo, Coraline, Casino Royale, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, Persepolis, Spirited Away, Ponyo, The Pianist, The Lives of Others, Downfall, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Motorcycle Diaries, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dogville, The Machinist, The Fall, Gran Torino, Far From Heaven, Mystic River, In Bruges, Catch Me If You Can, The Departed, The Royal Tenenbaums, Oldboy, Kill Bill, Walk Hard, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Letters From Iwo Jima, Triplets of Belleville, Monsters Inc, Moon, Toy Story 2, Mulholland Dr, O Brother Where Art Thou, A Simple Man, Once, The Prestige, Rescue Dawn, Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, Spider-Man 2, The Aviator, The Bourne trilogy, Fog of War, Capturing the Friedmans, The Hurt Locker, Zodiac, Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, The Last Hangman, The Others,The Visitor, Sweeney Todd, Training Day, The Descent, The Counterfeiters, Frost/Nixon, Doubt, Finding Neverland, Pirates of the Caribbean, Hotel Rwanda, Ghost World, Waltz with Bashir, The Station Agent
all in the past decade?
And that's me being kind of stingy with the list! This has been the greatest decade of film of all-time (doesn't have quite the peaks of the 30s or 70s, but all-around it's definitely ahead) and the next decade should only prove more exciting to see what these directors, actors, writers, animators, and (yes) movie studios can do.
Or, to be a little more generous to the bottom, just do score^2/score_max.
Learn to write better business cases for upgrading your database? The Standard Edition of SQL Server will only run you $6,000. That's chump change at a company as big as you're describing.
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So
Government: everyone gets one vote.
Corporate: every dollar gets one vote.
One of these things is real living thing; the other is a piece of paper.
If you're going to put a gun to our head and make us choose, it's pretty easy to figure out that democracy is better than capitalism.
First, nobody really cares about the news wing of Fox News. Anyone can read a 3-graf bit about a car bombing in Mosul or a new ambassador to Sri Lanka. So, why are you even discussing it?
What everyone sees at Fox News is the commentators, the opinion sections. And they see that their version of "fair and balanced" (equal time for both sides) is not the same as Fox News's version of "fair and balanced" (a conservative counterweight to what they perceive as a generally more liberal media.)
Go read the things Pat Buchanan, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Andrew Napolitano, Ann Coulter, Susan Estrich, Judith Miller, Grover Norquist, et al write in the Opinion section of Fox News's websites. Now try to find even a semblance of a liberal equivalent to that there.
Fox News has tried to take this weird high road of saying their station itself is "fair and balanced", when clearly what they meant when they kicked it off was "we are balancing ourselves against Meet The Press and MSNBC and the New York Times, etc." Which is a perfectly legitimate position.
The problem is I think they've bastardized it terribly by becoming a mouthpiece for the Republican Party even at its most wrongheaded, and I don't see nearly enough independent thinking, compromise, or moderation on their part. I don't agree with everything the Democratic Party does, and I let my Congressman (Mr. Ron Paul himself) know. But the whipping in line of a media outlet by a single party is really impressive, nobody at FOX News is ever off-message - and that's precisely the problem. There's no inner debate, not even a hint of "well, maybe we're wrong, maybe there is more than one side to this, maybe it's not black and white", and without that, I think calling Fox News "fair and balanced" is a farce.
There are plenty of liberal equivalents to this, of course, but they're just little blogs and DailyKos and The Progressive and the like. None of them are on cable TV. None of them have the weight of Rupert Murdoch and News Corp's prodigious checkbook behind them. That's why we laugh when hear what FOX News has to say. You can be biased, you can even be transparent in it, but if you're big business, don't expect people to just nod their heads uncritically.
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200611150004
Go on, justify it.
Intellectualism is being used as a synonym for elitism, not intelligence.
How can you like a man who raped and murdered a young girl in 1990?
The solution to this is to use a table-valued function instead of a scalar and then CROSS APPLY it to the rest of your data set:
Or, as stated, just use a view. Scalar UDFs are good for setting SQL variables based on today's date or a customer ID one-time; not much else. Indeed, a shame.
No, the problem is that the "real issues" you are talking about are things that 99% of your typical DBAs will never see in their lifetime, because they work at a church or a pharmacy or a box factory.
It's great that Facebook and Google and eBay need map-reduce and Erlang and something more scalable than SQL Server Express or Berkeley DB. But they are the exception, not the rule. Excoriating people for pointing that out is, at best, irrelevant and at worst harmful to the idea of alternative data storage mechanisms.
I'm not picking on you directly, I see it as a larger symptom, that somehow because SQL/RBDMS is not ideal for certain projects, that it should be abandoned at all levels, sooner rather than later, even though there's 40+ years of RDBMS architecture manuals, best practices, knowledge bases, 3rd party apps, "SQL for Dummies", and so on to help the involuntary DBA succeed without having to figure out Cassandra.
I guess my concern is that a lot of small businesses and shops will see something like this, will think, "You know, our Access database sucks," and try to port themselves over to this, and guess what? The learning curve here is a lot steeper than SQL (the *academic* side of SQL-alternatives is just now getting into 3rd gear), the business case for it is pretty poor in most cases, and you'll end up with a lot of people wasting time trying to get Erlang processes going instead of just migrating to MySQL and keep on carrying on. There's way too much "Rah, Rah, Death to SQL" being attached to these new things, and to me it seems overblown.
But you know, I'm optimistic. 5 years from now, it may be a different ball game altogether, and then us DBAs just have more things to learn and to do.
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