And in Austria you need a reflective vest for every passenger. And if this wasn't silly enough, then in Russia and Ukraine, as I suspect in most ex-Soviet countries, also a fire extinguisher. In the Czech Republic a year or so ago they changed the requirements for the first aid kit, thus screwing anyone who didn't buy the new version. Cops love to check all of this too if they're bored or aren't reaching their quotas otherwise, so be prepared to unload everything from the trunk to demonstrate that you do, in fact, have all of this crap.

Shit's getting ridiculous, really, soon I'll be going for Sunday drives with a surgeon riding shotgun, just in case.

But nevertheless quite interesting. The idea of updatable views is certainly a good one, but it seems that the current limitations make this feature more or less useless for now:

• The view must have exactly one entry in its FROM, which must be a table or another updatable view.
• The view definition must not contain WITH, DISTINCT, GROUP BY, HAVING, LIMIT, or OFFSET clauses at the top level.
• The view definition must not contain set operations (UNION, INTERSECT or EXCEPT) at the top level.
• All columns in the viewâ(TM)s select list must be simple references to columns of the underlying relation. They cannot be expressions, literals or functions. System columns cannot be referenced, either.
• No column of the underlying relation can appear more than once in the viewâ(TM)s select list.
• The view must not have the security_barrier property.

> You do realize that anyone who works in the Defense Industry, military, or other US Government contracting positions could lose their job over clicking that, right?

You say that like it's a bad thing!

Worse than Buttfuckers?

First: Hold onto them until they're actually worth something. Sometime in the middle of the DDR4 lifecycle, it will become nearly impossible to find new 4GB DDR3 sticks, so people will have to turn to used sticks if they want to upgrade their machines from 8GB (4x2GB or 2x4GB) to 16 GB (4x4GB).

History tells us that they will be valued at at least twice the original market rate. So sell now and get ~$7.5k, or wait 2-3 years and likely get $15-20k. I'd wait.

That's a good point. I just had to RMA a module of extended-warranty DDR2 RAM. Ignoring for a moment the fact that they asked me to send the whole kit instead of just the faulty module, more importantly instead of replacing it, they refunded me the money instead. Which is just slightly less money than what new (and slower!) DDR2 memory costs. Oops.

In the end I managed to find the last few identical kits in some weird online store, but another year or two and I'd be completely fucked.

>Valve is already releasing their game.

Oh yeah? Wake me up once they get around to releasing Episode 3. So far I have surpassed Valve's ep3 revenue by about infinity percent.

Haha, what do you have, a T520? I was excited about the T530 until I saw the keyboard. It's not even the chiclet thing, it's the missing row and consequently fucked up layout!

Aaanyway, I've been getting extremely impressive battery life out of the Sandy based laptops, so the future looks bright :)

"So fucking what?"

People die from everything all the time, including boring crap like water. And I don't mean by drowning, just by drinking too much of perfectly fine water. But speaking of water, swimming pools are more dangerous for children than guns, and when are those getting banned?

Somebody somewhere is definitely making millions off those, yet they were responsible for 550 children drowning in 1997, if you RTFA. So?

Science is not a zero-sum game. Scientific discoveries enrich everybody, regardless of which country they're made in.

You state your unsubstantiated opinion as fact. Are you sure you are qualified to talk about "science"?

Have you ever heard of the '60s? The "race to the moon" was important, and the space race was most assuredly focused on firsts by country.

But I'm sure you have some reasoning on how that's irrelevant to now.

Yes, the race to the moon was an expensive political dickwaving contest which Kennedy got into "because communists!!!". I don't see how that is relevant today.

Yes, however, there are very good reasons for never ever using MySQL, especially if SQL Server is already being used.

TinyCC doesn't require anything else to run, is small, fast, and has enough functionality for hobby-level stuff. For an IDE, just use notepad or something.

However, if you get fired for this, it's going to be your own fault for knowingly violating the rules. Brining your own laptop might not be acceptable either, depending on the environment, but that would be the best possibility so it's definitely worth checking out. Another possibility is to use remote desktop or ssh or something to connect to your home box running whatever IDE you'll want, but again, check with your managers. If they don't allow it, just read a book about programming instead.

It's fine to hate huge corporations and all, but how the fuck does that make any sense? Is FedEx supposed to check the history and content of every hard drive (and other items) they send just in case it's filled with data copied by a foreign law enforcement agency?

This was exactly my point, though I didn't feel it was necessary to spell out. Not signaling might be illegal, but when was the last time anyone was stopped for it, lawmakers were making a big fuss about it, or you read about it in the news?

Film at eleven.

Meanwhile, Turn signal neglect results in over twice as many crashes as distracted driving, but nobody gives a shit because it's not a new scary technology used by the damn kids ruining everything.

The reason keypads aren't or real ThinkPads is that by including the extra 4 columns of keys, the whole keyboard and TrackPoint (or trackpad, if you're that sort of person) has to be shifted left. This means that you end up either sitting in middle relative to the screen with the hands positioned awkwardly, or having to look at the screen at an angle.

I have a T520 and while I was initially upset that it has huge speaker grilles on both sides, I actually came to appreciate this decision, though admittedly it would suck if I had to punch in numbers into a spreadsheet all day. Just get a ThinkPad and this baby