Yale Darwinist Dr. Steven Novella Takes on the "Rubes"
Dr. Steven Novella doesn?t think much of people who disagree with him about Darwinism. Dr. Novella, a Yale neurologist, assistant professor and specialist in neuromuscular disorders, is also a ?skeptic? and co-founder and president of the New England Skeptical Society . He?s quite unskeptical about Darwinism: (Read on Source)
Web.com Web Hosting Solutions Provider, Schedules Financial Webcast
The conference call will feature institutional investors and will be held at 9:30AM ET following the announcement. The call can be accessed by dialing (800) 479-9001 (U.S.) or (719) 457-2618 (international). Callers should dial in approximately 5 minutes prior to the start of the call and ask for the Web.com conference call. A replay of the call will be available for seven days beginning at approximately 10:30AM ET on May 3, by calling (888) 203-1112 (U.S.) or (719) 457-0820 (international). The confirmation and replay pass code is 9144475. The call will also be webcast live via a link on the Investor Relations section of the company's website at www.web.com/ir for all to listen. A replay of the webcast will also be available for seven days. Recently, Web.com partnered with global domain name registration and web services firm, Register.com, to exclusively offer website design tools, hosting and domain services to their respective customer bases. Under the agreement, Web.com will become Register.com's exclusive provider of do-it-yourself website building tools utilizing Web.com's Site Builder technology and hosting services. Web.com's Site Builder technology has built more than 4 million websites and provides customers with a simple and powerful means to create, grow and maintain their online presence. In addition, the two companies have also agreed to a licensing arrangement covering all existing and pending patents for both companies. Also under this agreement, Register.com will become Web.com's exclusive provider of domain names and parked pages for the Web.com brand. With over three million domain names under management, Register.com is one of the largest and best known destinations for registering and maintaining websites. Leveraging Register.com's expertise in quality domain name management services, Web.com will enable customers to quickly and easily register and maintain their web presence. Jeff Stibel,...
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Nature's Apothecure Launches its Natural Healing Website
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nested cursor by table_name as parameter
Hello, I am trying to create a procedure as below:
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE script_out_tables_wColumn(p_column_name IN VARCHAR2)
IS
/**
all the tables which belongs to the owner and contains given column name
will be script out into insert statement
**/
TYPE varchar_collect_type IS TABLE OF VARCHAR2(255) INDEX BY PLS_INTEGER;
v_tab_names_collect varchar_collect_type;
v_insert_into_tab_name VARCHAR2(255) :='temp_table';
BEGIN
DBMS_OUTPUT.ENABLE(10000000);
FOR cur_table_names IN( SELECT table_name
FROM user_tab_columns
WHERE column_name = p_column_name
ORDER BY table_name)
LOOP
FOR cur_table IN( SELECT empno, deptno
FROM cur_table_names.table_name
ORDER BY empno)
LOOP
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(empno);
END LOOP;
END LOOP;
END script_out_tables_wColumn;
But it doesn't work. Would any one knows what the problem is?
Thank you very much.
Premier League ready for kick-off
In the intervening period more than £350m has been spent as clubs desperate for success search for the winning formula. But for all the money that the likes of Liverpool and Tottenham have lavished on new faces, it is United and Chelsea who start the season once again as most people's favourites for the title. (Read on Source)
FUTURES MOVERS Crude futures hold steady after record run - MarketWatch
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PARTYING PAM COURTS DISASTER
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Sun and a Solaris revival: Talking with Ian Murdock
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MacBook Air, Vista Box PWNd - Ubuntu Stands Alone
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Planning for Windows Server 2008 Virtualization
In Planning for Windows Server 2008 Virtualization, Brien Posey explains that server virtualization has finally come of age. Before you can truly take advantage of the available virtualization technologies, you will have to do some planning. Before loading Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, make sure you read this article to find out what hardware requirements you'll need to meet for Hyper-V. Stay tuned for parts 2 and 3 of this series - Implementing Hyper Vision in Windows Server 2008 & Creating and Managing Virtual Servers with Windows 2008 Server & Hyper-V.
 | Daniel Petri's Exchange Server Recommendations By the way, if you are looking to really master Exchange Server 2007 I strongly recommend the training videos at Train Signal. I receive hundreds of emails a month asking for my "recommendation for IT training" and I like to send people their way because the training is so good. I have used and reviewed A LOT of training products over the years and none of them come close to matching the quality or amount of detail found in Train Signal's courses. Read more (and watch a demo!) on their Exchange Server 2007 Training. -Daniel Petri |
Best Star Wars Remakes
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We can safely stop calling Star Wars a movie and recognize it for what it really is: a virulent media infection.
It's a great movie to be sure, but there are many superior movies, and none of them have inspired, say, thousands of people to dress up as faceless, nameless secondary characters. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was a great movie, but you don't see 200 sanitarium orderlies marching in the Rose Parade.
Nowhere can you witness Star Wars' contagious qualities more clearly than in the realm of fan-made videos that, to one extent or another, retell the story of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, the movie formerly known simply as Star Wars. Here are some of the best.
Left:
Star Wars Sweded
Modern computing gives the average middle-class American a level of graphical processing power that would have made a '70s-era special effects engineer pant continuously. But that's no fun! Why render lifelike X-wing starfighters when you can build one out of cardboard and run around the park?
Lightsabers portrayed by: Red and blue wrapping paper
: Star Wars Remake
Balanced precariously on the line between impressive and ridiculous, this silent, late-'70s remake stars a micro-encephalic Darth Vader and a 10-year-old Han Solo. While not as self-consciously goofy as "Star Wars Sweded," cardboard is still vitally important to the oeuvre. They managed to recruit an impressive Mark Hamill "Luke-alike," though. Yes, I just made that pun right in front of you.
Lightsabers portrayed by: Transparent plastic dealies
: Hardware Wars
Take the do-it-yourself sensibility of the previous two Star Wars tributes, add some hand puppets and jokes, and what do you get? The best Star Wars parody of all time, and yes I've seen Spaceballs. Toasters! Vacuum cleaners! Awesome. (Warning: brief fuzzy nudity at the end of the second part.)
Lightsabers portrayed by: Flashlights
: Lego Star Wars
The Lego Star Wars games are a couple of the best co-op games out there, especially to play with younger children or friends who aren't really into videogames. As an added bonus, they're chock-full of amusing cut scenes portrayed with the sort of mute humor that only plastic bricks can provide. Even with the actual game parts removed, the resulting video is still fun to watch.
Lightsabers portrayed by: Legos, duh.
: Star Wars in Three Minutes With Action Figures
I'm sure I'm not the only one who thought of trying to play out the entire Star Wars movie using the little action figures with the uncomfortable-looking embedded lightsabers as a kid. So I find it satisfying that at least one person has made an all-figure reinterpretation of the movie. Plus, it's brief.
Lightsabers portrayed by: Glowing, computer-generated lines. That's actually kind of disappointing.
: Star Wars Shortened
The George Lucas Appreciation Society -- I'm not sure if the fact that there are only three people in the society is supposed to be a backhanded slam -- covers all three original movies in just less than 10 minutes. Twice. Using one stage, some impressive vocal imitations, poetry, puppetry and interesting headgear.
Lightsabers portrayed by: Mime
: Star Wars in Thirty Seconds With Bunnies
You can't really argue with the fact that bunnies make things good. For instance, any given piece of chocolate can be improved by being melted down and formed into a bunny shape. So it's natural that Star Wars with bunnies (or, in some cases, aliens with bunny-ear implants) is head-devouringly amusing. Although Princess Leia's tied-up little bunny ears look painful.
Lightsabers portrayed by: Flash animation
: Star Wars Movie Mistakes
What better way to appreciate a classic film than by going through it bit by bit, nit-picking all the small errors? If you're the sort of person who always notices when a movie character's cigarette keeps changing length from shot to shot, you'll enjoy this. You'll also enjoy it if you like seeing widescreen movies squashed into YouTube dimensions.
Lightsabers portrayed by: A remote control and some digital effects
: Store Wars
If you prefer your comedy served up with a side dish of heavy-handed social moralizing, this is the film for you. All the characters are portrayed by veggies and other edibles fighting over the concept of organic food. However, seeing R2-D2 portrayed as a block of tofu is worth being lectured by an Italian dessert.
Lightsabers portrayed by: Little lightsabers. Come on people! Ever heard of carrot sticks?
: Thumb Wars
This little tribute combines comedy and nostalgia with intensely disturbing creepiness. All the characters, most of the spaceships and many of the props are thumbs, but what makes this particularly notable are the little faces the filmmakers digitally superimpose on the thumbs. The faces combine the eeriness of upside-down chin puppets with staring wide-eyed marionettes, creating creatures that would claw at the dream centers of my brain if they weren't, you know, thumbs.
Lightsabers portrayed by: You know, thumbs.
: Star Wars According to a 3 Year Old
This isn't the shortest summary of Star Wars in this list, but it may capture the essence of the film better than anything else. I think the sublime apex of the Star Wars experience lies in her description of what the nerdiest among us call The Battle of Yavin: "The big thing that blowed up stuff, we blowed it up together." Yes, little girl, yes we did.
Lightsabers portrayed by: The phrase "little light-up sword."
Polys: Structure?Property Relationships
Nicolas Blouin and Mario Leclerc Web Release Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT (Article) DOI: 10.1021/ar800057k (Read on Source)
Notebook: Wainwright ready to rehab
ATLANTA ?€” The timeline may be written in pencil, but barring complications during today's bullpen session pitcher Adam Wainwright will begin a rehab assignment Friday with an abbreviated start for an unspecified affiliate. (Read on Source)
Why You Should Fire Your Clients And Launch A Product
... so? Well look at these models in turn. How do you scale up a web design business if you find yourself with more clients than you can handle? The most ...
Warner Music's Cohen sells 23 percent of his stake
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Privacy feature in Internet Explorer 8 leaks private data
A privacy feature built into the second beta version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 browser aren't as private as advertised. The InPrivate Browsing feature in Microsoft's latest browser is designed to delete a user's browsing history and other personal data that is gathered and stored during regular browsing sessions. The feature is commonly ... (Read on Source)
Steve Jobs' speech in videos
A roundup of video clips from Steve Jobs' speech at Apple's "Let's rock" event, held Tuesday in San Francisco, where he announced updated iPods and a new version of iTunes.
How to Cheat at Wii Fit
Why jog in place with the Wiimote when you can just bounce it on your knee? The console will never know the difference -- it'll just be a secret between you and your waistband. Meanwhile, you'll free up some time to chow down. Learn how to score high points without breaking a sweat on Wired's How-To Wiki.
Ebay may cut 1,500 jobs: Barron's (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. online auctioneer eBay Inc may cut 1,500 jobs, according to an article in Barron's weekly, citing a report published last week by investment-research firm Wedge Partners.
Matthias Rath: Fall of the doctor who said his vitamins would cure Aids
How vitamin entrepreneur Matthias Rath persuaded South African Aids patients to stop taking their prescribed drugs - and use his vitamins - with terrible consequences Link to this video (Read on Source)
Main Street
Thank you! As far as obnoxious political cliches go, the Wall St. Vs. Main st. metaphor is one that really gets under my skin. I also hate when pundits/pols refer to the “Heartland of America”. I’d prefer it if someday a pundit/pol could praise the “Cranial-land of America”. That would really speak to me. (Read on Source)
Open Source Video Editing
... ships with every new Macintosh. On the Microsoft Windows side of the house there is Windows ... and produced both DVDs, MPEG, AVI, and Windows Media files for playback on the local area ...
Cut the cord with $19.99 stereo Bluetooth headset
It's a feature-packed Bluetooth headset by day and wireless stereo headphones by night.
Power Sports Factory, Inc. Announces Launch of Andretti Motorbikes in the State of California
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Coming soon to a country near you?
Being a hardcore Canadian "freespeecher" (that word, btw, is used to insult us on leftwing blogs up here...), I've proposed (unrealistically, I admit) that the Internet be declared a libel free zone. After all, our Members of Parliament are immune... (Read on Source)
Whither the Mac mini?
... AISO founders envisioned a Web hosting company that was environmentally friendly. While the company employed energy-efficient innovations like solar panels, ...
Somebody Angry?
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G-20 May Endorse Stimulus, Little Else as Bush Exits (Update3) - Bloomberg
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Gamers Rejoice With Computer Networking
Video games have been the source of entertainment of a lot of people for the longest time. It all started out with simple 2-d games such as Pong, Donkey Kong, Pac Man, and Space Invaders. People would...
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