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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 1

Steve Jones - Editor (9/10/2010)
Bazinga!
http://twitter.com/way0utwest/status/24104674791

This could be good. 🙂

Edit: Quoted the wrong post again!!!

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WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 2

Steve Jones - Editor (9/10/2010)
Bazinga!
http://twitter.com/way0utwest/status/24104674791

Wonderful

Wayne
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WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 3

Hey Threadizens - any ideas on why OPENDATASOURCE isn't working on a prod server?

Thanks!

Wayne
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Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150467 More actions · Answer 4

Steve Jones - Editor (9/10/2010)
I always find time to read. Keeps me sane (...)

:laugh: Sane?

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398886 More actions · Answer 5

Jack Corbett (9/10/2010)
Steve Jones - Editor (9/10/2010)
Never read about Collosus. I'm assuming this is the Xmen guy?
I always find time to read. Keeps me sane with a break from this world.
I'm not reading as much as I should, especially technical stuff. Right now in a professional development/leadership groove so I've read Tribes, Crunch Time (reviewed on my blog), and now Visioneering by Andy Stanley. I did manage to read a novel over the holiday weekend and started another. Need to read more, but usually too tired and fall asleep while doing it:doze:

Collosus is an ANCIENT spec-fic book, and the computers in it are a joke today, but when I think about computers becoming self-aware, that's the one that I always go back to.

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398886 More actions · Answer 6

GilaMonster (9/10/2010)
Jeff Moden (9/10/2010)
I don't have the time to read many books but that was a good one.
Title? Author?

Here you go. First in a trilogy. Ancient stuff.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736252 More actions · Answer 7

Paul White NZ (9/10/2010)
Steve Jones - Editor (9/10/2010)
I always find time to read. Keeps me sane (...)
:laugh: Sane?

Sane is relative for ex-rugby players

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173064 More actions · Answer 8

WayneS (9/10/2010)
Brandie Tarvin (9/9/2010)
...One of the other boards I frequent ....
A traitor!:w00t:

Non-SQL Board, silly. @=Pbbt

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 9

Brandie Tarvin (9/10/2010)
WayneS (9/10/2010)
Brandie Tarvin (9/9/2010)
...One of the other boards I frequent ....
A traitor!:w00t:
Non-SQL Board, silly. @=Pbbt

NoSQL? 😛

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Sioban Krzywicki One Orange Chip Points: 27770 More actions · Answer 10

Grant Fritchey (9/10/2010)
Jack Corbett (9/10/2010)
Steve Jones - Editor (9/10/2010)
Never read about Collosus. I'm assuming this is the Xmen guy?
I always find time to read. Keeps me sane with a break from this world.
I'm not reading as much as I should, especially technical stuff. Right now in a professional development/leadership groove so I've read Tribes, Crunch Time (reviewed on my blog), and now Visioneering by Andy Stanley. I did manage to read a novel over the holiday weekend and started another. Need to read more, but usually too tired and fall asleep while doing it:doze:
Collosus is an ANCIENT spec-fic book, and the computers in it are a joke today, but when I think about computers becoming self-aware, that's the one that I always go back to.

For me it is When Harlie was One by David Gerrold. It was published in 1972, but is still an SF book I'm very fond of. The computer in it was a kind never built - a hydraulic computer. I think it is still a fun read.

When did Colossus come out and who wrote it?

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173064 More actions · Answer 11

Grant Fritchey (9/10/2010)
GilaMonster (9/10/2010)
Jeff Moden (9/10/2010)
I don't have the time to read many books but that was a good one.
Title? Author?
Here you go. First in a trilogy. Ancient stuff.

Ancient, maybe, but it looks really interesting. I may have to go look that up.

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173064 More actions · Answer 12

Alvin Ramard (9/10/2010)
Brandie Tarvin (9/10/2010)
WayneS (9/10/2010)
Brandie Tarvin (9/9/2010)
...One of the other boards I frequent ....
A traitor!:w00t:
Non-SQL Board, silly. @=Pbbt
NoSQL? 😛

Careful, you. I have the DBCC Timewarp remote and I'm not afraid to use it!

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398886 More actions · Answer 13

Stefan Krzywicki (9/10/2010)
Grant Fritchey (9/10/2010)
Jack Corbett (9/10/2010)
Steve Jones - Editor (9/10/2010)
Never read about Collosus. I'm assuming this is the Xmen guy?
I always find time to read. Keeps me sane with a break from this world.
I'm not reading as much as I should, especially technical stuff. Right now in a professional development/leadership groove so I've read Tribes, Crunch Time (reviewed on my blog), and now Visioneering by Andy Stanley. I did manage to read a novel over the holiday weekend and started another. Need to read more, but usually too tired and fall asleep while doing it:doze:
Collosus is an ANCIENT spec-fic book, and the computers in it are a joke today, but when I think about computers becoming self-aware, that's the one that I always go back to.
For me it is When Harlie was One by David Gerrold. It was published in 1972, but is still an SF book I'm very fond of. The computer in it was a kind never built - a hydraulic computer. I think it is still a fun read.
When did Colossus come out and who wrote it?

I've read that. And "When Harlie Was Two." David Gerrold is a great author. I loved his War Against the Chtorr series (written almost as an apology for inflicting Tribbles on the world). I just hope he finishes the series before he dies (he is getting long in the tooth).

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

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SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 14

Brandie, what's @=Pbbt?

It looks like Cyclops eating a bacon butty badly.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736252 More actions · Answer 15

I just read Containment (http://www.amazon.com/Containment-ebook/dp/B0039PT4BO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284128240&sr=8-3), $0.99 on Kindle, and got my son started. Really enjoyed it. Life on Venus for a closed colony.

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