October 1, 2012 at 1:52 am
L' Eomot Inversé (9/28/2012)
ChrisM@Work (9/28/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (9/28/2012)
laurie-789651 (9/28/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (9/28/2012)
Grant Fritchey (9/27/2012)
THREADIZENS!Who is going to make it to any of the SQL in the City events coming up in the next week+?
If you do one in Brussels (capital of Europe :-D), I'll be there for sure.
Grant asked who'd come furthest in one session in London, & some people had come from Brussels specially for the day - so that's no excuse 😀
I know, they were two colleagues of mine 🙂
If you make the next one, I'll buy you a proper English beer 😀
If we had one somewhere civilised instead of that awful place, you could buy him a proper Scottish beer.
Actually, even in the uncivilised deep south (Cheshire) we sometimes get Fraoch beer - but only at beer festivals.
Or we could follow Koen's suggestion, and go somewhere semi-civilised (and get Belgian beer); I regard Brussels as more civilised than England. A lot less civilised than Munchen, though - Schneider dunkles weisse is better than anything in England, never mind anything in Brussels.
I guess the Belgians are good at sprouts though - and it's probably impossible to be good at both sprouts and beer (it's obviously easy to be bad at both - just look at England).
Some Scottish beers are hard to beat, Tom - Deuchars IPA has been one of my favourites for a few years, and have you tried any of Cairngorm Brewing Company's offerings yet? Very promising. On the other hand, you know my opinion of the Fraoch Heather Ale. It's a little like fermented sprouts 😉
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October 1, 2012 at 1:59 am
ChrisM@Work (10/1/2012)
L' Eomot Inversé (9/28/2012)
ChrisM@Work (9/28/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (9/28/2012)
laurie-789651 (9/28/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (9/28/2012)
Grant Fritchey (9/27/2012)
THREADIZENS!Who is going to make it to any of the SQL in the City events coming up in the next week+?
If you do one in Brussels (capital of Europe :-D), I'll be there for sure.
Grant asked who'd come furthest in one session in London, & some people had come from Brussels specially for the day - so that's no excuse 😀
I know, they were two colleagues of mine 🙂
If you make the next one, I'll buy you a proper English beer 😀
If we had one somewhere civilised instead of that awful place, you could buy him a proper Scottish beer.
Actually, even in the uncivilised deep south (Cheshire) we sometimes get Fraoch beer - but only at beer festivals.
Or we could follow Koen's suggestion, and go somewhere semi-civilised (and get Belgian beer); I regard Brussels as more civilised than England. A lot less civilised than Munchen, though - Schneider dunkles weisse is better than anything in England, never mind anything in Brussels.
I guess the Belgians are good at sprouts though - and it's probably impossible to be good at both sprouts and beer (it's obviously easy to be bad at both - just look at England).
Some Scottish beers are hard to beat, Tom - Deuchars IPA has been one of my favourites for a few years, and have you tried any of Cairngorm Brewing Company's offerings yet? Very promising. On the other hand, you know my opinion of the Fraoch Heather Ale. It's a little like fermented sprouts 😉
There is a separate Beer Cooler Thread you know: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1308613-61-1.aspx
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October 2, 2012 at 3:39 am
HowardW (10/2/2012)
Anyone else eagerly awaiting this?
Not me. Banks is over-rated and over-priced. I'll wait until I can pick up a (paper) copy for £2 or less in a charity shop, or for €3 in bookswap (and it'll go back to one or the other as soon as I've read it, I don't give Banks shelf-space).
Have to say, getting increasingly irate about e-book pricing. Why do I have to pay 50p more, given all the costs of printing, distributing and shipping a physical hardback, to have a non-transferable lease of an electric copy?
That's easily answered: because the publisher (Orbit) is supremely greedy. Like many publishers. Just think yourself lucky you aren't in the US, where Orbit appear to want $2.05 more for the Kindle edition than for the hardback.
If you want cheap e-books look at a different publisher. Baen is pretty good if you are into SF - thrir e-books have no DRM, are available in lots of formats. If you want to switch from kindle to MSreader for example, just go back to the Baen site and get the MSreader version, they know that you bought the kindle one so there's no charge for the MSreader one - or if you have a converter just convert it (there are converters on the web, of course). If your kindle gets dropped in midatlantic and you lose all your ebooks you can get a new copies of the Baen ones, you've already bought it and there's no charge for another copy. The ebooks are cheaper than the paperback editions - in fact some of them are free.
Tom
October 2, 2012 at 4:11 am
HowardW (10/2/2012)
Anyone else eagerly awaiting this?Have to say, getting increasingly irate about e-book pricing. Why do I have to pay 50p more, given all the costs of printing, distributing and shipping a physical hardback, to have a non-transferable lease of an electric copy?
Not quite as eagerly as I would have been 10 years or so ago when Banks was setting new ground with his Culture series. Still, very enjoyable - as opposed to Raw Spirit, which was irritatingly narcissistic. The Wasp Factory and Espedair Street will be good for years to come. Quite a spectrum for a single writer.
For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
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Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden
October 2, 2012 at 5:31 am
L' Eomot Inversé (10/2/2012)
Not me. Banks is over-rated and over-priced. I'll wait until I can pick up a (paper) copy for £2 or less in a charity shop, or for €3 in bookswap (and it'll go back to one or the other as soon as I've read it, I don't give Banks shelf-space).Have to say, getting increasingly irate about e-book pricing. Why do I have to pay 50p more, given all the costs of printing, distributing and shipping a physical hardback, to have a non-transferable lease of an electric copy?
That's easily answered: because the publisher (Orbit) is supremely greedy. Like many publishers. Just think yourself lucky you aren't in the US, where Orbit appear to want $2.05 more for the Kindle edition than for the hardback.
If you want cheap e-books look at a different publisher. Baen is pretty good if you are into SF - thrir e-books have no DRM, are available in lots of formats. If you want to switch from kindle to MSreader for example, just go back to the Baen site and get the MSreader version, they know that you bought the kindle one so there's no charge for the MSreader one - or if you have a converter just convert it (there are converters on the web, of course). If your kindle gets dropped in midatlantic and you lose all your ebooks you can get a new copies of the Baen ones, you've already bought it and there's no charge for another copy. The ebooks are cheaper than the paperback editions - in fact some of them are free.
Yeah, I use Calibre as a converter, which works pretty well. I'd happily go to other publishers, but I want to read what I want to read and as usual with digital distribution, it's screwed consumers (music and film are just as bad). I struggle to see how agency pricing is anything short of blatant price fixing. Doesn't help that e-books have 20% VAT added to them in the UK and paper books are VAT free.
October 2, 2012 at 5:47 am
ChrisM@Work (10/2/2012)
HowardW (10/2/2012)
Anyone else eagerly awaiting this?Not quite as eagerly as I would have been 10 years or so ago when Banks was setting new ground with his Culture series. Still, very enjoyable - as opposed to Raw Spirit, which was irritatingly narcissistic. The Wasp Factory and Espedair Street will be good for years to come. Quite a spectrum for a single writer.
Agreed, one of my favourite writers overall, but his non-SF novels are quite variable in quality.
I don't think the recent few SF novels have reached the same level as Consider Phlebas & Excession, but they're still consistently enjoyable, ambitious books. I love the Culture universe as a concept and the AI is well imagined.
October 2, 2012 at 5:50 am
jcrawf02 (9/28/2012)
Kiara (9/28/2012)
Grant Fritchey (9/27/2012)
THREADIZENS!Who is going to make it to any of the SQL in the City events coming up in the next week+?
I'd be at the Chicago event, except that I'll be in another city. I'm still sulking about that.
This looks like a fun, never-ending game. I'd be in Timbuktu, but I'm somewhere else. :hehe:
LOL - except that I live in the Chicago area... 😉
-Ki
October 2, 2012 at 12:56 pm
Listen... do you smell something?
Dang it's quiet around here today...
Everyone travelling to Chicago or something?
🙂
October 2, 2012 at 1:04 pm
jasona.work (10/2/2012)
Listen... do you smell something?
Dang it's quiet around here today...
Everyone travelling to Chicago or something?
🙂
Is that what that smell is?
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October 3, 2012 at 4:03 am
Koen Verbeeck (9/28/2012)
I know Europe is small, that's why we shipped all the village idiots to another continent to make more room 😀
That would be Australia, right?
@=)
October 3, 2012 at 4:05 am
HowardW (10/2/2012)
Anyone else eagerly awaiting this?Have to say, getting increasingly irate about e-book pricing. Why do I have to pay 50p more, given all the costs of printing, distributing and shipping a physical hardback, to have a non-transferable lease of an electric copy?
Do you really want me to get into all the arguments about ebook pricing?
EDIT: Nevermind. I didn't realize you were saying the Kindle books cost more than the print books. That is a little weird.
October 3, 2012 at 4:09 am
Brandie Tarvin (10/3/2012)
HowardW (10/2/2012)
Anyone else eagerly awaiting this?Have to say, getting increasingly irate about e-book pricing. Why do I have to pay 50p more, given all the costs of printing, distributing and shipping a physical hardback, to have a non-transferable lease of an electric copy?
Do you really want me to get into all the arguments about ebook pricing?
Actually, I'm quite interested in what an author thinks about it....
October 3, 2012 at 4:42 am
Brandie Tarvin (10/3/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (9/28/2012)
I know Europe is small, that's why we shipped all the village idiots to another continent to make more room 😀That would be Australia, right?
@=)
No, those were our criminals 🙂
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October 3, 2012 at 4:50 am
Koen Verbeeck (10/3/2012)
Brandie Tarvin (10/3/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (9/28/2012)
I know Europe is small, that's why we shipped all the village idiots to another continent to make more room 😀That would be Australia, right?
@=)
No, those were our criminals 🙂
Most of ours went East 😀
For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden
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