• Sudo (unregistered) in reply to Boris Vladamir
    Boris Vladamir:
    Using language like this is why your foolish "freedom of speech" is doomed to failure. Why you abuse such a priviledge?
    A Russian Nagesh? It'll never work.
  • gahbar (unregistered) in reply to RichP

    .. square FEET?

  • QJ (unregistered) in reply to boog
    boog:
    hoodaticus:
    Nagesh:
    boog:
    hoodaticus:
    The Japanese nation had it coming. Few countries have been more deserving of nuclear bombardment, namely, Mao's China, Stalin's Russia, and Hitler's Germany.
    I'm not so sure innocent people are ever deserving of nuclear bombardment, but I get your point.
    Nuclear bombing a country never helps advance one's cause.
    It sure ended WWII pretty fast.
    And how! The rest of the world saw the U.S. and went "holy shit, those guys are pissed!". Probably a good indicator that everyone sorta needed to wrap things up for a while.

    Was it anger or was it just that the US administration were so excited to have some lovely shiny new toys to play with? Many a military undertaking has been initiated because the boys are itching to play with their new toys. Witness the excitement in the UK air force at the recent Libya conflict - they've got some new planes they wanted to test out, as reported gleefully by the BBC.

  • QJ (unregistered) in reply to gahbar
    gahbar:
    .. square FEET?

    Yeah, my dancing teacher tells me I've got square feet.

  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered)

    Must give the guy credit for his assumption that values could also be unicode algebra, rather than just purely numerical!

  • Ditto (unregistered) in reply to RichP
    RichP:
    sotian:
    TWTF not using Metric

    What makes you so sure that "Total_Length_SQFT" entries are not in meters (or m^2)?

    Simple .. the name of the column tells us that the length is measured in Square Feet ...

    :
    wait ... what?

  • Ditto (unregistered) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    Tell this retard to do us all a favor and never touch an RDBMS again.

    Yeah, let him get into politics and screw up an entire country instead ... less harm in that ..

    :)

  • (cs) in reply to RichP
    RichP:
    WthyrBendragon:
    (snip) You still have the problem that this numeric value is being stored as a VARCHAR. What's the value of "A"+32?

    (snip)

    No problem. C programmers know that "A"+32 = "a".

    Nope.

    #include <stdio.h>

int main(){
    printf("%s\n",("A"+32));
    return 0;
}

    Output bytes: 9E FF FF FF 8C 0A, YMMV. What C programmers tend to know is 'A' + 32 == 'a', though (unless they've experience with EBCDIC, the poor buggers).

  • enough (unregistered) in reply to sotian
    sotian:
    TWTF not using Metric

    The real WTF IS Metric - lazy asshats.

  • Alex (unregistered)

    because length is not the same as area

  • Almafuerte (unregistered) in reply to RichP

    SQFT = Square Feet.

    And yes, not using metrics is a serious WTF.

  • (cs) in reply to token_woman
    token_woman:
    the script kiddie:
    pet hate of mine, people getting units dimensionally wrong. especially when people quote energy usage in KW/h . That one, especially, makes me cry on the inside.

    You mean KW/h as opposed to KWh? Does this mean I've found an ally in my annoyance at the notation "24/7"? We have customers paying over the odds for 24/7 support. I'd love to take them up on it and support them for roughly 3.4 hours a week. Wednesday afternoons, preferably - I do like a long weekend.

    Right, because a slash can only mean division. Ever.

  • melv (unregistered)

    and I could assume that the quantity would be in spelled-out string, like 'three hundred and eighty-six' and there is a custom stored procedure that parses those strings into numbers ..?

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