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  New OK GO Video!
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 03-25-2010, 06:47 PM - Forum: Archived Image and Video Threads - Replies (7)

You guys remember this band?� They did the video with the treadmills a year or two back?

This time they've done an amazing Rube Goldberg machine -- this video
is all one continuous shot!� (Although given the band's
condition at the start and what happens at the end, it's pretty clear
it's not the first take.) Check it out!� (High Def version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w.)


(Oh, and an article about it from the UK's Daily Mail can be read http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... storm.html)
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

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  "Girls' Night," otaku-style
Posted by: robkelk - 03-25-2010, 01:46 PM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (2)

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/images/ ... ic-101.jpg]This week's Anime News Nina should have, at the least, a recognizable punchline...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

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  Okay, brain-picking time.
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 03-25-2010, 05:39 AM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (6)

I'm cramming for the coding test part of my second interview with the local company.  The fellow knows I'm lacking in SQL Server, and he's told me he's looking for more than just coding skill for his hire, but I want to ace this.  The actual test as described is pretty simple, even for someone like me who hasn't worked in SQL Server before.  But I've been having one persistent problem, and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.  I'm hoping someone here with SQL Server experience can tell me what it is, and how to correct it.
Setup is this:  I've using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 2008 Express Edition to set up a stored procedure for a little table -- a simulated customer base with 10 records -- that I created to run a query against.  Simple procedure, runs this query with the appropriate parameters:
    SELECT firstname, lastname, customernumber, customersince
    from dbo.dummydatabase
    where customersince between @customerstart and @customerend;
"customersince" is a datetime field, and customerstart/customerend are datetime params.  I created the stored procedure with the context menu "New Stored Procedure" option.  The little table lives in master and as you can see from the query is called "dbo.dummydatabase".  The stored procedure is in master's Stored Procedures under Programmability, and itself is called "dbo.customer_age". 
The problem is that when I try to run it from an ASP.NET page I've set up in Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, I get a "procedure not found" error.  I also get the same error inside SQL Server Management Studio from the dynamic syntax-checking system, but I can still run the procedure via a separate query despite this.  Obviously I did something wrong, but damned if I know what.  Can anyone help?
Thank you.
(Edit:  Corrected vague/incomplete terminology.)
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

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  We Can Now PRINT ORGANS
Posted by: Epsilon - 03-25-2010, 03:35 AM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (9)

I will repeat that. We can now print organs.
Welcome to the future everyone. Enjoy your stay.
-----------------
Epsilon

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  Alien vs Pooh
Posted by: RMH999 - 03-24-2010, 11:04 PM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (8)

http://godxiliary.com/alienvspooh/
"Tigger did what Tiggers do best - Operate hydraulic exoskeletons"
My brain hurts now...
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein

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  Random sketchbook bits
Posted by: firvulag - 03-24-2010, 06:36 AM - Forum: Fenspace - Replies (3)

What it says on the tin, a few fenspace related pieces from my sketchbook:
[Image: ssam.jpg]
[Image: crystal_tokyo.jpg]
[Image: random_super.jpg]
[Image: mars.jpg]
Huh, that pyramid really didn't turn out too well.
--
"There is no such thing as a tough child, Madam, if prepared correctly."
   -- W. C. Fields

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  The Marvelman/Miracleman Gordian Knot Is Cut
Posted by: Evil Midnight Lurker - 03-24-2010, 04:06 AM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (2)

As it turns out?  Mick Anglo never actually sold anyone the rights.  This entire legal nightmare has been over nothing. o.O;
Marvel promptly licensed the property from Mr. Anglo and is planning to, at the very least, reprint some of the pre-Moore stuff.
--Sam
"I threw him at a planet."

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  I Want One, If Only To Boggle Onlookers
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 03-23-2010, 09:14 PM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (15)

A cellphone that looks like an old-fashioned black rotary phone.  And acts and sounds like one, too.  Except for the, you know, not-wired-to-a-wall thing.  (Actually, and even better, it's a real rotary phone that's been hacked into a cellphone.)

-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

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  Bunch of minis and stuff up for sale
Posted by: ECSNorway - 03-23-2010, 04:46 AM - Forum: Marketplace - Replies (1)

Got a bunch of stuff up. Bab5, JovianChronicles/HeavyGear, StarWars...
Link to the Bartertown Thread
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

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  Kaijuu class Cockroach any one?
Posted by: itsune9tl - 03-22-2010, 10:59 PM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play - Replies (1)


While it has probably been suggested already,
"The Cockroach That ate Cincinatti."
Should summon one(1) cockroach size limited by Doug's AoE.

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