Jim Gray Is Missing 283
K-Man writes "Jim Gray, Turing Award winner and developer of many fundamental database technologies, was reported missing at sea after a short solo sailing trip to the Farallon Islands off San Francisco. Gray is manager of Microsoft's eScience group. The Coast Guard is searching for his vessel over 4,000 square miles of ocean, and there have been no distress calls or signals of any kind. Gray is 63 and a sailor with 10 years' experience."
The plot thickens! (Score:4, Funny)
Isn't reiserfs organized sort of like a database?
I know what happened.... (Score:5, Funny)
Penguins (Score:2, Funny)
Re:You don't think (Score:5, Funny)
Hm... (Score:5, Funny)
The query returned 0 results.
Sounds like... (Score:3, Funny)
Sounds like Gray's Anatomy is meeting up with Gray's Marine Biology.
Re:You don't think (Score:5, Funny)
technologist needs to use technology? (Score:3, Funny)
If he's with Microsoft then has enough $ to buy satellite comms if *really* out of cheap-to-use standard mobile range..
I wish them all the best but if they had his track and time could concentrate in that area straight away instead of 4000 sq km of guessing and save precious time..
Why don't technologists with (or even without!) money USE the readily available technology for such basic primary safety?
Re:It's OK (Score:5, Funny)
If you come to slashdot for compassion, then I DO feel sorry for you.
Uh-oh. (Score:5, Funny)
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Negative comments (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Was using MS Sailor 2007 XP (Score:4, Funny)
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Pirates! (Score:2, Funny)
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And I don't like semicolons because one time I accidentally typed "DELETE FROM Table; WHERE
Re:Good one Slashserfs (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:I know what happened.... (Score:1, Funny)
Do cartesian joins (or Descartes) have something to do with boats or ships or floods?
I had the pleasure... (Score:5, Funny)
The rest of you modding and getting modded funny can die in a fire.
Re:Was using MS Sailor 2007 XP (Score:3, Funny)
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Captains log 8:13am
* Nice weather, perfect day for sailing. Easy trip. Good time to upgrade sailboat using Windows today.
Captains log 8:57am
* Started Vista install on dock but it said "monitor revoked". Must need to upgrade to HD monitor. Cool, this old 20.1" LCD is a relic anyway. Off to Best Buy!
Captains log 10:17am
* Those guys at Best Buy are so helpful! They noticed I didn't have an HDMI video card and hooked me up with one that would work with Vista! It even works with the new DirectX 10, so that's cool. Just get the install restarted and we'll weigh anchor!!
Captains log 11:43am
* Install started out good but but died and box wont power up with every boot. Called those helpful people at Best Buy and they said I need to run the box down to Geek Squad. Be back in about 40 mins!
Captains log 2:32pm
* This must be some video card. They tech at Geek Squad said the GPU pulls 300 watts by itself, so my old power supply couldn't keep everything running. They put a 9000 watt shiny new power supply in it and boy did that sucker take off! Weeee! Time to weigh anchor!
Captains log 3:12pm
* Install started good again, but keeps freezing up when partitioning. Tech at Geek Squad said I should have about 1.5 gigs at least for the GPS software. Ok, one last trip to Best Buy and we can finally get sailing!!
Captains log 3:57pm
* Installer is running again and going good. Going to unhook anchor and take off. Won't have any GPS for now, but I think I can wing it by eye for a while. Everything should be installed shortly and we'll be up and sailing!!
Captains log 4:25pm
* Still no GPS (restarted install) but it sure feels good to be out at sea again! I think I could probably wing this whole trip without it anyway.
Captains log 5:30pm
* Wow Aero sure looks sweet!! Just a little more configuring and we'll have some GPS to guide us back at nightfall. Getting some weird error message that says "Operation completed succesfully" but the dialog is titled as an Error message with a big red X on it. Weird. Oh well, it will be fixed in the next service pack.
Captains log 7:16pm
* Restarted install a couple times after getting a message that boot.exe was no longer working, but all is well now! Even have the GPS software running, well kind of, a blue screen comes up saying "Restricted Content" any time I ease the boat in a North West direction.
Captains log 9:36pm
* Getting dark, should have made it to Farallon Islands by this time but nothing in sight. Hmm... I see a few lights from passing ships way off in the distance, but getting fewer and fewer. Sea is getting a bit rougher too. Think I'll check weather.com to see if storms are coming in.
Captains log 9:40pm
* Opened Internet Explorer, and got an error message saying my firewall was turned off. I went to control panel to check it and another message came up that said "due to an unidentified problem, windows cannot display windows firewall settings". I tried getting to weather.com anyway and all of a sudden the screen filled up with popups. Going to try and download spybot S&D. Must have a glitch.
Captains log 1:10am
* Well that's that. Everything looked to be cleaning up nicely (1200 infections) until the GPS software displayed a picture of somebody bent over stretching their asshole. God that was gross. The whole friggin works went overboard. That 9000 watt power supply went off like a Roman Candle when it hit the water! Heh.. that really felt good. Getting out the damn compass and sextant if I can find them....
Captains log 1:30am
* According to map, compass and sextant I am somewhere off the tip of the Baja peninsula. Explains what the border patrol plane was doing this far north last time the GPS software was "working"... uhh.. wtf... looks like a big Blue Wave coming...
Please show some respect! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The plot thickens! (Score:1, Funny)
SQL to the Rescue! (Score:3, Funny)
SELECT latitude,longitude FROM t_location WHERE ocean='PACIFIC' AND first_name='JIM' AND last_name='GRAY' AND status='F*CKED'
Re:I know what happened.... (Score:4, Funny)
Sure, but sometimes you're stuck with the design you're given. :) OP used name fields, so I did, too. But the query could be improved without changing the DDL.
Say, did you hear that Jim Gray is missing? I think the topic is several miles over thataway *gesturing*.
Re:Penguins (Score:3, Funny)
I know I'd be thinking "Okay, now hum 'the wheels on the bus go round and round'".
But anyway, this made me think of Red Dwarf, as so many things do.