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A Physicist with the Air Force

Posted by michael on from the meet-new-and-interesting-people,-and-kill-them dept.

An anonymous submitter - anonymous because of the database crash that wiped out several hours of data today, sigh - sent in this tale about the duties of a physicist during World War II.

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  1. Re:MySQL by brunes69 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Postgres is much better than MySQL for MANY reasons, so many in fact I fail to see why people still champion MySQL...

    1)Postgres is SQL-92 compliant, and supports normal DB syntax like nested selects, transactions, etc. MySQL doesn't.

    2)Postgres has a much more robust API for devolpers

    Postgres is ENTIRELY Free software, and is only licensed under the GPL, unlike MySQL, which has a commercial version, and the GPL version, and the closed source version, of which the GPL version is always behind.

    Sure, MySQL may have a bit of an edge on speed, but not by much. And when you take into account all the functionality it lacks, I don't know why anyone would shoose to limit themselves so much by using it.

  2. Re:MySQL by GypC · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Because it has a better name :P

  3. Great, just great.... by (H)elix1 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    and here I thought I just got burned on a daily CVS build of Mozilla.... now nothing builds, my browsers horked from me trying to "fix" it when slash had the problem, and I'll have to re-set every cookie I blasted away.

    Thank god I did not think it was a kernel problem....

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    +++ UGUCAUCGUAUUUCU