Aren't you being a bit hypocritical, hanging out here on slashdot? You're basically espousing the idea that any kind of technological advancement is bad (because it's all creative, after all). So why are you on a computer?
Or perhaps you could look at it the other way - that by creating things, we're honoring the Creator (imitation being the sincerest form of flattery and all that).
Well, what about income tax? This was supposed to be a temporary measure during the war to help pay for it. Now it seems that we're stuck with it forever.
Tax sucks. The government basically steals money from people and then wastes it. We get taxed on our income, then we get taxed when we buy goods. Those goods themselves have already been taxed several times (the raw materials are taxed, the fabricated materials are taxed, the final sales are taxed, then there's shipping etc).
It seems like for each $1 you earn, you actually get maybe $.10 of buying power out of it.
We need less taxes and less stupid waste, not more taxes.
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We use Oracle at work and are *seriously* looking to dump it in favor of something like Postgres. In fact, the guy leading this expedition is an Oracle DBA vetran.
Yes, Oracle is the giant of the DB world. But that's not always a good thing (can you say Microsoft? I knew you could!:). Oracle licenses get ridiculous when you start getting into larger machines. We've got it running on some Sun Entriprise 450 & 4500 machines, and they multiply the cost BY THE CPU and BY THE CLOCK. So a multiprocessor license gets REALLY expensive. I'm talking 7 figures.
Oracle is quite fast. Oracle has full transaction support and row-level locking. And Oracle supports Linux (yay!). However, compared to, say, MySQL, Oracle has a primitive installation environment (I prefer configure && make install) and less than clear documentation. I've installed 8 then 8i, and both times had trouble with the libclntsh (it's their programming API called OCI). It was missing a bunch of symbol info that I had to track down with nm through all of their libraries and rebuild clntsh myself.
Anyway, the cost of licenses & support is really hurting. Not to mention that development is somewhat more lively in the Open Source world.
What would be REALLY nice would be something like Postgres that was designed to be run in a Beowulf cluster. Now THAT would kick ass all overy every DB out there.
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Exactly - why not just: finger johnc@idsoftware.com or even finger @idsoftware.com to get a directory. Who needs the web page?
Actually, if you grep through the code for the installer you'll find that it actually uses RPM. So everyone's panic about yet another installer is unwarrented. It might be a good idea for people to look into things a bit before flying off the handle.
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GmbH is a german corporate designation, like Inc or Ltd.
Keep in mind that if it has a USB port, you can add just about any device you want. Keyboard, mouse, new camera, etc.
Aren't you being a bit hypocritical, hanging out here on slashdot? You're basically espousing the idea that any kind of technological advancement is bad (because it's all creative, after all). So why are you on a computer?
Or perhaps you could look at it the other way - that by creating things, we're honoring the Creator (imitation being the sincerest form of flattery and all that).
Actually, I heard "Out of sight, out of mind" translated as "invisible idiot".
Well, what about income tax? This was supposed to be a temporary measure during the war to help pay for it. Now it seems that we're stuck with it forever.
Tax sucks. The government basically steals money from people and then wastes it. We get taxed on our income, then we get taxed when we buy goods. Those goods themselves have already been taxed several times (the raw materials are taxed, the fabricated materials are taxed, the final sales are taxed, then there's shipping etc).
It seems like for each $1 you earn, you actually get maybe $.10 of buying power out of it.
We need less taxes and less stupid waste, not more taxes.
Yes, Oracle is the giant of the DB world. But that's not always a good thing (can you say Microsoft? I knew you could! :). Oracle licenses get ridiculous when you start getting into larger machines. We've got it running on some Sun Entriprise 450 & 4500 machines, and they multiply the cost BY THE CPU and BY THE CLOCK. So a multiprocessor license gets REALLY expensive. I'm talking 7 figures.
Oracle is quite fast. Oracle has full transaction support and row-level locking. And Oracle supports Linux (yay!). However, compared to, say, MySQL, Oracle has a primitive installation environment (I prefer configure && make install) and less than clear documentation. I've installed 8 then 8i, and both times had trouble with the libclntsh (it's their programming API called OCI). It was missing a bunch of symbol info that I had to track down with nm through all of their libraries and rebuild clntsh myself.
Anyway, the cost of licenses & support is really hurting. Not to mention that development is somewhat more lively in the Open Source world.
What would be REALLY nice would be something like Postgres that was designed to be run in a Beowulf cluster. Now THAT would kick ass all overy every DB out there.
Exactly - why not just: finger johnc@idsoftware.com or even finger @idsoftware.com to get a directory. Who needs the web page?
Calm down. It uses RPM. It even creates an uninstall script which also uses rpm.
Actually, if you grep through the code for the installer you'll find that it actually uses RPM. So everyone's panic about yet another installer is unwarrented. It might be a good idea for people to look into things a bit before flying off the handle.