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  1. The school is anti-Jewish teaching on Jewish School Removes Evolution Questions From Exams · · Score: 4, Informative

    Jewish teaching is all about asking questions. The entire religion is asking questions and challenging the answers. What this school is doing is wrong.

  2. What did you expect? on Judge Says You Can't Know If Google Spies For NSA · · Score: 1

    Seriously, if the NSA said that they were NOT working with Google, would you believe them? It is probably safe to assume that the NSA, CIA and a myriad of other agencies are working with other governments and companies. If they weren't, they wouldn't be doing their jobs.

  3. Re:The developers are not smart enough! on Hyperthreading Hurts Server Performance? · · Score: 1

    If you just make up crap, why don't you even make it believable? You sir are simply a troll.

  4. Re:Hyperthreading... on Hyperthreading Hurts Server Performance? · · Score: 1

    "Of course a database server isn't going to take advantage of a hyperthreaded CPU. It doesn't do any FPU at all."

    Actually MS SQL Server and Sybase ASE do use the FPU. I'm not sure about Oracle though.

    Jason L. Froebe
    Team Sybase

  5. Re:The developers are not smart enough! on Hyperthreading Hurts Server Performance? · · Score: 1

    "MS SQL was designed and likely largely tested in a single processor system and multiprocessor or HT support is somewhat less than optimal. So MS SQL is likely best tuned to single processor."

    Where did you get this wallop of information? It is not true, MS SQL Server performs very well in multiprocessor environments (not using Hyperthreading). Checkout the TPC benchmarks if you don't believe me: http://www.tpc.org/

  6. Re:YOU ARE MISSING ALOT !!! on Linux Instant Messengers · · Score: 1

    just because you don't have interest in a feature, it doesn't mean that someone doesn't have interest in it.

    While I loosely agree with the article that GAIM and the like fall short on the more 'communal' aspects of chatting, I tend to like the fvwm like feel to GAIM. Light, compact and not too terribly flashy.

    My point is that GAIM and similar chat programs, do *NOT* support *ALL* the features of the commercial ones (MSN Messenger, Yahoo, etc).

  7. tor isn't ready IMHO on Tor Named One of the Year's Best Products · · Score: 1

    apparently your traffic goes out from a single machine acting as you - if that machine is a dialup, you're screwed. there isn't any form of load balancing that I can tell. I'll revisit TOR later.

  8. Re:Linux only? on Sybase Releases Free Enterprise Database on Linux · · Score: 1

    Sybase ASE runs on multiple platforms:

    Linux
    Windows
    HPUX
    Solaris
    AIX
    etc.

    the scoop on Sybase ASE: http://www.sybase.com/ase
    http://www.sybase.com/l inux

    jason

  9. Re:Seems much more of a threat to the US than Iraq on China Goes Nuclear · · Score: 1

    > On the other hand, Iraq was a tyranical dictatorship, whose leaders and citizens are ignorant, anti-american religious zealots.

    And Kansas isn't?

  10. Re:NO WAY! on Stored Procedures - Good or Bad? · · Score: 1

    umm.... what do you think a query is? It is a set of instructions to the DBMS of how to retrieve a desired set of data. a stored procedure has less of an impact on the DBMS than an adhoc query because it is already compiled to be used by the engine.

    You have much to learn about databases and are likely trolling but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

  11. Re:Good or bad? on Stored Procedures - Good or Bad? · · Score: 1

    for small number of applications you would have a point but if you are dealing with thousands of machines in an enterprise environment, your argument falls apart. Keeping the changes in a central location with the ability to 'roll back' any of the changes quickly is the goal.

  12. Stored Procedures vs adhoc queries in apps on Stored Procedures - Good or Bad? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the applications are written in one of the various scripting languages, then this argument doesn't apply:

    One major problem with enterprise applications is that when a problem is found in an adhoc query (poorly written, a bug with the DBMS, performance related, etc) then the application would normally have to be recompiled and pushed out to the entire enterprise (could be tens of thousands of computers to push to). This isn't desirable.

    Moving the queries into stored procedures (where possible) allows you to correct the stored procedure at a central location and roll it back to the 'old' stored procedure if necessary with minimal effort.

    A good rule of thumb: use stored procedures for compiled applications

    Jason L. Froebe

  13. do you really want this? on Rendering Shrek@Home? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do you really want the MPAA to run programs on your computer?

  14. Re:I hate to rain on their parade (tm) on MySQL & Open Source Code Quality · · Score: 1

    Are you a complete idiot? Reasoning did NOT analyze ANY commercial code. They took a look at an "industry" statistic... which has no value.

    When you actually are able to read what the article says and not what you want it to say please enter the human race otherwise stay with the primates.

    jason

  15. Re:I hate to rain on their parade (tm) on MySQL & Open Source Code Quality · · Score: 1

    Kiss my ass

  16. I hate to rain on their parade (tm) on MySQL & Open Source Code Quality · · Score: 1

    This study really only shows the defects in the MySQL code base and nothing about proprietary database source code.

    The analysis of the proprietary databases' source code is by guessing as they don't have access to the proprietary source code and therefore can not make such a claim.

    While I have no doubt that the open source model is superior in development, this study, unfortunately, proves nothing. Smoke and mirrors.. :-(

    jason

  17. Re:No laws of physics broken? Let's disect... on New Battlestar Galactica - Worth a Series? · · Score: 1

    actually, no... not impossible. Think about it. Slightly adjusting the exhaust will direct the missile in another direction... but the arcs that were shown in the movie would require more adjustments - most likely gas ports such as on the fighters... just because we didnt' see them doesn't mean they weren't there

  18. Could this have been an elaborate hoax? on DIY Cruise Missile Grounded · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Hi,

    I'm sorry but I have trouble believing that the DIY cruise missle actually existed other than as a mock-up.

    Let me put it another way:

    1) person X says I can build a device
    2) person X builds website showing progress of the device
    3) person X says he is going to receive big bucks from a company
    4) person X says government stopped development and device is SOMEWHERE in country but doesn't know or can't say where

    hmmm... maybe he did build the missile and maybe he didn't.

    Jason L. Froebe

  19. derived SCO table on Linux vs. SCO: The Decision Matrix · · Score: 1

    select operating_systems.name, derived_table_1.SCO_Property,
    derived_table_1.ord ers, derived_table_1.whine,
    str_replace(legal.action, "settle", "litigate")
    from operating_systems,
    (select
    str_replace(source_code, "Linus Torvalds", "SCO Unix")
    as "SCO_Property",
    case money.company
    when "Microsoft"
    then "Do as master orders"
    when "Gates Foundation"
    then "Do as master orders"
    when "IBM"
    then "Revoke Unix license"
    when "Sun"
    then "Pretend Sun is master but do what real master orders"
    else
    "Blame Linux stole Unix source code"
    end as "Orders",
    case
    when patindex("%IBM%", developer) > 0
    then "IBM Stole it from us"
    when patindex("%Torvalds%", developer) > 0
    then "IBM Stole it from us"
    when char_length(developer) > 0
    then "IBM Stole it from us"
    else
    "IBM Stole it from us"
    end as "whine"
    from money, linux_source
    where money.time_period > "Jan 1, 1900 00:00:01" or money.company = "IBM") derived_table_1, legal, revenue where patindex("%SCO%", operating_systems.name) = 0 OR patindex("%Microsoft%", operating_systems.name) = 0 AND revenue.incoming revenue.revenue_microsoft

  20. Re:Tried this before... its a tough sell on Database Clusters for the Masses · · Score: 1

    I concur. There seems to be a great deal of misunderstanding about clusters. Especially when talking about High Availability.

    Many people think that when you have a HA cluster, that the DBMS will run faster. Not necessarily. If you have an active-active HA cluster, then you only put a load of upto 50% on the boxes because when one node fails over to the other, that single node has to do the work of both.

    Another thing that seems to be misunderstood is that HA can be handled entirely in software.. this is false for production HA clusters. You will need hardware and software support for the cluster. Shared SCSI Disk Array for instance is required by NT, Sun Solaris, HP, AIX, etc.

    jason

  21. Not there yet... on Database Clusters for the Masses · · Score: 2, Insightful

    While, I commend their efforts, what they are offering is little more than a poor man's High Availability cluster.

    The shared disk array (RAID, etc.) is just a part of implementating HA.

    My recommendation is for the developers to take a look at how it is implemented in the enterprise DBMSs (Sybase, Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2) first.

    jason

  22. AMD did *NOT* say it would void the warrantee! on AMD: No Grease For You! · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Exactly where did AMD say it would void the warrantee? All AMD said, according to the article, is that they recommend a particular type of thermal grease. They didn't even MENTION the word "warantee"!

    The author is jumping to conclusions prematurely.

    Jason

  23. HA Clusters on What High End Unix Features are Missing from Linux? · · Score: 1

    High Availability support at the hardware and os levels. Right now, there is little more than a hodge-podge set of utilities that allow us to set up a "poor man's" HA cluster.

    A standard HA cluster-aware API for applications to failover/failback.

    This is implemented quite nicely in HPUX, Solaris, AIX, and even Win2k Advanced Server (not Unix tho ;-)

    jason

  24. Re:I wonder... on TurboPower's Delphi Components Going Open · · Score: 3, Insightful

    if they contain a great deal of win32 specific code, then a while. if little or no win32 specific code, then a few weeks after release.

    jason

  25. this is wonderful news, but.... on TurboPower's Delphi Components Going Open · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Many of the components may be developed using licensed code from other companies and/or covered under 3rd party patents.

    Before we open up the champagne, let's see just how many of the components will be in a usable form for new development.

    jason