Sure. At school, we worked on MS SQL server and we had lots of fun.
(More specifically, I got an A for not doing my session project because it was "too much" for the class MS SQL server. But we got the A anyways because when the prof looked at the SQL code, he clearly saw that I digged the matter at hand, and he also did not expect that making the database multilingual (with as many languages as you want) with a built-in dictionnary actually made the needed database much simpler, too (but at the price of more data indirection - hence the too big a load problem)...
Not really. Oracle has the 'non benchmarking' clause that prevents you from doing that. If people were able to compare it to, say, PostgreSQL, and publish the results you'd see a lot pgsql boxes replacing expensive Oracle licenses.
Yeah, sure. Okay, let's do some Oracle benchmarking, and I'll be glad to publish them on my own web server. Oracle can then try to sue me...
me: I see you were CEO of MySQL?
CEO: yes
me: And you were the force behind the partnering deal with SCO?
CEO: Yes
me: Thank you for your interest in the position, but we don't need CEO's with flawed busniess logic. Next!
You oughta have noticed by now that big companies do not have a commonsense that lies in the same reality plane as ours...
Can someone explain why I would have hooked my Blu-Ray player up to the Internet in the first place?
So it would display, say, the movie you put in it, instead of the box saying:
The video output needs to be confirmed.
Please connect your player to your phone
line so we can perform the initial play
authority confirmation, or have your sales
receipt, serial number, and remote control
handy and call 1-900-DVD-START
(A charge of $35.00 will appear on
your next telephone service invoice).
And they'll just take a couple of those tinkerers to court, destroy their lives and careers, and leave their decapitated heads on the end of a pike to either side of the doors to the MPAA headquarters in their eternal quest to subvert some of civilization's most fundamental concepts, those of property and ownership.
This only applies for american tinkerers, which are, thanks to the rising of the anti-science fundamentalist christian ostrogoth, a shrinking species anyways. There are, however, plenty of tinkerers all over the world far away from the reach of the *AA and the DMCA.
Viruses could be expected to come to the rescue. Like one which screws-up the drive so it has to be sent back for warrantee repair. When manufacturers will be swamped with "defective" drives, they will soon throw the towel, either by refusing to fix them (and then pissing-off the customers with that technology) or simply no longer making remote-disablable drives.
So what if Open Office can't support sound and multimedia? It's not like if a government would send out glitzy documents with animation!!! They're civil servants, for crying out loud! They're people who have been trained to be excessively dull, uninspiring and certainly not innovative, so the "dull" Open Office format will suit them perfectly!
According to Eva Balan, MSN's international marketing manager for MSN adCenter, advertisers pay a one-time subscription fee of S$5 (US$3) for MSN Keywords. For each keyword, they bid a minimum of S$0.10 and pay for the number of times search users click on their advertisements, which appear as sponsored links alongside search results. The placement of the links will depend on the bid price, click-through rate as well as the types of user profiles captured by the system.
...And then, they wonder why Google is more popular...
Do marketing executive brains are in the same universe???
I wanted to teach him a lesson, and thus the "Powered by Goatse" image was born. After setting Apache to serve the new picture instead, requests dropped dramatically during the next week:)
No such luck here. About a year ago, I noticed that a customs broker was linking to a logo on my website. The logo, which I made myself, is for a very prominent company that's also about 125 years old (no, it's not Bell Telephone) and a notorious croporate welfare bum.
So I replaced the icon with one that scrolled "$COMPANY_NAME, croporate welfare bum since 1881". A year later, they haven't still replaced the hot-link...
Elsewhere, whenever dopes on totally unrelated subject blogs link to my photographs (when it's related it's okay), I replace them with very explicit pictures of men having sex together. Often, the links disappear quick, but some don't...
Gas is getting so expensive that carrying the kids to school is less practical?
Though fucking noogies. You reap what you sow. If the US had not painted itself in the corner of acute petroleum dependence it would not be in such a predicament.
Those are self-inflicted wounds who will not gather a single tear of sympathy elsewhere in the world.
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No, that's not it.
OS/2 had pratically no acceptance, because Microsoft gave away the SDK for Windows 95 whilst IBM sold theirs for close to a $grand...
So many more developpers wrote win95 software, and, more importantly, more people got to know it so developping OS/2 software was harder because there were less people proficient in it.
This sound like the corporate hiring mindset, where the objective is to look for a person with specific "training" and "experience" which perfectly matches the anticipated job description.
Hey! It's "Human Ressources"... The people there are PhBs, too; they know fuck-all about the job to be done...
Which is great, but I still think that it should be IBM doing the training. If they want to make sure that companies keep buying their mainframes, then they should make sure that there are trained people out there that can go work for a company that is buying a mainframe. It seems completely in their best interest to provide the training at a reasonable cost to get those few thousand youngsters into the ranks.
Whatever happenned with the old days when one bought a computer, it was delivered with the people needed to run it???:):):):)
And what is the problem? Somebody with a proper brain and the right combination of computer science educatino and experience should have not much problems in mastering the use of those behemoths, no?
Or is it that people in IT generally suck???
"It's not attractive", I hear a geek say. Well, running big iron is bound to be expensive, so the suits should have no problem in plunking down extra green to attract more people, no?
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(More specifically, I got an A for not doing my session project because it was "too much" for the class MS SQL server. But we got the A anyways because when the prof looked at the SQL code, he clearly saw that I digged the matter at hand, and he also did not expect that making the database multilingual (with as many languages as you want) with a built-in dictionnary actually made the needed database much simpler, too (but at the price of more data indirection - hence the too big a load problem)...
Spamming, too. And writing parking tickets. Or collecting taxes.
It's a civil breach of contract.
So long, My SQL. We liked you when you were good, but nothing lasts forever...
Expect plenty of cracks from Northern Europe...
Viruses could be expected to come to the rescue. Like one which screws-up the drive so it has to be sent back for warrantee repair. When manufacturers will be swamped with "defective" drives, they will soon throw the towel, either by refusing to fix them (and then pissing-off the customers with that technology) or simply no longer making remote-disablable drives.
So what if Open Office can't support sound and multimedia? It's not like if a government would send out glitzy documents with animation!!! They're civil servants, for crying out loud! They're people who have been trained to be excessively dull, uninspiring and certainly not innovative, so the "dull" Open Office format will suit them perfectly!
Do marketing executive brains are in the same universe???
Hollywood surrenders. Film at 11.
So I replaced the icon with one that scrolled "$COMPANY_NAME, croporate welfare bum since 1881". A year later, they haven't still replaced the hot-link...
Elsewhere, whenever dopes on totally unrelated subject blogs link to my photographs (when it's related it's okay), I replace them with very explicit pictures of men having sex together. Often, the links disappear quick, but some don't...
(I actually had a story here on Slashdot, back in February, about this).
Expect some Louisiana military relief effort units to be redeployed soon to Norway, for a Search-and-Destroy operation aimed at Jon!!!
I mean, if the police is too stupid to learn other things, we really should do like the police wants.
If we'd had to listen to what the police want, we'd still be using GOPHER...
Well, mister the police, if you're too friggin stupid to cope, though noogies!!! You're not the guys calling the shots.
Though fucking noogies. You reap what you sow. If the US had not painted itself in the corner of acute petroleum dependence it would not be in such a predicament.
Those are self-inflicted wounds who will not gather a single tear of sympathy elsewhere in the world.
OS/2 had pratically no acceptance, because Microsoft gave away the SDK for Windows 95 whilst IBM sold theirs for close to a $grand...
So many more developpers wrote win95 software, and, more importantly, more people got to know it so developping OS/2 software was harder because there were less people proficient in it.
Or is it that people in IT generally suck???
"It's not attractive", I hear a geek say. Well, running big iron is bound to be expensive, so the suits should have no problem in plunking down extra green to attract more people, no?