watching a couple of lawyers talk about anything other than the area they have a specialty in is like watching a retarded chimp pee into his own mouth.
One could argue that the latter has more competence in the matter.
Well, you may run into problems with the intelligent TV's. While I think there are TV's with max volume limits (saw something somewhere), in the 80's someone produced a VCR which could recognize commercials based on the loudness and skip over them. This was banned because it was "anti-competitive". The entertainment business has some influencial friends.
We moved to PostgresSQL 8 months ago. It is significantly faster for our application. I agree, I enjoy the dicussions on MySQL and enjoy the fact that it doesn't affect me. In fact, I would expect Postgresql to get more popular now and maybe even take over the MySQL market.
I don't think anyone is thinking Oracle wants to kill MySQL. But, it is likely that they will make sure that it doesn't compete with their bread and butter. That puts a cap on the capabilities in the enterprise but leaves it wide open for the Web.
Oracle has owned and maintained InnoDB and shown a good track record. But, when you look closely, the transaction performance of InnoDB has never been that good and that seems to play into Oracles hand. I would expect Oracle to continue to develop it, but never let it get good enough to compete angainst it's flagship DB.
Same thing in Germany. They also get a cut on anything that could be used to play music, which means they get a cut on your computer, your harddrive, your modem/router (because you could use it download music), USB sticks, CD's, DVD's and so on. What a racket.
Not just the youth. Alot of people, especially senior citizens, only use the internet. Of course, netbook screens are too small for them, but the concept of an internet oriented laptop with low power usage and a low price is very appealing to them.
Google is just being open about what they collect. Do you really think MS would admit that? Given the choice of trust between MS and Google, I'll take Google any day.
The reason most Windows-based PCs are infected is also due to the ignorance of users.
I have Ubuntu Linux and Vista. Most of my surfing and work is done on Ubuntu. Still, my vista box got infected with a Key logger even though I rarely use it, I've been a software engineer for 27 years so I don't think I fall into the category of ignorant on this front. I use a separate non-admin account on Vista, as well, and still it got infected just because it's connected to the web.
As I was reading the summary above my first thought was that the Windows appologists are going to jump all over this.
I run Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux at home. At work we have 60 Linux boxes and about 10 Windows boxes. The Windows boxes have current AV software and the firewall turned on. My Vista laptop got infected with a keyboard logger and the only additional software I installed on it was Skype and Adobe Reader.
The Windows boxes at work get viruses all the time without anyone entering in a admin password. They just get infected. To infect a Linux box, you will have to enter a password at some point and install some software. The Windows boxes get infected just being connected to the Web.
I know one guy who reinstalls Windows every year because his PC gets infected and become unusable, despite AV software. Yet, being an MS apologist, he simply believes the company line that poor MS is only so virus-ridden because everyone picks on it because it's so successful. One year, he called me up, because, after spending a day trying to get everything reinstalled, he couldn't get his network card to work and he needed the driver for that to connect to the internet to get the other drivers. I used my Linux box to download the Windows drivers for him. In a short weekend, he was able surf the internet again with an uninfected PC. Oh wait, actually he called me back to say he was still having problems. His PC was infected again in the course of the first day!
Malware problem is usually because of user stupidity.
Well, I have to disagree with that. I use Windows Vista using and I have virus protection and I surf using a non-privileged account. I only use the admin account to admin the machine. I also have a linux box from which I do most of my work and internet surfing. The Windows Laptop is used when I'm on the road. Still, despite doing all the "right" things and not downloading EXE files or Office documents from people I don't know, Vista still got infected with a keystroke tracker which the AV software didn't pick up.
My Linux box, from which I do the majority of my work and surfing, has remained uninfected, despite the fact that it has non AV software. We also have 50+ Linux boxes at the company which have remained uninfected since 2002.
The moral of the story is that Malware is very well due to MS's poor security framework.
That's probably true. And, I suspect, that none of them really have much of a choice. I figured Google and the last admin had made a deal when Google's plane got a parking spot at a government airport near their headquarters.
In Germany, the health care system is actually pretty efficient. You have a standardized card which all the insurers use. All the doctors, hospitals and other providers are linked and there is a standard reader for the card.
I had a chance to compare the two systems once. I went to the emergency room in Germany late at night. Within a few minutes a nurse put me on a gurney, brought me to a doctor and, while I was being treated, asked who my insurer was and took my card and information. I was sent to radiology, back to the doctor and was finished in less than an hour.
One time in the states, I also had a nightly visit to the emergency room. First, I had to call my insurer to get the okay that I could go. I was on hold for 20 minutes and decided to just go and risk having to pay for it my self. I didn't hang up, I just left the phone on the table. I drove to the hospital. I filled out forms with the same personal information three times, no exaggeration. After a long wait of over two hours, I got to see the doctor for five minutes. The whole process took three hours. When I got back home I was still on hold waiting for the next available representative to take my call.
I take issue with the comparison between a Webmaster and a Firefighter. A firefighter gets paid for hanging around, mostly, then being put in harms way when there's a fire. A webmaster has a 40 hour full work week. If you hire a webmaster who's only job is to wait provide emergency on call help, then it would be a different story. If it's an occasional call, of course, then, I wouldn't make a big deal about it.
If only life were so simple. The code that the bank wrote may very well have gone through independent code reviewed in house, but the error might have been in a library, it might have been in an odd combination of events that noone could have foreseen. It's easy to be a Monday Night quarterback on these things but a large software system has an almost infinite number of possibilities that a programmer or a group of programmers will never be able to see.
"A computer-implemented method, comprising: associating a sparkline with a location in a document to provide a visual representation of one or more data values included in the document"
You mean like icons in my JTable? Oh crap, I should have patented that.
There are a large number of users, myself included, who don't need the power or price of Photoshop, but do need more than simple editing tools. Gimp is perfect for that.
But, you'll still be able to download it from the repository so it's just a click away.
"Zero-day" refers to the time the dev team had to correct the bug.
Actually, since most hackers with ill intentions don't announce a vulnerability they've found, who knows how long the vulnerability has existed and how long it's been abused? There is plenty of malware which virus scanners don't even recognize but that doesn't mean they don't attack your system. All of our email boxes (Windows boxes connected to the internet) were infected by a virus which was first discovered nine-months later. At that time it was recognized that it had been around for a while.
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Will they label it with number 6 when it finally come out of beta closet?
Version 6 is the release that will have the Falcon Engine which is supposed to come closer to PostgreSQL performance.
My thoughts exactly. "Near-asynchronous" sounds like it's still synchronous.
watching a couple of lawyers talk about anything other than the area they have a specialty in is like watching a retarded chimp pee into his own mouth.
One could argue that the latter has more competence in the matter.
I'd much rather just have intelligent TVs
Well, you may run into problems with the intelligent TV's. While I think there are TV's with max volume limits (saw something somewhere), in the 80's someone produced a VCR which could recognize commercials based on the loudness and skip over them. This was banned because it was "anti-competitive". The entertainment business has some influencial friends.
Wow, that's weird.
We moved to PostgresSQL 8 months ago. It is significantly faster for our application. I agree, I enjoy the dicussions on MySQL and enjoy the fact that it doesn't affect me. In fact, I would expect Postgresql to get more popular now and maybe even take over the MySQL market.
I don't think anyone is thinking Oracle wants to kill MySQL. But, it is likely that they will make sure that it doesn't compete with their bread and butter. That puts a cap on the capabilities in the enterprise but leaves it wide open for the Web.
Oracle has owned and maintained InnoDB and shown a good track record. But, when you look closely, the transaction performance of InnoDB has never been that good and that seems to play into Oracles hand. I would expect Oracle to continue to develop it, but never let it get good enough to compete angainst it's flagship DB.
Same thing in Germany. They also get a cut on anything that could be used to play music, which means they get a cut on your computer, your harddrive, your modem/router (because you could use it download music), USB sticks, CD's, DVD's and so on. What a racket.
Not just the youth. Alot of people, especially senior citizens, only use the internet. Of course, netbook screens are too small for them, but the concept of an internet oriented laptop with low power usage and a low price is very appealing to them.
Google is just being open about what they collect. Do you really think MS would admit that? Given the choice of trust between MS and Google, I'll take Google any day.
The reason most Windows-based PCs are infected is also due to the ignorance of users.
I have Ubuntu Linux and Vista. Most of my surfing and work is done on Ubuntu. Still, my vista box got infected with a Key logger even though I rarely use it, I've been a software engineer for 27 years so I don't think I fall into the category of ignorant on this front. I use a separate non-admin account on Vista, as well, and still it got infected just because it's connected to the web.
As I was reading the summary above my first thought was that the Windows appologists are going to jump all over this.
I run Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux at home. At work we have 60 Linux boxes and about 10 Windows boxes. The Windows boxes have current AV software and the firewall turned on. My Vista laptop got infected with a keyboard logger and the only additional software I installed on it was Skype and Adobe Reader.
The Windows boxes at work get viruses all the time without anyone entering in a admin password. They just get infected. To infect a Linux box, you will have to enter a password at some point and install some software. The Windows boxes get infected just being connected to the Web.
I know one guy who reinstalls Windows every year because his PC gets infected and become unusable, despite AV software. Yet, being an MS apologist, he simply believes the company line that poor MS is only so virus-ridden because everyone picks on it because it's so successful. One year, he called me up, because, after spending a day trying to get everything reinstalled, he couldn't get his network card to work and he needed the driver for that to connect to the internet to get the other drivers. I used my Linux box to download the Windows drivers for him. In a short weekend, he was able surf the internet again with an uninfected PC. Oh wait, actually he called me back to say he was still having problems. His PC was infected again in the course of the first day!
Malware problem is usually because of user stupidity.
Well, I have to disagree with that. I use Windows Vista using and I have virus protection and I surf using a non-privileged account. I only use the admin account to admin the machine. I also have a linux box from which I do most of my work and internet surfing. The Windows Laptop is used when I'm on the road. Still, despite doing all the "right" things and not downloading EXE files or Office documents from people I don't know, Vista still got infected with a keystroke tracker which the AV software didn't pick up.
My Linux box, from which I do the majority of my work and surfing, has remained uninfected, despite the fact that it has non AV software. We also have 50+ Linux boxes at the company which have remained uninfected since 2002.
The moral of the story is that Malware is very well due to MS's poor security framework.
That's probably true. And, I suspect, that none of them really have much of a choice. I figured Google and the last admin had made a deal when Google's plane got a parking spot at a government airport near their headquarters.
Now that Yahoo = Microsoft, is anyone surprised?
What the hell is bing??
Dunno, I'm gunna google "Bing" and find out what it is.
In Germany, the health care system is actually pretty efficient. You have a standardized card which all the insurers use. All the doctors, hospitals and other providers are linked and there is a standard reader for the card.
I had a chance to compare the two systems once. I went to the emergency room in Germany late at night. Within a few minutes a nurse put me on a gurney, brought me to a doctor and, while I was being treated, asked who my insurer was and took my card and information. I was sent to radiology, back to the doctor and was finished in less than an hour.
One time in the states, I also had a nightly visit to the emergency room. First, I had to call my insurer to get the okay that I could go. I was on hold for 20 minutes and decided to just go and risk having to pay for it my self. I didn't hang up, I just left the phone on the table. I drove to the hospital. I filled out forms with the same personal information three times, no exaggeration. After a long wait of over two hours, I got to see the doctor for five minutes. The whole process took three hours. When I got back home I was still on hold waiting for the next available representative to take my call.
I take issue with the comparison between a Webmaster and a Firefighter. A firefighter gets paid for hanging around, mostly, then being put in harms way when there's a fire. A webmaster has a 40 hour full work week. If you hire a webmaster who's only job is to wait provide emergency on call help, then it would be a different story. If it's an occasional call, of course, then, I wouldn't make a big deal about it.
If only life were so simple. The code that the bank wrote may very well have gone through independent code reviewed in house, but the error might have been in a library, it might have been in an odd combination of events that noone could have foreseen. It's easy to be a Monday Night quarterback on these things but a large software system has an almost infinite number of possibilities that a programmer or a group of programmers will never be able to see.
Microsoft continues their "CaptiveX Technology with Windows Exploder".
"A computer-implemented method, comprising: associating a sparkline with a location in a document to provide a visual representation of one or more data values included in the document"
You mean like icons in my JTable? Oh crap, I should have patented that.
Gotta disagree with you there. MS just got a patent for a GUI version of sudo. They are on a crusade now.
There are a large number of users, myself included, who don't need the power or price of Photoshop, but do need more than simple editing tools. Gimp is perfect for that.
But, you'll still be able to download it from the repository so it's just a click away.
"Zero-day" refers to the time the dev team had to correct the bug.
Actually, since most hackers with ill intentions don't announce a vulnerability they've found, who knows how long the vulnerability has existed and how long it's been abused? There is plenty of malware which virus scanners don't even recognize but that doesn't mean they don't attack your system. All of our email boxes (Windows boxes connected to the internet) were infected by a virus which was first discovered nine-months later. At that time it was recognized that it had been around for a while.