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  1. Re:Why does anyone use Oracle? on Oracle Bullies Enterprise Clients Into Cloud Purchases, Consultant Claims · · Score: 1

    Anyone that actually cares about their data uses Oracle or something like it. Droning on about raw speed that's probably achieved with a dubious configuration really isn't relevant to people that have serious work to do that can't be interrupted.

    If you think that MySQL is a drop in replacement for any Oracle database then you're probably missing the point entirely.

  2. Re:How much you got? on Oracle Bullies Enterprise Clients Into Cloud Purchases, Consultant Claims · · Score: 1

    Migrating to Linux does not address the Oracle issue.

    Linux is the reference platform for Oracle.

    It's an entirely orthogonal issue: OS vs RDBMS.

  3. Re: Alternative to Oracle Database on Oracle Bullies Enterprise Clients Into Cloud Purchases, Consultant Claims · · Score: 1

    Where do you get the same kind of support contract for postgres that you would for Oracle? These companies that are being bullied probably want that part of the package.

  4. Re: How much you got? on Oracle Bullies Enterprise Clients Into Cloud Purchases, Consultant Claims · · Score: 1

    Yes. I had forgotten about MySQL's rudimentary support for SQL syntax. That is certainly annoying. Although I would find it's built in backup and recovery features much more troublesome from a production support perspective.

  5. Re: How much you got? on Oracle Bullies Enterprise Clients Into Cloud Purchases, Consultant Claims · · Score: 1

    MySQL variants are only acceptable if you are willing to tolerate data loss. It is not comparable to any of the payware RDBMS products at all. It hasn't even caught up to the robustness of Oracle from the 90s. Even other libre projects are not as dire in this respect.

  6. Re:The Struggle on Is the Amazon-Led Economic Boom Wrecking Seattle? · · Score: 1

    > To be clear, I wasn't talking about the workplace.

    The same issue apply to neighborhoods. You only have so many bourgeois blacks out there and only so many total. The same goes for any other nationality or ethnicity you want to fixate on.

    Or do you want to subject yourself (and your family) to a festering hole with high crime, drug gangs, violence, neighbors who don't value education, and classmates that are thugs?

    I fled my own childhood neighborhood for the same reasons I assume that my black neighbors fled theirs.

  7. Re:Bullshit on Bumblebees Being Crushed By Climate Change · · Score: 1

    That statement is a self nuke since he's talking about 30 years ago. If the trend started 30 years ago then it is probably NOT climate change.

  8. Re:quick fix on Bumblebees Being Crushed By Climate Change · · Score: 1

    What's funny is that this was a source of hysteria in the 70s. Those bees were going to migrate up north and cause mass havoc. Not just ecological disruption mind you but actually bothering people that were nowhere near nature.

    Didn't seem to pan out. You have the occasional killer bee attack here and there but nothing too bad in the grand scheme of things.

  9. Re:Surely this is simply a natural, normal process on Bumblebees Being Crushed By Climate Change · · Score: 1

    If this is a trend that predates you then there's a strong chance it's not the current trendy thing people are fixating on NOW.

    Or have you run out of things to blame on climate change in the here and now and have to start with historical events.

  10. Re:Pollinators on Bumblebees Being Crushed By Climate Change · · Score: 1

    ...then that makes it sound like the problems with Bees predate the current trendy nonsense of blaming everything on "climate change" and the climate conditions to match.

  11. Re:No root needed on Ask Slashdot: Measuring (and Constraining) Mobile Data Use? · · Score: 2

    There are also widgets you can install that will tell you your cumulative network usage for the month. There may not be any need to panic and start fixating on what every little app is doing. Drilling down to that level of detail simply may not be necessary.

  12. Re: Like the nazi used to say on Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments · · Score: 1

    There is nothing about the AK-47 that makes it interesting to emulate. It's a cheap sloppy piece of crap along the lines of the tanks we used to make in WWII.

  13. Re: Like the nazi used to say on Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments · · Score: 1

    Abandonment is part of real property law. It's called adverse possession.

  14. Re:Sound is small on Samsung Releases First 2TB Consumer SSD For Laptops · · Score: 2

    No. It's more like a Ford Escort with a JATO engine welded to the roof.

    Although the "always in the shop" aspect of the SSDs might be spot on. Then there's the whole "you got the horses but can't actually use them" aspect of "glamour cars". Also probably a good match for SSDs.

    Perhaps your attempt to grovel at the feet of the gods of conspicuous consumption wasn't wrong after all...

  15. Re:Are these relevant? on Samsung Releases First 2TB Consumer SSD For Laptops · · Score: 1

    I have a 2TB drive in my laptop. It's more of a mobile workstation though. It's not intended to be tiny and anemic.

  16. Re:Step 1 on Samsung Releases First 2TB Consumer SSD For Laptops · · Score: 1

    I have over 2000 DVDs and BluRays and they are all nicely organized and tucked away. They take up the equivalent of a single tall IKEA bookshelf and sit in the unused bits of space along the walls of my home theater.

    Unless you live in a closet in NYC, that amount of space doesn't even register for most people.

  17. Re:Step 1 on Samsung Releases First 2TB Consumer SSD For Laptops · · Score: 1

    Oracle express limits you to 10G.

    Although you can always snag the enterprise version and go crazy with that on your own system if you really want.

  18. Re:Step 1 on Samsung Releases First 2TB Consumer SSD For Laptops · · Score: 1

    My steam folder is 250G and I'm just a poor Linux user.

    Now a LAMP server, that's something that can fit in about 4G.

  19. Re:lettice under LED grow lights? on Philips Is Revolutionizing Urban Farming With New GrowWise Indoor Farm · · Score: 1

    Chicago? Are you kidding? Chicago sprawls through several states. It's much more like Los Angeles. I bet Phily is the same way too.

  20. Re:So does this qualify as 'organic'? on Philips Is Revolutionizing Urban Farming With New GrowWise Indoor Farm · · Score: 1

    Basil also thrives outside. It grows like a weed. Plus spices in general are less prone to being eaten by your local vermin. They are really setting a low bar here.

  21. Re:So does this qualify as 'organic'? on Philips Is Revolutionizing Urban Farming With New GrowWise Indoor Farm · · Score: 1

    They don't use as much of it because they aren't using corporate monopoly seeds specifically designed to sell more chemicals made by the chemical company that owns the seed monopoly.

  22. Re:HOME ownership is key on Why Electric Vehicles Aren't More Popular · · Score: 1

    That is NOT the majority of America or Europe. Especially not Europe.

    +...and the Leaf is NOT $20K. It's $30K and up.

    Europeans drive things like Fiats and Smartcars and then park them perpendicularly.

  23. Re: The reason is more simple on Why Electric Vehicles Aren't More Popular · · Score: 2

    I am not poor and I am no longer a student. So I don't have to drive a cheap crappy car. Thus, this car gets judged based on what I already have and have had for decades already.

    It's a premium priced econobox which likely explains adoption rates.

  24. Re: The reason is more simple on Why Electric Vehicles Aren't More Popular · · Score: 1

    It also looks like an underpowered subcompact.

    I might consider test driving it in 5-10 years when it's time to replace the current vehicle. Probably would not be comfortable driving it though.

  25. Re:The reason is more simple on Why Electric Vehicles Aren't More Popular · · Score: 1

    Never heard of an egolf.

    This sounds like an exposure problem. Available options are few and far between.

    Plus many people have brand strong preferences. They may not consider Brand X under any circumstances regardless of how green and trend one of their models is. I would at least consider a VW but would never touch a Chevy.