Yes. How DARE we criticize "job creators" and our corporate overlords!
Don't confuse the success of their RDBMS product with any ability to deliver on promises in ANY other area. Even those of us that are fans of their RDBMS will readily admit that they fall down pretty much completely anywhere else.
Your adoring attitude of Oracle is EXACTLY why they get these contracts that they don't really deserve. It's a cult of marketing that leads to their product being used even when it is gross overkill.
For projects that don't warrant a 60K per CPU database, MySQL is a very respectable product.
I'm really having trouble figuring out what a heart condition has to do with a guys throat or cancer in general. If this is for real, then this is the kind of crap and nonsense that is driving people to socialized medicine. If true, the insurance companies are running amok and state regulators are not doing their job.
"Big Government" steps in when the market and state governments fail.
Big Government gets a lot of criticism while Big Business gets a free pass and is allowed to act without any oversight or regard to it's customers, it's employees, or society at large.
This situation is a clear example of "Big Business screws the little guy".
Most of that stuff are things that Oracle bought. They weren't produced by the Oracle hive mind, they were produced somewhere else. They aren't Oracle products really.
The core RDBMS is solid but things quickly degenerate once you get much beyond that.
I would describe it as being a Patron. Nobody is expecting a share of the profits. That's what separates an investment from what is essentially charity. You are collectively playing the role of Cosimo de' Medici, not Bill Gates.
Law and Order ties into this as it creates a framework in which the market can function. Without the market, you just have bullies running amok and stealing from those that try to create value. The system needs to be regulated so that it's predictable and people are able to retain the rewards of their efforts.
Jesus was born into a highly literate culture where you weren't expected to blindly follow anything. He would probably be appalled by a number of the more mindless factions of Christianity.
> Not in Germany, or Scandinavia, or Canada, or even the United States between 1930 and 1980. Militating against your perception is the fact that unionized jurisdictions uniformly have higher median real incomes and standards of living.
No they don't. They have lower standards of living and lower real incomes. Much of this is driven by the (oddly) higher cost of living inherent in high density urban centers and the amplified tax burdens in more union friendly nations.
You might be lucky enough to get more "downtime" but have no money to really do anything with it.
> Wrong, I consider my private property to be my private property and I treat my employees well enough for them to work for m
Well. Fortunately we don't live in a feudal society anymore and there's some limits to your raving megalomania there. There's such a thing as law and order and equality and no one is above the law.
Although such things are the only thing that allow petty Robber Baron wannabees like you to even exist in the first place. Otherwise, you would just get crushed under the heel of a bigger bully.
> Or, you'd treat your wife or girlfriend with respect.
You're assuming that no female is capable of "sharing". It's almost like you are attributing an anti-bellum notion of female moral purity to women. How chauvanistic of you.
Also, it was his successor that started the arms race with a bunch of mindless bluster directed at the west. Stalin was gone by the time the nuclear arms race got started.
He's a modern day Marie Antoinette. He's trying to conflate decent paid working schmucks with the 1% while completely neglecting the real source of wealth/income inequality in our society.
When ideas like this lead to bloodshed, he should be at the head of the line.
If that's the best you've go then we're in a pretty good position really. If you've got to go digging that far back then you aren't terribly good at finding our faults. That much is certain.
There's a wide gap between "you will work for free" and an expansive intellectual property regime that's worse than Robber Barons on the Rhine river where you get taxed every 5 feet for nothing.
NOBODY is even talking about "working for free" here. This is about stuff that is older than you are. The only people (potentially) making money are mooches.
> I have no idea where the idea came from that the music publishers didn't have to renegotiate contracts to get digital rights to the music.
For example: Def Leppard started cloning their 80s works in order to avoid getting a raw deal on them being published as MP3s. Clearly whatever contract they signed in the 80s managed to to be broad enough to cover a means of distribution that no one even dreamed up yet.
You can do that if you have a smart lawyer. You don't have to mention iTunes by name in 1983 or 1964.
Much like many men in his position, charity is just a public relations whitewash. This is expecially obvious when all of this occurs in their "retirement". Of course Gates didn't invent this idea, he swiped it from someone else.
Plenty of people choose to avoid the goldrush mentality of California. That's why most people live other places. There's just lots more of "everywhere else". So supply and demand works out in our favor.
OK. So who here has ever had their house burn down? ANYONE?
[crickets chirp]
Once you've got more than one copy of something it's trivial for even the biggest technical rube to sneakernet it somewhere else. On the other hand, it's terribly cumbersome to copy much of anything into the cloud.
> Certainly not ease of access across multiple devices in and out of your own network or away from your own storage. Certainly not for backup, without investing in your own off-site recovery method.
Make a friend. Store it at his house.
Rent a safety deposit box.
Buy a fire safe.
Mail a copy to your mother's house.
The problem with "the cloud" is recovery speed. Upload speeds aren't that great either.
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> Then bashing a successful business like oracle.
Yes. How DARE we criticize "job creators" and our corporate overlords!
Don't confuse the success of their RDBMS product with any ability to deliver on promises in ANY other area. Even those of us that are fans of their RDBMS will readily admit that they fall down pretty much completely anywhere else.
Your adoring attitude of Oracle is EXACTLY why they get these contracts that they don't really deserve. It's a cult of marketing that leads to their product being used even when it is gross overkill.
For projects that don't warrant a 60K per CPU database, MySQL is a very respectable product.
I'm really having trouble figuring out what a heart condition has to do with a guys throat or cancer in general. If this is for real, then this is the kind of crap and nonsense that is driving people to socialized medicine. If true, the insurance companies are running amok and state regulators are not doing their job.
"Big Government" steps in when the market and state governments fail.
Big Government gets a lot of criticism while Big Business gets a free pass and is allowed to act without any oversight or regard to it's customers, it's employees, or society at large.
This situation is a clear example of "Big Business screws the little guy".
Most of that stuff are things that Oracle bought. They weren't produced by the Oracle hive mind, they were produced somewhere else. They aren't Oracle products really.
The core RDBMS is solid but things quickly degenerate once you get much beyond that.
I would describe it as being a Patron. Nobody is expecting a share of the profits. That's what separates an investment from what is essentially charity. You are collectively playing the role of Cosimo de' Medici, not Bill Gates.
Law and Order ties into this as it creates a framework in which the market can function. Without the market, you just have bullies running amok and stealing from those that try to create value. The system needs to be regulated so that it's predictable and people are able to retain the rewards of their efforts.
Jesus was born into a highly literate culture where you weren't expected to blindly follow anything. He would probably be appalled by a number of the more mindless factions of Christianity.
> Not in Germany, or Scandinavia, or Canada, or even the United States between 1930 and 1980. Militating against your perception is the fact that unionized jurisdictions uniformly have higher median real incomes and standards of living.
No they don't. They have lower standards of living and lower real incomes. Much of this is driven by the (oddly) higher cost of living inherent in high density urban centers and the amplified tax burdens in more union friendly nations.
You might be lucky enough to get more "downtime" but have no money to really do anything with it.
> Wrong, I consider my private property to be my private property and I treat my employees well enough for them to work for m
Well. Fortunately we don't live in a feudal society anymore and there's some limits to your raving megalomania there. There's such a thing as law and order and equality and no one is above the law.
Although such things are the only thing that allow petty Robber Baron wannabees like you to even exist in the first place. Otherwise, you would just get crushed under the heel of a bigger bully.
> Or, you'd treat your wife or girlfriend with respect.
You're assuming that no female is capable of "sharing". It's almost like you are attributing an anti-bellum notion of female moral purity to women. How chauvanistic of you.
Also, it was his successor that started the arms race with a bunch of mindless bluster directed at the west. Stalin was gone by the time the nuclear arms race got started.
> Tell me again why Obumbles gets more RSPECT than Palin?
Even Bush the Younger gets more respect than Palin.
He's a modern day Marie Antoinette. He's trying to conflate decent paid working schmucks with the 1% while completely neglecting the real source of wealth/income inequality in our society.
When ideas like this lead to bloodshed, he should be at the head of the line.
Yeah. With a 96% vote. Nothing fishy about that... not at all...
If that's the best you've go then we're in a pretty good position really. If you've got to go digging that far back then you aren't terribly good at finding our faults. That much is certain.
> Why do you think 'Fascism' is bad?
The book burning is an obvious bad sign.
There's a wide gap between "you will work for free" and an expansive intellectual property regime that's worse than Robber Barons on the Rhine river where you get taxed every 5 feet for nothing.
NOBODY is even talking about "working for free" here. This is about stuff that is older than you are. The only people (potentially) making money are mooches.
Sophocles wants his cut.
> I have no idea where the idea came from that the music publishers didn't have to renegotiate contracts to get digital rights to the music.
For example: Def Leppard started cloning their 80s works in order to avoid getting a raw deal on them being published as MP3s. Clearly whatever contract they signed in the 80s managed to to be broad enough to cover a means of distribution that no one even dreamed up yet.
You can do that if you have a smart lawyer. You don't have to mention iTunes by name in 1983 or 1964.
Much like many men in his position, charity is just a public relations whitewash. This is expecially obvious when all of this occurs in their "retirement". Of course Gates didn't invent this idea, he swiped it from someone else.
> last I checked we were sticking our noses into Crimea situation
You mean the situation where we are a party to a treaty that says that Ukraine keeps it's borders intact in return for NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT?
You mean THAT situation?
Plenty of people choose to avoid the goldrush mentality of California. That's why most people live other places. There's just lots more of "everywhere else". So supply and demand works out in our favor.
Always TWO Sith there are...
Nope. Can't say that I've ever encountered this on VLC on any platform.
It's bad enough trying to push a mere 20G into the cloud.
I don't even want to think about how long 10TB would take.
It would probably be faster to take an array and WALK across the several states between my house and my mother's house.
I really have to wonder if any of you blithering mindless "cloud zealots" actually use any of this stuff.
> Until your house burns down.
OK. So who here has ever had their house burn down? ANYONE?
[crickets chirp]
Once you've got more than one copy of something it's trivial for even the biggest technical rube to sneakernet it somewhere else. On the other hand, it's terribly cumbersome to copy much of anything into the cloud.
> Certainly not ease of access across multiple devices in and out of your own network or away from your own storage. Certainly not for backup, without investing in your own off-site recovery method.
Make a friend. Store it at his house.
Rent a safety deposit box.
Buy a fire safe.
Mail a copy to your mother's house.
The problem with "the cloud" is recovery speed. Upload speeds aren't that great either.