"Citizens United" doesn't sound like a person. It sounds like a corporation. The idea that a limited liability entity should also have limited rights is by no means hypocritical.
The irony here is that I can use the DRM protected pay-per-view service that Amazon offers. I can do this as a Linux user because Amazon chose a DRM provider that is platform neutral. Netflix is held up as an example but they are one of the few companies that tied themselves to an OS specific standard. Most other services don't.
I can do this with browser plugins that are as old as the web. I don't need the idea of the open web subverted. The standards body can retain the high ground because the workaround has already been created.
Selling out to big content is really unnecessary. It is technologically redundant.
> This obligatory comment is getting old. You are part of an insignificant market which makes the cost of supporting it not worthwhile. This is still the truth, so suck it up.
Well then you are destroying the basic premise of the web.
The moment you try to declare ANY set of users "too small to be worthy", you've completely lost the point of the world wide web to begin with.
THAT is the point of open standards. NO ONE has to be left behind just because some jackass wants to declare them irrelevant.
The fact that we already have DRM on the web without that DRM being embedded in the web standards also means that they don't need to be embedded in the web standards.
Companies that are petulant about their content on the web can just continue to do what they've always been doing.
There's no reason to change anything to to subvert the notion of open standards.
In truth, this beaurocrat is irrelevant. Worst possible thing for one of them.
Installing a trivial Oracle database is not the chore it used to be. It's not 1997 anymore. You can get an Oracle database up and running pretty easy. You can even do things with it without needing to be a guru.
Once you get past that point, things get interesting fast.
Although that's true for other products as well. Microsoft likes to sell the idea that a trained monkey can manage a serious RDBMS but it's simply not the case.
>> mysqldump? But what you are doing, i.e backup of the database files directly, is a very dangerous form of backup. Restoring such when the database has been corrupted for whatever reason > > Actually no, it is not dangerous provided that you use a backup agent or an operating system that supports this. Windows does, Linux and Unix do not.
Lemming propaganda nonsense.
The database ensures integrity. It does this with things like transaction logging and transaction isolation. It doesn't require any special "Windows only" technology. It's just a feature of a robust database engine.
Database recovery is a feature of the database, not of the filesystem.
"fraction of a second" is still too slow for an Enterprise database. Query response times for a real database is simply not measured in seconds.
> mysqldump? But what you are doing, i.e backup of the database files directly, is a very dangerous form of backup.
mysqldump you must be joking. That is kiddie stuff.
Oracle has been able to do online hot backups of individual datafiles since at least version 7 in the 90s. Hot backups and point and time recovery for serious relational databases has been the bare minimum acceptable standard since before anyone ever heard of mysql.
Comments like yours is why people get the impression that mysql isn't ready for serious work.
Oracle has had robust features in many of the categories mentioned by this advertisement for a very long time. It is a stupid ad.
Like I said... when I can replace my ION boxes with the AMD counterpart then you can say that AMD has caught up in the driver support department. Until then, Nvidia detractors are just spewing a lot of hot air.
Although it looks like Intel will beat them to that.
Nvidia is only worse in some sort of GPL zealot fantasy land. Out in the real world, it's not so bad actually. They provide the support. They just don't provide it in the precise manner that a noisy minority wants.
The right not to buy health insurance. The right not to buy some form of it I don't want.
The federal government has no business being able to tell me to buy something. That is not a power that it has been granted. It does not get to exceed the powers it's been granted.
If the states do something, or are allowed to do something, that has absolutely ZILCH to do with what is legal for the federal government.
Thus the problem of appalling civics education in America. You have idiots running around spreading idiocy that's a direct threat to the rule of law.
Beyond whether or not you think reading a book on an LCD "makes your eyes bleed", the dedicated e-book reader has one major advantage against the overhyped tablet brand. It has much better battery life.
Although you have to be willing to try something new first.
> 10 years ago most people identifying as libertarians opposed gay marriage because they thought the government shouldn't be in the marriage business
That is just retarded.
The "libertarian" position would be to avoid the problem entirely by being in no position to endorse ANY marriage. Get out of the marriage business entirely.
As soon as the government starts meddling in something, it needs to play by it's own rules. Then things like "freedom to contract" and "equality under the law" come into play.
That's assuming that you are talking about a genuine libertarian and not just some neocon poser. There were plenty of those 20 years ago.
What's funny about this is that my first job as a college intern was for a non-profit software and database services company. Even something that looks from all outward appearances to be a for-profit entity can be a non-profit and there's nothing unusual about that.
Some business areas are dominated by non-profits.
You would hope that the IRS would have some pretty precise rules and actually have them written down somewhere.
...except X.org is just another Xserver. It's not an entirely new protocol. This is why X servers and clients from a variety of Unixen and non-Unixen can all talk to each other.
It's like HTTP.
Mir is more like Microsoft trying to create it's own web browser protocol.
One simply does not need a "solid" patent in this day and age.
All kinds of nonsense gets past patent examiners and they are the smartest people in the whole process. The audience just gets dumber from there as you go to judges and then finally to lay juries.
Plus you can have 5 copies each of which are much more portable than an array and will take up less space in the offsite backup storage location of your choosing.
1 spinny drive is relatively light.
8 spinny drives and their enclosure are not so light.
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"Citizens United" doesn't sound like a person. It sounds like a corporation. The idea that a limited liability entity should also have limited rights is by no means hypocritical.
Your personal fantasy is a red herring.
The irony here is that I can use the DRM protected pay-per-view service that Amazon offers. I can do this as a Linux user because Amazon chose a DRM provider that is platform neutral. Netflix is held up as an example but they are one of the few companies that tied themselves to an OS specific standard. Most other services don't.
I can do this with browser plugins that are as old as the web. I don't need the idea of the open web subverted. The standards body can retain the high ground because the workaround has already been created.
Selling out to big content is really unnecessary. It is technologically redundant.
> This obligatory comment is getting old. You are part of an insignificant market which makes the cost of supporting it not worthwhile. This is still the truth, so suck it up.
Well then you are destroying the basic premise of the web.
The moment you try to declare ANY set of users "too small to be worthy", you've completely lost the point of the world wide web to begin with.
THAT is the point of open standards. NO ONE has to be left behind just because some jackass wants to declare them irrelevant.
> So long as it works on Windows & MacOS
We already have DRM standards that fail this test.
Nice try.
Troll harder next time.
That works both ways.
The fact that we already have DRM on the web without that DRM being embedded in the web standards also means that they don't need to be embedded in the web standards.
Companies that are petulant about their content on the web can just continue to do what they've always been doing.
There's no reason to change anything to to subvert the notion of open standards.
In truth, this beaurocrat is irrelevant. Worst possible thing for one of them.
...or you can spend $500 on Oracle instead.
You don't have to buy the gold-plated-ultra edition if you don't really need it.
Installing a trivial Oracle database is not the chore it used to be. It's not 1997 anymore. You can get an Oracle database up and running pretty easy. You can even do things with it without needing to be a guru.
Once you get past that point, things get interesting fast.
Although that's true for other products as well. Microsoft likes to sell the idea that a trained monkey can manage a serious RDBMS but it's simply not the case.
That only goes so far. Any application needs to be able to shoot the user in the foot. Otherwise it's not powerful enough to do anything useful.
You may not be able to drop a table but you certainly can wipe it.
You just have an idiot Lemming here regurgitating Microsoft propaganda clearly with no clue what he's talking about.
>> mysqldump? But what you are doing, i.e backup of the database files directly, is a very dangerous form of backup. Restoring such when the database has been corrupted for whatever reason
>
> Actually no, it is not dangerous provided that you use a backup agent or an operating system that supports this. Windows does, Linux and Unix do not.
Lemming propaganda nonsense.
The database ensures integrity. It does this with things like transaction logging and transaction isolation. It doesn't require any special "Windows only" technology. It's just a feature of a robust database engine.
Database recovery is a feature of the database, not of the filesystem.
"fraction of a second" is still too slow for an Enterprise database. Query response times for a real database is simply not measured in seconds.
Stupid amateurs!
> mysqldump? But what you are doing, i.e backup of the database files directly, is a very dangerous form of backup.
mysqldump you must be joking. That is kiddie stuff.
Oracle has been able to do online hot backups of individual datafiles since at least version 7 in the 90s. Hot backups and point and time recovery for serious relational databases has been the bare minimum acceptable standard since before anyone ever heard of mysql.
Comments like yours is why people get the impression that mysql isn't ready for serious work.
Oracle has had robust features in many of the categories mentioned by this advertisement for a very long time. It is a stupid ad.
Like I said... when I can replace my ION boxes with the AMD counterpart then you can say that AMD has caught up in the driver support department. Until then, Nvidia detractors are just spewing a lot of hot air.
Although it looks like Intel will beat them to that.
Is that why you are trolling an article about Android based desktops?
Nvidia is only worse in some sort of GPL zealot fantasy land. Out in the real world, it's not so bad actually. They provide the support. They just don't provide it in the precise manner that a noisy minority wants.
AMD can start by displacing 6 year old ION kit.
The right not to buy health insurance. The right not to buy some form of it I don't want.
The federal government has no business being able to tell me to buy something. That is not a power that it has been granted. It does not get to exceed the powers it's been granted.
If the states do something, or are allowed to do something, that has absolutely ZILCH to do with what is legal for the federal government.
Thus the problem of appalling civics education in America. You have idiots running around spreading idiocy that's a direct threat to the rule of law.
Beyond whether or not you think reading a book on an LCD "makes your eyes bleed", the dedicated e-book reader has one major advantage against the overhyped tablet brand. It has much better battery life.
Although you have to be willing to try something new first.
> Some things are just better in person.
Books and movies simply don't fall into that category.
> 10 years ago most people identifying as libertarians opposed gay marriage because they thought the government shouldn't be in the marriage business
That is just retarded.
The "libertarian" position would be to avoid the problem entirely by being in no position to endorse ANY marriage. Get out of the marriage business entirely.
As soon as the government starts meddling in something, it needs to play by it's own rules. Then things like "freedom to contract" and "equality under the law" come into play.
That's assuming that you are talking about a genuine libertarian and not just some neocon poser. There were plenty of those 20 years ago.
What's funny about this is that my first job as a college intern was for a non-profit software and database services company. Even something that looks from all outward appearances to be a for-profit entity can be a non-profit and there's nothing unusual about that.
Some business areas are dominated by non-profits.
You would hope that the IRS would have some pretty precise rules and actually have them written down somewhere.
RTFM.
> Sad thing is Windows 98 SE happily
Probably not. You may not even be old enough to have even touched it yourself ever.
Mixing multiple vendors for different displays isn't even a recommended Windows setup now.
...except X.org is just another Xserver. It's not an entirely new protocol. This is why X servers and clients from a variety of Unixen and non-Unixen can all talk to each other.
It's like HTTP.
Mir is more like Microsoft trying to create it's own web browser protocol.
You should really follow your own advice.
No. We need to go old school. We need a War of the Roses style execution for traitors...
Hang them.
Take them down and disembowel them.
Drag them through the streets.
Then draw and quarter them.
They may have not had potable water but they had a certain sense of style.
One simply does not need a "solid" patent in this day and age.
All kinds of nonsense gets past patent examiners and they are the smartest people in the whole process. The audience just gets dumber from there as you go to judges and then finally to lay juries.
The browser from Netscape was always called Mozilla.
Plus you can have 5 copies each of which are much more portable than an array and will take up less space in the offsite backup storage location of your choosing.
1 spinny drive is relatively light.
8 spinny drives and their enclosure are not so light.