And it didn't say Oracle was about to kill MySQL, just the BDB engine, one of several engines inside the MySQL database.
Oracle also bought the InnoDB storage engine, a far more ominous aquisition, as InnoDB is the engine you use if you want to use MySQL as a real database.
I thought the summary (and the posters and editors) actually pretty accurate. Jeremy Allison, of Samba I believe, said exactly what the summary said he did.
They had an offer that if you pre-ordered from EBGames or GameStop, you'd get a pre-access key that would let you start playing now, a full 10 days before the game showed in stores.
The offer was prominently displayed on the EBGames website, until last week, when they ran out of keys. They asked Turbine for some last Tues, and still haven't gotten them.
In a moment of near-irrationality, I went to the EBGames site to buy the game, excited about playing early with people in the office that had also pre-ordered. No offer.
Of course, the oil being pumped out of northern Alberta's oil-sands is not nearly as nice as the light-sweet crude you get from the middle east. Alberta's oil tends to be quite sour, thanks to the bitumen. There is some light sweet crude there, but not much.
The oil, which is expensive to mine and process, also isn't easily transported, and is really only suitable for diesel.
And it's not trillians; according to this article, it's more like 175 billion barrels, and potentially 315 barrels with technology improvements.
And according to this article, "There's a lot of sour crude in the world, more than anyone can use. More than anyone wants right now."
I'm Canadian, and while the oil is a huge economic benefit, it's not quite what the media would have us believe.
Solar power, wind power, and water power are the way of the future.
Yup - the InnoDB engine is developed by a commercial company, but open sourced (and licensed by MySQL). InnoDB is the engine that makes MySQL viable in for commercial usage. Without it, MySQL would have a bit of a tough time (though they could continue to develope the InnoDB engine).
Postgres is purely open source, and it's a great database, though I don't find it quite as intuitive as MySQL (coming from an Oracle background).
I don't quite know what they could purchase for Postgres or Linux, other than companies that provide commercial add ons or support....
I think it's an awesome idea. I don't always see stories in other sections, and I see a lot of old stories (you know, 8 more, but the same 8 you saw two days ago).
I like that the "niche" stories stand out more - I find it a bit distracting, but I'd rather see them than not notice them.
1) You can buy a $13,000 DVD player. Projector Central has a review of a cheaper, $200 DVD player that's almost as good. Perhaps this is a medium-high-end drive.
2) That $1800 is worst case, retail. They are probably shipping it out for $500, and the rest is added by middlemen along the way. It will show up at your local Costco for $700.
AC IS still going strong. It actually has one very cool feature that most MMPOGs don't have - true pathing for arrows, spells, etc. You can step out of the way of an arrow or spell, and it misses you.
It's AC2 that's being shut down.
I played AC (my first MMPOG) for a year or two - it was fun. I remember when they did their big Christmas update, the first year, and there were snowmen, and snow, etc. Was really cool.
I played AC2 during the beta, and it was dead and empty. Looks like it's leaving the same way it began.
I like the idea of releasing the engine, etc, but Turbine might be making other games.
and it's pretty cool - has both AGP and PCI-Xpress sockets so that I can continue to use my ATI X800 AGP video card, and then upgrade to a PCI-Xpress when it becomes too old. It also comes with two SATA ports, and an SATA2 port.
The motherboard is built by Asus (their value line, called ASRock), and it's been a great performer. It's the first motherboard that I've gotten dual-channel memory working.
The chipsets are innovative, but are they so innovative that nVidia wouldn't want to copy them? Maybe the lead-time, and wanting to keep their chipset line small was the reason.
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"For doing something like simple text process, Java's syntax just gets in the way - why build a massive application in Java when you can bang out a much simpler and easier system in Perl, Python, PHP, or Ruby?
Because the most interesting problems go far beyond simple text processing.
For small projects, Java adds too much overhead. For large projects, Java is perfect.
Tomcat, the whole Commons libraries, myFaces, log4j, Maven, Struts, Ant... So the A in LAMP is huge into Java - what does that say (and that's a rhetorical question, so don't bother answering)?
Not to mention some of the best software for serious development is in Java (Eclipse as an IDE, and Hibernate as an ORM tool, JSF and Struts for front end, Tomcat as a servlet container).
It's like saying C and C++ are so 1980, yet your operating system, browser, and office suite were all developed and compiled in one or both of those two languages.
Professionally, I use Apache, Linux and MySQL, but with Java instead of PHP. JALM?
Ok - cool - thanks for the update. I was confident it had to do with hygene, but that can be either exposure to what I like to call "dirt" (and you call "benign but pervasive environmental contaminants"), or just not washing your hands and getting a cold.
Wasn't there some news a few years back about the increase in childhood asthma being related to kids not getting sick enough? Food and houses were becoming too sterile.
I think the theory was that colds and flus strengthen the immune system, and asthma was somehow related to a non-strengthened immune system.
I'm not sure how you keep kids from getting sick... mine get a cold three or four times a year (a couple times more than my wife and I).
What confuses me is that you know you are going to leave for more than two weeks - you think about it, decide you want to leave, start the job hunt, go to interviews, and eventually find something that you think you'll like better. Then you give your two weeks notice.
You've probably spent at least two weeks (and maybe two months) prior to that preparing to leave. Are the employers worried about what you did during that job-search? Probably not. So why would they be concerned about what you'll do for the remaining two weeks.
Sounds kind of silly. We had an employee leave recently, and we changed the root passwords on the servers. She probably knew she was going to quit for a month prior. She was no risk during that month, and she was no risk once she verbalized the decision she'd made weeks previously.
As a developer/DBA for a large website, we use FTP to download data feeds from our less technologically advanced partners, and SCP/web-services-SOAP/XML-over-HTTP-POST the rest of the time.
AJAX is not something new - it's embedding JavaScript inside a web page to provide updates to the web page without having to hit a submit or refresh button. It's just another inappropriate add-on to an existing technology that was never designed to do what it's doing. Putting a trailer-hitch on your car doesn't make the car new - it just gives it another feature.
HTTP and HTML were not designed for stateful sessions, with near-realtime communication between the browser and the server.
In the last 20 years or so, we've gone from stateless pages that display text and images from a remote server, to a technology that uses URL re-writing, cookies, hidden fields, and java-script to add functionality (like sticky sessions, clustering, and near-realtime client-server interaction).
HTML/HTTP are not the technology for doing this heavy-lifting. Technologies that have tried to do the heavy-lifting in the browser (Java Applets, ActiveX, and CURL) have all failed miserably.
Adding another technology to try to get the web browser to do something even more interactive is, IMHO, a waste of time. FTP and email haven't had the (inappropriate) feature creep that web-based technologies have.
We need something new. Something that runs in the browser, securely, that doesn't require a huge installation beyond the browser, that is designed to do what HTTP/HTML was not designed to do, but is doing anyway.
Two big, bloated companies, where the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing (ever), combining to take on a small-ish, smart, fast moving company like Google (that happens to have gobs of cash to fund their wildest dream).
I don't think anything will happen, other than a bunch of money being spent.
If they really wanted to compete, they would hire a bunch of really bright people, form a new company for them to work at, with a new independent management team, and money to spend. Let them go after Google using the best tools and technologies, and then give them an instant market by using whatever they come up with at Microsoft/AOL/TimeWarner.
No, Microsoft has been the #1 supporter of anti-virus companies. Shipping operating systems with security holes has made Norton and McAffee what they are today. If Microsoft shipped a solid OS that wasn't easily compromised, the anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-trojan, anti-worm industry woudldn't be where it is today.
My question is, with Microsoft now looking to profit from the holes that let trojans and worms run riot on your PC, what's their incentive to patch these issues? It seems they patch at a glacial pace as it is, but now they make money selling the OS, and more money protecting the OS.
It's now standard practice in the PC-gaming industry to ship essentially buggy (broken) games, because you can patch later.
I think it's getting to the point where people aren't shocked that there are huge security holes in their OS, and they expect to spend money on anti-virus software, routers/firewalls, and anti-spyware, not to mention all the time it takes to update the operating system, the anti-virus software, the anti-spyware software, etc.
We've all been brainwashed by companies that ship shoddy products. I'm not sure how it happened, but I buy games expecting that there will be a few issues that will later be resolved by a patch.
The numbers for many of these stats are computed differently.
In the US, if you stop looking for work, you are (apparently) no longer unemployed, even though you never found a job. In Canada, you maintain your unemployed status.
In the US, to be considered a victim of a violent crime, you have to take a bullet to the head. In Cahada, to be a victim of violet crime, someone has to accidentally bump you in the checkout line at the supermarket and not say, "Sorry".
The company I work for has been participating in this for a few months now. We upload content once per night. Data items that were in the feed from the night before are removed if they aren't in the most current feed.
Data is expired if there is no activity on it after a period of time. There is also an expiration date.
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And Sleepy Cat wrote the BDB engine.
And it didn't say Oracle was about to kill MySQL, just the BDB engine, one of several engines inside the MySQL database.
Oracle also bought the InnoDB storage engine, a far more ominous aquisition, as InnoDB is the engine you use if you want to use MySQL as a real database.
I thought the summary (and the posters and editors) actually pretty accurate. Jeremy Allison, of Samba I believe, said exactly what the summary said he did.
They had an offer that if you pre-ordered from EBGames or GameStop, you'd get a pre-access key that would let you start playing now, a full 10 days before the game showed in stores.
The offer was prominently displayed on the EBGames website, until last week, when they ran out of keys. They asked Turbine for some last Tues, and still haven't gotten them.
In a moment of near-irrationality, I went to the EBGames site to buy the game, excited about playing early with people in the office that had also pre-ordered. No offer.
Now they don't appear to have any pre-orders left at all.
Rationality has returned, and I'll probably stick to BF2.
Sounds pretty optomistic.
Of course, the oil being pumped out of northern Alberta's oil-sands is not nearly as nice as the light-sweet crude you get from the middle east. Alberta's oil tends to be quite sour, thanks to the bitumen. There is some light sweet crude there, but not much.
The oil, which is expensive to mine and process, also isn't easily transported, and is really only suitable for diesel.
And it's not trillians; according to this article, it's more like 175 billion barrels, and potentially 315 barrels with technology improvements.
And according to this article, "There's a lot of sour crude in the world, more than anyone can use. More than anyone wants right now."
I'm Canadian, and while the oil is a huge economic benefit, it's not quite what the media would have us believe.
Solar power, wind power, and water power are the way of the future.
Yup - the InnoDB engine is developed by a commercial company, but open sourced (and licensed by MySQL). InnoDB is the engine that makes MySQL viable in for commercial usage. Without it, MySQL would have a bit of a tough time (though they could continue to develope the InnoDB engine).
Postgres is purely open source, and it's a great database, though I don't find it quite as intuitive as MySQL (coming from an Oracle background).
I don't quite know what they could purchase for Postgres or Linux, other than companies that provide commercial add ons or support....
Someone said (some Greek or Roman), "Its a poor plan that can't be changed."
I think a business plan is an excellent example of a living document (though you might not have time to update it).
I think it's an awesome idea. I don't always see stories in other sections, and I see a lot of old stories (you know, 8 more, but the same 8 you saw two days ago).
I like that the "niche" stories stand out more - I find it a bit distracting, but I'd rather see them than not notice them.
A few points:
1) You can buy a $13,000 DVD player. Projector Central has a review of a cheaper, $200 DVD player that's almost as good. Perhaps this is a medium-high-end drive.
2) That $1800 is worst case, retail. They are probably shipping it out for $500, and the rest is added by middlemen along the way. It will show up at your local Costco for $700.
"this title is written by people that have recently landed an awesome job at companies like Google and EA Games"??
I thought the only thing a job at EA was good for was giving you a bleeding ulcer within 5 years...
AC IS still going strong. It actually has one very cool feature that most MMPOGs don't have - true pathing for arrows, spells, etc. You can step out of the way of an arrow or spell, and it misses you.
It's AC2 that's being shut down.
I played AC (my first MMPOG) for a year or two - it was fun. I remember when they did their big Christmas update, the first year, and there were snowmen, and snow, etc. Was really cool.
I played AC2 during the beta, and it was dead and empty. Looks like it's leaving the same way it began.
I like the idea of releasing the engine, etc, but Turbine might be making other games.
and it's pretty cool - has both AGP and PCI-Xpress sockets so that I can continue to use my ATI X800 AGP video card, and then upgrade to a PCI-Xpress when it becomes too old. It also comes with two SATA ports, and an SATA2 port.
The motherboard is built by Asus (their value line, called ASRock), and it's been a great performer. It's the first motherboard that I've gotten dual-channel memory working.
The chipsets are innovative, but are they so innovative that nVidia wouldn't want to copy them? Maybe the lead-time, and wanting to keep their chipset line small was the reason.
"For doing something like simple text process, Java's syntax just gets in the way - why build a massive application in Java when you can bang out a much simpler and easier system in Perl, Python, PHP, or Ruby?
Because the most interesting problems go far beyond simple text processing.
For small projects, Java adds too much overhead. For large projects, Java is perfect.
Tomcat, the whole Commons libraries, myFaces, log4j, Maven, Struts, Ant... So the A in LAMP is huge into Java - what does that say (and that's a rhetorical question, so don't bother answering)?
Not to mention some of the best software for serious development is in Java (Eclipse as an IDE, and Hibernate as an ORM tool, JSF and Struts for front end, Tomcat as a servlet container).
It's like saying C and C++ are so 1980, yet your operating system, browser, and office suite were all developed and compiled in one or both of those two languages.
Professionally, I use Apache, Linux and MySQL, but with Java instead of PHP. JALM?
Ok - cool - thanks for the update. I was confident it had to do with hygene, but that can be either exposure to what I like to call "dirt" (and you call "benign but pervasive environmental contaminants"), or just not washing your hands and getting a cold.
Wasn't there some news a few years back about the increase in childhood asthma being related to kids not getting sick enough? Food and houses were becoming too sterile.
I think the theory was that colds and flus strengthen the immune system, and asthma was somehow related to a non-strengthened immune system.
I'm not sure how you keep kids from getting sick... mine get a cold three or four times a year (a couple times more than my wife and I).
What confuses me is that you know you are going to leave for more than two weeks - you think about it, decide you want to leave, start the job hunt, go to interviews, and eventually find something that you think you'll like better. Then you give your two weeks notice.
You've probably spent at least two weeks (and maybe two months) prior to that preparing to leave. Are the employers worried about what you did during that job-search? Probably not. So why would they be concerned about what you'll do for the remaining two weeks.
Sounds kind of silly. We had an employee leave recently, and we changed the root passwords on the servers. She probably knew she was going to quit for a month prior. She was no risk during that month, and she was no risk once she verbalized the decision she'd made weeks previously.
As a developer/DBA for a large website, we use FTP to download data feeds from our less technologically advanced partners, and SCP/web-services-SOAP/XML-over-HTTP-POST the rest of the time.
AJAX is not something new - it's embedding JavaScript inside a web page to provide updates to the web page without having to hit a submit or refresh button. It's just another inappropriate add-on to an existing technology that was never designed to do what it's doing. Putting a trailer-hitch on your car doesn't make the car new - it just gives it another feature.
HTTP and HTML were not designed for stateful sessions, with near-realtime communication between the browser and the server.
In the last 20 years or so, we've gone from stateless pages that display text and images from a remote server, to a technology that uses URL re-writing, cookies, hidden fields, and java-script to add functionality (like sticky sessions, clustering, and near-realtime client-server interaction).
HTML/HTTP are not the technology for doing this heavy-lifting. Technologies that have tried to do the heavy-lifting in the browser (Java Applets, ActiveX, and CURL) have all failed miserably.
Adding another technology to try to get the web browser to do something even more interactive is, IMHO, a waste of time. FTP and email haven't had the (inappropriate) feature creep that web-based technologies have.
We need something new. Something that runs in the browser, securely, that doesn't require a huge installation beyond the browser, that is designed to do what HTTP/HTML was not designed to do, but is doing anyway.
Two big, bloated companies, where the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing (ever), combining to take on a small-ish, smart, fast moving company like Google (that happens to have gobs of cash to fund their wildest dream).
I don't think anything will happen, other than a bunch of money being spent.
If they really wanted to compete, they would hire a bunch of really bright people, form a new company for them to work at, with a new independent management team, and money to spend. Let them go after Google using the best tools and technologies, and then give them an instant market by using whatever they come up with at Microsoft/AOL/TimeWarner.
No, Microsoft has been the #1 supporter of anti-virus companies. Shipping operating systems with security holes has made Norton and McAffee what they are today. If Microsoft shipped a solid OS that wasn't easily compromised, the anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-trojan, anti-worm industry woudldn't be where it is today.
My question is, with Microsoft now looking to profit from the holes that let trojans and worms run riot on your PC, what's their incentive to patch these issues? It seems they patch at a glacial pace as it is, but now they make money selling the OS, and more money protecting the OS.
It's now standard practice in the PC-gaming industry to ship essentially buggy (broken) games, because you can patch later.
I think it's getting to the point where people aren't shocked that there are huge security holes in their OS, and they expect to spend money on anti-virus software, routers/firewalls, and anti-spyware, not to mention all the time it takes to update the operating system, the anti-virus software, the anti-spyware software, etc.
We've all been brainwashed by companies that ship shoddy products. I'm not sure how it happened, but I buy games expecting that there will be a few issues that will later be resolved by a patch.
The COD2 online community is so fed up with the poor support that Infinity Ward has given (cheats and problems abound), that they are trying to co-ordinate a shutdown of all the servers they run on December 17th to protest.
Could you imagine if Infinity Ward started selling a second product that would fix the bugs in Call of Duty 2?
That's what Microsoft is doing.
The numbers for many of these stats are computed differently.
In the US, if you stop looking for work, you are (apparently) no longer unemployed, even though you never found a job. In Canada, you maintain your unemployed status.
In the US, to be considered a victim of a violent crime, you have to take a bullet to the head. In Cahada, to be a victim of violet crime, someone has to accidentally bump you in the checkout line at the supermarket and not say, "Sorry".
Different standards, different results.
You tend not to hit the wall with Windows - as you approach it, it tends to topple over and crush you.
Where the wall is with Windows is kind of irrelevant - you should be more concerned with how far away the wall is, and how tall it is.
Unless you consider crashes, lockups, high CPU and memory usage. Then it's predictable and consistent.
I can plug a USB hard drive into my XP box and predict with great success that it's going to freeze. The behaviour is very consistent.
The company I work for has been participating in this for a few months now. We upload content once per night. Data items that were in the feed from the night before are removed if they aren't in the most current feed.
Data is expired if there is no activity on it after a period of time. There is also an expiration date.
It will automagically do the update (after asking you first). Mine did about 3 hours ago.
My Help->About still says plain old 1.5, however.
I don't play WoW. I played a bit in beta, but foudn it boring. Cancelled my DAoC account years ago. Play no MMPOG (unless BF2 counts).
So not really a WoW "fanboy".