people on here are open source zealots that don't like things that cost money. given that even oracle standard edition costs a shitload of money, it will be snubbed. i happen to think that oracle is a fantastic product and will recommend it to any company that can afford it. transitive closure, packages, overloading of functions and procedures, cascading updates and deletes for foreign keys, etc... all great things to have in a database. note that mssql server doesn't have these either (except for cascading updates/deletes but that only came about in 2k). i once read an article comparing mysql and postgresql and the obviously biased author claimed that if you're a good programmer you don't need foreign key constraints. what a bunch of shit. as you add mapping tables to a main table, who in the hell wants to code up all those delete statements for child records when this is a task the database should obviously be doing? not only it is an inconvenience, but the query engine also has to process each of these delete statements.
one of the main reasons i don't recommend mysql to anyone is that just by reading their documentation, i can tell that they're a bunch of whiny little bitches who would rather sit around complaining that they're not getting the respect they deserve in the database arena rather than try to improve their product to match those standards. while i don't feel like combing thru the mysql docs right now, one specific thing that stands out in my mind is their comparison of mysql and oracle datatypes. the mysql column had a seemingly endless list of integer and floating point datatypes (int2, float2, int4, float4, int 6, int8, float8, int12, etc) but for oracle only listed int. what they don't tell you (and as i'm sure you've already noticed), is that you can specify int scale and precision to achieve however much precision you want on both sides of the decimal point (up to 38 bytes, i believe), thereby taking care of ints and floats in one shot! to a client that can't afford oracle, i would recommend postgresql over mysql anyday.
it was probably just a brain-dead rep. i went to a bachelor party once where the best man paid for the strippers over the phone by credit card a week or two beforehand. well, 10pm came and went (10pm not being the strippers name), but no strippers. so at 1am the best man, wrecked off his ass, called up the credit card company and proceeded to bitch and moan for ten minutes about the lack of naked women running around the house. the credit card company said "no problem", and blocked the charges including the deposit. so best man passed out on the couch, and the rest of us broke out risk and played that for five hours until the best man woke up and puked on the game board. and who says geeks don't know a good time?!?!?!
how many times must it be said that philly's mayor is john street, an ardent black liberal democrat? why is it that some people think that where the the rnc is being held, the local government just steps aside and lets the republicans "borrow" the police force? come on, get a brain.
tim and i a'hunting went,
and eyed three maidens in a tent.
as they were three and we were two,
although our gut instinct may tell us to ignore them, then break the encryption after the standard has been set, i think a little social engineering is in order. if we ignore the challenge, then break the encryption as soon as the standard is set, we will be allowing them to easily paint us as immature punks who just want things for free. i say crack this challenge. crack as many challenges as they can throw at us. and keep documentation! they will eventually come up with a standard anyway. BUT when we crack that one, we will be seen in a better light because even with our "help", they couldn't secure their works. thus, we are not seen as pirates, but instead as fair use advocates. no encryption is uncrackable, as bruce schneir has pointed out in his latest book. the longer we can put off a new standard, the more hardware playing the current standard will appear, and the harder it will be for the new standard to catch on.
holy shit! what happens when jim croce's wife or son come after me for my domain name, leroybrown.com?!?!?!?!? disregard the fact that i actually know two people named leroy brown.
i completely agree. i used to work in a department store and was able to buy designer clothes cheaper than normal (i used to hide them in my stockroom until they went on clearance). now that i'm a web developer, i can afford to buy the clothes at regular price, and continue to do so. why? not because of the names, but because the clothes are extremely comfortable. you're not just paying for a name. claiborne, nautica, hilfiger, etc., are made of really good fabric, don't shrink, last an incredibly long time, and put up with an inordinately large amount of shit (figurative shit, not literal). except gap jeans. these damn things wear out in six months.
quite on the contrary, ANYONE can be a movie critic. unless, of course, you're saying that one can only be a movie critic if s/he goes to film school for several years. note that this would be a ridiculous prerequisite. that's like saying, "you're not a computer programmer because you don't have any formal training in the matter."
actually, it was a cheetah. anyway, the commercial starts out with a guy on a mountain bike chasing a cheetah down in the desert. when the guy gets close enough, he leaps off the bike and tackles the cheetah and both go rolling on the ground. then the guy reaches down the cheetah's throat and pulls a mountain dew that the cheetah had, apparently, procured against the wishes of the mountain biker. then some other guys on a rock jabber about how much they hate cats. good commercial. funny.
okay, what retard is going to download kernel sources from ANYWHERE but kernel.org, redhat.com, or a known reputable source? and anything that gets added to the kernel gets checked by torvalds, cox, and a lot of other people. anyone that downloads kernel source from ftp.virusfactory.ch (or whatever the chinese top-level domain is) should do the world a favor and issue "rm / -fr *" as root.
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people on here are open source zealots that don't like things that cost money. given that even oracle standard edition costs a shitload of money, it will be snubbed. i happen to think that oracle is a fantastic product and will recommend it to any company that can afford it. transitive closure, packages, overloading of functions and procedures, cascading updates and deletes for foreign keys, etc... all great things to have in a database. note that mssql server doesn't have these either (except for cascading updates/deletes but that only came about in 2k). i once read an article comparing mysql and postgresql and the obviously biased author claimed that if you're a good programmer you don't need foreign key constraints. what a bunch of shit. as you add mapping tables to a main table, who in the hell wants to code up all those delete statements for child records when this is a task the database should obviously be doing? not only it is an inconvenience, but the query engine also has to process each of these delete statements.
one of the main reasons i don't recommend mysql to anyone is that just by reading their documentation, i can tell that they're a bunch of whiny little bitches who would rather sit around complaining that they're not getting the respect they deserve in the database arena rather than try to improve their product to match those standards. while i don't feel like combing thru the mysql docs right now, one specific thing that stands out in my mind is their comparison of mysql and oracle datatypes. the mysql column had a seemingly endless list of integer and floating point datatypes (int2, float2, int4, float4, int 6, int8, float8, int12, etc) but for oracle only listed int. what they don't tell you (and as i'm sure you've already noticed), is that you can specify int scale and precision to achieve however much precision you want on both sides of the decimal point (up to 38 bytes, i believe), thereby taking care of ints and floats in one shot! to a client that can't afford oracle, i would recommend postgresql over mysql anyday.
yeah, because those servers won't be vulnerable to a good ol' fashioned ddos'ing...
i could not have put this better myself
correspondence schools have been around for decades and they're wireless!
aha! more proof that it's not the video games that cause violence, but the actual video game consoles!
but if you want an X-Box, you have to kill for it.
...so it's not the games that cause violence, but the actual game consoles .
it was probably just a brain-dead rep. i went to a bachelor party once where the best man paid for the strippers over the phone by credit card a week or two beforehand. well, 10pm came and went (10pm not being the strippers name), but no strippers. so at 1am the best man, wrecked off his ass, called up the credit card company and proceeded to bitch and moan for ten minutes about the lack of naked women running around the house. the credit card company said "no problem", and blocked the charges including the deposit. so best man passed out on the couch, and the rest of us broke out risk and played that for five hours until the best man woke up and puked on the game board. and who says geeks don't know a good time?!?!?!
it's called linguistic darwinism. deal with it.
how many times must it be said that philly's mayor is john street, an ardent black liberal democrat? why is it that some people think that where the the rnc is being held, the local government just steps aside and lets the republicans "borrow" the police force? come on, get a brain.
tim and i a'hunting went,
and eyed three maidens in a tent.
as they were three and we were two,
although our gut instinct may tell us to ignore them, then break the encryption after the standard has been set, i think a little social engineering is in order. if we ignore the challenge, then break the encryption as soon as the standard is set, we will be allowing them to easily paint us as immature punks who just want things for free. i say crack this challenge. crack as many challenges as they can throw at us. and keep documentation! they will eventually come up with a standard anyway. BUT when we crack that one, we will be seen in a better light because even with our "help", they couldn't secure their works. thus, we are not seen as pirates, but instead as fair use advocates. no encryption is uncrackable, as bruce schneir has pointed out in his latest book. the longer we can put off a new standard, the more hardware playing the current standard will appear, and the harder it will be for the new standard to catch on.
holy shit! what happens when jim croce's wife or son come after me for my domain name, leroybrown.com?!?!?!?!? disregard the fact that i actually know two people named leroy brown.
i completely agree. i used to work in a department store and was able to buy designer clothes cheaper than normal (i used to hide them in my stockroom until they went on clearance). now that i'm a web developer, i can afford to buy the clothes at regular price, and continue to do so. why? not because of the names, but because the clothes are extremely comfortable. you're not just paying for a name. claiborne, nautica, hilfiger, etc., are made of really good fabric, don't shrink, last an incredibly long time, and put up with an inordinately large amount of shit (figurative shit, not literal). except gap jeans. these damn things wear out in six months.
why has the threat from microsoft to sue slashdot over the recent kerberos discussions been ignored on geeks in space?
i thought the scud stuf was arthur kent, not wolf blitzer.
and what if your child ruined my child's life?
quite on the contrary, ANYONE can be a movie critic. unless, of course, you're saying that one can only be a movie critic if s/he goes to film school for several years. note that this would be a ridiculous prerequisite. that's like saying, "you're not a computer programmer because you don't have any formal training in the matter."
mandrake in a box of cereal... that would kick ass.
actually, it was a cheetah. anyway, the commercial starts out with a guy on a mountain bike chasing a cheetah down in the desert. when the guy gets close enough, he leaps off the bike and tackles the cheetah and both go rolling on the ground. then the guy reaches down the cheetah's throat and pulls a mountain dew that the cheetah had, apparently, procured against the wishes of the mountain biker. then some other guys on a rock jabber about how much they hate cats. good commercial. funny.
okay, what retard is going to download kernel sources from ANYWHERE but kernel.org, redhat.com, or a known reputable source? and anything that gets added to the kernel gets checked by torvalds, cox, and a lot of other people. anyone that downloads kernel source from ftp.virusfactory.ch (or whatever the chinese top-level domain is) should do the world a favor and issue "rm / -fr *" as root.
most likely a y2k issue but i noticed this on the afa's page: DAILY NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 100 100 seems to be the century they're stuck in