My point is simply that feelings are deceptive,
and not to be regarded as anything but
propaganda unless the source has some
credentials (conspicuously absent in this
case) establishing the expertise of their
testimony. Even if honest, and impartial,
the claim is purely subjective.
How about some hard data? Then I wouldn't care
if you were a dog. I could just evaluate your
data, and interpret it for my own purposes, even
experimentally verify your claims, for the love
of Popper.
Better yet, provide credentials or references
to credible sources, if you want to provide an
executive summary (very useful) rather than
raw data.
Finally, I would point out that the number of
MySQL installations probably outstrips the number
of PGSQL instalations by an order of magnitude.
Why? One suspects an evolutionary element at
work here. Now that's a factual claim,
accompanied by a falsifiable hypothesis. You
may not be able to evaluate it without some
work, but at least it's evaluable, not pure FUD.
And centripetal force "feels" like it's pulling
you in the direction of your radius of rotation.
And strange quarks "taste" less filling that charm
quarks. This is not data, it's blathering
propaganda.
> Options are somtimes considered to be a good thing.
But sometimes they are *NOT* a good thing.
Specifically, when it comes to providing umpteen
different access mechanisms (read "remote exploit
opportunities").
.
MySQL has master-slave replication.
In fact, you can make a trees of replication
(good for high transaction volumes with massive
redundancy) or even daisy-chain replication into
a ring (giving you master-....-master).
It's too bad that it takes about 2 years to
update the public perception when a product
transitions from toy to tool.
.
The article didn't say anything about the chip
in question being a CPU.
And yes, you can get CDPD/GSM modems in a
PCMCIA factor already. People don't buy
them because they cost too much to leave on.
I spend $105/month for DSL because it's always
on. I'd rather pay the same money for 1/8 the
bandwidth, but portable -- but I'm not given that
option by the per-minute charges of cellcos.
Actually, since the infrastructure costs are being
offloaded from the ISPs in this scenario, the
costs should go down. The offloaded part is
done at consumer-commodity economies of
scale.
The problem with that theory is that the service
packs break your software. For example,
Win2k's SP2 broke Microsoft Exchange. It
doesn't do you much good to have a "secure"
(in the very limited sense of 'no exploits known
to microsoft which they have been both willing
to admit to and able to release a fix for) "secure"
server, if it doesn't SERVE!
No, you can quit any time, and start your own
business if you like.
Why do these people think they have a human right
to suck the world dry and never deal with the
consequences of their choices? It's really
quite appalling. Only children, I'd guess.
Heaven help us when 1.5 billion chinese have
that attitude.
.
Your notion of a good salary is warped.
You don't have a right to consume a hundred
times as much of the world's resources as
the median human. Therefore, you don't have
the right to do so while slacking.
> I first heard about ISDN in the 80's, ten years
> later people started to get ISDN phone lines.
> Likewise with DSL the basic ideas were floating
> arround in the early 90s but are still not fully
> baked for deployment.
But we're not dealing with phone companies trying
not to undercut their T1 tariffs in this case.
No, market dynamics is not the best mechanism for
determining the course of events in the public
sphere. A campaign of carefully targetted
asassinations will outperform market dynamics
every time. Killing the people who make your
life unpleasant is a proven strategy for improving
your experience.
And the backbone routers aren't obligated to
route their packets either. Cut AOL off from
the Internet, and we'll see how long this lasts.
The fact is, they are peeing in the public pool,
and any bully with a conscience has a right to
bloody their nose now.
People get upset because they are consumers,
and they are getting screwed by a monopoly
which they can't effectively circumvent.
This is mhy the american revolution was fought.
Amen. This is the only way to deal with this type
of maliciousness. It is often the case that just
a couple of viewer letters will make or break a
television program -- just imagine how much impact
a dozen or two can have in leveraging the fate
of a teetering dot-com project. (While
AOL-TimeWarner is hardly teetering, AIM is much
more vulnerable than it's wicked stepmother.)
.
This reasoning is so incredibly backwards
that the post has to be considered a troll
or something.
Somebody charges you money for a service,
but then they won't let you use it, and
that's okay, but if somebody gives you something
for free, they are obligated to accomodate your
every whim...
Like Java, GCC *is* the platform. It defines
a portable source language. In fact, you get
*more* portable code by writing against GCC than
you do by writing against JVM!
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and not to be regarded as anything but
propaganda unless the source has some
credentials (conspicuously absent in this
case) establishing the expertise of their
testimony. Even if honest, and impartial,
the claim is purely subjective.
How about some hard data? Then I wouldn't care
if you were a dog. I could just evaluate your
data, and interpret it for my own purposes, even
experimentally verify your claims, for the love
of Popper.
Better yet, provide credentials or references
to credible sources, if you want to provide an
executive summary (very useful) rather than
raw data.
Finally, I would point out that the number of
MySQL installations probably outstrips the number
of PGSQL instalations by an order of magnitude.
Why? One suspects an evolutionary element at
work here. Now that's a factual claim,
accompanied by a falsifiable hypothesis. You
may not be able to evaluate it without some
work, but at least it's evaluable, not pure FUD.
> Postgres is a great database....
...and feels more "robust" than mySQL.
No argument there.
>
And centripetal force "feels" like it's pulling
you in the direction of your radius of rotation.
And strange quarks "taste" less filling that charm
quarks. This is not data, it's blathering
propaganda.
.
> Options are somtimes considered to be a good thing.
But sometimes they are *NOT* a good thing.
Specifically, when it comes to providing umpteen
different access mechanisms (read "remote exploit
opportunities").
.
I just have to point out that this post is pure
FUD, since the moderators have failed so miserably.
.
MySQL has master-slave replication.
In fact, you can make a trees of replication
(good for high transaction volumes with massive
redundancy) or even daisy-chain replication into
a ring (giving you master-....-master).
It's too bad that it takes about 2 years to
update the public perception when a product
transitions from toy to tool.
.
I don't know how you could use it "all around the
s vc _availability/us_availability.gif
nation" when they basically only cover SF,
Chicago and BosWash.
http://www.verizonwireless.com/images/mobileip/
.
I think you mean the fucking winners.
Yeah, but do they suck hard enough? If they
don't suck hard enough, the bits won't come
as fast as I want.
Tap-tap. Clue stick here.
The article didn't say anything about the chip
in question being a CPU.
And yes, you can get CDPD/GSM modems in a
PCMCIA factor already. People don't buy
them because they cost too much to leave on.
I spend $105/month for DSL because it's always
on. I'd rather pay the same money for 1/8 the
bandwidth, but portable -- but I'm not given that
option by the per-minute charges of cellcos.
Actually, since the infrastructure costs are being
offloaded from the ISPs in this scenario, the
costs should go down. The offloaded part is
done at consumer-commodity economies of
scale.
The problem with that theory is that the service
packs break your software. For example,
Win2k's SP2 broke Microsoft Exchange. It
doesn't do you much good to have a "secure"
(in the very limited sense of 'no exploits known
to microsoft which they have been both willing
to admit to and able to release a fix for) "secure"
server, if it doesn't SERVE!
No, you can quit any time, and start your own
business if you like.
Why do these people think they have a human right
to suck the world dry and never deal with the
consequences of their choices? It's really
quite appalling. Only children, I'd guess.
Heaven help us when 1.5 billion chinese have
that attitude.
.
Your notion of a good salary is warped.
You don't have a right to consume a hundred
times as much of the world's resources as
the median human. Therefore, you don't have
the right to do so while slacking.
You make your choices.
.
Bitkeeper reserves the right to revoke your license
l
to use their software. If they ever get a wild hare
they can stop kernel development dead.
http://bitkeeper.com/Sales.Licensing.Source.htm
Read the license. Then consider: They can change
this license at will, because it is their
proprietary code.
At any momemnt, they have the ability to hold the
kernel source hostage. Will they? Unlikely, of
course. But they have the ability.
gcj compiles .class files.
SXGA means 1280x1024. To recap:
QVGA/CGA 320x240
VGA 640x480
SVGA 800x600
XGA 1024x768
SXGA 1280x1024
SXGA+ 1400x1200
UXGA 1600x1200 (all my lap and desk systems run UXGA)
VXGA 1920x1440
DXGA 2048x1536
or thereabouts.
> I first heard about ISDN in the 80's, ten years
> later people started to get ISDN phone lines.
> Likewise with DSL the basic ideas were floating
> arround in the early 90s but are still not fully
> baked for deployment.
But we're not dealing with phone companies trying
not to undercut their T1 tariffs in this case.
You need a dictionary.
No, market dynamics is not the best mechanism for
determining the course of events in the public
sphere. A campaign of carefully targetted
asassinations will outperform market dynamics
every time. Killing the people who make your
life unpleasant is a proven strategy for improving
your experience.
And the backbone routers aren't obligated to
route their packets either. Cut AOL off from
the Internet, and we'll see how long this lasts.
The fact is, they are peeing in the public pool,
and any bully with a conscience has a right to
bloody their nose now.
He was referring to Microsoft.
Bill Gates in real life is very tiny. About the
size of your *ahem* thingy.
People get upset because they are consumers,
and they are getting screwed by a monopoly
which they can't effectively circumvent.
This is mhy the american revolution was fought.
Having one less viable option for IM would be a
great boon to the world. Perfect interoperability
is perfect uniformity.
Amen. This is the only way to deal with this type
of maliciousness. It is often the case that just
a couple of viewer letters will make or break a
television program -- just imagine how much impact
a dozen or two can have in leveraging the fate
of a teetering dot-com project. (While
AOL-TimeWarner is hardly teetering, AIM is much
more vulnerable than it's wicked stepmother.)
.
This reasoning is so incredibly backwards
that the post has to be considered a troll
or something.
Somebody charges you money for a service,
but then they won't let you use it, and
that's okay, but if somebody gives you something
for free, they are obligated to accomodate your
every whim...
Stunning.
.
Like Java, GCC *is* the platform. It defines
a portable source language. In fact, you get
*more* portable code by writing against GCC than
you do by writing against JVM!