Maybe they should paint pictures of scary things on the road. That should slow people down right? If people are driving slow and in fear they must be safer right?
Engineering based on the expectations of human reaction to a stressful situation (ie. people driving on the road in low visibility conditions) is utter horse $### and the people responsible for making this decision should henceforth not be allowed to make decisions that effect other people. Can we put them in charge of cats maybe?
So what would you have people do then? Vote? That's a joke. There are two parties in this crapfest and they are both puppets of the corporatists who have their hands up both their arses. There is the puppet on the corporate right hand and the puppet on their left and although I continue to vote for 3rd party candidates it doesn't make a difference because the population is convinced they shouldn't vote for anyone other than their two "choices".
Not blame it on the leaders and take responsibility? Not MY responsibility, I didn't vote these asshats in. If you did then take responsibility and vote more wisely next time.
Congress passes ethics laws to ensure government employees are not being influenced by industry...FACT.
These laws are not applied to congressmen...FACT.
Industry STILL negatively influences non-congressional government employees on a regular basis. Do you think that maybe lobbyists negatively influence congressmen? We had legislation in place to prevent the speculation and the crash (Glass-Steagall)...it was repealed by political "leaders" in 1999.
"Our work and education ethos is a f* up one"...Are you speaking of how we get less benefits, work more, and still have less of a stake in economic gains compared to countries like Germany?
Seriously, many of us have done stupid things when we were younger. In todays incarceration culture many kids are going to prison to hang out with violent criminals for pulling the same stunts. We as a society need to more carefully consider the reasons for which we take away someone's freedoms.
Why the ODBC driver? MSSQL is sybase. Microsoft couldn't figure out how to build a proper database so they bought one. Try PHP's sybase interface if you must, but really, just use PostgreSQL, much better.
From TFA:
"The problem is that JOINs are really, really slow when the data is spread out over several machines."
This is the result of a poor design, not a database flaw. If you are running a web application against multiple databases, either cluster them or store all the data for a user in one database. (i.e. hash the login_id and select the database based on the result). If someone is doing JOINs across multiple machines and doesn't have a very good reason for doing so, then nothing short of a lobotomy is going to help them.
From TFA:
"Each query can only run 5 seconds. The answer can only hold 250 items. Each item can have only 250 pairs."
Yeah, I'd say that meets the definition of a toy database alright.
From TFA:
"Many of the complaints about the other toy databases revolve around how a missing feature makes it impossible to find the right data. If you want to add a bit more functionality to the database here, you can whip up many of the features locally in Python. If you want a JOIN, you can synthesize one in Python and probably customize the memory cache at the same time. This is especially useful for Web applications that let users store their data in the service. If you need to add security to restrict each user to the right data, you can code that in Python too."
The writer must be joking. Who would do this when there are better options that don't involve implementing your own database?
From TFA:
"there's no big reason to use Ruby, Python, Java, or PHP on the server when it can all be packaged in JavaScript"
Many people who write web applications actually want to do usefull things with the data they store like generate reports, keep logs, track inventory, or run queries. This doesn't work very well when the "database" is a text file sitting on the user's harddrive.
This or that application doesn't work on Linux or there isn't a comparable one (my favorite to mention is Sibelius's music notation software, aptly named Sibelius [or Coda Music's Finale, but I hate Finale]), it's not as easy to use, hardware, etc.
Some music notation software on linux (not complete list, just a quick search):
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Maybe they should paint pictures of scary things on the road. That should slow people down right? If people are driving slow and in fear they must be safer right? Engineering based on the expectations of human reaction to a stressful situation (ie. people driving on the road in low visibility conditions) is utter horse $### and the people responsible for making this decision should henceforth not be allowed to make decisions that effect other people. Can we put them in charge of cats maybe?
KillerFS has a nice ring to it.
"spider silks display excellent mechanical features"
So does that mean I can replace my skin with this new skin and be impervious to being cut?
We can now graft lasers onto shark's heads!
So what would you have people do then? Vote? That's a joke. There are two parties in this crapfest and they are both puppets of the corporatists who have their hands up both their arses. There is the puppet on the corporate right hand and the puppet on their left and although I continue to vote for 3rd party candidates it doesn't make a difference because the population is convinced they shouldn't vote for anyone other than their two "choices".
...it was repealed by political "leaders" in 1999.
Not blame it on the leaders and take responsibility? Not MY responsibility, I didn't vote these asshats in. If you did then take responsibility and vote more wisely next time.
Congress passes ethics laws to ensure government employees are not being influenced by industry...FACT. These laws are not applied to congressmen...FACT. Industry STILL negatively influences non-congressional government employees on a regular basis. Do you think that maybe lobbyists negatively influence congressmen? We had legislation in place to prevent the speculation and the crash (Glass-Steagall)
"Our work and education ethos is a f* up one"...Are you speaking of how we get less benefits, work more, and still have less of a stake in economic gains compared to countries like Germany?
Bring better arguments next time...
Perhaps we wouldn't have so many economic troubles if we questioned our leaders more often...
They should make something that can tell us how drunk they are too.
Seriously, many of us have done stupid things when we were younger. In todays incarceration culture many kids are going to prison to hang out with violent criminals for pulling the same stunts. We as a society need to more carefully consider the reasons for which we take away someone's freedoms.
If only we could prevent them from unplugging it too. That should make technical support jobs much easier.
Why the ODBC driver? MSSQL is sybase. Microsoft couldn't figure out how to build a proper database so they bought one. Try PHP's sybase interface if you must, but really, just use PostgreSQL, much better.
Why not go all out and send your process through a wormhole that returns the result before you sent it.
Great...the net nannies and oppressive governments will have yet another censorship tool in their arsenal.
Junkie hospitalized after attempting to smoke air filter.
Funny movie too, Blood Car.
"Three Republicans on the school board who favor the teaching of evolution have come under enormous pressure to reform their ways."
:)
Lest they be sentenced to eternal damnation and cast into hell.
Every database covered in the article is a toy.
From TFA: "The problem is that JOINs are really, really slow when the data is spread out over several machines."
This is the result of a poor design, not a database flaw. If you are running a web application against multiple databases, either cluster them or store all the data for a user in one database. (i.e. hash the login_id and select the database based on the result). If someone is doing JOINs across multiple machines and doesn't have a very good reason for doing so, then nothing short of a lobotomy is going to help them.
From TFA: "Each query can only run 5 seconds. The answer can only hold 250 items. Each item can have only 250 pairs."
Yeah, I'd say that meets the definition of a toy database alright.
From TFA: "Many of the complaints about the other toy databases revolve around how a missing feature makes it impossible to find the right data. If you want to add a bit more functionality to the database here, you can whip up many of the features locally in Python. If you want a JOIN, you can synthesize one in Python and probably customize the memory cache at the same time. This is especially useful for Web applications that let users store their data in the service. If you need to add security to restrict each user to the right data, you can code that in Python too."
The writer must be joking. Who would do this when there are better options that don't involve implementing your own database?
From TFA: "there's no big reason to use Ruby, Python, Java, or PHP on the server when it can all be packaged in JavaScript"
Many people who write web applications actually want to do usefull things with the data they store like generate reports, keep logs, track inventory, or run queries. This doesn't work very well when the "database" is a text file sitting on the user's harddrive.
So does this mean everyone will have to lock down their wireless routers to keep their neighbors from jacking up their internet bill?
This or that application doesn't work on Linux or there isn't a comparable one (my favorite to mention is Sibelius's music notation software, aptly named Sibelius [or Coda Music's Finale, but I hate Finale]), it's not as easy to use, hardware, etc.
Some music notation software on linux (not complete list, just a quick search):