All "winning" combinations from MS are achieved in a farm of clustered servers; Oracle on Sun is on one BIG box.
These results are incomparable, since you can't always use a cluster, especially transparently for the application.
There are 2 primary types of database applications: OLTP and Data Warehousing.
OLTP can be used on cluster only if the application is explicitely written for it.
Oracle is far from being a little guy, it's a leader of the market M$ wants to conquer the way it conquered many others before.
Oracle has the best technology (or one of the best), but their pricing is extremely hmmmm, non-competitive.
If Billy will be able to show some muscle, Oracle software will probably become less expensive;-)
... with a shitload of experience (including tuning Oracle statements to be blazingly fast), I can tell you EXACTLY why Oracle, MS et cetera prohibit publishing any benchmarks.
Any database has an incredibly complex program in the heart of it - SQL parser/optimizer that decides how each statement is executed. Select an inefficient plan, and you're toast. The plan depends not only on the statement, but also on the server parameters, current load, database setup and DBA policies (such as analyzing tables' and indexes' contents). I've had situations when statements running minutes on test server were taking hours when released to production (fixed by adding "hints", that force the optimizer to execute it the way I want it to). Database SQL Optimizer might be more complex and sophisticated than an underlying operating system.
Since my experience includes not only Oracle but some other SQL databases, I can say that different databases optimize some statements differently. There are many ways to do the same things in SQL. Good example will be Oracle with EXISTS construct more efficient than the IN one (you can usually code the same statement using either).
Thus, comparing different databases on the same SQL code MIGHT become a comparison of apples and oranges. If you take a code, optimized for Oracle (even if it is completely standards-based) and run it on Informix or DB2, you might get results that are inadequate thus "proving" that Oracle is better.
TPC is supposed to be a database-independent performance test, but in reality it's obsolete and allows database vendors to optimize their databases heavily to run just this test.
Another thing, all of the top results are not comparable either (even farther than apples and oranges, it becomes a comparison of an elephant (Oracle on Starfire) versus bunch of ants (SQL Server on cluster)). These configurations are for different tasks and can't be compared directly.
1) It's considered to be the only true faith FOR JEWS. All others are free.
2) The ritual of conversion to the Judaism requires asking the convert-to-be three times if (s)he wants to convert and thus become part of Jewish folk (I don't know better word since English is not my first language).
I brought this example to illustrate non-proselytizative position of Judaism and its desire to co-exist with other religions.
3) The point is not in Hell;-)
Less than year ago significant thing has happened: Catholics accepted Luther's dogma about the salvation. According to it, faith, and not actions, is the only thing that decides if you're saved or not.
Judaism does not have the same restriction; actions are put above beliefs there.
Judaism is pretty clever in not trying to inflict itself on the entire world. It is highly expressed "tribal" religion. The conversion ritual even has the question to non-Jew if (s)he is sure (s)he wants to convert, and this question is repeated 3 times.
Even more, Judaism does not deny Heaven to people of the other faiths (like the Chrisitianity does).
Most of Chinese outside of tha mainland don't speak Mandarin. They speak different dialects thus making the penetration of Mandarin into Asia much harder.
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Also, don't forget commercial launches of the other countries' and private satellites by proven and relatively cheap rockets.
Do you know, how much all of this emissions equipment crap weights ???
Removing most of it from the cars will decrease their weight significantly, thus making them more efficient and compensating for less power from the alternative engine.
I had an interview recently with some consulting company that was asked to design a Java applet for a credit union in the South-East of the US that wanted to do an online banking. They had another credit union page with an example of such an applet.
They thought that it will take just a couple of months to build it, and haven't even had the server-side interfaces handy for me.
I have explained the M$-certified representative of this consulting company the scope of work, and he had told me that he'll communicate it to the client. After a couple of days I've received an call from him where he notified me that the client decided to make the Windoze/Exploder into a requirement and make everything in ActiveGoatSEX.
Author of the article tries to prove his point of how Clinton sucks by taking yet another swipe at Israel.
Unfortunately, his interpretation does not have much to do with reality, being just a recycled Arab propaganda.
Oslo failed because Arafat has got a lot; he's got a de-facto state (Israeli don't go to the zone A at all, and Zone B is under Palestinian control), but Israel got virtually nothing, not even the words. And since arafat got control of the security and media, he has filled the territories with the propaganda of hatred and built himself an army. Current regime there is a corrupt "pocket state" of him.
If you decide to invest into unknown company, would you invest a billion ??? Probably not, you will invest a million and look at the quarter results for some time. Israeli investment into so called "peace process" has miserably failed because Palestinians don't want peace, they want to kill all Israelis and get all the land.
Clinton is an idiot; he is probably a covert fan of Ayn Rand with her "absolute values" BS. This is why he squeezes concessions out of Israel to make sure that "they are talking".
No lasting peace can be made until the attitude changes on both sides, but mostly on Arab side, since at least half of Israel is ready for compromise whether not many Palestinians are.
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There are different kinds of SF.
There was a scientific SF (Azimov, Clark), a militaristic SF (like some of the Heinlein's books); magical SF (Tolkien, Merritt, Le Guin, Moorcock (sp?) and many others); "faschist" SF, where hero saves a virgin from the alien scum;-) (Lovecraft, Berrows, Lee Bracket (sp?), some of Hubbard's stuff); humorous SF (Harrison, Sprague de Camp, Henry Kuttner).
Lem is the master of psychological SF; I can remember Alfred Bester and some of the Henry Kuttner (I like him VERY MUCH, try to find "Fury" and short stories) and Poul Andersson stories out of English-language SF writers.
There were two Russian brothers, Arkady and Boris Strugatzky. Their prose is one of the best examples of the psychological SF; you can find texts of their works in Russian at:
http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/STRUGACKIE/
Also, English translations of some of their books are available at:
http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/TRANSLATION/
There is a significant problem with the whole concept of feeding all the hungry. There is an excellent site that explains in details the mechanics of world population.
It states that most of the rapid population growth comes not from higher birth rates but from lower mortality. Earth can probably produce enough food for much more people than current 6 bln, but who will give them jobs/occupation, and how (and how long) will they live without money and medicine ???:-(
You can devote all your spare funds for the noble cause of preserving their lives, but I don't see the need to save everyone who is born until the birth rates in the third world stabilize at the acceptable level.
A lot of stress in our life is caused by our inability to stop the loop where we are stuck and change our job/life to the less profitable but less stressful one. This is caused by what I call the Subj.
Isn't it interesting, that most of us cubicle dwellers belong to this level of income/society.
And the tragedy is in our choices.
Poor don't have the choice. They spend all of their money just to pay the bills for the food, gas and apartment without an ability to save anything.
Rich don't need to choose. They can pretty much afford anything they want/need.
It's middle class that is haunted. To buy a new car or put more into retirement fund; to remodel a kitchen or to spend a vacation in Europe; to pay for kid's college in full or buy a better house - the choices abound and loom, making us work, work, work just to satisfy the beast of consumerism inside us...
You're certainly right about PRC's ability to conquer Taiwan. On the other hand, Chinese leaders understand that even possibility of the nuclear strike is bad enough. Also, military guarantees to Taiwan mean that the US can act not only with troops, but also with trade and other embargo. It won't kill China, but its role in the world will be significantly reduced.
As for India and Pakistan, you can't destroy all the country with nukes, but they both have enough to destroy 3-10 major cities thus bringing life to a halt (and killing many millions). This holds them.
Hey, are you familiar with the "assured mutual destruction" principle ???
No leader of any big country will do anything to trigger a world-wide conflict, especially after movies about the Cuban crysis of 1963 are filmed and shown to the entire world.
The only reason for not having another full-scale war between India and Pakistan, ex-USSR and USA, Russia and China, Arabs and Israel, PRC and Taiwan is the presence of the non-conventional weapon at the scene (one of the parties or its allies have it)!
It is like giving a loan guarantee - you don't give actual money, just an assurance. And China knows about that; they won't dare to provoke what might become the end of the world.
I am against policing the world by the US; no one gave it the right, so I opposed bombing Yugoslavia and will oppose anything that changes the balance, such as attempts of the US defence contractors to waste my money on nuclear shield (that won't work anyway;-)
On the other hand, I think that IRAQs of the world should not be able to make an unprovoked conquests of their neighbours. I'm also sure that even if the cold War would not finish by that time, the USSR would not try to defend Iraq in military way.
Again, don't forget that you are citizen of the world, and you can't hide in the safe hole when the world war looms.
No, businesses should not be favored by the law above people. But neither they should become a cash cow for the lawyer scum (the way they've become because of Nader).
http://www.andrewtobias.com/newcolumns/000612.ht ml
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/sugarmans/Qu ebec309.htm
http://www.nadersucks.org/
Unfortunately the best article (Ralph Nader is a bif fat idiot) is no longer available, since the fsck-ing Worth magazine removed their archieves from the web:-(
But you can still get it in a library in the following book:
Although I should give him a credit for not being a racist.
The reason for that conclusion of mine is in the following paragraph from his website:
<I>Bring the troops home from overseas where they breed anti-American resentment -- and quit relying on our overwhelming national offense, create a secure national defense, withdraw from all international organizations and mutual-defense treaties, and allow other countries to manage their own affairs. </I>
You just can't do that. Sure, US needs to change its heavy-handed approach to the world and not try running it as a CEO, but you can't just close your borders and pretend that everything beyound is a white space.
People live not in the US anymore, they live on the Earth, and it's year 2000 now! It means that everything is linked together, and, for example, lack of the defence pact with Taiwan will mean that all of your motherboards will be produced in People Republic of China;-)
Also, Americans will suffer from the ozone hole above Antarctica in the same degree as the Europeans. So, protecting the environment should be extended from this country to the entire world.
Acceptable means that users still can do what they need even if that takes hours and the program occasionaly crashes (I have a couple of applications that I've rewritten in mind).
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All "winning" combinations from MS are achieved in a farm of clustered servers; Oracle on Sun is on one BIG box.
These results are incomparable, since you can't always use a cluster, especially transparently for the application.
There are 2 primary types of database applications: OLTP and Data Warehousing.
OLTP can be used on cluster only if the application is explicitely written for it.
Oracle is far from being a little guy, it's a leader of the market M$ wants to conquer the way it conquered many others before.
;-)
Oracle has the best technology (or one of the best), but their pricing is extremely hmmmm, non-competitive.
If Billy will be able to show some muscle, Oracle software will probably become less expensive
... with a shitload of experience (including tuning Oracle statements to be blazingly fast), I can tell you EXACTLY why Oracle, MS et cetera prohibit publishing any benchmarks.
Any database has an incredibly complex program in the heart of it - SQL parser/optimizer that decides how each statement is executed. Select an inefficient plan, and you're toast. The plan depends not only on the statement, but also on the server parameters, current load, database setup and DBA policies (such as analyzing tables' and indexes' contents). I've had situations when statements running minutes on test server were taking hours when released to production (fixed by adding "hints", that force the optimizer to execute it the way I want it to). Database SQL Optimizer might be more complex and sophisticated than an underlying operating system.
Since my experience includes not only Oracle but some other SQL databases, I can say that different databases optimize some statements differently. There are many ways to do the same things in SQL. Good example will be Oracle with EXISTS construct more efficient than the IN one (you can usually code the same statement using either).
Thus, comparing different databases on the same SQL code MIGHT become a comparison of apples and oranges. If you take a code, optimized for Oracle (even if it is completely standards-based) and run it on Informix or DB2, you might get results that are inadequate thus "proving" that Oracle is better.
TPC is supposed to be a database-independent performance test, but in reality it's obsolete and allows database vendors to optimize their databases heavily to run just this test.
Another thing, all of the top results are not comparable either (even farther than apples and oranges, it becomes a comparison of an elephant (Oracle on Starfire) versus bunch of ants (SQL Server on cluster)). These configurations are for different tasks and can't be compared directly.
1) It's considered to be the only true faith FOR JEWS. All others are free.
;-)
2) The ritual of conversion to the Judaism requires asking the convert-to-be three times if (s)he wants to convert and thus become part of Jewish folk (I don't know better word since English is not my first language).
I brought this example to illustrate non-proselytizative position of Judaism and its desire to co-exist with other religions.
3) The point is not in Hell
Less than year ago significant thing has happened: Catholics accepted Luther's dogma about the salvation. According to it, faith, and not actions, is the only thing that decides if you're saved or not.
Judaism does not have the same restriction; actions are put above beliefs there.
Judaism is pretty clever in not trying to inflict itself on the entire world. It is highly expressed "tribal" religion. The conversion ritual even has the question to non-Jew if (s)he is sure (s)he wants to convert, and this question is repeated 3 times.
Even more, Judaism does not deny Heaven to people of the other faiths (like the Chrisitianity does).
... what the www.freshmeat.net is! ;-)
Visit
http://www.ecocap.demon.co.uk/
There is a problem though.
Most of Chinese outside of tha mainland don't speak Mandarin. They speak different dialects thus making the penetration of Mandarin into Asia much harder.
Also, don't forget commercial launches of the other countries' and private satellites by proven and relatively cheap rockets.
Do you know, how much all of this emissions equipment crap weights ???
Removing most of it from the cars will decrease their weight significantly, thus making them more efficient and compensating for less power from the alternative engine.
Shit happens, and you're not alone.
I had an interview recently with some consulting company that was asked to design a Java applet for a credit union in the South-East of the US that wanted to do an online banking. They had another credit union page with an example of such an applet.
They thought that it will take just a couple of months to build it, and haven't even had the server-side interfaces handy for me.
I have explained the M$-certified representative of this consulting company the scope of work, and he had told me that he'll communicate it to the client. After a couple of days I've received an call from him where he notified me that the client decided to make the Windoze/Exploder into a requirement and make everything in ActiveGoatSEX.
So much for the cross-platform Internet.
Or they don't teach it ???
Have you heard about the Balfour Declaration ??? It was in 1919 IIRC.
Second, Arab and Jewish population were about the same there in 1948.
And following your logic, the "stolen state" should still be in the hands of Brits. Or, even better, the Osman Empire.
Author of the article tries to prove his point of how Clinton sucks by taking yet another swipe at Israel.
Unfortunately, his interpretation does not have much to do with reality, being just a recycled Arab propaganda.
Oslo failed because Arafat has got a lot; he's got a de-facto state (Israeli don't go to the zone A at all, and Zone B is under Palestinian control), but Israel got virtually nothing, not even the words. And since arafat got control of the security and media, he has filled the territories with the propaganda of hatred and built himself an army. Current regime there is a corrupt "pocket state" of him.
If you decide to invest into unknown company, would you invest a billion ??? Probably not, you will invest a million and look at the quarter results for some time. Israeli investment into so called "peace process" has miserably failed because Palestinians don't want peace, they want to kill all Israelis and get all the land.
Clinton is an idiot; he is probably a covert fan of Ayn Rand with her "absolute values" BS. This is why he squeezes concessions out of Israel to make sure that "they are talking".
No lasting peace can be made until the attitude changes on both sides, but mostly on Arab side, since at least half of Israel is ready for compromise whether not many Palestinians are.
There are different kinds of SF.
;-) (Lovecraft, Berrows, Lee Bracket (sp?), some of Hubbard's stuff); humorous SF (Harrison, Sprague de Camp, Henry Kuttner).
;-)
There was a scientific SF (Azimov, Clark), a militaristic SF (like some of the Heinlein's books); magical SF (Tolkien, Merritt, Le Guin, Moorcock (sp?) and many others); "faschist" SF, where hero saves a virgin from the alien scum
Lem is the master of psychological SF; I can remember Alfred Bester and some of the Henry Kuttner (I like him VERY MUCH, try to find "Fury" and short stories) and Poul Andersson stories out of English-language SF writers.
There were two Russian brothers, Arkady and Boris Strugatzky. Their prose is one of the best examples of the psychological SF; you can find texts of their works in Russian at:
http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/STRUGACKIE/
Also, English translations of some of their books are available at:
http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/TRANSLATION/
Long live Internet!
Speaking on the topic, does it matter ?
If I understand correctly, it is just a routine; nothing new and exciting for the humankind.
There is a significant problem with the whole concept of feeding all the hungry. There is an excellent site that explains in details the mechanics of world population.
:-(
It states that most of the rapid population growth comes not from higher birth rates but from lower mortality. Earth can probably produce enough food for much more people than current 6 bln, but who will give them jobs/occupation, and how (and how long) will they live without money and medicine ???
You can devote all your spare funds for the noble cause of preserving their lives, but I don't see the need to save everyone who is born until the birth rates in the third world stabilize at the acceptable level.
The link is:
http://www.popexpo.net/eMain.html
That is what StarOffice is. I can bet that Sun wants to spend as few bucks on this unprofitable (for them) product as possible.
Other people explained the reasons in details, so I won't repeat them.
A lot of stress in our life is caused by our inability to stop the loop where we are stuck and change our job/life to the less profitable but less stressful one. This is caused by what I call the Subj.
...
Isn't it interesting, that most of us cubicle dwellers belong to this level of income/society.
And the tragedy is in our choices.
Poor don't have the choice. They spend all of their money just to pay the bills for the food, gas and apartment without an ability to save anything.
Rich don't need to choose. They can pretty much afford anything they want/need.
It's middle class that is haunted. To buy a new car or put more into retirement fund; to remodel a kitchen or to spend a vacation in Europe; to pay for kid's college in full or buy a better house - the choices abound and loom, making us work, work, work just to satisfy the beast of consumerism inside us
You're certainly right about PRC's ability to conquer Taiwan. On the other hand, Chinese leaders understand that even possibility of the nuclear strike is bad enough. Also, military guarantees to Taiwan mean that the US can act not only with troops, but also with trade and other embargo. It won't kill China, but its role in the world will be significantly reduced.
As for India and Pakistan, you can't destroy all the country with nukes, but they both have enough to destroy 3-10 major cities thus bringing life to a halt (and killing many millions). This holds them.
I remember Dilbert cartoon where PHB tells Wally to make a schedule of all unscheduled outages ;-)
Hey, are you familiar with the "assured mutual destruction" principle ???
;-)
No leader of any big country will do anything to trigger a world-wide conflict, especially after movies about the Cuban crysis of 1963 are filmed and shown to the entire world.
The only reason for not having another full-scale war between India and Pakistan, ex-USSR and USA, Russia and China, Arabs and Israel, PRC and Taiwan is the presence of the non-conventional weapon at the scene (one of the parties or its allies have it)!
It is like giving a loan guarantee - you don't give actual money, just an assurance. And China knows about that; they won't dare to provoke what might become the end of the world.
I am against policing the world by the US; no one gave it the right, so I opposed bombing Yugoslavia and will oppose anything that changes the balance, such as attempts of the US defence contractors to waste my money on nuclear shield (that won't work anyway
On the other hand, I think that IRAQs of the world should not be able to make an unprovoked conquests of their neighbours. I'm also sure that even if the cold War would not finish by that time, the USSR would not try to defend Iraq in military way.
Again, don't forget that you are citizen of the world, and you can't hide in the safe hole when the world war looms.
No, businesses should not be favored by the law above people. But neither they should become a cash cow for the lawyer scum (the way they've become because of Nader).
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http://www.andrewtobias.com/newcolumns/000612.h
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/sugarmans/Q
http://www.nadersucks.org/
Unfortunately the best article (Ralph Nader is a bif fat idiot) is no longer available, since the fsck-ing Worth magazine removed their archieves from the web
But you can still get it in a library in the following book:
http://www.andrewtobias.com/myvast.html
He has called Bush a "corporation, disguised as a man" ;-) It is funny and to some extent true, but Nader himself is a lawyer, disguised as a human.
All of his proposals favor not people, but lawyers at the expense of businesses.
Although I should give him a credit for not being a racist.
;-)
The reason for that conclusion of mine is in the following paragraph from his website:
<I>Bring the troops home from overseas where they breed anti-American resentment -- and quit relying on our overwhelming national offense, create a secure national defense, withdraw from all international organizations and mutual-defense treaties, and allow other countries to manage their own affairs. </I>
You just can't do that. Sure, US needs to change its heavy-handed approach to the world and not try running it as a CEO, but you can't just close your borders and pretend that everything beyound is a white space.
People live not in the US anymore, they live on the Earth, and it's year 2000 now! It means that everything is linked together, and, for example, lack of the defence pact with Taiwan will mean that all of your motherboards will be produced in People Republic of China
Also, Americans will suffer from the ozone hole above Antarctica in the same degree as the Europeans. So, protecting the environment should be extended from this country to the entire world.
Gimme a break, English is my second language ;-)
Acceptable means that users still can do what they need even if that takes hours and the program occasionaly crashes (I have a couple of applications that I've rewritten in mind).
As for the X vs Y, look at my reply to dash2.