Looks like they'll have to send actual people on their missions of peace and understanding for some time yet.
Although recalling some videos of patriot missiles in action, maybe this technology is an improvement on what they've got.
Hell, at least these guys could work at NASA:O
But back to the story... I can't wait until the US military finally has some ultra-efficient killing machines on their hands. Those soliders of theirs have ridiculous requires like food and sleep, and some of them even go crazy at the sight of all the destruction they're causing. And then there's the constant stream of deaths that you have to ban the media from showing to keep the presidential approval rating up. Bring on the killing machines!
Dude you need to decrease the amount of time between joints. From what I can tell, you are one of the very few yet very vocal Postgres zealots who take great pride in rocking up to every MySQL story and bombarding us with bullshit such as:
doesn't support referential integrity
or
doesn't support transactions
or
crashes or locks up or misbehaves under strain
All of those claims are false. I would be surprised if you had used MySQL at all. But you continual stream of lies suggests that either you:
a) Have no idea what you're talking about, or b) Know that what you are preaching is utter bullshit, and have no intention of listening to reason, as it undermines your opinion that Postgres is the all-powerful database god, and that fucking elephant is our idol.
Next time you go on the anti-MySQL rampage, you should note that you will convince more people if you stick to facts.
You'd think after the disaster in Iraq they'd settle down a little, eh?
These Robo-Tanks are obviously not for defence. They are for transport in hostile territory. It's clear the US is planning to keep up with their average of 3 invasions per year that they've been holding steady for the past century.
Did they pay for Windows? If not, don't install it. If they did, tell them that Microsoft tech support comes exclusively from Microsoft, and you're not interested in supporting their garbage.
Then explain that Linux tech support comes from volunteers such as yourself, and you are more than willing to help them figure out how to use Linux.
If their Windows installation does anything bad, explain the above again.
As an IT professional, I have more than my fair share of friends and extended family wanting tech support, and this is the only way I can keep it managable and keep myself sane.
Democracy and capitalism are mutually exclusive. If you beleive otherwise you are within a few IQ points of Bush. Socialism engages the public and follows democratic principals much more than capitalism could ever hope to, and the reason is that socialism is largely a reaction to the effect that capitalism has on democracy. I point you again to Bush: a blithering idiot with BIG corporate backing, who gets away with waging an illegal war of agression against a defenseless country. Any why? Now that the WOMD lies are completely discredited, it's obvious that Bush's pals in the oil industry are the real reason for the war.
So don't give me this 'socialism!=democracy' bullshit. You've been listening to too much capitalist propoganda. Have a think about things for once.
Oh bullshit. Capitalism meddles in people's affairs. It turns everything into a commodity with a price, and places it in a so-called 'open' market, where everyone is free to bid for it, but only those with money can hope to afford it. This is why we need government intervention, and plenty of it. Otherwise capitalism will ensure that everything of worth is owned by a very small percentage of the population, which, come to think of it, is exactly what we have now.
XFree86-4.4 has only just been released, and ATI have drivers out already?
What's that? The drivers are for 4.3? And most distros are considering forking X and/or following an alternative to X? Sounds great!
All the more reason to pressure ATI into releasing docs for the R300+ chips. Until they do, I'll only be upgrading to an R250 or R270 or whatever the latest one supported by open source drivers is. However if they leave R300+ support out in the cold for too much longer, I'll switch back to nVidia simply because they are much faster to release drivers than ATI, and therefore more likely to support whatever direction everyone else moves in when abandoning XFree86.
I beg to differ. If you had tried Gentoo, you would know about the etc-update script, which takes the pain out of config file updates like you are describing above. I've been running our server at work (http://www.nusconsulting.com.au) on Gentoo for over a year now, and it's going quite nicely. Looks like you were pointing the finger in the wrong direction with that 'misguided individuals' crack...
I am always astonished that companies like Lockheed Martin and Boging can swindle such incredible amounts of money out of US taxpayers, and no-one bats an eyelid.
People are far more interested in taking the patriotic line ( they're defending America ) than seeing things as they really are ( these companies are fooling you into giving them millions of dollars, and at the end of it all, the only outcome is an arms race, which they are fine with, because they produce the arms ).
Clearly US economic interests can't be asserted to satisfaction with their current army and Weapons Of Mass Destruction.
But it's easy to see why some people could find this a little disturbing, or even hypocritical. You see, from my point of view, I understand that Australia's drug prohibition laws are a direct result of pressure from the US government. When I go out to a rave to have a good night ( or 2 ), and take a very soft drug that gives me a little energy ( and God forbid, makes me happy ) my government reserves the right to arrest and gaol me for 'breaking the law'. But when the US military use drugs regularly to increase their 'effectiveness as killing machines', that's the best thing since sliced bread.
Of course creating drug-fucked killing machines that go on the rampage for 5 days straight has no affect on the families of said soldiers when they return home from the killing fields. In fact they promptly return to what is wildly recognised as normal behaviour for US citizens, and everyone lives happily ever after... apart from me, because I'm locked up for 10 years for taking some Ecstacy and proclaiming my love for life.
But to take your point a step further, don't forget that the UN really is just an extensin of US foreign policy. The US has ( and uses regularly ) its right to veto any motion that doesn't suit their 'national interests'. Of course a select few other countries also have a right to veto motions, but:
a) it only takes one veto-happy country to ruin it b) all countries with veto rights are right behind US foreign policy.
Do a google search on the number of resolutions calling for the Israelis to back out of the 'occupied' territories that the US has vetoed.
Baby Bush was right when he said that the UN is irrelevent. It is. It's as irrelevent as the statement that the US's real concern is democracy.
The only chance for international equality lies in demolishing the UN and replacing it with a true world government that is elected directly by the people.
As a longtime linux user, I can say that every single linux machine I've had, including the current latest-and-greatest, has miserably failed my Window Drag Test(TM).
Yeah I remember when I had a 486 DX2-66 and I tried dragging xterms around I used to get some bad redraw stuff happening. Sometimes I'd even get artifacts that would stay behind after the window had passed on.
What you have to do, dude, is get yourself another computer. I just performed your Window Drag Test (TM) and found that my windows drag around perfectly, as I seem to remember them doing for the past 5 years.
And this is what people notice when they first sit down in front of a linux machine. And it's killing us. Whatever the shortcomings of Windows and Macs, neither have this problem.
When people first sit down in front of a Linux computer, they don't do your patented fuck-tard test. "And it's killing us". Yeah right. I'm dying over here. My fucking 486 won't drag around my xterm across my twm desktop at an acceptable rate.
For comparison's sake, what are the civilian death figures for other hostile takeovers of countries with a population of about 20 million (say the non-Vichy part of France in World War II)?
You can't excuse yourself from killing 10,000 people by pointing to another point in history where you killed 2,000,000 people. Instead of getting away with the 10,000, you are in fact now being held responsible for both.
But nice try to stir up fears by mentioning "uranium" How about pointing to a scientific study of DU toxicity (some have been done, by opponents of DU, even, and found what I have said above) instead of pointing to propaganda?
Oh god. Not another 'nice try... but where are the facts' post. If you were actually interested in the topic and had a mind open enough to allow some truth in occasionally, you would do a google search and find out more for yourself. You didn't do that, did you? It sounds like you'd rather beat the pro-American military drum, no matter how far down the path to hell they decide to march.
Technological advances in US's Weapons of Mass Destruction has so far not decreased the casualty rate, but increased it.
Look at the statistics from Iraq. They basically had no army worth fighting. They were crippled by 10 years of UN sactions. They were a few small steps away from being armed with rocks and sling-shots.
The US army was far superior technologically. But 10,000 civilians died, and millions more are going to die because of Depleted Uranium poisoning.
Pumping yet more money into the US military will certainly not save any lives.
The technology involved might seem interesting to us, but the USE that it will be put to will be killing innocent people who live in energy-rich regions of the world that don't agree to hand over their natural resources to the US on US terms, aka 'terrorists'.
Access sucks. It really, really sucks. Anyone who has used it for more than 2 years will agree with me. Access is about implementing work-arounds for dodgy shit that should have been fixed after Access version 2, but somehow has made it all the way to the current version. Most of my development is done under Access, and when I'm not developing under Access, I'm doing either Perl or PHP stuff to replace Access. It is quite unfortunate that there aren't any real alternatives currently, but putting IBM behind Office is not the way to go, even if you need DB support. I'd much rather see IBM put a few million behind OpenOffice, and I'm sure many other posters will agree with me. You can't break Microsoft's monopoly by extending it into Linux-on-the-desktop. That's probably the one thing that will save Microsoft's monopoly in the long run. Bad, bad move, IBM...
The other package formats are nothing but trade-offs to lure Windows users.
With every Linux box having gcc, is there really any reason why apps have to be pre-compiled? Sure you can pre-comile stuff for an installation CD, but after that, it just makes sense to use an installation method like Gentoo's portage.
I see you got modded funny. Well let me ask the question seriously: If we have to submit to your invasion plans, laws and everything else that comes with being an American, then why don't I get to vote for the President? Apparently only 33% of you vote, so it's not like the population gives a fuck anyway.
I'm a ( new ) member of the ISO and I'm sure I can find you plenty of people interested in helping. I'll get back to you after a meeting Tuesday night.
I think if you removed IE, Outlook Express, Active Desktop, Windows Media Player, and Digital Rights Management from Windows, it would be far LESS crippled, and actually MORE valuable.
MySQL is very fast and very easy to use. The support community is also very large and helpful.
I've found Postgres to be very... strange. It has too many idiosyncrasies ( yeah I can't spell it, I know ) and requires too much pissing around to get anything useful done. It also has some MAJOR bugs and missing features. For example, last time I checked, it couldn't change field types or add / delete fields once a table is created. That's backward.
Postgres also isn't that fast. Nowhere near as fast as MySQL. Having triggers and stored procedures is good, but if it means taking a 50% performance hit, I'd rather stick with MySQL, especially since version 5.0.x is out which supports stored procedures now. By the way, MySQL-4.1.x supports nested selects too.
The support community for Postgres also isn't as big as MySQL's. MySQL is just more popular. If you don't agree with the majority of OSS users on this one, then fine, use Postgres. I've used both and I'm not touching Postgres unless I have to. MySQL is just too good!
My, my. The BBC have been fucking things up recently.
First they have blood on their hands over the death of that UK whistleblower ( and it is now being suggested that his death may have been something other than suicide, implicating the BBC further ).
Next they publish a story that really could only have come 1 of 2 places: Microsoft, or good old SCO themselves.
I used to like what I saw of the BBC ( which admittedly wasn't much - being in Australia, we mainly get 20 year old documentaries ). But now I'm starting to wonder whether I should just stick with fucking Murdock's right-wing bullshit...
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Looks like they'll have to send actual people on their missions of peace and understanding for some time yet.
:O
... I can't wait until the US military finally has some ultra-efficient killing machines on their hands. Those soliders of theirs have ridiculous requires like food and sleep, and some of them even go crazy at the sight of all the destruction they're causing. And then there's the constant stream of deaths that you have to ban the media from showing to keep the presidential approval rating up. Bring on the killing machines!
Although recalling some videos of patriot missiles in action, maybe this technology is an improvement on what they've got.
Hell, at least these guys could work at NASA
But back to the story
or
or
All of those claims are false. I would be surprised if you had used MySQL at all. But you continual stream of lies suggests that either you:
a) Have no idea what you're talking about, or
b) Know that what you are preaching is utter bullshit, and have no intention of listening to reason, as it undermines your opinion that Postgres is the all-powerful database god, and that fucking elephant is our idol.
Next time you go on the anti-MySQL rampage, you should note that you will convince more people if you stick to facts.
Fucking Postgres zealots...
You'd think after the disaster in Iraq they'd settle down a little, eh?
These Robo-Tanks are obviously not for defence. They are for transport in hostile territory. It's clear the US is planning to keep up with their average of 3 invasions per year that they've been holding steady for the past century.
Who's next?
Did they pay for Windows? If not, don't install it. If they did, tell them that Microsoft tech support comes exclusively from Microsoft, and you're not interested in supporting their garbage.
Then explain that Linux tech support comes from volunteers such as yourself, and you are more than willing to help them figure out how to use Linux.
If their Windows installation does anything bad, explain the above again.
As an IT professional, I have more than my fair share of friends and extended family wanting tech support, and this is the only way I can keep it managable and keep myself sane.
Democracy and capitalism are mutually exclusive. If you beleive otherwise you are within a few IQ points of Bush. Socialism engages the public and follows democratic principals much more than capitalism could ever hope to, and the reason is that socialism is largely a reaction to the effect that capitalism has on democracy. I point you again to Bush: a blithering idiot with BIG corporate backing, who gets away with waging an illegal war of agression against a defenseless country. Any why? Now that the WOMD lies are completely discredited, it's obvious that Bush's pals in the oil industry are the real reason for the war.
So don't give me this 'socialism!=democracy' bullshit. You've been listening to too much capitalist propoganda. Have a think about things for once.
Maybe if you hadn't posted anonymously I'd bother to point out the flaws in your 'argument'.
Do we not all remember the stories about Lexmark and the DMCA ( ie Lexmark are sueing manufacturers of compatible toner under the DMCA ).
Lexmark products are also low quality and high priced. I'd prefer to buy from Xerox myself.
Oh bullshit.
Capitalism meddles in people's affairs. It turns everything into a commodity with a price, and places it in a so-called 'open' market, where everyone is free to bid for it, but only those with money can hope to afford it. This is why we need government intervention, and plenty of it. Otherwise capitalism will ensure that everything of worth is owned by a very small percentage of the population, which, come to think of it, is exactly what we have now.
XFree86-4.4 has only just been released, and ATI have drivers out already?
What's that? The drivers are for 4.3? And most distros are considering forking X and/or following an alternative to X? Sounds great!
All the more reason to pressure ATI into releasing docs for the R300+ chips. Until they do, I'll only be upgrading to an R250 or R270 or whatever the latest one supported by open source drivers is. However if they leave R300+ support out in the cold for too much longer, I'll switch back to nVidia simply because they are much faster to release drivers than ATI, and therefore more likely to support whatever direction everyone else moves in when abandoning XFree86.
I beg to differ.
If you had tried Gentoo, you would know about the etc-update script, which takes the pain out of config file updates like you are describing above.
I've been running our server at work (http://www.nusconsulting.com.au) on Gentoo for over a year now, and it's going quite nicely.
Looks like you were pointing the finger in the wrong direction with that 'misguided individuals' crack...
I am always astonished that companies like Lockheed Martin and Boging can swindle such incredible amounts of money out of US taxpayers, and no-one bats an eyelid.
People are far more interested in taking the patriotic line ( they're defending America ) than seeing things as they really are ( these companies are fooling you into giving them millions of dollars, and at the end of it all, the only outcome is an arms race, which they are fine with, because they produce the arms ).
Clearly US economic interests can't be asserted to satisfaction with their current army and Weapons Of Mass Destruction.
... apart from me, because I'm locked up for 10 years for taking some Ecstacy and proclaiming my love for life.
But it's easy to see why some people could find this a little disturbing, or even hypocritical. You see, from my point of view, I understand that Australia's drug prohibition laws are a direct result of pressure from the US government. When I go out to a rave to have a good night ( or 2 ), and take a very soft drug that gives me a little energy ( and God forbid, makes me happy ) my government reserves the right to arrest and gaol me for 'breaking the law'. But when the US military use drugs regularly to increase their 'effectiveness as killing machines', that's the best thing since sliced bread.
Of course creating drug-fucked killing machines that go on the rampage for 5 days straight has no affect on the families of said soldiers when they return home from the killing fields. In fact they promptly return to what is wildly recognised as normal behaviour for US citizens, and everyone lives happily ever after
Fuck the US.
Correct.
But to take your point a step further, don't forget that the UN really is just an extensin of US foreign policy. The US has ( and uses regularly ) its right to veto any motion that doesn't suit their 'national interests'. Of course a select few other countries also have a right to veto motions, but:
a) it only takes one veto-happy country to ruin it
b) all countries with veto rights are right behind US foreign policy.
Do a google search on the number of resolutions calling for the Israelis to back out of the 'occupied' territories that the US has vetoed.
Baby Bush was right when he said that the UN is irrelevent. It is. It's as irrelevent as the statement that the US's real concern is democracy.
The only chance for international equality lies in demolishing the UN and replacing it with a true world government that is elected directly by the people.
Yeah I remember when I had a 486 DX2-66 and I tried dragging xterms around I used to get some bad redraw stuff happening. Sometimes I'd even get artifacts that would stay behind after the window had passed on.
What you have to do, dude, is get yourself another computer. I just performed your Window Drag Test (TM) and found that my windows drag around perfectly, as I seem to remember them doing for the past 5 years.
When people first sit down in front of a Linux computer, they don't do your patented fuck-tard test. "And it's killing us". Yeah right. I'm dying over here. My fucking 486 won't drag around my xterm across my twm desktop at an acceptable rate.
Tosspot.
You can't excuse yourself from killing 10,000 people by pointing to another point in history where you killed 2,000,000 people. Instead of getting away with the 10,000, you are in fact now being held responsible for both
Oh god. Not another 'nice try
Go America! Dickheads.
Technological advances in US's Weapons of Mass Destruction has so far not decreased the casualty rate, but increased it.
Look at the statistics from Iraq. They basically had no army worth fighting. They were crippled by 10 years of UN sactions. They were a few small steps away from being armed with rocks and sling-shots.
The US army was far superior technologically. But 10,000 civilians died, and millions more are going to die because of Depleted Uranium poisoning.
Pumping yet more money into the US military will certainly not save any lives.
The technology involved might seem interesting to us, but the USE that it will be put to will be killing innocent people who live in energy-rich regions of the world that don't agree to hand over their natural resources to the US on US terms, aka 'terrorists'.
Access sucks. It really, really sucks.
Anyone who has used it for more than 2 years will agree with me. Access is about implementing work-arounds for dodgy shit that should have been fixed after Access version 2, but somehow has made it all the way to the current version.
Most of my development is done under Access, and when I'm not developing under Access, I'm doing either Perl or PHP stuff to replace Access. It is quite unfortunate that there aren't any real alternatives currently, but putting IBM behind Office is not the way to go, even if you need DB support.
I'd much rather see IBM put a few million behind OpenOffice, and I'm sure many other posters will agree with me.
You can't break Microsoft's monopoly by extending it into Linux-on-the-desktop. That's probably the one thing that will save Microsoft's monopoly in the long run.
Bad, bad move, IBM...
Hopefully this will help solve problems such as http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/. That's some scary stuff...
The other package formats are nothing but trade-offs to lure Windows users.
With every Linux box having gcc, is there really any reason why apps have to be pre-compiled? Sure you can pre-comile stuff for an installation CD, but after that, it just makes sense to use an installation method like Gentoo's portage.
After all, this IS linux...
I see you got modded funny.
Well let me ask the question seriously:
If we have to submit to your invasion plans, laws and everything else that comes with being an American, then why don't I get to vote for the President? Apparently only 33% of you vote, so it's not like the population gives a fuck anyway.
I'm a ( new ) member of the ISO and I'm sure I can find you plenty of people interested in helping. I'll get back to you after a meeting Tuesday night.
I think if you removed IE, Outlook Express, Active Desktop, Windows Media Player, and Digital Rights Management from Windows, it would be far LESS crippled, and actually MORE valuable.
MySQL is very fast and very easy to use.
... strange. It has too many idiosyncrasies ( yeah I can't spell it, I know ) and requires too much pissing around to get anything useful done. It also has some MAJOR bugs and missing features. For example, last time I checked, it couldn't change field types or add / delete fields once a table is created. That's backward.
The support community is also very large and helpful.
I've found Postgres to be very
Postgres also isn't that fast. Nowhere near as fast as MySQL. Having triggers and stored procedures is good, but if it means taking a 50% performance hit, I'd rather stick with MySQL, especially since version 5.0.x is out which supports stored procedures now. By the way, MySQL-4.1.x supports nested selects too.
The support community for Postgres also isn't as big as MySQL's. MySQL is just more popular. If you don't agree with the majority of OSS users on this one, then fine, use Postgres. I've used both and I'm not touching Postgres unless I have to. MySQL is just too good!
My, my. The BBC have been fucking things up recently.
First they have blood on their hands over the death of that UK whistleblower ( and it is now being suggested that his death may have been something other than suicide, implicating the BBC further ).
Next they publish a story that really could only have come 1 of 2 places: Microsoft, or good old SCO themselves.
I used to like what I saw of the BBC ( which admittedly wasn't much - being in Australia, we mainly get 20 year old documentaries ). But now I'm starting to wonder whether I should just stick with fucking Murdock's right-wing bullshit...