Co-incidence, really. The new '400 models all require the latest version of OS/400 (V4R5), and this is the OS release which introduces XML support. V4R5 *will* be available for older hardware.
Cheers, Simon B.
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> Most of the other open source products can say "we're cheap AND we're better". But not MySQL.
Exactly. The thing to remember is that the greater part of the cost isn't the purchase cost, so far . Linux, for example, isn't cheaper than, for example, W2K because it costs less to buy it, it's cheaper because it costs less to buy, install, support, enhance and upgrade it.
> Finally, he argues argues, this threat [machinery] to humanity is much greater than that of nuclear weapons because those are hard to build.
I think that the difference is not so much in how hard they are to build, its how hard they are to *use*. Or, more specifically, *not* use.
We've have nukes for a long time, but chosen to use them only once. Once self-replicating machines are used, it may be to late to decide not to use them any more.
Cheers, Simon B.
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We could run Windows on them! Blue Face of Death...
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Co-incidence, really. The new '400 models all require the latest version of OS/400 (V4R5), and this is the OS release which introduces XML support. V4R5 *will* be available for older hardware.
Cheers,
Simon B.
> Most of the other open source products can say "we're cheap AND we're better". But not MySQL.
Exactly. The thing to remember is that the greater part of the cost isn't the purchase cost, so far . Linux, for example, isn't cheaper than, for example, W2K because it costs less to buy it, it's cheaper because it costs less to buy, install, support, enhance and upgrade it.
Cheers,
Simon B.
>MDs are cool, but they're not that well suited to using as general purpose storage devices.
Yeh, but they look *just* like the data cassette things that they used in Star Trek Classic.
Cheers,
Simon B.
> Finally, he argues argues, this threat [machinery] to humanity is much greater than that of nuclear weapons because those are hard to build.
I think that the difference is not so much in how hard they are to build, its how hard they are to *use*. Or, more specifically, *not* use.
We've have nukes for a long time, but chosen to use them only once. Once self-replicating machines are used, it may be to late to decide not to use them any more.
Cheers,
Simon B.
We could run Windows on them! Blue Face of Death...
Cheers,
Simon B.