For years, Novell Netware included a copy of Oracle. Didn't Oracle recently announce that they aren't porting to Netware anymore? That's probably the only reason that Novell has moved to support MySQL and PostgreSQL.
My 3 and 5 -year olds can't really be trusted to swap CD's frequently, so I've ripped all of their games into ISO format on their PC. I use a program like Daemon Tools to mount an ISO as a virtual CDROM drive. I then front-end it all with a home-made, kid-friendly GUI. They know that pressing on the picture of "Putt-Putt the car" will launch a certain game.
If their CD's were protected, I'd be out of luck. They've already destroyed 2 or 3 originals -- thank God for backups.
If we weren't talking about wxEmbedded, your points would be more valid. Note that wxEmbedded is for embedded and small devices. In these environments "micromanaging bits of the machine" and "being mindful of things" is a way of life. In this case, C/C++ is the most appropriate tool for the job. Sure, C# and Java allow you to focus on higher-level structures and models, but the penalty is that they isolate you from the "metal", and in the embedded world, that sacrifice is too costly.
At http://www.oracle.com/ip/deploy/database/oracle9i/ you will see:
Oracle now holds 15 security evaluations. DB2 has none. SQL Server has only one.
If it was easy to "buy" these certifications, I'm sure that Microsoft SQL server would have more than just one by now. (Granted, Oracle also has a bit of cash to throw around too).
I remember back in the old days, when games were distributed on (several) floppy disks, that their $40-$50 price tag was "because of piracy". When the first games that required a CD came out, they weren't piratable. Consumer-grade CD burners weren't available. Utilities like "fakecd" or "no-cd-check" cracks didn't exist yet. Yet CD-based games cost the same.
Why didn't the price decrease? Because we had grown accustomed to paying $50 for a game, and would happily continue doing so.
The main reason that most people hack the original Tivos is to get more HD space so they can record more shows. The problem with this is that when you update the "Season Pass" (the list of shows to record), it gets slower as the list gets longer. A lot slower. Modifying a Seasons Pass with > 20 programs can take minutes. A friend of mine has to wait for 10 minutes every time he updates the list. A 1000GB Tivo would be completely unusable.
With so many tech-types unemployed right now (in the US at least), its probably not the time to be too picky. I know many programmers who would take any job right now, even "tape ape"-level stuff.
I was in Beijing last month, and saw perfect knock-offs of American haikus selling for $0.25 apiece on every street corner. They came in authentic-looking boxes that even had the little foil hologram stickers on them. In most of asia, copyrights are worthless. Especially if they stand in the way of somebody else making a quick profit.
Remember that awful incident in the US midwest several years ago where a lost Japanese guy knocked on somebody's door and was shot and killed by a idiot redneck xenophobe? Well I've taught my firewall and email filter to duplicate that behavior in regard to traffic from ".jp", ".cn", ".kr", and ".tw". Problem solved.
To summarize, here's my haiku:
Can't stop asian spam Copyright haikus are dumb Just block their IP's
It does seem quite shallow for a woman to expect a diamond ring. Even though it's a symbol of your union and love, its value does not represent the value of your marriage.
FWIW, my wife and I exchanged simple gold bands. We used the money that we saved for a downpayment on a house. It seemed like a much more sensible thing to do.
If you are really worried about timewrap breaking programs in subtle ways, then set your clock ahead now, and find the bugs. That will give you several years to fix them. If you are binary only, you might NEED several years to get you vendor to fix them!:-)
Wow, I can't beleive that no slashdotter has mentioned Douglas Hofstadter's excellent book "Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid"
The book is over 20 years old and still a must-read for anyone who is interested in CS and/or art and/or music. It's fun, funny, and will make your brain hurt.
Is it just me, or does "bad men of wireless" sound like one of those "beefcake" calendars, possibly featuring shirtless RF engineers in provocative poses [shudder...]
I hate to perpetuate sterotypes, but you know very well that the single, male slashdot crowd (the majority) are pretty much limited to microwaved items, pizza, and stuff from here.
Those of us who have tricked wooed somebody into marrying us are probably sensible enough to let them handle things. Personally, I'm only allowed in the kitchen to peel stuff and take out the garbage.
So I suppose this slashdot article must be aimed at the female/. demographic (1% ?)
Well, Albany is nicely located in NYS. Its also close enough to Canada that drawing people over the border to work there is feasible.
A Canadian who is drawn across the border to work in the US probably won't care how far away he or she ends up living. As a Canadian who has lived and worked in the SF bay area for 6 years, I can attest that moving *across* the border is orders of magnitude more significant than any distance that you travel afterwards. The implications involve economics, real estate, family, language (eh!), education, and much more.
Many pages only have 10 or 11 sentences of text on them. Is the high number of page/banner views that Anand gets really worth the extra traffic (and annoyance) that this causes?
Slashdot Mirror
...Slashdot readers interested in improving the quality of their critical thinking skills...
:)
Actually, it's the Slashdot posters who need to improve their thinking skills.
Maybe all of this "supercomputer" power that IBM is offering is really just a beowolf cluster of all their surplus IBM PCjr's from the 1980's.
Since the local landfill proably wouldn't take them, IBM probably decided to put them back to work...
For years, Novell Netware included a copy of Oracle. Didn't Oracle recently announce that they aren't porting to Netware anymore? That's probably the only reason that Novell has moved to support MySQL and PostgreSQL.
if they agree to rename it to GNU/Bitkeeper, everything will be allright. :)
My 3 and 5 -year olds can't really be trusted to swap CD's frequently, so I've ripped all of their games into ISO format on their PC. I use a program like Daemon Tools to mount an ISO as a virtual CDROM drive. I then front-end it all with a home-made, kid-friendly GUI. They know that pressing on the picture of "Putt-Putt the car" will launch a certain game.
If their CD's were protected, I'd be out of luck. They've already destroyed 2 or 3 originals -- thank God for backups.
If we weren't talking about wxEmbedded, your points would be more valid. Note that wxEmbedded is for embedded and small devices. In these environments "micromanaging bits of the machine" and "being mindful of things" is a way of life. In this case, C/C++ is the most appropriate tool for the job. Sure, C# and Java allow you to focus on higher-level structures and models, but the penalty is that they isolate you from the "metal", and in the embedded world, that sacrifice is too costly.
At http://www.oracle.com/ip/deploy/database/oracle9i/ you will see:
Oracle now holds 15 security evaluations. DB2 has none. SQL Server has only one.
If it was easy to "buy" these certifications, I'm sure that Microsoft SQL server would have more than just one by now. (Granted, Oracle also has a bit of cash to throw around too).
I remember back in the old days, when games were distributed on (several) floppy disks, that their $40-$50 price tag was "because of piracy". When the first games that required a CD came out, they weren't piratable. Consumer-grade CD burners weren't available. Utilities like "fakecd" or "no-cd-check" cracks didn't exist yet. Yet CD-based games cost the same.
Why didn't the price decrease? Because we had grown accustomed to paying $50 for a game, and would happily continue doing so.
The main reason that most people hack the original Tivos is to get more HD space so they can record more shows. The problem with this is that when you update the "Season Pass" (the list of shows to record), it gets slower as the list gets longer. A lot slower. Modifying a Seasons Pass with > 20 programs can take minutes. A friend of mine has to wait for 10 minutes every time he updates the list. A 1000GB Tivo would be completely unusable.
Wouldn't IpFreely have been even funnier?
Please get your facts right before publishing
I'm guessing that you don't spend much time on slashdot, right?
With so many tech-types unemployed right now (in the US at least), its probably not the time to be too picky. I know many programmers who would take any job right now, even "tape ape"-level stuff.
I'm typing this into KMail using a USB keybaord
:)
Looks like the xbox USB keybaord driver still has a few bugs in it...
Plus, didn't Wolfe defeat Montcalme?
I was in Beijing last month, and saw perfect knock-offs of American haikus selling for $0.25 apiece on every street corner. They came in authentic-looking boxes that even had the little foil hologram stickers on them. In most of asia, copyrights are worthless. Especially if they stand in the way of somebody else making a quick profit.
Remember that awful incident in the US midwest several years ago where a lost Japanese guy knocked on somebody's door and was shot and killed by a idiot redneck xenophobe? Well I've taught my firewall and email filter to duplicate that behavior in regard to traffic from ".jp", ".cn", ".kr", and ".tw". Problem solved.
To summarize, here's my haiku:
Can't stop asian spam
Copyright haikus are dumb
Just block their IP's
Jeez, just because most ST fans are [still] virgins doesn't mean that the movies' characters are too!
It does seem quite shallow for a woman to expect a diamond ring. Even though it's a symbol of your union and love, its value does not represent the value of your marriage.
FWIW, my wife and I exchanged simple gold bands. We used the money that we saved for a downpayment on a house. It seemed like a much more sensible thing to do.
In one of the messages, a "Tim Smith" says:
:-)
If you are really worried about timewrap breaking programs in subtle ways,
then set your clock ahead now, and find the bugs. That will give you several
years to fix them. If you are binary only, you might NEED several years
to get you vendor to fix them!
Wow, I can't beleive that no slashdotter has mentioned Douglas Hofstadter's excellent book "Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid"
The book is over 20 years old and still a must-read for anyone who is interested in CS and/or art and/or music. It's fun, funny, and will make your brain hurt.
Grab it at your favorite book store|website.
You could loan your porn to people without worrying about it being returned all (ahem...) "sticky".
Is it just me, or does "bad men of wireless" sound like one of those "beefcake" calendars, possibly featuring shirtless RF engineers in provocative poses [shudder...]
Weird, the "strike" HTML tag around "tricked" didn't take. /. filters that?
I hate to perpetuate sterotypes, but you know very well that the single, male slashdot crowd (the majority) are pretty much limited to microwaved items, pizza, and stuff from here.
/. demographic (1% ?)
Those of us who have tricked wooed somebody into marrying us are probably sensible enough to let them handle things. Personally, I'm only allowed in the kitchen to peel stuff and take out the garbage.
So I suppose this slashdot article must be aimed at the female
A Canadian who is drawn across the border to work in the US probably won't care how far away he or she ends up living. As a Canadian who has lived and worked in the SF bay area for 6 years, I can attest that moving *across* the border is orders of magnitude more significant than any distance that you travel afterwards. The implications involve economics, real estate, family, language (eh!), education, and much more.
Many pages only have 10 or 11 sentences of text on them. Is the high number of page/banner views that Anand gets really worth the extra traffic (and annoyance) that this causes?