This is not how it happened at all. Microsoft bought a source license to sybase with the rights to modify and redistribute. Sybase will sell it to you, too, if you pay them enough.
You do realize that SQL Server is a fork of sybase? Microsoft never had the chops to write a competent SQL engine so they went out and bought a copy of the sybase source. They have diverged slightly over the years but their clients are compatible with each other and you will generally find them to be just about identical.
Been using it for 12 years, so I have a lot of historical data that I don't want to give up (yes, I'm a digital hoarder).
if you don't have a backup that you can restore onto another computer, you are guaranteed to be totally screwed when your computer has a hardware failure
So, sooner or later this will get contaminated, or someone will mess with it... and then people are going to get some nasty things from these dispensers.
You can try to do nice things, but anything dispensing a liquid into the grubby hands of the general public is likely to go horribly wrong fairly quickly.
I'm betting in a few months some lab tests will tell us these things are just plain nasty.
they dispense free hand sanitizer at just about every grocery store, perhaps you can list off the horrible things that have gone wrong
Stallman was always a PRAGMATIST, not an IDEALIST.
emacs and gcc were written to run on HPUX and Solaris long before linux existed
he knows full well that he will never achieve his ultimate goal of free software everywhere, but he has to push his agenda
Most people are idiots about non-free binary blobs. Your cards and motherboard are all filled with binary code, whether it's burned in at the factory or loaded at runtime is a moot point.
HELLO everyone carries a video camera today and the police are under scrutiny like never before. The police have been acting without restraint since the days of Rome and for the first time in history the people are able to push back against the police. Police were NEVER EVER punished for murder before video cameras, now many police are currently being charged with murder.
Jobs was nothing more than a scheming, egotistical, slave driver.
How many brain cells do you need, to remember that Jobs started NeXT, and produced a world class UNIX system? How many more do you need to realize that it took some pretty savvy engineering knowledge to pull together the technologies in the NeXT system?
HOLY SHIT how ignorant, have you forgotten all about NeXT? Jobs started with diddly squat and made the finest Unix system the world had ever seen at the time. HOW did he know to use BSD as the base for his operating system? HOW did he know to team up with Adobe to produce the first actual WYSIWYG system ever made?
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MS: Hey Sybase, let's form a partnership!
This is not how it happened at all. Microsoft bought a source license to sybase with the rights to modify and redistribute. Sybase will sell it to you, too, if you pay them enough.
Yes, but try finding an ASE DBA.
You do realize that SQL Server is a fork of sybase? Microsoft never had the chops to write a competent SQL engine so they went out and bought a copy of the sybase source. They have diverged slightly over the years but their clients are compatible with each other and you will generally find them to be just about identical.
Been using it for 12 years, so I have a lot of historical data that I don't want to give up (yes, I'm a digital hoarder).
if you don't have a backup that you can restore onto another computer, you are guaranteed to be totally screwed when your computer has a hardware failure
You are doing it wrong. Use embedded Linux.
embedded linux doesn't run on AVR or ARM Cortex M0
MS SQL Server on Linux and OS X would be sweet.
yeah it's called "sybase"
So, sooner or later this will get contaminated, or someone will mess with it ... and then people are going to get some nasty things from these dispensers.
You can try to do nice things, but anything dispensing a liquid into the grubby hands of the general public is likely to go horribly wrong fairly quickly.
I'm betting in a few months some lab tests will tell us these things are just plain nasty.
they dispense free hand sanitizer at just about every grocery store, perhaps you can list off the horrible things that have gone wrong
or they could remove it, picture the politicians that approved its removal having some monetary interest in skin cancer
-they found that the highest risk personnel were the ones that stayed below deck (and tended to just get burnt when they did venture above)
not trained in sun avoidance technique, not provided with proper sun shading clothing
while the lowest incident rates were the ones above decks that had tans and the most exposure.
trained in sun avoidance, provided with proper clothing
no duh
In 1985 there was a revolt against copy protected software, people would not buy it.
Aldus Pagemaker shipped in 1985 with great success and big sales and heavy copy protection.
Stallman was always a PRAGMATIST, not an IDEALIST.
emacs and gcc were written to run on HPUX and Solaris long before linux existed
he knows full well that he will never achieve his ultimate goal of free software everywhere, but he has to push his agenda
Most people are idiots about non-free binary blobs. Your cards and motherboard are all filled with binary code, whether it's burned in at the factory or loaded at runtime is a moot point.
The Linux kernel
has nothing to do with the FSF.
try again
And just because he had a few good ideas, and was about some aspects of free software, doesn't make him not a jackass...
Perhaps you can name off the visionary people of our time who do not get called jackasses on a regular basis
Nothing's really changed in 30 years.
HELLO everyone carries a video camera today and the police are under scrutiny like never before. The police have been acting without restraint since the days of Rome and for the first time in history the people are able to push back against the police. Police were NEVER EVER punished for murder before video cameras, now many police are currently being charged with murder.
Stallman should have made a viable business, not a giant soapbox.
RedHat would disagree with you
I use sunscreen, but only when absolutely necessary, because
you're an idiot, radiation exposure is cumulative.
this is news worthy of our attention?
I don't get it.
if you ever bothered to crawl out from under your shell, you'd need some sunblock, big time
"an experience comparable to steam" would probably include heat and moisture
Why not just "Microsoft attributed the higher price tag to the included kinect camera..."
maybe it might be because microsoft never actually said that
it's just that you'd supply the storage media. I think it could work.
how convenient, allowing the customers to break directly into the company's servers with rogue USB devices
The prevailing wisdom was that the *case* was Jobs' idea.
apparently before steve jobs, computers did not have cases
Jobs never claimed to have been a tech inventor, sorry.
Why not? He invented the NeXT system! He was the driving force behind OSX! He has every right to be called a tech inventor.
XEROX couldn't figure out how to make money from their inventions, they still haven't. Thank goodness they allowed other people to steal their ideas.
Jobs was nothing more than a scheming, egotistical, slave driver.
How many brain cells do you need, to remember that Jobs started NeXT, and produced a world class UNIX system? How many more do you need to realize that it took some pretty savvy engineering knowledge to pull together the technologies in the NeXT system?
Was he a techie? Not really
HOLY SHIT how ignorant, have you forgotten all about NeXT? Jobs started with diddly squat and made the finest Unix system the world had ever seen at the time. HOW did he know to use BSD as the base for his operating system? HOW did he know to team up with Adobe to produce the first actual WYSIWYG system ever made?
You know who else knows how to "make them want something"? Drug dealers and prostitutes.
Happy Labor Day.
This is a simple rule for any business but thanks for sharing your experiences.