sweeping generalizations fail to capture the reality of the situation that:
- some people drive fully depreciated old cars that are really cheap to drive - sometimes the commuter rail tickets are many hundreds of dollars a month - sometimes the commute time makes the prices irrelevant - there are three important factors: location, location, and location
Traffic fatalities barely outnumber peacetime firearm fatalities. Actually, we are talking 32,000 traffic related deaths vs. 30,000 gun releated deaths per year.
Really? They have TERRIBLE marketing. Just about every article you read about them (like this one) is negative. Marketing is about creating a positive attitude in the mind your customers. Oracle does this worse than just about any other company, they're up there with Verizon and Comcast.
What you don't seem to understand is, just like Verizon and Comcast, that they have something nobody else has, they know it, their customers know it, and the customers pay. Bullies, one and all, with none to push back.
Beyond that, if you're trying to scale an old school relational database to crazy scales, Oracle leaves everything else in the dust. For horizontal scaling, nothing else comes close.
Sorry, I don't believe you, DB2 scales out even better than Oracle.
Even an open source DB can deal with billions of rows.
bzzzt wrong, you clearly haven't set up enterprise databases on 64 core systems with hundreds of gigs of RAM and big disk farms. All of the "free" databases will treat this like an 8 core system at best, a terrible waste of money. Try running really big benchmarks against databases like DB2 and you can watch the "free" databases will end up costing more.
Not true at all. Solaris is the reference platform for Oracle. They own the whole thing, hardware and software. When you buy Oracle on Solaris you are getting the ultimate "reference" platform for all things Oracle.
Linux CANNOT be a "reference" platform for Oracle, because they don't control it, they can't mold it to fit their needs. However they can do whatever they want with Solaris, to make it into their "reference" platform.
We already have this class of worker. It's called a "day laborer".
In a population of day laborers, who has the steady income required to get a mortgage? Nobody, that's who. Who's putting away money to give their children a better future? Nobody! What a great system!
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sweeping generalizations fail to capture the reality of the situation that:
- some people drive fully depreciated old cars that are really cheap to drive
- sometimes the commuter rail tickets are many hundreds of dollars a month
- sometimes the commute time makes the prices irrelevant
- there are three important factors: location, location, and location
Unless public transit is frequent and ubiquitous, it can't replace a car regardless of price
apparently the millions of people who currently use public transportation are deceiving themselves
when the drive takes three hours in rush-hour traffic and the train takes an hour, it all looks very different
Full ownership costs for a car in a developed country tend to be in the range of 50+ c/km (80c+/mi)
maybe if you are going all-out luxury with a lease on a fancy lexus or BMW
but many many people drive fully depreciated old cars, with good gas mileage and good reliability, at a small fraction of the cost
If you make something "free", people won't value it.
so we need to charge money to walk on the sidewalks, otherwise people won't want them?
I've never seen a case where driving is routinely comparable in cost to transit.
You must be living in a cave, for about 99% of Americans, it is much cheaper to use a car for grocery shopping and commuting.
Free of the inability to easily stop to grab a coffee or use the bathroom?
You can do this when you're stuck in traffic? I hope you have plastic seat covers.
What would a pedestrian do if confronted with this problem?
get off the bicycle, become a pedestrian, and use the crosswalk
they just string together the stops in a clockwise loop
pedestrians do not have the right of way
Pedestrians ALWAYS have the right of way, even if they gained it illegally. Otherwise it would be legal to mow down jaywalkers.
Traffic fatalities barely outnumber peacetime firearm fatalities. Actually, we are talking 32,000 traffic related deaths vs. 30,000 gun releated deaths per year.
we went to war over 5000 deaths
if more pedestrians did what they were supposed to, we'd have a lot fewer deaths.
got any proof of any kind for that assertion?
If you're operating a large truck you should be using truck optimized commercial software, not freaking Google Maps.
yeah tell that to JUST ABOUT EVERYONE when they rent a truck to move their stuff
I"m guessing you've never owned a car that is fun to drive...?
You're missing out in life. The roar of a powerful engine, shifting....etc.
Capitalists say "the kool-aid is working great, isn't it? Get them to worship REALLY expensive useless stuff!"
Hmm. How about teaching kids to do the simple, sane thing and Watch Where The Fuck they are going...??
How about teaching people about why paying attention to statistics and doing something about it, saves lives?
How about realizing that many pedestrian accidents happen because it's THE DRIVER that is not WATCHING WHERE THE FUCK they are going?
Oh, but NO, it's better to BLAME SOMEONE
What does Oracle do well?
Sales and Marketing.
Really? They have TERRIBLE marketing. Just about every article you read about them (like this one) is negative. Marketing is about creating a positive attitude in the mind your customers. Oracle does this worse than just about any other company, they're up there with Verizon and Comcast.
What you don't seem to understand is, just like Verizon and Comcast, that they have something nobody else has, they know it, their customers know it, and the customers pay. Bullies, one and all, with none to push back.
SQL queries on well indexed tables will have much better performance than any kind of object database in the vast majority of circumstances.
If you have a large busy site with performance requirements, you will probably have a tough time meeting your requirements with an object database.
Beyond that, if you're trying to scale an old school relational database to crazy scales, Oracle leaves everything else in the dust. For horizontal scaling, nothing else comes close.
Sorry, I don't believe you, DB2 scales out even better than Oracle.
No you do it by criminally mis-stating your corporate earnings in order to goose up the quarterly numbers which rug-merchant Larry did twice!
yeah, investors really do believe these reports
in some weird fantasy...
You also do not need 64 cores on each machine to deal with billions of rows.
modern databases have parallelization, well-indexed queries can utilize hundreds of cores
You also do not need 64 cores on each machine to deal with billions of rows.
you do if you have 10,000 concurrent users
Even an open source DB can deal with billions of rows.
bzzzt wrong, you clearly haven't set up enterprise databases on 64 core systems with hundreds of gigs of RAM and big disk farms. All of the "free" databases will treat this like an 8 core system at best, a terrible waste of money. Try running really big benchmarks against databases like DB2 and you can watch the "free" databases will end up costing more.
on the planet where they run television ads for hardware made by other companies
Linux is the reference platform for Oracle.
Not true at all. Solaris is the reference platform for Oracle. They own the whole thing, hardware and software. When you buy Oracle on Solaris you are getting the ultimate "reference" platform for all things Oracle.
Linux CANNOT be a "reference" platform for Oracle, because they don't control it, they can't mold it to fit their needs. However they can do whatever they want with Solaris, to make it into their "reference" platform.
We already have this class of worker. It's called a "day laborer".
In a population of day laborers, who has the steady income required to get a mortgage? Nobody, that's who. Who's putting away money to give their children a better future? Nobody! What a great system!