China's famous for being a place that will rip off small and medium sized businesses by buying a few units in a preliminary order, then reverse-engineering it and selling it locally for cheap. Which makes perfect sense; the Americans did that to the UK/Europe, and it's how they industrialized so fast. I don't really have a problem, morally, with them ignoring international trade law like that, though I'm kind of a radical when it comes to IP anyway.
But if China's going to go around breaking other nations' laws, whining about it happening to them just makes them look stupid, opportunistic, and greedy (which, again, worked out for the Americans/rimshot). If they want people to take their laws seriously, they'll have to do what the States did, and actually start getting along with the other nations with mutual agreements and enforcement. I don't think they will.
of speaking with Monty on freenode's mysql channel, when he responded to my suggestion that he needed a helmet and a big cup of STFU. I asked him about forking and MariaDB, and he had pretty much the same response as in the blog linked above. The way he talked about open source, though, it was like he thought it was impossible for a large open-source project to succeed without a strong leader. He expressed little trust in the community, and no faith that an abandoned project could be picked up again. When I asked him about developers scratching itches, and solutions drawing users and more developers, he didn't seem to think it was a feasible solution. He kept defending his posts about Oracle as being about "for the users," and his motivation being to maintain choices.
I think the problem is less about Monty wailing about Oracle's calumny, and more about Monty's view of how FOSS works. He seems to think it needs heroes, and that the rest of us plebes need someone to follow before we can get anything useful done. I'll agree with him that projects need leadership, but like comments above have said, there's a difference between project leadership and making yourself indispensable. If Monty was indispensable when he left MySQL, then he was the one that killed it, not Sun, and not Oracle.
An admins job isn't just 'make things easy on users'.
Yes it is. It is an admin's job to make things as easy as possible on the users over as long a period as possible. That is why backups are made; so the users don't have to redo all their work if there's a failure. That's why there's firewalls; so the users' machines don't get infected and their network isn't crippled. Without an admin, small organizations can chug along until something breaks (and they have to contract an admin to patch it), but life isn't easy. A full-time sysadmin for a company or a department has only one purpose; to make things easy on the users.
This. I work with sales data, and even a basic handle on statistics allows you to make some basic statements that are informative for business users. It's not necessarily predictive, but being able to present summaries of top-selling and bottom-selling products, combinations, and seasonal fluctuations? Gold.
I think there may be something mystical about bathrooms, because at least 50% of my solutions come to me when I'm in the shower. I have seriously considered getting some kind of waterproof whiteboard to stick in my shower because I'm getting a little tired of writing answers down on fogged-up shower doors.
Fork it and then name it MariaDB, specifically.
Sun buys MySQL. Monty complains about Sun's treatment of MySQL. Monty leaves MySQL. Monty forks MySQL. Monty complains about Oracle. This isn't exactly a surprising development.
You know, funny thing, but quantum mechanics (and modern physics) _is_ having an impact on theology. Has to do with replacing the old Aristotelian "universe as a container" concept with a neo-Platonic "universe as a medium for action" concept. It affects theology of creation, and changes our conception of how God as creator interacts with the world. Specifically, it makes the immanence of God much more immediately graspable. T. F. Torrance has a few books on the subject.;D (Also, Twilight sucks)
The problem is that on a site like/. a lot of the news readers/commenters are informed, generally, in the field. There's a lot of stupid comments, but a lot of good comments are made by professionals in robotics, or server admins, or programmers. In other words, we're not The Masses but a specific subset. When The Masses have access to comment fields, you get YouTube comments. This isn't to say that all people are stupid, but/. has a concentration of people in the field it reports on, while general news or local news or national news doesn't.
So yes, we can respond within seconds, but since the vast majority of "us" commenting on an article have no idea what we're talking about, the signal to noise ratio goes all pear-shaped.
I put to you that a fast-food chain, given the option to guarantee a steady supply of meat of identical quality, unaffected by drought and not "fed" (and therefore not really susceptible to BSE/etc), that takes less than two years to produce, whose cost is unaffected by fluctuations in the international grain or corn market, is likely to make the investment the second the twenty-year costs come even. I also put to you that fast food chain's burgers are flavoured less by meat and more by seasoning. As someone whose family already sold their beef ranch, and who consumes a lot of beef, I think this is a fantastic idea.
I hate to tell you this, but "add a gene" isn't the simple solution.
The simple solution, which also covers BSE-infected meat, salmonella outbreaks, and any other food safety issue, involves implementing a tracking system from farm to table. It's not difficult, and should have been done years ago. In fact, Canadian produce farmers already have nearly 100% tracking of their goods, while the US is at 5%. It's good for consumers, and it's good for producers.
First, this isn't about war in the middle east. Nobody here is advocating starting a war while actively avoiding military service.
Second, the pirates are aggressors. Slashdotters aren't suggesting merchants go out and hunt pirates, they're debating the merits of shooting back, and with what.
What they're doing is siphoning off gravity and osmotic pressure, and THOSE are the vital resources that will be depleted instead.
Tsk, environmentalist panic-mongering. The loss of gravity from natural processes far outweighs Man's draw on those resources. Now, gravity-powered Hummers, there's the real danger! Gravity would build up in our cities and eventually collapse them into black holes. We must stop gravity pollution before it starts! I suggest a yearly tax on gravity-users, the funds going to an international panel for the study of the effects of gravity on the environment.
In Canada, the (state-owned) CBC's reporting on politics is considered to have a pretty significant bias. The bias, unsurprisingly, falls along the line of which party wants to increase their funding and which one wants to cut it. This may be a chicken and egg question, but it doesn't really matter when the stations are influencing national politics.
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But if China's going to go around breaking other nations' laws, whining about it happening to them just makes them look stupid, opportunistic, and greedy (which, again, worked out for the Americans /rimshot). If they want people to take their laws seriously, they'll have to do what the States did, and actually start getting along with the other nations with mutual agreements and enforcement. I don't think they will.
No idea. A quick Google does confirm they hire for postgres devs, though.
I think the problem is less about Monty wailing about Oracle's calumny, and more about Monty's view of how FOSS works. He seems to think it needs heroes, and that the rest of us plebes need someone to follow before we can get anything useful done. I'll agree with him that projects need leadership, but like comments above have said, there's a difference between project leadership and making yourself indispensable. If Monty was indispensable when he left MySQL, then he was the one that killed it, not Sun, and not Oracle.
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An admins job isn't just 'make things easy on users'.
Yes it is. It is an admin's job to make things as easy as possible on the users over as long a period as possible. That is why backups are made; so the users don't have to redo all their work if there's a failure. That's why there's firewalls; so the users' machines don't get infected and their network isn't crippled. Without an admin, small organizations can chug along until something breaks (and they have to contract an admin to patch it), but life isn't easy. A full-time sysadmin for a company or a department has only one purpose; to make things easy on the users.
This. I work with sales data, and even a basic handle on statistics allows you to make some basic statements that are informative for business users. It's not necessarily predictive, but being able to present summaries of top-selling and bottom-selling products, combinations, and seasonal fluctuations? Gold.
I think there may be something mystical about bathrooms, because at least 50% of my solutions come to me when I'm in the shower. I have seriously considered getting some kind of waterproof whiteboard to stick in my shower because I'm getting a little tired of writing answers down on fogged-up shower doors.
Fork it and then name it MariaDB, specifically. Sun buys MySQL. Monty complains about Sun's treatment of MySQL. Monty leaves MySQL. Monty forks MySQL. Monty complains about Oracle. This isn't exactly a surprising development.
You know, funny thing, but quantum mechanics (and modern physics) _is_ having an impact on theology. Has to do with replacing the old Aristotelian "universe as a container" concept with a neo-Platonic "universe as a medium for action" concept. It affects theology of creation, and changes our conception of how God as creator interacts with the world. Specifically, it makes the immanence of God much more immediately graspable. T. F. Torrance has a few books on the subject. ;D (Also, Twilight sucks)
The problem is that on a site like /. a lot of the news readers/commenters are informed, generally, in the field. There's a lot of stupid comments, but a lot of good comments are made by professionals in robotics, or server admins, or programmers. In other words, we're not The Masses but a specific subset. When The Masses have access to comment fields, you get YouTube comments. This isn't to say that all people are stupid, but /. has a concentration of people in the field it reports on, while general news or local news or national news doesn't.
So yes, we can respond within seconds, but since the vast majority of "us" commenting on an article have no idea what we're talking about, the signal to noise ratio goes all pear-shaped.
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I put to you that a fast-food chain, given the option to guarantee a steady supply of meat of identical quality, unaffected by drought and not "fed" (and therefore not really susceptible to BSE/etc), that takes less than two years to produce, whose cost is unaffected by fluctuations in the international grain or corn market, is likely to make the investment the second the twenty-year costs come even. I also put to you that fast food chain's burgers are flavoured less by meat and more by seasoning. As someone whose family already sold their beef ranch, and who consumes a lot of beef, I think this is a fantastic idea.
I hate to tell you this, but "add a gene" isn't the simple solution. The simple solution, which also covers BSE-infected meat, salmonella outbreaks, and any other food safety issue, involves implementing a tracking system from farm to table. It's not difficult, and should have been done years ago. In fact, Canadian produce farmers already have nearly 100% tracking of their goods, while the US is at 5%. It's good for consumers, and it's good for producers.
First, this isn't about war in the middle east. Nobody here is advocating starting a war while actively avoiding military service.
Second, the pirates are aggressors. Slashdotters aren't suggesting merchants go out and hunt pirates, they're debating the merits of shooting back, and with what.
Consider the food supply. The population has now reached a size at which the current amount of food is not sufficient for everyone to eat well.
Disagree.
(Caloric) energy consumption per capita, 1961
(Caloric) energy consumption per capita, 2001
Those maps are considerably more dense, in both the first and third world, in 2001 than in 1961.
What they're doing is siphoning off gravity and osmotic pressure, and THOSE are the vital resources that will be depleted instead.
Tsk, environmentalist panic-mongering. The loss of gravity from natural processes far outweighs Man's draw on those resources. Now, gravity-powered Hummers, there's the real danger! Gravity would build up in our cities and eventually collapse them into black holes. We must stop gravity pollution before it starts! I suggest a yearly tax on gravity-users, the funds going to an international panel for the study of the effects of gravity on the environment.
Do you know the nightmarish hell that is an Excel
Yes.
In Canada, the (state-owned) CBC's reporting on politics is considered to have a pretty significant bias. The bias, unsurprisingly, falls along the line of which party wants to increase their funding and which one wants to cut it. This may be a chicken and egg question, but it doesn't really matter when the stations are influencing national politics.
Well, if they've got XA-0.1E, how about WA-5H for the next version. Or maybe KA-7.33?