This is wrong in so many levels and fundamental issues.
Intelligent design is just a philosophical addition to biological evolution. It pressuposes biological evolution, but then adds that philosophically there is still something missing, and that would be intelligent design. It is not creationism, as it rejects six-days creation; it is, you may say, a form of guided evolution.
OTOH, the Cardinal isn't reversing the late Pope acceptance of biological evolution, just clarifying that it does not imply a negation of God's role in it; in other words, it states that biological evolution can't be used as a base for atheism, and is compatible with intelligent design.
they get bogged down with technical details and fail to clearly present their product in a coherent manner.
On the contrary, there are no relevant technical details, only some very, very high-level, ambiguous conceptual stuff.
someone could have had the decency to tell them to "dumb it down" for the CIOs out there who haven't got the time to dig into their literature.
Well, it is dumbed down for the CIOs, perhaps not enough for the CEOs but who cares -- such a system will be sold to them by the CIOs, they won't read this kinda stuff. It's us techies who are left in the cold, and the mention of 'systems administration' and 'MySQL' in the same pages does not bide well, nor the claims of patented software technologies.
If an Intel does not cut it, then Power-PC it. If needing more, that AS-400, followed by the big boy.
AFAICR, it's been long since AS/400 has converted to POWER. And a mainframe's advantage is on its software, instrumentation and thoroughput, and all these can be replicated on POWER -- so no gain going big iron other than in the way it's already been used.
I still remember the 'C++ Advisor' or something the like from Unix Magazine or a similar publication who wrote his last column giving up on the language because only a language lawyer could keep up on the accretions to it. I don't remember what the guy went for, but if one is into OO C derivatives you have C# with its integrated, extensible type system from the DBMS up to other languages. Or Java, if you don't want to be torpedoed by MS' 'IP'. C++ should have been fixed a long time ago, but then AT&T wouldn't have suffered from NIHS and we'd be all using ObjC and OpenStep.
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Some fifteen or twenty years ago a Brazilian University -- I seem to remember it was the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul -- created a Portuguese-specific layout, and, IBM said it would offer Model M ABNT-2 (PC107) keyboards in that layout. I never heard of any followup, and can't find any information on that by Google. Being the proud owner of some Model Ms, I'd love to reconfigure mine to test this layout if only I could get a description or specification of it.
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KMT party chairman visits Beijing. I wonder how the PRC press handled that, characterizing the ROC as a rogue province as long as they have
Easy. China has already cowered KMT to abandon the 'reconquer the mainland' policy. Now the KMT just wants to wait the mainland dictatorship to crumble down on its own. But on the other hand China's fear is now Formosan nationalism, and against that the KMT is an ally.
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iTools was free. When it morphed into.Mac, it became pay-only. iTools was a suite of tools--.Mac was bigger and better, and justified charging.
I don't know why you say that irrespective of how better.Mac is, Apple's promise was broken, and I felt fleeced. Everyone had my @mac.com address which I gave away freely because Apple told us it would be forever.
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I simply fail to see how Apple's software, easily the most aggressively priced offerings they have, screws you.
I must be writing really bad.
Follow me: Apple launched Mac OS X, it is nearly alpha quality. They promised the stable version would be free. Then they launch Mac OS X.1, and it's still beta quality. Then they launched Mac OS X.2, which was really stable, and charged. Fleeced, dumped, made a fool. Got it?
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You would seriously find a better solution with X86 hardware if money is that tight.
PowerPC hardware is better quality, endures more. Better investment, and one makes a point against Wintel. Besides I was able to get nice deals due to exchange rates flutuation, insider deals and buying products being phased out. If the Genesi Pegasos was available here I'd get them instead.
That was it. I couldn't stand Mac OS 9, and believed Apple that Mac OS X.0 was beta quality, and that the stable version would be free. When X.1 came it was still beta, and then they charged for X.2 which was really stable.
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As for iTools, why should they be free
Because Apple sait it would.
Anyway, you compare Apple to the MS monopoly. I compare it to free software. I've been happy since I switched.
And when you speak about prices, note that if I was in the US I'd be getting US$70K per year. But due to the lack of freedom of movement, I'm stuck in Brazil with a potential maximum of US$30K per year, and I'm not even near getting that much. Another day I had to turn off an offer by an US multinational to the tune of US$14K.
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you find that Apple fleeces you on their pricing structure for their operating system?
Exactly. The stable version of Mac OS X was supposed to be a free upgrade; instead, Apple launched X.0 as alpha-quality, X.1 as beta-quality, and charged for X.2.
And Mac OS 9 included iTools, which were supposed to be free. Now we have to pay dearly for them.
So I still love the machines, but the software is over for me. At least until Apple make it really free.
But then I'd have to change email addresses, and that's something I want to avoid until I have something even better: Google-like searching *and* relational searching.
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What about IMAP's own query language fails to meet your needs such that you need SQL?
And how's it accessible? I've never found a client or web interface that gave me such flexibility. And even if I found, I'd have to either change address, or convince Fastmail to adopt it... they do use MySQL, but it's already their Achilles' heel and I doubt they will want to expose it further.
I really love my 600 MiB FastMail account, specially because it's IMAP -- the main reason for my avoiding GMail up to now.
But searching sucks, and I depend on Evolution to do virtual folders. I'd love it even more if my email server was actually a true RDBMS where I could have, besides the traditional IMAP interface, a D (Tutorial D or D4 or something the like) language interface where I could query at will, and save my queries as views that would show up in IMAP as (virtual) folders.
BTW, even non-relational ISO SQL would be so much better than what we have now.
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going to a permission model would be a *huge* step backwards. I know UNIX die-hards will flame me for this, but it is my experience that ACLs are much more flexible and lucid than permissions.
Permissions are ACLs. ACLs are permissions.
That said, Unix simplicity is manageable. MS WNT flexibility isn't, unless you really know your stuff since you started itand no one else ever touched it.
It doesn't. It allows for bags (tables without a key), which definetly aren't sets and do a lot to complicate the SQL standard and hinder performance. And it uses a broken 3VL.
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as described by Codd
It do not even comply with Codd's rules, and these are obsolete already.
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mb is a millibit, but I can't make sense of that. I guess the poster meant MiB, or mibibytes, meaning 2^20 bytes.
That piece of vapourware that turned out to be just a straight copy of PearPC?
Where have you been hiding?
This is wrong in so many levels and fundamental issues.
Intelligent design is just a philosophical addition to biological evolution. It pressuposes biological evolution, but then adds that philosophically there is still something missing, and that would be intelligent design. It is not creationism, as it rejects six-days creation; it is, you may say, a form of guided evolution.
OTOH, the Cardinal isn't reversing the late Pope acceptance of biological evolution, just clarifying that it does not imply a negation of God's role in it; in other words, it states that biological evolution can't be used as a base for atheism, and is compatible with intelligent design.
On the contrary, there are no relevant technical details, only some very, very high-level, ambiguous conceptual stuff.
Well, it is dumbed down for the CIOs, perhaps not enough for the CEOs but who cares -- such a system will be sold to them by the CIOs, they won't read this kinda stuff. It's us techies who are left in the cold, and the mention of 'systems administration' and 'MySQL' in the same pages does not bide well, nor the claims of patented software technologies.
AFAICR, it's been long since AS/400 has converted to POWER. And a mainframe's advantage is on its software, instrumentation and thoroughput, and all these can be replicated on POWER -- so no gain going big iron other than in the way it's already been used.
I still remember the 'C++ Advisor' or something the like from Unix Magazine or a similar publication who wrote his last column giving up on the language because only a language lawyer could keep up on the accretions to it. I don't remember what the guy went for, but if one is into OO C derivatives you have C# with its integrated, extensible type system from the DBMS up to other languages. Or Java, if you don't want to be torpedoed by MS' 'IP'. C++ should have been fixed a long time ago, but then AT&T wouldn't have suffered from NIHS and we'd be all using ObjC and OpenStep.
Some fifteen or twenty years ago a Brazilian University -- I seem to remember it was the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul -- created a Portuguese-specific layout, and, IBM said it would offer Model M ABNT-2 (PC107) keyboards in that layout. I never heard of any followup, and can't find any information on that by Google. Being the proud owner of some Model Ms, I'd love to reconfigure mine to test this layout if only I could get a description or specification of it.
Easy. China has already cowered KMT to abandon the 'reconquer the mainland' policy. Now the KMT just wants to wait the mainland dictatorship to crumble down on its own. But on the other hand China's fear is now Formosan nationalism, and against that the KMT is an ally.
I don't know why you say that irrespective of how better .Mac is, Apple's promise was broken, and I felt fleeced. Everyone had my @mac.com address which I gave away freely because Apple told us it would be forever.
I must be writing really bad.
Follow me: Apple launched Mac OS X, it is nearly alpha quality. They promised the stable version would be free. Then they launch Mac OS X.1, and it's still beta quality. Then they launched Mac OS X.2, which was really stable, and charged. Fleeced, dumped, made a fool. Got it?
PowerPC hardware is better quality, endures more. Better investment, and one makes a point against Wintel. Besides I was able to get nice deals due to exchange rates flutuation, insider deals and buying products being phased out. If the Genesi Pegasos was available here I'd get them instead.
Never asked for that.
That was it. I couldn't stand Mac OS 9, and believed Apple that Mac OS X.0 was beta quality, and that the stable version would be free. When X.1 came it was still beta, and then they charged for X.2 which was really stable.
Because Apple sait it would.
Anyway, you compare Apple to the MS monopoly. I compare it to free software. I've been happy since I switched.
And when you speak about prices, note that if I was in the US I'd be getting US$70K per year. But due to the lack of freedom of movement, I'm stuck in Brazil with a potential maximum of US$30K per year, and I'm not even near getting that much. Another day I had to turn off an offer by an US multinational to the tune of US$14K.
Nice try, but it's HTML and POP only.
Until GMail adds IMAP and full relational search, I don't think it worthwhile.
Exactly. The stable version of Mac OS X was supposed to be a free upgrade; instead, Apple launched X.0 as alpha-quality, X.1 as beta-quality, and charged for X.2.
And Mac OS 9 included iTools, which were supposed to be free. Now we have to pay dearly for them.
So I still love the machines, but the software is over for me. At least until Apple make it really free.
Thanks, but I am not going to change email addresses just now. And BTW, what I really want is server-side.
But then I'd have to change email addresses, and that's something I want to avoid until I have something even better: Google-like searching *and* relational searching.
It ain't no matter what I think, but it still is better than anything else in widespread usage today.
That's the question.
But I want it server-side, and with views showing up as virtual folders at the client side.
And how's it accessible? I've never found a client or web interface that gave me such flexibility. And even if I found, I'd have to either change address, or convince Fastmail to adopt it... they do use MySQL, but it's already their Achilles' heel and I doubt they will want to expose it further.
And what's bincimapd? And what about backups, the costs, the administration, reliability? Not now, thanks.
Please enlighten me. But I want something server-side.
I do have a Mac, but after being fleeced by Apple so often I run Debian GNU/Linux on it.
But searching sucks, and I depend on Evolution to do virtual folders. I'd love it even more if my email server was actually a true RDBMS where I could have, besides the traditional IMAP interface, a D (Tutorial D or D4 or something the like) language interface where I could query at will, and save my queries as views that would show up in IMAP as (virtual) folders.
BTW, even non-relational ISO SQL would be so much better than what we have now.
Permissions are ACLs. ACLs are permissions.
That said, Unix simplicity is manageable. MS WNT flexibility isn't, unless you really know your stuff since you started it and no one else ever touched it.
And why isn't this moderated higher? It went down to the heart of the matter: legislating savings instead of instigating them by education.
It doesn't. It allows for bags (tables without a key), which definetly aren't sets and do a lot to complicate the SQL standard and hinder performance. And it uses a broken 3VL.
It do not even comply with Codd's rules, and these are obsolete already.