Perl makes the easy things easy and the hard things possible.
I hated programming until I was exposed to Perl. Now I have been doing it professionally for 13 years.
The creativity should come from Designers now. Developers just implement the design. It is the Designers that need the passion, Developers don't have that role anymore.
A hell of a lot of other people on Slashdot sure have.
Their reaction seems more about their denial of the reality that science can solve all problems than rational argument. For if one of the most technologically advanced countries on Earth who has had years of experience with nuclear energy (and nuclear fallout) can't Engineer themselves to safety then the likelihood of their respective countries doing it is unlikely as well. It's a security thing.
We have a separation of Church and State and the government still recognizes marriages conducted by religious organizations.
A separation of Corporations and State means legislators represent the interests of their constituents over the interests of Corporations. Right now the United States has gone from Representative Democracy to Corporate Representative Republic. With both parties fighting for the love ($$$) of their Corporate masters.
Corporations aren't inherently evil, nor do they need to be destroyed, they simply shouldn't be the boss.
I wonder how many constituents wrote letters to the President about this serious problem? Of course, none did.
We need a separation of Corporations and State, now.
It doesn't take students in higher education long to see cheating and lying are the norm, even required. It prepares them for what they are about to have to do for the Corporations.
We have two pro-corporate parties in the U.S. that both lean right. One that is batsh*t cray right, and the other is "sorry but I have to lean right". We don't live in a Democracy anymore, we live in a Corporate Representative Republic. With the Citizens United decision we will not change this for at least a generation, if ever.
That's what I was thinking. What if someone puts these devices on all cop cars and creates an app to publish where they are all at real time? Bet they wouldn't like that, but would it be legal?
Those arguments are relevant and the world is a better place because the EC considers them relevant.
The only criteria being "creating a monopoly" doesn't work because it promotes two big players rising out of every industry and them being allowed to destroy all the other entities they wish.
Government has a role and responsibility to protect its citizenry and such behavior clearly falls under that umbrella. It promotes competition as opposed to simply stopping monopolies.
I see many people, you included, thinking of this in terms of what MySQL is now. It would be terribly short sighted for every merger and acquisition evaluated by the appropriate regulatory bodies to look at it in that way. They need to look at in terms of what MySQL could grow in to. What MySQL could grow in to is what Oracle would compete with. Which is why Oracle wants to squash it and eat it. EC is right on and will stop this.
The postgres developers, the poster above you (Just Some Guy) and yourself, as you proved quite aptly:
From the postgres site:
"A PostgreSQL database developer is someone who is actually working on the project, not someone using it to develop an application or a website. We don't hire programmers, we reach across the Internet, drawing the best database developers in the world to PostgreSQL"
People prefer MySQL over postgres because the community is friendlier. A friendly open community will be around longer, have more users and hence get more attention and address more real world problems for people.
I'll take a product that I can get support with over one I will get insulted asking a question about.
Blame it on years of us frothing-at-the-mouth liberals trying to explain rationally all the factors of complex foreign policy to batsh*t crazy conservatives who only look at the world in terms of black and white and get their information from Fox News as opposed to actually reading books on the subject.
I don't think the primary point was apartheid. If it was, using SA as the setting would be way too obvious, and well... stupid. Of course the setting being SA brings additional clues to the broader message but it wasn't purely apartheid.
It was primarily about oppression. Oppression in terms of the oppressors can turn in to the oppressed at any moment, so think twice about how good of an idea oppressing people is. It might be serving your interest today but tomorrow you may be the one being oppressed. Also the point of the oppressor never being as strong as they really think they are and the oppressed never being as weak as people think they are. Sometimes the oppressed get really big flippin guns and shoot your ass with them.
This is why using terms like "Climate Change" and "Global Warming" greatly hinders the debate and hurts the cause of environmentalists. The climate always changes and there will always be periods of warming and cooling. The debate should be about the carbon dioxide concentration increasing and the possible effects of that. If it gets to crazy it may turn the Earth in to a giant ice ball it may turn it in to Venus. We just don't know. We need better modeling. However, having the debate around "Climate Change" and "Global Warming" allows WAY too much leeway in what the actual problem is. Having the debate about CO2 concentrations at least makes the pinheads admit to the science of that. Then we can move on to the real debate which is what this might do to us and if it is good or bad, worth stopping, worth encouraging, etc.
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Perl makes the easy things easy and the hard things possible. I hated programming until I was exposed to Perl. Now I have been doing it professionally for 13 years.
The creativity should come from Designers now. Developers just implement the design. It is the Designers that need the passion, Developers don't have that role anymore.
Yah, I grew two habanero's in pot's here in the NE. Got more than I could eat in a lifetime. Surprised me. Great to hear it helped ease someones pain.
I'm not as worried about the Engineers as I am the Executives who cut corners to make more $$$. The Engineers aren't in charge of the $$$.
I can't find a way to sugar coat that. Sorry.
A hell of a lot of other people on Slashdot sure have.
Their reaction seems more about their denial of the reality that science can solve all problems than rational argument. For if one of the most technologically advanced countries on Earth who has had years of experience with nuclear energy (and nuclear fallout) can't Engineer themselves to safety then the likelihood of their respective countries doing it is unlikely as well. It's a security thing.
We have a separation of Church and State and the government still recognizes marriages conducted by religious organizations.
A separation of Corporations and State means legislators represent the interests of their constituents over the interests of Corporations. Right now the United States has gone from Representative Democracy to Corporate Representative Republic. With both parties fighting for the love ($$$) of their Corporate masters.
Corporations aren't inherently evil, nor do they need to be destroyed, they simply shouldn't be the boss.
I wonder how many constituents wrote letters to the President about this serious problem? Of course, none did. We need a separation of Corporations and State, now.
Lentils work fine as a grown protein source. I've reduced my meat (animal muscle) intake to a few ounces a week, rest is lentils.
Agreed. They are doing the job the Corporate Media quit long ago. Telling the truth, even if it is embarrassing to power.
They only released 220 documents on Sunday of of those not many were in their entirety.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/world/29cables.html?src=me
WikiLeaks posted 220 cables, some redacted to protect diplomatic sources, in the first installment of the archive on its Web site on Sunday.
It doesn't take students in higher education long to see cheating and lying are the norm, even required. It prepares them for what they are about to have to do for the Corporations.
We have two pro-corporate parties in the U.S. that both lean right. One that is batsh*t cray right, and the other is "sorry but I have to lean right". We don't live in a Democracy anymore, we live in a Corporate Representative Republic. With the Citizens United decision we will not change this for at least a generation, if ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHmGEkzhhfQ
That's what I was thinking. What if someone puts these devices on all cop cars and creates an app to publish where they are all at real time? Bet they wouldn't like that, but would it be legal?
Apple started the concept but ceded it to Intel to develop it.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/exclusive-apple-dictated-light-peak-creation-to-intel-could-be/
I can't believe we are seeing people on Slashdot post this about the Corporate News sites.
They are not about facts, news or being intelligent. Did you see CNN's coverage of the balloon boy fiasco?
The Corporate News is about entertainment, giving the viewers what they want to see and making money.
Agree. GC and memory management in C++ are non-issues now.
C++0x, once it gets spread around to where it needs to get spread around, brings in a lot of nice to haves I am used to getting in say Perl.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B0x
C++ just keeps getting better and better.
Spoken like a true neo-liberal capitalist.
Those arguments are relevant and the world is a better place because the EC considers them relevant.
The only criteria being "creating a monopoly" doesn't work because it promotes two big players rising out of every industry and them being allowed to destroy all the other entities they wish.
Government has a role and responsibility to protect its citizenry and such behavior clearly falls under that umbrella. It promotes competition as opposed to simply stopping monopolies.
I see many people, you included, thinking of this in terms of what MySQL is now. It would be terribly short sighted for every merger and acquisition evaluated by the appropriate regulatory bodies to look at it in that way. They need to look at in terms of what MySQL could grow in to. What MySQL could grow in to is what Oracle would compete with. Which is why Oracle wants to squash it and eat it. EC is right on and will stop this.
They shouldn't be allowed to own MySQL. Europe should shut that down and they should spin it off.
Too arrogant!
The postgres developers, the poster above you (Just Some Guy) and yourself, as you proved quite aptly:
From the postgres site:
"A PostgreSQL database developer is someone who is actually working on the project, not someone using it to develop an application or a website. We don't hire programmers, we reach across the Internet, drawing the best database developers in the world to PostgreSQL"
People prefer MySQL over postgres because the community is friendlier. A friendly open community will be around longer, have more users and hence get more attention and address more real world problems for people.
I'll take a product that I can get support with over one I will get insulted asking a question about.
Would be nice if they also made this a GSM unlocked cell phone. So one could use it as a pre-pay cell phone as well.
Blame it on years of us frothing-at-the-mouth liberals trying to explain rationally all the factors of complex foreign policy to batsh*t crazy conservatives who only look at the world in terms of black and white and get their information from Fox News as opposed to actually reading books on the subject.
I don't think the primary point was apartheid. If it was, using SA as the setting would be way too obvious, and well... stupid. Of course the setting being SA brings additional clues to the broader message but it wasn't purely apartheid. It was primarily about oppression. Oppression in terms of the oppressors can turn in to the oppressed at any moment, so think twice about how good of an idea oppressing people is. It might be serving your interest today but tomorrow you may be the one being oppressed. Also the point of the oppressor never being as strong as they really think they are and the oppressed never being as weak as people think they are. Sometimes the oppressed get really big flippin guns and shoot your ass with them.
This is why using terms like "Climate Change" and "Global Warming" greatly hinders the debate and hurts the cause of environmentalists. The climate always changes and there will always be periods of warming and cooling. The debate should be about the carbon dioxide concentration increasing and the possible effects of that. If it gets to crazy it may turn the Earth in to a giant ice ball it may turn it in to Venus. We just don't know. We need better modeling. However, having the debate around "Climate Change" and "Global Warming" allows WAY too much leeway in what the actual problem is. Having the debate about CO2 concentrations at least makes the pinheads admit to the science of that. Then we can move on to the real debate which is what this might do to us and if it is good or bad, worth stopping, worth encouraging, etc.