Perhaps some day we - men and women alike - can act like the grown-ups we theoretically are and not get offended by the sight of the human body. The US had a shit fit over the sight of a tasselled nipple at a sporting event but regularly enjoys media which features vagabond refugees shooting 'dead' people in the face. The endgame of extremist feminists looks very like that of extremist religions, with women chastely covered up and seperated from the lecherous menfolk for fear they will be overcome by their urges.
These backwards puritans are why US society is as demented as it is. Sort yourselves out.
What? Someone linked to the site directly above./. staff do have the ability to remove posts and as such are every bit as liable for links in the comments as for links in the summary.
I don't feel obligated in any way to support MariaDB. I don't see how any self respecting dev would, especially since the founder made himself richer than Croseus by selling MySQL.
You clearly have no experience with web development. Most of the sites on the internet are in shared hosting packages, anything that gets less than a few hundred thousand hits a month. The only thing these sites are charged for are hosting and domain names. Anything that involves any kind of effort on the part of the developer gets charged for seperately. Hosting companies are quite capable of keeping the same software on new servers indefinetely.
Honestly I'm not seeing anyone flocking to the flag of the guy who's already sold MySQL for a vast sum of money unless someone's paying them for it. If it works, don't fix it.
Many hosting packages have MySQL installed as default, almost all of them in fact, and web devs are unlikely to have any interest in moving. I mean what are they going to tell their clients, someone in a far away office unconnected to anything has decided that the DB system is outdated, so you have pay us to migrate your data? Oh, says the client, will it offer me any benefits or will my site stop working? Why no, says the web dev. Please.
Inertia means a lot, and MySQL has a LOT of inertia.
It happens, I knew a man, a lifer in one of the byzantine public sector warrens hereabouts, he worked 40 years doing the exact same thing day after day after day and then retired. Two years later he was dead, just didn't have any direction or drive in his life, and couldn't cope with it. I believe some long term prison inmates face the same problem. Personally I'd have gone completely insane living like that in the first place.
Anyway to keep things on-topic, learn my friend, learn all you can. The internet is chock full of information about all sorts of amazing things, use it! Use it hard. I have ~140 tabs just on educational subjects open at any given time.
According to who? Will you be the judge of this worthiness? Have you figured out objective good and bad then? Marvellous.
I'm really growing weary of smug misanthropic assholes who quite comfortably apply negative attributes to billions of unique individuals to either excuse their own shortcomings or justify a vague sense of superiority. You know who's "worthy" to explore the universe and live forever? People who explore the universe and live forever.
On the contrary, portable computing (albeit of a larger form factor than the phone) is a tremendous help to a population on the move, because it represents access to both instantaneous news, weather reports, supply points and so on, as well as a vast depth of knowledge, which allows skills to propagate and spread with ease. Think of a question - google the answer. Need to fix a car, search for the schematics and instructions. I did just that last week, never touched the internals of a car beyond the basics before in my life, next thing you know I was crimping electrical wiring together and diagnosing problems, and it worked fine.
You have the largest library, trade school, and university ever imagined right at your fingertips, and believe me knowledge is power. We haven't even begun to realise the implications of this as a society.
And don't ever underestimate the power of communication - Genghis Khan didn't conquer most of Eurasia because his troops were super badass ninjas, he won because his forces had far superor communications than the opposition, due to his fast riders. People able to communicate are people able to work together, and there's not much that can't be done with enough people working together.
I'm not worried about the basics, food, water, energy, we have and will always have a surplus of those. Mostly due to the last part there, with enough energy you can easily get food and fresh water, and we are drowning in energy.
Agreed, no matter what we do the climate is going to shift drastically. Unless we're light enough on our feet that we can adapt as things change, it's going to cost more in the long run, lives and money. That's going to need a rethink of how we operate on a lot of levels but needn't lead to a reduction in quality of life. I have some difficulty imagining such a society in fact, but recent technological advances will make it much easier, ubiquitous communication and computing, the unification of many devices into one, and of course renewable energy.
In ten years we'll be using equipment that makes the current best look like pocket calculators, just like we're buying gear today for a few hundred that would have been worth tens of thousands ten years ago, if we could even manufacture it. Goddamn I love living in the future.
The typical VC isn't looking to build a long lasting business, their goal is to make a company look big and promising by whatever means neccessary then cash out by selling their shares to whoever. They are professional pump-and-dumpers, hence the sobriquet 'vulture capitalists'. I'd imagine in an environment with less ready money floating about for them to offload their investments there would be fewer of them.
National socialists. But whatever flag they're running under the point is that even with the best intentions, you've no idea what the next guy will do with your panopticon. So don't buiild one.
Yeah, and you see here's the thing. Even if it's an ostensibly democratic government setting up this stuff to combat terrorism, if the next government turns out to be hard right racist fascists like the BNP, you've just put all that power into their hands. Unless you can guarantee 100% that a party like the national socialists will never get into power, these tools should not be constructed for whatever purpose.
One neat trick I find is to mash up the garlic and the tomato before cooking with a pestle and mortar. I've no idea why but it makes the whole taste just awesome.
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I'm more of a leg man myself.
Perhaps some day we - men and women alike - can act like the grown-ups we theoretically are and not get offended by the sight of the human body. The US had a shit fit over the sight of a tasselled nipple at a sporting event but regularly enjoys media which features vagabond refugees shooting 'dead' people in the face. The endgame of extremist feminists looks very like that of extremist religions, with women chastely covered up and seperated from the lecherous menfolk for fear they will be overcome by their urges.
These backwards puritans are why US society is as demented as it is. Sort yourselves out.
What? Someone linked to the site directly above. /. staff do have the ability to remove posts and as such are every bit as liable for links in the comments as for links in the summary.
It's okay to lose.
Except Red Hat covers a grand total of 2.8% of the market and dropping rapidly. http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-redhat/all/all
I don't feel obligated in any way to support MariaDB. I don't see how any self respecting dev would, especially since the founder made himself richer than Croseus by selling MySQL.
So good luck with that.
You clearly have no experience with web development. Most of the sites on the internet are in shared hosting packages, anything that gets less than a few hundred thousand hits a month. The only thing these sites are charged for are hosting and domain names. Anything that involves any kind of effort on the part of the developer gets charged for seperately. Hosting companies are quite capable of keeping the same software on new servers indefinetely.
Honestly I'm not seeing anyone flocking to the flag of the guy who's already sold MySQL for a vast sum of money unless someone's paying them for it. If it works, don't fix it.
Who's going to pay for this effort again?
Many hosting packages have MySQL installed as default, almost all of them in fact, and web devs are unlikely to have any interest in moving. I mean what are they going to tell their clients, someone in a far away office unconnected to anything has decided that the DB system is outdated, so you have pay us to migrate your data? Oh, says the client, will it offer me any benefits or will my site stop working? Why no, says the web dev. Please.
Inertia means a lot, and MySQL has a LOT of inertia.
It happens, I knew a man, a lifer in one of the byzantine public sector warrens hereabouts, he worked 40 years doing the exact same thing day after day after day and then retired. Two years later he was dead, just didn't have any direction or drive in his life, and couldn't cope with it. I believe some long term prison inmates face the same problem. Personally I'd have gone completely insane living like that in the first place.
Anyway to keep things on-topic, learn my friend, learn all you can. The internet is chock full of information about all sorts of amazing things, use it! Use it hard. I have ~140 tabs just on educational subjects open at any given time.
According to who? Will you be the judge of this worthiness? Have you figured out objective good and bad then? Marvellous.
I'm really growing weary of smug misanthropic assholes who quite comfortably apply negative attributes to billions of unique individuals to either excuse their own shortcomings or justify a vague sense of superiority. You know who's "worthy" to explore the universe and live forever? People who explore the universe and live forever.
Unless the universe runs out of new things to learn and create I don't see how anyone could ever get bored.
Have you considered not being a cock for five minutes, that should sort out your problems.
This needs to be tattooed on the inside of the eyelids of every child.
On the contrary, portable computing (albeit of a larger form factor than the phone) is a tremendous help to a population on the move, because it represents access to both instantaneous news, weather reports, supply points and so on, as well as a vast depth of knowledge, which allows skills to propagate and spread with ease. Think of a question - google the answer. Need to fix a car, search for the schematics and instructions. I did just that last week, never touched the internals of a car beyond the basics before in my life, next thing you know I was crimping electrical wiring together and diagnosing problems, and it worked fine.
You have the largest library, trade school, and university ever imagined right at your fingertips, and believe me knowledge is power. We haven't even begun to realise the implications of this as a society.
And don't ever underestimate the power of communication - Genghis Khan didn't conquer most of Eurasia because his troops were super badass ninjas, he won because his forces had far superor communications than the opposition, due to his fast riders. People able to communicate are people able to work together, and there's not much that can't be done with enough people working together.
I'm not worried about the basics, food, water, energy, we have and will always have a surplus of those. Mostly due to the last part there, with enough energy you can easily get food and fresh water, and we are drowning in energy.
Agreed, no matter what we do the climate is going to shift drastically. Unless we're light enough on our feet that we can adapt as things change, it's going to cost more in the long run, lives and money. That's going to need a rethink of how we operate on a lot of levels but needn't lead to a reduction in quality of life. I have some difficulty imagining such a society in fact, but recent technological advances will make it much easier, ubiquitous communication and computing, the unification of many devices into one, and of course renewable energy.
A typical person in the US makes $90,000 a year? What?
In ten years we'll be using equipment that makes the current best look like pocket calculators, just like we're buying gear today for a few hundred that would have been worth tens of thousands ten years ago, if we could even manufacture it. Goddamn I love living in the future.
The typical VC isn't looking to build a long lasting business, their goal is to make a company look big and promising by whatever means neccessary then cash out by selling their shares to whoever. They are professional pump-and-dumpers, hence the sobriquet 'vulture capitalists'. I'd imagine in an environment with less ready money floating about for them to offload their investments there would be fewer of them.
Eh I don't think the Chinese are viewed as a monolithic political bloc like the Soviets were, it's not nearly as much of a provocation.
This, except I don't care about synching. Thunderbird does everything I need.
Would you say he's jumped the snark?
National socialists. But whatever flag they're running under the point is that even with the best intentions, you've no idea what the next guy will do with your panopticon. So don't buiild one.
Yeah, and you see here's the thing. Even if it's an ostensibly democratic government setting up this stuff to combat terrorism, if the next government turns out to be hard right racist fascists like the BNP, you've just put all that power into their hands. Unless you can guarantee 100% that a party like the national socialists will never get into power, these tools should not be constructed for whatever purpose.
Just imagine it in William Shatner's voice.
One neat trick I find is to mash up the garlic and the tomato before cooking with a pestle and mortar. I've no idea why but it makes the whole taste just awesome.