It is a parody of this clip with a NOSQL fanboy trashing joins to a real database admin using MySQL. It is a pretty entertaining video that I wish more slashdotters would watch rather than join the NoSql rage as the newest coolest thing. AJAX is kind of in that now it is cool again because it webscales garbage.
Watch the video, and others by the same guy. Webscale is a joke and C was supposed to be like MySQL in the parody.
Most people who just run Word and Firefox look for quality and price and maybe features like BluRay if they watch movies on a laptop. Gamers. multimedia creators, and the wealthy still look at those specs. Millions of us including most slashdotters do because we use more CPU than an average user.
If a 3.0 ghz is at the same price as a 2.8ghz then the average consumer will take notice and get the 3.0 ghz system.
Ghz is still important but the average Joe is correct that a i5 is significantly faster than a core2duo that is similiar speced.
Yeah it costs $599 per cpu and requires a contract dictating how many users you can call and txt with the phone. After a certain low number you need to pay a seat fee for the amount on your contact lists.
Also you are forbidden to test it and post about the phones capabilities or limitations on any social networking site online. It will require huge customization with a few experts getting the best usage of the phone but it will handle calls better than any other product! Just take Oracle's word since no one can talk about it.
Even average Joe's know to get a good firewall software package in addition to a hardware firewall router.
It is not like Sony is a small business with 1 IT person. A project like the PS Network should have been well planned with their own server rooms, servers, routers, software, and a train security staff complete with detailed blue prints and designs costings millions of dollars.
Yeah, this is terrible and the CIO and IT directory of the PS Network need to be fired ASAP! I surely would if I were the CEO
I will grow a pair and vote out any who vote for any tax increase or consumption. It is just begging companies to outsource all our jobs to China and lay off more people by increasing the cost of production yet again. The cost of doing business in the US is so insanely prohibitively expensive due to the highest corporate tax which is why America is barely recovering compared to the rest of the world.
If we increase the costs of goods then employers such as restaurants and small business will simply not hire and lay off people to pay indirectly for the gas tax. What about Joe Six pack? He will cut back spending which will cost more jobs. In fact the US recovery is slowing down thanks to high gas prices. It is plain theft for the starving worker to pay more just to show up to work,
America is huge and cheap gas is required to get anything done compared to other countries that have higher fuel costs but people live closer to production and food sources. Roads need to be maintained. However, corporations pay more than there fair share to the roads already and then some.
Chrome remains superior on Linux if you have 3D effects enabled because of hardware acceleration.... assuming you only have an Nvidia card. ATI and Intel still are not accelerated.
Firefox uses DirectX and Direct3d which was a bad choice. Or maybe no choice at all was available on other platforms? OpenGL really is not designed for high definition video and 2d text acceleration.
Windows 8 is supposed to be tablet friendly. Microsoft even demod Windows 8 alpha on an ARM!
AMD is betting people will buy x86 tablets running Windows so they can run legacy and proprietary win32 apps like office and games. That is very very important for people like myself and others who will not waste $499 for a tablet that can just browse the web and run facebook applets etc. I have a phone when I need portability with communication.
Even x86 on a linux tablet is superior in the sense that I can run Java apps like eclipse with full gui acceleration with gnome-shell. Sure Andriod is out there and Linux on arm can't do 3d or run java desktop apps. Only JavaME apps.
I feel gnome-shell is a horrible atrocity and prefer the ribbon UI even. But for a small tablet it is perfect. I wish gnome 3 included 2 guis. A shell one for tablet and a desktop one.
If you run Linux... not Andriod, you can run virtualbox with dos and lotus 123. I know you were being sarcastic, but if Windows 8 runs on a tablet it, you could run office, Visual Studio, and all your pc apps with its virtual keyboard.
That is really cool.:-)
My complaint why I refuse to waste money on a silly tablet is that you pay all this money and just waste time surfing the net and clicking on facebook applets etc. If I can run office and use it more like a pc then a cell phone then the value is different.
So to me unless I can do pc like stuff I simply will never buy a tablet
Why was this modded +5? If I posted the same about Gnome-Shell being most useless POS interface ever I would be modded down faster than goatse.cx. Zealots
I am annoyed (under Linux) that support for video accelerations sucks or does not exist. Flash and just web browsing with Chrome and Firefox 4 is painful in that platform as a result.
I switched back to Windows 7 and use a VM for Linux programming for serverish things. Adobe maintains they will not support hardware acceleration at all for any Intel or ATI products because the drivers are hacks and scripts and are not professional grade like their MacOSX and Windows counterparts.
You are not accounting for interest that is multiplied over and over again to the principal.
That $15 trillion (do not have an interest calculator with and I am too lazy) can turn to $30 trillion in 10 years if zero is paid at 5 or 6% interest! This is why it is always good to pay off our debts ASAP.
True, our interest rate is between 3% to 4% now, but if we lose our AAA rating it will be much much higher. Hell Greece has a 15% interest it probably can never pay back because it defaulted.... I am not taking into account future debt either. Just saying current debt explodes at an exponential rate... literally and why banks love it so much. They are sharks.
It is only 1% of the budget. Now lets add up all the constituencies for the rest of the 50 states special park projects? Boom Deficit.
It doesn't matter all programs and pork barreling to special interests or for your projects back home HAS TO END for the survival of our nation's help. Sure one paper-cut wont kill you by what makes this guy's paper cut more special than someone elses and so on. Everyone has to agree not to do it and have cuts left and right across the board.
Of course there are other solutions like stopping corporations from cheating the tax system by outsourcing, off-shoring, and other tricks and raising the taxes. All of these as well as special health care and endless wars as well.
Republicans will be the kings of hypocracy if they make fun of spend and tax liberals yet do silly things like this.
It is much much worse than just not paying for things.
The government holds much of the world's wealth in bonds and the tax payers end up paying for it on interest. If it defaults we could expect a 16% interest like Greece and many Grandma's 401ks and even your home mortgage will be effected. This is because the banks have money in bonds paying for the deficit and will have to raise rates and deny loans to people and businesses that hire if they lose money. Your 401k may even have companies that have a certain percentage of your savings in bonds.
No bailouts will be possible again this time as the republicans have control and the people will refuse it. A depression will come next as we still never fully recovered from the crash of 2008. Government spending only hid it.
So people will starve if it defaults and people will lose jobs. Bad indeed. Over 1 million people starved to death in the 1930s. Something to think about and I do not think the average citizen is informed enough about how serious this problem is.
Case in point if I am starving and mentioned money is not real to the cashier at a grocery store she would laugh at me and show me the door.
Now if I have lots of it I can buy a shelter, car, or hell anything I want!
Money is real and represents time in economics. People work for you producing if you have it making you dinner or building your house. If you need money you are the one producing for somebody else in exchange of it.
Yes, you will die without it. You also do not have to work and can consume more with it.
You summed up my opinion on typical mac vs pc users.
Mac users love their platform. To them it is political and they want to see more people using it so Macs can exist in the office and more developers will port their apps to it.
My take is PC users do not give a crap about Windows. They just do not want a mac or be part of Apple's ecosystem.:-).... like you and me.
That is bad for Microsoft as is shown with little loyality smartphone uses abandoned Windows Mobile for The Blackberry and Iphones. I used to be a MS hater which is why I browse slashdot. However, I can't get myself to get a mac. Form is cute and nice, but I have serious student loans and responsibilities. I do not want to be trapped with now a Mac, Iphone (with contract), Itunes, and now mac only apps like Office. Not to mention how do I upgrade the video card for newer versions of World of Warcraft? I am looking at well over $2,000 for the closed mac if I want 6 gigs of ram (to run a Linux or Windows VM), new versions of office, and of course a $200 OEM version of Windows 7.
I like Windows 7 as a desktop os (not server) even though php development is kind of annoying compared to Linux. I can do these for half the price with a modded Asus pc
Try to port it to the Iphone or Andriod. I know it would be a huge rewrite due to language differences and opengl instead of directx, but you would have access to a much larger market and none of this xbox live bs.
I would rewrite with the Andriod because the SDK is free and multiplatform. See how it works?
"are over 13,000 apps in the WP7 marketplace (faster growth rate than Android and iPhone at that stage "
HAHA The IOS/Iphone platform has over 500,000 apps and Andriod is just behind with under 300,000. 13,000 for a platform that once had 90% of the smart phone market is very laughable.
Hopefully it is growing and I hope that means WP7 apps exclusively and not older WindowsCE or Windows powered apps. It maybe growing but I would totally ignore the Windows market as it is too small. That last sentence makes me feel I woke up in the Twilight zone. MS really lost the ball on this.
My guess is most of the people who download the SDK are the same ones who love free software and download it with VS but never use it.
You know for the price they gouge consumers AT&T could easily upgrade their infrastructure. Better yet these customers are on 2 year contracts which is great for the banks to give the loans to upgrade as AT&T's ability to repay is really strong because of them.
I have a Samsung Galaxy and I am quite happy with my internet service at 3G. I live in central Florida but maybe places like Manhattan are a little different with tens of thousands of customers for every square mile.
What is great about FOSS is that it can be recompiled for later platforms. In the MS ecosystem it is different and the demand for legacy apps is what is keeping MS around. Once corporate users stay then it cycles other software development firms to keep supporting the older platform etc.
RHES run older linux apps that are binary only and so does FreeBSD and Solaris. So it varies on the distro you use. Obviously no one using Ubuntu gives a damn about legacy support.
Otherwise we would have updated to kernel 2.2 still but there is simply no need too. Actually, Linux 2.6 is going to stay 2.6 for a very long time according to Linus because of software compatibility. So Linux is turning into Windows more and more supporting stability in terms of releases
The people agaisn't upgrading are the suites at work and their accountants who work for them. Why invest time upgrading and hiring I.T. staff when XP works just as well? These corporate desktops they purchase come with a WIndowsXP image with all the drivers. I.T. departments ghost using an imaging tool anyway that pulls the os with the right drivers for all of the things you described from a share on the network.
Another huge problem is the large investment in crappy ERP software from Oracle and even Sharepoint that requires activeX. Kronos is the standard for employees to log in and out on an hourly basis. This software only works on IE 6 because it has no security prevention. These are expensive investments that these businesses want to save face with. Worse, when installing new intranet apps they demand that other products be IE 6 optimized too! Why? Because their other software is and IE 6 is what they use. Now that is 2 products that can't be upgrading and heads will roll and pink slips will go out if management finds out. So lets keep it hush hush and stick with XP.
My guess is virutalbox will be standard on corporate desktops running XP and IE 6 for the next few decades. These customers will not switch and many still use old 1980s mainframe apps in emulators still for crying out loud.
In a VM. Hell, airlines and the banking industry run IBM 360 programs from the 1960's in a 380 emulator runnning a 370 emulator which in turn runs a 360 emulator.
Legacy projects wont die because the accountants want to extend life of an investment and upgrading gives no return on investment. Today it is still political to keep XP as many IT managers want to keep their jobs for paying $400,000 for activeX intranet crap that only work for IE. TO suggest to upgrade is a direct threat to these employees who will fight tooth and nail agaisnt Windows 7 migration so they can look good for their bosses.
I wish Oracle would stop requiring activeX and java frameworks that only work in IE 6. Yes you heard me, Java applets that wont work with any VM other than java 1.3.1 not 1.3.2 or 1.3.0. Sigh
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Yes it is meant to be funny.
It is a parody of this clip with a NOSQL fanboy trashing joins to a real database admin using MySQL. It is a pretty entertaining video that I wish more slashdotters would watch rather than join the NoSql rage as the newest coolest thing. AJAX is kind of in that now it is cool again because it webscales garbage.
Watch the video, and others by the same guy. Webscale is a joke and C was supposed to be like MySQL in the parody.
A whole summary of why NoSQL MongoDB is the absolutely best right here compared to RDBMS. Go MongoDB!
They do depending on their needs.
Most people who just run Word and Firefox look for quality and price and maybe features like BluRay if they watch movies on a laptop. Gamers. multimedia creators, and the wealthy still look at those specs. Millions of us including most slashdotters do because we use more CPU than an average user.
If a 3.0 ghz is at the same price as a 2.8ghz then the average consumer will take notice and get the 3.0 ghz system.
Ghz is still important but the average Joe is correct that a i5 is significantly faster than a core2duo that is similiar speced.
"tried to put your floppy in his sister and now its traumatized and wont work anymore?"
That reminds me of a joke.
What is the difference between a woman and a computer?
A woman wont accept a 3.5 floppy
Yeah it costs $599 per cpu and requires a contract dictating how many users you can call and txt with the phone. After a certain low number you need to pay a seat fee for the amount on your contact lists.
Also you are forbidden to test it and post about the phones capabilities or limitations on any social networking site online. It will require huge customization with a few experts getting the best usage of the phone but it will handle calls better than any other product! Just take Oracle's word since no one can talk about it.
Even average Joe's know to get a good firewall software package in addition to a hardware firewall router.
It is not like Sony is a small business with 1 IT person. A project like the PS Network should have been well planned with their own server rooms, servers, routers, software, and a train security staff complete with detailed blue prints and designs costings millions of dollars.
Yeah, this is terrible and the CIO and IT directory of the PS Network need to be fired ASAP! I surely would if I were the CEO
Do you have any idea what I pay in taxes already?
I will grow a pair and vote out any who vote for any tax increase or consumption. It is just begging companies to outsource all our jobs to China and lay off more people by increasing the cost of production yet again. The cost of doing business in the US is so insanely prohibitively expensive due to the highest corporate tax which is why America is barely recovering compared to the rest of the world.
If we increase the costs of goods then employers such as restaurants and small business will simply not hire and lay off people to pay indirectly for the gas tax. What about Joe Six pack? He will cut back spending which will cost more jobs. In fact the US recovery is slowing down thanks to high gas prices. It is plain theft for the starving worker to pay more just to show up to work,
America is huge and cheap gas is required to get anything done compared to other countries that have higher fuel costs but people live closer to production and food sources. Roads need to be maintained. However, corporations pay more than there fair share to the roads already and then some.
Give me a break.
Chrome remains superior on Linux if you have 3D effects enabled because of hardware acceleration. ... assuming you only have an Nvidia card. ATI and Intel still are not accelerated.
Firefox uses DirectX and Direct3d which was a bad choice. Or maybe no choice at all was available on other platforms? OpenGL really is not designed for high definition video and 2d text acceleration.
Flash still is not fully accelerated either.
Windows 8 is supposed to be tablet friendly. Microsoft even demod Windows 8 alpha on an ARM!
AMD is betting people will buy x86 tablets running Windows so they can run legacy and proprietary win32 apps like office and games. That is very very important for people like myself and others who will not waste $499 for a tablet that can just browse the web and run facebook applets etc. I have a phone when I need portability with communication.
Even x86 on a linux tablet is superior in the sense that I can run Java apps like eclipse with full gui acceleration with gnome-shell. Sure Andriod is out there and Linux on arm can't do 3d or run java desktop apps. Only JavaME apps.
I feel gnome-shell is a horrible atrocity and prefer the ribbon UI even. But for a small tablet it is perfect. I wish gnome 3 included 2 guis. A shell one for tablet and a desktop one.
If you run Linux ... not Andriod, you can run virtualbox with dos and lotus 123. I know you were being sarcastic, but if Windows 8 runs on a tablet it, you could run office, Visual Studio, and all your pc apps with its virtual keyboard.
That is really cool. :-)
My complaint why I refuse to waste money on a silly tablet is that you pay all this money and just waste time surfing the net and clicking on facebook applets etc. If I can run office and use it more like a pc then a cell phone then the value is different.
So to me unless I can do pc like stuff I simply will never buy a tablet
Why can't the opensource community build a more up to date one that is 64-bit with built in GPU. That would be nice for tablets
What Flamebaitish.
Why was this modded +5? If I posted the same about Gnome-Shell being most useless POS interface ever I would be modded down faster than goatse.cx. Zealots
I am annoyed (under Linux) that support for video accelerations sucks or does not exist. Flash and just web browsing with Chrome and Firefox 4 is painful in that platform as a result.
I switched back to Windows 7 and use a VM for Linux programming for serverish things. Adobe maintains they will not support hardware acceleration at all for any Intel or ATI products because the drivers are hacks and scripts and are not professional grade like their MacOSX and Windows counterparts.
Under Windows 7 I like my ATI card.
You are not accounting for interest that is multiplied over and over again to the principal.
That $15 trillion (do not have an interest calculator with and I am too lazy) can turn to $30 trillion in 10 years if zero is paid at 5 or 6% interest! This is why it is always good to pay off our debts ASAP.
True, our interest rate is between 3% to 4% now, but if we lose our AAA rating it will be much much higher. Hell Greece has a 15% interest it probably can never pay back because it defaulted. ... I am not taking into account future debt either. Just saying current debt explodes at an exponential rate ... literally and why banks love it so much. They are sharks.
It is only 1% of the budget. Now lets add up all the constituencies for the rest of the 50 states special park projects? Boom Deficit.
It doesn't matter all programs and pork barreling to special interests or for your projects back home HAS TO END for the survival of our nation's help. Sure one paper-cut wont kill you by what makes this guy's paper cut more special than someone elses and so on. Everyone has to agree not to do it and have cuts left and right across the board.
Of course there are other solutions like stopping corporations from cheating the tax system by outsourcing, off-shoring, and other tricks and raising the taxes. All of these as well as special health care and endless wars as well.
Republicans will be the kings of hypocracy if they make fun of spend and tax liberals yet do silly things like this.
It is much much worse than just not paying for things.
The government holds much of the world's wealth in bonds and the tax payers end up paying for it on interest. If it defaults we could expect a 16% interest like Greece and many Grandma's 401ks and even your home mortgage will be effected. This is because the banks have money in bonds paying for the deficit and will have to raise rates and deny loans to people and businesses that hire if they lose money. Your 401k may even have companies that have a certain percentage of your savings in bonds.
No bailouts will be possible again this time as the republicans have control and the people will refuse it. A depression will come next as we still never fully recovered from the crash of 2008. Government spending only hid it.
So people will starve if it defaults and people will lose jobs. Bad indeed. Over 1 million people starved to death in the 1930s. Something to think about and I do not think the average citizen is informed enough about how serious this problem is.
Money is what other people imagine it stands for.
Case in point if I am starving and mentioned money is not real to the cashier at a grocery store she would laugh at me and show me the door.
Now if I have lots of it I can buy a shelter, car, or hell anything I want!
Money is real and represents time in economics. People work for you producing if you have it making you dinner or building your house. If you need money you are the one producing for somebody else in exchange of it.
Yes, you will die without it. You also do not have to work and can consume more with it.
How about paying the government deficit that is about to default in a month so humans can habitat Earth first
You summed up my opinion on typical mac vs pc users.
Mac users love their platform. To them it is political and they want to see more people using it so Macs can exist in the office and more developers will port their apps to it.
My take is PC users do not give a crap about Windows. They just do not want a mac or be part of Apple's ecosystem. :-) .... like you and me.
That is bad for Microsoft as is shown with little loyality smartphone uses abandoned Windows Mobile for The Blackberry and Iphones. I used to be a MS hater which is why I browse slashdot. However, I can't get myself to get a mac. Form is cute and nice, but I have serious student loans and responsibilities. I do not want to be trapped with now a Mac, Iphone (with contract), Itunes, and now mac only apps like Office. Not to mention how do I upgrade the video card for newer versions of World of Warcraft? I am looking at well over $2,000 for the closed mac if I want 6 gigs of ram (to run a Linux or Windows VM), new versions of office, and of course a $200 OEM version of Windows 7.
I like Windows 7 as a desktop os (not server) even though php development is kind of annoying compared to Linux. I can do these for half the price with a modded Asus pc
Try to port it to the Iphone or Andriod. I know it would be a huge rewrite due to language differences and opengl instead of directx, but you would have access to a much larger market and none of this xbox live bs.
I would rewrite with the Andriod because the SDK is free and multiplatform. See how it works?
"are over 13,000 apps in the WP7 marketplace (faster growth rate than Android and iPhone at that stage "
HAHA The IOS/Iphone platform has over 500,000 apps and Andriod is just behind with under 300,000. 13,000 for a platform that once had 90% of the smart phone market is very laughable.
Hopefully it is growing and I hope that means WP7 apps exclusively and not older WindowsCE or Windows powered apps. It maybe growing but I would totally ignore the Windows market as it is too small. That last sentence makes me feel I woke up in the Twilight zone. MS really lost the ball on this.
My guess is most of the people who download the SDK are the same ones who love free software and download it with VS but never use it.
You know for the price they gouge consumers AT&T could easily upgrade their infrastructure. Better yet these customers are on 2 year contracts which is great for the banks to give the loans to upgrade as AT&T's ability to repay is really strong because of them.
I have a Samsung Galaxy and I am quite happy with my internet service at 3G. I live in central Florida but maybe places like Manhattan are a little different with tens of thousands of customers for every square mile.
What is great about FOSS is that it can be recompiled for later platforms. In the MS ecosystem it is different and the demand for legacy apps is what is keeping MS around. Once corporate users stay then it cycles other software development firms to keep supporting the older platform etc.
RHES run older linux apps that are binary only and so does FreeBSD and Solaris. So it varies on the distro you use. Obviously no one using Ubuntu gives a damn about legacy support.
Otherwise we would have updated to kernel 2.2 still but there is simply no need too. Actually, Linux 2.6 is going to stay 2.6 for a very long time according to Linus because of software compatibility. So Linux is turning into Windows more and more supporting stability in terms of releases
People do not prefer this.
New businesses staring out are Windows 7 based.
The people agaisn't upgrading are the suites at work and their accountants who work for them. Why invest time upgrading and hiring I.T. staff when XP works just as well? These corporate desktops they purchase come with a WIndowsXP image with all the drivers. I.T. departments ghost using an imaging tool anyway that pulls the os with the right drivers for all of the things you described from a share on the network.
Another huge problem is the large investment in crappy ERP software from Oracle and even Sharepoint that requires activeX. Kronos is the standard for employees to log in and out on an hourly basis. This software only works on IE 6 because it has no security prevention. These are expensive investments that these businesses want to save face with. Worse, when installing new intranet apps they demand that other products be IE 6 optimized too! Why? Because their other software is and IE 6 is what they use. Now that is 2 products that can't be upgrading and heads will roll and pink slips will go out if management finds out. So lets keep it hush hush and stick with XP.
My guess is virutalbox will be standard on corporate desktops running XP and IE 6 for the next few decades. These customers will not switch and many still use old 1980s mainframe apps in emulators still for crying out loud.
In a VM. Hell, airlines and the banking industry run IBM 360 programs from the 1960's in a 380 emulator runnning a 370 emulator which in turn runs a 360 emulator.
Legacy projects wont die because the accountants want to extend life of an investment and upgrading gives no return on investment. Today it is still political to keep XP as many IT managers want to keep their jobs for paying $400,000 for activeX intranet crap that only work for IE. TO suggest to upgrade is a direct threat to these employees who will fight tooth and nail agaisnt Windows 7 migration so they can look good for their bosses.
I wish Oracle would stop requiring activeX and java frameworks that only work in IE 6. Yes you heard me, Java applets that wont work with any VM other than java 1.3.1 not 1.3.2 or 1.3.0. Sigh
So XP is here to stay forever.