CompanyX: I have invented cold fusion. Pay me $1000 and I'll let you use it. If there are any problems I will deny they exist and make up any excuse possible to this effect, or detract attention from it by screaming FUD upon competitors. Then I might silently slip out a fix in a few months, if you're lucky.
OpenSourceY: We have invented cold fusion. You can have it to do with what you want. Many of my peers who have no association with our project whatsoever, but are experts in nuclear energy have looked at it and identified problems and implemented fixes. If there are problems, then just raise the issue and I'm sure many people will chip in with a solution.
Which version do you think the scientific community would go with? Which version would you, as the end user prefer?
Would you trust expertly peer-reviewed software, or are you prepared to simply believe a company with closed-source software? That is how you can be better re-assured.
We made a video a few years back on how the reovirus accomplishes this feat, in connection with Dr. Patrick Lee, at the University of Calgary, where the work first started.
Anyone notice that IE is still default software, with no mention of Safari at all? Despite the fact that MS has publicly announced the end of IE for Mac? Isn't the MS-Apple agreement over? Maybe Apple doesn't want to let MS off the hook with the "bundle software with the OS to take over the market" approach.
Naaa, liquid nitrogen is indeedy around -190 degrees centigrade. Maybe you're thinking of dry ice? A dry ice bath (ethanol and frozen CO2), which is very cheap, runs around -70, bit be prepared to keep stocking it up every few hours!
One db I've never seen mentioned here on/. and deserves mention, is Frontbase. They offer a free version (though not open source), which does support transactions, stored procedures, foreign keys, permissions, etc (not sure about cross database joins:-) ) and is fast (the 0.5s quoted above for an insert/commit seems like an awfully long time). They also offer some value added features if you're willing to pay. One of those includes import/export (which sux cause we use the free version), but they do give away a developer version which is totally functional (and suffices to do import/export). We've been using it for almost a year, and they mean it when they say zero down time.
Now I'm not a 'serious' db programmer, but I think FB should be checked out.
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Look at it like this:
CompanyX: I have invented cold fusion. Pay me $1000 and I'll let you use it. If there are any problems I will deny they exist and make up any excuse possible to this effect, or detract attention from it by screaming FUD upon competitors. Then I might silently slip out a fix in a few months, if you're lucky.
OpenSourceY: We have invented cold fusion. You can have it to do with what you want. Many of my peers who have no association with our project whatsoever, but are experts in nuclear energy have looked at it and identified problems and implemented fixes. If there are problems, then just raise the issue and I'm sure many people will chip in with a solution.
Which version do you think the scientific community would go with? Which version would you, as the end user prefer?
Would you trust expertly peer-reviewed software, or are you prepared to simply believe a company with closed-source software? That is how you can be better re-assured.
We made a video a few years back on how the reovirus accomplishes this feat, in connection with Dr. Patrick Lee, at the University of Calgary, where the work first started.
How Reovirus Kills Cancer Cells
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Anyone notice that IE is still default software, with no mention of Safari at all? Despite the fact that MS has publicly announced the end of IE for Mac? Isn't the MS-Apple agreement over? Maybe Apple doesn't want to let MS off the hook with the "bundle software with the OS to take over the market" approach.
Naaa, liquid nitrogen is indeedy around -190 degrees centigrade. Maybe you're thinking of dry ice? A dry ice bath (ethanol and frozen CO2), which is very cheap, runs around -70, bit be prepared to keep stocking it up every few hours!
Now I'm not a 'serious' db programmer, but I think FB should be checked out.