MySQL is very adequate for 99% of all users including most large enterprises and certainly most websites.
I used to be a big fan of MySQL, mostly because it was moderately capable and free. Now that I have tried Postgres though there is no way I would go back.
Yes, version 4 will be an improvement, BUT it is still missing many key features like views, triggers, full outer joins, update with subselect, that are already present in Postgres, and the fact is I've been using the features that MySQL is promising for the future for a year and a half now.
The following site does a very good comparison between the feature sets of MySQL, Oracle and Postgres.
http://det-dbalice.if.pw.edu.pl/det-dbalice/docu me nts/all/html/db_compare/db_compar_chp01.html
Even auto incrementing IDs in Postgres are annoyingly difficult compared to MySQL...
Nah, they actually make much more sense in Postgres than they do in MySQL because you can access them using a standard query rather than some bozo non-standard driver extension as in MySQL.
The problem with MySQL is that the lack of basic functionality like triggers, subselects, foreign keys makes it a total PITA except for the simplest applications. Sure you can write code that works around the implementation limitations, but WHY should I have to reinvent something over and over that should BE PART OF THE DATABASE?
You may think this stuff is esoteric, and not needed for the average blog or even e-commerce site, but that's baloney. FKEYS *ARE* needed for just about *ANY* database application except the most trivial - ie. an address book.
MySQL - forget it - it just isn't competitive with other free databases out there.
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium, And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium, And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium, Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium, And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium, And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium, And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium, And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium, And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium, And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium, And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium, And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium, Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium. And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium, Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium, And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium, And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium, And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium, And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium, And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Ha'vard, And there may be many others, but they haven't been discavard.
Sung to the tune from Gilbert & Sullivan's "Major General Song" from "Pirates of Penzance", it is an amazingly perfect parody by Tom Lehrer
Is the fate of Bungie the ultimate proof of the unbridled, overwhelming evil of Microsoft? I think so. In one short step we lost what I thought was the most innovative, creative gaming company to the jaws of doom. The day I read Microsoft had acquired Bungie I wept. The unkept promises (Halo for the Mac was being demoed by God), the sacrifice of a great company for the SOLE purpose of having ONE decent game for the X-Box has to be the saddest, most frightening episode in the history of the personal computer, and PROOF that Microsoft is the main reason innovation in the PC industry is so weak today.
How can anyone who is aware of Bungie's history feel anything but abject hatred towards Microsoft?
Efficiency almost inescapably means less people are able to do more.
Yes, but your example deos not support the synthesis. Standard of living goes up by the same person making more widgets per day. The sale of widgets allows the person to have a higher take home wage.
In your scenario the Indian guy was making the same number of widgets as the American guy, just at a lower pay rate because of local conditions, allowing the manufacturer to sell widgets cheap. In the long run what happens is that the wages equalize on a global basis for the same job.
The real number that is important in the long run to the worker is the number of widgets made per day.
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Yourdon also later recanted in another book, "The Rise & Resurrection of the American Programmer".
The fact is that these things go in cycles. One year it is that Japan is going to replace the US as the leading economic power, a few years later Japan is in a terminal recession.
What will happen is that American programmers will find niches and work practices that can't be outsourced, and foreign programmers will be in so much demand that they will be able to raise their prices.
Already there is word from India that they are starting to see shortages of senior level programmers, and are pirating experienced people from each other. Clearly this will lead to increased prices.
In the meantime we have the Bureau of Labor predicting that there will be a world wide doubling in demand for IT professionals over the next 7 years.
I dislike Microsoft intensely - I think they are a great negative force in the software industry and have done much to crush innovation in the desktop PC platform.
BUT I think any university that considers taking a grant like this is making a mistake. University policies should be based on intellectual and academic goals, not who has the bucks to buy them off. It is repugnant in the worst way.
The possible harmful additives are already outlawed, since people are drinking from such a bottle.
It is far more complex than that. The safety of plastics for food packaging is determined primarily by how much of the components of the plastic end up in the food. This has been carefully studied for many years in the case of virgin materials. Nobody knows what the characteristics of recycled plastics are in this regard. Clearly additional processing of the plastic is highly likely to increase its mobility. In addition there is a great possibility that contaminants from the life cycle handling of the plastic (maybe the consumer mixed week killer in the bottle for his lawn after the soda was consumed!), or errors in sorting the plastics during recycling lead to contamination.
IRC, the plastics are shreddered and dissovled in various solvents. One solvent for each kind of plastic. Then the plastic is extracted from its solvent and you receive a practically pure resin.
There are many things wrong about this - first, cross-linked plastics are not soluble in solvents, and second, the introduction of solvents in itself will cause traces of the solvent (possibly harmful) left in the plastic - and then there is the issue of environmental damage from waste solvents.
The fact is that recycling is mostly a pipe dream. The only real way to reduce waste in an economic and sound environmental fashion is through reduced consumption.
Yahoo decided to go with PHP for their web development because of the poor support of Java in BSD. Their particular problem was that J2EE is thread intensive, and FreeBSD supports threads poorly.
It has been considered a basic right of a prisoner to have legal counsel available ever since the US was founded.
Any student of the Constitution realizes that all rights under the Constitution have limits of one sort or another. Usually these limits become important when full exercise of a right has the potential to cause harm significantly greater than the loss of that right. Yes, you have freedom of speech, but no you cannot us it in a manner that significantly harms another - see libel laws, child pornography, etc.
Unfortunately we do not live in a world of 0 and 1.
This is exactly the same case - right to an attorney is very important - but if it can be shown that access to an attorney puts people's lives in danger, well, then a judge can be convinced that the right should be overridden.
The weighing of these circumstances is why judges are so important...
After all, if someone is detained without counsel for allegedly trying to blow up a plane, what's to say they couldn't be detained without counsel for allegedly trying to hack a government website?
The concern in this case is not whether this person tried to commit a crime in the past, but rather what could happen in the future. The potential damage from a dirty bomb going off in a major city is so severe that any significant chance of such a thing happening must be taken very seriously.
Catalytic converters and particulate traps for diesel engines are a proven technology that reduce particulate emissions up to 99%. Adoption of these technologies is unfortunately slow, partly because of the usual footdragging of companies faced with new regulations, and partly because of the long lifetime of the diesel fleet compared to gasoline powered vehicles.
Not only is it a waste of time and money, but in many cases the waste products from recycling are more harmful to the environment than the thing being recycled.
In many cases there are health concerns - for example would you want recycled plastic of dubious heritage showing up in plastic sode pop bottles?
Recycling today is really driven by municipalities who are having trouble siting new landfills due to NIMBY. In reality there is no shortage of land for landfills - just plenty of politics arount their siting.
There are a few things that are being recycled sucessfully - corrugated cardboard and aluminum. However most of the rest is driven by politics rather than sound science and economics.
However, keep in mind that this software is explicitly designed to hide information from governmental law enforcement authorities.
This software is also designed to widely disseminate the information. Once the cat is out of the bag on a global basis it is out of the reach of any single governmental organization.
the police will just confiscate your computer, or you will be extradited/tortured/shot for being in possession of this software.
Some people care enough to risk their lives in this cause.
Linux developers really need to stabalize driver interfaces.
This kind of stuff has been debated endless times in the kernel mailing lists. The short answer is that Linus feels that imposing a restriction like that will place needless limitations on the progress and ultimate performance the kernel can achieve,
Which always gave boost to interactive processes by raising internal priority of the ones that didn't take up the whole CPU slice.
Linux has had this for many years. Read the article - this is a change in the heuristics that are used to boost interactive process priorities.
Having a stable system that doesn't have to be rebooted to Windows to use some unsupported USB device is far more important than raw performance.
Most problems with unsupported devices in Linux are due to manufacturers who are unwilling to provide the information needed to support the hardware. Changing the USB bus interface is not going to fix that.
Lets say I get a T1 to my house. If its full or empty it still costs the guy providing it to me the same amount of money. It should be a solid monthly fee, or an appropriate one time only fee. Its like the phone bill, it doesn't cost the phone company more money when you make 1000 local calls or 2 local calls, so you have a flat rate for unlimited local calling. Same with bandwith.
The problem with your analogy is that the cost does go up with usage, even if your bill does not reflect it. The local phone company may not charge you on a metered basis, however your bill is based on an average level of traffic generated by the typical customer. Electricity, the cost to install, run and maintain switches, etc. all depend on the level of traffic that the phone company handles. Same with an ISP.
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MySQL is very adequate for 99% of all users including most large enterprises and certainly most websites.
u me nts/all/html/db_compare/db_compar_chp01.html
I used to be a big fan of MySQL, mostly because it was moderately capable and free. Now that I have tried Postgres though there is no way I would go back.
Yes, version 4 will be an improvement, BUT it is still missing many key features like views, triggers, full outer joins, update with subselect, that are already present in Postgres, and the fact is I've been using the features that MySQL is promising for the future for a year and a half now.
The following site does a very good comparison between the feature sets of MySQL, Oracle and Postgres.
http://det-dbalice.if.pw.edu.pl/det-dbalice/doc
Even auto incrementing IDs in Postgres are annoyingly difficult compared to MySQL...
Nah, they actually make much more sense in Postgres than they do in MySQL because you can access them using a standard query rather than some bozo non-standard driver extension as in MySQL.
The problem with MySQL is that the lack of basic functionality like triggers, subselects, foreign keys makes it a total PITA except for the simplest applications. Sure you can write code that works around the implementation limitations, but WHY should I have to reinvent something over and over that should BE PART OF THE DATABASE?
You may think this stuff is esoteric, and not needed for the average blog or even e-commerce site, but that's baloney. FKEYS *ARE* needed for just about *ANY* database application except the most trivial - ie. an address book.
MySQL - forget it - it just isn't competitive with other free databases out there.
Everything I write is triple encrypted in ROT-26.
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium,
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium,
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium,
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Ha'vard,
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discavard.
Sung to the tune from Gilbert & Sullivan's "Major General Song" from "Pirates of Penzance", it is an amazingly perfect parody by Tom Lehrer
-- the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
Is the fate of Bungie the ultimate proof of the unbridled, overwhelming evil of Microsoft? I think so. In one short step we lost what I thought was the most innovative, creative gaming company to the jaws of doom. The day I read Microsoft had acquired Bungie I wept. The unkept promises (Halo for the Mac was being demoed by God), the sacrifice of a great company for the SOLE purpose of having ONE decent game for the X-Box has to be the saddest, most frightening episode in the history of the personal computer, and PROOF that Microsoft is the main reason innovation in the PC industry is so weak today.
How can anyone who is aware of Bungie's history feel anything but abject hatred towards Microsoft?
Microsoft is evil, period.
Efficiency almost inescapably means less people are able to do more.
Yes, but your example deos not support the synthesis. Standard of living goes up by the same person making more widgets per day. The sale of widgets allows the person to have a higher take home wage.
In your scenario the Indian guy was making the same number of widgets as the American guy, just at a lower pay rate because of local conditions, allowing the manufacturer to sell widgets cheap. In the long run what happens is that the wages equalize on a global basis for the same job.
The real number that is important in the long run to the worker is the number of widgets made per day.
Most companies are not happy making 65% profit off their goods,
r fo rmers/snapshot/0,14903,prof_pct_revenue,00.html
Yeah, right. The average company makes more like 7% profit, The most profitable company in the US in 2001 (Mellon Financial) made 32%.
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fortune500/toppe
Yourdon also later recanted in another book, "The Rise & Resurrection of the American Programmer".
The fact is that these things go in cycles. One year it is that Japan is going to replace the US as the leading economic power, a few years later Japan is in a terminal recession.
What will happen is that American programmers will find niches and work practices that can't be outsourced, and foreign programmers will be in so much demand that they will be able to raise their prices.
Already there is word from India that they are starting to see shortages of senior level programmers, and are pirating experienced people from each other. Clearly this will lead to increased prices.
In the meantime we have the Bureau of Labor predicting that there will be a world wide doubling in demand for IT professionals over the next 7 years.
Hmmmm.... isn't something like a 16% VAT pretty much standard in Europe anyway? Surely it's the $13 that is the extra charge.
I dislike Microsoft intensely - I think they are a great negative force in the software industry and have done much to crush innovation in the desktop PC platform.
BUT I think any university that considers taking a grant like this is making a mistake. University policies should be based on intellectual and academic goals, not who has the bucks to buy them off. It is repugnant in the worst way.
Even french fries and perfume?
My doctor disapproves of greasy fried foods, and I am allergic to many kinds of perfume.
The possible harmful additives are already outlawed, since people are drinking from such a bottle.
It is far more complex than that. The safety of plastics for food packaging is determined primarily by how much of the components of the plastic end up in the food. This has been carefully studied for many years in the case of virgin materials. Nobody knows what the characteristics of recycled plastics are in this regard. Clearly additional processing of the plastic is highly likely to increase its mobility. In addition there is a great possibility that contaminants from the life cycle handling of the plastic (maybe the consumer mixed week killer in the bottle for his lawn after the soda was consumed!), or errors in sorting the plastics during recycling lead to contamination.
IRC, the plastics are shreddered and dissovled in various solvents. One solvent for each kind of plastic. Then the plastic is extracted from its solvent and you receive a practically pure resin.
There are many things wrong about this - first, cross-linked plastics are not soluble in solvents, and second, the introduction of solvents in itself will cause traces of the solvent (possibly harmful) left in the plastic - and then there is the issue of environmental damage from waste solvents.
The fact is that recycling is mostly a pipe dream. The only real way to reduce waste in an economic and sound environmental fashion is through reduced consumption.
Yahoo decided to go with PHP for their web development because of the poor support of Java in BSD. Their particular problem was that J2EE is thread intensive, and FreeBSD supports threads poorly.
It has been considered a basic right of a prisoner to have legal counsel available ever since the US was founded.
Any student of the Constitution realizes that all rights under the Constitution have limits of one sort or another. Usually these limits become important when full exercise of a right has the potential to cause harm significantly greater than the loss of that right. Yes, you have freedom of speech, but no you cannot us it in a manner that significantly harms another - see libel laws, child pornography, etc.
Unfortunately we do not live in a world of 0 and 1.
This is exactly the same case - right to an attorney is very important - but if it can be shown that access to an attorney puts people's lives in danger, well, then a judge can be convinced that the right should be overridden.
The weighing of these circumstances is why judges are so important...
After all, if someone is detained without counsel for allegedly trying to blow up a plane, what's to say they couldn't be detained without counsel for allegedly trying to hack a government website?
The concern in this case is not whether this person tried to commit a crime in the past, but rather what could happen in the future. The potential damage from a dirty bomb going off in a major city is so severe that any significant chance of such a thing happening must be taken very seriously.
Catalytic converters and particulate traps for diesel engines are a proven technology that reduce particulate emissions up to 99%. Adoption of these technologies is unfortunately slow, partly because of the usual footdragging of companies faced with new regulations, and partly because of the long lifetime of the diesel fleet compared to gasoline powered vehicles.
Not only is it a waste of time and money, but in many cases the waste products from recycling are more harmful to the environment than the thing being recycled.
In many cases there are health concerns - for example would you want recycled plastic of dubious heritage showing up in plastic sode pop bottles?
Recycling today is really driven by municipalities who are having trouble siting new landfills due to NIMBY. In reality there is no shortage of land for landfills - just plenty of politics arount their siting.
There are a few things that are being recycled sucessfully - corrugated cardboard and aluminum. However most of the rest is driven by politics rather than sound science and economics.
Why would you keep 2.2?
'cause upgrading a server running a bunch of stuff would take a long time to test.
Give me a break. The Chinese were generating electricity from biogas 100,000 years ago!
"give me your decryption key or we will put you in jail until you do"
Having the key won't do you any good once the data is sent to a server in another country.
However, keep in mind that this software is explicitly designed to hide information from governmental law enforcement authorities.
This software is also designed to widely disseminate the information. Once the cat is out of the bag on a global basis it is out of the reach of any single governmental organization.
the police will just confiscate your computer, or you will be extradited/tortured/shot for being in possession of this software.
Some people care enough to risk their lives in this cause.
Linux developers really need to stabalize driver interfaces.
This kind of stuff has been debated endless times in the kernel mailing lists. The short answer is that Linus feels that imposing a restriction like that will place needless limitations on the progress and ultimate performance the kernel can achieve,
Which always gave boost to interactive processes by raising internal priority of the ones that didn't take up the whole CPU slice.
Linux has had this for many years. Read the article - this is a change in the heuristics that are used to boost interactive process priorities.
Having a stable system that doesn't have to be rebooted to Windows to use some unsupported USB device is far more important than raw performance.
Most problems with unsupported devices in Linux are due to manufacturers who are unwilling to provide the information needed to support the hardware. Changing the USB bus interface is not going to fix that.
For a network with centralized file stores you will want some sort of automated backup system. Probably an LTO tape drive/autoloader.
Lets say I get a T1 to my house. If its full or empty it still costs the guy providing it to me the same amount of money. It should be a solid monthly fee, or an appropriate one time only fee. Its like the phone bill, it doesn't cost the phone company more money when you make 1000 local calls or 2 local calls, so you have a flat rate for unlimited local calling. Same with bandwith.
The problem with your analogy is that the cost does go up with usage, even if your bill does not reflect it. The local phone company may not charge you on a metered basis, however your bill is based on an average level of traffic generated by the typical customer. Electricity, the cost to install, run and maintain switches, etc. all depend on the level of traffic that the phone company handles. Same with an ISP.
Hey, I give you points for looking up the statute.