People expect much higher quality from a car than from software. When software has a bug, you just issue a patch. When a car has a "bug", you issue a VERY EXPENSIVE recall program.
Quality ain't cheap, but too much software doesn't emphasize it enough to justify the price.
Simple. There are two distinct markets for that kind of software: consumers/hobbyists, and businesses/professionals.
The cheap version has most of the functionality of the real thing, but is lacking a few (painstakingly chosen) key features that keep it out of the professional world (a good example: Photoshop Cheap-O leaves out CMYK separation, which is virtually a requirement if professional printing is to be involved).
This is known as "tension" in the marketing world . . . at some level of professionalism, at least one of the key features will be required (and some customers may even end up buying both).
Show me any legitimate resource that says something remotely close to "60% of all Internet-connected computers run Linux". That was your outrageous claim.
Upon reading this outrageously unlikely claim, I did a bit of looking. I assume you're getting your numbers from here.
Apache, unsuprisingly, has a large market share, but no mention of OS . . . you're not assuming all of these Apache servers are running on Linux boxes, are you?
If you're a developer and are not interested in the needs of your end users . . . well, let's just say you better work for a company with good management.
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Another point of view is that the developer is lazy, and has no regard for the end-user who actually has to spend a few hours per week administering the product.
After all, it is a lot harder to build a GUI interface that does syntax/sanity checking, etc. than to call the user lazy/stupid/trained monkey.
Maybe so, but it's not true. A 100% Open Source policy categorically excludes all closed source software. The DOI's policy is not strictly "100%" Microsoft, despite chrisd's propaganda.
This policy, by providing a waiver process, is actually less restrictive than the "100% Open Source" public policies that people have been cheerleading for here on Slashdot.
This means a Linux box will be allowed in the DOI if it's really necessary. All this really does is prevent the l337 h4x0r downstairs from running a Linux box he doesn't understand and can't make secure.
The "100% Open Source" policies would not allow anything Microsoft, even if it is the best tool (gasp!), based purely on ideological (read: impractical) reasoning.
I frequently find it deadlocks and kills processes . ..
This is 100% the application's fault. Deadlocks are caused by poorly designed transaction logic, and will occur regardless of the DBMS backend (unless you're using MySQL, where transactions aren't an issue anyway;) ).
Views are also one of the worst pigs ever created.
Views were envisioned by Codd from the very beginning, before many other "features" available today. The whole point of the development of relational databases was to insulate the user from the physical data, i.e. allow the base data to be expressed in different ways for different purposes, i.e. use views.
Well aren't you smart, coming up with an "obvious circumvention scheme" that the original expert researchers never thought of. Brilliant.
Oh wait, what's this? Oh, there's an ARTICLE to read? One which discussed exactly that, and how the laser can be shone through the fob at multiple angles, requiring the correct 3D structure? Hmm.
Driking milk is not a crime. Under current US law having kiddy porn is a crime.
OK, here's another one. Nearly 100% of people who commit grand theft auto were at some point cited for speeding. Therefore, speeding is a precursor to more serious car-related crimes.
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Quality ain't cheap, but too much software doesn't emphasize it enough to justify the price.
The cheap version has most of the functionality of the real thing, but is lacking a few (painstakingly chosen) key features that keep it out of the professional world (a good example: Photoshop Cheap-O leaves out CMYK separation, which is virtually a requirement if professional printing is to be involved).
This is known as "tension" in the marketing world . . . at some level of professionalism, at least one of the key features will be required (and some customers may even end up buying both).
"Secure" doesn't apply to all software.
Show me any legitimate resource that says something remotely close to "60% of all Internet-connected computers run Linux". That was your outrageous claim.
Apache, unsuprisingly, has a large market share, but no mention of OS . . . you're not assuming all of these Apache servers are running on Linux boxes, are you?
Hiding inside a mountain with all the other elitist fucks.
If you're a developer and are not interested in the needs of your end users . . . well, let's just say you better work for a company with good management.
After all, it is a lot harder to build a GUI interface that does syntax/sanity checking, etc. than to call the user lazy/stupid/trained monkey.
A direct ripoff of Outlook. How clever.
Maybe so, but it's not true. A 100% Open Source policy categorically excludes all closed source software. The DOI's policy is not strictly "100%" Microsoft, despite chrisd's propaganda.
This means a Linux box will be allowed in the DOI if it's really necessary. All this really does is prevent the l337 h4x0r downstairs from running a Linux box he doesn't understand and can't make secure.
The "100% Open Source" policies would not allow anything Microsoft, even if it is the best tool (gasp!), based purely on ideological (read: impractical) reasoning.
I don't suppose you've considered that this might be a FrameMaker problem?
I thought it was funny. But I don't have any mod points.
I wouldn't worry if I were you.
This is 100% the application's fault. Deadlocks are caused by poorly designed transaction logic, and will occur regardless of the DBMS backend (unless you're using MySQL, where transactions aren't an issue anyway ;) ).
It's called MySQL. With MySQL-Front.
Views were envisioned by Codd from the very beginning, before many other "features" available today. The whole point of the development of relational databases was to insulate the user from the physical data, i.e. allow the base data to be expressed in different ways for different purposes, i.e. use views.
Yeah, I agree. That band sucks.
All the device would need to do is check at least two angles simultaneously. No 2D forgery can bypass that.
Oh wait, what's this? Oh, there's an ARTICLE to read? One which discussed exactly that, and how the laser can be shone through the fob at multiple angles, requiring the correct 3D structure? Hmm.
OK, here's another one. Nearly 100% of people who commit grand theft auto were at some point cited for speeding. Therefore, speeding is a precursor to more serious car-related crimes.
So, strong local security is a problem how?
Sounds like a hell of a lot more work than just squeegee-ing the glass occasionally.
How about a "repeat story" icon? I recommend this cool doppelganger picture.
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