I use Postgres almost exclusively. I started using it years ago when it was a vastly superior database comared to MySQL. I've watched over the years as MySQL has closed the gap, to my surprise.
If you updated this chart, it would be pretty boring, since the MySQL column would be all "Yes" now too.
Why is it that people worked with a very inferior GPLed product when a BSD one existed that already had all the features? Why even bother making MySQL support all that stuff?
I don't wish bad things on PostgreSQL. I hope it stays around and continues to be maintained. But the advance of MySQL and the lack of wide interest in PostgreSQL says something about their respective licenses.
Arg. Godwin's law only applies when, in a heated flame fest, one side compares THE OTHER SIDE IN THE FLAMEFEST to Nazis. Mere mention of Nazis is no grounds for Godwin.
The history of open source is littered with BSD-based empty victories like this. Look at SPICE, it's been consumed into expensive proprietary products and has almost died as an open source product.
PostgreSQL, while an excellent product that I still use often, is stagnating while MySQL slowly surpasses it in every way.
I think we should save BSD for simple things such as glue libraries and reference implementations.
There's some issues. One, they might have hired some advertising agency that used the list. Two, most of those brokerages have affiliate programs that pay a lot for conversions.
Of course having an affiliate program like that is kinda indirectly condoning spamming, but it is one layer of separation.
I donno. In the past it's been possible for a minority to oppress and monitor a lot larger group. The slave/owner ratio in the old south was pretty large.
The key is to just severely limit what the oppressed group is allowed to do.
Electronics in labs now are composant with a width of a few atoms. We can not go much further. Moore's Law will end if not in price$ in energy required.
People have been saying that for 20 years. They have been consistantly proven wrong.
Cheap and easy energy will end when we will have used all the reserve of Gas. It is not obvious that we will have anything to replace it in time.
The free market will solve the problem when the time comes. The price of oil doubling a few more times makes other technologies feasible.
So my prediciton is Technological stagnation and chaos.
That link I gave, and those states I listed have no FEDERAL minumium wage, as well as no STATE minimum wage. That means if a job in one of those states wants to pay only $3 an hour, they can.
God, you really are an idiot, aren't you? You do know the word "federal" means "over all states", right?
What a terrible wikipedia article. It's completely non-encyclopedic, and very biased. It doesn't even point out that the vast majority of people do not accept this philosophy, and do not want bikes going 5mph blocking their roads.
We've always been at war. Whether it's against obscene music and drugs like the Clinton administration, or against terr'ists like Bush, the constant state of war is necessary to supress rational thought that might put the brakes on the slide toward fascism.
there is a direct correlation between bad grades and lack of attendance of lectures
There's a direct correlation between boring professors with inflated egos and lack of attendance.
Also, if this correlation is so strong, why did many of my professors choose to arbitraily punish people who didn't attend lectures by making attendance count for 10-20% of the grade?
You do realize that lecture is one of the least effective forms of learning, right?
Both your examples come down to poorly written code, and the programmers responsible for that should be sacked.
Of course, but you are ignoring reality. This stuff does happen! As I posted in another thread, Linden Lab is being sued for a very similar thing.
They had virtual land auctions on the web, and one could activate an auction that wasn't ready to start yet by simply plugging the land ID into a visible GET variable... This would let you purchase the land well below market price.
Yes it's terrible coding, but did the person that exploited it do anything wrong? He happened to be a lawyer and is now suing them for taking his ill-gotten gains back, claiming it was a binding offer to sell.
Another example. I ordered from a web site, and the order status url was something like status.cgi?order=12345. I changed it to 12346 just to see what would happen, and I saw the order that was placed after mine. Was that hacking? I told the web site owner about the flaw but he never got back to me on it.
So yes in an ideal world these questions wouldn't matter. But realistically some programmers are inept or cut corners which allow trivial "hacking", and we need to decide whether the person exploiting such trivial flaws is doing something criminal or not.
Personally, I don't think any of my personility traits are due to my race. And let me ask you, are any of your personality traits due to your race or ethnicity?
Most of them. To claim otherwise is just being deliberately ignorant of reality. Oh the irony.
This does get stickier sometimes. Linden Lab, for example, is being sued by a user that crafted GET parameters to get to virtual land auctions that weren't yet intended to be active, allowing him to purchase the land well below market value. They cancelled his account and froze his ill-gotten gains. He happened to be a lawyer in RL and sued.
Is changing a GET parameter to another valid value hacking too?
I read the article. The pharmaceutical company didn't provide the drug free, they provided a grant that was supposed to repay the hospital for the cost of the drug, but apparently it didn't cover it all.
Pharmaceutical companies have started these "drugs for the poor" programs because, a) it costs them nothing, and it provides a fat tax write off, and b) people like you use it to defend their sleezy practices and their government granted monopoly.
They get to charge $20,000 for something that cost them probably $1 per dose to synthesize, then offer this charity "donation" to pay for it. End result? A fat tax write off ($5000+ per dose assuming 25% tax rate) that cost them $1.
Yeah, and everyone with a lump has cancer. Unfortunately for those who have to pay taxes, there's a test for cancer, while Aspergers is diagnosed based on how much you are convinced you have it.
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I use Postgres almost exclusively. I started using it years ago when it was a vastly superior database comared to MySQL. I've watched over the years as MySQL has closed the gap, to my surprise.
Look at this article from a couple years ago:
http://builder.com.com/5100-6388-1050671.html
If you updated this chart, it would be pretty boring, since the MySQL column would be all "Yes" now too.
Why is it that people worked with a very inferior GPLed product when a BSD one existed that already had all the features? Why even bother making MySQL support all that stuff?
I don't wish bad things on PostgreSQL. I hope it stays around and continues to be maintained. But the advance of MySQL and the lack of wide interest in PostgreSQL says something about their respective licenses.
Arg. Godwin's law only applies when, in a heated flame fest, one side compares THE OTHER SIDE IN THE FLAMEFEST to Nazis. Mere mention of Nazis is no grounds for Godwin.
-Your friendly Godwin's law nazi.
The history of open source is littered with BSD-based empty victories like this. Look at SPICE, it's been consumed into expensive proprietary products and has almost died as an open source product.
PostgreSQL, while an excellent product that I still use often, is stagnating while MySQL slowly surpasses it in every way.
I think we should save BSD for simple things such as glue libraries and reference implementations.
You can't short a stock if you can't borrow some shares.
Basically when you sell short, you are borrowing some shares from someone else, selling them right away, and promising to pay them back later on.
If your broker can't find someone with a long position to "borrow" the shares from, they can't let you sell short.
There's some issues. One, they might have hired some advertising agency that used the list. Two, most of those brokerages have affiliate programs that pay a lot for conversions.
Of course having an affiliate program like that is kinda indirectly condoning spamming, but it is one layer of separation.
One day, you won't be 12 anymore. You'll look back on this Slashdot story and realize what a dipshit you were. It's OK. Happens to all of us.
I never heard of a totally new concept to build computing entity, have you?
Hundreds of them. I'm sure a handful are viable even.
I donno. In the past it's been possible for a minority to oppress and monitor a lot larger group. The slave/owner ratio in the old south was pretty large.
The key is to just severely limit what the oppressed group is allowed to do.
Electronics in labs now are composant with a width of a few atoms. We can not go much further. Moore's Law will end if not in price$ in energy required.
People have been saying that for 20 years. They have been consistantly proven wrong.
Cheap and easy energy will end when we will have used all the reserve of Gas. It is not obvious that we will have anything to replace it in time.
The free market will solve the problem when the time comes. The price of oil doubling a few more times makes other technologies feasible.
So my prediciton is Technological stagnation and chaos.
Good for you. Want a cookie?
That link I gave, and those states I listed have no FEDERAL minumium wage, as well as no STATE minimum wage. That means if a job in one of those states wants to pay only $3 an hour, they can.
God, you really are an idiot, aren't you? You do know the word "federal" means "over all states", right?
I guess you forgot about that whole USSR thing.
We believe in freedom here; The freedom to own the fruits of your labor without it being stolen at gunpoint.
No, not really equating them. Just saying they were two "wars" that Clinton harped on a lot to control the public.
Would you pay $6/gallon for gas to support the taxes required for all those socialist services?
What a terrible wikipedia article. It's completely non-encyclopedic, and very biased. It doesn't even point out that the vast majority of people do not accept this philosophy, and do not want bikes going 5mph blocking their roads.
We've always been at war. Whether it's against obscene music and drugs like the Clinton administration, or against terr'ists like Bush, the constant state of war is necessary to supress rational thought that might put the brakes on the slide toward fascism.
there is a direct correlation between bad grades and lack of attendance of lectures
There's a direct correlation between boring professors with inflated egos and lack of attendance.
Also, if this correlation is so strong, why did many of my professors choose to arbitraily punish people who didn't attend lectures by making attendance count for 10-20% of the grade?
You do realize that lecture is one of the least effective forms of learning, right?
Both your examples come down to poorly written code, and the programmers responsible for that should be sacked.
Of course, but you are ignoring reality. This stuff does happen! As I posted in another thread, Linden Lab is being sued for a very similar thing.
They had virtual land auctions on the web, and one could activate an auction that wasn't ready to start yet by simply plugging the land ID into a visible GET variable... This would let you purchase the land well below market price.
Yes it's terrible coding, but did the person that exploited it do anything wrong? He happened to be a lawyer and is now suing them for taking his ill-gotten gains back, claiming it was a binding offer to sell.
Another example. I ordered from a web site, and the order status url was something like status.cgi?order=12345. I changed it to 12346 just to see what would happen, and I saw the order that was placed after mine. Was that hacking? I told the web site owner about the flaw but he never got back to me on it.
So yes in an ideal world these questions wouldn't matter. But realistically some programmers are inept or cut corners which allow trivial "hacking", and we need to decide whether the person exploiting such trivial flaws is doing something criminal or not.
Personally, I don't think any of my personility traits are due to my race. And let me ask you, are any of your personality traits due to your race or ethnicity?
Most of them. To claim otherwise is just being deliberately ignorant of reality. Oh the irony.
This does get stickier sometimes. Linden Lab, for example, is being sued by a user that crafted GET parameters to get to virtual land auctions that weren't yet intended to be active, allowing him to purchase the land well below market value. They cancelled his account and froze his ill-gotten gains. He happened to be a lawyer in RL and sued.
Is changing a GET parameter to another valid value hacking too?
What if you were given ?sessionid=1234 and you change it to sessionid=123 to see other people's stuff? That's only removing something.
Or what if "restricted=true" is in the URL and you just remove that?
I don't think your concept stands up to scrutiny.
I read the article. The pharmaceutical company didn't provide the drug free, they provided a grant that was supposed to repay the hospital for the cost of the drug, but apparently it didn't cover it all.
Pharmaceutical companies have started these "drugs for the poor" programs because, a) it costs them nothing, and it provides a fat tax write off, and b) people like you use it to defend their sleezy practices and their government granted monopoly.
They get to charge $20,000 for something that cost them probably $1 per dose to synthesize, then offer this charity "donation" to pay for it. End result? A fat tax write off ($5000+ per dose assuming 25% tax rate) that cost them $1.
Yeah, and everyone with a lump has cancer. Unfortunately for those who have to pay taxes, there's a test for cancer, while Aspergers is diagnosed based on how much you are convinced you have it.
Did you miss that whole IBM anti-trust trial?!? It was huge news.
Ah, didn't think of that. :P
You want to come by my place for some hot brains?