Remember back to when you started... not how it is for you now.
MySQL is far easier to get going, and it's far easier for a system adminstrator to dabble in. For instance in MySQL you can fix a large number of database issues at the filesystem level (out of space, corrupt index, etc.). For someone that is still new to the whole SQL thing, that's a huge benefit.
Incidentally, I've heard the same argument applied to Oracle. "Oracle is really easy to manage, for instance look at how hard it is to set up remote log shipping in MySQL".
It is a bit different. The expected return relies on the laws of large numbers while this requires just a few hundred thousand spent to essentially guarantee a profit. The median return matters too...
Assuming this is correct, it's because HTC chose to sign the deal. That sounds to me as a spectator like a dumb business decision, but it was HTC's to make. I understand some companies paid $699 for a Linux license not long ago - does that mean we can't write a free desktop OS?
I oppose most American military spending, but can you imagine the vacuum America would create if they withdraw troops now? You can't just take away another country's political system and then walk away because you don't like the costs. Having made the choice to go in, you have to follow through
Apple doesn't allow FOSS into their App Store. Or more precisely FOSS software does not allow the distributor to impose additional restrictions and Apple does.
You and Dynetrekk are talking about different things.
Free updates refers to the map it has - i.e. the map of around where you live. I'm guessing you're in the US since the idea of other countries didn't occur to you so... say your sister goes on a driving vacation in Canada, her TomTom would be of no use there until she purchased Canadian maps and then when she returns home, she would have to purchase the US maps again.
Note, the iPhone TomTom app enables you to switch maps rather than delete them - so I'm surprised that the handheld versions do not.
If their analysis was not that sophisticated it would make sense. Places with alternative energy nearby have people with higher disposable income - that's how they can afford to put alternative energy sources in. Places with higher disposable income have rising house prices.
At uni we found banning incandescent bulbs saved a lot of money. But it was mainly because the union were the only people authorised to change bulbs and so changing to much more expensive bulbs saved a whole lot in labour.
Heh, 1C is a pretty standard measurement in NZ - it means 250mL, but of course flour is measured in volume so it's obviously 250cc.
Old British recipes are worse - the one which springs to mind requested a breakfast cup. I'm guessing that's slightly bigger than a tea cup - perhaps a mug of tea size!? I just picked a random mug from the cupboard which was 180mL - turned out the correct size was 260, so pretty close to a metric cup.
And following the tangent, have you looked at French recipes? They do everything in grams, so instead of saying 3 size 7 eggs, they'll say 185g of egg, or instead of your 1C of flour they will say 130g. It is much more precise so leads to better baking but I get a bit sick of using the scales so much. It does help with changing proportions and substituting though... Actually, the fact you're talking about weighing flour makes me wonder if the UK is starting to adopt the French convention which would be interesting.
Yep, fair comment. But then 'klicks', 'mills', 'grammes', 'litres' are all monosyllabic. The only exception which springs to mind is kilograms - IMHO even worse than farad for a bad base name/value pair.
Another oddity, if you see a birth notice in both units they tend to say something like 7 pounds 2 oz (3.551 kg). What is it about metric which makes people feel the need to use twice the precision?
China executes approximately 1000 people per year (for reference, the US is ~50). China imprisons 111 per 100k while the US is 737 per 100k. Even ignoring the relative population sizes that means China has just over half the imprisonment rate as the US.
China would have to execute a thousand times more people for executions to explain the difference in imprisonment rates.
And we DO still use SQL. And we do so because it works
I disagree.
There are some things which are fast for a computer to do but are slow and awkward to do in SQL. You can see quite a few of them in SAS supported by data steps (e.g. decent RBAR support). Another is say I want to get the latest transactions for each customer, I have to do something like
select customer_id,max(txn_datetime) latest_txn_datetime from fact_txn group by customer_id
-- I've now got the latest transaction time but because system reversals and the like are often set to happen at the same time as the transaction I have to next...
select customer_id,max(txn_key) latest_txn_key from fact_txn join (select customer_id,max(txn_datetime) latest_txn_datetime from fact_txn group by customer_id) latest_txn on (fact_txn.customer_id = latest_txn.customer_id) where fact_txn.txn_datetime = latest_txn.latest_txn_datetime group by fact_txn.customer_id
-- Now we've got the right transaction key, but we still have to join again to get the actual transactions
select fact_txn2.* from fact_txn fact_txn2 where exists
select 1 from (select customer_id,max(txn_key) latest_txn_key from fact_txn join (select customer_id,max(txn_datetime) latest_txn_datetime from fact_txn group by customer_id) latest_txn on (fact_txn.customer_id = latest_txn.customer_id) where fact_txn.txn_datetime = latest_txn.latest_txn_datetime group by fact_txn.customer_id) txn_keys_of_interest where fact_txn2.txn_key = txn_keys_of_interest.latest_txn_key;
I can tidy this up a bit if needed - using CTEs or whatnot but the simple fact remains that a lot of the time I want to write a one liner like:
select * from fact_txn having txn_key = max(txn_key) over (PARTITION by customer_id order by txn_datetime)
Yes, that's the feeling I get too. He believes something but does not have the depth of understanding to either argue about it effectively or for me to trust that he has avoided mistakes in coming to his beliefs.
1) He is honest about who he is - no anonymous astroturfing. He posts something and defends his views on the public internet. Someone with no credibility would not do so. PJ accused him of being paid by MS and he did not (admit or) deny this.
2) His arguments have changed over time, and I agree that he tends to be more and less vocal in ways that imply someone is directing his energy rather than personal passion reacting to events. However his arguments make moderate sense - I think he believes what he is saying. Even if you go back say ten years, you'll find very few posts by him that contradict the views he's publishing now. I would describe it as the difference between an evangelist and a shill.
3) If you break down his arguments they tend to make some sense. Simplifying: he tried to defeat software patents and lost, from which he learned that IP is going to win and the best we can do is hide in our basements and minimise the risk the nasty lawyers will come after us next. I can understand why MS would want to pay someone to espouse this view, but I still think he is saying things he believes.
Compare him to real shills, like was it Maureen O'Gara and Rob Ealande (spelling from memory), where I'm pretty sure they knew what they were posting was false or that with only a few minutes of investigative journalism they could find the flaws in it - effectively they knew they were deceiving their readers deliberately and I don't think that applies to Mueller.
I'm not saying it's necessarily worth your time listening to him, but I think he's still got some credibility and he does present interesting counter-arguments.
Postgres used to be much harder to install and maintain, making it unpopular with causal people that just wanted a DB to run their website.\ Postgres also used to have much weaker clustering support, making it unpopular with people looking for a complete system
Sounds like too many staff were experienced with Windows and didn't like learning something new... training, missing functionality, lack of usability and poor interoperability all sound like the complaints I've heard from users when asked to use a different system.
Incidentally, what on earth were they writing printer or scanner drivers for? Could they not specify 'compatible with our environment' on the RFP?
No, he was being pedantic but is correct UNIX is a trademarked term and neither BSD or Linux are licenced to used that term, while OSX does have such a licence. At a technical level, of course you are correct.
Right, most phones can be set to send all IP traffic over the VPN. That'll mean someone has to break your VPN to get at the traffic which is hard enough you may as well consider it impossible. Also, it has the advantage of being very easy to set up.
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Remember back to when you started... not how it is for you now.
MySQL is far easier to get going, and it's far easier for a system adminstrator to dabble in. For instance in MySQL you can fix a large number of database issues at the filesystem level (out of space, corrupt index, etc.). For someone that is still new to the whole SQL thing, that's a huge benefit.
Incidentally, I've heard the same argument applied to Oracle. "Oracle is really easy to manage, for instance look at how hard it is to set up remote log shipping in MySQL".
It is a bit different. The expected return relies on the laws of large numbers while this requires just a few hundred thousand spent to essentially guarantee a profit. The median return matters too...
Assuming this is correct, it's because HTC chose to sign the deal. That sounds to me as a spectator like a dumb business decision, but it was HTC's to make. I understand some companies paid $699 for a Linux license not long ago - does that mean we can't write a free desktop OS?
I oppose most American military spending, but can you imagine the vacuum America would create if they withdraw troops now? You can't just take away another country's political system and then walk away because you don't like the costs. Having made the choice to go in, you have to follow through
Oh it is good, but everything is an object buys you everything is a file and a few extra things - it's even better :)
Apple doesn't allow FOSS into their App Store. Or more precisely FOSS software does not allow the distributor to impose additional restrictions and Apple does.
You and Dynetrekk are talking about different things.
Free updates refers to the map it has - i.e. the map of around where you live.
I'm guessing you're in the US since the idea of other countries didn't occur to you so... say your sister goes on a driving vacation in Canada, her TomTom would be of no use there until she purchased Canadian maps and then when she returns home, she would have to purchase the US maps again.
Note, the iPhone TomTom app enables you to switch maps rather than delete them - so I'm surprised that the handheld versions do not.
If their analysis was not that sophisticated it would make sense. Places with alternative energy nearby have people with higher disposable income - that's how they can afford to put alternative energy sources in. Places with higher disposable income have rising house prices.
At uni we found banning incandescent bulbs saved a lot of money. But it was mainly because the union were the only people authorised to change bulbs and so changing to much more expensive bulbs saved a whole lot in labour.
Heh, 1C is a pretty standard measurement in NZ - it means 250mL, but of course flour is measured in volume so it's obviously 250cc.
Old British recipes are worse - the one which springs to mind requested a breakfast cup. I'm guessing that's slightly bigger than a tea cup - perhaps a mug of tea size!? I just picked a random mug from the cupboard which was 180mL - turned out the correct size was 260, so pretty close to a metric cup.
And following the tangent, have you looked at French recipes? They do everything in grams, so instead of saying 3 size 7 eggs, they'll say 185g of egg, or instead of your 1C of flour they will say 130g. It is much more precise so leads to better baking but I get a bit sick of using the scales so much. It does help with changing proportions and substituting though... Actually, the fact you're talking about weighing flour makes me wonder if the UK is starting to adopt the French convention which would be interesting.
Yep, fair comment. But then 'klicks', 'mills', 'grammes', 'litres' are all monosyllabic. The only exception which springs to mind is kilograms - IMHO even worse than farad for a bad base name/value pair.
What is the english system? Is that yet another name for Imperial units? Seems a funny one since the English don't use it...
Yes, I notice this too...
Another oddity, if you see a birth notice in both units they tend to say something like 7 pounds 2 oz (3.551 kg). What is it about metric which makes people feel the need to use twice the precision?
Of course not.
China executes approximately 1000 people per year (for reference, the US is ~50). China imprisons 111 per 100k while the US is 737 per 100k. Even ignoring the relative population sizes that means China has just over half the imprisonment rate as the US.
China would have to execute a thousand times more people for executions to explain the difference in imprisonment rates.
And we DO still use SQL. And we do so because it works
I disagree.
There are some things which are fast for a computer to do but are slow and awkward to do in SQL. You can see quite a few of them in SAS supported by data steps (e.g. decent RBAR support). Another is say I want to get the latest transactions for each customer, I have to do something like
select customer_id,max(txn_datetime) latest_txn_datetime
from fact_txn
group by customer_id
-- I've now got the latest transaction time but because system reversals and the like are often set to happen at the same time as the transaction I have to next...
select customer_id,max(txn_key) latest_txn_key
from fact_txn
join (select customer_id,max(txn_datetime) latest_txn_datetime
from fact_txn
group by customer_id) latest_txn
on (fact_txn.customer_id = latest_txn.customer_id)
where fact_txn.txn_datetime = latest_txn.latest_txn_datetime
group by fact_txn.customer_id
-- Now we've got the right transaction key, but we still have to join again to get the actual transactions
select fact_txn2.*
from fact_txn fact_txn2
where exists
select 1 from
(select customer_id,max(txn_key) latest_txn_key
from fact_txn
join (select customer_id,max(txn_datetime) latest_txn_datetime
from fact_txn
group by customer_id) latest_txn
on (fact_txn.customer_id = latest_txn.customer_id)
where fact_txn.txn_datetime = latest_txn.latest_txn_datetime
group by fact_txn.customer_id) txn_keys_of_interest
where fact_txn2.txn_key = txn_keys_of_interest.latest_txn_key;
I can tidy this up a bit if needed - using CTEs or whatnot but the simple fact remains that a lot of the time I want to write a one liner like:
select * from fact_txn having txn_key = max(txn_key) over (PARTITION by customer_id order by txn_datetime)
Was there more than trivial US support for Israel from 1950 to 1969? That's about 20 years they survived on their own
Yes, that's the feeling I get too. He believes something but does not have the depth of understanding to either argue about it effectively or for me to trust that he has avoided mistakes in coming to his beliefs.
Incidentally, why did you post anonymously?
That's going a bit far.
1) He is honest about who he is - no anonymous astroturfing. He posts something and defends his views on the public internet. Someone with no credibility would not do so. PJ accused him of being paid by MS and he did not (admit or) deny this.
2) His arguments have changed over time, and I agree that he tends to be more and less vocal in ways that imply someone is directing his energy rather than personal passion reacting to events. However his arguments make moderate sense - I think he believes what he is saying. Even if you go back say ten years, you'll find very few posts by him that contradict the views he's publishing now. I would describe it as the difference between an evangelist and a shill.
3) If you break down his arguments they tend to make some sense. Simplifying: he tried to defeat software patents and lost, from which he learned that IP is going to win and the best we can do is hide in our basements and minimise the risk the nasty lawyers will come after us next. I can understand why MS would want to pay someone to espouse this view, but I still think he is saying things he believes.
Compare him to real shills, like was it Maureen O'Gara and Rob Ealande (spelling from memory), where I'm pretty sure they knew what they were posting was false or that with only a few minutes of investigative journalism they could find the flaws in it - effectively they knew they were deceiving their readers deliberately and I don't think that applies to Mueller.
I'm not saying it's necessarily worth your time listening to him, but I think he's still got some credibility and he does present interesting counter-arguments.
It's mainly historical.
Postgres used to be much harder to install and maintain, making it unpopular with causal people that just wanted a DB to run their website.\
Postgres also used to have much weaker clustering support, making it unpopular with people looking for a complete system
Sounds like too many staff were experienced with Windows and didn't like learning something new... training, missing functionality, lack of usability and poor interoperability all sound like the complaints I've heard from users when asked to use a different system.
Incidentally, what on earth were they writing printer or scanner drivers for? Could they not specify 'compatible with our environment' on the RFP?
No, he was being pedantic but is correct UNIX is a trademarked term and neither BSD or Linux are licenced to used that term, while OSX does have such a licence. At a technical level, of course you are correct.
Right, most phones can be set to send all IP traffic over the VPN. That'll mean someone has to break your VPN to get at the traffic which is hard enough you may as well consider it impossible. Also, it has the advantage of being very easy to set up.
Nah, not patent trolling. Oracle cares about control, and they'll get control any way they can. If they can leverage patents to get control they will.
Reading is so over-rated
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2009 recipient
Obama. Good job, you got that one right.
the 2010 winner
Xiaobo. Got that one too.
the man who is imprisoning the 2010 winner
Hu Jintao
[Obama] hosting a dinner for [Hu Jintao]
Seems he read correctly
Well, lets say 'in the last 100 years'. How does that work for you?