hahahahaha... After 10 years of doing development, all of it with databases in the back end, I know people like you very well. People who don't understand databases don't know how to use them, and code all of the logic into the middle tier. Very typical. It leads to horrendous bloat, very poor performance, and occasionally, complete project collapse. In one case that I was involved in, the company closed because their project couldn't be done on time since they decided to listen to this "expert" who spouted off similar stuff like what you're saying. The project became an OOP mess that was impossible to debug and maintain. More importantly, performance was never acceptable, so the project and the company died.
Databases, especially "grown up" ones like Oracle and DB2 are designed and optimized to do a hell of a lot more than data storage. If you want storage, use flat files. You should maybe, I dunno... pick up a book. You can write entire applications in nothing but PL/SQL that perform several times better than a similar C++ or Java app.
In fact, so much development is done in the databases themselves, that Oracle has a certification just for that, called the Oracle Certified Application Developer. But alas, generally these days everyone is still running around screaming "middle tier! middle tier" while the real database gurus just sit back and laugh as projects implode.
Visit http://www.donatofoodgroup.com in Toronto. Get in touch with the IT director. He'll tell you all about enterprise POS based on free software operating systems and components. And he may even recommend a software package which can save you, like it's saving his company, lots of money.
I'd love to, but they don't even have a DNS entry.
What a useless article. Just another "more people are using Linux" article. What I was hoping to find out is what POS software they're using, and where I can get it. Also, I need to know if I can seamlessly move my POS and accounting data to OSS equivalents.
Tivo's in danger of going under very soon because of such slow adoption. Not the kind of product that is gonna help Transmeta.
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Would it be that hard to NOT use M$?
Yes, it would. They need a product that is going to sell hundreds of thousands of units, or even millions of units to make production worthwhile. There's no Linux based product that's even remotely close to that.
It benefits consumers in that they have a very simple, very standard OS/browser combination that anybody can use anywhere. That's a huge benefit to the consumer. The average consumer doesn't write code.
Dude, that's like saying that people playing basketball in the park "should take it seriously" because Michael Jordan made hundreds of millions of dollars a year. A. The chances that you'll ever get paid a dime for playing a video game are slim to none and B. It's still just a game (like basketball).
"Demolish competition by knowing everything they do and thwarting their every move in the relevant spaces"
That's called business. Every other decent business does the same thing, or at least try to. There's nothing unusual about Microsoft except for the fact that they're very successful.
You silly, silly little bitch. I didn't say anything about the PS2 being beefier. All I'm saying is that I get games that are just as good for $200 vs a $2000 PC I'd have to buy, and keep buying every 6 months. And, there are only a few companies now that nmake high end graphics cards for PC's. The upgrade curve for this shit makes the Windows upgrade curve look tame by comparison. And for those of us who don't get allowances from mommy and daddy any more, that shit gets real expensive, real fast.
And as far as FPS, I honestly couldn't care less. Does it look good? Is it fun? I'm not sitting in front of the TV with a fucking strobelight counting framerate. I play games that are fun and look good.
If you wanna talk about fast games, just go out and buy a few Sun boxes and cluster 'em. I'm sure you could get a 100+ FPS rate. Of course, you'd also have to be an idiot, so.... enjoy your Sun boxes!
You silly, silly little bitch. I didn't say anything about Windows in my post. I simply said that/. is getting damn redundant with all of the "switching to Linux" articles.
And yes, you do sound like a crazy zealot who's also trolling pretty hard.
OK, is Slashdot now poting a story every time somebody installs Linux? This is getting ridiculous. We understand that more people are using Linux now. This stopped being news several years ago.
News! Bill Smith at IBM has installed Linux on a desktop in his cube! Story here. Smith was quoted as saying, "Well, it was a Friday afternoon, and I didn't have a lot to do, but I had to stay until 5:00 just in case. So I figured, 'What the hell? I've got nothing better to do. I've been wanting to try it out because my son said it was cool.'" Thanks Bill for your dramatic story of David crushing the Goliath that is Microsoft with incredible bravery and strength. Viva la revolution!
I'm not sure if this is some kind of ploy working with various hardware manufacturers, but I ain't falling for it. Any game that's so ridiculously poorly written that you need a $2000 machine to run it on isn't worth getting. Hell, Warcraft 3 runs great on my P 1.2 laptop with who knows what kind of graphics card. Why is this so ridiculously hardware intensive? Hell, a $200 PS2 offers better performance at a fraction of the price.
No. Just because something is in a contract doesn't make it legal. Happens all the time. You can sign a contract agreeing to kill someone, but obviously, that contract is null and void. Those trucks with the stickers plastered on back that say "not responsible for broken windshields"... they're responsible.
In this case, a judge is gonna say that the spirit of the contract was for x amount of Net service over x period of time. A lawyer obviously didn't even look at the ISP's contract before they started using it.
What's all that shit about "masters"? That post barely made any sense. But hey, whatever. Enjoy. Good luck in finding all of those major corporations and gov't's Linux boxes. I'm sure that you'll land one of the two available jobs out there babysitting a 10 user print server. Just keep in mind when you can't find a job and have to learn MS technologies where you heard it first.
I was a Microsoft developer for 6 years, and I made a ton. Now I'm off doing something else not tech related. I already benefitted from MS. But, but all means, be a Linux sysadmin. I'm sure that some little hole in the wall business that can't afford MS licenses will pay you reeeal well. Hehe
As far as stock goes, you should do a bit of reading and learn a bit. Stock value has virtually nothing to do with companies earnings any more. You see, while you were on, I dunno, Venus? for the past few years, we had this crazy stock market inflation based on companies that were in all actuality doing really poorly. That's some very recent proof that the stock market has very little to do with actual earnings.
But, if you really want to compare... in the past 5 years, MSFT's high has been around 120. They're down to 53. LNUX's high has been around 250. They're down to 1. If I were still in tech, and we still investing, yeah, MSFT would definately be the way to go.
Yeah I'm sure we'd all be much better off economically if Hollywood billionaires were a few billion dollars richer.
That's what's so great about the US. IT's not up to jackasses like you to decide who owns or earns what. If somebody wants to make billions, and do nothing with it other than buy billions of jellybeans, they can. It's none of your goddamned business. I could very easily say that "anyone that's making more than $50K is making more than they need to live on, so they don't deserve it. Let's have the gov't make a law to take it away from them."
And since you know next to nothing about economics, what do you think that those movie companies do with their money? Hide it under mattresses? It gets spent somehow, so yes that does benefit the economy.
Try that in my store. If somebody steals something saying, "You wouldn't have sold this anyway. So, really, I'm not stealing from you", I'll break their fucking legs.
Wrong. Copyrights benefit the creators of the movie/music, etc. If somebody doesn't want to altruistically create something to "benefit the people as a whole", that's their right. If they want to sell their ceration, that's their right. As soon as you start removing copyright, you're essentuially stealing from those creators, which will cause them to completely and totally stop creating. Read Atlas Shrugged. You'll get a good idea of what'll happen when the gov't says, "your intellectual property is no longer yours... it belongs to "the people".
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hahahahaha... After 10 years of doing development, all of it with databases in the back end, I know people like you very well. People who don't understand databases don't know how to use them, and code all of the logic into the middle tier. Very typical. It leads to horrendous bloat, very poor performance, and occasionally, complete project collapse. In one case that I was involved in, the company closed because their project couldn't be done on time since they decided to listen to this "expert" who spouted off similar stuff like what you're saying. The project became an OOP mess that was impossible to debug and maintain. More importantly, performance was never acceptable, so the project and the company died.
Databases, especially "grown up" ones like Oracle and DB2 are designed and optimized to do a hell of a lot more than data storage. If you want storage, use flat files. You should maybe, I dunno... pick up a book. You can write entire applications in nothing but PL/SQL that perform several times better than a similar C++ or Java app.
In fact, so much development is done in the databases themselves, that Oracle has a certification just for that, called the Oracle Certified Application Developer. But alas, generally these days everyone is still running around screaming "middle tier! middle tier" while the real database gurus just sit back and laugh as projects implode.
Visit http://www.donatofoodgroup.com in Toronto. Get in touch with the IT director. He'll tell you all about enterprise POS based on free software operating systems and components. And he may even recommend a software package which can save you, like it's saving his company, lots of money.
I'd love to, but they don't even have a DNS entry.
But, I'm still looking for something decent...
What a useless article. Just another "more people are using Linux" article. What I was hoping to find out is what POS software they're using, and where I can get it. Also, I need to know if I can seamlessly move my POS and accounting data to OSS equivalents.
Just a quick FYI: Kazaalite 2.0 is out!
On another note, I'd be interested in what titles are handled by this company, so I know what I can still buy, and what I can't.
Tivo's in danger of going under very soon because of such slow adoption. Not the kind of product that is gonna help Transmeta.
Would it be that hard to NOT use M$?
Yes, it would. They need a product that is going to sell hundreds of thousands of units, or even millions of units to make production worthwhile. There's no Linux based product that's even remotely close to that.
You practically get a lifetime guarantee from VA Software that SourceForge is never going to go away.
Yeah, but by the looks of things, VA Software will be going away!
It's just barely alive now.
And I hate to say it, but apparently all of the people working there tend to agree. Not a single insider has bought shares in the past two years.
Probably not the best place to store software that you even remotely care about.
It benefits consumers in that they have a very simple, very standard OS/browser combination that anybody can use anywhere. That's a huge benefit to the consumer. The average consumer doesn't write code.
They now have pretty much free reign to attack all competitors how ever the see fit, including OpenSource stuff.
Just like each of the millions of other businesses in the US. That's what competition is.
Dude, that's like saying that people playing basketball in the park "should take it seriously" because Michael Jordan made hundreds of millions of dollars a year. A. The chances that you'll ever get paid a dime for playing a video game are slim to none and B. It's still just a game (like basketball).
"Take it seriously?" It's a game we're talking about right? A game, which, by definition is completely useless for anything other than fun?
"Demolish competition by knowing everything they do and thwarting their every move in the relevant spaces"
That's called business. Every other decent business does the same thing, or at least try to. There's nothing unusual about Microsoft except for the fact that they're very successful.
You silly, silly little bitch. I didn't say anything about the PS2 being beefier. All I'm saying is that I get games that are just as good for $200 vs a $2000 PC I'd have to buy, and keep buying every 6 months. And, there are only a few companies now that nmake high end graphics cards for PC's. The upgrade curve for this shit makes the Windows upgrade curve look tame by comparison. And for those of us who don't get allowances from mommy and daddy any more, that shit gets real expensive, real fast.
And as far as FPS, I honestly couldn't care less. Does it look good? Is it fun? I'm not sitting in front of the TV with a fucking strobelight counting framerate. I play games that are fun and look good.
If you wanna talk about fast games, just go out and buy a few Sun boxes and cluster 'em. I'm sure you could get a 100+ FPS rate. Of course, you'd also have to be an idiot, so.... enjoy your Sun boxes!
You silly, silly little bitch. I didn't say anything about Windows in my post. I simply said that /. is getting damn redundant with all of the "switching to Linux" articles.
And yes, you do sound like a crazy zealot who's also trolling pretty hard.
OK, is Slashdot now poting a story every time somebody installs Linux? This is getting ridiculous. We understand that more people are using Linux now. This stopped being news several years ago.
News! Bill Smith at IBM has installed Linux on a desktop in his cube! Story here. Smith was quoted as saying, "Well, it was a Friday afternoon, and I didn't have a lot to do, but I had to stay until 5:00 just in case. So I figured, 'What the hell? I've got nothing better to do. I've been wanting to try it out because my son said it was cool.'" Thanks Bill for your dramatic story of David crushing the Goliath that is Microsoft with incredible bravery and strength. Viva la revolution!
*yawn*
I can afford to be principled only after I can pay my rent and pay for my family to eat. Until then, I do what I have to do.
Besides, there's nothing unprincipled about working with MS software. You make it sound like it's some big, eeevil company. *yawn*
You're right. A link is a link, right? Maybe I should consider some links to kiddie porn on my site. After all, they'd just be links, right?
Nope, this is wrong. There's no way Slashdot should be linking to warez.
I'm not sure if this is some kind of ploy working with various hardware manufacturers, but I ain't falling for it. Any game that's so ridiculously poorly written that you need a $2000 machine to run it on isn't worth getting. Hell, Warcraft 3 runs great on my P 1.2 laptop with who knows what kind of graphics card. Why is this so ridiculously hardware intensive? Hell, a $200 PS2 offers better performance at a fraction of the price.
No. Just because something is in a contract doesn't make it legal. Happens all the time. You can sign a contract agreeing to kill someone, but obviously, that contract is null and void. Those trucks with the stickers plastered on back that say "not responsible for broken windshields"... they're responsible.
In this case, a judge is gonna say that the spirit of the contract was for x amount of Net service over x period of time. A lawyer obviously didn't even look at the ISP's contract before they started using it.
No, it isn't reasonable. But that's not what happened here. She continued to pay her bill. They screwed up. Jesus, jsut read that article.
What's all that shit about "masters"? That post barely made any sense. But hey, whatever. Enjoy. Good luck in finding all of those major corporations and gov't's Linux boxes. I'm sure that you'll land one of the two available jobs out there babysitting a 10 user print server. Just keep in mind when you can't find a job and have to learn MS technologies where you heard it first.
I was a Microsoft developer for 6 years, and I made a ton. Now I'm off doing something else not tech related. I already benefitted from MS. But, but all means, be a Linux sysadmin. I'm sure that some little hole in the wall business that can't afford MS licenses will pay you reeeal well. Hehe
As far as stock goes, you should do a bit of reading and learn a bit. Stock value has virtually nothing to do with companies earnings any more. You see, while you were on, I dunno, Venus? for the past few years, we had this crazy stock market inflation based on companies that were in all actuality doing really poorly. That's some very recent proof that the stock market has very little to do with actual earnings.
But, if you really want to compare... in the past 5 years, MSFT's high has been around 120. They're down to 53. LNUX's high has been around 250. They're down to 1. If I were still in tech, and we still investing, yeah, MSFT would definately be the way to go.
Yeah I'm sure we'd all be much better off economically if Hollywood billionaires were a few billion dollars richer.
That's what's so great about the US. IT's not up to jackasses like you to decide who owns or earns what. If somebody wants to make billions, and do nothing with it other than buy billions of jellybeans, they can. It's none of your goddamned business. I could very easily say that "anyone that's making more than $50K is making more than they need to live on, so they don't deserve it. Let's have the gov't make a law to take it away from them."
And since you know next to nothing about economics, what do you think that those movie companies do with their money? Hide it under mattresses? It gets spent somehow, so yes that does benefit the economy.
Try that in my store. If somebody steals something saying, "You wouldn't have sold this anyway. So, really, I'm not stealing from you", I'll break their fucking legs.
Wrong. Copyrights benefit the creators of the movie/music, etc. If somebody doesn't want to altruistically create something to "benefit the people as a whole", that's their right. If they want to sell their ceration, that's their right. As soon as you start removing copyright, you're essentuially stealing from those creators, which will cause them to completely and totally stop creating. Read Atlas Shrugged. You'll get a good idea of what'll happen when the gov't says, "your intellectual property is no longer yours... it belongs to "the people".