You're right on. Ask any ISP, and you'll find out that the biggest customers (the ones who need the biggest pipes, and can actually pay for them) are the porn sites. It's been this way for years. A lot of technology has been invented by the porn industry that is ignored by the 'mainstream' industry because of the stigma that some people attach to porn. But, that's fine by us. We'll continue to be profitable while companies like Amazon go into debt to the tune of $2 billion.
Actually, the porn insdustry is ALWAYS ahead of the curve. Many porn sites, such as my own, WILL NOT use popups at all. The porn industry is already eliminating them, when the mainstream web sites are just getting into them. The porn industry tried them years ago, discovered that surfers hate them, and they're on the decline now.
No, maybe they just wanted to release a totally new product (W2K) without having to slow things down worrying about backwards compatibility? Remember, having to worry about backwards compatibility is why we stil have that horrible line of DOS based os'es (95/98/ME).
Last I checked, SQL Server 7 was designed to run on NT 4, not W2K. It probably SHOULD be faster on NT 4. There are a lot of significant changes under the covers between NT 4 and W2K. If a company is upgrading to W2K, shouldn't they be upgrading to SQL Server 2000, anyway? I'd be more interested in seeing NT4/SQL7 vs W2K/SQL2000 benchmarks.
"And, if everyone would please collaborate to write a business plan for me, I would appreciate it. I don't really know what I'm doing, but I'd appreciate it if the community created a business for me."
Dude, you want to open a business, but you don't have the first idea about how to start it? Why are you asking Slashdot? If we knew, or if it was easy to do, we'd do the same thing, and probably put you out of business. You see, the idea of a business is that you're offering goods or services that people don't or can't or don't know how to acquire for a dollar amount. If everybody knew where to get old games cheap, then guess what... you wouldn't have a business. Sorry. You can't Open Source business.
I think that they have all kids of separate databases. Like any big company, it's tough to implement a company-wide standard. The group that I worked on used Oracle 8i on Sun ('98-'99)
Jon, I really hope that you have a day job. In what way is Net usage related to the 'tech slump'? And what 'tech slump' are you talking about? It's already been determined on Slashdot and many places that there is NOT a shortage of jobs for technical people. Are you suggesting that more Net users will help the stock market's tech company slump?
Anyone who has ever been a DB developer (such as myself) or a DBA knows tha thte vast majority of enterprise-class databases (Oracle, DB2) are NOT used for web sites. Web sites are cute, but rarely are they mission critical, and rarely do they hold vast amounts of information. Think large systems. Cam you imagine, say, Visa or Matercard running MySQL to handle thousands of transactions a second? Or how about truly large databases? I recently set up North Carolina's Mediare system on Oracle. That started out as a 3 TB database, and will grow steadily for the forseeable future. Has MySQL ever been tested against something of that size? Even the largest web sites do NOT generally compare to other entreprise-class projects, in either size, ort he critcality of data.
From this article, it sounds like the new series will be called Starfleet Academy. Oh God. Is there any possible way that they'll bring back Wesley Crusher? God, I hope not.
Australia starts acting like China and reading their citizen's emails, checking for 'inappropriate material'?
Australia starts packet sniffing?
Australia requires all traffic to go through a central server farm, so they can control everything going in and coming out?
Australia filters web sites?
Scary stuff. I'm a developer who was considering moving to Australia soon. This is enough to make sure that I don't move there until they stop passing Draconian laws.
As always, Katz is off the mark. Instead of reviewing what's going to be the coolest new geek-show ever, he reviews some cheesy series that's going to be cancelled next season. Personally, I'm waiting for the Lone Gunmen to start. Katz: Stop pretending to be a real geek. I think that my mother has geekier tendencies than you!
As for the Lone Gunman, I'm looking forward to it. Part of the reason that it's so cool is that I think that ALL of us can associate with one of those three guys. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if they mention Slashdot in the first few episodes!
The only way that Apple can ever make a comeback to be used by people that are NOT in the graphics industry is to license their OS to be run on any hardware. It's as simple as that. That's the ONLY reason that Windows took off so many years ago, and Apple withered. If I could buy OS X to run it on my cheap-o generic Intel-based (actually, AMD based) hardware, I'd use it! In a heartbeat! Why can't Apple see this? Their hardware isn't as revolutionary or as fast compared with the Intel platform as it once used to be (remember when SCSI was considered cool stuff?). I can now buy a dual-processor Pentium 3 with SCSI, USB, etc. for less than a basic Apple box. If I could run OS X on it, I would.
So, what will it take for IPv6 to be the de-facto standard? Will Cisco have to update their software to account for it? Will Microsoft? How will IPv6 integrate in with IPv4? IS FreeBSD's stack popular enough to give IPv6 the push it needs?
Since when has Big Blue ever meant 'innovation' to the masses? Heck, anyone remember Apple's brilliant '1984' commericial during the 1984 Superbowl? IBM is not necessarily a boost for Linux. Heck, how about some other products that IBM pushed hard: OS/2, Lotus Notes, and Java (about 5 years too early). If anything, I think it's impressive that Oracle, of all companies, is promoting Linux. IBM though? Nah.
This is an excellent idea. More than likely, depending on your work contract, your company has the right to sue you to be reimbursed for the work you did for them while you were working on both projects, AND the may even have the rights to take ownership of your side project. At the very least, you will probably be fired as soon as they find out about it. Get that lawyer!
Then don't watch cable/satellite TV. Those companies all know EXACTLY what you're watching at every second of the day.
Then don't use a credit card. Those companies know exactly what you buy, where, and when you buy it.
Then don't use a bank. They know exactly how much money you make and where it comes from.
Then don't use a telephone. The telephone companies knows exactly who you call, when, and for how long.
Get the idea? Lots more more personal, and more in-depth information is gathered about you EVERY DAY from MANY sources. Ad banners are NEGLIGIBLE when compared with any one of these other sources of information gathering.
No, I know that people do it all of the time. It's stupid. I totally agree. Like sacherjj, I also get a good laugh out of the souped up tin cans out there.
Every now and then, I try to do some good. If I can get just one of those people's brains going, it's all worth it. So, I'll blow them away at a stoplight with my factory stock Honda Prelude.
With insanely fast CPUS available for ridiculously cheap prices, why bother? It's kind of like buying a ford Focus, and spend a lot of money and time souping up the engine. Just buy a fast car (chip) if you need one! Am I missing something?
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For this guy, $10K is a drop in the bucket. Most of us spend more than this each month just on bandwidth.
You're right on. Ask any ISP, and you'll find out that the biggest customers (the ones who need the biggest pipes, and can actually pay for them) are the porn sites. It's been this way for years. A lot of technology has been invented by the porn industry that is ignored by the 'mainstream' industry because of the stigma that some people attach to porn. But, that's fine by us. We'll continue to be profitable while companies like Amazon go into debt to the tune of $2 billion.
Actually, the porn insdustry is ALWAYS ahead of the curve. Many porn sites, such as my own, WILL NOT use popups at all. The porn industry is already eliminating them, when the mainstream web sites are just getting into them. The porn industry tried them years ago, discovered that surfers hate them, and they're on the decline now.
No, maybe they just wanted to release a totally new product (W2K) without having to slow things down worrying about backwards compatibility? Remember, having to worry about backwards compatibility is why we stil have that horrible line of DOS based os'es (95/98/ME).
Last I checked, SQL Server 7 was designed to run on NT 4, not W2K. It probably SHOULD be faster on NT 4. There are a lot of significant changes under the covers between NT 4 and W2K. If a company is upgrading to W2K, shouldn't they be upgrading to SQL Server 2000, anyway? I'd be more interested in seeing NT4/SQL7 vs W2K/SQL2000 benchmarks.
"And, if everyone would please collaborate to write a business plan for me, I would appreciate it. I don't really know what I'm doing, but I'd appreciate it if the community created a business for me."
Dude, you want to open a business, but you don't have the first idea about how to start it? Why are you asking Slashdot? If we knew, or if it was easy to do, we'd do the same thing, and probably put you out of business. You see, the idea of a business is that you're offering goods or services that people don't or can't or don't know how to acquire for a dollar amount. If everybody knew where to get old games cheap, then guess what... you wouldn't have a business. Sorry. You can't Open Source business.
I think that they have all kids of separate databases. Like any big company, it's tough to implement a company-wide standard. The group that I worked on used Oracle 8i on Sun ('98-'99)
Jon, I really hope that you have a day job. In what way is Net usage related to the 'tech slump'? And what 'tech slump' are you talking about? It's already been determined on Slashdot and many places that there is NOT a shortage of jobs for technical people. Are you suggesting that more Net users will help the stock market's tech company slump?
The USPS has many different Oracle instances (it's the only database used in USPS), and many of them are larger than that.
Anyone who has ever been a DB developer (such as myself) or a DBA knows tha thte vast majority of enterprise-class databases (Oracle, DB2) are NOT used for web sites. Web sites are cute, but rarely are they mission critical, and rarely do they hold vast amounts of information. Think large systems. Cam you imagine, say, Visa or Matercard running MySQL to handle thousands of transactions a second? Or how about truly large databases? I recently set up North Carolina's Mediare system on Oracle. That started out as a 3 TB database, and will grow steadily for the forseeable future. Has MySQL ever been tested against something of that size? Even the largest web sites do NOT generally compare to other entreprise-class projects, in either size, ort he critcality of data.
From this article, it sounds like the new series will be called Starfleet Academy. Oh God. Is there any possible way that they'll bring back Wesley Crusher? God, I hope not.
No, I meant that he spends time reviewing that stupid CSI stuff. I want the inside scoop on The Lone Gunmen!
Too bad MySQL brought down my W2K Server...
It's easy. Just use MyODBC, and link an Access DB to MYSQL via ODBC. It's a great, easy-to-use front end.
Australia starts acting like China and reading their citizen's emails, checking for 'inappropriate material'?
Australia starts packet sniffing?
Australia requires all traffic to go through a central server farm, so they can control everything going in and coming out?
Australia filters web sites?
Scary stuff. I'm a developer who was considering moving to Australia soon. This is enough to make sure that I don't move there until they stop passing Draconian laws.
As always, Katz is off the mark. Instead of reviewing what's going to be the coolest new geek-show ever, he reviews some cheesy series that's going to be cancelled next season. Personally, I'm waiting for the Lone Gunmen to start. Katz: Stop pretending to be a real geek. I think that my mother has geekier tendencies than you!
As for the Lone Gunman, I'm looking forward to it. Part of the reason that it's so cool is that I think that ALL of us can associate with one of those three guys. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if they mention Slashdot in the first few episodes!
The only way that Apple can ever make a comeback to be used by people that are NOT in the graphics industry is to license their OS to be run on any hardware. It's as simple as that. That's the ONLY reason that Windows took off so many years ago, and Apple withered. If I could buy OS X to run it on my cheap-o generic Intel-based (actually, AMD based) hardware, I'd use it! In a heartbeat! Why can't Apple see this? Their hardware isn't as revolutionary or as fast compared with the Intel platform as it once used to be (remember when SCSI was considered cool stuff?). I can now buy a dual-processor Pentium 3 with SCSI, USB, etc. for less than a basic Apple box. If I could run OS X on it, I would.
So, what will it take for IPv6 to be the de-facto standard? Will Cisco have to update their software to account for it? Will Microsoft? How will IPv6 integrate in with IPv4? IS FreeBSD's stack popular enough to give IPv6 the push it needs?
Since when has Big Blue ever meant 'innovation' to the masses? Heck, anyone remember Apple's brilliant '1984' commericial during the 1984 Superbowl? IBM is not necessarily a boost for Linux. Heck, how about some other products that IBM pushed hard: OS/2, Lotus Notes, and Java (about 5 years too early). If anything, I think it's impressive that Oracle, of all companies, is promoting Linux. IBM though? Nah.
This is an excellent idea. More than likely, depending on your work contract, your company has the right to sue you to be reimbursed for the work you did for them while you were working on both projects, AND the may even have the rights to take ownership of your side project. At the very least, you will probably be fired as soon as they find out about it. Get that lawyer!
strap my tower case to my back, and a 21" monitor to my head!
- Then don't watch cable/satellite TV. Those companies all know EXACTLY what you're watching at every second of the day.
- Then don't use a credit card. Those companies know exactly what you buy, where, and when you buy it.
- Then don't use a bank. They know exactly how much money you make and where it comes from.
- Then don't use a telephone. The telephone companies knows exactly who you call, when, and for how long.
Get the idea? Lots more more personal, and more in-depth information is gathered about you EVERY DAY from MANY sources. Ad banners are NEGLIGIBLE when compared with any one of these other sources of information gathering.No, I know that people do it all of the time. It's stupid. I totally agree. Like sacherjj, I also get a good laugh out of the souped up tin cans out there.
Every now and then, I try to do some good. If I can get just one of those people's brains going, it's all worth it. So, I'll blow them away at a stoplight with my factory stock Honda Prelude.
With insanely fast CPUS available for ridiculously cheap prices, why bother? It's kind of like buying a ford Focus, and spend a lot of money and time souping up the engine. Just buy a fast car (chip) if you need one! Am I missing something?