It's not necessarily fair to charge the same
for running some software on some old PC compared
to a 64CPU Sun E10K. It's pretty hard to come up with what is "fair". It's pretty subjective.
You're not allowed to use MS products to criticise Microsoft, and extensive market research determined that the most common use of these terms was in relation to Microsoft and Bill Gates.
What a troll. They do a performance test of
postgresql without running the vacuum analyzer
to update statistics. Then they "wonder" (as
if they didn't know) why postgresql is slow.
Duh!
"The new version is intended as a platform for building mission critical, heavy load database solutions"
Still no proper transactions, no subselects, no
foreign keys or views. How can this be a "mission critical" SQL database? I still don't get why people
use it. Sure, for some situations you can get
it to work, but why bother?
Since Java is so incredibly easy to decompile
how about decompiling it, reconstructing the
source and distributing it as open source?
What licence did it come with when originally
distributed?
I find it impressive that, after having specified it
on a cost-is-no-object basis, the total system cost
is nevertheless so low.
I can only assume that Mr Raymond sold some of those
VA-Linux shares back when they were $300 per share.
Why do you imply that postgresql is hard to setup?
It's very easy, a piece of cake. So you don't
need the features of postgresql. Does it hurt to
have them on hand if you need them in the future?
I'm glad you like Visual Age, and I admit there is
some cool technology in it. But at the end of the
day I found it to be closer to junk than a jewel.
When I found out about JBuilder and switched over
I heaved a sigh of relief. Far and away better
than Visual Age, which drove me crazy. Even after
using it for a few years I never did like it.
There are always plenty of people on Slashdot
willing to point out that there is no best language, only the best language for certain use. While there is certainly truth in that, it's usualy used as a poor excuse to excuse using perl or some other monstrosity, and the people saying it would have no idea whether Haskell or Scheme or Eiffel or whatever would be much better than their use of C or perl on the theory "I think this is the best language for this use", when likely it is not at all.
Easy for you to say if you never owned these stocks.
Nobody has ever seen a set of stocks get crushed so
savagely. Look at Juniper networks. Never in the
history of the world was a stock so loved. Even
a few months ago this stock used to go up and down
$15 in a day. Now it is under $14 down from a high
of $240.
This is not a linux advocates' problem, this is a
content generator's problem. You need to get away from thinking "this technology is neat and I don't care if it only runs one platform". Either use a portable platform or convince the platform maker to port it.
Quite a few years ago, Sun paid a BIG chunk of
money to own the full rights to their Sys V code.
Something approaching $100 M if I remember. They
paid this big chunk of money so they wouldn't be
affected by this sort of situation.
Not many OSes are written in C++, most are C. C++
is too bloated and too hard to optimise for
for most people's taste in writing a kernel.
As for general system's programming, there is mostly
no reason why Java + JNI couldn't do the job very well. There would be some situations where C is better, but not that many.
I think you misunderstand STL. STL is a very
clever piece of software and is about the only
good thing about C++. Problem with STL is that
the underlying C++ features it uses are overly
crufty. Still, the idea is good and Java would
benefit if it supported genericity.
Does anybody else find it pathetic that almost every
language that comes out is some varient of C? We've
got C, C++, objective-C, C#, D, Java and a whole
bunch of others I can't think of at the moment.
Where's the imagination folks? Things like Sather,
Scheme, ML and other interesting progressive
ideas. Very sad.
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It's not necessarily fair to charge the same
for running some software on some old PC compared
to a 64CPU Sun E10K. It's pretty hard to come up with what is "fair". It's pretty subjective.
You're not allowed to use MS products to criticise Microsoft, and extensive market research determined that the most common use of these terms was in relation to Microsoft and Bill Gates.
With error correction and a means of continual
adapting to the current situation it would be
definitely doable. The bandwidth may be poor
though.
Are you saying that X sucks, or that Gnome,KDE/Gtk/QT/X apps that you use suck? It's a big difference.
What a troll. They do a performance test of
postgresql without running the vacuum analyzer
to update statistics. Then they "wonder" (as
if they didn't know) why postgresql is slow.
Duh!
Actually, it's not GPLed, its BSDed. i.e.
nearly, almost public domain.
Still no proper transactions, no subselects, no foreign keys or views. How can this be a "mission critical" SQL database? I still don't get why people use it. Sure, for some situations you can get it to work, but why bother?
Since Java is so incredibly easy to decompile
how about decompiling it, reconstructing the
source and distributing it as open source?
What licence did it come with when originally
distributed?
I find it impressive that, after having specified it on a cost-is-no-object basis, the total system cost is nevertheless so low. I can only assume that Mr Raymond sold some of those VA-Linux shares back when they were $300 per share.
Why do you imply that postgresql is hard to setup?
It's very easy, a piece of cake. So you don't
need the features of postgresql. Does it hurt to
have them on hand if you need them in the future?
sync??? What are you still using UNIX
on PDP-11 or what?
I'm glad you like Visual Age, and I admit there is
some cool technology in it. But at the end of the
day I found it to be closer to junk than a jewel.
When I found out about JBuilder and switched over
I heaved a sigh of relief. Far and away better
than Visual Age, which drove me crazy. Even after
using it for a few years I never did like it.
There are always plenty of people on Slashdot
willing to point out that there is no best language, only the best language for certain use. While there is certainly truth in that, it's usualy used as a poor excuse to excuse using perl or some other monstrosity, and the people saying it would have no idea whether Haskell or Scheme or Eiffel or whatever would be much better than their use of C or perl on the theory "I think this is the best language for this use", when likely it is not at all.
Do you realise you are violating the DMCA?
Easy for you to say if you never owned these stocks.
Nobody has ever seen a set of stocks get crushed so
savagely. Look at Juniper networks. Never in the
history of the world was a stock so loved. Even
a few months ago this stock used to go up and down
$15 in a day. Now it is under $14 down from a high
of $240.
Can they even get a valid trademark when there
has been prior use by someone else?
They won't get me, I'm using a Dvorak keyboard.
That will throw them off the track.
Increase computer security - use Dvorak!
This is not a linux advocates' problem, this is a
content generator's problem. You need to get away from thinking "this technology is neat and I don't care if it only runs one platform". Either use a portable platform or convince the platform maker to port it.
Quite a few years ago, Sun paid a BIG chunk of
money to own the full rights to their Sys V code.
Something approaching $100 M if I remember. They
paid this big chunk of money so they wouldn't be
affected by this sort of situation.
Not many OSes are written in C++, most are C. C++
is too bloated and too hard to optimise for
for most people's taste in writing a kernel.
As for general system's programming, there is mostly
no reason why Java + JNI couldn't do the job very well. There would be some situations where C is better, but not that many.
I think you misunderstand STL. STL is a very
clever piece of software and is about the only
good thing about C++. Problem with STL is that
the underlying C++ features it uses are overly
crufty. Still, the idea is good and Java would
benefit if it supported genericity.
Does anybody else find it pathetic that almost every
language that comes out is some varient of C? We've
got C, C++, objective-C, C#, D, Java and a whole
bunch of others I can't think of at the moment.
Where's the imagination folks? Things like Sather,
Scheme, ML and other interesting progressive
ideas. Very sad.
They won't change the APIs, they'll change the
underlying protocol in such a way that they're
products keep working and mono doesn't.
Hasn't Be proven that a new proprietry OS, no matter
how cool and wonderful, simply cannot get enough market share to survive in this day and age?
I can't see that any new OS has any chance unless it is free and open, and even then it would be up against the encumbant *NIX systems.
Does this mean I can't trade the NASDAQ any more??!!