It doesn't seem right to me that the guy who did
the painting has to do the community service.
It's IBM's VP of marketing who should be out doing
the community service. The corporation has
committed this offence, not the poor slob with the
paint.
I think you missed the main point of my post. Anybody gurus who care to hack on an RDBMS are probably working on postgresql and aren't going to start from scratch on sap. So Sapdb's future is tied to whatever work sap is willing to pay for.
Hang on a minute, what are all these supposed
features that SAPDB has that Postgresql doesn't?
The postgresql team have made a hell of a lot
of progress over the last couple of years and it
has become very stable and full featured. Even
if by some chance sapdb has more features there is
next to nil chance they are going to attract any
open source developers to compete with postgresql
and if it hasn't already it will fall behind
postgresql sooner or later. Right now I can only see one or two minor things that postgresql doesn't have.
The more I use Postgresql and Oracle the more I like the former and hate the latter. I don't use Oracle much usually, but I had cause to write some Oracle apps the other day and it took all of a couple of hours to find two major bugs in Oracle. And Oracle sure is a lot harder to use and administrate than Postgresql.
That said, I'm sure there would exist apps where Oracle is more scalable, and Oracle probably has some 24x7 backup and support features that would be needed for some apps. But Oracle is not all its cracked up to be by any means.
I only used Smalltalk a few times. Boy it was a good language, (although I didn't go any further with it myself, prefering Scheme). But it's dying because nobody bothered to solve the interesting problems that Java addressed - perfect portability of source and byte codes, a single standard and just-in-time compilation. If Smalltalk wants to survive it needs to deal with this. At least Scheme has Kawa.
I'm a bit concerned about the future of programming languages what with the overly dominant Java. Java's mediocre but is good enough and ubiquitous enough that it's gaining an inordinate share over better alternatives.
Well why don't they do the same thing with the Win32 API, then we can run Win apps with a Gtk appearance?? The reason is it's damned hard to reconcile different gui tool kits. A gui that looked good with gtk, might look awful and muddled under QT. That is if it worked at all and the toolkits have equivilents for each behaviour.
I strongly argue that the Unix world should settle on one toolkit for that reason. Trouble is, even the people who agree, can't agree on which one it should be. The pragmatic choice right now would be gtk because the C library format is not compiler dependant or compiler version dependant. I also like that it's development is more open than the Trolls. I'm sure QT fans will point out various benefits of that toolkit though.
This is not the fountain of youth. Your cells must die to remain healthy. The fountain of youth would be increasing the number of generations your cells can go through before they run out of steam. That's the fountain of youth problem - replacing dead cells indefinitely, not preventing the death of the cells you have now.
This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You've really been connected
And the papers want to know whose telco you use
Now it's time to use the hands free if you dare
"This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And my cell phone's floating in a most peculiar way
And your voice sounds very different today
For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
My cell-phone's been cut off
And there's nothing I can do
Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my cell-phone knows which tower to use
Tell customer support I love them very much - they know"
Ground Control to Major Tom
Your cell phone's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you....
"Here am I floating round my tin can
Far above the Moon
my cell phone's been cut off
And there's nothing I can do."
Most projects have someone who is the leader and keeps the originals of everything. If I were running a project, everything but everything would go into CVS including the tar distribution including all doco, even the web pages.
When scientists are desperate to prove a pet theory they tend to somewhere somehow come up with "incontravertable" evidence to prove it. Too many times it's later shown to be bad science.
I'm certainly not saying that global warming isn't true. All that pollution must be doing something bad. I just get skeptical when the pressure is so great to come up with proof.
Umm, I can't see that any dbms can guarantee recovery of your data if your hard drive dies nor is that the meaning of "Durable". (It might if you use a particular style of logging to multiple drives but that's another story).
Durable means that if you yank the cord on the machine 1ms after the commit returns then the transaction is safe.
By sending out a lot of spam with webbugs they can match email addresses to their webbugs. Then if they link up with e-commerce sites like amazon, ebay etc they can link the email address to a real address.
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Well, since we've already sent craft to Mars there is the slight chance that we've already introduced organisms. Perhaps some particularly hardy microbes could have survived the journey and are even now multiplying on Mars.
Anyway, apart from the scientific question of whether or not life existed it might be good to introduce life on Mars. Maybe it can be terra-formed into a livable place, who knows?
It's not defending the legislation, it's defending the MPAA's interpretation thereof. It's disappointing because despite what the DMCA claims, they are trying to destroy fair use.
I don't know what it's like in the States, but in Australia the only commercial Unix that is alive and kicking is Solaris. HPUX and SCO are on their death beds. Digital Unix, AIX and Unixware are nearly unheard of.
Firstly, you obviously don't run X so forget that straw-man. Secondly, no-one's claiming every app in the universe will run, or that every app will run on a 256k PALM. What I said was that you've got a decent shot at an app working out of the box. That's obviously constrained by screen size, memory and so forth but there are plenty of tiny apps, some of them GTK, some of the command-line (so what, I like command line) that have got a decent shot at working. Why not???
I think my strategy would to be to say that my inventions are many and varied but I can't tell you what they are without violating prior IP agreements. Kinda using their silly scheme against them.
There are just zillions and zillions of different songs with the same name. And if tomorrow I want to write and record my own song with the same name and distribute it via Napster then I'm screwed. 2.5 million songs must almost exhaust the possible name space of possible titles.
Even worse, if I want to be the 500th person to make their own recording of "Yesterday" by McCartney and distribute it via Napster I guess I'm screwed too.
Buy two lots of shoes. One lot says "sweat". Not inappropriate for some sweat shoes. The other order says "shop". Fairly innocuous. Then put the left with the other right and get sweat shop:-)
Often you'll find pretty cool code in the C library. I havn't looked much at GNU libc. The whitesmith's c library used to be very cool (what happened to that??). Anyway here is some cool code...
I have to strongly disagree too. For the argument against commenting see Extreme Programming. If you can't understand your code without comments, REWRITE THE CODE AND ADD UNIT TESTS. I can't emphasise this enough. If the code is obscure the chances the code is bad or the variable names not descriptive or the design is poor. I'm not saying don't use comments. I'm just saying only comment what is necessary, but try fixing the code first instead of applying the band-aid of comments.
IF you care about running Mac software, then sure you will buy a Mac. But chances are that's no loss to Linux. On the other hand if you mostly want to run Unix (perhaps plus a little Win), then you'll buy x86 + Linux and no gain to OSX. It's only for that miniscule set of the population that are keen on MacOS AND Unix that will love OS/X and probably Linux will lose those persons. (Both of them!).
Do what MIT would do. Get him the book "Structured interpretation of computer
software languages" and teach him Scheme. It will allow him to learn about different paradigms - OO, functional, imperitive, rules based programming.
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Also assuming you already have a binary. There
is no right to source without already owning
the binary.
Java is a pretty good cross platform environment.
It doesn't seem right to me that the guy who did
the painting has to do the community service.
It's IBM's VP of marketing who should be out doing
the community service. The corporation has
committed this offence, not the poor slob with the
paint.
I think you missed the main point of my post. Anybody gurus who care to hack on an RDBMS are probably working on postgresql and aren't going to start from scratch on sap. So Sapdb's future is tied to whatever work sap is willing to pay for.
Hang on a minute, what are all these supposed
features that SAPDB has that Postgresql doesn't?
The postgresql team have made a hell of a lot
of progress over the last couple of years and it
has become very stable and full featured. Even
if by some chance sapdb has more features there is
next to nil chance they are going to attract any
open source developers to compete with postgresql
and if it hasn't already it will fall behind
postgresql sooner or later. Right now I can only see one or two minor things that postgresql doesn't have.
The more I use Postgresql and Oracle the more I like the former and hate the latter. I don't use Oracle much usually, but I had cause to write some Oracle apps the other day and it took all of a couple of hours to find two major bugs in Oracle. And Oracle sure is a lot harder to use and administrate than Postgresql.
That said, I'm sure there would exist apps where Oracle is more scalable, and Oracle probably has some 24x7 backup and support features that would be needed for some apps. But Oracle is not all its cracked up to be by any means.
I only used Smalltalk a few times. Boy it was a good language, (although I didn't go any further with it myself, prefering Scheme). But it's dying because nobody bothered to solve the interesting problems that Java addressed - perfect portability of source and byte codes, a single standard and just-in-time compilation. If Smalltalk wants to survive it needs to deal with this. At least Scheme has Kawa. I'm a bit concerned about the future of programming languages what with the overly dominant Java. Java's mediocre but is good enough and ubiquitous enough that it's gaining an inordinate share over better alternatives.
Well why don't they do the same thing with the Win32 API, then we can run Win apps with a Gtk appearance?? The reason is it's damned hard to reconcile different gui tool kits. A gui that looked good with gtk, might look awful and muddled under QT. That is if it worked at all and the toolkits have equivilents for each behaviour.
I strongly argue that the Unix world should settle on one toolkit for that reason. Trouble is, even the people who agree, can't agree on which one it should be. The pragmatic choice right now would be gtk because the C library format is not compiler dependant or compiler version dependant. I also like that it's development is more open than the Trolls. I'm sure QT fans will point out various benefits of that toolkit though.
This is not the fountain of youth. Your cells must die to remain healthy. The fountain of youth would be increasing the number of generations your cells can go through before they run out of steam. That's the fountain of youth problem - replacing dead cells indefinitely, not preventing the death of the cells you have now.
Ground Control to Major Tom
Ground Control to Major Tom
Charge your mobile phone and put your hands free on.
Ground Control to Major Tom
Commencing dialup, cell-phone on
Check phone number and may ATT's love be with you
(spoken)
Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Liftoff
This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You've really been connected
And the papers want to know whose telco you use
Now it's time to use the hands free if you dare
"This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And my cell phone's floating in a most peculiar way
And your voice sounds very different today
For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
My cell-phone's been cut off
And there's nothing I can do
Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my cell-phone knows which tower to use
Tell customer support I love them very much - they know"
Ground Control to Major Tom
Your cell phone's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you....
"Here am I floating round my tin can
Far above the Moon
my cell phone's been cut off
And there's nothing I can do."
Most projects have someone who is the leader and keeps the originals of everything. If I were running a project, everything but everything would go into CVS including the tar distribution including all doco, even the web pages.
When scientists are desperate to prove a pet theory they tend to somewhere somehow come up with "incontravertable" evidence to prove it. Too many times it's later shown to be bad science.
I'm certainly not saying that global warming isn't true. All that pollution must be doing something bad. I just get skeptical when the pressure is so great to come up with proof.
Umm, I can't see that any dbms can guarantee recovery of your data if your hard drive dies nor is that the meaning of "Durable". (It might if you use a particular style of logging to multiple drives but that's another story).
Durable means that if you yank the cord on the machine 1ms after the commit returns then the transaction is safe.
By sending out a lot of spam with webbugs they can match email addresses to their webbugs. Then if they link up with e-commerce sites like amazon, ebay etc they can link the email address to a real address.
Well, since we've already sent craft to Mars there is the slight chance that we've already introduced organisms. Perhaps some particularly hardy microbes could have survived the journey and are even now multiplying on Mars.
Anyway, apart from the scientific question of whether or not life existed it might be good to introduce life on Mars. Maybe it can be terra-formed into a livable place, who knows?
It's not defending the legislation, it's defending the MPAA's interpretation thereof. It's disappointing because despite what the DMCA claims, they are trying to destroy fair use.
I don't know what it's like in the States, but in Australia the only commercial Unix that is alive and kicking is Solaris. HPUX and SCO are on their death beds. Digital Unix, AIX and Unixware are nearly unheard of.
Firstly, you obviously don't run X so forget that straw-man. Secondly, no-one's claiming every app in the universe will run, or that every app will run on a 256k PALM. What I said was that you've got a decent shot at an app working out of the box. That's obviously constrained by screen size, memory and so forth but there are plenty of tiny apps, some of them GTK, some of the command-line (so what, I like command line) that have got a decent shot at working. Why not???
I think my strategy would to be to say that my inventions are many and varied but I can't tell you what they are without violating prior IP agreements. Kinda using their silly scheme against them.
There are just zillions and zillions of different songs with the same name. And if tomorrow I want to write and record my own song with the same name and distribute it via Napster then I'm screwed. 2.5 million songs must almost exhaust the possible name space of possible titles.
Even worse, if I want to be the 500th person to make their own recording of "Yesterday" by McCartney and distribute it via Napster I guess I'm screwed too.
Silly silly courts. Silly silly RIAA.
Buy two lots of shoes. One lot says "sweat". Not inappropriate for some sweat shoes. The other order says "shop". Fairly innocuous. Then put the left with the other right and get sweat shop :-)
Often you'll find pretty cool code in the C library. I havn't looked much at GNU libc. The whitesmith's c library used to be very cool (what happened to that??). Anyway here is some cool code...
char *strcpy(char *c1, char *c2) {
while (*c1++ = *c2++)
;
return c1;
}
I have to strongly disagree too. For the argument against commenting see Extreme Programming. If you can't understand your code without comments, REWRITE THE CODE AND ADD UNIT TESTS. I can't emphasise this enough. If the code is obscure the chances the code is bad or the variable names not descriptive or the design is poor. I'm not saying don't use comments. I'm just saying only comment what is necessary, but try fixing the code first instead of applying the band-aid of comments.
IF you care about running Mac software, then sure you will buy a Mac. But chances are that's no loss to Linux. On the other hand if you mostly want to run Unix (perhaps plus a little Win), then you'll buy x86 + Linux and no gain to OSX. It's only for that miniscule set of the population that are keen on MacOS AND Unix that will love OS/X and probably Linux will lose those persons. (Both of them!).
Do what MIT would do. Get him the book "Structured interpretation of computer
software languages" and teach him Scheme. It will allow him to learn about different paradigms - OO, functional, imperitive, rules based programming.