One more case how strict patent hurts US. Americans cannot benefit from the result of the research to improve food production, while third world countries where US patent law doesn't apply could take advantage of it.
Richard Stallment think he can live with 3 or 5-year patent. Shorter patent period might really help solving the problems.
This worm is welcomed just like 'PingPong' virus. I still remember everybody in our lab got one of this harmless virus just to watch a 'O' bouncing on screen when doing DOS homework.
by a project called The Human Instrumentality Project. They made giant robots which function through a cerebral-nerve link with their operators. The pilots connect through the A10 neuron system of the brain. They can connect through their plug suits and the medium of liquid known as LCL.
Could be difficult to read various languages derived from Latin or for that matter assembly language. (e.g. opcodes for setting index registers.) So I said it's 'genuine design'.;)
and they don't care you having Latin sex.:D
Maybe I'm missing the point, or maybe I'm not clearly stating mine. DB2 does (and has done since the early 1980s) statistics-based optimization of queries *automatically*.
Hey man you didn't miss a point, it's my fault not stating clearly that, in my own opinion, DB2 is superior, regardless of the fact that I'm an Oracle DBA for years.:D
I were a DB2 programmer(on MVS) during 80s...and yes, what you said is absolutely true, because I were there! Transaction-based and automatic optimization were so cool that no one at that time could compare. I swithed to Oralce for market demand(well, ok, I was layoff by IBM), now their dedication to Linux will make me jumping ship again.:D
I can not think of a single non-US software company making filtering software
There's one here in Hong Kong. It has a genuine design to block your access to any site referenced to restricted words like 'sex'. i.e. you can't even access educational reports which has a reference to 'sex'.
My girlfriend complained to me about it. Well, I figured it also have anti-uninstallation design that it won't go away unless you wipe your harddisk clean and reinstall. Next day I pasted a label on her monitor "Never ever install anything comes with ISP's CD, even it's free. Thank you for your cooperation.".
and doesn't the DataCenter(tm) version support like 64 procs?
That raise a question: if this high-end model does any good, they'd have related stat in TPC....so why didn't they do that? I don't think Microsoft would miss a chance.
Hmm...unless....
I have trouble liking Oracle (terrible query optimization for large queries, no statistics-based optimization like db2
FYI, on and prior to version 7 Oracle has cost-based and rule-based analysis/optimization. The statistical optimization is being done by database management system after 8. (I'm not sure whether they provide backward compatibility on it, anyway)
optimization like db2 - you can hardy find similarity in features in two different database system, can you?:)
Anyway, 'EXPLAIN PLAN' still work on any version of Oracle to help optimizing large queries manually.
You've the point that per cpu stat w2k is better, but we(as well as most enterprises) are rather interested in knowing whether the performance scale up with no. of CPUs.
He earned a black belt in tae kwon do with less than four years of training.
No one can get a recognized blackbelt in Taekwondo below 18, unless it's just a pre-approved(Read: pseudo) blackbelt given by his trainer for his good work. But it's not a real blackbelt.
Why should they created some artificial award for kids? Simple, it's to give them a sense of sucess and achievement. However over-appraised kid might not be able to withstand the pressure of one failure(well, adults have that problem too). I can tell from what his father said that this kid has received a lot of sucess and pressure comes with them.
Love's point of view on GPL isn't surprising. In fact. He has expressed his viewpoint on Linux community as a whole, that "proprietary software isn't all bad", in an slashdot article.
Which is very consistant with his speech last year:
"Will we give everything back to the GPL? No, not
everything we do," Love said. "There will be times when
we hold on, we may take ownership of some products,
but we will always provide open access to the source
code."
Thank you for asking. The original SQL was modified to protect the identity of the original coder.:D That was just an example to bring out a point.
The key point is the sorting of SQL statement with open condition criteria. Sometime the database parser does not work the way we logically implied. Therefore, we will use 'EXPLAIN PLAN' command to trace the SQL statement which we want to optimize. (for more info see Oracle Advanced Oracle Tuning and Admin)
The faulty statement in question happened to be broken down into two seperated sorting statements with open codition internally. I think there isn't the case after version 7 of Oracle.
And of course FreeSQL is not Oracle, may be same thing will not happen.:)
That was almost a really interesting, informed comment but unfortunately it was only about 75% coherent. Your english is killing you. Or else you're wasted right now. Sorry. (not that mine's much better...)
You are right, may be that's the reason why they fired me! XD
Well to be honest I might not remember every details very accurately, it's many years ago afterall; but one thing I've never forget is how they destoryed OS/2 - the original poster is right, the marketing killed it, but to kill a good product like that it needs more than marketing failure - say it needs at least one PHB region director, several imbecile third-line managers and a bunch of coward first-line project managers.
How do they handle all that extra loading exerted?
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Those who tried out FreeNet know that it's slow, and it's expectable.
However, SQL is kind of very load-demanding accessing method. Anyone who could put an excess amount of loading to the network by running an open end SQL with sorting(just an example):
SELECT * FROM FREENET.BIG_TABLE WHERE 1=1 OR 2=2 ORDER BY 1
A similar carelessly written statement of above crashed an enterprise database once because excessive TEMP spaced was requested for open end sorting.
How do they deal with the stability/performance in favour of accessibility?
But IBM's failure to effectively market their superior product is what killed it, not Microsoft.
I think I can tell you why because I were there at time of OS/2 2.x. (well IBM dumped me like shit, they took my soul, my dignity; I wanted them die. So I'm biased, be prepare for flambait/troll. ^^)
You know, OS/2 2.0 was so good. It can run Windows 95, both windowed mode(multi-windows!) and full screen mode(in full speed!!), and have All the underlying protocols/interfaces you expect to interoperate with IBM's mid-range/mainframe systems. E.g. OS/2's scripting language is REXX (e.g..cmd), and it's also 99% compatible with VM's REXX, which can be talked to each others. OS/2 has Visual REXX too! But I doubt anyone else other than IBM internal staffs has seen this great product.
The SOM(System Object Model) was so amazing. It's the first time in my life enjoy programming so much - true transparency, while be able to access to hardware/enterprise components with minimal effort! It also came with C set(C++set) which was very powerful at that time.(VC++ was nothing at all).
My job was finally bug fixing/reporting. My friends were luckier, they were responsible for games testing. YES! Game Testers! Played games on OS/2 everyday and got the same paid, can you believe it! Btw, my friend showed me running several windows of "Ultima 7" on the same desktop, I were stunned - not even Windows could do THAT!
Sound like a paradise, what's wrong with it then? Yes! You bet - Management! Those boneheads "see" the "opportunities" in "New Business Model"(don't ask me what the hell is that). Putting all the resources to promote the concept VisualAge, and how it worked with VB - yes, Visual Basic(those idiots....they seem to forgot our products). At the same time, they joint with Microsoft crashing us - first Microsoft filing lawsuit against us using Windows' code. Well we didn't, but the wimp management immediately yeilded to their supreme power and change the direction of OS/2 immediately, which took out a lot of functionalities out of OS/2 and caused the creation of orphan child like "OS/2 for Windows".
In order to meet with their promotion of VisualAge, and evaded the rage of Microsoft, they made a lot of changes after pre-decided shipping date, and rush to the production the ill-tested product. At the same time layoff/relocate a lot of technical staffs working on it. Game testers were first to be eliminated, and the management still don't understand why OS/2 2.0 has so many bugs and doesn't run games very well - Get A Clue! You fired the testers and ruined the final testing phase!
We faced thousand lawsuits every year, why should we be so fear of them and disrupted our production line so badly?
Enough of ranting....I just want to tell you, OS/2 was a great product, if only those clueless management could get away from us.
P.S. VisualAge is a great line of products nowaday. It wasn't started so well, but it's afterall a great concept.
<p>Isn't network automatically downgrade when a Windows box is plugged to it? No?</P>
<P>My office has three NT servers spewing useless netbios packats day and night, while the Linux server is so busy to ignore them...</P>
This customer then pays for the delivery of the software. Open source software (and indeed, GPL'ed software) does not affect this proven business model at all. The only problem would be that the customer could then freely redistribute the software or modify it without paying the developer. This essentially prevents the developer from selling the exact same software to another customer.
Thank you for your insightful post. I learnt a lot from it.
I'm a freelancer. In the past we might need to charge our customers extra money if they want the source code of our development, not because we are greedy, but we must cover the cost of development in adopting expensive proprietary tools and ensure higher chance of reusing those tools in on-going maintenance and enhancement.
After adopting GPL'd software, we no longer charge extra money in giving our code, because we've already saved a lot of money in the development, as well as the money saved on using Linux servers(that's a lot of saving). Our customers are happy to have cost saved and while having everything they pay for.
To our big surprise repeat business is increasing. It's amazing we don't need to lock our customers with proprietary code to have more repeat business. Those marketing guys might not have thought of this before.
However, I've a major concern when dealing with customers who do not want to disclose their source of the development. In theory I can sign NDA to protect their secret, but it doesn't bypass GPL which require them to disclose the source on request. One of our customer told me that major banks are forbidden their staffs looking at GPL'd code as they don't want to disclose the code of their end products, in any circumstance.
Sorry for the naive questoin, but what can I do in this case? Should I just switch back to proprietary software for these customers? Or is there any way we could protected coded developed by GPL'd software?
Hehe, I agree that it is a badly written question though. It never said that the villagers, a) act rationally, or b) they would leave willingly once they knew they were sinners
No...I think it's a pretty nice question. I asked my friends with some modifications: a prison full of selfish bald prisoners who are not allowed to use mirror. One day the officer in charge annouced that at least one prisoner marked with 'mark of freedom' behind their bald head, with this they can leave the prison freely, otherwise they'd be shot when being caught escaping. Since the prisoners are selfish, they'll not tell the others if they are marked.....etc.
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One more case how strict patent hurts US. Americans cannot benefit from the result of the research to improve food production, while third world countries where US patent law doesn't apply could take advantage of it.
Richard Stallment think he can live with 3 or 5-year patent. Shorter patent period might really help solving the problems.
"I would rather not have anything that comes in uninvited and messes with my computers," he said.
Said by an idiot who has his boxes infected with The tHing, SubSeven, NetSphere, Deep Throat,Master Paradise, Silencer, Millenium, Devil, NetMonitor, Streaming Audio Trojan, Socket23, Gatecrasher, Net Control, Telecommando, Gjamer, IcqTrojen, Priotrity, Vodoo, Netspy, ShockRave, Stealth Spy, Pass Ripper, Attack FTP, GirlFriend, Fore, Schwindler, Tiny Telnet Server, Kuang, Senna Spy Trojans, WhackJob, Phase0, BladeRunner, IcqTrojan, InIkiller, PortalOfDoom, ProgenicTrojan, Prosiak 0.47, RoboHack, Silencer, Striker, TheSpy, TrojanCow, UglyFtp, WebEx, Backdoor, Phineas, Psyber Streaming Server, Indoctrination, Hackers Paradise, Doly Trojan, FTP99CMP, Shiva Burka, BigGluck, NetSpy, Hack?9 KeyLogger, iNi-Killer, ICQKiller, Portal of Doom, Firehotcker, Master Paradise, BO jammerkillahV, AOLTrojan1.1, Hack'a'tack, The Invasor, SpySender, The Unexplained, Bla, FileNail, ShitHeep, Coma, Bla1.1, HVL Rat5, BackConstruction1.2, Kuang2 theVirus, Xtcp 2.00 + 2.01, Schwindler 1.82, Doly trojan v1.35, Doly trojan v1.5, Vampire, DeltaSource, Trojan Spirit 2001, Maverick's Matrix 1.2 - 2.0, Total Eclypse 1.0, OOTLT + OOTLT Cart, Eclipse 2000, NetMetro 1.0, Illusion Mailer, InCommand 1.0 + 1.3 + 1.4, NeTadmin, Logged!, Shitheep, Schoolbus 1.6, Schoolbus 2.0, Chupacabra, TheThing 1.6, AimSpy, NetMetropolitan 1.04, Transcout 1.1 + 1.2, SoftWar, Ambush, Der Spaeher 3, Insane Network, The Prayer 1.2 + 1.3, Host Control 1.0, Yet Another Trojan, NetRaider, TCPShell.c, PC Crasher, Mini Command 1.2, Mosucker, Rat 1.2, FakeFTP, Intruse Pack 1.27b, Snid X2, Freak 88, Asylium 0.1&0.11&0.12&0.13, Prosiak, Traitor 2.1, Connection, Host Control 2.6, BIONET, Rux.PSW, CrazyNet, Rux.Backdoor, Infector 1.x.
*phew*
This worm is welcomed just like 'PingPong' virus. I still remember everybody in our lab got one of this harmless virus just to watch a 'O' bouncing on screen when doing DOS homework.
"Virus? You mean it's a virus?"
XBox is a great thing! I'll support it. I mean, Microsoft should do something that they excel.(Not server, for God's sake)
Next time when my PHB asks me to setup NT/2K server for our 10 millions database, I can say "Sound great, this company make great games box, too!"
Boss, just get that NT server off my sight.
by a project called The Human Instrumentality Project. They made giant robots which function through a cerebral-nerve link with their operators. The pilots connect through the A10 neuron system of the brain. They can connect through their plug suits and the medium of liquid known as LCL.
Why you guys rolling on the floor?
Could be difficult to read various languages derived from Latin or for that matter assembly language. (e.g. opcodes for setting index registers.) ;)
:D
So I said it's 'genuine design'.
and they don't care you having Latin sex.
Maybe I'm missing the point, or maybe I'm not clearly stating mine. DB2 does (and has done since the early 1980s) statistics-based optimization of queries *automatically*.
:D
:D
Hey man you didn't miss a point, it's my fault not stating clearly that, in my own opinion, DB2 is superior, regardless of the fact that I'm an Oracle DBA for years.
I were a DB2 programmer(on MVS) during 80s...and yes, what you said is absolutely true, because I were there! Transaction-based and automatic optimization were so cool that no one at that time could compare. I swithed to Oralce for market demand(well, ok, I was layoff by IBM), now their dedication to Linux will make me jumping ship again.
I can not think of a single non-US software company making filtering software
There's one here in Hong Kong. It has a genuine design to block your access to any site referenced to restricted words like 'sex'. i.e. you can't even access educational reports which has a reference to 'sex'.
My girlfriend complained to me about it. Well, I figured it also have anti-uninstallation design that it won't go away unless you wipe your harddisk clean and reinstall. Next day I pasted a label on her monitor "Never ever install anything comes with ISP's CD, even it's free. Thank you for your cooperation.".
and doesn't the DataCenter(tm) version support like 64 procs?
That raise a question: if this high-end model does any good, they'd have related stat in TPC....so why didn't they do that? I don't think Microsoft would miss a chance.
Hmm...unless....
I have trouble liking Oracle (terrible query optimization for large queries, no statistics-based optimization like db2
FYI, on and prior to version 7 Oracle has cost-based and rule-based analysis/optimization. The statistical optimization is being done by database management system after 8. (I'm not sure whether they provide backward compatibility on it, anyway)
optimization like db2 - you can hardy find similarity in features in two different database system, can you? :)
Anyway, 'EXPLAIN PLAN' still work on any version of Oracle to help optimizing large queries manually.
You've the point that per cpu stat w2k is better, but we(as well as most enterprises) are rather interested in knowing whether the performance scale up with no. of CPUs.
He earned a black belt in tae kwon do with less than four years of training.
No one can get a recognized blackbelt in Taekwondo below 18, unless it's just a pre-approved(Read: pseudo) blackbelt given by his trainer for his good work. But it's not a real blackbelt.
Why should they created some artificial award for kids? Simple, it's to give them a sense of sucess and achievement. However over-appraised kid might not be able to withstand the pressure of one failure(well, adults have that problem too). I can tell from what his father said that this kid has received a lot of sucess and pressure comes with them.
Microsoft is taking efforts in forcing software vendors to reconsider their investment on other platforms, say Linux and OSX.
Microsoft is suffered from serious shortsightness, in my opinion.
Taiwanians, being famous for their overclocking fenzy, made water-cooler for CPU years ago:
Slot 1 version Socket 7 version The Water PumpLove's point of view on GPL isn't surprising. In fact. He has expressed his viewpoint on Linux community as a whole, that "proprietary software isn't all bad", in an slashdot article.
Which is very consistant with his speech last year:
"Will we give everything back to the GPL? No, not everything we do," Love said. "There will be times when we hold on, we may take ownership of some products, but we will always provide open access to the source code."
Love said he thinks Microsoft was right in its claim that the GPL doesn't make much business sense.
Once again Love has betrayed me....
Wait...
after the 2=2 is parsed the 1=1 is ignored
Thank you for asking. The original SQL was modified to protect the identity of the original coder. :D That was just an example to bring out a point.
The key point is the sorting of SQL statement with open condition criteria. Sometime the database parser does not work the way we logically implied. Therefore, we will use 'EXPLAIN PLAN' command to trace the SQL statement which we want to optimize. (for more info see Oracle Advanced Oracle Tuning and Admin)
The faulty statement in question happened to be broken down into two seperated sorting statements with open codition internally. I think there isn't the case after version 7 of Oracle.
And of course FreeSQL is not Oracle, may be same thing will not happen. :)
That was almost a really interesting, informed comment but unfortunately it was only about 75% coherent. Your english is killing you. Or else you're wasted right now. Sorry. (not that mine's much better...)
You are right, may be that's the reason why they fired me! XD
Well to be honest I might not remember every details very accurately, it's many years ago afterall; but one thing I've never forget is how they destoryed OS/2 - the original poster is right, the marketing killed it, but to kill a good product like that it needs more than marketing failure - say it needs at least one PHB region director, several imbecile third-line managers and a bunch of coward first-line project managers.
Those who tried out FreeNet know that it's slow, and it's expectable.
However, SQL is kind of very load-demanding accessing method. Anyone who could put an excess amount of loading to the network by running an open end SQL with sorting(just an example):
SELECT * FROM FREENET.BIG_TABLE WHERE 1=1 OR 2=2 ORDER BY 1
A similar carelessly written statement of above crashed an enterprise database once because excessive TEMP spaced was requested for open end sorting.
How do they deal with the stability/performance in favour of accessibility?
But IBM's failure to effectively market their superior product is what killed it, not Microsoft.
I think I can tell you why because I were there at time of OS/2 2.x. (well IBM dumped me like shit, they took my soul, my dignity; I wanted them die. So I'm biased, be prepare for flambait/troll. ^^)
You know, OS/2 2.0 was so good. It can run Windows 95, both windowed mode(multi-windows!) and full screen mode(in full speed!!), and have All the underlying protocols/interfaces you expect to interoperate with IBM's mid-range/mainframe systems. E.g. OS/2's scripting language is REXX (e.g. .cmd), and it's also 99% compatible with VM's REXX, which can be talked to each others. OS/2 has Visual REXX too! But I doubt anyone else other than IBM internal staffs has seen this great product.
The SOM(System Object Model) was so amazing. It's the first time in my life enjoy programming so much - true transparency, while be able to access to hardware/enterprise components with minimal effort! It also came with C set(C++set) which was very powerful at that time.(VC++ was nothing at all).
My job was finally bug fixing/reporting. My friends were luckier, they were responsible for games testing. YES! Game Testers! Played games on OS/2 everyday and got the same paid, can you believe it! Btw, my friend showed me running several windows of "Ultima 7" on the same desktop, I were stunned - not even Windows could do THAT!
Sound like a paradise, what's wrong with it then? Yes! You bet - Management! Those boneheads "see" the "opportunities" in "New Business Model"(don't ask me what the hell is that). Putting all the resources to promote the concept VisualAge, and how it worked with VB - yes, Visual Basic(those idiots....they seem to forgot our products). At the same time, they joint with Microsoft crashing us - first Microsoft filing lawsuit against us using Windows' code. Well we didn't, but the wimp management immediately yeilded to their supreme power and change the direction of OS/2 immediately, which took out a lot of functionalities out of OS/2 and caused the creation of orphan child like "OS/2 for Windows".
In order to meet with their promotion of VisualAge, and evaded the rage of Microsoft, they made a lot of changes after pre-decided shipping date, and rush to the production the ill-tested product. At the same time layoff/relocate a lot of technical staffs working on it. Game testers were first to be eliminated, and the management still don't understand why OS/2 2.0 has so many bugs and doesn't run games very well - Get A Clue! You fired the testers and ruined the final testing phase!
We faced thousand lawsuits every year, why should we be so fear of them and disrupted our production line so badly?
Enough of ranting....I just want to tell you, OS/2 was a great product, if only those clueless management could get away from us.
P.S. VisualAge is a great line of products nowaday. It wasn't started so well, but it's afterall a great concept.
<p>Isn't network automatically downgrade when a Windows box is plugged to it? No?</P>
<P>My office has three NT servers spewing useless netbios packats day and night, while the Linux server is so busy to ignore them...</P>
about a sports car that runs on rotting organic waste. 0-60 in under 6 sec.
Of course, because it's so slippy.
Wait a minute, you meant runs on gas given off by fermenting organic household waste, as one of its fuel supplies?
oops.
This customer then pays for the delivery of the software. Open source software (and indeed, GPL'ed software) does not affect this proven business model at all. The only problem would be that the customer could then freely redistribute the software or modify it without paying the developer. This essentially prevents the developer from selling the exact same software to another customer.
Thank you for your insightful post. I learnt a lot from it.
I'm a freelancer. In the past we might need to charge our customers extra money if they want the source code of our development, not because we are greedy, but we must cover the cost of development in adopting expensive proprietary tools and ensure higher chance of reusing those tools in on-going maintenance and enhancement.
After adopting GPL'd software, we no longer charge extra money in giving our code, because we've already saved a lot of money in the development, as well as the money saved on using Linux servers(that's a lot of saving). Our customers are happy to have cost saved and while having everything they pay for.
To our big surprise repeat business is increasing. It's amazing we don't need to lock our customers with proprietary code to have more repeat business. Those marketing guys might not have thought of this before.
However, I've a major concern when dealing with customers who do not want to disclose their source of the development. In theory I can sign NDA to protect their secret, but it doesn't bypass GPL which require them to disclose the source on request. One of our customer told me that major banks are forbidden their staffs looking at GPL'd code as they don't want to disclose the code of their end products, in any circumstance.
Sorry for the naive questoin, but what can I do in this case? Should I just switch back to proprietary software for these customers? Or is there any way we could protected coded developed by GPL'd software?
Thanks
since the beginning of last year, which allow remote attacker to display path of the web server.
They might have patched the hole since, but it seems that it surfaced again....Oh well.
Hehe, I agree that it is a badly written question though. It never said that the villagers, a) act rationally, or b) they would leave willingly once they knew they were sinners
No...I think it's a pretty nice question. I asked my friends with some modifications: a prison full of selfish bald prisoners who are not allowed to use mirror. One day the officer in charge annouced that at least one prisoner marked with 'mark of freedom' behind their bald head, with this they can leave the prison freely, otherwise they'd be shot when being caught escaping. Since the prisoners are selfish, they'll not tell the others if they are marked.....etc.
I won dinner with this...thanks! :D