For those of use that suffer with Section 508 accessibility requirements, using this technology in voting and other (U.S.) government applications would be a show stopper. A screen reader would not be able to interpret the images, and if you put ALT="Your PIN is 1234", that defeats the whole purpose.
Divide the Linux market, make half more proprietary and build it up as supported, indemnified, etc., then spew FUD about all the troubles you'll have with the other half. As your market share increases and the other dwindles, start offering migration incentives to move to Windows, and tada...no more mainstream Linux.
Just because YOU don't understand Oracle doesn't mean it sucks. Oracle has enterprise features that simple are not available in Postgres or MySQL. MySQL might work great for your mom-and-pop website, but it doesn't cut the mustard for banking and financial environments.
As an Oracle DBA and developer, I love working with it everyday, and I can maintain it with MY eyes closed. I find it interesting to apply its capabilities to solve business issues. I too am an enthusiast, and I surpassed the capabilities of both Postgres and MySQL years ago. Perhaps you just aren't up to the challenge?
Every time I encounter someone pushing a toy database in an enterprise environment, I want to vomit!
Haha...that reminds me of a print shop I used to run. I was a part-time employee and college student, but I did all the quoting, typesetting, pre-press and some of the press work. The owner sold out to some guy who decided he needed a full-time office manager, and since I was only part-time, he hired some bimbo who didn't know dick about printing to run the place. I put up with her trying to tell me how to do my job for a few weeks. Then one day I needed $10 out of petty cash for supplies to finish a printing job. She refused to let me have it, so I quit right there on the spot. The next day the pressman quit. Less than a month later the business closed.
Interesting comments...like you, I could really give a $hit about abortion, flag burning, gay marriage, religion, politics, etc -- they're all fuel for somebody's cause.
1) I see organized religion as nothing more than mass group-think and social control by the wealthy and powerful, and the message is "be a good (slave|worker|person|martyr|whatever), pay your tithe, and you'll go to paradise when you die."
2) Human nature resists change. Face it -- who likes to have the rug pulled out from under them? People naturally fear anything that threatens to undermine their core beliefs, be they religious, technical, or whatever.
I feel these two points are the direct cause of most of the current conflict in the middle-east. Here you have the Bush-camp, Christian fundamentalists vs. the terrorists. There you have the Islamic fundamentalists vs. the infidel.
It's all bullshit so one group can control another by any means!
Back to evolution and intelligent design.
Being an educated, scientific scholar, I am very skeptical of religion, cults, sects, blind faith, etc. I would much rather believe in current science-fiction than having blind faith in a 2000+ year old work of historical fiction. I don't believe that DNA just randomly evolved into the genetically diverse plethora of life on earth over the last 3 billion years. There's no doubt that DNA evolves. Perhaps it was programmed to, but by whom? I don't believe a supernatural deity created life on earth, but I won't deny the possibility that life originated somewhere else--perhaps in a DNA timecapsule from an extraterrestrial civilization. In that case, where did that life originate?
Fairy tale or not, ID far more credible than creationism, and I don't believe it is mutually exclusive with evolution.
If this terror plot was real, the terrorists must surely recognize that being discovered would result in delayed or cancelled flights, leaving thousands of people crammed into airports everywhere. Perhaps this was their real intention. Hopefully, nobody lets down their guard.
On the contrary, this is basic supply and demand. Just like fiat money--the more educated/skilled workers you produce, especially where demand is higher for (cheaper) workers than existing (more expensive) ones, the lower the value of those educated/experienced/skilled workers. Just look at the outsourcing fiasco.
Eventually, as more educated/skilled workers come into the market, the balance between the haves and have-nots equalizes, driving up consumer demand and prices (India). Demand for cheaper labor increases (Asia). It's a vicious circle.
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How about Government ME?
George Bush has just declared Australia a terrorist state...details at 11.
For those of use that suffer with Section 508 accessibility requirements, using this technology in voting and other (U.S.) government applications would be a show stopper. A screen reader would not be able to interpret the images, and if you put ALT="Your PIN is 1234", that defeats the whole purpose.
The U.S. government should order 100 or so for the wall it's building along U.S.-Mexico border.
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Divide the Linux market, make half more proprietary and build it up as supported, indemnified, etc., then spew FUD about all the troubles you'll have with the other half. As your market share increases and the other dwindles, start offering migration incentives to move to Windows, and tada...no more mainstream Linux.
Duh, morning breath will smell like wintergreen and farts will smell like bananas!
Those aren't pigs...they're chairs, as Balmer realizes the Vista EULA alienated 98% of M$'s potential user market.
Just because YOU don't understand Oracle doesn't mean it sucks. Oracle has enterprise features that simple are not available in Postgres or MySQL. MySQL might work great for your mom-and-pop website, but it doesn't cut the mustard for banking and financial environments.
As an Oracle DBA and developer, I love working with it everyday, and I can maintain it with MY eyes closed. I find it interesting to apply its capabilities to solve business issues. I too am an enthusiast, and I surpassed the capabilities of both Postgres and MySQL years ago. Perhaps you just aren't up to the challenge?
Every time I encounter someone pushing a toy database in an enterprise environment, I want to vomit!
Haha...that reminds me of a print shop I used to run. I was a part-time employee and college student, but I did all the quoting, typesetting, pre-press and some of the press work. The owner sold out to some guy who decided he needed a full-time office manager, and since I was only part-time, he hired some bimbo who didn't know dick about printing to run the place. I put up with her trying to tell me how to do my job for a few weeks. Then one day I needed $10 out of petty cash for supplies to finish a printing job. She refused to let me have it, so I quit right there on the spot. The next day the pressman quit. Less than a month later the business closed.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! F*CKERZ!
a failing fascist, fundamentalist regime oppressing its people under the guise of protecting their freedom...oh, wait...shit!
This hacker obviously planted that child pornography on my computer with a trojan, in an attempt to blackmail me, a promonent local physician...
After watching bad snake flicks on SCI-FI all weekend, I wondered how they could get any worse...
...
Snakes in the Antarctic
Snakes in Russia
Snakes in South American jungles
Snakes on a Plane
It was really pathetic watching all these supposed "rattle snakes" that were actually harmless pythons or boas.
Bleh, this horse is dead...
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Interesting comments...like you, I could really give a $hit about abortion, flag burning, gay marriage, religion, politics, etc -- they're all fuel for somebody's cause.
1) I see organized religion as nothing more than mass group-think and social control by the wealthy and powerful, and the message is "be a good (slave|worker|person|martyr|whatever), pay your tithe, and you'll go to paradise when you die."
2) Human nature resists change. Face it -- who likes to have the rug pulled out from under them? People naturally fear anything that threatens to undermine their core beliefs, be they religious, technical, or whatever.
I feel these two points are the direct cause of most of the current conflict in the middle-east. Here you have the Bush-camp, Christian fundamentalists vs. the terrorists. There you have the Islamic fundamentalists vs. the infidel.
It's all bullshit so one group can control another by any means!
Back to evolution and intelligent design.
Being an educated, scientific scholar, I am very skeptical of religion, cults, sects, blind faith, etc. I would much rather believe in current science-fiction than having blind faith in a 2000+ year old work of historical fiction. I don't believe that DNA just randomly evolved into the genetically diverse plethora of life on earth over the last 3 billion years. There's no doubt that DNA evolves. Perhaps it was programmed to, but by whom? I don't believe a supernatural deity created life on earth, but I won't deny the possibility that life originated somewhere else--perhaps in a DNA timecapsule from an extraterrestrial civilization. In that case, where did that life originate?
Fairy tale or not, ID far more credible than creationism, and I don't believe it is mutually exclusive with evolution.
Last night, I tried pen testing with my wife, but her firewall blocked all access attempts...
welcome our new Cyberdyne Systems AI overl...awe dammit!
If this terror plot was real, the terrorists must surely recognize that being discovered would result in delayed or cancelled flights, leaving thousands of people crammed into airports everywhere. Perhaps this was their real intention. Hopefully, nobody lets down their guard.
Good job on catching these scum!
Squeal like a bad cooling fan, boy!
Even cooler would be a biological "diff" of your previous scan to determine abnormalities.
TCP/IP addresses are often hex-encoded in compiled code, so doing a text search for xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx probably wouldn't be useful anyway...
On the contrary, this is basic supply and demand. Just like fiat money--the more educated/skilled workers you produce, especially where demand is higher for (cheaper) workers than existing (more expensive) ones, the lower the value of those educated/experienced/skilled workers. Just look at the outsourcing fiasco.
Eventually, as more educated/skilled workers come into the market, the balance between the haves and have-nots equalizes, driving up consumer demand and prices (India). Demand for cheaper labor increases (Asia). It's a vicious circle.
Is this their new business model? Bribery and intimidation? Because it's not working.
Works for me...Bill Gates sent me an email saying he's gonna send me $50K if I reply to it.
Hey, that looks like one of the replies from Dell tech support! I always figured it was some automated robot. Now I know!