"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
MySQL AB, the Sweden- and Cupertino-based primary developer of MySQL, recently laid out its development road map all the way through 2009, and this includes code specifically contributed by Google, which signed a contributor agreement with MySQL last fall.
Here is what's significant about Google putting code into MySQL: they haven't done it before. Google has been a MySQL user from almost the very beginning, customizing the database in myriad ways to support Google's widely dispersed architecture with hundreds of thousands of servers. Google has felt no need previously to contribute code to MySQL. So what changed? While Google has long been able to mess with the MySQL code in ITS machines, it hasn't been able to mess with the code in YOUR machine and now it wants to do exactly that. The reason it will take so long to roll out MySQL 6.1 is that Google will only deliver its MySQL extensions for Linux, leaving MySQL AB the job of porting that code to the 15 other operating systems they support. That's what will take until early 2009....
In a Related News Story... Police are still trying to explain how one million iPhones with infected copies of QuickTime have managed to induce their owners to foolishly hand large sums of cash to complete strangers. "What's especially troubling," confided one investigator, "is that we can't get 10 feet into an Apple Store before our team members are compromised!"
Jack Thompson is one of the best things ever to happen to Penny Arcade, the ERSB, Gaming Journalism, and communist pedophiles who make snuff films. He makes such a spectacular punching bag that we need to keep him around. Be warned, the guy who ends up taking his place might have a clue, and then we'd be fucked.
Dung Bettle races and Throw the Dead Monkey beat Tertris every damn time, outside of the US, of course. However, where the OLPC will really shine is with that new 3rd World MMORPG, Rich Ignorant White American Pretend Time with Private Bathroom and No Flies!
Malicious conspiracies use stupid tools a shield of flesh and gullible fools so when the public takes offense they trot out a perfect defense
To those that think it is well known stupid tools never act alone the hands that wield them for evil intent are so evil that they make me unable to finish this rhyme.
Well hell they need to take it one step further... render all google search results within a flash applet. Y'know the kind that won't let you copy text and has really small scrollbars.
Just look at what they did with the Macromedia Flash Exchange web site. Finally! A web site that caters to creatures with very very tiny tiny eyes.
You forgot the category into which I fall, which is "Still disappointed at Bungie for defecting to Microsoft, but I understand you needed the money, on the other hand, you didn't have to be such a big whore about it, ok, I'll bite and buy an Xbox for Halo and Halo2, wait Halo3 requires an Xbox360, in that case Jason Jones can suck my cock."
Copy protection IS part of the game experience, as is the box, the manual, and the assistance of tech support if required. If the copy protection ruins the game for me then the game is ruined.
Some people believe "...copy protection only got so nasty because of the virtually unrestricted internet sharing of games..." Which is patently false.
As I recall, BEFORE there was the internets I had to did through game manuals to find the third word in the second paragraph on page thirteen. Now that was a pain in the ass.
Anyway, its cracked. There was no doubt it would be cracked. Maybe we never saw mention of the copy protection because all the reviewers were playing pirated copies? Now that would be a laugh.
Damn you I'm 83 and music has sucked since 1936. You know why they invented stereo? So the music could suck twice. If I had a banjo for every time some 40 some-odd year-old child said he "knows" when music turned to crap I would have a lot of goddamned banjos. I'd have so many goddamned banjos I might be able to fix today's music. Now, Nelly Furtado with a few hundred banjos would get the blood pumping, dontcha think?
...but Shaolin monks never sleep unless they hear the dulcet tones of a pirate sea shanty, which means an unholy alliance between ninjas and pirates would be required to do the job!
Spot on. This is why I became so pissed when the Penny Arcade guys started making promotional materials for the ESRB. I even made a comic strip about it.
Slashdot Mirror
I knew user 3799, and let me tell you, user 3800 is no user 3799.
Damn QUOTE A DAY calendar!!!
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
-- Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864
Yahoo's new marketing tag:
"We're the New AOL, Like in the Olde Days!"
Google's plan to host ALL our applications.
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By Robert X. Cringely
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20071026_003304.html
MySQL AB, the Sweden- and Cupertino-based primary developer of MySQL, recently laid out its development road map all the way through 2009, and this includes code specifically contributed by Google, which signed a contributor agreement with MySQL last fall.
Here is what's significant about Google putting code into MySQL: they haven't done it before. Google has been a MySQL user from almost the very beginning, customizing the database in myriad ways to support Google's widely dispersed architecture with hundreds of thousands of servers. Google has felt no need previously to contribute code to MySQL. So what changed? While Google has long been able to mess with the MySQL code in ITS machines, it hasn't been able to mess with the code in YOUR machine and now it wants to do exactly that. The reason it will take so long to roll out MySQL 6.1 is that Google will only deliver its MySQL extensions for Linux, leaving MySQL AB the job of porting that code to the 15 other operating systems they support. That's what will take until early 2009.
Sun? Not Google?
Something's wrong here.
In a Related News Story... Police are still trying to explain how one million iPhones with infected copies of QuickTime have managed to induce their owners to foolishly hand large sums of cash to complete strangers. "What's especially troubling," confided one investigator, "is that we can't get 10 feet into an Apple Store before our team members are compromised!"
Exactly!
Good grief, nobody wants someone that crazy to be a good litigator!
Suffer the Pucks for they displace the Torquemadas.
Well almost...
Jack Thompson is one of the best things ever to happen to Penny Arcade, the ERSB, Gaming Journalism, and communist pedophiles who make snuff films. He makes such a spectacular punching bag that we need to keep him around. Be warned, the guy who ends up taking his place might have a clue, and then we'd be fucked.
All wishy washyness about the abilities of the substance is the editorialising of slashdot and the writer of the article
Well, if we had a really good filter...
The title include the word "fallout", yet nothing in the blurb justifies the use.
/. eds!
Damn sensationalist
Dung Bettle races and Throw the Dead Monkey beat Tertris every damn time, outside of the US, of course. However, where the OLPC will really shine is with that new 3rd World MMORPG, Rich Ignorant White American Pretend Time with Private Bathroom and No Flies!
Malicious conspiracies use stupid tools
a shield of flesh and gullible fools
so when the public takes offense
they trot out a perfect defense
To those that think it is well known
stupid tools never act alone
the hands that wield them for evil intent
are so evil that they make me unable to finish this rhyme.
Too bad we can't mod that parent message "virtually irrelevant".
Well hell they need to take it one step further... render all google search results within a flash applet. Y'know the kind that won't let you copy text and has really small scrollbars.
Just look at what they did with the Macromedia Flash Exchange web site. Finally! A web site that caters to creatures with very very tiny tiny eyes.
Now that's progress!
You forgot the category into which I fall, which is "Still disappointed at Bungie for defecting to Microsoft, but I understand you needed the money, on the other hand, you didn't have to be such a big whore about it, ok, I'll bite and buy an Xbox for Halo and Halo2, wait Halo3 requires an Xbox360, in that case Jason Jones can suck my cock."
Copy protection IS part of the game experience, as is the box, the manual, and the assistance of tech support if required. If the copy protection ruins the game for me then the game is ruined.
Some people believe "...copy protection only got so nasty because of the virtually unrestricted internet sharing of games..." Which is patently false.
As I recall, BEFORE there was the internets I had to did through game manuals to find the third word in the second paragraph on page thirteen. Now that was a pain in the ass.
Anyway, its cracked. There was no doubt it would be cracked. Maybe we never saw mention of the copy protection because all the reviewers were playing pirated copies? Now that would be a laugh.
Just wait... they'll be using "squint" and "move the menu back and forth at arms length" technology next.
Damn you I'm 83 and music has sucked since 1936. You know why they invented stereo? So the music could suck twice. If I had a banjo for every time some 40 some-odd year-old child said he "knows" when music turned to crap I would have a lot of goddamned banjos. I'd have so many goddamned banjos I might be able to fix today's music. Now, Nelly Furtado with a few hundred banjos would get the blood pumping, dontcha think?
...but Shaolin monks never sleep unless they hear the dulcet tones of a pirate sea shanty, which means an unholy alliance between ninjas and pirates would be required to do the job!
Spot on. This is why I became so pissed when the Penny Arcade guys started making promotional materials for the ESRB. I even made a comic strip about it.
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http://www.mlcsmith.com/blog/penny_arcade_hypocri
Good point and we might as well mod everything else down as redundant.
Yeah, I have to question the appropriateness of this article for slashdot.
Please, please, please - articles more slashier and less dottier.
What is best in life?
To sue your enemies, see them bankrupted before you, and to hear the lamentation of the PR flacks.
"Her approach, applied retrospectively"
I stopped reading right there.