Dont't need a flying car. Just need something that i can plug into a wall and turn my mind to mush periodically. ..
Wait a minute, I am sitting here plugged typing on a laptop plugged to wall while reading slashdot. If that's not being under the droud I don't know what is!
Re:You didn't quite get it.
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The end of the article makes mention of people approaching him to develop the tech they saw in Minority Report. Anybody else smell MS in the mix. Remember their failed attempt at running a battleship with NT technology?
!!! As if cops don't have enough problems . . . just picture a tiny blue screen on a police revolver:
Cop 1: Crap! Cop 2: Whas wrong? Cop 1: Blue screen of Deaaaaargh!!!!!
so excuse what may be an ignorant qestion. Is c not completely dependant on the point of observation? I mean if object A leaves point X at a velocity of C relative to X then and while on it's merry way it passes an object (B) coming from the opposite direction at an equal velocity does this not mean that the relative speed of A as measured from B is 2C? If not then, is C relative only to a stationary starting point or perhaps to the medium through which an object(particle,wave whatever) is travelling?
I run the enterprise application and database support grop at a large canadian University. We have a considerable investment in Oracle RDBMS and some of our DBA's and App developers have been working w/ oracle for >10yrs.
We started examining SAPDB for functionality in Feb and what we have found is that the feature set is about the same as Ora 7.3. The management command line interface looks vaguely mainframish (not a problem to my view) but is fairly intuitive and straight forward.An Nt gui management console and sql studio is available as well. Much cleaner than Oracle Enterprise Manager if not as many features.
As far as speed goes. It seems to faster than Oracle but we have no load test as yet. The fact that it is used as the backend to SAPR3 suggests that scalability should not be a problem.
Point in time recovery and mature transaction handling is also a big plus.
In short . . . SAPDB kicks ass feature wise on all the other Open Source stuff we have played with. At the RDBMS level SAPDB competes well with Commercial guys. All db geeks need to take a look . . . you will be impressed. The Pointies will like the "value proposition"
The problem with SAPDB is the same as with all Opensource DB's. No affordable, robust,4GL, dbcentric development environment. I am trying to get some University resources to remedy this situation though.
The conclusion of the article has the most important tid bit. Did anyone else read it??
"By taking the dual-processing ability out of the desktop chips, high-end workstation users will always have to get a Xeon, which will cause bigger sales than ever for the Xeon processors."
Intel is in for a rough ride once AMD gets smp sorted out.
Re:Sorry to hear, but the Software will Go On!
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I read the releases at progeny and am actually downloading it as we speak. Since I don't personally see anything wrong with Debian's installer, ease of use etc. my interest is in their NOW technology (especially Pelican).
What would be even more compelling though would be an uderlying, Beowolf style, aggregation of computational load across the NOW structure. Wishful thinking I guess . . . but you gotta admit it will be coooooool.
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Dont't need a flying car. Just need something that i can plug into a wall and turn my mind to mush periodically. . .
Wait a minute, I am sitting here plugged typing on a laptop plugged to wall while reading slashdot. If that's not being under the droud I don't know what is!
The end of the article makes mention of people approaching him to develop the tech they saw in Minority Report. Anybody else smell MS in the mix. Remember their failed attempt at running a battleship with NT technology?
!!!
As if cops don't have enough problems . . . just picture a tiny blue screen on a police revolver:
Cop 1: Crap!
Cop 2: Whas wrong?
Cop 1: Blue screen of Deaaaaargh!!!!!
This is almost as sad as star wars porn!
http://www.shabbyblue.net/
IANAP
so excuse what may be an ignorant qestion. Is c not completely dependant on the point of observation? I mean if object A leaves point X at a velocity of C relative to X then and while on it's merry way it passes an object (B) coming from the opposite direction at an equal velocity does this not mean that the relative speed of A as measured from B is 2C? If not then, is C relative only to a stationary starting point or perhaps to the medium through which an object(particle,wave whatever) is travelling?
My brain hurts please help.
Uh Oh . . . looks like the final nail in MicroSoft's coffin.
I run the enterprise application and database support grop at a large canadian University. We have a considerable investment in Oracle RDBMS and some of our DBA's and App developers have been working w/ oracle for >10yrs.
,4GL, dbcentric development environment. I am trying to get some University resources to remedy this situation though.
We started examining SAPDB for functionality in Feb and what we have found is that the feature set is about the same as Ora 7.3. The management command line interface looks vaguely mainframish (not a problem to my view) but is fairly intuitive and straight forward.An Nt gui management console and sql studio is available as well. Much cleaner than Oracle Enterprise Manager if not as many features.
As far as speed goes. It seems to faster than Oracle but we have no load test as yet. The fact that it is used as the backend to SAPR3 suggests that scalability should not be a problem.
Point in time recovery and mature transaction handling is also a big plus.
In short . . . SAPDB kicks ass feature wise on all the other Open Source stuff we have played with. At the RDBMS level SAPDB competes well with Commercial guys. All db geeks need to take a look . . . you will be impressed. The Pointies will like the "value proposition"
The problem with SAPDB is the same as with all Opensource DB's. No affordable, robust
The conclusion of the article has the most important tid bit. Did anyone else read it??
"By taking the dual-processing ability out of the desktop chips, high-end workstation users will always have to get a Xeon, which will cause bigger sales than ever for the Xeon processors."
Intel is in for a rough ride once AMD gets smp sorted out.
Isn't that alliteration?
I read the releases at progeny and am actually downloading it as we speak. Since I don't personally see anything wrong with Debian's installer, ease of use etc. my interest is in their NOW technology (especially Pelican).
What would be even more compelling though would be an uderlying, Beowolf style, aggregation of computational load across the NOW structure. Wishful thinking I guess . . . but you gotta admit it will be coooooool.
Smells like Cheese! I'm getting outta here!